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Jobs for Medievalists

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Chris

Research Associate Emotions on the Medieval and Early Modern Stage in Britain and Ireland
at The University of Western Australia

Applications close: Sunday 25 October 2015, 11.55pm Australian Western Standard Time (AWST).

FACULTY OF ARTS – ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

Job No: 495817
Work type: Full-time
Location: Crawley Campus (Perth) of UWA
Categories: Arts

2 year appointment
Level A Step 8 $88,520 p.a.
Research support of $16,000 per annum

The University of Western Australia is a member of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight and ranked among the top 100 universities in the world, with a broad and balanced coverage of disciplines in the arts, sciences and major professions.

For the past 100 years, UWA has contributed significantly to the intellectual, cultural and economic development of the State of Western Australia and the nation as a whole.

The Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, in collaboration with The University of Western Australia, The University of Adelaide, The University of Melbourne, The University of Sydney and The University of Queensland, seeks to appoint an exceptional postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Western Australia to contribute to research projects in the history of emotions in Europe, c.1100-1800.

The successful candidate will develop a project relating to the role of emotions on the theatrical stage in Britain and Ireland, from within the period 1300-1800. This prestigious fellowship (with an additional $16K pa research support) offers an exciting opportunity for innovative and enthusiastic scholars with demonstrated track records in medieval and/or early modern studies and a capacity to engage in interdisciplinary research.

Applications with projects of various kinds are welcome, including studies of emotions in relation to space and staging, performance practice, audience, patronage and sponsorship, dramatic construction, and other contexts of theatrical production and reception.

Contact: Professor Andrew Lynch by email: andrew.lynch@uwa.edu.au

To be considered for this role, you will demonstrate:

A PhD in a relevant discipline in medieval or early modern studies
A strong track record (relative to opportunity) in research and publication
Basic familiarity with research trends in the history of emotions
Demonstrated ability to engage in interdisciplinary research discussions
Knowledge of the appropriate language(s) and linguistic skills required for successful completion of research
Effective written and verbal communication skills
Interpersonal skills which facilitate collaborative research
Capacity to work with an academic research team and administrative staff

This position is open to international applications.

Application Details: Applications must be submitted online. Full details of the position’s responsibilities and the selection criteria are outlined in the position description and applicants should clearly demonstrate they meet the selection criteria.

Please see the position description prior to applying: 314471.pdf

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Call for Papers – Fourth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Chris

Call for Papers: Fourth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University

The Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies provides a convenient summer venue in North America for scholars in all disciplines to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation of the medieval and early modern worlds.

We invite proposals for papers, sessions, and roundtables on all topics and in all disciplines of medieval and early modern studies. Proposals from learned societies and scholarly associations are particularly welcome. The deadline for proposals submissions is December 31.

The plenary speakers for this year will be Barbara Newman, of Northwestern University, and Teofilo Ruiz, of the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Symposium is held on the beautiful midtown campus of Saint Louis University, hosted by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. On-campus housing options include affordable, air-conditioned apartments and a luxurious boutique hotel. Inexpensive dorm meal plans are available.

All sessions take place in state-of-the-art classrooms and auditoriums with complete audiovisual facilities. All sessions, events, meals, and housing are located within easy walking distance of each other. A rich variety of restaurants, bars, and cultural venues are also only a short walk away.

During their stay, participants are welcome to utilize the Vatican Film Library as well as the rare book and manuscript collections of the nearby Pius XII Library. Those interested in using the Vatican Film library, should contact Susan L’Engle (lengles@slu.edu) by email or phone at 314-977-3090. Participants may also use the library’s regular collections, which are especially strong in medieval and early modern studies.

All sessions are 90 minutes long. A variety of session formats are welcome. Preference will be given to organized sessions that involve participants from multiple institutions.

https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1725510

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2016 Rome Prize

Posted on September 17, 2015 by Chris

The 2016 Rome Prize online application is available on the American Academy in Rome
website at www.aarom.org.

The American Academy in Rome invites applications for the 2016 Rome Prize.

