Monthly Archives: March 2014

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore – Postgraduate/Postdoctoral Positions in Early Modern/Medieval European History

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, is seeking  scholars who might be interested in applying for one of these positions (PhD student or post-doctoral worker).

Applications should be made by the end of June, for scholarships to be taken up in January for PhD students, or at an agreed time for postdoctoral workers. Persons who are interested should consult Professor Andrea Nanetti before preparing an application. His e-mail address is: andrea.nanetti@ntu.edu.sg

Before contacting Professor Nanetti, prospective applicants should inform themselves about the project of which their work will form a part by accessing the following web site:

http://www.engineeringhistoricalmemory.com/archives/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2013-Nanetti-Cheong-Filippov.pdf

Information may also be obtained from Associate Chair of Postgraduate Studies, Professor Michael Walsh, who is in charge of this programme. His e-mail address is: mwalsh@ntu.edu.sg

The positions will be funded by the University. Applicants will therefore be competing against others from a wide range of disciplines.

The position or positions will be supported by the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang University (about 35,000 students), which offers a full range of Bachelor, Master and PhD programmes. Their graduate programmes in particular are an incubator for the development of creative ideas spanning disciplines. For general information on their graduate programmes, see:

http://www.adm.ntu.edu.sg/ProspectiveADM/GraduateProgrammes/Pages/overview.aspx

The necessary qualifications for both of these positions are as follows:

1. English as a first language
2. Demonstrated competence in the Italian language
3. An interest in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance in Europe, particularly in works of art and architecture that can be used to illustrate this period.

PhD students must spend at least half of each year at Nanyang University. Postdoctoral students will be expected to be resident at Nanyang University except for short periods of absence, such as holidays, attendance at conference and approved visits to other institutions.

The CHASS Australia Prizes – Call For Applications

The CHASS Australia Prizes are awarded by the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Science (CHASS). They are presented at the annual CHASS National Forum Dinner. The Australia Prizes are designed to honour distinguished achievement by Australian academics, practitioners, philanthropists and policy makers in HASS (Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) areas. The Australia Prizes are intended to draw international attention to Australia’s achievements in HASS.

In 2014, there will be four prizes. Two are valued at $3500 each and are sponsored by Routledge/Taylor and Francis Publishers: one for a book (e-books are acceptable) that enriches Australian cultural and intellectual life, the second for an exceptional artistic performance, exhibition, film, television show, play, composition or practical contribution to arts policy. The third prize, which is valued at $2000, is sponsored by Future Leaders and is for an individual under 35 years-old who is demonstrating leadership skill and potential in the arts, humanities and social sciences. The Co-Op bookstore chain has sponsored the fourth prize. It is valued at $500 and is for an undergraduate student essay, project or thesis in a HASS area.

Submissions close  30 June 2014.

For more information and to apply, please visit: http://chass.org.au/forum/australiaPrizes.htm

Information Session on Research Opportunities in Canada

For those in WA:

The High Commission of Canada presents: Information Session on Research Opportunities in Canada

This presentation will provide information on Canadian research grants in all disciplines available to academic staff and postgraduate students.

It will cover funding available from Canada’s three major federal research councils – the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

The High Commission of Canada will  also provide information on the prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program and Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships, and other grants offered by some of the provinces, as well as other non-government organisations.

Date: 8th April 2014
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Venue:  Council Chamber, Building 100, Level 3, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley
RSVP: Email ORDResearchSupport@curtin.edu.au with the subject: “Research Opportunities in Canada” by Thursday, 3rd April 2014

University of Melbourne, Dean’s Lecture: The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge: A Case Study

University of Melbourne, Dean’s Lecture
“The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge: a Case Study in the Evolution of the Art Museum”, Duncan Robinson

Date: 26 March 2014
Time: 6:45-7:45pm
Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne
Register: Free, but please register here: http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/duncanrobinson

The Fitzwilliam Museum was founded in 1816 by the bequest made to the University of Cambridge by a wealthy alumnus, Richard Viscount Fitzwilliam.

