Daily Archives: 5 January 2016

CARMEN Annual Meeting 2016

CARMEN Annual Meeting
Essen, Germany
9-11 September, 2016

CARMEN, as stated on its website, “is a worldwide network of medievalists, its name being an acronym for the “Co-operative for the Advancement of Research through a Medieval European Network”. It links a number of research institutions, universities, interest groups and individuals with common scholarly interest in the study of the Middle Ages. While based in Europe, it reaches out to all continents to create an open and truly international platform of co-operation in the field of medieval research and teaching.” For more information about CARMEN please visit: http://www.carmen-medieval.net.

CARMEN’s next Annual Meeting will take place in Essen, Germany, organised by the Historical Institute at the University of Duisburg-Essen (https://www.uni-due.de/geschichte). The general theme of the Annual Meeting will be Futures. Mark the dates 9-11 September, 2016, in your medieval events calendar, join us, make friends, and enjoy the charming medieval city of Essen, the home of the famous golden Madonna. Participants are advised to fly to Düsseldorf or Cologne/ Köln; practical information on travel and accommodation, and the program of the meeting will be available in spring 2016 on the CARMEN webpage.

Essen is a medieval site in the Ruhr region that has been a center of Carolingian missionary activity, with a cathedral church going back to a 9th century female monastery that held with close ties to the Ottonian family in the 10th century. There has been a male Benedictine monastery in Essen (Werden) from c. 800 as well.

Graduate students: If you’re interested in attending the meeting or learning more about CARMEN, please get in touch with Professor Robert E. Bjork (Foundation Professor of English and Director, ACMRS – Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) at: robert.bjork@asu.edu

The International Australian Studies Association: Unpaid Editorial Traineeship – Call for Expression of Interest

The International Australian Studies Association (InASA) and the editors of the Journal of Australian Studies are seeking expressions of interests from HDR candidates, graduate students in editing programmes, or ECRs, who are interested in Australian Studies and would like the opportunity to gain editorial experience as an editorial trainee with the leading journal in Australian Studies.

We expect to appoint two trainees, one based in Brisbane and one based in Melbourne, initially for one year, although this would also be renewable, beginning in March 2016.

As editorial work on the journal is voluntary, trainees would not be paid, although each trainee will receive a one-off award of $500 to defray costs. Trainees will participate in the deliberations of the editors, and will be invited to attend meetings of the Editorial Advisory Committee. They might be asked to accept special responsibility as a group to work on a particular project for the journal. We envisage that the traineeship will involve approximately 2 hours of work per week.

Expressions of interest should be in the form of a letter accompanying a brief curriculum vitae, with the names of two referees, and a one page outline of why you are interested in the position, and what skills you will bring to it.

For further information please contact the editors Maggie Nolan (marguerite.nolan@acu.edu.au) or Julie Kimber (jkimber@swin.edu.au).

Please submit expressions of interest to either editor (inc. subject line: EoI: Journal of Australian Studies editorial trainee)

Expressions of Interest close at the end of January, 2016.