Monthly Archives: June 2014

2014 AFIRC Research Fellowship – Call For Applications

The AFIRC in partnership with the Screen Cultures Lab at RMIT University’s School of Media and Communication is pleased to announce the 2014 AFIRC Research Fellowship.

The AFI Research Collection (AFIRC) is a specialist film and television industry research library open to the public. The Collection houses unique materials not available for film scholarship elsewhere and a range of books, journals, scripts, directories, reports, and festival catalogues. It is particularly strong in screen history, theory and Australian cinema.

The AFIRC invites proposals from scholars wishing to undertake research that utilises the Collection’s resources and promotes the AFIRC through a published outcome. This research may take the form of a book, a journal article, a film or a digital project. The Fellowship is designed to showcase the unique holdings of the AFIRC, which include special collections from Henry Mayer, Wayne Levy and Crawford Productions, as well as film stills, newspaper clippings and other significant artefacts from the Australian film and television industry.

The Fellow will have access to the Collection under the guidance of the AFIRC Library staff. The Fellowship will provide a stipend of up to $5000 (AUD). The Fellow will be required to make a presentation of their work in progress to the School of Media and Communication towards the conclusion of their Fellowship.

Application forms can be found at here: http://afiresearch.rmit.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014_AFIRC-Research-Fellowship-Application-Form.doc
For general information on the fellowship look here: http://afiresearch.rmit.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/AFIRC-Fellowship-General-Info.rtf

For further information about the Fellowship, contact Dr Stephen Gaunson, School of Media and Communication, stephen.gaunson@rmit.edu.au.

Closing date for applications is Friday 25 July 2014.

Help Preserve the National Library of Australia’s Medieval Manuscripts

The National Library has chosen to focus this year’s donation appeal on preserving and digitising key medieval manuscripts from some of their most significant collections. Digitisation would enable the Library to discover more about their provenance and make a major contribution to research in this field.

With your support, the Library will undertake essential preservation and commence digitising the manuscripts to enable their access by a worldwide audience. By providing online access to these rare and fragile documents, they can create a lasting legacy, making the medieval past available to scholars throughout the world.

For more information on the Library’s collection of medieval manuscripts, and how to donate, please visit: http://www.nla.gov.au/support-us/medieval-manuscripts

USydney MEMC/AHSN Seminar: Accessing English Humour in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Texts

Accessing English Humour in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Texts: Sources, Contexts, Intentions, Reception
MEMC and Australasian Humour Studies Network Joint Seminar

Date: 17 September 2014
Time: 4:00pm – 6:30pm
Venue: Common Room, John Woolley Building (N480 – 4th floor), University of Sydney, Camperdown (main) campus

Programme (to be followed by refreshments):

      1. April Bertels-Garnsey: Looking at the One-Eyed Garlic Seller: Riddle 86 in Anglo-Saxon England and Beyond.
      2. Anna Wallace: Classroom Insults and Humour in Byrhtferth’s Enchiridion
      3. Chenoa Hunter: ‘They lawghed all as they were wylde’: Mockery and Masculinity in The Book of Sir Tristram de Lyones
      4. Sabina Rahman: Humour in the Early Robin Hood Ballad.

Discussants: Em. Prof. Conal Condren, Prof. Daniel Anlezark

All AHSN members and guests are welcome, but please contact for catering purposes and further directions: Dr Jessica Milner Davis, AHSN Co-ordinator jessica.davis@sydney.edu.au

Two Online Resources of Interest – ROLLCO / Digital Library of Spain

ROLLCO, is a site providing records of Apprentices and Freemen in the City of London Livery Companies between 1400 and 1900.

Currently the database includes information about apprenticeship bindings and freedom admissions for seven of London’s Livery Companies, with the records of further Companies to follow.

ROLLCO is a not-for-profit project, and access is free to all.

http://www.londonroll.org

The Digital Library of Spain is the digital library of the Biblioteca Nacional de España. It aims to give free access to thousands of digitized documents: books from the 15th to the 19th century, manuscripts, drawings, engravings, pamphlets, posters, photographs, maps, atlases, music scores, historic newspapers and magazines and audio recordings.

Today it comprises more than 134,000 works on all topics in all documentary forms, freely accessible from anywhere in the world.

http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/AdvancedSearch.do?showAdvanced=true

Sherry L. Reames Graduate Student Travel Award for Hagiographical Studies – Call For Applications

The Hagiography Society is pleased to announce the creation of the Sherry L. Reames Graduate Student Travel Award for Hagiographical Studies. Named in honor of the beloved founder and long-time leader of the Society, the award provides $300 to be used toward travel to present at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, held annually at the University of Western Michigan in Kalamazoo, MI.

Eligibility
Students enrolled in a graduate program (anywhere in the world) whose paper has been accepted for inclusion in the program of the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, are eligible to apply.

Application
Please submit the following documents, combined as a single .pdf file, by November 1 to the Secretary / Treasurer of the Hagiography Society:

  1. a current curriculum vitæ
  2. the abstract for the accepted paper, identifying the panel on which it will be presented
  3. a cover letter, addressing the following questions:
  4. How does this paper fit into your scholarly trajectory?
  5. Have you presented at a scholarly conference before?
  6. Have you received other funding for travel (this paper or others)?

Successful applicants will be informed of the results by December 15.