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Liminal Time and Space in Medieval and Early Modern Performance
University of Kent
5-7 September, 2014
Sponsored by the Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Centre for Creative Writing and the School of English, University of Kent.
Plenary speakers: Professor Carol Symes (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Professor Andrew Hiscock (Bangor University).
This interdisciplinary, cross-period conference seeks to explore the representation, effects, and meanings of liminal time and space in medieval and early modern performance. It will consider time and space in conjunction across a range of performance events between the tenth and seventeenth centuries to examine the productive interrelations between both concepts and to draw out their ambiguous, transitional, and transitory aspects.
The socio-cultural construction of time and space has been the focus of much critical enquiry in recent years; as part of this work, scholars have begun to examine the ways in which writers, actors and other artists have shaped or been shaped by shifting concepts of time and space. The Reformation, the establishment of permanent playhouses, and the advances of cartography and travel are just a few examples of specific historical events and cultural phenomena in which thinking about time and space has been central. Yet few projects juxtapose space with time and most remain within their designated period and disciplinary boundaries. This conference will explore times and spaces ‘in between’ these more specific, identifiable, and well-documented cultural phenomena and to do so in light of the inherently transitional and ephemeral nature of performance.
Bringing together scholars working on medieval and early modern performance in its broadest sense, including drama, liturgy and piety, processions, music, dance and poetry, the conference will also offer the opportunity to investigate how time and space in performance express the continuities and ruptures in wider cultural thinking between the medieval and early modern periods. It will also include a creative writing event and the premiere of a film about the Marlowe 450 theatre project currently taking place in Canterbury.
We welcome proposals from researchers working in all areas of medieval and early modern performance cultures, and especially encourage papers dealing with non-dramatic performance practices. Potential topics for papers may well include, but are by no means limited to:
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Dr Sarah Dustagheer (s.dustagheer-463@kent.ac.uk) and Dr Clare Wright (c.wright-468@kent.ac.uk) by Monday 14 April 2014.
University of Leeds – Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Italian Studies
Oral culture, manuscript and print in early modern Italy, 1450-1700
Fixed term for 15 months, available from 1 March 2014, to cover for a period of maternity leave.
The School invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship within a project funded by the European Research Council. The project website is http://arts.leeds.ac.uk/italianvoices
The project, whose Principal Investigator is Professor Brian Richardson, started work in June 2011 and ends in May 2015. It is investigating how oral culture in early modern Italy related to written culture and how far it was independent of writing. It focuses on four areas: social performance, politics, religion, and linguistic usage. Research encompasses spaces such as courts, council chambers, churches, academies, towns, the countryside, and households; men and women of all social classes; and contexts including ceremonial and ritual events, oratory, public and private performance, and scripted and improvised entertainments. It also studies the cultural functions of the exceptionally wide spectrum of languages used throughout the peninsula.
Four Postdoctoral Research Fellows have already been appointed and are carrying out research on: the performance of texts (including those related to politics) in non-elite culture by professional performers and others; the oral diffusion of orthodox and reformed religious thought; the functions and status of the varieties of language used in Italian oral culture. You will be expected to work on any aspect of the use of orality that is relevant to the project and complements research being carried out already.
With a PhD with specialisation in an aspect of Italian studies (preferably already obtained; otherwise to be obtained before the start date of the post), the applicant will also have experience of studying Renaissance/early modern Italian culture and/or history.
For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIF701/postdoctoral-research-fellowship-in-italian-studies
Closing Date: 6 March 2014
Textual Heritage and Information Technologies
El’Manuscript-2014
Varna, Bulgaria
15-20 September 2014
We are pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the El’Manuscript-2014 international conference on the creation and development of information systems for storage, processing, description, analysis, and publication of medieval and early modern hand-written and printed texts and documentary records. Any person involved in the creation or analysis of these resources is welcome to participate.
