Monthly Archives: September 2017

President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program – Call for Applications

University of California

PRESIDENT’S POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

THE PROGRAM. The University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was established in 1984 to encourage outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers at the University of California. The current program offers postdoctoral research fellowships and faculty mentoring to outstanding scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to the diversity and equal opportunity at the University of California. The contributions to diversity may include public service towards increasing equitable access in fields where women and minorities are underrepresented. In some fields, the contributions may include research focusing on underserved populations or understanding inequalities related to race, gender, disability or LGBT. The program is seeking applicants with the potential to bring to their academic and research careers the critical perspective that comes from their non‐traditional educational background or understanding of the experiences of members of groups historically underrepresented in higher education in the United States.

AWARDS AND APPOINTMENTS. Fellowships are awarded for research conducted at any one of the University of California’s ten campuses.

The award includes a salary starting at approximately $48,200 depending on field and experience, benefits including health insurance and paid vacation/sick leave, and up to $5,000 for research‐related and program travel expenses. Each award is for a minimum of 12‐months and may be renewable for an additional term upon demonstration of academic/research productivity.

ELIGIBILITY. Applicants must receive a Ph.D. from an accredited university before the start of their fellowship. Successful applicants must present documents demonstrating that they are legally authorized to work in the United States. Individuals granted deferred action status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are encouraged to apply.

APPLICATION. Apply online at: ppfp.ucop.edu

DEADLINE: November 1, 2017

2018–2019

Berkeley

Davis

Irvine
Los Angeles

Merced

Riverside

San Diego
San Francisco

Santa Barbara
Santa Cruz

More information:

President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program University of California visit online: ppfp.ucop.edu/info/

email: ppfpinfo@berkeley.edu

University Partnerships for Faculty Diversity

Partner Programs with University of Minnesota, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, The California Alliance, UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs, and the UC‐affiliated National Labs.
Please visit: http://ppfp.ucop.edu/info/about-ppfp/partnerships.html

Applications open for 2018 Michael King Writers’ Centre residencies

Applications open for 2018 Michael King Writers’ Centre residencies

The Michael King Writers’ Centre is excited to announce that they have extended their residency programme for 2018. Applications are invited from New Zealand writers for up to eleven supported residencies, with stipends ranging from $2,000 to $27,000.

Writers selected for the 2018 residencies will have free accommodation at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in Devonport, use of the writer’s studio and receive a stipend: 

  • Emerging Writer Residency, four weeks (or two x two weeks), Between Monday 8 January – Sunday 4 February 2018, (stipend $500 per week);
  •  The University of Auckland Residency 20 weeks from Monday 5 February – Sunday 24 June 2018 stipend/salary of $27,000);
  • Māori Writer’s Residency, eight weeks (with the option of having two weeks, four weeks or the full eight weeks) between Monday 25 June – Sunday 19 August (stipend $1,000 per week); 
  • Winter Residency, four weeks from Monday 20 August – Sunday 16 September 2018 (stipend $4,000);  Spring Residency, four weeks from Monday 17 September – Sunday 14 October 2017 (stipend $4,000) 
  • Early Summer Residency, five weeks from Monday 15 October – Sunday 18 November 2018 (stipend $5,000)
  •  Pasifika Residency, four weeks (or two x two weeks), between Monday 19 November – Sunday 16 December 2018 (stipend $1000 per week). 

The eight-week residencies are open to emerging or established writers.  The 20 week residency, offered in partnership with the University of Auckland, is for an established writer who will benefit from the academic environment.  Writers must be working on a specific project in fiction, poetry, drama, creative non-fiction or non-fiction. Writers from all over New Zealand, including those who live in Auckland, are welcome to apply. The residencies are offered with the assistance of Creative New Zealand.

Application forms and further information are available on the centre’s web site www.writerscentre.org.nz or from the centre. Applications close on Friday October 6, 2017 and the selections are expected to be announced in November.

Late Roman and Early Byzantine Politics Day

Late Roman and Early Byzantine Politics Day

Macquarie University, November 15th 2017

Building W3A, Room 328 (Moot Court)

I am organising an informal work-in-progress day on the topic of Late Roman and Early Byzantine Politics, to enable scholars of this period in Australasia to meet, hear papers on each other’s research, and exchange ideas.

