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Melbourne Masterclass: Objects, Sounds and Stories of Love

Melbourne Masterclass: Objects, Sounds and Stories of Love

Date: Wednesdays 12, 19, and 26 April, 2017
Time: 6:00pm-8:30pm

As part of the Love: Art of Emotion 1400-1800 exhibition held at the National Gallery of Victoria (March 31- June 18 2017) a masterclass held three weeks will examine a theme within the exhibition.

Led by Love: Art of Emotion curator and lead researcher, Dr Angela Hesson, the masterclass series will be a blend of lectures, discussions and performances exploring the materiality, visions and sounds of love.

There will also be exclusive exhibition viewing for the first two sessions.

To view the full program, including speaker biographies and abstracts, download the program flyer.

This masterclass program and free exhibition are subsidized through the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Spaces are limited.

The Emotions of Love in the Art of Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe – Registration Now Open

The Emotions of Love in the Art of Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Date: Thursday 4 May – Saturday 6 May, 2017
Venue: Thursday and Friday – University of Melbourne, Woodward Conference Centre, 10th floor, Melbourne Law (Building 106), 185 Pelham Street, Carlton
Venue: Saturday – The National Gallery of Victoria, Clemenger Auditorium, 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Convenors: Charles Zika and Angela Hesson
Contact: Julie Davies (daviesja@unimelb.edu.au)
Website: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/the-emotions-of-love-in-the-art-of-medieval-and-early-modern-europe
Registrations: http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/emotionsoflove

Costs:
Full Reg
3 days: Full $80, Students and unwaged $50

Daily Reg
Day one: Full $30, Students and unwaged $20
Day two: Full $30, Students and unwaged $20
Day three (at NGV): Full $40, Students and unwaged $25

Conference Dinner
Full $80, Students and unwaged $45
The Conference dinner will be held at the Carlton Wine Room on Thursday evening.

Please register by 2 May for catering purposes. Unfortunately, registrations will not be available at the venue.

Love in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe was a complex emotion, a constellation of feelings shaped and reflected by artists, writers and thinkers that sought to give expression to human experience and also provide models for individual and group behavior. Notions of love took different forms and involved a range of emotions across time and space, under the influence of changing community norms, cultural practices, political institutions and social media. This symposium coincides with the exhibition Love: Art of Emotion 1400–1800 at the National Gallery of Victoria, 31 March–18 June, 2017, which draws on the NGV’s permanent collection of European art. The accompanying symposium will engage with and extend the themes presented in the exhibition primarily through visual art, but also through literature and music. It will explore how artists expressed and aroused feelings of love through gesture and facial expression, colour and shape, the context of place and narrative, the representation of bodies, and references to contemporary rituals and practices. It will examine the ways different forms of love, including affection, friendship, intimacy, erotic desire, jealousy and compassion were applied to various objects of love – such as family and kin, the divinity and saints, fatherlands and the self. It will consider how these representations created new understandings of love, which in turn influenced developments in the religious, political, cultural and domestic spheres.

Speakers: David Areford (University of Massachusetts, Art History), Katie Barclay (University of Adelaide, History), Lisa Beaven (University of Melbourne, Art History), Jane Davidson (University of Melbourne, Musicology), Dagmar Eichberger (University of Heidelberg, Art History), Vivien Gaston ( University of Melbourne, Art History), Katrina Grant (Australian National University, Art History), Sally Holloway (Royal Holloway, University of London, History), Petra Kayser (NGV, Prints & Drawings), Dale Kent (University of Melbourne, History), David Marshall (University of Melbourne, Art History), Sophie Mattheisson (NGV, Art History), Jennifer Milam (University of Sydney, Art History), Mark Nicholls (University of Melbourne, Cinema Studies), John Payne (NGV, Conservation), Mark Shepheard (University of Melbourne, Art History), Patricia Simons (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Art History), Robert Toft (University of Western Ontario), Miya Tokumitsu (University of Melbourne, Art History), Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne, Literature), Arvi Wattel (University of Western Australia, Art History) and Anna Welch (State Library of Victoria, History)

This symposium is associated with the exhibition “Love: Art of Emotion 1400–1800” at NGV International, opening on the 31 March, 2017.

British Library: Internship in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts – Call For Applications

The British Library is pleased to be able to offer an internship in the Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts section of the Western Heritage Department, for doctoral and post-doctoral students in History, Art History, Medieval Language or Literature or another relevant subject.

The focus of the internship will be to enhance our Explore Archives and Manuscripts online catalogue, by creating or enriching catalogue entries for medieval manuscripts and publicising them in blog posts and other interpretative material. The intern will assist curators working on The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200. This may involve writing or researching short descriptions of manuscripts and groups of manuscripts. The intern will be involved in others aspects of the work of the Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts section, including responding to enquiries and providing talks for students and visitors, thereby gaining insight into various curatorial duties and aspects of collection care. During the internship at the British Library, the intern will enjoy privileged access to printed and manuscript research material, and will work alongside specialists with wide-ranging and varied expertise.

This internship is designed to provide an opportunity for the intern to develop research skills and expertise in medieval history and manuscripts, and in presenting manuscripts to a range of audiences. Previous interns have given feedback that they felt a valued member of the team, gained professional confidence and developed their career by carrying out a ‘real’ job with specific duties.

The programme is only open to students who are engaged actively in research towards, or have recently completed a PhD in a subject area relevant to the study of medieval manuscripts and who have a right to work in the UK full time.

The term of internship is full time (36 hours per week over 5 days) for 6 months. The salary is £9.75 per hour, which is the current London Living Wage. The internship will start in July 2017 or as soon as relevant security checks have been completed.

For full details and to apply, pleas visit: http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2017/03/internship-in-ancient-medieval-and-early-modern-manuscripts.html.

Closing date for applications is 1 May, 2017.