22nd Australasian Irish Studies Conference – Call For Papers **Deadline Extended Until 24 June 2016**

22nd Australasian Irish Studies Conference
1916 – 2016: Change, Commemoration and Community
Flinders University of South Australia (City Premises, 182 Victoria Square), Adelaide, South Australia
29 November-2 December, 2016

Under the umbrella of “Change” we envisage subthemes of creativity, rebirth, revolution, renewal, new departures, innovation and economics; “Commemoration” encompasses all the significant events in political, social and economic life and is particularly significant in 2016 when there is a spotlight on commemorating and celebrating the centenary of the Easter Rising, equally important are the events of the Great War; “Community” may include the diaspora, Irish language, religion, volunteerism, immigration, emigration, sport, cultural studies, literature, music, dance and drama. Papers can address one or more of these themes but those which do not will be considered.

Guest speakers include Professor Melanie Oppenheimer, Flinders School of History and International Relations, and Professor David Fitzpatrick, Trinity College, Dublin. There will be a publication in 2017 of selected papers from the conference.

Abstracts and expressions of interest should be emailed to Dr Dymphna Lonergan: dymphna.lonergan@flinders.edu.au and should be no more than 200 words in length. Please also provide your full name and that of your affiliated institution. The closing date for abstracts has been extended to 24 June, 2016.

Further information may be found on the Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities (FIRtH) webpage: http://www.flinders.edu.au/ehl/firth/firth-conferences/22nd-australasian-irish-studies-conference/about.cfm

Art and War: New Perspectives – Call For Papers

Art and War: New Perspectives
The Frick Collection, New York
16 September, 2016

The Frick Collection is pleased to invite submissions for Art and War, a symposium that will accompany the special exhibition Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France. On view from July 12 to October 2, 2016, the exhibition presents a selection of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s little-known drawings and paintings of military life. In these works, Watteau eschews martial glory in favor of depicting more mundane aspects of life on the front: fatigue, boredom, simple diversions. Prompted by Watteau’s singular vision of war, The Frick Collection solicits 25-minute papers that consider the relationship between art and war in ways both direct and oblique, across all media, geographic regions, and time periods. We welcome a range of approaches that engage critically with the historical and theoretical problems posed by the relationship between art and war.

Questions to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

    • What representational pressures and aesthetic challenges has war created?
    • Where have artists located themselves in, away from, or after ‘the fight’?
    • How can art convey the experience of war—not only the violence of battle, but also its impact on everyday life?
    • How has art glorified, condemned, or otherwise commented on war?

What can we learn from examining this relationship in an age of perpetual war?

Please send a 250-word abstract and CV by Thursday, June 16, 2016, to Caitlin Henningsen (henningsen@frick.org) and Aaron Wile (wile@frick.org). Proposals from emerging scholars are particularly encouraged.

2017 Society of Architectural Historians Conference – Call For Papers

2017 Society of Architectural Historians Conference
Glasgow
7–11 June, 2017

The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 70th Annual International Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, June 7–11. Please submit an abstract no later than June 6, 2016, to one of the 32 thematic sessions, the Graduate Student Lightning Talks, or the open sessions. The thematic sessions have been selected to cover topics across all time periods and architectural styles. SAH encourages submissions from architectural, landscape, and urban historians; museum curators; preservationists; independent scholars; architects; and members of SAH chapters and partner organizations.

Please note that those submitting papers for the Graduate Student Lightning Talks must be graduate students at the time the talk is being delivered (June 7–11, 2017). Open sessions are available for those whose research does not match any of the themed sessions. Instructions and deadlines for submitting to themed sessions and open sessions are the same.

Submission Guidelines

  1. Abstracts must be under 300 words.
  2. The title cannot exceed 65 characters, including spaces and punctuation.
  3. Abstracts and titles must follow the Chicago Manual of Style.
  4. Only one abstract per conference by author or co-author may be submitted.
  5. A maximum of two authors per abstract will be accepted.

Abstracts are to be submitted online at the SAH website.

A selection of sessions of particular relevance for scholars working on the eighteenth century are included below. See the call for papers for the full list.

