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Paid Opportunity: ArtLess Curatorial Internship – Deadline Friday 13th May 2016

The School of Arts invites applications for a curatorial internship to work with the ArtLess Project in collaboration with the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and Bury Museum of Art (Manchester) during the Summer Term 2016.

The ArtLess Group was established in 2014 to develop creative, entrepreneurial and project possibilities for PhD students across the Arts, and secured AHRC funding for the Arts of Experiment Project, to translate research into potential exhibitions on the international market. Working with partners at Bury Museum of Art (Manchester), students gained skills and experience in curatorial practice and international touring exhibition development. Among the outcomes was a programme of events on the ‘Arts of Experiment’, and a virtual exhibition on Angels and Avatars, which is being curated by Grace Halden and Daniel O’Donnell Smith.

Click here for further details on the ArtLess Group, and here for its curatorial experiments.

This internship will develop a strand of the ArtLess project, working in close collaboration with partners and the ArtLess group on an international touring exhibition project about fairies in nineteenth-century art.

We are looking for PhD students with an interest in curatorial practice and research specialism in nineteenth-century studies is an advantage.

The intern will be involved in:

  • Translation of research into curatorial practice
  • Development of an exhibition proposal
  • Networking and Liaising between the School of Arts, museums, and other non-HE partners
  • Pitching of an international touring exhibition
  • Organization and marketing in the curatorial sector
  • Public engagement

Remuneration: £15.26 per hour for a maximum of 110 hours to be completed by end July 2016.

Application procedure:

Please submit a full CV, the name of an academic referee, and a cover letter outlining a) your area of research, b) how the placement would benefit your academic study and c) how it will develop your career skills.

Please submit your application to aj.shepherd@bbk.ac.uk with the subject line: ARTLESS CURATORIAL INTERNSHIP, by Friday 13 May

Please direct any enquiries to Dr Luisa Calè (l.cale@bbk.ac.uk)

 

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Dandelion Journal: Call for Editors – deadline 20th April 2016

CALL for EDITORS

The Dandelion Journal seeks EDITORS to assist in the compiling and editing of the journal’s ‘NOSTALGIA’ issue.

We invite all Birkbeck School of Arts Postgraduate Students to join the Dandelion Journal Editorial Team. No prior experience of publishing or editorial is necessary: you will learn editorial skills as you go. We particularly require editors whose expertise lie in the fields of: History of Art, Screen Media, English and Humanities.

As a Dandelion Subeditor, you will be required to edit and copyedit two or three articles (between 3000 – 8000 words) between late-April 2016 and June 2016. We ask that you attend one or two editorial meetings with the rest of the team during this time. You will also be welcome to contribute to the team in any other ways you desire (e.g. events planning, design, typesetting etc).

We encourage you to send us an email explaining why and how you would like to be involved and detailing any relevant experience you have by 20th APRIL 2016:

mail@dandelionjournal.org

We look forward to hearing from you,

The editors:

Robyn Jakeman, Rebecca Sykes and Tom Travers

 

www.dandelionjournal.org

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Opportunity: Birkbeck Gender Sexuality (BiGS) steering committee

Birkbeck Gender Sexuality (BiGS) is looking for two post-graduate reps for its steering committee.

BiGS organises a range of events throughout the year – from panel discussions to performance art – that showcase and engage the research interests of staff and students at Birkbeck engaged in gender and sexuality studies.  As a post-graduate rep, you would have the opportunity to propose and organise events, and foster postgraduate teaching and research in this area.

For more information about BiGS  visit our website, and join our mailing list.

If you would be interested in finding out more about the role of post-graduate representative, please contact the BiGS Director, Dr Kate Maclean, directly – k.maclean@bbk.ac.uk.

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PhD Placements at the British Library

Placements at the British Library provide opportunities for PhD students from all disciplines to develop and apply transferrable research skills outside of the university sector. They support the professional development of researchers for future career paths both within and outside academia.  Placement projects are hosted both by specialist curatorial teams and by staff working in areas such as research engagement, digital scholarship, corporate affairs and public policy.

