Renaissance Society of America: 18 New Grants for RSA Members

Research projects in all subjects and language areas within Renaissance studies are eligible for support. If you are applying for a grant please be sure that you have renewed your membership for 2012.   Deadline 31 Dec

The 18 grants are:
  • RSA Research Grants (9 grants), upto $3,000 each
  • Rensselaer W. Lee Memorial Grant in Art History (1 grant), $3,000
  • Paul Oskar Kristeller Memorial Grant (1 grant), $3,000
  • Bodleian Library Research Grant (1 grant), one-month residence in Oxford for the purposes of research in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Library, with an additional stipend of $3,000.
  • Patricia H. Labalme Grant (1 grant) in collaboration with the Giorgio Cini Foundation, supports a one-month residence in at the Centro Vittore Branca on the Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore for the purpose of research in Venice, with a total award of $3,000.
  • Samuel H. Kress Foundation Grant in Renaissance Art History (5 Grants); $3,000 each; these grants will support the costs of publication or research leading to publication in the history of art.
For further details of eligibility and how to apply, see https://rsa.site-ym.com/?page=ResearchGrants



Queen Mary Research Studentships

Queen Mary, University of London, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film

The School of Languages, Linguistics and Film is pleased to announce the
following awards:

1 AHRC (BGP) Research Studentship in Linguistics to cover tuition fees and a
maintenance grant for UK residents (both UK citizens and EU nationals). EU
nationals not resident in the UK are eligible for a fees only award. Non-EU
nationals are not eligible for AHRC awards, with the exception of persons
who have been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain and who can demonstrate a
relevant connection to the UK. We would encourage applications for research
in the fields of theoretical syntax, morphology, and semantics and the
relations between these and/or experimental approaches to these topics.

1 Queen Mary Research Studentship open to any area covered by the School.
Eligible applicants will be working in any one or more of the following
areas: Comparative Literature, Film, French, German, Iberian and Latin
American studies, Linguistics, Russian.

1 Queen Mary Research Studentship in the area of early modern textual
cultures of Western Europe, jointly with the School of English and Drama.

The Queen Mary Studentships will cover tuition fees (home or overseas) and
provide a maintenance grant at the London rate paid by the Research
Councils.

All awards, tenable for three years, are to be awarded in the spring of 2012
to our most highly qualified candidates applying to start a full-time PhD
programme in September 2012. Subject to funding arrangements holders of
research studentships in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film will
have the opportunity to teach up to a maximum of 4 hours per week in the
second and third years of their study.

In order to be considered for one of these awards applicants should have (or
expect to have at the end of 2011/12) an MA or equivalent qualification.

Applicants who are eligible for both AHRC and Queen Mary funding need submit
only one application in order to be considered for either award.

All required application materials must be received in the Queen Mary
Admissions Office no later than 31st January 2012.

Candidates whose applications are received after the deadline will be
considered for admissions, but not for funding.

Prospective students are strongly advised to consult a potential supervisor,
or the appropriate Graduate Studies Convenor for their chosen subject area,
with a 12-1500 word research proposal well in advance of submitting a formal
application: www.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/#research

For full details on how to apply and an application form, please visit:
www.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate
Email: sllf-pg@qmul.ac.uk / Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8332

Closing Date: 31 January 2012



Two New Faculty Positions, New York University Abu Dhabi

Literature, NYU Abu Dhabi:

New York University Abu Dhabi seeks to appoint two leading scholars at the level of associate or full professor in the fields of Shakespeare Studies (especially Global Shakespeare) and World Literature, with preference for scholars working in the field of Arabic Literature. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to play an integral role in fashioning an international research university oriented around the liberal arts. We are looking for a literary scholar who maintains an active agenda of research, has substantial publications, and has demonstrated commitment to undergraduate teaching. Experienced junior scholars with substantial records of publication may also be considered.

New York University has established itself as a Global Network University, a multi- site, organically connected network encompassing key global cities and idea capitals. The network has three foundational, degree-granting campuses: New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai, complemented by a network of over 15 research and study-away sites across five continents. Faculty and students will circulate within this global network in pursuit of common research interests, the promotion of cross-cultural understanding and solutions for problems, both local and global.

Entering its second year, NYU Abu Dhabi has already recruited a cohort of faculty who are at once distinguished in their research and teaching. Our first two classes of students are drawn from around the world and surpass all traditional recruitment benchmarks, both US and global. NYU Abu Dhabi’s highly selective liberal arts enterprise is complemented by an institute for advanced research, sponsoring cutting-edge projects across the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, and Engineering.

The terms of employment are competitive and include housing and educational subsidies for children. Faculty may also spend time at NYU New York and other sites of the global network, engaging in both research and teaching opportunities. The appointment might begin as soon as September 1, 2012, or could be delayed until September 1, 2013.

Applications for tenure-track positions are due by February 1; applications received later will be reviewed until the positions are filled. To be considered, candidates should submit a cover letter, Curriculum Vitae, statements of research and teaching, all in PDF format. Junior candidates are asked to submit sample publications and three letters of reference as well. Please visit our website for instructions and other information on how to apply. If you have any questions, please e-mail nyuad.humanities@nyu.edu.


NEH Seminar: Tudor Books and Readers

John N. King of The Ohio State University and Mark Rankin of James Madison University will direct a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers on the manufacture and dissemination of printed books and the nature of reading during the era of the Tudor monarchs (1485-1603).

In particular, they plan to pose the governing question of whether the advent of printing was a necessary precondition for the emergence of new reading practices associated with the Renaissance and Reformation. Participants will consider ways in which readers responded to elements such as book layout, typography, illustration, and paratext (e.g., prefaces, glosses, and commentaries). Employing key methods of the history of the book and the history of reading, this investigation will consider how the physical nature of books affected ways in which readers understood and assimilated their intellectual contents. This program is geared to meet the needs of teacher-scholars interested in the literary, political, or cultural history of the English Renaissance and/or Reformation, the history of the book, the history of reading, art history, women’s studies, religious studies, bibliography, print culture, library science (including rare book librarians), mass communication, literacy studies, and more.

