Monthly Archives: April 2017

The Marlowe Society of America’s 8th International Conference – Call For Papers

The Marlowe Society of America’s 8th International Conference
Wittenberg, Germany
10–13 July, 2018

Hosted by MSA President Kirk Melnikoff, the conference will feature keynote presentations by Lukas Erne (University of Geneva), Kristen Poole (University of Delaware), and Holger Syme (University of Toronto). Tours of the Luther House, the Melanchthon House, the Castle Church, and Cranach Studios will complement special events, workshops, screenings, and productions designed specially for conference attendees. We hope you will join us—and participate.

Papers should be no more than fifteen minutes in length and present original research on any topic concerning the works of Christopher Marlowe. We welcome proposals for individual papers and complete panels. Please send the following by email to the conference Program Chair, Lucy Munro, University of London, King’s College: lucy.munro@kcl.ac.uk.

For individual papers, an abstract of 300–500 words;

For complete panels, an overview of the panel and abstracts of the individual papers, totalling 1200–1500 words.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday, July 28, 2017.

2017 Conference of the Society For The Study Of Early Christianity – Registration Now Open

Apostles And The Churches They Founded: History, Tradition And Legend
2017 Conference of the Society For The Study Of Early Christianity (SSEC) within the Ancient Cultures Research Centre, Macquarie University
Robert Menzies College, Trinity Chapel
Saturday 6 May 2017

Conference Website

Enquiries: Karyn Young or Professor Alanna Nobbs (SSEC Office (02) 9850-7512, Email: ssec@mq.edu.au).

Conference Programme: https://www.mq.edu.au/pubstatic/public/download.jsp?id=290746

Register for the Conference: https://www.mq.edu.au/pubstatic/public/download.jsp?id=290139

Note: There is no parking at the venue. Paid parking is available at Macquarie Uni and Macquarie Shopping Centre. Some parking is available in the streets nearby. We suggest you travel by train to the Macquarie University railway station or use other public transport eg. Government bus. If you require a disabled parking space, please contact us by email or phone.
Note: receipts will be sent via email to keep costs down. Paper receipts will be available at the conference registration desk.
Note: Limited places, we will take the first 120 registrations received at the SSEC office.

2017 Conference Curtain Raiser
Date: Thursday 4 May 2017
Time: 7:05pm
Venue: Ancient Cultures Research Centre, W6A-308
Speaker: Dr Geoffrey Dunn (ACU), SSEC visiting fellow
Topic: “Peter in Rome: The Papal Reimagining of a Scriptural Tradition”

The presence of Peter in Rome is not attested to in the New Testament. It is consistently asserted or presumed however, in early Christian literature, from 1 Clement and Ignatius of Antioch, and from the interpretation of archaeological evidence in the necropolis under St Peter’s Basilica.

While the literary tradition for Peter’s presence in Rome seems as unassailable and trustworthy as any ancient literary evidence can be, it does not answer the question of Peter’s precise role in Rome and its ongoing significance. This would come to be asserted in episcopal letters from Roman bishops in later centuries.

“Shakespeare & the Arts in the 21st Century” Talk @ ‘Outside the Square’ Panel Series

To Be Or Not To Be? How to Be Cultured: Shakespeare & the Arts in the 21st Century

Date: Thursday, 31 August, 2017
Time: 6:00pm – 8:30pm
Venue: Chippendale’s Creative Precinct
Register: Cost: $20 alumni; $15 student; $25 friend. For more info and to register: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/outsidethesquare/the_season.shtml#still
Speakers:

  • Dr Huw Griffiths – Senior Lecturer in the Department of English
  • Kip Williams – Artistic Director of the Sydney Theatre Company
  • Alana Valentine – Playwright
  • …and more TBA

The 400 year anniversary of Shakespeare’s death was celebrated by many in 2016.
But will he be celebrated with the same passion in 2116?

The Bard’s relevance or decline – like that of the arts more generally – continues to be hotly debated. What is the point of reading or performing Shakespeare in 2017? How might theatre survive in a world where our culture is no longer determined by traditional art-forms? With the multitude of digital distractions jostling for our attention today, will we continue to attend the theatre, let alone Shakespeare, tomorrow? Really?

Join us for a frank discussion that will include some of our sharpest Shakespeare scholars and one of the country’s most acclaimed theatre directors.

