Adaptation Essay Prize 2016 – Call For Applications

The Adaptation Essay Prize is a new innovation from the journal, launched in 2011 to encourage the best new scholarship in the field. While the journal publishes many articles which focus on the relationship between literature and film, the Editors are particularly keen to publish work which challenges the primacy of that relationship: this might include essays on computer games, opera, popular music, animation, genre fiction or work with a wider theoretical sweep.

The Adaptation Prize

The winner’s prize will consist of:

  • Publication of the winning paper in a volume of Adaptation
  • A cash prize of £50.00
  • A year’s free print and online subscription to Adaptation

Other entries of sufficient quality may be invited to publish.

Entry requirements

The Essay Prize is open to anyone currently registered for either an undergraduate or postgraduate degree on any subject within adaptation studies. The entry must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Essays are to be no longer than 4,000 words, inclusive of footnotes and references should conform to Adaptation house style. The closing date will be 1 April 2016,.

For full details on how to apply, please visit: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/adaptation/essayprize.html

Masterclass: Baroque Music: Performance, Emotions, Insights

Masterclass ‘Baroque Music: Performance, Emotions, Insights’

Date: Wednesday 17 February, 2016
Time: 10am–4:30pm
Venue: The Salon, Ground Floor, Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank Boulevard, Southbank.
Contact: che-melb-admin@unimelb.edu.au. Tickets are free, but places are limited, so advanced booking is essential. Tickets are available for the day or by session.
More information: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/baroque-music-performance-emotions-insights/

Symposium and Performance @ UWA – The Merry Wives of Windsor

Performance: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Date: 16–18 February 2016
Time: 7–9pm
Venue: New Fortune Theatre, The University of Western Australia.
Bookings: $25 Standard, $15 Concession, Child or Student: http://ticketswa.com/event/merry-wives-windsor

With 2016 commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, this new production by Melbourne’s Nothing But Roaring of Shakespeare’s funniest play of love and lies, fidelity and forgiveness, will transform the New Fortune Theatre into a chamber of laughter. The play features the corrupt and cowardly knight, Sir John Falstaff, who accompanied Prince Hal in Henry IV. In Falstaff’s latest escapades, he attempts to woo two wealthy married women. Rather than turn down the buffooning Falstaff, the ladies conspire to have a laugh (and a little vengance) at his expense.

Symposium: ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’
Date: Wednesday 17 February 2016
Time: 10am–5pm
Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room (Arts 1.33) and the New Fortune Theatre, The University of Western Australia.
More details: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/the-symposium-the-merry-wives-of-windsor

This symposium runs in conjunction with the performances of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor on the New Fortune Theatre, 16–18 February 2016. It brings together international experts on the play and on theatre history. The emphasis will be on these presentations and discussion, so other papers are not invited.

This is a free event but numbers will be limited so please register well in advance with Pam Bond (pam.bond@uwa.edu.au).

Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age – Call For Papers

Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
The University of Arizona, Tucson
April 28–May 1, 2016

Magic and the magician are two critically important aspects of cultural epistemology, challenging and contributing to the world of science, undermining it at the same time. Who was the magician, what did s/he do, how did s/he operate, how did society view him/her, and what does the topic addressed here mean for our own world in reflection upon the past?

This is a self-sustaining academic symposium. Participants are expected to secure travel funds and other resources to cover their costs (housing, registration) from their home institution.

Registration: $90. This will not only cover the conference, but also provide you with a free copy of the subsequent volume, for which I will do intensive research together with all contributors.

Selected papers will be accepted for publication in a planned volume (de Gruyter). Each contributor to the volume will receive a free copy and can negotiate with the publisher reduced prices for any of the volumes in our series.

For anyone interested in joining the symposium as part of the audience, please contact the organizer. Student participation will be most welcome.

Languages accepted at the symposium: English, French, German, and in exceptional cases Spanish. Non-English papers must be accompanied by a good English summary available as a hand-out. Abstracts of all papers will be posted well ahead of the symposium.

