RESEARCH ASSOCIATE (REF: 3690)
ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE HISTORY OF EMOTIONS
Meanings Program
&bull 3 year appointment to commence any time in 2011
&bull Salary: Level A $74,713 p.a.
&bull Plus 17% superannuation
&bull Closing date: Friday 30 September 2011
The successful candidate will work under the leadership of Winthrop Professor Bob White on a well-formulated, significant and original project concerning emotions in early modern literature or drama in English, preferably leading to a monograph. The candidate must have qualifications that make this a likely outcome. Applicants must have a PhD in some aspect of early modern literature.
For further information regarding the position please contact Winthrop Professor Bob White: by email
bob.white@uwa.edu.au or
bobwhite@cyllene.uwa.edu.au. Some assistance with relocation expenses (if applicable) may be negotiated.
Application Details: The position description follows. Written applications quoting the reference number, personal contact details, qualifications and experience, along with contact details of three referees should be sent to Director, Human Resources, The University of Western Australia, M350, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009 or emailed to
jobs@uwa.edu.au by the closing date.
Committed to recruiting, developing and retaining the highest quality staff
POSITION DESCRIPTIONS
Position Number 310684
The appointees will play a prominent role in medieval and early modern emotions research by examining the meanings attributed to emotions in medieval and early modern Europe, and their modes of expression, transmission and regulation.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Conduct research in Australian and overseas repositories into emotional understandings and behaviours in medieval and early modern Europe with reference to the area specified in the description
2. Present conference/symposium papers on the project findings at appropriate Australian and international forums.
3. Contribute to interdisciplinary and collaborative workshops in the appropriate CHE program(s).
4. Supervise Honours students and assist in the supervision of Postgraduate research students where appropriate.
5 Apply for external funding to support the extra research activities.
6. Engage in public outreach.
7. Publish academic papers and other scholarly outputs to a high international standard, and in accordance with the research expectations of the particular university.
8. Other duties as directed by the project supervisors or Head of School.
For more information email:
emotions@uwa.edu.au RESEARCH ASSOCIATE (HISTORICAL CURATION) (REF: 3688)
Shaping the Modern Program&bull 3 year appointment
&bull Salary: $74,713 p.a.
&bull Plus 17% superannuation
&bull Closing date: Friday 30 September 2011
The successful candidate will participate on a project under the leadership of Winthrop Professor Susan Broomhall, analysing modern curatorial strategies for interpreting and conveying emotions of the medieval and early modern period, working on Australian, European and post-colonial exhibition spaces. The appointee will bring expertise specifically in medieval or early modern colonial encounters, including relevant languages and will examine how interpretations of medieval and early modern European emotions are embedded in narratives of colonial, religious, economic or other forms of contact with their societies. The Research Associate will work with an international team of historians, ethnologists, art historians and curators to develop and disseminate research in scholarly, professional practice and community fora. Applicants must have a PhD in medieval or early modern history and demonstrated facility with one or more European or Asian language.
For further information regarding the position please contact Winthrop Professor Susan Broomhall by email
susan.broomhall@uwa.edu.au. Some assistance with relocation (if applicable) may be negotiated.
Application Details: The position description follows. Written applications quoting the reference number, personal contact details, qualifications and experience, along with contact details of three referees should be sent to Director, Human Resources, The University of Western Australia, M350, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009 or emailed to
jobs@uwa.edu.au by the closing date.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Conduct research in Australian and overseas repositories into emotional understandings and behaviours in medieval and early modern Europe with reference to the area specified in the description
2. Present conference/symposium papers on the project findings at appropriate Australian and international forums.
3. Contribute to interdisciplinary and collaborative workshops in the appropriate CHE program(s).
4. Supervise Honours students and assist in the supervision of Postgraduate research students where appropriate.
5 Apply for external funding to support the extra research activities.
6. Engage in public outreach.
7. Publish academic papers and other scholarly outputs to a high international standard, and in accordance with the research expectations of the particular university.
8. Other duties as directed by the project supervisors or Head of School.
For more information email:
emotions@uwa.edu.auRESEARCH ASSOCIATE (JESUIT EMOTIONS) (REF: 3689)
Meanings and Performance Programs
&bull 3 year appointment
&bull Salary: Level A $74,713 p.a.
&bull Plus 17% superannuation
&bull Closing date: Friday 30 September 2011
The successful candidate will participate in a project under the leadership of Professor Yasmin Haskell, exploring the contribution of the Jesuit order to understandings and performance of emotion in Europe, the Americas and Asia in the early modern period. In addition to publishing their own research in this area, the appointee will edit a collective volume and involve themselves fully in the life of the project, providing input, for example, into the production of a Jesuit play. Applicants must have a PhD in early modern intellectual, religious/cultural, literary, or art, history and reading competence in one or more of: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and German. Proficiency in Latin or a relevant Asian language will be well regarded.
For further information regarding the position please contact Professor Yasmin Haskell by email
yah@cyllene.uwa.edu.au. Some assistance with relocation expenses (if applicable) may be negotiated.
Application Details: The position description follows. Written applications quoting the reference number, personal contact details, qualifications and experience, along with contact details of three referees should be sent to Director, Human Resources, The University of Western Australia, M350, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009 or emailed to
jobs@uwa.edu.au by the closing date.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Conduct research in Australian and overseas repositories into emotional understandings and behaviours in medieval and early modern Europe with reference to the area specified in the description
2. Present conference/symposium papers on the project findings at appropriate Australian and international forums.
3. Contribute to interdisciplinary and collaborative workshops in the appropriate CHE program(s).
4. Supervise Honours students and assist in the supervision of Postgraduate research students where appropriate.
5 Apply for external funding to support the extra research activities.
6. Engage in public outreach.
7. Publish academic papers and other scholarly outputs to a high international standard, and in accordance with the research expectations of the particular university.
8. Other duties as directed by the project supervisors or Head of School.
For more information email:
emotions@uwa.edu.au
This lecture explores the way the natural history of the Americas was exported to 16th century northern European scientists and how they reacted intellectually and politically. It discusses the generally positive reception in northern European countries of José de Acosta’s Historia natural y moral de las Indias which seems to have been accepted both as a template of how natural history should be written and as a challenge to northern European scientists to emulate what he Spanish Jesuit author had accomplished. While this might be accepted as a tacit acknowledgement by northern Europeans that Catholic Spain had achieved intellectual as well as political ascendancy over their respective nations, Protestant authors responded to the hallenge in a highly competitive fashion which aimed as much at undermining the credibility of those they identified as their Catholic opponents as on unveiling the secrets of natural history.