Monthly Archives: March 2018

The Medieval Academy of America MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships

The Medieval Academy of America
MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships

The MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships support graduate students and especially promising undergraduate students participating in summer courses in medieval languages or manuscript studies. Applicants must be members of the Medieval Academy in good standing with at least one year of graduate school remaining and must demonstrate both the importance of the summer course to their program of study and their home institution’s inability to offer analogous coursework. Click here for more information. The due date for applications is 15 March.

Applicants for these and other MAA programs must be members in good standing of the Medieval Academy. Please contact the Executive Director for more information about these and other MAA programs.

The Second ASA International Conference – Shakespeare Between the Crossroads of East and West

The Second ASA International Conference in Yerevan, Armenia

27-30 September 2018

“Shakespeare Between the Crossroads of East and West”

Dedicated to the 130th anniversary of legendary actor

Vahram Papazian (1888-1968)

The Armenian Shakespeare Association (ASA) is delighted to invite Shakespearean scholars, translators, theatre critics, directors, actors and research students across the world to its second international conference in Armenia’s capital Yerevan.

The conference is organised in partnership with the American University in Armenia (AUA) and the National Museum of Theatre and Literature (NMTL), where seminar discussions will take place. At the same time, conference guests will be able to attend HIFEST, an annual International Theatre Festival in the capital of Armenia since 2003. ASA will also arrange sightseeing tours and evening entertainment each day during the conference.

Expenses covered: the transport between Yerevan International airport and the hotel, lunches and breaks, daily sightseeing tours and visits to museums with multi-lingual guides as well as evening entertainment. Flights to and from Armenia, accommodation and evening meals are not covered. No visa required for EU and USA citizens for travelling to Armenia, for other countries, please visit: http://www.mfa.am/en/visa/

The registration form and the conference fee of £80 must be sent via our website as soon as possible. Abstracts of around 300 words should be submitted via email before 30th April 2018. International scholars are encouraged to propose their own panel, please register your interest before 30th March. The conference proposes the following panel discussions, however other suggestions are welcome:

· 2018 spotlight on Othello: global/local variations and their significance in adoptive countries

· Reviewing Shakespearean performances: dramatic, cinematic, musical and ballet adaptations

· Translating Shakespeare: linguistic, geographic and poetic challenges (translators particularly welcome)

· Shakespearean collections across the world: public and private libraries, research centres and digital collections (libraries, professional and amateur collectors welcome)

· Round table: why teach Shakespeare, how to engage the new generation in Shakespearean studies

For all inquiries contact: asassociation400@gmail.com

Download application form: www.armenianshakespeare.org

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ANZAMEMS 2019 Conference Annoucement

Dear Colleagues and friends,

We invite participants from around the world to join us for the twelfth biennial ANZAMEMS Conference to be held in Sydney, Australia, 5-8 February 2019 at the Camperdown Campus of the University of Sydney. The theme for ANZAMEMS 2019 is Categories, Boundaries, Horizons. The Call for Papers will open in early 2018.

We are delighted to announce the following confirmed, keynote speakers:

Assoc.Prof. Seeta Chaganti (English, University of California – Davis)
Prof. Jane Davidson (Music, Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne)
Assoc.Prof. Yuen-Gen Liang (History, National Taiwan University)
Prof. C.H. Lüthy (Philosophy, Radboud University)
Prof. Elaine Treharne (English, Stanford University)

A two-day Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS) will take place prior to the conference on 4-5 February 2019. Full details will become available in early 2018.

Website: https://anzamemsconference2019.wordpress.com

For social media users, the conference hashtag will be #ANZA19 

Best wishes,

Daniel Anlezark
on behalf of the organising committee

International Symposium on Early Modern Songscapes – Call for Papers

International Symposium on Early Modern Songscapes

Deadline April 15 

Proposals are invited for a two-day international symposium coinciding with the launch of the digital platform “Early Modern Songscapes” to be held 8-9 February 2019 at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies in Toronto, Canada.

We invite contributions from scholars of music, literature, theater, and digital humanities interested in
“intermedia” approaches to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English song and its performance—that is, methodologies that foreground points of connection between music, lyric, and performance, and their
presentations and transformations across different media. Proposals could outline new ways of conceiving of song’s media and performance history, discuss formats or methodologies for curating song, reflect upon book history and media studies as they pertain to song, or consider the role of the digital humanities in scholarship on early modern song. The conference will incorporate a range of formats, including traditional paper sessions, roundtable discussions, and digital media presentations.Featured keynote speakers include Patricia Fumerton (Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara), Whitney Trettien (Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania), and Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Associate Professor of Music History and Cultures at Syracuse University).

Formal presentations will be limited to 20 minutes each, and digital salon or poster session pieces may be on display for a longer period. Please indicate the desired format of your proposal and include a clear statement of its originality and significance. Proposals should not exceed 300 words and should include the following information: contributor’s full name and contact information, institutional affiliation, academic status, nationality, and any audio/visual requests.

Proposals should be sent via email in Word format by midnight EST on 15 April 2018 to the Program Committee at earlymodernsongscapes@gmail.com with the subject header “Early Modern Songscapes Proposal.”

Program Committee: Katherine Larson, University of Toronto; Scott Trudell, University of Maryland; and Sarah F. Williams, University of South Carolina.

The online platform “Early Modern Songscapes,” which will be launched at the conference in beta form, is co-developed by the University of Toronto Scarborough Library’s Digital Scholarship Unit and the University of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. It aims 1) to provide insight into song’s versatility in diverse textual and performance contexts; 2) to produce Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) editions of a selected corpus of early modern songs, together with audio and video recordings of those songs in performance; 3) to animate the acoustic and visual facets of early modern English song culture; and 4) to generate an interdisciplinary and collaborative hub for work on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English songs.

“Motivating Monuments” – Call for Papers

University of Pittsburgh’s History of Art and Architecture 2018 Graduate Symposium: “Motivating Monuments”. We’re especially interested in the function of monuments and monumentality in the premodern world. Abstracts for a 20 minute presentation are due midnight, March 30, 2018. Feel free to use Facebook or twitter to contact us or follow us for updates @pitthaagradsymp