Monthly Archives: May 2018

2018 CHASS Australia Prizes – Nominations Now Open

Nominations for the annual CHASS Australia Prizes are now open. The annual CHASS Australia Prizes are a great opportunity for the sector to showcase the excellent work being done in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) in Australia.

Kindly note nominations are currently open for four categories:

  • Book: non-fiction – cash prize of $3,500 sponsored by Routledge
  • Distinctive Work: an artistic performance, exhibition, film, television show, play, composition, research project or practical contribution to HASS policy – cash prize of $3,500 sponsored by Routledge
  • Future Leader: an individual under 30 demonstrating leadership skills and potential in the Humanities/Arts/Social Sciences – cash prize of $2,000 sponsored by Future Leaders
  • Student: an essay, project or performance in any Humanities, Arts or Social Sciences area – $500 voucher sponsored by CHASS

Nominations are open from anyone regardless of their years of training/study in the field, as long as the nominated work fits within the specified criteria. Please note there is no nomination fee for any category, and self-nominations are welcome. The application process is very simple and can easily be completed online: http://www.chass.org.au/2018-australia-prizes.
Terms and conditions apply, please refer to our website http://www.chass.org.au/2018-australia-prizes for more details.

Nominations will close at 5pm AEST on 2 July and we strongly encourage applicants to apply early.

University College London: Teaching Fellow in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature (2 Positions)

Teaching Fellow in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature
University College London – English Language and Literature

The Department of English Language and Literature invited applicants for two full-time Teaching Fellowships in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature. One of these posts will run from 1 September 2018 until 30 June 2019 in the first instance, the other from 1 September 2018 until 31 August 2021 in the first instance. Both posts will replace Professors Helen Hackett and Alison Shell while they are on Leverhulme research fellowships.

The post holders will be expected to teach on courses covering the Renaissance English period at undergraduate level, including the compulsory Shakespeare course and the Renaissance Literature course, and to contribute to the postgraduate Shakespeare in His Time course.

The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute to one or more of the following first-year courses: Narrative Texts, Criticism & Theory, Intellectual and Cultural Sources. S/he will be expected to provide one-to-one tutorials to undergraduate students and to undertake the normal duties of teaching administration and the provision of pastoral care and support to tutorial students.

Applications are invited from candidates with a proven record in teaching Shakespeare and the literature of the Renaissance and Early Modern periods at higher education level. Candidates should have gained a PhD by the time the appointment begins. A commitment to fostering a positive learning environment for students is essential, as are excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

For more information, and to apply, please visit: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BJX373/teaching-fellow-in-shakespeare-and-renaissance-literature.

Application close on 7 June, 2018.

Melbourne Historical Journal: Volume 46 – Call for Papers

The Melbourne Historical Journal is calling for papers for its latest edition:

“Boundaries & Bodies” Volume 46 (2018)

History has often been organised around notions of fixed boundaries and borders. Conflict, community, ideology and memory have been defined in these terms. Historians have increasingly worked to interrogate our assumptions and break down these categories that were once accepted. What, then, are the implications when boundaries are contested or made porous? Where does this leave the body, and the self? Bodies are sites upon which larger contests of identity, ideology and power are played out. They are confined by social narratives, yet can be sites of resistance, fluidity and instability. The MHJ seeks papers that place social, cultural, economic, legal, and political boundaries in dialogue with the changing, multifaceted experiences of the body.

The MHJ is calling for papers that explore the theme “Boundaries & Bodies” for its 2018 issue. These may address, but should not be limited to, questions of:

  • Gendered bodies, intimacy and agency
  • The body in culture, commerce and medicine
  • Identities, queerness and contested sexualities
  • Movement and mobility across borders and other boundaries
  • Intersections of ideology, conflict and community
  • Processes of inclusion and exclusion in memory and narrative

We strongly encourage postgraduate and early career scholars to submit papers. Papers should be 5000-7000 words in length, including footnotes and references.

Deadline for submission is: 14 July, 2018

For further information and to submit your article, please visit: http://www.mhj.net.au/2018/05/volume-46-call-for-papers

49th Australian Academy of the Humanities Symposium: ECR Poster Program – Call For Papers

Early Career Researcher Poster Program
“Clash of Civilisations? Where are we now?”
49th Australian Academy of the Humanities Symposium
State Library of NSW, Sydney
15-16 November, 2018

More info: Conference Website

The Academy invites early career researchers (ECRs) to present a poster relating to their research at the 49th Symposium to be held at State Library of NSW on 15-16 November, Sydney.

The Symposium theme is Clash of Civilisations? Where are we now? and will explore modern and ancient cross-cultural encounters and their contemporary implications in the spheres of history, politics, and religion, as well as their cultural expressions in literature, film, and the arts.

We are seeking proposals for poster presentations that engage with one or more of the Symposium’s themes:

  • The rhetoric of the ‘clash of civilisations’ and its deployment
  • The role, history, and effect of the ‘culture wars’
  • Identity politics and the ‘clash of civilisations’
  • The literary and artistic response to inter-cultural conflict

Places are limited. All proposals will be assessed on the grounds of relevance to the Symposium, the quality of the proposed poster, and the academic track record of the candidate.

