Oppositions: CFP

Opportunities to work at Gladstone's Library

Three Internships

1st September – 19th December 2012

Gladstone’s Library is looking for three interns who will live and work at the Library from 1st September to 19th December 2012 as part of its residential community. The successful applicants should be graduates, preferably with an Arts or Theology/Religious Studies degree.

The interns will work four weekdays plus 1 half day at the weekend. They will also participate in the Evening Duty rota: 5-10pm (2 x weekday evenings), the Lunchtime Reception rota (2x weekday lunch) and staff Reception from 9am – 2pm on either Saturday or Sunday.

The successful applicants will live at Gladstone’s Library free of charge. All meals will be provided. They will be given a small travel and general expenses allowance of £100 per month.

Each intern will be assigned to a specific department. One of the posts will work alongside the Development and Marketing Officers and the other two interns will work alongside the Librarian undertaking a variety of tasks in the care, management and development of the collection.

These internships provide a rare opportunity to live and work in Britain’s only Prime Ministerial library. The post will suit graduates thinking of a career in the charitable sector, marketing, or librarianship.

Please send CV and a letter of application indicating which of the posts you are interested in to Peter Francis (peter.francis@gladlib.org) by 8th July.

The Ragged University

Manchester Ragged invites you to an evening of talks and music on 5th July, doors open 7pm, starting at 7.30pm at The Castle Hotel featuring:

‘The Western Capercaillie and Cornflower Ambassadors Speak Out’ - by Nick Dixon and Annie Harrison

We are two of the 100 selected ambassadors from the unique ExtInked partnership project. We’ll speak about our work, including our motivation for taking on the challenge, the experience of the tattooing and subsequent endeavours on behalf of the endangered species we represent: the capercaillie and the cornflower.

ExtInked is an art and ecology project in which one hundred original drawings of endangered British species were tattooed onto one hundred volunteers. The result of the unique three day performance was an army of ‘ambassadors’ for threatened and rare birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, plants and fungi from around the UK. The project began in November 2009 and was a collaboration with tattooists Ink Vs Steel and photographers Anatomy Projects. It was supported by Arts Council England and MIRIAD. ExtInked was identified as one of the RSA’s arts and ecology project highlights of 2009

‘What are the Ragged Schools – where peer led learning came from’ - by Alex Dunedin
The Ragged Schools movement was a Victorian movement which saw people in all communities banding together to provide free education. From the Crippled Cobbler in Portsmouth to Angel Meadow in Manchester to the Reverend Thomas Guthrie in Edinburgh to Sheriff Watson in Aberdeen; across the land everyone got together to build each other’s knowledge. A major development in this was Andrew Bell’s Madras peer led teaching method, which was inspired by watching local children teaching each other by drawing in the sand. He took this inspiration and generated a system of education which has informed aspects of the university system today.
I am keen to tell people about this history which transformed our social landscape, also update it through the Ragged project today. By meeting in social spaces, peer led community education has more opportunity than ever to make a difference in people’s lives. Here I will be sharing some of the histories which provided such remarkable answers to obvious problems and asking the question – ‘Can we do this again ?’

Music by
Sukhdeep Krishan
Playing songs from his debut album ‘Kings’
www.iamsukh.com
Twitter: @sukhsmusic
soundcloud.com/sukhsmusic

Everyone is welcome to come along to this free, open, informal education project so bring along your friends. This is all about relaxing, putting your feet up and finding out about what people are investing their lives in.

Humanities Teaching and Learning Showcase

The next Showcase event will be held on Tuesday 3rd July from 1pm in the main foyer of the Roscoe Building.

