Monthly Archives: May 2014

The Daily Life of the Anglo-Saxon – Call For Papers

International Society for Anglo-Saxon Studies Biennial Conference 2015
University of Glasgow
3-7 August, 2015

The conference theme is “The Daily Life of the Anglo-Saxons”. Ordinary Anglo-Saxons are often less visible to us than the key political and religious figures, but their lives shaped and were shaped by the wider events of the early medieval period. The theme encompasses all aspects of life, whether mundane or glamorous, covering activities such as farming and cooking, trade and craftsmanship, child-rearing and education, as well as government and administration, religion and devotional practices, travel and communication, medicine, art and leisure. The theme is a broad one by design to accommodate not only archaeological and historical investigations, but also explorations of the language, literature and place-names of the period. Papers on open topics are also welcome.

Proposals will be evaluated “blind” by members of the ISAS Advisory Board. Decisions regarding which proposals are accepted will be announced by January 2015.

Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length, and will be grouped into 3-paper sessions of one hour and 30 minutes in length so as to leave time for questions and discussion. Proposals are welcome for individual papers or for complete sessions. Abstracts, whether for papers or for sessions, should be no more than 500 words in length (including bibliography). Abstracts are also required for individual papers within a proposed session.

Proposals are also welcome for project reports, which should be no more than 10 minutes in length and will be grouped into 5-report sessions of one hour so as to leave a short time for factual questions. Abstracts for project reports should be no more than 250 words in length (including bibliography).

All sessions will be held in a room that is fully equipped with audiovisual and computer equipment.

Abstracts can be submitted from 15 June 2014 to 15 October 2014 via the submission site: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/isas/conference/index.cfm (note: this link will not be active beforehand). There you will receive instructions as to how to submit your proposal. To submit an abstract within the permitted amount of time online, you might wish to prepare it first as a word-processing document, then copy and paste it in. Please note that the deadline of 15 October is necessary to allow time for the reviewing process, and will not be extended.

Please note that in order to present at ISAS Glasgow, it is necessary to be a current member of ISAS. Information on joining ISAS or updating membership can be found at: http://www.isas.us/mem.html.

Questions or problems relating to the submission of proposals may be directed either to the conference host, current ISAS President Carole Hough (carole.hough@glasgow.ac.uk) or to Executive Director Martin Foys (mkfoys@gmail.com).

Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Volume 2 – Call For Papers

Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies would like to invite submissions for its second volume, to be published in 2015.

Ceræ is a peer-reviewed Australasian journal of medieval and early modern studies. Administered from the University of Western Australia with the generous support of faculty and staff, the journal is directed by a committee of Australian and international graduate students and early career researchers united in our commitment to open-access publishing, the possibilities of the digital humanities, and to forging a strong community of medieval and early modern scholars in the region. Ceræ accepts manuscripts from any discipline related to medieval and early modern studies, including submissions with accompanying audio-visual material.

Thanks to the generosity of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at UWA, we are pleased to offer a prize of $400 for the best article by a graduate student or early career researcher published in this issue.

The theme for Volume 2 is “Transitions, Fractures, and Fragments,” to be interpreted in any way the author sees fit. Ceræ is also accepting non-themed submissions for publication. Articles should be approximately 5000-7000 words and are due by October 1st 2014. Submissions should be made online at: http://openjournals.arts.uwa.edu.au/index.php/cerae/about/submissions.

For further information, please contact editorcerae@gmail.com, or follow our blog at ceraejournal.com for news, updates and articles of general interest.

UNSW School of Arts and Media Seminar: Nietzsche’s Shakespeare, Peter Holbrook

UNSW School of Arts and Media Seminar: “Nietzsche?s Shakespeare”, Peter Holbrook, University of Queensland

SAM Seminar Series, 2014

When: Friday 23 May, 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Where: Robert Webster Building, Room 327, UNSW
Map: http://www.facilities.unsw.edu.au/sites/all/files/page_file_attachment/KensingtonCampus.pdf
All welcome!

