Daily Archives: 2 April 2015

ANZAMEMS Postgraduate/ECR Travel Bursary Funding 2015

As part of its commitment to support postgraduate research, ANZAMEMS is again this year offering $5000 for a round of travel bursaries for postgraduates and early career researchers to attend the 10th Biennial ANZAMEMS conference and PATS to be held at the University of Queensland on July 14-18, and July 20.

Eligibility:

  1. Open to currently enrolled postgraduates and ECRs within 2 years of award and not in full-time employment.
  2. Applicants must be financial members of ANZAMEMS for 2015.

Selection process:

  • Funding round advertised via the ANZAMEMS mailing list and newsletter: 2 April 2015.
  • Due date for applications: 30 April 2015.
  • Announcement of successful applicants: 16 May 2015.
  • A sub-committee of the ANZAMEMS committee of three members will assess the applications.
  • The Assistant Treasurer will also be on the sub-committee to coordinate the application and selection processes, communicate with applicants, and arrange payment of prizes.
  • Priority will not necessarily be given to greater distance travelled, but the sub-committee will reserve the right to award smaller bursaries where distance travelled is relatively short.

Conditions:

  • Bursaries can only be used to attend the Biennial International ANZAMEMS Conference.
  • Successful applicants are required to submit to the ANZAMEMS committee a brief report (1 page), suitable for publication in the ANZAMEMS newsletter, no longer than 2 months after the conference.
  • In case of non-attendance at the conference, the applicant will be required to reimburse the bursary to ANZAMEMS within a reasonable time frame.
  • Should attendance at the conference lead to a publication, successful applicants are expected to acknowledge the assistance of an ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Travel Bursary.
  • Applicants are also encouraged to develop their conference paper to be submitted as an article to Parergon.

Application process – applicants should submit (max of 5 pages):

  1.  A brief CV
  2. Proof of eligibility (e.g., proof of enrolment)
  3. Proof of acceptance of the applicant’s paper at the ANZAMEMS conference
  4. A brief statement outlining benefit of the conference to research/career
  5. A brief budget of costs associated with attending conference
  6. A statement of other sources of funding available (if applicable).

Applications should be emailed to the Communications Officer in Word MS or PDF format at mgerzic@gmail.com, by the due date.

Epistolary cultures: Letters and Letter-Writing in Early Modern Europe – Call For Papers

Epistolary cultures – letters and letter-writing in early modern Europe
The University of York
18-19 March, 2016

From the place of Cicero’s intimate letters in the development of Renaissance humanism, to the knowledge networks of merchants, collectors and scientists, to the role of women in the republic of letters, recent years have seen a flowering of studies on the practice of letter-writing in Early Modern Europe, as well as major editing projects of early modern letters – Hartlib, Comenius, Scaliger, Casaubon, Browne, Greville, and the EMLO and Cultures of Knowledge projects. This conference will explore the manifold aspects of early modern letter-writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth century in its Latin and vernacular forms. It will consider topics such as the intellectual geographies of letter-writing, the connections between vernacular and Latin letter cultures, questions of genre, rhetoric and style, as well as the political, religious, and scientific uses of letters.

Keynote speakers include Henry Woudhuysen and Andrew Zurcher.

Other speakers include: Tom Charlton James Daybell, Johanna Harris Joe Moshenska, Alison Searle, Richard Serjeantson

Papers might explore:

  • Rhetoric and letter writing.
  • Humanism and the republic of letters.
  • The early modern secretary.
  • Women and the republic of letters.
  • The classical and the biblical letter in early modern thought.
  • Letters and the professions – law, trade, war and diplomacy.
  • Materials of letter writing: paper, pen, parchment, seals.
  • The personal letter: friends and family.
  • Love letters.
  • Writing disaster: plague and war letters.
  • Geographies of letter writing.
  • Scientific letters.
  • Petition letters.
  • Royal letters.
  • Prison letters.
  • Collections and the publishing of letters.
  • Verse epistles.
  • Epistolary fiction.
  • Dedicatory and prefatory letters.
  • Case studies.

Applications: please send a 250-500 word abstract and short c.v. to: Kevin Killeen (kevin.killeen@york.ac.uk) and Freya Sierhuis (freya.sierhuis@york.ac.uk) before 27 April 2015. We welcome applications from early and mid-career researchers, as well as established scholars