The Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship Fund of The Dallas Foundation announces its Summer Research Fellowship for 2015, designed to support the research of women medievalists below the rank of full professor. The $10,000 award is to be used during the period of June 1–December 31, 2015. Deadline for applications is January 31st, 2015.
Go to http://bonniewheelerfund.org/ for full details and how to apply.
Friday, November 14 at 2:00pm on the campus of Hellenic College Holy Cross (50 Goddard Avenue, Brookline, MA), Dr. Alexander Lingas (City University London & EHRC, Oxford) will deliver his lecture, “Greeks, Latins, and the Musical Culture of Late Byzantium.” His lecture is part of the second Boston Byzantine Music Festival.
Performances by Cappella Romana, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Choir, and DÜNYA
Second lecture by Dr. Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol (Reform and Notation in Early Nineteenth-Century Istanbul)
Workshops on Byzantine, Ottoman, and traditional Greek music given by festival performers
Information, a full schedule, and tickets at www.BostonByzantineMusic.org
The Latin/Greek Institute, a joint collaboration of Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is pleased to announce its programs for Summer 2015. For over forty years, the LGI has offered “beyond-the-intensive” courses that allow motivated students to learn to read Latin and Greek with grammatical rigor and confidence. Once again we will offer ten-week basic programs in Latin and Greek (June 8-August 18), which cover over four semesters of regular coursework. All classes are team-taught, and the faculty is available 24 hours a day for help. Classes meet all day, five days a week at the Graduate Center in midtown Manhattan.
The first half of each basic program is devoted to intensive study of morphology and syntax. The second half offers students an unparalleled opportunity to see the rewards of what they have just learned through extensive close reading, at an advanced level, of original texts: in Latin, Cicero’s First Catilinarian Oration, Vergil’s Aeneid Book 4, and selections from Sallust, Horace, Livy, Tacitus, and other authors; in Greek, Plato’s Ion, extensive selections from Euripides’ Medea, and selections from a variety of authors including Homer, Solon, Sappho, Lysias, Thucydides, and Isocrates. Graduates typically return to their home institutions prepared to thrive in advanced reading courses or pass graduate language exams. The courses offer twelve undergraduate credits and are open to graduate students.
We will also offer the upper-level program in Greek (June 8-July 28), which offers qualified students the opportunity to read a substantial body of literature (200 or more lines per night) at a high level of grammatical precision. The anticipated syllabus consists of Lysias’ On the Murder of Eratosthenes, Plato’s Phaedrus, Aristophanes’ Clouds, and substantial selections from Thucydides.
Throughout the upper level program, there is an emphasis on aspects of criticism that derive from a linguistic analysis of a text that cannot be appreciated from a translation. As in the basic program, the course is team-taught, with the faculty available at all times to help. Daily quizzes, frequent drills, and prose composition are included. Prerequisites: 2 years of college-level Greek or the equivalent. The upper level program offers eight undergraduate credits, and is open to undergraduate and graduate students.
Thanks to the generosity and friends of the Institute, partial scholarships are available to help cover the cost of tuition. We are especially grateful for the support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, through which we offer scholarships each summer to new graduate students in art history.
For further information and an application form, please go to www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/latingreek or email the director, Prof. Katherine Lu Hsu (katherine@brooklyn.cuny.edu).
To the Members of the Medieval Academy:
We invite you to submit nominations for the prizes offered by the Academy and its Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA) for excellence in teaching and superior commitment to medieval studies through service:
The CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching
The Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies
Nominations must be submitted by 15 November. Follow the links above for further information.
The College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Virginia invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor from scholars with a research focus on connective cultures in the post-Classical Mediterranean (4th to 10th century).
Possible areas of study might include: the interaction of knowledge, people and practices; the social, political and/or cultural history of one or more connective Mediterranean cultures or communities; minority, diasporic or vocationally distinct social groups (e.g., merchants, scholars of science and medicine); interstitial and nomadic polities and cultures; translation; reappropriation of earlier cultural forms, materials or technologies.
Candidates must demonstrate excellence in scholarly research and an ongoing program of publication. They must also be committed to outstanding teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. PhD must be in hand by August 15, 2015.
Possible home departments include, but are not limited to: Art, Classics, History or Religious Studies. The appointee will also hold an initial two-year Mellon Fellowship in ‘Comparative Cultures of the Pre-Modern World’ at the University’s interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities and Global Cultures.
