FUNDING: Society for Renaissance Studies - New Awards

The SRS is offering two new funding award schemes (deadline 1st December),

• 'Public Engagement Scheme' in Renaissance Studies (any area)
• 'Museums and Galleries Research Award'

Please also, note the following changed deadlines -

• the SRS Small Conference Grant (up to £600) will be awarded twice per year, on 1st December and 1st April
• The SRS Major Conference Grant will be offered annually - deadline 1st April.

SRS Public Engagement Scheme

The Society for Renaissance Studies has established a funding scheme for Public Engagement (‘Knowledge Exchange’ or ‘Impact-activities’). Bids can be made to support any form of public engagement for Renaissance studies, broadly construed. The Society’s understanding of public engagement is that a major effort to communicate beyond the academy can be demonstrated, and/or that the event will reach a public not consisting primarily of academics. This includes, but is not limited to Impact activities, under REF criteria. (Deadline 1st Dec)
http://www.rensoc.org.uk/content/public-engagement-scheme


Museums and Galleries Research Award

The Museums and Galleries Research Award is a bursary scheme to enable scholars to develop advanced research in the history of art (and related disciplines) in and out their country of residence. Preference may be given to subjects growing out of a current museum project with a cross-disciplinary approach, to subjects related to the making and collecting of works of art during the period of the Renaissance (up to c. 1700). (Deadline 1st Dec)
http://rensoc.org.uk/funding-and-prizes/bursary-scheme


SRS conference Grants

Details on our conference grants can be found at:
http://rensoc.org.uk/funding-and-prizes/conference-grants

CALL FOR PAPERS: Society for Renaissance Studies 7th Biennial Conference

Society for Renaissance Studies 7th Biennial Conference
School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow
18-20 July, 2016

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Professor Neil Rhodes (University of St Andrews): ‘Making Common in Sixteenth-Century England’
Professor Willy Maley (University of Glasgow): ‘“Patsy Presbys”, or “Pulling the Wool Off Living Sheep”: Milton’s Observations (1649) and Ulster Presbyterianism’
Professor Evelyn Welch (King’s College, London): ‘Renaissance Skin’

We invite proposals for panels and for individual papers from Renaissance scholars from the disciplines of archaeology, architecture, history of art, history, history of science and medicine, literature, music, philosophy and other fields. Proposals for panels (90 minutes) and individual papers (20 minutes) should engage with one of the following themes:

• Anachronisms
• Conflict and Resolution
• Imaging the Nation
• Reformations and Recusants
• Beasts
• Word and Image

The conference will also feature an open strand for papers which engage with themes other than those suggested.

Proposals (max. 400 words) are welcome from both postgraduates and established scholars. They should be sent by Friday 2 October, 2015 to the conference organizers, Mr Andrew Bradburn & Dr Tom Nichols, arts-rensoc2016@glasgow.ac.uk.

Accompanying events will include: visits to leading Renaissance sites and collections in and around Glasgow (including Stirling Castle) and an exhibition of Renaissance prints at the Hunterian Art Gallery.

Further details (e.g. full programme, registrations forms and information about accommodation) will be posted as they become available.

Please note that the Society is particularly keen to encourage postgraduates to offer papers, and we will be able to offer generous bursaries to cover travel, registration and accommodation expenses. Further information about bursary applications will be disseminated in due course.

CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘Early Modern Soundscapes’

Thursday 24th – Friday 25th April 2014, Bangor University

To include the Society for Renaissance Studies Annual Welsh Lecture, given by Professor Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University) and Professor Richard Wistreich (Royal Northern College of Music)

‘The Difficulty of that language is not to bee conceived, and the reasons thereof are especially two:

First, because it hath no affinitie with any other that ever I heard. Secondly, because it consisteth not so much of words and Letters, as of tunes and uncouth sounds, that no letters can expresse. For you have few words, but they signifie divers and severall things, and they are distinguished onely by their tunes that are as it were sung in the utterance of them, yet many words there are consisteth of tunes onely, so as if they like they will utter their mindes by tunes without wordes’ (Francis Godwin, The Man in the Moone, 1638)

