Monthly Archives: July 2017

University of Kent: Lecturer in Medieval History c. 400-1100 – Call For Applications

University of Kent – School of History
Lecturer in Medieval History c. 400-1100

Location: Canterbury
Salary: £32,958 to £46,924 £32958 – £46924
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent

The School of History seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Early Medieval History (c. 400-1100). We welcome applications from all interested individuals in any field of British and/or European and/or Mediterranean History, within this time period. An interdisciplinary approach to these research fields and experience of teaching graduate students are desirable.

You will have a flair for teaching, a willingness to work innovatively to help develop teaching and research interests in early medieval history at Kent, and an enthusiasm to participate actively with public engagement and impact activities

You will join a large, thriving School, which is recognised as one of the leading departments in the UK and consistently scores highly in student surveys for teaching quality.

As Lecturer in Medieval History you will:

  • Devise and teach popular early medieval modules from stage 1 to MA level
  • Develop you research area to attract international recognition, research grants and PhD students
  • Undertake administrative roles which advance the interests of the School, Faculty and University
  • Become active and valued public and cultural engagement, outreach and, in due course, impact

To be successful in this role you will have

  1. A PhD in History or related area or equivalent
  2. Knowledge of Early Medieval history circa 400-1100
  3. Experience of research-led teaching of Early Medieval History in a HE context
  4. A strong submission for the 2021 REF

For full information and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BCQ054/lecturer-in-medieval-history-c-400-1100.

Applications close: 1 September, 2017.

‘Art and its Directions’ AAANZ 2017 Conference – Call For Papers

‘Art and its Directions’
AAANZ 2017 Conference
University of Western Australia
6-8 December, 2017
Conference Website

The Conference Committee would like to invite proposals for papers for the AAANZ 2017 Conference to be held at the University of Western Australia, Perth, from 6 to 8 December 2017.

Session Format

  • Conference sessions are each timetabled for 90 minutes; consisting of three 20 minute papers plus 10 minutes of questions, discussion, and commentary per paper (except where noted otherwise in the session abstract)
  • Session Convenors manage their designated session, prior to and during the conference, with the aim of best addressing the conference theme Art and its Directions

Submission Guidelines

  • Speakers may apply to present only one paper
  • Speakers may also convene a session and may also chair another session in which they do not otherwise participate
  • A paper that has been published or presented previously may not be delivered at the AAANZ Annual Conference
  • Sessions that have indicated they already have the required number of speakers are listed as full in the session abstracts
  • Acceptance in a session implies a commitment to present a 20-minute paper at that session in person and payment of the conference registration fee and AAANZ membership fee

Submission Process

  • Proposals for participation in sessions are to be sent to the Session Convenor whose details appear with the session abstract
  • Please do not send your proposals to the AAANZ or the Conference Committee
  • The deadline for proposals to Session Convenors is Monday 14 August, 2017.
  • To submit a proposal please complete the Participation Proposal Form and email to the relevant Session Convenor as an attachment in Word file (.doc or .docx).

The information required to complete the Participation Proposal Form includes:

  1. Name and contact details
  2. Session and paper titles
  3. Proposed paper abstract (of no more than 400 words)
  4. Bio (of no more than 200 words)
  5. Brief CV (one page maximum)

Review Process

  • Session Convenors review proposals and notify applicant of the acceptance of their proposal by 21 August 2017
  • Final date for successful applicants to accept the invitation to participate and return Speaker Agreement Form to Session Convenor is 1 September 2017
  • Session Convenors to forward successful speaker Participation Proposal Forms and Speaker Agreement Forms to Conference Administrator by 5 September 2017
  • Contact
    Proposals: Session Convenors as per selected session, contact details located with session abstract
  • General enquiries: Conference Administrator, Vyonne Walker, conf@aaanz.info

The deadline for submissions is 14 August, 2017.

Universität Hamburg: Junior Professorship (W1) for Missionary, Ecumenical, and Religious Studies – Call For Applications

Universität Hamburg, Department of Protestant Theology in the Faculty of Humanities
Junior Professorship (W1) for Missionary, Ecumenical, and Religious Studies

Universität Hamburg is dedicated to sustainability, equal opportunity, and family-friendly
policies. We also prize cultural diversity, communication, and interaction among people from
different backgrounds and with different lifestyles.

The Department of Protestant Theology in the Faculty of Humanities invites applications for a
JUNIOR PROFESSORSHIP (W1) FOR MISSIONARY, ECUMENICAL, AND
RELIGIOUS STUDIES

commencing on 1 April 2018, ref. no. JP 263.

