Daily Archives: 13 June 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.

Working History: Professional Historians Association Conference – Registration Now Open

Working History: Professional Historians Association Conference
Graduate House, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
19-20 August, 2016

The conference will explore the following:

History: Now

What’s happening in history practice now? What are some of the tensions, challenges, dilemmas and wisdoms that come with working in history today?

History: How?

How do we communicate history? How does digital history compare to traditional methods? Is there still a role for books, radio and television? How important is technology in history?

History: Whose?

Who are we doing history for? What role does history play in benefiting communities, organisations, individuals? Should historians weigh in on discussions on policy, planning and heritage? What are our responsibilities?

History: Where to?

Our job is discussing the past, but what about the future? What challenges and new practices will we face? Who might we be working for? And what will working in history be like in 20 or 50 years time?

Guest Speakers:

Lisa Murray
Dr Lisa Murray is the City Historian and heads up the history team at the City of Sydney Council. She oversees a diverse History Program at the City that encompasses local and community history, civic and municipal history, and urban history. Lisa is passionate about making history accessible to the public. She is a Councillor with the History Council of NSW and a board member of the Dictionary of Sydney Inc. Lisa is the award-winning author of planning histories and a regular contributor to debates around public history, including being a speaker at TEDxSydney 2013. In her spare time, Lisa is writing a history and field guide to Sydney’s cemeteries, to be published by NewSouth Publishing in late 2016.

Tim Sherratt
Tim Sherratt is a historian and hacker who researches the possibilities and politics of digital cultural collections. Tim has worked across the cultural heritage sector, and has been developing online resources relating to libraries, archives, museums and history since 1993. He’s currently Associate Professor of Digital Heritage at the University of Canberra. You can find him at discontents.com.au and as @wragge on Twitter.

Registration:

  • Members $80 per day
  • Non-members $110 per day
  • Students $65 per day

Registrations are now open! Click here for details.

Contact: workinghistory@phavic.org.au with any enquiries.

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal – Call For Editor or Editors

ACMRS (the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) at Arizona State University is seeking an editor or editorial team of two to three in related fields to edit Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal for a (renewable) three-year term beginning 1 December 2017. The editor or editors will be responsible for reviewing submissions, choosing outside readers, offering editorial suggestions, assembling and sending suggestions from editors and readers to authors, sending essays to the Editorial Board for votes, inviting some submissions, overseeing the choice of the annual Forum topic as well as undertaking other tasks related to the pre-publication phase of a scholarly journal and sending finished revisions to ACMRS for copy-editing. In consultation with the Director of ACMRS, the editor or editors will also make any necessary changes to the membership of the Editorial and Advisory Boards of the journal and will report (either in person or electronically) to ACMRS at its annual conference. The editor or editors will be made ex officio member(s) of the ACMRS Advisory Board. In addition, the editor or editors will meet annually with the EMWJ Editorial Board and report to the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (SSEMW) at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference or the Attending to Early Modern Women Symposium.

The editor or editors will be expected to deliver final edited copy of each issue of the bi-annual journal to ACMRS by May 1 and December 1 in time for an October and May publication dates. The editor or editors should expect an average of six or more hours of pro bono work each week year-round, with fluctuations over the course of the year. All managing and editing responsibilities will be handled by ACMRS: subscription records and bookkeeping, logging submissions and reviews, receiving and mailing books for reviews, advertisements, copy-editing, typesetting, final proofreading, printing, etc.

The ideal proposal will come from an editor or team of editors specializing in early modern women or gender studies and having an interest in the global early modern period. Although a small stipend will be provided, the editor or editorial team should have strong support at their home institution.

The new editor or editors would begin the transition into the editorship during the summer and winter of 2017 and would take over formally by 1 December 2017. Some flexibility is possible.
Please send a statement describing your interest and qualifications and the level of institutional support you will have for your editorship to emwjournal@acmrs.org with “EMWJ Editorial Search Committee” in the subject line. Only electronic applications will be accepted.

Applications should include:

  1. Statement of interest, qualifications, and nature of institutional support.
  2. Indication of possible start date, preferably 1 December 2017.
  3. Current CV or CVs.
  4. Three letters of recommendation sent directly to emwjournal@acmrs.org.

Editing experience is desirable. Evidence of successful collaborative work is required as is a commitment both to the field of early modern women and gender studies in a worldwide context and to continuing the EMWJ tradition of excellence that has garnered awards for the journal.

Deadline for application: January 31, 2017.

For more information about the journal please see www.acmrs.org/emwj.