Contributions are sought for an edited collection, Conjuring Identity – Rethinking Magic in the Global Middle Ages, the proposal for which is being submitted to Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) Press.
Please see below flyer regarding the volume’s theme. Abstracts of not more than 300 words are due by 20 September 2024.
The next session of the 2024 ANZAMEMS ECR/Postgraduate reading group is scheduled for Tuesday, August 27. This will be a session on early modern deafness and preaching. See schedule below.
All readings and any updates to the schedule will be shared through the reading group’s Google Drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qi0W8i-38w0Dgwia9jJ0aDCh5OEQjpRF?usp=sharing
Please contact the convenors with any queries: Alexandra Forsyth (University of Auckland), afor784@aucklanduni.ac.nz, and Emily Chambers (Murdoch University), emily.chambers@murdoch.edu.au.
The University of Adelaide is currently advertising for two positions in English Literature: a Teaching Fellow and a Lecturer. Please find the details through the below links.
Teaching Fellowship (B) – English Literature
Lecturer (B) – English Literature
The Royal Studies Network is pleased to announce its call for papers for panels at the 2025 International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds. Please see below flyer.
Join the Australian National University Centre for Early Modern Studies for a hybrid seminar with Professor Michelle O’Callaghan (University of Reading) on 3 September, 2024.
Making Poetry Collections by Hand and Creative Leisure
What can a focus on the work of the hand bring to the study of making poetry collections in early modern scribal cultures? Compiling poetry collections by hand depended on manual labour that required technical skills, was time-consuming, often intensive, and, in this sense, was work-like. In the case of those manuscripts compiled by the user, it was also work that was undertaken by choice, during leisure time, and, at some level, was satisfying. I am interested in how the category of productive leisure, which turns attention to the pleasurable work of the hand, can help to understand the kinds of making practised in scribal cultures in early modern England. The examples I will discuss were produced by scribes, working outside scriptoria and elite households, for whom penmanship was both work and recreation, and who make literary cultures beyond early modern London and the universities visible.
More details and bookings: https://events.humanitix.com/michelle-o-callaghan-making-poetry-collections-by-hand-and-productive-leisure
CHRISTOPHER DAWSON CENTRE
SUMMER SCHOOL IN KOINE AND BIBLICAL GREEK
13 – 17 JANUARY, 2025
This five-day intensive school is for beginners who want to experience the excitement of reading parts of the Bible and early Christian literature in the original language. We shall read extracts from the Gospel and Epistles, as well as some important passages from the Septuagint (the ancient Greek version of the Old Testament), as well as some pieces from the early Fathers of the Church and the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom.
This course is suitable for beginners, provided that they are willing to undertake preliminary work on the Greek alphabet (to be provided) before the course begins.
Fr John Wall Community Library, in the rear of 31 Tower Road, New Town, Tasmania (about two kms from central Hobart – we will provide a map)
Monday 13 January to Friday 17 January 2025
9.00 am to 3.00 pm each day for five days
Tuition Fee $350 (concession available) includes workbook
Registrations are essential: email Dr David Daintree dccdain@gmail.com
Prior knowledge of Greek is not essential, but beginners are advised to purchase a self-instruction primer and work on the basics between now and the start of the course. It is particularly important to begin the course with a comfortable recognition knowledge of the Greek alphabet, otherwise learning even basic grammar and vocabulary will be frustrating and inefficient. Participants will never be embarrassed if their Greek is imperfect: the teaching method leaves the entire task of translation and exposition to the Lecturer. This approach has been useful to relative beginners as well as those who are more experienced.
Each intending participant should purchase, as soon as possible, a primer of New Testament Greek. There are many available, but a good choice is Gavin Betts, Complete New Testament Greek: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding New Testament Greek with Original Texts. Langenscheidt’s pocket Greek Dictionary is also useful.
The Lecturer is Dr David Daintree who founded the Annual Latin Summer School in Hobart in 1993. Proceeds from this course will go to support The Christopher Dawson Centre. To enrol and for further information contact David Daintree at dccdain@gmail.com.
CHRISTOPHER DAWSON CENTRE
35th ANNUAL SUMMER SCHOOL
IN MEDIEVAL AND LATER LATIN
NOTRE DAME PRIORY, COLEBROOK, TASMANIA
6 – 10 JANUARY, 2025
Latin is arguably the mother tongue of Europe. Its literature is immensely rich. This course will offer a general introduction to Latin of all periods but with particular emphasis on the enormous body of medieval and later literature. We shall read original passages of scripture, liturgy, history, theology and poetry, both secular and secular. There will also be an introduction to palaeography, including an opportunity to handle original medieval manuscripts. There will be a strong emphasis on the pronunciation of Latin in speech and music.
The course us designed for students who already have some Latin, but determined absolute beginners should purchase a self-instruction primer and work on the basics between now and the start of the course. Participants will never be embarrassed by their shaky Latin: the teaching method leaves the entire task of translation and exposition to the Lecturer. This approach has been useful to relative beginners as well as those who are more experienced.
Where: Notre Dame Priory, Richmond Road, Colebrook 7027
When: Monday 6 January to Friday 10 January 2025
Time: 9.00 am to 3.00 pm each day for five days
Cost: Tuition $350.00. Tea and coffee and lunch will be provided daily.
Registrations are essential: email director@dawsoncentre.org.
THE PROGRAMME
There will be four lectures a day on each of the five days, from Monday 6th to Friday 10th, starting at 9.00 am. There will be only one lecture after lunch each day, to free up the afternoons for private study.
TOPICS COVERED
Participants should bring both a grammar and a small dictionary to class each day.
Any Latin grammar can be used, but F Kinchin Smith’s Teach Yourself Latin (out of print, but copies are available from www.abebooks.com) is particularly recommended. A free digitised version is available at https://archive.org/details/TeachYourselfLatin_201810/mode/2up.
All requests for accommodation should be directed to the Priory at: guestmaster@notredamemonastery.org.
All proceeds from this course go to the Christopher Dawson Centre (http://www.dawsoncentre.org).
For further information contact director@dawsoncentre.org.
Women in Power, Powerful Women
Workshop
15 November 2024
University of Adelaide
Call for papers extended to 9 August 2024. See below flyer for further details.
Please note that the CFP for the conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association, to be hosted at ACU Canberra 26-28 September, has been extended to 9th August 2024.
See below for further details.
The first session of the ANZAMEMS Peer Support Group will be on Friday 9 August. The Peer Support Group is a writing and discussion space for postgraduate members of ANZAMEMS. The group will run online, via Zoom, and is open to postgraduate members at any stage from honours to PhD. Attendance across all sessions is not mandatory. This is an informal support group, and we welcome drop-ins as much as regular attendance. See our website for further information.
If you would like to participate or have any questions, please contact ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Representative (AUS) Jenny Davis Barnett at j.barnett@uq.edu.au
