Monthly Archives: August 2014

Waste: Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference – Call For Papers

Waste: Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference
Bradley Forum, Level 5, Hawke Building, University of SA (City West Campus)
8-10 December, 2014

Conference Website

Conference Keynote Speakers:

  • Honorary Associate Professor Paul Brown, University of New South Wales
  • Dr William Viney, Durham University, UK
  • Other speakers TBC

What is waste? Who defines waste? Why are we afraid of waste? How do we manage waste? We’d rather not think about it. It evokes shame and revulsion; it implies excess or inefficiency. But in an overpopulated world, waste is an increasing concern. This conference takes an interdisciplinary approach to the theme of waste to understand how we repress, confront, deny, define, fear and are fascinated by waste. From anthropological papers dealing with taboos and transgressions, historical investigations into who or what has counted as waste, literary analyses of ruins and decadence to urban planning and sociology papers on modern slums and disposable populations, we invite postgraduate students to consider how their research relates to waste. Who decides what is waste and how do we do it? Is your work a waste of tax-payers? money? What are the cultural, social and economic factors that prevent us from dealing with waste?

We welcome academic papers, journalism and artistic works in any medium from postgraduates across Australia on the topic of waste, especially in relation to the following themes:

  • Global inequality and waste
  • Time-wasting and creativity
  • Taboos around defilement, pollution and waste
  • Wasted potential and/or opportunities
  • The relationship between productivity and waste
  • Political, sociological, historical, cultural or psychological analyses of attitudes to waste
  • Remnants, remainders, recycling
  • Cultural or artistic depictions or analyses of wastelands/ruins
  • Sustainability and waste
  • Urban wastelands/empty or negative space
  • Historical, sociological or political analyses of definitions of waste
  • How cultures of disposability shape attitudes to waste
  • The relation between the useful and the superfluous, the sacred and abject
  • Entropy
  • Disposable/superfluous populations and human waste
  • Climate change and waste
  • Colonialism and waste
  • Managing waste

Papers should be no longer than twenty minutes in duration. Artistic works, installations, performances and so forth should indicate spatial/equipment requirements and duration. Acceptance of artworks will depend on spatial availability. There is a strong possibility of post-conference publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and can be submitted to: wasteconference2014@unisa.edu.au by Friday 5 September 2014.

For more information on this conference, please visit the website: unisa.edu.au/wasteconference2014.

Cities and Citizens – Call For Papers

Cities and Citizens
Durham University
13-15 July, 2015

Durham’s Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies – now part of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies – has, since its foundation in 1985, organized over a dozen high-profile international conferences. Next year’s conference will address the topic of ‘Cities and Citizens’ and will focus on the ways in which urban centres were perceived, experienced, understood and represented in the ‘long seventeenth century’ (c.1580-1720). The conference will be held within the UNESCO World Heritage Site on Palace Green in the heart of the medieval city of Durham.

The built environment of the city was represented in cartography, painting, printed images and in literary and dramatic works. What were the physical and sensory characteristics of the urban environment? How did the material form of the city change? Especially important here is architectural form – civic, ecclesiastical, official and vernacular. How did urban and rural people read the urban landscape? Here we hope to draw on the insights of archaeological theory as well as on recent findings in post-medieval urban archaeology.

The distinctiveness of the urban experience will be explored. What were the effects of inter-urban trade and of trade and migration between town and countryside? What were the economics of urbanization? In what ways did urban labour differ from that in rural communities and how was it regulated? How did urban people understand customary law and access to common resources? How did civic remembrance connect with popular memory? How did religious conflict change cities and in what ways were confessional identities inflected by the urban experience?

Special emphasis will be placed upon the idea and practice of citizenship. Who did this term include and who was left out? In what ways were ideas about citizenship inflected by nationality, ethnicity, belief, class, gender, property, skill, schooling and age? How far were early modern ideas about citizenship reflective of classical ideals, and how did they connect to those of the late medieval period? To what extent did citizenship guarantee inclusion within the urban polity, and what rights and obligations came with that inclusion? In what ways did those excluded from citizenship nonetheless participate in the urban polity?