In this presentation, I suggest that Nietzsche’s engagement with Shakespeare was extensive and insightful and that the philosopher had a profound kinship with the dramatist. The reason for this affinity is that, ultimately, Nietzsche’s own thinking is fundamentally dramatic: notions of character, situation, action are basic to the way he conceives human experience and philosophy itself. The lecture attempts to give a broad overview of Nietzsche’s complex, and sometimes ambivalent, relationship to Shakespeare.

Peter Holbrook is Professor of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature at the University of Queensland, Australia, and Director of the UQ Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800). He is the author of Shakespeare’s Individualism (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Literature and Degree in Renaissance England: Nashe, Bourgeois Tragedy, Shakespeare (University of Delaware Press, 1994), and co-editor, with David Bevington, of The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque (Cambridge University Press, 1998).

15th-century Booktrade, ERC Project – 3 Postdoctoral Research Positions

15th-century Booktrade, ERC Project
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and The Bodleian Library

‘The 15th-century Book Trade: An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, Sale, and Reception of Books in the Renaissance’

http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/research/15cBooktrade

Research Positions Vacancies:

  • Vacancy ID: 113236
  • Vacancy ID: 113237
  • Vacancy ID: 113235

Applicants should apply online via www.recruit.ox.ac.uk where they can also access the further particulars.

Closing Date: 5 June, 2014

John Rylands Research Institute Scholarships

The John Rylands Research Institute has just announced full funding (at home / EU level) for two PhD scholarships in areas related to the strengths of the John Rylands Library’s special collections. The Library has particularly rich collections of incunabula and early modern religious printed texts (amongst other areas of strength). I would be very happy to talk to interested applicants or to direct them towards appropriate colleagues.

Full information on the new PhD scholarships can be found here:
http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/fees/postgraduate-research-funding

Applicant who wish to find out more about the collections will find the following A-Z list helpful
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/searchresources/guidetospecialcollections/atoz

Closing date for applications: 1 June, 2014

From Mourning to Joy – Performance by e21

From Mourning to Joy – Exclusion and Redemption: Music by Heinrich Schütz, Johann Hermann Schein, Josquin des Pres and others
Performance by e21

e21 – Vivien Hamilton, Erika Tandiono, Rebecca Bywater, Anna Plotka, Michael Edwards, Jacob Lawrence, Steven Hodgson, John Weretka, Stephen Grant (director)

Date: 30 May
Time: 6.15pm
Venue: Trinity Chapel, Trinity College, Royal Pde, Parkville, Melbourne
Enquiries: jessica.scott@unimelb.edu.au
Ph: +61 3 8344 5152
Register: With conference, or tickets at door, $15 conc / $20 full

Featured in many of e21’s concerts are programs which forge links between diverse musical works and the poetic ideas or emotional currents common to them, often working in partnership with artists from other disciplines. e21 has featured prominently in festivals around Victoria, including the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, the Castlemaine State Festival, the Melbourne Autumn Music Festival, the Melbourne Early Music Festival and the Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival.

The ensemble has been recorded many times by ABC Classic FM, ABC Sunday Live and a joint project between the ABC and the National Library of Australia on the vocal works of Percy Grainger. Programs have included those for the State Library of Victoria’s Medieval Imagination exhibit and an appearance at the Sydney Opera House’s Utzon Music Series.

e21 has collaborated with a number of Australian and international artists, including recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey, actor Helen Morse, director John Bolton, poet Alan Loney and Ludovico’s Band. The ensemble currently runs an on-going series of concerts of medieval music at St Mary’s Star of the Sea church in West Melbourne.

University of Manchester: Lecturer in Early Medieval English Literature – Call For Applications

Lecturer in Early Medieval English Literature
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
The University of Manchester -Faculty of Humanities

Closing date: 1 June, 2014
Employment type: Permanent
Salary: £33,563 to £46,400 per annum
Hours per week: Full time

You will conduct research in an aspect of early medieval English literature (i.e. 8th to 11th century). You will also design research-led undergraduate modules in early medieval literature, and in addition contribute lectures and seminars (relevant to your field) to large undergraduate modules. You will also supervise postgraduate research students in medieval studies (as well as contributing to supervisory teams in other areas).

Applicants in any area of Early Medieval English literary studies are invited to apply.

Working under the supervision of the Head of Division and the Head of School, you must be able to collaborate closely with colleagues in the delivery of teaching and learning, and be willing to take a share of responsibilities for student progress and academic management.