In this lecture, Duncan Robinson traces its development, reflected in its architecture, from the private collection of an 18th Century aristocrat to its position today as one of Britain’s foremost art museums in which full, public access is combined with objects-based research, conservation facilities and teaching at all levels in order to fulfil its founder’s commitment to ‘the increase of learning.’

Duncan Robinson, CBE, FSA, was, until his retirement in 2012, the Master of Magdalene College Cambridge, and a Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is a graduate of both Cambridge and Yale Universities and a former Professorial Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He worked at the Fitzwilliam as Assistant Keeper then Keeper of Paintings and Drawings, 1970-81. He then became the Director of the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, 1981-95, before returning to Cambridge to take up the Directorship of the Fitzwilliam Museum (1995-2007.)

Mr Robinson served as one of the first members of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board (1998-2003). He was a Governor of the South Eastern Museums Service, 1997-9, of the Museums Service, East of England, 2002-3, and of its successor body, East England Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, 2003-4.

In recent years he has been a trustee of a number of bodies. He currently chairs the Henry Moore Foundation, the City of Cambridge’s Public Art Panel and the University of Cambridge’s Advisory Panel on Human Remains.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medieval Art or Architectural History – Call For Applications

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medieval Art or Architectural History
Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral or more senior research appointment, July 1, 2014 -June 30, 2015. The successful candidate will teach one course per semester, subject to approval by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty (which might be an introductory survey in the period of specialization and/or a seminar/upper-division class), interact with a diverse group of scholars, and have the opportunity to undertake and/or complete a research project. He/she will be expected to be in residence during the term of his/her appointment. Scholars must have completed all requirements for the PhD (including successful defense of the dissertation) by the time of appointment.

Applications will be reviewed beginning April 15, 2014 and will continue until position is filled. Applicants should apply online at https://jobs.princeton.edu and submit a CV, cover letter, statement of research, and names and contact information for 3 references. This position is subject to the University’s background check policy.

Fons Luminis: Using and Creating Digital Medievalia – Call For Papers

Fons Luminis, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal edited and produced annually by graduate students at the Centre for Medieval Studies in the University of Toronto, provides a forum in which to address, challenge, and explore the content and methodologies of our various home disciplines. We invite current graduate students to submit papers relating in some way to the 2015 journal theme, “Using and Creating Digital Medievalia.”

Since the mid-twentieth century, computing has been and continues to be a major factor in the medievalist’s research. From Father Busa’s creation of the Index Thomasticus in the 1940’s to current library and archival digitization projects, computational methods are essential aspects of the medievalist’s occupation. Papers are encouraged to address: medievalist use of digitally stored information; social scientists and librarians as creators and/or curators of knowledge about the Middle Ages; future directions of digital humanities; the importance of digital humanities to work in paleography, codicology, diplomatics, and text editing.

Articles may also focus on topics including (but not limited to) mapping and space, the impact of digitization on concepts of the archive, and digital tools in teaching. Contributions may take the form of a scholarly essay or focus on the study of a particular manuscript. Articles must be written in English, follow the 16th edition (2010) of The Chicago Manual of Style, and be at least 4,000 words in length, including footnotes. Quotations in the main text in languages other than English should appear along with their English translation. As usual, we continue to accept other submissions on any aspect of medieval studies and welcome longer review articles (approximately 1,500 words) on recent or seminal works in medieval studies.
 Submissions must be received by July 1, 2014 in order to be considered for publication. Inquiries and submissions (as a Word document attachment) should be sent to the editors.

University of Melbourne: Early Modern Circle – Program 2014

The Early Modern Circle is an informal, interdisciplinary seminar group open to interested students, academics and researchers. The group meets at 6:15 pm, generally on the third Monday of the month, in the Old Arts building at The University of Melbourne. Please see below for details of dates and venues.

