Monthly Archives: September 2013

Tragic Affect: Performance Workshops with Hamlet and Othello – Call For Applications

Tragic Affect: Performance Workshops with Hamlet and Othello
 
Shakespearean tragedies are highly affective early modern texts. In this series of rehearsals, work-in-progress performances and post-show discussions of Hamlet (c.1600) and Othello (c.1604) between 23 September to 4 October 2013 the affective dramaturgies of these plays will be explored from different angles. 

ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (1100-1800), in association with La Trobe University’s Centre for Creative Arts, will present two workshop performances: the first act of an Indigenous Hamlet and a full workshop production of the last act of an “original practices”Othello. Participants will have the opportunity to observe and contribute to the rehearsal processes of each workshop and contribute to the post-showing discussions of the performances.

Presenters:

  • Dr Rob Conkie (La Trobe University)
  • Dr Penelope Woods (University of Western Australia)

Hamlet (Remember Me)

Date: Rehearsals 23-26 September 2013
Time: 10am to 5pm daily
Showing: Friday 27 September, 2-3pm
Post-Workshop Long Table Discussion: 3-5pm
Venue: The Playroom, La Trobe University
Registration: Free but bookings essential. Contact r.conkie@latrobe.edu.au

For full details about this workshop please visit: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/tragic-affect-performance-workshop-hamlet-%28remember-me%29.aspx 

 
 
Othello’s Ongoing Affect
 
Date: Rehearsals 30 September- 3 October 2013
Time: 10am to 5pm daily
Showing: Friday 4 October, 2-4pm
Post-Workshop Long Table Discussion: 4-6pm
Venue: The Playroom, La Trobe University
Registration: Free but bookings essential. Contact r.conkie@latrobe.edu.au

For full details about this workshop, please visit: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/tragic-affect-performance-workshop-othellos-ongoing-affect.aspx

Origines et mutationes circa principio Mare Balticum – Call For Papers

“Origines et mutationes circa principio Mare Balticum”.
Transfer of people, ideas, technologies and religion in the Baltic Sea Region between VIII-XVII centuries
Gdańsk – Old Town, Poland
10–13 September, 2014  
(note: date may change slightly)

Conference Website

We hereby have the pleasure to invite you to the international conference aimed at wide range of researchers, e.g. from Ph.D. Candidates to Professors, giving each of them an opportunity to exchange knowledge or start new research projects.

The focus of the conference is “transfer”, which best explains the changes Baltic Sea region has undergone from VIII to XVII centuries.

Presentations and Conference proceedings are divided into four main groups:

  1. Transfer of People: Settlement process, Trade, Logistics, Diplomacy
  2. Transfer of Ideas: Law, Tradition & Customs, Political Concepts
  3. Transfer of Technology: Land & Maritime Craft, Agriculture, Medicine
  4. Transfer of Religion: Dispersion of pagan beliefs; Christianization process

Note: If you do not find any of the areas suitable for you and you have a group of researchers active on the same filed of interest a “Separate, Specifically Tailored Panel” can be organized for your group.

Abstracts (max. 700 characters with spaces) for papers (max. 20 minutes) should be sent to baltic.conf@gmail.com by 12 January 2014. Abstracts should include you paper title, full name, and affiliation. Alternatively you may send through a www.academia.edu link to your paper.

Further information will be passed to participants in early March 2014.

Comitatus – Call For Papers

Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, published annually under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, invites the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and Renaissance studies. Submissions should be sent as e-mail attachments to Dr. Blair Sullivan, sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu.

Submission deadline for volume 45 (2014): 1 February 2014.

The Comitatus editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2014.

Urban Culture and Ideologies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe – Second Call For Papers

Urban Culture and Ideologies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: c.1100-1600
Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland, New Zealand
30-31 January, 2014

Conference Website

This conference will focus on the textual traditions of the urban world: the literature of all kinds produced in the urban context, from chronicles to song, illumination to speech acts. Its main theme is notions of ‘urbanity’. What is ‘urban’ about ‘urban culture’? In what ways did urbanity contribute to cultural and ideological sign systems in political speech, historiography, literature, the visual arts and music? How did the production and reception of chronicles shape urban identity – or identities?

