Author: Andrea Hajek

The University of Liverpool’s School of Histories, Languages & Cultures invites expressions of interest for the 2018/19 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme. These awards offer opportunities for outstanding early career researchers to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in a university environment – further information, including eligibility criteria, can be found here.

The University of Liverpool is one of the United Kingdom’s leading research institutions with an annual turnover of £400 million, including £140 million for research. Liverpool is ranked in the top 1% of universities worldwide and is a member of the prestigious Russell Group, comprising the leading research universities in the United Kingdom.

The Department of Modern Languages & Cultures comprises staff working across a wide range of language-based studies, including literary and media, film, historical, cultural, translation and sociolinguistic studies. Alongside French, German, Spanish and Italian, the department also offers Film Studies, Chinese and the full range of Hispanic Languages, including Basque, Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish.

The department is an active participant in the School’s inter-disciplinary research centres, including the Centre for the Study of International Slavery, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Eighteenth-Century Worlds research centre. Since 2010, it has been part of the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures, one of four Schools in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The School also includes the departments of History, Irish Studies, Politics, and Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology.

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Those interested in applying for a Fellowship at the University of Liverpool are invited to submit expressions of interest to Professor Claire Taylor, Departmental Research Lead by 5pm on Wednesday 15^th August, 2018, consisting of the following:

• CV
• an outline (2 pages max.) of the research proposal, including intended publication outputs
• 150-word abstract
• identification of potential mentor

Applicants supported by Department and School will be informed by August 24^th. All shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend a Faculty workshop w/c September 3^rd (anticipated date: September 4^th – tbc), which will include presentations and advice about the scheme and give candidates the opportunity to meet with their chosen mentor.

Following the workshop, candidates will be invited to send a full draft application for final peer-review and selection by the Faculty. Selected candidates to put an application forward to the BA with the University of Liverpool will be notified by September 24^th (BA deadline: anticipated date mid-October).

History Workshop Journal and History Workshop Online (HWO) are seeking to appoint two or three Editorial Fellows to assist in the running of the HWO website, social media channels and podcast, with a strong preference for scholars working in a non-British area of history or in British World or imperial history.

The duration of the fellowship will be one year in the first instance, with a possibility of renewal for an additional year.

This fellowship, valued at 2000 pounds per annum, is intended to support the successful candidate(s) to develop their own careers online and to gain valuable experience working as part of a journal editorial board.  Editorial Fellows would also be nominated to a non-stipendiary Visiting Fellowship at Birkbeck, University of London, and have access to library and IT resources there. The duration of the fellowship will be one year in the first instance, with a possibility of renewal for an additional year.

More information at this link.

The School of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at Bangor University invites applications for a full-time Lecturer in Italian Studies from 1 September 2018 to 31 August 2020.

Responsibilities will include teaching Italian language and culture at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and the provision of pastoral and administrative support within the Italian Section and Department of Modern Languages & Cultures. The Department is looking to appoint candidates to either Teaching and Research (T&R) or Teaching and Scholarship (T&S) contracts. Where relevant (depending on contract type) successful candidates will be expected to conduct and publish research of an international standard in their field of study.

Closing date for applications: 4 July 2018.

More information at this link.

The Department of Modern Languages and European Studies at Reading is seeking to appoint a Teaching Fellow in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature for one year.

The successful candidate will undertake high-quality teaching in this area (particularly in film studies, modern and contemporary literature, cultural and intellectual history post-1800) as well as to contribute to other activities of Italian Studies at Reading such as outreach, and Open/Visit Days. The ability to contribute to the Department’s existing teaching strengths beyond comparative literature (film studies, and cultural studies), would be an advantage.

Closing date: 13 June 2018.

More information at this link.

Anche quest’anno l’ASMI, l’Association for the Study of Modern Italy, premia il miglior saggio di storia, sociologia o politica (riguardante il periodo dal c. 1780 in poi).

Oltre a ricevere £300, l’autore/trice dell’articolo vincente (lunghezza tra le 5.000-10.000 parole, incluse note e bibliografia) avrà una buona possibilità di  far pubblicare l’articolo sulla rivista Modern Italy. Infine, l’articolo verrà formalmente premiato durante il convegno annuale di ASMI, che si tiene ogni anno a Londra.

Possono partecipare dottorandi attuali o che hanno completato il dottorato non più di 12 mesi fa, anche di università italiane e oltre.

Scadenza: 31 luglio 2018. Ulteriori informazioni a questo link. Per partecipare mandate una versione elettronica a questo indirizzo: asmi.secretary@gmail.com.

E per incrementare le vostre possibilità di vincere fate magari correggere il vostro paper a me: io il premio lo vinsi (con questo articolo) nel lontano 2010…

A new online issue of Modern Italy has just been published, and it’s not just any issue – it is the special issue that I’ve co-edited with Arianna Mainardi and Elena Zambelli:

Sexuality and Power in Contemporary Italy: Subjectivities Between Gender Norms, Agency and Social Transformation

The special issue can be accessed at this link.

NB the Introduction as well as my Context and Debates article, entitled ‘Je ne suis pas Catherine Deneuve. Reflections on contemporary debates about sexual self-determination in Italy’, can be freely downloaded (either by clicking the green “access” link or via this sharing code:  BA5528955ABE021B0EE769A01068A17C). Buona lettura!

Wellcome Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Liverpool is delighted to invite applicants to the Wellcome Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science scheme, which offers postdoctoral positions providing salary and research expenses for up to three years. The department has identified key areas of activity within the Wellcome remit and is seeking to support applicants who contribute our key areas of research excellence. Its vision of research excellence within Modern Languages is founded on expertise in interrogating transfers across cultural boundaries – be they national, social, ethnic, linguistic, or disciplinary in nature – in order to contribute to and lead research projects that work with an explicit awareness of and directly problematise language use beyond the Anglophone world.

The department particularly welcomes applications in the following areas:

• health-related projects in developing world contexts, with a particular interest in Latin America, Lusophone Africa, China or India
• disability studies in film, literature, or culture in a modern languages context
• multilingualism and language policy in health, with a particular interest in linguistic landscapes
• linguistic and cultural aspects related to the key challenges posed by an aging population, dementia and care for the elderly
• the creation and circulation of health-related knowledge through print and digital culture in a modern languages context
• the history of science and medicine in plurilingual or pluricultural contexts
• interpreting and translation services in health
• the cultural sociology of translation in health

Further information and contact details at this link.

Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy
Call for papers and panels

The First World War in Italy and Beyond: History, Legacy and Memory (1918–2018)

30 November – 1 December 2018
Italian Institute of Culture, London

The closing date for receipt of abstracts is 1 June 2018

Further information and contact details at this link.

Ci sono delle borse di studio per un dottorato in italianistica nella fighissima Dublino, presso la University College Dublin. Tra i research interests di alcuni membri della facoltà la prima guerra mondiale, facismo e avanguardia.

Scadenza 31 maggio 2018. Per ulteriori informazione cliccate questo link.