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International Medieval Society, Paris 2015 – Call For Papers

The International Medieval Society, Paris, 2015
Symposium 2015: Cities/Les Villes
Paris
25–27 June, 2015

Keynote Speakers: Emma Dillon (King’s College, London), Carol Symes (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), and Boris Bove (Université Paris VIII).

The International Medieval Society, Paris (IMS-Paris) invites abstracts and session proposals for our 2015 symposium on the theme of cities in Medieval France. After the decline of late-antique cities in the course of the fifth and sixth centuries, a revival of cities began in the course of the eleventh century. This phenomenon, which profoundly transformed the dynamics of the West to our day, is a field of research that has been enriched in pace with archaeological discoveries and by new technologies that offer original perspectives and approaches. This symposium will approach new lines of investigation that will deepen our knowledge of medieval cities (11th – 15th centuries) not only in their cartographic and monumental dimensions, but also political and cultural ones.

The question of the construction of urban space could be explored in a variety of ways:

  • Through its material dimensions, consisting of different forms of cityscapes, its urbanism, and its architecture
  • Through uses of space and their performative function. For instance, the role of rituals and urban processions, how music and theater contribute to the establishment of urban space in its practical use and representations

We also wish to explore urban culture, which consists of material, intellectual, or spiritual culture, including:

  • The role of writing in the development of a literate, mercantile culture, and new modes of government
  • The daily lives of city dwellers: their lifestyles and patterns of consumption, their culinary tastes, etc.
  • The development of practices related to the rise of intellectual institutions (schools, universities, patronage, mendicants, etc.)

Finally, we wish to explore the question of visual representations of the city and in the city, notably:

  • The ways in which cities were represented in the Middle Ages, and how medieval cities are represented now
  • Models for cities and the role of imaginary cities in the construction of urban spaces

Proposals should focus on France between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, but do not need to be exclusively limited to this period and geographical area. We encourage proposals and papers from all areas of medieval studies, such as anthropology, archaeology, history, economic and social history, art history, gender studies, literary studies, musicology, philosophy, etc.

Proposals of 300 words or less (in English or French) for a 20-minute paper should be e-mailed to communications.ims.paris@gmail.com no later than 30 January 2015. Each should be accompanied by full contact information, a CV, and a list of audiovisual equipment you require.

Please be aware that the IMS-Paris submissions review process is highly competitive and is carried out on a strictly blind basis. The selection committee will notify applicants of its decision by e-mail by February 26th 2014.

Titles of accepted papers will be made available on the IMS-Paris web site. Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel costs and conference registration fee (35 euros, reduced for students, free for IMS- Paris members).

The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (French/English) organization that fosters exchanges between French and foreign scholars. For the past ten years, the IMS has served as a center for medievalists who travel to France to conduct research, work, or study. For more information about the IMS-Paris and the program of last year’s symposium, please visit our website: www.ims-paris.org.

IMS-Paris Graduate Student Prize:

The IMS-Paris is pleased to offer one prize for the best paper proposal by a graduate student. Applications should consist of:

  1. symposium paper abstract/proposal
  2. current research project (Ph.D. dissertation research)
  3. names and contact information of two academic references

The prizewinner will be selected by the board and a committee of honorary members, and will be notified upon acceptance to the Symposium. An award of 350 euros to support international travel/accommodations (within France, 150 euros) will be paid at the Symposium.

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship Essay Prize – Call For Applications

The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship seeks nominations/ submissions for its annual prize for feminist scholarship on the Middle Ages. The 2015 prize will be for the best article that furthers the study of women and feminist values in Medieval Studies. The prize carries an award of $300.

The SMFS Awards Committee solicits nominations for articles and chapters from essay collections published in 2013 or 2014. Please note that only articles from 2013 and 2014 are eligible for the prize. The prize, which includes an award of $300, will be announced at the SMFS reception at the 2015 Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo. Self-nominations are acceptable.

All nominations must be received by January 1, 2015. Please email the nominated article/chapter along with a brief cover letter summarizing its merits and contributions to:

Prof. Sally Livingston
Department of Comparative Literature
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH 43015
saliving@owu.edu

Magna Carta Project Student Essay Prize – Call For Applications

The Magna Carta Project, a collaborative multi-centre research project based in the UK, has established the J. C. Holt Undergraduate Essay Prize. Students wishing to enter should write 2000-2500 words (including footnotes) on one of the twelve set topics (see further details link below). A bibliography should be attached.

Entries should be emailed in PDF format to magnacartaessay@gmail.com no later than 1 March 2015. The writer of the best essay will receive £250. The winner will be announced at the Magna Carta Project conference in London, in June 2015.

More details are available by clicking here, and by visiting the Project’s website, here.