Early modern culture was awash with sounds. From psalm singing to tavern songs to the reading of the riot act or town criers announcing noteworthy news, we are presented with an image of oral culture forming the basis of perpetual interaction between individuals and their communities. Music, in particular, forms a backdrop to the soundscape, negotiating abstract sounds and speech. This two-day symposium will interrogate ways of conceiving the early modern soundscape. Topics might include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Sounds and space
• Sounds sacred
• Sounds profane
• Civic noise
• Imagined soundscapes
• Interaction between sound and speech communities
• Oral and literate cultures
• Music and performance culture
• Sounds and medicine
• Sounds and the senses
• The relationship between words and music

We welcome abstracts of not more than 250 words for twenty-minute papers, or proposals for panels comprising three papers, to be sent to Rachel Willie by December 1st 2013.

The Society for Renaissance Studies Annual Lecture: ‘Witnessing Early Drama: Spectating, from The Cycle Plays to Shakespeare’

A free public lecture hosted by the Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Aberdeen.  5.30 pm Thursday 28th February, 2013

‘Witnessing Early Drama: Spectating, from The Cycle Plays to Shakespeare’
Professor Greg Walker  (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, Edinburgh)

Professor Greg Walker has written widely on late-medieval drama and poetry, Renaissance literature, the history of the stage in the period before the building of the professional playhouses, and the cultural consequences of the Henrician Reformation. He is currently Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded 'Staging and Representing the Scottish Renaissance Court' project, with Professor Thomas Betteridge (Oxford Brookes University)

Venue: Meeting Room 1 (Rm 706), Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen.  All welcome.

For more information or to reserve a place please contact the organiser Andrew Gordon: a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk

The Society for Renaissance Studies is a charitable body promoting the study of the Renaissance period. For more information on its activities and for details of membership go to: http://www.rensoc.org.uk/

New Directions in Renaissance Italy

1-2 November 2012, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Lecture Theatre, doorway 5, Teviot Place, University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh will host the interdisciplinary conference 'New Directions in Renaissance Italy'. Gathering postgraduate students and early career researchers from a wide range of disciplines, the event provides a forum to explore and discuss emerging areas of enquiry related to the Italian Renaissance.

Keynote address: Dr Genevieve Warwick (University of Edinburgh), 'Looking in the Mirror: The Toilet of Venus in Renaissance Art', 1 Nov. 2012, 5.15pm, Lecture Theatre 1, Minto House

email: edinburghnewdirection@gmail.com
Please follow the link for information about programme, papers and registration: http://edinburghnewdirection.wordpress.com/

Society For Renaissance Studies: Biennial Conference

The 5th Biennial conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies will be held at the University of Manchester, UK, July 9-11, 2012

Accompanying events are being planned in the Whitworth Gallery, Chetham's Library, the John Rylands Library, the People's History Museum, the Royal Northern College of Music, and other cultural institutions in the city.

In addition to scholarly papers, the conference will offer workshops on publishing, funding applications, teaching, and public engagement, as well as tours of libraries.

Plenary Speakers

Roger Chartier (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris/ Collège de France/ University of Pennsylvania)

Alan Stewart (Columbia University)

Bette Talvacchia (Connecticut University)

Call For Papers

We invite proposals for panels on any aspect of Renaissance history, art, literature or culture, and for individual papers on one of the following themes:

* Materiality, book history and textual culture
* Premodern gender and histories of sexuality
* Emotion and the senses
* Translation and/ or intercultural exchange
* Cities, topographies, urbanisation and visualising the urban
* Athleticism, competition, and the body
* Science and enquiry
* In addition there is an open strand

The 'Renaissance' will be broadly defined from the mid-1300s to the early 1700s (and globally understood), but papers that engage with questions of periodisation, disciplinarity and the later representation of this period are also welcomed (seehttp://www.rensoc.org.uk/SRSAboutUsPage.html).

Proposals (paper: 400 words, panel: 1000 words) are welcome from postgraduates as well as established scholars and they should be sent by Friday 16 September 2011 to the conference organizer (decisions on papers to be made by the end of October):

Dr Jerome de Groot
English and American Studies
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
United Kingdom
SRS2012@manchester.ac.uk

http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/srsnc/

Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Conference

Further details (including a full programme, registration forms and information about accommodation) will be posted on the conference website as soon as they become available.

