Monthly Archives: May 2014

ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Travel Bursary Funding 2014

As part of its commitment to support postgraduate research, ANZAMEMS is again this year offering $5000 for a round of postgraduate travel bursaries. Bursaries of up to $500 will be awarded for the purpose of attending a conference and presenting a paper.

Eligibility:

  • Open to currently enrolled postgraduates and ECRs within 2 years of award and not in full-time employment.
  • Applicants must be financial members of ANZAMEMS for 2014.

Selection process:

  • Funding round advertised via the ANZAMEMS mailing list and newsletter: 7 May 2014.
  • Due date for applications: 28 May 2014.
  • Announcement of successful applicants: 11 June 2014.
  • A sub-committee of the ANZAMEMS committee of three members will assess the applications.
  • The Assistant Treasurer will also be on the sub-committee to coordinate the application and selection processes, communicate with applicants, and arrange payment of prizes.
  • Priority will not necessarily be given to greater distance travelled, but the sub-committee will reserve the right to award smaller bursaries where distance travelled is relatively short.

Conditions:

  • Bursaries can be used to attend any conference EXCEPT the Biennial International ANZAMEMS Conference.
  • Successful applicants are required to submit to the ANZAMEMS committee a brief report (1 page), suitable for publication in the ANZAMEMS newsletter, no longer than 2 months after the conference.
  • In case of non-attendance at the conference, the applicant will be required to reimburse the bursary to ANZAMEMS within a reasonable timeframe.
  • Should attendance at the conference lead to a publication, successful applicants are expected to acknowledge the assistance of an ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Travel Bursary.
  • Applicants are also encouraged to develop their conference paper to be submitted as an article to Parergon.

Application process – applicants should submit (max of 5 pages):

  • A brief CV
  • Proof of eligibility (e.g., proof of enrolment)
  • Details of the conference and proof of acceptance of the applicant’s paper
  • A brief statement outlining benefit of conference to research/career
  • A brief budget of costs associated with attending conference
  • A statement of other sources of funding available (if applicable).

Applications should be emailed to the Assistant Treasurer in Word MS or PDF format at lesley.obrien@uwa.edu.au, by the due date.

ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: 4 New Postdoctoral Research Fellowships – Call For Applications

The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions is currently advertising for 2 new postdoctoral research fellows each at The Universities of Adelaide and Queensland.

The Universities of Adelaide

The University of Adelaide is seeking to appoint two three-year post-doctoral research fellows. These appointments will focus on the ‘Change’ Program, investigating the drivers of change in society-wide emotional regimes, and the power of collective emotions to produce major cultural, social, political and economic change.

Research Fellowship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 (Ref 492357)

Focusing on Early Modern Europe (excluding Britain) this Postdoctoral Research Fellowship will be awarded to an individual with proven capacity for research in this area and strong potential to contribute to the ‘Change’ program generally. Applicants for this position are invited to submit a brief (i.e. two-page) proposal for the research they would carry out under the fellowship.

Research Fellowship in the Emotional History of Law, Government and Society in Britain, 1700-1830. (Ref 492361)

Focusing on the role of Emotion in the English Criminal Courts, 1700-1830, this Postdoctoral Research Fellowship will be awarded to an individual with strong aptitude for research in this area and the potential to contribute to the ‘Change’ program generally. The successful candidate will contribute substantially to a collaborative project focussing on the emotional styles of English criminal trials during a period when the incursion of lawyers transformed their culture.

Working under the leadership of Professor David Lemmings, you will have a PhD in History or a related discipline (awarded within the last five years) and relevant publications. You will be expected to participate in the full range of activities of the University of Adelaide Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE). If you are an innovative enthusiastic individual with a demonstrated track record in early modern or eighteenth-century studies and a capacity to engage in interdisciplinary research you are strongly encouraged to apply.

These fixed-term, full-time positions are available for three years, commencing by the beginning of 2015.

