Ref: B713A (SELLS)
Faculty/Services: Humanities & Social Sciences
Department: School of English Lit, Language & Linguistics
Job Type: Academic (non-clinical)
Hours of Work: Full time
Salary: £32,590, with progression to £36,661
Closing Date: 7 May 2014
You will have a PhD in a relevant subject area and proven experience in teaching mid-14th century to early/mid-16th century literature to undergraduate students across a range of modules, with experience of teaching Chaucer highly desirable. You should also have a record of high quality publications in late medieval literature commensurate with your career stage and outstanding plans for future research projects and grant capture. Knowledge of and demonstrable expertise in digital scholarly editing and/or digital humanities is highly desirable and we would like you to have the potential to contribute to the development of the School’s work in the Digital Humanities.
Informal enquiries can be made to the Acting Head of School, Dr James Annesley, tel: 0191 208 6617, james.annesley@ncl.ac.uk and the Director of Research, Professor Matthew Grenby, tel: 0191 208 6182, e-mail: matthew.grenby@ncl.ac.uk.
The position is available from 1 September 2014
More details here
AHRC Network: Voices and Books, 1500-1800
Co-led by Professor Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University) and Professor Richard Wistreich (Royal Northern College of Music)
This is an AHRC-funded network of early modern scholars based in the UK and US (literary scholars, linguists, historians, musicologists) and partners (British Library; City Library, Newcastle; National Early Music Association UK; The Reading Experience Database; Seven Stories, National Centre for Children's Books) who are committed to recovering the history of reading aloud and listening to books. In 2014 we will be organising three workshops, to be held at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, Strathclyde University, Glasgow and the British Library, London. And in 2015 we will host an International Conference on Reading Aloud 1500-2015 at City Library, Newcastle. Please see below for an invitation to attend our first workshop in Manchester. For more information, see our website:http://research.ncl.ac.uk/voicesandbooks/
'Voices and Books, 1500-1800' Workshop 1: Saturday 12th April 2014
Venue: Conference Room, Royal Northern College of Music, 124 Oxford Road Manchester M13 9RD
Saturday Programme
10.00 Neil Rhodes (St Andrews University): 'Speech and Text in Early Modern England: An Outline of Some Problems'
10.50 Communal sight-reading from part-books: live demonstration with RNCM vocal students, with commentary by Richard Wistreich
11.45 Coffee
12.00 Abigail Williams (St Peter's College, Oxford) 'Practices of reading aloud in the eighteenth century'
1.00 Lunch (at RNCM)
1.45 Richard Bethell (National Early Music Association): 'The Hegemony of Vocal Sound through the Long Eighteenth Century' (with live demonstration by a singer - followed by discussion)
2.30 Felicity Laurence (Newcastle University): 'Children's voices in the contemporary classroom'
3.15 Tea
3.30 Margaret Wilkinson (Newcastle University): Writing for radio
4.15 Closing discussion
5.00 Finish
This event is free and open to anyone who would like to come. If you are interested in attending, however, please contact the Network Co-ordinator: Helen.Stark@ncl.ac.uk. (N.B. places may be limited).
Bursaries to attend! We have bursaries for unsalaried ECRs (within 2 years of PhD) and PhD students to cover some of the cost of travel / accommodation to attend a workshop. If you would like this support please send a short statement about how attendance at one of the workshops would benefit your research to the Network Co-ordinator:Helen.Stark@ncl.ac.uk.
This is an AHRC-funded network of early modern scholars based in the UK and US (literary scholars, linguists, historians, musicologists) and partners (British Library; City Library, Newcastle; National Early Music Association UK; The Reading Experience Database; Seven Stories, National Centre for Children's Books) who are committed to recovering the history of reading aloud and listening to books. In 2014 we will be organising three workshops, to be held at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, Strathclyde University, Glasgow and the British Library, London. And in 2015 we will host an International Conference on Reading Aloud 1500-2015 at City Library, Newcastle. Please see below for an invitation to attend our first workshop in Manchester. For more information, see our website:http://research.ncl.ac.uk/voicesandbooks/
'Voices and Books, 1500-1800' Workshop 1: Saturday 12th April 2014
Venue: Conference Room, Royal Northern College of Music, 124 Oxford Road Manchester M13 9RD
Saturday Programme
10.00 Neil Rhodes (St Andrews University): 'Speech and Text in Early Modern England: An Outline of Some Problems'
10.50 Communal sight-reading from part-books: live demonstration with RNCM vocal students, with commentary by Richard Wistreich
11.45 Coffee
12.00 Abigail Williams (St Peter's College, Oxford) 'Practices of reading aloud in the eighteenth century'
1.00 Lunch (at RNCM)
1.45 Richard Bethell (National Early Music Association): 'The Hegemony of Vocal Sound through the Long Eighteenth Century' (with live demonstration by a singer - followed by discussion)
2.30 Felicity Laurence (Newcastle University): 'Children's voices in the contemporary classroom'
3.15 Tea
3.30 Margaret Wilkinson (Newcastle University): Writing for radio
4.15 Closing discussion
5.00 Finish
This event is free and open to anyone who would like to come. If you are interested in attending, however, please contact the Network Co-ordinator: Helen.Stark@ncl.ac.uk. (N.B. places may be limited).
Bursaries to attend! We have bursaries for unsalaried ECRs (within 2 years of PhD) and PhD students to cover some of the cost of travel / accommodation to attend a workshop. If you would like this support please send a short statement about how attendance at one of the workshops would benefit your research to the Network Co-ordinator:Helen.Stark@ncl.ac.uk.
Early Career Research Network Symposium: Editing
University of Sussex and British Academy
April 11th, 2014 at the University of Sussex.
