Balingup Medieval Carnivale 2014

Western Australia’s biggest, best and longest running medieval carnivale, the Balingup Medieval Carnivale will be held on the fourth weekend of August 2014.

Date: Saturday & Sunday, 23rd-24th August, 2014
Time: 10:00am – 4:30pm
Location: Balingup, WA (250 km south of Perth)
Entry Fee* : $15 per day or ONLY $20 for a weekend pass.
*Free Entry for accompanied children under the age of 12

  • Market Stalls – Craft, Food & Wine Tastings
  • Music and Dance, Medieval Re-enactors Combat
  • The Blacksmith & Potters
  • Daily Grand Parade at 1pm each day

For full details, visit the Balingup Medieval Carnivale website: http://www.balingupmedievalcarnivale.com.au

Brepols Publishers: Publishing Manager – Call For Applications

In order to strengthen the editorial programme of English language publications (primarily classical, medieval, and early modern studies), Brepols is seeking (for their UK office in Nottingham) a:

Publishing Manager

You will assist with the development of English language publications, in the first instance by working with the current Publishing Manager for English publications in classical, medieval, and early modern studies. Through this initial role, you will assist with the co-ordination of all aspects of book projects from inception to publication. You will establish and maintain good contacts with authors and Editorial Boards and follow trends within the academic world, principally (but not exclusively) within classical, medieval, and early modern studies.

You will develop into the role as Publishing Manager whereby you will: attract and present new projects; co-ordinate all aspects of projects through planning of peer review and assessment, copy-editing, production, providing necessary guidance (to authors, Editorial Boards and external readers, freelance copy-editors, etc), and administrative follow-up; formulate and monitor a project budget.

Your skills and experience:

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; knowledge of French and other languages, including classic languages, will be an advantage
  • relevant university degree(s), with a broad interest in (European) history and literature and the capacity to acquire insight into subjects and disciplines that are new to you
  • project management skills, with the capacity to monitor and follow up projects at various stages of the assessment and production process
  • understanding of conventions within academic publication, and familiarity with academic referencing and idiom
  • high level accuracy and attention to detail; familiarity with general IT applications; familiarity with graphic design programs such as Indesign will be an advantage

Your profile:

  • an energetic networker, with the capacity to establish and develop relationships with scholars from a number of fields
  • personable, customer-oriented, and a team player
  • commercial insight
  • highly organised and efficient, but also flexible and intuitive

Please send your letter of application and CV (including a photo) by 10 June 2014 to: hrm@brepols.net. Interviews will be held (in Nottingham, UK) on Thursday 19 and Friday 20 June, 2014. Please indicate any dates when you will not be available.

Failure in the Archives – Call For Papers

Failure in the Archives
Centre for Editing Lives and Letters
University College London (UCL)
30 October, 2014

Conference Website

The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) is pleased to announce ‘Failure in the Archives’, a conference celebrating the frustrations of archival research, to be held on 30 October 2014 and featuring a keynote address by Natalie Zemon Davis.

‘Failure in the Archives’ will provide a forum to examine everything that doesn’t belong in traditional conferences and publications, from dead-end research trips to unanswered questions. How do we respond to the resistance, or worse, the silences and gaps, that we find in the archives? Scholarship tends toward success stories, but this conference seeks presentations from a range of disasters that arise when navigating the depths of the archive: damaged, destroyed, mislabelled, misrepresented materials, forgeries, exaggerated significance, and gaps in the historical record. Overall, the experience of failure in the archive is truly interdisciplinary, skewing the warp and woof of close reading and big data alike, not to mention posing everyday problems for archivists and librarians working on the frontlines to make their collections accessible.

