Monthly Archives: December 2015

Research Fellow: Center for the History of Emotions (Music & Conciliation) – Call For Applications

Research Fellow: Center for the History of Emotions (Music & Conciliation)

Work type: Full-time fixed-term position available from 18 March 2016 for 24 months.
Location: Parkville
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Faculty of VCA and MCM
Salary: $64,863 – $88,016 p.a. plus 9.5% superannuation

The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE) is a major research initiative which fosters collaboration between researchers and industry partners from different disciplines and institutions across Australia and internationally.

In collaboration with the Faculty of VCA and MCM, the Centre seeks to appoint a music research fellow to contribute to research projects in the History of Emotions, as they relate to the topic of music and the development of emotional community, specifically multicultural understanding and conciliation. The project will sit between the Performance and Shaping the Modern programs of the Centre of Excellence’s work. This work will also be part of a new partnership between CHE and Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV). Working together with Professor Davidson and the directorship of MAV, the successful candidate will explore the deployment of music in multicultural understanding as it relates to personal, religious and political areas of conflict and the processes leading to its resolution.

You will have a PhD in a relevant discipline, a strong record in research and a developing publication profile, familiarity with research trends in the history of emotions, knowledge of the appropriate language(s) and linguistic skills required for the research project and a demonstrated capacity for multidisciplinary and collaborative research. Experience in public speaking and experience in organising symposia and conferences are desirable.

Applicants must provide a detailed application that addresses the position description and selection criteria; a curriculum vitae and a list of publications. The research project will manifest itself as contemporary case studies of communities in Melbourne who deploy music for conciliation in multicultural contexts.

Close date: 15 January, 2016.

For full information and to apply, please visit: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/886891/research-fellow-centre-for-the-history-of-emotions-music-conciliation?platform=hootsuite

Myth and Emotion in Early Modern Europe Symposium – Registration Open

Myth and Emotion in Early Modern Europe Symposium
Upper East Room, University House, Professors Walk, The University of Melbourne
10 March, 2016

Registration: http://ecommerce.arts.unimelb.edu.au/product.asp?pID=131&cID=10
Convenors: Dr Gordon Raeburn (CHE, The University of Melbourne) & Dr Katherine Heavey (The University of Glasgow)
Speakers: Dr Gordon Raeburn (CHE, The University of Melbourne), Dr Katherine Heavey (The University of Glasgow), Associate Prof. Cora Fox (Arizona State University), Dr Diana Barnes (UQ), Dr Brandon Chua (UQ), Dr Kirk Essary (UWA)
More information: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/myth-and-emotion-in-early-modern-europe/?date=2016-03

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Greek and Roman classics became increasingly central to the European literary imagination, being referenced, translated, adopted and reshaped by a huge range of authors. In turn, current criticism of early modern literature is ever more concerned with the period’s reception and appropriation of the classical past. Greek and Roman myths held a two­fold appeal for authors: they were ‘known’ stories, culturally iconic and comfortingly familiar to the educated reader, but readerly knowledge could also be manipulated, and the myths reshaped in emotionally provocative and iconoclastic ways. This one day symposium at the University of Melbourne will be an investigation into early modern use of classical myths, asking how myth was used both ‘privately’, to excite emotional effect, and ‘publically’, to respond to political, religious, or social events. This symposium will focus on how and why myth was used specifically to excite and manipulate emotional responses in early modern readers and audiences: responses that might run counter to the original, classical focus of such stories.

Voyage to the Moon – Performance and Masterclass

Voyage to the Moon
Melbourne Recital Centre
15,16,18,19 February, 2016

Presented in partnership with Musica Viva, Victorian Opera and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

Info & Tickets: http://www.victorianopera.com.au/what-s-on/season-2016/voyage-to-the-moon/ and http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/voyage-to-the-moon-melbourne/?date=2016-02

A 16th century knight Astolfo travels to the heavens, his destination, the Moon. His quest, to find a cure for his friend, the great warrior Orlando who has fallen into a deep madness. The moon is, as Astolfo discovers, home to many lost things including Orlando’s sanity. But before he can save his friend, he must first convince the all-powerful Selena, Guardian of the Moon, that Orlando is indeed worth saving.

