New Book Series, Renaissance History, Art & Culture – Call For Proposals

General Editors: Christopher Celenza; Samuel Cohn, Jr.; Andrea Gamberini; Geraldine Johnson; and Isabella Lazzarini.

This series investigates the Renaissance as a complex intersection of political and cultural processes that radiated across Italian territories into wider worlds of influence, not only throughout Western Europe, but into Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the Americas. It is alive to the best writing of a transnational and comparative nature and crosses canonical chronological divides. The intent of the series is to spark new ideas and encourage debate on the meanings, extent and influence of the Renaissance within Europe, broadly defined, and the wider world. It encourages engagement by scholars across disciplines—history, literature, art history, musicology, and even the social sciences—and focuses on ideas and collective mentalities as social, political, and cultural movements that shaped a changing world from ca. 1250 to 1650.

For more information, or to submit a proposal, please contact one of the acquisitions editors: Tyler Cloherty, tcloherty@arc-humanities.org, or Erika Gaffney, Erika.Gaffney@arc-humanities.org. Or, visit: http://en.aup.nl/series/renaissance-history-art-and-culture.

2016 CAUL and ASA Fellowships – Call For Applications

The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) are pleased to announce that applications are now open for 2016 CAUL and ASA Fellowships.

The Fellowships have been made possible through the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.

CAUL and the ASA expect to award two fellowships, each with a value of $10,000 in 2016. The fellowships are designed to showcase university libraries’ special collections by providing artists, authors, scholars and researchers with an opportunity to work on creative projects that will benefit from concentrated access to these collections.

Applications open May 16 and close 14 June, 2016.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.caul.edu.au/caul-programs/research/special-collections/caul-asa-fellowships/asa-caul-fellowships2016

Palgrave Communications: Shakespeare Studies Collection – Call For Papers

This year marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death in Stratford-upon-Avon. To commemorate this landmark, Palgrave Communications will publish a series of articles exploring developments and fresh perspectives in Shakespearean criticism, historical and textual research, and drama studies.

The collection is intentionally multidisciplinary in scope, with contributions from a broad range of scholarly perspectives welcomed, including—but not limited to—research in the following fields: language and literature, history, performance and theatre studies.

Submissions are solicited that illuminate academic thinking about Shakespeare, his writings, the social and political contexts that shaped him, as well the enduring cultural (and other) influences of his creative achievements to the present day.

Proposals for three article types are invited: Comments (3000 words maximum), Research Articles and Reviews (8000 words maximum). Manuscripts should be submitted by Autumn 2016 at the latest. For more information and to discuss this opportunity, please contact the Managing Editor at: palcomms@palgrave.com.

All submissions are subject to assessment by the Editorial Board and in accordance with journal’s standard double-blind peer review process.

Re-imagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility – Call For Papers

Re-imagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility
International Association of Australian Studies Conference
Western Australia Maritime Museum, Victoria Quay, Fremantle
7-9 December, 2016

Conference Website

As a result of the intensification of overlapping, interpenetrating and mixing of cultures and peoples in everyday life in Australia – its public culture has become increasingly re-imagined through intense conversations and inter-epistemic dialogue and debate, activating the possibilities of an emerging cosmopolitan society. This, however, continues to be challenged at the same time by recurrent racism, misogyny, homophobia and ecophobia produced in the public sphere. To re-imagine Australia thus demands new ways of thinking and understanding what is required to go beyond Australia’s ambivalence, among other things, towards Asia and, importantly, refusal to adequately accept Aboriginal sovereignty or ontological belonging. The purpose of this conference is to understand, document, invoke, listen to, learn about and enquire into the conversations, discussions, histories, stories and creative production that have happened and are happening that help or hinder a re-imagining of Australia, one that is conscious of the limitations of Enlightenment thinking and therefore framed through questions of cultural encounter, social and political recognition and responsibility. The conference will showcase research about how Australia is being re-imagined through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches that are critical, creative and artistic.

For the first time, the International Association of Australian Studies conference will take place in Western Australia (WA), following on the zeitgeist of Griffith Review’s ‘Looking West’ (2014), the end of the mining boom and vigorous national protests against the closure of remote Aboriginal communities based on a racial and cultural politics of ‘lifestyle’ that bear the hallmarks of European Enlightenment triumph. WA offers a rich context to explore the creative, cultural and critical dynamics of Australian society. Its proximity to the Indian Ocean, to Indonesia, Southeast Asia, India, China and Africa make WA an ideal place from which to look at Australia, as well as a place to understand how others see it.

