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Uni of Melbourne: Early Modern Circle 2015 – Call For Papers

Dear Friends, as 2015 gets underway, we are calling for papers for this year’s Early Modern Circle, to be held at 6.15 pm on the third Monday of most months. If you would like to offer a paper (alone or with others), or lead a discussion session, please send suggestions to all three of us at the emails below.

Papers can be offered in a variety of formats: single papers of 30-35 minutes, shorter papers of 15 minutes with two speakers per session, or thematic discussion sessions with associated reading proposed and lead by someone with a special interest in that material. We encourage people to propose a shorter paper jointly with someone working on a similar theme, to encourage cohesiveness. If you propose a short paper on your own, we can also try to pair you with another speaker. And, of course, we welcome collaborative papers if people are working on shared projects.

All formats allow ample room for questions and discussion, which are an integral part of the sessions, and we aim to conclude each session by 7.30 pm. We usually go for drinks or dinner after the seminar – all welcome. Information about last year’s program can be found at:

http://www.amems.unimelb.edu.au/seminars/earlymoderncircle.html

The dates for the Early Modern Circle in 2015 will be:

  • Monday 16th March
  • Monday 20th April
  • Monday 18th May
  • Monday 15th June – Session has been taken
  • Monday 27th July – Session has been taken
  • Monday 17th August
  • Monday 21st September
  • Monday 19th October
  • Monday 16th November

Please email all three of us a proposal that includes a provisional title and your preferred date (with at least one back-up option) by the 22nd February 2015. We will be in touch as soon as possible after that date. We hope to accommodate as many offered papers as possible, depending on scheduling restrictions, and look forward to hearing from many of you.

From your 2015 Early Modern Circle convenors:

Art of the Crusades: A Re-Evaluation – Call For Applications

SOAS University of London with funding from the Getty Foundation is launching a new research programme lasting two years that might be of interest to you entitled The Art of the Crusades: A Re-Evaluation.

Led by Professor Scott Redford of SOAS University of London, The Art of the Crusades: A Re-Evaluation is aimed at early career academics and higher level research students interested in exploring the possibilities of a new kind of integrationist approach to the art and archaeology of the mediaeval period in the eastern Mediterranean and Levant.

This approach will involve interrogating the material culture of the mediaeval period using diverse academic approaches, and seek to show the connections between the art and other material culture of the different peoples and religious groups of this region at the time.

We are looking for candidates from a wide variety of academic fields. This includes researchers into Crusader art, architecture and archaeology, but also Byzantinists, and researchers into the art and architecture of Islamic, Jewish and other religious and ethnic groups in the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant region during the Middle Ages.

Those taking part will be asked to attend four fully-funded research field trips, two in 2015 and two in 2016, each lasting nine days. These research trips will be to Greece, Israel, Jordan and Turkey and on them participants will attend lectures by international and local experts, visit historical sites of interest and engage in seminars aimed at formulating a new way of looking at this kind of material from an integrationist perspective.

We are particularly keen to encourage researchers based in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, or with strong connections to it, to apply.

All air fares, accommodation and meals on the research trips will be paid for, and we welcome applications now for the first of these trips, to Turkey, in November 2015.

Further information and an application form can be found on the SOAS website at:

Further Information: www.soas.ac.uk/artofthecrusades

Application Form: http://www.jotformeu.com/form/50121286584352

Deadline for Applications: 15 March 2015. Spaces are limited and so early application is strongly advised.