University of Adelaide: PhD Scholarship in Early Modern English History of Law and Emotions – Call For Applications

Early Modern English History of Law and Emotions

Applications are invited for a scholarship leading to the degree of PhD in the School of Humanities (History), University of Adelaide.

The scholarship is supported by the Faculty of Arts (Divisional Scholarship), and is part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, DP160100265: ‘A New History of Law in Post-Revolutionary England, 1689 1760’ (Chief Investigators: Em. Prof Wilfrid Prest and Prof. David Lemmings, University of Adelaide, and Dr Mike Macnair, University of Oxford). The appointee will also be affiliated with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

Prof. David Lemmings, who will supervise the successful candidate’s research, is interested in the social and cultural history of law and lawyers, 1690-1760, with a special emphasis on the history of emotions. The student may wish to undertake a comparative study of a group of judges from the period, with the aim of testing, further refining and extending both some of the generalizations advanced in previous research on the early Hanoverian judiciary, and of considering the representation of judges in the emerging print media. Candidates are encouraged to outline (in no more than 250 words) any proposal they may have for a specific thesis topic related to the overall field of study.

Eligibility: Applicants will have a minimum of Honours 2A result or equivalent in History or equivalent discipline, and must be citizens or permanent residents of Australia, or citizens of New Zealand, by the extended closing date, 31 March, 2017.

Stipend: The scholarship will be for three years’ full-time study, with a stipend of $26,288 per annum (2016 rate) tax free for up to three years (indexed annually). It is likely to be tax exempt, subject to Taxation Office approval. The successful candidate will be eligible to apply for a top-up scholarship from the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions to the value of $5,000 p.a. stipend and $4,500 p.a. to assist with travel and research expenses.

Enquiries:

Prof. David Lemmings
School of Humanities
Discipline of History
Tel (08) +61 8313 5614
Fax (08) 8313 3443

Applying: Application for Admission must be submitted using the Online Application Form: https://hdrapp.adelaide.edu.au/auth/login

Please email a summary of your application for admission to Dr. Helen Payne with ‘Application for Judges and English Law. PhD Scholarship’ in the subject heading.

You can request a copy of your application summary by emailing scholarships@adelaide.edu.au with the subject heading ‘Request for application summary’.

European Splendour 1500–1800 Exhibition @ Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

European Splendour 1500–1800 Exhibition
Until 26 February 2017
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

More info: https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/visit/whats-on/exhibitions/nga-toi-arts-te-papa/european-splendour-1500-1800/exhibition

Exquisite European art and objects reveal how the Church, trade, and innovation influenced what was once considered the height of affluence.

For centuries in Europe, luxury goods were the preserve of the monarchy, church, and nobility. But waves of change gave more people than ever access to the beauty and sophistication of gold, fine furniture, silks, and lace.

Discover these objects of desire spanning 300 years of history.

Haunting, Horrible Hunger: Food for Fright – Call For Papers

Haunting, Horrible Hunger: Food for Fright
Special edition of Parlour: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Analysis

[A]nd so I left my fairy godmother, with both her hands on her crutch stick, standing in the midst of the dimly lighted room beside the rotten bride-cake that was hidden in cobwebs” (Great Expectations, 158).

The upcoming issue of Parlour will concentrate on food and consumption culture with an emphasis on the displeasing aspects of appetites: hunger, starvation, gluttony, and pica to name a few. We invite submissions that explore a wide range of approaches to the issue’s theme and the various ways consumption or depravation becomes a “haunting” and “horrible” aspect of humanity.

We seek in particular articles that will engage literary texts in bold, surprising, and dark ways. We are especially interested in work that investigates the literal consumption of food (and/or non-food objects) that carries deep metaphorical freight.

Topics may include (but are not limited to) food, appetite, consumption, and:

  • Intersections of gender, race, sexuality, class, ableness, and other facets of identity with food and consumption
  • Fantastical food inquiries such as the crossover between fey folk and food superstitions or rituals that include the giving or taking of food to/from ghosts and/or other apparitions
  • Traditional literary theory enhanced, augmented, or revived through the merging of food and consumption theory and/or other critical lenses that emphasizes these themes
  • Literary texts that engage with recovered paratextual objects such as cookbooks, etiquette guides, advertisements, and other expository materials
  • The ugly politics that impact the production, control, distribution, and especially, the consumption of foods
  • Grotesque depictions of eating and eaters
  • Deconstructing or de-fleshing arguments that explore vile or taboo cravings such as culinary cannibalism
  • Juicy, chewy, greasy, plate-licking analyses readers can cut with a knife and eat with a spoon

We accept literary criticism from any and all periods

Deadline for full article submission is February 13, 2017.

