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AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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Histories of the Hourglass : Find an Expert : The University of Melbourne

<p> <span>Applications are invited for a PhD position as part of the Australian Research Council funded project The History of the Hourglass.</span> </p> <p> <span>This PhD research opportunity forms part of a project that undertakes the first history of the hourglass from its origins c.1300 through to its global circulation in the sixteenth century. The most precise time-measurement device of its era, the hourglass changed the course of history through its role in maritime travel, scientific experiments and everyday time management. It transformed time into a silent, interior flow crucial to a wide range of cultural projects: in Cairo classrooms or alchemical labs; in the cook’s kitchen or preacher’s pulpit. Alongside its critical intervention in the history of time, the project seeks to pioneer new scientific methods for analysing these fragile objects, with major benefits for their conservation in Australian and international collections.</span> </p> <p> <span>Applicants with the following background are particularly encouraged to apply:</span> </p> <ul> <li> <span>An undergraduate or master’s degree with a specialisation in medieval and/or early modern studies</span> </li> <li> <span>Proficiency in one or more languages other than English, with preference for German, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese</span> </li> <li>Awareness of current methods in the history of material and visual culture. </li> </ul> <p> <strong><span>Eligibility</span></strong> </p> <p> <span>Applicants must satisfy the minimum entry requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy-Arts at the University of Melbourne and demonstrate strong research ability and potential.</span> </p> <p> <span>Applicants will normally have completed a master’s degree or an Australian honours degree (or equivalent) that includes a thesis subject, with academic results equivalent to a University of Melbourne H1 standard. This generally means achieving at least 80% overall and 80% in the thesis or major research component.</span> <br> <br> <span>Applicants must review the Doctor of Philosophy (Arts) entry requirements before submitting an Expression of Interest.</span> </p> <p> <a href="https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/courses/dr-philart/entry-participation-requirements" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/courses/dr-philart/entry-participation-requirements</span> </a> </p> <p> <strong><span>How to apply</span></strong> </p> <p> <span>Expressions of Interest close <strong>Monday 21 September at 1700 (Melbourne time).</strong></span> </p> <p> <span>To apply, click the <strong><em>‘Submit Expressions of Interest’</em></strong> button at the top or bottom of this advertisement.</span> </p> <p> <span>Upload the following three documents as part of your Expression of Interest:</span> </p> <ol> <li> <span><strong>Academic transcripts</strong> for all completed or in-progress tertiary study</span> </li> <li> <strong>A one-page project description</strong> outlining a proposed research project examining the history of the hourglass between 1300 and 1600CE </li> <li> <strong>A current resume.</strong> Applicants are encouraged to use the Faculty’s resume template [<a href="https://go.unimelb.edu.au/otz2">https://go.unimelb.edu.au/otz2</a>]. Before uploding, please append to the end of the resume <strong>a 500-word statement</strong> describing your intellectual interests in the history of temporalities and material culture. </li> </ol> <p> <em>Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted and invited to interview. </em><br> <br> <span>Applicants who are successful at the Expression of Interest stage will be invited to submit a formal application for admission to the Doctor of Philosophy- Arts. An invitation to submit a full application does not guarantee admission or the award of a scholarship.</span> </p> <p> <span>For further information about the application process, please visit the Faculty of Arts Graduate Research applications webpage.</span> </p> <p> <a href="https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/study/graduate-research" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/study/graduate-research</span> </a> </p>

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CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship - CRASSH

The Fellowship is offered to an outstanding early career scholar whose research focuses on Italy.

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Frenzy in Early Modern England: Madness, Brain Disease and the Soul

In the last decade of his life, my paternal grandfather suffered from undiagnosed vascular dementia. During those years, we saw sudden changes in his speech, mood, personality and behaviour, ranging f...