The conference encourages postgraduates, early career and senior scholars to present new and innovative work cognate to our theme. The conference also encourages the participation of postgraduate, junior and senior scholars from Australian Studies and other relevant Centres throughout the world.

We welcome the submission of abstracts from the following disciplines and fields:

  • African Studies
  • Australian Studies
  • Asian Studies
  • Creative Arts
  • Creative Writing
  • Critical Disability Studies
  • Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Ethnography
  • Environmental Studies
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Heritage
  • History
  • Human rights
  • Indian Ocean Studies
  • Indigenous Studies
  • Literature
  • Media and Film Studies
  • Multicultural Studies
  • Performance studies
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Settler Colonial Studies

Submissions

Abstracts are due by 30 June, 2016. Submit your abstract online, here: http://humanrights.curtin.edu.au/events/inasa-conference-2016/call-for-papers/

Individual Papers
Individual paper presentations are 20 mins long.

Collaborative Panels
Panel proposals are also welcome. In addition to submitting a 250 word abstract for each presenter, please submit an abstract (100 words) and a title (15 words max.) for the panel as a whole. Please indicate lead panel contact person.

Format

  • Times New Roman 12 in Word
  • Title: Italics, centre alignment Next line with double space
  • Name/s: Bold centre alignment Next Line with single space Institution, where applicable, bold centre alignment
  • Next Line with single space Email/s, bold centre alignment
  • Next line with double space. 250 word abstract. No indenting for paragraphs. Leave a single space between paragraphs. Full Justification.
  • Bio note: Please include a short bio note at the end of each abstract for the speaker/s concerned.

Free Lecture and Silent Film Screening: “Shakespeare’s Romans” @ University of Queensland

Lecture and Silent Film Screening: “Shakespeare’s Romans”
Professor Alastair Blanshard (University of Queensland) and Dr Shushma Malik (University of Queensland)

Date: Sunday, 5 June 2016
Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Venue: Room E109, Forgan Smith Building (Building 1), UQ St Lucia
RSVP: Free, RSVP essential: HERE

Julius Caesar, Marc Antony, Cleopatra: all owe their undying fame in no small part to the plays of William Shakespeare. In this public lecture, Professor Alastair Blanshard and Dr Shushma Malik explore this legacy through a discussion of the plays and their sources, as well as analysis of the influence of Shakespeare on cinema and drama. A highlight of the event will be the screening of a couple of silent films based on Shakespeare’s Roman plays, with live musical accompaniment.

Alastair Blanshard is Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland. He writes on the social and cultural history of ancient Athens, on Greek gender and sexuality, on epigraphy, and on the classical tradition more generally. His books include: Hercules: A Heroic Life (Granta, 2005); Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity (Blackwell, 2010); and, with Kim Shahabudin, Classics on Screen: Ancient Greece and Rome in Film (Bloomsbury, 2011).

Dr Shushma Malik is a historian who works on the reception of the Roman Emperor Nero. She is currently completing a book on the figure of Nero as Anti-Christ, as well as researching the impact of Roman imperial figures on nineteenth-century decadent literature.

Commonwealth Scholarships for PhD – Call For Applications

Commonwealth Scholarships for citizens of developed Commonwealth countries (Australia, The Bahamas, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Cyprus, Malta, and New Zealand) are offered for PhD and split-site PhD study in the UK. These scholarships are funded by the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Scottish Government, in conjunction with UK universities.

You can apply for a Commonwealth Scholarship for the following levels of study:

  • PhD
  • Split-site (PhD), where the CSC supports one year’s study at a UK university as part of a PhD being undertaken in your home country

All subject areas are eligible, although the CSC’s selection criteria give priority to applications that demonstrate the strongest potential for strategic impact.

If you are applying for PhD study, the scholarship will be tenable only at a UK university with which the CSC has a joint funding agreement. Joint funding agreements will be negotiated individually for selected candidates for PhD study. You should make this clear to your chosen universities.
Eligibility

To apply for these scholarships, you must:

  • Be a Commonwealth citizen, refugee, or British protected person
  • Be permanently resident in Australia, The Bahamas, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Cyprus, Malta, or New Zealand
  • Be available to start your academic studies in the UK by the start of the UK academic year in September/October 2016
  • By October 2016, hold a first degree of at least upper second class (2:1) honours standard, or a second class degree and a relevant postgraduate qualification (usually a Master’s degree)
  • If you are applying for split-site (PhD) study, be registered for a PhD at a university in your home country

If you have already started your PhD study at a UK university, you are not eligible to apply for these scholarships.