Interdisciplinary Shakespeare Beyond Theory – Call For Papers

Interdisciplinary Shakespeare Beyond Theory
The Shakespeare Association of Korea International Conference
Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea
27-28 October, 2017

Well before the beginning of the new century the New Historicism, which had dominated Shakespeare studies and, by extension, the English literary criticism since the 1980s, had been criticized for its methodological discontents or limitations as theory-based criticism. Now Shakespeare studies is being re-energized by the explorations from various interdisciplinary perspectives beyond theory. To invigorate this trend in Shakespeare studies, The Shakespeare Association of Korea will host its international conference on Oct. 27-28, 2017 at Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea. The conference, the title of which is “Interdisciplinary Shakespeare Beyond Theory,” will explore new directions for research in Shakespeare studies by opening conversations between disciplines such as history, art history & archeology, philosophy, political science, religious studies, ethics, etc. with reference to Shakespearean texts/contexts and production/reproduction. Pedagogical methods, translations, and issues related to new media, and the history of performance will be also included in the conference discussions.

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Brian Cummings (The University of York, U.K.)

Invited Speakers: Prof. Diana Henderson (MIT, U.S.A.); Prof. Tom Bishop (The Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand); Prof. Jason Gleckman (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Topics of discussion may include (but not restricted to):

  • Legitimacy and Authority
  • Nation and Nationalism
  • Reformation and Counter-Reformation
  • Apocalypse and Redemption
  • Classics and Ancient History
  • Law and Justice
  • Rhetoric and Ethics
  • Representation of Self
  • Renaissance Humanism and Skepticism
  • Memory, Historiography, and the Use of History
  • Visual Representations
  • New Media and Digital Culture
  • Curriculum and Teaching
  • Cross-Cultural Adaptations
  • Political Appropriations
  • Problems and Methods of Translation
  • Shakespeare on Stage and Screen

Please send a 250 word proposal and a brief curriculum vitae with contact information to Prof. Hyosik Hwang (Chungbuk National Univ.) or Prof. Sujin Oh (Seowon Univ.) at sakorea2013info@gmail.com by May 31, 2017.

The University of Manchester Chair in Early Modern History – Call For Applications

The University of Manchester
Chair in Early Modern History

Location: Manchester
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent

Applications are invited for the post of Chair in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester. Candidates with interests in any area of Early Modern History are encouraged to apply.

Early modern expertise at Manchester stretches from the late medieval Mediterranean to the eighteenth-century British Isles and China with staff making original contributions to global and economic histories, environmental history, social and cultural history, material culture, and history of emotions scholarship. Early modern history at Manchester is distinguished for its engagement with the city’s world-class cultural and research collections, including the John Rylands Library, Whitworth Art Gallery, and Chethams Library. These resources, combined with our staff expertise, enrich our research, public engagement and impact activities and they continue to attract large numbers of high-quality PhD students.

History forms part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, in the Faculty of Humanities. In REF 2014, History outputs were placed joint 4th nationally. Manchester historians have a strong record of attracting external research funding and currently direct or participate in several major ESRC and AHRC projects, as well as receiving income from such funding bodies as the Leverhulme Trust.

We seek an outstanding scholar with strong leadership skills, a clear sense of strategy, and a collegial approach.

You will have an outstanding record of academic publication in Early Modern History, compatible with inclusion in our submission to REF 2021. You are expected to have a proven track record in attracting external sources of research funding, providing research leadership and have a clear plan for future grant applications.

You will contribute to existing undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including the MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. These team-taught courses are subject to review and revision at regular intervals in order to incorporate the interests of new staff. At level 3 you will devise and teach a specialist course based on your area of research expertise. Professorial colleagues are expected to undertake administrative and research leadership roles.

A detailed job description and person specification is available at: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AYK347/chair-in-early-modern-history.

Applications close on 2 June, 2017.

Texts and Contexts – Call For Papers

Texts and Contexts Conference,
Ohio State University
20-21 October, 2017

Conference Website

Texts and Contexts is an annual conference held on the campus of the Ohio State University devoted to Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, incunables and early printed texts in Latin and the vernacular languages.

The conference solicits papers particularly in the general discipline of manuscript studies, including palaeography, codicology, reception and text history. In addition to the general papers (of roughly 20 minutes), the conference also hosts the Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture, established in memory of the late Virginia Brown, who taught paleography at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for some 40 years. We also welcome proposals for sessions of two to three papers which might treat a more focused topic.

Please send abstracts to epig@osu.edu. Deadline for abstracts: August 1, 2017.

Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture 2017: James Hankins, Harvard University

Editor(s) Australian Historical Studies – Call for Expressions of Interest

The Board of Australian Historical Studies is seeking expressions of interest to edit the journal for a 3-year term, 2018–2020. Owing to publishing schedules, which require substantial work on issues before they go to press, the volumes for which the new editors will be responsible will be dated 2019–2021. An individual, or editorial team, can apply for the editorship. The current editors, Professor Kate Darian-Smith and Associate Professor Penny Edmonds, complete their terms at the end of 2017.

The journal is published by the Taylor and Francis Group, which handles subscriptions, production and distribution. All submissions are made through an online manuscript submission site, ScholarOne. A part-time Administrative and Editorial Assistant, based at the University of Melbourne, supports the journal and its Editors.

The use of ScholarOne means that it is not necessary for the editor(s) to be based in Melbourne. The Board of Australian Historical Studies continues to meet in Melbourne; Australian and international members outside Melbourne can participate through teleconferencing.

Those interested in the position should indicate their relevant experience, the skills they would bring to the role, their ideas for the future development of the journal, and an indication of the support (in kind or financial) that they would be given from their own institution to undertake the role.

The Board wishes to appoint the new editor(s) before the end of the year, so expressions of interest should be received by 31 July 2017. The current editors will be present to hand-over the journal and provide guidance to the new editors in their first months in the job.

All enquiries and submissions should be directed by 31 July, 2017 to the Chair of the Board, Professor Christina Twomey, School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash University by email to christina.twomey@monash.edu. If you wish to discuss the position prior to application, please telephone Professor Twomey on (03) 9905 2182

“All That Glitters”: Dressing the Early Modern Network Conference – Call For Papers

“All That Glitters”: Dressing the Early Modern Network Conference
Kunstgewerbemuseum & Lipperheidesche Kostümbibliothek, Kulturforum, Berlin, Germany
14–15 September, 2017

Since few garments survive from the early modern period, especially pre-1700, reliance on depictions of early modern dress in art is unavoidable. Dress and textile representations in paintings, drawings, prints, costume books, album amicorum, and sculptures form some of the main visual sources, which in addition to possibilities have various limitations with regards to reliability and interpretation.

From fantasy draperies and studio props to true to life portrayals of the sitter’s real garments, the implications of what pictorial representations can offer to dress historians are innumerable and complex. While in some cases depictions of dress and textiles can act as tools for interpretations of paintings, in others, such as some depictions of dress and fabric worn in the overseas colonies, these are merely akin to fantasy dress in art. Portrayals of the elite largely survive providing information about the dress worn by the upper echelons in society. However, do such portrayals depict innovations in dress style and textile patterns accurately or do they merely portray a traditional form of dress that conforms to the specific genres of the various visual mediums? Furthermore, such portrayals are scarce in regard to clothing worn by other classes of society and in many cases the context in which they were depicted may have affected the representation. The conference aims to generate a discussion about the extent to which visual sources can be reliable in providing an accurate representation and understanding of the changes and innovations in dress, textiles, fur, haberdashery and jewellery with regards to the context in which they are depicted and used.

PhD students and early career researchers are invited to speak using case studies about the reliability of visual representations in relation to mapping fashion in the early modern. We invite potential speakers to submit as a single document to the Dressing the Early Modern Network at info@dressingtheearlymodern.com:

  1. A 300-word paper abstract, which should include the main question of the research project or paper
  2. A paper title
  3. A brief curriculum vitae and a short biography of 150 words maximum
  4. Institutional affiliations
  5. Contact information

Each speaker will be allotted twenty minutes. The deadline for submissions is 30 May, 2017. Notification of the outcome will be advised by e-mail on or before 15 June, 2017. Please note that funding is not provided for this event, so participants will be required to fund and arrange their own travel and accommodations.

Deviant Thinking: Early Modern Philosophy and the Enlightenment – Call For Papers

Deviant Thinking: Early Modern Philosophy and the Enlightenment
Australasian Seminar in Early Modern IN PHILOSOPHY (ASEMP)
The University of Sydney
15-17 November, 2017

More info: https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/844/15770/.

