Children’s Literature, Childhood Death, and the Emotions 1500-1800 - Call For Papers

Children’s Literature, Childhood Death, and the Emotions 1500-1800 
The University of Western Australia
5-6 December, 2013

Conference Website

Confirmed plenary speakers from the Children’s Literature Unit in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University, UK:

• Kate Chedgzoy, Professor of Renaissance Literature and Head of School
• Matthew Grenby, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Kimberley Reynolds, Professor of Children’s Literature 

Proposals are invited for papers on any topic from any discipline that can be used to increase understanding of how the death of children was presented to children in texts for them as part of the emotional economies of the period.

Topics of interest could include but are not limited to:

• Childhood death and grief/sorrow
• Adults’ responses to childhood death
• Institutional responses to childhood death
• Illustrating death for/of children
• Managing children’s responses to childhood death
• Children’s fear of death
• Emotions associated with potentially fatal illnesses and injuries
• Child martyrdom, child murder and infanticide
• Dramatizing the death of children 

It is intended to bring a number of papers from the conference together to create either an edited volume suitable, for example, for the Palgrave History of Childhood series, or a special number of an appropriate peer-reviewed journal. Please send 300-word abstracts to kim.reynolds@ncl.ac.uk by 31 July 2013. General queries about the conference theme should also be sent to Kim Reynolds at that address.

Queries about travel, venue, and other practical arrangements should be addressed to Pam Bond at UWA.

Medieval Memoria Online (MeMO)

Medieval Memoria Online (MeMO) has recently launched an extensive database containing images, inscriptions, epitaphs, altarpieces, tomb monuments, stained glass, and archival sources.

This valuable resource is the result of a multi-year project headed by art historian Truus van Bueren at the University of Utrecht. The research team has catalogued material for the area corresponding to what is today the Netherlands for the time up to 1580.

You can access it at: http://memo.hum.uu.nl/database/index.html

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship - Best Graduate Student Article Contest 2013

The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship announces the 2013 competition for the best graduate student article in any area of medieval studies. Nominated articles should represent the best in feminist scholarship written in the 2012-2013 academic year. 

 

The prize includes an award of 5 years' membership in SMFS and publication of the winning paper,
subject to editing, in our journal Medieval Feminist Forum. 

 

Self-nominations are welcome. 

 

Please send nominated articles by September 5, 2013, to:

Prof. Sally Livingston
Department of Humanities-Classics
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH 43015
saliving@owu.edu

Emotions in History: Ceræ, an Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies - Call For Papers

Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (http://www.ceraejournal.com) would like to invite submissions for its inaugural issue on the theme ‘Emotions in History’, sponsored by the ARC Centre for the History of the Emotions. Submissions are welcomed from scholars working in any discipline related to the medieval and early modern world, including representations of the medieval and early modern eras in later culture.

Emotions drive individual actions and effect broader social change. The way they are felt, expressed and performed evolves over time, and in exploring the way these emotions were experienced in their historical context, we can both gain a better understanding of how past societies understood their experience, and how this has influenced the way we experience emotions today.

We are particularly interested in submissions which engage with the growing field of the digital humanities, and are happy to work with authors to accommodate any requirements involving multimedia or alternative formatting. We also encourage submissions from authors working on emotions in performance and material culture. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by qualified experts in the field.

The ARC Centre for the History of the Emotions is generously funding a prize for the best article published in this issue.

Articles should be approximately 5000-7000 words and formatted according to MLA Guidelines. Submissions should be made to editorcerae@gmail.com by 31 October 2013.

New Journal Launch: Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies would like to announce the launch of its new website, www.ceraejournal.com.

Administered from the University of Western Australia with the generous support of faculty and staff, the journal is directed by a committee of interstate and international graduate students and early career researchers. We are united in our commitment to open-access publishing, the possibilities of the digital humanities, and to forging a strong community of medieval and early modern scholars in the region.

The word 'ceræ' refers to the wax tablets used throughout antiquity and the medieval period as a reusable writing surface. Like the wax tablet, online publishing is a flexible medium which can be rewritten and re-inscribed—it has a malleability that traditional print forums do not. Our sources range from tablets and scrolls to manuscript codices, printed pamphlets, archaeological finds and architectural features—and our research outputs likewise can take any form from traditional text to audio-visual recordings, images, and interactive projects in the digital humanities.

We gladly accept manuscripts from any discipline related to medieval and early modern studies (including medievalism in later culture) and will accommodate the needs of authors in including audio-visual material and unusual or innovative formatting requirements. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by qualified experts before publication.

We are supported by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of the Emotions, who are generously sponsoring our inaugural issue on Emotions in History. The call for papers can be found at: http://ceraejournal.com/journal/.