Monthly Archives: October 2016

ESRA Conference Panel: He Do Shakespeare in Different Voices: The Use of Regional Accents and Dialects – Call For Papers

European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA) Conference, Gdansk, 27-30 July, 2017
http://esra2017.eu/

Call for papers: ‘He Do Shakespeare in Different Voices: The Use of Regional Accents and Dialects’
Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University
Domenico Lovascio, University of Genoa

Lisa Hopkins and Domenico Lovascio invite proposals for papers for their seminar ‘He Do Shakespeare in Different Voices: The Use of Regional Accents and Dialects’. Shakespeare has helped shape English and has been translated into many European languages. What happens, though, when he or his contemporaries are performed in dialect or in regional accents? In England, Northern Broadsides deliberately eschew Received Pronunciation in favour of northern accents; in Italy, Cesare Deve Morire used Neapolitan rather than standard Italian. Sometimes particular accents become synonymous with particular meanings or approaches, as with the Royal Shakespeare Company’s rooted conviction that a Scots accent is funny. This seminar is interested in any production, film, or theatre company, in or from any European country, which (to paraphrase Pound’s proposed title for The Waste Land) does Shakespeare or any of his contemporaries in different voices. Possible approaches may include (but are not limited to):

  • use of accent or dialect in a film or stage production of Shakespeare
  • use of accent or dialect in a film or stage production of any of Shakespeare’s contemporaries
  • comparison of approaches to Shakespeare with approaches to one or more of his contemporaries
  • use of a particular accent or dialect across several productions
  • particular companies which specialise in the use of dialect or accent, e.g. Northern Broadsides
  • political implications of the use of accent or dialect
  • is there such a thing as a non-accented production?
  • the relationship between Shakespeare and/or his contemporaries and the history of any particular accent or dialect

Abstracts (250-300 words) and biographies (150 words) by Friday 27 January 2017; papers (8-10 pages, Times New Roman, 12 point font, double spacing, 2.5cm margins) by Friday 26 May 2017. Please send proposals and enquiries to both seminar leaders:

Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies 2017 – Call For Papers

Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies 2017
University of Notre Dame, Indiana
March 9–11, 2017

Conference Website

Vagantes, North America’s largest graduate student conference for medieval studies, is seeking submissions for its 16th annual meeting at the University of Notre Dame, March 9–11.

Since its founding in 2002, Vagantes has nurtured a lively community of junior scholars from across the disciplines. Every conference features approximately thirty papers on any aspect of medieval studies, allowing for exciting interdisciplinary conversation and the creation of new professional relationships between future colleagues. Vagantes travels to a new university every year, highlighting the unique resources of the host institution through keynote lectures, exhibitions, and special events. Out of consideration for graduate students’ limited budgets, Vagantes never charges a registration fee.

The 2017 conference will feature a variety of exciting keynote speakers and events. Mary Franklin-Brown, Associate Professor of French & Italian at the University of Minnesota, will present on her current research. David Gura, Curator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts in Special Collections at the University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Library, will speak about his recent work on Arnulf of Orléans’ commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In addition, the conference will feature tours of Special Collections, the Basilica, and the Snite Museum of Art, and workshops on a variety of topics. Attendees will also be encouraged to avail themselves of the University’s world-renowned Medieval Institute Library.

Conference presenters residing outside the Michiana area who are unable to secure funding from their home institutions are eligible to apply for a travel honorarium to be issued as a reimbursement. See the Vagantes website for further details: www.vagantesconference.org/travel-awards.

Graduate students in all disciplines are invited to submit a paper title and abstract of no more than 300 words on any medieval topic along with a 1-2 page C.V. to organizers@vagantesconference.org by November 2, 2016.

University of Edinburgh: Teaching Fellow in Late Medieval to Early Modern English Literature – Call For Applications

University of Edinburgh
Teaching Fellow in Late Medieval to Early Modern English Literature

Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £31,656 to £37,768 per annum.
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Applications are invited for a Teaching Fellow in English Literature of the late medieval to early modern period.

The successful candidate will have experience in the design and delivery of teaching within the Higher Education sector, and the ability to deliver pre-honours and honours undergraduate courses in English Literature, including postgraduate teaching as appropriate. Successful Candidate will also be expected to contribute to the administration of the subject area including course organisation, as well as to undertake course assessment.

This full-time (35 hours each week) post is available for a fixed-term period of 2 years from 1 January, 2017 (or as soon as possible thereafter) until 31 December, 2018.

Applications should be received no later than 5.00pm (GMT) on Wednesday 26 October, 2016. It is anticipated that interviews will be held on 14 November, 2016.

Informal queries can also be sent via email for the attention of Dr Andy Taylor, Head of English Literature, to llc@ed.ac.uk.

