Monthly Archives: February 2017

Sydney Screen Studies Network 2017 Program – Call For Papers

We are currently seeking proposals for our 2017 program: Intersections in Film and Media Studies. Sydney Screen Studies Network (SSSN) invites scholars working across film, television, video, and internet genres to explore the state of contemporary screen studies and screen culture. Developments in digital technologies, as well as rapid changes in production, distribution and consumption patterns, mean that ‘cinema’ is an increasingly fluid term that moves across platforms, genres, and textual boundaries. Screen culture is also an inescapable part of the contemporary media environment, with a plethora of media objects moving across a variety of screens, technologies, and devices. Cinema and screen studies likewise possess a fluidity that encourages interdisciplinary approaches and collaboration.

This program will explore the transitional nature of contemporary screen studies and the movement of scholarship, theory and ideas across its boundaries. The program is interested in three core areas of study:

  1. Interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to screen media
  2. Intersections in screen media
  3. The value of a single-discipline approach

Potential seminar topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to screen media
  • Applying a single discipline to study a screen object not in that discipline (e.g. using film studies approaches to television or applying video games scholarship to YouTube)
  • Investigations of screen media interactions and crossovers (e.g. cinematic television, televisual YouTube)
  • In what ways are different screen-based media texts informing and shaping one another?
  • What are the boundaries of film/television/video/YouTube?
  • How are screen-based media texts being confined to specific mediums of distribution and consumption?
  • In response to the convergent media environment are texts adhering to particular media-specific conventions in order to delineate themselves?
  • Can we continue to define what is cinema? What is television? etc.
  • How are audiences of screen texts responding to the fluidity of screen media genres?

All seminar presentations will be considered for an edited special journal issue, pending  editorial approval. We particularly encourage postgraduate and early career researchers to apply.

Seminars will be held every alternate Wednesday in the teaching semester, from 5pm to 7pm (Room 327, Robert Webster Building, UNSW Kensington Campus).

Please send proposals including a title, an abstract (200 words), and a short biography to sydneyscreenstudies@gmail.com by Sunday 19 February, 2017.

For any queries or further information on the Sydney Screen Studies Network, please direct your questions to the above email address or visit sydneyscreenstudies.wordpress.com.

Disbelief: From the Renaissance to Romanticism – Call For Papers

Disbelief: From the Renaissance to Romanticism
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
25-7 May, 2017

Website

Keynote speakers: Péter Dávidházi (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary),Nicholas Halmi (The University of Oxford, UK), Ágnes Péter (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary), Tzachi Zamir (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel).

We call for papers that address the issue of disbelief between “the Renaissance” (the Early Modern English period) and the end of “Romanticism”, both terms taken in the broadest possible sense. By choosing the negative, rather than the positive attitude as the pivotal notion of our conference, we would like to direct attention to the inner tensions and struggles that have so often characterised processes in which human beings are able to accept that somebody or something is true or real and to have faith in somebody or something. We encourage participants to track down the historical, political, religious, ethical, metaphysical, and aesthetic implications of disbelief as they filter through literary and cultural production in the above period. What are the consequences of disbelief for the real, the imaginary, the fictional, the ordinary, the extraordinary, the uncanny – for what it means to be human?

Conference presentations should take 30 minutes, followed by a 10 minute-long slot for discussions. The language of the conference is English and abstracts sent in through the application menu of the conference website should not exceed 200 words.

After double-blind peer review, a selection of the papers will be published.

More information on registration will be coming soon.

Application Deadline: 20 February, 2017

University of Adelaide: PhD Scholarship in Early Modern English History of Law and Emotions – Call For Applications

Early Modern English History of Law and Emotions

Applications are invited for a scholarship leading to the degree of PhD in the School of Humanities (History), University of Adelaide.

