Australian National University: Lecturer in Digital Humanities – Call For Applications

Lecturer (Level B), Digital Humanities
Australian National University

Classification: Academic Level B
Salary package: $94,287- $107,381 per annum plus 17% superannuation

Position overview

This position results from the creation of an expanded digital humanities base in the ANU Centre for Digital Humanities Research, the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, the Centre for Art History and Theory, and the Research School of Humanities and the Arts. More generally, the position is part of a strategic process aimed at ensuring that ANU remains at the cutting edge of digital humanities research and teaching by distributing expertise across its respective schools. The successful applicant will have proven expertise in Digital Humanities and a specialisation in Art History or a related field that will contribute to building and consolidating the Centre for Art History and Theory’s profile nationally and internationally.

The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) is the largest single College of seven Colleges at ANU. The College, which is structured into two main research schools, offers degrees in more than 20 discipline areas and excels in research across the creative arts, humanities and social sciences. The College has a substantial international research presence and is a major source of national policy advice. Our academic staff are internationally recognised for their research, and 46 are members of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia, or both We also host 13 Australian Research Council Future Fellows and two ARC Laureates. A hub of vibrant activity, we host more than 100 lectures, concerts and exhibitions each year, most of which are open to the public. Our students, staff and graduates come from more than 60 nations, bringing a diversity of perspective to campus life. We have an active engagement of research, teaching and outreach with the National Cultural Institutions of the national capital.

For further information contact:

Dr Glenn Roe, Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities
Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Research School of Humanities & the Arts,
Australian National University, 120 McCoy Circuit Acton ACT 2601 Australia
Phone: +61 (0)2 6125 4952
Email: glenn.roe@anu.edu.au

The University actively encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. For more information on employment opportunities, contact our Indigenous Employment Consultant on: indigenous.employment@anu.edu.au

ANU values diversity and inclusion and believes employment opportunities must not be limited by socio-economic background, race, religion or gender. For more information about staff equity at ANU, visit: http://hr.anu.edu.au/staff-equity

Application information

In order to apply for this role please make sure that you upload the following documents:

  1. A statement addressing the selection criteria.
  2. A current curriculum vitae (CV) which includes the names and contact details of at least three referees (preferably including a current or previous supervisor). If your CV does not include referees you can complete these online when prompted in the application form.
  3. A 3-year research plan that outlines contributions to digital humanities scholarship (maximum two A4 pages).

Applications which do not address the selection criteria may not be considered for the position.

Closing date: 31 May, 2016.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.unijobs.com.au/australian-national-university-jobs/YGDD/lecturer-level-b-digital-humanities.

Divine (In)Justice in Antiquity and the Middle Ages – Call For Papers

Divine (In)Justice in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
University of Sheffield
Friday 4 November, 2016

Plenary speaker: Professor Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge); Respondent: Professor John Arnold (Birkbeck, University of London)

We invite proposals for 20 minute papers on topics including (but not limited to):

  • Literary and artistic portrayals of divine judgment
  • Human versus divine concept of justice
  • Monotheistic versus polytheistic notions of divine justice
  • Divine (in)justice in Judaism and Islam
  • Secular versus religious justice
  • Signs of divine (dis)approbation in national and/or political and/or institutional discourse
  • Anxieties about divine justice
  • Divine justice and natural disasters
  • Postmortem justice

Papers may consider all aspects of divine (in)justice during the period (roughly 8th century B.C.E. to 1500 C.E.), from a variety of disciplinary angles, including literary, historical, artistic, and theological. Medieval culture, its concept of justice, and its major religions were undeniably influenced by classical traditions, and this conference seeks to explore continuities and divergences between these two periods in order to shed further light on the various factors that determine the conceptualisation and representation of divine justice, and define its role in society.

Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to Charlotte Steenbrugge (c.steenbrugge@sheffield.ac.uk) by 30 June, 2016.

University of Oxford: Departmental Lecturer in Global Early Modern History (1450 – 1750) – Call For Applications

Departmental Lecturer in Global Early Modern History (1450 – 1750)
University of Oxford – History Faculty

Location: Oxford
Salary: £30,738 Grade 7 p.a.
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary

We are seeking a Departmental Lecturer in Global Early Modern History (1450 – 1750), tenable from 1 October 2016 for a fixed-term of 1 year. The appointment is to fulfil teaching needs while Dr Alan Strathern is on academic leave, and is offered by the History Faculty in association with Brasenose College and St John’s College.

Applications are invited from scholars with active research and teaching interests either in the history of any area of the world outside of Europe and North America, or in Europe’s contacts with the non-European world. Expertise in the history of South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia or the Middle East would be particularly welcome. The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability and willingness to give tutorials, lectures, classes and supervision at both undergraduate and graduate level across a range of papers in Global Early Modern History. The Lecturer will also be required to undertake examining and administrative work, and will engage in advanced study and original research in Global Early Modern History.

