Daily Archives: 11 November 2013

Research Fellowships at Marsh’s Library, Dublin – Call For Applications

Marsh’s Library is pleased to announce a public call for Visiting Research Fellowships of between one and three months duration. The Fellowships may be held at any point from 1 October 2014 to 30 September 2016. The monthly stipend is set at €2,000 per month.

Marsh’s Library is a perfectly preserved library of the late Renaissance and early Enlightenment. The collection consists of about 30,000 printed items and 300 volumes of manuscripts, with particular strengths in British and continental European history and culture.

Marsh’s Library invites research proposals which consider our rich holdings across a number of themes. These include, but are not restricted to:

  • Travel literature and ethnography
  • The history of readership and ownership
  • Annotations, marginalia and ephemera
  • Concepts of science and scientific endeavour
  • The Enlightenment
  • Religious conflict, toleration and sectarianism
  • The Huguenots
  • French social, cultural and intellectual history

Benjamin Iveagh Library: The holdings of Marsh’s Library were augmented in 2009 with the donation by the Guinness family of the library of Benjamin, 3rd Earl of Iveagh. This important collection has great strengths in Irish history, literature and bookbinding from the eighteenth century to the late twentieth century.

The Benjamin Iveagh Library remains at the former Guinness residence of Farmleigh in the Phoenix Park. The selection committee welcomes applications which consider the Benjamin Iveagh Library either on its own terms, or in conjunction with the main holdings of Marsh’s Library.

The closing date for this call is 5:00 p.m. (Irish time) on Friday, 20 December 2013.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AHN945/research-fellowships-at-marshs-library-dublin

Ideas of Rulership: Kings and Queens in Elite and Popular Cultures – Call For Papers

Ideas of Rulership: Kings and Queens in Elite and Popular Cultures
The 8th Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
24-25 October 2014

Over the centuries monarchs wielded power and empire, whereas the rest of the populace swayed the rise and fall of their civilization. From Julius Caesar to King Arthur to Elizabeth I, their feats and portraits were disseminated in various forms of representations that tell stories of different cultural imaginings.

Locating the ideas of ‘rulership’ in elite and popular contexts, the proposed conference explores various ideational frameworks of kingship and queenship – constructed, historicized, re-imagined, popularized, satirized – and their cultural contents in mythological, biblical, philosophical, political, artistic, and social traditions.

Topics for consideration include (but are not limited to):

  • The making of monarchs
  • Transition of power and struggle
  • Ruler, land, and people
  • Imperial cult in court and folk cultures
  • Kings and queens in power, in exile, in prison, behind the throne, or elsewhere
  • Kingship/Queenship in drama, visual arts and performing arts
  • Philosophical discourses on rulership
  • Iconography, royal symbolisms, and social realities
  • Critical models and theories of gender and power
  • Kingship/queenship on film

TACMRS aims to foster research synergies by warmly inviting papers that reach beyond the traditional chronological and disciplinary borders of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies. Please send proposals to TACMRS.NSYS@gmail.com by 5 January 2014.