We invite proposals either for single papers or for 3-paper panels. Papers should last for 20 minutes, with half an hour at the end of each panel for discussion. Panels may be specific to a particular town or city, or might be national or international in scope, including New World urban centres. Potential subjects might include (but are not restricted to):

  • Defining towns, cities and urban communities
  • The urban environment and the urban landscape
  • Perceptions of space and time
  • Gender, age, household and citizenship
  • Social relations and social conflicts
  • Crime, authority, resistance and the law
  • Civic identities and vernacular urban cultures
  • Urban customary rights and common resources
  • Urban political cultures and public spheres
  • Work and leisure
  • Print, literacy and education
  • Cities and international trade and exchange
  • Fuelling and feeding the city
  • Migration and social mobility
  • Urban parish identities and patterns of belief
  • Monastic houses, cathedrals and religious authority
  • Occupations, social structures and demographics
  • Disease, famine, medicine, and social policy
  • Siege warfare
  • Urban revolt
  • Art, architecture and civic portraiture

Proposals for 20-minute papers and full panels should be submitted to early.modern@durham.ac.uk by 1 November 2014. Replies will be sent in early December 2014. Details concerning travel and accommodation for both speakers and delegates will be made available around the same time. It is hoped that the conference will give rise to an edited volume of selected essays.

The Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2015

From 2015, the Hakluyt Society will award an annual essay prize (or more than one, if the judges so decide) of up to a total of £750. Winners will be invited to publish their essays in the online
Journal of the Hakluyt Society if they wish to do so. The prize or prizes for 2015 will be presented at the Hakluyt Society’s Annual General Meeting in London in June 2015, where winners will be invited to attend as the Society’s guests. Travel expenses within the UK will be reimbursed and winners will also receive a one-year membership of the Hakluyt Society.

Eligibility criteria
The competition is open to postdoctoral scholars of not more than two years’ standing on 31 December 2014, and to undergraduate and graduate students registered as such on that date. Only one entry may be submitted per entrant per year.

Scope and subject matter
Essays submitted, which should be based on original research in any discipline in the  humanities or social sciences, may be on any aspect of the history of travel, exploration and cultural encounter or their effects, in the tradition of the work of the Hakluyt Society. Essays should be in English (except for such citations in languages other than English as may appear in
footnotes or endnotes) and between 6,000 and 8,000 words in length (including notes, excluding bibliography). Illustrations, diagrams and tables essential to the text fall outside the word count. Submissions should be unpublished, and not currently in press, in production or under review elsewhere. Authors may wish to consult the Society’s style sheet, which is also the
Journal’s style sheet, at http://www.hakluyt.com/authors_info.htm.

Submission procedures and deadline
Essays should be submitted as email attachments in Word.doc format to Dr Surekha Davies, Chair of the Essay Prize Committee, at surekha.davies@gmail.com and to the Society’s administrative office at office@hakluyt.com by 1 November 2014. The entrant’s name, address (including preferred email address), institutional affiliation (if any, with date of admission), and degrees (if any, with dates of conferment) should appear within the body of the email, together with a note of the title of the submitted essay. The subject line of the email should include the words ‘HAKLUYT SOCIETY ESSAY PRIZE’ and the author’s name. By submitting an essay, an entrant certifies that it is the entrant’s own original work.

For more information, please visit: http://www.hakluyt.com/PDF/Essay%20prize.pdf?PHPSESSID=ee7c08c78958c04bb6f5700da5e152dc

Singing Death – Call For Papers

Chapter proposals are invited for an edited volume entitled ‘Singing Death’.

