Monthly Archives: November 2017

Shakespeare Matters – a free online course from AdelaideX

Shakespeare Matters – a free online course from AdelaideX

Hosted on the edX platform, Shakespeare Matters is a free 5-week online course on the relevance of Shakespeare in today’s society. The course focuses on the emotions of love, hate and jealousy in Hamlet, Othello, The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and King Henry V.

In this introductory course, you will learn how Shakespeare uses emotion in his plays, how his characters experience and manipulate emotions, and how the emotional resonance of the plays makes them powerfully relevant to the modern world.

When does it start?
The course launches on the 14th December 2017 and goes for 5 weeks. Learners should spend 2-3 hours per week.

Who can enrol?
Shakespeare Matters is open to anyone globally.

How do I enrol?
Enrol by going to the edX website and registering your details. This will give you access to the portal where you can start the course as of the 14th December 2017.

Enrol here.

Please let me know if you have any questions about this course. You can also have a look at our social media channels:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AdelaideXonline/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdelaideXOnline

The Terence Barry Prize for Best Graduate Paper in Irish Medieval Studies

ASIMS announcement:

The Terence Barry Prize for Best Graduate Paper in Irish Medieval Studies

The American Society of Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS) seeks to develop Irish medieval studies as an academic discipline within the United States and Europe.  Members of the Society conduct research in archaeology, art history, history, linguistics, literature, and theology.

Named in honor of Professor Terry Barry, TCD, in recognition of his lifelong commitment to graduate student scholarship, the ASIMS Barry Prize is an annual prize awarded for the best conference paper on a subject of relevance to Irish Medieval Studies delivered by a graduate student.

The prize is open to graduate students from any field who either have presented or have written and intend to present a paper on a subject of relevance to Irish Medieval Studies at any conference during the year beginning with the Kalamazoo Congress (ICMS) in May 2017 and ending with the Kalamazoo Congress (ICMS) of 2018. 

Submissions will be judged by a panel drawn from the ASIMS committee.  The 2018 prize-winner will be determined during a meeting of the selection committee at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) in May 2018.

The winning paper will be announced at the ASIMS dinner, which is held annually at the Kalamazoo International Congress.  The winner need not be present, and will be contacted officially in writing.

The prize will consist of a check for reimbursement of the current year’s ICMS registration fees costs, or a check of equivalent value.  It is a requirement that the winning entry submits a summary statement of the presentation for publication in the society’s journal, Eolas.  Especially worthy entries may also be considered for eventual publication in the journal.

Please note that only graduate student papers written/presented by members of ASIMS will be considered.  Membership may begin at the time of submission. 

Membership in ASIMS can be arranged via: http://www.asims.org

Membership dues for a given year are as follows:

Regular Membership: $50.00
Lecturer/Part Time Faculty: $30.00
Student Membership: $20.00

Please submit proof of current graduate student status and a copy of your paper electronically (preferably in pdf format), to Dr. Máire Johnson, Department of Social Sciences, Emporia State University, 1 Kellogg Circle, Emporia, KS 66801 USA. Email: mjohns38@emporia.edu

Submissions should be received before midnight on April 15, 2018.

The Four Courts Press Michael Adams Prize in Irish Medieval Studies

ASIMS announcement:

The Four Courts Press Michael Adams Prize in Irish Medieval Studies

●    This prize is announced and awarded annually at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo.

●    The prize is awarded for the best essay/article in Irish Medieval Studies published in a book or journal during the previous calendar year. This year’s prize, which will be awarded in May 2018, will be awarded for an essay/article published in 2017.

●      Only articles/essays written by members of ASIMS will be considered. Membership can be arranged via: http://www.asims.org  Membership dues are as follows:
Regular Membership: $50
Lecturer/Part Time Faculty: $30
Student Membership: $20

●      The prize is open to everybody, from students to senior academics.

●      Each entrant must submit his/her article on or by March 25th of the year of the prize ceremony (i.e., if you are entering the competition with an essay/article that was published in 2017 you must submit your entry for consideration on or by 25 March 2018).