Hotel Accommodations: A special arrangement has been made with Riverpark Inn, $72/night (plus tax [12.05%] plus $2 per night). Price subject to change. Within the USA, call: 1-800 551-1466, refer to “Dept. of German Studies/Magic and the Magician in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time,” or to the organizer’s name (Classen). Local number: 520 239-2300. Transportation to and from the symposium (at the University of Arizona), will be provided by means of the new streetcar ($4./day). For international guests, please fax your reservations to: 011- 520-239-2329.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 31, 2016, but feel free to send an inquiry even after that date, to aclassen@u.arizona.edu

Organizer and Chair: Dr. Albrecht Classen
University Distinguished Professor
Dept. of German Studies, 301 LSB, The University of Arizona
520 621-1395; aclassen@u.arizona.edu; aclassen.faculty.arizona.edu

PopCAANZ 7th Annual International Conference – Call For Papers

PopCAANZ 7th Annual International Conference
Sydney University Village, Sydney, Australia
29 June-1 July 2016

The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ) is devoted to the scholarly understanding of everyday cultures. It is concerned with the study of the social practices and the cultural meanings that are produced and are circulated through the processes and practices of everyday life, as a product of consumption, an intellectual object of inquiry, and as an integral component of the dynamic forces that shape societies.

We invite academics, professionals, cultural practitioners and those with a scholarly interest in popular culture to send a 150 word abstract and 100 word bio to the area chairs listed below. Deadline for proposals: 1 March, 2016.

Biography and Life Writing: Rachel Franks: biography@popcaanz.com
Business: Vicki Karaminas: business@popcaanz.com
Comics, Manga and Anime: Paul Mountfort: comics@popcaanz.com
Creative Writing: Karen Simpson Nikakis: writing@popcaanz.com
Curating: Heather Gailbraith: curating@popcaanz.com
Design: Gjoko Muratovski: design@popcaanz.com
Disability: Kimberley McMahon-Coleman: disability@popcaanz.com
Entertainment: Tanya Nitins: entertainment@popcaanz.com
Fandom: Katherine Larsen: fandom@popcaanz.com
Fashion: Vicki Karaminas: fashion@popcaanz.com
Fiction: Rachel Franks: fiction@popcaanz.com
Film: Bruce Isaacs: film@popcaanz.com
Food: Jill Adams food@popcaanz.com
Gender and Queer: Anita Brady: gender@popcaanz.com
Girlhood Studies: Juliette Peers: girlhood@popcaanz.com
Gothic and Horror: Lorna Piatti-Farnell: gothic@popcaanz.com
History: Bronwyn Labrum: history@popcaanz.com
Journalism: Stephen Harrington: journalism@popcaanz.com
Law: Jason Bainbridge: law@popcaanz.com
Performance: Sue Osmond: performance@popcaanz.com
Popular Romance: Jodi McAlister: popularomance@popcaanz.com
Radio and Audio Media: Martin Hadlow: radio@popcaanz.com
Religion: Holly Randell-Moon: religion@popcaanz.com
Science: Steven Gil: science@popcaanz.com
Spatial Arts: Julieanna Preston: spatial@popcaanz.com
Television: Rosser Johnson: tv@popcaanz.com
Textiles: Denise Rall: textiles@popcaanz.com
Toys and Games: Jason Bainbridge: toys@popcaanz.com
Visual Arts: Adam Geczy: visualarts@popcaanz.com

PopCAANZ will publish double-­‐blind peer reviewed Conference Proceedings online following the conference, and presenters will be invited to submit suitable articles to our new journal from June 2016, The Journal of Asia-­‐Pacific Pop Culture (Penn State University Press). Queries about new areas should be directed to vicepresident@popcaanz.com.

Stuart Successions Database – Now Online

The Stuart Successions database providing a searchable catalogue of the writing printed in response to moments of royal and protectoral succession over the long 17th century, is now available to browse at: http://stuarts.exeter.ac.uk/database.

The database is the outcome of the AHRC-funded Stuart Successions project undertaken in collaboration by the universities of Exeter and Oxford. Containing records for over 3000 examples of succession literature across several genres, including panegyric and elegy, sermon and pamphlet, address and proclamation, the database will help students of both literature and history to uncover new ways of understanding the relationship between literature, print, and politics during one of most tumultuous centuries in British history.

Romantic Rituals: ‘Making Love’ in Europe c.1100-1800 – Call For Papers

Romantic Rituals: ‘Making Love’ in Europe c.1100-1800
The University of Adelaide
4 July, 2016

Contact: Katie Barclay (katie.barclay@adelaide.edu.au) and Sally Holloway (sally.holloway@richmond.ac.uk)

Convenors: Katie Barclay and Sally Holloway

Keynote: Clara Tuite (The University of Melbourne)

The study of romantic love continues to grow apace, with the foundation of the Love Research Cluster at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and the Love Research Network at the University of Hull. An increasing number of works including Simon May’s Love: A History (2011), Katie Barclay’s Love, Intimacy and Power (2011) and William Reddy’s The Making of Romantic Love (2012) have scrutinised the historical, literary and philosophical dimensions of romantic emotion.

