Monthly Archives: March 2017

Global Middle Ages Faculty Research Group @ The University of Sydney – 2017 Seminar Program

The Global Middle Ages Faculty Research Group emerged out of the research interests of a dynamic group of academics at The University of Sydney who are working on the medieval and early modern period from a non-Eurocentric perspective. Our group is especially interested in studying the cultural productions and material conditions of a number of different Medieval and Early Modern empires and civilizations, as well as in exploring the historical, economic, intellectual, religious interactions and exchanges between them and Europe.

The seminar series takes place in Kevin Lee Room in the Quadrangle A14: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/about/maps.shtml?locationID=A14

Contact:

ABSTRACTS
For a full list of abstracts please go to the Global Middle Ages in Sydney website: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/research/global_middle_ages.

Wednesday 29 March 2017
4pm-5.30pm
Dr Mark Strange (ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific)
“Historical Method in Eleventh-Century China”

Wednesday, 26 April 2017
4pm-5.30pm
Dr James Kane (FASS-SLAM, Department of English, University of Sydney)
“Criminal crusaders? The yellow cross of penance and the punishment of heresy in thirteenth-century Occitania”

Monday, 15 May 2017
4pm-5.30pm
Prof Constant J. Mews (Monash University)
“Rethinking Religious History in Global Perspective: Songlines, Sacred Stories and Theologies”

Wednesday, 30 August 2017
4pm-5.30pm
Dr Michael Abraham-Sprod (FASS-SLC, Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies)
“Sanctifying God’s Name: The Ethos of Jewish Martyrdom in Medieval Ashkenaz (Germany)”

Wednesday, 20 September 2017
4pm-5.30pm
Prof Anne Dunlop (University of Melbourne)
“Mongol Eurasia and Cangrande’s Silk Suit”

Wednesday, 25 October 2017
4pm-5.30pm
Prof Dominique Barbe (University of Noumea, New Caledonia)
“Oceania in the Middle Ages: A Connected World”

The State Library of Victoria Fellowships – Call For Applications

The State Library’s fellowships program is one of the most substantial in Australia. Each year, the Library offers Creative Fellowships to encourage the original and imaginative use or development of the Library’s collections for new work.

The Library also provides a number of specialist fellowships to support and recognise the importance of scholarly endeavour in areas ranging from children’s literature and social history to the visual arts, theatre, 19th-century Victoria and Ukrainian studies.

This year, a new Digital Fellowship will be offered for the first time, established to encourage innovative uses of the Library’s digitised collections and data.

The fellowships are funded by the State Library Victoria Foundation and other program partners, and are awarded annually on the advice of independent expert panels.

More info: https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/about-us/fellowships.

Deadline: 23 April, 2017.

2018 National Library of Australia Fellowships – Call For Applications

2018 National Library of Australia Fellowships

The National Library of Australia Fellowships support researchers to make intensive use of the Library’s rich and varied collections over a sustained period of three months.
Fellowship categories

Eight funded Fellowships are available for 2018, including two exciting new Fellowships: one for Curatorial Research supported by the Patrons and Supporters of the Libary’s Treasures Gallery Access program, and a Fellowship supported by the Minerals Council of Australia for research across a wide range of fields.

Additional Honorary Fellowships may be awarded to support research and special access, but without financial support.

More info: http://www.nla.gov.au/awards-and-grants/fellowships-and-scholarships/national-library-of-australia-fellowships

Deadline: 30 April, 2017.

University of Queensland: Visiting Scholars Programme – Call For Applications

University of Queensland: Visiting Scholars Programme

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) seeks to build lasting and effective relationships with leading scholars from Australia and overseas. IASH fosters high level research in the humanities with a thematic focus on Intellectual and Literary History, Critical and Cultural Studies, the History of Emotions, and Science and Society.

The Visiting Scholars Programme aims to encourage exceptional scholars working in areas relevant to our research strengths to spend a period of time—from one or two weeks to several months—conducting research and collaborating with scholars within the Institute. IASH aims to select a mixture of early, mid, and senior career scholars.

The Programme is ideally suited to scholars who are on sabbatical or research leave and who are interested in collaborating with research staff in IASH, along with colleagues in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

More info: https://iash.uq.edu.au/node/1320

Deadline: 31 May, 2017.

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies: Visiting Research Fellowships (2017-2018) – Call For Applications

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries is now accepting applications for the 2017-2018 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) Visiting Research Fellowship program.

Guided by the vision of its founders, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, SIMS aims to bring manuscript culture, modern technology, and people together to provide access to and understanding of our shared intellectual heritage. Part of the Penn Libraries, SIMS oversees an extensive collection of pre-modern manuscripts from around the world, with a special focus on the history of philosophy and science, and creates open-access digital content to support the study of its collections. SIMS also hosts the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts and the annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.

The SIMS Visiting Research Fellowships have been established to encourage research relating to the premodern manuscript collections at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, including the Schoenberg Collection. Affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, located near other manuscript-rich research collections (the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the Rosenbach Museum and Library, among many others), and linked to the local and international scholarly communities, SIMS offers fellows a network of resources and opportunities for collaboration. Fellows will be encouraged to interact with SIMS staff, Penn faculty, and other medieval and early modern scholars in the Philadelphia area. Fellows will also be expected to present their research at Penn Libraries either during the term of the fellowship or on a selected date following the completion of the term.

Applicants can apply to spend 1 month (4-5 weeks) at SIMS between July 1, 2017, and June 30, 2018. Project proposals should demonstrate that the Libraries’ premodern manuscript resources are integral to proposed research topics. Two fellowships with a stipend of $5000 each will be awarded this year.

