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Call for Papers Study Day Emotions in the Early Modern Contact Zone Wednesday, 10 June 2015 Interested researchers are invited to contribute short papers (around 15 minutes) to this Study Day, reflecting work in progress on any geographical / social context of the topic. Please send proposals (title, 200-word description, affiliation) to Jacqueline Van Gent … Continue reading Update: Coming Up in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Events Forum Early Modern Literature Forum: Wounding the Tissue of the Text in Keats’s ‘Fall of Hyperion’ Friday, 29 May 2015 (4-6pm) Room 202A, Learning and Innovation Building (17), University of Queensland (St Lucia Campus) In this forum, Jennifer Wawrzinek (Junior Professor in British Romanticism at the English Institute, Freie Universität Berlin) will examine the … Continue reading Update: Coming Up in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Opportunity Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Sydney Based within the School of Letters, Art and Media , the University of Sydney Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE) seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Level A) to undertake research into medieval understandings of sexuality, love, marriage and the nexus … Continue reading Update: Coming Up in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Events Masterclass Dark Materials in Literature and Criticism Friday, 17 April 2015, 10am-4pm Room 471, Global Change Institute (Building 20), University of Queensland (St Lucia Campus) This forum for discussing the ways in which dark and recalcitrant aspects of human life feature in literature and criticism is intended to open up questions of literary-critical values, … Continue reading Update: Coming Up in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Calls for Papers Conference Into the Woods 22 July 2015 Paper abstracts due 28 February 2015 The University of Melbourne This day-long symposium will consider representations of the forest in music, art, literature and history, from the Medieval period to the present day. Proposals should be send to Into-the-Woods2015@unimelb.edu.au. For further information, download the Call … Continue reading Update: Coming Up in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Events Public Lecture Making an Emotional Body: Christmas in Greccio according to the Vita prima of Francis of Assisi by Thomas of Celano 11 November 2014, 6pm The University of Melbourne, Old Arts, South Theatre Barbara Rosenwein elaborated the notion of emotional communities as a way of explaining the affective dimension of social and cultural … Continue reading Update: Coming Up in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Calls for Papers Conference Singing Death Chapter proposals are invited for an edited volume entitled ‘Singing Death’. This arises out of a day-long symposium and concert in August 2013, generously supported by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. The editors would like to extend the work of the symposium … Continue reading Update: Coming Up in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Calls for Papers Conference Singing Death Chapter proposals are invited for an edited volume entitled ‘Singing Death’. This arises out of a day-long symposium and concert in August 2013, generously supported by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. The editors would like to extend the work of the symposium … Continue reading Update: Coming Up in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Calls for Papers Emotion & Affect Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies (Fall 2014 Issue) Hortulus is a refereed, peer-reviewed, and born-digital journal devoted to the culture, literature, history, and society of the medieval past. For their Fall 2014 issue, the journal invites articles that engage with emotion and affect from a variety … Continue reading Update: Coming Up in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Calls for Papers Forms of Life, Forms of Death.  Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published two times per year by the Department of English of National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. Submissions are due June 30 2014. For submission information and the full Call for Papers, please … Continue reading Update: Coming Up in Medieval and Early Modern Studies