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Bourse post-doctorale – Koç University

Koç University – Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Center For Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (CLABS) will grant two post-doctoral fellowships in Byzantine Art History and Archaeology.

Fellowships include accomodation, travel, field trips and stipend. Fellows will be able to  take advantage of the university facilities and the libraries connected to the university.

Fellowships will be for one year, renewable depending on the research project. CLABS fellowsare expected to devote themselves full time to their research projects, co-operate with the Center and to give a lecture and a written final report on their work.

The applications should be submitted to byzantinecenter@ku.edu.tr no later than 1st of March and include a cover letter, a curriculum vitae with list of publications and other scholarlywork, and a short proposal of their research project.

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Bourse – Newton Advanced Fellowships

THE BRITISH ACADEMY

  1) Call for Proposals Newton Advanced Fellowships

 The British Academy, the Royal Society, and the Academy of Medical Sciences are calling for Newton Advanced Fellowship applications under the Newton Fund. The Newton Fund is an initiative that aims to develop  the long-term sustainable growth and welfare of partner countries through building research and innovation capacity, and forms part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance commitment.

 Newton Advanced Fellowships provide mid-career researchers with an opportunity to develop the research strengths and capabilities of their research group or network through training, collaboration and reciprocal  visits with a partner in the UK. Applications are welcome from the following Newton Fund Partner Countries: Brazil, China, Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey (opportunities vary – please check the scheme notes for each discipline).

 Closing date: 18 March 2015, 5pm 2015 (UK time).

 Awards last for up to three years and are available to support researchers across the natural sciences including engineering, clinical or patient-oriented research, social sciences and humanities. Up to £37,000  is available each year for:

 A salary top up (maximum £5,000) for the principal applicant from the Newton Fund Partner Country.

Research support (up to £15,000) to cover costs for studentships, staff, consumables or equipment.

Travel and subsistence (up to £12,000) to cover travel costs of the UK partner to the international partner and/or travel of the international partner to the UK.

Training (up to £5,000) to support the career development of the applicant and their research group or network.

 Applicants must be no more than 15 years post PhD; hold a contract (permanent or fixed-term, depending on partner country requirements) in an eligible university or research institute outside the UK, which must  span the duration of the project; and have a UK-based collaborator as their co-applicant.

 For more information on this call, eligibility and how to apply, visit: www.britac.ac.uk/newton-advanced-fellowships

  2) Newton Mobility Grants

 The British Academy is also calling for applications for Newton Mobility Grants under the Newton Fund. The Newton Fund is an initiative that aims to develop the long-term sustainable growth and welfare of partner  countries through building research and innovation capacity, and forms part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance commitment.

 Applications are welcome from the following Newton Fund Partner Countries: Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam. This scheme helps strengthen the research and innovation capacity of researchers from  Partner Countries by facilitating exchanges of researchers. Applicants should be researchers from academic establishments or government-funded research institutes.

 Grants are offered up to a maximum of £10,000 for a period of one year and are available to support researchers across the social sciences and humanities. Applications must include a researcher from the UK and  a researcher from an eligible partner country. Awards will cover costs for travel, subsistence and research expenses. The grant must be based around a joint research project.

 Closing date: 18 March 2015, 5pm 2015 (UK time).

Newton International Fellowships Scheme

Aim of the award

The Newton International Fellowships Scheme is delivered by the British Academy, the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences. The Scheme has been established to select the very best early stage post-doctoral researchers from all over the world and enable them to work at UK research institutions for a period of two years. The Scheme covers researchers in all disciplines covered by the two academies – physical, natural and social sciences, and the humanities.

