Daily Archives: 23 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

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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.