See our other current CFPs, read the latest issue, or check out our other content here: www.ohio.edu/parlour.

The Centre for the History of Emotions (University of Queensland Node): Research Fellow x2 – Call For Applications

The UQ Node of the Centre for the History of Emotions
Research Fellow

Salary (FTE): Academic Research Level A4 ($81,545.80 – $87,535.13)
Work type: Full Time – Fixed Term
Location: St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD

The role

The successful candidates will develop a research project related to any aspect of the history of emotions in any field of English literature from, roughly, the twelfth century to the present. They will engage in research and publication associated with the project, and, where appropriate, will develop other independent and collaborative research projects.

The person

Applicants should hold a PhD in a relevant field of English literature, and should also show evidence of an existing or emerging profile in research (for example, high-quality publications or conference presentations). The candidate must be able independently to construct and carry out the proposed research project.

The University of Queensland values diversity and inclusion.

Applications are particularly encouraged from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. For further information please contact our Australian Indigenous Employment Coordinator at: atsi_recruitment@uq.edu.au

Applications are also encouraged from women.

Remuneration

These are full-time, fixed term appointments at Academic level A, for a period of either 6 or 12 months. The appointment period must conclude no later than 31/5/2018, to comply with the funding arrangements. The remuneration package will be in the range $81,546 – $87,535 p.a., plus employer superannuation contributions of up to 17% (total package will be in the range $89,292 – $102,416 p.a.).

For full detail and to apply, please visit: http://jobs.uq.edu.au/caw/en/job/500101/research-fellow

Applications close 22 February, 2017.

Imitation and Innovation: Uses of the Past in the Medieval and Early Modern World – Call For Papers

Imitation and Innovation: Uses of the Past in the Medieval and Early Modern World
The Eleventh MEMSA Conference
Durham University
11–12 July, 2017

The use of the past is a theme which transcends disciplinary boundaries, and has contemporary as well as historical resonance. This is manifested in a physical sense through the moulding of and engagement with landscapes, the manufacture and (re)use of material culture, and in a more abstract sense through the creation and manipulation of memory and identity which form the core of social ideas and mentalities about the world.

This year’s MEMSA Conference will focus on how people in the Medieval and Early Modern World engaged with, understood, and interpreted the past, in order to explore the ways in which they perceived and sought to shape their own world. In doing so, we will also be able to gain a greater awareness of how past worlds still contribute to shaping our own present perceptions.

We welcome abstract submissions from postgraduates and early career researchers from any discipline engaged in the study of the Medieval and Early Modern periods, including History, Literature, Archaeology, Theology, Art, Music, Languages, and Culture. Possible presentation themes may include, but are not limited to:

  • (Re)use of landscape, architecture, artefacts, and art
  • Myths, legends and oral tradition
  • Memory, remembering and memorials
  • Perceptions of truth and authority
  • Creation and reworking of historical narratives
  • Translation and adaptation of literary texts
  • Religious and political reform
  • Reform, restoration and revolution
  • Progression, improvement and enlightenment
  • The production of knowledge and networks of learning
  • Links to the ancient world
  • Technological developments
  • Destruction of peoples / suppression of ideas
  • Later interpretations of the period, e.g. in film, literature and education

In addition to the panels, the conference will include two keynote addresses, by Dr Helen Smith (University of York, CREMS), and Dr Len Scales (Durham University, Department of History). There will also be an opportunity to take a tour of Durham Cathedral and Castle for any interested delegates.

Please send abstracts of 200-300 words to memsaconference2017@gmail.com for papers no longer than 20 minutes by Friday 14 April, 2017.

For more information, please visit our blog, website, or sponsor’s pages:
durhammemsa.wordpress.com * dur.ac.uk/imems/memsa * dur.ac.uk/imems
Arranged with the support of Durham University’s Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Interdisciplinary Network of Port Studies (RedEP): 7th General Conference – Call For Papers

The Interdisciplinary Network of Port Studies (RedEP)
7th General Conference
University of Cádiz
13-15 September, 2017

Conference Website (in Spanish)

The Harbour as an object of analysis

The harbour is the common topic of the conference. Harbours are much more than just functional and administrative units. They are the result of human interaction between
distant places by sea. They are the meeting point of different cultures and also the cluster of different economic activities. Harbours can be places of difficult cultural
integration but also cluster of creative actions during the days and during the nights.

