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University of Southern Queensland: The British World Conference - Call For Papers

2012-02-29T11:20:00.000+08:00

The British World:
Religion, Memory, Culture and Society
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
July 2-July 5, 2012

Conference Website

Abstract Deadline: April 12 2012

Plenaries:

Christopher Haigh (University of Oxford), Alison Wall (University of Oxford), Peter Goodall (University of Southern Queensland), Lynette Olson (University of Sydney), Helen Farley (Australian Digital Futures Institute)

Call for Papers:

Proposals are now invited for ‘The British World Conference, to be held at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, in conjunction with the Public Memory Research Centre and the Anglican Historical Society of Australia. The conference seeks to increase scholarly understandings of the religious and cultural adjustments that accompanied British political change and expansion.

This conference is an exciting regional and international opportunity for the convergence of scholars in a range of disciplines, from history, religious studies, literature, e-pedagogies, education, post-colonialism, anthropology, legal studies, sociology and indigenous studies. This conference will provide a stimulating forum for the latest research in a range of disciplines.

Abstracts are welcome on any aspect of history and or place where the government, religion, people and cultures of the British Isles have been of influence. The time period is open and may extend from the medieval to the modern period

From a teaching perspective, the landscape in which we teach history has clearly changed over time. In recognition of such developments, under our ‘Precious Past and Digital Future’ stream, we invite papers which investigate the digital dimension of teaching history and religious studies. We especially welcome paper proposals from early career researchers and postgraduates.

Possible themes include (but are not limited to):

The British World

Empire and colonial reach
Music, art and architecture
Education and schooling
The English language and translation
Environmentalism and the Church
Gender and sexuality
Indigenous religion meets the British
The British Isles and the Church in literature
The Church and the law
Liturgical reform and Biblical Scholarship
Medieval and the early modern Church
Migration and transnationalism
Religious identity
Relations with extra-western religions

Precious Past and Digital Future

Virtual worlds in history teaching
E-religion
Images and texts in teaching
E-pedagogy
Writing and teaching history and religious studies

Abstracts of 250-300 words for a 20 minute paper should be sent to british.history@usq.edu.au by April 12 2012. Abstracts should be accompanied by a brief (100 word) CV of the presenter.

Proceedings:

Prospective contributors are invited to submit a written version of their paper for review for inclusion in the conference proceedings, which will be e-published. For guidance on length, format and style, please see the editorial guidelines (doc 32 kb).

Contact details:

Please email us on: british.history@usq.edu.au

Written correspondence can be addressed to:

Dr Marcus Harmes
Faculty of Arts
Open Access College
University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba QLD 4350

Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) 2012 Conference - Call For Papers

2012-02-28T11:10:00.001+08:00

The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) Annual Conference
October 25-28, 2012
Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Cincinnati

Conference Website

Deadline for Abstract Submission: April 15, 2012

The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) will hold its 2012 annual conference on October 25-28, 2012, at the at the National Historic Landmark hotel, the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, an Art Deco gem that opened in 1931 and is a located in the heart of downtown, near Fountain Square.

The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC), founded to promote scholarship on the early modern era (ca. 1450 – ca. 1660), actively encourages the participation of international scholars as well as the integration of younger colleagues into the academic community. We also welcome proposals for roundtables sponsored by scholarly societies that are affiliated with the SCSC.

For those who are anniversary-minded, 2012 will, among other things, mark the 500th anniversary of the start of the Fifth Lateran Council, Luther’s appointment to Wittenberg University, the births of Mercator, James V of Scotland, and Catherine Parr. It is also commemorates the unveiling of Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling and in acknowledgment, Michelangelo scholar William Wallace, Washington University, will be a plenary speaker. 2012 is also the 450th anniversary of the first religious war in France, the births of Lope de Vega and Isabella Andreini and the deaths of Eleonora de Toledo, Jan van Scorel, and Peter Martyr Vermigli. It is the 400th anniversary of the publication of the Accademia della Crusca’s Dizionario, as well as the birth of Anne Bradstreet and the deaths of Emperor Rudolph II and Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.

Abstracts (up to 250 words in length) for papers and sessions may be submitted online at: http://www.sixteenthcentury.org

The deadline for submissions is 15 April 2012. Within four weeks after the deadline, the Program Committee will notify all those who submitted proposals.

If you experience any difficulty with our online submission process or have questions about how to submit a proposal please send an email message to: conference@sixteenthcentury.org

Notice of ANZAMEMS Annual General Meeting

2012-02-24T09:00:00.011+08:00

Notice of Meeting

The ANZAMEMS Annual General Meeting will be held via videoconference on 16 March 2012 at 1.30pm ADST.

The meeting is hosted by Monash University, Clayton Video conference room (Bldg 75 Rm G21), Clayton campus, Victoria.

The official notice can be downloaded here.

For more information, please contact the Secretary, Megan Cassidy-Welch

ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS) 2012 - Call for Expressions of Interest

2012-02-21T16:35:00.000+08:00

ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS) 2012
Call for Expressions of Interest

ANZAMEMS PATS Website

Deadline: Friday 30 March 2012

ANZAMEMS is committed to supporting postgraduates in medieval and early modern studies benefitting from specialist postgraduate advanced training seminars (PATS) and other opportunities that can assist in their development as researchers. For this reason, a fixed sum of money will be made available each year by the ANZAMEMS committee to support one PATS a year, to be held either in Australia or NZ. The organisers of a PATS will be responsible for determining how much of those funds can be used on travel bursaries, to be awarded to postgraduates who are members of ANZAMEMS.

Expressions of interest are invited to host an ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar in the second half of 2012. A sub-committee of the ANZAMEMS Committee will review the applications.

