Monthly Archives: May 2017

Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Center for the History of Emotions): Three Researcher Positions – Call For Applications

The Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, under the direction of Ute Frevert, seeks applicants for:

3 Researcher positions (m/f)
(EG 13 TVöD, full time, 39 hrs/week)

The positions will be available from 1 August 2017 initially for two years (until 31 July 2019).

Requirements

Applicants should hold a PhD in history or a relevant field, and be fluent in English.

Their projects should be relevant to the research interests of the Center for the History of Emotions, ideally focusing on religion and emotions in modern history, although other research areas will also be considered.

The Max Planck Society is committed to increasing the number of individuals with disabilities in its workforce and therefore encourages applications from such qualified individuals.

Furthermore the Max Planck Society seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are under-represented and therefore particularly encourages women to apply.

Please send your application documents (CV including list of publications and a project proposal) by 31 May, 2017 to the:

Center for the History of Emotions Secretariat: sekfrevert@mpib-berlin.mpg.de.

University of Queensland: Lecturer in Communication and Digital Media – Call For Applications

University of Queensland
Lecturer in Communication and Digital Media
School of Communication and Arts

Full-time, continuing teaching and research appointment with a focus on research in communication and digital media, and teaching in digital media including multi-media production and digital media practice.

For full details, and to apply, please visit: http://jobs.uq.edu.au/caw/en/job/500597/lecturer-in-communication-and-digital-media.

Applications close 12 June, 2017.

Newcastle University: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship in Medieval and Early Modern Studies – Call For Applications

The Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) research group at Newcastle University (http://research.ncl.ac.uk/mems) invites expressions of interest from eligible researchers seeking to apply to the Individual Fellowships scheme of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for a European fellowship. These fellowships last 12-24 months and have a research project as their focus, with a strong element of advanced training both in the research area and in transferable skills

Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Newcastle is an interdisciplinary research group. Its members work between the early medieval to the early modern periods, and belong to the disciplines of Literature, Archaeology, History, Classics and Music. Recent projects which exemplify the group’s strengths include the Tudor Partbooks Project (www.tudorpartbooks.ac.uk); The Thomas Nashe Project (https://research.ncl.ac.uk/thethomasnasheproject) and Cultural Heritage through Time (http://cht2-project.eu).

Past Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship projects include RESTOMO and RES.CO.PART (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/historical/research/projects). Our most recent Fellowship award (beginning September 2017), entitled ‘Sacred Landscapes in Late Byzantium’.

We warmly encourage applications from outstanding scholars eager to work in an interdisciplinary environment for the Individual Fellowship Scheme. Applicants must have a track record – appropriate to career stage – of peer-reviewed publication(s) in internationally recognised outlets.

We specifically welcome applications in three key areas:

Scholarly Editing: MEMS has wide-ranging and world-leading expertise in editing early modern prose, poetry, drama and music. We invite candidates who are developing or conducting scholarly editing projects in medieval or early modern texts (up to c. 1800). Projects that enhance our existing expertise in digital applications and methodologies are of particular interest.

Landscapes: MEMS has significant strengths in the investigation of landscapes as historic, acoustic, ceremonial, social and architectural space. We invite candidates wishing to pursue projects involving one or more of the following: the investigation and analysis of historic landscapes; the development of digital tools (which facilitate scholarly investigation of and public engagement with historic landscapes and buildings); multidisciplinary approaches to understanding historic landscapes; or landscape-based approaches to medieval and early modern cultural heritage.

Voices and Books: MEMS is home to cutting-edge research in literature and music dedicated to exploring the life of text off the page. We invite candidates who are developing or conducting research projects that seek to expand the evidence base of the material history of reading, to explore the sound worlds of early modern books, or the implications of recovering ‘voice’ for the development of literary studies/musicology today.

Eligibility

Please see the website: http://research.ncl.ac.uk/mems/mariesklodowska-curiefellowships.

Expressions of Interest

Expressions of interest should be sent to ruth.connolly@ncl.ac.uk and magnus.williamson@ncl.ac.uk by 1 June, 2017. Please submit:

  1. A copy of your CV that is a maximum of five (5) pages.
  2. A two (2) page outline of the proposed project which identifies a proposed supervisor from the MEMS membership. (You should contact that supervisor before sending in your Expression of Interest).

These should be sent as PDFs with file names indicating your surname, first name initial, and document (e.g. kingbCV; kingbPROPOSAL).

