CFP: 24th Irish Conference of Medievalists, Galway, 25-27 June 2010

Closing date 28th February 2010
Since its establishment in 1987, the Irish Conference of Medievalists has always offered an eclectic selection of papers, aiming not only at representing the current state of Medieval Studies in Ireland and abroad, but also at informing the audience of the latest achievements and the future directions of this scholarly area.
The [...]

Job: Professional Masters Award Archaeology, University of Birmingham

Closing date 26th February 2010
Professional Preparation Masters Award Archaeology University of Birmingham – Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarships at the University of Birmingham.
The University of Birmingham is pleased to announce it has 1 AHRC Professional Preparation Masters award available for Postgraduate Study in the discipline area of Archaeology, for study starting on October 2010. [...]

Job: Project Officer, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, Hebrew Manuscripts, British Library

Closing date 28th December 2009
£30,311 – £34,853
Fixed term, 9 months
St Pancras, London
The British Library’s Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts project is set to revolutionize access to the extraordinary riches of the Library’s collections, making them easily accessible for the first time to art historians, other scholars, and the general public. This has been achieved by adding [...]

Fellowships 2010-2011, Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame

Closing date 1st February 2010
The Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame announces up to five fellowships for the 2010 – 2011 academic year: the Alvin Plantinga Fellowship ($60,000), awarded to a distinguished senior scholar; up to two Research Fellowships ($40,000 – $50,000, depending on rank); the Frederick J. Crosson Fellowship [...]

CFP: Authorities in the Middle Ages, Helsinki 2010

Closing date 15 December 2009
Seeing, Hearing, Reading and Believing. Authorities in the Middle Ages will be arranged in Helsinki 20-23 September 2010. This international conference seeks to offer a multidisciplinary forum for researchers and academics, enhance interdiscpilinary discussion, promote scholarly networking, and set up an innovative platform for scholars who engage with questions of power [...]

CFP: “Marginalia” 2010, Graduate Journal of the Middle Ages, University of Cambridge

Closing date 31st January 2010
“MARGINALIA”, an interdisciplinary graduate journal of the Middle Ages, invites submissions for its 2010 Issue on the theme of “Apocalypse”.
Papers might address the idea of ‘Apocalypse’ in terms of:
visions and revelation
social and political crises
millennial anxiety
beasts
death and judgement
living the good life
the Ages of the World
literatures of pessimism and optimism
endings
We invite submissions in [...]

Job: AHRC Postgrad Scholarship Award, Italian Language and Culture, University of Birmingham

Closing date 26th February 2010
AHRC Postgraduate Scholarship Award, Italian Language and Culture
Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarships at the University of Birmingham.
The University of Birmingham is pleased to announce it has 1 AHRC Doctoral award available for Postgraduate Study in the discipline area of Italian Language and Culture, for study starting on October 2010.
Full information [...]

Job: Professorial Fellowships, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of London

Closing date 31st January 2010.
Visiting Professorial Fellowships In The Humanities And Social Sciences, 2010-2011, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
The School of Advanced Study, University of London offers two Visiting Professorial Fellowships: The ST Lee Professorial Fellowship and The School of Advanced Study Professorial Fellowship. Both Fellowships are tenable for up to six consecutive [...]

Job: AHRC Doctoral Award, Classics and Ancient History, University of Birmingham

Closing date 26th February 2010
AHRC Doctoral Award Classics and Ancient History
University of Birmingham – Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarships at the University of Birmingham.
The University of Birmingham is pleased to announce it has 1 AHRC Doctoral award available for Postgraduate Study in the discipline area of Classics and Ancient History for study starting in [...]

Employment: Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities, 2010-2011

The Newberry’s fellowships support humanities research in our collections.  Our collections are wide-ranging, rich, and sometimes a little eccentric.  If you study the humanities, chances are good we have something for you.  We promise you remarkable collections; a lively interdisciplinary community of researchers; individual consultations on your research with staff curators, librarians, and scholars; and [...]

November 2009

NOVEMBER 2009
4 – 6 NOVEMBER
4th International Congress “Cultural Heritage and New Technologies”; Vienna
5 – 6 NOVEMBER
“Figures and Figurations of Power”; Université Lille 3
“Of Animals and Men”: An animal among men: the dog. From domestication to anthropomorphism; Valenciennes
11 – 15 NOVEMBER
“Playing” the Pilgrim: Scholars, Collections, and Archival Destinations; Theatre Library Association Conference, Puerto Rico
12 – [...]

Resources: Analecta Hymnica

The invaluable resource for historians of liturgy, music, and more generally, the Latin poetry of the medieval Church, the 55 volume Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi, is now available free online at:
http://www.archive.org/search.php? query=analecta%20hymnica%20AND%20collection%3Atoronto

Event: Dr David Rundle Lecture at UCC

The Ad Fontes Project (Department of History, UCC) welcomes Dr David Rundle (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), who will deliver a lecture entitled:

“The Butcher of England, a Renaissance Man: John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, and the Yorkist Discovery of Humanist Eloquence”.

The lecture will be held in G10 (Civil Engineering Building) on Wednesday 2nd December at 6pm. All [...]

Event: Academic Research. Is it of any value to the taxpayer?

The Trinity Long Room Hub presents a public debate led by:
Professor Poul Holm (TCD)
Dr Declan Jordan (UCC)
Professor Luke O’Neill (TCD)
Time:    6.00 pm – 7.30 pm
Date:    Tuesday 1st December 2009
Venue:   Robert Emmet Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
The Irish Government has spent more than € 860 million in support of research in [...]

Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship(s), St Edmund’s College, Cambridge

Closing date 22nd January 2010
Applications are invited for up to two postdoctoral non-stipendiary Research Fellowships tenable from 1 October 2010 for two years initially, with the possibility of renewal for a further year. Applicants should be of postdoctoral level or expect to attain it by 1 October 2010, should have adequate financial support from a [...]

CFP: Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages

Deadline: 14 February 2010.

Event: ‘Faith and patronage’: Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute UCD, 5 December 2009

5th December
‘Faith and Patronage’: a symposium to mark the 400th anniversary of Flaithrí Ó Maoil Chonaire’s appointment as archbishop of Tuam.
Room K114, Newman Building, UCD Belfield, Dublin.
For further details see Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute.

Publication: Lumen Christi

Lumen Christi. The Stained Glass Windows of Mount Saint Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, by Laurence Walsh ocso, with a Foreword by Nicola Gordon Bowe. xviii+256pp. 9” x 12”. Hard cover with dust jacket and bookmark ribbon. Cistercian Press, Mount Saint Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, 2009.  Price €50. ISBN 978-1-900163-03-3.
Lumen Christi records the story and history of the stained [...]

Resources: JORDANUS

An International Catalogue of Mediaeval Scientific Manuscripts

Job: Graduate Teaching Assistantship, 2010, University of Salford

Closing date 8th January and 5th February 2010 (Please see below).
University of Salford – Faculty of Arts, Media and Social Sciences. A Greater Manchester University
Every year the University of Salford offers a number of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs) for suitably qualified candidates wishing to study for a PhD.  Applications are now invited for scholarships based [...]