Presentations will focus on the themes of employability, assessment and enhancing contact with students.  Details about each of the presentations are available at the Showcase website.
·         Max Jones (School of Arts, Histories and Cultures):  How Your Department Can Switch Entirely to Online Essay Submission via BB Turnitin/Grademark
·         Judy Zolkiewski (Manchester Business School): Using Turnitin as a teaching device
·         Emma Packham and Richard Screaton (Division of Development and Alumni Relations):  Alumni Engagement for Student Recruitment, Experience & Employability
·         Tim Jones (Manchester Enterprise Centre, Manchester Business School):  Enterprise essentials
·         Rosie Jones and Alyssa Phillips (University Library):  What to expect at the Alan Gilbert Learning Commons, opening this Autumn 2012
·         Jane Ratchford (Careers & Employability):  Improving Student Employabiity & Graduate Destination Data 
·         Nuno Ferreira (School of Law):  Designing and delivering a simulation exercise
·         Paul Middleditch (School of Social Sciences):  Interaction in Lectures with Mobile Devices - Some Evidence
·         Andrew Russell (School of Social Sciences):  Use of Video; Essay Advice Vidcasts
·         Andrew Gold (Faculty Office, eLearning team) :  Resources created by students for the wider world - a case study
Colleagues can register for the Showcase via the Showcase website
Throughout the afternoon, there will be a number of stalls providing information and demonstrations pertinent to teaching and learning in Humanities.
·         Library:  Talis Aspire, digitising texts and support for teaching and learning
·         Careers:  Information on the variety of tools and resources available to staff for use in supporting students such as the academic toolkit, academic FAQ sheets, and CMS support.
·         Humanities Sabbatical Interns:  Peer Assisted Study Sessions and Peer Mentoring
·         Humanities eLearning Team:  demonstrations of Blackboard 9, WIMBA Classroom, BoB and other online technologies
·         Student System (Campus Solutions): how Campus Solutions can be used to support the Academic Adviser role, information on reporting from Campus Solutions, latest functionality and the opportunity to raise queries.
·         Manchester Enterprise Centre

Write for the Student Guide

Are you an aspiring writer and looking to be published in a national magazine? If so we want you to share your uni experiences with fellow students by writing for The Student Guide.

We are a national magazine filling you in on the latest in music, fashion, food and all things studenty. It is sold in leading newsagents and published online. We are soon to start work on this year’s edition.

A copy of last year’s magazine is available to read online: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/98b2aeef#/98b2aeef/1

If you are interested in contributing please email Lindsey.davis@bamedia.com and we will be in touch.

Oppositions: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference

Oppositions: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference

28th and 29th September 2012
University of Salford


This postgraduate conference seeks to explore ideas of opposition through the full range of disciplines in the arts, media, and social sciences.

In the context of the current crisis of capitalism, there are many examples of the forms ‘opposition’ can take: the Tea Party in the United States, the rise of fascist groups, campaigns run via new technologies and social media, religious fundamentalisms, and general strikes in Greece. Though it carries radical overtones, ‘opposition’ in itself is not tied to any particular dogma, left or right. We invite papers that explore the value and values of opposition as a position to be adopted by individuals or groups.

We welcome proposals for papers from postgraduate students that engage with any aspect of opposition. These could include, but are by no means limited to: the ‘culture industry’ and alternative youth cultures; opposition parties within parliamentary politics; grass-roots activism; the history and future of the labour movement; hegemony; Foucauldian ‘resistance’ and its limits; radical pedagogies and the role of the University; community and class; the aesthetic value of non-mainstream or outsider art; aesthetic oppositions such as contrapuntal music or bricolage; and the formation of creole or pidgin languages.

Papers are welcome from fields such as politics, literature, philosophy, anthropology, religions and theology, geography, sociology, history, classics, translation studies, linguistics and social linguistics, visual and screen studies, new media and communication studies, and the performing arts. Interdisciplinary papers are very welcome.

Keynote speakers TBC.

Abstracts of 250 words are invited for presentations of 20 minutes. Proposals for performances, screenings etc. are also accepted. The conference intends to publish an edited volume of the best papers presented.
Send abstracts to oppositionsconference[at]gmail.com by 6 July 2012.

Fifty Years of A Clockwork Orange

The programme of the ‘Fifty Years of A Clockwork Orange’ conference. 28-30 June 2012 at the Burgess Centre in Manchester, is available here:

http://www.anthonyburgess.org/mediablog/fifty-years-of-a-clockwork-orange-full-programme

The Burgess Centre is offering discounted admission to Manchester University postgraduate students and academic staff. Given the multi-disciplinary nature of the conference, which includes contributions from film directors, historians, psychologists, criminologists, musicians and philosophers, as well as literary scholars, they are confident that it will be of interest to researchers from a variety of subject areas.