This seminar will meet from 18 June until 20 July 2012. During the first week of this program, we shall visit 1) Antwerp, Belgium, in order to draw on resources including the Plantin-Moretus Museum (the world’s only surviving Renaissance printing and publishing house) and 2) London, England, in order to attend a rare-book workshop and consider treasures at the British Library. During four ensuing weeks at Oxford, participants will reside at St. Edmund Hall as they draw on the rare book and manuscript holdings of the Bodleian Library and other institutions.

Those eligible to apply include citizens of USA who are engaged in teaching at the college or university level, graduate students, and independent scholars who have received the terminal degree in their field (usually the Ph.D.). In addition, non-US citizens who have taught and lived in the USA for at least three years prior to March 2012 are eligible to apply. NEH will provide participants with a stipend of $3,900.

Full details and application information are available at http://www.jmu.edu/english/Tudor_Books_and_Readers. For further information, please contact Mark Rankin (rankinmc@jmu.edu). The application deadline is March 1, 2012.

Medieval English Theatre Volume 32

Medieval English Theatre Volume 32 (2010) will shortly be published. The volume contains articles on:
  • Royal Entries
  • Shepherds' Plays in England, France and Spain
  • Academic drama and medieval arts of letter-writing
  • Redford's Wit and Science
  • Drama in Chester and Coventry 
For any questions about subscription contact Olga Horner at o.horner@lancaster.ac.uk.

From 2012 Medieval English Theatre is reconstituting as a Society. The Medieval English Theatre Society aims to promote interest in and study of early theatre both within and beyond the academic community. It will support publication of the journal as well as the long-standing annual day conference and other activities. Members of the Society will receive the annual volume of the journal as one of the benefits of membership.

Subscription to the Society will open in the new year, from the Medieval English Theatre website: http://medievalenglishtheatre.co.uk/index.html

Any one with an interest in early theatre is most welcome to order this volume of the journal, and in due course to become a member of the new Society.

Symposium: 'Editing historical mathematics: techniques and traditions since 1900'

All Souls College, 15 and 16 December 2011

Papers by Fabio Acerbi, Rob Bradley, Stephen Clucas, Benno van Dalen, Niccolò Guicciardini, Alex Lee, Karen Parshall, François Pineau, Henrik Kragh Sørensen, Jackie Stedall, and Benjamin Wardhaugh.

There are still some places left for observers. Cost: £50 including conference dinner on the 16th.

All enquiries to Benjamin Wardhaugh

Shaping the Republic of Letters: Communication, Correspondence and Networks in Early Modern Europe

The Journal of Early Modern Studies is seeking contributions for its first issue (Fall 2012). It will be a special issue, devoted to the theme:

Shaping the Republic of Letters: Communication, Correspondence and Networks in Early Modern Europe, Editor: Vlad Alexandrescu

http://www.zetabooks.com/cfp-jems-2012-fall-issue-shaping-the-republic-of-letters.html

A well known metaphor of the early European modernity and an important instrument in the understanding of seventeenth-century thought, the "Republic of Letters" was, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, primarily a label for new projects of intellectual and scientific association. Various models for the Republic of Letters have been investigated and described as closed circles or open networks, shaped around a variety of elements: scientific societies, intellectual networks, formal or informal circles of intellectuals, proponents of the new and old philosophies. What all such models had in common was a an ideal of shaping communities around a moral, intellectual and sometimes a religious project understood as a reformation of the (whole) human being.

This special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies aims to bring together articles devoted to the investigation of such models of early modern communities governed by the ideal of the Republic of Letters. The journal is particularly seeking papers dedicated to the exploration of various ways of disseminating and communicating knowledge within the Republic of Letters, with a special focus on the exchanges between the East and the West of Europe.

Please send your contributions no later than the 1st of March 2012 to:

Journal of Early Modern Studies
jems@zetabooks.com

Vacancy: Specialist, Medieval and Early Modern Medicine

Job Title: Specialist, Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
Location: London
Closing Date: 21/12/2011
Salary: £35,000

We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in health by supporting the brightest minds.

The Wellcome Library provides insight and information to anyone seeking to understand medicine and its role in society, past and present. We are one of the world's major resources for the study of medical history and we also provide access to a growing collection of contemporary biomedical information resources relating to consumer health, popular science, biomedical ethics and the public understanding of science.

The role of Specialist, Medieval and Early Modern Medicine is key to the future development of the Library's role as one of the world's premier locations for research in the history of early medicine and science. With digitisation plans for the collections being set up, the Wellcome Library is looking for someone who is forward thinking and passionate about the potential for digital technologies to support and enhance scholarly use of early manuscript and printed collections, as well as engage a wider public audience. Reporting directly to the Head of Research and Scholarship, the successful candidate will an established academic historian of medicine or science, with experience of working with early manuscripts and rare books, and of using digital resources for historical research. Candidates should have a higher degree in History with specialisation in pre-modern medicine or science and must be able to demonstrate the following:

• A strong academic profile
• Knowledge of relevant collections, including those outside the Wellcome Library
• Knowledge of current academic work in fields relevant to the Library's pre-modern collections
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, including the ability to engage non-specialist audiences
• Strong influencing and persuading skills
• Good networking skills
• An aptitude for collaboration and team-working
• A reading knowledge of Latin and at least one other relevant foreign language

Salary c. £35000 p.a (depending on experience) plus excellent benefits Closing date for applications: 21 December 2011 Interviews : w/c 23 January 2012

Phoebe Harkins
Assistant Librarian, Discovery & Engagement Wellcome Library The Wellcome Trust
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The Sliding Scale of Sleep in The Middle Ages

STS Seminar Series 2011-12
Department of Science and Technology Studies University College London

All seminars take place at 5.00pm
Venue: Galton Lecture Theatre, 1-19 Torrington Place http://www.ucl.ac.uk/locations/ucl-maps

Monday 12 December
Bill MacLehose
(STS, UCL)

This talk is part of a larger project on medieval concepts of sleep and the relations between body and mind. Instead of the single, solid divide between sleeping and waking which Aristotle had advocated, medical writers tended to envision a spectrum of states that blurred the categories not only of sleep and wakefulness but also of reason and irrationality and of physiological health and pathology. Medieval theorists created a typology of states that moved between and beyond such basic binary divisions. In the process, sleep became a category of increased moral and medical concern from the twelfth century onward.