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BBJ445/marie-sklodowska-curie-fellowship-in-medieval-and-early-modern-studies.

Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Discovery and Settlement 1450-1850 – Call For Papers

Call for essay/chapter proposals for an edited collection
Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Discovery and Settlement 1450 – 1850

Family networks transcending national ties and traditional boundaries relating to gender, class, religion, and race, were central to the project of discovery, trade expansion, settlement, and ultimately empire building, in the early modern period. This was a period of flux and roles and relations within and outside households were affected. The aim of this collection is to investigate families where members travelled in order to trade or to maintain the maritime and military infrastructure that enabled that trade to flourish. It will encompass the extended family in its widest sense, encompassing common law husbands and wives, mistresses, children legitimate and illegitimate, apprentices, servants and slaves. Individuals and family units chose to uproot, travel and labour (or manage the labour of others) in unfamiliar surroundings, while others were forced to. While some travelled what we would today consider short distances (for example: from Cordoba to Seville to profit from Castile’s trade with the Indies or from Winchester to London when the wool trade underwent a slump in the west of England), others went much further. While the Atlantic historian, Christopher Bayly, has argued that the term ‘transnational’ is not applicable to an era before the formation of nation states, other scholars have pointed out that there were groups displaying characteristics associated with contemporary transnationalism as early as the fifteenth century. I would expect that some of the families in this collection will demonstrate such characteristics: personal mobility; membership of networks transcending distance; adaptability to a variety of locales and cultures; and a continuing connection to their place of origin. This last point is important for, as Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks has shown, interactions and relationships between mobile individuals affect those within their network who are not and so even fixed locations can be ‘saturated with transnational relationships’.

Since the early 1900s, historians have embraced the idea of the ‘network’ in order to understand how, when and why goods, people and ideas spread. There is really no other concept that embraces the idea of a ‘thick web of relationships’ characterized by the by the circulation of goods, people and ideas. Although the idea of a trading network is commonly associated with economic history, it is increasingly understood that relationships matter – that the efficiency and profitability of a trading network depended on the strength of personal ties between people. In investigating trading networks through the prism of extended family, the aim of this collection is to not only enrich our knowledge of trading communities, but to initiate a rethink of the nature of the family in this early period of European expansion.

Although I welcome topic suggestions, I envisage that the book will cover:

  • Keeping it in the family (for example: how family businesses/family trading networks were set up, maintained and adapted).
  • Maintaining families (for example: how families dealt with change, distance and separation).
  • Making families (for example: how individuals cut off from their relations made new families).
  • Gender (for example: how traditional gender roles could be embedded or challenged by changed circumstances).
  • Race, hybridity and creolization (for example: how individuals adapted to unfamiliar cultures and races, and how families were formed that challenged cultural and racial barriers).
  • Religion (for example: how families adapted to religious change and how families worked to maintain their religious integrity in international trading networks).
  • Communicating family (how the importance of family and warnings about the dangers inherent in leaving family were communicated through ballads, broadsheets, sermons and plays. In some cases, this occurred in direct juxtaposition to communications by companies and nations encouraging individuals to travel).

First stage timeline for contributors:

  • 2 July 2017: Proposal (title, abstract of 300 words and biographical statement) due.
  • 15 July 2018: Essays of 5000 to 8000 words (with confirmed list of images and low-resolution copies if applicable) due. Please note that there is a wide word range until I know the number of contributors. If you feel strongly about the size of your essay, do let me know at this stage.

Contact: Dr Heather Dalton, School of Historical & Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne. Email: hgdalton@hotmail.com.

University of Melbourne: Professor in Screen Studies – Call For Applications

University of Melbourne
Professor in Screen Studies

Work type: Continuing
Location: Parkville
Salary: $187,654 p.a. plus 17% superannuation

The School of Culture and Communication is a thriving research hub for critical thinking in the humanities. This agenda is led by world-leading scholars whose fields of research include literary and cultural studies, art history, cinema and performance, media and communication and Australian Indigenous studies. The School is also host to a range of funded research concentrations, such as the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, the Australian Centre, the Centre for Advancing Journalism, the Research Unit in Public Cultures and the Transformative Technologies Research Unit. More broadly, our academics publish, speak and blog on topics as diverse as romanticism, poetry, Asian popular culture, digital media, climate change, network societies, gender and sexuality, racism, cosmopolitanism, and contemporary arts.