PATS aim to support the academic development of postgraduates by:

Creating opportunities for training in skills not normally provided by University departments;
Bringing early researchers into direct contact with both national and international experts in the field of medieval and early modern research;
Creating an environment in which early researchers can approach experienced scholars as role models and mentors;
Creating opportunities for early researchers to meet, to network, and to collaborate with others in their field in universities throughout New Zealand and Australia.

The format for PATS is flexible but the seminars are generally 2 or more days in duration and are organised primarily as a series of ‘masterclasses’; that is, discussions and seminars led by senior academic staff working in the field.

It is also encouraged that part of the seminar include a workshop in which students are invited to talk about their own current research or future projects (preferably with reference to current post-doctoral schemes in Australia and New Zealand).

Applying to host a PATS

Expressions of interest should include:

Proposed title / skill area to be addressed
Name(s) of local presenters
Name(s) of international presenters (if applicable)
Proposed venue(s)
Proposed budget
A draft day-by-day plan of the event

For further information please contact:
Peter Anstey: peter.anstey@otago.ac.nz or Claire McIlroy: claire.mcilroy@uwa.edu.au

Expressions of interest should be sent via email to Claire McIlroy: claire.mcilroy@uwa.edu.au

ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Travel Bursary Funding 2012 - Call For Applications

2012-02-21T16:25:00.005+08:00

ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Travel Bursary Funding 2012

In 2012, as part of its commitment to support postgraduate research, ANZAMEMS is offering $5000 for a round of postgraduate travel bursaries. Bursaries of up to $500 will be awarded for the purpose of attending a conference and presenting a paper.

Eligibility:

Open to currently enrolled postgraduates, and ECRs, within 2 years of award and not in full-time employment.
Applicants must be financial members of ANZAMEMS.

Application process – applicants should submit (max of 5 pages):

A brief CV
Proof of eligibility (i.e. proof of enrolment)
Details of the conference and proof of acceptance of the applicant’s paper
A brief statement outlining benefit of conference to research/career
A brief budget of costs associated with attending conference
A statement of other sources of funding available (if applicable).
Applications should be forwarded to Lesley O'Brien, the Assistant Treasurer, at lesley.obrien@uwa.edu.au, by 30 March 2012.

Selection process:

Funding round advertised via the ANZAMEMS mailing list: 15 February 2012.
Due date for applications: 30 March 2012.
Announcement of successful applicants: 15 April 2012.
A sub-committee of the ANZAMEMS committee of three members will assess the applications.
The Assistant Treasurer will also be on the sub-committee to coordinate the application and selection processes, communicate with applicants, and arrange payment of prizes.
Priority will not necessarily be given to greater distance travelled, but the sub-committee will reserve the right to award smaller bursaries where distance travelled is relatively short.

Conditions:

Successful applicants are required to submit a brief report (1 page) no longer than 2 months after the conference to the ANZAMEMS committee.
Applicants are also encouraged to develop their conference paper to be submitted as an article to Parergon.
In case of non-attendance at the conference, the applicant will be required to reimburse the bursary to ANZAMEMS within a reasonable timeframe.

2013 CEMERS conference (SUNY): Boccaccio at 700 - Call For Papers

2012-02-21T12:45:00.000+08:00

Boccaccio at 700: Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS)
Binghamton University, State University of New York
April 26-27, 2013

Conference Website

Abstract deadline: September 15, 2012

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) stands on the threshold between the Middle Ages and Renaissance, a time of rapid transition in the political, economic, artistic, and literary realms, all of which were touched in some way by his legacy. In the course of his lifetime, Boccaccio was a merchant-banker, courtier, scribe, philologist, mythographer, geographer, literary scholar, social critic, lecturer, cleric, and ambassador of the Florentine republic, as well as fiction-writer, biographer, and poet. Boccaccio’s corpus of Latin and Italian texts offers a summa of established (classical, Christian, romance) genres and discourses, and at the same time anticipates many of the formal and topical innovations that emerged in early modern literatures and that remain evident in contemporary narrative genres. His substantial correspondence offers a window on the changing worlds of fourteenth-century Europe.

In honor of the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio’s birth, the 2013 CEMERS conference at Binghamton University (SUNY) will provide an interdisciplinary forum in which to rethink all aspects of this last (but not necessarily least) of Italy’s three crowning writers, in order to re-contextualize and revitalize his place in history, as well as in the literary pantheon. Scholars who work in the wide variety of fields relating to the biography and texts of Boccaccio, as well as the history of late Medieval Europe, are invited to submit papers or session proposals on his life and his literary career, as well as on his texts and their reception in medieval, early modern, and modern culture.

Of particular interest are papers and sessions that address Boccaccio’s texts—both Latin and vernacular—and their relation to:

Italian and European Humanism
The Angevin court of Naples
Northern Italian politics and relations among city-states
The history of the Church and the religious orders
Medieval mercantile practices and global trade
The study of gender and sexualities
Medicine and magic
Manuscript illumination and the other visual arts
Dante and Petrarch
Renaissance theatre and chivalric epic
The novella tradition
The emergence of narrative realism in fiction
Global literature, music, and cinema

We hope to receive proposals that explore the intertextual networks that provided sources for Boccaccio’s Latin and Italian texts, as well as their subsequent global itineraries. We also invite submissions for papers and sessions that approach the Boccaccio corpus as source-material for historical inquiry, whether cultural or social.

Papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length and may be delivered in English or Italian. Send abstracts and brief CVs by September 15, 2012, to cemers@binghamton.edu.

Inquiries may be directed to Professors Olivia Holmes (oholmes@binghamton.edu) or Dana Stewart (stewart@binghamton.edu). We anticipate publishing a volume of selected conference proceedings.

