Renaissance Humour

2012-02-03T00:49:00.001-08:00

Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (1485-1700)
Northumbria University - School of Arts and Social Sciences

Ref ASS11/18
Full Time
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: Senior Lecturer: £37,012-£45,486; Lecturer: £31,948-£35,938

The Department of Humanities is proud of our reputation for delivering first-class teaching on programmes and the vibrant resarch culture across all subject areas. We are currently involved in expanding our range of postgraduate programmes and growing our community of Doctoral students. We expect to make strong submissions to the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), in particular within Literature and Creative Writing. We now wish to appoint an outstanding candidate at Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level with a specialism in any apsect of early modern English Literature (1485-1700).

You will have a strong or highly promising research profile as well as being committed to teaching and learning support. You will contribute to core modules as well as developing a specialist option of your own. This post represents an exciting opportunity in a buoyant and expanding department where you will be expected to pursue your own individual research through publication and applications for external funding and to contribute to collaborative research activity internally and externally.

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Professor Richard Terry on 0191 227 3568 or by email richard.terry@northumbria.ac.uk

To download an Application Form please visit http://workfornorthumbria.co.uk/hrvacs/ass1118

Northumbria University is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

Closing Date: 1st March 2012

2012-01-26T00:51:00.001-08:00

Lecturer A in Renaissance Theatre and Drama
Birkbeck College, University of London - Department of English and Humanities

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lecturer in English Renaissance Theatre and Drama to join the Renaissance team in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck. The successful candidate will be involved in our lively research community and will make a full contribution to the Department’s international research profile.

The postholder will have the opportunity to shape teaching and research in the field of Renaissance Studies, playing a key role in developing BA and MA teaching and supervising at doctoral level. They will have research interests in Renaissance Theatre and Drama and will teach Renaissance Theatre and Drama; Shakespeare in context and in performance; Renaissance Literature and Culture. They will contribute to BA English; BA Theatre Studies; MA Renaissance and the MA in Shakespeare and Performance.

Candidate Requirements

The successful applicant will participate in the Department’s vibrant research culture. The department is the base for numerous research activities, including regular Theatre and Renaissance Seminars which host speakers and give staff a chance to present work in progress: Birkbeck Theatre Conversations; the Emphasis seminar in Intellectual History, the Material Texts Network; the London Renaissance Seminar, which hosts events exploring all aspects of early modern history, literature and culture. Candidates should have a good first degree and have ideally completed, or be near to completion of, a PhD in a relevant subject area, and show evidence of published research or exceptional potential. Teaching experience at postgraduate degree level is desirable.

About the Department

For further information about the department please see the below link.

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/

Further Information

Salary: £33,966 per annum pro rata inclusive of London Allowance.

The closing date for completed applications is Monday 20 February 2012.

Interviews will be held week commencing 12 March 2012. Informal enquiries should be made to Professor Sue Wiseman, Assistant Dean at s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk in the first instance. Birkbeck is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all candidates irrespective of gender, ethnicity, age, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic.

2012-01-20T00:48:00.001-08:00

Lecturer in Renaissance Literature
University of Hull - English Department

The University of Hull is seeking to appoint one or more suitably qualified individuals to provide teaching for and undertake assessment of a level 4 (first year) undergraduate module in Semester 2 (teaching starts on 30 January 2012) on Introduction to Renaissance Literature 1500-1675. The teaching is delivered in one-hour seminars each week. There are five seminar groups in total. Additionally, two office hours are provided each week for consultation.

This module to introduce students to the literature written during the English Renaissance, broadly 1500-1675, through the study of a variety of set texts, including Utopia, Doctor Faustus

The Tempest and Paradise Lost, Book IX.

The successful applicant will have a PhD in relevant literary studies, experience of teaching in a higher education environment, knowledge of the subject area and will be able to work independently and as part of a team.

To apply for this post please send your cv and covering letter to Professor Katharine Cockin , Head of Department of English, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX or email: k.m.cockin@hull.ac.uk

http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/english.aspx

www.hull.ac.uk/jobs

2012-01-18T23:27:00.001-08:00

Associate Research Fellow
Department of English
University of Exeter - College of Humanities

(Ref: R10961/P42913)

Salary: £24,520 - £25,251 per annum on grade E

The College wishes to recruit an Associate Research Fellow to support the work of Professor Andrew McRae. This AHRC-funded post is available on a fixed term basis from 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2015. The successful applicant will support work on 'The Stuart Successions Project', assuming a central position within the project team. This project, for which the Co-Investigator is Dr. Paulina Kewes (University of Oxford), and which will also include two PhD students, aims to revitalize debates about political literature and values across the Stuart era by focusing on writing produced at moments of succession. It will produce an online database, cataloguing the field of succession literature, and generate a range of editorial and analytical work.

The post will include:

principal responsibility for compiling a database cataloguing items of 'succession literature' produced in response to the accession of each of the six Stuart monarchs (this work is expected to take c.50% of the appointee's time);
co-editing a volume of primary material;
writing a single-authored essay for publication in a co-edited volume of essays;
writing one co-authored journal article;
presenting work at conferences and colloquia;
organization of colloquia and public events;
management of the project website.

The successful applicant will be able to present information on research progress and outcomes, communicate complex information, orally, in writing and electronically.

Applicants will possess a relevant PhD (preferably, though not necessarily, in English), or have a doctorate close to completion, and be able to demonstrate excellent knowledge in the discipline and of research methods and techniques to work within established research programmes. Applicants will be able to demonstrate bibliographical skills and high-level analytical skills. Experience in editing primary texts and/or language-skills (esp. Latin) would be an advantage.

For further information please contact Andrew McRae, e-mail a.mcrae@exeter.ac.uk or telephone (01392) 724258.

The starting salary will be from £24,520 to £25,251 on Grade E, depending on qualifications and experience.

To view further details and apply online please click here.

The closing date for completed applications is 16 February 2012. Interviews are expected to take place on 1st March 2012.

The University of Exeter is an equal opportunity employer which is 'Positive About Disabled People': if you have a disability, you should mention this in your application. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented in the workforce.

HOW TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION:
Please send your CV, covering letter and the details of three referees to, to the College of Humanities Dean's Office (humanities-deans-office@exeter.ac.uk) quoting the job reference R10961/P42913.

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2012-01-13T00:34:00.001-08:00

Lecturer
Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama
University of Nottingham - School of English

Salary: £32,751 - £44,016 per annum, depending on skills and experience, salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Please quote ref: CE/06740A.

Closing date: 10 February 2012.

Interview date: Friday 27 April 2012.

The School of English is seeking to appoint a lecturer to undertake teaching and research in Early Modern Drama and Performance. The successful candidate will cover undergraduate teaching on core and optional team-taught first- and second-year modules as well as providing specialist option modules in drama and literature for third year students in the area of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama. Postgraduate teaching responsibilities will include team teaching on a planned new collaborative Masters programme with the School of Education, an MA in Creative and Professional Practice in Arts and Education, as well as on distance learning programmes. In addition to contributing to the recruitment, supervision, and examination of doctoral students, it is expected that the successful candidate will assist with the development of short courses as part of the School's work in the area of continuing and professional development.

Candidates should have a PhD, or equivalent in a relevant area of English or Drama/Performance.

This post will be offered on a full time, permanent contract.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor Julie Sanders, Head of School,
tel: 0115 846 7040 or email: julie.sanders@nottingham.ac.uk. Please note applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted. Further information about the School is available at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english.

For more details and/or to apply on-line please access: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Jobs/CurrentVacancies/ref/CE06740A. If you are unable to apply on-line please contact the Human Resources Department, tel: 0115 951 5206. Please quote ref. CE/06740A. Closing date: 10 February 2012. Interview date: Friday 27 April 2012.

For all our vacancies and more about working at the University of Nottingham see: http://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/.

2012-01-05T08:48:00.001-08:00

Call for Submissions for the collection: Reforming Inspirations: Women during the English Reformations
Call for Papers Date: 2012-05-01
Date Submitted: 2012-01-03
Announcement ID: 190980
Accepting Christopher Haigh’s concept of English reformations, this collection of essays will offer scholarship focused on women’s creative undoings and reimaginings during the period of religious reformations in England between 1534 and 1829. The collection will explore the inspiration for women’s actions during this period of reformations whether those actions were for the conservative or evangelical cause. The aim of this collection is to expose the consequences and the contradictions inherent in reimagining religious boundaries which cannot but manifest internally in the individual while simultaneously doing so externally in a society’s political and social structures.

Although much groundbreaking scholarly work by such notable scholars as A.G. Dickens, Christopher Haigh, Eamon Duffy, and Diarmaid MacCulloch has debated the extent of the conservative resistance and/or evangelical progress during the period, it has largely grounded its arguments in the writings of early modern men of varying cultural significance. More recent work has begun to explore the critical roles that women played in the centuries of reform in England. Because of the availability of documentary and other material evidence on women of rank, such as Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, Katherine Willoughby, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, these have been the focus of most contemporary scholarship. The lack of availability of material evidence for women of less exalted status has, naturally enough, produced fewer studies of such women though we know of some of the more notorious ones - Elizabeth Barton, the Holy Maid of Kent, and Margaret Clitheroe, the butcher’s wife. Reforming Inspirations: Women during the English Reformations will offer essays exploring the ways in which English women of various backgrounds, openly or covertly, engaged the struggle to “erase, undo, remake, or re-imagine” a particular English religious identity.

The deadline for completed articles of approximately 5000 words in Chicago style with endnotes is 1 May 2012.NB Please send submissions and queries to chappell@tarleton.edu

NB Please do not embed Notes in your essay’s .docx file. Instead, submit two separate files connected by name, i.e. 1) the Article text file, e.g. chappell.reform.docx and 2) the Notes file, e.g. chappell.reform.notes.docx
Julie A. Chappell, Ph.D.
GRANT 312 Box T-0300
Tarleton State University
Tel 254-968-9320
Fax 254-968-1931

Email: chappell@tarleton.edu

2011-12-17T13:42:00.001-08:00

The World Turned Upside Down - 40 years on
Location: United Kingdom
Conference Date: 2012-04-04
Date Submitted: 2011-12-14
Announcement ID: 190518
Christopher Hill’s classic work, The World Turned Upside Down, was published in 1972. The book, though much criticised, remains one of the most popular books on the history of the English Revolution, offering an enduringly attractive and accessible introduction to the period. In order to mark the 40th anniversary of its publication this conference will bring together experts on popular politics, radical religion, political ideas and the literature of the 1640s, to offer critical appreciations of the book and its influence.

Speakers include:

Thomas Corns
Rachel Foxley
Ann Hughes
Nicholas McDowell
John Morrill
John Walter

Location:

Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Conference fee: £10

Details for how to register can be found on the conference website.

Dr. Gary Rivett
Centre for the Study of Democratic Culture
Department of History
University of Sheffield
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
Email: politicalengagement@sheffield.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.historyofpoliticalengagement.dept.shef.ac.uk/events/the-world-turned-upside-down-40-years-on/

2011-12-13T08:28:00.001-08:00

CFP: Negotiating Early Modern Women
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2012-01-31
Date Submitted: 2011-12-09
Announcement ID: 190404
Call for Papers: Negotiating Early Modern Women

Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading, UK
Early Modern Studies Conference July 12th-14th 2012

A series of panels within Reading University’s Early Modern Studies Conference (2012) will be devoted to the exploration of writing by early modern women. We would welcome proposals for panels or individual papers addressing any aspect of early modern women’s writing, but we are particularly keen to receive proposals addressing the critical assumptions underlying current scholarly practice. Topics may include but are not limited to:

Why do we study writing by early modern women?
Can we justify the study of ‘women’ as a category?
Is there such a thing as ‘women’s writing’?
What can the work of individual women, or specific groups of women, reveal about women and gender in the period more generally?
How do we understand the relationship between writing by men and that by women?
What does women’s writing reveal about the early modern canon as a whole?
Is it possible to reach conclusions about women and their use of literary genre?
What new directions might we take in the study of early modern women?
What, currently, is the place of theory in the study of early modern women?

Proposals for panels should consist of a minimum of two and a maximum of four papers. Each panel proposal should contain the names of the session chair, the names and affiliations of the speakers and short abstracts (200 word abstracts) of the papers together with email contacts for all participants. A proposal for an individual paper should consist of a 200 word abstract of the paper with brief details of affiliation and career.

Proposals for either papers or panels should be sent by email to Dr. Alice Eardley by January 31st 2012: a.r.eardley@reading.ac.uk

For further details see: http://www.reading.ac.uk/emrc/conferences/emrc-conference.aspx

Dr. Alice Eardley
Department of English Language and Literature
University of Reading
Whiteknights
Reading, RG6 6AA

+44 (0) 118 378 6192
Email: a.r.eardley@reading.ac.uk

2011-12-06T02:42:00.001-08:00

H-Net Announcement Markets, Law, and Ethics, 1400-1850 cfp. last call
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2011-12-15 (in 9 days)
Date Submitted: 2011-12-05
Announcement ID: 190245
Last call for Markets, Law, and Ethics, 1400-1850 cfp is coming up on December 15th. The call seeks papers concerned with the culture of the market in the late medieval and early modern periods, conceived broadly as the norms, laws, customs and practices of exchange, including (but not limited to) buying and selling and lending and borrowing in 1400-1850. Confirmed speakers and the full call, and details on submitting a proposal, can be found at

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Zqpx63BDEhQIl70v7IVh-AGTAAF6-dBR9j3IfiOico/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1

Best wishes

Simon Middleton
University of Sheffield

s.middleton@sheffield.ac.uk
Email: s.middleton@sheffield.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Zqpx63BDEhQIl70v7IVh-AGTAAF6-dBR9j3IfiOico/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1

2011-12-06T02:40:00.001-08:00

The First Annual Postgraduate Renaissance Symposium:'Beyond the Frame: Portraits and Personal Experience in Renaissance Europe, c.1400 – 1650'
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2012-01-20
Date Submitted: 2011-12-02
Announcement ID: 190202
A symposium to take place on Saturday 28 April 2012
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

CALL FOR PAPERS

In Renaissance art historical scholarship, the category of the portrait has provided a key framework for thinking about and discussing representations of the individual, an emphasis that has been echoed in a range of recent exhibitions celebrating Renaissance ‘faces’.

The inaugural Renaissance postgraduate symposium invites new scholars to explore the limits of this framework. It aims to encourage students of the Renaissance, in its broadest definition, to consider the domestic, devotional and urban environments of portraits. Contributors are invited to consider how the experience of viewing, commissioning and living with portraits affects our understanding of their meaning and function, situating the images within their historical contexts rather than within the museum’s exhibition space. Likewise, we invite participants to challenge the terminology of portraiture and to consider objects and images which do not fit into the conventional category of the ‘portrait’ but which nevertheless ‘portray’ individuals.

Topics could include, but are not limited to:

• Self-fashioning
• Portraiture and problems of terminology
• Public and private spaces for portraits
• Portraiture and its relationship to literature, music & architecture
• Fashion, make-up and adornment
• Experience of the domestic space
• Mimesis
• The role of the patron
• New media: engravings, woodcuts, etchings
• The relationship between portrait and narrative
• Author portraits and book illustrations
• Funerary monuments
• Exhibiting Renaissance portraiture
• Collecting habits

The Renaissance Symposium offers the opportunity for research students at all levels from universities in the UK and abroad to present their research and receive feedback in a friendly and constructive environment. We cannot offer travel subsidies for speakers, and therefore students from outside London are encouraged to apply to their institutions for funding to attend the symposium.

Please send proposals of 250 words for papers of 20 minutes, and a short biography to: renaissance.consortium@courtauld.ac.uk by 20 January 2012

Organised by Emily Gray and Harriette Peel (The Courtauld Institute of Art)

Research Forum
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

Email: renaissance.consortium@courtauld.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2012/summer/28apr_RenaissanceSymposium.shtml

2011-12-06T02:38:00.001-08:00

Innovation before the Modern. Cloth and Clothing in the Early Modern World. PASOLD RESEARCH FUND CONFERENCE 2012. Nordiska Museet, Stockholm. 27-29 September 2012
Location: Sweden
Call for Papers Date: 2012-02-15
Date Submitted: 2011-11-29
Announcement ID: 190090
The 2012 Pasold Conference is jointly organized by the University of Uppsala, Stockholm University, K. A. Almgren Sidenväveri & Museum and the Nordiska Museet. It will consider the dynamics of change and innovation within the production, trade, retailing and consumption of textiles and clothing in the period before the nineteenth century. This requires an understanding of the history of making cloth and clothes, of the training and organization of labour, and of the relative value of technical and conceptual skills. The conference aims to reflect on product as well as process innovation, invention, changes in design and more general shifts in the politics of production (for instance, the nature of the guilds, notions of quality and value) and also consumption (for example, the gendering of cloth and clothing; access to markets and mindsets).

The closing date for proposals is 15 February 2012. Successful candidates will be notified by the 15 March 2012.
MA Håkan Jakobsson
Stockholms stadsarkiv
P. Box 22063
SE-10422 Stockholm, Sweden

Email: cfp@nordiskamuseet.se

2011-12-01T05:13:00.001-08:00

PODCAST: Siobhan Keenan - Adapting Shakespeare for a “dark corner” of the land: The Simpson Players in Jacobean Yorkshire
Date Submitted: 2011-11-28
Announcement ID: 190035
The Shakespeare Institute Stratford-upon-Avon presents:

Dr Siobhan Keenan (De Montfort University):
Adapting Shakespeare for a “dark corner” of the land: The Simpson Players in Jacobean Yorkshire

This event has been recorded and is available as a podcast at the following URL:

http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/11/siobhan-keenan-adapting-shakespeare-for-a-dark-corner-of-the-land-the-simpson-players-in-jacobean-yorkshire/

Dr René Wolf
Department of History
Royal Holloway University of London
Egham, Surrey
TW20 0EX
Email: r.wolf@rhul.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/11/siobhan-keenan-adapting-shakespeare-for-a-dark-corner-of-the-land-the-simpson-players-in-jacobean-yorkshire/

2011-12-01T05:05:00.001-08:00

2011-11-29T11:23:00.001-08:00

Chair in Early Modern British History
University of Leeds - Arts

Job Summary

Applications are invited for a Chair in Early Modern British History in the School of History. The School wishes to strengthen its presence in this exciting area of historical research and teaching through the appointment of a world-class scholar who will make a distinctive, original, and powerful contribution to the subject area in the years to come. It is one in a series of forthcoming appointments intended to develop academic and intellectual leadership in a School committed to ambitious research projects and to student engagement in demanding degree programmes.The School will expect the successful applicant to have an outstanding record of publication, to be able to secure research grant income, and to attract research students, (including those from outside the UK). They will be a gifted teacher and will also be able to show that their work has an impact on the wider world beyond the university. Their principal interests will lie within the period c.1500-c.1700.The School will expect the successful applicant to provide academic and intellectual leadership within the early modern area and also for the benefit of the School as a whole and the Faculty of Arts. This will comprise an active involvement in the planning of the research effort of the School, and in appropriate national and international bodies concerned with the historical profession and universities. We would also expect the Chair to contribute to the degree programmes run by the School through their own excellent teaching and through their commitment to promoting world class education and an exceptional student experience. There are also opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration within the Faculty of Arts. The post therefore requires a proven ability to build effective relationships and to work in a collegial spirit for the fulfilment of the School’s strategy in student education and research, innovation and impact.

Informal enquiries
Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Richard Whiting, tel +44 (0)113 343 3607, messages +44 (0) 113 343 3458, email: r.c.whiting@leeds.ac.uk

Salary
The salary, which is negotiable, will be within the Professorial range - minimum £59,152 p.a.

Closing Date
Friday 6th January 2012

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2011-11-29T11:22:00.001-08:00

Lecturer in Early Modern History
University of Essex - Department of History

The Department of History - ranked second in the UK in the last Research Assessment Exercise - has a strong reputation for innovative teaching and research excellence. Due to the secondment of Dr Clodagh Tait, the Department wishes to provide an opportunity to a scholar seeking experience in a high-level teaching and research environment.

Applicants must have completed their PhD and have proven research ability and teaching experience in Early Modern History. You will assist in the teaching of established modules and be able to offer modules of your own. Teaching will be principally at undergraduate level. The post-holder will also contribute to the research profile and culture of the Department, particularly by means of REF submission.

This is a full-time appointment, fixed-term for two years with effect from 1 September 2012.

Salary: £36,862-£44,016 per annum

Closing date: 22 January 2012

Please use the link below to make an application and for further details about this job (ref. ACR504). Visit our website: www.essex.ac.uk for information about the University of Essex. If you have a disability and would like information in a different format, please telephone (01206) 874588.

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2011-11-29T00:14:00.001-08:00

Assistant Professor in History
Between c.1450 and c.1750
University of Dublin, Trinity College - Department of History, School of Histories and Humanities

Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Post Status: 3-year contract

Location: Main Campus

Salary: The appointment will be made on the Department of Education and Skills approved Lecturer salary scale in line with current government policy

Closing Date: 12 Noon on Friday 13th January, 2012

The School of Histories and Humanities seeks to make a temporary appointment in History. The post will be located in the Department of History. Applicants will be expected to possess a doctorate and a sound research profile in an aspect of the period between c.1450 and c.1750. Applicants with any research specialism in this period are encouraged to apply, and we would particularly welcome those with an interest in EITHER later fifteenth and/or sixteenth-century Ireland/Britain OR in colonial American history.