We welcome proposals on any aspect of early modern archival work, manuscript or print, covering the period 1500-1750. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Materials which challenge cataloguing standards
  • Uncatalogued material – how to find it, how to access it, how to use it
  • Inaccurate cataloguing – tensions between past and present.
  • Broken or dispersed collections
  • Damaged, destroyed, or compromised collections
  • The ethics of maintaining archives
  • The ethics of archival research – especially when working with sensitive material
  • Absences and silences in the archive
  • Difficulties conserving and preserving materials
  • Conflicts of information between archival sources
  • Digitisation and its discontents
  • Agents in the archives: collectors, archivists, researchers

With an aim to include as many participants as possible, ‘Failure in the Archives’ welcomes proposals for two types of presentations, which will be peer-reviewed.

  • 200 word abstracts for 10 minute ‘Lightning Round’ panels.
  • 400 word abstracts for 20 minute presentations, which will be pre-circulated to panel chairs and respondents.

A small fund for travel bursaries will be available for postgraduate students – please indicate in your application if you would like to be considered for this.

All questions, feedback, and proposals are due to FailureInTheArchives@gmail.com no later than 31 July 2014.

University of Warwick: 3 Year PostDoc in Italian Vernacular Aristotelian Psychology

The University of Warwick is seeking a postdoctoral Research Fellow as part of the ERC-funded Starting Investigator Grant on ‘Aristotle in the Italian Vernacular: Rethinking Renaissance and Early-Modern Intellectual History (c. 1400-c. 1650)’. The project is a collaboration between the University of Ca’ Foscari, Venice (Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali) and the University of Warwick (Department of Italian).

You will conduct research on topics related to the interpretation of Aristotle’s works in the Italian vernacular (roughly 1400–1650), with particular attention to Aristotelian psychology (De anima literature and that related to animals). Your main activities will involve research, writing articles as the basis for a monograph, the organization of colloquia, the editing of colloquia proceedings, and other tasks as required. You will have opportunities to develop your professional and teaching profile. You will work under the direction of Dr David Lines and Professor Simon Gilson in the Department of Italian.

You will have a PhD or equivalent in Italian, Classics, Philosophy, Intellectual History, or a relevant field; an excellent knowledge of at least English, Italian and Latin; and first-hand familiarity with medieval/Renaissance philosophy and the methods of research in Renaissance literature and/or intellectual history.

The position is for 36 months from 1 September 2014.

Applicants are requested to submit a cover letter (outlining their interest in the position), academic CV (including list of publications and any awards received), sample of their written work (preferably one article in English; another in any other Western language) and three reference letters to Sharon.Murray@warwick.ac.uk, in addition to the application form.

For informal enquiries, please contact Dr David Lines, (D.A.Lines@warwick.ac.uk), telephone +44 (0)24 765 23250.

Closing date: 6 June 2014
Interview date: provisionally 26 June 2014

David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies XV – Call For Papers

David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies XV
The University of Sydney
10-13 December 2014

Seminar Website

Keynote Speakers

  • John Dixon Hunt (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Sophia Rosenfeld (University of Virginia)
  • Michael McKeon (Rutgers University)
  • Erika Naginski (Harvard University)

The Sydney Intellectual History Network and ‘Putting Periodisation to Use’ Research Group at the University of Sydney invite you to the Fifteenth David Nichol Smith Seminar (DNS), with the theme ‘Ideas and Enlightenment’. Inaugurated and supported by the National Library of Australia, the DNS conference is the leading forum for eighteenth-century studies in Australasia. It brings together scholars from across the region and internationally who work on the long eighteenth century in a range of disciplines, including history, literature, art and architectural history, philosophy, the history of science, musicology, anthropology, archaeology and studies of material culture.

We welcome proposals for papers or panels on the following topics, although please note that the conference organisers are open to proposals for subjects that fall outside of these broad themes:

  • Making Ideas Visible
  • Biography and the History of Individual Life
  • Economic Ideas in Social and Political Contexts
  • Global Sensibilities
  • National Identity and Cosmopolitanism
  • Antiquaries and Alternative Versions of the Classical Tradition
  • Periodisation and the question of Period Styles
  • ‘Enlightenment’ and the Pacific
  • Spectacle, Sociability and Pleasure
  • Genres of Enlightenment
  • Science, Technology and Medicine
  • Borders and Empire
  • Historiography of the Enlightenment
  • Post-Enlightenment trajectories in literature and art

We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers. Proposals consist of a 250-word abstract and two-page CV, sent via email as a pdf attachment to sihn.dns@sydney.edu.au.