The successful candidate will hold a doctorate in a relevant field or show evidence that a doctorate is imminently expected. S/he will have a strong research record and a record of successful teaching within the field, the ability to teach and lecture at an appropriate level in an interesting and engaging manner for both undergraduate and graduate students, and a willingness to undertake examining and administrative duties.

Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates who are under-represented in academic posts in Oxford.

Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. To apply for this role and for further details, including the job description and selection criteria, please click on the link below.

The deadline for applications is 12.00 noon on 1 June, 2016.

For full details and to apply, please visit: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=123222.

Shakespeare and the Body Politic Symposium

Research Symposium: “Shakespeare and the Body Politic”
Toowong Rowing Club, 37 Keith St, St Lucia
28 November, 2016 ( 9:00am-5:00pm)

Convened by Dr Karin Sellberg (University of Queensland) and Dr Cathy Curtis (University of Queensland)

Presented by the UQ Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and the UQ Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800).

Free event. RSVP here

Bringing together expertise in the fields of the history of political thought, the history of medicine, gender studies, and literary criticism, this cross-disciplinary symposium will reconsider conceptions of the “body politic” in Shakespeare and other early modern authors.

Cathy Curtis is a Honorary Senior Fellow in the UQ School of International Studies and Political Science. She is completing a book entitled Thomas More, Public Offices, and the Ideal Commonwealth, and researches in the areas of early modern political and religious thought, international history, and literature. She has published on Shakespeare, Juan Luis Vives, Thomas More, and Richard Pace, and on methodology and rhetoric.

Karin Sellberg is a Postdoctoral Fellow in UQ’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. She is a literary scholar and cultural theorist, with a specific interest in early modern medicine and discourses of gender and embodiment. She recently published an edited collection entitled Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement (Ashgate, 2015) and has a forthcoming monograph entitled His/Herstories: The Textual Makings of Transgender Bodies (Ashgate, 2016).

University of Kent: Research Assistant – Call For Applications

Research Assistant
University of Kent – School of History

Location: Canterbury
Salary: £26,537 to £30,738 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary

If you have specialised knowledge in the history of the early modern European corporation and a proven record of archival work, this could be a superb opportunity to develop the research and impact agendas of a flagship project for the University of Kent.

The Centre for the Political Economies of International Commerce is inviting applications for two Research Assistant positions, funded for two years, one of which will involve up to four hours of teaching a week.

You will contribute as a member of a dynamic research team working on the Leverhulme Trust funded project, led by Dr William Pettigrew, about the ‘History of the English Trading Corporation and the Global Determinants of the English Constitution’. As well as conducting archival research around the world, you will participate fully in the activities of the research team, attend the project’s seminars and conferences, and assist Dr Pettigrew’s research and public outreach agendas.

Along with a first degree, or equivalent, in a relevant subject area, you will have experience of giving research papers at conferences and seminars and the ability to communicate effectively and with enthusiasm.

Although the project focuses mainly on seventeenth century English trading corporations, you are also encouraged to apply if you specialise in researching the history of European trading corporations in the seventeenth century.

These are exciting positions combining experience of outreach, research, and teaching and thereby presenting a wonderful opportunity for career development and research entrepreneurship.

The Centre for the Political Economies of International Commerce within the School of History was founded in 2013 to showcase and develop the work of Dr William Pettigrew about the politics of international business. The Centre hosts a £1 million research grant from the Leverhulme Trust.

The School of History at the University of Kent is dedicated to excellence in research, learning and teaching. The School contains twenty nine full-time academic staff, half of whom have been appointed since 2001. The latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) placed the School 8th nationally for Research Intensity, and our students work alongside lecturers and tutors who are not just excellent teachers, but world-class researchers actively working at the forefront of their chosen field.

Further Information

Closing date for applications: 30 May, 2016.

Interviews are to be held: 17 June, 2016.

Informal enquiries can be made to director of the project, Dr William Pettigrew (w.pettigrew@kent.ac.uk). If you require further information regarding the application process please contact Teresa Bubb, Resourcing Adviser, at T.C.Bubb@kent.ac.uk.

Please note – applications must be made via the University’s online application system. You will be required to fill in the main details section of the application form as well as upload your CV and a summary document. Your summary should provide clear evidence and examples demonstrating where you meet the essential criteria for the post. We recommend a maximum of 4 x A4 sides for this document.

CVs or details sent directly to the department or via email cannot be considered.