Legendary Australian playwright and director Michael Gow together with renowned musicologist and conductor, the late Alan Curtis reimagine the epic 16th century poem Orlando Furioso. Part new work, part baroque pastiche, Voyage to the Moon will feature old and new text with existing 18th century music performed by a period ensemble.

One of the greatest Australian sopranos, Emma Matthews assumes dual roles as both the all-powerful Selena, Guardian of the Moon, and the mad Orlando while leading Australian mezzo Sally-Anne Russell is the loyal knight Astolfo. Former Victorian Opera emerging artist Jeremy Kleeman sings the role of Magus, with Victorian Opera’s own Head of Music Phoebe Briggs conducting from the harpsichord.

A Free Baroque Music Masterclass is associated with this event – details here: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/baroque-music-performance-emotions-insights/?page=1

State Library of NSW: Australasian Rare Books Summer School – Course and Lecture of Interest

The 11th Australasian Rare Books Summer School (1-5 February, 2016), will be running three intensive five-day courses, a two-day short course, and a number of public lectures presented by leading experts.

For full details of all courses on offer at the Australasian Rare Books Summer School, including fees and how to apply, please visit: http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/docs/4608_PLE_RareBooks_SummerSchool2016_A4web.pdf

The following course and public lecture, may of interest to members:

The Book in the Renaissance

Date: 1-5 February, 2016
Time: 9 am – 5 pm daily
Venue: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW

This course is a comprehensive introduction to the history of the book in early modern Europe, from the beginning of the fifteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth. Drawing on the State Library’s collections, students will learn to ‘read’ a Renaissance book, both as a physical object and as a carrier of cultural values. We will examine how these books were produced, how they were distributed, and how they were used by those who bought and read them. Topics include:

  • the transition from manuscript to printed book
  • the mechanics of early printing
  • famous scholar-printers
  • editing and correcting
  • woodcuts and engravings
  • typeface and its meaning
  • the popular print
  • bindings
  • the Renaissance book trade
  • censorship
  • the formation of libraries, both individual and institutional
  • marginalia as clues to reading practices and information management
  • researching a Renaissance book, using both print and online sources

The course is intended for special collections librarians, collectors, booksellers, and scholars and graduate students in any field of Renaissance studies.

COURSE TUTOR
Dr Craig Kallendorf, Professor of English and Classics, Texas A&M University, has taught book history at the undergraduate and graduate levels for 30 years. He is the author or editor of 20 books and almost 150 articles and reference entries, with a focus on the relationship of the book as physical object to the content it carries.


“Books As Carriers of Relationships”, Dr Craig Kallendorf (Texas A&M University)
Date: Thursday, 4 February, 2016
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Venue: Metcalfe Auditorium, Macquarie Street building, State Library of NSW

We tend to think of books as carriers of ideas, but books were made by people for people.

This talk will identify some of the relationships involved in creating books in the Renaissance — between author and publisher, among author, publisher, and editor, and between publisher and distributor — before settling on two kinds of relationships that were especially important in this period.

Classic texts provided the foundation of education in the Renaissance, with schoolmasters mediating between the authors of their textbooks and the students who read them. Evidence of this approach
to reading can been seen in the margins of books from the era.

Not all books were circulated freely in the Renaissance, and the relationships between clerical censors and the writers, publishers, distributors, and readers of books will also be discussed.

The talk will focus on books as objects that carry the evidence of these relationships, with some closing thoughts on the dangers that digitisation poses for recovering this kind of information.

UWA Extension 2016 – Three Courses of Interest

UWA Extension has announced a great program of short courses and events hosted at The University Club of Western Australia in 2016.

The following three courses run by Professor Susan Broomhall may be of interest to members:

The insider’s guide to Versailles

Date: Saturday 30 April, 2016
Time: 9:30am – 12:30pm [1 session, 3 hours total]
Venue: UWA Crawley Campus
Cost: $55

Take a peak inside the exclusive world of Versailles, a lavish palace complex that housed the cream of the French aristocracy during the ancient regime. Discover the history, politics, the intrigues, and the garden and palace spaces where monarchs, elites and commoners mingled. We will explore the music, art, literature and enlightenment philosophies that shaped a fantasy world and stoked a revolution.