The discounted fee of £40 will include a concert, a wine reception, and buffet lunches on all three days of the conference.

Further information is available from Paula Price on 0161 235 0776 or info@anthonyburgess.org

Work experience in Stoke

SONS Records is a record label based in Stoke-On-Trent City Centre. It has been running for 7 years, In which time it has accrued 8 Indie Chart top ten singles.

If you'd like to have a look at our sites to get a better idea of the company then here are a couple of links -

www.sonsrecords.co.uk

www.facebook.com/sonsrecords

Over the coming months we plan to put out a string of releases by our groups The Novellos and This Is Seb Clarke, and we'd like to offer the opportunity for students to come and help out with online promotion, and get some first hand experience of the industry.

The work experience is offered on an unpaid basis, but we are very flexible with hours (allowing one to fit us in where they can depending on lectures/work load etc). There's no fixed term - we tend to sign a two week rolling contract with students, and after those two weeks play it by ear depending on what they'd like to do. 

Its a great opportunity for students to gain an insight into how the music industry works, improve their communication skills, add to their CV and get a good reference.

All students are welcome, obviously Music and Business students may have the keenest interest, and as we'll be conferring with overseas markets then linguistics students who are bi-lingual would be fantastic too, as they'd have to opportunity to get involved with translating and interpreting.

The best way for a student to apply is to email me their contact details and CV to markbroome@sonsrecords.co.uk

Thanks for all your help on this

Mark Broome

E-mail:markbroome@sonsrecords.co.uk
Phone: 07902 923 062 / 01782 289 627

www.sonsrecords.co.uk

The Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF) Scheme

The Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF) Scheme is now open for formal Expressions of Interest.

About the Scheme:
MQ will offer up to seven full-time Research Fellowship positions commencing in 2013, one of which will be dedicated to an Australian Indigenous Researcher. Fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis and will be fixed-term for three years. Applicants must have been awarded their PhD on or after 1 March 2009, or submit their thesis by 29 August 2012 (or make a convincing case for early career researcher status). Any intending applicants for this scheme must discuss their Expression of Interest with their Fellowship Sponsor and work closely with them during its development.

For full details please read the Expression of Interest (EOI) Funding Rules 2013 and EOI Template, which are attached and will also be available on the Research Office website soon; you will be able to access them by clicking on ‘Macquarie University Research Fellowships Scheme (MQRF)’ at:
http://www.research.mq.edu.au/for/researchers/how_to_obtain_research_funding/funding_opportunities/internal

Faculty Review Process
The MQRF scheme is very competitive and only 20% of the applicants who submit an expression of interest will be invited to submit a full application. So this year we are asking all potential MQRF applicants to email the Faculty Research Office at ArtsRO@mq.edu.au regarding their Intention to Apply by 5 pm on Wednesday, 16 May 2012, including the following:
·     name and contact details

·     CV, including a list of publications

·     name of the academic who has agreed to sponsor them

·     working title of project

The Associate Dean Research and members of the Faculty Research Committee will review each submission and assess whether the applicant's track record means they are competitive. Applicants will be advised of the outcome of this review process within 5 working days of submitting their Intention to Apply.

MQRF Information Seminar
We are also arranging an information seminar for potential MQRF applicants and their sponsors. All intending applicants and their Sponsors are encouraged to attend.

When:              Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Time:               10 to 11 am
Location:         E6A102
Chair:              A/Prof. Mark Wiggins
Presenters:       A/Prof. Amanda Barnier, A/Prof. Robyn Langdon, and other panel members
Topic:              MQ Research Fellowship Scheme

All welcome – no RSVP required

Faculty Deadlines:
Intention to Apply (see above): due at ArtsRO@mq.edu.au by 5 pm on Wednesday 16 May.

Complete, good quality DRAFT Expressions of Interest: due at ArtsRO@mq.edu.au by 5 pm on Wednesday, 30 May. Please email them by the deadline to ensure that you have time to incorporate feedback from review and compliance checks prior to the final Central Research Office deadline of Wednesday, 13 June 2012.