Please note that the Society is particularly keen to encourage postgraduates to offer papers, and we will be able to offer some bursaries to cover registration and accommodation expenses. Details on bursaries to follow on the conference website.

Please note that the SRS has agreed with the Renaissance Society of America: RSA members will not have to join the SRS to participate in this conference.

Religious Lives: Catholic Culture in the Early Modern World

Friday 18–Saturday 19 May 2012

St Edmund Hall and Queen’s College Chapel, Oxford

Written, spoken, painted, or performed, the life stories of Catholic men and women – particularly members of religious orders – dominated the culture of early modern Catholicism. This conference will address the growing body of scholarship devoted to understanding biographies and auto-biographies as they appeared in various forms within religious communities and Catholic society at large. These include institutional chronicles, canonization documents, festive decorations, images and pictorial cycles, and musical pieces, in addition to auto/biographical texts and spiritual testimonies – to name only a few. Many such narratives remained amongst a small audience, whilst others crossed national boundaries and were introduced in new, altered or translated forms. The conference will explore how life narratives were presented, interpreted and used to express confessional viewpoints and the corporate identities of religious orders. We seek to bring scholars from the disciplines of literature, history, theology, art history and music into conversation about the forms and functions of religious life stories in Asian, African, European and new world contexts.

The conference will include a period performance of Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier’s biographical oratorio ‘S. Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi’ by Oxford Baroque. The oratorio premiered at the Palazzo Pamphili, Rome in 1687. This piece will be placed in its historical context, opening discussion on the modes and purposes of articulating Catholic lives.

For further details of the conference and oratorio, and to reserve a place, please visit our website: http://religiouslives.wordpress.com/

Call for papers:

We would particularly like to encourage papers from graduates in the areas of art history and music and/or focusing on Asia or the new world. Papers addressing British, Irish or Continental subjects or from the disciplines of history, literature, and theology are also most welcome. Please email proposals of no more than 300 words to religiouslives@gmail.com by 10 April 2012. A number of graduate bursaries are available to fund graduate speakers thanks to the generosity of the Society for Renaissance Studies.

• What, if anything, was distinctive to the genres of biography and auto-biography in the post-Reformation period?
• How hagiographical were representations of religious lives?
• How collaborative was the process of constructing a life
• To what extent were auto/biographical lives imitative of lives in the same media or other media?
• In what ways were accounts of lives put to polemical uses?
• How were the identities of religious orders and their members expressed in or influenced by accounts of exemplary lives?
• How were life stories transmitted across national lines and how were they read/consumed/witnessed within different contexts?

With the generous support of the Society for Renaissance Studies:http://www.rensoc.org.uk/

Society for Renaissance Studies Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Society for Renaissance Studies invites applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowships, which support research in all aspects of Renaissance Studies. There are three awards open to all suitable candidates working in the field, one of which, founded in memory of Ruth and Nicolai Rubinstein, supports research in Italian history and culture.

Applicants for Fellowships must be graduates of British or Irish universities, with PhDs awarded in the last five years, and currently engaged in full-time research, part-time teaching or independent scholarship. The Fellowships are worth £6000 and should not be held in conjunction with a full-time postdoctoral or academic teaching post. The Society has a number of international links, including with the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, which can provide practical support for Fellows wishing to spend time in Florence.

The period of tenure is twelve months from 1 October 2012.

Applications should take the form of a CV accompanied by a 1,000 word description of the project to be undertaken, a brief account of the candidate’s research to date, statement of means of financial support during that academic year and reference letters from two referees.
Study Fellowships

The Society also invites applications for its Study Fellowships for current doctoral students, to support travel or, in exceptional circumstances, other research expenses, for projects undertaken in connection with theses in the field of Renaissance Studies.

The Fellowships are open to anyone registered for a postgraduate research degree in Britain or Ireland. Applications should take the form of a 1,000 word document with the candidate’s institution, department, supervisor, year of study and principal sources of funding, contact details of one referee, and a description of the project for which funding is required, describing the relationship of the project to the finished thesis, and the specific amount of funding required. This should be supplemented by a short budget detailing projected expenditure for travel, accommodation and subsistence during the proposed research trip.