Journal of Early Modern Studies: Special Issue - Heuristic and Exploratory Experimentation in Early Modern Science - Call For Papers

2012-02-18T13:12:00.000+08:00

The Journal of Early Modern Studies is seeking contributions for its second issue (Spring 2013). It will be a special issue, devoted to the theme:

Creative experiments: Heuristic and Exploratory Experimentation in Early Modern Science

Editor: Dana Jalobeanu

Deadline: 1st of October 2012

The past decade has seen a renewed interest in multiple aspects of early modern experimentation: in the cognitive, psychological and social aspects of experiments, in their heuristic and exploratory value and in the complex inter-relations between experience, observation and experiment. Meanwhile, comparatively little has been done towards a more detailed, contextual and specific study of what might be described, a bit anachronistically, as the methodology of early modern experimentation, i.e. the ways in which philosophers, naturalists, promoters of mixed mathematics and artisans put experiments together and reflected on the capacity of experiments to extend, refine and test hypotheses, on the limits of experimental activity and on the heuristic power of experimentation. So far, the sustained interest in the role played by experiments in early modern science has usually centered on ‘evidence’- related problems. This line of investigation favored examination of the experimental results but neglected the “methodology” that brought about the results in the first place. It has also neglected the more creative and exploratory roles that experiments could and did play in the works of sixteenth and seventeenth century explorers of nature.

This special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies aims to bring together articles devoted to the investigation of particular cases of early modern experiments or early modern discussions of experimental methodology. We aim to put together a selection of interesting and perhaps relevant case studies that would further what might prove to be an interesting line of research, namely the investigation of the heuristic, analogical and creative role of early modern experiments.

JEMS is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal of intellectual history, dedicated to the exploration of the interactions between philosophy, science and religion in Early Modern Europe. It is edited by the Research Centre “Foundations of Modern Thought”, University of Bucharest, and published and distributed by Zeta Books. For further information on JEMS, please visit: http://www.zetabooks.com/journal-of-early-modern-studies.html.

We are seeking for articles no longer than 10,000 words, in English or French, with an abstract and key-words in English. Please send your contribution by the 1st of October 2012 to: jems@zetabooks.com.

KITLV post-doctoral fellowship: Medical History in Early-Modern Southeast Asia - Call For Applications

2012-02-16T12:11:00.000+08:00

KITLV post-doctoral fellowship
Medical History in Early-Modern Southeast Asia

Closing date for applications: 1 May 2012

Research focus

KITLV has established a scholarship for the study of Early-Modern Southeast Asia (EMSA), which is roughly defined as the period between the fifteenth century and the beginning of the Age of Modern Imperialism, around 1870. KITLV is looking for a historian, specialized in Southeast Asian medical history, who will participate in the KITLV project History of Health, Disease and Medicine in Southeast Asia, starting 1 July 2012.

Terms and conditions

KITLV invites scholars who have obtained a PhD to apply for this Postdoc position.
The beneficiary of an EMSA scholarship is expected to conduct his/ her project primarily at KITLV, and to prepare a substantial publication.
The fellowship is tenable for three months for Dutch scholars or six months for non-Dutch scholars.
In principle, candidates from outside the Netherlands will be expected to reside in the Netherlands during a period of 4 to 6 months.

Supervision will be provided by Prof. Peter Boomgaard, senior researcher KITLV.

Grant

The fellowship amounts to:

three months at € 3,000 (maximum gross salary) for Dutch scholars (appointment).
six months at € 2,500 (stipend) per month and an economy class return ticket for non-Dutch scholars to KITLV, Leiden, the Netherlands.

All expenditure will have to be covered from this sum, including local transport, housing, insurance, and research costs. The fellow will be given research and office facilities at KITLV, will have access to the collections, and is expected to participate in the researchers’ seminars.

Invitation to apply

Applications for the 2012 scholarship should include:
• A Curriculum Vitae
• A brief (2-3 page) research proposal
• A proposed timetable

Closing date for application

Applications should be sent before 1 May 2012 to Prof. Henk Schulte Nordholt, Head of Research at KITLV (schultenordholt@kitlv.nl).

This advertisement can be viewed online here.

Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group - 2012 Programme

2012-02-15T11:39:00.001+08:00

The Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group programme of events for 2012 has been announced.

For more details on all events, including the previously mentioned UWA Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies/Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group XVIIIth Annual Conference, and to become a member please see the PMRG website.

Members PMRG enjoy a reduced rate for attending the annual symposium, and receive notices of upcoming lectures, workshops, performances, and other items of interest via the email mailing-list.

Summer School - Shakespeare and Philosophy - Call For Applications

2012-02-14T09:00:00.001+08:00

Shakespeare and Philosophy
A Seminar with Simon Critchley
June 30- July 7, 2012
Tilburg University
Tilburg, The Netherlands
Summer School Website

Whether tragical, comical, historical or lyrical, the vast human panorama of Shakespeare’s work raises many of the deepest and most enduring philosophical questions: knowledge versus skepticism, reality versus appearance, traditional virtue versus modern moral expediency, self versus other, being versus non-being. From Hegel to Cavell, Shakespearean texts have proven themselves to be decisive ways in which philosophy has come to understand itself and have provided a unique space in which to inform, influence and indeed challenge forms of philosophical understanding.

Following on from the success of last year’s summer school ‘On the Tragic and its Limits’, which dealt with Attic tragedy and its philosophical interpretation from Plato to Heidegger, our focus will be the way in which Shakespeare allows us to locate the emergence of modern drama and indeed the phenomenon of modernity. As the young Schelling writes, ‘If our world were ever lost, one could recreate it from the series of Shakespeare’s works’.