Review of applications will begin on December 5, 2014. The position will remain open until filled. To apply, candidates must create a Candidate Profile through Jobs@UVA (https://jobs.virginia.edu) and submit the following electronically: a cover letter addressing research agenda and teaching interests, a C.V., a writing sample not exceeding 60 pages, and names and contact information for three references. Search on posting number 0615096.
Questions regarding the application process for Jobs@UVa should be directed to: L. Kent Merritt, History Administrative Supervisor, Corcoran Department of History, lkm6h@virginia.edu.
For additional information on this position contact: Paul J.E. Kershaw, Chair, Search Committee, pjk3p@virginia.edu.
The University will perform background checks including receipt of official transcripts from the institution granting the highest degree for all new faculty hires prior to making a final offer of employment.
The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Position Description: Tenure-Track Position Program in Comparative Literature, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
The Program in Comparative Literature in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in European medieval literature and culture (2/2 load),including periodic large lecture courses. The effective starting date is September 1, 2015. Under exceptional circumstances, highly qualified candidates at other ranks may receive consideration.
Requirements: PhD in hand by August 2015. Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies, or any other field of the Humanities with a research focus on European medieval literature and culture. Demonstrated excellence in teaching, outstanding scholarly potential or record, strong commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching, and professional engagement. We particularly welcome candidates with solid experience or training in modern European global literary relations or relations between Europe and other parts of the globe (as desirable sub-fields), dynamic scholars specializing in medieval literature and culture across several languages, including Latin, and with interest in one or more of the following areas: the role of women, book history, and medievalism in the post-medieval world. Salary commensurate with qualifications.
To apply submit the following materials: a cover letter, curriculum vitae, two writing samples no greater than 25 pages in length(as PDF) and the names and e-mail contact information for three references to the link below:
http://umass.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=54588
Applicants should apply by the priority deadline of December 15, 2014, in order to ensure consideration. Application materials will not be returned.
The University is committed to active recruitment of a diverse faculty and student body. The University of Massachusetts Amherst is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer of women, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities and encourages applications from these and other protected group members. Because broad diversity is essential to an inclusive climate and critical to the University’s goals of achieving excellence in all areas, we will holistically assess the many qualifications of each applicant and favorably consider an individuals record working with students and colleagues with broadly diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds in educational, research or other work activities. We will also favorably consider experience overcoming or helping others overcome barriers to an academic degree and career.
To the Members of the Medieval Academy,
This morning, the letter copied below was sent on behalf of the Officers and Council of the Medieval Academy to William Craig Rice (Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Education Programs) and to several other NEH staffers.
We will keep you informed as this situation develops.
Dear Mr. Rice,
We are joining with other scholars to express our surprise and dismay that the NEH has determined to discontinue supporting Summer Institutes and Seminars unless they are held within the United States or its territories.
We understand that the NEH has come under increasing budgetary pressure in recent years; however, we feel it continues to be crucial that the NEH support the best possible programming, and the best possible professional support for our Humanities scholars. Excluding Institutes on the basis of their geographical location seems at odds with this.
A foreign-based NEH Summer Institute or Seminar provides many scholars with a rare opportunity to work abroad, to experience the places they study, to consult original documentation and artifacts, and to meet with foreign scholars and lay the groundwork for future collaborations. All of this enriches both the scholarship of these academics and the scholarly culture of our country. Moreover, our participating scholars act as scholarly and cultural ambassadors for the U.S., at a time when our country’s position as a leader in setting global cultural and intellectual trends is increasingly less secure. Cultural isolationism is a not an effective strategy either for our country or for the NEH.
As the leadership of The Medieval Academy of America, the largest learned society in the world devoted to the study of the Middle Ages, we can confirm that these NEH Summer Institutes have served as the springboard for many extremely productive collaborative scholarly projects and institutional collaborations with foreign counterparts which otherwise would not have taken place. The Medieval Academy has co-sponsored such international NEH Summer Institutes in the past, most recently a Dante Institute in Florence in 2009 under the leadership of Paul Szarmach and Christopher Kleinhenz. The Dante Institute was a great success. Access to original resources studied in context inspired all of the participants in multiple ways and resulted in significant and original scholarship.
In sum, this decision represents a considerable loss to the NEH, and to U.S. scholarship. We are disappointed that the decision was taken apparently without consultation or the opportunity for discussion or debate. We sincerely hope that the NEH will reconsider, and at the least place a two or three-year moratorium on this policy until such a time as it can be carefully considered, and with the input of those whom it will affect most.