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr David Matthews, Senior lecturer in Middle English Literature and Culture: Email: david.matthews@manchester.ac.uk

Full details and to apply: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIQ967/lecturer-in-early-medieval-english-literature/

Feeling Exclusion Symposium

Feeling Exclusion: Emotional Strategies and Burdens of Religious Discrimination and Displacement in Early Modern Europe

Date: 29-31 May 2014
Venue: Graduate House, The University of Melbourne, 220 Leicester St. Carlton
Registration: http://bit.ly/1mx8PPP
Program: http://bit.ly/1j5gYro
Enquiries: jessica.scott@unimelb.edu.au

Discrimination and exclusion have long been strategies used by authorities to maintain authority and control. Fundamental to the success of such strategies, and ultimately also to their removal, is the role of emotion. The aim of this symposium is to explore an important stage in the European history of exclusion between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, a time when political and religious upheaval forced an unprecedented number of people to flee their homelands or to live in a state of internal exile. The symposium will focus on the use of emotions in the experience of exile and displacement, the stereotyping of the marginal and excluded, and conflicts over toleration.

Nájera 11th International Meetings of the Middle Ages – Call For Papers

Nájera 11th International Meetings of the Middle Ages
Diplomacy, Trade and Navigation Between Medieval Cities of Atlantic Europe
Nájera, Spain
28-29 July, 2014

Conference Website

This Academic Meetings seek to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of medieval studies. Each Congress has one particular special thematic strand on an area of interdisciplinary study in a wider context. Next summer the town council of Nájera will once again host the International Meetings of the Middle Ages, organised by the Medieval Research Group on Atlantic Cities of the University of Cantabria (http://atlanticports.unican.es) and supported by the Autonomous Government of La Rioja.

The topic of this year is about: Diplomacy, trade and navigation between medieval cities of Atlantic Europe.

We will focus on:

  • Diplomacy between cities
  • Cities and commercial Exchange
  • Commercial networks and organisation
  • Navigation in later middle ages
  • Connectivity across Atlantic Europe
  • Cultural Exchange

Historians and Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for research presentations on topics related to “Diplomacy, trade and navigation between medieval cities of Atlantic Europe”. Abstracts should be no more than 500 characters and should clearly state the purpose, thesis, methodology, and principal findings of the paper to be presented. Successful proposals will be published in 2015.

All abstracts and a short CV (in English or Spanish) should be submitted electronically (either as a MS Word document or as text in the body of an e-mail) to Dr. Jesús A. Solórzano Telechea at: solorzaja@unican.es

The deadline for submissions will be May 31, 2014.

The languages of the meetings are Spanish, English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese.

Masculinities: A Journal of Identity and Culture – Call For Papers

Critical studies on men and masculinities is a developing and interdisciplinary field of inquiry, flourished in association with the feminist and LGBTQ studies since its establishment in the 1980’s by the substantial efforts of authors such as Raewyn Connell, Michael Kimmel, Jeff Hearn, Victor Seidler and David Morgan among many others. This field is now elaborating and promoting its own issues and agendas. Masculinities: A Journal of Identity and Culture, an internationally refereed journal which is published biannually in February and August by Initiative for Critical Studies of Masculinities (ICSM), is a part of these efforts.

The first issue of Masculinities Journal is published in February 2014. The inaugural issue can be reached online, from the following address: http://www.masculinitiesjournal.org

Masculinities: A Journal of Identity and Culture, is now seeking contributions for its second issue, which will be published in August 15, 2014. We are looking for articles and essays from every field of social sciences and humanities, which critically investigate men and masculinities. The submissions can be written either in English or Turkish. The relevant subjects for this issue include but not limited to the following:

  • Childhood and youth
  • Identities
  • Literature
  • Experiences
  • Politics
  • Histories
  • Sexualities
  • Militarism
  • Sports
  • Social relations
  • Representations
  • Media, movies, TV and the Internet

Deadline for article submissions is: June 15, 2014
Submissions should be sent to the following address: masculinitiesjournal@gmail.com
Submission guidelines can be found at the Guidelines section of the following address: http://www.masculinitiesjournal.org