Daily Archives: 5 May 2016

University of Oxford: Departmental Lecturer in Global Early Modern History (1450 – 1750) – Call For Applications

Departmental Lecturer in Global Early Modern History (1450 – 1750)
University of Oxford – History Faculty

Location: Oxford
Salary: £30,738 Grade 7 p.a.
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary

We are seeking a Departmental Lecturer in Global Early Modern History (1450 – 1750), tenable from 1 October 2016 for a fixed-term of 1 year. The appointment is to fulfil teaching needs while Dr Alan Strathern is on academic leave, and is offered by the History Faculty in association with Brasenose College and St John’s College.

Applications are invited from scholars with active research and teaching interests either in the history of any area of the world outside of Europe and North America, or in Europe’s contacts with the non-European world. Expertise in the history of South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia or the Middle East would be particularly welcome. The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability and willingness to give tutorials, lectures, classes and supervision at both undergraduate and graduate level across a range of papers in Global Early Modern History. The Lecturer will also be required to undertake examining and administrative work, and will engage in advanced study and original research in Global Early Modern History.

The successful candidate will hold a doctorate in a relevant field or show evidence that a doctorate is imminently expected. S/he will have a strong research record and a record of successful teaching within the field, the ability to teach and lecture at an appropriate level in an interesting and engaging manner for both undergraduate and graduate students, and a willingness to undertake examining and administrative duties.

Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates who are under-represented in academic posts in Oxford.

Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. To apply for this role and for further details, including the job description and selection criteria, please click on the link below.

The deadline for applications is 12.00 noon on 1 June, 2016.

For full details and to apply, please visit: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=123222.

Shakespeare and the Body Politic Symposium

Research Symposium: “Shakespeare and the Body Politic”
Toowong Rowing Club, 37 Keith St, St Lucia
28 November, 2016 ( 9:00am-5:00pm)

Convened by Dr Karin Sellberg (University of Queensland) and Dr Cathy Curtis (University of Queensland)

Presented by the UQ Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and the UQ Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800).

Free event. RSVP here

Bringing together expertise in the fields of the history of political thought, the history of medicine, gender studies, and literary criticism, this cross-disciplinary symposium will reconsider conceptions of the “body politic” in Shakespeare and other early modern authors.

Cathy Curtis is a Honorary Senior Fellow in the UQ School of International Studies and Political Science. She is completing a book entitled Thomas More, Public Offices, and the Ideal Commonwealth, and researches in the areas of early modern political and religious thought, international history, and literature. She has published on Shakespeare, Juan Luis Vives, Thomas More, and Richard Pace, and on methodology and rhetoric.

Karin Sellberg is a Postdoctoral Fellow in UQ’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. She is a literary scholar and cultural theorist, with a specific interest in early modern medicine and discourses of gender and embodiment. She recently published an edited collection entitled Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement (Ashgate, 2015) and has a forthcoming monograph entitled His/Herstories: The Textual Makings of Transgender Bodies (Ashgate, 2016).