Papers of up to 30 minutes are invited by academics and advanced graduate students on the topic of late Roman and early Byzantine politics (c. 300-600AD).

Please send prospective titles and a short abstract of up to 100 words to meaghan.mcevoy@mq.edu.au by Friday 13th October 2017.

Registration will be free, with tea and coffee and lunch provided for all attendees, thanks to generous sponsorship by the Ancient Cultures Research Centre at Macquarie University. Space is limited, however, so please RSVP to confirm attendance, even if not giving a paper. Exact starting and finishing times will be determined by the number of papers. All welcome!

Meaghan McEvoy, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University

 

Catholic Library Association – Seeking Submissions

Seeking submissions to Catholic Library World related to medieval manuscripts and/or libraries, or scholarly literature reviews on medieval topics (especially Catholic). Other topics are appropriate as well. CLW is the official journal of CLA: Catholic Library Association, and articles are refereed.

My email address is sigridkelsey@gmail.com and I would be happy to answer any questions about submitting.

About CLA

CLA’s award-winning journal, Catholic Library World (CLW), tops the list of membership benefits. Each issue includes articles that are relevant and authoritative, practical with real-world examples, written by experts, professionally supportive, and peer-reviewed. Also included are  100+ book & media reviews covering these subject categories: • Theology & Spirituality • Pastoral • Professional • Children • Young Adult.

CLW is intended for an audience that is interested in the broad role and impact of various types of libraries. In the ecumenical spirit of Vatican II, CLW respects diverse Christian traditions as well as non-Christian. While it is a Catholic publication, CLW welcomes relevant articles from a variety of religious traditions.

Catholic Library World, ISSN 0008-820X, is the official journal of the Catholic Library Association and is indexed in Book Review Index, CPLI, Library Literature and Information Science, Library and Information Science Abstracts, Reference Book Review Index, Current Index to Journals in Education (ERIC), Information Science Abstract, and Universite des sciences humaines de Strasbourg (CERDIC). All major articles are juried. For 2017-2018, three issues will be published. A complimentary subscription to CLW is a benefit of CLA membership. The Catholic Library World Editorial Committee acts in an advisory capacity to the CLW editor and selects the annual winner of the John Brubaker Memorial Award.CLW Advertising Rates
 
 

 

2017 University of Otago Printer in Residence programme

A reminder that the 2017 University of Otago Printer in Residence programme at the Otakou Press Room, the University Library, is well under way. Like many of our past PIR programmes, the project is a collaborative one, featuring writer, editor, poet David Eggleton; the Dunedin-based artist Nigel Brown; and printer Dr John Holmes (of Frayed Frisket Press). Please drop by (if you can) and see the presses in action. There are 16 Eggleton poems, and about 10 images by Brown, forming the title: SNAP. It is printed on Zerkall paper in a limited edition of 100 copies only. The cost of a copy is $120.00 (incl gst). If you are interested in securing a copy, please let me know. I am sure interest will be high (donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz

University of Otago Centre for the Book – 6th Annual Research Symposium

The University of Otago Centre for the Book is pleased to announce our sixth annual research symposium. In 2017, we are teaming up with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature to offer a 3-day extravaganza engagement with books and culture. The Centre for the Book Symposium will start on Tuesday evening, November 28th, with our usual public lecture at the Dunedin City Library. The lecture will feature Warwick Jordan, proprietor of Hard to Find Books, talking about his wide experience as a bookseller and the variety of book users that he supplies. The symposium proper will take place on the University campus all day Wednesday, November 29th, at the College of Education and will feature a slate of presentations on the theme “Books and Users.”

The two-day UNESCO Creative Cities symposium will follow, with international and local keynote speakers on Thursday November 30th, followed on Friday by facilitated workshops at the Dunedin Athenaeum in the Octagon. Please note: Thanks to generous support from the University of Otago Centre for the Book, the NZ National Commission for UNESCO and the Dunedin City Council, both of these events will be free to attend, with delegates responsible for providing their own lunch. Delegates are welcome to register for specific days or all three days.

