Monthly Archives: October 2013

Winter School: Investigating the Middle Ages – Call For Papers

The Consolidated Research Group “Space, Power and Culture” of Lleida University and the Centre for Medieval Studies of Murcia University are pleased to announce that the Winter School “Investigating the Middle Ages”, will take place in Lleida on February 10th and 11th, 2014. The aim of this event is to contribute to the training of young medievalists. The workshops will include the presentations of ten PhD projects selected from among the proposals which have been received.

In order to maintain the quality of the event, we can accept only a limited number of participants, who may take part in all the sessions and discussions, together with the staff and those doctoral candidates who have already been selected. Those wishing to apply for a place should send a brief CV to medieval@historia.udl.cat before the 29th November, 2013. The results will be communicated shortly afterwards.

The matriculation fee is only €20 and includes materials and lunches during the days of the event. The fee should be paid when the participation is confirmed.

For more about the Winter School, including the full program, please visit: http://www.medieval.udl.cat/en/node/570

Authority and Knowledge: People, Policy, Politics – Call For Papers

Authority and Knowledge: People, Policy, Politics
The University of Melbourne
Thursday 13 – Friday 14 February, 2014

Conference Website

There is a fundamental relationship between authority and knowledge: the entitlement to know, to speak, and to act relies upon claims of expertise, power and experience. Forms of authority pervade our social relationships, from teachers and students, to parents and children, and the various public roles undertaken by politicians, journalists and researchers. Past and present, the relationship between authority and knowledge has placed ‘knowledge-making’ institutions at the centre of the struggle for social, cultural, and political authority. Like many other nation states, Australia’s concern to buttress and develop its ‘knowledge economy’ has brought the role of educational institutions into greater focus. The current reforms engulfing ‘knowledge-making’ institutions throw into sharp relief the premium placed on knowledge production, and the various claims to authority that follow. This includes, for example, the framing of the purpose of research as providing an ‘evidence-base’ for policy; the centralisation of knowledge claims through federal-level curricula stipulation at all levels of education; shifting relationships between students and teachers; and the centralisation of research funding and governance mechanisms. These changes have significant effects upon the ways in which authority is expressed, through and over knowledge, socially, culturally and politically, in the media and public discourse, through schools and universities, and within social life.

This conference aims to bring researchers together who are currently engaged in research concerning the nature, form and function of authority and knowledge historically, socially, culturally, politically and institutionally. We welcome papers that address the multifaceted ways in which claims to authority and knowledge permeate everyday social life, political understandings and practices, and policy reform (people, politics, policy).

Papers may cover such issues as:

  • The diverse ways in which authority and knowledge shapes understandings, and practices of, citizenship
  • Historical, cultural and social practices of authority and knowledge production
  • The relationship between power and authority, including contestations over practices of authority
  • The institutional claim to authority over knowledge in public discourse
  • The effects of ‘evidence-based’ policy agendas on the form and function of research knowledge   Analysis of past and present reform agendas surrounding knowledge-making institutions
  • Gender, race and class and constructions of knowledge and authority
  • Modernity, neoliberalism and changing forms of knowledge/authority
  • Authority, legitimation and social order, and limits of authoritative knowledge
  • Knowledge, empowerment and social justice
  • Inter-relational, inter-generational and pedagogic authority and power
  • Knowledge societies, knowledge economies and ‘knowledge work’

We invite proposals for:

  • Standard papers
  • Panels/symposia, having 3 papers and a chair
  • Short sharp papers, which distil a key idea or provocation in a 5 minute, 1 slide, presentation

Please submit abstracts and proposals for symposia by 30 November 2013 using the online form found here.

The conference is being convened by researchers from the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. For more information, please contact one of the convenors: Dr Jessica Gerrard (jessica.gerrard@unimelb.edu.au), Dr Peter Woelert (pwoelert@unimelb.edu.au) or Dr Katie Wright (kwright@unimelb.edu.au).