Medieval Legacies of Human Rights in Australasia, Europe, and Muslim Societies Workshop @ University of Sydney

Medieval Legacies of Human Rights in Australasia, Europe, and Muslim Societies Workshop

Date: 20 June, 2016
Time: 9:00am-5:00pm
Venue: Kevin Lee Room, 6th Floor, Quadrangle A14, The University of Sydney
RSVP: Registration essential. Please contact Marco Duranti (marco.duranti@sydney.edu.au) for registration and more information
More info: Visit sydney.edu.au/arts/research/nation_empire_globe

In 2015, the entire world commemorated the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. But how can a medieval English charter embody fundamental rights in a globalized world? This workshop reconsiders the medieval origins of human rights and the legacy of foundational medieval texts today.

  • Chris Jones – University of Canterbury (New-Zealand) ‘Mana & Magna Carta: The New Zealand Experience of a Medieval Legacy’
  • Clare Monagle – Macquarie University ‘The Christian Problem: Scholastic Theology and the New Histories of Human Rights’
  • Lisa Worthington – University of Western Sydney ‘Human Rights in Islam: Examining Progressive Muslim Thought and Practice

Monash University: CMRS Visiting Scholar Program 2016 – Applications Close June 1

Monash University
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
CMRS Visiting Scholar Program 2016

**Please note that applications for the Monash CMRS Visiting Scholar Program are due mid-next week! Please contact Megan.Cassidy-Welch@monash.edu for further information**

The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Monash University is pleased to call for applications to our Visiting Scholar Program for 2016. The aim of the program is to support a senior academic to visit the CMRS for one week, during which time he or she will provide a postgraduate training workshop, consult with CMRS students and deliver a seminar paper on his or her own research.

For the purposes of the program, a CMRS Visiting Scholar should hold an academic position of Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor or Emeritus/a Professor at an academic institution.

CMRS Visiting Scholars will be expected to engage fully in the activities of the CMRS for the duration of their stay. Specifically, a CMRS Visiting Scholar will be invited to deliver a postgraduate training seminar or workshop on an empirical, theoretical or methodological aspect of interest to advanced students of medieval and Renaissance studies, such as palaeography, codicology, theoretical approaches to medieval and Renaissance history etc. The CMRS Visiting Scholar will also be invited to present a seminar paper on an aspect of his or her research, and attend other CMRS events of relevance during their visit to Monash.

One CMRS Visiting Scholar will be appointed each year to visit the CMRS at Monash University’s Clayton campus in August. The CMRS will provide the Visiting Scholar with five night’s accommodation in Melbourne (Monday to Saturday morning) and transport to and from Monash’s Clayton campus. For senior scholars already in Australia or NZ, the CMRS will provide a return economy airfare to Melbourne. Total funding support may be up to but not exceeding AUD2000.00.

We welcome applications from eligible academics for 2016 by June 1, 2016. Applicants should send a cover letter, a short CV, and a brief outline of the workshop they propose to convene and a potential seminar paper topic to Associate Professor Megan Cassidy-Welch (megan.cassidy-welch@monash.edu).

The Monash Centre for Medieval Renaissance Studies was launched in 2011. The CMRS is committed to providing research training for honours and postgraduate students; to developing and promoting Monash’s strength in medieval and Renaissance studies; and to fostering local, national and international collaborations between networks of scholars and students. The heart of the CMRS is a weekly Friday seminar and associated reading, language and translation groups. For more information about the CMRS and its staff, see http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/medieval-renaissance-centre.

University of Winchester, Researcher: Kingship, Court & Society Project

Researcher on ‘Kingship, Court and Society: the Chamber Books of Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485-1521’ project
University of Winchester – Department of History

Location: Winchester
Salary: £26,537 to £31,656 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary. Fixed term – September 2016 to September 2018

Two posts available.

The Department of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Winchester is looking for two highly motivated historians to work on a project entitled ‘Kingship, Court and Society: the Chamber Books of Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485-1521’.

The two year project was awarded funding by the Leverhulme Trust in March 2016. It will be based at the University of Winchester, but will also involve The National Archives and Sheffield Humanities Research Institute. The project will transcribe the Chamber Books of Henry VII and Henry VIII and use electronic mark-up to produce a fully searchable and freely accessible online edition, for academics and the general public, and use this as a basis for a major reassessment of early Tudor kingship, government and financial administration, daily life and the religious and material culture of the court.