Jo-Anne Duggan Essay Prize – Call For Papers

Jo-Anne Duggan (1962-2011) was a great artist and a great friend of the ACIS. Her artistic practice left what is arguably the richest and most compelling recent collection of photographs by an Australian artist to engage with Italian culture, history and art. Her work demonstrates not only artistic rigour and depth but also remarkable breadth, spanning from public spaces/places of Italian diaspora in Australia to enquiries into the re-contextualisation and museification of Renaissance art, from Australian archives of Italian migration to complex case studies on the legacy of the Gonzagas. In her research-led and interdisciplinary endeavour, Jo-Anne asked crucial questions and opened up original paths with regard to the construction of space/place, our relationship with the past and its reception, and the role of photographic art in mobilising and questioning the viewer’s gaze, starting from what she called her ‘postcolonial eye’.

To honour her memory, ACIS http://acis.org.au/prize, with the generous support of Kevin Bayley, The Colour Factory http://www.colourfactory.com.au/gallery/artists-in-our-stockroom/jo-anne-duggan and the editorial committee of Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal, has established a biennial Jo-Anne Duggan Essay Prize to be awarded for the first time in 2015. The aim of the Prize is to foster and expand Jo-Anne’s rich creative, artistic and scholarly legacy in order to maintain enquiry into the nexus between creative practice and research, especially among younger/emerging scholars. The Prize is designed to keep Jo-Anne’s questions alive in order to continue to learn from her own answers.

The due date is 1 March, 2015 and prizes include:

  • $1000 for the winning essay; $250 for two highly-commended essays
  • Winning entry will be offered publication in the prestigious journal: Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
  • Winning and highly-commended entrants will be invited to present their submissions at the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) biennial conference, The University of Sydney, 1-4 July, 2015.

Full details on eligibility and submissions can be found at http://acisnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/guidelines-jo-anne-duggan-prize1.pdf.

George Yule Prize – Deadline 28 February 2015

As you will all know, the deadline for submission of panels and individual papers for the ANZAMEMS conference in Brisbane, 14-18 July 2015, is 31 October. The executive committee encourages postgraduates to think about submitting a 3,500 word essay for the George Yule prize (and supervisors to encourage their students to do so). The deadline for this is 28 February 2015. Entries and queries should be submitted to Marina Gerzic: mgerzic@gmail.com

For further information on this prize, see: http://anzamems.org/?page_id=8

Villa I Tatti Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies – 2014 Essay Prize / Fellowships

The Villa I Tatti Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies has just published the rules to apply for a prize for the best essay published in 2014. The application form is now live.

The Villa I Tatti Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies has changed the eligibility rules. For the first time, advanced PhD students can apply, and the new deadline is February 14 2015.
Here is the link to the application form: https://itatti.slideroom.com/#/Login and to the webpage with more information: http://itatti.harvard.edu/research/grants/best-essay-junior-scholar-prize

There are also six types of VIT Fellowships, and all applications are now live. The list also includes a new Fellowship (Tobey) and another Fellowship in its second year (VIT-RCAC). All are listed on the VIT homepage: http://itatti.harvard.edu. Application for all is via Slideroom: https://itatti.slideroom.com/#/Login

SMFS Foremother’s Graduate Student Prize 2015

The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship is now accepting applications for the 2015 Foremother’s Prize for Graduate Students.

Funded through the generous gift of royalties from the editors and authors of the Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (Judith Bennett and Ruth Mazzo Karras, eds.), the grant provides $2,000 for a graduate student to undertake a significant professional development initiative. The winner will be partnered with a senior medieval feminist scholar whose guidance and association can assist her in developing and executing the project.

Such projects might include:

  • Travel to a conference relevant to medieval feminist scholarship, for instance, the annual Gender and Medieval Studies Conference in the U.K.
  • Travel to visit archives, research libraries, museums, manuscript collections, or archeological or architectural sites
  • Travel to conduct other forms of on-site research
  • Development of a digital humanities project related to feminist research
  • Organizing of a medieval feminist conference or colloquium
  • Travel to allow sustained work with a mentor

SMFS is especially interested in assisting students whose projects are not otherwise funded. The winner must be willing to write a reflective report describing the outcome of the project that will appear on the SMFS public website.

Applicants should provide: a completed application form (to include existing funding sources and advisor signature), a 500-word description of the project including its scope and development, proposed timeline, and a potential budget.

Application Deadline: January 1, 2015
The winner will be announced by February 15, 2015.

For full instructions on how to apply, please visit: http://smfsweb.org/smfs-2015-foremothers-prize

 

The Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2015

From 2015, the Hakluyt Society will award an annual essay prize (or more than one, if the judges so decide) of up to a total of £750. Winners will be invited to publish their essays in the online
Journal of the Hakluyt Society if they wish to do so. The prize or prizes for 2015 will be presented at the Hakluyt Society’s Annual General Meeting in London in June 2015, where winners will be invited to attend as the Society’s guests. Travel expenses within the UK will be reimbursed and winners will also receive a one-year membership of the Hakluyt Society.

Eligibility criteria
The competition is open to postdoctoral scholars of not more than two years’ standing on 31 December 2014, and to undergraduate and graduate students registered as such on that date. Only one entry may be submitted per entrant per year.