A variety of approaches

The possible research approaches to the port studies are many. The harbour could be the object of local studies. On the contrary they could be considered under the global perspective of social sciences. Someone could study the relations between different harbours and among harbours and its hinterland. Someone else could analyse the social and cultural relations between the different
actors living and working in the harbour. It could be possible to study port issues with a synchronic approach or, on the opposite using a diachronic perspective.

Interdisciplinary invitation

Considering the harbour as a door open on the social analysis, allows to evidence a spatial, political, economic and urban context. A context usually interpreted as an observer and rarely
as a protagonist of relevant episodes that have changed the social life of harbour cities. All scholars which share this interdisciplinary approach to port studies are kindly invited to
participate to this General Conference.

The papers accepted by scientific committee will be considered for the Proceedings.

Conference items:

1. Space and territory

  • International, national and local environment in the port history (the history of the harbors, the cities and the regions)
  • Harbor in the national and regional projects.
  • Dynamics and actors in the port cities.
  • The port city as an interdisciplinary area.
  • Cartography.

2. Economics

  • Harbors and regional development.
  • Harbors and international market.
  • Dry ports.
  • Harbors and agricultural, industrial and commercial policies.
  • Port infrastructures.
  • Shipyards
  • Building and production
  • Corrosion of port tools.
  • Logistics: transport systems.
  • Harbors and railways: challenges.
  • The role of the business
  • Fishing harbors
  • Harbors and tourism

3. Society

  • Unrest in port cities.
  • Trade Unions in the harbors.
  • Networks of harbors.
  • Migration and environment.
  • History of Maritime mobility (historiography and methodology)
  • Urbanism and planning. The port suburbs.
  • Life in port cities.
  • People and society in the harbors.

4. Culture

  • Port identities.
  • Arts.
  • Media.
  • Cultural Heritage.
  • Oral histories.
  • Travelers stories.
  • Music and harbors.
  • Harbors and languages.

5. Policy

  • Port national administration.
  • Public and private harbors.
  • Actors and practices.
  • Port law.
  • The role of institutions in the harbors development

6. International actors.

  • IMO
  • ONU
  • WHO

7. Harbours and Canals

  • Buildings.
  • Enlargement.

8. Submarine activities, harbours and archelogy (associations)

  • Shipwreck.
  • Dredging
  • Submarine camera.

9. Business and innovation in port industry:

  • Projects, containers, drones
  • Vinyl in yacht
  • Physical Internet

For more information, please Contact: Luis López‐Molina:
viijornadas.estudiosportuarios@uca.es
0034 956015733

Law and Legal Agreements 600-1250 – Call For Papers

Law and Legal Agreements 600-1250
The Faculty of English, Cambridge University, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CD3 9DP
12-13 January 2018

Following on from the Law and Language Colloquium in 2015 and the Law and Ritual Colloquium in 2016, the final Colloquium in the Voices of Law series, funded by The Leverhulme Trust, will be Law and Legal Agreements 600-1250. This conference aims to draw together scholars working on various geographical areas to identify points of similarity and contrast in language, text and legal practice.

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Robin Chapman Stacey

The making of legal agreements opens a window onto various aspects of the medieval world, from trade to marriage to the treatment of ‘outsiders’, and this conference aims to chart the development of these agreements from the period c.600 to c.1250.
Papers covering the following strands are encouraged, but not limited to:

  • Agreement and Disagreement – including aspects of judgments and arbitration; conflict resolution; the material and visual culture of legal disputes; violence
  • Inheritance, Kinship and Marriage – including topics on dower and dowry; family relationships defined through legal action; divorce and annulment of marriage; fostering and the process of adoption; wardship and inheritance, including will making
  • Status, ‘Others’ and Gender – including free and unfree; female agency; queer cases before the courts; sexual deviancy and the intersectionality of status and gender in the making of legal agreements. This strand can also consider the legal status of aliens and strangers; exclusion, expulsion and displacement; and issues surrounding community and identity, including different faith identities and heretical identities in secular and canon law
  • The Spoken vs the Written Word – including performance; witnesses and jurors; the use of liturgy and religious texts; satire
  • Written versus Material Evidence – including the materiality of legal spaces; archaeology and architecture; the interaction between written and material evidence

Email abstracts of no more than 300 words to voicesoflaw@gmail.com by no later than 17:00 Wednesday 15 February, 2017. Abstracts and papers must be in English. Registration and bursary application forms will be available to download from the Events page of the Voices of Law website at www.voicesoflaw.wordpress.com/events, and are also available on request – just email voicesoflaw@gmail.com to request a form, and find out more.

