Monthly Archives: May 2017

Placeless Memories: Digital Constructions of Memory and Identity – Call For Papers

Placeless Memories: Digital Constructions of Memory and Identity
Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past Conference
University of York
14 July, 2017

Conference Website

We invite proposals for 20 minute papers on any aspect of the digital construction of memory and identity, and the use of digital resources as source material for scholars studying these issues. Suggested topics include:

1. What is the nature of digital memories and identities?

  • How are memories and identities shaped online and in peer-to-peer discussion?
  • How do individuals from different backgrounds or ‘groups’ interact with others online, particularly across historically antagonistic or fragile boundaries?
  • How do people draw on – or borrow or appropriate – the memories of others in digital settings?
  • How (and why) do certain historical tropes (such as references to Hitler or Nazism) become commonplace rhetorical tools in online debates?

2. Is ‘online memory’ different from ‘offline memory’

  • To what extent does ‘online memory’ replace, or substitute for, physical access to sites of memory?
  • Are digital discourses particularly raw, spontaneous, and uncritical, as is often supposed?
  • Do cross-cultural dialogues on the Internet strengthen or undermine national and local memories?
  • Are these emerging forms of digital memory more ethical or ‘democratic’, or do they replicate the exclusion of certain groups and memories found in more ‘traditional’ memory forums?

3. How does the researcher approach these digital constructions of memory and use them in their work?

  • How does the researcher use these new sources of knowledge?
  • How do they filter the mass repositories of comments and responses on sites such as YouTube or Facebook?
  • How do they manage, mediate, and process their own reactions to the sometimes highly emotive content?
  • As a source of information, how do these digital dialogues differ from archival sources or ethnographic observation?

Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words to huw.halstead@york.ac.uk by 31 May, 2017.

State Library of NSW Fellowships – Call For Applications

The Library is calling for applications for a range of prestigious research fellowships totalling $160,000.

Applications open 8 May, 2017 and close 17 July, 2017.

Auckland Library: Sir George Grey Special Collections Researcher in Residence Scholarship – Call For Applications

The Auckland Library Heritage Trust has announced its annual scholarship aimed at encouraging research based on material held in the Sir George Grey Special Collections.

The closing date for applications is 6 June, 2017.

For more information, and to apply, please visit: http://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/EN/heritage/sirgeorgegrey/researchinresidence/Pages/researchinresidence.aspx.

Emotions of Cultures/Cultures of Emotions: Comparative Perspectives – Call For Papers

The Society for the History of Emotions Conference
Emotions of Cultures/Cultures of Emotions: Comparative Perspectives
The University of Western Australia, Perth
11‒12 December, 2017

Convenor: Jacqueline Van Gent
Submissions and enquiries: societyhistoryemotions@gmail.com

The Society for the History of Emotions (SHE) is an international and interdisciplinary professional organisation. SHE promotes a deeper understanding of the changing meanings and consequences of emotional concepts, expressions and regulation over time and space and across cultures. The Society is committed to fostering interdisciplinary international dialogue on all aspects of humanities-based emotions research.

The historical and cultural conditioning of emotions – including their expression, regulation and performance, and their gendered, ethnic, class-based and contingent nature – is a methodologically rich field. This conference encourages discussion across disciplines, cultures and historical periods, with a particular focus on broadening emotions history beyond its hitherto largely Western context. For the inaugural conference of SHE we now invite papers that address one or more of the following themes:

Emotions of Cultures – Comparative Perspectives

  • How can we extend the cultural and geographical scope of current emotions research?
  • In what ways can we develop our methodologies, especially with regard to comparative studies?
  • How can postcolonial perspectives, indigenous positions and North-South dialogues be better integrated into historical emotions research?

Cultures of Emotions – History of Emotions and Contemporary Issues

  • How can comparative studies in the history of emotions further our understanding of contemporary issues and problems?
  • How can such comparative perspectives contribute to public debates about cross-cultural and cross-religious issues?
  • What problems do we encounter when teaching the history of emotions, and how can we ensure our teaching is cross-disciplinary?

Individual papers and themed panels are invited. For individual papers, please send a title, abstract (c.250 words) and a short bio (max. 150 words) to societyhistoryemotions@gmail.com.

For panels, please send a panel title, brief description and outline of panel format, and titles, abstracts and short biographical statements for each presenter, to societyhistoryemotions@gmail.com.

Submission deadline: 31 July, 2017.

Western Sydney University: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award – Call for Expressions of Interest

Discovery Early Career Researcher Award applications in Cultural and Social Research

Institute for Culture and Society

The Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) within Western Sydney University (WSU) was launched in 2012. ICS is a major national and international Institute for the pursuit of engaged interdisciplinary cultural and social research. Rated 5 (?well above world standard?) for Cultural Studies and 4 in Human Geography (‘above world standard’), in the 2015 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) rankings, the Institute coordinates interdisciplinary cultural research across the humanities and social sciences and connects Australian cultural and social research to relevant research internationally, in Asia, Europe, North and South America.