Although the maximum amount awarded for a single Fellowship is £1,500, the Society welcomes applications for projects requiring smaller or larger sums. Priority will be given to candidates at an advanced stage of research. The Society has a number of international links, including with the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, which can provide practical support for Fellows wishing to spend time in Florence.

The deadline for applications for both schemes is 31st May 2012. Applications should be made via the Society’s website after the 19th March 2012, see under Funding > Fellowships:http://www.rensoc.org.uk/funding/fellowships

For further information contact the SRS Fellowship Officer:

Dr Alexander Samson
Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
E-mail: a.samson@ucl.ac.uk
Tel 020 7679 7121
Fax 020 7679 3109

Updated: Historicizing Performance in the Early Modern Period

The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester
January 20, 2012

09.00 – 09.45 Registration and coffee

09.45 – 10.00 Welcome

10.00 – 11.00 Panel 1: Death and Ritual

• Maggie Vinter (John Hopkins University), ‘How to do things while dying: Volpone and the ars moriendi’
• Stephen Gordon (University of Manchester), ‘The Performance of Bad Death: The Strange Tale of the Shoemaker of Breslau’

11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break

11.15 – 12.15 Panel 2: Music

• Liam Haydon (University of Manchester), ‘Performing Perfection: Milton and the Music of the Spheres’
• Dolly MacKinnon (University of Queensland), ‘If ever beene where bels have knell’d to Church’: The performance of parish bells in early modern England

12.15 – 12.30 Convenience Break

12.30 – 1.30 Keynote Lecture

• Julie Sanders (University of Nottingham), ‘Within the Castle Walls: Historical Sites as Performance at Kenilworth and Ludlow’

1.30 – 2.30 Lunch

2.30 – 3.30 Panel 3: Space

• Catherine Clifford (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), ‘From Wood to Stone: Whitehall Palace, the Banqueting House, and the Performance of Architecture in Court Drama, 1581-1621’
• John Peacock (University of Southampton), ‘Architectural Performance: Inigo Jones and Bernini’

3.30 – 3.45 Convenience Break

3.45 – 4.45 Panel 4: Theatre and Ritual

• Alison Findlay (University of Lancaster), ‘The State of Ceremony in Macbeth’
• Brian Schneider (University of Manchester), ‘Extra –dramatic’ performance in early modern Prologues, Epilogues and Inductions

4.45 – 5.00 Coffee Break

5.00 – 6.00 Keynote Lecture

• Tiffany Stern (University of Oxford), ‘Bitter, Black and Tragical’: Tragic Peformance on the Shakespearean Stage

6.00 – 6.30 Drinks.

Registration: £10
Speakers and guests are invited to join us for dinner at a local restaurant; to book a place please let us know when registering (dinner not included in the registration fee).

The Society for Renaissance Studies has granted us bursaries to help postgraduate students with the costs of travel and accommodation. If you want to be considered for one of the bursaries, please let us know.

To book a place at this event please contact Michael Durrant and Naya Tsentourou at Historicizing.performance@manchester.ac.uk by 7th January 2012.

The event will be taking place at the Seminar Room of the historic building of the John Rylands Library at Deansgate. Due to limited space, please register early to avoid disappointment.

We hope to see you there!

historicizingperformance.wordpress.com

The Global Dimensions of European Knowledge, 1450-1700

An international interdisciplinary conference sponsored by The Leverhulme
Trust, the Society for Renaissance Studies, the Royal Historical Society, the
Journal of Early Modern History and Birkbeck, University of London.

24-5 June, 2011
Birkbeck, University of London

Registration for the Global Dimensions conference is now open. To book your
place, please visit

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/news/global-dimensions-of-knowledge

The approximate start and end times for each day are:
Friday 24 June:
0900 Coffee and registration
0945 Welcome and Keynote lecture
to
1800 Keynote lecture
1900-2100 Drinks reception

Saturday 24 June:
0900 Coffee and registration
0930 Panel sessions
to
1700 End of roundtable session

A provisional timetable will be mounted on the website in due course. For
further enquiries, or to be added to the mailing-list, please contact the
conference organizer, Dr Surekha Davies, ats.davies@bbk.ac.uk

Global Dimensions of European Knowledge, 24-5 June, 2011
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/news/global-dimensions-of-knowledge