In the first semester of appointment, the successful applicant will contribute to first and second-year teaching and thereafter to develop Honours modules, and to contribute to all levels of teaching and supervision undertaken by the department: extramural, undergraduate and taught postgraduate.

We are, in short, seeking an individual with vision and enthusiasm, a genuine commitment to the vital role of teaching at all levels, and flair for innovation in module design and teaching methods. Interested applicants will have an established record of research and show clear potential for future research accomplishment. Candidates will also show an appreciation for other research activities represented in both the Department, and the School of Histories and Humanities. The post-holder will be required to undertake administrative responsibilities as directed by the Head of Department.

The post is tenable for three years from 16 January 2012.

Informal enquiries are welcome and may be made to the Head of Department:

Dr David Ditchburn (ditchbud@tcd.ie)

Telephone: +353 1 896 2399

Further information and full applications details are available on www.tcd.ie/vacancies

Applications can only be made by e-Recruitment.

Trinity College Dublin is an equal opportunities employer.

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2011-11-28T17:49:00.001-08:00

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

PARTICULARS OF APPOINTMENT

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES

SCHOOLOF ARTS, HISTORIES AND CULTURES

HISTORY

LECTURERS IN EARLY MODERN HISTORY [THREE POSTS] (Ref: HUM)

The posts will be available from 1 September 2012.

Further Particulars

1. Applications are invited for the appointment of three Lecturers in Early Modern History in the University of Manchester. The salary for a Lecturer is £32,751 - £44, 016 pa.

The successful candidates will contribute to established courses but also have the opportunity to devise, agree and offer their own courses at UG and MA level, and to supervise doctoral students. The appointees will have both research and teaching interests focused in the History of Britain and/or Europe between 1500 and 1815. Candidates with an interest in the relations between Europe and the wider world will also be considered. Level 1 teaching will include contributing to the core course, ‘History in Practice’, and to a broad survey course in Early Modern History that includes both Continental and British topics. At level 2 the appointees will contribute to a more advanced course in Early Modern History, and at level 3 and at MA level they will devise and teach their own specialist courses.

2. History at The University of Manchester

Manchester is an historically iconic city which draws cultural energy from its past. Rich in the knowledge of its contribution to the development of the modern world, it is an exciting place in which to study History. Our educational vision is to build upon this sense of the vitality of the past to ask the big historical questions through which we can engage students and then train them to become fully-fledged historians capable of undertaking authentic research projects. Manchester is well placed to realize that vision. The University has an extraordinary range of historical expertise, much of which lies outside the History Department itself but which offers exciting opportunities in collaborative research.

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There is an unrivalled wealth of resources on our doorstep, the result both of Manchester’s pride in the past and of its cultural ambition today. The History Department is currently involved in work with these materials and they offer a tremendous basis on which to build our profile. The John Rylands Library at Deansgate houses one of the nation’s major collections of medieval manuscripts and early printed books, and Chetham’s Library holdings constitute another nationally important collection of later medieval and early-modern material. Together they form a unique cultural asset. Along with Manchester City Council’s Archives + Project , Imperial War Museum North (250,000 visitors in 2010), People’s History Museum (totally refurbished in 2010), and the Working-Class Movement Library they give Manchester the richest archive of primary materials in Northern England. In addition there is a multi-million pound bid from Chetham’s, the Cathedral and the City Council to the North West Regional Development Authority and the Lottery Heritage Fund for investment to develop the so-called ‘Medieval Quarter’ or ‘Old Quarter’ of Manchester. This will open up the City’s medieval and early modern heritage and presents the University’s historians with great opportunities for public engagement. The Manchester Histories Festival, in which the Department is heavily involved, will be held in 2012. The previous Festival attracted 4,000 people in a single day. A candidate’s ability to make full use of these opportunities will be an important consideration in these appointments.

History is a Department within of the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, in the Faculty of Humanities, in The University of Manchester (formed on 1 October 2004 from the Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology). In September 2012 there will be over thirty-two established academic posts in the History subject area, including at least six posts in History 1350-1815. These posts include two chairs. Present vacancies in this area have been caused by the coincidental retirement of several members of staff. As a result we have a unique opportunity to build a first rate early modern history research cluster and to re-establish Manchester at the forefront of early modern studies. History secured grade 5 in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, and in the 2008 exercise 60% of staff were graded 4 or 3. We are committed to improving on that score in the coming REF. In both previous exercises History included the University’s Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Together these constituted the largest concentration of historical research in England after Oxford and Cambridge. Manchester historians have a strong record of attracting external research funding, and currently direct or participate in several major ESRC and AHRC projects, as well as receiving income from such distinguished funding bodies as the Leverhulme Trust. The School and the University are strongly committed to the development of the research careers of newly appointed staff. The Department of History holds four MA and five PhD BGP grants from the AHRC, as well as a being an active participant in the ESRC doctoral college. It will likewise play an important part in the North West’s coming AHRC Doctoral College. There are presently over 60 MA students and 60 PhD students in the Department.

As well as comprising a dynamic group of researchers, History at Manchester develops innovative undergraduate and MA teaching and assessment methods to place alongside long trusted ways of challenging students. These include a variety of computer assisted learning techniques, the application of GIS to History, and the use of posters in final assessment. History continues to place a strong emphasis on introducing undergraduates to original historical research through project and thesis work. It offers a broad range of cultural, economic, political, and social history, taught across a time span beginning about 400AD and covering the Americas, Africa, Russia, China and India in addition to Europe and Great Britain. History teaching at Manchester is research-led, and all colleagues are expected to imbue their own teaching with their research, particularly at levels 3 and 4.

If a successful candidate is a the beginning of their career they will be expected to follow the University’s ‘New Academics Programme’ and be subject to a probationary period

3. Post specification

The posts will be held in the History Department. The appointees will contribute to the teaching of Early Modern History at undergraduate levels 1, 2 and 3, at MA level and by supervising doctoral students. This will be by:

teaching and examining in undergraduate and MA programmes as specified;
academic advisement (personal tutoring);
and
supervision
of undergraduate Level 1 projects, level 2 long essays, Level 3 dissertations and MA theses
supervising
PhDs.
engaging
in research and publication

In detail, the following will be involved:

1 offering seminars on ‘History in Practice’, and supervising first year projects

2 convening and lecturing on a level 1 core course (presently ‘Communities and States in Early Modern Europe’)

3 convening and lecturing on a level 2 advanced core course (presently ‘War and Society in Early Modern Europe’)

4 supervising second-year long essays

5 convening and teaching a level 3 course, to be agreed.

6 supervising level 3 dissertations

7 developing a course at MA level

8 assisting with doctoral supervision

4. Person specification

The successful candidate(s) must have:

completed a PhD in a relevant
field
a
proven commitment to fostering undergraduate- and postgraduate-level study in this field;
a strong record of research and academic publication in the field.

and

relevant

teaching experience,

5. Further information

The post(s) will be tenable from 1 September 2012. The appointment will be made on grade The closing date for applications is 13 January 2012.

Contact:

Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Paul Fouracre (tel. 0161-2753086; e-mail: paul.j.fouracre@manchester.ac.uk) or to Professor Daniel Szechi (tel. 0161-2753081, e-mail Daniel.szechi@manchester.ac.uk)

Apply online at http://www.manchester.ac.uk/
Website: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/history/
Primary Category: Early Modern History and Period Studies
Secondary Categories: British History / Studies
Posting Date: 11/24/2011
Closing Date 01/14/2012

2011-11-01T10:34:00.001-07:00

Post-Reformation Digital Library Announces Major Upgrades, Expanded Coverage
Website Date: 2011-10-31
Date Submitted: 2011-10-31
Announcement ID: 189336
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (October 31, 2011) – On the second anniversary of its public launch, the Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL) has become available in an upgraded form with its own domain (www.prdl.org). This new version of the library is powered by a database format, which allows detailed search queries and integrates findings of source material from a wide variety of digital libraries and digitization projects. After more than a year in development, the new website now covers more than double the number of authors and works as its previous iteration.

“This upgrade cements the place of the Post-Reformation Digital Library as the single most comprehensive public database for early modern research in theology on the planet,” said David Sytsma, moderator of the PRDL’s executive board. Whereas the previous version of PRDL functioned as an online digital bibliography covering about 700 authors from the early modern period, the new database-driven version of PRDL offers a host of new research capabilities and includes nearly 2,000 figures.

“Our current coverage of authors from just the Reformed tradition surpasses the entirety of the first version of PRDL,” said Todd Rester, a member of the PRDL executive board and doctoral candidate at Calvin Theological Seminary. With nearly 800 authors, the PRDL’s listings remain strongest in the Reformed tradition, but steps taken by the executive board to broaden coverage to other theological traditions have met with success. Earlier this year the PRDL added an advisory board of established scholars, currently with 15 members from institutions across North America and Europe, to provide expertise for expanding the database’s records for Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Arminian-Remonstrant, Anabaptist, Socinian and Unitarian authors, as well as figures from diverse schools of philosophical thought.

Launched in the Fall of 2009 and hosted by the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, the Post-Reformation Digital Library (www.prdl.org) is a select database of primary source documents focusing on early modern theology and philosophy, from the late 15th-18th centuries, spanning publicly-accessible collections from major research libraries, independent scholarly initiatives, and corporate documentation projects.

“While the initial launch of PRDL was warmly received by early modern scholars, the executive board always intended for that version to be a first step toward a much more ambitious tool. With today’s launch we feel like we’ve taken that significant next step,” said Sytsma, who is also a doctoral candidate at Princeton Theological Seminary.

In addition to the increased scope of PRDL’s coverage of the early modern intellectual terrain in theology and philosophy, the new database format makes possible a number of significant search options to optimize the PRDL’s utility for scholarly research. Searches can now be filtered by a number of factors, including place of publication, publication language, date, author, and publisher, as well as other features like theological genre or relation to particular biblical books, as in the case of scriptural commentaries. The site’s upgraded browsing feature also allows the user to filter results by many of these criteria with a single click.

While the move to a database has eased the work of tracking data from the variety of digital libraries and projects that host the digital sources, user feedback remains critical to the ongoing success of the PRDL. “From the beginning we have depended on the knowledge and expertise of our site’s users, and for the PRDL to remain a vibrant tool for early modern scholarship, it is essential that the community of users feel empowered to contribute to the continuing improvement of the site,” said Rester. To that end, the new PRDL site includes enhanced user feedback tools, which allow someone using the site to assist in the categorization and correction of information for currently indexed titles, as well as to recommend new authors and works for inclusion in the PRDL database.

As of today’s launch of the new version of the Post-Reformation Digital Library, the database includes coverage of over 1,900 authors, 24,000 titles, and 34,000 individual volumes. Visit the PRDL and find out more at www.prdl.org.

Contact Jordan J. Ballor at (616) 617-7669 or jordan.ballor@prdl.org for more information.

About the Meeter Center: The H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies is a research center specializing in John Calvin and Calvinism that opened in 1981 and is located at Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

Jordan Ballor
Executive Board
Post-Reformation Digital Library
616-617-7669
Email: jordan.ballor@prdl.org
Visit the website at http://www.prdl.org/

2011-11-01T10:32:00.001-07:00

Ralph Bauer to direct Folger Institute seminar on "A New World of Secrets: The Hermeneutics of Discovery in the Early Americas"
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Seminar Date: 2012-01-06
Date Submitted: 2011-10-28
Announcement ID: 189271
In the early modern period, the word “to discover” and its cognates in all Western European vernaculars could have several meanings, including to uncover, to reveal, or to make manifest something already known to be true as well as to find something new or not previously known. In this seminar, participants will explore how the early modern category of the “secret” negotiates between these various—and, from the point of view of a modern hermeneutics, contradictory—meanings in the literature of discovery, encounter, and conquest of the New World from the late fifteenth to the end of the seventeenth century. Particular attention will be paid to the rhetorical role played by prophecy (both European and Amerindian) in the literature of the early modern encounters; by esoteric (Hermetic, alchemical, astrological) textual traditions (i.e., “books of secrets”) in early modern natural histories about the New World; by translation (mainly from Spanish into English) of the literature of reconnaissance and intelligence; and by the discourse of demonology in early modern ethnographic writings. Along with primary readings in the literature of discovery, the seminar will engage with a number of theoretical, critical, and historiographic reflections on philosophical hermeneutics, on the history of the early modern New World encounters, and on the history of science.

Owen Williams, PhD
Assistant Director
The Folger Institute
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202)675-0352
Email: institute@folger.edu
Visit the website at http://www.folger.edu/Content/Folger-Institute/Program-Offerings/2011-2012-Programs.cfm/#Secrets

2011-11-01T10:31:00.001-07:00

Pamela H. Smith to direct Folger Institute faculty seminar on “Writing Down Experience: How-To Books and Artisanal Epistemology”
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Seminar Date: 2012-01-06
Date Submitted: 2011-10-28
Announcement ID: 189274
From about 1400, many European artisans and practitioners began to write down their working procedures. With the advent of the printing press, this trickle of technical writing became a flood: all sorts of practical knowledge—recipe collections, Kunstbücher, household management texts, writing manuals—began to appear. Who were the writers and readers of this literature? What did the authors and publishers wish to convey? What did the readers hope to acquire? What were the roles of illustration, paratexts, printed marginalia, or indices? Many scholars have assumed these books possessed a didactic function, but can this be sustained on close examination of the procedures contained in them? What kind of evidence do these texts offer to the historian who wishes to understand the intellectual and material world of the past? On the basis of both primary texts and recent historical and literary scholarship, this weekend seminar will consider such questions, focusing on the period 1400-1700. Faculty with advanced research projects that usefully illuminate these topics are encouraged to apply; they will have the opportunity to discuss their projects within the seminar’s intellectual framework.

Owen Williams, PhD
Assistant Director
The Folger Institute
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202)675-0352

Email: institute@folger.edu
Visit the website at http://www.folger.edu/Content/Folger-Institute/Program-Offerings/2011-2012-Programs.cfm/#HowTo

2011-11-01T10:30:00.001-07:00

Christopher Brooks to direct Folger Institute faculty seminar on “The Legal and Cultural Worlds of the Inns of Court”
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Seminar Date: 2012-01-06
Date Submitted: 2011-10-28
Announcement ID: 189273
This seminar in the Folger series on English pedagogical institutions focuses on the so-called “third university of England,” the inns of court and inns of chancery in London. Unincorporated voluntary societies that housed practicing lawyers alongside young men training for the profession, the inns also contained “amateur” members drawn largely from the landed gentry. Some have argued that the literary vitality and rich culture of performing arts associated with the inns was only loosely connected with the (meager) pedagogic framework they provided. Yet, the inns remained the intellectual nerve-center of English law. There are, therefore, intriguing questions about the place of the inns as distinctive legal and educational societies within the wider cultural life of London. A dialogic consideration of legal education, such as this seminar invites, challenges us to re-think the relationship between institutions and the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and expertise across a range of media and intellectual communities. Applicants with fully developed research projects are welcome to frame their own inquiries in their applications. Others are invited to consider a contribution in connection with the themes discussed above.

Owen Williams, PhD
Assistant Director
The Folger Institute
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202)675-0352

Email: institute@folger.edu
Visit the website at http://www.folger.edu/Content/Folger-Institute/Program-Offerings/2011-2012-Programs.cfm/#Legal

2011-11-01T10:29:00.000-07:00

Mastering Research Methods

Natasha Korda

Spring Semester Seminar for Master’s-level Students

This seminar will illustrate and exemplify graduate-level work in the humanities, introducing first-year graduate students to the tools of research in early modern studies through a semester-long immersion in one of the world’s major Renaissance collections. Representative fields and approaches addressed will include various forms of historiography (theatrical, cultural, social, and political), the book as a material object, the visual analysis of images, manuscript studies, and editorial practice. Participants will develop their research skills through a series of exercises linked to the strengths and ranges of the collection and current trends and debates in scholarship. They will develop potential research projects; identify and sharpen theses and hypotheses; and engage with the varieties of expertise found in the scholarly community at the Folger Shakespeare Library, including those of fellows and professional staff. Each student will assemble a portfolio of exercises throughout the term, with copies of all to be shared so that students are prepared for further graduate work with a broad-based sourcebook for early modern studies.

Director: Natasha Korda is Professor of English and Chair (2009-11) of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Shakespeare’s Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England (2002) and Labors Lost: Women’s Work and the Early Modern English Stage (2011), and several co-edited volumes of essays.

Schedule: Fridays, 11 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., 27 January through 13 April 2011, exluding 9 March and 6 April.

Apply: 2 December 2011 for admission and grants-in-aid. Applicants should briefly describe their ambitions for graduate study and indicate their understanding of the role of research in those studies.

The Legal and Cultural Worlds of the Inns of Court

Christopher Brooks

Spring Faculty Weekend Seminar
Themes, Readings, and Questions

This seminar in the Folger series on English pedagogical institutions focuses on the so-called “third university of England,” the inns of court and inns of chancery in London. Unincorporated voluntary societies that housed practicing lawyers alongside young men training for the profession, the inns also contained “amateur” members drawn largely from the landed gentry. Some have argued that the literary vitality and rich culture of performing arts associated with the inns was only loosely connected with the (meager) pedagogic framework they provided. Yet, the inns remained the intellectual nerve-center of English law. There are, therefore, intriguing questions about the place of the inns as distinctive legal and educational societies within the wider cultural life of London. A dialogic consideration of legal education, such as this seminar invites, challenges us to re-think the relationship between institutions and the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and expertise across a range of media and intellectual communities. Applicants with fully developed research projects are welcome to frame their own inquiries in their applications. Others are invited to consider a contribution in connection with the themes discussed above.

Director: Christopher Brooks is Professor of History at Durham University and is currently the holder of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, which he is using to write the volume covering the years 1625-1689 for the Oxford History of the Laws of England. His most recent major publication is Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England (2008).

Schedule: All day Friday and Saturday, 27 and 28 April 2012.

Apply: 6 January 2012 for admission and grants-in-aid.

Thinking the Revolution: American Political Thought, 1763-1789

Eric Nelson

Late-spring Seminar

This seminar will examine the development of American political thought from the beginning of the Atlantic imperial crisis in the 1760s until the ratification of the Federal Constitution. Famous works of the period, such as Paine’s Common Sense and The Federalist, will be placed in the wider context of American political writing from 1763 to 1789. Particular attention will be paid to the North American reception of various, competing traditions within early-modern republican thought (derived from Roman, Greek, and Hebraic sources), and to the manner in which shifting understandings of England’s great seventeenth-century constitutional crisis came to structure American political discourse during the Revolutionary period. The seminar is sponsored by the Center for the History of British Political Thought at the Folger Institute.

Director: Eric Nelson is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought (2010) and The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (2004), and editor of Hobbes’s translations of the Iliad and Odyssey for the Works of Thomas Hobbes (2008).

Schedule: Thursdays and Fridays, 1 – 4:30 p.m., 17 May through 15 June 2012.

Apply: 6 January 2012 for admission and grants-in-aid.

Writing Down Experience: How-To Books and Artisanal Epistemology

Pamela H. Smith

Late-spring Faculty Weekend Seminar

From about 1400, many European artisans and practitioners began to write down their working procedures. With the advent of the printing press, this trickle of technical writing became a flood: all sorts of practical knowledge—recipe collections, Kunstbücher, household management texts, writing manuals—began to appear. Who were the writers and readers of this literature? What did the authors and publishers wish to convey? What did the readers hope to acquire? What were the roles of illustration, paratexts, printed marginalia, or indices? Many scholars have assumed these books possessed a didactic function, but can this be sustained on close examination of the procedures contained in them? What kind of evidence do these texts offer to the historian who wishes to understand the intellectual and material world of the past? On the basis of both primary texts and recent historical and literary scholarship, this weekend seminar will consider such questions, focusing on the period 1400-1700. Faculty with advanced research projects that usefully illuminate these topics are encouraged to apply; they will have the opportunity to discuss their projects within the seminar’s intellectual framework.

Director: Pamela H. Smith is Professor of History at Columbia University and the author of books on alchemy, artisans, and the making of knowledge; most recently, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (2004) and Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800 (with Benjamin Schmidt, 2008). Her present research reconstructs the vernacular knowledge of early modern European metalworkers.

Schedule: All day Thursday and Friday, 31 May and 1 June 2012.

Apply: 6 January 2012 for admission and grants-in-aid.

A New World of Secrets: The Hermeneutics of Discovery in the Early Americas

Ralph Bauer

Spring Semester Seminar

In the early modern period, the word “to discover” and its cognates in all Western European vernaculars could have several meanings, including to uncover, to reveal, or to make manifest something already known to be true as well as to find something new or not previously known. In this seminar, participants will explore how the early modern category of the “secret’” negotiates between these various—and, from the point of view of a modern hermeneutics, contradictory—meanings in the literature of discovery, encounter, and conquest of the New World from the late fifteenth to the end of the seventeenth century. Particular attention will be paid to the rhetorical role played by prophecy (both European and Amerindian) in the literature of the early modern encounters; by esoteric (Hermetic, alchemical, astrological) textual traditions (i.e., “books of secrets”) in early modern natural histories about the New World; by translation (mainly from Spanish into English) of the literature of reconnaissance and intelligence; and by the discourse of demonology in early modern ethnographic writings. Along with primary readings in the literature of discovery, the seminar will engage with a number of theoretical, critical, and historiographic reflections on philosophical hermeneutics, on the history of the early modern New World encounters, and on the history of science.

Director: Ralph Bauer is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland. His previous publications include The Cultural Geography of Early American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity (2003) and An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru (2005).