El’Manucsript-2014 is the fifth in a series of biennial international conferences entitled “Textual Heritage and Information Technologies” (http://textualheritage.org). The programme of the conference traditionally includes tutorials, lectures, and computer classes for young scholars and students. The working languages of the 2014 conference are English, Bulgarian and Russian, and papers presented at the Conference will be published in a volume of proceedings and on the http://textualheritage.org website.
Selected papers in English will be published in a special issue of the Digital Medievalist Journal (http://digitalmedievalist.org/journal/) and, if written in Bulgarian, English or Russian, Palaeobulgarica.
The fifth conference is a joint event of the Textual Heritage and Digital Medievalist scholarly communities. It is co-organized by Izhevsk State Technical University (Russia) and the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and supported by the Sustainable Development of Bulgaria Foundation.
Conference topics:
Application form: proposals for the conference should be sent to elmanuscript@abv.bg.
and should include the following information:
Deadline for submission of application forms and abstracts: 1 April 2014.
For more information, please visit the conference website: http://textualheritage.org/en/2014.html
Tracing the Heroic through Gender: 1650, 1750, 1850
Collaborative Research Cente 948, University of Freiburg,
26–28 February, 2015
In most societies the heroic is in many ways gendered. Attributes of masculinity might first come to mind. Yet, from a historical perspective it becomes apparent that heroizations often also have feminine connotations. The social and cultural production of the heroic cannot be analyzed exclusively in terms of masculinity (and masculinity-studies), nor can we regard women or femininity simply as exceptions in this field. Rather, the relational character of the category gender needs to be taken seriously.
The fundamental relationality, the ‘constructedness’, and the historicity of gender are among the core assumptions in gender studies today. Based on this and by interdisciplinary cooperation the conference will examine forms, mediums and processes of heroization as well as discourses of heroic transgression, exceptionality or veneration for certain periods in time.
In order to give adequate consideration to the complexities of the historical entanglement between gender and heroization, we would like to use gender as an analytical tool in a new way. Speaking metaphorically, one might understand gender as a ‘tracer’ that ‘leads’ us, which way we may uncover new aspects of heroic ideas and concepts.
In today’s natural sciences, a tracer is a substance that helps with the exploration of certain organisms or environments. In experiments, the tracer passes through these environments and reacts to each of them in a different way. Hence, the tracer itself is not the object of study; rather a third element distinguishable from the tracer is explored. Therefore we propose to use gender systematically to ‘trace’ various historical ‘environments’ of the heroic. We are interested in gender relations, men and women as heroes or heroines and their (intersectionally differentiated) construction. Primarily, however, we are interested in:
We welcome scholars from all fields of the humanities and social sciences. The conference focusses on areas of European culture at three different points in time—1650, 1750 and 1850—which are to be discussed from the viewpoints of different disciplines. Proposals including an abstract of a maximum 2000 characters and a one-page CV should be submitted by March 28, 2014 to gender@sfb948.uni-freiburg.de.
The conference will be held in English. A collection of essays based on selected presentations from the conference is to be published. An extended version of the call for papers with further conceptual research questions can be found here.
Palgrave Macmillan is excited to announce the launch of Global Shakespeares. Edited by Alexander Huang, this series is in the innovative Palgrave Pivot format and aims to explore the global afterlife of Shakespearean drama, poetry, and motifs in its literary, performative, and digital forms in expression in the twentieth- and twenty-first century.
Palgrave Pivot: www.palgrave.com/pivot
Published within three months of acceptance of the final manuscript, these landmark studies of between 25,000–50,000 words will capture global Shakespeares as they evolve.
Disseminating big ideas and cutting-edge research in e-book and print formats, and drawing upon open access resources such as the ‘Global Shakespeares’ digital archive, this series marks a significant addition to scholarship in one of the most exciting areas of Shakespeare studies today.