Simon Critchley will give a series of lectures on Hamlet which will deal with various ‘outsider’ interpretations of the play, notably those of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Schmitt, Benjamin and Lacan as well as providing a close textual engagement with the play itself. Although Hamlet and the other tragedies will provide a primary focus for discussion, applications are welcomed on any aspect of Shakespeare’s work and its philosophical purport or its challenge to philosophy. Indeed, we are particularly interested in the ways in which Shakespeare’s comedies, historical plays and poetry raise philosophical questions that might place in question the alleged philosophical primacy of the tragedies and the category of the tragic. We also welcome interpretations of Shakespeare that touch on psychoanalytic, political, legal and ethical themes.

Eligibility:
The Summer School is open to graduate students in philosophy and related disciplines. Some applications from selected advanced undergraduates will be considered.

Deadline:
The deadline for applications is March 16th, 2012. Applicants will be informed whether their application has been successful by early April.

Applications can be sent by email to Mark Theunissen (theunm57@newschool.edu) or by regular mail to:

Simon Critchley
Department of Philosophy
The New School for Social Research
6 E16th Street, Rm. 1118, New York, NY 10003

Please note, applications must include:

Current CV (max. 2 pages) Please be sure that your CV contains the relevant contact information.
Statement of purpose outlining how your attendance at the Summer School would benefit both the Summer School and your own research (max. 1 page)
Abstract of the paper you would like to present at the Summer School (if you wish to present a paper). (max. 300 words)

European Perceptions of Terra Australis - Book Annoucement

2012-02-13T12:12:00.000+08:00

A new book which may be of interest to members, especially those in Australia:

European Perceptions of Terra Australis

Edited by Anne M. Scott, University of Western Australia, Alfred Hiatt, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, Claire McIlroy, University of Western Australia, and Christopher Wortham, University of Western Australia.

Hardback, 334 pages, includes 52 b&w illustrations
ISBN: 978-1-4094-2605-9
RRP £65.00

Terra Australis, the southern land, was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the Southern seas had been prevalent since classical Antiquity. Through interdisciplinary contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women’s and post-colonial studies.

For more information, including the contents page, bios of the editors, and to read an extract from European Perceptions of Terra Australis please visit the Ashgate web catalogue page: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409426059.

To order, please visit: www.ashgate.com. Please note that all online orders made via the Ashgate website receive a discount.

Helen Cox - "The Battle of Wakefield Revisited", and, "Walk Wakefield 1460" - Book Annoucements

2012-02-13T11:45:00.000+08:00

Two recent books by Helen Cox on the Battle of Wakefield may be of interest to members:

The Battle of Wakefield Revisited: A Fresh Perspective on Richard of York's Final Battle, December 1460

Medieval history/non-fiction
Paperback, 140 pages, 16 black-and-white plates, 5 line drawings
Published by Herstory Writing & Interpretation/York Publishing Services, 2010
ISBN 978-0-9565768-0-4
R.R.P. £12.00

The Battle of Wakefield Revisited: A Fresh Perspective on Richard of York's Final Battle, December 1460 is a full history/re-evaluation of the evidence for the battle.

On 30th December 1460, the veteran warlord Richard of York led his small army to catastrophe at the Battle of Wakefield. Traditionally, York is thought to be a poor commander deservedly mocked in nursery rhyme; or an heroic failure who gallantly attempted to rescue a foraging party or avenge insults to his honour. But The Battle of Wakefield Revisited explores a more convincing explanation, using historical and archaeological evidence to dispel popular misconceptions about York and his ill-fated northern campaign.

Walk Wakefield 1460: A Visitor Guide to Battle-Related Sites

Medieval history/non-fiction
Paperback, 50 pages, 16 colour plates, 8 black-and-white plates, 6 line drawings
Published by Herstory Writing & Interpretation/York Publishing Services, 2011
ISBN 978-0-9565768-1-1
Price: £7.50

Walk Wakefield 1460: A Visitor Guide to Battle-Related Sites gives a potted history/interpretation of the battle through sites associated with it in Wakefield and Worksop.

Five hundred and fifty years ago, Richard, Duke of York attempted to take the crown from his cousin King
Henry VI. The outcome, on 30th December 1460, was one of the most decisive encounters in the Wars of the Roses - the Battle of Wakefield. Walk Wakefield 1460 tells the story of this fateful winter campaign, from its opening skirmish at Worksop to the grisly aftermath in York, through sites connected with the battle. Each section of the concise illustrated guide features a brief history, directions to the sites (including maps), and up-to-date information on opening times and admission charges for visiting:

Worksop Priory & Castle

Sandal Castle

Duke of York’s Monument

The Battlefield at Wakefield Green

St Mary’s Chantry Chapel

Pontefract Castle

Micklegate Bar & York City Walls

For further details about the books and author Helen Cox please visit her website: www.helencox-herstorywriting.co.uk.

Fordham University - 32nd Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies - Registration Open

2012-02-10T13:13:00.001+08:00

THINK ROMANCE!
Re-conceptualizing a Medieval Genre
32nd Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies
March 31 - April 1, 2012
Fordham University, at the Lincoln Center Campus, New York City

Conference Website

Romances were the most popular, most influential, most wide-ranging form of fiction in the high and late Middle Ages. While this popularity has ensured a great deal of modern critical attention, particularly to individual romances, it has not necessarily meant that the place of romance in the Middle Ages has been understood adequately. That is, as scholars outside of the field of literary studies – historians, art historians, musicologists – have begun to look at romances, those inside continue to treat this genre largely in terms of its literary merit. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to re-conceptualize romance more broadly, not only as a topic of interest for scholars of particular medieval vernacular texts, but as a kind of tool, a bearer of a set of assumptions, a cultural category available to medieval authors, artists, composers, and patrons.