For further particulars and to apply for this post please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AOQ623/teaching-fellow-in-late-medieval-to-early-modern-english-literature

Professor Lino Pertile, Workshop @ ARC Centre for the History of Emotions (CHE) UWA Node

CHE Workshop: “The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages and Dante”, Professor Lino Pertile (Harvard University)

Date: Thursday 20 October, 2016
Time: 3:00pm–5:00pm (afternoon tea served in Tea Room 1.13 from 2.45pm)
Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room 1.33 (First Floor, Arts Building), University of Western Australia
Register: This event is free, but please email Katrina Tap (katrina.tap@uwa.edu.au) to register by 19 October, 2016.

Professor Lino Pertile is Harvard College Professor and Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures. Professor Pertile is a renowned scholar on Italian literature, with a particular focus on the medieval and Renaissance periods. He has also been Director of the Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2010-2015). His extensive list of publications include Dante in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2015), The Cambridge History of Italian Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1996 and 1999) and The New Italian Novel (Edinburgh University Press, 1993).

Event information: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/the-song-of-songs-in-the-middle-ages-and-dante.

Professor Paul Salzman, Free Public Lecture @ The University of Melbourne

“Scrapbook Shakespeare: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and the preparation of a nineteenth-century Shakespeare edition”, Paul Salzman (La Trobe University)

Date: Thursday 20 October, 2016
Time: 12:00pm–1:00pm
Venue: Leigh Scott Room, Level 1, Baillieu Library, The University of Melbourne
RSVP: Free but RSVP required. Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/scrapbook-shakespeare-james-orchard-halliwell-phillipps-and-the-preparation-of-a-nineteenth-century-tickets-26274722402

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps was responsible for one of the most beautiful and most expensive complete editions of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century. In this talk Professor Paul Salzman will explain how the edition was put together, and how Halliwell-Phillipps created an extensive series of scrapbooks to help with his annotation, creating them in part through a process of slicing pages out of old books, including a number of Shakespeare quarto and folios. Professor Salzman will speak about about the way Shakespeare was edited in general in the nineteenth century, a time when approaches to editing combined with the elevation of Shakespeare into the role of national and indeed international icon.

Paul Salzman, FAHA is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature at La Trobe University. He has published widely on early modern literature; his most recent book is Literature and Politics in the 1620s: ‘Whisper’s Counsells’ (2014).

The Society for the History of Emotions

The Society for the History of Emotions welcomes members working in the field of the history of emotions across the world, including independent scholars, early career researchers and postgraduates.

It aims to:

    • organise conferences, symposia and postgraduate training events to further knowledge of the history of emotions;
    • provide global information, networking and collaborative opportunities for scholars of emotions;
    • produce the journal Emotions: History, Culture, Society (EHCS).

The Council of the Society includes Jacqueline Van Gent (Convenor), Susan Broomhall, Ute Frevert, Piroska Nagy, Carly Osborn, Miri Rubin, Giovanni Tarantino, Stephanie Trigg and Paul Yachnin.

Emotions: History, Culture, Society

Emotions: History, Culture, Society is published under the auspices of the Society and edited by Katie Barclay and Andrew Lynch. Giovanni Tarantino is Reviews Editor. It has a distinguished Advisory Board. The first issue will appear in mid-2017.

EHCS is a bi-annual journal dedicated to understanding emotions in historical, social and cultural contexts, and to exploring the role of emotion in shaping human experience, societies, cultures and environments.

It will publish theoretically-informed work from a range of historical, cultural and social domains. It will embrace multidisciplinary approaches (both qualitative and quantitative) from history, art, literature, law, languages, music, politics, sociology, cognitive sciences, cultural studies, environmental humanities, religious studies, linguistics, philosophy, psychology and related disciplines.

For enquiries about EHCS, email editemotions@gmail.com.

Subscriptions

To join the Society for the History of Emotions and receive two issues of EHCS per year, visit: https://www.trybooking.com/214964

Membership plus online journal:

  • $70 (standard)
  • $45 (concession)

Membership plus printed journal and online version:

  • $85 (standard)
  • $60 (concession)

Enquiries: societyhistoryemotions@gmail.com

2017 AFIRC Research Fellowship – Call For Applications

The AFI Research Collection, in partnership with Screen Cultures from the Centre for Communications, Politics and Culture, is pleased to announce the 2017 AFIRC Research Fellowship.

We invite proposals from scholars wishing to undertake research that utilises and promotes the resources of the AFI Research Collection.

The Fellowship is designed to showcase the unique holdings of the AFIRC, including film stills, newspaper clippings and other significant artefacts from the Australian film and television industry.

The Fellowship will provide a stipend of up to $5,000 (AUD).

Applications close Thursday 27 October, 2016.

Read more and apply at http://afiresearch.rmit.edu.au/?page_id=122

Contact Alexander Gionfriddo (alexander.gionfriddo@rmit.edu.au) for further questions.