As our ideal candidate, you will have a doctorate and expertise in late medieval/early Tudor palaeography. You will have a track record of publication on politics, government, the court or material culture in the early Tudor period. IT literacy, good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively are also essential.

One of our core values is ‘individuals matter’. As an employee at the University of Winchester, we are committed to your wellbeing and development. You will have access to a wide range of benefits and support, comprehensive staff development programme, generous holiday entitlement and pension scheme. Further details can be found on our website.

Two posts are available and some flexibility on working hours may be possible. For an informal discussion of the post, please contact Dr James Ross, james.ross@winchester.ac.uk.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANR700/researcher-on-kingship-court-and-society-the-chamber-books-of-henry-vii-and-henry-viii-1485-1521-project.

Application close on 9 June, 2016.

Confluences, Connections, and Correspondences: Music and Visual Culture Conference – Call For Papers

Confluences, Connections, and Correspondences: Music and Visual Culture Conference
University of Toronto, ON, Canada
October 13–14, 2016

Conference Website

Keynote Speakers:

  • Tim Shephard (The University of Sheffield)
  • Joseph L. Clarke (University of Toronto)

The publication of The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture in 2014 reexamined the diversity and breadth of interdisciplinary study of music and the visual arts, drawing together the various threads of scholarship that have emerged over the past two decades. The 2016 “Confluences, Connections, and Correspondences: Music and Visual Culture Conference” will reflect on the issues and questions raised by this significant publication. Drawing on various theories, methodologies, and frameworks, this conference seeks to bring together wide-ranging, multidisciplinary, and inclusive approaches to the study of these disciplines in conjunction with one another. We invite proposals for individual papers and themed sessions examining aspects of music, visual culture, and related fields across broad-ranging media, geographical regions, and time periods. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Art and music
  • Art history and musicology
  • Music and dance
  • Music and drama studies
  • Music and film studies
  • Music and new media
  • Music and painting
  • Music and screen media
  • Music and theatre
  • Music in art
  • Notation as visual form
  • Performance and performativity
  • Sound and architecture
  • Sound and colour
  • Sound and space
  • Sound art
  • Sound sculpture
  • Spectatorship and participation
  • Synaesthesia
  • Visual communication

Proposals:

  • Individual paper (20-minute presentation): 300 words abstract
  • Themed session (90- or 120-minute session): 250 words introduction and 200 words abstract for each paper

Proposals and current CVs should be submitted to Samantha Chang (musicandvisual@gmail.com) by July 17, 2016. Selected speakers will be notified by July 31, 2016. The conference programme will be announced in August 2016.

Keynote Speakers: Tim Shephard is a Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Sheffield, Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Music, Gender and Identity at the University of Huddersfield, and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture (Routledge, 2014). Joseph L. Clarke is Assistant Professor of Modern Architecture (18th–21st Century) at the University of Toronto and his current book project, Reverberation: Sound and Architectural Modernity, 1750–1900, explores how acoustic research has influenced the spatial ideas and auratic pretensions of modern architecture.

Conference Committee: Samantha Chang (Chair), Lauryn Smith, Elizabeth R. Mattison

Associate Professor Lynn Ramey, The University of Sydney Free Public Lecture

“Learning and Researching Medieval Culture in an Immersive Environment: Recreating St Brendan’s Voyage through the Digital Humanities,” Associate Professor Lynn Ramey (Vanderbilt University)

Date: Wednesday 8 June, 2016
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Venue: SOPHI Common Room, Brennan MacCallum Building (8th floor), The University of Sydney
RSVP: Please email your RSVP to sahar.amer@sydney.edu.au promptly should you wish to attend

The lecture will be followed by a small reception.

Study abroad is a time-tested and popular solution for learning language and culture. Unfortunately for those of us studying the past, immersion is no longer an option. Professor Ramey’s work looks at the precedents for and advantages of creating historical immersive environments using a video game engine. With the Anglo-Norman tale of St. Brendan’s Voyage as a setting, our game investigates the research question of representing time and space in way that may allow us to better understand the different perception of these concepts in the pre-Modern era. In addition, we look at the ways that Anglo-Norman can be learned more effectively in context in an immersive environment.