This talk examines a variety of diseases or pathological states, such as sleepwalking, lethargy, insomnia, and others, in order to explore medieval understandings of the connections between mental and physical functioning.

Dr. Chiara Ambrosio

Teaching Fellow in Philosophy of Science Department of Science and Technology Studies University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT

Tel. (+44) 02076790166
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/staff/ambrosio
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/basc/

EMPHASIS Seminar: Italian Renaissance philosophy in the vernacular: Alessandro Piccolomini

10 December 2011, The speakers are:

Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway, University of London): 'Alessandro Piccolomini: Aristotle's natural philosophy for the layman and woman in sixteenth-century Italy'

Eugenio Refini (University of Warwick): 'Logic, Rhetoric and Poetics as rational faculties in Alessandro Piccolomini's map of knowledge'

Time: 2-4pm Venue: Room G37, Ground Floor (South Block), University of London Senate House Building, Malet Street.

Monumental Shakespeares: Remembering Shakespeare in 1916 and after

The London Shakespeare Centre at King's College London presents
A work-in-progress colloquium

Saturday 10 December 2011

Anatomy Theatre and Museum | King’s College London

How was Shakespeare ‘remembered’ in opposite hemispheres in 1916? How were memories constructed, fabricated or supplanted by acts/objects of memorialisation or commemoration of Shakespeare, in the wake of the Tercentenary? What do we mean by these categories of ‘remembering’?

Funded by the Australian Research Council, ‘Monumental Shakespeares’ is a collaborative research project, held jointly by King’s College London and the University of Western Australia, and involving researchers working in London, Perth and Sydney. The project aims to elucidate the processes of commemoration in London and in Sydney for the Shakespeare Tercentenary in 1916, an occasion that gave rise to significant debates over the best ways to memorialise England’s ‘National Poet’ in the British Isles and across the Empire.

On Saturday 10 December, we will be holding a Colloquium as part of the project. We are very pleased to welcome to King’s an exciting range of international speakers, who join the project’s own researchers for this day of discussion and exchange. The colloquium aims to open up new lines of enquiry and to extend the rapidly developing field of study that the Shakespeare Tercentenary has provoked over recent years. As well as presenting a series of papers around the topic, the colloquium will include – thanks to the generosity of the National Theatre – an exhibition space in which to view rare items relating to the research. as well as a round table discussion with leading experts in the field.

For further information about the colloquium please go to the London Shakespeare Centre website: http://www.shakespeare.kcl.ac.uk/event.html?event=68

For any queries please email shakespeare@kcl.ac.uk



Literature, Ideas & Society: Seminar Programme 2011-2012

All sessions held at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB.
Admission free, no need to book. Reception follows each session.

Session 1: The Limits of Believability - Friday 9 December 2011, 5.15 pm

Eugenio Refini (Warwick), 'No Empty Fiction Wrought by Magic Lore': Wonders of Nature,
Irony and Disbelief in 16th-Century Italian Fiction Narratives
Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck), 'Dowt not for We are Good Angells': John Dee, Meric Casaubon and the Limits of Early Modern Credulity


The Renaissance Republic of Furniture: From Political Theology to Political Ecology

Julia Reinhard Lupton
Thursday, 8th December 7:00 p.m.
Swedenborg Hall
20 Bloomsbury Way

Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, with a joint appointment in Education. In 2010-2011, she is directing UCI’s Program in Jewish Studies. In 2007, she was named a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, in recognition of her contributions to Shakespeare studies. She is currently Visiting Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Kingston University London.

Her latest book, Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life, was published by the University of Chicago Press in Spring 2011. Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2005. Lupton is also author of Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology and Renaissance Literature (Stanford, 1996) and co-author with Kenneth Reinhard of After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis (Cornell, 1992).

Political Theology and Early Modernity co-edited with Graham Hammill is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press in 2012, with essays by Victoria Kahn, Drew Daniel, Paul Kottman, Jennifer Rust, Kathleen Biddick, and others (plus an afterword by Etienne Balibar).

She is currently writing a book on Shakespeare and hospitality.

A free lecture co-sponsored by the School of Humanities, Kingston University London, and the London Graduate School



Julia Reinhard Lupton, ‘The Renaissance Republic of Furniture: From Political Theology to Political Ecology’


Thursday, 8 December 7 pm, Swedenborg Hall,
20 Bloomsbury Way

A free lecture co-sponsored by the School of Humanities, Kingston University London, and the London Graduate School

Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, with a joint appointment in Education. In 2010-2011, she is directing UCI’s Program in Jewish Studies. In 2007, she was named a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, in recognition of her contributions to Shakespeare studies. She is currently Visiting Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Kingston University London.Her latest book, Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life, was published by the University of Chicago Press in Spring 2011. Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2005. Lupton is also author of Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology and Renaissance Literature (Stanford, 1996) and co-author with Kenneth Reinhard of After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis(Cornell, 1992). Political Theology and Early Modernity co-edited with Graham Hammill is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press in 2012, with essays by Victoria Kahn, Drew Daniel, Paul Kottman, Jennifer Rust, Kathleen Biddick, and others (plus an afterword by Etienne Balibar).


Demons and Devils in Early Modern Europe

2 December 2011

A one-day conference organized by Guido Giglioni

In the course of his illustrious career at the Warburg Institute, D.P. Walker (1914-1985) published seminal works that contributed to redefining our view of early modern magic and demonology, such as Spiritual and Demonic Magic from Ficino to Campanella (1958), Decline of Hell (1964) and Unclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries (1981). This conference intends to celebrate his legacy by presenting the most recent results by young researchers working at the Warburg Institute.

