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The University of Warwick (UK) and the Newberry Library invite applications for places in a two-week residential Summer Workshop, on Belief and Unbelief in the Early Modern Period, to be held at the University of Warwick, 6-19 July, 2008. The workshop will comprise 20-24 core participants, 16 of whom will be advanced doctoral or beginning postdoctoral students. Each participant will be entitled to travel to and from Warwick; and accommodation and full board on campus.
Context: the residential workshop, funded by a three-year Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant, is intended to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between the institutions affiliated with the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. The coming year of activities sponsored by the grant focuses on the notions of Belief and Unbelief. Discussions and papers will examine the scope, boundaries, and intellectual, social and cultural developments of the religious and spiritual beliefs of the Renaissance and Early Modern Period - including questions of gender; encounters and clashes with the ‘other’; the afterlife, ghosts and witchcraft. For more details see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/mellon-newberry/2007/.
The project coordinator Ingrid De Smet is a specialist of Neo-Latin literature and intellectual culture in France and the Low Countries. Other members of the Warwick-based team are based in the Departments of History; English & Comparative Literature; Italian; Classics; Theatre Studies and the History of Art. Their interdisciplinary research interests include (but are not restricted to): the study of women’s writing and gender; rhetoric; drama; social and political issues; and more generally, the transmission and reception of texts and ideas (including translation and the Classical tradition). Please see the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance website for further details of research activities and expertise at the Centre.
Purpose of the Summer Workshop: the workshop’s core participants will be drawn from institutions on both sides of the Atlantic, to promote the broader programme’s goals of assessing training in early modern and Renaissance studies from a comparative perspective, and of encouraging discussion and the sharing of knowledge and methodological approaches across disciplines and across the Atlantic. The Summer Workshop will involve formal seminar papers by Warwick faculty and other invited speakers; workshop discussions led by visiting research fellows; visits and field trips to relevant sites; and the opportunity for participants to present a paper on their own research interests.
The application deadline is October 18, 2007. Successful applicants will be informed by 1 December 2007.
Eligibility: full-time faculty (academic staff), advanced doctoral students and recent PhDs of the institutions that are members of the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium are eligible to apply. The participants may be drawn from any disciplinary context in Renaissance studies (broadly defined) or in the Classical tradition; however, applicants must demonstrate a scholarly interest in advancing their knowledge and understanding of the intellectual, social and cultural developments relating to Belief and Unbelief in Renaissance and early modern Europe.
How to apply: applications should include:
These materials should be sent by mail or courier as hard copy (without staples) to:
Mrs Lisa Cook
Centre for the Study of the Renaissance
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Applicants should also ensure that three letters of recommendation are sent separately to Mrs Lisa Cook at the same address. Referees should use the coversheet available for download below.
Application cover sheet (PhD Students)
Application cover sheet (Faculty)
Note: the project simultaneously runs a competition for 2 Visiting Research Fellows, who will be resident at Warwick for six weeks prior to the Summer Workshop and who will be full participants in the Summer Workshop. Applicants for the Fellowship will automatically be considered for places as Participants in the Summer Workshop (in other words, selected candidates who are turned down for a Visiting Research Fellowship, may yet be offered a place in the two-week Summer Workshop): for details click here. If you are interested in the Summer Workshop only (and not in the Visiting Fellowships), please follow the application procedure as detailed on this page above.