What the Enlightenment stands for has been subject to much discussion in recent years, and many valuable contributions have been made that help us to understand better the significance of this period. This conference takes this discussion further by connecting up the Enlightenment with the early modern period and the “rebellious” ideas that were already formulated and passed around during this time. We seek papers that bring into focus the many challenges philosophers of the 17th and 18th century posed to established intellectual, political, religious and social norms. These challenges touch on a diverse range of topics, spanning from fundamental questions concerning the status of the human being in the natural world, and the prospect of gaining knowledge of that world, to the redefinition of sentiment and affect as defining features of the moral potential of humanity. Reflections on the foundations of the state, self-governance and the rights of individuals and groups often followed on from these questions and thereby led to a novel engagement with the conditions that structure and shape human life.

SIHN’s Enlightenment Thinking Project will be hosting this conference, a central aim of which is to use the wider discussion of 17th- and 18th-century thought to launch a new series, the Australasian Seminar in Early Modern in Philosophy (ASEMP). In future years, ASEMP will be held at rotating locations at universities in the Australasian region. By establishing this conference series, we seek to provide a regular opportunity for high-quality discussions of research presentations in early modern philosophy, while encouraging closer collaboration and network opportunities between Asia-Pacific and Australian universities. Each conference will have a mentoring stream that teams up PhD students and early career researchers with senior scholars to prepare conference submissions for publication.

We are interested in receiving abstract submissions on the following subjects:

  • Early modern and enlightenment ideas that in some important respects deviated from the norms established in 17th and 18th century thought.
  • Philosophical thought that questioned or challenged ideas that are today understood as central ideals of the Enlightenment.
  • Interpretations of early modern and enlightenment ideas/figures that deviate from standard interpretations of those ideas/figures.

We also welcome submissions (for both papers and panels) on early modern topics that fall outside the main conference theme.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts (max 800-1000 words) for conference papers (30 minutes presentation time) is 30 June, 2017. Please prepare your submission for anonymous review and add a separate cover sheet with your details.

Please email your submission to Anik Waldow.

King College London: 2 Fully-funded PhD Scholarships in Latin Verse in English MS Verse Miscellanies, c. 1550-1700

King College London: Two fully-funded PhD places: Latin verse in English manuscript verse miscellanies, c. 1550-1700

Two funded PhD studentships are available at King’s College London to work on the project ‘Latin verse in English manuscript verse miscellanies, c. 1550-1700’, funded by a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant. Students from any relevant disciplinary background may apply (e.g. classics, English literature, comparative literature, early modern history) though excellent Latin is essential, and all candidates should have a record of academic excellence within their field. Relevant knowledge or experience in one or more of the following areas is an advantage, but not essential: neo-Latin literature (especially poetry); Latin epigram, lyric or elegy; early modern English history; early modern English literature (especially poetry); early modern manuscript transcription and editing; XML/TEI. Training in the use of relevant software and in early modern palaeography and transcription will be provided as part of the programme, and students will have the opportunity to join a taught MA course on neo-Latin poetry in their first term. The selected students will share office space at KCL with a larger research team, consisting of the director of the project (Dr Victoria Moul) and two post-doctoral researchers.

The project will involve an intial phase of technical training and orientation, followed by around twelve months focused on the transcription and translation of unstudied neo-Latin verse from manuscript sources. The latter 18-24 months will be devoted to the analysis of transcribed material and the writing of a thesis. Selected students will be free to develop their own doctoral project within the larger remit of the project: such projects could have, for instance, a generic, thematic or historical focus – e.g. focusing in particular on lyric or elegiac poems; on poems on a particular historical event (such as the Armada or execution of Charles I); on the manuscript transcription of poems by a particular author (such as Theodore de Bèze or John Owen) or on a specific literary relationship, such as the imitation of a particular classical poet. Dr Victoria Moul, is an experienced PhD supervisor and the students will join a thriving community of six PhD and post-doctoral researchers in the field at King’s, offering a unique research environment within the UK.

The anticipated start date is September 2017, though January 2018 is also possible. Funding includes UK/EU fees of £4,600 per annum plus a maintenance stipend of £15,863 per annum over three years.

Applicants should send a CV and transcript with a cover letter explaining their interest in and suitability for the project by 5pm on Monday 15 May, 2017 directly to Dr Moul (victoria.moul@kcl.ac.uk). They should arrange for two referees to send their references directly to Dr Moul by the same date. Interviews of short-listed candidates will be held at KCL (Strand campus) on Thursday 1 June, 2017. Successful candidates should if at all possible be available to attend the London Palaeography Summer School, involving 2 or 3 days of classes between 12th and 16th June. Should you have any questions about these studentships, please feel free to write to Dr Moul (victoria.moul@kcl.ac.uk) directly.