ANZAMEMS is delighted to announce that the programme for the 11th Biennial ANZAMEMS conference has been released.
The ANZAMEMS conference programme and abstracts are now available online: https://anzamems2017.wordpress.com/programme-and-keynotes
Corrections to the programme should be notified by email to anzamems2017@gmail.com by 9 January, 2017.
Registration for the conference is still open. Please visit https://anzamems2017.wordpress.com/registration to register.
Congratulations to Michael Ovens, PhD Candidate at UWA, who has been awarded the George Yule prize for his essay, “Thine Enemy: Virtual Reality, Interpersonal Combat, and the Vocabulary of Action”.
Michael will be presenting his essay at the 2017 ANZAMEMS Conference.
The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
Research Travel Bursaries
The purpose of the Society’s Research Travel Bursaries is to support relevant research by scholars, at any stage in their career, who are not in receipt of the requisite funding from other sources. The value of all grants is between £300 and £1000 (GBP). There are two application rounds each year, with the deadlines falling on 1st September and 1st March; applicants will be informed of the Society’s decision within three weeks of the deadline.
Eligibility and Requirements: Bursaries are open to all scholars whose research falls within the interests of the Society, broadly defined; but preference may be given to those who are members of the Society. The Society regrets that the Travel Research Bursaries scheme cannot provide funding to attend academic conferences or other organized events.. Successful applicants will be required to submit a report following their research trip, with accounts. The Society’s support should be acknowledged prominently in any subsequent publication, and the Society informed of these. For more info. please visit: http://mediumaevum.modhist.ox.ac.uk/bursaries
To apply, please visit and complete this online form: http://mediumaevum.modhist.ox.ac.uk/bursaries/apply
The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ)
8th Annual International Conference
Massey University, College of Creative Arts, Wellington, New Zealand
28–30 June, 2017
The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ) is devoted to the scholarly understanding of everyday cultures. It is concerned with the study of the social practices and the cultural meanings that are produced and are circulated through the processes and practices of everyday life, as a product of consumption, an intellectual object of inquiry, and as an integral component of the dynamic forces that shape societies.
We invite academics, professionals, cultural practitioners and those with a scholarly interest in popular culture to send a 150 word abstract and 100 word bio to the area chairs listed below by March 31, 2017.
PopCAANZ will publish double-blind peer reviewed Conference Proceedings online following the conference, and presenters will be invited to submit suitable articles to our new journal from June 2016, The Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture (Penn State University Press). Queries about new areas should be directed to vicepresident@popcaanz.com For Conference information see www.popcaanz.com.
“From Far & Wide: The Next 150″
Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies Congress 2017
Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
27-29 May, 2017
The 2017 conference of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies will be hosted by Ryerson University in Toronto as a part of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
The theme for Congress 2017, the year of Canada’s sesquicentennial, is “From Far & Wide: The Next 150.” The CSRS invites members to submit proposals that address this theme in relation to the early modern period, or on any Renaissance topic in a variety of disciplines, including literature, history, philosophy, music, art history, history of the book, bibliography, digital humanities, medicine, and cultural studies. Cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary proposals are also welcome.
Proposals can be submitted in either English or French, and should fall into one of the following categories:
Please note that this year the deadline for submitting a proposal is: 15 January, 2017 (for individual proposals and completed panel proposals).
Please submit your proposal or proposed panel to Dr. Katie Larson, 2017 CSRS/SCÉR Program Chair, at this email address, no later than 15 January, 2017: csrs.scercongress2017@gmail.com.
Birkbeck, University of London is now accepting applications for ESRC studentships, the Bonnart Trust PhD scholarship and the Stuart Hall PhD scholarship for October 2017 entry. There are also a number of scholarships specifically for international students. Some are offered directly by Birkbeck; others are offered in partnership with other organisations.
For full details of all scholarships on offer, please visit: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/sshp/research/funding-for-research-students.
The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy is proud to present the 2017 Philosophy Summer School Curriculum.
The Summer School has nine courses on offer. Substantial discounts apply for those doing multiple courses. All courses are available for distance enrolment.
When: 9 Jan – 17 Feb, 2017
Where: Kathleen Syme Centre, Faraday St, and somewhere else yet to be finalised (Either in Carlton in Parkville).
Courses: For a full list of courses and to enrol, please visit: http://mscp.org.au/courses/summer-school-2017. All courses are 10 hours in length. Fees start at $80.
Poor Taste and the Exclusionary Mechanisms of Cultural Consumption
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA
28 April, 2017
“Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.”
– Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction
Cultural consumers are defined and classified by their taste. Through an evaluation of their choices and preferences, whether biologically or socially informed, taste functions as a mechanism of distinction and exclusion. Art and Architectural History has arguably been a cornerstone of this very tradition, disciplining bodies and senses in the formation of canons and cultural hierarchies. While taste is now widely accepted to be subjective and localized rather than universal, ideals of good taste and quality endure in both our disciplinary frameworks and institutional practices.
