Bursary: Centre for the History of Emotions (ANZAMEMS Conference)

The Centre for the History of Emotions at the University of Western Australia, and the Australian Chapter for the Society of the History of Emotions, are pleased to offer a limited number of travel bursaries (of a minimum of $500AUD) to scholars presenting on any emotions-related topic at the 2024 ANZAMEMS Conference in Christchurch, NZ. HDR students and Early Career Researchers (PhDs completed within the past 7 years) will receive priority, as will those presenting on the conference theme, but everyone with an emotions topic is encouraged to apply. Offers of bursaries are conditional on acceptance of papers.

Applications should include an abstract of the paper to be presented, a short bio explaining the applicant’s status (HDR, ECR, etc.) in academia, and a short CV.

Applications and any queries should be directed to Kirk Essary at kirk.essary@uwa.edu.au.

Deadline: 1 October.

Applications Open: AHA ECR Fellowship and General Thesis Prize

The Australian Historical Association (AHA) has recently opened its Early Career Researcher Fellowship for applications and its General History Thesis Prize for expressions of interest.

AHA Early Career Researcher Fellowship

The AHA Early Career Researcher Fellowship is designed to provide financial support to those who have completed their doctorate but are yet to secure their first academic post (including post-doctoral fellowships) or relevant position in history elsewhere.

The Fellowship is an annual prize of $11,000, commencing in January of the year of the award, for a period of 12 months. It provides $10,000 to support financially an early career researcher in undertaking career-building research and publication activities, such as the preparation of a book manuscript or the writing of articles and/or book chapters in the year of the fellowship. The stipend can be used for living expenses, research costs towards a specific publication project and other costs associated with writing and publication.

The remaining $1000 will be paid to support the recipient to attend the annual AHA conference. It is a condition of the scholarship that the recipient submit an abstract for the annual conference for the year of the award, and present if accepted. Participation in other conference activities is expected.

The AHA will also appoint a mentor to provide the Fellow with academic mentorship and career advice.

For further details see: https://theaha.org.au/awards-and-prizes/aha-early-career-researcher-fellowship/

AHA General History Thesis Prize

The AHA’s General History Thesis Prize is awarded to the best postgraduate thesis in History (excluding Australian history).

The Prize of $2,500 is presented at the AHA annual Conference.

The Prize is to be used to assist in the transformation of the thesis into one or more publications. For example, it can be used as a publishing subsidy and/or for living expenses, including childcare costs. The Prize can also be used towards other expenses associated with publication, such as the cost of carrying out extra research, funding permissions, copyright fees or illustrations (these examples are not exhaustive).

The nominated postgraduate thesis must have been passed in the year prior to the year of the Prize. The majority of the thesis must not be published prior to the Prize being awarded.

For further details see: https://theaha.org.au/awards-and-prizes/aha-general-history-thesis-prize/

CFP: Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Biennial Conference 2024

ANZAMEMS Conference 2024
Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand
8 – 11 February 2024

Legacies and Relevance: Exploring the Medieval & Early Modern World Beyond Europe

What is the role of the medieval or Early Modern scholar in Australasian society?

How does pre-modern European History “add value” in Australasia? Is its study the vestige of an outdated colonial legacy? Or is it something else? Where does it stand in a world of toppled statues and questioned legacies? In the face of an Australian government overtly committed to defunding the Arts and a New Zealand government with similar aims (but a less confrontational way of putting it), should we now re-focus the curricula of universities across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand on what matters? But what does matter? And who should decide?

In the wake of a global pandemic, which has re-written “business as usual,” is it time for a reformation or for holding fast? This conference will showcase the best of scholarship across a range of disciplines pursued by medieval and Early Modern scholars, but will also seek to ask complex and challenging questions about the future of our discipline. Can the study of medieval and Early Modern Europe help to meet the needs of our times? What is the role of the medieval or Early Modern scholar in Australasian society? Indeed, what was it? In considering these issues, we encourage the exploration of questionable as well as positive legacies, and offer a forum to consider the possible future(s) of our discipline.

Call for papers now open; submissions due Friday 15 September 2023

To submit your abstract for consideration please visit the 2024 ANZAMEMS Conference submission portal.

Additional information can be found on the conference website.

CFP Reminder: Conference of the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group

Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group 2023 Annual Conference
FATE AND FORTUNE
UWA, Saturday 21 October 2023

Renaissance thinkers were interested in moral philosophy, and they found inspiration in both ancient and medieval sources. How should one conduct themselves to be happy and useful within society? What will the future bring for us in a time of deep transformation?

An image of a new world to be discovered; changed perspectives in astronomy and medicine; Renaissance humanity wondered whether they were able to influence their path in life, whether their decisions were dependent on a free will—as Pico della Mirandola stated in his Oration on the Dignity of Man—or were but the choice of an omnipotent God, as Catholics, and even more strongly Protestants, each emphasised. The role of Providence would become prevalent across European culture, from visual art to Shakespeare’s plays, gradually replacing the capricious Wheel of Fate which was equally central to medieval thought.

This conference will broadly discuss themes concerning human destiny and the possibility of executing our own will, placed within the attempt to acquiesce to, to acquire, or to enforce a vision of peace and harmony within the constant social and political metamorphosis of the Renaissance, and of the world today.

Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group Incorporated welcomes abstracts which address the theme of ‘Fate and Fortune’ in the medieval and Renaissance periods including:

● Representations of Providence, of destiny, or of doom in literature and literary works.
● Paintings and sculpture relating to fate, divine or otherwise.
● Philosophical works or analyses of Fate and Fortune, or those relating to ethics and utopias.
● Astrology, which enjoyed a blooming during the Renaissance much as it has today, with people turning to psychics, magic, and the stars to search for answers to important questions.
● Political writings depicting the perfect ruler, a utopian vision, or condemning contemporary tyranny.
● Social ideals that valorised the reception of an ancient wisdom, from the Stoics, Plato, Aristotle, or others.
● Educational ideas inspired by Renaissance or classical philosophy, such as liberal and postcritical education.