For full details and to apply, please visit: https://www11.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_kent01.asp?newms=jj&id=40036&aid=14243

Crossroads V: Bodily Modernities. Comparing, Intersecting, Dismembering – Call For Papers

Crossroads V: Bodily Modernities. Comparing, Intersecting, Dismembering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
October 7-9, 2016

Conference Website

Bodies and issues of corporeality are variously entangled with the concept of the modern. Conventional definitions of the modern age place its onset variously at the Christian Reformation, the European Enlightenment, or the Industrial Revolution. Conversely, across many disciplines, there have been various attempts to challenge the temporal and geographic scope of Eurocentric conceptions of modernity. We propose that epistemological, ontological, and aesthetic definitions of modernity foreground the importance of the body (in its many forms), while placing the corporeal in relation to larger social, cultural, and political frameworks which inscribe themselves on it. This intersection leads to a non-linear, global concept of the modern, not limited to the European teleology of progress. As an instance of such intersection, Ernst H. Kantorowicz’s idea of the king’s two bodies (1957), the natural body and the perpetual crown, has helped explain the structures of monarchy and sovereignty during the medieval period in Europe. By contrast, in Slavery and the Culture of Taste (2011), Simon Gikandi has foregrounded the division between body and spirit to explain the establishment of a specific discourse on taste and aesthetics in relation to slavery as constitutive of modernity. Lastly, Alexander Beecroft’s An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present Day (2015) points toward alternative and more inclusive comparative methods for discussing and expanding our understanding of literary canons and periodizations as bodies of works beyond Eurocentric disciplinary thought.

In this year’s edition of the Crossroads Conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, we seek to join this conversation and continue exploring the interconnections between concepts of the modern and modernity through an engagement with bodies and related questions of corporeality and embodiment. By investigating the multiple relations between bodies and modernity, we seek to understand and question the meanings of modern and modernity in different geographical and temporal coordinates both outside and within Europe, before and after the fifteenth century. Questions include but are not limited to:

How can bodies (individual, cultural, social, political, religious, textual) shed light on different and perhaps interrelated modernities? How do modernities shape and impact bodies, and how do bodies respond to modernities? How does Michel Foucault’s notion of biopower or Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics enable us to talk about or challenge the category of the modern in its alternative definitions? In what ways can Slavoj Žižek’s and Kojin Karatani’s reflections on the relationship between late capitalism and the body inform our periodization of different modernities?

We invite papers that explore how bodies enable reconfigurations and pluralization of modernity and that employ literature and other media to trace such alternative models. We welcome papers situated in different areas and topics of research, including:

  • Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Studies
  • Race and ethnicity
  • Disability Studies
  • Bodies and consumerism
  • Visual arts, body arts, and performance
  • Carnival and the carnivalesque
  • Body, violence, and war
  • Trauma and memory studies
  • Translation studies and the body
  • Mechanical and technological bodies
  • Posthumanism
  • Politics and bodies
  • Questions of visibility and invisibility in relation to bodies (dominant/non-dominant)
  • Social movements as bodies
  • Movement of bodies through the colonial route (slave trade/ exiles/ intellectual internationalism)
  • Travelling and migrating bodies
  • Religion and theology as bodies
  • Comparative literature/World literature
  • Global Modernisms

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to crosscon@umass.edu by June 14, 2016. Abstracts must include full name, contact information, institutional affiliation, and a short bio.

Participants will be notified of their acceptance by the beginning of July.

University of Cambridge: Postdoctoral Research Associate – Call For Applications

Research Associate (Fixed Term)
University of Cambridge – McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Location: Cambridge
Salary: £28,982 to £37,768
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary

A full-time, four-year Postdoctoral Research Associate is sought to work on a Wellcome Trust funded project entitled “After the plague: health and history in medieval Cambridge”. The project will explore the historical effects of major health events by combining multiple methods (archaeology, history, osteoarchaeology, isotopic and genetic studies of both human and pathogen aDNA) to study the people of medieval Cambridge, particularly to understand health, lifestyle and activity in medieval England and to understand the long-term biosocial effects of the Black Death epidemic.

This post-doctoral position focuses upon the aDNA and genetics component of the project. The research involves sampling and extracting aDNA from human skeletal material from archaeological contexts and helping to write up the results, under the supervision of Dr Toomas Kivisild. Working with collaborators on the analysis of pathogen aDNA will also be involved. The successful candidate should have a PhD in a relevant field in hand or to be awarded soon, good writing skills, and the ability to work as part of a team. aDNA experience and the bioinformatic skills to analyse next generation sequencing data are essential. Knowledge of medieval history/ archaeology and a strong record of academic publication are additional desirable qualifications.

