Postgrads and ECRs – have you submitted your application for the Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS) on ‘Using and Interpreting Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts‘ with Professor Michelle Brown? Places are limited so get your application in to Anne Scott (anne.scott@uwa.edu.au) asap! Note: places are open to all postgrads and ECRs, but if you wish to apply for a travel bursary you must be an ANZAMEMS member.
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Call for proposals for a themed issue of Parergon (2015)
Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Call for proposals for a themed issue of Parergon
The journal Parergon, in print since 1971, regularly produces one open issue and one themed issue annually.
The most recent themed issues have been:
- 2009, 26.2, Early Modern Friendship guest-edited by Vanessa Smith and Richard Yeo
- 2010, 27.2 Medieval Practices of Space and Place guest-edited by Megan Cassidy-Welch
- 2011, 28.2 Reason of State, Natural Law and Early Modern Statecraft guest-edited by David Martin Jones and Cathy Curtis
- 2012, 29.2 Early Modern Women and the Apparatus of Authorship, guest-edited by Sarah C.E. Ross, Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith
and forthcoming:
- 2013, 30.2 Thinking About Magic in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, guest-edited by Tracy Adams
We now call for proposals for future themed issues, most immediately for 2015 (32.2)
Parergon publishes articles on all aspects of medieval and early modern studies, from early medieval through to the eighteenth century, and including the reception and influence of medieval and early modern culture in the modern world. We are particularly interested in research which takes new approaches and crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. Themed issues contain up to ten essays, plus the usual reviews section. The guest editor is responsible for setting the theme and drawing up the criteria for the essays.
Proposals should contain the following:
- A draft title for the issue.
- A statement outlining the rationale for the issue.
- Titles and abstracts of all the essays.
- A short biographical paragraph for the guest editor(s) and for each contributor.
- An example of a completed essay if available. (This is not essential).
The editorial process:
Once a proposal has been accepted:
- The guest editor will commission and pre-select the essays before submitting them to the Parergon editor by the agreed date.
- The Parergon editor will arrange for independent and anonymous peer-review in accordance with the journal’s established criteria.
- Once the essays have been peer-reviewed, the Parergon editor will communicate the feedback to the guest editor.
- The guest editor will then be asked to work with the authors to bring the submissions to the required standard where necessary.
- Occasionally a commissioned essay will be judged not suitable for publication in Parergon. This decision will be taken by the Parergon editor, based on the anonymous expert reviews.
- Essays which have already been published or accepted for publication elsewhere are not eligible for inclusion in the journal.
Time line:
Proposals for the 2015 issue (32.2) are required by 30 January 2014, and completed essays by 30 January 2015 for publication in late 2015.
Preliminary expressions of interest are welcome at any time.
Proposals will be considered by a selection panel drawn from members of the Parergon Editorial Board who will be asked to assess and rank the proposals according to the following criteria:
- Suitability for the journal
- Originality of contribution to the chosen field
- Significance/importance of the proposed theme
- Potential for advancing scholarship in a new and exciting way
- Range and quality of authors
Parergon, is available in electronic form as part of Project Muse, Australian Public Affairs – Full Text (from 1994), and Wilson’s Humanities Full Text (from 2008); it is included in the Thomson Scientific Master Journal List of refereed journals and in the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), and is indexed for nine major database services, including ABELL, IMB and Scopus.
Please correspond with Anne Scott, Editor Parergon: anne.scott@uwa.edu.au.
Historicizing Emotions: XXII Congress CISH/ICHS, 2015 – Call For Papers
“Historicizing Emotions” Major Theme Day
XXII Congress of CISH/ICHS The International Committee of Historical Sciences
Jinan, China
23-29 August, 2015
The ARC Centre for the History of Emotions, and the History of Emotions group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, (headed by Professor Ute Frevert) have co-operated to organise one of the four Major Themes for the next World Conference of the Comité Internationale des Sciences Historiques (International Committee of the Historical Sciences), to be held in Jinan, China, 23-29 August 2015.
This means that our two groups will be hosting a whole day’s sessions—four panels–particularly on the theme ‘Historicizing Emotions’. Each panel will, we envisage, have three papers-givers, plus a discussant to open up questions and debate. We will accept paper proposals covering any period of history in the last millennium, and will particularly welcome papers that enable well-focused discussion between the different perspectives of Western and non-Western histories of emotion, without privileging one over the other!
The Call for Papers is now open on the CISH/ICHS website and the plan for the the Major Theme ‘Historicizing Emotions’ can be downloaded here.
Proposals should be:
- A maximum of 2500 characters – 350 words
- Accompanied by a short biographical note
- Sent to the two organisers (Ute Frevert and Philippa Maddern) AND to the CISH Secretary General Robert Frank (click here to email to all three simultaneously) by 30 November 2013.