Lynn Ramey is Associate Professor of French at Vanderbilt University, USA. Her research centres on pre-modern cultural interactions between the Christian and Muslims worlds. Her most recent book is entitled Black Legacies: “Race” and the European Middle Ages (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014; paperback edt. 2016). She is currently working on a series of video games in Unity that will allow users to play through moments of cultural interaction as medieval travellers encountered other peoples for the first time.

Special Issue of JEMS: Gardens as Laboratories – Call For Papers

Special Issue for: Journal of Early Modern Studies (ZetaBooks), vol. 6/1 (Spring, 2017)

Title of the volume: Gardens as Laboratories. The History of Botany through the History of Gardens

Deadline: October 1, 2016

After having undergone the undeserved condition of third excluded during the Middle Ages, the studies of flora experienced a new crucial consideration during the Renaissance, when the discovery of the New World brought in Europe an amount of new items (and especially anomalies and ambiguities), which undermined the accepted systematization of nature. Along the development of a crisis in the traditional systems of classifications, a new effort in collecting and disseminating knowledge flourished, resulting in a few important cultural achievements. Botanical practices developed as a central subject through both the request of collecting and the reproduction of plants, ultimately contributing in the epistemological ferments of the Renaissance and early modernity for reconstructing the ontological frontiers of nature under a new light – and sometimes reorganizing nature from a vegetal point of view, or using plants as literary model to portray human societies.

The goal of this volume is to delve into the status of botanical experiences through a number of papers focusing on the effort in collecting, gardening, and achieving botanical research, a set of practices involving a wide range of men and women – botanists, natural philosophers, literate, collectors, directors of gardens, erudite, book publishers, and travelers – drawing attention to vegetal items and making vegetation an ideal term of naturalistic knowledge.

The volume is open to both re-elaborated papers presented at the International Conference Manipulating Flora, and to anyone else who wants to submit unpublished works on this topic.

Please, contact the invited editors, Fabrizio Baldassarri (fabrizio.baldassarri@gmail.com) and Oana Matei (oanamatei@yahoo.com) for additional information.

Publishing steps: Papers must be submitted by October 1, 2016, and will be sent to two double-blind peer-reviewers; referee’s comments are due by December 1, 2016; the final submission is due by January 31, 2017. The edited volume will be published by March 2017.

General information and norms: Papers must be around 8000 words in lenght (notes included), with an abstract of 500 words maximum, and 5 keywords. Images can be published (b/w), with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. All images must have a valid copyright. For each image added, please consider to remove 500 words from your paper.

Information for stylistic appearance and editorial norms: http://www.romanian-philosophy.ro/newsletter/pages/Guidelines%20for%20Authors.pdf

Please see the Manipulating Flora website for more information.

Chaucer as Translator/ Translating Chaucer Symposium @ University of Western Australia

Chaucer as Translator/ Translating Chaucer Symposium

Date: 7 June 2016
Time: 1-4pm
Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room 1.33, First Floor Arts, The University of Western Australia
Registration: The symposium is open to all interested, but places are limited. Please register your interest with Pam Bond pam.bond@uwa.edu.au.

How do we read Chaucer in the knowledge that much of his work is translation? How do we ‘translate’ Chaucer, in a broad sense, into contemporary worlds? This symposium explores those questions, with input from Chaucer scholars working on emotion and affect in various aspects of medieval and medievalism studies: global translation and adaptation; imaginative and sociopolitical geographies; desire and embodiment in literature; literature, ethics and emotion.

Speakers:

  • Professor Candace Barrington (English Department, Central Connecticut State University, USA) – ‘Translating Emotions in The Canterbury Tales’
  • Dr Michael Barbezat (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARC Centre for the History of Emotions (CHE) UWA) – ‘The Pardoner’s Tale: Normality, Aberrance, Corporeality’
  • Clare Davidson (Postgraduate, UWA) – ‘Translating Feeling in Troilus and Criseyde’
  • Dr Paul Megna (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CHE, UWA) – ‘Chaucerian Parrhesia’