Schedule: Thursdays, 1 – 4:30 p.m., 26 January through 29 March 2012, excluding 22 March. The final session on 29 March will convene from 9:30 to 4:30.

Apply: 2 September 2011 for admission and grants-in-aid; 6 January 2012 for admission only.

Shakespeare and Sacraments

Sarah Beckwith

Spring Semester Seminar

An unprecedented, astonishing revolution in the forms and conventions of speaking, hence of modes of human relating, took place in the sixteenth century in England. Confessing, forgiving, absolving, initiating, swearing, blessing, baptizing, ordaining: these are a mere few of the speech acts so transformed in the English Reformation. These changes are fundamentally linked with a transformation of sacramental theology and practice and a reduction of the seven medieval sacraments to two: baptism and eucharist. Who has the authority to bless, to forgive and absolve, to ordain? And what happens to the sacramental rites that both initiate and end human life? Shakespeare’s theater charts, from first to last, and with extraordinary clarity and remorselessness, the transformed work of language in human relating that follows from this revolution in language. When authority is no longer assumed in the speech acts of a sacramental priesthood, it must be found, and refound, in the claims, calls, and judgments of every person who must single him or herself and others out in these particular instances of authority. This seminar will explore Shakespeare’s plays for transformations of ceremonial practice, the changing theology of the sacraments, questions of authority, liturgy, in sum, the ordinary language philosophy of speech acts—especially promising, confessing, and forgiving.

Director: Sarah Beckwith, Professor of English at Duke University, has written Christ’s Body: Identity, Religion and Society in Medieval English Writing (1993), Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York’s Play of Corpus Christi (2001), and Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness (2011).

Schedule: Fridays, 1 – 4:30 p.m., 27 January through 30 March 2012, excluding 23 March. The final session on 30 March will convene from 9:30 to 4:30.

Apply: 2 September 2011 for admission and grants-in-aid; 6 January 2012 for admission only.

2011-10-30T10:24:00.001-07:00

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University College Dublin - School of English, Drama and Film

Level 1 or 2

Closing Date: 11th of November, 2011

Ref: 004856

Post Duration: One year

Level 1 or 2

This IRCHSS-funded project seeks to create a website showcasing Dublin library holdings of early printed and manuscript materials relating to early modern European encounters with the East. The Post-Doctoral Research Fellow will collaborate with a range of Dublin libraries, identifying relevant texts and putting together a selective descriptive catalogue, online exhibition and related teaching materials based on these primary sources. The construction and design of the website will be the responsibility of the Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, under the supervision of the PI. The Post-Doctoral Research Fellow will also be expected to produce and publish independent research based on this archival work, and to help organise a major international conference in autumn 2012.This post will be appointed at either Postdoctoral Level 1 or 2 depending on applicant experience and qualifications

This is an academic research role, where you will conduct a specified programme of research supported by research training and development under the supervision and direction of a Principal Investigator. The primary purpose of the role is to further develop your research skills and competences, including the processes of publication in peer-reviewed academic publications, the development of funding proposals, the mentorship of graduate students along with the opportunity to develop your skills in research-led teaching.

Salary: €31,730 per annum

Appointment on range will be commensurate with qualifications and experience

Closing date: 23.30hrs on date outlined above

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. UCD are unable to accept late applications.

Further information (including a complete Job Description and details on the application procedure) should be obtained from the UCD Job Vacancies website: http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies.

Note: All current recruitment which is taking place within UCD is dependent on non-Exchequer, external and self-funding sources of finance.

Please note at this time UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies - Any CVs submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.

UCD is an equal opportunities employer

Click here for Employer Profile

2011-10-22T10:29:00.001-07:00

Digital Methods and Tools for Historical Research
Location: Portugal
Conference Date: 2011-11-18 (in 27 days)
Date Submitted: 2011-10-18
Announcement ID: 188975
Description: With this initiative we intend to discuss the implications of using digital technologies in the production and dissemination of knowledge in History. We seek to understand how a set of digital methodologies has influenced historical research, to discuss its advantages and disadvantages, as well as to identify innovative ways of linking the future of the digital world to the study of the past. We expect this conference stimulates discussion about the interaction between History and Information Technology, and encourages its use by the academic community, especially young researchers. Dates: 2011, November, 18th-19th (free attendance)
Location: I&D building, 4th floor, room 2 (FCSH, Av. de Berna, 26-C, 1069-061 Lisbon, Portugal)
Web: http://digital-methods-and-tools-for-history.blogspot.com/

Daniel Alves
IHC, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Av. de Berna, 26-C, 1069-062 Lisbon
Portugal
Email: alves.r.daniel@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://digital-methods-and-tools-for-history.blogspot.com/

2011-10-18T11:05:00.001-07:00

“Comparative Approaches to Early Modern Sexualities in Literature and Culture”
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2011-11-15 (in 28 days)
Date Submitted: 2011-10-17
Announcement ID: 188962
This seminar, a session at ACLA 2012 to be held at Brown University, March 29th-April 1st, invites papers that present new interdisciplinary perspectives to explore “traveling” sexualities in the early modern world. Considering sexuality through various sites of “global” interactions, dialogues, circulating discourses and practices, and translations, which put pressure on traditional gender and sexual binaries and geographical boundaries, this seminar calls for papers analyzing non-heteronormative sexual interactions and/or reconfigurations of gender roles in early modern societies. Although we strongly encourage papers that address eastern and western encounters and interactions, we welcome papers analyzing other territorial interactions as well. Some possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• the East, the West, and sex
• Islamicate sexualities
• sexualities and religions
• ancient and early modern sexualities
• the Ottoman and Europeans sexual practices and representations
• same-sex love and desire
• ‘the beloved boys’
• normative sexualities and sexual politics
• effeminacy and androgyny
• the nature of desire and sexuality
• ethnography and the representation of “other” sexualities
• sexual diseases and catastrophes

Submissions may address these or related topics from a variety of perspectives from any literary or cultural traditions falling between the 15th and mid- 17th centuries. Paper proposals should be submitted no later than November 15th, 2011. For submission guidelines, please visit the conference website: http://acla.org/acla2012/

Abdulhamit Arvas
Michigan State University
arvas@msu.edu
Email: arvas@msu.edu
Visit the website at http://acla.org/acla2012/?page_id=150

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2011-10-12T08:52:00.001-07:00

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Early Modern
Victoria University of Wellington - School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Victoria University is seeking to appoint a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in the English Programme.

The successful applicant will be expected to have a primary expertise in the broad field of Early Modern literature. Applications are particularly welcome from candidates who are able to make use of the resources of the Alexander Turnbull Library in their research and teaching.

The appointee will be expected to have a PhD in English Literature; have a good research record and the potential to attract new postgraduate enrolments; and have experience in teaching at tertiary level. For appointment at the Senior Lecturer level, applicants would need around five years' research and teaching experience in an academic position and successful experience in postgraduate supervision. Under New Zealand's jurisdiction advertising years of experience is legal.

For further information, contact Dr Thierry Jutel, Head of School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies, thierry.jutel@vuw.ac.nz or Dr Mark Williams, Programme Director English, mark.williams@vuw.ac.nz or visit www.vacancies.vuw.ac.nz

Applications close 15 November 2011.

Victoria University of Wellington is an EEO employer and actively seeks to meet its obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi.

For more information and to apply online visit http://vacancies.vuw.ac.nz

Reference: A325-11Z.

2011-10-11T00:17:00.001-07:00

CFP Heroic Bodies, Bodies of Flesh: Representing the Body in Early Modern Life Narratives (2012)
Location: France
Call for Papers Date: 2011-12-01
Date Submitted: 2011-10-08
Announcement ID: 188703
Heroic Bodies, Bodies of Flesh: Representing the Body in Early Modern Life Narratives

International Conference at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France), co-sponsored by CIRLEP (EA 4299) and PRISMES / Epistémè (EA 4398), 31 May-1 June 2012, organized by Christine Sukic.

In her 1997 groundbreaking study L’Invention du corps: la représentation de l’homme du Moyen Age à la fin du XIXe siècle, art historian Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen theorizes on “the invention of the human body”. This phrase is particularly suited to the early modern period, especially with the development of the study of anatomy: Vesalius’ Fabrica, published the same year as Copernicus’ De revolutionibus (1543) can be seen as a revolution reflecting the perception of the human body during that period. Yet the Galenic theory of humours is still prevalent in the vision of the body, probably because the idea of the melancholic body is in keeping with the epistemological crisis that characterizes that period and that affects all fields of thought, leading to a redefinition of norms and categories. The numerous theories of passions published in the 16th and 17th centuries, also attest to the vision of an instable body, fraught with motion and volatility. This conference hopes to assemble perspectives on the representation of the human body in early modern life narratives. Biographies (or “lives”, as they were generally called then) often claimed objectivity and even historical truth about their subjects. The representation of the body is particularly relevant in the creation of that alleged “truth”, as its description in the text, sometimes illustrated by a portrait of the subject, attempts to evidence a kind of proof.
This proof can take several forms. The body can reveal an uncommon aspect of the subject, turning him / her into a heroic or saintly being. In his “life” of Michelangelo (1568), Giorgio Vasari writes at length of the artist’s funeral, which took place twenty-five days after his death. The coffin was opened for a short while for everyone to look at the body: “we found it so perfect in every part, and so free from any noisome odour, that we were ready to believe that it was rather at rest in a sweet and most peaceful sleep; and, besides that the features of the face were exactly as in life (except that there was something of the colour of death), it had no member that was marred or revealed any corruption, and the head and cheeks were not otherwise to the touch than as if he had passed away but a few hours before”. Michelangelo’s inanimate body seems to have been transfigured, which is one of the topoï of hagiography.
But the body of the subject can also be invested with a form of physical, material truth, revealing this time a body of flesh. This is John Dryden’s opinion in his “Life of Plutarch”, prefixed to the translation of Plutarch’s Lives (1683). Dryden, using Bacon’s categories of history (“Commentaries or Annals; History properly so called; and Biographia, or the Lives of particular Men”) states that biography is “a descent into minute circumstances, and trivial passages of life” and adds: “here you are led into the private Lodgings of the Heroe: you see him in his undress, and are made Familiar with his most private actions and conversations […] ; you see the poor reasonable Animal, as naked as ever nature made him; are made acquainted with his passions and his follies, and find the Demy-God a Man”. The body of the subject appears here to be symbolically naked, as a sign of intimacy with the reader and the biographer. For Vasari, Michelangelo’s body is that of a saint; for Dryden, the hero’s body is in fact that of a man.
We hope that the conference will also permit a reflection on the role of the representation of the body in the development of the biographical text in the early modern period. We welcome papers based on biographical texts such as: lives, “life and death”, hagiography, panegyric, eulogy, funeral oration, biographies of poets, princes, artists, criminals, historic characters, but also autobiographies. All geographical areas of early modern Europe can be covered.
The official languages of the conference are English or French and papers should not exceed 25 minutes. A selection of papers will be published in Imaginaires, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the University of Reims. The 50-euro registration fee (30 euros for postgraduates) will cover this publication, as well as the two lunches and morning and afternoon coffee breaks. Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words as an attached Word document to Christine Sukic (christine.sukic@univ-reims.fr) with a short biographical note by 1 December 2011.

Christine Sukic
Professor of English Literature
University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne

CIRLEP
http://www.univ-reims.fr/CIRLEP

Christine Sukic
CIRLEP
Université de Reims-Champagne Ardenne
Campus Croix Rouge
Bâtiment 13
Rue François Mauriac
F-51096 Reims Cedex

Email: christine.sukic@univ-reims.fr

2011-10-11T00:16:00.001-07:00

2011-10-07T00:37:00.001-07:00

Cultures of Conflict Resolution in Early Modern Europe
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2011-12-31
Date Submitted: 2011-10-05
Announcement ID: 188585
Cultures of conflict resolution in early modern Europe

University of Cambridge, 4 May 2012

Disputes, discord and reconciliation are part of the fabric of communal living. Early modern Europe was no exception. Indeed, in a time when enmity could be, in John Bossy’s words, 'a force', 'personal, face-to-face, eyeball-to-eyeball . . . a formal and public condition’ conflict was especially prominent. However, the ways in which disputes and discord were dealt with could vary from person to person, and from one culture to the next. The methods and resources available to pursue enmities, to make peace and resolve conflict could depend on gender, social standing and age. Reconciliation could be both a formal and informal process. The pursuit of conflict resolution, moreover, could involve whole villages, and all manner of personnel including local magistrates, legal faculties, priests, government officials and the nobility. It was a communal affair.

It was also a deeply gendered process. Men and women had different methods of pursuing peacemaking, could be involved in different types of conflict, and often had highly different experiences of the process.

This conference seeks to trace cultural codes of conflict resolution in the early modern world. How did these vary from man to woman, old to young, and village to village? What methods of peace-making were available, and to whom? How did courts work? What were the languages of conflict and reconciliation, and who had recourse to them? What role did emotions, factions and the law play in conflict resolution? Did ‘official’ ideas of conflict resolution clash with local ones?

We also plan to investigate the relationship that study of dispute resolution has with chronologies of change in the early modern world. The end of feud and the triumph of law and the state has often been seen as the mark of modernity. Norbert Elias’s ‘civilizing process’ was tied to the restraint of violence, and Weber’s ‘monopoly of violence’ is still referred to often in histories of the state. Can new histories of conflict resolution provide revised accounts of processes of ‘civilization’, emotional ‘restraint’, and state formation? We are, moreover, keen to forge global connections and comparisons. Are there specifically Christian aspects to most Western conflict resolution that differ in, for example, the Islamic world? How did burgeoning states outside of Europe deal with the disruptive effects of feuding?

Finally, this conference will provide an occasion to reflect on the seminal volume edited by John Bossy Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West, published almost thirty years ago. How have the last three decades of historiography changed perspectives, methodologies and approaches? What has the impact of interdisciplinary influences been?

We hope to assemble around 10 speakers who are in the early stages of their academic career. We are interested in a variety of approaches to, and aspects on, conflict resolution in the early modern world. Please submit paper proposals (500-750 words) by 31 December 2011. Invitations to present at the colloquium will be given by 31 January 2012.

Send paper proposals to the convenors Stephen Cummins stc28@cam.ac.uk and Laura Kounine lk279@cam.ac.uk by 31 December 2011.

Stephen Cummins,
Christ's College, University of Cambridge
St Andrew's Street
Cambridge
CB2 3BU
UK
Email: stc28@cam.ac.uk

2011-09-26T04:38:00.001-07:00

Temporary Lectureship
Bangor University - College of Arts and Humanities, School of English

Grade 7: £29,972 p.a

Applications are invited for a temporary post in the School of English.

An expertise in Early Modern Literature would be an advantage.

Applicants for this post should be outstanding scholars, with clearly-defined evidence of a promising publication record.

This post is available from 1st October 2011 and will be available until 30th June 2012.

Application forms and further particulars should be obtained by contacting Human Resources, Bangor University; tel: (01248) 382926/383865; e-mail: personnel@bangor.ac.uk; web: www.bangor.ac.uk

Please quote reference number 11-11/56 when applying.

For further details or an informal discussion, please contact Professor Tony Brown on 01248 382102.

Closing date for applications: 1.00 p.m. Friday 7th October 2011.

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2011-09-24T11:18:00.001-07:00

Prof. Alexandra Walsham's Inaugural Lecture on 'History, Memory and the Reformation'
Prof. Alexandra Walsham, Inaugural Lecture
When Oct 20, 2011
from 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Where Law Faculty, Room LG19
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Members of the Faculty are invited to attend the Inaugural Lecture to be given by the Professor of Modern History, Alexandra Walsham, on Thursday 20 October at 5 pm in the Law Faculty, Room LG19.

Her title will be: 'History, Memory and the Reformation'.

There will be a reception afterwards in Trinity College.

2011-09-24T11:12:00.001-07:00

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in 16th-17th century Britain

Institution Type: College / University
Location: Utah, United States
Position: Assistant Professor

The Department of History at the University of Utah seeks to appoint an entry-level tenure-track Assistant Professor in 16th-17th century Britain. The department welcomes applications from scholars specializing in all aspects of the history of the British Isles during this period, including transnational approaches. The successful candidate will be expected to teach at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, and demonstrate a strong commitment to research. PhD by July 1st 2012 preferred. Application should be made online by November 4, 2011, attention to Isabel Moreira, Chair, University of Utah Department of History. Please go to the following link: http://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/9678

The University of Utah values candidates who have experience working in settings with students from diverse backgrounds, and possess a strong commitment to improving access to higher education for historically underrepresented students.

The University of Utah is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and educator. Minorities, women, and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Veteran’s preference. Reasonable accommodations provided. For additional information:

http://www.regulations.utah.edu/humanResources/5-106.html

Contact:

Karen Iannucci

Administrative Officer

Department of History, University of Utah

karen.iannucci@utah.edu

801-581-3574
Website: http://www.hum.utah.edu/history/
Primary Category: British History / Studies
Secondary Categories: Early Modern History and Period Studies
Posting Date: 09/23/2011
Closing Date 11/04/2011

2011-09-19T04:33:00.001-07:00

Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Seventeenth Century English Literature
Northumbria University

School of Arts and Social Sciences
Ref ASS11/04
Full Time, Permanent
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: Senior Lecturer: £36,862 - £45,336; Lecturer: £31,798 - £35,788

As part of a team, you will provide undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in the Literature and Creative Writing Subject Group within the Department of Humanities. You will enhance the Department's research strengths by developing a strong research profile and be committed to teaching and learning support. You will also participate in internal and external networks to contribute to student recruitment and regional engagement.

You will be a research active academic with a relevant PhD and/or equivalent postgraduate or professional qualification/experience. You will demonstrate an excellent knowledge and understanding of relevant texts, concepts, and approaches relating to the study of Seventeenth Century English Literature. Your own high quality research outputs will contribute to Research Excellence Framework 2014.

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Professor Richard Terry on 0191 227 3368.

To download an application form please visit www.workfornorthumbria.co.uk or call 0191 227 4321 for an Application Pack.

Northumbria University is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

Closing Date: 15 October 2011

2011-09-10T00:12:00.001-07:00

THE LATEST ISSUE OF CAHIERS ELISABETHAINS IS NOW AVAILABLE: N° 79 (2011)

* Please note also that article submissions are now open for the next
issues of the journal. For details about submissions and/or subscriptions,
please see the end of this message.