Salary: AUD $75,111 per annum (Level A, Step 6).
Superannuation: An employer contribution of 17% applies.
Closing date: 5pm, Friday 13th June 2014
Contact: Professor David Lemmings by email: david.lemmings@adelaide.edu.au or telephone: +61 8 8313 5614.
Online applications can be made via the University of Adelaide Website: http://careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/492357/research-fellowship-in-early-modern-europe-15001700
General application enquiries can be made to Jacquie Bennett, Program Administrator: jacquie.bennett@adelaide.edu.au

The University of Queensland

The University of Queensland is seeking to appoint two three-year post-doctoral research fellows. The successful appointees will develop a research project, within the ‘Meanings’ Program of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100-1800 (CHE), broadly related to any aspect of the history of emotions in any field of English literature from, roughly, the twelfth through to the eighteenth centuries.

The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100-1800 (CHE) is a national humanities research initiative undertaken collaboratively across five Australian universities. Established in 2011 by the ARC’s Centres of Excellence program, and funded for $24.25M over seven years, CHE has its headquarters at the University of Western Australia, with research and outreach Nodes at the Universities of Queensland, Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. The Centre is strongly interdisciplinary, drawing on the expertise of scholars in such diverse disciplines as social and political history, the history of ideas, literary criticism, art history, and musicology to investigate individual and collective emotional experience in one of the richest and most dynamic chapters in world history: that of medieval and early modern Europe. By studying earlier European experience and culture, the Centre aims to produce a new, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive understanding of the long history of emotions.

The role

The successful appointee will develop a research project, within the ‘Meanings’ Program of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100-1800 (CHE), broadly related to any aspect of the history of emotions in any field of English literature from, roughly, the twelfth through to the eighteenth centuries. The position-holder will be expected to undertake a plan of high-quality research and publication, as well as organising activities in support of the program and the Centre.

The person

Applicants should possess a PhD in a relevant field of English literature. An interest in the wider intellectual, religious, historical, or cultural contexts of English literature will be favourably considered. Knowledge of related Continental European, or classical, literatures may also be an advantageous.

This is a full-time continuing appointment at Academic Research Level A.
The remuneration package will be in the range AUD $58,763 – $79,708 per annum plus employer superannuation contributions of up to 17% (total package will be in the range AUD $68,753 – $93,258 p.a.).

Contact: Professor Peter Holbrook on +61 7 336 53215 or p.holbrook@uq.edu.au
Closing date: 5pm, Sunday 15th June 2014
Online applications can be made via the University of Queensland Website:
http://uqjobs.uq.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=495850&sReferrer=home&lApplicationSubSourceID=&lWorkTypeID=&lLocationID=&lCategoryID=&lBrandID=&sJobNo=495850&sKeywords=495850&stp=AW&sLanguage=en

Davide Monti, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Free Public Lecture/Performance

ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Free Public Lecture/Performance
“Emotion, symbols, performance in the baroque period”, Davide Monti

Date: 26 May 2014
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Venue: The University of Melbourne Early Music Studio, 27 Royal Parade, Parkville

Art in the baroque offers an opportunity to represent the relationship between symbols of affects, in a fluent and ingenious way. This is brought to life in the gestures during the action of performance. This talk will investigate: How much of the codes of expression of the 17th century are still in our contemporary communication. Also, how are rules of rhetoric of the baroque period still effective in today’s performances?

Davide Monti is a highly flexible and charismatic violinist thanks to an eclectic education and to his collaborations with internationally renowned musicians and ensembles. Apart from his role as a soloist, he often works with both small groups and orchestras, being admired for his natural and risk-taking approach to music. A fundamental part of his aesthetic is researching improvisation and musical rhetoric which are applied fields in the art of historically informed performances. This is what he teaches during masterclasses and lectures around the world. His violin is an Italian instrument from the beginning of the 18th century, kindly on loan from the Paternostro family.

New Online Resources: Works from Shakespearean England / Hengwrt Chaucer

“The world’s largest collection of original Shakespearean books and manuscripts is expanding its online offerings.

Next month, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC will release a series of apps that will broaden access to thousands of original books and manuscripts from Shakespearean England.”

More about this: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24589338

“More than 600 years ago poet Geoffrey Chaucer died without completing his greatest masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales.

A collection of more than 20 stories written in Middle English in the 14th Century, they show the best and worst of human nature with a humorous touch.

And the earliest manuscript containing his work has been kept at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.