We welcome abstracts for twenty-minute papers. This is an interdisciplinary conference, and we encourage abstracts from beyond the humanities. We particularly welcome submissions from undergraduate, honours, and postgraduate students, even if beyond the scope of the conference theme.

The conference will take place in hybrid form. Please specify in your submission whether you would attend in-person or online.

Please send abstracts of 150–200 words with your affiliation and a short (up to 50 words) biography to the conference subcommittee at pmrg.committee@gmail.com by 21 August 2023.

For further details, please see https://www.pmrg.org.au/conference2023.

ANZAMEMS Reading Group

The second session of the ANZAMEMS ECR/Postgrad reading group for semester 2 is scheduled for Tuesday, August 1, on the topic of “Shells, Bodies, and Materiality.” The session will be led by Alexandra Forsyth (University of Auckland).

Please find all further details, including the session topic and hour, in the attached schedule. Email Emma.Rayner@anu.edu.au / Emily.Chambers@nottingham.ac.uk with any questions.

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Lecture: Shakespeare’s First Folio – From London to Australia and Many Points in Between

The ANU Centre for Early Modern Studies is delighted to welcome Professor Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, University of Oxford to present a special lecture on Shakespeare’s First Folio.

Shakespeare’s First Folio is the world’s most important secular book. This illustrated lecture explores its significance, from the collaboration between the theatre and print worlds which brought it into being, to the readers, collectors and actors who have used it over the last four centuries. Lots of people have left their mark on this book in ways which tell us about its importance at different times and different places, including, since 1885, Australia.

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Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, University of Oxford. Emma has been a Fellow of Hertford and Lecturer in the Faculty of English since 1997 and is the 2023 Sam Wanamaker Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. She has written and lectured widely on Shakespeare, including the bestselling This Is Shakespeare (Pelican, 2019). Her latest publications are Portable Magic: A history of books and their readers (Penguin 2022), and two books on Shakespeare’s First Folio in 2023: The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio, on how this book came to be produced, and Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book, on its long afterlife.

Emma’s research focuses on Shakespeare, early modern drama, and book history, and is particularly interested in Shakespeare’s reception in print, performance, and criticism. She is interested in early modern plays in performance, and has acted as consultant, dramaturge or reviewer for a number of recent productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, and Donmar Warehouse.

The lecture will be followed by a book signing in the NLA’s bookshop.

Symposium: Beyond the Book, Transforming the Early Modern Archive

ANZAMEMS members and friends are invited to Beyond the Book: Transforming the Early Modern Archive, a free two-day symposium to be hosted by State Library Victoria, on 10-11 August, 2023. 

Join digital designers, specialist librarians and early modern scholars to explore how traditional archival scholarship and emerging digital technologies can combine to bring materials from the past to new audiences.

This event will celebrate the culmination of the ARC Linkage Grant project Transforming the Early Modern Archive: The John Emmerson Collection at State Library Victoria and will launch its digital exhibition, Beyond the Book: A digital journey through the treasures of the Emmerson Collection.

Register here to attend in person, watch via livestream, or access recordings afterwards.

ANU’s Centre for Early Modern Studies is offering 10 bursaries of $500 AUD to enable HDR students to attend in person.  Applications can be made here. 

Link to the collection of events: Beyond the Book: Transforming the Archive | Eventbrite

10th August events

11th August events

CFP: Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions

The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) invites paper proposals for its fifteenth biennial conference, to be held April 19-20, 2024 at the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI. This conference marks the 30th anniversary of FEEGI, which we will celebrate by returning to the JCB, where the founding meeting took place.

FEEGI conferences investigate the histories of places and people touched directly and indirectly, advantageously or catastrophically, by the process of enhanced global interactions that commenced in the fifteenth century. Our conferences provide an opportunity for exchanges about the circumstances, causes, and consequences of increased global interaction in the early modern period (roughly 1450 to 1850). We welcome proposals exploring political, economic, and socio-cultural interactions from a variety of fields and perspectives. We encourage interdisciplinary approaches.

One hallmark of FEEGI conferences is the creation of a space for comparative thinking and intellectual exchange among scholars across traditional temporal, geographic, and imperial boundaries. To promote such dialogue the Program Committee configures panels to make deep thematic connections, and all our sessions are plenary.

FEEGI members may submit proposals for individual papers no later than 30 September 2023 on http://www.feegi.org/conferences. (Details on membership can be found on http://feegi.org/membership.html ). Submissions should include a 200-400 word abstract as well as a brief (1-2 page) CV. We welcome submissions from advanced graduate students. 

Graduate students papers accepted for the program will be eligible for consideration for the FEEGI prize for best presentation by a graduate student. Additionally, in collaboration with Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions, FEEGI offers the FEEGI/Itinerario article prize. The paper awarded this prize receives a “fast-track” to publication in Itinerario. For further details, including the timeline, please contact FEEGI’s Vice-President.

For more information, please visit the FEEGI website (www.feegi.org) or contact Ernesto Bassi, FEEGI Vice-President & 2024 Program Chair, at feegi2024@gmail.com.

FEEGI 2024 Program Committee:
Danna Agmon, Virginia Tech
Alejandra Dubcovsky, University of California Riverside
Kristie Flannery, Australian Catholic University
Faisal Husain, Penn State
Tessa Murphy, Syracuse University
Ernesto Bassi, Cornell University