The 5th and final seminar in the 2024 SCOLMA Seminar Series “African Studies in the Digital Age” is live!
Online engagement, African archives & digital public history
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The 5th and final seminar in the 2024 SCOLMA Seminar Series “African Studies in the Digital Age” is live!
Online engagement, African archives & digital public history
Call for Papers:
"Historicizing the Muslim Sensorium: Toward a Sensory History of Islam in the Early Modern World"
International conference, Utrecht University, October 17-18, 2024
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Call for submissions in all areas of narrative theory and studies
Storyworlds is an interdisciplinary journal of narrative studies. We publish cutting-edge research on storytelling practices across times, cultures, and media. The journal foregrounds research questions that cut across established disciplines and seeks to promote the understanding of narrative and storytelling as worldmaking—and worldbreaking—practices.
Mapping the March is a major research project selected by the ERC and funded by UKRI. Each semester we invite speakers to present papers on topics related to borders and borderlands in medieval and early modern Europe. All welcome to attend the seminars in person or online, with in-person refreshments available after the papers.
Location: University of Bristol, 7 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB, Research Space, 1.H020
Dr Victoria Flood University of Birmingham - Monday 13th May, 4pm
The project: The ERC/UKRI research project, ‘Mapping the March: Medieval Wales and England, c. 1282–1550’, is inviting applications for a funded PhD studentship to be held in the Department of English at the University of Bristol. The studentship will be supervised by Professor Helen Fulton and an appropriate second supervisor.
Fallout, The Last of Us, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and so many more video games today imagine extinction scenarios as part of worldbuilding and gameplay. Yet, what is the place of video games in our Sixth Mass Extinction? The international symposium Imagining Extinction in Video Games aims to explore the intersections of game studies and extinction studies.
Deadline: 31 October 2024 (for both regular and MA panels).
Results: will be published around 15 March 2025.
Young Scholar Award: the deadline for submission is 31 October 2024.
Please note there will also be a poster presentation, the deadline being 31 October 2024.
Golda Akhiezer reviews Gomelauri's study of The Lailashi Codex: The Crown of Georgian Jewry.
https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2024/4/16/the-lailashi-codex-the-crown-of-georgian-jewry
The Medici Archive Project is offering nine short-term fellowships for graduate and pre-doctoral students working on a number of fields related to early modern Italy (preferably with a specific emphasis on Tuscany or Medici history).
Samuel H. Kress Fellowship (1)
Eva Schler Fellowship (4)
Beatrice Solomon (4)
Salaries vary from US $ 6,000 to $8,000.
Deadline: 15 June 2024