Eligibility

This opportunity is available to all early career researchers currently associated with an Australian university.

Applicants must be in the early stages of their careers, which will be determined, inter alia, by how recently a PhD was conferred. In normal circumstances it should have been conferred no earlier than 11 June 2013.

Successful applicants

Successful applicants must be willing to assist in the installation of their poster and be available to attend the Symposium to answer questions from delegates during the scheduled breaks in the program. Applicants will be offered complimentary registration to attend the Symposium and may be invited to submit an article for a special issue humanities journal based on their poster topic. Applicants are expected to cover all other expenses (including poster production, printing and travel).

How to apply

Applications are to made via our online application system and close AEST 5:00pm Monday 11 June 2018.

Individuals and groups are welcome to apply.

Applications must include:

    1. A statement outlining the proposed title and abstract of the poster (maximum 400 words)
    2. An explanation of how the poster relates to the themes of the Clash of Civilisations? Where are we now? (maximum 250 words)
    3. Details of any special requirements for the poster, as they should be no larger than A0 size (width: 841 mm, height 1189mm) and must be easily fixable to a standard horizontal display panel.
    4. A short CV (no more than 2 x A4 pages)

Religion and Emotion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, c.1100–1800 – Call For Papers

Religion and Emotion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, c.1100–1800
The University of Adelaide
23 November, 2018

Symposium Website

Keynote: Professor Thomas A. Fudge (University of New England)

In the medieval and early modern world, religious belief and practices were expressed with passionate commitment out of an emotional attachment to the divine. Institutional religion cultivated and prescribed certain emotions and emotional styles, through media such as literature, sermons, rituals and art. At the same time, the individual’s own relationship with both God and the Church was underpinned by emotion, in ways that could either, in the words of John Corrigan, ‘confirm or challenge the authority of [this] religious emotionology’. This one-day symposium seeks to explore the emotional dimensions of both institutional and individual religious belief, experience and practice, as well as the relationships between them. It aims to bring together scholars already working on emotions, and those interested in exploring how a focus on emotion may enhance their research on medieval and early modern religion, broadly conceived.

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers from any discipline dealing with religion and emotion within a European context between 1100 and 1800. We particularly encourage proposals from postgraduates and ECRs. Papers may wish to explore, but are not limited to:

  • Rituals, practices and performance
  • The language of religious emotions
  • How religious imagery, objects and music conveyed or embodied emotional messages
  • Comparisons between different institutions or denominations
  • Links between religion, emotion and morality
  • The emotional dynamics of religious vocations and communities
  • The emotional dynamics of lay religion
  • The role of gender

Abstracts of no more than 250 words, and a short biography, should be emailed to both Stephanie Thomson (stephanie.thomson@adelaide.edu.au) and Jessica McCandless (jessica.mccandless@adelaide.edu.au). Questions or queries can also be addressed to the above.

Deadline for proposals: 31 July 2018
Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2018
Registration deadline: 2 November 2018
Opening public lecture: 22 November 2018
Symposium and dinner (dinner at own expense): 23 November 2018

Skin In Medieval And Early Modern Worlds – Call For Papers

‘Skin In Medieval And Early Modern Worlds’
Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group/UWA Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Annual Conference
13 October, 2018
The University of Western Australia

Conference Website

Keynote Speaker: Dr Lisa Beaven (La Trobe University), ‘Skin and Stone: Metamorphosis and the Villa Culture of Seventeenth-Century Rome’.

Skin as a material served a vital role in premodern economies. It was an essential ingredient in clothing and tools, and it formed the primary material for the manuscripts on which knowledge and ideas were recorded and preserved. Beyond the many uses for the skins of animals, the idea of skin interested artists, scholars, and theologians. As a boundary or surface, skin presented a range of symbolic possibilities. Images of skin, such as its piercing, often acted as metaphors for the uncovering of secrets or the interpretation of allegory. Premodern observers, likewise, often believed that the appearance and colour of an individual’s skin indicated truths about their inner nature. Diseases of the skin, such as leprosy, attracted legislation and intellectual speculation, drawing together the immaterial world of ideas regarding skin and the treatment of actual human skins.

We are interested in papers that address the many premodern uses of skin, as well representations of and ideas about skin. This conference is multidisciplinary and wide-ranging; we welcome papers from the fields of book culture and manuscript studies, history, material culture, medicine, disability studies, race studies, crime and punishment, art, literature, and theology.

The conference organisers invite proposals for 20-minute papers.

Please send a paper title, 250-word abstract, and a short (no more than 100-word) biography to pmrg.cmems.conference@gmail.com by 31 May 2018.

Bursary

One $500 travel bursary is available on a competitive basis for an ECR (no more than 5 years from the award of their PhD) who does not have substantive academic employment and whose conference paper is accepted. The bursary will be awarded on the basis of merit and the paper’s relevance to the symposium topic. Should you wish to apply for the travel bursary, please send a short CV (no more than 1 page), along with your paper title, abstract, and biography by 31 May 2018.