Join historian Professor Susan Broomhall for this illuminating and enjoyable seminar.

More info: https://www.extension.uwa.edu.au/course/CCDR001

The insider’s guide to the Dutch Golden Age

Date: Saturday 28 May, 2016
Time: 9:30am – 12:30pm [1 session, 3 hours total]
Venue: UWA Crawley Campus
Cost: $55

Spices, silks, gold, silver, tulips and porcelain arrived in Dutch society in the seventeenth century via the Dutch East India Company and were celebrated in vibrant artistic styles that captured the spirit of the Golden Age.

Join historian Professor Susan Broomhall for this absorbing seminar. We will explore the immense international power of the trading companies (reaching as far as the western Australian coast in 1616, under Dirk Hartog), the beauty of Dutch art and porcelain, the story of its political emergence and role of key women and men in the dynasty whose name, Orange-Nassau, is forever linked with this nation and its sporting colour.

More info: https://www.extension.uwa.edu.au/course/CCDR002

The insider’s guide to Renaissance Florence

Date: Saturday 25 June, 2016
Time: 9:30am – 12:30pm [1 session, 3 hours total]
Venue: UWA Crawley Campus
Cost: $55

Discover the cultural politics of power in Renaissance Florence, focusing on the House of Medici, the banking family and political dynasty that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de’ Medici and went on to produce four Popes and two regent queens of France.

This interactive and rewarding seminar, presented by historian Professor Susan Broomhall, will explore the city spaces, processions and buildings of Brunelleschi, the music of Dufay, as well as artworks of Lippi and Botticelli, the literature of Machiavelli and the birth of humanism.

More info: https://www.extension.uwa.edu.au/course/CCDR003

Fate and Fortune in Renaissance Thought – Call For Papers

Fate and Fortune in Renaissance Thought: A One-Day Colloquium
University of Warwick
27 May, 2016

Keynote address: Dilwyn Knox (University College London).
Respondent: Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)

The aim of the colloquium is to explore the significance of the concepts of fate and fortune in Renaissance thought. While having a significant medieval background in theological texts and in The Consolation of Philosophy and other philosophical treatises, these concepts received new interpretations during the Renaissance period. The cause was a renewed interest in Cicero’s treatises, as well as in Alexander of Aphrodisias and Stoic philosophy. On the other hand, the question of fate and fortune seems to be closely related to religious disputes of the sixteenth century.

Hopefully, the colloquium will contribute to a better understanding of these concepts and their crucial role in the history of Renaissance thought. Despite some valuable publications on the topic, a number of its aspects still remain unclear. The interdisciplinary character of the conference would allow to explore the place of fortune and fate in religious, philosophical and artistic contexts in the Renaissance.

A number of fundamental questions will be addressed including:

  • The classical tradition and its contribution to the (re)consideration of these concepts in the Renaissance
  • Renaissance Stoicism and the reception of Alexander of Aphrodisias
  • Religious controversies in the sixteenth century and the disputes on free will, fate and fortune in theological texts.
  • Determinism
  • Fate and fortune in respect of controversies on astrology and magic in the Renaissance
  • The image of fate and fortune in Renaissance art

Please send a title and abstract of no more than 250 words as well as a one-page CV to O.Akopyan@warwick.ac.uk no later than 1 February, 2016.

Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature

Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature
Palace Green Library, Learning Centre, Durham University
26-27 February, 2016

Writers the world over have often accompanied their texts with a variety of annotations, marginal glosses, rubrications, and explicatory or narrative prose in an effort to direct and control the reception of their own works. Such self-exegetical devices do not merely serve as an external apparatus but effectively interact with the primary text by introducing a distinctive meta-literary dimension which, in turn, reveals complex dynamics affecting the very notions of authorship and readership. In the Renaissance, self-commentaries enjoyed unprecedented diffusion and found expression in a multiplicity of forms, which appear to be closely linked to momentous processes such as the legitimation of vernacular languages across Europe, the construction of a literary canon, the making of the modern author as we know it, and the self-representation of modern individual identities.

The Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) at Durham University will host an international conference on the topic of self-commentary and self-exegesis in early modern European literature, 26-27 February 2016 at Palace Green Library.