Speakers include: Tracy Adams (University of Auckland); Mark Amsler (University of Auckland); Peter Arnade (University of Hawaii); Jan Dumolyn (University of Ghent); Peter Howard (Monash University); Chris Jones (Canterbury University); Constant Mews (Monash University); James Murray (Western Michigan University); Johan Oosterman (Radboud University, Nijmegen); Kim Phillips (University of Auckland)

If you would like to give a paper, please contact Andrew Brown, A.D.Brown@massey.ac.nz, or submit an abstract to Tina Sheehan, t.m.sheehan@massey.ac.nz – ideally before 15 October to be sure that available slots for speakers are not all filled.

Senior scholars and postgraduate students are equally welcome. If you would like to register attendance at the conference, please do so on the website, http://urbanculture.massey.ac.nz.

Early-bird registration closes 6 December 2013.

If you have any queries please contact: Dr Andrew Brown, School of Humanities,
Massey University: A.D.Brown@massey.ac.nz

Australian Early Medieval Association 10th Conference – Second Call For Papers

From Byzantium to Clontarf: Emotional, Intellectual and Spiritual Perceptions in the Construction and Reception of the Early Medieval Past
The 10th conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association (AEMA)
Macquarie University, Sydney
7–8 February, 2014

Keynote speakers:

  • Dr Ken Parry, Macquarie University
  • Dr Juanita Ruys, Sydney University

AEMA’s 10th conference spans the eight centuries from late antiquity through to the twelfth century, extending from the Byzantine capital of Constantinople in the East to Ireland in the West, and all areas in between. Impressions of the early medieval world over this period and region are based on sources that capture the emotional, intellectual, cultural or religious perceptions and biases of their creators.

2014 marks the 1000th anniversary of two important early medieval battles, Clontarf in the West and Kleidion in the East. Accounts of events, including battles like Clontarf and Kleidion are often highly subjective and emotionally charged, while modern cultural, intellectual, political, and religious sentiments can influence our reading of sources and our perceptions of events of the early medieval past. These events can then sometimes take on new meaning or symbolism for later audiences, just as
perceptions of the battles of Clontarf and Kleidion and their aftermath have shifted over the last millennium.

This conference invites papers that address the emotional, intellectual, spiritual, or cultural aspects of written and non-written sources of the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods (c. 400–1150).  Priority will be given to papers which relate to the conference theme but submissions related to any aspect of the early medieval world will be considered. Papers on the reception of events of this period by non-contemporary writers and artists are also welcome, particularly the role played by emotion, intellect, politics, culture, or religion in framing the ways in which societies or individuals view their past.

Abstracts of 250-300 words for 20-minute papers should be sent to conference@aema.net.au by 4 October 2013.

Limited financial assistance may be available for postgraduates and early career researchers travelling interstate for this conference and there will also be a prize for the Best Postgraduate/ECR paper at the conference (AEMA membership required).

For more information, please contact the convenors, Janet Wade and Nicole Moffatt, at conference@aema.net.au or visit www.aema.net.au

Authors, Artists, Audiences – Call For Papers

“Authors, Artists, Audiences”
35th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH, USA 
April 25-26, 2014

Conference Website

We invite abstracts or panel proposals in medieval and Early Modern studies that consider how authors, artists, and audiences functioned in personal, political, religious, and aesthetic realms. How are authorship and artistry defined in different contexts? What roles do audiences play in creativity and expression? How are reading and viewing conceived of or portrayed? What relationships exist among creator, creation, and consumer? How do such ideas hold meaning today?

Papers need not be confined to the theme but may cover many aspects of medieval and Renaissance life, literature, languages, art, philosophy, theology, history and music.

Students, faculty, and independent scholars are welcome.

Undergraduate sessions are welcome and require faculty sponsorship.

This year’s keynote speaker is Rebecca Krug, associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota, who specializes in late medieval English literature and culture. She is the author of Reading Families: Women’s Literate Practice in Late Medieval England (Cornell University Press, 2002) and of a number of essays, including recent pieces in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture and in A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age. She is currently writing an essay about lunar gardening in the medieval and modern worlds as well as completing a book about Margery Kempe.

