Daily Archives: 12 April 2016

Cross-Cultural Histories, Free History Seminar @ The University of Melbourne

Cross-Cultural Histories
The University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, History Seminar

Date: Wednesday 13 April, 2016
Time: 2:15-4:30pm
Venue: McMahon Ball, Theatre, Old Arts, The University of Melbourne, Parkville Map: maps.unimelb.edu.au/parkville/venue/macmahon_ball_theatre
Cost: This is a Free Public Event open to all
RSVP: For further information and to RSVP, email bapp@unimelb.edu.au

Please join us for an afternoon of discussion from distinguished prize-winning historians Donna Merwick and Mike McDonnell about cross-cultural history in colonial America.

Donna Merwick, a former member of History at the University of Melbourne, will discuss her most recent book, Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time. Recipient of the 2015 Annual Hendricks Award from the New Netherland Institute, her history of the last Director General of New Netherland makes a major contribution to the recovery of the cultural and religious diversity that marked colonial America.

Michael McDonnell, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney, will discuss his most recent book, Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America. He will explore the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. The paper will chart the story of the Odawa who settled at the straits between those two lakes, a key centre for trade and diplomacy throughout the vast country west of Montreal known as the pays d’en haut.

Program:

  • 2:15pm-3:00pm – Donna Merwick on Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time
  • 3:00pm-3:20pm – Afternoon Tea
  • 3:20pm-4:00pm – Mike McDonnell, “Mastering Empires: The Anishinaabeg of Mackinac and the Making of Empire”
  • 4:00pm-4:30pm – Questions and Discussion

Carmen Annual Meeting 2016

Advance Notice: CARMEN Annual Meeting

CARMEN Annual Meeting, 8-11 September 2016
Universität Duisburg-Essen in Essen, Germany

Registration Date – Please confirm your attendance to Claire McIlroy by 31 July, 2016. If you have special dietary or other requirements please notify Claire McIlroy as soon as possible. You are strongly advised to reserve accommodation early (see the Practical Information document below).

Bursaries – CARMEN has limited funds available for doctoral students, early career researchers or others who wish to attend but who cannot otherwise afford it. Please contact Jitske Jasperse for more information.

Workshop for Early Career Researchers – this workshop will focus on practical guidance on preparing a publishing proposal (e.g., a thematic essay collection or a first monograph, even an article for a journal) to an academic publisher. Early career researchers are invited to contact Simon Forde to submit a draft proposal form, which will be discussed collectively, but constructively, during the workshop. If submitted by 15 July the researcher will become eligible for a 200 euro travel bursary for attendance. Submissions will be evaluated by Marjolein Stern (Gent/Groningen), Bob Bjork (Arizona State) and Simon Forde (Kalamazoo).

  • Draft Programme: Here
  • Publishing Workshop Sample Form: Here
  • Travel and Practical Information: Here

Professor Indira Ghose, Shakespeare and Modern Life, Free Public Lecture

“Shakespeare and Modern Life” Professor Indira Ghose (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) with Sarah Kanowski (ABC Radio National)

Date: Wednesday, 20 April 2016
Time: 6:00pm (for a 6:15pm start)
Venue: Customs House, Brisbane City
Register: Free. RSVP essential here.

“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety”. Shakespeare’s description of Cleopatra might well apply to his own work. This public lecture will try to get to grips with the question of why, four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare still matters. Why is his work continually performed, adapted, and cited in every part of the world, in both high and popular culture? Perhaps one reason lies in Shakespeare’s modernity. His characters are still alive today because in many ways they seem like us: self-determined independent individuals, on a constant quest for self-realisation, in control of their own destiny. Or so they think, as we do. Shakespeare’s plays give us access to the richness and diversity of human life—and simultaneously allow us to watch ourselves, and others, with a certain ironic detachment. A multitude of perspectives jostle one another in each play, suggesting to us that there are always other stories to be told.

The lecture will be followed by a conversation between Professor Ghose and Sarah Kanowski, presenter of Books and Arts on ABC Radio National.

Indira Ghose is Professor of English at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Her research interests range from colonial to Renaissance literature. Her first book, Women Travellers in Colonial India (Oxford University Press, 1998), was followed by a number of anthologies of colonial travel writing. Shakespeare and Laughter: A Cultural History (Manchester University Press, 2008) examined Shakespearean theatre in the context of a history of laughter. Her study of Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing will appear with Bloomsbury in 2017. Professor Ghose is currently working on a book about the Renaissance culture of courtesy and its impact on the theatre, and is a Partner Investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800).

Sarah Kanowski is a writer, editor, and broadcaster with ABC Radio National. She completed an undergraduate degree in English at the University of Queensland, and holds a Masters in English Literature from Oxford University. She has edited the Tasmanian literary magazine Island, and now hosts Books and Arts on ABC RN.

Presented by the UQ Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the UQ Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800).