Objectives of the Newton International Fellowships Scheme

  • To ensure the UK engages with the best post-doctoral researchers, across all disciplines of physical, natural and social sciences, and the humanities, from around the world.
  • To provide an opportunity for post-doctoral researchers at an early career stage from any country outside the UK to work at a UK research institution for two years.
  • To foster long-term relations between Newton Fellows and the UK research base through the establishment of an alumni programme for former Fellows of this Scheme. The alumni programme will include the possible provision of further funding for Newton Fellows for up to 10 years for follow-on activities, to enable links with UK based researchers to be maintained and developed. This is expected to facilitate, in the longer term, improved access to international centres of excellence for UK-based researchers.

Eligibility requirements

The applicant must:

  • have a PhD, or applicants in the final stages of their PhD will be accepted provided that the PhD will be completed (including viva) before the start date of the Fellowship.  Confirmation of award of the PhD will be required before any Fellowship award is confirmed;
  • Applicants should have no more than 7 years of active full time postdoctoral experience at the time of application (discounting career breaks, but including teaching experience and/or time spent in industry);
  • be working outside the UK;
  • not hold UK citizenship;
  • be competent in oral and written English;
  • have a clearly defined and mutually-beneficial research proposal agreed with a UK host researcher.

Applicants should ensure that they meet all the eligibility requirements, which are explained in the scheme notes.

Level of grant and tenure

Newton Fellowships last for two years. Funding consists of £24,000 per annum for subsistence costs, and up to £8,000 per annum research expenses, as well as a one-off payment of up to £2,000 for relocation expenses. Awards include a contribution to the overheads incurred, at a rate of 50% of the total award to the visiting researcher.

Applicants may also be eligible to receive follow on Alumni funding following the tenure of their Fellowship to support networking activities with UK-based researchers.

Newton Fund

This is the first year that additional Fellowships will be supported through the Newton Fund, specifically for applicants from Newton Fund partner countries. This new initiative aims to develop long-term sustainable growth and welfare of partner countries through building research and innovation capacity, and forms part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance commitment. Newton Fund countries include Brazil, China, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey.

This is in partnership with the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society.

Applying for this scheme

  • Application forms available from 7 January 2015
  • Applicant deadline 25 February 2015
  • Referee deadline 4 March 2015
  • Results announced end of August 2015
  • Awards available for start date 1 October 2015

About 40 Newton International Fellowships are offered each year. The success rate in 2014 was 8%.

For more information, visit the website: www.newtonfellowships.org and http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/Newton_Mobility_Grants.cfm

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48th Byzantine Spring Symposium

Whose Mediterranean is it anyway?
Cross-cultural interaction between Byzantium and the West 1204-1669

The Open University, Milton Keynes
28-30 March 2015

Programme

Saturday 28th March

Registration and Welcome – Berrill Building

09.30-10.15: Registration / coffee

10.15-10.30: Angeliki Lymberopoulou (Milton Keynes) – Welcome

Morning Session – Berrill Building
Chair: Liz James

10.30-11.00: Angeliki Lymberopoulou (Milton Keynes) – Framing of the 48th Spring Byzantine Symposium

11.00-11.40: Jane Baun (Oxford) – Whose Church is it anyway? Mediterranean Christianities in cross-cultural context

11.40-12.00: Discussion

12.00-13.30: Lunch (Berril Building)

Saturday 28th March
Afternoon Session – Berrill Building
Chair: Leslie Brubaker

13.30-14.10: Liz James (Sussex) – Made in Byzantium? Mosaics after 1204

14.10-14.50: Stefania Gerevini (Rome) – Beyond 1204? The Baptistery of San Marco, the chapel of St Isidore, and the meaning of Byzantine visual language in fourteenth-century Venice

14.50-15.30: Michele Bacci (Freiburg) – Enhancing the Authority of Icons: Italian Frames for Byzantine Images

15.30-15.55: Discussion

16.00-16.30: Coffee / Tea (Berrill Building)

16.00-17.30: SPBS Meeting (Hub Theatre)
(Coffee / Tea for those attending this meeting will be served at the Hub Theatre)