The scholarship is supported by the Faculty of Arts (Divisional Scholarship), and is part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, DP160100265: ‘A New History of Law in Post-Revolutionary England, 1689 1760’ (Chief Investigators: Em. Prof Wilfrid Prest and Prof. David Lemmings, University of Adelaide, and Dr Mike Macnair, University of Oxford). The appointee will also be affiliated with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

Prof. David Lemmings, who will supervise the successful candidate’s research, is interested in the social and cultural history of law and lawyers, 1690-1760, with a special emphasis on the history of emotions. The student may wish to undertake a comparative study of a group of judges from the period, with the aim of testing, further refining and extending both some of the generalizations advanced in previous research on the early Hanoverian judiciary, and of considering the representation of judges in the emerging print media. Candidates are encouraged to outline (in no more than 250 words) any proposal they may have for a specific thesis topic related to the overall field of study.

Eligibility: Applicants will have a minimum of Honours 2A result or equivalent in History or equivalent discipline, and must be citizens or permanent residents of Australia, or citizens of New Zealand, by the extended closing date, 31 March, 2017.

Stipend: The scholarship will be for three years’ full-time study, with a stipend of $26,288 per annum (2016 rate) tax free for up to three years (indexed annually). It is likely to be tax exempt, subject to Taxation Office approval. The successful candidate will be eligible to apply for a top-up scholarship from the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions to the value of $5,000 p.a. stipend and $4,500 p.a. to assist with travel and research expenses.

Enquiries:

Prof. David Lemmings
School of Humanities
Discipline of History
Tel (08) +61 8313 5614
Fax (08) 8313 3443

Applying: Application for Admission must be submitted using the Online Application Form: https://hdrapp.adelaide.edu.au/auth/login

Please email a summary of your application for admission to Dr. Helen Payne with ‘Application for Judges and English Law. PhD Scholarship’ in the subject heading.

You can request a copy of your application summary by emailing scholarships@adelaide.edu.au with the subject heading ‘Request for application summary’.

European Splendour 1500–1800 Exhibition @ Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

European Splendour 1500–1800 Exhibition
Until 26 February 2017
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

More info: https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/visit/whats-on/exhibitions/nga-toi-arts-te-papa/european-splendour-1500-1800/exhibition

Exquisite European art and objects reveal how the Church, trade, and innovation influenced what was once considered the height of affluence.

For centuries in Europe, luxury goods were the preserve of the monarchy, church, and nobility. But waves of change gave more people than ever access to the beauty and sophistication of gold, fine furniture, silks, and lace.

Discover these objects of desire spanning 300 years of history.

Haunting, Horrible Hunger: Food for Fright – Call For Papers

Haunting, Horrible Hunger: Food for Fright
Special edition of Parlour: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Analysis

[A]nd so I left my fairy godmother, with both her hands on her crutch stick, standing in the midst of the dimly lighted room beside the rotten bride-cake that was hidden in cobwebs” (Great Expectations, 158).

The upcoming issue of Parlour will concentrate on food and consumption culture with an emphasis on the displeasing aspects of appetites: hunger, starvation, gluttony, and pica to name a few. We invite submissions that explore a wide range of approaches to the issue’s theme and the various ways consumption or depravation becomes a “haunting” and “horrible” aspect of humanity.

We seek in particular articles that will engage literary texts in bold, surprising, and dark ways. We are especially interested in work that investigates the literal consumption of food (and/or non-food objects) that carries deep metaphorical freight.

Topics may include (but are not limited to) food, appetite, consumption, and:

  • Intersections of gender, race, sexuality, class, ableness, and other facets of identity with food and consumption
  • Fantastical food inquiries such as the crossover between fey folk and food superstitions or rituals that include the giving or taking of food to/from ghosts and/or other apparitions
  • Traditional literary theory enhanced, augmented, or revived through the merging of food and consumption theory and/or other critical lenses that emphasizes these themes
  • Literary texts that engage with recovered paratextual objects such as cookbooks, etiquette guides, advertisements, and other expository materials
  • The ugly politics that impact the production, control, distribution, and especially, the consumption of foods
  • Grotesque depictions of eating and eaters
  • Deconstructing or de-fleshing arguments that explore vile or taboo cravings such as culinary cannibalism
  • Juicy, chewy, greasy, plate-licking analyses readers can cut with a knife and eat with a spoon

We accept literary criticism from any and all periods

Deadline for full article submission is February 13, 2017.

See our other current CFPs, read the latest issue, or check out our other content here: www.ohio.edu/parlour.