ARTICLES

Dramatizing Belief: Charlatans, Credulity and Faith in John Heywood¹s Four
PP
Peter Happe

Hope, Despair and the Voicing of Renaissance Homoeroticism in Richard
Barnfield¹s ³Certaine Sonnets²
Clinton E. Hammock

The Ambivalence of Revenge and of the Avenger¹s Role in Hamlet: The
Function of Letters and Emblematic Allusions
Michele Marrapodi

The Wilderness Metaphor in The Duchess of Malfi
Michael Steffes

NOTE

Shakespeare¹s Sir John Oldcastle and Jonson¹s Ursula the Pig Woman
Joan Fitzpatrick

THEATRE FEATURE

³The actors are come hither²: Andrzej Wajda¹s Shakespearean Happening in
Gdansk
Jerzy Limon

PLAY REVIEWS

Fausuto no Higeki [The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus], directed by Yukio
Ninagawa, Theatre Cocoon, Tokyo, 17 July 2010 (Tomonari Kuwayama)
La Nuit des rois [Twelfth Night], translated by Jean-Michel Déprats,
directed by Nicolas Briançon, Festival ³Le Printemps des Comédiens²,
Amphithéâtre d¹O, Montpellier, 17 June 2010 (Nathalie Crouau & Gaëlle
Ginestet)
Roméo et Juliette [Romeo and Juliet], directed by Françoise Chatôt,
Théâtre Gyptis, Marseille, France, 15 March 2011 (Florence March)
La Comédie des erreurs [The Comedy of Errors], directed by Dan Jemmett,
Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, 5 and 8 February 2011 (Stéphane Huet)
La Nuit des rois [Twelfth Night], adapted and directed by Jean-Michel
Rabeux, MC93 (Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis), Bobigny, 22
March 2011 (Stéphane Huet)
The Coveted Crown: Henry IV, Parts I and II, directed by Patrick Swanson,
Actors¹ Shakespeare Project, Midway Studios, Fort Point Channel, Boston,
USA, 20 November 2010 (Kaara L. Peterson)
The Duchess of Malfi, directed by Laurie Sansom, The Royal Theatre, Royal
and Derngate, Northampton, 19 October 2010 (Eleanor Collins)
Richard II, directed by Andrew Hilton, The Tobacco Factory, Bristol, 25
February 2011 (Peter J. Smith)
The Comedy of Errors, directed by Andrew Hilton, The Tobacco Factory,
Bristol, 30 April 2011 (Yolana Wassersug)
Hamlet, directed by Nicholas Hytner, Olivier Theatre, National, London, 7
October, 26 October and 26 November 2010 (Peter J. Smith)
King Lear, directed by Michael Grandage, Donmar Warehouse, London, 13
January 2011 (Colette Gordon)
As You Like It, directed by Stephen Unwin for the Rose Theatre, Rose
Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames, 24 February 2011 (Neil Allan)
Hamlet, an RSC Young People¹s Shakespeare production directed by Tarell
Alvin McCraney, The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 10 September
2010 (Richard Kenney)
Measure for Measure, directed by Amy Hodge, The Provincial, Cardiff, 24
November 2010 (P. B. Roberts)
Doctor Faustus, directed by Toby Frow, The Royal Exchange, Manchester, 21
September 2010 (Kath Bradley)

BOOK REVIEWS

Julie Sanders, ed., Ben Jonson in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2010) (Warren Chernaik)
James Schiffer, ed., Twelfth Night: New Critical Essays (London and New
York: Routledge, 2011) (Walter Cannon)
Jane Kingsley-Smith, Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) (Sarah Carter)
Michael D. Bristol, ed., Shakespeare and Moral Agency (London & New York:
Continuum, 2010) (Dana E. Aspinall)
Scott L. Newstok, Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of
Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) (Joseph
Sterrett)
Lloyd Edward Kermode, ed., Three Renaissance Usury Plays, Revels Plays
Companion Library (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press,
2009) (Charles Whitworth)
Richard Rowland, Thomas Heywood¹s Theatre, 1599-1639: Locations,
Translations, and Conflict (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010) (Eoin Price)
Julian Curry, Shakespeare On Stage: Thirteen Leading Actors on Thirteen
Key Roles (London: Nick Hern Books, 2010) (Kevin A. Quarmby)
Erica Sheen, Shakespeare and the Institution of Theatre: ³The Best in this
Kind² (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) (Eoin Price)

BOOKS RECEIVED

Compiled by Janice Valls-Russell

To order issues:

Submissions can be send to either of Cahiers's assistant editors:

or

More information:

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2011-09-09T11:05:00.001-07:00

Markets, Law, and Ethics, 1400-1850.
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2011-12-15
Date Submitted: 2011-09-07
Announcement ID: 187753
This call seeks papers addressing market culture in the late medieval and early modern periods, conceived broadly as the norms, laws, customs and practices of exchange, 1400-1850. Scholars have made the case for distinctively late medieval/early modern instantiations of social and economic life, for example as “competence and competition,” a “competitive household economy,” or a “baroque economy”. But what is next? Historians from diverse historiographical backgrounds will compare and contrast findings across conventional chronologies and geographies, reflect on the implications of supra-imperial and global approaches, and ponder future interpretations of development of market culture. Confirmed speakers include: Christopher L. Tomlins, Martha Howell, Robert DuPlessis, Pierre Gervais, Alex Shepard, James Masschaele, Julie Hardwick. The three-day meeting will be held at the University of Sheffield 22 June -- 24 June, 2012. See longer cfp. for details and email paper titles and 300 word abstracts to s.middleton@sheffield.ac.uk and j.e.shaw@sheffield.ac.uk by December 15, 2011.
Simon Middleton
University of Sheffield
Email: s.middleton@sheffield.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Zqpx63BDEhQIl70v7IVh-AGTAAF6-dBR9j3IfiOico/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1&pli=1

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2011-09-07T11:41:00.001-07:00

Memory before Modernity. Memory Cultures in Early Modern Europe, 20-22 June 2012
Location: Netherlands
Conference Date: 2012-06-20
Date Submitted: 2011-09-05
Announcement ID: 187666
In the ‘memory boom’ that has emerged in the humanities and social sciences since 1990, five major themes have captured most attention: (a) the relationship between politics and memory, (b) trauma and memories of violence, (c) the ‘mediatization’ of memory (d) the transmission of memory and identity formation (e) the relationship between memory, history and other concepts of the past. Yet most case studies relating to these themes have been concerned with events and evidence post-1800; indeed, many theorists of memory allege that there is something intrinsically ‘modern’ about them. The aim of this conference is to put this assumption to the test.

Confirmed keynote speakers include: Philip Benedict, Susan Broomhall and Benjamin Schmidt

Please visit www.earlymodernmemory.org for more detailed information and the call for papers. Deadline for proposals is 1 November 2011.

This conference is organized by the NWO VICI Research Team Tales of the Revolt. Memory, Oblivion and Identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1700, that is directed by Professor Judith Pollmann at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Prof. dr. Judith Pollmann
Leiden University
The Netherlands
Email: emm@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Visit the website at http://www.earlymodernmemory.org

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2011-09-01T05:58:00.001-07:00

External Faculty Fellowships
Location: California, United States
Fellowship Date: 2011-10-03
Date Submitted: 2011-08-22
Announcement ID: 187352
External Faculty Fellowships

The Stanford Humanities Center provides a collegial environment for faculty who are undertaking innovative projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Fellows participate in the intellectual life of the Humanities Center and the broader Stanford community, sharing ideas and work in progress with a diverse cohort of scholars and benefitting from a wide variety of campus resources.

Fellowship term: September 2012 – June 2013
Application deadline: October 3, 2011

Eligibility

Applicants must have a PhD and should be at least three years beyond receipt of the degree by the start of the fellowship term. The Center is open to projects employing information technology in humanities research.

For full eligibility requirements, see
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External Faculty inquiries: shc-fellowships@stanford.edu

Stanford Humanities Center
Fellowship Program
650-723-3054
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2011-09-01T05:48:00.001-07:00

Call for papers: Workshop “Asset Management of Households in Europe, 1300-1800”
Location: Netherlands
Call for Papers Date: 2011-10-15
Date Submitted: 2011-08-29
Announcement ID: 187479
Workshop “Asset Management of Households in Europe, 1300-1800”

This workshop will bring together economic and social historians to discuss asset management of households in pre-industrial societies.

Call for papers

Workshop “Asset Management of Households in Europe, 1300-1800”

18th of January 2012
Center for Global Economic History
Utrecht University
The Netherlands

Organizers: Jaco Zuijderduijn & Tine De Moor

Recent scholarship has attributed a crucial role to the household in economic history. Much attention has gone to the restrictions to asset management, for instance with respect to legal impediments (marriage contracts, entails), gender-based obstacles (agency in households) and cultural problems (the idea that assets were part of the patrimony) and the effects these had on the economy.

In spite of these restrictions, there are plenty of indications that households could use at least part of their possessions as they saw fit, and also that some impediments to alienation became less severe over time. For instance, in her recent book "Commerce before capitalism", Martha Howell describes a number of cultural shifts that helped make property more easily alienable.

Instead of regarding households as units that received assets from ancestors to pass these on to their heirs, this workshop looks at the way households used land, houses and savings during the life cycle. This approach will allow us to grasp one of the dynamics of markets for real estate and capital, and thus to understand economic and social shifts.

This workshop will center on the question how households made best use of their assets. Did households make adjustments in their struggle for existence, and if so, to what end? Did they merely alienate to survive or to assist kin, or did they also invest? Did asset management involve risk-spreading techniques? And how important were non-economic elements, such as the political benefits and prestige of being a landowner? And which effects did this have on economic and social processes?

The following questions will be addressed in particular:

- To what degree did households participate in markets for real estate and financial markets?

- What were the motives for buying or selling property, borrowing or lending? Did asset management allow households to cope with difficulties they encountered in the course of the life cycle (for instance the early adulthood squeeze and retirement squeeze of the life cycle approach of social sciences)? Or did asset management allow for rudimentary types of insurance, for instance by risk-spreading?

- Who decided about asset management? Did men and women participate in markets for real estate and financial markets? And to what degree did family members continue to influence decisions with respect to alienation of property?

- How important were cultural elements, such as the political benefits of being a landowner, or the notion that land was part of the patrimony?

- How did shifts in asset management affect economic development (for instance from a Smithian perspective) and social processes?

- Which differences can be observed when European Marriage Pattern regions (i.e. regions characterized by neolocality of households) are compared to regions where different types of household formation existed?

Practical information:

The workshop will take one day, the 18th of January. Selected paper participants will receive reimbursement of their travel costs and accommodation. Paper proposals (of approx. 1500 words) should be sent before the 15nd of October to Jaco Zuijderduijn (c.j.zuijderduijn@uu.nl ) who is also in charge of the organization of the workshop. Selected participants will be informed before the 10th of November.

This workshop is made possible by funding from the European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement n° 240928) as part of the project "United we stand". The dynamics and consequences of institutions for collective action in pre-industrial Europe. Further information about this project can be found via http://www.collective-action.info/projects_ERCGrant.

Jaco Zuijderduijn
Drift 10
3512 BS
Utrecht
+31 (0)30 2531823
Email: c.j.zuijderduijn@uu.nl
Visit the website at http://www.collective-action.info/projects_ERCGrant

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2011-09-01T05:45:00.001-07:00

Dissecting the Lower Sensorium: Understanding Smell, Taste, and Touch in Renaissance Literature (NeMLA 2012)
Location: New York, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2011-09-30 (in 29 days)
Date Submitted: 2011-08-30
Announcement ID: 187514
This NeMLA seminar (March 15-18, 2012 in Rochester, NY) will examine Renaissance drama and poetry via the history of the lower sensorium—the senses of smell, taste, and touch. Though the lower senses were often relegated to a secondary position in medical and philosophical texts, they defined every moment of a subject’s daily movements through his or her world. From the taste of the bread and beer that comprised most meals to the overwhelming range of smells that filled every crevice of the early modern city, men and women understood and maneuvered their bodies, encounters, desires, and labor through the three senses comprising the lower sensorium.

As occurred in the Renaissance, these grounding faculties are too often overlooked in contemporary scholarship. Yet, one could argue that no reading of Shakespeare’s King Lear can be considered complete without a thorough conversation about the lower sensorium, as smell (Lear’s stench “of mortality” on his hand), taste (Albany attempts to restore order by claiming, “All friends shall taste the wages of their virtue, and all foes the cup of their deserving”), and touch (Gloucester learn to “see [the world] feelingly”). Here—as in any number of texts from the period—understanding the influence and language of taste, smell, and touch refocus the text’s meaning.

Participants will explore aspects of knowledge and sensation and consider the various ways they inform Renaissance drama, poetry, and thought. Papers are encouraged to cover a variety of genres from the period, including religious texts, iconography, cookbooks, and courtesy books. Does understanding how Renaissance subjects experienced the lower sensorium push us to read canonical texts differently? Areas of investigation could include the influence of fashionable aesthetic movements; variations in perception; a range of moral, bodily, and geographic cartographies; cultural issues integral to the arts of gesture; the influence of smell and touch on memory and emotion; and the influence of these senses on literature and thought generally.

Participants will pre-circulate works focused on better understanding how various works of poetry, drama, altered mythologies, and medical texts gave meaning to (and often redefined) bodily senses foundational to the subject’s experience of his or her world.

Please send abstracts (250 words), Name, and Affiliation to Colleen Kennedy (kennedy.623@buckeyemail.osu.edu ) and/or Christopher Madson (cjmadson@buffalo.edu ) by September 30. Full length papers (15-20 minutes reading time) will be due before the conference. Please see the NeMLA site for more information on the conference.

Colleen Kennedy kennedy.623@buckeyemail.osu.edu

Christopher Madson cjmadson@buffalo.edu
Email: kennedy.623@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Visit the website at http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/index.html

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2011-09-01T05:37:00.003-07:00

Grinnell College, Department of English

Assistant Professor, English Renaissance Literature

Institution Type: College / University
Location: Iowa, United States
Position: Assistant Professor, Instructor

GRINNELL COLLEGE. Tenure-track position in the Department of English (English Renaissance Literature), starting Fall 2012. Assistant Professor (Ph.D.) preferred; Instructor (ABD) or Associate Professor possible. Grinnell College is a highly selective undergraduate liberal arts college whose English department offers courses in a broad range of literary traditions spanning the long history and present multiplicity of writing in English. The College's curriculum is founded on a strong advising system and close student-faculty interaction, with few college-wide requirements beyond the completion of a major. The teaching schedule of five courses over two semesters will include Introduction to Shakespeare, an introductory humanities course on the ancient Greek world, a survey of early British literature, and seminars in Shakespeare, Milton, and Renaissance Literature. Every few years one course will be Tutorial (a writing/critical thinking course for first-year students, oriented toward a special topic of the instructor's choice).

In letters of application, candidates should discuss their interest in developing as a teacher and scholar in an undergraduate, liberal-arts college that emphasizes close student-faculty interaction. They also should discuss what they can contribute to efforts to cultivate a wide diversity of people and perspectives, a core value of Grinnell College. To be assured of full consideration, all application materials should be received by November 11, 2011.

Please submit applications online by visiting our application website at https://jobs.grinnell.edu. Candidates will need to upload a letter of application, curriculum vita, transcripts (copies are acceptable), statement of teaching philosophy, a set of recent teaching evaluations, a writing sample, and also provide email addresses for three references. Questions about this search should be directed to the search chair, Professor Shuchi Kapila, at [EnglishSearch@grinnell.edu] or 641-269-4655.

Grinnell College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to attracting and retaining highly qualified individuals who collectively reflect the diversity of the nation. No applicant shall be discriminated against on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, religion, creed, or disability. For further information about Grinnell College, see our website at http://www.grinnell.edu.

Contact:

Professor Shuchi Kapila, at EnglishSearch@grinnell.edu or 641-269-4655
Website: https://jobs.grinnell.edu
Primary Category: Literature
Secondary Categories: None
Posting Date: 08/31/2011
Closing Date 11/11/2011

2011-09-01T05:37:00.001-07:00

Pennsylvania State University, History

Assistant Professor in Early Modern Europe

Institution Type: College / University
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Position: Tenure Track Faculty

College of the Liberal Arts-Department of History

Assistant Professor in Early Modern Europe

Penn State University Department of History invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the history of the Early Modern Europe (1475-1700), excluding Britain, pending final budgetary approval. This appointment will begin in August of 2012. All research fields will be considered, but the successful applicant should be able to enhance the interdisciplinary strengths of the department in global Early Modern or transatlantic history. The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. (or be near completion), demonstrate an active research agenda, and be able to contribute immediately to both graduate and undergraduate teaching in the department. Send a curriculum vitae, a letter of application that describes current and future research, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and letters of reference from three referees (under separate cover). Applications may also include up to three offprints or unpublished papers or chapters. Deadline for submission of applications is November 1, 2011. Please go to www.la.psu.edu/facultysearch/ to apply. For more information on the Department of History go to http://www.history.psu.edu. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workplace.

Contact:

Sandi Moyer
Administrative Support Coordinator for
the Departments of History and Classics and
Ancient Mediterranean Studies and the
Jewish Studies Program
108 Weaver Building
University Park, PA 16802

sjm1@psu.edu
814-865-6204
814-863-7840 (fax)
Website: www.history.psu
Primary Category: Early Modern History and Period Studies
Secondary Categories: European History / Studies
Posting Date: 08/31/2011
Closing Date 11/01/2011

2011-09-01T05:30:00.001-07:00

Temporary Lecturer
University of Reading - Department of English Language and Literature

Start date: 1 January 2012

Closing date: 30 September 2011

Reference number: LE11024

Post type: full-time, fixed-term until 30 June 2012

Pay grade: 7

Payscale: £33,734 per annum

We are looking for a Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature, for a six-month position starting on 1 January 2011. You will join a flourishing Department with a great and continuing tradition in your field.

You will be a committed teacher in Early Modern Literature, with the ability to collaborate with a strong and supportive team of colleagues. You will have some undergraduate teaching experience (possibly postgraduate too), and want to broaden your experience with a full-time post in an established department.

You will have:

* experience of teaching Early Modern Literature at degree level
* an ability to teach independently while collaborating with an established team
* some experience of diverse assessment methods

Candidates with a particular specialism in Early Modern Drama would be at an advantage.

Informal contact details

Contact role: Head of Department
Contact name: Simon Dentith
Contact phone: +44 (0)118 378 7459
Contact email: s.dentith@reading.ac.uk

Alternative informal contact details

Contact role: Professor of Early Modern Literature
Contact name: Michelle O'Callaghan
Contact phone: +44 (0)118 378 7003
Contact email: m.f.ocallaghan@reading.ac.uk

Closing date: 30 September 2011

To apply please visit www.reading.ac.uk/Jobs or contact Human Resources, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading RG6 6AH. Telephone +44(0)118 378 6771 (voicemail)

Please quote the relevant reference number.

We value a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

2011-08-26T01:27:00.001-07:00

Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800

Convenors: Surekha Davies (Birkbeck College, London; s.davies@bbk.ac.uk), Laura Gowing (King's College London; laura.gowing@kcl.ac.uk), Kate Hodgkin (University of East London; K.Hodgkin@uel.ac.uk), and Michael Hunter (Birkbeck College, London; m.hunter@bbk.ac.uk)
Venue: Athlone Room (102), Senate House, Ground floor

Time: Thursday, 5.30pm

The programme for the academic year 2010-11 is on the theme of Truth and Credit
Autumn Term 2011 20 October

Koji Yamamoto (University of Edinburgh)

Reformation and the distrust of the projector in the Hartlib Circle
17 November

Florence Grant (King’s College London)

Trading on others' credit: imitation, copying and plagiarism in the business of 18th-century science
15 December

Miruna Achim (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City)

Debate, public truth and natural knowledge in 18th-century Mexico

IHR seminars | back to the top
Spring Term 2012 26 January

Mark Greengrass (Research Fellow, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg)

The experiential world of Jean Bodin
23 February

Michael Hunter (Birkbeck)

The accusation of imposture in early modern witchcraft and possession cases
29 March

Tom Betteridge (Oxford Brookes University)

Reformation truth and doubt in the 'Dialogue Concerning Heresies' and 'Acts and Monuments'

2011-08-03T12:57:00.001-07:00

Teaching Associate in Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama
University of Nottingham - School of English Studies

Applications are invited for the above post in the School of English Studies.

Candidates should have a PhD (or be very near to completion) in Shakespeare and/or Early Modern Drama and be able to teach on core modules on drama and performance and early modern literature and drama. Candidates should also be willing to contribute to the delivery of the School's Distance Learning MA and continuing and professional development programmes where appropriate. Teaching experience in higher education will be an advantage.

Salary will be within the range £27,428 - £35,788 per annum, depending on skills and experience, salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance. This post is available from 1 September 2011 and will be offered on a fixed-term contract until 31 August 2012.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr James Moran, tel: 0115 84 67893 or email: james.moran@nottingham.ac.uk. Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted. Further information about the School is available at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english.

For more details and/or to apply on-line please access: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Jobs/CurrentVacancies/ref/CE04185AX1. If you are unable to apply on-line please contact the Human Resources Department, tel: 0115 951 3262.

Please quote ref. CE/04185AX1.

Closing date: 17 August 2011.

For all our vacancies and more about working at the University of Nottingham see: http://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/.

2011-07-28T07:09:00.001-07:00

The “Political Arithmetick” of Empires in the Early Modern Atlantic World, 1500–1807

A Conference Sponsored by the Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

March 17–18, 2012

University of Maryland, College Park

This conference takes its title from the celebrated pamphlet of Sir William
Petty published in 1690. The organizers are particularly eager to receive
submissions from scholars working on subjects that Petty and his
contemporaries believed formed the basis of the new concept of “political
economy,” especially as these related to the Americas from the sixteenth
century through the eighteenth.

Petty’s pamphlet was largely devoted to the question of how best to
construct an English empire within which trade, people, and nation would
flourish. His calculations involved not only economic factors but also
issues of authority, hierarchy, and justice. The purpose of this conference
is to examine the many components, economic as well as cultural, that
cohered and/or fractured empires in the early modern Atlantic world between
1500 and 1807.

The organizers encourage papers that examine the religious, cultural, or
economic components that shaped the formation of imperial structures in the
early modern era. Topics such as religious conformity or the lack thereof,
paper money, credit, agriculture, manufacturing, trade, piracy, and monopoly
as they related to the creation and expansion of empires are appropriate.
So, too, are demography, slavery, the Native American presence, and the
migration of labor, whether free or indentured. Finally, the organizers
welcome proposals on the ideological character of domestic and international
law and the role of ideas in determining the configuration of early modern
empires. These subjects may be addressed by focusing exclusively on a single
empire or within a comparative context.

Proposals consisting of a maximum of 300 words must be received
electronically no later than July 31, 2011. Please include a two-page c.v.
that contains your current mailing and e-mail addresses and your telephone
number. Materials may be submitted online at the conference Web site,
http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/political/cfp.cfm. All submissions will be
acknowledged by e-mail. If you do not receive an acknowledgement, please
resubmit or contact Kim Foley (kawahl@wm.edu).

2011-07-25T09:19:00.001-07:00

CFP - Inarticulacy: An Interdisciplinary Early Modern Conference
Location: California, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2011-09-01
Date Submitted: 2011-07-20
Announcement ID: 186686
Inarticulacy: An Interdisciplinary Early Modern Conference
University of California, Berkeley
November 12 - 13, 2011

When Cordelia responds to Lear with “Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave/My heart into my mouth” she both does and does not follow her own resolution to “Love, and be silent.” Like Hamlet before her, Cordelia has “that within which passeth show,” however, as a character on the stage, she is bound by literary convention to speak. Yet broader conventions, perhaps even necessity, compel human expression to manifest in human voice. As some philosophers have argued, to see and to be seen is not the only activity that provides the objective reality to subjective experience, but also to hear and to be heard. But what happens when words do not seem to suffice? And how can a scholarship dependent on reconstructed 'presence' interpret such absences, silences, and imprecisions in literary texts, the historical record, and visual media?

This conference concerns such moments at the intersection of speech, silence, and wordless expression, inviting papers of eight to ten pages (approximately 2,000 words) on the topic of inarticulacy in the Early Modern period. Aspects to consider include:

Gaps and silences in written records
The visual arts
Translation and its attendant anxieties
Material historicism
Reading or staging silence
The role of material objects or landscape
Religious writing and the limits of human knowledge
Incorporating others’ words (intertextuality)
Ekphrasis
Quantification and taxonomy
Stage history
Protestant logocentrism and its discontents
The inexpressibility topos
Representations of grief and trauma
Censorship and surveillance
Unfinished works

Please submit paper titles and abstracts of no more than 250 words to BerkeleyEarlyModern@gmail.com by September 1, 2011. If you have any questions feel free to contact the conference organizers at the same address. We’ll look forward to reading your submissions!