Now the priceless collection has been published online for the first time.”

More about this: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-27155607

Little Eyases: Early Modern Plays and Boy Players: 1525–1642 – Call For Papers

Little Eyases: Early Modern Plays and Boy Players: 1525–1642
The University of Western Austalia
13-14 November 2014

This two day symposium will provide an opportunity to reflect on some of the many and complex issues surrounding boy players and boys’ plays in the early modern theatre. The event is arranged to coincide with a fully staged production with boy actors from Guildford Grammar School, Perth, of Francis Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle, directed by Professor Peter Reynolds (Newcastle University, UK). Professor Reynolds previously directed Ben Jonson’s Epicene or The Silent Woman with another group of local school boys as part of the 2012 ANZSA conference at UWA.

For many years scholars have been intrigued by the activities of companies of boy players who constituted a “rival tradition” to that of the adult players in early modern theatre. Yet, unless you happened to witness a school play in an all-boys school, the scrutiny of the small but significant canon of plays originally written for performance by children/young adults, has long been restricted to the study not the stage. Even today, plays performed in schools by single sex groups of children are, almost invariably by Shakespeare and not by contemporaries including Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Lyly and John Marston, who wrote specifically for companies of boy/adolescent actors.

A rare exception to this exists at King Edward’s School, Stratford upon Avon, where a company of boy actors under the direction of Perry Mills, have staged frequent public performances of boys’ as well as adult plays from this period including work by Lyly and Middleton. Moreover, the opening of the new intimate indoor theatre, the Sam Wanamaker playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe, London (2014) has made available a performance space that is the kind of space in which boy players companies would have performed. In April this year, Edward’s Boys will perform John Lyly’s Galatea there, and later in the month a group of young actors (aged 12 – 16) of both sexes will perform Marston’s The Malcontent.

Confirmed participants (in person or by video link) include:

  • Perry Mills, Director of Edward’s Boys
  • Dr Shehzana Mamujee, Lecturer in Renaissance Literature, Newcastle University UK
  • Mike Pincombe, Professor of Professor of Tudor & Elizabethan Literature Newcastle University, UK
  • Peter Reynolds, Professor of Theatre Studies, Newcastle University, UK
  • Bob White, Professor of English Literature and Meanings Program Leader, CHE, University of Western Australia
  • Penelope Woods, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Performance) CHE, University of Western Australia.

Proposals are invited for papers on any topic from any discipline that increase understanding of how audiences, performers and playwrights made theatre using child/young adult performers in this period. Papers (20 MINUTES) may include a focus on boy players in adult companies; boys’ roles in Tudor masks and interludes; the role played by boys in academic drama (school and university) and civic pageantry of the period; early modern plays originally written for children’s companies; the training of boy players; child performers in early modern Europe.

Proposals to: peter.reynolds@ncl.ac.uk. Deadline for responses 29 August 2014.

There will be no charge for registration, but since it may be necessary to limit numbers, all who wish to attend in person at UWA should indicate this in advance.

Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Science, Magic and Technology – Call For Papers

Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Science, Magic and Technology
Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London
10-12 July 2015

Papers are sought on all aspects of ‘Science, Magic and Technology’ in late medieval literature and culture and particularly within Chaucer studies. Approaches might include:

  • The presentation of scientific ideas in myth and poetry
  • Observation and naturalism in literature and art
  • Experiment and experience in science and literature
  • The occult sciences (astrology, magic, alchemy) and their relationship to literature
  • Technology as magic, magic as a technology
  • Scientific literatures and the literariness of science
  • Epistemology and taxonomy in late medieval writing
  • Technologies of writing, parchment making and codicology
  • Concepts of the material and immaterial worlds, the environment, astrology, astronomy and cosmology
  • Cartography; deep-sea and space exploration
  • The science of the senses, optics, sound or scent
  • The representation of medicine in literature or the literary modes of medical writing
  • Trade technologies in literature
  • Science, magic and technology in medievalism

Papers are welcomed on the work of Geoffrey Chaucer or, more broadly, on late medieval writing and culture.

Please send 250 word abstracts to Dr Isabel Davis; Birkbeck, University of London. i.davis@bbk.ac.uk by 1 September 2014.