A quick reminder that the Call For Papers for the 2017 ANZAMEMS conference which will be held at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, on 7-10 February 2017, closes in one week on September 1. Call for Papers: https://anzamems2017.wordpress.com
Postgraduate Bursaries: There are a range of travel bursaries and prizes available to postgraduate students to assist with conference costs. For further information see: https://anzamems2017.wordpress.com/bursaries-prizes
Gender, Places, Spaces, Thresholds
Canterbury Christ Church University
12–15 January, 2017
Keynote Speakers:
This is a Call for Papers for a three-day conference on the theme of ‘Gender and Place, Space, and Liminalities’ hosted by the long-running Gender and Medieval Studies Conference Series. This year our venue is Canterbury Christ Church University which is on the site of St Augustine’s Abbey (founded in 613) close to Canterbury Cathedral.
We are looking for papers that explore the relationships between gender and medieval geographical, cultural, social, spatial, and imagined locations – as well as those which explore aspects of gender and liminalities. In viewing the materiality of place and space through the lens of gender, we wish to encourage both cross- and trans-disciplinary discourses concerning how gender is rendered stable and unstable via networks, objects (relics for example), individuals, communities, and exchanges in the Middle Ages. Proposals are now being accepted for 20 minute papers and 90 minute panel sessions. Topics to consider may include, but are not limited to:
The conference will employ a range of formats: three keynote lectures, a practitioner-led drama workshop, round-tables, and panel sessions. There will be opportunities to explore Canterbury’s unique standing archaeology and attend Cathedral Evensong (the modern equivalent of the medieval monastic office of Compline).
Papers from postgraduate and early career scholars are welcome and reduced conference rates are available. We welcome scholars from a range of disciplines, including history, literature, art history, archaeology and drama. The conference is supported by a small travel fund, the Kate Westoby Fund. Students and unwaged scholars are invited to apply to the fund up to one month after they have attended the conference. The fund can only pay UK travel expenses. Available funds are limited and divided between all applicants and it is often not possible to pay claims in full. Because of prohibitive bank charges on international payments, claims can only be paid into UK bank accounts. For further inquiries about the fund please contact the treasurer Dr Isabel Davis (i.davis@bbk.ac.uk).
Please email proposals of no more than 300 words to organiser Diane Heath at diane.heath@canterbury.ac.uk by 7 September, 2016. All queries should also be directed to this address. Please also include biographical information detailing your name, research area, institution and level of study (if applicable). Further details will be available on the conference website.
Habitual Behaviour in Early Modern Europe
Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield
1–2 June, 2017
‘Habit, n: A settled disposition or tendency to act in a certain way, esp. one acquired by frequent repetition of the same act until it becomes almost or quite involuntary.’
Oxford English Dictionary
‘Habit is Motion made more easy and ready by Custom.’
Thomas Hobbes, 1656, Elements Philos
What habits, practices, or routines, made up day-to-day life in Europe between 1500-1750? At what point was habitual behaviour, such as excessive drinking, considered problematic? And how did ideas about habitual practice fit into early modern concepts of body and self?
This two-day interdisciplinary conference aims to draw together scholars working on material culture, digital humanities, medicine, consumption, daily routine, practice, theory, and more, and invites them to consider their research under the heading of ‘habit’. We welcome papers on habitual behaviour, customs and practices, and daily routines, whether mealtimes or medicine, venery or vinosity.
Keynote speakers: Professor Steven Shapin (Harvard University) and Dr Sasha Handley (University of Manchester), both speaking about their forthcoming publications.
Please submit abstracts of 250 words for 20 minute papers, accompanied by a short speaker biography. We accept proposals for panels of 3 papers, under a session title. Submissions welcome from postgraduate research students as well as established scholars.
Please send abstracts to earlymodernhabits@gmail.com no later than Wednesday 16 November, 2016.
