Western Australian Museum – A History of the World in 100 Objects Exhibition

A History of the World in 100 Objects Exhibition | Western Australian Museum, Perth
13 February – 18 June, 2016

For full details and to purchase tickets, please visit: http://museum.wa.gov.au/museums/perth/history-world-100-objects

Be taken on a voyage through the British Museum’s collections to explore the last two million years of human history. Each object featured in A History of the World in 100 Objects marks a point on your journey through history: from early stone tools to Dürer’s celebrated print The Rhinoceros; the famous Flood Tablet to colourful Javanese shadow puppets.

Unlock fascinating stories and discover interactions between cultures of the past. Wonder at the remarkable achievements of humans as they faced changing climates, new lands and changing political arenas, and be amazed by their ingenuity and awed by their craftsmanship.

Exclusive to the Australian tour is the bronze Head of Augustus from Meroë. One of the most important surviving portraits of Rome’s first emperor, it was originally part of a statue that was ritually beheaded in antiquity. This object caused an international sensation when excavated in Sudan in 1910.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to view treasured objects from around the world and discover how humans have shaped the world and, in turn, have been shaped by it.

New Perspectives on Italian and Australian Art History: A Symposium in Honour of Prof Jaynie Anderson

Symposium: New Perspectives on Italian and Australian Art History
A Symposium in Honour of Prof Jaynie Anderson
Macmahon Ball Theatre, Old Arts Building, The University of Melbourne
Friday, 19 February 2016, 9:45am – 4:30pm

Admission is free. Bookings are required. Seating is limited.
To register visit: http://bit.ly/aiahnewperspectives

For further information please contact: aiah-info@unimelb.edu.au

This symposium will address the broad areas of research undertaken by Professor Jaynie Anderson at the University of Melbourne, while she filled the distinguished roles of third Herald Professor of Art History and Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Art History. The program of speakers is made up of Professor Anderson’s academic and museum colleagues as well as former and current students.

25,000 Early English texts From 1473-1700 Released Online

More than 25,000 early English texts from 1473-1700 have been released online to members of the public as part of a collaborative initiative led by the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and the University of Michigan Library.

This corpus of electronic texts has been created and released by the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP), an international collaboration among universities, funders and ProQuest, an information company central to global research. Previously, the texts were only available to users at academic libraries involved in the partnership but the data was released into the public domain on 1 January.

For more information about this, please see: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/news/2015/jan-27.

To access the collection, please visit: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebogroup.

The Seventh Saint Andrew’s Patristic Symposium: Saint John Chrysostom – Call For Papers

The Seventh Saint Andrew’s Patristic Symposium: Saint John Chrysostom
St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College, 242 Cleveland St, Redfern, NSW, Australia
23–24 September, 2016

Conference Website

Keynotes:

  • Professor Pauline Allen, FAHA (Australian Catholic University): “John Chrysostom after Chalcedon: A Useful Ecumenist?”
  • Dr Wendy Mayer, FAHA (Australian Catholic University): “John Chrysostom: Moral Philosopher and Physician of the Soul”

The seventh St Andrew’s Patristic Symposium focuses on the personality, contributions and legacy of Saint John Chrysostom.

Given the traditional interdisciplinary nature of our symposia, the conveners welcome proposals on the main theme and related or unrelated topics pertaining to patristic tradition. All approaches, from theological to philological, from hermeneutical to ethical, from pastoral to exegetical, from historical to spiritual etc., are welcome. Abstracts of up to 200 words should be sent to Doru Costache at dcostache@sagotc.edu.au, by the end of May 2016. The abstracts should be accompanied by brief biographical notes, mainly detailing the qualifications and affiliations of the contributors.

Two bursaries of $500 (each) will be available for Australian postgraduate students not based in NSW, generously offered by Australian Research Theology Foundation Inc. To win a bursary, postgraduate students should send their papers in full-length to Doru Costache at dcostache@sagotc.edu.au by the end of May 2016. The papers should not exceed 3,000 words, including footnotes. The winners of the two bursaries will be announced by the end of June 2016.

The University of New England in Armidale: Lecturer in Screen Studies – Call For Applications

The University of New England in Armidale
Lecturer in Screen Studies
School of Arts

  • Continuing, full-time
  • $87,978 to $104,269 per annum (Level B)
  • Plus 17% employer superannuation. Salary packaging options are available.
  • Relocation assistance provided

About the role

The School is seeking to appoint a Lecturer to support its teaching and research in screen studies. Its current offerings in this area include popular units in film studies (e.g., criticism, histories, theories), national/transnational cinemas (e.g., Australian cinema, Hollywood), television studies, and documentary studies. The appointee will be able to contribute to continuing curriculum developments in screen studies at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, undertake supervision of higher degree research, and pursue research in the field.

Skills and Experience

As the successful applicant, you must have completed a PhD in an area of screen studies and be able to demonstrate relevant disciplinary expertise and knowledge. You will be expected to teach and develop curriculum in at least two of the following areas, at undergraduate and coursework postgraduate levels: film studies; television studies; national/transnational cinemas; documentary studies. You will also be expected to supervise honours and higher degree students. It is expected you will have a track record of research commensurate with the level of appointment; the capacity for continued relevant research; and willingness to apply for external competitive research funding. The School is renowned for its distance education expertise; you will therefore contribute to the continuous improvement in teaching, both on campus and online.

For additional information and to apply, please visit: https://hr.une.edu.au/v13/WK8127$APP.draw_attachments?P_VACANCY_REF_NO=215129&P_CALLER_URL=WK8127ZZDOLLARZZAPP.QueryListZZQMARKZZZ_ORDER_BY=1

Closing Date: 17 February, 2016.