A Cultural History of Interiors in the Medieval Age – Call For Papers

A Cultural History of Interiors in the Medieval Age
Ed. Mark Taylor

Call for Book Chapters

A Cultural History of Interiors in the Medieval Age is one volume of the six volume series entitled A Cultural History of Interiors (general editor John Turpin) to be published together in hardback as a set and then released as individual volumes 12-16 months later.

Interiors—as a human artefact—are a manifestation of time, space, and people, of cultural values and belief systems, and of social structures, new technologies, and philosophies of beauty. They play a crucial role in the construction of identity – whether in terms of gender, class, sexuality or nation. They represent power and control, and also the contestation or transgression of boundaries. The interior speaks to who we are, who we want to be, and, at times, who we should be.

Though deeply anchored in the characteristics of different styles, the history of interiors began to witness a new level of significance during the middle of the twentieth century as scholars like John Summerson, John Gloag, and Mark Girouard began connecting interiors intimately to their context. By the turn of the 21st century, a robust group of scholars had developed in the UK, Australia and the US. A natural outcome of the growing discourse was a new journal, Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture, which won the CELJ 2011 Best New Journal Award. They recognized the content that brought forth “salient issues and speaks to the historical reflection of structure as a symbol of culture, community, mores, and personality.” Such events suggest that the time is ripe for a publication that gathers and focuses this knowledge as a means of advancing the discipline.

Textbooks continue to struggle with the balance of stylistic traits and the forces that created them. Single paragraph snapshots of a piece of furniture, plan, or moulding rarely provide the reader with any information beyond a rather superficial encyclopaedic entry. The author does not have the time to unfold the story of the artefact’s development, creation, and function as impacted by the extrinsic forces of the culture that brought it into being. The proposed series—A Cultural History of Interiors—will, however, expand the narratives and present the reader with a much more comprehensive understanding of a particular period in time and its unique qualities that helped define interior spaces. Each volume will address the same themes so that readers can understand the full breadth of the period or explore a topic across time. The focus on culture and its impact on the interior (and visa versa) will be a truly innovative, if not ground-breaking, publication.

FORMAT

The series will consist of six volumes of essays that cover eight pre-selected themes, including: Beauty; Technology; Designers, Professions and Trades; Global Movements; Private Spaces; Public Spaces; Gender and Sexuality; and The Interior in the Arts. The first four themes are intended to cover topics that affect the design of interiors. The next two (Private and Public Spaces) focus primarily on the different types of interiors and their functions within a cultural context. The final two allow us to reflect upon the interior—one as a manifestation of implicit and explicit gender constructs and the other as an entity used by artists to convey an endless number of expressive messages. The selected themes have been chosen to provide a robust understanding of a particular time period. Addressing the same themes in all volumes provides an opportunity to trace a topic across time. Volume editors are chosen on the basis of their reputation and their record of being reliable, timely and conscientious authors.


A Cultural History of Interiors in the Medieval Age

This volume includes 8 chapters @ 10,000 each, including all notes and references plus 5-6 illustrations in each chapter.

STRUCTURE/CONTENT

This volume covers a pre-determined period: The Medieval Age (1000-1400)

Chapter themes:

  1. Beauty – a discussion about the prevailing aesthetic theories that become manifest in the stylistic traits of the period.
  2. Technology – elucidates the effect of materials, products and processes on the interior.
  3. Designers, Professions, and Trades – introduces key individuals and organizations.
  4. Global Movements – examines the degree to which ideas from various cultures migrated across time and space.
  5. Private Spaces – focuses on issues of domesticity, etiquette and the family structure.
  6. Public Spaces – focus primarily on intended functions, particularly as it relates to social, religious and political systems.
  7. Gender and Sexuality – offers an opportunity to reflect on how interiors shape us and we shape them through an analysis of intentional and unintentional design decisions when it comes to defining, supporting or perhaps suppressing the concepts of man and woman.
  8. The Interior in the Arts – looks at the interior in various art forms in order to articulate its significance as a cultural artefact embedded with meaning.

