Registration for the Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA) 2016 Conference: “Shakespeare at the Edges” to be held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand from 17-19 November, 2016 is now open.
Early-bird registration is available until October 14.
To register, please visit the conference website: http://conference.anzsa.org
Travellers and Traders in the Indian Ocean World
31 October, 2016 – 23 April, 2017
Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle
More info: http://museum.wa.gov.au/museums/maritime/travellers-and-traders-indian-ocean-world
Merchants and sailors have crossed the Indian Ocean for thousands of years and 70% of the world’s goods continue to do so today. This vast expanse of water was the world’s first highway and has been the centre of world economy for millenia, but how well do we know it? This exhibition, fittingly located in the Western Australian Maritime Museum in Fremantle on the edge of the ocean, takes you on your own journey across the Indian Ocean to discover its rich history through ancient objects and stories about its traders, explorers and the many different peoples who inhabit its shores.
Travellers and Traders in the Indian Ocean World brings together precious objects from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the British Museum, the art galleries of South Australia and New South Wales, Museum Victoria, the Berndt Museum at The University of WA and the WA Museum, as well as private collections, including the Kerry Stokes Collection.
Registration is now open for the 11th Biennial Conference of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, to be held at Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand from Tuesday 7 – Friday 10 February 2017.
Please note that we are asking all speakers to register by 30 November, 2016 so that the final programme can be devised with certainty. (If this causes a particular problem with institutional funding deadlines, please contact the conference organisers at: anzamems2017@gmail.com).
Also, for Postgraduate presenters, there are a number of bursaries open for application:
https://anzamems2017.wordpress.com/bursaries-prizes
The ARC Centre for the History of Emotions has generously sponsored a number of Philippa Maddern Travel Bursaries for postgraduate students presenting papers on emotions-related topics, and the closing date for these is coming up very quickly, on 1 October, 2016.
Applications for the Kim Walker Bursary and the George Yule essay prize are also due on 1 October, 2016.
The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages: Where Are We Now?
St Hilda’s College, Oxford
18 February, 2017
A one day colloquium on medieval biblical commentary, exegesis, and the legacy of Beryl Smalley
In association with Oxford Medieval Studies, sponsored by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
This meeting aims to bring together scholars working in the field of medieval intellectual history to discuss new developments in the study of the Bible, how and why we approach biblical commentaries, and how the discipline has developed and changed since the publication of Beryl Smalley’s seminal work, The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, in 1941.
Proposals for 20 minute papers are sought from scholars working on any aspect of medieval biblical commentary, biblical interpretation, or biblical exegesis between c.1000 and c.1400. Proposals from graduate students, or those working on medieval theology outside western Europe, are particularly welcome.
The title, ‘The Study of the Bible’, is to be interpreted broadly. Possible paper topics might include, but are not limited to:
Proposals of c.250 words should be sent to philippa.byrne@history.ox.ac.uk by 15 October, 2016, who can also be contacted with queries or expressions of interest.
Further information can be found at the colloquium website: https://studyofthebible.wordpress.com
We are very pleased to announce that, beginning in 2017, the Medieval Academy of America will add a Digital Humanities Prize to its suite of publication honors, to be awarded alongside the Haskins Medal, the Brown Prize, and the Elliott Prize. The annual Medieval Academy of America Digital Humanities Prize will be awarded to an outstanding digital research project in Medieval Studies created and launched within the last five years. The Prize – an award of $1,000 – will be presented at the Medieval Academy of America’s Annual Meeting.
The Digital Initiatives Advisory Board (DIAB) of the Medieval Academy of America will select the award-winning project based on DIAB’s established criteria for high-quality digital medievalist projects, considering the following criteria, among others: quality of research and contributions to Medieval Studies; goals and methodologies of the project; design, presentation, and accessibility of the project; sustainability of the project and compatibility of its metadata.
Nominations are now being accepted online and must be submitted by midnight on October 15. Click here for more information about the Medieval Academy of America Digital Humanities Prize.
Early Modern Debts: Obligation & Cancellation in European Culture, 1550-1700
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Bavaria
21-22 September, 2017
Historians, philosophers, economists, scholars of art, literature and theatre have begun to attend more closely to the role of debt in early modern culture. It has become clear that private debt, nebulously conceived as credit, was involved in the production and reproduction of social relations, political ideology, even subjectivity. The history of debt has become an object of serious interdisciplinary interest, but the question of how apparently distinct forms of debt co-developed is often suspended.
Early Modern Debts will stimulate rigorous interdisciplinary work on debt and credit in early modern culture. It addresses the relationship between general theories of debt and particular experiences or operations of debt, and explores how different sorts of credit interacted.
The organizers call for papers that take, as their central theme, debt and the interrelationship of different kinds of debt in early modern culture. Papers of a comparative and/or multilingual nature will be preferred.