Monday 17 March [Old Arts Room 209 Graduate Seminar Rm 2]
Dr Laura Kounine (Max Planck Institute): Emotions on trial: reading for emotions in 17th century German witch-trials

Monday 7 April [Video Conference Rm 231]
Dr Massimo Rospocher (Leeds): Playing to the Crowd: street singers, war reporting and the manipulation of emotions in early modern Italy

Monday 19 May [Old Arts Room 209 Graduate Seminar Rm 2]
Dr Patricia Pender (University of Newcastle): What is a female patron in early modern England?

Monday 16 June [Old Arts Room 209 Graduate Seminar Rm 2]
Dr Andrea Rizzi: Renaissance Emotions in Translation

Monday 18 August [Old Arts Room 209 Graduate Seminar Rm 2]
Speaker TBC

Monday 15 September [Old Arts Room 209 Graduate Seminar Rm 2]
Postgraduate workshop. More details soon

Monday 20 October [Old Arts Room 209 Graduate Seminar Rm 2]
Dr Hugh Hudson: A New Document for Ghiberti at Santa Maria Novella in Florence: The Confraternity of St Peter Martyr between Convent and Commune

Monday 17 November [Old Arts Room 209 Graduate Seminar Rm 2]
Prof. Veronique Duché [title and abstract TBA]

Please direct any enquiries to the convenors:

(Un)dressing Rubens. Fashion and Painting in Seventeenth-century Antwerp

(Un)dressing Rubens. Fashion and Painting in Seventeenth-century Antwerp
Place: Antwerp, Rubenianum
8 and 9 May, 2014

Conference Website

The theme of this two-day symposium is the depiction of dress and fashion in the work of Peter Paul Rubens and his Flemish contemporaries and successors, often active at foreign courts (1580-1700). In addition to paintings, extant garments, contemporary texts on dress, and fashion prints will be considered as subjects of study to generate a comprehensive view of historical dress, its representation, and its perception in the Southern Netherlands. The symposium aims to generate new discussions and insights into the Southern Netherlandish history of costume, as well as to explore and uncover the complex historical interactions between fashion, prints and paintings. An explicitly interdisciplinary approach brings together leading figures and fresh voices from the fields of the history of dress and the history of art.

For a full program: http://colloquium.rubenianum.be

Registration before 1 May 2014 is mandatory. Please register online at http://colloquium.rubenianum.be

Regular registration fee: € 80 (one day: € 40)
Student registration fee: € 30 (one day: € 15)

For further information, please contact: Bert.Watteeuw@stad.antwerpen.be or Hannelore.Magnus@arts.kuleuven.be

ANZAMEMS Annual General Meeting 2014

Dear members,

Please find below the official notice of the upcoming ANZAMEMS AGM to be held at Monash on April 4th. This AGM will be held via videolink. Institutions which will be linking in with the meeting are: Monash, UQ, UWA, University of Tasmania, Otago, Auckland, University of Canterbury at Christchurch. Please contact your nearest committee member if you wish to attend one of these venues for the meeting.

A proxy form will be circulated early next week for those who cannot come to the AGM but who still wish to vote.

Notice of Meeting

An Annual General Meeting will be held via video-link on Friday April 4, 2014 at 1-2.30pm AEST, at the Clayton videoconference facility,  Room G21, Building 75,  Monash University Clayton campus, Victoria.

Patricia Fleming Visiting Fellowship in Bibliography and Book History – Call For Applications

The Patricia Fleming Visiting Fellowship in Bibliography and Book History will again be awarded this year.

The award is for a scholar outside the University of Toronto to work in the city during 2014-2015. The amount of the award is $2000, with University of Toronto library privileges, and office space at the Faculty of Information. The area of research interest for 2014 is open, but preference may be given to those working in non-Canadian subjects.

For further information, please see: http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca/patricia-fleming-visiting-fellowship-bibliography-and-book-history

Deadline for 2014 award is March 31, 2014