Daily Archives: 27 May 2016

Monash University: CMRS Visiting Scholar Program 2016 – Applications Close June 1

Monash University
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
CMRS Visiting Scholar Program 2016

**Please note that applications for the Monash CMRS Visiting Scholar Program are due mid-next week! Please contact Megan.Cassidy-Welch@monash.edu for further information**

The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Monash University is pleased to call for applications to our Visiting Scholar Program for 2016. The aim of the program is to support a senior academic to visit the CMRS for one week, during which time he or she will provide a postgraduate training workshop, consult with CMRS students and deliver a seminar paper on his or her own research.

For the purposes of the program, a CMRS Visiting Scholar should hold an academic position of Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor or Emeritus/a Professor at an academic institution.

CMRS Visiting Scholars will be expected to engage fully in the activities of the CMRS for the duration of their stay. Specifically, a CMRS Visiting Scholar will be invited to deliver a postgraduate training seminar or workshop on an empirical, theoretical or methodological aspect of interest to advanced students of medieval and Renaissance studies, such as palaeography, codicology, theoretical approaches to medieval and Renaissance history etc. The CMRS Visiting Scholar will also be invited to present a seminar paper on an aspect of his or her research, and attend other CMRS events of relevance during their visit to Monash.

One CMRS Visiting Scholar will be appointed each year to visit the CMRS at Monash University’s Clayton campus in August. The CMRS will provide the Visiting Scholar with five night’s accommodation in Melbourne (Monday to Saturday morning) and transport to and from Monash’s Clayton campus. For senior scholars already in Australia or NZ, the CMRS will provide a return economy airfare to Melbourne. Total funding support may be up to but not exceeding AUD2000.00.

We welcome applications from eligible academics for 2016 by June 1, 2016. Applicants should send a cover letter, a short CV, and a brief outline of the workshop they propose to convene and a potential seminar paper topic to Associate Professor Megan Cassidy-Welch (megan.cassidy-welch@monash.edu).

The Monash Centre for Medieval Renaissance Studies was launched in 2011. The CMRS is committed to providing research training for honours and postgraduate students; to developing and promoting Monash’s strength in medieval and Renaissance studies; and to fostering local, national and international collaborations between networks of scholars and students. The heart of the CMRS is a weekly Friday seminar and associated reading, language and translation groups. For more information about the CMRS and its staff, see http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/medieval-renaissance-centre.

University of Winchester, Researcher: Kingship, Court & Society Project

Researcher on ‘Kingship, Court and Society: the Chamber Books of Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485-1521’ project
University of Winchester – Department of History

Location: Winchester
Salary: £26,537 to £31,656 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary. Fixed term – September 2016 to September 2018

Two posts available.

The Department of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Winchester is looking for two highly motivated historians to work on a project entitled ‘Kingship, Court and Society: the Chamber Books of Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485-1521’.

The two year project was awarded funding by the Leverhulme Trust in March 2016. It will be based at the University of Winchester, but will also involve The National Archives and Sheffield Humanities Research Institute. The project will transcribe the Chamber Books of Henry VII and Henry VIII and use electronic mark-up to produce a fully searchable and freely accessible online edition, for academics and the general public, and use this as a basis for a major reassessment of early Tudor kingship, government and financial administration, daily life and the religious and material culture of the court.

As our ideal candidate, you will have a doctorate and expertise in late medieval/early Tudor palaeography. You will have a track record of publication on politics, government, the court or material culture in the early Tudor period. IT literacy, good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively are also essential.

One of our core values is ‘individuals matter’. As an employee at the University of Winchester, we are committed to your wellbeing and development. You will have access to a wide range of benefits and support, comprehensive staff development programme, generous holiday entitlement and pension scheme. Further details can be found on our website.

Two posts are available and some flexibility on working hours may be possible. For an informal discussion of the post, please contact Dr James Ross, james.ross@winchester.ac.uk.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANR700/researcher-on-kingship-court-and-society-the-chamber-books-of-henry-vii-and-henry-viii-1485-1521-project.

Application close on 9 June, 2016.

Confluences, Connections, and Correspondences: Music and Visual Culture Conference – Call For Papers

Confluences, Connections, and Correspondences: Music and Visual Culture Conference
University of Toronto, ON, Canada
October 13–14, 2016

Conference Website

Keynote Speakers:

  • Tim Shephard (The University of Sheffield)
  • Joseph L. Clarke (University of Toronto)

The publication of The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture in 2014 reexamined the diversity and breadth of interdisciplinary study of music and the visual arts, drawing together the various threads of scholarship that have emerged over the past two decades. The 2016 “Confluences, Connections, and Correspondences: Music and Visual Culture Conference” will reflect on the issues and questions raised by this significant publication. Drawing on various theories, methodologies, and frameworks, this conference seeks to bring together wide-ranging, multidisciplinary, and inclusive approaches to the study of these disciplines in conjunction with one another. We invite proposals for individual papers and themed sessions examining aspects of music, visual culture, and related fields across broad-ranging media, geographical regions, and time periods. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Art and music
  • Art history and musicology
  • Music and dance
  • Music and drama studies
  • Music and film studies
  • Music and new media
  • Music and painting
  • Music and screen media
  • Music and theatre
  • Music in art
  • Notation as visual form
  • Performance and performativity
  • Sound and architecture
  • Sound and colour
  • Sound and space
  • Sound art
  • Sound sculpture
  • Spectatorship and participation
  • Synaesthesia
  • Visual communication

Proposals:

  • Individual paper (20-minute presentation): 300 words abstract
  • Themed session (90- or 120-minute session): 250 words introduction and 200 words abstract for each paper

Proposals and current CVs should be submitted to Samantha Chang (musicandvisual@gmail.com) by July 17, 2016. Selected speakers will be notified by July 31, 2016. The conference programme will be announced in August 2016.

Keynote Speakers: Tim Shephard is a Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Sheffield, Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Music, Gender and Identity at the University of Huddersfield, and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture (Routledge, 2014). Joseph L. Clarke is Assistant Professor of Modern Architecture (18th–21st Century) at the University of Toronto and his current book project, Reverberation: Sound and Architectural Modernity, 1750–1900, explores how acoustic research has influenced the spatial ideas and auratic pretensions of modern architecture.

Conference Committee: Samantha Chang (Chair), Lauryn Smith, Elizabeth R. Mattison