Between the People’s March, ASECS, and an important few days for me personally [more on this soon hopefully!], this was a busy week both on and offline. Here’s my roundup of what some of you might have missed during all the commotion.
Resources
Firstly, I just want to draw everyone’s attention to some great resources for PGRs and ECRs that have recently been announced or launched. Firstly, the site for The Doctor Is In, a companion to the workshop at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, offering professional advice and conversation for faculty and graduate students at all levels. The website has great advice and resources, and I believe they’ll be hosting sessions at ISECS 2019 as well!
Likewise, the British Association of Modernist Studies have also launched an initiative aimed at crowdsourcing successful application documents for developing academic and non-academic careers. I’ve just contributed some of my documents to this, and if enough people do so it has the potential to become a major academic resource for lots of fields.
Books
There’s a few interesting-looking books out in the next few weeks, but I’m probably most excited by Cynthia Wall’s fascinating-sounding book Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque, which offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of ‘approach’. Wall’s work is some of my favourite in eighteenth-century studies so I cannot wait to read this!
Other books with potential include G. S. Wilson’s Jefferson on Display: Attire, Etiquette, and the Art of Presentation, and Anna Marie Roos’Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters: The Art of Science in the Seventeenth Century.
Conferences etc
CFP: Collecting impressionism (Rouen, 25-26 Jun 20)
CFP: Women Art Dealers 1940-1990 (New York, 17-18 May 19)
CFP – Dressing the Early Modern Network Conference, 12-13 September 2019, Lisbon
CFP: International Workshop: Performing Gifts: Rituals, Symbolic Communication and Gift-Giving in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
CONF: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science
CFP: Medieval Europe in Motion: Materialities and Devotion (5th-15th centuries)
Workshop: Male (Un)Bonding: Men, Masculinities, and Homosocial Troubles
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