SPBS & THE FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH SCHOOL OF ATHENS INAUGURAL JOINT LECTURE 20 MARCH 2012 SPBS TREASURER After a quarter of a century of continuous service by Michael Carey, the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies is looking for a NEW TREASURER. This is your opportunity to become involved in the promotion of Byzantine Studies in the UK. Nominations are sought from across the full range of the existing membership of the Society. Enthusiasm, organisation and a desire to promote Byzantine studies are much more important than holding an academic post. The only precondition is that you must be a member of the Society at the date of publication of this advertisement. The various duties of the Treasurer are set out here. If you wish to stand as Treasurer of the Society, please write to the Secretary (Tim Greenwood, Department of Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews, 71 South Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9QW Scotland OR email: twg3@st-andrews.ac.uk) with the names of your proposer and seconder (both of whom must also be existing members of the Society). Nominations close on 24 February 2012. Please also include a one-page manifesto or personal statement as part of your submission so that all the members can learn something about you and your ideas for the financial future of the Society. All manifestoes and personal statements will be posted on the Society’s website and circulated by email after nominations have closed so that members can read them in advance of the election. The new Treasurer will be elected at the Society’s Annual General Meeting at 1.00pm on Sunday 25 March 2012 in the Symposium venue at the University of Oxford. GRANTS AWARDED BY THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF BYZANTINE STUDIES The Society offers grants under the following Award schemes:
The deadlines for submissions are 1 March and 1 November each year.Forms and guidelines are available on the dedicated grants page; please click here for further details. Translated Texts for Byzantinists Liverpool University Press intends in the near future to launch a new series, Translated Texts for Byzantinists, as a sister-series to the well-established and successful Translated Texts for Historians. This series will take up from 800 AD, where Translated Texts for Historians leaves off, and will follow a similar format. The volumes will normally include English translation with Introduction and Commentary. The intention of the series is to broaden access to Byzantine texts, enabling students, non-specialists and scholars working in related disciplines to access material otherwise unavailable to them. The series will, in time, include a wide range of texts, including historical, theological and literary works. The General Editors would be interested to hear from anyone with either concrete proposals for translations of texts or with suggestions about texts for which a translation would be desirable or areas and types of material which would most benefit from attention. General Editors: Liverpool University Press Lincoln College Summer School of Greek Palaeography Structure: Over the course of five days, students will have ten reading classes, participate in four manuscript viewing sessions in Oxford libraries, and attend ten lectures (listed below). Tutors: Ilse de Vos (M.A., Ghent; Ph.D., Leuven); Charalambos Dendrinos (M.A., Ph.D., London); Dimitrios Skrekas (M.St., D.Phil., Oxford); Georgi Parpulov (M.A., Sofia; Ph.D., Chicago); Nigel Wilson, F.B.A. Fees: £ 200 Accommodation: Accommodation will be available at Lincoln College at the cost of £ 263 (prices current as of December 2011), but students may choose to make their own living arrangements in Oxford. Financial assistance: Bursaries of £ 463 will cover the fees and accommodation expenses of at least five students. At least two more students will be able to attend the school without paying a £ 200 fee. Active efforts are being made to raise funds for further bursaries. Applications are due on or before 8 January 2012 and are to be submitted by e-mail to georgi.parpulov@history.ox.ac.uk . Please, explain in detail your reasons for wishing to attend the school and attach your current CV. Indicate whether you would like to be considered for financial assistance. Arrange for one letter of reference from an established academic to be sent to the same e-mail address by 8 January 2012. Successful applicants will be notified on 20 January 2012. [posted on BEDLAM, 19th Oct 2011] “Learned Practices of Canonical Texts” The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (MPIWG) offers a limited number of two-month pre- and postdoctoral fellowships for outstanding junior scholars in the final stage of completing their dissertations or within 4 years of having received the doctorate. Dissertation topics should be related to the ongoing research project in Department II “Learned Practices of Canonical Texts” (Organizers: Anthony Grafton, Glenn Most). This research project examines historically and comparatively the scholarly practices associated with canonical texts especially in the following linguistic traditions: ancient Greek; Latin; Hebrew; Arabic; the languages of the Indian subcontinent; Chinese. Approximately six senior and six junior scholars (the positions advertised here are for the latter six) will constitute a Working Group at the MPIWG in Berlin from 6 July 2012 to 17 August 2012. Each participant will arrive with a preliminary version of a chapter on one aspect of this topic for a collective publication, to be presented to and discussed by the other members of the group. All participants will then spend those six weeks working together to turn these chapters into a more unified book. The topic of the dissertation or postdoctoral research project must be pertinent to the research project and should come from the linguistic traditions indicated. Applicants working on non-European topics are especially encouraged to apply. The fellowships are open to doctoral candidates and recent Ph.D.’s of all nationalities and disciplines, except those who have already received three years of Max Planck Society predoctoral fellowship funding. The colloquium language is English and candidates are expected to be able to present and discuss their work in that language. Applications may however be submitted in German, French, Italian, Spanish, or English. The fellowships will run from 1 July 2012 - 31 August 2012 and will include funds to cover round-trip travel between the fellow’s home institution and Berlin and a stipend for living expenses during this period. The MPIWG offers all resident scholars office space, computer and library support. Applicants should send the following materials by 2 January 2012: Applications and letters of recommendation should be sent to: [posted on BEDLAM, 18th Oct 2011] ISAW Now Accepting Visiting Research Scholar Applications for Fall 2012 Each year the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, makes about 7-10 appointments of visiting research scholars. We are now accepting applications for fellowships beginning in fall 2012. ISAW's scope embraces the history, archaeology, and culture of the entire Old World from late prehistoric times to the eighth century AD, including Asia and Africa. Projects of a theoretical or comparative nature relevant to this domain are also welcome. Academic visitors at ISAW should be individuals of scholarly distinction or promise in any relevant field of ancient studies who will benefit from the stimulation of working in an environment with colleagues in other disciplines. Applicants with a history of interdisciplinary exchange are particularly welcome. They are expected to be in residence at the Institute during the academic terms for which they are appointed and to take part in the intellectual life of the community. For details about the categories of fellows, financial support, and the application, please visit http://isaw.nyu.edu/academics/visiting-scholars. The deadline for applications is December 10, 2011. New York University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. [posted on BEDLAM, 18th Oct 2011] *** CALL FOR EMAIL ADDRESSES!*** If you would like to be kept informed about forthcoming events and other pieces of news by email, please could you contact the Membership Secretary Dr Mike Saxby including your name in the message. He will then add you to the group mailing list. If your email address has changed since you were last asked for this information - and particularly if you did not receive an email notification of the Autumn lecture - please could you supply your new contact details. Quite a number of the addresses on the existing list are no longer active. The Byzantium Website Welcome to Byzantium, the website for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. This site is intended primarily as a platform to disseminate information about SPBS events, research grants and publications. In addition it will complement the Bulletin of British Byzantine Studies (BBBS), containing archived material from past issues. We are also collating useful links to external sites and details of Byzantine courses for students and would welcome any appropriate additions from members. Use the navigation bookmark on the left to explore the site. We hope that members will find this a useful resource and that non-members will be encouraged to join the society. Teaching Resources Contributions to BBBS and the Byzantium web site Contributors to BBBS should be aware that all publications, announcements and reports published in the Bulletin will also appear at some stage on this web site. If any individual does not wish to make their contributions available on the internet then please contact Byzantium@ncl.ac.uk and we will ensure that the relevant items are removed.
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