Applications without any supporting statements from your proposed supervisors will be considered ineligible.

The CSC promotes equal opportunity, gender equity, and cultural exchange. Applications are encouraged from a diverse range of candidates. The CSC is committed to administering and managing its scholarships and fellowships in a fair and transparent manner – for more information, see the CSC anti-fraud policy.

All applications must be submitted by 23.59 (BST) on 17 June 2016 at the latest. All documentation – including references, transcripts, unconditional offers and supporting statements – must be provided by 16:00 (BST) on 27 June 2016.

For full details of the awards, and to apply, please visit: http://cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/apply/scholarships-developed-cw

Lost and Transformed Cities – Call For Papers

Lost and Transformed Cities
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
November 17-18, 2016

Conference Website

The city is by definition a living entity. It translates itself into a collectiveness of individuals who share and act on a material, social and cultural setting. Its history is one of dreams, achievements and loss. As such, it also bears a history of identity.

To know the history of cities is to understand our own place in the contemporaneity. The past is always seen through the eyes of the present and can only be understood as such.

Time erases memory through development and disaster. Cities can simply disappear because they lost their status in society, suffered severe catastrophes or transformed themselves so radically that their history is no longer materially traceable. They can also exemplary absorb the built and cultural heritage through rehabilitation and re-use. Archaeologists, historians, art historians, geographers, anthropologists and sociologists try to decipher and interpret a diverse but comparable amount of data in order to translate remote realities into a contemporaneous discourse. The more interconnected the research is the more efficient it becomes.

Digital technology is playing a major role in the study of the city and the preservation of its built and cultural heritage. It allows the collecting, processing and testing of an extensive amount of data in a swift and proficient manner. It also enables interdisciplinary research teams to work collaboratively, often in real time. Digital technology applied to the study of cities and their cultural heritage not only widens the scope of the research, but also allows its dissemination in an interactive fashion to an extensive and diverse audience.

Through the intersection of digital technology with historical practice it is possible to convey a perspective of the past as a sensorial-perceptive reality. The resulting knowledge furthers the understanding of the present-day city and the planning of the city of the future. Cities in the digital realm are, therefore, presented in their historical continuum, in their comprehensive and complex reality and are opened to interaction in a contemporary social context.

On the occasion of the 261st anniversary of the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon, we invite scholars and experts in the fields of heritage studies, digital humanities, history, history of art and information technology to share and debate their experience and knowledge on digital heritage. We aim for an integrative perspective of the study of lost or transformed urban realities stressing its multidisciplinary character and the impact of the digital in this equation.

We especially welcome papers that address (but are not necessarily limited to) the following topics:

  • The historic city from 2D to virtual and augmented reality;
  • Cities as virtual museums;
  • Cities, tourism and digital heritage;
  • Digital Heritage: methodological and epistemological challenges;
  • The contemporary city and digital citizenship.

Abstracts: Paper title, abstract (maximum 350 words), 5 keywords, author(s), affiliation (s).

Length: 350 words

Language of submission: English

Abstracts Submission limit: only 1 paper submission per author

Deadline: June 30, 2016

Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2016

Submission link: lostcitiesconference@gmail.com

Griffith University: Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Call For Applications

Griffith University: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Job ID: 101634
Location: Gold Coast, QLD
Work Type: Fixed Term
Full/Part Time: Full-Time

Overview:
The Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research (GCSCR) is a broad-based humanities and social science research centre operating within Griffith University’s Arts, Education & Law Group. The Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research seeks an outstanding recent doctoral graduate to conduct high quality internationally relevant research, while also building the research capacity and performance of the Centre.

These are fixed term (three years), full time positions based at the Nathan or Gold Coast campuses.

The Role:
The Research Fellow will carry out high-quality, internationally relevant research while also building the research capacity and performance of the Centre. To achieve these dual aims, the successful candidate will pursue a twin-track of activities, developing their own post-doctoral research project while also spending a portion of their time developing research projects which align with the Centre’s core focus, and seeking grant funds. The successful candidate will demonstrate that their Fellowship project will support one of the Centre’s new Research Themes:

  • Media, History and Change (led by Professor Fiona Paisley and Associate Professor Susan Forde)
  • Crises: Communities, Safety and Security (led by Professor Sidney Dekker and Associate Professor Halim Rane);
  • Language, Culture and Belonging (led by Professor Andy Bennett and Professor Cliff Goddard)
  • Heritage and Wellbeing (led by Professor Paul Tacon and Associate Professor Sarah Baker)

The Person:
To be successful in this position you will need to have completed a Doctoral degree in the Humanities or Social Sciences or cognate discipline, evidence of the potential to attract external research income, and the ability to produce research with a developing publication record.