Yours,
William Chester Jordan, President of the Medieval Academy of America, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and Chairman of the History Department, Princeton University
Lisa Fagin Davis, Executive Director, Medieval Academy of America
On behalf of the Officers and Council of the Medieval Academy of America
Journeys through the Middle Ages and Renaissance Worlds
March 6th to 8th 2015
Travels of all types provide ways of understanding the Middle Ages and Renaissance in terms of exchange, transformation, and knowledge.
By the word “travels,” we envision journeys of the mind, the body, and the spirit. The theme of the conference includes mapping, historiography, migrations, nomadic cultures and people, movements of objects, inner journeys such as dream-visions, introspection or conversion, as well as explorations of gender and social identity, exile, adoption, foreign language acquisition etc.
On behalf of Mardinalia Research Collective, the Medieval Studies Course Union, and the Program of Medieval Studies at the University of Victoria, we are inviting students and scholars to submit proposals for papers (20 min), creative performances, or art works pertaining to all types of journeys, from the 4th century CE up to the 17th century.
Submissions may address but are not limited to the following topics:
Undergraduate students, graduate students, and independent community researchers, creative scholars, artists, and performers are encouraged to submit a proposal by December 14th, 2014. Late submissions will not be considered.
Please send to journeys@uvic.ca the following:
NB: Light lunches will be provided. Casual accommodation can be arranged. Travel expenses will not be covered.
Haverford College Special Collections invites applications for month-long $2,000 fellowships for researchers to use our unique materials. All projects should include religion as a focus; in the spirit of Margaret Gest’s vision, projects should be interdisciplinary and cross-cultural.
Projects engaging with any religion, religious community, or historical religious practices will be considered. We hope that materials created through these fellowships advance scholarship and engage with our collections in unique and creative ways. Fellowships are open to scholars at any stage in their careers.
Research may be conducted from June 1, 2015 to May 31, 2016.
To apply, submit the following materials, which must be received electronically by February 3, 2015:
Materials should be sent electronically to Sarah Horowitz at shorowitz@haverford.edu.
Applications will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
Successful applicants might pursue research in the J. Rendel Harris collection of Middle Eastern manuscripts, examine personal accounts of religious practice through letters and diaries, explore Quaker faith and practice, compare different versions of the Bible from our collection of American Bibles, or study missions and missionaries, among many other topics.
Applicants will be notified by April 1, 2015 of the results of the application process.
Please visit the website or contact Sarah Horowitz for more information.
The 2015 annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association will be held in conjunction with the Wooden O Symposium at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, August 3-5. The Wooden O Symposium, sponsored by the Utah Shakespeare Festival and Southern Utah University, is a cross-disciplinary conference focusing on the text and performance of Shakespeare’s plays, and is held in one of the most beautiful natural settings in the western U.S. Both the RMMRA and Wooden O Symposium will organize sessions in this year’s joint conference.
The RMMRA invites all approaches to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, welcoming scholars in a broad range of disciplines including history, literature, art history, music, and gender studies, with special consideration given to paper and panel proposals that investigate this year’s theme, “The Functions and Dysfunctions of the Medieval and Renaissance Family.” Abstracts for consideration for the RMMRA sessions should be sent to Program Chair Jen McNabb at JL-Mcnabb@wiu.edu. Participants in RMMRA sessions must be members of the association; RMMRA graduate students and junior scholars are encouraged to apply for the $250 Walton Travel Grants; see details at http://rowdy.msudenver.edu/~tayljeff/RMMRA/Index.html
The Wooden O Symposium invites panel and paper proposals on any topic related to the text and performance of Shakespeare’s plays. The conference also seeks papers/panels that investigate how his works reflect or intersect with early modern life and culture.
This year’s symposium encourages papers and panels that speak to the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 2015 summer season: The Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV Part Two, and King Lear. Abstracts for consideration for the Wooden O sessions and individual presentations should be sent to usfeducation@bard.org.
The deadline for proposals is May 1, 2015. Session chairs and individual presenters will be informed of acceptance no later than May 15. Included with 250-word abstracts or session proposals (including individual abstracts) should be the following information:
• name of presenter(s)
• participant category (faculty, graduate student, undergraduate, or independent scholar)
• college/university affiliation
• mailing address
• email address
• audio/visual requirements and any other special requests.