Stephanie Bahr
Rebecca Munson
Stephanie Moore
Trudy Obi
Jane Raisch
Jason Rozumalski
University of California, Berkeley
Email: berkeleyearlymodern@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://early-modern.org/fall2011conference.html

2011-07-25T09:18:00.001-07:00

CFP: The Audience Through Time
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2011-09-16
Date Submitted: 2011-07-25
Announcement ID: 186766
Call For Papers: The Audience Through Time Conference

Keynote Speaker: Professor Tracy C. Davis, Barber Professor of Performing Arts, Northwestern University
Saturday December 3rd 2011
9am - 6.30pm (followed by drinks reception)
Arts Building, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End, E1 4NS
CFP Deadline: September 16th 2011

http://theaudiencethroughtime.wordpress.com

How have audiences changed through time? Can contemporary theatre spectatorship inform how we understand audiences throughout history? How does historiographic research on audiences relate to present cultures of spectatorship? Using theatre as the core, but not only, focus of discussion, this conference will consider spectatorship across history.

Aims:
- To institute an interdisciplinary dialogue around audiences and spectatorship, particularly in relation to theatre
- To bring together those who specialise in historiographical audience research with scholars of the contemporary.
- To look at the cultural construction of the audience across history from a variety of viewpoints, including the literary text.

Keynote Speaker : Professor Tracy C. Davis
Tracy C. Davis is a specialist in performance theory, theatre historiography, and research methodology. She edits the book series Cambridge Studies in Theatre and Performance Theory.

Chairperson: Dr Bridget Escolme
Bridget Escolme researches and teaches historical theatre and its contemporary production, particularly early modern drama and the ways in which original and current staging practices produce space and subjectivity.

Confirmed Papers:
The female spectator in the eighteenth-century theatrical space A "Classic repeat" Audience?: Ibsen's Ghosts or Those Who Return and contemporary cultures of spectatorship

If you have a paper which you'd like to be considered please read the following, put the required information into a word document, attach and send to theaudiencethroughtime@hotmail.co.uk by September 16th

* Please submit your abstracts (500 words maximum) with a 50 word summary of the abstract.
* Papers should be 20 minutes long, and will be followed by 10 minutes of questions.
* Powerpoint and other AV resources are available; please state clearly the technical requirements of your paper.
* Please include a biography (up to 50 words, including your contact website/email if you wish), your full name, title, area of research and institution of study.
* If you have any further questions, please do also contact us on the above email.
* Please also see our website, theaudiencethroughtime.wordpress.com. If you would like your details to be included on our website (such as personal blog, academia.edu profile etc) please send us any relevant information.

On-line registration for the conference will open in August, please check our website for more details.

All the best,
Anna Kretschmer and Christine Twite
English and Drama Department, Queen Mary, University of London
theaudiencethroughtime@hotmail.co.uk

Anna Kretschmer and Christine Twite
English and Drama Department, Queen Mary, University of London
theaudiencethroughtime@hotmail.co.uk

Email: theaudiencethroughtime@hotmail.co.uk
Visit the website at http://theaudiencethroughtime.wordpress.com

2011-07-08T11:40:00.001-07:00

Conference: Sport in the Early Modern Culture
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2011-08-31
Date Submitted: 2011-07-05
Announcement ID: 186289
Sport in the Early Modern Culture Conference held by the DFG-Network “Body Techniques” in co-operation with the German Historical Institute London Venue: GHI London, November 17th-19th 2011

While the history of sport in the modern period has attracted a great deal of interest in recent years and new approaches have found their way into research, sport and physical exercise in the early modern period is still a rather neglected topic. Our aim is not to continue the well-known discussion of whether or not sport existed in pre-modern times. There were many physical activities beyond the courtly exercises of fencing, riding and dancing, ranging from rowing, wrestling, jeu de paume, soccer and gymnastics to swimming, diving, pall mall, shooting, running and ice skating. The early modern period had professional players as well as sports grounds, training as well as contests, referees as well as public audiences. And sometimes important political and economic issues were at stake.

This conference aims to bring together specialists from diverse disciplines and many nations to view the practice of sport and physical exercise in its cultural context, taking into special consideration social, political and economic influences. Contributions may relate to individual countries, to specific individuals or groups, or to individual sports. As we want to reach beyond the study of normative treatises, we will focus specifically on the following aspects of early modern sports culture:

- practices and materials, e.g. how, where, when and by whom were which sports practised? What equipment was necessary for what kinds of sports and how did sports influence equipment and vice versa? Did the required equipment limit sports to specific classes?

- issues of gender, e.g. how did gender influence and limit the choices of sports? How did sports and physical exercise create notions of manliness and femaleness? Did sports allow notions of gender to be blurred or transgressed?

- economic aspects, e.g. how were materials required for sports produced and distributed? How did the emergence of a sporting culture influence the early modern economy?

- (post)colonial approaches, e.g. to what extent did Asian, African, or native American sporting cultures influence European sports? How were sports transformed and appropriated when they crossed borders or social groups?

Anyone interested in participating is invited to submit a topic for a paper related to one or several aspects outlined above. Papers should be no longer than 35 minutes (plus 15 minutes discussion). Please send a short summary (one page) of the proposed topic with a brief CV to one of the two organizers by 31 August 2011. Travel and accommodation costs will be reimbursed.

Prof. Dr. Rebekka von Mallinckrodt Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut Free University of Berlin Koserstr. 20 14195 Berlin Germany mail: rvm@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Dr Angela Schattner
German Historical Institute London
17 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2NJ
Phone: 020 73092029
Fax: 020 7309 2079

Email: schattner@ghil.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.ghil.ac.uk/call_for_papers.html

2011-07-05T14:11:00.000-07:00

Teaching Fellow
University of York - Department of History

Ref: UoY01328

The Department of History is seeking to recruit a Teaching Fellow, to teach the following courses:

Autumn Term:

To deliver 1st Year Period Topic Module 'Playing politics in Early Modern Europe' (2 Groups)

To support 2nd Year Histories in Context Discussion Group 'The Tudor Regime' (2 Groups)

Spring Term:

To deliver a 2nd Year Explorations Module: 'The British Atlantic World, 1576-1692'

To deliver a 3rd Year Comparative Special Subject: Travel

Summer Term

To deliver workshops supporting 1st year 'Thinking Through History' module

To deliver workshops supporting 2nd year 'Using Primary Materials' module

You will also supervise undergraduate students and assist in the efficient administration of the department. You should have (or have submitted) a PhD in Early Modern History, 1500-1800.

Salary £29,099 to £35,788 per annum. This post is available from 1st October 2011 for a period of up to 9 months.

Closing date: Wednesday 20th July 2011 (midnight).

For further information and to apply on-line, please visit our website: http://www.york.ac.uk/jobs/ Alternatively contact HR Services on 01904 324835 quoting reference number UoY01328.

The University of York is committed to promoting equality and diversi

2011-06-13T12:51:00.001-07:00

Professor (History of Early Modern England)
Durham University - Department of History

Reference Number 1016

Location Durham City

Faculty/Division Arts & Humanities

Grade Grade 10

Position Type Full Time

Contract Type Permanent

Closing Date 8 July 2011

Job Description

Salary: Negotiable within the professorial range

The Department of History seeks to appoint a professor in the history of early modern England to complement and extend its existing academic strengths. Applications are welcomed from individuals with an outstanding record of academic leadership and publication. The post-holder will be expected to undertake and publish excellent research, to provide academic leadership, to take a leading role in securing external research funding, to contribute to research-led education at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and to play a substantial role in departmental management. They will also be expected to develop the use of Durham's excellent archival resources for the study of early modern history through research projects which attract external funding and research students, and to assist in the leadership of early modern studies across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, notably in the Centre for Seventeenth Century Studies.

Interviews will be held on 20th July 2011.

For further information and for an informal discussion contact the Head of Department, Professor Justin Willis, by email: justin.willis@durham.ac.uk or telephone: +44 (0)191 334 1073.

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2011-06-06T07:57:00.000-07:00

Lecturer in Late Seventeenth Century English Literature
University of St Andrews

Lecturer in late seventeenth century English Literature - CD7083 (Ref: 7083)

We seek to appoint a Lecturer specializing in late seventeenth century English Literature (Milton/Restoration) from September 2011. You will have a record of high quality research in the field in the form of a PhD and publications, and will have experience of University level teaching. You will be expected to contribute to sub honours teaching on Milton, and, in the first year, to deliver existing honours modules on Shakespearean and Restoration theatre. Thereafter you will be free to design and deliver honours modules of your own choice. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the School's new MLitts in English Studies and in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Culture. You will join a team of internationally distinguished scholars and creative writers and your own publications will contribute to the School's Research Excellence Framework.

Informal enquiries to Professor Lorna Hutson on lmh10@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Ref No: CD7083

Closing Date: 8 July 2011

Further Particulars CD7083 FPs.doc

2011-05-30T23:53:00.001-07:00

Third Early Modern Symposium: Art against the Wall
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2011-07-15
Date Submitted: 2011-05-24
Announcement ID: 185465
Third Early Modern Symposium: Art against the Wall

Saturday 19 November 2011
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

CALL FOR PAPERS

Art against the Wall is the third symposium of The Courtauld’s Early Modern department. The symposium will provide an occasion for established and emerging scholars to present and discuss their research together.

This one-day symposium will explore the relationship between walls and art in early modern visual culture. During the period 1550-1850 the interplay between work and wall became increasingly complex as art objects began to pull away from the walls which had previously defined them. The enduring association between artistic skill and craft production meant that many art works were often still regarded as elements in overarching decorative schemes; paintings installed in eighteenth-century English domestic interiors, for example, continue to be described as part of the ornamentation, even as the furniture, of a room. Conversely, walls now had the power to redefine art works, giving them a new meaning through a new context; thus, in late sixteenth-century debates on the status of the religious image, walls – which map the division between sacred and secular space – take on crucial importance. Yet the wall could also become art, as the numerous examples of trompe l'oeil wall illustration to be found in seventeenth-century architecture and garden design suggest. Taking as its point of departure Derrida's insight that there can be no clear separation of ergon (work) from parergon (not-the-work, 'wall'), the symposium will attempt to investigate the rich questions raised by the phenomenon of art against the wall.

We welcome contributions relating to paintings, sculptures, decorative schemes, architecture and works on paper. Topics for discussion may include, but are not limited to:

• The wall as display space – the changes in modes of wall display in the early modern period, particularly as they contributed to our current idea of art; conceptual walls as alternative display spaces (e.g. the cabinet); walls as spaces for the re-contextualization of artworks

• The wall in representation – the significance of walls depicted in paintings and other media; walls in theatre and civic spectacle; the portrayal of named or historically-specific walls in art and material culture • The wall as a medium for public memory – the role of walls in the expression of national or cultural identity; ‘creative defacement’ of walls (graffiti, despoliation, whitewashing) as a challenge to established power structures; walls for communication and for spectacle

• The wall as substrate – how physical characteristics of the wall-as-substrate (materials, situation, durability) may affect the artwork it supports; challenges posed by wall art for conservation and technical study; intersections with parietal art

• The wall as a work of art – creative uses of walls and partitions by architects, gardeners and urban planners; trompe l’oeil and illusionism; walls in the service of interior and exterior decoration

• The wall and the image in early modern art writing – how walls were conceptualized in treatises on visual art and related fields; the wall in relation to iconoclasm and the polarization of sacred and secular image; walls as interfaces between public and private realms

Please send proposals of no more than 250 words by 15 July 2011 to thomas.balfe@courtauld.ac.uk and jocelyn.anderson@courtauld.ac.uk

Organised by Thomas Balfe and Jocelyn Anderson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)

Research Forum
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

Email: researchforumevents@courtauld.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2011/autumn/nov19_ArtAgainsttheWall.shtml

2011-05-25T06:32:00.001-07:00

Registration is now open for the:

2011 CHORD (Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution) Conference

'Food and Beverages: Retailing, Distribution and Consumption in Historical Perspective'

7 and 8 September 2011

University of Wolverhampton, UK

Draft programme, abstracts, registration form and further information about the venue and fees are now available at:

http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/2011conf.html

Sessions include:

*

The provision of food in the early-modern period
*

Distribution networks
*

Drinking dens? New perspectives on clubs and public houses c. 1600-2000
*

Introducing novelty and innovation
*

Trade cultures
*

Individualism and the state
*

Family businesses
*

Food technologies
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Gendering the retail and consumption of alcohol in comparative perspective
*

Symbolic meanings and consumer preferences
*

Consumption
*

Foreign cuisine

For further information, please contact Laura Ugolini, at L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.uk

The CHORD web-pages can be found at: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/chord.html

Dr Laura Ugolini
Reader in History

School of Law, Social Sciences and Communications
MC Building
University of Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton
WV1 1LY
E-mail: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk

2011-05-23T13:13:00.000-07:00

Call for papers: Anunal Meeting of Renaissance Society of America, 22-24 March 2012 , Washington DC, USA. Panel: Veil and Veiling in Europe, 1450-1650: Revisiting
Location: Washington, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2011-05-25 (in 2 days)
Date Submitted: 2011-05-19
Announcement ID: 185343
Call for paper: Anunal Meeting of Renaissance Society of America, 22-24 March 2012 , Washington DC, USA.

Panel: Veil and Veiling in Europe, 1450-1650: Revisiting

From St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians and Tertullian’s ‘On the Veiling Virgins’ to the decrees of the Council of Trent, the veil, and the custom of veiling women’s hair, has historically been the premise of discourse regarding gender and religious identity in early and medieval Christian societies. However, the significance and function of the veil became far more complicated in early modern Europe than in previous centuries as early modern European society experienced a crisis of order. Both religious and civic leaders reinforced the need for women to cover their heads and emphasized the veil, including its fabric, style, and colour, as an indicator of women’s different social statuses and, most importantly, their personal and familial honour or shame. Because social norms necessitated that every woman own some form of headcovering, the act of veiling, the refusal to don a veil, or even the way that a woman chose to wear the veil could reveal her regional or ethnic identity, political affiliation, or religious confession.

By using multiple disciplines and sources, it is possible for scholars to put forth a variety of questions about early modern veiling practices, including: 1) How did early modern Europeans define, or redefine, the veil? 2) How has the tradition of veiling challenged during the movements of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation? 3) What were the contemporary religious accounts of veiling women’s hair? 4) How did women consider the necessity to veil themselves? 5) Because the custom of veiling could vary from place to place, to what extent could women negotiate their right of expressing themselves under the legislation of local government and religious authority? 6) What were the consumption patterns of headcoverings, in general? Above all, the session aims to question how we can reconsider the female experience vis-à-vis the veil and the practice of veiling in early modern Europe. Therefore, we would like to invite papers that focus on fresh materials, new angles, or special cases regarding the object of the veil and the custom of veiling. Given that this was a global issue in the early modern world, papers concerning Asia and the Middle East are also welcome and will be presented as contrasting examples.

Please e-mail a short CV and a 150-word draft to both Mary Kovel (University of Arizona) mkovel@email.arizona.edu and Chia-hua Yeh (Queen Mary, University of London) c.h.yeh2011@gmail.com by the 25th of May, 2011.

Mary Kovel (University of Arizona) mkovel@email.arizona.edu and Chia-hua Yeh (Queen Mary, University of London) c.h.yeh2011@gmail.com
Email: mkovel@email.arizona.edu, c.h.yeh2011@gmail.com

2011-05-23T13:08:00.001-07:00

Dissecting the Lower Sensorium: Understanding Smell, Taste, and Touch in Renaissance Literature (NEMLA March 15-18, 2012; Rochester, NY)
Location: New York, United States
Conference Date: 2011-09-30
Date Submitted: 2011-05-18
Announcement ID: 185322
Dissecting the Lower Sensorium: Understanding Smell, Taste, and Touch in Renaissance Literature

This NeMLA seminar will examine Renaissance drama and poetry via the history of the lower sensorium—the senses of smell, taste, and touch. Though the lower senses were often relegated to a secondary position in medical and philosophical texts, they defined every moment of a subject’s daily movements through his or her world. From the taste of the bread and beer that comprised most meals to the overwhelming range of smells that filled every crevice of the early modern city, men and women understood and maneuvered their bodies, encounters, desires, and labor through the three senses comprising the lower sensorium.

As occurred in the Renaissance, these grounding faculties are too often overlooked in contemporary scholarship. Yet, one could argue that no reading of Shakespeare’s King Lear can be considered complete without a thorough conversation about the lower sensorium, as smell (Lear’s stench “of mortality” on his hand), taste (Albany attempts to restore order by claiming, “All friends shall taste the wages of their virtue, and all foes the cup of their deserving”), and touch (Gloucester learn to “see [the world] feelingly”). Here—as in any number of texts from the period—understanding the influence and language of taste, smell, and touch refocus the text’s meaning. Participants will explore aspects of knowledge and sensation and consider the various ways they inform Renaissance drama, poetry, and thought. Papers are encouraged to cover a variety of genres from the period, including religious texts, iconography, cookbooks, and courtesy books. Does understanding how Renaissance subjects experienced the lower sensorium push us to read canonical texts differently? Areas of investigation could include the influence of fashionable aesthetic movements; variations in perception; a range of moral, bodily, and geographic cartographies; cultural issues integral to the arts of gesture; the influence of smell and touch on memory and emotion; and the influence of these senses on literature and thought generally.

Participants will pre-circulate works focused on better understanding how various works of poetry, drama, altered mythologies, and medical texts gave meaning to (and often redefined) bodily senses foundational to the subject’s experience of his or her world.

Please send abstracts (250 words), Name, and Affiliation to Colleen Kennedy (kennedy.623@buckeyemail.osu.edu ) and/or Christopher Madson (cjmadson@buffalo.edu ) by September 30. Full length papers (15-20 minutes reading time) will be due before the conference. Please see the NeMLA site for more information on the conference.

http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/index.html

Colleen Kennedy, The Ohio State University
Christopher Madson, University at Buffalo
Email: kennedy.623@buckeyemail.osu.edu; cjmadson@buffalo.edu

2011-05-23T03:02:00.001-07:00

Lectureship in Early Modern History
University of Birmingham - College of Arts and Law, School of History and Cultures

Starting salary £36,532 to £43,622 a year (potential progression on performance once in post to £49,096 a year).

We are seeking to appoint a specialist in any aspect of early modern British history from c. 1450-1700. While this field is interpreted broadly, we are especially interested in candidates whose work can complement our existing strengths in the Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies, and in particular candidates who work on the cultural, social, religious and political history of the sixteenth century.

The appointment will be expected to consolidate our UG teaching provision, to contribute to postgraduate programmes in early modern history and to help expand PGT and PGR recruitment. S/he will also be expected to work closely with colleagues in the Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies and, if appropriate, the Shakespeare Institute.

There are opportunities in the School of History and Cultures in terms of:

Research:

developing and consolidating existing research interests within the School of History and Cultures, both individually and with others, with a view to publication of high-quality research
initiating and participating in broader, cross-School initiatives, both multi-/inter-disciplinary and with historians working in other Schools of the College of Arts and Law, and/or with colleagues in the College of Social Sciences)

Teaching:

contributing to existing undergraduate courses (special subjects and more generally) and development of both new courses and programmes,
taking a full part in the consolidation and development of postgraduate work, building on initiatives developed by our Centres.

Administration and Career development:

learning about and participating in the organisation and management of a varied and dynamic section in one of Britain's largest redbricks.
opportunities to develop administrative and organisational skills in professional terms

Interviews will be held on 24 June 2011

Expected start date September 2011

Closing date: 3 June 2011 Reference: 21058

To download the details and submit an electronic application online visit: www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs alternatively information can be obtained from 0121 415 9000.

For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Richard Cust or Dr Elaine Fulton, both at the School of History and Cultures, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT. Email: r.p.cust@bham.ac.uk; e.k.fulton@bham.ac.uk

Valuing excellence; sustaining investment

2011-05-19T08:45:00.001-07:00

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in History of Art
University of Birmingham - College of Arts and Law, School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music

Senior Lecturer starting salary £45,336 to £52,556 a year (potential progression on performance once in post to £68,575 a year).

Lecturer starting salary £36,862 to £44,016 a year (potential progression on performance once in post to £49,539 a year)

The Department of Art History is based within the School of Languages, Art History and Music (LCAHM) which forms one of six schools within the College of Arts and Law. The Department is committed to excellent teaching and to research of the highest quality, and to encouraging a full range of research perspectives and methods.

Applications are invited for a Lecturer / Senior in History of Art. The post holder must have a specialism in European and / or American art of the period 1400 to 1800. They should be able to contribute to BA (Hons) and MA and MPhil teaching in this areas, and supervise postgraduate research. They will be expected to take an active part in the strategic development of the history of art curriculum and will also be expected to develop high-level research, ideally in collaboration with both academic and non-academic institutions, such as with Birmingham museums (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Ikon, etc.) or research resources (such as the city library with its vast photographic collections). They may also be required to contribute to interdisciplinary teaching and research with colleagues across the School and the College of Arts and Law.

The position offers an exciting opportunity for a dynamic individual who is able and willing to make a substantial contribution to the further development of the Department.

Closing date: 13 June 2011

Reference: 44494

Informal enquiries may also be directed to Prof. Matthew Rampley, Head of the Department of History of Art, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT.
Tel: 0121 414 8344. E-mail: m.j.rampley@bham.ac.uk.