The editors are in preliminary negotiations with Ashgate Press for a collection of essays provisionally entitled ‘Singing Death’ and we would like to invite chapter proposals for this project. ‘Singing Death’ arises out of a day-long symposium and concert combined, generously supported by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. This took place at the University of Melbourne, 17th August, 2013: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/media/89722/singing-death_poster_web.pdf

The program alternated academic papers on the music, art and literature of death with performances of some of the music associated with it. The editors would like to extend the work of the symposium with a collection of essays focussing on death and music. We want to offer readers an encounter with music as a distinct discourse of death, another way of speaking death; the collection will be accompanied by a recording of the music involved with each of its chapters. We aim, most of all, to bring into focus how death figures through music for the living and the dying, how it taps into the experience of all those for whom death comes close.

Death is an unanswerable question for humanity, literally the question that always remains unanswered (although so many answers are offered). It is ‘the question of questions’ as Federico García Lorca put it, since it lies beyond human experience. The music of death represents one of the most profound ways in which, nevertheless, we struggle to accommodate death within the scope of the living by giving a voice to death and the dead. We want the book to engage with the profound disturbance that death presents to the living and how music expresses and/or responds to that disturbance.

The field of enquiry is very broad. We welcome proposals from any intellectual discipline that can engage with the nexus of music and death. Musicological expertise is not essential. Music, like poetry, operates in a different way from ordinary discourse; it acts as well as speaks and it can have profound and complex effects for listeners. We want our collection to address the difference that music, vocal and instrumental, makes to all those confronted with death. We also welcome proposals from those practically involved with the question, for instance music therapists involved in palliative care or grief counselling, or those who organise or perform music associated with death in some way.

Below are some possible topics for research. The list is far from exhaustive, nor is it intended to be exclusive. Each topic could also be subdivided many times:

  • music and suicide (some songs have been blamed for causing suicide, some songs commemorate a death by suicide)
  • music and murder
  • music and the dying
  • music and mourning
  • music and spiritualism (some people believe that the dead are communicating with them through music)
  • music and the afterlife
  • music, death and religion
  • music, death and the law
  • music and the revenant (ghosts, vampires, zombies, etc.)
  • death in various musical genres, for instance opera, death metal, folk music.
  • music in palliative care

Proposals should include:

  1. An abstract no longer than 500 words
  2. 3-10 keywords
  3. short CV, no more than 10 lines which can include a link to a website

Please indicate to the editors what music you wish to accompany your contribution and whether you can provide it. Recordings can be of live music or of pre-recorded music (permissions will be required when chapter is submitted). Please send to Helen Dell and Helen Hickey. See email addresses below.

Important dates:

  • 30th September—submission of abstracts
  • 30th October—notification of acceptance or otherwise
  • 30th January—deadline for submission of paper
  • 30th May—notification of acceptance of paper
  • 30th June—submission of revised version

Editors: Dr. Helen Dell and Dr. Helen Hickey, University of Melbourne, Australia, 3052. Y6h

Bios:

Helen Dell:
Helen Dell’s research is in the fields of music and literature, especially when joined together as song. Her PhD thesis, on desire in French medieval song was published in 2008 as Desire by Gender and Genre in Trouvère Song, by Boydell and Brewer. Since then Helen has been conducting research into recent receptions and inventions of medieval music. She has now finished a second book, for Cambria Press, entitled: Music and the Medievalism of Nostalgia: Fantasies of Medieval Music in the English-speaking World, 1945 to 2010. Recent research has centred on the music of death, from which last year’s symposium, ‘Singing Death’ and the current planned collection have sprung. More on Helen’s research can be seen at her website: http://www.helendell.com
Email: helendell@internode.on.net

Helen Hickey:
Helen Hickey completed her PhD thesis on the Everyday in early fifteenth-century English literature. She is interested in the ways history and literature intersect with medicine and materiality. Her most recent publication is an article in an edited collection, Theorising Legal Personhood in Pre-modern England (Brill) on the Inquisitions of Insanity and medieval literature. She is a member of the International Health Humanities Network.

