Monthly Archives: February 2015

Haslam Postdoctoral Fellowship – Call For Applications

The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, invites applications for the 2015-2016 Jimmy and Dee Haslam Postdoctoral Fellowship, a one-year fellowship to be held August 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016 and renewable for one year. The Haslam Fellowship is open to untenured scholars in any field of late antique or early medieval studies in the period 300-1100 C.E. The Institute hopes to attract a scholar of outstanding potential with an innovative research plan, who will participate fully in the intellectual life of the Marco community throughout the academic year. During the course of the year, the Fellow will teach one graduate seminar in his or her field of expertise. The seminar will preferably use primary source materials. The Fellow receives a $1,750 travel stipend and is eligible to apply for additional travel and research funding through the Institute. Salary is $40,000 and includes full benefits.

Online application form, curriculum vitae, detailed research plan (2 single-spaced pages), and two letters of reference must be submitted by April 1, 2015. To apply, please visit the link: https://ut.taleo.net/careersection/ut_knoxville/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=1500000049, which takes you to Marco’s specific posting at UT’s online application program. You will be able to complete the online form after creating a user account. The online application provides you with opportunities to upload your c.v. and research plan. Please ask referees to send recommendations under separate cover by email attachment (Word or pdf preferred) to: Thomas E. Burman, Riggsby Director, Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, at marco@utk.edu. Recommendations should also be received by April 1, 2015.

Dr Mary Fairclough, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Public Lecture

ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Public Lecture
“Adam Walker, Electrical Itinerant: Science, Showmanship and Sedition 1760-1820”, Dr Mary Fairclough (University of York)

Date: 5 March 2015
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: Webb Lecture Theatre (Geography and Geology Building, UWA)

All Welcome!

This lecture will track the routes and the practices of scientific lecturers in the north of England in the late eighteenth century, focusing in particular on the displays of Adam Walker, a virtuoso experimenter in electricity. Walker’s lectures showcased spectacular displays of electrical phenomena. His experiments proved how electric sparks and shocks could be communicated from person to person, and this lecture will explore how electricity itself became a metaphor for many kinds of communication at this period. Walker’s lectures were open to all, and they thus raise interesting questions about the access of women and the ‘lower orders’ to scientific practice in the late eighteenth century. Despite the polite fashionable status of his lectures, electricity for Walker always stood for something politically radical. For Walker as for a man who was later his student, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, there is ‘an electric life which burns within… words’ which has the potential to change the world.

Dr Mary Fairclough, University of York, UK, based in the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, is a Visiting Fellow to the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She has published a monograph, The Romantic Crowd: Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and is now researching the ways in which the discourse of electrical science is appropriated in literary and political texts in the long eighteenth century.

Women’s History Network Annual Conference (2015) – Call For Papers

“Female agency, activism and organisation”
Women’s History Network Annual Conference (2015)
University of Kent (Canterbury)
4-6 September, 2015

We invite established scholars, postgraduate researchers, independent scholars, museum curators and media practitioners from a wide range of disciplines working in any geographical context and period to contribute to a dynamic discussion about female agency, activism and organisation. The conference theme, inspired by the 2015 centenary of the Women’s Institute, is to be interpreted broadly. It embraces all kinds of female organisation and agency from the local to the global; the individual to the collective. We are interested in how women have navigated, fought against, and sometimes upheld structures of patriarchy, power and privilege through time. We welcome papers that speak to one of these themes as well as those which connect across all three. We are looking to compile a conference programme that covers a broad temporal, methodological and geographical perspective.

Agency: This strand will be particularly interested in the interplay between agency and power – how have women interacted with systems of power from which they have traditionally been excluded, and how did women promote their own (individual and/or collective) interests within those broader structures. We are particularly interested in methodological issues here, and how we, as scholars of women in history, can leave space for female agency while recognising the structures of power within which the individual moves. As such, some themes that could be of interest include:

  • Freedom, negotiation, autonomy
  • Body, family, marriage
  • Power, society, professionalism
  • Agency and power in writing women’s history

Activism: As modern feminism heads increasingly towards the internet we are interested in looking at the history of female activism – at local, national and international levels. In what ways have female activists organised themselves, and around what issues? Is there such a thing as ‘women’s issues’? How has women’s activism been perceived and responded to? Some broad thematic areas for consideration include:

  • War, politics, economics
  • Culture, society, community
  • Rights, bodies, reproduction
  • Activism, organisation, cooperation

Organisation: Meanwhile, women have organised themselves variously through time – from churches, interest groups and philanthropic societies to broader organisations such as the women’s missionary movement, the suffragettes and indeed, the WI. How have women organised themselves and to what ends in history? Has the organisation of women significantly changed over time? Why have women felt the need to organise themselves independently of men? As such, some themes that could be of interest include:

  • Household, church, society
  • Interest groups, philanthropy and activism
  • Education, medicine, pedagogy
  • Individuals and collectives

Abstracts of c400 words to be submitted to womenshistorynetwork@kent.ac.uk by 10 April 2015.

Conference organised by Anne Logan, Emily Manktelow, and Juliette Pattinson.