State Library Victoria Fellowships Available

Artists, performers, writers, historians, filmmakers, scholars and thinkers are encouraged to apply for a prestigious State Library Victoria Fellowship.

In 2016, the State Library and its partners are offering 12 fellowships including specialist fellowships in children’s literature, Ukrainian studies, performing arts, visual arts and a fellowship to commemorate the centenary of WWI.

Fellowship recipients use the Library’s extensive collections to inform and inspire their work. Past fellowships have produced major exhibitions, public art installations, documentaries, books, graphic novels, plays, musical scores, interactive games and many other creative projects.

The Library will hold an information night for prospective applicants on Thursday 18 February, 6pm.

Applications for the 2016-17 Fellowships close Sunday 17 April 2016.

University of Birmingham: BRIHC Research Fellow – Call For Applications

BRIHC Research Fellow
University of Birmingham – School of History and Cultures within the College of Arts and Law

Location: Birmingham
Salary: £28,982 to £37,768 Grade 7
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary
Closes: 18th March 2016
Job Ref: 51681

The newly-founded Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures (BRIHC) wishes to appoint two outstanding early career scholars to its two-year 2016 Fellowships. The period and topic of study is open, but candidates must clearly show how their proposed scheme of work relates to research currently undertaken within the School of History and Cultures (SHaC) – which includes African Studies, Archaeology, History, and Classics.

The appointees are expected to undertake a significant piece of independent research, and to produce research papers, manuscripts, or other outputs. During the Fellowship they are also expected to propose and write, with collaborators if necessary, grant application(s) for future and/or follow-on projects. Further, they will organise a series of research-related activities within the remit of the BRIHC, working with the Institute’s Director or other members of staff within SHaC.

Candidates should outline their proposed scheme of work, broadly indicating the general themes, individuals, or research clusters they intend to work with, and give specific indications of their future plans for research in terms of applications, outputs and BRIHC activities (max. 2 pages).

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AMW480/brihc-research-fellow/

Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age – Call For Applications

Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA)
Cambridge and London
2–6 May, 2016

We are very pleased to announce the sixth year of this course, funded by the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT), and run by DiXiT with the Institute of English Studies (London), the University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute, and King’s College London. For the second time, the course will run in two parallel strands: one on medieval and the other on modern manuscripts.

The course is open to any arts and humanities doctoral students working with manuscripts. It involves five days of intensive training on the analysis, description and editing of medieval or modern manuscripts to be held jointly in Cambridge and London. Participants will receive a solid theoretical foundation and hands-on experience in cataloguing and editing manuscripts for both print and digital formats.

Applications close at 5pm GMT on 22 February, 2016 but early registration is strongly recommended.

For further details see: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/mmsda or contact dixit-mmsda@uni-koeln.de.

Asian Shakespeare Association Biennial Conference – Call For Papers

Asian Shakespeare Association Biennial Conference
New Delhi, India
1-3 December, 2016

‘All the World is his Stage: Shakespeare Today’

There is no doubt that Shakespeare has occupied the stages of the world: his works are read, translated and performed in most languages of the world. Intercultural and intermedial appropriation is the order of the day, his works continue to issue forth in protean and surprising forms. The world has embraced Shakespeare as no other author before or after. He inhabits all literatures and cultures. This conference would like to celebrate, document and debate this world-wide spread of Shakespeare: how and why do people continue to recourse to his plays and poems? What meanings do they make more than 400 years after they were written? Are these versions of the same Shakespeare or do both local and global Shakespeare exist simultaneously? Is it possible or even desirable to reclaim our man from Stratford?

The conference invites papers (20 mins.), panels (3-4 papers), seminars and workshops which address diverse aspects of these and related topics such as:

  • The secrets of Shakespeare’s success
  • The most popular versus unpopular plays
  • Ebbs and flows of Shakespeare’s reputation
  • Role of politics / culture / globalization / gender in the spread of Shakespeare
  • Negotiating past and present, local and global Shakespeares
  • The metaphorics of the world and stage in Shakespeare’s time and ours
  • Performing trends and the popularization of Shakespeare
  • Critical theory and the promotion of Shakespeare Studies

Please send a 250 word abstract with a short bio-data by 15 April, 2016 to: admin@asianshakespeare.org.

Australian Academy of the Humanities: 2016 Grants and Awards – Applications Now Open

The Australian Academy of the Humanities is pleased to announce that applications for the following Grants and Awards are now open.

Applications close at 5:00pm AEST on Thursday 24 March 2016.

AAH Humanities Travelling Fellowships

The Humanities Travelling Fellowships offer grants of up to $4000 to support Australian early career researchers in the Humanities to undertake research overseas, including accessing archives and other research materials and connecting with international researchers and networks.

AAH Publication Subsidy Scheme

The Publication Subsidy Scheme offers grants of up to $3000 to support the publication of scholarly works of high quality in the Humanities. The scheme is designed to assist Humanities scholars based in Australia.

The 2016 Crawford Medal

Nominations are open for the 2016 Crawford Medal.The Crawford Medal is Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the humanities. It is presented biennially to an Australian-based, early-career scholar working and publishing in the humanities, whose publications contribute towards an understanding of their discipline by the general public. The award is funded through a generous bequest to the Academy from the late Professor Max Crawford FAHA.

Please click on the above links for further details about the schemes and the application process. Questions concerning these awards should be directed to the Grants Manager (grants@humanities.org.au).