The art history journal Perspective has announced their call for papers for their 2025 special issue, themed ‘anachronisms’. Proposals are to include a 350 to 500 word abstract, a working title, a short bibliography on the subject, and a biography. These must be sent to revue-perspective@inha.fr no later than 17 June 2024.
For full details, see the below CFP.
The next session of the 2024 ANZAMEMS ECR/Postgraduate reading group is scheduled for Tuesday, May 28. This will be a session on medieval sheep. See schedule below (noting Zoom link).
All readings and any updates to the schedule will be shared through the reading group’s Google Drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qi0W8i-38w0Dgwia9jJ0aDCh5OEQjpRF?usp=sharing
Please contact the convenors with any queries: Alexandra Forsyth (University of Auckland), afor784@aucklanduni.ac.nz, and Emily Chambers (Murdoch University), emily.chambers@murdoch.edu.au.
Applications are now open for the 2025 Asia Study Grants and PhD Scholarships offered by the National Library of Australia. See details in flyer below.
The Paris Early Modern Seminar is proud to host the first seminar for the International Consortium of Centres for Early Modern Studies (ICCEMS).
This seminar will be led by Dr. Laetitia Sansonetti (Université Paris-Nanterre) and Prof. Ladan Niayesh (Université Paris-Cité), on the Brepols series “Polyglot Encounters in Early Modern Europe“.
Abstract
In this presentation, we would like to introduce the series we co-edit with Brepols publishers, “Polyglot Encounters in Early Modern Europe” (https://www.brepols.net/series/PEEMB). The aim of this series is to investigate polyglot practices in early modern English literary texts by crossing perspectives in a transdisciplinary approach. Volumes in the series analyse how an English linguistic, but also social and political, and more generally cultural, identity is built by means of contact and interaction with other languages, through borrowings and translations.
We will present briefly volume 1, which was published in 2022, volume 2, which will come out later this year, and volume 3, in preparation. We will then open a discussion with the group about what polyglossia means for us who work in early modern studies, how it can help us think the triangulation between languages, lands and nations in an era of commerce, colonisation and conflict, and in particular the place of English and England within the British Isles and beyond, put in geographical and linguistic perspective with other languages and nations, near and far.
About the Speakers
Laetitia Sansonetti is Senior Lecturer in English (Translation Studies) at Université Paris Nanterre and a junior fellow of Institut Universitaire de France. Her research bears on the reception of classical and continental texts in early modern England, language learning, poetry and rhetoric and questions of authorship and authority. Her current research project on translation and polyglossia in early modern England (https://tape1617.hypotheses.org/) is funded by a five-year grant from Institut Universitaire de France.
Ladan Niayesh is Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University of Paris (ex-Paris Diderot) and a member of the LARCA research centre of the CNRS (UMR 8225). Her research focuses on Early Modern travel writing and travel drama, more specifically in connection to Muscovy and Persia. Her latest publications include Three Romances of Eastern Conquest (Manchester University Press, 2018) and Eastern Resonances (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), coedited with Claire Gallien. She currently coedits the Persian travels of the Sherley brothers with Kurosh Meshkat and Alasdair MacDonald for the Hakluyt Society.
This online seminar will take place on 16 May, 10am-11.30pm CEST (UTC +2). Register to attend.
Expressions of interest are sought for contributions sought by new editor, Dr Paige Donaghy, for the Australian Women’s History Network’s VIDA Blog series “Premodern Gender: Medieval and Early Modern Series”.
Blogs in this series can explore any element of gender in any premodern time period and place. Pieces tend to be around 1000 words.
For further information please email: paige.donaghy@uq.net.au
VIDA website: https://www.auswhn.com.au/blog/
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.
Abstracts are due by 3rd June 2024.
The call for proposals for ANZAMEMS Seminars to be held in 2024 and 2025 is NOW OPEN.
The criteria and application form are to be found on the association webpage.
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.
All readings and any updates to the schedule will be shared through the reading group’s Google Drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qi0W8i-38w0Dgwia9jJ0aDCh5OEQjpRF?usp=sharing
Please contact the convenors with any queries: Alexandra Forsyth (University of Auckland), afor784@aucklanduni.ac.nz, and Emily Chambers (Murdoch University), emily.chambers@murdoch.edu.au.
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.
Member Matthew Firth has recently published a monograph with Routledge entitled Early English Queens, 850-1000: Potestas Reginae.
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.