Email: helenhickey@bigpond.com

Revisiting The Player’s Passion: the Science(s) of Acting in 2015 – Call For Papers

Revisiting The Player’s Passion: the Science(s) of Acting in 2015
Department of Performance Studies, University of Sydney
23-­26 June, 2015

In 1985, Joseph R. Roach published his seminal work The Player’s Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting. Professor Roach’s book reinterpreted theories of acting in the light of histories of science, examining acting styles from the seventeenth to the twentieth century and measuring them against prevailing conceptions of the human body. In 2015 it will be thirty years since the The Player’s Passion was published; therefore, taking Professor Roach’s work as a provocation or inspiration, the 2015 ADSA Conference will examine the current state of research into the
science(s) of acting.

In addition, ADSA members are also invited to respond to any of Professor Roach’s other research interests that include the study of celebrity, a range of topics in the eighteenth century, cultural exchange along the Atlantic rim and many others (http://english.yale.edu/sites/default/files/CV-­‐Roach.12.pdf).

The conference wishes to consider the science(s) of acting broadly, so the term “acting”, as we
use it, will include all genres of aesthetic performance such as dance, singing, physical theatre, circus, puppetry and objects. Questions the conference will consider include: Can we still speak of science(s) of acting? Is this a helpful rubric or does it limit the nature of enquiry? What do science(s) of acting make available?

ADSA members are invited to respond to the theme ‘Revisiting The Player’s Passion: the Science(s) of Acting in 2015’ in relation to theatre, drama and performance. The following ideas serve as points of departure:

  • New approaches and technologies for studying acting
  • Theories of emotion and the self in relation to acting
  • The sociology of acting
  • Non‐human performers
  • Intercultural approaches to performance
  • Anti‐theatricalism in the 21st century
  • The actor as trope in the public sphere
  • Reconstructing historical performances
  • The actor as manual philosopher

ADSA members are invited to respond to this call for papers by:

  1. Submitting an abstract of between 200-­‐300 words for an individual paper
  2. Submitting a 300-­‐500 word proposal for a themed panel with names of participants and their institutional affiliation
  3. Submitting a 300-­‐500 word proposal for a performance or workshop

to the conference convenors: Dr Glen McGillivray glen.mcgillivray@sydney.edu.au or A/Prof.
Ian Maxwell ian.maxwell@sydney.edu.au

Abstracts Due: 31 October 2014; acceptance advised 15 December 2014.

King’s College London: Research Associate “Domesday Survey” – Call For Applications

Research Associate
King’s College London – Department of History

This is a one-year post, contributing to the work of Professor Julia Crick (Department of History, King’s College London), Dr Stephen Baxter (St Peter’s College, Oxford) and Dr Peter Stokes (Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London) in their major AHRC project, The Conqueror’s Commissioners: unlocking the Domesday Survey of South-Western England. The successful candidate will work as part of the project team, will have experience in the palaeography and codicology of medieval manuscripts, and have special responsibility for recording the physical construction of the book. The successful candidate will have a Ph.D on a relevant topic, good knowledge of codicology and palaeography and a working knowledge of medieval Latin. Candidates willing to make independent palaeographical judgements, with experience in handling medieval manuscripts and familiarity with palaeographical literature will be favoured. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work to deadlines are essential. He/she will be able to work independently and to work as a team. The closing date for receipt of applications is 1 September 2014. Interviews will be held in mid-/late-September tbc.

Equality of opportunity is College policy. The appointment will be made at Grade 6, spine point 31, currently £32,277 per annum. Fixed term contract for 12 months. Please note that the post holder will be based in Exeter with frequent travel to King’s London campuses.
Please contact: Professor Julia Crick on 07969533068 or Julia.Crick@kcl.ac.uk

For full details and to apply, please visit: https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/job/54068.