Australian Academy of the Humanities: Humanities Travelling Fellowships Scheme – Call For Applications

The Humanities Travelling Fellowships scheme is one of the Academy’s most popular programmes. Since 1985 the Academy has supported more than 150 early-career researchers to undertake research overseas.

Fellowships of up to $4,000 are available to permanent resident scholars in Australia working in the humanities.

The 2015 round of the Humanities Travelling Fellowships is now open. The online application form can be found here: https://humanities.smartygrants.com.au/HTF2015

Applicants should consult the Rules of the Award [.pdf 136kb]. Applicants will need to provide:

  • A copy of the applicant’s Curriculum Vitae
  • A certified copy of the applicant’s doctoral transcript
  • Supporting statements from two referees. Referees should not be from the applicant’s department or division

Applications close at 5pm AEST on Thursday 9 April 2015.

UWA: Rhetoric of Passion Lecture-Recital / The Passionate Arts in the Early Modern Period Free Study Day

“The Rhetoric of Passion- Eloquence in the Golden Age of Italian Music”,  William Christie and Les Arts Florissants

This event is being brought to you by the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions, the Perth International Arts Festival, and the School of Music at The University of Western Australia.

Date: Friday 6 March 2015
Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm
Venue: Callaway Music Auditorium, The University of Western Australia
Tickets: $35 here

After more than a decade, world-renowned musical director William Christie returns to Australia with the phenomenal Les Arts Florissants and his selection of the world’s most talented solo singers in Le Jardin des Voix (The Garden of Voices).

He will present a lecture-recital at The University of Western Australia, focusing on emotions were conceived by Italian composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

For 35 years, Les Arts Florissants and William Christie have been taking audiences on journeys of discovery into the past and recreating the glorious sounds of instruments from the Baroque period. Les Arts Florissants has been a pioneering force in the revival of this repertoire – unearthing treasures that hadn’t been heard for hundreds of years.

Under the leadership of William Christie, the ensemble has toured the world, created a significant discography, and collaborated with performers and theatre directors of distinction.

Free Study Day: “The Passionate Arts in the Early Modern Period”

This day includes lectures, workshops and activities in Early Modern power politics, music, dance, the art of rhetoric, visual and material culture.

Date: Friday 6 March 2015
Time: 9:30am-3:30pm
Venue: Callaway Music Auditorium, The University of Western Australia
Please book: emotions@uwa.edu.au (limited places), Tel: +61 8 6488 3858

Speakers include Professor Susan Broomhall (UWA) on the House of Medici, David Irving (ANU) on the Sun King, Louis XIV, and Alan Maddox (Uni Syd) on Rhetoric in Early Modern Italy.

More information here.

Shakespeare Recreated – Call For Papers

Shakespeare Recreated
University of Łódź
22-23 April, 2015

Shakespeare International Studies Centre together with Geoffrey Chaucer Student Society and CULTUR(N)ED Student Society are proud to announce the 2015 student conference on Shakespeare. Although the Bard appears to be the most researched author in the world, his works and his own person still inspire, puzzle and encourage heated debates. Our conference marks a special three-year period in the history of the appreciation of Shakespeare, with the 450th anniversary of his birth in 2014 and the 400th
anniversary of his death in 2016.

We would like to invite proposals for 20 minute presentations (followed up by
approximately 10 minutes of discussion) in all areas of studies connected with the works
of William Shakespeare. Suggested topics include but are not restricted to:

  • Shakespeare and pop-culture: comics, computer games, YouTube, parodies, etc.
  • Filming Shakespeare: Shakespeare on film and television, adaptations and appropriations,
    representations of the playwright on screen
  • Performing Shakespeare: staging Shakespeare then and now
  • Polish explorations of Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s presence in Polish literature, film,
    theatre and art
  • Representations of (and inspirations by) Shakespeare’s works in world literature, film,
    theatre and art
  • Reviving Shakespeare: methods of popularizing Shakespeare in Britain and other countries
  • Movements and disruptions within the Shakespearean canon: why some of his works are
    more popular in certain moments in history or even gain a lasting popularity, while others
    are neglected?
  • Elizabethan culture—society, economy, fashion—and the works of Shakespeare
  • Apocryphal Shakespeare: plays attributed to Shakespeare, collaborative works and lost
    plays
  • Intertextual Shakespeare: Shakespearean references in modern works
  • Shakespeare in the light of modern theories: Ecocriticism, Post-structuralism,
    Post-colonialism, New Historicism, Gender & Queer Theory, etc.

The following distinguished guests have confirmed their participation:

  • Prof. Virginia Mason Vaughan (University in Worcester, Massachusetts)
  • Prof. Alden T. Vaughan (University in Worcester, Massachusetts)
  • Dr Dmytro Drozdovsky (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

We invite all undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students to participate. The conference will be held both in English and Polish. Abstracts of ca. 250 words should be submitted to shakespeare.recreated@gmail.com no later than 29 March 2015. Selected papers will be published. The registration fee is 30 PLN (10 EURO for overseas participants), which covers coffee breaks, conference materials and publication.

