Gender and Women’s History Research Centre, ACU Hybrid Workshop Melbourne and Online, 15-16 July 2024 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Jacqueline Van Gent (UWA)
This workshop aims to further the study of intercultural encounters in the pre-modern world through the lens of gender. More specifically, we mean to foster a discussion on how masculinities could affect the processes of cultural encounter and their outcomes, but also how masculinities emerged changed in turn from such processes. See below flyer for further details.
The next session of the 2024 ANZAMEMS ECR/Postgraduate reading group is scheduled for Tuesday, April 23. This will be a session on astrology and public health. See schedule below.
The 37th Irish Conference of Medievalists is taking place in Dublin on 20 & 21st June 2024. The call for papers is now open, with a deadline of 1st May. Please see below flyer for further details.
The book offers a comprehensive, biography-led examination of queenship in England between 850 and 1000, tracing the development of the queen’s role from bed companion to institutional office.
The period 850–1000 is critical to the development of English queenship. In the aftermath of viking invasion, the kings of Wessex expanded their hegemony over neighbouring regions, gradually establishing themselves as the kings of England. Parallel to this broad narrative of political change is the lesser-known story, told in this book, of the royal women who took part in it. The lives of three remarkable women – Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and the West Saxon consorts Eadgifu and Ælfthryth – are central to the story, here retold through the careful analysis and reappraisal of source documents. These biographies set the stage for detailed study of the agency and advocacy of all women who held queenly office in England between 850 and 1000, as well as their legacies and reception by later generations.
Early English Queens, 850–1000 gives important insights into the role women played in the first 150 years of the West Saxon dynasty, offering a compelling narrative that will appeal to students and scholars of early medieval England and royal studies.
The book is available in ebook, softcover and hardcover. Available in all good bookstores, it is currently 20% off at Routledge with discount code EFLY03.
The National Library of Australia Fellowships program offers researchers an opportunity to undertake a 12-week residency at the Library. Applicants may work in any field or discipline where the Library’s collections have appropriate depth and breadth to support the desired outcomes.
National Library of Australia Fellowships will:
contribute to a greater public understanding or knowledge of the Library’s collections.
promote discussion through research which informs and engages contemporary discourse.
enhance the national and international reputation of the National Library as an institution of major research significance.
actively promote the research experience and outcomes.
Applications close Monday 6 May. For details, see the NLA website.
The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia is proud to manage the Wilhelm, Martha and Otto Rechnitz Memorial Fund. This fund supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars in the social sciences, and supports knowledge and understanding of the society, languages and cultures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Applications for funding in 2024 are now open and will close on Monday 13 May. Outcomes will be announced during Social Sciences Week (9-15 September 2024).