The Professor of Screen Studies will be expected to make major contributions in the areas of research, academic leadership, administration and professional development, and teaching excellence at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels including RHD supervision.The appointee will have an established research specialisation in an aspect of Screen Studies, and potential to achieve a high level of research performance through refereed publications and the securing of research grants. A principal duty of the successful appointee will be to foster interdisciplinary activities and engagement activities connected to the discipline.

For full information and to apply, please visit: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/890703/professor-in-screen-studies

Applications close: 20 June, 2017.

Voices of the Australian Migrant and Minority Press: Intercultural, Transnational and Diasporic Contexts – Call For Papers

Voices of the Australian Migrant and Minority Press: Intercultural, Transnational and Diasporic Contexts
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
22-23 November, 2017

This Conference is timed to mark developments in Australia’s migrant and minority printed press since 1967. It has been fifty years since Miriam Gilson and Jerzy Zubrzycki’s ground-breaking study on the foreign-language press in Australia. Australia’s cultural landscape has transformed significantly as a result of increasing understanding of, and services in support of, the diverse multilingual and multicultural communities across Australian society. Analysis of the printed press of such communities has also advanced through multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research from several substantial historiographical influences, including discourses of postcolonialism and methodological developments in cultural history and world history approaches.

The Conference brings together the latest research on Australia’s migrant and minority press from the colonial era to the present day, with an emphasis on themes of belonging, community and conflict. The convenors welcome papers exploring any aspects concerning Indigenous, migrant and/or minority community newspapers (print or digitalised) in Australia, as well as their intercultural, transnational and diasporic contexts. Papers speaking to multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches are also of interest.

Keynote Speakers:

  • Doctor Simon Potter, Reader in Modern History, University of Bristol
  • Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley, Professor of Media and Director of the Centre for Media Studies, Macquarie University

Call for Abstracts:

We invite abstracts for individual papers and panel sessions. Each presenter will have 20 minutes to present, followed by 10 minutes’ discussion time. The convenors intend to publish a selection of the best papers from the Conference as a special edition of a high quality, peer-reviewed journal.

Anticipated Streams:

  • Colonial and early Federation newspapers
  • Interwar migrant newspapers
  • Displaced Persons and post-war migrant newspapers
  • More recent refugees and asylum seekers’ newspapers
  • Newspapers of other minority groups (Indigenous, religious, commercial associations, gender, trade union, etc.)
  • National Library of Australia’s current and future digitisation of newspapers (Trove)

Please submit abstracts (250 words) and a short biography (100 words) by Friday, 23 June, 2017 via https://artsworx.usq.edu.au/learn/educational-learning/voices-of-the-australian-migrant-and-minority-press.

Please note that there will be a small registration fee for the Conference. Registrations will open in mid-August 2017.

Any questions regarding the conference can be directed to:
Catherine Dewhirst: catherine.dewhirst@usq.edu.au | Jayne Persian: jayne.persian@usq.edu.au | Mark Emmerson: mark.emmerson@usq.edu.au

University of St Andrews: Four Research Fellowships in Legal History – Call For Applications

Four Research Fellowships in Legal History are available at the University of St Andrews to work with Professor John Hudson on the ERC Advance Grant funded project ‘Civil Law, Common Law, Customary Law: Consonance, Divergence and Transformation in Western Europe from the late eleventh to the thirteenth centuries’. Three are medieval, concerning England, France, and Italy, whilst the fourth is concerned with the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.

Applications for all four Fellowships close on 1 June, 2017.

Charlemagne’s Ghost: Legacies, Leftovers, and Legends of the Carolingian Empire – Call For Papers

Charlemagne’s Ghost: Legacies, Leftovers, and Legends of the Carolingian Empire
The 44th Annual New England Medieval Conference
MIT, Cambridge, MA
October 7, 2017

Keynote speaker: Simon MacLean (The University of St. Andrews): “What Was Post-Carolingian about Post-Carolingian Europe?”

It is well known that the Frankish emperor Charlemagne (768-814) and his dynasty – the Carolingians – played an important role in the formation of Europe. Yet scholars still debate the long-term consequences of the collapse of the Carolingian empire in 888 and the diverse ways in which Charlemagne’s family shaped subsequent medieval civilization. This conference invites medievalists of all disciplines and specializations to investigate the legacies, leftovers, and legends of the Carolingian empire in the central and later Middle Ages. We welcome papers that consider a wide array of Carolingian legacies in the realms of kingship and political culture, literature and art, manuscripts and material artifacts, the Church and monasticism, as well as Europe’s relations with the wider world. We urge participants to reflect on the ways in which later medieval rulers, writers, artists, and communities remembered Charlemagne and the Frankish empire and adapted Carolingian inheritances to fit new circumstances. In short, this conference will explore the ways in which Charlemagne’s ghost haunted the medieval world.