Programme

Péter Tóth
Satan's Terror and the Origins of Medieval Religious Comedy

Anna Corrias
From Daimonic Reason to Demonic Imagination: Plotinus and Marsilio Ficino on the Soul’s Inner Demon

Nicholas Holland
Agostino Nifo’s Demons

Sietske Fransen
Injected Devils: Jan Baptista van Helmont on Devils and Disease

Michael Gordian
Diabolic Dis/simulation in Early Modern England: The Theatre of Exorcism in Context

James A. T. Lancaster
The Pathologization of the Early Modern Demoniac

Anthony Ossa-Richardson
Possession and Insanity: Two Views from the Victorian Lunatic Asylum

Registration

£25 (£12.50 for concessions) including coffee/tea, and a sandwich lunch
To register please contact: warburg(at)sas.ac.uk


Early Modern Recipe Books: Women's Social Networks, Domesticity, Science and Medicine

Friday 25 November

Newcastle University, Research Beehive Room 2.20

10 a.m. Registration (tea and coffee available)

10.15 Introduction and welcome (Kate Chedgzoy, Newcastle)

10.30 Catherine Alexander (Newcastle), 'Collaboration and community in Jane Loraine's cook book, 1684-6'

11.30 Sara Pennell (Roehampton), ' "The best I ever ate": culinary knowledge and practice in early modern English manuscript recipe texts'

12.30 Lunch (provided)

1.30 Jayne Archer (Aberystwyth), 'Opus Mulierum: alchemy in early modern women's recipe books'

2.30 Jenny Richards (Newcastle), 'Reading, reproduction and Thomas Raynalde's The Birth of Mankind: Otherwise Named, The Woman's Book'

3.30 Tea and coffee

3.45 Response by Suzanne Trill (Edinburgh) and final discussion

There is no charge for attendance at this event, but so that we can cater appropriately, please contact Emma Short<emma.short@newcastle.ac.uk> by November 18 to let her know that you would like to attend.


The Uses of Space In Early Modern History 1500-1850, Seminar Series

International History Department, LSE

The study of space and place is an increasingly important research-field in the humanities and social sciences. This series explores how spatial ideas and approaches can be used to understand the societies, cultures and mentalities of the past. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines will reflect on the uses of space in two respects: how spatial concepts can be employed by or applied to the study of history; and how particular spaces were used for practical and ideological purposes in specific periods

Series Organiser: Dr Paul Stock p.stock@lse.ac.uk
Place: LSE New Academic Building, room 2.14 Time: 18.00 All welcome
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/internationalHistory/events/theUsesOfSpaceinEarlyModernHistory1500-1850/homeTheUsesOfSpaceInEarlyModernHistory1500-1850.aspx

24 November 2011: Dr Rachel Hewitt (Oxford) 'Mapping History: Cartographic Revolution in the Eighteenth Century'

Professor Kevin Sharpe dies

Colleagues will be saddened to hear of the death of Prof Kevin Sharpe who died in Southampton on Saturday, November 5th.

Kevin Sharpe (1949-2011) was one of the most important historians of early modern Britain during the last half century and particularly important in helping us understand the complex ways literary texts may be employed as historical documents. The author of 11 books, Kevin’s grasp of seventeenth-century history, cultural and social practice, print and visual culture was unmatched. He was equally at home in departments of History (notably Southampton where he spent the substantial early part of his career) and English (at Warwick and then at Queen Mary). Generous of his time, he was a large presence in the tea rooms and nearby bars of major research libraries around the globe combining advice on research topics, suggestions for career advancement and demands for the latest gossip while disseminating stories from his own ample storehouse. At conferences and papers, Kevin could always be counted on to ask apparently innocuous but ultimately incisive questions and he took particular delight in flaying the pompous.

During its early years, Kevin regularly attended the London Renaissance Seminar and he has given numerous papers at it. It is difficult to think we will not again encounter his irreverent humour, his zest over all things academic, and his intrinsic good nature.

Kevin seemed to have successfully fought off cancer a couple of years ago, his vigour for life and for work undiminished. Alas, it was not to be; the cancer returned aggressively and fatally this autumn. I cannot but feel he would have appreciated an end amidst the cacophony of bonfire night, a date so significant for the era he helped us to better understand.

Tom Healy
Birkbeck


Further tributes to Professor Sharpe:

Queen Mary University
Warwick University
Jack of Kent Blog

Listen to the In Our Time podcast:

Seventeenth Century Print Culture

Some of Kevin's books...



New Research in the Medieval and Early Modern Period, Inaugural Conference of the North-East Medieval and Early Modern Symposium

Location: tbc  Time/Date: 26th January 2012, 09:00 - 17:00

Are you a Postgraduate Researcher working in the period c. 1400- c. 1700? This new Symposium is a forum for Postgraduate Researchers throughout the North-East. At its inaugural conference, the Symposium aims to explore the breadth and depth of research in the North East from c. 1400-1700. The Symposium is interdisciplinary and intends to build up links between PG researchers in our field, establish a forum to present work in progress, and explore opportunities for collaboration and publication.

Call for Papers: Past and Future Tenses: New Research in the Medieval and Early Modern Period

Potential speakers are asked to submit abstracts of 200 words max, for 15 minute papers drawn from their research on any aspect of literature, history, art, society or culture, c. 1400- c.1700.

We also welcome expressions of interest from researchers interested in helping to organise the Symposium.

Please e-mail abstracts and any questions to Simon Moore (Newcastle University) (s.j.moore2@ncl.ac.uk<mailto:s.j.moore2@ncl.ac.uk>) by 19 December 2011

About North East Medieval and Early Modern Symposium

Supported by the Medieval and Early Modern Research Group at Newcastle University (http://research.ncl.ac.uk/mems) NEMS exists to build a strong community of Postgraduate Researchers in our field across the North East Universities. We are an informal and welcoming group, offering opportunities to share your research, participate in interdisciplinary discussions, and collaborate on the organisation of events and conferences, and on publication projects. Initially, we will meet twice yearly to hear research papers and socialise with colleagues. NEMS is entirely free to attend, and each meeting is followed by a drinks reception.