Tenth Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop – Call For Applications

The Tenth Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop
University of Tennessee in Knoxville
Friday and Saturday, Feb. 6-7, 2015

This year’s workshop is organized by Professor Thomas Burman (History) and Ph.D. candidates Scott Bevill and Teresa Hooper (English).

William Sherman closed his 2008 Used Books with the following question: “Are books from the past precious relics, in which marginalia are dirt or desecration, or are they inanimate objects (like pots or arrowheads) that are only brought to life by traces of the human hands and minds that used them?” This year’s workshop seeks to address this question by highlighting not only studies of marginalia but also erasures, lacunae, palimpsests, and the transformative processes of rebinding and repurposing. After fires, water, rats, cats, early modern editors, contemporary censors, later bookbinders, and other disasters have damaged manuscripts, we nevertheless discover that we can learn much from what is missing from or added to a manuscript. The life of these books may be found not only through the text written on the page, but also scribbled in the margins, erased between the lines, pasted within the bindings, glossed on the endpapers, or folded into the quires. What do we see when we look in the gaps? How can we develop new ways to explore the rich textual interplay of imperfect manuscripts? What meaning and value can we recover from cases of dirt and desecration? We welcome proposals on any aspect of this topic, broadly imagined, from late antiquity to the boundary of the modern era.

The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank and in any field who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or epigraphy. Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each project; participants will be asked to introduce their text and its context, discuss their approach to working with their material, and exchange ideas and information with other participants. As in previous years, the workshop is intended to be more a class than a conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations, to offer both practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work together towards developing better professional skills for textual and codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or representing manuscript texts.

Presenters will receive a stipend of $500 for their participation.

The deadline for applications is October 15, 2014. Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their project via email to Vera Pantanizopoulos-Broux (vpantani@utk.edu).

The workshop is also open at no cost to scholars and students who do not wish to present their own work but are interested in sharing a lively weekend of discussion and ideas about manuscript studies. Further details will be available later in the year; please contact Vera for more information.

Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 10th Biennial Conference – Call For Papers

Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
10th Biennial Conference
The University of Queensland
14-18 July 2015

Sponsored by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Queensland

We invite proposals for papers and panels for ANZAMEMS 2015.

This is an open-themed conference in order to encourage the widest range of participation in the academic disciplines of medieval and early modern studies. We welcome individual papers and full panels on themes from across the period 600 to 1800, that includes, but is in no way limited to, the disciplines of history, literary studies, music, art history, intellectual history, theology and religious studies, the history of emotions, cultural studies, philosophy, science, political and constitutional history, medicine, maritime studies, law, performance studies, gender studies, and cultural heritage.

We particularly encourage papers and panels from graduate students, early career researchers, as well as honours students.

The deadline for paper and panel submissions is 31 October 2014. Early submissions, however, are encouraged and will be processed immediately.

Conference papers are no longer than 20 minutes each in order to leave 10 minutes discussion time for each paper in any session. Each session contains three papers, and the conference program is arranged in parallel sessions spanning all 5 days of the conference. Proposals for full panels, comprising three papers, centred on a theme, as are individual paper submissions, are most welcome.

All proposals should be sent to: anzamems2015@uq.edu.au.

Please find the full CFP for the conference HERE.

Folly’s Family, Folly’s Children – Call For Papers

Folly’s Family, Folly’s Children (La famille, les enfants de la Folie)
Fourteenth Round Table on Tudor Theatre
Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université de Tours
3-4 September, 2015

Following the two preceding Round Tables on Tudor Theatre, which concerned different aspects of folly (including madness) on stage (“Folly and Politics” [September 2011], “The Discourses of Folly” [September 2013]), it is planned to conclude the programmed series of three thematically linked conferences with a study of the associations and (af)filiations of pertinent characters or aspects of the motif itself.