Conference organisers:

  • Prof. dr hab. Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney – Head of Shakespeare International
    Studies Centre
  • Dr Piotr Spyra – Academic Supervisor of Geoffrey Chaucer Student Society
  • Dr Monika Sosnowska – Academic Supervisor of CULTUR(N)ED Student Society

For more information, please contact the secretaries of the conference
Agata Ptasińska, Justyna Dąbrowska, Magdalena Popłońska,  Małgorzata Smorawska at shakespeare.recreated@gmail.com

To find out more about us, please visit the official conference website:
http://shakespearerecreated.tumblr.com
and the website of Shakespeare International Studies Centre:
http://shakespearecentre.uni.lodz.pl

University of Reading: Lecturer in Mediaeval English Literature – Call For Applications

Lecturer in Mediaeval English Literature
University of Reading – Department of English Literature

Salary: £38,511 to £47,328 per annum, Grade 7
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Closes: 29 March 2015

The Department of English Literature at the University of Reading is looking to appoint a Lecturer in Mediaeval English Literature. The successful candidate will conduct and publish academic research, and lead undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in the designated area. He or she will also offer a module in Old English Literature, contribute to appropriate administrative roles, and support the growth of student recruitment into the Department.

You will have:

  • A completed PhD in the area of Mediaeval English Literature
  • A record of research publication in the area of Mediaeval English Literature appropriate to your career stage
  • The ability to teach Mediaeval Literature at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
  • The ability to teach a module in Old English Literature
  • The ability and willingness to carry out the administrative duties associated with teaching, as well as other administrative duties, in a timely and effective manner
  • The willingness to contribute fully to supporting the growth of student recruitment into the Department and at the University of Reading more widely

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AKM491/lecturer-in-mediaeval-english-literature.

AEUIFAI Research Fellowships in Florence – Call For Applications

Applications are now invited for Australian European University Institute Fellowships which provide the opportunity to carry out research at the European University Institute in Florence. The Fellowships are available to postgraduate and postdoctoral scholars currently undertaking research in history, law, economics, and social and political sciences who are able to identify a direct benefit for their research from a period of residence at the EUI.

A six-month Postdoctoral Fellowship will be offered for the period January-June 2015. One three-month Postgraduate Fellowship will be offered for the period September-December 2015. In addition, one fellowship will be offered for a Visiting Scholar from an Australian university for one month during the period January-June 2016.

Applications close 15 March, 2015.

For full details, please visit: http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/australia/more_info/aeuifai/index_en.htm.

Darkness and Illumination: the Pursuit of Knowledge in the Medieval and Early Modern World – Call For Papers

“Darkness and Illumination: the Pursuit of Knowledge in the Medieval and Early Modern World”
Ninth Annual Postgraduate Conference
Medieval and Early Modern Student Association, Durham University
15-17 July, 2015

The pursuit of knowledge has had an essential and constant influence upon the shaping of society. The means of its acquisition, interpretation, and dissemination informs the way in which people interact with the world around them, forming religious and cultural identities, scientific knowledge and gender roles among other things. This was as much true in the past as it is today.

Abstracts of 200-300 words to memsaconference2015@gmail.com for papers no longer than 20 minutes by Friday 17 April 2015.
For more information: https://durhammemsa.wordpress.com
https://www.dur.ac.uk/imems/memsa
https://www.dur.ac.uk/imems

Roman Anxieties – Call For Papers

“Roman Anxieties”
2015 Pacific Rim Seminar for Roman Literature
The University of Auckland
8-10 July, 2015

Roman literature manifests and thematises anxiety in a variety of ways; the sources of Roman anxieties were themselves widely varied. We invite proposals for papers on any aspect of the theme ‘Roman anxieties’ in Latin literature and related fields. The Roman anxieties under discussion could relate to the following issues: social and political change; ethical uncertainties; gender and sexuality; ethnic, cultural or religious identity; literary influence and belatedness.

This list is not exhaustive nor intended to be prescriptive. Moreover, the topic is not limited to material from the Classical period. We welcome papers on ‘Roman anxieties’ that deal with the reception of Rome and Roman literature in literary, artistic, scholarly and pedagogical contexts ranging from Late Antiquity to the present day.

We hope to arrange a joint session with the Australasian Applied and Professional Ethics Conference, which will be running concurrently at Auckland with the Pacific Rim Seminar. We invite expressions of interest from anyone interested in offering a short presentation that seeks to compare or contrast the treatment of ethical anxieties, or social roles or identities in Roman texts to the way they are conceived in the modern world.

Format: The Pacific Rim Seminar does not run parallel sessions, so participants can attend any or all papers. Papers may be 20 minutes with ten minutes of discussion time, or 40 minutes with 20 minutes of discussion time. In your abstract please specify whether you prefer a 20 or 40 minute presentation slot. The deadline for abstracts is the 31st of March, but earlier submissions are welcome and will be responded to within two weeks of submission.

If you wish to offer a paper, please submit a 300-word abstract to mj.wilson@auckland.ac.nz.

Conference fee: NZ$100, with a concession rate of NZ$60 for postgraduate and unwaged attendees.

Coordinators: Marcus Wilson (mj.wilson@auckland.ac.nz)
Christina Robertson (cjr.robertson@gmail.com)