●      The preferred submission format is PDF as an email attachment. If submitting by post, send four paper copies.

●      All submissions for the year 2017 should be sent before midnight, March 25, 2018 to:

Dr. Máire Johnson

Department of Social Sciences

Emporia State University

1 Kellogg Circle

Emporia, KS 66801 USA

Email: mjohns38@emporia.edu

●      The entries will be judged by a panel consisting of: (a) a representative of Four Courts Press; (b) a representative of ASIMS; and (c) a chairperson nominated by Four Courts Press and ASIMS.

●      The prize is a check to the value of US $500 from Four Courts Press. A summary of the article will be reprinted in EOLAS, the journal of ASIMS.

Assistant Professor in Shakespeare Position – Qatar University

Position Title: Assistant Professor in Shakespeare

Department Name: Department of English Literature and Linguistics

The Department of English Literature and Linguistics invites applications for an Assistant Professor of English Literature from candidates with specialization in Shakespeare. In addition to teaching introductory and upper-level undergraduate courses, the candidate will be expected to carry out excellent scholarly research, and contribute to the enhancement of the Department, College and University.

Qatar University Profile

Qatar University is the national institution of higher education in Qatar. It provides high quality undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare competent graduates, destined to shape the future of Qatar. The university community has a diverse and committed faculty that teaches and conducts research, which addresses relevant local and regional challenges, advances knowledge, and contributes actively to the needs and aspirations of society.

Qatar University is an intellectual and scholarly community characterized by open discussion, the free exchange of ideas, respectful debate, and a commitment to rigorous inquiry. All members of the University – faculty, staff, and students – are expected to advance the scholarly and social values embodied by the university.

College Profile

The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) houses eleven departments, covering a wide range of undergraduate specializations in the Arts and Sciences including English Literature & Linguistics, Arabic Language, Humanities, Sociology, Social Work, Psychology, International Affairs, Policy, Planning & Development, Statistics, Chemistry, Mass Communication, Biological Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Material Science, and Sports Science. The College also houses five graduate programs in Environmental Sciences, Gulf Studies, Material Science, Statistics, and Arabic Language. Additionally, the College offers a Program of Arabic for Non- Native Speakers. There are also the newly established three research centers  for Social Science and Humanities, Sustainable Development, and Gulf Studies.

It is worth mentioning that as members of QU, CAS faculty members have excellent opportunities to secure internal and external funding for their research ideas.  Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) is major source of research funding, with individual project funding exceeding 1 million USD (and 5 million exceptional projects) along with programs for student research funding. As the national and largest University in the country, Qatar University is the recipient of most QNRF awards, with many research-active faculty members able to win multiple grants.

Duties & Responsibilities 

1.    Teach courses in the area of expertise
2.    Contribute to various committees at the Program, College, and University level
3.    Contribute to the research profile of College through publications
4.    Serve as student advisor
5.    Other responsibilities as assigned by the Head of Department

Qualifications

1.     Ph.D. in the relevant disciplinary area

2.     Strong peer reviewed publication record

3.     Teaching experience at tertiary level          

4.     Familiar with educational technologies used in the higher education sector

5.     Willingness to work with teams

6.     Awareness of working with people from diverse backgrounds

7.     Excellent written and oral communication skills

 

Required Documents  

1.     Current Curriculum Vitae    

2.     Statement of Teaching Philosophy

3.     Research Plan

4.     Contact details of three referees (physical and email addresses as well their telephone contact)

5.     Academic transcript of the highest qualification

6.     Any additional documentation deemed relevant to the application

 

Benefits  

1.     A three-year renewable contract

2.     Salary is commensurate with experience

3.     Tax-free salary

4.     Furnished accommodation in accordance with QU HR policies

5.     Annual round trip air tickets for faculty member and dependents in accordance with QUHR policies

6.     Educational allowance for candidate’s children (eligible candidates only) in accordance with QU HR policies

7.     Private health care and health insurance in accordance with QU HR policies

8.     Annual leave in accordance with QU HR policies

9.     End-of-contract indemnity

To apply for this position, please send your curriculum vitae plus all other requested documents to Dr Ross Griffin, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, at rgriffin@qu.edu.qa

Hagiography Beyond Tradition – book series

New book series at Amsterdam University Press: Hagiography Beyond Tradition.