Responsibilities:

  • The successful candidate is expected to teach and conduct research with a focus on religious studies and inter-religious dialog.
  • The successful candidate is further expected to participate actively in the instruction of students pursuing a teaching degree in the respective discipline.
  • Section 12 subsection 7 sentence 2 of the Hamburg Higher Education Act (Hamburgisches
    Hochschulgesetz, HmbHG) applies.

Requirements:

  • Academic qualifications and additional requirements as specified in Section 18 HmbHG.

Further criteria:

  • Applicants are expected to have international research experience as well as a successful track record in acquiring external funding and carrying out externally funded projects. The University places particular emphasis on the quality of teaching and therefore requests that applicants provide details of their teaching experience and objectives.
  • In accordance with Section 14 subsection 3 sentence 3 HmbHG, Universität Hamburg seeks to increase the proportion of women in teaching and research and encourages female academics to apply.
  • Qualified disabled candidates or applicants with equivalent status receive preference in the
    application process.

For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dehn at ulrich.dehn@uni-hamburg.de.
The application deadline is 20 July, 2017. Please submit your application, including standard documents (CV, list of publications, teaching experience, external funding record, copies of
certification and documents, three representative publications) and reference number JP 263
to:

An den
Präsidenten der Universität Hamburg
Stellenausschreibungen
Mittelweg 177
20148 Hamburg

or preferably by email to Bewerbungen@verw.uni-hamburg.de. We kindly request that you
submit a completed application form along with your application documents. You can find the
form at: uni-hamburg.de/form-prof-w1-gw-en.

New series from MIP: Ludic Cultures 1100-1700 – Call For Proposals

New scholarly book series from Medieval Institute Publications:

Ludic Cultures treats medieval and early modern play in all its innumerable eccentricities, from toys and games to dramatic performances, courtly intrigues, and the like. Inspired by the broad definition first advanced by Johan Huizinga, but mindful of the constraints later proposed by Roger Caillois and Bernard Suits, this series publishes monographs and essay collections that address play as a complex phenomenon governed by a distinctly lusory attitude, but potentially expressing in virtually any facet of life. In this respect, the series promotes the documentation of cultural practices that have thus far eluded traditional disciplinary models. Our goal is to make visible modes of thought and action that until recently seemed impossible to trace, while contributing to a growing interest in playfulness both past and present.

Geographical Scope: Western Europe and the Americas
Chronological Scope: 1100-1700

Proposals Welcome
The series welcomes the submission of both monographs and essay collections that view cultures in Europe and the Americas between 1100 and 1700 through the lens of play.

Further Information
For questions or to submit a proposal, please contact the Acquisitions Editor, Erika Gaffney (Erika.Gaffney@arc-humanities.org), or visit our website: www.mip-archumanitiespress.org/series/mip/ludic-cultures.

For more information, please download the Ludic Cultures 1100-1700 flyer.

Special Issue of Early American Studies : Women and Religion in the Early Americas – Call For Papers

Special issue of Early American Studies

Women and Religion in the Early Americas

For a special issue in honor of the life and career of Mary Maples Dunn, Early American Studies seeks article-length contributions from scholars working on the history of women and religion in the early Americas. Mary Maples Dunn (1931-2017) was a leading practitioner of women’s history, as a scholar, as a teacher, and in her life as a university leader. She worked in a variety of fields from early American women’s history; to colonial Latin American history; to the history of religious women; to the history of women’s education as well as, of course, the worlds of William Penn and early Philadelphia.

The editors invite essays that consider the history of early American women, early American religion (or both) and are especially interested in work that makes cross-cultural comparisons or integrates multiple Atlantic orientations: North and South (French, British, Dutch, Spanish and/or Portuguese) East and West (from European and/or African links to Native American perspectives). We are interested in both formal article-length contributions (10,000 words) and in shorter essays on “Notes and Documents” that highlight innovative or creative ways of reading/using primary-source documents (3,000-5,000 words).

To submit, please email a 3-page CV and a 1,000 word summary of the contribution you propose to write by September 30 to Ann Little (ann.little@colostate.edu) and Nicole Eustace (nicole.eustace@nyu.edu). Please use the subject line “Mary Maples Dunn Special Issue Submission.” We will notify you of your preliminary acceptance by October 31, 2017 and final essays are due on April 30, 2018. Articles are to be published, subject to peer review, in 2019.

