Daily Archives: 31 October 2014

Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions – Call For Applications

Applications are invited for the position of Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE). The Director will occupy a professorial position within the Faculty of Arts at UWA. The Centre is based at UWA, with nodes at The University of Adelaide, The University of Melbourne, The University of Queensland and The University of Sydney. The Centre has developed a vast range of collaborative links to international institutions in Asia, Continental Europe, the UK and North America and has established partnerships with such arts industries and community groups as the National Gallery of Victoria, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Musica Viva, and the Zest Festival. Besides its wide-ranging research projects, the Centre maintains a nation-wide program of community outreach and education events.

The appointee is expected to be:

  • an academic leader, both in the CHE as a whole and in the University
  • a productive and original researcher and research mentor,
  • an energetic and collegial director of the Centre’s core activities,
  • able to lead the Centre in new research directions,
  • able to communicate the value and vitality of the Centre’s research to the public, in the media and throughout the education system
  • able to undertake research at the highest international level on a history of emotions project, studying an aspect of Europe 1100-1800, in the disciplines of history, literature, performance studies or music,
  • able to oversee management of the whole Centre of Excellence.

Closing date: Monday 24 November, 2014.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.uwa.edu.au/executive/new-vacancy-template3

Byzantine Culture in Translation – Registration Closes 15 November

Byzantine Culture in Translation
Australian Association for Byzantine Studies 18th Biennial Conference
University of Queensland
28-30 November 2014

Registration closes 15 November; please register your attendance now if you have not already done so.

Full details at http://www.aabs.org.au/conferences/18th

Byzantine culture emanated from Constantinople throughout the Middle Ages, eastwards into Muslim lands and central Asia, north into Russian, Germanic and Scandinavian territories, south across the Mediterranean into Egypt and North Africa and westwards to Italy, Sicily and the other remnants of the western Roman Empire. Byzantine culture was translated, transported and transmitted into all these areas through slow or sudden processes of permeation, osmosis and interaction throughout the life of the Empire, from the fourth century to the fifteenth and far beyond. Various literary aspects of Byzantine culture that were literally translated from Greek into the local and scholarly languages of the Medieval West and Muslim Middle East include dreambooks, novels, medical and scientifica texts and works of Ancient Greek literature. Yet translation was a phenomenon that stretched far beyond texts, into the areas of clothing and fashion, the visual arts (especially icons) and architecture, military organisations, imperial court ceremonial, liturgical music and mechanical devices. This conference celebrates all aspects of literary, spiritual or material culture that were transported across the breadth of the Empire and exported from it. Papers are welcome on all aspects of Byzantine culture that exerted some influence – whether lasting or fleeting – and were translated into non-Greek-speaking lands, from the early Byzantine period to the present day.

Confirmed speaker:

  • Maria Mavroudi, University of California – Berkeley

Convenors:

  • Dr Amelia Brown, The School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University of Queensland
  • Dr Bronwen Neil, Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University

The Biennial General Meeting of the Association will take place during the Conference: http://www.aabs.org.au/conferences/18th/biennial-general-meeting-2014