Deadline for submissions: 15 June, 2014

University of Sydney: Two Papers and Roundtable Discussion – Rethinking the Long Reformation

Rethinking the Long Reformation: Mobile Communities, Elastic Boundaries

Two informal talks and a roundtable.

In these informal presentations, Gary K. Waite (University of New Brunskwick) and Nicholas Terpstra (University of Toronto) will explore the potential of rethinking the Reformation’s value as an analytical tool.

Date: Thursday June 5
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: Common Room, John Woolley Building, University of Sydney
Registration: RSVP is requested, but not required. Please contact John Gagné (john.gagne@sydney.edu.au) to register interest, or for any further information.

Program

  • 2:00-3:30: Informal papers by Gary K. Waite & Nicholas Terpstra –
  • 3:30 to 4:00: Tea
  • 4:00 to 5:00: Roundtable/Discussion

This event is presented by the Department of History and ‘Putting Periodization to Use: Testing the Limits of Early Modernity’, an interdisciplinary research group funded by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Collaborative Research Scheme and part of the Sydney Intellectual History Network. For more information please see: http://sydney.edu.au/intellectual-history/ppu/index.shtml

Gary K. Waite (University of New Brunswick), ‘Exile, Emotion, Enlightenment: The Radical Reformation(s) as a Watershed Event’

Waite will examine the radical reformation as a transformational force in redefining attitudes to religion, the cosmos, and the devil. Using the case of a key spiritualist, David Joris (1501-56), Waite will propose that experiences of persecution, exile, and intolerance contributed significantly to what we call the enlightenment, and will suggest the value of blurred periodisations.

Nicholas Terpstra (University of Toronto) ‘Purity, Contagion, Purgation: Redefining (the) Reformation’

Terpstra will propose that by articulating the cultural constituents of the Reformation, we can rethink when the Reformation as a period happened, and in such a way as to make non-Christians (Jews and Muslims) more fundamental to the narrative. The goal of both presentations – as well as the informal roundtable/discussion to follow – is to exert pressure upon the periodisation of the Reformation and to explore new and alternative conceptualisations.

The Daily Life of the Anglo-Saxon – Call For Papers

International Society for Anglo-Saxon Studies Biennial Conference 2015
University of Glasgow
3-7 August, 2015

The conference theme is “The Daily Life of the Anglo-Saxons”. Ordinary Anglo-Saxons are often less visible to us than the key political and religious figures, but their lives shaped and were shaped by the wider events of the early medieval period. The theme encompasses all aspects of life, whether mundane or glamorous, covering activities such as farming and cooking, trade and craftsmanship, child-rearing and education, as well as government and administration, religion and devotional practices, travel and communication, medicine, art and leisure. The theme is a broad one by design to accommodate not only archaeological and historical investigations, but also explorations of the language, literature and place-names of the period. Papers on open topics are also welcome.

Proposals will be evaluated “blind” by members of the ISAS Advisory Board. Decisions regarding which proposals are accepted will be announced by January 2015.

Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length, and will be grouped into 3-paper sessions of one hour and 30 minutes in length so as to leave time for questions and discussion. Proposals are welcome for individual papers or for complete sessions. Abstracts, whether for papers or for sessions, should be no more than 500 words in length (including bibliography). Abstracts are also required for individual papers within a proposed session.

Proposals are also welcome for project reports, which should be no more than 10 minutes in length and will be grouped into 5-report sessions of one hour so as to leave a short time for factual questions. Abstracts for project reports should be no more than 250 words in length (including bibliography).