CFP: 37th International Conference of the Haskins Society

The Haskins Society is an international scholarly organization dedicated to the study of the history of the early and central Middle Ages, with special emphases on Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and early Angevin history as well as the many other fields encompassed by the scholarly interests of the American medievalist, Charles Homer Haskins (1870-1937). These traditional fields of interest have expanded over the years via the scholarship of our members, and the Society welcomes new contributions in all related fields.

The call for papers is now open for the 37th International Conference of the Haskins Society.

26–28 October 2018
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Featured speakers:

William Chester Jordan (Princeton University)
Alice Rio (King’s College London)
Theodore Evergates (McDaniel College)
Katherine Smith (Puget Sound) (25 October)

For paper proposals, please send a 250 word abstract and c.v. to haskinsconference@gmail.com by 10 July 2018.

For more information visit: https://thehaskinssociety.wildapricot.org/page-1856509

 

The University of Vienna: Non-EU Teaching Mobility – Call For Applications

The University of Vienna invites faculty members of its partner universities to join the University of Vienna for a short-term teaching visit. The minimum duration of stay to teach is 3 weeks, the maximum 90 days.

The teaching assignment comprises a blocked course of 30 in-class contact hours. The language of instruction is English, or, exceptionally, the specific language of a programme of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies.

Invited candidates receive a work contract with the University of Vienna for up to 90 days. Travel expenses are reimbursed up to € 2.000 upon providing settled invoices.

For full details and instructions on how to apply, please visit: http://international.univie.ac.at/incoming-staff/teachers/non-eu-teaching-mobility.

Deadline for application for teaching visits between October and January, is 1 February. Deadline for application for teaching visits between March and June of the following year: 1 July.

History Compass: Call for Editors for ANZ-Pacific Section

We are looking for new members of the History Compass editorial team. History Compass is an international peer-reviewed journal publishing articles based on original research in established and emerging fields of historical inquiry, review essays and articles reporting on innovations in history teaching and learning. Originally launched by Wiley-Blackwell in association with the Institute of Historical Research (UK), History Compass has enjoyed a strong reputation amongst by North American colleagues and is recognised as a journal of international impact by the European Union’s science foundation. 

Over the past fifteen years, the Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand  and Pacific section of the journal has published significant work by established and early career researchers, with a special emphasis upon bringing innovative research findings by postgraduate and early career researchers to the attention of international audiences.  We have also encouraged reflective essays on teaching the history of Oceania in times of considerable change within the academies of our region. 

Over the past decade, History Compass’s Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand  and Pacific section has been edited by Professors Kate Darian-Smith, Katie Pickles and Paul Turnbull.  We three now feel it is time to place the journal in the hands of (ideally) early and mid-career researchers with fresh ideas and perspectives on the history of our region.  

Our hope is that colleagues interesting in serving as editors will continue History Compass’s tradition of publishing work by colleagues in the early phases of their career, and helping postgraduates bring their work to international attention. In a time of escalating scholarly publication costs, we would also like to see the journal explore publishing more themed issues originating from conferences and symposia devised by younger colleagues.

Kate and Katie plan to leave the journal as soon as is practicable given both have taken up new and challenging positions. Paul has retired, taking up honorary professorships in order to focus on his research after a long career involving service in various management positions. He will continue to be an editor of History Compass so as to assist in the transition to a new team. 

History Compass differs from many other journals in that editors are encouraged to commission a number of articles each year, and work with authors on preparing their submissions for double blind peer review (generally by colleagues who are leading scholars in the relevant field). Editors thereby receive a small annual remuneration from Wiley-Blackwell.  We also aim to choose reviewers who will provide supportive criticism and encouragement of younger colleagues.  

If you are interested in exploring your joining the editorial team, please contact Paul Turnbull via  email: paul.turnbull@utas.edu.au  He will be able to give you further information. 

Positions Open: New Research Group in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, ACU

We are delighted to announce that the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at ACU is forming a new research group in Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

Applications are open for a Professor or Associate Professor (Program Director), and for Research Fellows or Senior Research Fellows. The positions are research only, though limited teaching, including postgraduate supervision, is possible. They are offered as 5-year or continuing, depending on experience.

We seek a dynamic and collegial scholar with an international reputation in an area of Medieval or Early Modern Studies (MEMS) to lead and mentor staff and help shape the new research program. We also seek Research Fellows and Senior Research Fellows of demonstrated research excellence to work together with the Program Director to develop collaborative research, national and international networks, and produce their own research.

The Institute is a research organisation with scholars working across Biblical and Early Christian Studies (up to Byzantium), Philosophy, and Religion and Theology. Several scholars in these groups have interests in MEMS, and we hope that members of the new team will be motivated to initiate research projects across the different areas of the Institute.

For further information, please contact Michael Champion (michael.champion@acu.edu.au).

To apply for the Program Director role, please see here.

To apply for a Research Fellow or Senior Research Fellow role, please see here.