Starting date: 1 October 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter. Limit of tenure: 4 years. The successful candidate will be expected to start at or near the base of the pay scale shown above.

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 48 months in the first instance, until 30 September 2020.

Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a health assessment.

To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please visit:

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/9925. This will take you to the role on the University’s Job Opportunities pages. There you will need to click on the ‘Apply online’ button and register an account with the University’s Web Recruitment System (if you have not already) and log in before completing the online application form.

A covering letter explaining how your qualifications and experience suit you to the post and a full CV should be uploaded onto the online recruitment system no later than the deadline of 1 June, 2016. Interviews will take place in late June.

Informal inquiries may be addressed to Prof. John Robb (jer39@cam.ac.uk).

Please quote reference JC08712 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

Paradigm Shifts: 23rd Annual ACMRS Conference – Call For Papers

Paradigm Shifts
23rd Annual ACMRS Conference
Embassy Suites Hotel, Scottsdale, Arizona
February 9-11, 2017

ACMRS invites session and paper proposals for its annual interdisciplinary conference to be held February 9-11, 2017 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Scottsdale. We welcome papers that explore any topic related to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance and especially those that focus on the general theme of “Paradigm Shifts during the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance.”

CONFERENCE PUBLICATION: Selected papers focused on “Paradigm Shifts during the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance” will be considered for publication in the conference volume of the Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance series, published by Brepols Publishers (Belgium).

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University. Professor Hsia’s research has focused on the history of the Protestant Reformation, Catholic Renewal, anti-Semitism, and the encounter between Europe and Asia. His current book project, tentatively titled Translating Christianity: China and the Catholic Missions 1584-1780, is a study of the history of cultural encounter between Counter-Reformation Europe and the Ming and Qing empires.

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP: ACMRS will host a workshop on manuscript studies led by Professor Timothy Graham, Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico. The workshop will be held on the afternoon of Thursday, February 9, and participation will be limited to the first 25 individuals to register. The cost of the workshop is $50 ($25 for students) and is in addition to the regular conference registration fee.

DEADLINES: Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis until midnight, MST on December 2, 2016. Responses will be given within a week of submission. Please submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief CV to ACMRSconference@asu.edu. Proposals must include audio/visual requirements and any other special requests; late requests may not be accommodated. Visit our web page at www.acmrs.org/conferences/annual-acmrs-conference for further details.

ANZAMEMS Conference Panel: Gender and Textual Mobility – Call For Applications

Call for Papers – Gender and Textual Mobility, ANZAMEMS 2017

The Early Modern Women’s Research Network (EMWRN) is convening panels on Gender and Textual Mobility at the upcoming ANZAMEMS conference in Wellington, 7-10 February, 2017.

This is the 11th biennial conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and three keynote speakers have an interest in gender in the medieval and early modern world: Professor Lorna Hutson (English, St Andrews, sponsored by EMWRN), Professor Martha Howell (History, Columbia), and Dr Erin Griffey (Art History, Auckland).

EMWRN invites proposals for papers engaging with gender and textual mobility, for a dedicated stream of panels. Potential topics might include but are not limited to:

  • gender and textual transmission, including coteries, circles, and networks of readers, writers, and performers;
  • gendered histories of reading and writing, including markings, marginalia, excerpting and commonplacing;
  • women as writers and readers at the royal court, the country house, in the city, and in exile;
  • women as patrons, facilitators, interpreters, and transmitters of texts;
  • the mobility of genre(s), literary and non-literary, ‘high’ and ‘low’;
  • theories and practices of gender and editing, the archive and digital technologies.

We welcome proposals from PhD students and early career researchers.

Please send any enquiries and paper proposals by 1 August, 2016 to Trisha Pender, patricia.j.pender@newcastle.edu.au.

Proposals should include:

  1. Paper title
  2. Abstract (up to 150 words)
  3. Your name, affiliation, and email address
  4. A brief CV (2 pages maximum)
  5. An indication of AV requirements

“My Library Was Dukedom Large Enough”: Rare Book Exhibition @ Fryer Library, University of Queensland

“My Library Was Dukedom Large Enough” | Fryer Library, University of Queensland
2-31 May, 2016
Free

This wide-ranging exhibition will showcase some of the Shakespeare-related treasures held at the University of Queensland’s Fryer Library. From books that Shakespeare used to construct his own plays (including a copy of Raphael Holinshed’s Historie of England, a principal source for Shakespeare’s history plays), to other important volumes from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to materials relating to the performance and appreciation of Shakespeare in colonial and modern Queensland, this exhibition will introduce visitors to the many ways in which Shakespeare’s works have both arisen out of, and shaped, wider literary, intellectual, and theatrical legacies.

Presented by the Fryer Library, University of Queensland.