RALEIGH LECTURE ON HISTORY How Confessional Divisions influenced Writing on the Natural History of the Atlantic World

Professor Nicholas Canny FBA
Tuesday 22 November 2011, 6.00pm - 7.15pm

The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH

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.

The lecture will look at the merits and demerits of Thomas Harriott, André Thevet and Jean de éry as scientific reporters and at the inter-relationship between the religious position they adopted and their approaches to the study of natural history. It will argue that Jean de Léry’s, Histoire d’un voyage(1578) can be considered as much a Calvinist polemic and a logical extension of the same author’sHistoire memorable de la ville de Sancerre (1574), as the landmark contribution to scientific writing it is usually represented as. It will contend that the enominalization of scientific reportage was consolidated by America by Theodore de Bry in 1591 and was not neutralized until Hans Sloane began to publish at the outset of the eighteenth century.

About the speaker

Nicholas Canny is a Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council. He was Director of the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities at the National University of Ireland, Galway, 2000-11 where he was Professor of History 1979-2009. He served as President of the Royal Academy 2008-11. An expert on early modern history broadly defined, he edited the first volume ofThe Oxford History of the British Empire and with Philip D.Morgan, The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, c1450-c1850 (2011). His major book is Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (2001). He is currently engaged on a comparison between English and French writings on the Natural History of America, 1580-1720.

6.00pm-7.15pm, followed by a reception. Registration is not required for this event. Seats will be allocated on arrival.






LITERATURE, IDEAS and SOCIETY PROGRAMME 2011-2012


The aim of this seminar series, to be held at the Warburg Institute, is to advance research in literary studies, firstly, by exploring the connections between literature and other disciplines such as philosophy, theology, medicine and law, and, secondly, by situating literature in its social context—in relationship to politics, commerce, and both scientific and artistic endeavour.
The seminars will be held once a term (three times per year), at 5:15. Each session will consist of two thirty-minute papers, followed by a formal discussion and an informal reception.
Session 1: The Limits of Believability
Friday 9 December 2011, 5:15
Eugenio Refini (Warwick)
‘No Empty Fiction Wrought by Magic Lore’: Wonders of Nature, Irony and Disbelief in Sixteenth-Century Italian Fiction Narratives
Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck College)
‘Dowt not for We are Good Angells’: John Dee, Meric Casaubon and the Limits of Early Modern Credulity
Session 2: Credit, Value and Honour
Wednesday 25 January 2012, 5:15
Anne Goldgar (KCL, History)
Credit and Value in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands
Craig Moyes (KCL, French)
La gloire à crédit: Redeeming Roman Values in Seventeenth-Century Salon Society
Session 3: Philosophy and Narrative
Wednesday 2 May 2012, 5:15
Letizia Panizza (RHUL)
Telling the Truth while Telling Lies: Ariosto’s Debt to Lucian’s Vera Historia
Maria Rosa Antognazza (KCL, Philosophy)
Interpretive Guidelines for an Intellectual Biography of Leibniz

Organised by Emily Butterworth, Department of French, King’s College London (emily.butterworth(at)kcl.ac.uk); Guido Giglioni, The Warburg Institute (guido.giglioni(at)sas.ac.uk) and Jacqueline Glomski, Department of History, King’s College London (jacqueline.glomski(at)kcl.ac.uk).

The organisers gratefully acknowledge the support of KCL Arts and Humanities Research Institute

Charles Schmitt Prize 2012

As the result of generous donations from an anonymous donor and our publisher (Routledge), the International Society for Intellectual History is offering, on an annual basis, a prize to honour the contribution of the late Charles Schmitt to intellectual history.

The prize is £250, plus £50 worth of Routledge books, and a year’s free membership of the ISIH with a subscription to the Society’s quarterly journal Intellectual History Review. The paper awarded the prize will also be published in the Intellectual History Review.

Submissions will be accepted in any area of intellectual history, broadly construed, 1500 to the present, including the historiography of intellectual history. Because it is a condition of the award that the paper awarded the prize will be published by IHR, submissions should not have been accepted for publication elsewhere, or exceed 9000 words. Eligibility is restricted to doctoral students and those who have submitted their PhD within two years of the closing date for the prize.

The paper should be forwarded as an e-mail attachment to stephen.gaukroger@arts.usyd.edu.au and to s.clucas@bbk.ac.uk. The e-mail itself should state that the paper is being entered for the prize, and should confirm eligibility at the time of submission, as well as availability of the paper for publication.

The closing date for the prize is 31 December 2011, and an announcement of the award will be made in early 2011.

Dr Stephen Clucas
Editor, Intellectual History Review
Reader in Early Modern Intellectual History,
English and Humanities,
School of Arts
Birkbeck, University of London,
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX. UK

Tel: 020 3073 8421





Medieval English Studies Symposium (MESS) 2011

0th Medieval English Studies Symposium, organised by the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University will be held in Poznań from 19-20 November, 2011. Mess 10th welcomes papers in both areas, literary and linguistic studies. The literary section concerns mostly class and wealth and their literary representations in the form of endorsements as well as admonitions. Princes and Paupers feature in secular literature of advice as well as in religious works on sins and transgressions, both types offering insight into the nature of medieval social life. We will welcome papers in these and all other areas of research connected with medieval English literature and language. 500-word abstracts should be submitted by the end of August 2011, preferably by e-mail (mess@ifa.amu.edu.pl).


Katarzyna Bronk, MA
Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

The Bible in English from the Early Middle Ages to 1611

A one-day colloquium to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, 12 November 2011 Canterbury Cathedral Lodge.