Current opportunities

A broad range of placement opportunities have been identified by the Library for 2016-17, visit this link for more details: http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/highered/phd-placement-scheme/

 

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Opportunity: Postgraduate Editorial Intern in Academic Publishing Online, applications due 19 February 2016

The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies

seeks a

Postgraduate Editorial Intern in Academic Publishing Online

The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies invites applications from postgraduate research students in English, History, Media, and Art History for an Internship in Academic Publishing Online to manage our web journal:

 

19

Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

(www.19.bbk.ac.uk)

 

The Journal

Launched on 1 October 2005, 19 is an electronic publishing initiative designed to publicize and disseminate the research activities carried out by Birkbeck’s Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, and to provide practical research and professional development opportunities for the many postgraduate students undertaking research degrees in nineteenth-century studies at the College. The journal is fully peer-reviewed, is aggregated with NINES, and currently uses the Open Journals System, allowing free and open access to its contents. Having celebrated both its tenth anniversary, and its move to the Open Library of Humanities (https://www.openlibhums.org/) in 2015, 19 is going with confidence into the new era of academic open access publishing with an established reputation as a field-leading journal.

 

The Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies

The Centre was first established in 1997 under the directorship of Professor Isobel Armstrong to bring together researchers in English, History of Art and History. It hosts the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies, which sees national and international speakers coming to Birkbeck throughout the year. The Forum was launched in January 2012 by Professor Andrew H. Miller, who talked on ‘”A Case of Metaphysics”: Counterfactuals, Realism, Great Expectations’. It has a national reputation for its diverse events, including running the innovative, intellectually imaginative London Seminar for Nineteenth-Century Studies, which has led the way in defining interdisciplinarity for the period.  It also runs the successful annual Dickens Day and has provided many opportunities for Postgraduate students to organise and run conferences and symposia.

 

The Position

The Centre wishes to appoint a postgraduate editorial intern in Academic Publishing Online to manage 19, working with another postgraduate intern under the supervision of the journal’s Editor, Dr Carolyn Burdett, and Assistant Editor, Dr David Gillott, and with the guidance of the Editorial Board. The one-year appointment is for 5 hours a week over 48 weeks, beginning on 1 March 2016.   The appointee will be expected to participate fully in the day-to-day running of the journal and to help manage the Centre’s website.  Responsibilities include technical ;maintenance and resourcing of 19 and the Centre’s website, liaising with contributors; copy editing essays; compiling and updating peer reviewer details; promoting and publicizing the journal; and attending Centre meetings. It is essential that you be prepared and able to work flexibly, as the rhythms of publishing inevitably involve greater and lesser periods of activity.

 

Eligibility

We invite applications from postgraduate research students in any of the Departments that participate in the activities of the Centre: English and Humanities; History of Art and Screen Media; and History, Classics and Archaeology.  Applicants should expect to be enrolled as students at Birkbeck until September 2017.

 

Benefits

There are demonstrable benefits for interns who, in previous years, have themselves initiated and guest edited issues of the journal; or who have used their 19 experience to secure positions in academic editing and publishing. The journal facilitates experience in submitting and achieving publication of research material; editing special issues; developing publication projects in association with conferences and seminars; networking, presentation skills, communication skills.

 

Selection Criteria

 

Essential

  • Research interests in Nineteenth-Century Studies
  • Organizational and clerical skills
  • Independence and initiative
  • Willingness to work flexibly

 

Desirable but NOT essential

  • Involvement in the activities of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies or in the organization of research activities such as Reading Groups, Seminars or Conferences
  • Web authoring and design skills
  • Experience in electronic publishing
  • Editing experience

Remuneration

£17.37 per hour; £5,428 per annum

 

Application

Please email a letter of application and CV together with the name of your supervisor, from whom we will require a reference, to Dr Carolyn Burdett in the School of Arts (c.burdett@bbk.ac.uk) by 5.00pm on Friday 19 February 2016.  Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed in late February.

Please direct any enquiries to Dr Carolyn Burdett in the Department of English and Humanities (c.burdett@bbk.ac.uk).

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Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellowship in Visual History at USC, deadline 1 February 2016

Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellowship in Visual History at the University of Southern California

The University of Southern California seeks applications for a one-year Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellowship on the topic “Visual History: The Past in Images.” The annual salary is $65,000. The fellow will be affiliated with the Visual Studies Research Institute (VSRI, http://dornsife.usc.edu/vsri).