Please provide a title and an abstract of approximately 300 words. The deadline for proposals is 1 November, 2016. To submit a proposal, please visit the Symposium’s website: http://early-modern-debts.space
“Adjusting Our Lenses to Make Gender Visible”, Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Date: 7 October, 2016
Time: 6:00pm-7:00pm
Venue: Austin Lecture Theatre (1.59, first floor, Arts Building), University of Western Australia
This is a free event. You don’t need to RSVP – just come along.
The oldest surviving examples of eyeglasses in the world, dating from around 1330, were discovered hidden beneath the floorboards of the nuns’ choir in the Cistercian Kloster Wienhausen near Celle in northern Germany. Several pairs were stashed there, along with prayer books, small pictures, devotional objects, and the materials used for making these, such as scissors, beads, cloth, paper, and needles, most likely when Duke Ernest the Confessor attempted to introduce Lutheran practice to the convent in the 1520s. Using these wooden rivet spectacles as both material object and metaphor, my talk will examine the ways that scholarship in many disciplines over the last forty years has sharpened our view of gender in the medieval and early modern periods, allowing us to see greater complexities in things close at hand and a wider panorama beyond.
Merry Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She specialises in the history of early modern Europe, with research interests in women’s work in Germany, the history of Christianity (especially gender and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations), and global history. Professor Wiesner-Hanks is currently the Senior Editor of Sixteenth Century Journal and an Editor for the Journal of Global History. Her recent publications include: A Concise History of the World (Cambridge University Press, 2015); Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2013); Gender in History: Global Perspectives, 2nd ed. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). She is also the editor of: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World: Critical Concepts in Women’s History, 4 volumes (Routledge, 2015); Mapping Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World (Ashgate, 2015); Cambridge World History, 7 volumes in 9 books (Cambridge University Press, 2015); (With John P. McKay, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Roger B. Beck, Clare Hara Crowston, and Jerry Davila), A History of World Societies, 10th ed. (Bedford/St. Martins, 2015); (with Andrew D. Evans, William B. Wheeler, and Julius R. Ruff, Discovering the Western Past: A Look at the Evidence, 7th ed. (Cengage, 2014).
Old Norse and Emotions Study Day
Date: 27 October 2016
Venue: Roger’s Reading Room, John Woolley Building A20, Science Road, The University of Sydney
Workshop organiser and enquiries: Kimberley-Joy Knight (kimberley.knight@sydney.edu.au)
Registration: The workshop is free of charge but attendees are kindly requested to register for the event for catering purposes. Kimberley-Joy Knight (kimberley.knight@sydney.edu.au)
The sources for Medieval Scandinavia have often been regarded as cold and unable to provide insights into the emotional lives of the people who lived during this time. As W. I Miller (1992) observed: “People’s initial impression of sagas is that the saga world is coldly unemotional – not only the sensibilities of characters in them, but the sensibilities of the narrative style as well.’ However, scholars including Miller and Bjørn Bandlien, Carolyne Larrington and Kirsten Wolf have demonstrated the important role that emotions play and that the sources for Medieval Scandinavia are not as emotionally barren as they might first appear.
The Old Norse and Emotions study day, to be held at the University of Sydney on 27th October, will explore how we can use sources from Medieval Scandinavia for the history of emotions. The workshop will explore questions such as:
The workshop will have three main strands each led by scholar connected to the Centre for the History of Emotions:
A short reading pack, which will form the basis of the discussion, will be sent out in advance of the workshop.
For more info about each speaker, please visit: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/old-norse-and-emotions-study-day
The Newberry Library’s long-standing fellowship program was created to provide outstanding scholars with the time, space, and community required to pursue innovative and ground-breaking scholarship. In addition to our intriguing and often rare materials, we promise fellows access to a lively, interdisciplinary community of researchers; individual consultations with staff curators, reference librarians, and other scholars; and an array of both scholarly and public programs–all of which will contribute to your ability to advance scholarship in your field, develop new interpretations, and expand our understanding of the past in ways that can help us better understand the present.
We invite interested individuals who wish to utilize the Newberry’s collection to apply for our many fellowship opportunities:
For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.newberry.org/fellowships
New Norcia Institute for Benedictine Studies Annual Institute Lecture 2016:
“Longing for Ecstasy: Monastic Theologies and their Influence”, Professor Constant Mews (Monash University)
Date: Saturday 1 October, 2016
Time: 10:00am-3:00pm
Venue: Institute for Benedictine Studies, New Norcia
Cost: $60 ($35 concession) Includes morning tea and lunch. You can now book and pay on-line at http://www.newnorcia.wa.edu.
Professor Mews will consider the way monastic writing in the twelfth-century drew attention to the Song of Songs in a personal way. To under-stand and appreciate what these monastic writers had to say, we need to take seriously how much they valued what the Song had to say about long-ing for the experience of ecstasy.
Constant Mews is Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology at the School of Historical Studies, Monash University, Melbourne. Professor Mews has published widely on intellectual and religious history within the twelfth century, with particular reference to Abelard and Heloise, and to Hildegard of Bingen.