Return-Path: Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca ([142.150.96.236]) by fb04.eng00.mindspring.net (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id s86ce4.qnc.37kbi5a Mon, 17 Jan 2000 10:14:11 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA20841 for js-network-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 08:03:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 08:03:29 -0500 (EST) From: Lorenzo DiTommaso To: js-network@OISE.UTORONTO.CA Subject: JSN: Jewish Studies Newsletter [9.007p3] Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-js-network@oise.utoronto.ca Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Jewish Studies Newsletter THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER Positions & Events in Academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 9.007p3 * January 2000 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Fellowships - Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship: Alexandria [Brandeis] * Conferences - Colloquium on Late Antiquity [APA] ------------------------------------------------------------ FELLOWSHIPS ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Leonard Muellner Subject: Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship: Alexandria The Department of Classical Studies and the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies of Brandeis University invite applications for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship funded by the Mellon Foundation and focused on the cultures that met and sought to define themselves in ancient Alexandria: Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian, and Egyptian. The primary purpose of the fellowship is to allow its holder to pursue an active research program, but it also includes the teaching of two courses per year at any level and the opportunity to animate interaction between the Classical Studies and the Near Eastern & Judaic Studies departments through lectures, colloquia, publications, etc. At a minimum, we seek applicants with a primary specialization in a particular period in the history of Alexandria (from ancient to modern times) or in a particular discipline appropriate to its study but with a broad interest in other disciplines and periods that might inform their research interests. Candidates should provide the following: * a curriculum vitae * a research proposal of not more than 1500 words, including a select bibliography * proposals for two courses, including a description (two paragraphs) and a reading list. The description may include details about pedagogical method and an account of the relationship, if any, of the course to the research proposal. * a list of referees for the selection committee to contact (addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and FAX numbers, as necessary/possible) * evidence of teaching ability These materials, which will be reviewed by a joint committee composed of members of both departments, should be sent to the following address: Mellon Fellowship Selection Committee c/o Professor Leonard Muellner Department of Classical Studies MS 016 Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02254-9110 DEADLINE for applications: February 15, 2000 Brandeis University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer ------------------------------------------------------------ CONFERENCES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Rochelle I. Altman" Subject: APA Lt Antiq panel [Cross-Posted from Ioudaios -- L.D.T.] American Philological Association: San Diego, January 2001 Colloquium on Late Antiquity: Voyages Real and Imagined in Late Antiquity Organizers: James A. Francis, University of Kentucky and Carlos R. Galv o-Sobrinho, Yale University and Unicamp, Brazil Late antiquity was not only a time of transition, it was also a world of movement. Seldom in antiquity do we find such restlessness Everywhere we turn we see people journeying, migrating, setting out to and coming back from remote lands and locales of imagination. Seldom, however, do we frame the period in such terms. The barbarian migrations, and the further dislocations they engendered, are but the most spectacular journeys of the period. Further consideration reveals bishops wearing down the roads traveling to and from councils, monks flocking to the desert, and the advent of religious pilgrimage. Peasants migrate; slaves run away. In literature, novels and lives weave intricate plots of exotic voyages, heroic journeys, and searches for lost loves that encompass the known world. Nor is this phenomenon limited to physical travel. Metaphors of movement dominate consideration of the soul and the divine: ascent, descent, emanation, transmigration, and conversion to name but a few. Indeed, the very reading and writing of texts can itself be seen as a journey. The organizers of this panel invite papers which probe various manifestations and meanings of travel and movement, physical, fictional, and spiritual, in Late Antiquity. We seek to explore what insights might be gained by viewing Late Antiquity as an "age of movement" or "age in motion," and perhaps adjust or refine our impressions of the period. Examples of topics that would suit this panel include: Roman roads and the imperial post, anachoresis, travelogues, the ascent of the soul, Gnostic cosmology, accounts of conversion experiences, Neoplatonic anthropology, travel as a motif in ancient fiction, logistics, and utopian conceptions. Papers with an interdisciplinary interest or method are particularly encouraged. The panel is part of the APA three-year colloquium on Late Antiquity chaired by Dennis Trout. The panel organizers are James A. Francis (Honors Program, 1153 Patterson Office Tower, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027, jafran1@pop.uky.edu) and Carlos R. Galvo-Sobrinho (Departmento de Hist ria, IFCH, Unicamp, Campinas, SP 13081-970, Brazil, sobcarr@obelix.unicamp.br) Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by February 1, 2000 preferably to both organizers via email. If necessary, abstracts may be mailed to James Francis at the address listed or faxed to him at 606-257-3743 All submissions will be judged anonymously by a panel of referees. ____________________________________________________________________ DIGEST MODERATORS : Charles David Isbell Faydra Shapiro Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein MANAGING EDITOR: Avi Jacob Hyman CHAIR: Jonathan Sarna JEWISH STUDIES NEWSLETTER EDITOR and BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Lorenzo DiTommaso WEBSITE: Avrum Goodblatt JEWISH STUDIES ON-LINE EDITORIAL BOARD: Henry Abramson, Josh Backon, Lewis Barth, Judith Baskin, Herb Basser, Aviva Ben-Ur, Marsha Cohen, Bernard Cooperman, Alan Crown, Nathan Ehrlich, Yossi Galron, Penny Schine Gold, Avrum Goodblatt, Joseph Haberer, Guy Haskell, Howard Joseph, Yitzchak Kerem, Peter Margolis, Richard Menkis, Barry Mesch, Jim Mott, Leslie Train, Tzvee Zahavy, Belarie Zatzman, Reena Zeidman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jewish Studies Network Homepage: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Jewish Studies Newsletter is published & distributed for members of H-Judaic@h-net.msu.edu - The Jewish Studies Network, an affiliate of H-Net: Humanities On-Line and Shamash.Org. 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