ELN Special Issue: Imaginary Cartographies – Call For Papers
ELN (English Language Notes)
Volume 52.1 (2014)
Imaginary Cartographies
Call For Papers
In recent decades the map has emerged as a key site of cultural and imaginative reworking, and yet the history of such symbolic mediations between humans and their spatial environment is also ancient and complex. Volume 52.1 of ELN (Spring/Summer 2014) will investigate “Imaginary Cartographies” across centuries and cultural contexts to explore a range of these symbolic mediations. “Imaginary Cartographies” includes those methods of mapping literary space that generate both imaginative and culturally revealing understandings of recognizable and/or created worlds and their modes of habitation. The term refers to actual as well as purely conceptual maps, and includes spaces of considerable variability: from the mapping of cosmic, global, or local space, to charting the spaces of the body or the page. Geographers have argued that the social history of maps, unlike that of literature, art, or music, has few genuinely popular, or subversive modes of expression because maps pre-eminently are a language of power, not of protest; in this view, the map remains a site of territorial knowledge and state power, authority and jurisdiction, social codes and spatial disciplines—one intent upon eliding its tactile and material conditions of production. “Imaginary Cartographies” welcomes approaches to mapping that complicate this account by considering subaltern or alternative cartographies—cartographies that elude, interrupt, or disperse forms of power, or serve not-yet-imagined spectrums of interests.
Contributors may wish to present recent research findings on particular writers, cultural figures, or texts, or they may venture insights on broadly defined subjects, such as the aesthetics or politics of imaginary cartographies in a particular cultural or historical instance; on what constitutes cartographic assumptions or practices about space, nature, cosmology, or exploration at particular historical moments; on how cartography intersects with broader issues of knowledge creation and management, or the history of capital and conquest; or on the entanglement of literary theory with debates about (digitally) mapping texts individually or categorically. Papers on literature and particular cartographic practices are welcome: e.g. psychogeography, geomancy, cognitive mapping, digital mapping, and so on. Actual maps that are in some way conversant with literary concerns are also welcome.
Position papers and essays of no longer than twenty-five manuscript pages are invited from scholars in all fields of literature, geography, history, philosophy, and the arts. Along with analytical, interpretive, and historical scholarship, we are also interested in creative work that moves traditional forms of literary analysis into new styles of critical writing. The editors also encourage collaborative work and are happy to consider works that are submitted together as topical clusters. Another format that we invite is a debate or conversation between or among contributors working on a related aspect of cartography.
Please send contributions and/or proposals to:
Special Issue Editor, “Imaginary Cartographies”
English Language Notes
University of Colorado, Boulder
Hellems 101, 226 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0226
Specific inquiries regarding issue 52.1 may be addressed to the issue editor, Karen Jacobs: (Karen.Jacobs@colorado.edu).
The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2013.
Translating Early Medieval Poetry for the 21st Century – Call For Papers
From Eald to New: Translating Early Medieval Poetry for the 21st Century
School of English, University College Cork, Ireland
6-7 June, 2014
In recent years, the shelves of commercial bookshops have been graced with accessible translations of medieval poetry from the Old English, Old Irish and Old Norse traditions, including Heaney’s award-winning rendition of Beowulf. Many of these reworkings give a contemporary flavour and immediacy to medieval texts, and they are increasingly being adopted for introductory courses on medieval literature. But what place do literary translations have in the academy, and should they be taught as creative works in their own right? How are the latest translations adapting to the needs of students and teachers? What exactly do we lose, and gain, in the translation of medieval texts?
We invite abstracts for 20 minute papers from both individuals and panels. Abstracts of approx. 250 words should be emailed to Dr Tom Birkett or Dr Kirsty March at ealdtonew2014@ucc.ie.
Topics may include:
- Audience, cultural specificity and local idiom
- The meeting place of literary and academic translations
- Past translations, constraints of precedence, and suppression of difference
- Ideas of ownership, authorship and canonicity
- Teaching the translation of medieval languages in the academy Problematic poetry: translating verse forms, metrics, poetic language
- The potential of new media to change our relationship to the translated text
- Translation theory applied to medieval texts
The closing date for submissions is 15 December 2013.
British Library: Internship in the Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Section – Call For Applications
The British Library is offering an internship in the Medieval and Earlier section of the History and Classics Department for a doctoral or post-doctoral student in the History of Art or another relevant subject.
The intern will be involved in all aspects of the work of the Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts section. The primary focus of the internship will be to enhance the online Digitised Manuscripts and Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts websites by creating and supplementing catalogue entries for medieval manuscripts and accompanying images, working under the supervision of the Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts.
Qualifications
The programme is only open to students who are engaged actively in research towards, or have recently completed a PhD in a subject area relevant to the study of pre-1600 illuminated manuscripts who have a right to work in the UK.
Terms
The term of internship is either full time for six months, or part time for twelve months. Applicants are asked to specify which term they would prefer in the application. The salary is £8.55 per hour (Full time is 36 hours per week). The internship will start in November 2013 after relevant security clearances are obtained.
Closing date for applications: 20 October 2013.