This colloquium will explore English translations of the Bible from the Early Middle Ages up to the publication of the King James Version in 1611. The day includes a series of lectures, a private view of the Cathedral’s exhibition of Bibles in English from Tyndale to King James Version, and morning and afternoon refreshments. The speakers are Dr Alixe Bovey, Dr Helen Gittos, Dr Sarah James, Professor John Thompson, and Dr Ryan Perry, and the day will culminate in Professor Stephen Prickett’s keynote address on the King James Version. 

All are welcome. Advance registration is strongly encouraged. £15, with reduced rates for Friends of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS); seniors and unwaged (£10); and students (£5).

To register, please contact Claire Taylor at the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent: c.l.taylor@kent.ac.uk.

To see the programme and to find out more about becoming a Friend of MEMS, visit our website: www.kent.ac.uk/mems.


The Winter's Tale Symposium

Northern Renaissance Seminar series, University of Liverpool


This one-day Symposium is a part of the larger month-long Liverpool Winter’s Tale Festival celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. It aims to enhance our understanding of this complex play, and papers presented at the symposium may focus on the text at the moment of production, its relationship with its predecessors and contemporaries, both within Shakespeare’s own writing and beyond, its transmission through editorial processes, as well as its interpretation through contemporary performances and re-readings. Confirmed speakers include Helen Cooper (Cambridge), Subha Mukherji (Cambridge) and Lori Humphrey Newcomb (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

We warmly invite proposals for 15-20 minute papers. Proposals for papers, including titles and abstracts (of no more than 300 words) should be sent to Nandini Das (ndas@liverpool.ac.uk) before 31st July 2011.

We are also delighted to offer up to 3 bursaries of £100 each, which will be awarded to postgraduate speakers courtesy of the Society for Renaissance Studies, www.rensoc.org.uk

Francis Bacon’s Arts of Discovery and The Cultivation of the Mind


The Maison Française d’Oxford (USR 3129, CNRS) and the University of Bucharest
are pleased to announce the International Conference
Francis Bacon’s Arts of Discovery and The Cultivation of the Mind

Friday 11 November and Saturday 12 November at the Maison Française d’Oxford 2-10 Norham Road Oxford OX2 6SE

Friday 11 November 9.30am-10.00am Tea/Coffee

Welcome by Luc Borot, Director of the Maison Française d’Oxford Morning Session I

Chair : Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest)

10.00am-11.15am Keynote Lecture Peter Anstey (Otago University)
Bacon, Ramus and the Interpretation of Nature

11.15am-11.30am Tea/Coffee
Morning Session II Chair : Martine Pécharman (CNRS-MFO)

11.30am-12.30pm
Per Landgren (MEHRC, Oxford)
Notiones Primae, Historiae Particulares et Inductio: Francis Bacon and the Aristotelian Concept of Historia

12.30pm-1.00pm
Raphaele Garrod (Cambridge University)
Response to Per Landgren

1.00pm-2.00pm Lunch
Afternoon Session I Chair : Noel Malcolm (All Souls College)

2.15pm-3.15pm
Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest)
The Hunt of Pan: Exploratory Experimentation and the Rules of Experientia Literata

3.15pm-3.45pm
Daniel Andersson (Wolfson College)
Response to Dana Jalobeanu

4.00pm-4.30pm Tea/Coffee
Afternoon Session II Chair : Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck College, London)

4.30pm-5.30pm
Rhodri Lewis (St Hugh’s College)
Francis Bacon and Ingenuity

5.30pm-6.15pm
Laura Georgescu (University of Bucharest)

Saturday 12 November

9.00am-9.15am Tea/Coffee
Morning Session I Chair : Peter Anstey (Otago University)

9.15am-10.15am
Dan Garber (Princeton University)
Bacon, New Atlantis and the Uses of Utopia
  
10.15am-10.45am
Doina Cristina Rusu (University of Nijmegen)
Response to Dan Garber

10.45am-11.00am Tea/Coffee
Morning Session II Chair : Howard Hotson (St Anne’s College)

11.00am-12.00
Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge University)
Interpreting Nature

12.00-12.30pm
Julianne Werlin (Princeton University)
Response to Richard Serjeantson

12.30pm-1.30pm Lunch
Afternoon Session Chair : Dan Garber (Princeton University)
Response to Rhodri Lewis

4.30pm Tea/Coffee

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6.45pm Dinner 


Conference organised with the support of the Maison Française d’Oxford and the University of Bucharest
Kathryn Murphy (Oriel College)
Instances and Experiments

1.30pm-2.30pm

2.30pm-3.00pm
James Lancaster (Warburg Institute)
Response to Kathryn Murphy
Elodie Cassan (CEC, Paris)

3.00pm-4.00pm
Bacon in Gassendi’s History of Logic

4.00pm-4.30pm
Madalina Giurgea (University of Ghent)
Response to Elodie Cassan


Making, Breaking and Repair

Wednesday 9 November 2011
10.00-12.00

Anatomy Theatre Museum, 6th Floor, King’s Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

Making, breaking and repair are powerful metaphors for talking about lived experience and
the natural world. We can deepen our understanding of these ways of thinking and speaking
through a focus on material processes - both contemporary and historical. Despite the recent
turn to materiality in literary and historical studies there have been few attempts within these
disciplines to engage with material practices – to learn to think with things as well as with
language. This session will bring together different perspectives on material and materiality.

A panel of speakers from a wide range of backgrounds will present their practices of making
and repair, and their approaches to things that are broken, damaged or incomplete.

All welcome.

Session Outline:

'Historic clock-making practices', Matthew Read (West Dean College)

'Repair revolution - the story of Sugru', Jane ni Dhulchaointigh (Inventor of Sugru)

'Alchemy and incompleteness: practically making the philosophers' stone', Jennifer Rampling
(University of Cambridge)

Closing Remarks – Florence Grant (History, KCL) and Chloe Porter (English, KCL)

Open discussion and tea.

For further information please email florence.grant@kcl.ac.uk or chloe.porter@kcl.ac.uk.