With the continuation of the Australian Research Council?s Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme in 2018 (see: http://www.arc.gov.au/discovery-early-career-researcher-award), ICS is investing in leading cultural and social researchers from Australia and overseas by supporting innovative and outstanding DECRA proposals from applicants who will be 4 to 5 years post-PhD at March 2018.


ICS Research Program

ICS’s research program is currently organised into the following areas:


ICS Research and Researchers

ICS researchers approach culture as a vital dimension of social, political, economic and ecological life. Their applied, interdisciplinary research produces cutting-edge work with impact in and across the fields of cultural studies, cultural and human geography, media studies, sociology, anthropology, environmental humanities, cultural economy, urban studies, Asian studies, education studies, digital humanities, software studies and museum and heritage studies.

Expressions of Interest

ICS will offer expert assistance to DECRA applications where these fit closely with one or more aspects of its research program. Please consult the Institute’s website (http://westernsydney.edu.au/ics) for further details of the Institute’s research program.

To be considered eligible candidates should:

  1. Hold a PhD awarded in the 4-5 years prior to March 2018
  2. Have a strong and extensive track record
  3. Be working in a field closely related to one or more of ICS’s research programs

Please note that applicants seeking the endorsement of ICS need to submit a CV in the first instance to icsro@westernsydney.edu.au by 9am Australian Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday 8 June 2017. Candidates with competitive track records will then be invited to submit an Expression of Interest. Please note that EOIs will be due by 9am Australian Eastern Standard Time on 24th July 2017, so please register your interest as soon as possible.

Prospective applicants with further questions may contact Dr Flora Zhong at icsro@westernsydney.edu.au

University of Wollongong Lecturer, English Literatures

University of Wollongong
Lecturer, English Literatures

Primary Location: Australia-New South Wales-Wollongong
Employee Status: Fixed Term
Schedule: Full-time

The Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts is one of five Faculties at UOW with a strong reputation across disciplines in Research and Learning and Teaching. Our reputation is reflected in the demand for the Faculty’s courses in Australia (Wollongong; Sydney; NSW South Coast and Southerland Highlands campuses and education centres) and off-shore (Dubai, Hong Kong and South-East Asian institutions).

The Faculty is seeking a Lecturer to coordinate and teach English Literature. The role includes subject coordination, subject delivery and supervision and support for relevant tutors within the English and Writing program in the School of the Arts, English and Media (TAEM) at the Wollongong Campus. The successful candidate will be required to coordinate and teach a second year subject, The Victorians and a third-year subject, Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, and may also be required to teach into the first year subject; Australian Fiction and Film.

For full details and to apply, please visit: https://jobs.uow.edu.au/careersection/ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=170410&tz=GMT%2B08%3A00

Applications close: 22 May, 2017.

University of Oxford: Departmental Lecturer in Latin Literature – Call For Applications

University of Oxford – Faculty of Classics
Departmental Lecturer in Latin Literature

Location: Oxford
Salary: £31,076 to £38,183 per annum, pro rata (Grade 7)
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract

The Faculty of Classics, in conjunction with St Hilda’s College is seeking to appoint a Departmental Lecturer in Latin Literature from 1 October 2017. The appointment will be for a fixed-period of 22 months to cover the teaching and other duties of Dr Rebecca Armstrong while she is on leave from October 2017 to July 2019. This is a joint appointment with St Hilda’s College, where the successful candidate will also be appointed as a College Lecturer in Classics.

The postholder will be expected to engage in advanced study and research in any aspect of Latin Literature, and to lecture and teach both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as providing tutorials to small groups in the College. She or he will also be expected to engage in some examination assessment and faculty and college administration. The postholder will be required to deliver up to 16 faculty lectures per year, supported by the production of course materials as required.

The successful candidate will have: a doctorate (complete or near completion) in a relevant field; a record of successful undergraduate teaching within the field of appointment; sufficient depth and breadth of knowledge in the subject to develop course materials; an ongoing programme of research; and the ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues in a faculty environment.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AYW953/departmental-lecturer-in-latin-literature.

Applications close: 24 May, 2017.

University College London: Institute of Advanced Studies Junior Research Fellows (2017-18) – Call For Applications

University College London – UCL Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences Institute for Advanced Studies
Institute of Advanced Studies Junior Research Fellows (2017-18) x4

Location: London
Salary: £34,056 to £41,163 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract

The Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities established a UCL Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2015. The IAS is a research-based community of scholars comprising colleagues and doctoral students from across UCL, as well as visiting fellows and research collaborators/interlocutors from the UK and internationally. It is committed to critical thinking and engaged enquiry both within and across conventional disciplinary and institutional boundaries, and aims to provide a creative and generative context in which to question and dislodge habitual practices and modes of thought.

The IAS is seeking to appoint four Junior Research Fellows (JRFs) starting on 1 October 2017. Candidates should have recently completed a PhD in one of the subject areas of either the Faculty of Arts & Humanities or the Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences. The post-holders will carry out research and collaborate with academic colleagues in the relevant field and complete an ambitious but feasible research programme. They will develop and organise specific activities relating to their particular research theme (see job description) with which they are associated. They will also participate and contribute to seminars aimed at sharing research outcomes and public engagement activities appropriate to their research topic.

