Monthly Archives: March 2015

Aliens, Androids & Unicorns: The Hal Salive Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection

Aliens, Androids & Unicorns
The Hal Salive Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection

Special Collections, De Beer Gallery
1st Floor, Central Library, University of Otago

12 March to 29 May 2015
Hours: 8.30am to 5.00pm | Monday to Friday

More info: http://www.otago.ac.nz/library/news/otago087593.html

The Salive Collection consists of both Science Fiction and Fantasy and complements the Fastier hard-science collection of Sci-Fi. Van Vogt was a Salive favourite, as was Samuel Delany.

Salive was also relentless in collecting pre-1949 issues of Astounding Stories, and continued collecting the series, which turned into Analog Science Fiction and Fact.

Fantasy authors who feature predominantly include C.J Cherryh, Jack L. Chalker, Poul Anderson, and Piers Anthony.

In March 2013 Rachel Salive donated the Hal Salive Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection to Special Collections, University of Otago.

It forms an excellent resource for students and scholars in the field of science fiction and fantasy (in all its formats) and remains a lasting legacy to a fine collector.

Lecturer English – British Literature from 1350 to 1600 – Call For Applications

Lecturer in English – British Literature from 1350 to 1600
University of Southampton – English

Location: Southampton
Salary: £28,695 to £35,256 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Closes: 11 April, 2015

The University of Southampton, one of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities and a member of the Russell Group, invites applications for the position of Lecturer in English.

If you have a developing teaching and research profile in any areas of literary studies within this period, we would welcome your application.

The post will complement and strengthen the existing teaching and research expertise of staff in English in the Faculty of Humanities. You will have a developing reputation for research, evidenced by a promising publications record and a strong potential to attract research funding, and will be expected to develop a programme of research and impact activities of the highest quality, suitable for submission to future national evaluations of research excellence. You will also contribute to the efficient administration of the Discipline of English and the Faculty of Humanities.

We anticipate a start date of 1 September 2015.

Further inquiries about this post should be addressed to the Head of English, Professor Daniel Brown, via email: db13g12@southampton.ac.uk

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AKS368/lecturer-in-english-british-literature-from-1350-to-1600.

London International Palaeography Summer School 2015

Applications are open for the London International Palaeography Summer School (LIPSS), running 15 – 19 June 2015.

The London Palaeography Summer School is a series of intensive courses in palaeography and manuscript studies, held at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London. Courses range from one to two days and are given by experts in their respective fields, from a wide variety of institutions.

Full-day course fee: £90
Half-day course fee: £55
Block bookings discounts and discounts for full-time MA/PhD students available.

Monday 15 June

Early Modern English Palaeography
Introduction to Greek Palaeography I
Introduction to the Insular System of Scripts to AD 900
Vernacular Editing: Chaucer and his Contemporaries

Tuesday 16 June

Approaches to the Art of Insular Manuscripts
European Palaeography to AD 900
How Medieval Manuscripts Were Made
Introduction to Greek Palaeography II
Reading and Editing Renaissance English Manuscripts I

Wednesday 17 June

Codicology and the Cataloguing of Manuscripts I
German Palaeography
Liturgical and Devotional Manuscripts I
Quills and Calligraphy
Reading and Editing Renaissance English Manuscripts II

Thursday 18 June

Codicology and Cataloguing of Medieval Manuscripts II
Intermediate Old English Palaeography
Introduction to Keyboard Music Manuscripts from 16th – 18th Centuries (half-day)
Introduction to Latin Palaeography
Latin Gospel Incipits, 7th – 9th Centuries
Liturgical and Devotional Manuscripts II

Friday 19 June

Intermediate Latin Palaeography
Middle English Palaeography
Transcribing and Editing Manuscripts: Palaeography After 1700 (half-day)
Writing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts: Folio Layouts in Context

Questions? Contact the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London at IESEvents@sas.ac.uk or +44 020 7862 8679

Scholarship, Print, and Polemics in Seventeenth-Century Germany: Reminder Submissions Due 31 March – Call For Paper

This is a reminder that chapter abstracts for an edited volume Scholarship, Print, and Polemics in Seventeenth-Century Germany are due on 31 March 2015. The editor is seeking contributions that explore the title theme with a specific focus on the interdisciplinary practices and correspondence networks that supported the early modern Gelehrtenrepublik. It is anticipated that the volume will also offer new and different perspectives on interactions between German scholars and their international counterparts. Contributions that compare and contrast the German experience with the broader seventeenth-century republic of letters, and/or which contextualise their analyses in this context, are therefore strongly encouraged.

Abstracts of up to one page in length can be sent to Christian Thorsten Callisen via email (christian@callisen.net.au). Additional information is available at https://www.academia.edu/10305378/Call_for_abstracts_Scholarship_Print_and_Polemics_in_Seventeenth-Century_Germany.