Amsterdam University Press invites both formal proposals for the series, and more informal queries, from all interested parties.

Hagiography Beyond Tradition provides a home for cutting-edge scholarship on medieval saints and sanctity, combining rigorous attention to historical context with heuristics drawn from modern critical theories. The series seeks to publish incisive, impactful, and broadly interdisciplinary work. What’s more, the series aims explicitly to foreground the work of innovative early-career researchers and put them on equal terms with more established senior academics.

The series’ vital statistics are collected below, and full details can be found online at: http://en.aup.nl/series/hagiography-beyond-tradition. To download a series flyer as .pdf, please visit: http://www.aup.nl/wosmedia/5678/hagiography_beyond_tradition.pdf.

If you have any general queries or questions about the series, in the first instance please contact Shannon Cunningham (Acquisitions Editor for European History at Amsterdam University Press), S.Cunningham@aup.nl.

Series Details:

· Proposals for monographs and cohesive edited collections are welcome.
· Expected word count of final publication: 70,000-110,000.
· All publications will be in English.
· Geographical scope: all of medieval Christendom, including Byzantium.
· Chronological scope: ca. 500-1500.
· Series Editor: Alicia Spencer- Hall (Queen Mary, University of London).
· Editorial Board: Bill Burgwinkle (University of Cambridge); Martha Newman (University of Texas); Sarah Salih (King’s College London); Anna Taylor (University of Massachusetts).
· Acquisitions Editor (at Amsterdam University Press): Shannon Cunningham.
· Complementary to the Hagiography Society’s existing series, Sanctity in Global Perspective, which elicits comparative rather than more theoretical studies. We very much hope for cross-fertilisation whenever possible between the two series.

Series Abstract

The study of sanctity in medieval Europe is starting to elicit cutting-edge, innovative and genuinely interdisciplinary scholarship that destabilizes what people have conventionally considered to be hagiography. This is demonstrated in the topic range of panels sponsored by the Hagiography Society at recent landmark medievalist conferences. While hagiography has traditionally been understood only in religious terms, recent scholarship moves beyond such frameworks to consider alternate ways of identifying and representing exemplary people. So doing, such research emphasises modern cultural analogies and resonances with medieval figures.

LIMINA ‘Home: Belonging and Displacement’ Conference 2018

LIMINA: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies upcoming conference entitled ‘Home: Belonging and Displacement’. This conference is a great opportunity for graduate students and early career researchers to share their research with an interdisciplinary audience. The conference will be held on 26-27th July 2018 at the University of Western Australia in Perth.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

  • The role of the home in society
  • Banishment and exile, colonisation and invasion
  • Literary portrayals of home
  • Hearth and home, food, celebrations, traditions
  • Family life, family structure, and kinship
  • Homelessness and refugees
  • Human and natural disasters’ effects on home
  • Gentrification and changing landscapes
  • Personal, cultural, and national identity
  • Temporal and spatial aspects of home

Deadline for the submission of abstracts (approx. 200 words) is 30th March, 2018.

We are also accepting article submissions for our general edition, which will be published next year. For more information, visit: http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/future

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Call for applications for Professional Teaching Fellow AND Postdoctoral Fellowship

Call for applications for Professional Teaching Fellow AND Postdoctoral Fellowship

Please indicate clearly whether you are applying for one or both of these positions. Depending on the candidate/s appointed, they have the potential to be held separately or concurrently.

Professional Teaching Fellow

The School of Humanities at the University of Auckland invites applications for three-year fixed-term part-time position (0.5) as a Professional Teaching Fellow in Classics and Ancient History, commencing in February 2018. The successful candidate will be expected to deliver undergraduate courses in Latin and Ancient History.

