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Recent news from the Centre
- David Barrie Commended in International Book Prize
- CMEMS Participates in UWA Open Day
- Dr Toby Burrows Revolutionising E-Research in the Humanities
- Dr Suzanne Wijsman Awarded ALTC Grant
- Terra Australis Symposium, June 2009
- E/Professor Patricia Crawford Memorial Fund
- Dr Van Gent's New Book Released
Dr David Barrie commended in international book prize
Dr David Barrie's book, Police in the Age of Improvement: Police Development and the Civic Tradition in Scotland 1775-1865 (Willian Publishing, 2008) has been commended as 'Best First Book' in the prestigious Frank Watson Book Prize in Scottish History, 2008-09', by an international committee at the University of Guelph, Ontario.
The book aims to provide an in-depth analysis of the economic, social, intellectual and political factors that shaped police reform, development and policy in Scottish burghs during the 'Age of Improvement'.
Professor Graeme Morton, member of the judging panel, wrote, "The Committee has also asked me to convey how impressed they were with the scholarship which underpinned your volume and to say how much they enjoyed reading your excellent prose. We hope you will consider a submission to this Award with your next book".
David's book is published by Willan Publishing.
CMEMS participates in UWA Open Day
CMEMS was responsible for organising the Medieval and Early Modern Studies stall at this year's highly successful UWA Open Day.
The MEMS stall attracted considerable attention from prospective students interested in both the Major in MEMS and the Masters by Coursework. It was a very positive indication of the strong interest in medieval and early modern studies.
Dr Toby Burrows Revolutionising E-Research in the Humanities
Dr Toby Burrows was recently featured in a article on the University World News website. An excerpt from the article is copied below:
AUSTRALIA: E-research to revolutionise humanities
02 August 2009
Issue: 0087
An online tool to be designed by a researcher at the University of Western Australia will enable a scholar in a remote part of the globe, or even an astronaut with some free time, to access the world's rare medieval vellum
manuscripts and carry out in-depth investigations with just a few clicks.
Dr Toby Burrows, Digital Services Director of the ARC Network for Early European Research, hopes the day will soon come when a humanities scholar will also be able to explore a whole body of data to conduct intensive
research without having to leave his or her desk.
"While many scientists have access to massive worldwide e-research datasets, the humanities have lagged behind - until now," Burrows said.
He has been awarded funding to help him continue his work in improving the effectiveness and applicability of e-research in the humanities. His project is in collaboration with the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, which, like UWA, is a member of the 16-strong research -intensive Worldwide Universities Network.
Dr Suzanne Wijsman Awarded ALTC Grant
The Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies would like to congratulate Dr Suzanne Wijsman from UWA's School of Music, on being awarded a grant of $220,000 from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
The grant will be used for Dr Wijsman's national curriculum initiative on musicians' health.
Of 144 applications the ATLC Standing Board approved only thirteen proposals.
Dr Wijsman, a CMEMS member, is internationally recognised for her research on early music and historical performance and music iconography and illustration.
Perceptions of Terra Australis Symposium
CMEMS wishes to announce:
A symposium jointly sponsored by the ARC Network for Early European Research and
the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group
12th and 13th June 2009, UWA
The name of Terra Australis goes back to early Greek philosophy, but the concept it represents may have a more diverse history. This symposium focuses on the concept itself and changes in the ways that Terra Australis has been understood over a period of many centuries.
The three keynotes speakers will address themselves to aspects of this development. Their contributions will include the role of historical cartography in demonstrating and advancing perceptions. Dr Alfred Hiatt (University of Leeds), author of the newly published Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600, will consider the early period. Professor Mercedes Camino (University of Lancaster), author of Producing the Pacific: Maps and Narratives of Pacific Exploration 1567–1606, will talk about the age of European exploration to the South. And Emeritus Professor Norman Etherington (University of Western Australia), author/editor of Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa, will focus on the British colonial period.
Full details on the symposium are available
on the PMRG website.
Emeritus Professor Patricia Crawford
Memorial Fund
Em/Professor Patricia (Trish) Crawford (1941 - April 2009)
Members of the Centre for MEMS expresses their deepest sympathy at the recent passing of their friend, colleague and mentor, Trish Crawford. Trish, an internationally distinguised historian, made a major contribution to the development of early modern studies at UWA.
To honour Trish and to set up an appropriate and lasting memorial in accordance with the wishes of her family, a Trish (Patricia) Crawford Memorial Fund is being established in The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia. The aim of this fund is to provide support for the research of an outstanding postgraduate, postdoctoral staff member or Early Career Researcher in history.
You are invited to donate to the Trish Crawford Fund. All contributions over $2 are tax deductible. A donation form is attached. Please print, complete and return to The Office of Development, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WS 6009, Australia or fax to (61) 8 6488 1063.
UWA Trish Crawford Memorial Fund Donation Form
Donations can also be made on line at: http://msc.uwa.edu.au/ood/secure?section=checkout
Dr Van Gent's New Book Release
The Centre warmly congratulates Dr Jacqueline Van Gent on the release of her new book, Magic, Body and the Self in Eighteenth-Century Sweden.
The book demonstrates that the endurance of magical practices in Enlightenment Europe was grounded in early modern perceptions of an interconnected body, self and spiritual cosmos. It is part of the series Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, published by Brill.
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