All sessions will be held in a room that is fully equipped with audiovisual and computer equipment.

Abstracts can be submitted from 15 June 2014 to 15 October 2014 via the submission site: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/isas/conference/index.cfm (note: this link will not be active beforehand). There you will receive instructions as to how to submit your proposal. To submit an abstract within the permitted amount of time online, you might wish to prepare it first as a word-processing document, then copy and paste it in. Please note that the deadline of 15 October is necessary to allow time for the reviewing process, and will not be extended.

Please note that in order to present at ISAS Glasgow, it is necessary to be a current member of ISAS. Information on joining ISAS or updating membership can be found at: http://www.isas.us/mem.html.

Questions or problems relating to the submission of proposals may be directed either to the conference host, current ISAS President Carole Hough (carole.hough@glasgow.ac.uk) or to Executive Director Martin Foys (mkfoys@gmail.com).

Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Volume 2 – Call For Papers

Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies would like to invite submissions for its second volume, to be published in 2015.

Ceræ is a peer-reviewed Australasian journal of medieval and early modern studies. Administered from the University of Western Australia with the generous support of faculty and staff, the journal is directed by a committee of Australian and international graduate students and early career researchers united in our commitment to open-access publishing, the possibilities of the digital humanities, and to forging a strong community of medieval and early modern scholars in the region. Ceræ accepts manuscripts from any discipline related to medieval and early modern studies, including submissions with accompanying audio-visual material.

Thanks to the generosity of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at UWA, we are pleased to offer a prize of $400 for the best article by a graduate student or early career researcher published in this issue.

The theme for Volume 2 is “Transitions, Fractures, and Fragments,” to be interpreted in any way the author sees fit. Ceræ is also accepting non-themed submissions for publication. Articles should be approximately 5000-7000 words and are due by October 1st 2014. Submissions should be made online at: http://openjournals.arts.uwa.edu.au/index.php/cerae/about/submissions.

For further information, please contact editorcerae@gmail.com, or follow our blog at ceraejournal.com for news, updates and articles of general interest.

UNSW School of Arts and Media Seminar: Nietzsche’s Shakespeare, Peter Holbrook

UNSW School of Arts and Media Seminar: “Nietzsche?s Shakespeare”, Peter Holbrook, University of Queensland

SAM Seminar Series, 2014

When: Friday 23 May, 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Where: Robert Webster Building, Room 327, UNSW
Map: http://www.facilities.unsw.edu.au/sites/all/files/page_file_attachment/KensingtonCampus.pdf
All welcome!

In this presentation, I suggest that Nietzsche’s engagement with Shakespeare was extensive and insightful and that the philosopher had a profound kinship with the dramatist. The reason for this affinity is that, ultimately, Nietzsche’s own thinking is fundamentally dramatic: notions of character, situation, action are basic to the way he conceives human experience and philosophy itself. The lecture attempts to give a broad overview of Nietzsche’s complex, and sometimes ambivalent, relationship to Shakespeare.

Peter Holbrook is Professor of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature at the University of Queensland, Australia, and Director of the UQ Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800). He is the author of Shakespeare’s Individualism (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Literature and Degree in Renaissance England: Nashe, Bourgeois Tragedy, Shakespeare (University of Delaware Press, 1994), and co-editor, with David Bevington, of The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque (Cambridge University Press, 1998).

15th-century Booktrade, ERC Project – 3 Postdoctoral Research Positions

15th-century Booktrade, ERC Project
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and The Bodleian Library

‘The 15th-century Book Trade: An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, Sale, and Reception of Books in the Renaissance’

http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/research/15cBooktrade

Research Positions Vacancies:

  • Vacancy ID: 113236
  • Vacancy ID: 113237
  • Vacancy ID: 113235

Applicants should apply online via www.recruit.ox.ac.uk where they can also access the further particulars.

Closing Date: 5 June, 2014