Registration is free. To reserve a place, please email: selfcommentary@gmail.com

Programme

Friday 26 February

10.30am Registration, coffee and tea

11:00-12:45pm Opening remarks: Francesco Venturi

  • Introduction and Chair: Carlo Caruso
  • Keynote: Martin McLaughlin (University of Oxford), Alberti’s ‘Commentarium’ to his First Literary Work: Self-Commentary as Self-Presentation
  • Jeroen De Keyser (KU Leuven), Elucidation and Self-Explanation in Filelfo’s Marginalia

12:45-2:15pm Catered lunch

2:15-4pm Chair: Patrick Gray

  • Ian Johnson (University of St Andrews), Self-Commentary during Medieval Early Modernity: Reginald Pecock and Gavin Douglas
  • Harriet Archer (Newcastle University), Framing Creative Practice: Fictive Narratives of Poetic Invention in Elizabethan Prose-Verse Hybrids
  • Gilles Bertheau (Université François Rabelais – Tours), George Chapman and the ‘Andromeda Liberata’ Affair (1614): can a Poet be ‘master of [his] own meaning’?

4:00-4:30pm Coffee and tea

4:30-6:00pm Chair: Dario Tessicini

  • Keynote: Federica Pich (University of Leeds), On the Threshold of Poems: Lyric as/vs Narrative in Italian Renaissance Poetry
  • Magdalena Ożarska (Jan Kochanowski – Kielce), The Uses of Authorial Side Glosses in Anna Stanisławska’s ‘Transaction’ (1685)

Saturday 27 February

9:30-10:30am Chair: Marc Schachter

  • Keynote: John O’Brien (Durham University), ‘All outward and on show’: Montaigne’s External Glosses

10:30-11:00am Coffee and tea

11:00-12:50pm Chair and concluding remarks: Richard Maber

  • Russel Ganim (University of Iowa), Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Annotation and Self-Exegesis in La Ceppède
  • Joseph Harris (Royal Holloway – London), Critical Failures: Corneille Observes his Spectators
  • Carlo Caruso (Durham University), Mock and Erudition: Alessandro Tassoni and Francesco Redi

For further information, please contact the event organiser: francesco.venturi@durham.ac.uk or visit: https://www.dur.ac.uk/imems/events/conferences/?eventno=25738

ETH Zürich Fellowships in History and Theory of Architecture – Call For Applications

The Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zürich is offering gta Fellowships in History and Theory of Architecture beginning in Fall 2016. The Institute aims to support researchers in their work and to allow them to fully profit from the resources of the Institute (Archive, Library Werner Oechslin). Senior researchers will have the possibility to stay for 4 to 6 months. Junior researchers can apply for a period of two years. The Institute offers:

  • 2 Postdoctoral Fellowships in History and Theory of Architecture (duration 24 months)
  • 1 Senior Researcher Fellowship in History and Theory of Architecture (duration up to 6 months)

Candidates for the Postdoctoral Fellowship must have obtained a PhD in architecture, history of art and architecture or related fields and propose a research project. Selections will be made on grounds of the quality of the project and the academic merits. Candidates for the Senior Researcher fellowship are expected to have several years of academic experience. Successful candidates should involve in the Doctoral Program in History and Theory of Architecture, for instance in teaching a seminar.

Applicants should include a letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, 2 letters of recommendation (except when applying for the Senior Researcher Fellowship), and an outline of their future research project, including a time plan. Please apply online, using the link provided on: https://apply.refline.ch/845721/4237/pub/1/index.html. Applications via email cannot be considered. Please address your application to: ETH Zurich, Mr. Matthias Steiger, Human Resources, 8092 Zurich. The application deadline is February 15, 2016.

For further information about the Institute please visit our website: http://www.gta.arch.ethz.ch. For questions concerning the position you may also contact Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder (laurent.stalder@gta.arch.ethz.ch) or Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung (philip.ursprung@gta.arch.ethz.ch) by email (no applications please).

The Institute gta is an equal opportunity and family friendly employer. All candidates will be evaluated on their merits and qualifications.

Jenny Wormald Obituary

Thanks to Sybil Jack for writing this short obituary of Jenny Wormald, who was the keynote speaker at the 1990 ANZAMRS (Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Renaissance Studies) Conference in Otago. As many of you are aware of, ANZAMRS and AHMEME (Australian Historians of Medieval and Early Modern Europe) merged in 1996 to form ANZAMEMS.