Recipients will be expected to conduct their research at SIMS, excluding short research trips in support of the proposed project to nearby institutions. Proposals with a digital component are encouraged though not required.

For full details and to apply, please visit: https://schoenberginstitute.org/visiting-research-fellowships-2

Applications close on May 1, 2017.

500 Years On: Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation Exhibition @ de Beer Gallery, Special Collections, University of Otago

500 Years On: Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
de Beer Gallery, Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
Opens 24 March, 2017 and runs to 9 June, 2017

Our exhibition offers an overview of what was a massive revolution that occurred in Europe. The books on display are from Special Collections, University of Otago, the Hewitson Library, Knox College, Dunedin, and a private collection. Some of the items that will be on show include our Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493; a late 15th century medieval Book of Hours; a sheet of Koberger’s German Bible, printed in 1483, an early guidebook to Rome (1515), and most notably, a rare Latin Bible (1481) that contains fragments of indulgences printed by William Caxton. Luther’s own work features, including his Deuteronomy (1525), his Works (1550), and a facsimile of his Bible, Die Propheten Alle Deutsch [1534; 1935]. Works by Johannes Cochlaeus, Erasmus, and Philip Melanchthon also feature. Also on display are colourful facsimile leaflets (flugblatt) from the period. They include Weiditz’s ‘Käsebauer und Käsefrau’ [Cheesemaker and his wife] (1521) and Erhard Schön’s ‘Der Teufel mit der Sackpfeife’ [The Devil playing the Bagpipe], 1535.

For a handlist of books/manuscripts, click here.

Passion, Lament, Glory Concert @ St Paul’s Cathedral

Passion, Lament, Glory

Date: Friday 31 March and Saturday 1 April 2017
Time: 7.30PM
Venue: St Paul’s Cathedral, Cnr of Swanston Street and Flinders Street, Melbourne
Cost: $30 Full / $15 Concession
Booking: Eventbrite online: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/passion-lament-glory-tickets-31244803047?aff=Passion2

Directed by Jane Davidson, this performance presents a highly original enactment of the Passion of Christ that includes spectacular aerial artistry. Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater serves as the musical centrepiece, alongside choruses from Handel’s Messiah and other beloved works. Internationally acclaimed conductor Erin Helyard will lead a top baroque ensemble, and Stephen Grant will direct over 100 voices from the Vocal Studies Department at The University of Melbourne.

Connecting the Colonies: Empires and Networks in the History of the Book – Call For Papers

Connecting the Colonies: Empires and Networks in the History of the Book
The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc (BSANZ) Annual Conference 2017
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
22-24 November 2017

Conference Website: http://www.sharpweb.org/main/connecting-the-colonies-empires-and-networks-in-the-history-of-the-book

Empires of all kinds – commercial, geo-political, bureaucratic – are defined by their peripheries as well as their centres, by the flows of information that maintain or destabilise their structures of authority and control.

BSANZ, in collaboration with SHARP, the Society for the History of Authorship Reading and Publishing, invites scholars and researchers to consider the printed word, the book, and texts of all kinds, as both mechanism and matter of transmission.

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on any matters of bibliographical interest, traditional and contemporary. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Commercial empires: the book as a commodity in colonial contexts
  • Across boundaries: print networks across geo-political, commercial or bureaucratic borders
  • The trans-temporal: the afterlife of books and re-imagining of ideas
  • Indigenous cultures, frontier encounters, and the presence or absence of print
  • The stuff of legend: the role of print in constructing colonial and imperial consciousness
  • The book as treasured possession: emotion, ownership and display

Proposals for three-person panel discussions are also welcome.

Some financial assistance towards travel costs may be available for postgraduate students who are presenting papers. Please enquire when submitting your proposal, and include a brief budget outlining your anticipated travel costs.

Proposals – including, a 250-word abstract title of paper, name and institutional affiliation of each author, a brief biography of each author, email address of each author, and 3-5 keywords – should be sent to the convenor, Ian Morrison ian.morrison@education.tas.gov.au.

Presenters must be members of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand. The deadline for submissions is Friday 31 March, 2017.

University of Queensland: Development Fellowships – Call For Applications

The University of Queensland Development Fellowships scheme aims to foster the development of promising researchers. By investing in the best and brightest talent, these Fellowships facilitate a trajectory of continued excellence and impact in research, teaching and service at UQ.

The School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry invites expressions of interest from early career researchers (normally within 5 years of the award of a PhD) interested in undertaking a 3 year postdoctoral fellowship.

The School is dedicated to high level research in a range of humanities disciplines with research programmes focused upon the Classics and Ancient History, Studies in Religion, Philosophy and History. The School’s Research page provides further details on our research interests, current projects and researchers in each of these areas.

We are seeking outstanding candidates for Postdoctoral Fellows in any of the School’s research areas. In the first instance, potential candidates should submit (in a single Word or .pdf file) a:

  1. four page CV
  2. one page summary of their proposed research topic

The CV and summary are to be submitted to research-hapi@uq.edu.au.

In order to provide substantive institutional support for the strongest applications, the closing date for expressions of interest in Fellowships commencing in 2018 is 31 July, 2017.

Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group AGM & CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture by Prof. Susan Broomhall @ University of Western Australia

Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group (PMRG) Annual General Meeting Details

Date: Tuesday 28 March, 2017
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: Austin Lecture Hall (1.59, First Floor, Arts Building), UWA

CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture Details “Love in a Time of War: Correspondence of the French Court in the Last Days of the Italian Wars”, Professor Susan Broomhall (UWA)
Date: Tuesday 28 March, 2017
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Austin Lecture Hall (1.59, First Floor, Arts Building), UWA
More info: http://events.uwa.edu.au/event/20170306T045414Z-3052-32203@events.uwa.edu.au/whatson/CMEMS