New Historians Conference 2017 – Call For Papers

New Historians Conference 2017
Victoria University of Wellington
4-5 Sep 2017

Conference Website

The postgraduate students in the History Programme at Victoria University invite papers on all historical themes, topics, or issues from MA and PhD students. Interdisciplinary contributions exploring any aspect of the past are especially welcome.

Now in its 12th Year, the New Historians Conference provides the opportunity for postgraduate students from New Zealand—and overseas—to present their work to fellow students and pro-fessionals in a supportive environment. The Conference provides an excellent opportunity to receive feedback on work, and interact with students from around the country.

Presentations are to be 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes allowed for questions. Computers and projectors will be available for use.

There is a $25 registration fee, payable on Day 1 of the Conference. There will also be a confer-ence dinner on Monday 4 September, which will be paid for separately. Lunches and snacks on both days of the conference will be provided.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words, a brief biographical statement of no more than 100 words, and your contact details to newhistorians@vuw.ac.nz. The deadline for submissions is Monday 24 July, 2017.

Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art – Call For Applications

Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art

More details about this new fellowship program are forthcoming. Please check back on http://www.acls.org/programs/getty in a couple weeks. The ACLS Online Fellowship and Grant Administration (OFA) system will open for applications in late July.

Fellowship Details

  • Amount: $60,000 plus $5,000 for research and travel expenses
  • Tenure: the 2018-19 academic year
  • Completed applications must be submitted through the ACLS Online Fellowship and Grant Application system (ofa.acls.org) no later than 9 pm Eastern Daylight Time, October 25, 2017.
  • Notifications will be sent via email by late March 2018.

ACLS invites applications for Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art, made possible by the generous support of the Getty Foundation. These fellowships are intended to support an academic year of research and/or writing by early career scholars for a project that will make a substantial and original contribution to the understanding of art and its history. ACLS will award 10 fellowships, each with a stipend of $60,000 plus $5,000 for research and travel during the award period, and a one-week residence at the Getty Center following the fellowship. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant.

Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art are portable and are tenable at the fellow’s home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for research. These fellowships may not be held concurrently with other fellowships and grants, but may be combined with sabbatical pay up to an amount equal to the candidate’s current academic year salary.

Medieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places – Call For Papers

Medieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places
The Open University, Milton Keynes
23 February, 2018

Following a successful first workshop in February 2017, The Open University will be hosting a one-day conference on spaces and places on 23 February 2018, drawing upon the interdisciplinary research interests of the OU’s Medieval and Early Modern Research Group.

Theoretical approaches have informed new ways of thinking about the social production of space (from Henri Lefebvre to David Harvey) and recent research networks have also stimulated novel approaches to early modern spaces (PALATIUM). Early modern spaces were mutable and permeable, and new technologies, objects, and social formations played a role in defining spaces as well as identities. The expansion of trade routes and economic networks, the development of the printing press, struggles for territorial power and religious wars, and new diplomatic frameworks, all contributed to new ways of conceptualising geographies and spaces.

This annual conference is fundamentally interdisciplinary: literary, musical, architectural, artistic and religious spaces will be the subjects of enquiry, not as discrete or separate entities, but ones which overlapped, came into contact with one another, and at times were in conflict. The creation of boundaries and demarcations in subsequent centuries was often a result of these early approaches to spaces.

The conference will examine life in buildings, institutions and broader geographical areas from a variety of perspectives and will consider the following questions:
How were medieval and early modern spaces adapted and transformed through the movement of material and immaterial things?
Which particular aspects of political, social and economic infrastructures enabled the exchange of objects and ideas?
To what extent did a sense of place depend upon the activities taking place there?

Please send a 150 word abstract along with a short biography to Leah Clark (leah.clark@open.ac.uk) and Helen Coffey (Helen.coffey@open.ac.uk) by 31 August, 2017.

The Future of Emotions: Conversations Without Borders – Call For Papers

The Future of Emotions: Conversations Without Borders
University Club of Western Australia, The University of Western Australia
14‒15 June, 2018

Enquiries: Email Pam Bond at emotions@uwa.edu.au

More info: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/the-future-of-emotions-conversations-without-borders.

Conference Keynote Speakers:

  • Professor Andrew Lynch, Director ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, UWA
  • Associate Professor Penny Edmonds, University of Tasmania
  • Professor John Sutton, Macquarie University

Public Lecture Speaker:

  • Professor Jeff Malpas, University of Tasmania

Scholarship on the history of emotions is now rich and varied, and informed by multiple disciplinary perspectives from the humanities. This conference celebrates the many achievements of humanities emotions research and looks to new horizons in which it can be applied, seeking contributions that lend themselves to discussion about future directions.