Shakespearean Perceptions – Call For Papers

“Shakespearean Perceptions”
The 12th Biennial International Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA)
The University of Southern Queensland
October 2-4, 2014

Confirmed keynotes include:

  • Professor Peter Holbrook (University of Queensland)
  • Emeritus Professor Helen Ostovich (McMaster)
  • Professor Garrett Sullivan (Pennsylvania)

Shakespeare’s career coincided with a period during which the nature of perception was being radically reimagined. While the rise of the Elizabethan theatre brought with it new configurations of audiences, Elizabethans were learning to view plays—and indeed their world—with fresh eyes but also with fresh noses, fresh ears, fresh skin, etc. This rethinking of sensory perception also resulted in a new understanding of the roles of reason and the imagination in shaping lived experience. Rather than being a phenomenon limited to the work of Shakespeare alone, the reinvention of perception mapped itself out across the whole of the Elizabethan and Jacobean worlds, and is worth tracing in the work of Shakespeare’s coevals (Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, and many others). By the same token, modern audiences and readers of Shakespearean drama refashion this work according to visual and sensory economies made possible by new technologies and new modes of representation.

Topics that may cover this notion of “Shakespearean Perceptions” may include, but need not be limited to:

  • Shakespearean drama and modes of perception: the senses, passions, embodiment, and medicine
  • Audiences of Shakespeare in the past and present
  • Cultural histories of perception and performance
  • Art and the iconic or emblematic nature of Shakespearean plays
  • Reinterpretations of Shakespearean drama for the modern stage
  • Editors and readers of Shakespeare
  • Modes of cognition and experience in the early modern theatre
  • Perceptions in Shakespearean drama of classical, medieval, or “New World” ideas and sources
  • New media and film and adaptations of Shakespeare’s work and that of his contemporaries
  • Shakespearean drama in translation to non-English-speaking languages
  • Perceptions of the natural and supernatural worlds
  • Ways of seeing Shakespeare in political and social contexts.

The conference venue is situated in the picturesque garden city of Toowoomba, located at the edge of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. ANZSA 2014 will be held in conjunction with the 11th annual Shakespeare-in-the-Park Festival. Conference registration will include attendance at the opening show of the main stage performance of Much Ado about Nothing, and for participation in selected other events at the Festival.

The conference will include lectures, papers, workshops, seminars, and performances. We invite proposals for papers or presentations (20 minutes), panels (90 minutes), and workshops (90 minutes) on any aspect of the conference theme, broadly interpreted. Proposals (250 words or less) should be sent by 29 April, 2014 to Associate Professor Laurie Johnson or Dr Darryl Chalk by email: Shakespeare.Symposiums@usq.edu.au

More information at the conference website: http://conference.anzsa.org

ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions – Collaboratory: Arts and Rhetorics of Emotions in Early Modern Europe

ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 
Collaboratory: Arts and Rhetorics of Emotions in Early Modern Europe
University of Queensland, Brisbane, and Toowong Rowing Club (on the UQ campus)
25-27 November, 2013

Keynote Speakers:

Rhetorical theory since the Ancients assumed writers and artists aimed to excite and manipulate the emotions of their audiences. The period in Europe from Renaissance to Enlightenment was one of astonishing inventiveness in literature, art, sculpture, music, and numerous other art forms (design, architecture, the masque). Radically new styles, genres, and expressive practices emerge (opera, the novel). How did these new techniques work to elicit, produce, or condition emotional responses in their audiences? What types of emotional experience did these innovative aesthetic modes make possible? What was the relation of new affective realities to Judeo Christian or classical values?