The conference program is comprised of fifty-five speakers from North America and Europe, including four plenary speakers:

Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz - Romance in/and the Medieval Mediterranean
Emma Dillon, University of Pennsylvania - Sumptuous Songs: Musical Materialities and the Old French Romance Tradition
James Simpson, Harvard University - Unthinking Thought: Romance’s Wisdom
Marina Brownlee, Princeton University - Sequels, Prequels, and Contingency

For a full program and to register, please see the conference website: http://www.fordham.edu/mvst/conference12/Romance/program.html

The Deadline For Early Registration is March 22, 2012

Online registration is now available; a paper registration form is also available online. Please send the paper registration form and check to: Center for Medieval Studies, FMH 405, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458

Icons of the Holy Monastery of Karakallou - Book Annoucement and Preview

2012-02-10T10:45:00.003+08:00

Icons of the Holy Monastery of Karakallou
Mount Athos

www.en.iconskarakallou.gr

For the first time in its history Karakallou Monastery of Mount Athos is revealing its iconographic treasures to the general public. Karakallou Monastery, one of the oldest monasteries on Holy Mountain, is celebrating its millennium of uninterrupted coenobitic life with the publication of a richly illustrated volume devoted to its portable holy icons; thereby bringing to light a virtually unknown part of late Byzantine culture and Athonite spiritual heritage.

From among the hundreds of portable icons in the monastery’s possession 152 were carefully selected for this edition and were reproduced at a stunning quality. Historically, they span from the late 14th to the early 19th century and include masterpieces that are inaccessible to most of the monastery’s pilgrims. Quite significantly, the Karakallou monastery’s holdings feature the largest collection of works by Dionyssios of Fourna, a prominent Greek iconographer of the 18th century.

The book’s rich visual content combined with an extensive and well documented analysis of the artistic and historical background of each icon provides a unique insight into post-Byzantine Athonian iconography and imparts a superb experience to admirers of this sacred art.

You may find more information on this edition, view sample pages at: www.en.iconskarakallou.gr.

The 6th Annual International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies - Call For Papers

2012-02-09T09:00:00.001+08:00

The 6th Annual International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Oct. 26-27, 2012
Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

This conference is under the auspices of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature of Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan.

Due date for abstract submission: March 15, 2012

Call for Papers

“Infinite riches in a little room”: Collecting as a Cultural Practice and Literary Theme in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Collecting is a topic which has attracted much attention in recent years. William Gibson, the pioneer of cyberpunk fiction, observed that “the idea of the Collectible is everywhere today.” Yet, if we are to believe one critical study of the subject, the cultural practice of collecting goes back to the mythical beginnings of humanity: “Noah was the first collector. Adam had given names to the animals, but it fell to Noah to collect them … And Noah, perhaps alone of all collectors, achieved the complete set.” (John Elsner and Roger Cardinal) A more recent collector, the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (669-626 BCE) may not have had a complete set, but he did maintain a great library that held thousands of clay tablets. The Hellenistic Greeks and Romans collected books, statues, gems, etc. and created the first musea, those of Alexandria and Pergamon being the most prominent examples. They also wrote about collecting and were avid encyclopedists. Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia is the model for many later writings in the genre which includes Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae (ca. 630), the 10th Century Byzantine Suda, and Vincent of Beauvais’ high medieval Speculum majus (13th Century). The monastic libraries of the Middle Ages and their scriptoria copied and collected books and in doing so preserved the European heritage. Yet, it was the global commerce in knowledge, people, and objects during the age of discovery and exploration which aroused a passion for collecting as never before as princes, scientists, merchants, and artists all over Europe from Ferrante Imperato in Naples to Peter the Great in Russia competed in creating increasingly spectacular and luxurious studiolos, cabinets of curiosities, Wunderkammer, and Kunstkamers. Yet, the habit could be costly. King Charles I of England, a lavish spender and great collector of art, first lost his kingdom and then his life. Less than a decade later, the Dutch painter Rembrandt ran into debts and had to sell his house and his collections.

TACMRS provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussions and debates on collecting as a cultural practice and literary theme from Antiquity to the Renaissance and seeks to create dialogue between and across disciplines and periods. We encourage submissions with crosscultural approaches, and on this premise welcome papers that reach beyond the traditional chronological and disciplinary borders of classical, medieval and Renaissance studies. Thus, in addition to the historical categories and thematic questions raised above, topics such as collecting practices East and West; the representation of ancient libraries, collectible objects or cultural treasures in modern literature and film; the cabinet of curiosities in modern art; and other topics that engage critically with the conference theme will be considered. In addition, as in years past, TACMRS welcomes papers on any other subjects that fall within the historical periods and disciplinary areas covered by the Association.

Please note: All papers are required to be written and presented in English.

Guidelines for Abstract Submission:

Abstracts of a maximum of 350 words should be sent via e-mail to Dr. Henk Vynckier, Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tunghai University (flld@thu.edu.tw) with a subject line: “Submission for the 6th TACMRS Conference” by no later than March 15, 2012.

Please note: Abstracts should be typed in fonts of size 12 and spacing of 1.5 and saved in MS Word format. Do not include the name or other identifying information of the author(s) in the abstract; there will be a blind review of the submissions. Information regarding academic affiliation of presenter(s) should instead be included in the accompanying email.