This event is part of the Festival of Materials and Making, hosted by the Institute of Making,
King’s College London. http://www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/



Vacancy: Two Early Modern Positions, University College Dublin

Two early modern posts at University College Dublin, both
starting in January 2012: a one-year Teaching Fellowship (salary
E33,645 p.a.) and a one-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship (salary E31, 730
p.a.). Both positions are for one calendar year, and full details can
be found on the UCD website. The Post-Doctoral Fellow will work on an
exciting new project based on the rich collections of the numerous
rare books libraries of Dublin, and IT/website-building skills will be
an advantage.

For informal enquiries about the teaching fellowship, please contact
Prof. Anne Fogarty (anne.fogarty@ucd.ie); for informal enquiries about
the post-doctoral fellowship, please contact Dr Jane Grogan
(jane.grogan@ucd.ie).

Please note: the application deadline is 13th November 2011.

Applications must be made online, through the UCD website:
http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies/


Lynn Wood Neag Distinguished Visiting Professorship of British Literature English Department

The English Department at the University of Connecticut invites
applications for the Lynn Wood Neag Distinguished Professorship of
British Literature.  The appointment for this one-term visiting
professorship is for the spring semester of 2012 (January 9 to May
18).  


The applicant should be an established scholar of British
literature from a British university. Specific expertise in Scottish
literature is preferred. The Neag professor will teach two courses-one
undergraduate and one graduate-and will present one public lecture.


Generous compensation suitable to a professorship in the United
States, supplemented by housing and a reimbursement for transportation
up to $2,000 (US).  Please send a letter and c.v. to Wayne Franklin,
Head, Department of English, NEAG, University of Connecticut, 215
Glenbrook Road, Storrs, CT  06269-4025 or e-mail your letter and c.v.
to robin.worley@uconn.edu. Consideration of applications will begin
immediately.



The British Milton Seminar: Call for Papers


AUTUMN MEETING, Saturday 22 October 2011

PRELIMINARY NOTICE / CALL FOR PAPERS

Venue: In the Birmingham and Midland Institute on Saturday 22 October 2011.  There will be two sessions, from 11.00 am to 12.30 pm, and from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm.

We currently intend that each session will have two papers (of approx. 25-30 minutes each), for which proposals are invited.

Please send proposals to Professor Thomas N. Corns no later than 22 August 2011.

Thomas N. Corns
Joint Convener


The Senses in Early Modern England 1485-1668


A conference hosted by the London Renaissance Seminar, Shakespeare’s Globe and Birkbeck, University of London

Prof. Erica Fudge, University of Strathclyde (Keynote Speaker)
Dr Farah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare’s Globe (Keynote Speaker)


What did early modern subjects understand by the term “the senses”? What relationships and hierarchies were posited amongst the senses? How reliable were they in facilitating communication, understanding or knowledge? What kinds of sense experiences were implied in the production and consumption of texts in manuscript, print and performance?

There has been increased attention in early modern studies to various aspects of sense experience. Recent work is increasingly sensitive to the ways in which the senses were conceptualised at a particular historical moment, in terms of their relative significance, the physiological processes that they entailed, and the forms of experience and knowledge that they might facilitate for a subject. Such research foregrounds the importance of cultural context to sensory experiences, necessitating close attention to the particular ways in which early modern subjects both understood and experienced their own senses. This is visible in the posited ‘hierarchy of the senses’, and in the different understandings of the workings of the body and its relationship with the world; indeed, the place and nature of sensory experience in the relationship between outside phenomena and inner knowledge was central to the many epistemological questions being explored during the period. This conference aims to examine these culturally specific configurations and their importance to texts and performances; this importance is visible in many ways – in performance and reception at the theatre, in reading habits and indeed in conceptions of ‘reading’ itself, in the various ways in which senses appear in texts for rhetorical or other purposes, even in the relationships between the exterior, the body, cognition and selfhood explored in canonical texts of the period. We aim to bring together the latest research on this significant and critically current topic.

The conference will consist of a Friday evening postgraduate forum at Shakespeare’s Globe, and a day-long Saturday postgraduate conference at Birkbeck, University of London, with keynote papers from Dr Farah Karim-Cooper and Professor Erica Fudge. We welcome submissions in the form of 20 minute papers on subjects including, but not limited to, the following:

  • Theoretical and practical understandings of the experience and/or functioning of the senses,
  • How the senses appear in texts of various kinds,
  • How understandings of the senses shaped theatrical practice in England,
  • How such understandings may have shaped audience experience of drama,
  • The various sensory experiences of reading ,
  • Differing relations with the senses in different fields of artistic production,
  • The relationship between the senses, cognition and selfhood,
  • More recent theories of sensory experience/aesthetics and their relevance to early modern texts and contexts.

Please send an abstract of 250-300 words to Jackie Watson, Birkbeck College, at jwatso05@mail.bbk.ac.uk by Friday 24th June 2011, including your name, institution, position (e.g. PhD Student) and email address. We would also welcome joint submissions of 2-3 abstracts that could form a panel of 20 minute papers. 


"All the King's Fools", at Hampton Court Palace


You are warmly invited to a half-day academic symposium at Hampton Court Palace on Thursday 6 October 2011.

Entitled 'All the King's Fools', the symposium is part of a funding grant from the Wellcome Trust to explore the history of disability and the tradition of the fool at the Tudor court through a series of public engagement performances by actors with learning disabilities. The symposium is an opportunity to explore some of the research supporting this grant, as well as seeing the performances themselves.  The project is the result of a collaboration between Historic Royal Palaces, the University of East Anglia, Foolscap Productions, the Misfits Theatre Company, Oxford Brookes University, and Past Pleasures, and pilot performances were funded by the Arts Council.

Registration will start at 12 noon, and the day will finish by 17.30. In this time, there will be four or five short papers, including by me, Prof. Thomas Betteridge, Christopher Goodey, and Dr Elizabeth Hurren, and a chance to see two performances. Refreshments will be provided. Further details will be supplied to those that wish to attend.

If you able to come, you must RSVP, with your name, affiliation, and the names of anyone who will accompany you, for catering and security reasons, by Friday 23 September. 