For over a century, the Academy has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative work in the arts and humanities. Through a national juried competition, Rome Prizes are awarded to emerging and established artists and scholars working in the following disciplines:

Ancient Studies
Architecture
Design (includes graphic, industrial, interior, exhibition, set, costume, and fashion design, urban design, city planning, engineering, and other design fields)
Historic Preservation and Conservation
Landscape Architecture(includes environmental design and planning, landscape/ecological urbanism, landscape history, sustainability and ecological studies, and geography)
Literature
Medieval Studies
Modern Italian Studies
Musical Composition
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Visual Arts(includes painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, film/video, installation, new media, digital arts, and other visual arts fields)

Ranging from six months to two years, the thirty fellowships include a stipend, room and board, and individual workspace at the Academy’s eleven-acre center in Rome.

Submissions due: NOVEMBER 1, 2015
Visit aarome.org/apply for guidelines.

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Call for Papers – Anachronism and the Medieval

Posted on September 17, 2015 by Chris

A seminar dedicated to “Anachronism and the Medieval” is planned for the next European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Conference, to be held from 22-26 August 2016 in Galway, Ireland. The organizers look forward to receiving proposals for papers to be presented in this seminar.

This seminar focuses on anachronism, broadly defined, and its relation to the medieval period. Often understood negatively as a computational fault or disruptive error, anachronism is closely related to archaism, presentism, and para-/pro-chronism, as well as to the notion of the preposterous (in its literal Latin sense of “before-behind”). Contributors to this seminar might reflect on broad issues of temporality or particular instances of anachronism—intentional or unintentional—in relation to medieval literary exemplars, but equally welcomed are contributions that explore anachronicity in conjunction with later (Renaissance to contemporary) engagements with the medieval past and its textual traditions.

According to the ESSE conference website (found at http://www.esse2016.org/): “The seminar format is intended to encourage lively participation on the part of both speakers and members of the audience. For this reason, papers will be orally presented in no longer than 15 minutes rather than read. Reduced versions of the papers will be circulated beforehand among participants.”

Please send proposals of 300 words to both Yuri Cowan (yuri.cowan@ntnu.no) and Lindsay Reid (lindsay.reid@nuigalway.ie) no later than 28 February 2016. Earlier submissions would be appreciated.

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Jobs for Medievalists

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Chris

Position Title: Director of Byzantine Studies

Supervisor: Director

Department: Byzantine Studies

Grade: 60

Term: Five years with the possibility of renewal up to an additional five years

Duties and Responsibilities
The Director of Byzantine Studies reports to the Director of Dumbarton Oaks and oversees the Byzantine Study Program at Dumbarton Oaks. The Director of Studies supports the Byzantine Fellows (who are resident for the academic year, a term, or the summer and pursue their own research) and organizes scholarly meetings such as symposia, colloquia, and lectures.

The individual holding the position has overall responsibility for administering the study program, including: coordinating the three annual meetings with the Board of Senior Fellows that advises the Director on fellowship selection and programmatic activities; supervising the Program Coordinator; ensuring the smooth running of activities in Byzantine Studies (such as research reports by Fellows, one-month research awards, the summer school, summer internships, one-month Visiting Scholars, etc.); and managing budget development, forecasting, and tracking of expenses (including project grants to archaeologists).

Within Dumbarton Oaks, the Director of Byzantine Studies provides input as requested on Byzantine holdings within the library (including Byzantine portions of the image and fieldwork archives); is expected to produce reports, such as the Byzantine portion of the annual report; and participates with other directors of scholarly departments in conducting basic research necessary to evaluate the success of programs.

In the broader scholarly world, the Director of Byzantine Studies promotes the vitality of the field. Outreach activities include regular communication with relevant Byzantine societies, listservs, and academic programs in the United States, Europe, and beyond. The Director of Byzantine Studies also fosters exchanges with closely connected fields such as medieval and Islamic studies.

The Director of Byzantine Studies acts as editor of the Byzantine journal, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, in conjunction with a small editorial board. He or she receives or solicits submissions, sends them out for peer review, relays comments to contributors, and ensures that accepted essays have been revised in accordance with reviewer comments and house style. The Director also serves as the acquiring editor for Byzantine books. This role requires assisting symposium organizers in their capacities as volume editors for proposed symposia volumes, monitoring submissions for other Byzantine series, creating proposals for review, and acting as developmental editor for all such submissions.