Open Lecture – Berrill Building
Chair: Angeliki Lymberopoulou

17.45-19.00: Leslie Brubaker (Birmingham) – Space, place and culture: processions across the Mediterranean

Symposium Feast – Hilton Hotel
19.45


Sunday 29th March

Please note: British Summer time begins on Sunday 29th March – clocks go forward one hour

Morning Session – Berrill Building
Chair: Rembrandt Duits

9.00-09:40 Diana Newall (Kent) – Artistic and Cultural Tradition through Candia in the 15th century

09:40-10.20: Maria Constantoudaki (Athens) – Aspects of Artistic Exchange on Crete. Remarks and Question Marks

10.20-10.50: Coffee / Tea (Berrill Building)

10.50-11.30: Sharon Gerstel (Los Angeles) – Between east and West: Locating Monumental Painting from the Peloponnesos

11.30-11.55: Discussion

12.00-13.30: Lunch (Berrill Building)

12.45-13.30: SPBS AGM (Berrill Building)

13.30-15.30: Communications – Two Parallel Sessions (please see additional programme)

Session A: Berrill Building – Chair: Diana Newall
Session B: Hub Theatre – Chair: Tony Eastmond 

15.30-16.00: Coffee / Tea (Berril Building for all)

Sunday 29th March
Afternoon Session – Berrill Building
Chair: Dionysios Stathakopoulos

16.00-16.20: Ioanna Christoforaki (Athens – in absentia) – Crossing Boundaries: Colonial and Local Identities in the Visual Culture of Medieval Cyprus

16.20-17.00: Tassos Papacostas (London) – Where Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance architecture crossed paths: Cyprus under Latin rule

17.00-17.15: Discussion

Open Lecture – Berrill Building
Chair: Angeliki Lymberopoulou

17.30-18.45: Dionysios Stathakopoulos (London) – ‘Latin basillisses’: transcultural marriages in late medieval Greece

18.45: Reception – Berrill Building: Sponsored by Ashgate


Monday 30th March

Morning Session – Berrill Building
Chair: Tassos Papacostas

09.00-09.40: Tony Eastmond (London) – Contesting Art in the Thirteenth Century

09.40-10.20: Hans Bloemsma (Middelburg) – Byzantine nearness and Renaissance distance in Early Italian Painting

10.20-11.00: Rembrandt Duits (London) – Byzantine Influences in the Iconography of Last Judgment in Late Medieval Italy

11.00-11.30: Tea / Coffee (Berrill Building)

11.30-12.10: Francesca Marchetti (London) – O insignis Graecia, ecce iam tuum finem. Illustrated medical manuscripts in Late Palaeologan Constantinople and their fortune in Sixteenth Century Italy

12.10-12.45: Discussion and Closure of the 48th Spring Byzantine Symposium

12.45-14.00: Lunch (Berrill Building)

 

Communications

Sunday 29th March 2014, 13.30 -15.30

**Please Note: The allocated time per communication is 12 minutes plus 3 minutes for questions – a total of 15 minutes per communication. The 20 minute allocation in the programme is provided for those who would like to move between the Berrill Building and the Hub Theatre in the Open University campus to attend different communications. Chairs are advised to be ‘Bryer’-ruthless in their time keeping. Thank you for your co-operation.**

Session A: Berril Building – Chair Diana Newall

13.30-13.50: Livia Bevilacqua (Venice) – Venice in Byzantium: Art and Patronage in the Venetian Quarter of Constantinople (13th-15th centuries)

13.50-14.10: Matthew Kinloch (Oxford) – Shared Cultures of Power: Cities and power in Byzantium and Italy

14.10-14.30: Christopher Wright (London) – Prizes or prisons: the Latins and power over islands in the Palaiologan Byzantium

14.30-14.50: Anestis Vasilakeris (Istanbul) – The Drawing Process in Byzantine and Italian Painting around 1300