Hillis Miller at Lancaster (2)

J. HILLIS MILLER

Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature

 University of California at Irvine

LANCASTER UNIVERSITY LECTURES AND SEMINARS

Monday 28^th May 2012:

PUBLIC LECTURE

‘Literature Matters Today’

Cavendish Lecture Theatre, Faraday Building, 6 pm

Wednesday 30^th May 2012:

OPEN RESEARCH SEMINAR

‘Some Versions of Romance Trauma as Generated by Realist Detail: Ian McEwan's Atonement’

Bowland North Seminar Room 6, 2 -4 pm

Thursday 31^st May 2012:

FILM SCREENING

The First Sail: J. Hillis Miller (2011) (dir.) Dragan Kujundžić

Followed by a Question and Answer Session with Dragan Kujundžić and J. Hillis Miller

Marcus Merriman Lecture Theatre, 6 pm

Friday 1^st June 2012:

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

J. Hillis Miller and the Theory to Come

An International Symposium on the work of J. Hillis Miller with keynote lectures from J. Hillis Miller and Dragan Kujundžić.

Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts Auditorium, 9. 30 am – 4. 30 pm

Department of
Linguistics and English Language

Hillis Miller at Lancaster

J. HILLIS MILLER:

The Theory to Come

An International Symposium

Keynote Speakers:

J. Hillis Miller (University of California at Irvine)

Dragan Kujundžić (University of Florida)

Friday 1^st June 2012

LANCASTER INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS

LANCASTER UNIVERSITY

Department of
Linguistics and English Language

PROGRAMME

9. 30 am Welcome and Opening Plenary

Dragan Kujundžić (University of Florida)

‘”Like the beginning of an interminable waterway:” J. Hillis Miller and the Theory to Come

10. 30 am Tea and Coffee Break

10. 45 am Panel Session 1

Sally Bushell (Lancaster University)

‘”An Encounter with the Unmappable’: or Treasure Island and Cartographic Silence’

Andrew Tate and Simon Marsden (Lancaster University)

'Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Disappearance of God'

Michael Greaney (Lancaster University)

'Conrad's Strangers'

12. 00 pm Lunch

1. 30 pm Panel Session 2

Sarah Dillon (University of St Andrews)

'"Talking about the same questions but at another rhythm": Deconstruction and Film'

Charlie Gere (Lancaster University)

‘Hillis Miller, Luther Blissett, and the Politics of Friendship in the Age of Facebook’

John Schad (Lancaster University)

‘Our lives, Mrs. Dalloway’

2.45 pm Tea and Coffee Break

3. 00 pm Closing Plenary

J. Hillis Miller (University of California at Irvine)

‘Why Literature Still Matters to Me’

4. 30 pm Close

SPEAKERS

J. Hillis Miller is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California at Irvine. Before going to Irvine, Hillis Miller taught at The Johns Hopkins University and Yale University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He is the author of many books and essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, European, and American literature, and on literary theory. His most recent books are For Derrida (2009), The Medium is the Maker: Browning, Freud, Derrida and the New Telepathic Ecotechnologies (2009), The Conflagration of Community: Fiction Before and After Auschwitz (2011) and Reading for Our Time: Adam Bede and Middlemarch Revisited (2012). 

Dragan Kujundžić is Professor of Film and Media Studies, Jewish, Germanic and Slavic Studies, at the University of Florida. He is the author of numerous articles in critical theory, deconstruction and literary criticism. He has edited Deconstruction, A Merry Science (1985), Khoraographies for Jacques Derrida on July 15, 2000 (2000), Who or What—Jacques Derrida (2008) and two volumes on J. Hillis Miller, J (2005) and Provocations to Reading (2005). His other publications include monographs Critical Exercises (1983), The Returns of History (1997) and Tongue in Heat (2003). He has also edited volumes on Walter Benjamin, and Mikhail Bakhtin. He is currently working on the new monograph, Ghost Scriptum and on a book based on his recent film (2011) The First Sail: J. Hillis Miller. 

Sally Bushell is Reader in British Romanticism and Co-Director of The Wordsworth Centre in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University.  Her primary research interests are in Wordsworth, textual criticism and the study of poetic process and the long poem.  She is author of Re-Reading the Excursion (2002) and Text as Process: Creative Composition in Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Dickinson (2009) as well as co-editor of the Cornell Edition of The Excursion (2007). Current research is on literary place as embodied in empirical literary maps as well as larger ideas of Literary Cartography and the ways in which we read and map literary space.