Important Dates:

Due date for abstract submission: March 15, 2012
Notification of abstract acceptance: May 1, 2012
Deadline for registration: Oct. 1, 2012
Due date for full paper submission: Oct. 5, 2012

Further information:

Please contact either Ms. Sherry Jan (Assistant) (Phone Number: 04-2359-0121 Ext. 31200) and (sj1109@thu.edu.tw), or Dr. Henk Vynckier (Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tunghai University) (hvynck@thu.edu.tw).

Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association 11th Biennial Conference - Call For Papers

2012-02-08T09:00:00.001+08:00

The 11th Biennial International Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association in collaboration with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
Topic: Shakespeare and Emotions
27–30 November 2012
The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia
Conference Website

Abstract deadline: 1 July 2012

The study of emotions in history, literature, and other aspects of culture is a burgeoning field, and Shakespeare takes a very central and influential place. The conveners invite papers on any aspect of the ways in which Shakespeare and/or his contemporaries represented emotions in poetry, drama, and other works, and/or how these representations have been received by audiences and readers from the sixteenth century to the present day.

There are paradoxes to be explored — how ‘the bodily turn’ of physiological influence on emotions could in turn generate more modern models of inner consciousness alone; how concepts rooted historically in Elizabethan and Jacobean England could be adapted to fit the philosophies and concepts of later ages, through eighteenth-century literature of sensibility, nineteenth-century and Darwinian approaches, twentieth-century psychologism stimulated by Freud, and a host of others. Did Shakespeare tap into a ‘collective unconscious’ of ‘universal’ stories, or did he arbitrarily choose stories to dramatise which his affective eloquence incorporated into world literature? Why have his works proved so durable in their emotional power, both in themselves and adaptations into other media such as opera, music, film and dance? Equal attention is invited to plays in performance and in ‘closet’ critical readings, as well as textual studies and adaptations.

The New Fortune Theatre, built in 1964 to the exact dimensions of The Fortune playhouse that rivaled Shakespeare’s Globe in seventeenth-century London, will be available for original practice performances, open rehearsals, and stage-based research papers, etc.

Abstracts of c.200 words should be submitted for consideration to conference@anzsa.org, addressed to Bob White, Chris Wortham, Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers, Mark Houlahan, and Brett D. Hirsch. Abstracts should be received by 1 July 2012.

Details about keynote speakers, travel and accommodation, and the conference programme will be posted on the conference website as they become available.

Achronicity/Anachronism (1000-1700): an Interdisciplinary Conference - Call For Papers

2012-02-06T11:25:00.000+08:00

Achronicity/Anachronism (1000-1700): an Interdisciplinary Conference
February 21–23, 2013
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sponsored by the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Call for Papers

Anachronism is a term that seems to presuppose a fixed and dominant temporal order, a chronological sequence within which each element or event occupies its own proper coordinates within the orderly flow of time. A Greek term, the “anachronistic” has become inseparable from its close Latin counterpart, the “preposterous”—literally, the before-behind. Anachronism has often been seen as a fault; a fault either testifying to a given culture’s lack of historical consciousness and historicist sensibilities, e.g. the Middle Ages’s supposed inability to think in historicist terms, or else as a type of scholarly error. Anachronism is an accusation, an error, a transgression, a stigma. The charge of anachronism seeks to reveal a critical failure to understand the pastness of the past. This perceived failure in turn exposes to ridicule scholars, artists, and entire cultures that are guilty of this charge.

Yet arguably, even the most academically disciplined ways of thinking historically cannot proceed without disavowed acts of anachronism. As scholars of the “medieval” and “early modern” eras, we know that the very names attached to our historical fields of specialty are the product of creative anachronism. The Middle Ages could not become its middling self until the moment of its death, the advent of the Renaissance. What is more anachronistic than the idea of “The Renaissance,” imagined as a phoenix-like return to antiquity that completely circumvents history—the “Middle Ages” itself?

Furthermore, medieval and early modern texts bear evidence of a multiplicity of temporalities that allow for various and varied experiences of time itself. This heterogeneous premodern notion of time includes Biblical time, historical time, seasonal time, and times for worship. It recognizes diverse practices of typological or allegorical reading that coexist with literal reading, and it suggests a complex understanding of notions such as originality, authenticity, and authority. In the context of this conference, achronicity refers to this productive multiplicity of temporalities.

This conference will provide a select group of scholars from a broad spectrum of disciplinary fields in the humanities an opportunity to investigate together the creative potential of anachronism and/or achronicity. It addresses the ways in which temporality was conceptualized, experienced, strategically exploited, aesthetically constructed and ideologically challenged in the medieval and early modern periods. Some of the questions driving this conference are: How can anachronism/achronicity be strategically deployed to highlight problematic aspects of temporality? How can anachronism/achronicity be used to signify competing temporal frames? How does anachronism/achronicity contribute to expressing complex schemes of history, e.g. by linking the eschatological to everyday experience? How does anachronism/achronicity point to the materiality of the historical object itself?

Please submit 500 word abstracts to Prof. Christoph Brachmann (AnachronicityUNC@gmail.com) by April 30, 2012.

The Role of Latin in the Early Modern World - Free Download

2012-02-03T19:41:00.000+08:00

The Role of Latin in the Early Modern World: Linguistic identity and nationalism 1350-1800, ed. Alejandro Coroleu, Carlo Caruso, and Andrew Laird, is now available, at no charge, online:

http://www.renaessanceforum.dk/rf_8_2012.htm

You can read or download the Preface and single chapters by clicking on their titles, or download the whole volume.

The collection includes papers by David Cowling, Geoffrey Eatough, Felipe González Vega, Andrew Laird, Eulàlia Miralles, Marianne Pade, Keith Sidwell and Nienke Tjoelker on the uses of Latin in a variety of domains, including the British Isles, France, Italy, Iberia and Spanish America.