Supervisory Responsibilities
The Director of Byzantine Studies supervises the Program Coordinator.

Qualifications
Candidates must hold a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline and demonstrate strong administrative, editorial and interpersonal skills; a distinguished record of publications; and an excellent command of medieval Greek. They must have broad knowledge of various aspects of the field outside their own specialty and be well acquainted with the American academic setting. They must have the interest, ability, and commitment to join in the general intellectual life of Dumbarton Oaks.

To Apply
The application process is open to strong applicants at all career stages, from early to advanced. The appointment runs for five years, with the possibility of renewal up to an additional five years.

The position remains open until filled. Candidates should submit a detailed CV, cover letter, and list of references by clicking the link below. Questions can be addressed to HumanResources@doaks.org. Please note that interviews will be in Cambridge, Mass. and are likely to be held in the second half of January.

https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGWEbHost/jobdetails.aspx?partnerID=25240&siteID=5341&AReq=36490BR

Dumbarton Oaks is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).

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Call for Papers

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Chris

Call for Papers

Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is excited to open its call for papers for Volume 3 (2016). Articles are welcome on any topic relating to Medieval and Early Modern studies, in any discipline.

In addition, Volume 3 will contain a themed section on the topic “Words, Signs, and Feelings”, to be interpreted in any way the author sees fit. Authors wishing to be considered for the themed section of Volume 3, or the prizes listed below, must submit their articles by 20 November 2015; however, non-themed articles will continue to be accepted throughout the year.

Possible topics for the ‘Words, Signs and Feelings’ strand include, but are not limited to:

· Representations and depictions of emotions and feelings in words, images, music, architecture and other expressive arts.

· Emotional states prompted by and responsive to religious experiences

· Manifestation of emotional states in physical symptoms and/or the diagnosis of disease

· Affective responses to words, images or music by individuals or groups

· Architecture and the affects of place

· Literary theory and the reception of Medieval and Early Modern texts

· Contemporary reception/adaption of Medieval and Early Modern thought, texts and ideas

Prizes

We are delighted to announce two prizes of $200 each to be awarded to articles published in Volume 3:

Best Essay Published in Volume 3
Thanks to the support of the University of Western Australia (UWA) Postgraduate Students Association and the UWA Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, we will be awarding a prize of $200 to the best article published on any topic related to the theme of “Words, Signs and Feelings” in Volume 3, by a graduate student or early career researcher (five years out from PhD completion).

Best Essay Published in Volume 3 on a topic relating to the History of Emotions
The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of the Emotions is generously sponsoring one prize for the best essay, in either the themed or non-themed sections, on any topic relating to the History of Emotions, by a graduate student or early career researcher.

Submissions: Please submit articles at our online portal. Articles should be approximately 5000 to 7000 words, and conform to MHRA guidelines for referencing.

Publication: Ceræ publishes articles on a rolling basis, as soon as they successfully pass the double-blind peer-review process and copyediting stages. The first few articles for Volume 2 are already available online; we expect seven articles to be published in Volume 2 by the end of December.

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Call for Papers – Franciscan Women: Medieval & Beyond

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Chris

CALL FOR PAPERS
“Franciscan Women: Medieval & Beyond”
Women and the Franciscan Tradition Conference
The Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University
July 12-15, 2016

From July 12-15, 2016, the Franciscan Institute at Saint Bonaventure University will host a major conference dedicated to women and the Franciscan Tradition, ranging from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. The organizers seek to bring together women and men who are living the Franciscan tradition in various ways — as members or associates of the three Franciscan orders, coworkers in Franciscan institutions, etc. — with academic scholars who want to bring their research into a mutually enriching conversation with a broader audience.
Individual papers, panels, and workshop proposals are sought that engage academic, pastoral, and socio-political aspects of this topic. Possible areas of focus include, but are not limited to the following:

Franciscan women and leadership
Female Franciscanism during the Middle Ages
Female Franciscanism and the Early Modern World
Franciscan women in the “New World”
Franciscan women and ministry
Scholarly trends and the study of religious women
Women and the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition through the ages
Franciscan Women and the Contemporary Church.