These appointments are funded for 12 months each in the first instance.

Key Requirements

Candidates should have a PhD or equivalent with expert knowledge within their chosen area of research and the ability to contribute to one of the research themes stated in the job description, which should be reflected in the authorship of one or more high quality publications. They will be required to conduct their own research but also facilitate wider disciplinary research on the theme, and be able to demonstrate how their research fits into a broader understanding of the theme. Candidates should also have the ability to give public presentations, work collaboratively, and have previous experience of active involvement in research at a university level.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AYX091/institute-of-advanced-studies-junior-research-fellows-2017-18-x4.

Applications close: 25 May, 2017.

Bad Hamlet: Moved Reading @ New Fortune Theatre, UWA

Bad Hamlet: a Moved Reading

Date: Wednesday May 24, 2017
Time: 4-6pm
Venue: New Fortune Theatre, UWA
Contact: Brid Phillips (brid.phillips@research.uwa.edu.au)

Directed by Kathryn Prince (University of Ottawa, CHE visiting researcher)

Projector Director Brid Phillips (UWA)

The so-called ‘bad’ quarto of Hamlet is the perfect script for a moved reading: half the length of the more familiar version, with a little less poetry and a lot more action.

Join us on Wednesday, May 24 from 4-6 for an unrehearsed performance at breakneck speed on UWA’s New Fortune stage. Everyone who wants to perform will have the chance to claim a role, (script provided) and groundlings (standing spectators) are welcome. There will be sitting space on the steps so bring a cushion for comfort!

No need to register: just turn up with friends and family (children welcome). In case of inclement weather, the event will be rescheduled.

Shakespeare: Visions of Rome – Call For Papers

Shakespeare
Call for Papers: Shakespeare: Visions of Rome

We invite essay submissions (c. 6000 words including notes) for a special issue of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, on the topic of Shakespeare: Visions of Rome, planned for publication in 2019.

William Shakespeare’s engagement with Rome spanned his entire career. References and allusions to the Roman world are interspersed throughout his poetic and dramatic oeuvre, which hosts as many as six works that can be categorized as ‘Roman’: Lucrece, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and Cymbeline. This group is easily susceptible of increasing to seven units upon realizing that Troilus and Cressida, albeit ostensibly Greek in setting, is in fact widely informed by the myth of the Trojan origins of the Britons and the idea of a north-westward translatio imperii from Troy through Rome to Britain via the emigration of Brute, Aeneas’s legendary great-grandson.

A major influence on Shakespeare’s imagination, Roman history, with its intense dramatic potential and fascinating inconsistencies, proved to be a key constituent in his craft and art. Indeed, Shakespeare’s exploration of Rome’s contradictory duplicity readily exemplifies the incendiary network of negotiations and appropriations between past and present that characterized any appropriations of the Roman past in early modern literature and culture. All of Shakespeare’s Roman plays ultimately offer an invariably complex and enthralling blend of historical actuality and dramatic fiction – a dazzling, captivating and sometimes even disturbing mixture, within which history was shaped anew each time like an amendable palimpsest, and the past was reactivated by a present that it simultaneously contributed to moulding.

In the wake of the renewed and vigorous scholarly interest the reception of the Roman past in early modern English literature and culture has attracted at least since 2010, this issue of Shakespeare seeks to explore the role, relevance and meaning of Rome throughout Shakespeare’s oeuvre. Essays might consider (but are not limited to) any of the following topics:

  • analyses of single Roman plays or characters
  • comparative analyses of Roman plays or characters
  • constancy VS fickleness
  • gender issues
  • rape/violence
  • Roman female as opposed to male characters
  • Roman history as a source
  • Roman suicide
  • the impact of ancient Rome on attitudes towards constitutional issues and the empire
  • the influence of stoicism and republicanism and the bearings of Roman political ideas upon debates relating to sovereignty, citizenship and absolutism
  • the links between Rome and Catholicism
  • the relationship between ancient Rome and English (or British) national identity
  • the Roman body as a site of contention
  • topical application of Roman history
  • rhetoric and the influence of Latin

This is by no means an exhaustive or constrictive list, and we invite contributions for papers that critically evaluate and extend our knowledge of this area of enquiry.

Shakespeare is a major peer-reviewed journal, publishing articles drawn from the best international research on the most recent developments in Shakespearean criticism, historical and textual scholarship, and performance. For more information on the journal and submission guidelines, please visit the Shakespeare journal homepage.
Submission information

Please send expressions of interest in the form of a 250-word abstract and 150-word brief author biography to the guest editor, Domenico Lovascio (lovascio.domenico@gmail.com), by 30 June 2017. Completed essays of c. 6000 words (including notes) will be due by 30 May 2018. These submissions will be blind peer-reviewed before acceptance.