Public Lecture: QLD Shakespeare Ensemble's Prison Project - Dr Rob Pensalfini

2012-02-02T14:16:00.001+08:00

University of Queensland, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies
Public Lecture - QLD Shakespeare Ensemble's Prison Project: Dr Rob Pensalfini
Website

8th March @ 5:30pm-6:30pm
University of Queensland Art Museum, St Lucia Campus, Building 11(Campus Map)

Light refreshments will be served after the lecture.

Inside Shakespeare Inside - the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble's Prison Project

Dr Rob Pensalfini is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics (School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies) and Drama (School of English, Media Studies and Art History) at the University of Queensland, and is Artistic Director of the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble, which he founded in 2001.

Since 2006, Rob Pensalfini has been leading Australia's only prison Shakespeare program, indeed Australia's only ongoing prison theatre program of any sort, the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble's Prison Project. Each year, about twenty high security inmates of Borallon Correctional Centre have embarked on a three month journey exploring dramatic form, Shakespeare's text, and personal story-telling through acting, a project which culminates in the performance of a Shakespeare play to an invited audience.

In this lecture Rob will discuss the history of the project and what inspired its creation, the project's philosophy, and its impact on everyone involved in it: the prisoners who participate, the facilitators that lead, the prison in which it takes place, and the members of the public who see the performance. He will also locate the Queensland project in the context of other prison Shakespeare programs, and talk about collaborations with international artist/practitioners.

For further information, please contact Rebecca Ralph: (ph. 3346 7407) or (admin.cccs@uq.edu.au)

The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference/Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship - Call For Applications

2012-01-28T12:15:00.003+08:00

The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference/Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship

Deadline For Applications: 1 March, 2012

The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference and the Folger Fellowships Program proudly announce the creation of a co-sponsored, short-term Fellowship. This Fellowship is designed to serve the members of the SCSC for whom the Folger's rich collections are essential. This is a two-month Fellowship for research on a topic appropriate to the collections.

The Fellow will be awarded a two-month Fellowship to be taken at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The award carries a stipend of $5000. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. at the time of application and must be a member in good standing of SCSC. Applicants must submit a cover letter, a 1,000-word description of your research project, and 4-page curriculum vitae. Three letters of support complete the application and may be sent via regular mail or as PDFs email to: conference@sixteenthcentury.org. Please do NOT send portfolio letters.

The application deadline for 2012-13 short-term Fellowships is 1 March 2012.

Apply directly to SCSC:

Donald J. Harreld
Exec. Dir., SCSC
Department of History
Brigham Young University
2130 JFSB
Provo, UT 84660.

Biennial Michael Camille Essay Prize - Call For Papers

2012-01-27T12:10:00.000+08:00

Biennial Michael Camille Essay Prize
Theme: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity
Closing Date for Submissions: 30 June, 2012

Submissions are now open for the biennial Michael Camille Essay Prize. This essay competition is open to students currently in Master's or Doctoral programs as well as to early career scholars who are within 5 years of receiving their Ph.D. Essays may be submitted from any discipline.

Named after art historian Michael Camille, the prize will be awarded to the best short essay (4,000-6,000 words), on a variable theme, that brings the medieval and the modern into productive critical relation. The theme for this year's competition is: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity.

For more information, please visit this full post about the prize. The deadline for submission is June 30, 2012. The winner will be announced at the 2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group in September. Submissions may be sent as a Word document in Chicago format to postmedievaljournal@gmail.com.

UWA Centre of Medieval and Early Modern Studies/Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group XVIIIth Annual Conference - Call for Papers

2012-01-24T10:35:00.002+08:00

UWA Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS)/Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group (PMRG) XVIIIth Annual Conference
Theme: Receptions: Medieval and Early Modern Cultural Appropriations
17–18 August, 2012, St Catherine’s College
The University of Western Australia, Perth.
Conference Website

Deadline for abstracts: 16 March 2012

This conference will explore cultural appropriations in, by and of the medieval and early modern world, across a range of disciplines. Three sub-themes are envisaged. They are:

The appropriation of earlier cultures by the medieval or early modern world;
Cultural exchanges and frontier encounters within the medieval and early modern world; and
The reception or appropriation of the medieval or early modern by later periods.

Within these fields, paper proposals on any relevant subject and from any relevant areas of study are welcome. Possible approaches and themes may include, but are not limited to:

medievalism
medieval and early modern classicism
cultural legacies and/or lasting traditions
conquest & warfare
migration & settlement
cultural re-appropriations
reception of historical and archaeological discoveries
interactions between different cultural groups
cultural assimilation
literary and intellectual appropriations

Plenary speakers

Professor David Konstan (Brown University)
Professor Jacqueline Van Gent (The University of Western Australia)
Associate Professor Louise D’Arcens (The University of Wollongong)

Call For Papers

Abstracts of c.300 words for 20-minute papers addressing one or more of the conference sub-themes are encouraged. The subthemes are: (1) the appropriation of earlier cultures in the medieval or early modern world; (2) cultural exchanges and frontier encounters within the medieval and early modern world; and/or (3) the reception of the medieval or early modern world by later periods. Proposals for panels are also welcome. Abstracts and a brief 2-3 sentence bio should be emailed to Andrew Lynch (andrew.lynch@uwa.edu.au) or Joanne McEwan (joanne.mcewan@uwa.edu.au) by 16 March 2012. Decisions will be made and notifications sent promptly thereafter.