Candidates should have a completed or nearly completed PhD in a relevant subject area. The candidate will be primarily tasked with Latin language teaching at the undergraduate level. This will include aspects of the acquisition sequences as well as some upper level literature papers. The position also offers the opportunity to engage in the teaching of undergraduate history/culture courses and may include some postgraduate teaching and/or supervision. Experience with first-generation students and students from a range of ethnic backgrounds is highly desirable.

The University of Auckland is home to the leading and most comprehensive Arts Faculty in New Zealand. It is ranked 25 in the QS World University Rankings by Faculty for 2017. The School of Humanities, comprising the disciplines of Art History, Classics and Ancient History, English and Drama, History, Philosophy and Theological and Religious Studies, constitutes the largest concentration of Humanities scholars in the nation and ranks first nationally in all of the QS subjects if offers.

Applicants should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae and the names and contact details of two referees to Head of the School of Humanities, Associate Professor Malcolm Campbell, mc.campbell@auckland.ac.nz by Wednesday 6 December.

Inquiries about this position should also be directed to the Head of the School.

Postdoctoral fellowship

The research project ‘Servants of God, Slaves of the Church: Rhetoric and Realities of Service in Early Medieval Europe’ is now advertising for a postdoctoral fellowship which can commence as soon as March 2018, although start time is flexible. This fellowship is structured as a three-year 0.5 role, but could potentially be held full time over 18 months by negotiation. It will be based at the School of Humanities in the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Funded by a Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden grant (Principal Investigator (PI): Assoc. Prof. Lisa Bailey), this project explores how kings, queens, and other high status Christians in early medieval Europe used the image of slavery to describe and enact their relationship with God, while surrounded by servants and slaves who kept them fed, kept churches clean, and kept religious institutions running. These servants and slaves were thus also servants of God, and the people of early medieval Europe understood the labour they performed for the sake of religion as special and elevated. The aim of the research is to scrutinise the connections between these different ways of serving God in western Europe between the end of the Roman empire and the beginnings of the medieval kingdoms (c. 400 – 900 CE). It details how the realities of service shaped the rhetoric of serving God, while the symbolic service which honoured God also ennobled the service performed by low-status people in churches and religious households.

The geographical focus of the PI’s research will be on Gaul, Germany, Italy, and Northern Europe. The work of the postdoctoral scholar should spread this geographical basis further, so that the project can include detailed analysis of regional patterns or variations. The postdoctoral scholar should therefore have the expertise to work on a region which will not be covered in the PI’s research and will be expected to work towards a co-publication with the PI.

If the position is held part-time, there may also be the opportunity to undertake some undergraduate or postgraduate teaching for additional remuneration.

The University of Auckland is home to the leading and most comprehensive Arts Faculty in New Zealand. It is ranked 25 in the QS World University Rankings by Faculty for 2017. The School of Humanities, comprising the disciplines of Art History, Classics and Ancient History, English and Drama, History, Philosophy and Theological and Religious Studies, constitutes the largest concentration of Humanities scholars in the nation and ranks first nationally in all of the QS subjects if offers.

Applicants should have a completed or nearly completed PhD in a relevant subject area and should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae and the names and contact details of two referees to Assoc. Prof. Lisa Bailey (lk.bailey@auckland.ac.nz). Inquiries about this position should also be directed to this email address. Review of applications will begin on 6 December 2017.

European Academy of Religion First Annual Conference – Call for Papers

EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE BOLOGNA, MARCH 5-8, 2018

The European Academy of Religion (EuARe) is a new constellation in
European scholarship which was established in 2016 with the support of
the European parliament. It aims to create an inclusive network, to
act as an open platform, and to provide a framework to foster
research, communication, exchange and cooperation concerning important
religious issues for the academic world and society at large.

The program of the EuARe Conference 2018 will be composed of plenary
(lectiones magistrales and roundtables) and working sessions (panels
and papers).

On Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th, the Conference will host an
international Moot Court Competition in Law & Religion, organized in
cooperation with ICLARS – International Consortium for Law & Religion
Studies.

In the location of the event, a display space reserved for publishers
will be set up. Publishers are invited to organize book presentations
with authors and to advertise their participation on their websites
and in newsletters in order to draw public attention to their works
and encourage attendance.

The Call  has been recently published on the EuARe
website: there you will find all the information you need about the
Conference program and your participation (deadlines, registration
fees, travel grants and accommodation). https://www.europeanacademyofreligion.org/general-information

If you wish to contribute to the Conference by convening a panel or
applying for a single paper, we remind you that the deadline for
proposal submission is Wednesday, December 20th (submission forms can
be found here: https://www.europeanacademyofreligion.org/program).
Registrations to the Conference, instead, will be open until Friday,
February 16th
(https://www.europeanacademyofreligion.org/registration).
Early rates for registration will be available until December 20th
(early bird) and February 16th (regular). After this date only on-site
registration will be possible.

We also remind you that, starting this year, the EuARe will be
granting memberships.
Members will have the benefits of discounted conference rates and will
be invited to join and participate in the next General Assembly, which
will meet on Tuesday 6th of March.
The Call will also give you more detailed information about the
membership rates and the General Assembly.
Membership application forms are available here:
https://www.europeanacademyofreligion.org/membership

 

 

 

European Academy of Religion

Public Lecture by Prof. Lyndal Roper at The University of Melbourne

‘Luther and Dreams’

A public lecture by Prof. Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford) at The University of Melbourne.

Date: Monday 4 December 2017

Time: 6.15–7.30pm

Room 153 (Forum Theatre)

Level 1, Arts West North Wing

The University of Melbourne

Parkville VIC 301

Registrations: http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/lutheranddreams

Information: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/luther-and-dreams/

Enquiries: che-melb-admin@unimelb.edu.au

This lecture marks the 1517–2017 quincentenary of the European Reformation, set in motion by Martin Luther in the German university town of Wittenberg.

Luther regularly labelled superstition, Catholic dogma, and the beliefs of the Turks and the Jews, as ‘dreams’. ‘Lauter somnia’, pure dreams, was one of his favourite insults, and he liked nothing better than to debunk them. Yet Luther was also fascinated by signs and portents, and though he often joked about dreams, he too noted important dreams. Dreams also happened to be recorded at key turning points of the Reformation, and they give rare insight into Luther’s deepest anxieties and feelings. Discussed collectively, Luther and his followers used dream interpretations to communicate concerns they did not discuss explicitly. This lecture explores how historians can make use of dreams to understand the subjectivity of people in the past.

The lecture is co-hosted by the History Discipline of The University of Melbourne.

Professor Lyndal Roper is Regius Professor of History, Oriel College, University of Oxford, and one of the world’s most renowned historians of early modern times. She is the first woman, and the first Australian, to hold the Regius Chair, and in 2016 she received the prestigious Gerda Henkel prize for her ‘trailblazing’ work on social, gender, and psychological history in the age of the Reformation. Her latest book, Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet (Random House, 2017), is the first historical biography of Luther to be published in English for many decades. She is now writing a history of the German Peasants’ War (1524–1525), the greatest uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. Professor Roper is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and the Brandenburg Akademie der Wissenschaften; she is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

 

AHA2018: The Scale of History – Call for papers

 

AHA2018: The Scale of History

Call for papers

Historians make choices about the scale of their inquiry. They set parameters for their projects – temporal, geographical, social, archival – which shape their research strategies, their potential audiences, and their interpretations and arguments. Do you write history on a grand or intimate scale? Or both? We welcome paper and panel proposals on any geographical area, time period, or field of history, especially those relating to the theme of scale.

The Australian Historical Association 2018 Conference will be held Monday 2 – Friday 6 July 2018, at The Australian National University, Canberra.

The full call for papers, and a pdf file of it for print purposes, is available on the conference website: http://history.cass.anu.edu.au/aha2018

CFP deadline: Wednesday 28 February 2018