Topics addressed might include:

  • Rhetoric, oratory, performance, and theatre as emotional technologies
  • Music, dance, and other non-verbal artistic and cultural media and the emotions
  • The passions in Renaissance discourses
  • Affective possibilities of new literary and artistic genres: lyric poetry, the novel, the essay, diaries, scholarly history, lifewriting.
  • Emotional inflections of early modern art movements: Renaissance, neo-classicism, sentimentalism, mannerism.
  • The arts of religion and the emotional styles of everyday life: liturgy, worship, prayer, sermon.
  • Emotional character of Protestantism and the Counter- Reformation
  • Art and rhetoric of sacred and profane passions: enthusiasm, empiricism.
  • Philosophical perspectives on emotion and the emotional colouring of early modern philosophical movements: neostoicism, neo-Platonism, Spinozism, scepticism, Cartesianism, the scientific revolution.
  • The affective dimensions of political discourse and public life.

Collaboratory will include a performance of Johann Christoph Pepusch’s Venus and Adonis, a 1715 masque with a libretto by Colley Cibber on Tuesday 26 November at the UQ Arts Museum.

Register on-line here by 31 October 2013

Enquiries to uqche@uq.edu.au or call (07) 3365-4913.

University of Oxford, Magdalen College: Postdoctoral Research Associate – Call For Applications

University of Oxford, Magdalen College
Calleva Centre
3-year Postdoctoral Research Associate, “Adults at Play(s)”

Magdalen College proposes to appoint two postdoctoral research associates in connection with a collaborative project entitled Adults at Play(s). Both posts are for three years from 1 October 2014. Candidates must have a doctorate in hand by that date. They will already have demonstrated outstanding promise either in the study of dramatic literature or in experimental psychology, and will have an aptitude and enthusiasm for interdisciplinary work across these areas. The postholders will collaborate with three Fellows of the College (Felix Budelmann, Robin Dunbar and Laurie Maguire) in developing experimental and text-based research on the psychology of the audience, with particular reference to classical Greek and early modern English drama.

Informal enquiries should be directed to felix.budelmann@magd.ox.ac.uk, robin.dunbar@magd.ox.ac.uk or laurie.maguire@magd.ox.ac.uk.

Both appointments will be made at points 29-31 on the University Salary Scale 7, currently £29,541-£31,331 p.a.; plus benefits.

Application forms and further particulars, which include information on how to apply, are available at http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/.

The deadline for applications is UK time 12 noon on 1 November 2013.

See full position details here.

Dr Giovanni Tarantino, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions lecture

ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions lecture
“Mapping Religion (and Emotions) in the Protestant Valleys of Piedmont, 1655-1689”, Dr Giovanni Tarantino (University of Melbourne)

Date: Friday 25 October 2013.
Time: 1.00pm-2.00pm.
Venue: Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library, The University of Adelaide.
Enquiries: Tel. 08 8313 2421  janet.hart@adelaide.edu.au

All welcome!

The Alpine territory inhabited by the Piedmontese Waldensians is variously represented in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century cartography. These variations reflect the religious and political leanings of those who made and used them, depicting, for instance, the efforts made by the Capuchins to re-Catholicize the area, or the House of Savoy’s subjection of the territory. But even more significant is the cartography produced by the Waldensians, in that it charts a process of appropriation and a transformation of the ghetto within which the repressive Sabaudian legislation had set out to confine them into a small country to be proud of, whose religious and cultural identity they were (and are) determined to preserve. Purely territorial definitions thus turned into distinctive banners of a religious and ecclesial minority community, an ‘emotional community’ made more aware and prouder of its own cultural identity by the shared experience of persecution, marginalization and derision. The adventurous and dramatic story of a small valley world became emblematic of the many European episodes of diversity, dispersal and rejection. And the ‘affective cartography’ of the Waldensians is a reminder to practitioners in the history of emotions of the importance of this particular source – the geographic map – which contains an abundance of information but has, to date, received little consideration in the historic investigation of emotions.

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Giovanni Tarantino is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (1100-1800) at the University of Melbourne, working on the early modern English representations of the persecution of Waldensians. He is co-Editor of the online peer-reviewed history journal CROMOHS (www.cromohs.unifi.it). His main research interest is in the history of tolerance (and intolerance) towards religious minorities in the early modern era.