Please send an abstract of 250 words and a CV to Eric Goldberg (egoldber@mit.edu) via email attachment. On your abstract provide your name, institution, the title of your proposal, and email address. Abstracts are due July 1, 2017.

Gender, Identity, Iconography – Call For Papers

Gender, Identity, Iconography
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
8-10 January, 2018

The glittering beauty of the Alfred Jewel, the rich illustration of the Lindisfarne Gospels, the dominating Great West Window of York Minster, the intricate embroidery of the Bayeux Tapestry, the luminous Maestà of Duccio, the opulent Oseberg ship burial, and the sophisticated imagery of the Ruthwell cross are all testament to the centrality of the visual to our understanding of a range of medieval cultures.

Constructed at and across the intersections of race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, national identity, age, social class, and economic status, gendered medieval identities are multiple, mobile, and multivalent. Iconography – both religious and secular – plays a key role in the representation of such multifaceted identities. But visual symbols do not merely represent personhood. Across the range of medieval media, visual symbolism is used actively to produce, inscribe, and express the gendered identities of both individuals and groups.

The 2018 Gender and Medieval Studies Conference welcomes papers on all aspects of gender, identity and iconography from those working on medieval subjects in any discipline.
Papers may address, but are not limited to:

  • Sight and Blindness
  • Visible and Invisible Identities
  • Visual Languages
  • Colour and Shade
  • Icons and Iconoclasm
  • Light and Darkness
  • Collective and Individual Identities
  • Orthodox and Heretical imagery
  • Aesthetics
  • Subject and Motif
  • Convention and Innovation

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers. Please email proposals of approx. 200 words to gmsconference2018@gmail.com by Monday 4 September, 2017. We will also consider proposals for alternative kinds of presentation, including full panel proposals, performance and art; please contact the organisers to discuss.

A conference for everyone

Corpus Christi College’s auditorium is fully wheelchair accessible, has accessible toilets, and features a hearing loop for those using hearing aids. Please contact us if you have specific accessibility needs you would like to discuss. We plan to provide a private lactation space.

It is hoped that the Kate Westoby Fund will be able to offer a modest contribution towards (but not the full costs of) as many postgraduate student travel expenses as possible. We are exploring other avenues to make the conference financially feasible for postgraduates and early career scholars to attend.

Dr Toby Burrows, Lecture @ WA Branch of Australian Society of Archivists

“Computing the History of Cultural Heritage Collections”, Dr Toby Burrows (Library Manager – Research Publication and Data Services, University of Western Australia)

Date: Tuesday, 30 May 2017
Time: 4:00PM – 6:00 PM
Venue: State Records Office of Western Australia, James Street, Perth
Registrations: Please register through the ASA website to help with planning for this event: https://www.archivists.org.au/events/event/wa-branch-event-presentation-by-dr-toby-burrows
Cost: No charge for ASA members, gold coin donation for others on the day

This presentation will focus on the re-use of data relating to collections in libraries, museums and archives to address research questions in the humanities. Large-scale research into the history and characteristics of cultural heritage materials is heavily dependent on the availability of collections data in appropriate formats. Until recently, this kind of research has been seriously limited by lack of access to suitable data. The speaker will be discussing four major projects. The first two relate to medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and involve using data from a range of digital and non-digital sources to reconstruct the histories of large numbers of manuscripts, both from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps and more generally. For the third project, “Collecting the West”, I am working with the British Museum to evaluate their ResearchSpace software, which is designed to integrate heterogeneous collection data into a cultural heritage knowledge graph. The final project is HuNI – the Humanities Networked Infrastructure – which is endeavouring to build a “virtual laboratory” for the humanities by reshaping collections data into semantic information networks.


Toby Burrows’ research interests focus on the history of cultural heritage collections and the use of digital humanities techniques and methodologies. He has held research fellowships at King’s College London, Churchill College Cambridge and the Free University in Amsterdam. Come and hear Toby Burrows before he heads off to UK in June.