Professor Ewan Fernie, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Public Lecture / Honours/Postgrad Masterclass

ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Public Lecture / Honours/Postgrad Masterclass
“Shakespeare, Hegel and Modern Freedom”, Professor Ewan Fernie (Shakespeare Institute)

When: Monday, April 20, 12:00-1:00pm / Honours/Postgrad Masterclass 1:00-2:00pm
Location: Rogers Room, Woolley Building, The University of Sydney
Enquiries: craig.lyons@sydney.edu.au

All welcome!

Ewan Fernie argues that in literary history Shakespeare comes to mean freedom first and foremost because of a fundamental connection between personal liberty and what is widely acknowledged as his greatest achievement—his creation of dramatic characters more spirited and alive than any that have been created before or since. In his Aesthetics, the great German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel presented Shakespeare’s characters as ‘free artists of their own selves’, an insight which the contemporary critic Harold Bloom singles out as ‘the best critical passage on Shakespearean representation yet written’.

Fernie will revisit and explore Hegel’s proposition about Shakespearean freedom in relation to the insights of materialist criticism. He will argue that Shakespearean drama can’t ultimately be seen as a hymn to purely individual liberty. It’s true that we’re always concerned with character in the plays; but we are never concerned with just one character. Shakespearean freedom is never forged in isolation; it is always made in interaction. In short, it is always political.

Professor Fernie will be holding an honours and postgraduate masterclass directly after this talk, from 1:00-2:00pm, in the Woolley Building. For more information please contact: liam.semler@sydney.edu.au

Ewan Fernie is Chair, Professor and Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, Stratford-upon-Avon. He is General Editor (with Simon Palfrey) of the Shakespeare Now! series. His latest book is The Demonic: Literature and Experience.

Jill Roe Prize – Call For Applications

The Jill Roe Prize will be awarded annually for the best unpublished article-length work (5,000-8,000 words) of historical research in any area of historical enquiry, produced by a postgraduate student enrolled for a History degree at an Australian university.

The Award honours the career of Professor Emerita Jill Roe, an eminent Australian historian who has made a very significant contribution to the writing, teaching and public communication of history in Australia and abroad.

The Award will consist of a cash payment and a citation, presented annually at the AHA national conference. In addition to the prize the winning entry will be considered for publication in History Australia–the journal of the Australian Historical Association.

The Jill Roe Prize will be administered by a judging panel appointed by the AHA, consisting of a Chair selected by the AHA Executive, and two professional historians. The decision of the panel will be final.

Applications open in December each year and close on 31 March the following year.

  • Applicants will be required to provide
  • a digital copy of their work
  • a completed entry form that contains a statement from the author confirming the originality of the work

Applications and enquiries to Karen Downing, Executive Officer: the.aha@anu.edu.au

Homer and the Epic Tradition – Call For Papers

Homer and the Epic Tradition (Homer Seminar VIII)
A Conference in Honour of Professor Elizabeth Minchin
The Australian National University, Canberra
7-8 December, 2015

This seminar, to be held at The Australian National University, Canberra, is intended to give scholars interested in the epic tradition in the ancient Greek and Roman world – especially (but not only) postgraduates and early-career researchers – an opportunity to test out ideas, methodologies, and findings in a supportive environment, and to maximise the possibility of constructive feedback. The focus of the seminar will be the epic tradition in the ancient world as well as the ways in which the post-classical tradition adopted or adapted this genre. If you are interested in any aspect of this broad topic you are most welcome. This year’s seminar will honour Professor Minchin’s contribution to the field of Homeric scholarship.

Our keynote speaker and respondent to papers will be Professor Alex Purves (UCLA).

Do you wish to offer a paper? If you are interested in participating in the seminar, please contact Dr Ioannis Ziogas (ioannis.ziogas@anu.edu.au) and, if you wish to give a paper, please submit a paper-title and an abstract (of up to 300 words) to Ioannis by 30 September 2015. The time allowed for each paper will be 45 minutes; the presentation of the paper itself should occupy no more than 25 minutes. Papers may be pre-circulated electronically.

The closing date for submission of abstracts is 30 September 2015. But if you intend to come (or think that you may come) we would be happy to hear from you before that date. It helps us with planning.

Do you wish simply to attend? If you intend to come to the seminar but do not wish to give a paper, do let us know before 31 October 2015 that you will be attending.

Further details

Duration. It is proposed that the first session of the seminar will begin on Monday morning and that the seminar will conclude at some point in the afternoon on Tuesday, to allow participants to return home that day.

Registration. There is no registration fee payable for what will be a small gathering. We shall, however, ask you on that weekend to pay $20, which will cover a picnic lunch (by Silo, again) on the Monday and which will make some contribution to morning and afternoon teas, and possibly some drinks as well.

Accommodation. As for accommodation, you have a choice: a room in University House, an apartment in Liversidge Court, a room in one of the university colleges on campus or at Fenner Hall on Northbourne Avenue.

Here are some phone numbers and email addresses:

Morton W. Bloomfield Visiting Fellowship, Harvard University, 2015-2016 – Call For Applications

The Medieval Colloquium of the Department of English at Harvard University invites applications for our 2015-2016 Morton W. Bloomfield Visiting Fellowship, a four-week residential fellowship that can be held at any time during the 2015-16 academic year (September through May).