This symposium therefore aims to address the judgment of taste, and the agents and spaces involved in its creation and enforcement. We consider such questions as: Can terms like consumption, digestion, and indigestion provide useful metaphors or models for the processes by which cultural traditions and products are validated and/or dismissed? How has cultural consumption been designated as legitimate or alternatively illegitimate in various historical and cultural contexts? In the history of cultural consumption, how have poor taste and good taste proven to have both opposed and informed one another?
We welcome proposals from emerging scholars of all disciplinary backgrounds whose work engages with the themes of the conference.
Topics of Interest:
We invite abstracts of 300 words or less and a 1-page CV to be sent to ucsb.haa.symposium@gmail.com by December 31, 2016. (Inclusion of working title and images encouraged). Conference presentations will be 20 minutes. All participants will be notified by early February.
Please feel free to contact conference organizers J.V. Decemvirale and Maggie Mansfield at ucsb.haa.symposium@gmail.com with any questions.
The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature Conference Grants
The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature regularly sponsors over a dozen events in a year, in fulfilment of its goal to promote research in medieval languages and literature. The Society welcomes funding applications from any Society members via its online system.
Please note that the Society’s priorities in allocating funding are
The Society is unable to support honoraria paid to tenured academics.
There are two application types; to begin, please click on the appropriate link and follow the instructions.
Small Grants (up to £500) – Application Deadline: Apply All Year
Applications for smaller grants (up to £500) are considered all year round. Applications should be submitted no less than two months before the planned event – and, ideally, before the Call for Papers has closed; in the case of successful applications, this will help the Society to publicise the event at an early stage. You can expect to be notified of a decision within three weeks of your application.
Large Grants (over £500) – Application Deadline: Monday, January 23, 2017 (All day)
Applications for larger grants (over £500) are considered thrice yearly, in the New Year, spring and autumn (please see the side-panel for the next application deadline). The planned event should be taking place no less than two months after the relevant application deadline – and at which time, ideally, the Call for Papers will not yet have closed; in the case of successful applications, this will help the Society to publicise the event at an early stage. You can expect to be notified of a decision within three weeks of the relevant application deadline.
For more information, and to apply, please visit: http://mediumaevum.modhist.ox.ac.uk/conferences/funding
Theatre, Masque, and Opera in England and Italy, 1580 to 1650: Performance Practices and Cognitive Ecologies
Summer Research Seminar, 2017
McGill University, Montréal, Québec
31 July – 23 August, 2017
Seminar leaders:
Sponsored by:
Doctoral students in their final year, recent PhDs, postdocs, and junior faculty focusing on scholarly work and/or performance are invited to apply to take part in the research seminar. Research projects should have to do with spoken theatre (broadly defined) or theatrical music (broadly defined), or both, in England or Italy, c. 1580 to 1650.
English theatre and Italian opera between c. 1580 and 1650 have a great deal in common. Both regions had significant traditions of court theatre (masque; intermedii and court opera); both saw the rise of commercial theatre (the London theatres; Venetian public opera); both engaged with issues of love, history and politics, religion, disguise, and conversion. Boy actors, castrati, and cross dressing raise fascinating gender issues. Professional training combined with theatrical conventions were required for professionals (actors, writers; singers, instrumentalists, composers) to put on shows with very limited rehearsal time. Significant bodies of scholarship on both traditions exist, but the researchers rarely engage with one another, and there is little comparative scholarly work.
Our summer research seminar will bring together scholars and performers who specialize in English theatre, and others who specialize in early Italian opera, to share their work and learn from each other. While we are open to a wide array of methodologies and interests, we will focus on the performance practices and cognitive ecologies of these two theatrical worlds. How did they create works and learn their parts? How did material supports (scripts, libretti, stages, theatres) affect what they could do (on and off stage) and what they couldn’t? What makes these traditions similar, and how are they different? Can theatre, masque and opera be seen as conversion machines, operating within distinct cognitive ecologies?
Montreal allows for interaction with other researchers, including faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students associated with McGill, IPLAI, the Schulich School of Music, and Early Modern Conversions. Activities during the seminar will include workshops on period performance practices in theatre and music (including theatrical gesture, staging practices, musical improvisation, and facsimiles of original performance materials).
Travel and accommodation will be provided by the Early Modern Conversions Project. At the end of the seminar, participants will participate in the annual team meeting of the Early Modern Conversions project, at McGill, 24-26 August. Seminar participants will have rooms at the Trylon Apartments for the duration of the seminar and team meeting. McGill offers rich resources for study including excellent libraries, access to early instruments, and a vibrant theatrical and musical scene.
Doctoral students in their final year, recent PhDs, postdocs, and junior faculty focusing on scholarly work and/or performance are invited to apply to take part. Candidates should send a cover letter, CV, brief research proposal, and article-length writing sample to conversions@mcgill.ca by 15 December, 2016. Two confidential letters of recommendation should be sent by e-mail to the same address by the same deadline; referees are asked to indicate the name of the candidate in the subject line. At least one referee should confirm time to completion for applicants who have not yet graduated.