WHAT are the theoretical and methodological challenges and opportunities for this field? What cross- and interdisciplinary connections can humanities scholars make through history of emotions research? How does humanities emotions research inform discussions in education and training?

HOW have populations from the medieval to the present conceived of emotions in relation to nature and viewed the capacity of the non-human world to experience emotions or define those of humans? How have feeling cultures created new sociabilities with nature in the pre-industrial period or anthropocene age?

HOW has humanities emotions research informed developments of new technologies, from the emergence of print to smartphones and robots, or shifted meanings in cultural spheres such as art, performance and online community formation?

WHAT contribution can humanities emotions research make in understanding how people have adapted to changes in the world around them, from the emergence of new religious practices, encounters with previously unknown cultures or today’s post-global anxieties? How have past populations envisaged future emotional worlds and anticipated challenges and opportunities for the future? How and why do historical and contemporary populations look back with feeling to past ages? How do emotional experiences and ideas help us understand identities, communities and entities with rights and agency? What applications does humanities emotions research have in community dialogue, policy and public discourse?

The conference organisers invite proposals for a wide variety of individual or collaborative presentation forms, including 20-minute papers, panel sessions, interpretive performance or technological demonstrations, on the following (or related) themes that relate to breakthrough analyses of emotions and:

Innovative humanities methodologies for the emotions

  • Emerging theorisations
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Pedagogical developments

Emotional technologies: past, present and future

  • Print cultures
  • New media art and music
  • Robotics
  • Emoticons, smartphones and digital attachment

Emotions in worlds beyond

  • Past futures
  • Heritage
  • Post-global realities
  • Identity and community formation
  • Rights and justice
  • Public discourse

Emotions, the non-human and post-human

  • Nature
  • Animals
  • Ecologies

Proposals for papers, panel presentations and innovative communication formats are all welcome. Please send a 250-word abstract, a presentation title, and a 100-word biography (only Word documents or rtf files accepted) to emotions@uwa.edu.au by 2 February, 2018.

Bursaries

The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions is able to offer a limited number of bursaries to Honours students, Postgraduate students and unwaged Early Career Researchers whose paper have been accepted for presentation at the conference. The bursaries are intended to partially reimburse costs associated with attending the conference.

Bursaries of up to AUD500 for Australian applicants may be awarded, based on the following criteria:

The applicant is:

  1. an Honours student currently enrolled at a recognised institution OR a postgraduate student currently enrolled at a recognised institution OR an unwaged early career researcher;
  2. able to demonstrate particular need of funding assistance;
  3. AND has submitted a paper proposal with the application.

Applicants will be informed of the committee’s decision by 2 March, 2018.

Australian Academy of the Humanities 48th Symposium – Registration Now Open

Australian Academy of the Humanities 48th Symposium
The University of Western Australia and WA Maritime Museum in Fremantle
15‒17 November 2017

Wednesday 15 November, The University of Western Australia
Thursday 16 and Friday 17 November, WA Maritime Museum in Fremantle.

Registration: Opens on Wednesday 12 July, 2017 at the Australian Academy of the Humanities Australian Academy of the Humanities website.

Full program and registration: https://www.humanities.org.au/symposia/2017-symposium

The Symposium program will explore three related questions:

  • How is contemporary Australia shaped by these long intellectual and emotional histories regarding human rights and humanitarianism?
  • Can we identify a distinctively Australian perspective on these questions?
  • What are the challenges for Australia today in engaging with human rights related to matters as wide-ranging as sexuality, disability activism, Indigenous rights, linguistic imperialism, refugees, and religious freedoms.

Coinciding with Symposium, is the annual Academy Lecture to be given by novelist, descendant of the Noongar people of Western Australia and Honorary Academy Fellow Professor Kim Scott.

The Academy’s annual Fellows’ events will occur in conjunction with the Symposium program, with Academy meetings and Fellows’ Dinner on Friday 17 November and the Annual General Meeting held Saturday 18 November.

Convenors

  • Professor Susan Broomhall FAHA (The University of Western Australia)
  • Professor Jane Lydon FAHA (The University of Western Australia)
  • Professor Alan Dench FAHA (Curtin University)
  • Professor Baden Offord (Curtin University)