Scope and subject matter
Essays submitted, which should be based on original research in any discipline in the  humanities or social sciences, may be on any aspect of the history of travel, exploration and cultural encounter or their effects, in the tradition of the work of the Hakluyt Society. Essays should be in English (except for such citations in languages other than English as may appear in
footnotes or endnotes) and between 6,000 and 8,000 words in length (including notes, excluding bibliography). Illustrations, diagrams and tables essential to the text fall outside the word count. Submissions should be unpublished, and not currently in press, in production or under review elsewhere. Authors may wish to consult the Society’s style sheet, which is also the
Journal’s style sheet, at http://www.hakluyt.com/authors_info.htm.

Submission procedures and deadline
Essays should be submitted as email attachments in Word.doc format to Dr Surekha Davies, Chair of the Essay Prize Committee, at surekha.davies@gmail.com and to the Society’s administrative office at office@hakluyt.com by 1 November 2014. The entrant’s name, address (including preferred email address), institutional affiliation (if any, with date of admission), and degrees (if any, with dates of conferment) should appear within the body of the email, together with a note of the title of the submitted essay. The subject line of the email should include the words ‘HAKLUYT SOCIETY ESSAY PRIZE’ and the author’s name. By submitting an essay, an entrant certifies that it is the entrant’s own original work.

For more information, please visit: http://www.hakluyt.com/PDF/Essay%20prize.pdf?PHPSESSID=ee7c08c78958c04bb6f5700da5e152dc

ANZSA Postgrad Workshop and Bursaries

The Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association announces additional provisions to postgraduates participating in the ANZSA 2014 conference via a half day workshop and competitive postgraduate bursaries.

ANZSA Postgraduate Workshop (01 October 2014)

Postgraduate students attending the 12th biennial conference of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA), “Shakespearean Perceptions,” are also invited to participate in a free postgraduate workshop on 1 October, at the University of Southern Queensland. The workshop will be facilitated by Emeritus Professor Helen Ostovich (McMaster University) and Professor Evelyn Tribble (University of Otago).

Part 1: Interdisciplinarity: Some Practical Guidelines (1 hour)

Prof. Evelyn B. Tribble (Otago)

Literary & performance studies have a long history of appropriating or borrowing from other disciplines in developing new methodology: psychoanalytic criticism and historicist criticism are only two examples of such cross-disciplinary borrowing. But working across disciplines is often problematic; it is notoriously difficult to gain a full understanding of the target discipline, and there are many examples of ‘cherry-picking’ a cognate discipline, or preferring only those studies that seem to uphold one’s pre-existing beliefs (a form of confirmation bias, if you will).

How do researchers map disciplines other than their own? What are the best approaches to working across disciplines or, for that matter, taking on a new sub-field of one’s own discipline (e.g. theatre history).

Workshop facilitators will talk about their own practices and examine one or two case studies, circulated in advance. Participants will be invited to bring particular examples from their own research for discussion.

Part 2: Performance and Digital Editing (2 hours)

Prof. Emeritus Helen Ostovich (McMaster)

This workshop will focus on Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice and Wilson’s The Three Ladies of London. Both plays should be read beforehand. Topics include:

  • What did Shakespeare do with his source and why;
  • How to find background on Jews and Turks: the case of Dr Lopez and varied responses to it; the role of ‘hidden Jews’ in early modern London; foreigners in early modern London;
  • View of Italians and other foreigners in early modern London;
  • Performance as research: foreigners attempting to speak English in Haughton’s An Englishman for my Money; the Italian in Three Ladies of London (in the trial scenes); perhaps French princess’s conversation with her nurse about learning English in Henry V, etc.;
  • Options for digital editions: voice over, film clips, traditional word-searches on LEME, full streaming video of productions, etc.

Queries should be directed to the postgraduate workshop coordinators, David McInnis (mcinnisd@unimelb.edu.au) and Brett D. Hirsch (brett.hirsch@uwa.edu.au).

ANZSA Conference, “Shakespearean Perceptions,” Postgraduate Bursaries

Postgraduate students who are presenting papers at the 12th biennial conference of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA), “Shakespearean Perceptions,” are invited to apply for an ANZSA postgraduate bursary to assist with the cost of travel to the conference. Bursaries will be awarded on a competitive basis and are scaled on the basis of distance from the venue (up to $750 for recipients travelling from Perth or outside Australia, $500 from Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart or Australian destinations of similar distance, $250 from Sydney, and $150 from Brisbane). Delegates whose point of origin is less than 100 km from Toowoomba will be ineligible to apply.

It will be a condition of receipt of a bursary that the recipient attend the postgraduate workshop at the University of Southern Queensland (1 October, 2014). Applicants must have been accepted to present at the conference prior to submitting an application. All interested postgraduates are reminded that the final call for papers for the conference closes on 27 June, 2014. Bursaries will be available in the form of a reimbursement cheque upon arrival at the postgraduate workshop–funding is not available in advance of travel.

To apply, send a CV (maximum 3 pages) and a 250 word statement addressing the benefit that attendance at the conference will give to the applicant’s research goals. Applications should be sent to: Shakespeare.Symposiums@usq.edu.au.

Closing date for applications for bursaries will be 18 July.

For more details about ANZSA 2014, see the conference website: http://conference.anzsa.org