Contributors are invited to submit a preliminary 500-word abstract related to one of the above themes, together with a short biography.

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST should be received by Friday 24 February, 2017 include the following: Name, organisation and industry, 500 word abstract, short biography.

Submit to: mark.taylor@newcastle.edu.au

Writing and production schedule

  • 24 February 2017: 500-word chapter proposal abstract via email: mark.taylor@newcastle.edu.au
  • 15 March 2017: Selected chapters announced
  • 1 October 2017: Draft chapters submitted: 10,000 words + 5-6 images
  • 1 December 2017: Revisions advice issued
  • 1 March 2018 final chapters

Mark Taylor (University of Newcastle, AUS)

Mark Taylor is Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and has a PhD in Architecture from the University of Queensland, Australia. Mark is an editorial advisor to Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture and regularly reviews papers and book manuscripts for international publishers. His writing on the interior have been widely published in journals, and book chapters are included in Diagrams of Architecture (2010), Performance Fashion and the Modern Interior (2011), Domestic Interiors: Representing Homes from the Victorians to the Moderns (2013), The Handbook of Interior Design (2013) and Oriental Interiors (2015). He has authored and edited several books including Surface Consciousness (2003), Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader (2006), editor of the four volume anthology Interior Design and Architecture: Critical and Primary Sources (2013), and Designs on Home: the Modern French Interior and Mass Media (2015). He is currently completing FLOW: Between Interior and Landscape (2017).

Receptions: 2017 Conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association – Call For Papers (Extended Deadline)

Receptions
2017 Conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association
Australian National University, Canberra
21–22 April, 2017

Conference Website

This conference invites papers on the broad theme of the alterity of the Middle Ages. The state of being other or different–otherness–is at the heart of the reception theory and offers the opportunity to investigate the ways the Middle Ages have been received into the modern world; and the ways in which the Medieval world acted as conduit for the transmission of the Classical. We welcome any papers related to all aspects of the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods (c. 400–1150) in all cultural, geographic, religious and linguistic settings, even if they do not strictly adhere to the theme.

Abstracts of 250-300 words for 20-minute papers should be submitted via email to conference@aema.net.au by the new deadline of 20 February, 2017.

Power of the Bishop III: Bishops as Diplomats 1000-1400 – Change of Conference Dates

Due to circumstances beyond our control (UEFA Champions’ League Final) we have to move the third Power of the Bishop conference to 8-9 June 2017 as all Cardiff hotels are fully booked already for our original dates due to the football match on the weekend!

Our keynote speaker Prof. Philippa Hoskin has confirmed her availability for the amended dates.

If you have already registered, please email us to confirm that you can still attend.

If you would like to register, please do so either by emailing us directly with your details, or by following this direct link to our form: either http://powerofthebishop.blogspot.co.uk/#!/p/registration.html [the form appears in a pop-up window].

Power of the Bishop III: Bishops as Diplomats 1000-1400
Cardiff University
8-9 June, 2017

Conference Website

This two-day conference sponsored by Medium Aevum will explore the importance of diplomacy in a bishop’s career. How bishops responded to situations was often crucial to building or destroying their reputations, and, sometimes, their very lives depended on their ability to exercise their diplomatic skills.

This conference aims to explore the common themes regarding the use and development of diplomacy in a bishop’s career; how and when was it deployed, and in what circumstances? What impact did the Gregorian Reforms and Investiture Crisis have on this aspect of a bishop’s skill-set?

Most importantly, how do we see diplomacy expressed? As well as through legal agreements and treaties, we would like to explore the role of diplomacy in other areas, including but not limited to: the architecture of the Cathedrals and Bishop’s Palaces, the various uses of the landscape, the visual elements within manuscripts that bishops patronised, the types of gifts given and exchanged; the choice of special dates and feast days to mark particular events.

Abstracts of 200 words in length, in English, should be emailed to powerofthebishop [at] gmail [dot] com with the subject line “POB III ABSTRACT”.

Deadline for Abstracts: 20 February, 2017