Sarah Dillon is Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction in the School of English at the University of St Andrews. She is author of The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory (2007) and editor of David Mitchell: Critical Essays (2011). She is Series Editor of Gylphi Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays and has published widely in the fields of modern and contemporary literature and philosophy. She is currently completing two books: Dancing with Derrida, an investigation of the question of "woman" in Jacques Derrida's work and contemporary fiction and film, guided by the trope of dance; and Venturing Derrida (co. ed. Sarah Jackson), a collection of new essays by the next generation of Derrida scholars. 

Charlie Gere is Reader in New Media Research in the Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University. He is the author of Digital Culture (2002), Art, Time and Technology ( 2006), Community without Community in Digital Culture (2012), and co-editor of White Heat Cold Technology (2009), and Art Practice in a Digital Culture (2010), as well as many papers on questions of technology, media and art. In 2007 he co-curated Feedback, a major exhibition on art responsive to instructions, input, or its environment, in Gijon, Northern Spain.

Michael Greaney is Senior Lecturer in English at Lancaster University. He is the author of Conrad, Language and Narrative (2002) and Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory (2006), and is currently working on representations of sleep in modern fiction.

Simon Marsden is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of English & Creative Writing at Lancaster University. His research focuses on the intersections of literature, theology and the philosophy of science in the long nineteenth century and beyond. He is the author of the forthcoming monograph Emily Brontë and the Religious Imagination (2013).

John Schad is Professor of Modern Literature at Lancaster University. He is the author and editor of many books on Victorian and Modern Literature, literary theory and religion. His documentary novel, The Late Walter Benjamin, comes out in May 2012 and Hostage of the Word: Readings and Writings 1993-2013 is published early next year.

Andrew Tate is Senior Lecturer in English and Associate Director of the Ruskin Research Centre at Lancaster University. He has published widely in the field of nineteenth-century literature and contemporary literature and theology. His books include Douglas Coupland (2007), Contemporary Fiction and Christianity (2008) and, co-authored with Arthur Bradley, The New Atheist Novel (2010).

FURTHER INFORMATION

LOCATION:

This symposium takes place in the Auditorium of the Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts Building, Lancaster University. Please see the map of Lancaster University campus, below, for directions: the LICA Building is number 4.

TRAVEL:

If you are travelling by car, leave the M6 motorway at Junction 33 and take the A6 north towards Lancaster.  For Lancaster University main campus - turn right at the third set of traffic lights on the A6 into the University main drive.  Take the first exit left from the roundabout at the top of the main drive, then the first avenue on your right. This brings you to the Reception Lodge where security staff will direct you to your destination on campus.  If using an online route planner or satnav, please note that the university postcode is LA1 4YW.

If you are travelling by rail, there are direct rail links between Lancaster and many of the UK's major cities and airports including Manchester Airport. For train times, visit National Rail Enquiries. The X1 bus service runs every 20 minutes between the University and the Railway Station (hourly on Sunday afternoons and evenings). Taxis are available at the station, which is a five minute walk from the city centre.  Local taxi services can be contacted on: +44 (0)1524 35666 and +44 (0)1524 848848.

ACCOMMODATION :

In Lancaster city centre, you will find a variety of accommodation available to suit all budgets:

The Sun Hotel

63-65 Church Street
Lancaster, Lancashire LA1 1ET
Tel: 01524 66006

www.thesunhotelandbar.co.uk

Penny Street Bridge Hotel

Penny St
Lancaster, Lancashire LA1
Tel: 01524 599 900

www.pennystreetbridge.co.uk

Royal King’s Arms Hotel

Market Street
Lancaster, Lancashire LA1
Tel: 01524 32451

www.bestwestern.co.uk

Travelodge Lancaster

King Street

Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 1RE

Tel: 0871 9846453

http://www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/498/Lancaster-Central-hotel

USEFUL LINKS:

Map of Lancaster City Centre:

http://www.celebratingcycling.org/images/downloads/LancasterCityCentreMap2010.pdf

Map of Lancaster University Campus:

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/maps/campus.pdf