‘Global Shakespeares’ digital archive: http://globalshakespeares.org
If you are interested in finding out more about the Global Shakespeares series, or in proposing a volume, please contact Alexander Huang at globalshakespeares@palgrave.com
Philament, the peer-reviewed online journal of the arts and culture that is affiliated with the University of Sydney, invites postgraduate students and early-career scholars to submit academic papers and creative works for a forthcoming issue on the theme of humour. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Philament accepts submissions from current postgraduate students and early-career scholars (less than five years post-qualification).
Submissions may include:
Submissions should be limited to three pieces.
All submissions should be sent as an email attachment in a PC-readable format to philament.usyd@gmail.com together with a submission form available from arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament/submissions.htm
Academic papers must include endnotes and conform to the Philament house style of referencing as detailed at the URL above. Philament will only accept submissions not previously published and not under consideration elsewhere.
Submissions close March 31, 2014.
Visiting Assistant Professor Medieval European History,
Amherst College, Massachusetts
The Department of History at Amherst College invites applications for a one-year full-time Visiting Assistant Professor in Medieval European History, beginning July 1, 2014. We are seeking a person prepared to teach a range of courses (two in each semester) and advise honors students. Candidates must have the Ph.D. degree in hand or all requirements for the degree fulfilled by the start of the appointment. Strong commitments to scholarship and teaching a diverse undergraduate student body are essential. Please send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, two letters of reference, a writing sample, and syllabi of two proposed courses to:
Visiting Assistant Professor Search Committee,
Department of History,
P.O. Box 2254,
Amherst College,
Amherst, MA 01002-5000.
Review of applications will begin on March 20, 2014, and continue until the position is filled.
Amherst College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, persons of colour, and persons with disabilities to apply. The administration, faculty, and student body are committed to attracting qualified candidates from groups currently under-represented on campus.
Contact: Mrs. Rhea Cabin, History Department Coordinator, ricabin@amherst.edu
The Lemmermann Foundation offers scholarships to masters and doctoral students in the classical studies and humanities. Fields of study include but are not limited to Archaeology, History, History of Art, Italian, Latin, Musicology, Philosophy, and Philology. Applicants must provide evidence for their need to study and carry out research in Rome. Topic of research must be related to Rome or the Roman culture from the Pre-Roman period to the present day.
ELIGIBILITY:
Applicants must:
DEADLINE:
Next deadline for sending applications is March 15, 2014.
STIPEND:
The monthly scholarship amount is established in 750 euro.
TO APPLY:
Applications must be sent by March 15, 2014 to
Fondazione Lemmermann
c/o Studio Associato Romanelli
via Cosseria 5 00192 Rome – ITALY
Applicants must also include the electronic application number that is obtained upon completion of the on-line application form. Further information and access to the on-line application form is at http://www.nexus.it/lemmermann
Encountering Australia: Transcultural Conversations
Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy
24-26 September, 2014
Where and how do we encounter Australia? This conference will explore sites of contact, connection and exchange between Australia and the world, with a particular emphasis on Europe. Monash’s Prato campus, situated in the heart of Italy, provides an ideal meeting-place for such transcultural conversations. We invite papers and panels that engage with ideas of encountering Australia – imaginatively, theoretically, institutionally, politically, socially, historically, pedagogically, symbolically. This conference will provide the opportunity to instigate new ways of talking together about Australia, past and present, and will highlight the importance of cross-cultural dialogue.
Topics for papers and panels may include:
The organising committee welcomes submissions from disciplines including literary studies, film studies, cultural studies, historical studies, Indigenous studies, translation studies, media, journalism and communications, performance studies, gender and women’s studies, legal studies and social sciences.
Abstracts for papers and panel proposals should be submitted to EASA@monash.edu by 10 March 2014. Individual papers should be described in an abstract of 300 words. Panel proposals should include a 200 word abstract for each paper (minimum of 3) and 50-100 words on the panel topic. Please include a biographical statement of no more than 200 words with your submission.