Imago Temporis. Medium Aevum Vol. 6 (2012) – Now Online via Open Access

Volume 6 (2012) of the journal Imago Temporis. Medium Aevum is now available online via open access at the website:http://www.medieval.udl.cat/en/imagotemporis.

Imago Temporis. Medium Aevum aims to contribute to renewing studies into the medieval period, with special attention to the different conceptual aspects that gave rise to the medieval civilisation, and especially to the study of the Mediterranean area.

Volumes 1-5 (from 2008 onwards) of Imago Temporis are also available to view via open access at the above website.

Celebrating Word and Image 1250–1600

For those members in Perth, or who may be coming to Perth for the PMRG/CMEMS conference in November this exhibition may be of interest.

Celebrating Word and Image 1250–1600
Illuminated Manuscripts from the Kerry Stokes Collection New Norcia Museum and Art Gallery
4 October 2013 to 17 March 2014

Rare medieval manuscripts from the Kerry Stokes Collection will be exhibited for the first time at the New Norcia Museum and Art Gallery from October 2013 to March 2014.

The Kerry Stokes Collection is one of the most extensive and significant private collections of art and historical material in Australia. Celebrating Word and Image 1250–1600 will give Western Australians unprecedented access to these unique manuscripts.

For full details, please see the media release: http://www.newnorcia.wa.edu.au/cms/resources/MediaReleaseV2.pdf

Heckman Stipends – Call For Applications

Heckman Stipends, made possible by the A.A. Heckman Endowed Fund, are awarded semi-annually. Up to 10 stipends in amounts up to $2,000 are available each year. Funds may be applied toward travel to and from Collegeville, housing and meals at Saint John’s University, and costs related to duplication of HMML’s microfilm or digital resources. The Stipend may be supplemented by other sources of funding but may not be held simultaneously with another HMML Stipend or Fellowship. Holders of the Stipend must wait at least two years before applying again.

The program is specifically intended to help scholars who have not yet established themselves professionally and whose research cannot progress satisfactorily without consulting materials to be found in the collections of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.

Applications must be submitted by November 15 for residencies between January and June of the following year.

Applicants are asked to provide:

  • a letter of application with current contact information, the title of the project, length of the proposed residency at HMML and its projected dates, and the amount requested (up to $2,000)
  • a description of the project to be pursued, with an explanation of how HMML’s resources are essential to its successful completion of the project; applicants are advised to be as specific as possible about which resources will be needed (maximum length: 1,000 words)
  • an updated curriculum vitae
  • a confidential letter of recommendation to be sent directly to HMML by an advisor, thesis director, mentor, or, in the case of postdoctoral candidates, a colleague who is a good judge of the applicant’s work 

Please send all materials as email attachments to: fellowships@hmml.org, with “Heckman Stipend” in the subject line. Questions about the Stipends may be sent to the same address.

University of Sydney, Workshop – Themes in Early Modern Mathematics and Medicine

Themes in Early Modern Mathematics and Medicine
University of Sydney
Kevin Lee Room, Level 6, Quadrangle A14 (enter via MacLaurin Hall Stairway)
8 November 2013

Program:

  • 9.30 Charles Wolfe (Ghent): ‘Early modern medical empiricism’ (60 mins paper & discussion inclusive)
  • 10.30 Alan Salter (Sydney): ‘Richard Lower’s model heart. The diagram as object of inquiry in early modern anatomy’
  • 11.30 Coffee
  • 12.00 Anik Waldow (Sydney): ‘Experience and its explanatory role’
  • 1.00 Lunch (provided) in Main Quad N293
  • 2.30 Peter Anstey (Sydney): ‘Mathematical principles as models’
  • 3.30 Laura Kotevska (Sydney): ‘Geometry at Port-Royal: some remarks on Arnauld’s Nouveaux éléments de géométrie’ (45 mins paper & discussion)
  • 4.15 Roundtable discussion
  • 5.00 Wind up

Space is limited. To register contact Professor Peter Anstey by 6 November (peter.anstey@sydney.edu.au).