Daily Archives: 21 June 2016

ANZAMEMS 2017 – Applications for Bursaries and Prizes Now Open

Applications for the following ANZAMEMS 2017 conference related bursaries and prizes are now open.

For full information about each prize, including how to apply, please visit the Bursaries & Prizes page on the ANZAMEMS 2017 website: https://anzamems2017.wordpress.com/bursaries-prizes

    • The George Yule Prize [AUD$500, and a year’s free subscription to Parergon]

The George Yule Prize is awarded to the best essay written by a postgraduate. It is awarded biennially, at each ANZAMEMS conference.

    • The Kim Walker Travel Bursary [AUD$500]

The Kim Walker Travel Bursary is awarded in honour of Kim Walker, who taught in the English Programme at Victoria University of Wellington

    • ANZAMEMS Postgraduate / Recent Graduate Travel Bursaries

A limited number of open Postgraduate / Recent Graduate Bursaries may be provided, depending on donations received through the registration process.

    • Philippa Maddern Travel Bursaries [AUD$500 for applicants travelling from within New Zealand, AUD$750 for applicants from eastern Australia, and AUD$1,000 for applicants from Western Australia]

Generously funded by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100-1800, the Philippa Maddern Travel Bursaries support postgraduates giving papers on topics related to the history of Emotions.

Journal of Historical Fictions: Narrative Constructions of the Past – Call For Papers

The Historical Fictions Research Network (historicalfictionsresearch.org) is pleased announce the arrival of the Journal of Historical Fictions. The Journal will be published twice a year, with the first issue to be presented in February 2017 at the second conference of the Network.

Call for abstracts: 1:1 Narrative Constructions of the Past

In the study of historical fictions, there is increasing critical recognition of convergences between the philosophy of history, narratology, popular literature, historical narratives of national and cultural identity, and cross-disciplinary approaches to narrative constructions of the past in diverse media.

Narrative constructions of the past constitute a powerful discursive system for the production of cognitive and ideological representations of identity, agency, and social function, and for the negotiation of conceptual relationships between societies in different times and lived experience. The licences of fiction, especially in mass culture, define a space in which the pursuit of narrative and meaning is permitted to slip the chains of sanctioned historical truths to explore the deep desires and dreams that lie beneath all constructions of the past. Historical fictions measure the gap between the pasts we are permitted to know and those we wish to know, interacting between the meaning-making narrative and the narrative-resistant nature of the past.

This journal welcomes inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary articles from (but not confined to) archaeology, literature, film, history, media studies, art history, musicology, reception studies, and museum studies. We welcome proposals that cross historical periods, and encourage ambitious approaches of high quality, using new methodologies to support research into larger trends. The journal aims to foster more theoretically informed understandings of the mode across historical periods, cultures, media and languages.

The journal is supported by an inter-disciplinary core of researchers, to generate a collective discourse around historical fictions in a range of media and across period specialities.

Please send abstracts of no more than 800 words for articles for this Open Access, peer-reviewed journal, to journalhistfics@gmail.com, by 30 June, 2016, with a view to submitting a full article of 6000-8000 words by 30 September 2016.

Global Byzantium: 50th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies – Call For Papers

Global Byzantium: 50th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
25-27 March, 2017

For its 50th anniversary, the Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies returns to the University of Birmingham, where it began in 1967. On this anniversary of the discipline we ask what the language of globalism has to offer to Byzantine studies, and Byzantine studies to global narratives. How global was Byzantium? Our understanding of the links which Byzantium had to far-flung parts of the world, and of its connections with near neighbours, continues to develop but the significance of these connections to Byzantium and its interlocutors remains keenly debated. Comparisons from or to Byzantium may also help in thinking about globalism, modern and historical. How, for example, might Byzantine legal structures, visual culture or military practice contribute to debates about the role of the medieval state or the relationship between modern cultural and national identities? Finally, Byzantine studies has always been an international discipline, marked by the interaction of its different national, regional and linguistic traditions of scholarship, as well as its highly interdisciplinary nature. How has this manifested in the interpretation of Byzantine history and how might practices of global scholarship be pursued in the future? The 50th Spring Symposium invites contributions for communications on any of these themes and warmly invites abstracts from scholars outside the UK and in fields linked to Byzantine studies.

The call for communications is now open. If you would like to offer a 10-minute communication on the theme of the symposium, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to Daniel Reynolds atd.k.reynolds@bham.ac.uk by 1 September, 2016.

Successful submissions will be informed no later than 1 October 2016. Some bursaries will be available to selected speakers, especially to attendees from outside the UK. If you would like to be considered for a bursary please indicate this on your abstract and we will send you further information about the application process if appropriate.