The theme for the Centre for the Book 2017 Symposium is “Books and Users.” Before the advent of electronic text storage, a whole realm of print existed to record and store information. From instruction manuals to phone books and encyclopedias, these publications were to be consulted rather than read. Today, increasingly, many of these works are no longer printed on paper. They are instead disseminated to users in electronic formats, often only when they are requested. This shift in media has made readers more conscious of how they use books. It also raises questions about which sort of books work well in electronic format and which do not. This symposium seeks to investigate all the ways people use books, not just consciously or as intended, but for any purpose. Some may be propping up an item of furniture in the corner; some used for artistic design; some for elegant wallpaper. Even those books that are actually read are used in many different ways: for self-exploration; for escape; for gifts to others; for inspiration. And there are the readers, an equally diverse lot: some fold down corners; some write in books (some even in ink); some insert all sorts of items such as bookmarks or for storage; others handle a book so delicately that a second reader cannot tell the book has ever been opened. Indeed, in medical contexts, ‘users’ may refer to those in control of their habit or to those harmfully addicted. Is this also true in the book world? Traditionally, libraries recorded the frequency with which books were used. Today, especially because of increased privacy concerns, such information is less publicly available, but is still being used. Indeed, publishers often place restrictions on how many times an e-text maybe loaned. Institutions face pressure, often having to buy another copy after the set number of loans has been reached. The variety of uses for books and of users of books creates areas both of mutual benefit and of potential conflict. The codex is a superbly efficient and highly evolved technology with a well-established set of design conventions that permit quite distinctive uses. Change is in the wind, and the book beyond the codex is evolving in new directions, some of which will no doubt succeed and others of which are bound to fail.

Call For Papers
All of these topics are of potential interest for the Centre for the Book symposium. Whether you are an adept or an addict, whether books for you are primarily physical, spiritual or cerebral, and whether you prefer to look up information online or in print, you undoubtedly have thoughts on this topic. So please email a 250-300 word abstract of your ideas to books@otago.ac.nz and set aside the end of November for a thought-provoking few days of reflection and engagement with books and users of books. Abstracts must be received by 1 October 2017, with a final programme announced by mid-October. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Donald Kerr (donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz) or Dr. Shef Rogers (shef.rogers@otago.ac.nz) See https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/cfb/ for details.

Conversions in Early Modern British Literature and Culture – Call for Papers

Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

The IASEMS Graduate Conference at the British Institute of Florence – Call for Papers

CONVERSIONS IN EARLY MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE Florence, 20 April 2018

The 2018 IASEMS Graduate Conference at The British Institute in Florence is a one-day interdisciplinary and bilingual English-Italian forum open to PhD students and researchers who have obtained their doctorates within the past 5 years. This year’s conference will focus on the theme of conversion, a fascinating phenomenon, a promise of newness that blends elements of individual experience with larger problems of historical change.

The ideological and spiritual life of early modern Britain finds a special interpretative key in the notion of conversion, whether perceived as an individual response to a religious and political challenge, a community reaction to political upheaval, or a social change brought about by the innovations of modernity.

The goal of this Conference is to develop an understanding of conversion that will address epistemological, psychological, political, spiritual and technological kinds of transformation, perceived both as subjective and collective change. Therefore conversion is to be understood in its broadest possible sense, and nor merely as a religious phenomenon.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

– forms of conversion, sacred and secular, i.e., awakening to a new faith, an intensification of existing beliefs, an embracing of a (radical) political movement, etc.

– conversional thinking and practice

– early modern textual ‘conversions’, i.e., from manuscript to print, from one format to another, from one genre to another

– relationships among transformation, freedom and power

– forms of religious dissent in early modern British culture – religious change and gender

– how early modern English theatre and other theatrical practices represent, adopt, transform, relocate forms of conversion

– conversion narratives – the phenomenon of forced conversion

 – authenticity and pretense in conversion

– religious conversion as catalyst of other transformations (e.g., translation, alchemy, enthusiasm, etc.)