14.50-15.10: Andrea Mattiello (Birmingham) – The elephant on the page: Ciriaco de’Pizzicolli D’Ancona in Mystras

15.10-15.30: Maria-Vassiliki Farmaki (Athens) – Theatre Arts and Life in Byzantium: the Connection between Byzantine and Latin Theatre

 

Session B: Hub Theatre – Chair Tony Eastmond

13.30-13.50: Dion Smythe (Belfast) –Nέα ελληνική κουζίνα: ‘Oil and water in the same cup’

13.50-14.10: Grant Schrama (Ontario) – Home is where your heart is: Latin Diaspora and Identity in Constantinople and Greece, 1204-1300

14.10-14.30: Leonela Fundic (Brisbane) – Epiros between Byzantium and the West in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries: Visual Evidence

14.30-14.50: Teodora Konach (Cracow) – The gesture of Dessislava – Byzantine and Western contexts at the Cultural Crossroads

14.50-15.10: Agnes Kriza (Cambridge) – The Royal Deesis: an anti-Latin imagery of Late Byzantine Art

15.10-15.30: Alex Rodriguez Suarez (London) – Bell-ringing in Byzantium during the late Byzantine period: an introduction

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Colloque – Byzance et ses voisins, XIIIe-XVe siècle : art, identité, pouvoir

Colloque International

19-20 mars 2015, INHA salle Vasari

Le Laboratoire de recherche en histoire de l’art (UMR 8150) du Centre Chastel, dans le cadre du Labex EHNE (Ecrire une histoire nouvelle de l’Europe), vous invitent à participer au colloque sur le thème :

Byzance et ses voisins, XIIIe-XVe siècle : art, identité, pouvoir

Depuis l’occupation latine en 1204 et jusqu’à la chute de Constantinople en 1453, l’empire byzantin a connu un grand éclatement territorial et perdu de nombreuses et importantes provinces. L’indépendance des peuples qui autrefois étaient sous l’autorité de Byzance, la présence des Latins dans plusieurs régions de l’empire même après la fin de l’occupation latine et l’avancement progressif des Ottomans ont forgé de nouveaux points de repères et créé des interactions dans tous les domaines.

Le but de ce colloque serait d’étudier les relations qu’entretient Byzance avec les peuples indépendants des Balkans, les Latins, les Ottomans et les Arabes. Les communications mettront en évidence les particularités de ces rapports à travers, d’une part les interférences artistiques et d’autre part les conflits de pouvoir et d’identité religieuse.

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Bourse post-doctorale – University of Tennessee, Knoxville

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, invites applications for the 2015-2016 Jimmy and Dee Haslam Postdoctoral Fellowship, a one-year fellowship to be held August 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016 and renewable for one year. The Haslam Fellowship is open to untenured scholars in any field of late antique or early medieval studies in the period 300-1100 C.E. The Institute hopes to attract a scholar of outstanding potential with an innovative research plan, who will participate fully in the intellectual life of the Marco community throughout the academic year. During the course of the year, the Fellow will teach one graduate seminar in his or her field of expertise. The seminar will preferably use primary source materials. The Fellow receives a $1,750 travel stipend and is eligible to apply for additional travel and research funding through the Institute. Salary is $40,000 and includes full benefits.

Online application form, curriculum vitae, detailed research plan (2 single-spaced pages), and two letters of reference must be submitted by April 1, 2015. To apply, please visit the link: https://ut.taleo.net/careersection/ut_knoxville/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=1500000049, which takes you to Marco’s specific posting at UT’s online application program. You will be able to complete the online form after creating a user account. The online application provides you with opportunities to upload your c.v. and research plan. Please ask referees to send recommendations under separate cover by email attachment (Word or pdf preferred) to Thomas E. Burman, Riggsby Director, Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, at marco@utk.edu. Recommendations should also be received by April 1, 2015.

Information on the Marco Institute is available at http://marco.utk.edu. The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, or covered veteran status.