This one-day workshop will focus on the changing rituals shaping romantic relationships in Europe. The linguistic, material and emotional dimensions of ‘making love’ – meaning to court or woo – evolved significantly over the period from c.1100-1800. By the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755) described suitors embarking on ‘lovesuits’ using ‘lovetricks’ and ‘lovetoys’ which mediated the expression, understanding and hence the experience of love itself.

We invite papers that explore the customs of falling and staying in love through love letters, love songs, valentines, romantic gifts and similar ritual exchanges. These transactions are documented at length in letters, diaries, literature (including romances, fairy tales and novels), ballads, court records and extant objects. Our aim is to discover how men and women negotiated the process of falling in love, and how this varied according to gender, rank, region, and over time. A study of romantic love must also explore the contexts in which the rituals of romantic love were appropriate, in some contexts expanding the traditional boundaries of love between courting men and women to illicit love, romantic love within friendship, and romantic love as a religious connection to God. Papers that expand our understanding or interrogate the boundaries of romantic love in history are particularly welcome.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words, and a short bio, should be emailed to both Katie Barclay, (katie.barclay@adelaide.edu.au) and Sally Holloway (sally.holloway@richmond.ac.uk) by 1 February, 2016. Questions or queries can also be addressed to the above.

CARMEN Annual Meeting 2016

CARMEN Annual Meeting
Essen, Germany
9-11 September, 2016

CARMEN, as stated on its website, “is a worldwide network of medievalists, its name being an acronym for the “Co-operative for the Advancement of Research through a Medieval European Network”. It links a number of research institutions, universities, interest groups and individuals with common scholarly interest in the study of the Middle Ages. While based in Europe, it reaches out to all continents to create an open and truly international platform of co-operation in the field of medieval research and teaching.” For more information about CARMEN please visit: http://www.carmen-medieval.net.

CARMEN’s next Annual Meeting will take place in Essen, Germany, organised by the Historical Institute at the University of Duisburg-Essen (https://www.uni-due.de/geschichte). The general theme of the Annual Meeting will be Futures. Mark the dates 9-11 September, 2016, in your medieval events calendar, join us, make friends, and enjoy the charming medieval city of Essen, the home of the famous golden Madonna. Participants are advised to fly to Düsseldorf or Cologne/ Köln; practical information on travel and accommodation, and the program of the meeting will be available in spring 2016 on the CARMEN webpage.

Essen is a medieval site in the Ruhr region that has been a center of Carolingian missionary activity, with a cathedral church going back to a 9th century female monastery that held with close ties to the Ottonian family in the 10th century. There has been a male Benedictine monastery in Essen (Werden) from c. 800 as well.

Graduate students: If you’re interested in attending the meeting or learning more about CARMEN, please get in touch with Professor Robert E. Bjork (Foundation Professor of English and Director, ACMRS – Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) at: robert.bjork@asu.edu

The International Australian Studies Association: Unpaid Editorial Traineeship – Call for Expression of Interest

The International Australian Studies Association (InASA) and the editors of the Journal of Australian Studies are seeking expressions of interests from HDR candidates, graduate students in editing programmes, or ECRs, who are interested in Australian Studies and would like the opportunity to gain editorial experience as an editorial trainee with the leading journal in Australian Studies.

We expect to appoint two trainees, one based in Brisbane and one based in Melbourne, initially for one year, although this would also be renewable, beginning in March 2016.

As editorial work on the journal is voluntary, trainees would not be paid, although each trainee will receive a one-off award of $500 to defray costs. Trainees will participate in the deliberations of the editors, and will be invited to attend meetings of the Editorial Advisory Committee. They might be asked to accept special responsibility as a group to work on a particular project for the journal. We envisage that the traineeship will involve approximately 2 hours of work per week.

Expressions of interest should be in the form of a letter accompanying a brief curriculum vitae, with the names of two referees, and a one page outline of why you are interested in the position, and what skills you will bring to it.

For further information please contact the editors Maggie Nolan (marguerite.nolan@acu.edu.au) or Julie Kimber (jkimber@swin.edu.au).

Please submit expressions of interest to either editor (inc. subject line: EoI: Journal of Australian Studies editorial trainee)

Expressions of Interest close at the end of January, 2016.