Thanks to the generosity of the Morton W. Bloomfield Fund, established in the memory of one of Harvard’s most distinguished medievalists, we are able to provide up to $3500 towards travel, accommodation and living costs. We invite scholars at any stage of their postdoctoral career who could usefully spend a month at Harvard to apply. In the past, some fellows with sabbatical leaves have elected to spend a semester with us. Fellows are invited to attend the Medieval Colloquium and other events at Harvard and to give a paper on the subject of their research. They are also asked to meet with our graduate students. We select fellows on the basis of the importance of their research and its interest to our intellectual community.

Applicants should send a brief letter of application, a curriculum vitae, and a two-page project description by email to Nicholas Watson (nwatson@fas.harvard.edu) no later than April 1, 2015. Please be sure to include details on when and for how long you would be able to spend with us. The fellowship is not normally compatible with teaching commitments at a home institution. We hope to be able to congratulate the successful applicant by the middle of the month.

International Symposium on Louise Hanson Dyer Music MS. 244

International Symposium on Louise Hanson-Dyer Music MS. 244 (LHD 244)
The University of Melbourne University Library
29 May 2015

The University of Melbourne University Library will hold a one-day international symposium “Challenges and conundrums: New research on a little known music theory manuscript at the University of Melbourne”, 29 May 2015.

Manuscript LHD 244, despite its diminutive size, comprises more than 20 theoretical texts on musical rudiments and performance from the late 14th to early 17th centuries.  Its oldest texts are a compilation of well-known and otherwise totally unknown treatises from the late 14th and 15th centuries.  The many later additions include psalm-tones, prayers and more unknown treatises, on composition and organ playing.

Speakers include Denis Collins (University of Queensland); Linda Page Cummins (University of Alabama); Jan Herlinger (University of Alabama; Louisiana State University); Jason Stoessel (University of New England); and Carol Williams (Monash University). Kerry Murphy and Richard Excell (University of Melbourne) will briefly place LHD 244 in the context of the Louise Hanson-Dyer Collection. The afternoon will comprise a round table: “Placing LHD 244: Answers and Future Tasks”.

If you are interested in receiving formal notification of this symposium, please e-mail Tim Daly at absum@netspace.net.au. The symposium will be held in the University Library, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia. A full program will be available and registrations open in early May.

Meta-Play: Early Modern Drama and Metatheatre – Call For Papers

Meta-Play: Early Modern Drama and Metatheatre
University of Kent
13-14 June, 2015

Now that over half a century has passed since Lionel Abel coined the term ‘metatheatre’ with particular reference to the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries and even identified a new genre, the ‘metaplay’, it is time for a conference that will bring together academics and theatre practitioners to re-assess the place of metatheatre in early modern drama studies. This interdisciplinary conference will invite literary scholars and theatre historians as well as actors and directors to consider metatheatre’s hugely influential role in critical theories, methodologies and lexicons, exploring its conceptual significance both in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and our own historical period.

In light of recent work in areas such as gender and cross-dressing, props and the materiality of the stage, and new character criticism, the term ‘metatheatre’ and its application need re-evaluating. The conference will initiate discussions on early modern metatheatre as a literary or dramatic effect, a critical paradigm, a historically contingent concept, a materially-manifested phenomenon, and even as a philosophical approach to drama. It will be an opportunity to address gaps in the field by focusing on metatheatre’s place in and between theory and practice, enabling scholars, actors and directors not only to engage productively with early modern examples of what Abel would call metaplays, but also to play with the meta- as a critical tool.

The conference’s focus on performance and theatrical practice will build on the strong development in recent years of interest in practice-based research into early modern drama. The reconstruction of early modern theatres, such as the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in London (opened in early 2014), has created new resources and enthusiasm for this kind of research. The conference will facilitate new work through panels and plenaries, but also two creative sessions involving actors and directors of early modern theatre.

Paper proposals of up to 300 words, accompanied by a short biographical statement, should be submitted to Harry Newman (h.r.newman@kent.ac.uk) and Sarah Dustagheer (s.dustagheer-463@kent.ac.uk) by Monday 4 May. There are three postgraduate bursaries available. Please specify in your proposal if you would like one of these. Early submissions will be preferred.

Papers might address the following:

  • Play within a play
  • Dumb shows
  • Asides, Prologues, inductions, Epilogues, soliloquies
  • Parody, imitation, iteration
  • Reconstructed theatres and metatheatre
  • Actor – audience interaction
  • Cross-dressing and the performance of gender
  • Lexicon/semantics of metatheatre
  • Metatheatre as a philosophical approach to drama
  • Metatheatre as methodology
  • Character post-Harold Bloom
  • Materiality of the stage
  • Boundaries between real world and play world
  • Metatheatre and genre
  • Performance and self-consciousness
  • Theatre and actor as subject matter
  • Metatheatre in modern Shakespeare/early modern performances
  • Relevance/value of ‘fourth-wall’
  • Levels of metatheatricality across genre, repertory and canon
  • Metatheatre in print culture