In certain fifteenth-century English moralities, one finds, in the staging of allegorical forms of evil (devils, sins, vices, figures of temptation) groups of figures, more or less hierarchised and more or less suggestive of lineage or family. This is the case, for instance, in The Castle of Perseverance, where the Seven Deadly Sins are grouped according to the three traditional enemies of man (the World, the Flesh and the Devil). In a superficially lighter vein, but still with deadly serious spiritual implications, the character of Mischief in Mankind takes on a quasi-paternal role as head of the band of vices, while behind him looms the very principle of evil in the form of Titivillus.

To the extent that evil in such moralities is regularly characterised as at once comic and non-sensical – contrary to divine reason – there is an obvious link, however variable and tenuous, between such elements and the discourses and behaviours associated with folly in the Tudor and Stuart theatres. That point has often been developed. But it is apparent, as well, that later stagings of folly often likewise foreground groups and affiliations. In the Tudor interludes, the Vice-function is frequently multiplied or seconded (as also in Lyndsay’s Satyre). In the later drama, folly may frankly advertise its different forms and expressions (witness Jaques’ catalogue of different types of melancholy in As You Like It), while the relations among characters who exemplify it may become an instrument of signification in itself. One thinks of the relation implied in many tragedies between the folly of various evil-doers and that of those characters who seek to avenge themselves. In the comedies, too, folly is often plural. Shakespeare shows different sorts of fools (including jesters) together; Ben Jonson gathers incarnations of various “humours”, or indeed juxtaposes exploiters and victims of folly according to an organisation quasi-familial (Volpone, The Alchemist).

This fourteenth Round Table proposes to analyse the associations or groupings which develop around folly in the English theatre from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. The broad objective is to sketch out a chronological typology of the phenomenon which will shed light not only on dramaturgical practices but also on larger questions of genre, culture and ideology.

Proposals (200 words) for thirty-minute papers in English should be directed to Richard Hillman (rhillman@sfr.fr) by 15 September 2014.

ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions – Call for Distinguished International Visiting Fellows

As part of its international research collaboration, CHE will fund outstanding international scholars in the field to visit one or more of the Australian nodes for a period of between four weeks and two months, to work with members of the Centre on a research program of their choice

Since the object of the Visiting Fellowships is primarily to promote collaborative research, the Fellows will not be required to undertake any undergraduate teaching, but will be required to deliver at least one paper or lecture.

The Fellow will be provided with a return airfare from their home to Australia, accommodation, and travel between Australian nodes of the Centre. A contribution to living expenses may be negotiated.

Intending applicants are eligible to apply if they are based at a university outside Australia (note: this includes Australian citizens currently working at universities outside Australia).

CHE is now issuing a call for applications for Distinguished International Research Fellowships, to be taken over the period 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2016.

Applicants should provide:

  1. An up-to-date academic CV of no more than 6 pages.
  2. A description, no longer than two A4 pages, of the proposed research to be undertaken during the Fellowship, including a statement of how the work relates to the Centre’s overall research into the history of emotions in Europe 1100-1800, the program into which your work falls, and the proposed outcomes of the research (e.g. draft of an article, perhaps jointly authored with one or more CHE member(s), development of further research interchange and collaboration activities). It is expected that CHE support will be acknowledged in any publication deriving from the Fellowship.
  3. The name(s) of CHE staff with whom the applicant wishes to collaborate, the preferred dates of the fellowship, and the preferred ‘home’ university for the duration of the visit. (It is hoped that successful applicants will take the opportunity to develop research associations with members of the Centre. Applicants are encouraged to seek advice on their proposed projects from appropriate CHE personnel.)

Applications should preferably be sent via email to:
Pam Bond, Acting Centre Manager: pam.bond@uwa.edu.au

Or mailed to:
ARC CoE for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800)
Faculty of Arts
University of Western Australia
M201 / 35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009
Attention: Pam Bond

Closing date: 30 September 2014

For further information on the Centre’s research programs and projects, please contact the Acting Director Professor Andrew Lynch: andrew.lynch@uwa.edu.au.