With best wishes,
Professor Thomas Betteridge
tbetteridge@brookes.ac.uk

Intellectual Geography: Comparative Studies, 1550-1700

CALL FOR PAPERS

Please find via the link below details of the CFP for a major international conference on the theme of ‘Intellectual Geography: Comparative Studies, 1550-1700’, which will take place at St Anne’s College at the University of Oxford on 5-7 September 2011. The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is 1 April 2011.

This conference, the second in a series of three, forms part of ‘Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters’. Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Project is based in the Humanities Division of the University of Oxford and, in collaboration with partners in both Britain and abroad, is dedicated to reconstructing the correspondence networks central to the revolutionary intellectual developments of the seventeenth century. Full details concerning the conference and submissions may be found on the conference microsite:

http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/intellectualgeography/

The 2011 Gascoigne Seminar

The third Gascoigne Seminar will be held on Friday 23rd September 2011 at Lincoln College, Oxford. This year the programme includes a lute recital and a paper on Gascoigne and music, a session which should set Gascoigne firmly in context as a courtly poet-performer. The full line-up of speakers and topics is:

Prof Laurie Shannon (Northwestern University, Illinois), "The animal
poems in The Noble Arte of Venerie"

Prof Mike Pincombe (University of Newcastle), "Gascoigne and his
Contemporaries"

Dr Gavin Alexander (University of Cambridge), "Gascoigne and Music"

Dr Jane Griffiths (University of Bristol), "Gascoigne and Skelton"”

Chris Goodwin (Lute Society), "Gascoigne's 'Gascoigne's lute,
Gascoigne's sparrow and Gascoigne's goodnight"

Dr Andy Kesson (University of Kent), "Gascoigne's Supposes"

Prof William Kerwin (University of Missouri), "Gascoigne and Marston"

Dr Gillian Austen (University of Bristol), "Gascoigne's Literary
Reputation since 1603"

Michael Hetherington (University of Cambridge), "Gascoigne and
Miscellanies"

This small international conference is supported by the Society for
Renaissance Studies, who have made funding available to encourage
postgraduates' participation. Any postgraduates or early career
academics who would like to take up a funded place should email Gillian Austen as soon as possible.

The conference fee is just £35 (£30 to members of the SRS) and includes
an excellent lunch and refreshments throughout the day. The programme
will start at 9am (for registration) and the day will end at around
5pm. Spaces are very limited so please email g.austen@bristol.ac.uk as soon as possible to reserve your place.

Marlowe Society Lecture

At the Rose theatre on Saturday 17th September. Dr. Andy Kesson of Kent University will speak on

'Every merry word a very witchcraft: Dr. Faustus and the supernatural in the early commercial theatres.'

The talk will place the Globe and Rose Theatre stagings of this play in context.

As usual the charge for students will be reduced to £5, the full charge being £10, and coffee and tea will be available at the Rose Theatre from about 10.30, with the lecture commencing at 11 a.m.

Full details will be posted shortly on the Society website Marlowe Society and while payment can be made on the day, it is helpful to have advance notice of attendees, so please notify Events secretary, Barbara Wooding - contact details on the website.

UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges: Inaugural Conference, Sep 2011

15 – 17th September 2011
Call for Papers

The Centre is seeking proposals for panels or individual papers that address the theme of intercultural exchanges 1450 – 1800.

Contributors are encouraged to focus on Centre’s themes: travel, exile and migration in early modern Europe and the New World; trade and flows of material as well as cultural goods within and beyond Europe; translation, translators and language learning; literary influence across national, provincial and linguistic borders; representations of intra- and extra-European ‘others’ in literature and art; religious and political interactions in the wake of the Reformation; occasions of significant cultural contact and/or heightened national anxiety; the production, circulation, and collection of books and manuscripts across Europe, the emergence of libraries and the book trade; dissemination and development of scientific and medical knowledge; Old worlds and New worlds, colonialism and ethnography; interplay between past and present, historiography, classical and medieval pasts, archaeology and material cultures.


Anyone interested in offering a paper should send a short abstract (no more than 200 words) to the organizers, while panel convenors are asked to send a summary of the panel’s theme, a list of speakers with titles, institutional affiliations and abstracts by 17th January 2011.
Organizers: Alexander Samson (a.samson@ucl.ac.uk), Helen Hackett (h.hackett@ucl.ac.uk).


Shakespeare and the Banquet of the Senses at The Globe

A season of events consisting of academic conferences, lectures and staged readings around the theme of the senses in early modern culture and performance. Please follow the link to see the brochure and book tickets or to register for the postgraduate forum and/or the international conference at Shakespeare’s Globe: http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/education/events

Speakers throughout the season (lectures and conferences) include: 
Dr Tarnya Cooper (National Portrait Gallery), 
Professor Evelyn Welch (QMUL), 
Dr Francois Quiviger (Warburg), 
Professor Stanley Wells and Rev. Dr Paul Edmondson (The Shakespeare Centre, Stratford), 
Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones (Oxford), 
Professor Richard Wilson (Cardiff), 
Dr Margaret Healy (Sussex), 
Professor Jonathan Hope (Strathclyde), 
Dr Lucy Munro (Keele), 
Dr Joan Fitzpatrick (Loughborough), 
Dr P.A. Skantze (Roehampton), 
Professor Laura Farina (West Virginia), 
Professor Ayanna Thompson (ASU), 
Professor David Lindley (Leeds), 
Professor William West (Northwestern), 
Professor Erica Fudge (Strathclyde).

Readings:

George Chapman, Ovid’s Banquet of Sense (1595): Sunday 9 October
Tomas Tomkis, Lingua (1607): Sunday 23 October

We will also feature a reading of The History of Cardenio by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, recreated by Professor Gary Taylor: Sunday 20 November

For further enquiries, please contact Dr Farah Karim-Cooper farah.k@shakespearesglobe.com


Research Associate Positions at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Western Australia

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.au



RESEARCH 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