Fulbright Scholar Awards to France

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Chris

The competition for U.S. Fulbright Scholar awards to France is now open. Applications for the 2013-14 academic year are currently being accepted from all levels of faculty and professionals, including early career.

We are soliciting applications for a broad range of awards in France. Awards that might be of interest to you and your colleagues include:

French Studies (Arts and Humanities)

Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair

All Disciplines – Multidisciplinary Studies

Applicants must be U.S. citizens and hold a Ph.D. or appropriate professional/terminal degree at the time of application. The application deadline is August 1, 2012. 

For further information about these opportunities, applicants are encouraged to follow the link http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/us_awards, or contact Krisztina Miner, Program Officer, at kminer@iie.org. Applicants might also wish to register for one of our webinars at http://www.cies.org/Webinar/ .

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NEH Grant Opportunity: Enduring Questions

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Chris

The National Endowment for the Humanities offers grants of up to $25,000 to support the development of a new course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question.

Deadline: September 13, 2012

For more information about Enduring Questions, please visit http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/enduring-questions.

Program Details
What is good government? What is friendship? Are there universals in human nature? What are the origins of the universe?

Enduring Questions grants support the development by up to four faculty members of a new course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. This course would encourage undergraduates and teachers to grapple with a fundamental question addressed by the humanities, and to join together in a sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day.

No discipline, field, or profession can lay an exclusive claim to enduring questions. They have long held interest for young people, and they allow for a special, intense dialogue across generations. The Enduring Questions grant program helps promote such dialogue in today’s undergraduate environment.

Courses may be taught by faculty members from any department or discipline in the humanities or outside the humanities (e.g. cosmology, economics, law, mathematics, medicine, psychology), provided humanities sources are central to the course.

Recent Projects

  • St. Norbert College, Marcella L. Paul and Joel Mann: NEH Enduring Questions Course on “What Is Time?”
  • University of Arizona, Michael Gill: NEH Enduring Questions Course on “Where Does Morality Come From?”
  • York County Technical College, Seth Nathaniel Rogoff: NEH Enduring Questions Course on “What Is the Meaning of Dreams?”

New York University, Martha Rust and Suzanne E. England: NEH Enduring Questions Course on “What Is Memory?”

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Conference “The science of manuscripts ; manuscripts of science”

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Chris

9.-11.VI.2012 : The science of manuscripts ; manuscripts of science. The eighth Islamic manuscript conference (Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Queens’ College). – http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/conferences/2012conference/ConferenceProgramme.htm

(See our calendar for more conferences)

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Conferences – 5th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Chris

5th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
November 16-17, 2012

Taxonomies of Knowledge

In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries are pleased to announce the 5th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year’s symposium considers the role of the manuscript in organizing and classifying knowledge. Like today’s electronic databases, the medieval manuscript helped readers access, process, and analyze the information contained within the covers of a book. The papers presented at this symposium will examine this aspect of the manuscript book through a variety of topics, including the place of the medieval library in manuscript culture, the rise and fall of the 12th-century commentary tradition, diagrams, devotional practice, poetics, and the organization and use of encyclopedias and lexicons.

For more information, go to http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium5.html.

(See our calendar for more conferences)

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Exposition “The Rylands Haggadah: Medieval Jewish art in context”

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Chris

New York, The Metropolitan Museum (Gallery 304), 27.III. – 30.IX.2012 : The Rylands Haggadah: Medieval Jewish art in context. – http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2012/rylands-haggadah

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Seminar: “Nuns’s’ literacies in Medieval Europe”

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Chris

5.-8.VI.2012 : Nuns’ literacies in Medieval Europe (Kansas City, University of Missouri). – http://www.nuns-literacies.org/

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Seminar: “Manuscripts and their texts : perspectives on textual criticism”

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Chris

8.-9.VI.12 : Manuscripts and their texts : perspectives on textual criticism. The 2012 St Andrews graduate conference for biblical and early Christian studies (St Andrews, University of St Andrews, School of Divinity, St Mary’s College). — http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/media/StAnGCBECS%20poster%202012%20revised%204May12.pdf

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Seminar: “Re-inventing traditions. On the transmission of artistic patterns in late Medieval manuscript illumination”

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Chris

8.-10.VI.2012 : Re-inventing traditions. On the transmission of artistic patterns in late Medieval manuscript illumination (Berlin, Freie Universität). – http://reinventingtraditions.blog.com/files/2011/09/flyer-quadrat-148-x-148-en4.pdf

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Call for Papers: Putting England in Its Place: Cultural Production and Cultural Relations in the High Middle Ages

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Chris

Putting England in Its Place:
Cultural Production and Cultural Relations in the High Middle Ages

33rd Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, Manhattan
March 9-10 2013

Speakers Include:
Oliver Creighton, Julia Crick, Robert W. Hanning, Sarah Rees Jones, Elizabeth Tyler, Carol Symes, Paul R. Hyams, Kathryn A. Smith

The Deadline for Submissions is September 5, 2012

Please send an  abstract and cover letter with contact information to Center for Medieval Studies, FMH 405, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, or by email to medievals@fordham.edu or by fax to (718) 817-3987.

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Ahmanson Short-Term Research Fellowships in Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Chris

The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) and UCLA Library Special Collections (LSC) are pleased to announce the Ahmanson Short-Term Research Fellowships in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.  The fellowships support the use of the extensive medieval and Renaissance monographic and manuscript holdings in UCLA Library Special Collections, which primarily are organized into collections such as the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of the Aldine Press; the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of Early Italian Printing; the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana; the Orsini Family Papers; the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection; the Richard and Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Early Printed Books; the Medieval and Renaissance Arabic and Persian Medical Manuscripts.   The fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis to graduate students or postdoctoral scholars who need to utilize these collections for graduate-level or postdoctoral independent research.

Recipients will receive a stipend of $2500/month for fellowships lasting up to three months.  Those receiving fellowships will be requested to make a presentation for CMRS, and at the end of their stay at UCLA will be asked to write a final report on their research and on the material consulted.

Graduate students or scholars holding a PhD (or the foreign equivalent) who are engaged in graduate-level, post-doctoral, or independent research are invited to apply. Please note: Recipients who are not US citizens or permanent residents will be required to obtain an appropriate visa at their own expense.

Application Contents and Deadline

Applications are due October 1, 2012, for fellowships to be taken between January 1 and June 30, 2013.
The application should include:

• Cover letter
• Curriculum vitae
• Outline of research and special collections to be used (two pages maximum)
• Dates to be spent in residence
• Two letters of recommendation from faculty or other scholars familiar with the research project.

Application Instructions
Application materials may be submitted by e-mail (PDF format preferred) to cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu, or by mail to:

UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Attention: Ahmanson Fellowships
302 Royce Hall
Box 951485
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485

http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/awards/ahmanson_research.html

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