Jenny Wormald, born Jenny Brown in 1942, read history at Glasgow university and taught there until she was appointed Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at St Hilda’s College in 1985 where she stayed until she ‘retired’ in 2005. Thereafter she returned to Edinburgh to be an Honorary Fellow at the University. From the start of her career she was both brilliant and provocative — she subjected the accepted ideas and explanations of the medieval and early modern period to devastating criticism that forced her colleagues in Scottish history to re-examine and reconstruct their understanding of the period. In the last fifty years she may well have been the most influential historian of medieval and early modern Scotland and her contribution to the re-writing of its history both in her own work and in her editing of volumes of collected studies. She was an incisive speaker as ANZAMRS discovered when she came to the Otago conference in early 1990 as the keynote speaker — an appropriate one for a city established by Scots. She spoke on Mary Queen of Scots, whom she could not abide and attempted to demolish her romantic image. This unpopular approach, which led to considerable argument, saw her later modify her assumptions as she always held everyone should do.

Her students remembered her as a stimulating teacher who drew out reticent students and encouraged them to debate. Her friends and colleagues found her both supportive and helpful in matters of research and teaching. In her retirement she continued to work and to give lectures and papers at conferences — perhaps the last in August this year at the Scottish Legal History Group Annual Conference when she spoke on James VI and I — another person about whom she changed her mind.

She married Patrick Wormald, a distinguish historian of early English law, when he moved from Oxford to Glasgow in 1974 and they assisted one another to develop penetrating new ideas. She had two sons but domesticity did not impede her research and writing.

Literature and Technology – Call For Papers

Literature and Technology
2016 Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Literature
Western Sydney University
11-13 July, 2016

Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Nicholas Daly (University College Dublin), Dr. Rachel Franks (State Library of NSW), Prof. Ken Gelder (University of Melbourne), and Prof. Kerry Mallan (QUT).

In the face of continual technological innovation, the ‘end of books’ has been a recurring prophecy voiced by authors and literary critics, from Théophile Gautier in the 1830s to Robert Coover in the 1990s. The expansion of new technologies over the last two centuries has often elicited a certain amount of alarm, but also an equal measure of fascination, both of which have had a significant impact on literature’s thematic preoccupations and formal developments. Technology has also crucially shaped the medium through which we read, teach, and research literature.

Literature today remains at the interface of understanding and giving representational form to new and emerging technologies and the ways in which they pervade and mould our world, as well as make possible literary production, dissemination, and conservation. This conference seeks to explore the complex interrelations between literature and technology through a wide range of literary texts and contexts, as well as across historical and contemporary periods.

We invite papers that engage with any aspect of literature and technology; explore the significance of digital technologies for teaching, reading, and research practice; analyze the relationship between literature and technology; and consider literature as a type of technology. We also invite papers that investigate literature which takes technology as its primary subject, either in terms of form and/or theme.

We welcome proposals of 250 words for individual papers or panels. Please include a 100 word biography with your abstract.

Topics may include, but are by no means limited to:

  • representations of technology in literature;
  • literature as technological process, including the transformation of genres;
  • the technological history of the book, including print-technologies and ebooks;
  • the relationship between technological change and the rise in literary modernism/postmodernism;
  • the evolution of narrative forms from print to digital media;
  • hypertext fiction;
  • the digitization of literary texts and archives;
  • the impact of digital technologies on reading, teaching, and research practice;
  • online authorship, gender, and power;
  • technological utopias and dystopias in literature;
  • the influence of past and present technologies (cinema, radio, print, hypertext, multimedia, etc.) on formal and thematic literary innovations;
  • the role of the internet in the reception and transmission of new literary texts, including issues of accessibility and digital censorship;
  • theoretical and philosophical approaches to literature’s relationship with technology.

Please send your proposals to: aal2016@westernsydney.edu.au.

Deadline for submissions 31 January, 2016.

Please direct any queries to conference organisers Dr Anne Jamison (a.jamison@westernsydney.edu.au) or Dr Matt McGuire (m.mcguire@westernsydney.edu.au)