Daily Archives: 9 May 2016

92nd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America – Call for Papers

92nd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America
Toronto, Ontario
6-8 April 2017

Hosted by the University of Toronto and The Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies

The Organizing Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal, excepting those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2015 or 2016; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Special consideration will be given to individuals whose field would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy. The due date for proposals is 15 June 2016.

Rather than an overarching theme, the 2017 meeting will provide a variety of thematic connections among sessions. The Medieval Academy welcomes innovative sessions that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries or that use various disciplinary approaches to examine an individual topic. To both facilitate and emphasize interdisciplinarity, the Call for Papers is organized in “threads.” Sessions listed under these threads have been proposed to or by the Organizing Committee but the list provided in the Call for Papers is not meant to be exhaustive or exclusive.

The complete Call for Papers, with proposed threads and sessions as well as instructions for submitting proposals, can be found here: http://medievalacademy.site-ym.com/?page=2017Meeting.

Please contact the organizing committee if you have further questions about the meeting, at: MAA2017@TheMedievalAcademy.org.

University of Birmingham: Lecturer in Early Modern Drama & Shakespeare

Lecturer in Early Modern Drama & Shakespeare
University of Birmingham – School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music within the College of Arts and Law

Location: Birmingham
Salary: £38,896 to £46,414
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent

The University of Birmingham wishes to appoint a Lecturer in Early Modern Drama and Shakespeare with effect from 1st September 2016. We seek an early career academic with a completed and examined PhD, and a developing record of research and teaching that will complement existing strengths in both the Shakespeare Institute and the Department of English Literature. The post-holder will be expected to create and disseminate knowledge through initiating and conducting original research, through publication and through developing and delivering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

The post-holder will be based in the School of English, Drama, and American and Canadian Studies (EDACS), reporting directly to the Head of School, and will be expected to contribute to teaching in the Department of English Literature, the Shakespeare Institute, and to take responsibility for leading our new programme of summer schools based in Stratford-upon-Avon. The successful applicant will demonstrate the academic credibility, initiative and organizational skills necessary to take the lead in co-ordinating a series of two week summer schools, two of which will be in Shakespeare Studies and the remainder of which will be led by colleagues in Drama and Creative Writing.

The post-holder will work with academic, technical and professional staff to develop the programming, marketing and teaching methods which will be vital to the success of these summer schools. Teaching load will be managed throughout the year by the Head of School in recognition of the expectation that the appointee will be very active in teaching and administration over the summer period.

The post-holder will work between the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon and the Department of English Literature on the University of Birmingham’s Edgbaston campus.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to attend for interview and do a presentation.

For further information please contact Professor Andrzej Gasiorek, Head of the School of English, Drama, and American and Canadian Studies (EDACS), The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT. Telephone: 0121 414 5693, Email: A.B.P.Gasiorek@bham.ac.uk.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANO056/lecturer-in-early-modern-drama-and-shakespeare.

UQ Professional Development Seminar: “Not Only Musical in Himself…”

Professional Development Seminar: “Not Only Musical in Himself…”

Presented by the UQ Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800).

Date: Monday, June 13, 2016
Time: 4:30pm, with afternoon tea from 4:00pm
Venue: Room 275, Global Change Institute (Building 20), University of Queensland, St Lucia
Cost: Free event but RSVP essential, uqche@uq.edu.au

Keynote speaker: Professor Tom Bishop (University of Auckland)

Shakespeare used music extensively and expertly to enrich the texture and resonance of his plays. But his work also served as a prompt to later musicians and writers interested in music, not only in the great tradition of Shakespearean operas, but, even more intriguingly, as an impetus for other original developments and departures. In this talk, we will begin with Shakespeare’s own practice, but then explore some of these subsequent responses in the work of later composers such as Haydn, Berlioz, Mendelssohn and poets such as Tennyson and Auden.

This seminar is open to all, and will count towards Continuing Professional Development targets for secondary school teachers of English, Music, and Drama.

Tom Bishop is Professor of English at the University of Auckland, where he teaches literature and drama. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder (Cambridge University Press, 1996); the translator of Ovid’s Amores (Carcanet, 2003); and a general editor of The Shakespearean International Yearbook (Ashgate Press). He is currently working on a book entitled Shakespeare’s Theatre Games.