Keynote speaker: David McKitterick, F.B.A. (University of Cambridge)
Registration is free and inclusive of lunch and refreshments, but places are limited.
Contact Simon Davies (S.F.Davies@sussex.ac.uk) for more information.
Travel expenses will be reimbursed.
A British Academy funded networking event for early career researchers, hosted by the University of Sussex, focussing on the issue of editing. The day will consider: questions of editing manuscripts; editions of literary works; editions of letters; editions of documentary sources; collation; annotation; digital editions; organising collaborative projects; and any other relevant issues.
April 11th, 2014 at the University of Sussex.
Keynote speaker: David McKitterick, F.B.A. (University of Cambridge)
Registration is free and inclusive of lunch and refreshments, but places are limited.
Contact Simon Davies (S.F.Davies@sussex.ac.uk) for more information.
Travel expenses will be reimbursed.
A British Academy funded networking event for early career researchers, hosted by the University of Sussex, focussing on the issue of editing. The day will consider: questions of editing manuscripts; editions of literary works; editions of letters; editions of documentary sources; collation; annotation; digital editions; organising collaborative projects; and any other relevant issues.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Sound in the Early Modern City - Early Modern Conversion
King's College, 11 April 2014, 13:00 - 12 April 2014, 18:00
This, the first in a series of workshops, is devoted to the theme of ‘The Early Modern City as the Site of Conversion’, and will take place in King's College, Cambridge on 10-11 April 2014. A small number of bursaries are available to enable doctoral students to attend; these will cover reasonable travel expenses, accommodation and subsistence costs. Those wishing to apply should send a short CV together with a brief description of their current research project and its relevance to the theme of the Workshop to Iain Fenlon, King’s College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST. The deadline for applications is 15 March 2014.
Whether it is an awakening to a new faith, an induction into a religious cult or radical political movement, a sexual transformation, or the re-engineering of human beings as bio-mechanical “cyborgs,” conversion is a source of fascination, a promise of newness, and a focus of anxiety for people in the twenty-first century. We do not know if such conversions are inward turnings toward a better life or monstrous impositions upon unwitting victims. We cannot fathom how individuals or groups of people are able to convert to a new politics, religion, or way of life all at once and quite completely, as if they had never been other than what they have become. We would not want to part with the freedom of self- determination embodied in conversion, which seems to be its purest expression, even though we are troubled by what radical transformations tell us about the instability and changeability of human beings.
Among other goals, the Forms of Conversion project will develop an historical understanding of conversion that will enlighten modern debates about corporeal, sexual, psychological, political and spiritual kinds of transformation. The project will study how early modern Europeans changed their confessional, social, political, and even sexual identities. These subjective changes were of a piece with transformations in their world—the geopolitical reorientation of Europe in light of emerging relations with Islam and the Americas; the rethinking and the translation of the knowledge of Greek and Latin Antiquity, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam; changes in and changing uses of the built environment; the reimagining of God.
This workshop is part of the CRASSH five year project, Forms of Conversion, in a partnership led by McGill University, including researchers from universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, and England as well as leading centres for the humanities and/or early modern studies, and four of Canada’s top-ranked performing arts organizations.
For further information about this project please contact Simon Goldhill at CRASSH.
This, the first in a series of workshops, is devoted to the theme of ‘The Early Modern City as the Site of Conversion’, and will take place in King's College, Cambridge on 10-11 April 2014. A small number of bursaries are available to enable doctoral students to attend; these will cover reasonable travel expenses, accommodation and subsistence costs. Those wishing to apply should send a short CV together with a brief description of their current research project and its relevance to the theme of the Workshop to Iain Fenlon, King’s College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST. The deadline for applications is 15 March 2014.
Whether it is an awakening to a new faith, an induction into a religious cult or radical political movement, a sexual transformation, or the re-engineering of human beings as bio-mechanical “cyborgs,” conversion is a source of fascination, a promise of newness, and a focus of anxiety for people in the twenty-first century. We do not know if such conversions are inward turnings toward a better life or monstrous impositions upon unwitting victims. We cannot fathom how individuals or groups of people are able to convert to a new politics, religion, or way of life all at once and quite completely, as if they had never been other than what they have become. We would not want to part with the freedom of self- determination embodied in conversion, which seems to be its purest expression, even though we are troubled by what radical transformations tell us about the instability and changeability of human beings.
Among other goals, the Forms of Conversion project will develop an historical understanding of conversion that will enlighten modern debates about corporeal, sexual, psychological, political and spiritual kinds of transformation. The project will study how early modern Europeans changed their confessional, social, political, and even sexual identities. These subjective changes were of a piece with transformations in their world—the geopolitical reorientation of Europe in light of emerging relations with Islam and the Americas; the rethinking and the translation of the knowledge of Greek and Latin Antiquity, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam; changes in and changing uses of the built environment; the reimagining of God.
This workshop is part of the CRASSH five year project, Forms of Conversion, in a partnership led by McGill University, including researchers from universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, and England as well as leading centres for the humanities and/or early modern studies, and four of Canada’s top-ranked performing arts organizations.
For further information about this project please contact Simon Goldhill at CRASSH.
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, Graduate Conference 2014
On Thursday 10 April, the British Institute of Florence organises the 6th annual Shakespeare Graduate Conference, on the theme Forms of Nationhood.
The event is in collaboration with IASEMS - Italian Association of Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies - and with the University of Florence.
Entrance is free and open to all. Seats are limited. Booking is recommended (by email snovello@britishinstitute.it or by phone at +39 055 26778270).
Please note that it is possible to reserve a place for the light lunch in the Library and that we request a contribution for the lunch. Please specify when you contact us whether you wish to be added to the lunch reservation list.
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