Applicants are invited to submit their application on-line to us at www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs

You will be asked to provide basic personal information and contact details and give the details of 3 referees. You will then be asked to attach a covering letter and up-to-date curriculum vitae. These documents must be in word format and should address how you would be able to fulfil the requirements of the post. Any applicants who would prefer to submit this information in hard copy should send them to; Human Resources, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT. Tel 0121 415 9000 (24 hours), web. Details from 0121 415 9000 or www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs

Valuing excellence; sustaining investment

2011-05-16T03:55:00.001-07:00

Lectureship in Early Modern English
King's College London - Department of English Language and Literature

Part-Time (0.5 FTE) Fixed Term Lectureship in Early Modern English in the Department of English Language and Literature, King's College London).

Summary
Part-Time (0.5 FTE) Lectureship in Early Modern English, Fixed Term (1 year)

Details
The Department wishes to appoint a part-time fixed-term lecturer in early modern English literature to contribute to teaching at BA and MA level, including the highly successful MA in Early Modern English: Text and Transmission (with the British Library), and MA in Shakespeare Studies (with Shakespeare's Globe). Applicants should have a strong record of research and publication appropriate to their stage of career. The successful candidates will join a dynamic group of early modern scholars in the Department of English and the London Shakespeare Centre, and will be encouraged to participate in the research activities of both groups.

Salary
The appointment will be made, dependent on relevant qualifications and experience, within the Grade 6 scale. The range will be £30,870 to £36,862 per annum pro rata, plus £2,323 London Allowance pro rata.

Contact Information
For informal inquiries, please contact Professor Josephine McDonagh, Head of the Department of English, josephine.mcdonagh@kcl.ac.uk and Professor Ann Thompson, Director of the London Shakespeare Centre, ann.thompson@kcl.ac.uk

Further details and application packs are available on the College's website at www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs, or alternatively by emailing Human Resources at hsrecruit1@kcl.ac.uk. All correspondence should clearly state the job title and reference number A6/AAE/329/11-SC.

Other Information
The closing date for receipt of applications is 14 June 2011.
Interviews will be held in early July 2011.
Start Date: September 2011

Equality of opportunity is College policy

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2011-05-16T00:45:00.001-07:00

2011-05-12T10:01:00.000-07:00

Historicizing Performance in the Early Modern Period
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2012-01-20
Date Submitted: 2011-05-12
Announcement ID: 185164
Plenary Speakers:
Professor Julie Sanders (Nottingham)
Professor Tiffany Stern (Oxford)

This one-day academic conference aims to bring together scholars working on all aspects of performance in the early modern period (taken broadly to include the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries). We intend to interrogate what performance and its related terminologies and practices might have meant to early modern readers, playgoers, and congregations; how performance shaped and/or undermined distinctions between private/public bodies and selves. Although drama is an essential point of reference for this discussion, we encourage that “historicizing performance” be taken as broadly as possible. Topics might include (but are not limited to):
- Plays and play-going
- Music and singing
- Public spectacles, ceremonies and architecture
- Ritual, devotional expression, spirituality / the sermon as performance
- Autobiography and Performative Texts
- Performing gender/ sexuality/ the domestic
- Performance and the performative in theory

Please email abstracts (400 words max.) for a 20 minute paper to Michael Durrant and Naya Tsentourou at: Historicizing.Performance@manchester.ac.uk
Deadline for abstracts: September 23th, 2011
Notifications of acceptance to be sent out by October 14th, 2011

Email: historicizing.performance@manchester.ac.uk

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2011-05-12T09:58:00.000-07:00

Subject: CFP: Interdisciplinary conference on early-modern science, Vancouver 2012
From: JD Fleming
Date: May 11, 2011 1:26:14 PM EDT

SCIENTIAE
Disciplines of knowing in the early-modern world
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, B.C.
April 2012
(Proposal deadline: September 30th, 2011)

http://www.d.umn.edu/~smatthew/Scientiae_Conference_Vancouver.html

Paper and panel proposals are invited for *Scientiae*: a new interdisciplinary conference on early-modern science, to be held in Vancouver, B.C. (under the auspices of Simon Fraser University), April 26th-28th, 2012. The working assumption of the conference is that interdisciplinarity is not only an option, but a necessity, for the study of early-modern culture in its knowledge of the natural world. That is because period science is itself an interdisciplinary function, emerging from Biblical exegesis, advanced design, and literary humanitas; as well as from natural philosophy, alchemy, craft traditions, etc. By the same token, emergent science lends unique coherence to the gathered diversity of early-modern or Renaissance scholarship, when it is taken as an intellectual focal point. *Scientiae* offers a forum for scholars of the period’s art and literature, as well as its intellectual history, to illuminate aspects of early-modern science in the latter’s proper strangeness.

Topics and questions may include, but are by no means limited to:
-- Protestantism and science: a decisive thesis?
-- Nature and scripture: which interprets which?
-- Integrating the Iberian empires – a recalibration, or a transformation?
-- “Experimental” reading.
-- Royal Society rhetoric: how well has it really been understood?
-- Renaissance philosophy and the development of a “new” cosmology and anthropology.
-- Paracelsianism, Neoplatonism, alchemy: where are we now?
-- Invention and discovery: separable economies?
-- Theological origins of the new science.
-- Hermeneutic consequences of the Newtonian settlement.
-- Scholastic scientia and postmodern theory.
-- Early-modern information: is there any?
-- Science and mimesis: reflection, or transformation?
-- Early-modern literature and the new knowledge: friends, or foes?

The plenary speakers for *Scientiae* will be Mario Biagioli and Peter Harrison. Dr. Biagioli is Distinguished Professor of Law and Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Director of the Center for Innovation Studies at the University of California (Davis). Dr. Harrison is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion, Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre, and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College at Oxford University.

Other prominent speakers currently expected at *Scientiae* include: Amir Alexander, Stephen Clucas, Sven Dupré, Angus Gowland, Hakan Hakansson, Kevin Killeen, William Newman, Lawrence Principe, Claire Preston, and Jonathan Sawday. The conference co-organizers are James Dougal Fleming (English, SFU); and Steven Matthews (History, U of Minnesota at Duluth).

All conference sessions will take place at SFU Harbour Centre, overlooking the waterfront in the heart of downtown Vancouver. A conference rate will be available at the Delta Suites Hotel, located directly across the street from Harbour Centre. Rich options for dining, shopping, and entertainment are within walking distance of the conference site. Direct transport links to Vancouver Airport, and to almost anywhere in the metropolitan area, including extensive outdoor recreational opportunities, are available from Waterfront Station, also steps away from Harbour Centre.

Paper and/or panel proposals of no more than 500 words, in Word or .pdf format, by SEPTEMBER 30, 2011, to SILENUS@SFU.CA.

2011-05-12T09:51:00.000-07:00

Lecturer in Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama
University of Nottingham - School of English Studies

Applications are invited for the above post based in the School of English Studies.

The person appointed will cover undergraduate teaching on core, team-taught first- and second-year modules and the provision of specialist option modules in drama and literature for third year students in the area of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, as well as contributing to MA teaching within the School. The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute to team teaching on the Theatre Research MA and a new planned collaborative Masters programme with the School of Education, an MA in Creative and Professional Practice, and may be asked to help with the development of short courses as part of the School's work in the area of continuing and professional development. In addition they will also be expected to contribute fully to the recruitment, supervision and examination of doctoral students.

Candidates should have a PhD in Shakespeare and/or Early Modern Drama and be able to teach on core modules on drama and performance and early modern literature and drama. They should also be willing to use their current research interests in order to develop new modules, and assist with team teaching at MA level, including contributing to delivery of the School's Distance Learning MA and continuing and professional development programmes where appropriate. Teaching experience in higher education will be an advantage.

Salary will be within the range £32,751 - £44,016 per annum, depending on skills and experience, salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance. This full-time, permanent post is available from 1 September 2011.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor Julie Sanders, Head of School,
tel: 0115 846 7040 or email: julie.sanders@nottingham.ac.uk. Please note applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted. Further information about the School is available at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english.

For more details and/or to apply on-line please access: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Jobs/CurrentVacancies/ref/CE04185A. If you are unable to apply on-line please contact the Human Resources Department, tel: 0115 951 3262.

Please quote ref. CE/04185A.

Closing date: 9 June 2011. Interview date: 15 July 2011

For all our vacancies and mor about working at the University of Nottingham see: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Jobs/CurrentVacancies

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2011-05-09T10:18:00.001-07:00

To all Fellows and Members

For information and interest.

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British Academy-funded conference, Gossip, Gospel and Governance: Orality in Europe 1400-1700, to be held at the premises of the British Academy on 14-16 July 2011.

This interdisciplinary conference brings together papers in the fields, of history, literature, theatre and theology, which will be available as podcasts shortly after the end of the conference.

The conference is being organised by Alexander Cowan, F.R Hist S, Visiting Fellow in History, Northumbria University and Lesley Twomey, Principal Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Northumbria University.

To register for the conference go to:

https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/humanities/history/research/groups/memgroup/events/sassconf7/?view=page3

2011-05-09T08:22:00.001-07:00

Religious deviance in the Reformational and Confessional age
Location: Germany
Date Submitted: 2011-05-03
Announcement ID: 184963
The conference “Religious deviance in the Reformational and Confessional Age” looks at practices of labeling and other methods of dealing with religious deviance from 1500 to and 1700. Previous research has focused on questions of religious identity, multi- or interconfessionality and the social practices of persecuted groups. However, issues concerning the attributing and labeling of religious deviance and the practical implications thereof have been widely neglected. This conference aims at bring these aspects into sharper focus.

Under the concept of deviance, we understand two linked notions: religious or confessional heterodoxy, and moral (e.g. sexual) conduct that could be regarded as unchristian or godless. The relationship between the two types of deviance is crucial to understand contemporary attitudes; the comparing and contrasting these concepts raises questions of interconfessional parallels and differences in the handling of religious deviance, and its processes of construction, stigmatization and sanction. We hope to question the idea of the corpus christianum as a unified body of belief and moral strictures, by examining alternative frameworks operative in early modern societies and (civic) communities. The basic assumption, that deviance is best understood as a relative concept, allows for the analysis of different levels of norms and actors (including both norm givers and norm followers). This approach also takes into account the associations between construction of deviance and norms, norm-giving authorities and related social groups. This includes arguments and figures of speech that explain or justify the punishing and persecution of religious deviance (e.g. the ‚wrath of god‘). Further, apart from the practices and processes of labeling by others, the conference wants to shed light on the self-image of the so-called ‘deviant’. Here, we are interested in how groups or individuals positively appropriated pejorative or stigmatizing labels. What effect for example did the pressure of social conformity have on the self-willed (the “Eigensinnigen”) in an environment of confessional heterogeneity (dissimulation, indifference, conversion)?

As the example of the different affiliations of the Anabaptists reveal, those described as deviant could not only reject the label but turn it on its head by claiming that the larger environment dissented from Christian ideals and norms. By presenting a range of papers on these issues, we hope to bring out the multi-dimensional nature of religious deviance.

We invite contributions focusing on the various forms of religiously labeled deviance – in a wide range from heresy and blasphemy, tumult, moral offences and magic, to domestic disorder or alcoholism – based on case studies or comparative works on towns, cities or territories. Relevant papers from the disciplines of political history, history of law, art history or literary history are also welcome.

The conference will be held at Technical University of Dresden from March 8-10, 2012 organized by the Collaborative Research Centre 804 “Transcendence and Common Sense” and its research project “Gottlosigkeit und Eigensinn. Religiöse Devianz in der Frühen Neuzeit” under the direction of Prof. Dr. Gerd Schwerhoff. As an application, please send a short abstract (about 300 words) in English or German and a brief description of your academic career to Eric Piltz (Eric.Piltz@tu-dresden.de) by June 10, 2011.

Prof. Dr. Gerd Schwerhoff
Collaborative Research Centre 804
"Transcendence and Common Sense"
Project F
01062 Dresden
Germany
Phone:(0049)0351 663-35720
Fax:(0049)0351 463-37774

Email: eric.piltz@tu-dresden.de
Visit the website at http://www.sfb804.de

2011-05-09T08:19:00.001-07:00

Call for Papers: Attending to Early Modern Women: Remapping Routes and Spaces
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2011-08-31
Date Submitted: 2011-05-07
Announcement ID: 185062
Call for Proposals
Attending to Early Modern Women: Remapping Routes and Spaces Milwaukee, Wisconsin June 21-June 23, 2012

Attending to Early Modern Women, which has been held seven times at the University of Maryland since 1990, is moving to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, thanks to the generous support of the College of Letters and Science at UWM. The conference will retain its innovative format, using a workshop model for most of its sessions to promote interdisciplinary dialogue, augmented by a keynote, and a plenary session on each of the four conference topics: communities, environments, exchanges, and pedagogies. It will be held at the UWM School of Continuing Education Conference Center in the heart of downtown Milwaukee, within easy walking distance of the lakeshore, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Milwaukee Public Museum, and the Amtrak station. Attendees will stay in the near-by and newly renovated Doubletree Hotel. The conference will run from Thursday June 21 through Saturday June 23, 2012, and attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in a special pre-conference seminar on Wednesday June 20 at the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

Detailed instructions on submitting workshop proposals may be found on the conference website: www.atw2012.uwm.edu

Attending to Early Modern Women: Remapping Routes and Spaces

How did women situate themselves in the early modern world, and how did they move through it, in both real and imaginary locations? How did gender figure in understandings of spatial realms, from the inner space of the body to the outer spaces of the cosmos? How do new disciplinary and geographic connections shape the ways in which we think, write, and teach about the early modern world? Taking as our inspiration the move of Attending to Early Modern Women from Maryland to Milwaukee, we will consider these issues in relationship to the following topics:

Communities
Women’s actions in neighborhoods, villages, cities, states, and empires; family and kinship networks; establishing and breaching boundaries in sexual and gender expression; religious communities; exclusions, exiles, and expulsions.

Environments
Gendered landscapes and soundscapes; the body and its borders; built and invented realms and frontiers; cartographic spaces; gender and the new cosmology and anatomy.

Exchanges
Travel, migration, and displacement; imagined spatial crossings; new interdisciplinary connections; the circulation of manuscripts, books, objects, and ideas; consumerism and material culture; transnational and transoceanic links.

Pedagogies
Traveling new routes in teaching; the virtual spaces of technology and teaching; early modern women in the realm of museums and galleries for adults and children; issues in academic institutions and in publishing.

Merry Wiesner-Hanks
History
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201
414-229-4529
Email: merrywh@uwm.edu
Visit the website at http://www.atw2012.uwm.edu

2011-05-09T08:17:00.001-07:00

‘PRINT NETWORKS’ CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH BOOK TRADE
Location: United Kingdom
Conference Date: 2011-07-19
Date Submitted: 2011-05-05
Announcement ID: 185014
This year's conference is on 'RELIGION AND THE BOOK TRADE' and will be held at the

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES, ABERYSTWYTH, 19-21 July 2011

Booking is now open. For details, booking form and provisional programme, please see the British Book Trade Index website: www.bbti.bham.ac.uk/Print%20Networks/index.htm

Guest speakers: Cathy Shrank, University of Sheffield, and Eryn White,Aberystwyth University.

Timothy Cutts
Email: timothy.cutts@llgc.org.uk
Visit the website at http://www.bbti.bham.ac.uk/Print%20Networks/index.htm

2011-05-05T03:48:00.001-07:00

Subject: Colloquia at the University of Reading, May 2011
From: "Richard W. Hoyle"
Date: May 4, 2011 5:20:20 PM EDT

Colleagues are invited to two colloquia sponsored by the Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading, to be held in May 2011:

Thursday 12 May 2011: Colloquium: Friendship, Politics, and the Uses of History, 11 am-6pm. Speakers:

Jacqueline Rose ( Newnham College, Cambridge): ‘Friendship and Flattery in the Politics of History and Counsel’; Kate Loveman (University of Leicester): ‘Pepys, patronage and scholarly service’; Freyja Cox-Jensen (Christ Church, Oxford): ‘‘Et tu, Brute?’: friendship, betrayal and the uses of Roman history’; Abigail Williams (St Peter’s College, Oxford): ‘Friendship and the intimacy of letters in Swift's Journal to Stella’; Keynote lecture: Prof. Blair Worden (University of Oxford): ‘Friendship, Politics, and the Uses of History: Clarendon and Ben Jonson’

There will be a charge of £10 for refreshments (postgraduates free). If you wish to attend, please book a place by e-mailing Astrid House (a.house@reading.ac.uk), stating that you wish to attend the EMRC colloquium on 12 May 2011.

26 May 2011: Colloquium: Empire in the late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: New Perspectives, 11.30-5.30 pm. Speakers: Gabriel Glickman (Hertford College, Oxford): ‘Imperial failure and the political imagination in late Stuart England’;

Esther Mijers (University of Reading): ‘William III and empire’; Ric Whaite (University of Notre Dame): ‘Material Culture and Atlantic Protestantism: Gift-Objects in the Hollisian Benefaction, 1721-1731’; Keynote lecture: Steve Pincus (Yale University): ‘Popular politics and empire during the war of the Austrian Succession’

There is no charge for attending, but numbers are limited, so please book a place by e-mailing Astrid House (a.house@reading.ac.uk), stating that you wish to attend the EMRC colloquium on 26 May 2011.

Please feel free to circulate further.

Richard Hoyle
Professor of Rural History,
University of Reading
Whiteknights,
Reading,
RG6 6AA, UK

2011-05-03T00:24:00.001-07:00

University of Guelph, History

Assistant Professor, 3-Year Contractually Limited, Medieval and Early Modern European History

Institution Type: College / University
Location: Ontario, Canada
Position: Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

The University of Guelph invites applications for a three-year contractually-limited position in Medieval and Early Modern European History, effective 1 August 2011 at the rank of Assistant Professor. Preference will be given to those applicants with a completed PhD. The appointee will be expected to contribute to undergraduate teaching at all levels; the ability to teach upper level courses in the History of Sexuality or Gender will be welcomed. Demonstrated commitment to teaching and research excellence is required. Engagement with web-based teaching approaches is desirable.

The University of Guelph=s History Department participates in the Tri-University Graduate Program (M.A. and PhD), and contributes to undergraduate teaching in the University of Guelph=s Bachelor of Arts and Sciences program, European Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and International Development Studies.

Applicants should send curriculum vitae together with statement of research and teaching interests, and should arrange to have three letters of reference sent to Dr. Peter Goddard, Chair, Department of History, University of Guelph, Guelph ON N1G 2W1. Deadline: 30 May 2011.

http://www.uoguelph.ca/history/

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

The University of Guelph is committed to an employment equity program that includes special measures to achieve diversity among its faculty and staff. We therefore particularly encourage applications from qualified aboriginal Canadians, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities and women.

Contact:

Dr. Peter Goddard, Chair
Department of History
University of Guelph
Guelph, ON N1G 2W1
pgoddard@uoguelph.ca
519-824-4120 ext. 54460
Website: http://www.uoguelph.ca/history/
Primary Category: European History / Studies
Secondary Categories: Medieval and Byzantine History / Studies
Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Posting Date: 05/02/2011
Closing Date 05/30/2011

2011-05-03T00:23:00.001-07:00

Part-time Lecturer in History (fixed term)
Newman University College

Salary scale: £29,972 to £33,734 per annum (pro rata)

Required from 1st September 2011 to 30th June 2012, an enthusiastic historian to teach on a broad range of modules for undergraduates on the Combined and Single Honours history programmes, including supervision of dissertations and work placements.

Candidates should possess a postgraduate qualification in a relevant area of study, and should have experience of teaching history at undergraduate level. They will be able to demonstrate a sound understanding of the recent developments in early Modern British History.

This post is offered on a part-time 0.4 FTE contract.

Applicants wishing to have an informal discussion about the post should contact Dr Ian Cawood on 0121 476 1181 ext 2244, or by e-mail on i.cawood@newman.ac.uk

If this post interests you, further details and application form may be obtained from:
www.newman.ac.uk/jobs or alternatively e-mail: humanresources@newman.ac.uk or telephone 0121 476 1181 ext 2398.

Closing date for applications: Friday 20th May 2011

Newman University College is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome applications from candidates regardless of ethnic origin, religious belief, sexual orientation, disability, gender or age.

2011-05-02T12:27:00.001-07:00

Registration now open: 'Documenting the Early Modern Book World: Inventories and Catalogues in Manuscript and Print'
Location: United Kingdom
Conference Date: 2011-07-07
Date Submitted: 2011-04-29
Announcement ID: 184907
The Third Book History Conference will be taking place in St Andrews, between the 7-9th of July. The conference will discuss book inventories and catalogues in manuscript and print, between the 15th to the 18th century (see description below) with confirmed papers on printers’ and booksellers’ lists, private collectors, discussions of the fate of specific items, the collections of religious institutions. It will cover areas from the Baltic to Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Spain, France, Germany, and the British Isles.

It has become customary in documenting the world of early printed books to rely primarily on surveys of survivors: that is, books that have weathered the buffeting of history to reach the comparative safety of modern library collections. Most national bibliographical catalogues are aggregates of the holdings of library catalogues; faute de mieux these are taken to offer a reasonable account of the original output.

But the urge to list, catalogue and advertise the wealth of the new printed book culture was just as strong in the first age of books. Printers made lists of their available stock; owners proudly catalogued their libraries; assessors inventoried collections and stock as part of the settlement of estates, or legal proceedings. In an age of religious discord, censorship required the publication of lists of forbidden books (though at the risk of advertising their contents); book-sellers’ shelves, private and public libraries were examined for forbidden material.