Proposals are due by November 20, 2015. Notifications of acceptance, rejection or need for alterations will be sent to authors by January 11, 2016. Send a paper proposal/ draft of your text no later than November 20, 2015, directly to:

Women & the Franciscan Tradition Conference
Franciscan Institute St. Bonaventure University
Murphy Building – Room 100
St. Bonaventure, NY 14778
dcouturi@sbu.edu

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Call for Papers – The Fifteenth Triennial International Courtly Literature Society Congress

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Chris

The Fifteenth Triennial International Courtly Literature Society Congress

WHEN: 24–29 July 2016

WHERE: University of Kentucky, Lexington

DESCRIPTION: Congress Theme: Courtly Pastimes

Paper topics may include, but not be limited to:

Hunting, falconry, jousting and tournaments
Festivals, ceremonies and celebrations
Games and sports
Dance, music, songs and poetry
The Garden: Plants and Nature (real or symbolic, in treatises, in visual arts)
Animals (real, mythical, literary, heraldic, emblematic)
Domestic animals (horses, lap dogs, hunting dogs, household cats)
Exotic pets
Reading and writing
Sewing, embroidery, textile arts
Amorous dalliances
Courtly spaces: Decorous interiors, decorative objects, fabrics and furnishings
Warriors dismounted: Knights at court (courtly conduct, speech, dress)
Courtly Elements in Epic

Special Topic: 500 Years of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (anniversary of publication of the first edition)

Additional topics concerning medieval and Renaissance era courts of any country are welcomed.

Papers may be presented in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese.

Presenters are asked to respect a twenty-minute limit on three-person panels.

Organized sessions (4-paper maximum) or round tables are encouraged.

Plenary Speakers and Concert

Lori Walters, The Florida State University, _Jeux à vendre: Poetic and Amorous Games in Christine de Pizan’s Queen’s Manuscript (London, BL, Harley 4431)_

Kristen Figg, Kent State University, _Blind Man’s Buff: From Children’s Games to Pleasure Gardens in late medieval France and England_

Pia Cuneo, University of Arizona, _Emblazoned Saddles: The Courtly Life of Horses in late medieval / early modern Germany_

Elizabeth Tobey, University of Maryland, _The Sport of Dukes: Palios, Stallions and Racing Stables in Renaissance Italy_

Courtly music in concert to be performed by Liber Ensemble for Early Music

All conferees must be members in good standing of their respective ICLS branch by the time of the Congress. Graduate students are kindly requested to include a letter of introduction from their supervising professor. Deadline for Submission of Papers (title and abstract, not over 300 words): 1 December 2015. Abstracts will be posted electronically on the Congress webpage: http://icls2016.as.uky.edu.

Congress organizer: dr.gloria.allaire@hotmail.com

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Conferences – The Provocative Fifteenth Century

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Chris

The Provocative Fifteenth Century

Huntington Library, October 15-17, 2015

Until very recently, the literature of fifteenth-century England had been characterized as overly decorous, overly didactic, and aesthetically and intellectually dull. This conference, which will be held at the Huntington Library October 15-17, 2015, will explore the myriad ways that fifteenth-century texts defy and escape such traditional and traditionally negative critical paradigms, and showcase instead how they are in fact especially provocative in their various engagements with readerly expectations. Bringing together international leaders in the field, this conference is designed to attract interdisciplinary attention to the recent resurgence of critical interest in fifteenth-century texts and manuscripts, and moreover, to help reshape the critical dialogue about this important moment in English literary history at the cusp of the modern age. The conference will begin with a reading at 7:30 pm on Thursday, October 15, by the poet and recently elected professor of poetry of Oxford, Simon Armitage, and continue with paper panels over the next two days. Speakers include Robert Meyer-Lee, Jenni Nuttall, James Simpson, Jessica Brantley, Daniel Wakelin, Andrea Denny-Brown, Shannon Gayk, Alexandra Gillespie, Catherine Sanok, Anthony Bale, Anke Bernau, and Lisa H. Cooper. For more information and to register see http://www.huntington.org/uploadedFiles/Files/PDFs/Provocative15th.pdf or contact Lisa H. Cooper (lhcooper@wisc.edu) or Andrea Denny-Brown (andreadb@ucr.edu).

(See our calendar for more conferences)