Daily Archives: 26 May 2015

Auckland Library: Researcher in Residence Scholarship, 2015/16 – Call For Applications

The Auckland Library Heritage Trust is pleased to announce the award of an annual scholarship of $1000 to assist with scholarly research and promotion of the material held in the Libraries’ special collections.

Every year, the Trust will award $1000 to a research scholar with a particular interest in the collections of Auckland Libraries given by Sir George Grey and added to by others in the decades since.

The award is open to overseas visitors to New Zealand, as well as to New Zealand citizens and residents.

Applications should be made in writing to:

The Chair of the Auckland Library Heritage Trust, c/o Auckland Libraries, Private Bag 92300, Auckland 1142.

Applications should include:

    • A specific indication of the material the applicant wishes to use
    • A brief account of the project to be undertaken
    • A brief CV
    • The names of two referees, who may be asked to confirm that the applicant has the necessary background to complete and present the project satisfactorily.

Applications for 2015/16 close on 31 May, 2015.

For full details, please visit: http://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/EN/heritage/sirgeorgegrey/researchinresidence/Pages/researchinresidence.aspx

Professor Michelle P. Brown, National Library of Australia Public Lecture

“The Prayer Book and World of AD1500”, Professor Michelle P. Brown (University of London)

Date: 11 June 2015
Time: 6:00pm-7:00pm
Venue: Foyer, Theatre, Ground floor, National Library of Australia
RSVP: Cost is $10 (includes refreshments), Book Now

Professor Emerita Michelle P. Brown explores the world of medieval illuminated manuscripts, their makers and readers, in the context of the famous Rothschild Prayer Book.

Widely published, Michelle Brown is Professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the University of London, and was previously Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts, British Library.

Bloody Passions: Extreme Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture – Call For Papers

Bloody Passions: Extreme Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Centre for Studies in Literature Symposium 2015
Centre for Studies in Literature, University of Portsmouth
31 October, 2015

Symposium Website

Keynote speaker

  • Dr Bridget Escolme (Queen Mary, University of London)

In James Shirley’s 1631 tragedy The Traitor, the villainous Lorenzo advises his angered target:

… master your high blood
Till I conclude, Sciarrha. I accuse not
Your noble anger, which I have observed,
Is not on every cheap and giddy motion
Inflamed; but, sir, be thrifty in your passion,
This is a petty trespass.
(The Traitor, Act 2, scene 1)

This conflation of blood and passion highlights their conceptual overlap in the early modern period, and identifies blood as both a marker of status and a marker of emotion. Cultural understandings of the meanings of blood and passion shifted during this period, bringing multiple interpretive fields into dialogue and conflict, and such explorations of emotional, humoral and anatomical selfhood figure prominently in early modern interrogations of the individual and of society.

Early modern literature is rife with bloody passions and extreme emotions, from the violent excesses of tragic drama to the passionate outpourings of sermons. Recent scholarship has considered individually the shifting interpretative grounds of passion, blood and emotion in this period. This one day symposium, hosted by the Centre for Studies in Literature at the University of Portsmouth, seeks to bring these areas of study into fruitful dialogue to consider the intersections of blood and passion in extreme emotions in early modern literature and culture. Through exploring the representation and effect of these intersections, the symposium will interrogate the construction and deconstruction of the inner and outer, physical and spiritual early modern subject.

Call for papers

We invite individual papers of 20 minutes or proposals for panels on topics including, but not restricted to:

  • Conceptions of self in blood, passion and/or emotion
  • Rage and violence
  • Performing Passions
  • Excessive desires
  • Grief and its responses
  • Humoral theories
  • Medical or quasi-scientific approaches
  • Reason and Passion

Please send abstracts of 250-300 words to Dr Jessica Dyson (University of Portsmouth) and Dr Stephen Curtis (Lancaster University) at bloody-passions@port.ac.uk by July 15th 2015.