These various classes of lists contain indispensable material on various aspects of the 16th century book trade: on cost, retail pricing, second hand values, binding and library practice. They allow the reconstruction of lost or dispersed libraries. They also document many thousands of titles and editions that have now disappeared altogether.

Dr Natasha Constantinidou
School of History
University of St Andrews
Universal Short Title Catalogue Project (AHRC USTC)
www.ustc.ac.uk
Email: nac21@st-andrews.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.ustc.ac.uk/?page_id=722

2011-05-02T03:13:00.001-07:00

Subject: Religion in the British Isles 1400-1700 seminar, Oxford
From: Judith Maltby
Date: May 1, 2011 8:09:12 AM EDT

FACULTY OF HISTORY & FACULTY OF THEOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Trinity Term 2011
www.history.ox.ac.uk

Religion in the British Isles 1400–1700:
Graduate Seminar

Thursdays at 5 pm in the Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College, Merton Street,

Oxford. Refreshments follow in room 2.4

5th May Euan Cameron (Columbia University) ‘The Debate over Superstitions and the Struggle for a British Protestant Identity’

12th May Eric Carlson (Gustavus Adolphus College) ‘The Seven Deadly Sins in the English Post-Reformation’

19th May Stephen Hampton (Peterhouse, Cambridge) ‘ “A complete mirror of innovation, superstition and oppression”: the theology of Matthew Wren’

26th May Nicholas Orme (Exeter University) ‘Altering the Stripping: the English Reformation as evolution, not revolution’

2nd June Anthony Milton (Sheffield University) ‘The foreign Reformed churches and England's Second Reformation 1636-62’

9th June Kate Olsen (Bangor University) ‘ “Only keeping Christ’s name in their memories?” Reformation, Devotion, and Literature in Wales’

16th June Grant Tapsell (St Andrews University) ‘The Politic Hermit: William Sancroft's Correspondence’

23rd June Felicity Heal (Jesus College, Oxford) ‘The Bishops and the Printers from Henry VII to Elizabeth I’

Felicity Heal, Jesus
Diarmaid MacCulloch, St Cross
Judith Maltby, Corpus
Sarah Mortimer, Christ Church

2011-05-02T03:12:00.001-07:00

Subject: Literature And History In Early Modern England Seminar, Oxford
From: "Paulina Kewes"
Date: May 2, 2011 4:54:53 AM EDT

LITERATURE AND HISTORY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

This seminar will be held on Mondays at 5pm in the Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College.

2 May: Helen Cooper (University of Cambridge)
'Thomas of Erceldoune, the Faerie Queene and the Advent of the Stuarts'

9 May: Paul Hammond (University of Leeds)
'Milton and the Vulgar'

16 May: James Carley (York University, Toronto)
'Foxe's Books: Those That Didn't Get to Magdalen'

23 May: Gemma Allen (Pembroke College, Oxford)
'Female Humanists and Reading in Sixteenth-century England: The Libraries of the Cooke Sisters'

30 May: Brian Cummings (University of Sussex)
'Counterfeit Ritual: Theatre & Memory in Shakespeare'

6 June: Steve Pincus (Yale)
'Swift, Political Economy and Empire'

13 June: Tania Demetriou (St John's College, Oxford)
'Shakespeare's Nobodies'

20 June: Elizabeth Goldring (University of Warwick)
'Painter, Poet, Historian, Herald: Sir William Segar and the Culture of the Early Modern College of Arms'

ALL ARE WELCOME

Paulina Kewes (Jesus) and Susan Brigden (Lincoln)

Dr Paulina Kewes
Tutor and Fellow in English Literature
Jesus College
Oxford OX1 3DW

2011-04-26T00:23:00.001-07:00

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 906.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:17:55 -0400
From: "Friedlander, Ari"
Subject: Text Creation Partnership Makes 18th-Century Texts Freely Available to the Public

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the attached press release for an announcement from the University of Michigan Library. It is also pasted below, for your convenience.

Thanks,
Ari Friedlander
Outreach Coordinator, Text Creation Partnership
University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor
http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/index.html
(734) 615-0038
Contact: Ari Friedlander (arifried@umich.edu)
Kristina Massari (kristina.massari@cengage.com)

Text Creation Partnership makes 18th century texts freely available to the public

(Ann Arbor, MI-April 25, 2011) - The University of Michigan Library announced the opening to the public of 2,231 searchable keyed-text editions of books from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). ECCO is an important research database that includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. ECCO contains more than 32 million pages of text and over 205,000 individual volumes, all fully searchable. ECCO is published by Gale, part of Cengage Learning.

The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) produced the 2,231 keyed texts in collaboration with Gale, which provided page images for keying and is permitting the release of the keyed texts in support of the Library's commitment to the creation of open access cultural heritage archives. Gale has been a generous partner, according to Maria Bonn, Associate University Librarian for Publishing. "Gale's support for the TCP's ECCO project will enhance the research experience for 18th century scholars and students around the world."

Laura Mandell, Professor of English and Digital Humanities at Miami University of Ohio, says, "The 2,231 ECCO texts that have been typed by the Text Creation Partnership, from Pope's Essay on Man to a 'Discourse addressed to an Infidel Mathematician,' are gems." Mandell, a key collaborator on 18thConnect, an online resource initiative in 18th century studies, says that the TCP is "a groundbreaking partnership that is creating the highest quality 18th century scholarship in digital form."

This announcement marks another milestone in the work of the TCP, a partnership between the University of Michigan and Oxford University, which since 1999 has collaborated with scholars, commercial publishers, and university libraries to produce scholar-ready (that is, TEI-compliant, SGML/XML enhanced) text editions of works from digital image collections, including ECCO, Early English Books Online (EEBO) from ProQuest, and Evans Early American Imprint from Readex.
The TCP has also just published 4,180 texts from the second phase of its EEBO project, having already converted 25,355 books in its first phase, leaving 39,000 yet to be keyed and encoded. According to Ari Friedlander, TCP Outreach Coordinator, the EEBO-TCP project is much larger than ECCO-TCP because pre-1700 works are more difficult to capture with optical character recognition (OCR) than ECCO's 18th-century texts, and therefore depend entirely on the TCP's manual conversion for the creation of fully searchable editions.

Friedlander explains that, for a limited period, the EEBO-TCP digital editions are available only to subscribers-ten years from their initial release-as per TCP's agreement with the publisher. Eventually all TCP-created titles will be freely available to scholars, researchers, and readers everywhere under the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark (PDM).

Paul Courant, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, says that large projects such as those undertaken by the TCP are only possible when the full range of library, scholarly, and publishing resources are brought together. "The TCP illustrates the dynamic role played by today's academic research library in encouraging library collaboration, forging public/private partnerships, and ensuring open access to our shared cultural and scholarly record."

More than 125 libraries participate in the TCP, as does the Joint Information Systems (JISC), which represents many British libraries and educational institutions.

To learn more about the Text Creation Partnership, visit www.lib.umich.edu/tcp http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp . To learn more about ECCO, visit http://gdc.gale.com/products/eighteenth-century-collections-online/.

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2011-04-21T00:15:00.001-07:00

Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:29:56 +0200
From: Arianna Ciula
Subject: ESF call for research conferences

Call for Conference Proposals

The European Science Foundation invites researchers to submit proposals for research conferences to take place in 2013.

The call covers Molecular Biology, Physics/Biophysics, Environmental Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.

Successful proposals will be organised within the framework of the ESF Research Conferences Scheme and will be awarded a conference grant of up to EUR 40.000.

Submission Deadline: 15 September 2011.

Further information can be found at: www.esf.org/conferences/call

==
Dr. Arianna Ciula
Science Officer for the Humanities

European Science Foundation
1 quai Lezay Marnésia
BP 90015
F-67080 Strasbourg
France

Email: aciula@esf.org
Tel: +33 (0) 388767104

2011-04-21T00:14:00.000-07:00

Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:31:18 +0200
From: Arianna Ciula
Subject: ESF: 2011 Call for Exploratory Workshops OPEN

ESF announces the launch of the 2011 Call for Exploratory Workshops.

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The Call is open to proposals across all scientific domains. The focus of the scheme is to foster meetings that aim to open up new directions in research or to explore emerging research fields with potential impact on new developments in science. Proposals should also demonstrate the potential for initiating follow-up actions. Proposals will be evaluated on the potential to create breakthroughs and form the basis for new areas of research and/or innovative applications, or the changing of paradigms.

ESF Exploratory Workshops awards are intended for small, interactive and output-oriented discussion meetings of minimum 15, maximum 30 participants and up to a maximum value of 15000 EUR. Awards are for workshops to be held in the calendar year 2012 (1 February - 31 December). Deadline for receipt of proposals: 26 May 2011 (16:00 CET). Full details at http://www.esf.org/workshops
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Dr. Arianna Ciula
Science Officer for the Humanities

European Science Foundation
1 quai Lezay Marnésia
BP 90015
F-67080 Strasbourg
France

Email: aciula@esf.org
Tel: +33 (0) 388767104

2011-04-20T12:08:00.001-07:00

'The Fabric of Community. Parish Material Cultures in Perspective' Ninth Warwick Symposium on Parish Research
Location: United Kingdom
Symposium Date: 2011-05-21
Date Submitted: 2011-04-12
Announcement ID: 184557
This one-day cross-disciplinary conference will examine how scholars engage with works of art, architecture, and other objects associated with late medieval and early modern parishes. Our speakers will offer a variety of perspectives on use of the ‘fabric’ of parish churches as both a subject and source of evidence. More widely, the conference will highlight the risks and rewards for interdisciplinary endeavour. Delegates should anticipate lively debate and an exploration of the methodological implications of the material aspects of parish life in both British and wider European contexts.

Keynote Speakers:
• Professor Nicholas Orme (University of Exeter, Department of History)
Title: Doorways to Another World: Medieval Chapels in the Landscape, Church Life and Literature

• Dr Kate Giles (University of York, Department of Archaeology)
Title: Stratford-upon-Avon Guild Chapel, Warwickshire: a Medieval Guild Chapel and its Antiquarian Study

• Dr Federico Botana (Courtauld Institute of Art)
Title: The Case of San Nicola at San Vittore del Lazio

• Dr Jennifer Alexander and Sofija Matich (University of Warwick, Department of History of Art)
Title: Creating and Recreating the Tombs to the Dukes of York in Fotheringhay Church

Venue:
IATL Studio
Millburn House, University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7AL

Date: Saturday 21 May 2011, 11 am – 6 pm

Dr Joanne Anderson
Department of History of Art
University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7Al

Don White
Department of History
University of Warwick
Coventry, CV 7AL

Email: joanne.w.anderson@warwick.ac.uk ; dpwhite3@aol.com
Visit the website at http://go.warwick.ac.uk/parishsymposium

2011-04-20T12:05:00.001-07:00

Angels of Light?: Sanctity and Discernment of Spirits in Early Modern Europe
Location: United Kingdom
Symposium Date: 2011-05-20 (in 30 days)
Date Submitted: 2011-04-14
Announcement ID: 184605
Location: Balliol College, Oxford
Dates: 20-21 May 2011
Registration fee: £30 (including lunch)

The people of early modern Europe were well aware of Paul’s warning in 2 Cor 11:14 that Satan could transform himself into an angel of light. Protestants and Catholics alike, as they sought to discern true sanctity from false hypocrisy and divine miracles from demonic wonders, worried about the proximity of the demonic and the divine. The problem of Discernment of Spirits confronted mystics such as Teresa of Avila and Ignatius of Loyola, and preoccupied the scholastic Jean Gerson and the humanist Erasmus. Even if the terminology was Catholic, discernment posed a problem to Christians of all denominations. This interdisciplinary symposium explores the manifold ways Christians approached this gordian knot, both necessary and necessarily problematic, in an era of competing confessional identities.

The keynote speakers are Prof Euan Cameron (Union Theological Seminary/Columbia) and Prof Stuart Clark (Swansea).
Jan Machielsen
Balliol College
Oxford
OX1 4EW
United Kingdom
Email: jan.machielsen@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/events/angels_of_light.pdf

2011-04-19T22:58:00.001-07:00

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:36:21 +0100
From: Iter
Subject: Announcing Iter Community, a new collaboration resource

To: All participants in the RSA New Technology and Renaissance Studies sessions, and in the ITER/MRTS New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies book series
Announcing Iter Community, a new collaboration resource
We are very pleased to be in touch with news of interest to Iter users, across the 400 or so institutions served by it, of Iter Community. Initially proposed via discussion with members of the several-hundred-strong community participating in the Iter-sponsored New Technology gatherings at the Renaissance Society of America, at its heart Iter Community offers to enhance our interactions by augmenting the Iter Bibliography and by providing new collaboration tools.
Iter Community helps you to make better use of your Iter Bibliography, providing you with research options beyond those of standard bibliographic resources:

- The Iter Bibliography contains 1.1 million records and provides a powerful search interface -- with faceted searching, relevance ranking, automatic spelling corrections, did-you-mean suggestions, and automatic combined searching of English/US spellings as well as singular/plural forms.

- Additional features include:

o Zotero support
o RefWorks integration
Zotero and RefWorks are two web-based reference management tools that enable you to build, organize, and share annotated bibliographies with fellow researchers.
o Open-URL links to full text
o RSS feeds for every search

Iter Community supports online interaction and workspaces for academic organisations, collegial research area groups, and project specific teams, via access to the Drupal Commons:

- Drupal Commons is social software that facilitates forming collaborative communities, through a combination of popular social web features.

- Using Iter’s Drupal Commons facility, you can:

o Create community groups that can engage in online discussions, sharing of documents, and much, much more
o Set up personal or group blogs
o Establish wikis for community writing and conveyance
o Conduct online polls within the Iter Community
o Share event announcements on the Iter Community calendar

For more information, please
• Visit http://community.itergateway.org/, learn more about the features available to those in the Iter Community, and join the group. A user name and password will be e-mailed to you shortly!
• Follow us on Twitter, @iter_community

You will also be pleased to hear that William Bowen and Ray Siemens are organizing additional conference sessions that document innovative ways in which computing technology is being incorporated into the scholarly activity of our community. Please look for announcements regarding the 2011 SCSC meeting (27-30 October) in Fort Worth, TX, and the 2012 RSA meeting (22-24 March) in Washington, DC. Also, take note that the 3rd volume of essays in the NTMRS series will soon be launched. The volume, Digitizing Material Culture, is edited by Brent Nelson and Melissa Terras.

Looking forward to your thoughts on Iter Community!
The Iter Team

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Iter
University of Toronto Libraries
Suite 7009
130 St. George St.
Toronto, ON M5S 1A5 Canada

(416) 978-7074 | http://www.itergateway.org | iter@utoronto.ca

2011-04-19T10:02:00.000-07:00

Senior Lecturer / Lecturer in Early Modern Literature
English Studies
University of Stirling - School of Arts and Humanities

£29,972 - £52,556 p.a.

Applications are invited for either a Lecturer or a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature and Drama. Preference will be given to applicants who have the capacity to make an excellent contribution to the research profile of English Studies within the new School of Arts and Humanities. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute strategically to research, teaching and administration; to assist in maintaining the academic profile of English Studies among the wider scholarly community; to contribute to increasing research income; to develop new postgraduate opportunities and to take an active role in the affairs of the School. English Studies has major established research strengths in areas ranging from the Medieval to the Modern periods, and it would be an advantage if applicants were able, in addition to their own demonstrable primary expertise, to contribute to one or more of these areas of its activities. A Senior Lectureship may be available to an appropriately qualified candidate.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Mrs Jacqui Harrop, Administrator, English Studies, (email: jacqui.harrop@stir.ac.uk) or to Professor John Drakakis (email jd1@stir.ac.uk)

Further particulars and an Application Form can be found on www.hr-services.stir.ac.uk and are available from the HR & OD Department, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, telephone 01786 467028, fax 01786 466155 or email hr-services@stir.ac.uk

Closing date for applications is Tuesday, 10th May 2011 at 12 noon.

It is anticipated that interviews will take place on either the 13th or 14th June 2011.

Please Quote Reference no: 500/7840

www.hr-services.stir.ac.uk

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

2011-04-18T23:45:00.001-07:00

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP)
will sponsor four panels at the Renaissance Society of America's annual
meeting in Washington, D.C., 22-24 March 2012.

Organized by Steven W. May, Anne Lake Prescott and Michael Ullyot, SHARP
@ RSA links the RSA with scholars studying the creation, dissemination,
and reception of script and print.

We invite submissions that consider English and Continental books and
manuscripts from 1350 to 1700, within one or more of these four topics:

1. WHEN READERS WRITE: What led manuscript anthologists to copy the
texts they did? An enormous volume of transcribed works in prose and
verse circulated widely in early modern England and the Continent. What
can we learn about contemporary interests and taste from the choices
reflected in a given document or documents?

2. DRESSING GENDER IN PRINT: How did printers or editors exploit the
gender of an author on their title pages or paratexts? Did they often
(or ever) in fact treat male and female writers differently?

3. MANICULES AND THE 'DIGITAL' HUMANITIES: What are digital humanists
doing now with early modern books and manuscripts? Ann M Blair recently
argued that medieval and early modern systems of "managing textual
information in an era of exploding publications" are precedents for
modern information management systems. Do early reference books,
annotations and compilations inform, anticipate, or otherwise influence
our computer-assisted thinking?

4. THE INTERSECTION OF MANUSCRIPT AND PRINT: It has become increasingly
clear that scribal and print culture were complexly intertwined during
the Renaissance. What do we learn about the transmission of texts and
contemporary regard for both media from works that appeared in both and
authors who published in script and print?

Please send paper titles and abstracts (150 words) and one-paragraph CVs
to *each* of the three organizers: < ullyot@ucalgary.ca > and
and < steven_may@georgetowncollege.edu > by
*Friday, 6 May 2011* (this is earlier than RSA's own deadline).

For more information on SHARP, see < http://www.sharpweb.org/ >.

For more information on the Renaissance Society of America, see <
http://rsa.org/ >. All participants must be members of the RSA by August
2012 or they cannot be included in the programme.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Michael Ullyot, Assistant Professor
Department of English, University of Calgary
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~ullyot/ | @ullyot | 403.220.4656

2011-04-17T12:47:00.001-07:00

Tudor & Stuart
Convenors: Prof Pauline Croft (RHUL), Simon Healy (History of Parliament) Prof Richard Hoyle (Reading), Dr Michael Questier (QMUL), Dr. Rivkah Zim (KCL)

Venue: Wolfson Room, IHR

Time: Monday, 5.15pm
Summer Term 2011 16 May

Professor Peter Lake, (Vanderbilt University)

Conspiracies and Consequences: Some Thoughts on the Significance of Catholic Secret Histories of Elizabeth's Reign
13 June

Professor Catherine Patterson, (University of Houston)

Whose City? Civic Government and Episcopal Power in Salisbury, 1590-1640
20 June

Dr Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Another Charles restored in 1660? The re-establishment of the Court of Charles of Lorraine

(Joint seminar with the Society for Court Studies)

Please note: this session takes place in Stewart House, 2nd floor, Room ST274/5
27 June

Professor Michael Questier (QMUL)

Sermons, Separatists and the Succession in late Elizabethan England

2011-04-17T12:46:00.001-07:00

Religious History of Britain 1500-1800

Convenors: David Crankshaw (KCL), Liz Evenden (Brunel University), Kenneth Fincham (University of Kent), Andrew Foster (University of Kent), Tom Freeman (University of Sheffield), Susan Hardman Moore (University of Edinburgh), Arnold Hunt (British Library), Nicholas Tyacke (UCL), Brett Usher (University of Reading)

Venue: Germany Room, IHR

Time: Tuesday, 5.00pm
Summer Term 2011 3 May

Anthony Rustell

Evangelical survivalism in Norfolk 1553-8: the careers of Protestant clerics and their patrons in the reign of Mary Tudor
17 May

Nicholas Tyacke (UCL)

Iconoclasm, Alienation and Rebirth: Peterhouse and its chapel in the context of the English Reformation
31 May

(Stephen Taylor, Natalie Mears and Lucy Bates)

An overview of the Project's early modern findings to date

Durham University State Prayers Project
14 June

Neil Younger (Vanderbilt)

How Protestant was the Elizabethan regime?
28 June

Jaime Goodrich (Wayne)

Confessional Politics at the English Benedictine Convent in Brussels, 1620-1623

2011-04-17T12:40:00.001-07:00

British History in the 17th Century

Convenors: Dr Laura Stewart (Birkbeck, UoL), Justin Champion (RHUL), John Miller (QMUL), Dr Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths), Dr Jason Peacey (UCL)

Venue: Germany Room, IHR (please note the change of venue)

Time: Thursday, 5.15pm
Summer Term 2011 28 April

Noah Millstone (Stanford, USA)

Dependence, independence and the problem of the Caroline regime's 'absolutist' ambitions, 1626-1639
12 May

Richard Cust (Birmingham)

The Great Council of Peers (September-October 1640) and Noble Power on the eve of the Civil War
26 May

Phil Withington (Cambridge)

Intoxicants and Society in early modern England
9 June

Rupa Mishra (Auburn, USA)

Charles I, the East India Company and the Persia Trade
23 June

David Coast (Sheffield)

The Fountain of News: Manipulating and Suppressing Diplomatic Information in late Jacobean England

2011-04-17T12:18:00.001-07:00

ON RESENTMENT, Interdisciplinary Workshop on the History of Emotions
Location: Switzerland
Call for Papers Date: 2011-06-30
Date Submitted: 2011-04-13
Announcement ID: 184575
Call for Papers

On Resentment

An Interdisciplinary Workshop on the History of Emotions organised by L’Institut d’Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé and El Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spanish Scientific Council)

26, 27, 28th October, University of Geneva

This workshop aims at exploring from an interdisciplinary approach the nature of resentment and its diverse psychological, cultural and social manifestations in order to reveal how this emotion has played a decisive role in history. Contributions are sought from scholars working in the history of emotions, who are interested in exploring the different forms adopted by resentment in individuals, groups and institutions. A selection of papers presented at this workshop will be included in a special publication. Abstracts in English or French for 20-minute papers (maximum 300 words) should be submitted electronically by 30th June 2011 to Dolores.MartinMoruno@unige.ch.