Pirate Fiction in the Middle Ages, 500-1500 AD – Call For Papers

“Pirate Fiction in the Middle Ages, 500-1500 AD”
The Image of the Sea-Warrior in Medieval Texts from the Factual to the Fantastic –
University of Southern Denmark, Odense
21-22 September, 2017

Keynote Speakers: Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen) & Emily Sohmer Tai (CUNY)

In the recent years the study of plunder at sea in the Middle Ages, more popularly known as piracy, has received increased interest in medieval studies. Most research up to now on medieval piracy has so far approached the subject from a politico-legal point of view. This has yielded important insights into the legal status of piracy and its practice in the Middle Ages. However, investigations into the perception of pirates and piracy in medieval Europe, and possible changes in this perception over time, are mostly lacking. This is an unfortunate state of affairs. Although pirates and piracy in legal terms denote criminals and crime, these terms in much literature and popular fiction designate rebellious heroes against tyranny and injustice. While law and state power are most certainly vital to the study of piracy and plunder at sea by neglecting the image, perception and contemporary discussion of this maritime culture only half the story is told.

Inspired by the works on “fiction” in the archives by Natalie Zemon Davis and Claude Gauvard this conference seeks to address this lacuna by bringing historians and scholars of literature and art together to explore ‘pirate narratives’ not only in historiography and law but also in medieval romances and novels, hagiography, chronicles, diplomatic correspondences and iconography. We therefore invite scholars to contribute to the discussion of medieval sea warriors, pirates and piracy by the study of the various narratives of illustrious and/or infamous persons such as Ragnar Lothbrok, the Jomsvikings, Eustace the Monk, William Smale and John Hawley, Don Pero Niño, Gadifer de la Salle, Klaus Störtebeker, and Benedetto Zaccaria. This list is by no means exhaustive and we welcome papers on any men, women (factual or fictive) or themes of war and plunder at sea in the medieval Atlantic, the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean in the ‘long’ Middle Ages.

Deadline for paper proposals (max. 200 words including paper title) should be send to Thomas Heebøll-Holm thee@sdu.dk no later than 31 January, 2017. There will be no registration fee.

This conference is a collaboration between Thomas Heebøll-Holm, Assistant Professor, University of Southern Denmark and the Centre for Medieval Literature (CML), Odense & York.

The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 2016 Annual Conference – Registration Now Open

Local Bibliography — ‘The Deepening Stream’
The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 2016 Annual Conference
University of Waikato — Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
21-22 November, 2016

Registration is now available on Eventbrite, and tickets can be purchased at:

https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/bsanz-inc-conference-2016-local-bibliography-the-deepening-stream-tickets-27404715241

Early Bird registration closes 31 October, 2016.

The conference begins Monday November 21 with a keynote address “An Incomplete Art: The World of Bibliographies” by Donald Kerr, Special Collections Librarian, University of Otago and the Society’s President. There are seventeen papers covering European books and print culture; manuscript studies; new media and bibliography; studies in antipodean publication and specific collections.

The conference will be followed on 23 November with “BSANZ @ the Bay,” a bus trip to Tauranga for Rare Book and Special Collection Librarians and Conference Attendees.

Please check out http://www.bsanz.org/conferences where a draft programme is available as a pdf download. For more information contact: Mark Houlahan: maph@waikato.ac.nz or Kathryn Parsons: kathrynparsons9@gmail.com

Columbia University: Postdoctoral Scholar with the Making and Knowing Project – Call For Applications

Postdoctoral Scholar with the Making and Knowing Project, Columbia University

The Making and Knowing Project seeks a three-year Postdoctoral Scholar, to start July 1, 2017.

The Department of History at Columbia University in the City of New York invites applications from qualified candidates for a postdoctoral position as part of the Making and Knowing Project, which is working toward the publication of an open access digital critical edition and translation of a late sixteenth-century French manuscript. The successful applicant will co-teach the laboratory seminar each semester with Professor Pamela Smith and other postdoctoral scholars, and take part in all activities of the Making and Knowing Project. For two of the three years, the Scholar will teach one section each semester of the Introduction to Contemporary Civilization, a central part of Columbia’s signature Core Curriculum. Core teaching requires instructors to attend Core Curriculum weekly instructor meetings and lectures, in addition to teaching a discussion based class twice a week (ca. 4 hours/week). The Scholar will have the opportunity to contribute content to the critical edition and to publish research in collaboration with the Making and Knowing team. The Scholar will hold the title of Lecturer in History.

The appointment start date is July 1, 2017. Renewal for a second and third year will be contingent upon satisfactory performance. Starting salary will be about $53,000, plus benefits, and a modest research stipend.

Eligibility Requirements: A PhD, preferably in history or a cognate discipline (such as art history, conservation, or history of science). Some experience in laboratory, conservation, or studio work, and a knowledge of French language and history. A background in early modern European history and digital skills will be beneficial. Candidates must hold the doctoral degree by July 1, 2017 or have received it within the previous three years.

Application: All applications must be made through Columbia University’s online Recruitment of Academic Personnel System (RAPS). For more information and to apply, please go to the following link: https://academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=63353

Columbia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Review of Applications will begin October 30, 2016 and continue until the position is filled.

For questions about the position, please contact Pamela Smith at ps2270@columbia.edu.