Daily Archives: 3 November 2015

Research Associate @ Leverhulme Project: Inner Lives: Emotions, Identity, and the Supernatural, 1300-1900 – Call For Applications

Inner Lives: Emotions, Identity, and the Supernatural, 1300-1900 is a three-year project funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The project will explore personal and collective identities in western Europe and America, focusing on patterns of continuity and discontinuity over six centuries. The PI Malcom Gaskill (UEA) will work on the period 1500-1700, with CIs Sophie Page (UCL) focusing on 1300-1500 and Owen Davies (University of Hertfordshire) on 1700-1900.

This RA post will work with Dr Sophie Page and be based at UCL. The RA will visit archives and libraries in France, Italy and Germany, finding information that Page will use for her monograph, ‘Cosmology, Magic and Inner Lives’. This will primarily relate to the fields of late medieval cosmology, demonology, magic and medicine. The successful candidate will engage in original research related to the project and publish the results of his/her work through papers at scholarly conferences and in an academic journal.

The Research Associate will be based in London but will travel to Europe to work in archives; and deliver papers at academic conferences both in the UK and abroad.

This post is funded for 18 months in the first instance.

Applications close: 13 November, 2015

For full information, and to apply, please visit: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?SID=amNvZGU9MTUwNTYwMyZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT05NjUmb3duZXI9NTA0MTE3OCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZicmFuZF9pZD0wJmpvYl9yZWZfY29kZT0xNTA1NjAzJnBvc3RpbmdfY29kZT0yMjQmcmVxc2lnPTE0NDY0MjkxMzktNjE3MGNmZDEzM2VjMTJmZjZiNjI3ZjgxNTM1YWI0YmIxYWMxNGE2OA==

Gender Worlds, 500-1800: New Perspectives – Call For Papers

Gender Worlds, 500-1800: New Perspectives
The Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies & Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group XXII Annual Conference
The University Club, The University of Western Australia
8 October, 2016

Keynote Speaker: Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).

Gender is a powerful and flexible analytical tool that has profoundly influenced scholarship over the past few decades. It is widely recognised as a necessary category of analysis; and exciting opportunities to integrate it more fully into scholarly practice continue to emerge. This conference applies gender theories, concepts and methodologies to uncover and explore dynamic, new perspectives on the medieval and early modern. Possible themes include (but are not limited to):

  • Masculinities, femininities, sexualities
  • Ideologies, mentalities, thought worlds
  • Performances and practices
  • Local, global and transnational connections
  • Identities, communities, historical memory
  • Gender and emotions/gendered emotions
  • Textualities, language, rhetoric
  • Spatial and material cultures
  • Feminisms and gender historiography
  • Binaries, crossings, intersections, transgressions

We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers exploring any of the above themes. Submissions should include a paper title, a c.250-word abstract, presenter’s name, affiliation (if any), email address, and audio/visual requirements.

Please email submissions to Dr Joanne McEwan at: joanne.mcewan@uwa.edu.au.

Deadline for proposals: 1 May, 2016.