For more information visit www.plymouth.edu/medieval

Please submit abstracts, a/v needs, and full contact information to Dr. Karolyn Kinane, Director PSUForum@gmail.com.

Abstract deadline: Monday January 15, 2014

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship – 2014 Prize for Best First Feminist Book on the Middle Ages – Call For Submissions

The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship announces the 2014 competition for the best first monograph on feminist scholarship on the Middle Ages. The Prize alternates every other year between a published essay and a first book.

The SMFS Awards Committee solicits nominations for Best First Feminist Book in any area of medieval studies.

Nominated books should represent the best in feminist scholarship published in 2012 and 2013. The prize, which includes an award of $500, will be announced at the SMFS reception at the 2014 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI.

Self-nominations are acceptable.

Please send at least two copies (more if available) of nominated books, along with a brief cover letter summarizing the book’s merits and contributions, by December 31, 2013 to:

Professor Sally Livingston
Department of Humanities-Classics
Ohio Wesleyan University
61 S. Sandusky St.
Delaware, OH 43015
Email: saliving@owu.edu

ARC Centre for the History of Emotions (CHE) Associate Investigator Scheme – Call For Applications

Applications are invited for the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions (CHE) Associate Investigator (AI) Scheme for 2014.

Our Associate Investigators are Australian humanities researchers working on research projects that correlate with the Centre’s research aims and goals.

Closing Date: 30 September 2013.

The ARC CHE has a core goal to provide small grant support to scholars as Associate Investigators (AIs) conducting research that focuses on the study of emotions in Europe 1100-­‐1800, or explores the extension of that history in subsequent periods in Australia. Topics should fit within our project areas: Meanings, Change, Performance and Shaping the Modern. Applicants from any relevant discipline are welcome.

AI Scheme Key Principles

  1. Projects must investigate an aspect of the History of Emotions, 1100‐1800, or the extension of that history in subsequent periods in Australia, and can be for any length of time up to one year (with a possibility to renew or extend for another year on evidence of achievement of first-­year project outcomes). However, any successful applicant who, during the period of their AI status, wins national competitive grant funding for a project focusing on the study of emotions in Europe 1100-­1800, will be automatically offered AI status for the duration of that project;
  2. Applicants must propose demonstrable outcomes appropriate to the nature of the project and the aims of CHE; 
  3. Applicants can seek up to a maximum of $3000 per year to support project expenses. All budgets must be fully costed and evidenced in the proforma application; 
  4. Successful applicants will be known for the length of their funding period as “Associate Investigators” of the Centre;
  5. Successful applicants must complete a 6 month progress report and a final report one month after completion of the funding period;
  6. Successful applicants must acknowledge the support of CHE in all public presentations of project materials (written, oral etc.).

Eligibility

Eligible applicants will:

  1. Be resident in Australia;
  2. Hold a PhD in a relevant discipline.

Current and former AIs are welcome to apply.

For further details and the application process, click here.

2015 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship – Call For Applications

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society is pleased to announce the competition for the 2015 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship.

Named in honor of the founding editor of Signs, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is designed to recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist scholars.

The Catharine Stimpson Prize is awarded biennially to the best paper in an international competition. Leading feminist scholars from around the globe will select the winner. The prizewinning paper will be published in Signs, and the author will be provided an honorarium of $1,000. All papers submitted for the Stimpson Prize will be considered for peer review and possible publication in Signs.

Deadline for Submissions: March 1, 2014.

Eligibility: Feminist scholars in the early years of their careers (fewer than seven years since receipt of the terminal degree) are invited to submit papers for the Stimpson Prize. Papers may be on any topic that falls under the broad rubric of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship. Submissions must be no longer than 10,000 words (including notes and references) and must conform to the guidelines for Signs contributors.

Please submit papers online at http://signs.edmgr.com. Be sure to select Major Article—Stimpson Prize as the article type when submitting and indicate submission for the Stimpson Prize in the cover letter. The honorarium will be awarded upon publication of the prizewinning article.