Salary Range:
Research Fellow Grade 1: $69,699 – $81,899. Salary package including 17% employer superannuation contribution: $81,548 – $95,926 per annum.

Further Information:
Obtain the position description and application requirements by clicking: HERE

For position queries contact Associate Professor Susan Forde, Director via email s.forde@griffith.edu.au. For application queries, contact Elsa Pressley, HR Officer on +61 (0) 7 3735 7999.

All applications must be submitted online.
Closing date: Wednesday, 25 May 2016, at 4:30pm AEST.

Assistant Professor of Early British Literature – Call For Applications

Assistant Professor of Early British Literature

Institution: Centenary College
Location: Hackettstown, NJ
Category: Faculty – Liberal Arts – English and Literature
Posted: 04/26/2016
Application Due: Open Until Filled
Type: Full Time

Department of English and Foreign Languages
Assistant Professor of Early British Literature, start Fall 2016

Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey invites applicants for a full-time, tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Early British Literature in the Department of English and Foreign Languages. We seek a candidate who can teach Medieval literature, Early Modern literature, our early British Literature survey, and required introductory literature courses. Candidates who can teach History of the English Language and/or Bible as Literature preferred. This position commences Fall 2016.

Centenary College, founded in 1867, is a vibrant, growing and innovative independent, applied liberal arts College with a student body of more than 3,000 which includes students from 21 states and 14 foreign countries. Centenary College is recognized as New Jersey’s fastest growing independent college. Primarily an undergraduate institution, selected graduate, accelerated and online programs are offered, largely in professional areas (including the MBA). The College campus is located on 105 scenic acres in Northwestern New Jersey, about 50 miles from New York City and about 25 miles from Pennsylvania. Hackettstown was named by Money Magazine as one of the “Best 100 Places to Live” in the United States.

Centenary College offers a comprehensive compensation package which includes excellent benefits for employees and an innovative, individualized curriculum for students. The College offers students strong academic programs designed to focus on specific learning outcomes to ensure that each student succeeds. Centenary has a completely wireless campus where all full-time faculty & full-time undergraduate students in the traditional program have laptop computers. We have a strong commitment to interdisciplinary general studies that supports a high-quality liberal arts education and affordability in tuition and other student costs.

Faculty compensation and related matters are handled through the Office of Academic Affairs.

Responsibilities Include:

  • Teach 12 credits per semester in a 4-credit system
  • Maintain an active publication record
  • Advise students
  • Contribute to the life of the English Department and Centenary College
  • Teach sections of first-year composition as needed

Required Qualifications include:

  • A PhD in English or related field with a concentration in Early British Literature
  • At least two years of successful college or university teaching
  • A track record of publications and staying active in a scholarly field

Additional desired qualifications include:

  • A secondary specialization in History of the English Language or related field
  • The ability to teach Bible as Literature
  • Experience and commitment to teaching in a small-school environment

Local & regional candidates are encouraged to apply since travel & relocation expense provisions are not available for this position.

Procedure for Application

To apply: please send a cover letter, CV, statement of teaching philosophy, and 3 letters of recommendation. Review of applications to begin immediately.

Application Information

Postal Address:

Human Resources Department
Centenary College
400 Jefferson Street
Hackettstown, NJ 07840

Fax: 908-850-8716
Email Address: hrdept@centenarycollege.edu

The New Variorum Shakespeare Digital Challenge – Call For Entries

The MLA Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare (NVS) is sponsoring the third NVS Digital Challenge to find the most innovative and compelling uses of the data contained in one of the NVS editions. The MLA is making available the XML files and schema for two volumes, The Winter’s Tale and The Comedy of Errors, under a Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 license.

The committee seeks entries featuring new means of displaying, representing, and exploring this data in the most exciting API, interface, visualization, or data-mining project. Entries may be in code, but contestants are encouraged to create wireframes that visualize the various uses of the XML files and serve as schemata for programmers. This will involve a visual and written rationale that offers rigorous scholarly and theoretical reflection. The goal is to see the possibilities of the NVS in digital form and, in particular, the innovations in scholarly research, teaching, or acting and directing that might be enabled by opening up the NVS’s code. The winner will receive $500 and will be recognized at the 2017 MLA convention in Philadelphia. Entries may be sent to nvs@mla.org and must be received no later than 1 August, 2016.

Visit the New Variorum Shakespeare Digital Challenge page to learn more and download the files.