You will find the poster for the call for papers on our website: http://histmed.unige.ch/

Dolores MARTIN MORUNO
Institute for the History of Medicine and Health
Faculty of Medicine
Geneva University, Switzerland
phone: +41 22 379 5823 (Miriam Sporri)
Email: dolores.martinmoruno@unige.ch
Visit the website at http://histmed.unige.ch/

2011-04-14T12:32:00.001-07:00

Temporary Lecturer in Early Modern History
Durham University - Department of History

£29972 - £35788 per annum, pro-rata

The Department of History at Durham University seeks to appoint a Fixed-term Lecturer in Early Modern European history. The post is fixed-term from 26/9/11 to 25/6/12.

Requirements

The successful candidate will: have a good first degree in History or a related subject; have completed, or be shortly to complete, a doctorate in Early Modern History.

They will also have: experience of, or can clearly demonstrate the ability for, teaching Early Modern European history to students of high quality at university level; excellent publications or publication plans in Early Modern History, and well-considered research and funding plans.

The successful candidate will be expected to be fully involved in the research culture of the Department and associated institutes, including involvement in seminars; and will be expected to undertake the normal administrative tasks involved in undergraduate teaching.

Vacancy reference: 0868

Closing date: 14/05/11

Further details of the post and an application form are available on our website (https://jobs.dur.ac.uk) or telephone 0191 334 6499; fax 091 334 6504

Click here for Employer Profile

2011-04-14T04:31:00.001-07:00

To all Fellows and Members

For information and interest.

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THE BIBLE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: Conference, 7-9 July, University of York

This conference, timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the 1611 King James Bible, will look at the reception of the Bible in the early modern era. It will bring together an impressive range of scholars from a variety of disciplines, to assess the significance of the scriptures to cultural, political, theological and philosophical history throughout the long seventeenth century. The conference aims to clarify the uses to which the Bible was put in the period. It is premised on the notion that the biblical culture of the seventeenth century was vibrant and persuasive, including, for example, interpretation of politics and social revolutions, distinctive forms of philosophical and political thought and a discursive language of biblical characters, figures and typologies, the implications of which remain very much under-explored. The conference will address the significance of the King James Bible itself, its translation, its function as an important cultural entity, as well as the biblical scholarship that flourished over the century in the wake of the text. However, the remit of the event is broader, encompassing both the reception and use made of the scriptures well beyond the scholarly and editorial impact of the Authorised Version itself.

Registration for 'The Bible in the Seventeenth Century' conference at York
(7th - 9th July) is now open at: http://www.york.ac.uk/projects/bible/regist.html
We have partial funding for the conference from the British Academy, which has enabled us to keep costs at a reasonable level for a three day conference, but are having to ask participants who wish to come to the conference dinner to pay a contribution. Postgraduate Bursaries are also available for speakers, funded by the Society for Renaissance Studies and the Royal Historical Society. The electronic payment system is the secure university server, though if you would like to pay be cheque, that is also possible. The programme can be found at:
http://www.york.ac.uk/projects/bible/progThu.html

Apologies for cross postings
best wishes,
Kevin Killeen
University of York

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Sue Carr

Executive Secretary
Royal Historical Society
UCL
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Tel. 020 7387 7532
http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org

2011-04-13T00:50:00.001-07:00

Three Postdoctoral Research Associates
Edition of the Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell
University of Cambridge - Faculty of History

Vacancy Reference No: JJ08043

Salary: £27,428-£35,788 or £36,862-£46,696

Limit of tenure applies*

Applications are invited for three two-year Postdoctoral Research Associateships to begin as soon as possible, but simultaneously, no later than 1 July 2011. The posts are linked to a major project funded by the Leverhulme Trust and based in the Faculty of History. The award by the Leverhulme Trust is to the University of Cambridge and for a team headed by Professor John Morrill who are under contract with Oxford University Press to produce a complete edition of all the words (speeches and writings) of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) in three volumes of text and two volumes of commentary. It is expected that the three Research Associates will work effectively as a team, but that each will have as his or her primary responsibility the preparation of one of the three volumes of texts.

Eligibility
The Research Associateships are available to those who already have PhD degrees or established records of high-quality academic research and publication. All successful candidates must have an advanced knowledge of the life of Oliver Cromwell and of the historiography of the civil wars and revolutions in mid seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland, excellent palaeographical skills and a thorough grounding in recent word-processing and data management softwares. Those appointed will be expected to work in Cambridge or London, or at any rate in close proximity to a major research library and to be able to come regularly to Cambridge for meetings.

Applications
Completed applications should be sent to Ms Joanne Pearson, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9EF or by email to her at jobs@hist.cam.ac.uk no later than noon on 10 May 2011. Please read the further details about these posts and application requirements at www.hist.cam.ac.uk.

* Limit of tenure: Two years.

Closing date: noon on 10 May 2011.
Planned Interview dates: 20 May 2011.

2011-04-07T02:06:00.001-07:00

Lecturer in Modern History (British History in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)
University of St Andrews - School of History

The School of History is seeking to appoint a historian of Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. We welcome applications from historians working on any aspect of British history within this period, but expect that you will be able to teach key aspects of 16th and 17th century English history within existing undergraduate and taught postgraduate curricula.

You should show evidence of both productivity and quality in your own research and should have experience of teaching at university level, combined with an ability to bring motivation and imagination to tutorials, seminars and lectures.

Further information on the University and the School of History can be found at the University website www.st-andrews.ac.uk.

Informal enquiries to the Chair of the Modern History Degree Programme, Dr Frank Lorenz Müller e-mail: flm3@st-andrews.ac.uk or the Head of School, Professor Chris Given-Wilson e-mail: cjg2@st-andrews.ac.uk

Interviews will be held on 26 May 2011

Ref No: CD8813

Closing Date: 4 May 2011

Further Particulars - CD8813 FPs

School of History
£36,862 - £45,336 per annum
Start: 1 September 2011 or as soon as possible thereafter
Standard Appointment

2011-03-18T09:18:00.000-07:00

Lecturer In Early Modern Literature
Lancaster University - Department of English And Creative Writing

Ref: A200

Salary: £31,798

Closing Date: 15 April

Interview Date: 12 May

Our research-intensive and dynamic department seeks to fill a one-year replacement post in Early Modern Literature. The successful candidate will pursue a 3* or higher level research project while teaching up to the equivalent of 12 seminar hours per week for two terms, with subsidiary teaching-related duties in the third term.

This post is available from 1 September 2011 - 31 August 2012 to provide cover for staff on research leave. In line with the funder's terms and conditions, the appointment is at Lecturer Grade 7, spinal point 32.

Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Robert Appelbaum, Head of Department: r.appelbaum@lancaster.ac.uk

For further information and to apply online, please visit:

http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A200

2011-03-17T13:19:00.000-07:00

Religion, Society and Culture in Early Modern Britain: The Sixteenth
Century and Beyond
Location: United Kingdom
Conference Date: 2011-04-30
Date Submitted: 2011-03-04
Announcement ID: 183579
Religion, Society and Culture in Early Modern Britain: The Sixteenth
Century and Beyond

A Colloquium in honour of Felicity Heal, to mark her retirement.

Saturday 30th April 2011 09:30- 17:30

Jesus College
Oxford
OX1 3DW

Speakers include: Ian Archer, Anna Bayman, Christopher Haigh, Ralph
Houlbrooke, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Rosemary O’Day, Helen Parish,
Christine Peters

Registration: £35 (£15 for graduate students)

To register, please email freyja.coxjensen@history.ox.ac.uk and
gemma.allen@history.ox.ac.uk by 30th March 2011

Freyja Cox Jensen
Christ Church,
Oxford. OX1 1DP.
Email: freyja.coxjensen@chch.ox.ac.uk

2011-03-07T06:07:00.000-08:00

Chair in Renaissance Studies
Early Modern period, English Studies
University of Stirling - School of Arts and Humanities

School of Arts and Humanities

Attractive salary package within the professorial scale

The successful applicant will be an established scholar with an international reputation for research excellence in the Early Modern period. The Professor of Renaissance Studies will be expected to provide strategic leadership in research, teaching and administration; to maintain the academic profile of English Studies among the wider scholarly community; to contribute to increasing research income; to develop new postgraduate opportunities and to take an active role in the affairs of the University. English Studies has major established research strengths in areas ranging from the Medieval to the Modern periods, and it would be an advantage if applicants were also able, in addition, to contribute to one or more of these areas of its activities.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Mrs Jacqui Harrop, Administrator, English Studies, (email: jacqui.harrop@stir.ac.uk) or to Professor John Drakakis (email jd@stir.ac.uk)

Further particulars and an Application Form can be found on www.hr-services.stir.ac.uk and are available from the HR & OD Department, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, telephone 01786 467028, fax 01786 466155 or email hr-services@stir.ac.uk

Closing date for applications is Wednesday, 30th March 2011 at 12 noon.

Please Quote Reference no: 500/7801

www.hr-services.stir.ac.uk

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

2011-03-05T02:51:00.001-08:00

Two Lectureships in History
European History 1650-1850 AND/OR transnational and global history, 1550-1850
University of York - Department of History

Ref: UoY01179

(European History 1650-1850 AND/OR transnational and global history, 1550-1850, including contacts between European and non European societies and cultures)

Applications are invited for these posts, to commence in October 2011. These are new additional posts designed to strengthen the already strong reputation of the department in these areas. You should possess a good relevant first degree and a completed PhD in the relevant areas.

Starting salary will be £35,788 per annum.

Full details about the Department and the Centre may be found via http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/hist/. Informal inquires may be made to the Head of Department, Professor Bill Sheils, bill.sheils@york.ac.uk or the HoD elect, Professor Stuart Carroll, stuart.carroll@york.ac.uk

Closing date: midnight on Friday 1 April 2011.

For further information and to apply on-line, please visit our website: http://www.york.ac.uk/jobs/ Alternatively contact HR Services on 01904 324835 quoting reference number UoY01179.

The University of York is committed to promoting equality and diversity.
Apply Online

2011-02-14T04:58:00.001-08:00

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in History
Bath Spa University - School of Humanities and Cultural Industries

Ref: 02/11/1423
Location: Newton Park, Bath
Contract: Permanent Hours: Full time
Line Manager: Head of Department of Humanities
Rate of Pay: £34,745 - £44,016 per annum (dependent upon qualification)
Closing Date: 12 noon, 28 February 2011

We need someone with a strong academic background and a passion for history to take an innovative approach to teaching and research.

About the role
At Bath Spa University we place the highest possible emphasis on teaching quality, putting the student at the very centre of our activities. Now we're looking for an established historian with strong university-level teaching experience to join us.

This is your chance to join a good social, cultural, and political history department with motivated students and a committed staff team. We're proud to have scored a 91% satisfaction rating for our department in the 2010 National Students Survey.

Focused on enabling our students to develop their skills, you will teach primarily in the areas of ancient and/or medieval or early modern British and European history. You'll have the chance to innovate as you teach across undergraduate and postgraduate courses, supervise PhD students, and undertake relevant administration.

You'll also be encouraged to engage in research as well as enhance curriculum design and improve the student experience.

About you
We're looking for an interest and a good first degree in ancient/medieval, or early modern British/ European history complemented by a PhD and recent experience of university-level teaching.

Passionate about history and adaptable in the face of change, you will ideally have a proven track record in research and scholarship. Your skill in communication, problem solving, and IT will be matched by a strong commitment to student-centred teaching and learning.

Experience of writing successful funding proposals would be desirable.

About us
Bath Spa University is an increasingly popular university, with undergraduate applications growing year on year. Both students and staff value our attractive campuses, which include a beautiful parkland estate and offer state-of-the-art facilities and historic buildings set in inspirational scenery.

What's more, we offer excellent facilities and benefits to our staff. These include a nursery, childcare vouchers, pension scheme, flexible working practices, an employee assistance programme, and family-friendly policies.

To applyFor further details on how to apply and our Guidance Notes for Job Applicants, please return to http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/services/hr/jobs/current-vacancies/all-our-vacancies.asp and click on 'How to Apply' on the left. Please note that CVs will not be considered and those included with application forms will be removed.

Full job description and supplementary information is listed below.

For further information or an informal discussion please contact Alan Marshall, Head of Department Humanities by emailing a.marshall@bathspa.ac.uk

Any queries regarding the application process or our website should be emailed to hrcontact@bathspa.ac.uk

Our jobs are like our courses: open to all.

2011-02-08T08:31:00.001-08:00

Lecturer in Renaissance Literature
Queen's University Belfast - School of English

Ref: 11/101623

This position is available from 1 September 2011. The person appointed will be required to undertake high quality teaching, examining and postgraduate supervision in Renaissance Literature.

Informal enquiries may be directed to the School Manager, Mrs C Beaney at c.beaney@qub.ac.uk.

Anticipated interview date: Thursday 31 March 2011

Salary scale: £32,620 - £38,951 per annum (including contribution points)

Closing date: Friday 11 March 2011

Please visit our website for further information and to apply online: www.qub.ac.uk/jobs
or, alternatively, contact the Personnel Department, Queen's University Belfast, BT7 1NN.
Telephone (028) 90973044 FAX: (028) 90971040 or e-mail on personnel@qub.ac.uk

The University is committed to equality of opportunity and to selection on merit. It therefore welcomes applications from all sections of society and particularly welcomes applications from people with a disability.

2011-02-04T23:43:00.001-08:00

Subject: NACBS Panel: Gender and Representation in Tudor/Stuart Britain
From: Meagan
Date: February 3, 2011 4:04:37 PM EST

Dear All,

I am looking to form a panel for the coming NACBS on gender and representation in Tudor/Stuart Britain. My work focuses upon representations of court women in Restoration England, and I want to present part of a dissertation chapter about a 'pamphlet war' between Nell Gwyn and the Duchess of Portsmouth from the 1680s. While I examine court women and England, I would of course be interested in opening up the panel to work on other groups and parts of Britain, as well as a broader timeline and multiple disciplines. If interested, please contact me at hmsbard@gmail.com, and thank you in advance for your interest.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Sincerely,
Meagan

Meagan Schenkelberg
PhD Candidate
History Department
Rutgers University

2011-02-02T12:16:00.001-08:00

The Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display
will be held April 1 – 2, 2011
University of Paris IV-Sorbonne
Paris, France

Call for Proposals
Presentations will be 15-20 minutes in length. English or French All topics within the rubric of the conference will be considered. A particular theme of the conference is “The Carnivalesque and the Ritualesque.”
Jack Santino
UFR Anglais
University of Paris Quatre-Sorbonne
è(àà( Paris
FRANCE
Email: jacksantino@hotmail.com

2011-02-01T11:20:00.001-08:00

Angels of Light? Sanctity and Discernment of Spirits in the Early Modern Period
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2011-05-21
Date Submitted: 2011-01-30
Announcement ID: 182563
The people of early modern Europe were well aware of Paul’s warning in 2 Cor 11:14 that Satan could transform himself into an angel of light. Protestants and Catholics alike, as they sought to discern true sanctity from false hypocrisy and divine miracles from demonic wonders, worried about the proximity of the demonic and the divine. The problem of Discernment of Spirits confronted mystics such as Teresa of Avila and Ignatius of Loyola, and preoccupied the scholastic Jean Gerson and the humanist Erasmus. Even if the terminology was Catholic, discernment posed a problem to Christians of all denominations.

This conference invites invites papers discussing discernment of spirits, possession, mysticism, and miracles – true and false – across the spectrum of early modern society and culture. Applications from doctoral students and early post-doctoral researchers are particularly welcome. It is our hope to make a number of bursaries available to defray the cost of travel within the UK. Proposals for papers of twenty-five minutes in length (250-300 words), together with a short biographical note, should be sent to one of the organisers: Jan Machielsen (jan.machielsen@gmail.com) and Clare Ashdowne (clareashdowne@gmail.com) by no later than 15 February 2011.
Jan Machielsen
Balliol College
Oxford
OX1 3BJ
Email: jan.machielsen@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://www.history.ac.uk/sites/history.ac.uk/files/event-files/callpapers/Angels_of_Light_-_CFP.pdf

2011-02-01T11:18:00.001-08:00

Call for Papers: Collections for the poor
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2011-04-15
Date Submitted: 2011-01-31
Announcement ID: 182585
Session at the European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow University, Scotland, UK, 11 - 14 April 2012 (Network Social Inequality)

Organizers: Daniëlle Teeuwen and Marco van Leeuwen (IISH)

Before the welfare state, in many countries and regions collections were indispensable for the financing of poor relief. In most pre-industrial societies, there was no uniform poor tax (with England being an exception), so charitable institutions depended very much on the generosity of the citizens. Small gifts were collected from all layers of society: people contributed to public door-to-door collections, collections held during service or to the alms boxes which were placed at a variety of locations in the cities.

Despite the importance of small-scale giving, not much research has yet been done on (semi-) anonymous giving through public collections and church offertories. A closer examination of the proceeds of collections and the practice of collecting provides valuable insight in giving behaviour and answers questions as: who gave to collections? What did people give? How important were the proceeds of the collections for financing philanthropy? Were the collections a stable source of income, or did they change notably with economic swings or organizational differences? How were collections scheduled and organized? Why did people donate to public or church collections? Were they encouraged by ministers or municipal authorities?

We would like to invite contributions from all periods and countries. Please send your paper proposal (c. 500 words) as soon as possible, but before 15 April 2011 to Daniëlle Teeuwen: dte@iisg.nl
Daniëlle Teeuwen
PhD student NWO-project Giving in the Golden Age
International Institute of Social History
PO Box 2169
1000 CD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
# 31 20 6685866
Email: dte@iisg.nl

2011-01-30T10:51:00.001-08:00

Lecturer in Early Modern History
University of Essex - Department of History

The Department of History - ranked second in the UK in the last Research Assessment Exercise - has a strong reputation for innovative teaching and research excellence. Attendant upon the award of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to Professor John Walter, the Department wishes to provide an opportunity to a scholar seeking experience in a high-level teaching and research environment.

Applicants must have completed their PhD, and have proven research ability and teaching experience in Early Modern History. You will assist in the teaching of established modules and be able to offer modules of your own. Teaching will be principally at undergraduate level. The postholder will also contribute to the research profile and culture of the Department.

This is a full-time appointment, fixed-term for two years with effect from 1 October 2011.

Salary: £36,862 per annum

Closing date: 20 February 2011

Please use the link below for further details about this job (ref. ACR275) and how to make an application. Visit our website: www.essex.ac.uk for information about the University of Essex. If you have a disability and would like information in a different format, please telephone (01206) 874588.

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2010-10-21T13:13:00.001-07:00

CFP: The Future of Literary Studies, 1500-1800
Location: California, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2011-03-11
Date Submitted: 2010-10-20
Announcement ID: 179923
The Early Modern Center of the University of California at Santa Barbara invites paper proposals for our tenth annual Conference, "The Future of Literary Studies, 1500-1800." The conference will take place on March 11-12, 2011 at UCSB.

The idea of “the new” has been powerful in early modern literary studies, mobilizing critical innovation and reshaping research practices. Consider for example the New Historicism, as framed by Stephen Greenblatt and the late Richard Helgerson, or the 1987 collection The New Eighteenth Century, edited by Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown. More recently, exciting work has emerged from perspectives as different as the New Economic Studies or the New Formalism. The question we propose for this conference is simple: where is early modern studies headed? What’s next? Does the future lie in advancing or revisiting existing approaches, such as still newer historicism, or something different altogether? In addition to theoretical explorations of new approaches, we are also interested in papers that apply these approaches. This two-day conference will consist of panel discussions, as well keynote talks followed by a roundtable discussion that will allow participants to engage and reflect on the issues raised throughout the conference. In addition to panels, roundtable, and papers, the conference will include an evening of dramatic performance celebrating the tenth anniversary of UCSB’s Early Modern Center! We invite proposals for papers that broadly speak to “The Future of Literary Studies, 1500-1800” as well as those that put new approaches into practice. We hope to include papers from a range of critical and disciplinary contexts, and invite papers that draw from literatures that cross ethnic, regional, and national boundaries. Possible directions, approaches and topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: the canon, new formalism, ecocriticism, affect theory, cognitive approaches, religion, politics, transatlantic/global studies, Middle Eastern/Mediterranean studies, popular culture (ballads, pamphlets, broadsides, etc), digital humanities, repertory studies, material history/history of the book, pedagogy.

Please send abstracts, 250-500 words in length, to EMCConference@gmail.com by December 10, 2010. Feel free to contact Theresa Russ at tmruss@gmail.com with specific questions.
Theresa Russ, Graduate Fellow
Early Modern Center
Department of English
U of Calif, Santa Barbara
Email: emcconference@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/