Daily Archives: 6 May 2016

Australian National University: Lecturer in Digital Humanities – Call For Applications

Lecturer (Level B), Digital Humanities
Australian National University

Classification: Academic Level B
Salary package: $94,287- $107,381 per annum plus 17% superannuation

Position overview

This position results from the creation of an expanded digital humanities base in the ANU Centre for Digital Humanities Research, the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, the Centre for Art History and Theory, and the Research School of Humanities and the Arts. More generally, the position is part of a strategic process aimed at ensuring that ANU remains at the cutting edge of digital humanities research and teaching by distributing expertise across its respective schools. The successful applicant will have proven expertise in Digital Humanities and a specialisation in Art History or a related field that will contribute to building and consolidating the Centre for Art History and Theory’s profile nationally and internationally.

The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) is the largest single College of seven Colleges at ANU. The College, which is structured into two main research schools, offers degrees in more than 20 discipline areas and excels in research across the creative arts, humanities and social sciences. The College has a substantial international research presence and is a major source of national policy advice. Our academic staff are internationally recognised for their research, and 46 are members of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia, or both We also host 13 Australian Research Council Future Fellows and two ARC Laureates. A hub of vibrant activity, we host more than 100 lectures, concerts and exhibitions each year, most of which are open to the public. Our students, staff and graduates come from more than 60 nations, bringing a diversity of perspective to campus life. We have an active engagement of research, teaching and outreach with the National Cultural Institutions of the national capital.

For further information contact:

Dr Glenn Roe, Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities
Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Research School of Humanities & the Arts,
Australian National University, 120 McCoy Circuit Acton ACT 2601 Australia
Phone: +61 (0)2 6125 4952
Email: glenn.roe@anu.edu.au

The University actively encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. For more information on employment opportunities, contact our Indigenous Employment Consultant on: indigenous.employment@anu.edu.au

ANU values diversity and inclusion and believes employment opportunities must not be limited by socio-economic background, race, religion or gender. For more information about staff equity at ANU, visit: http://hr.anu.edu.au/staff-equity

Application information

In order to apply for this role please make sure that you upload the following documents:

  1. A statement addressing the selection criteria.
  2. A current curriculum vitae (CV) which includes the names and contact details of at least three referees (preferably including a current or previous supervisor). If your CV does not include referees you can complete these online when prompted in the application form.
  3. A 3-year research plan that outlines contributions to digital humanities scholarship (maximum two A4 pages).

Applications which do not address the selection criteria may not be considered for the position.

Closing date: 31 May, 2016.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.unijobs.com.au/australian-national-university-jobs/YGDD/lecturer-level-b-digital-humanities.

Divine (In)Justice in Antiquity and the Middle Ages – Call For Papers

Divine (In)Justice in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
University of Sheffield
Friday 4 November, 2016

Plenary speaker: Professor Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge); Respondent: Professor John Arnold (Birkbeck, University of London)

We invite proposals for 20 minute papers on topics including (but not limited to):

  • Literary and artistic portrayals of divine judgment
  • Human versus divine concept of justice
  • Monotheistic versus polytheistic notions of divine justice
  • Divine (in)justice in Judaism and Islam
  • Secular versus religious justice
  • Signs of divine (dis)approbation in national and/or political and/or institutional discourse
  • Anxieties about divine justice
  • Divine justice and natural disasters
  • Postmortem justice

Papers may consider all aspects of divine (in)justice during the period (roughly 8th century B.C.E. to 1500 C.E.), from a variety of disciplinary angles, including literary, historical, artistic, and theological. Medieval culture, its concept of justice, and its major religions were undeniably influenced by classical traditions, and this conference seeks to explore continuities and divergences between these two periods in order to shed further light on the various factors that determine the conceptualisation and representation of divine justice, and define its role in society.

Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to Charlotte Steenbrugge (c.steenbrugge@sheffield.ac.uk) by 30 June, 2016.