Postgraduate Travel Bursaries

A limited number of bursaries are available on a competitive basis to honours students, postgraduate students and unwaged early career researchers who will be presenting papers at the Conference. The bursaries are intended to partially reimburse costs associated with attending the Conference. Bursaries of up to AUS$500 may be awarded, on the basis that the applicant is:

an Honours student currently enrolled at a recognised institution OR
a Postgraduate student currently enrolled at a recognised institution OR
an unwaged Early Career Researcher; AND
is in particular need of funding; AND
has submitted a paper proposal for the “Receptions: Medieval and Early Modern Cultural Appropriations” conference with this application.

Enquiries

Please email Andrew Lynch (andrew.lynch@uwa.edu.au) or Joanne McEwan (joanne.mcewan@uwa.edu.au)

ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Distinguished International Visiting Fellowships Program - Call For Applications

2012-01-23T12:06:00.000+08:00

ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Distinguished International Visiting Fellowships Program

Closing date for applications: 14 March 2012

As part of its international research collaboration, ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800) (CHE) will fund outstanding international scholars in the field to visit Australian universities and to work with members of the Centre on a research program of their choice.

Visiting fellowships normally last between four weeks and three months. The Distinguished Visiting Fellow will be based at one of the five Australian universities hosting nodes of the Centre (University of Western Australia, University of Adelaide, Melbourne University, Sydney University and University of Queensland), but will normally visit other nodes of the Centre in the course of their stay.

The Fellowship will fund the Visiting Fellow’s return airfare to Australia, accommodation in Australia, and travel between Australian nodes of the Centre. Some living expenses may be negotiated.

CHE is now issuing a call for applications for Distinguished international Visiting Fellowships to be taken over the period 1 January 2013 to December 2014.

Applicants should provide:

An up-to-date academic CV.
A description, no longer than one A4 page, of the proposed research to be undertaken during the Fellowship, including a statement of how the research relates to the Centre’s overall research into the history of emotions in Europe 1100-1800, and the proposed outcomes of the research (eg., part of a monograph draft, draft of an article jointly authored with one or more CHE member(s), development of further research interchange and collaboration programs, and so on). Note: it is expected that ARCCHE support would be acknowledged in any publication deriving from the Fellowship.
The name(s) of CHE staff with whom the applicant wishes to collaborate, the preferred dates of the fellowship, and the preferred ‘home’ university for the duration of the visit.

Applications should be sent via email to: Dr. Tanya Tuffrey, Centre Manager, ARC CoE for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800) (tanya.tuffrey@uwa.edu.au).
Closing date: 14 March 2012

For further information on the Centre’s research programs and projects, see: http://www.emotions.uwa.edu.au/research, or contact the Centre Director: Professor Philippa Maddern (philippa.maddern@uwa.edu.au).

Research Professor (ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions) - Call for Applications

2012-01-18T14:37:00.005+08:00

New job opportunity at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (UWA), closing 27 January 2012.

RESEARCH PROFESSOR
ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
• 0.5 FTE
• 2 year fixed term contract
• Salary range: Level D $120,065 - $132,275 p.a.
• Closing Date: 27 January 2012

More information can be found at the UWA Human Resources website

The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions is seeking a highly motivated, interdisciplinary early modern historian with comprehensive research experience in cultural history, European colonialism and contact history, and the history of emotions. Experience in museological and curatorial studies or practice and high-level competency in one or more languages pertinent to colonising nations will be a distinct advantage.

Preference will be given to a candidate with the ability to conduct and publish independent research but who is also an experienced team player and able to act as supervisor of postgraduate and post-doctoral researchers in the project. Applicants must have a track record, relevant to opportunity, of both independent and collaborative publishing in top quality peer-reviewed journals.

This post is a unique opportunity for the successful applicant to take a leadership role in an exciting project analysing early modern colonialisms, objects and emotions.

For further information about this opportunity please contact Prof Susan Broomhall (Susan.broomhall@uwa.edu.au).

Interested persons are invited to send their CV outlining relevant skills and experience together with a covering letter to tanya.tuffrey@uwa.edu.au by 5:00pm on 27 January 2012.

University of Sydney - Postgraduate Scholarship in Medieval and Early Modern Studies - Call For Applications

2012-01-16T20:11:00.002+08:00

University of Sydney
Postgraduate Scholarship in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Application closing date: 27 January 2012

A full-time postgraduate scholarship is available for a suitably qualified candidate with a good Honours degree in any aspect of medieval or early modern studies to undertake research leading to a PhD in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. The project is to investigate attitudes towards death expressed by medieval and/or early modern writers, with a particular focus on the writings of condemned prisoners facing execution.

The position forms part of a larger research project on medieval and early modern attitudes towards death being undertaken at the University of Sydney through the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions (CHE). Other aspects of death currently under consideration by postdoctoral research fellows within the project include medieval attitudes towards suicide and early modern attitudes towards public execution.

Eligibility:

Applicants should have an Honours degree with a major in some aspect of medieval and/or early modern studies. They must have a demonstrable understanding of how to read and interpret medieval and/or early modern texts. They must have a facility with one or more medieval and/or early modern languages. Applicants must be Australian citizens or Australian permanent residents.

Amount awarded:

Valued at $26,000 per annum for up to three years, plus a total of $13,500 research and travel funding over three years.

Alternatively, if the candidate has applied for and is successful in obtaining an APA, the scholarship can be offered as top-up funding of $5,500 per annum.

Application guide:

Further information can be obtained from Dr Juanita Ruys, Medieval and Early Modern Centre, Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney NSW 2006 (Email: juanita.ruys@sydney.edu.au). Applications should be sent direct to Dr Ruys at the above address, and should include a curriculum vitae, copies of academic transcript, and the names and contact details of at least two referees. Closing date: 27 January 2012.

The advertisement can be viewed online at: http://agile2.ucc.usyd.edu.au/ro/opportunities/scholarships/1031