– technologies of transformation

Candidates are invited to send a description of their proposed contribution according to the following guidelines:

– the candidate should provide name, institution, contact info, title and a short abstract of the proposed contribution (300 words for a 20-minute paper), explaining the content and intended structure of the paper, and including a short bibliography;

– abstracts are to be submitted by Sunday 29 October 2017 by email to ilaria.natali@unifi.it;

– all proposals will be blind-vetted. The list of selected papers will be available by the end of November 2017;

– each finished contribution should not exceed 20 minutes and is to be presented in English (an exception will be made for Italian candidates of departments other than English, who can give their papers in Italian);

– Candidates whose first language is not English will need to have their proposals and final papers checked by a mother-tongue speaker

– participants will be asked to present a final draft of the paper ten days before the Conference.

Selected speakers who are IASEMS members can apply for a small grant (http://www.maldura.unipd.it/iasems/iasems_about.html)

For further information please contact Ilaria Natali (ilaria.natali@unifi.it)

17th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies – Call for Papers

CFP for Vagantes Conference 2018:

The 17th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies is currently seeking paper abstracts on any topic related to the Middle Ages. The conference will take place from March 22nd-24th, 2018 at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.

Vagantes is North America’s largest graduate-student conference for medieval studies. Since its founding in 2002, Vagantes has nurtured a lively community of junior scholars from across all disciplines. The 17th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies will feature thirty graduate-student papers and three distinguished keynote speakers. Out of consideration for graduate students’ budgets, Vagantes never charges a registration fee. The organizers of Vagantes believe that a diverse and inclusive view of the medieval period is essential. As such, graduate students in all disciplines are invited to submit paper abstracts of no more than 300 words on any topic relating to the Middle Ages.

The deadline for submissions is Friday, November 3rd, 2017. The online CFP is live and accessible here – http://bit.ly/2pZcJIE

Questions? Contact the organizers at organizers@vagantesconference.org

 

 

‘Sangalli Institute Award for the Religious History 2017’ – Call for publications

‘Sangalli Institute Award for the Religious History 2017’ – Call for publications

Here is the third edition of the ‘Sangalli Institute Award for the Religious History’, in collaboration with the Department of University and Research of the Municipality of Florence and under the auspices of the same Municipality. Also this year, our award is joining the ‘Premio Ricerca Città di Firenze’ and it is addressed to young Italian and Foreign researchers, offering them the possibility of publishing two books concerning the religious history  from Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era, in an inter-disciplinary and inter-religious perspective. The essays will appear in a dedicated book series of the Firenze University Press. This year, on the judging panel also some renowned Foreign scholars. Deadline: 1st November 2017.

http://www.istitutosangalli.it/en/news-en/sangalli-institute-award-for-the-religious-history-2017-call-for-publications/

A CITY. A FAMILY. A COLLECTION OF MAGNIFICENCE. – The Art Gallery of Western Australia

A CITY. A FAMILY. A COLLECTION OF MAGNIFICENCE.

Introducing the private collection of one of Florence’s most eminent families, the Corsini family.

Featuring Renaissance and Baroque paintings by artists such as Botticelli, Tintoretto, Caravaggio and Pontormo – these extraordinary works of art have been preserved over centuries, surviving the devastation of World War II and the great flood of Florence.

This personal collection includes portraits, landscapes, mythological and religious paintings, plus fascinating decorative objects and furniture from the Palazzo Corsini.

Leaving the city it’s called home for 600 years, this is the first time this collection has toured outside of Italy and will be the only showing in Australia.

Experience for yourself this uniquely visual history of passion, fortune, and survival.

MEMBERS SEE IT FOR FREE
Become an AGWA Member and receive one adult ticket as part of your membership.
You will also have access to special members events and exclusive offers.

TICKETS
$15 Adult | $12 AGWA Member /Concession/Senior

Members see it once for free

$55 Two adult tickets and a catalogue
$37 Adult Season Pass | $30 Concession Season Pass
$37 Family Pass (2 Adults plus 3 Children) | $7 Children (5-17)
Children 4 and under, free

Tickets are dated, but can be changed ahead of time without penalty.

BOOK YOUR TICKET NOW

http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/exhibitions/window-on-italy-corsini-collection.asp