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CfP: Claiming the Exotic: Negotiating Material Difference in the Early Modern World (RSA Panel Proposal)

CfP: Claiming the Exotic: Negotiating Material Difference in the Early Modern World (RSA Panel Proposal) The Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 11-13 March 2027 When was an object “exotic,” and who got to say so? In the early modern world, foreignness was rarely a settled fact about a thing. It was a claim that could be asserted or downplayed, used to sharpen or blur distinctions, believed, doubted, or ignored, depending on the speaker, audience, and occasion.  This panel explores how individuals put the origins, provenance, and perceived foreignness of things and materials into words and practice, and how social relations—from one-off encounters and intimate exchanges to circles, networks, and wider communities—shaped the terms they chose and were available to them. Building on scholars like Anna Grasskamp, Jessica Keating, Lia Markey, Kate Lowe, and others, this panel investigates the uses (and misuses) of exoticizing and othering terms and vocabulary, asking how these were often variable, situational, and open to contest. Social negotiations could not only shape how objects were described, but also how they were valued, exchanged, collected, displayed, and used. We seek to bring contributors from across disciplines into conversation about what was at stake when people deployed, withheld, or disputed exoticizing claims. We particularly welcome papers from early-career scholars, including graduate students and independent scholars, on topics including (but not limited to): * The availability, precision, and vagueness of exoticizing descriptors * Non-knowledge, uncertainty, and ignorance about the origin and provenance of things * Strategies for making objects more (or less) desirable and acceptable * Who could define a thing as exotic, and how such claims were contested To apply, please submit a short abstract (max. 200 words), a title (max. 15 words), and a brief bio (max. 100 words), along with your PhD or terminal degree date (past/expected), primary discipline, full name, affiliation, email address, and a CV (max. 2 pages) by July 20, 2026. Organisers: Lavinia Gambini, Andreas Berger   Organisiert von Lavinia Gambini, Andreas Berger (University of Bern) EK 16. Juni 2026 lavinia.gambini@unibe.ch

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Call for Papers: Mineral Expertise: The Rules of Knowing Earthly Matter in the Early Modern World

February 04-06, 2027 SCARCE Workshop University of Bologna Deadline for Submission: July 10th 2026

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Mexico in Algiers, Rabat in Bahia: Rethinking Interactions between the Iberian Atlantic and the Maghrib - A Workshop — CEMS KCL Blog

Join CEMS for a one-day workshop on interactions between the early modern Iberian Atlantic and North Africa. Organised by Dr. Ana Struillou and Dr. Kaja Cook. Friday 22nd May, 09:00 - 18:00

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Modified Bodies: Working, Disciplining, and Shaping the Body in the Early Modern World

Modified Bodies: Working, Disciplining, and Shaping the Body in the Early Modern World This symposium brings together scholars from across disciplines to explore how bodies were imagined, regulated, and materially transformed between the 16th and 18th centuries. Foregrounding com- parative, praxeological, and interdiscipli- nary approaches, the conference will encourage dialogue between historians of medicine, art and literature, social and cultural historians, anthropologists, and scholars of science and technology. Contributions will address themes such as embodied labor and skill, training and educational technologies, medical and surgical interventions, representations of bodily change, and the entanglement of corporeal practices with religious, politi- cal, and social norms. By doing so, the symposium aims to reframe the early modern body (or rather, bodies) as not a stable given but as a mutable, contested, and productive site of human experience. Moreover, it attempts to compare differ- ent practices of corporeal modification across the early modern world and to analyze their significance for past (and present) societies. Organisiert von Prof. Dr. Vitus Huber, University of Fribourg CS 14. April 2026 cassandre.mardonao@unifr.ch University of Fribourg Miséricorde, MIS 04 4122 (Salle Jäggi) 1700  Fribourg Website der Veranstaltung Program Image for Content

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Mexico in Algiers, Rabat in Bahia: Rethinking Interactions between the Iberian Atlantic and the Maghrib - A Workshop, Fri 22 May 2026 - Join CEMS on Friday 22nd May for a one-day workshop on interacti...

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CfP: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026

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