For full details and to apply, please visit the following website: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/09/internship-in-the-medieval-and-earlier-manuscripts-section.html
Digitizing the Medieval Archive 2014 – Call For Papers
Digitizing the Medieval Archive 2014
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
April 25-26, 2014
Keynote speakers:
- David Greetham (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
- Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins University)
- Caroline Macé (KU Leuven)
- Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University Library)
Discussion about the digitization of archival fonds and library holdings pertaining to the Middle Ages boasts a wide profusion both in online settings and in real time. As the question of how medievalists may work within this digital environment becomes an increasingly more widely discussed topic, we invite scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences to convene in Toronto to consider and discuss the possibilities of the digitized medieval archive.
There has been and continues to be considerable variation in the introduction, evaluation and continuation of digital storage. Digital technology has expanded and complicated the idea of the medieval archive. In bringing together the two concepts, digitization and archivization, we aim to address questions about the dissemination of and access to materials and research, but also such long-standing questions relating to the methodological and practical ways we carry out research and think about our material – thinking digitally about the Middle Ages.
This conference sets out to explore ways in which medievalists might harness the vast, digital possibilities for a cross-institutional and interdisciplinary medieval archive. Possible topics may include but are not limited to the following:
- Implications of digital archives for the editing of medieval texts
- Methodologies and/or ideologies behind archivization
- The archivization of already existing digital databases
- Digitized archives/collections as enabling or limiting research
- The digital (re)construction of medieval collections
- Compilation and order of medieval texts
- Textual forms / reading methods
- Fluidity of the medieval text and the Internet
- The digital conglomeration of visual and narrative data
- Digital visualization of medieval documents, art and literature
Please submit a short C.V. and abstracts of 250 words by November 1, 2013 for consideration to: digitizingmedievalarchive@gmail.com
Numbers in Early Modern Writing – Call For Papers
Early modern books are full of numbers, representing both practicality and mystery. The Journal of the Northern Renaissance invites contributions for a special issue exploring numbers in early modern literature and textual culture. How were numbers and numerical techniques used in drama, dance, and music? What were the practical issues arising from printing numerical texts, and how were numbers represented on the page? How were the index and the cross-reference created and used? To what extent would an early modern audience recognize mathematical references in literary texts and performance? Who would buy an arithmetic book and how might they use it?
Articles are invited on, but not confined to, the following subject areas:
- Ways of counting and things to count: inventories and accounts; time and tempo; feet and metre.
- Numbers in print: reference tables, logarithms, cross-referencing, indices.
- Books on arithmetic, double-entry book-keeping and merchants’ handbooks. Ciphering and deciphering.
- The use of zero and other mathematical symbols in literature and drama.
- Dance, music and other numerical art forms.
- Making a reckoning: performing numbers on stage.
- Numbers in the material text: ways of using numerical books, and their owners.
- Mystical numbers, kaballah, numerology.
- Mathematical methodologies; measuring, mapping and quantifying.
This issue will be guest-edited by Dr Katherine Hunt and Rebecca Tomlin, organisers of a conference on the topic held at Birkbeck, University of London, in May 2013, from which some of the papers are expected to be taken. Potential contributors are advised to consult the JNR web page for details of the submissions procedure and style guidelines: http://www.northernrenaissance.org/information. We also welcome initial enquiries regarding possible contributions, which can be sent to northernrenaissance+numbers[@]gmail.com.
The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages and Renaissance – Call For Papers
Stellenbosch, South Africa
28-31 August 2014
Keynote Address: Professor Henry Woudhuysen, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
The 22nd Biennial Conference of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will be held at Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch, South Africa, on 28-31 August 2014. The conference theme is ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages and Renaissance’. In an effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation, we encourage scholars working in any discipline to submit abstracts addressing this theme.
Professor David Scott-Macnab,
Department of English,
University of Johannesburg
dscott-macnab@uj.ac.za
For information about previous conferences, and the conference venue, please consult the society website: http://www.sasmarsnewsletter.blogspot.com.
The Year’s Work in English Studies: Shakespeare – Call For Contributors
There are currently two vacancies for contributors to write entries on Shakespeare scholarship – one on the histories and another on the tragedies – in The Year’s Work in English Studies.
YWES is organized by the English Association and published by Oxford University Press.
YWES is the qualitative narrative bibliographical review of scholarly work on English language and literatures written in English. It is the largest and most comprehensive work of its kind and the oldest evaluative work of literary criticism.
Contributors write a short narrative description of all the scholarly and critical work in their particular field which a) was published in the calendar year under discussion and b) you think was important. Entries typically run to about 6,000 words, although it’s not about word limits so much as the contributor’s own sense of what is required.
Contributors are able to order review copies of more or less any book which falls within their purview, and it is an excellent way to be on top of the literature in the field.
Expressions of interest together with short academic biographies should be sent to:
Dr Richard Wood (Sheffield Hallam University)
Associate Editor of The Year’s Work in English Studies
Email: Richard.Wood@shu.ac.uk