The successful candidate will take a leading role in a year-long John E. Sawyer Seminar funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on “Visual History: The Past in Images.”  The seminar will be hosted by the VSRI and directed by Professors Vanessa Schwartz and Daniela Bleichmar. The Mellon Fellow will participate in all scholarly activities associated  with the Sawyer Seminar, which will include workshops and lectures; will help organize a  graduate class team-taught by the seminar directors in Spring 2017 (with minimal teaching duties of their own); and will advance their own research agenda while contributing to the seminar’s scholarly output through a public lecture and participation in a publication project. The fellow will be mentored by the seminar organizers and additional members of the USC faculty if appropriate depending on specialization.

Applicants may work in any period, medium, discipline, or geographical region. They should demonstrate a research agenda that examines the role of visual materials and/or practices in creating knowledge about the past. Their work may address such topics as the depiction of historical narratives, practices or cases of pictorial reporting, visualisations of the past, the role of visual archives in the production of history, or methodologies of visual history, among others. This research should engage deeply with visual sources and examine the visual representation of the past, and may involve not only writing about images but also writing “in” images in some capacity. The successful candidate will have excellent writing, analytical, and organizational skills and strong interdisciplinary interests.

Candidates must have received their Ph.D. no earlier than July 1, 2012 and must have degree in hand by July 1, 2016. To apply, please go to http://jobs.usc.edu/postings/58153 and submit: (1)  a cover letter that includes a summary of the dissertation, addresses the candidate’s interdisciplinarity, and  discusses how the candidate’s research aligns with the seminar’s theme of “Visual History;” (2) a CV; (3) two writing samples, at least one of which should be a dissertation chapter; and (4) the names of three academic references who will be prompted via email to submit letters electronically. The deadline for the receipt of all materials is February 1st, 2016. Inquiries should be directed to vsri@usc.edu.

USC strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity in employment. Women and men, and members of all racial and ethnic groups, are encouraged to apply.

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PhD student placement opportunity at the British Library

There is a 3-month PhD student placement opportunity at the British Library, to investigate the question of non-traditional PhD theses. http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/highered/phd-placement-scheme/the-phd-thesis-in-multimedia-form.pdf

The opportunity is one of 17 placements on offer, spanning all disciplines http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/highered/phd-placement-scheme/ .

The placement will examine how (or whether) the nature of the thesis is changing, and the barriers and drivers for further change in future. The main activity for the placement student will to organise a workshop bringing together students, academic and library colleagues to explore the question of non-traditional theses and barriers to wider institutional take-up.

The closing date for applications is 15 February, 2016.

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10 ICI Fellowships for 2016-18: ERRANS, in Time

Conceptions of time and varied modes of temporal experience seem more at odds now than ever. Hamlet’s hunch – that ‘the time is out of joint’ – has turned into an evergreen of critical discourse. Admittedly, ideas of physical, social, revolutionary time, internal time consciousness, or historical experience are far from settled in their respective discourses and practices. Yet attempts to harmonize or correlate the understanding of time and temporal phenomena generated in different disciplines all-too quickly – and largely with violent effect – resort to normative, if not teleological ideas of progress, efficiency, narrative sense-making, or experiential plenitude. In this second instalment of the Core Project ERRANS, we ask whether the heterogeneous relations between discordant conceptions of time and temporality can be understood as being ‘erratically’ structured, that is, as marked by inherent misapprehensions, a dissonance that defies regulation, and an unexpected variability.

 
The ICI Berlin invites scholars from all disciplines to engage in a joint exploration of ERRANS, in Time. We especially welcome applications from individuals who will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in scholarly research. The committed exchange between fellows is a central aim of the Institute. Applicants should be interested in a theoretical reflection upon the conceptual and intellectual basis of their projects and in discussing it with fellows from other disciplines. In particular, fellows will be expected to participate in the weekly colloquia, bi-weekly informal meetings, and other activities of the Institute, to contribute to a common publication, and to be resident in Berlin for the duration of the fellowship.

 
The ICI Fellowships announced are for the academic years 2016-18 (12 September 2016 – 13 July 2018). There is no age limit, but applicants should have obtained their PhD within ten years of the date of appointment or have fulfilled all requirements for receiving their PhD by 1 July 2016. Stipends range from EUR 1800 to 2000 per month.

 

Interested applicants should read the full announcement posted on

www.ici-berlin.org/fellowships/announcement

and download the PDF here.

 

Application deadline: 6 January 2016

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Peltz Internship

Birkbeck’s Peltz Gallery, hosted at the School of Arts, is a flexible exhibition space for digital and material displays, small-scale performances, lectures and meetings. The space allows a constellation of research and creative activities to happen at the heart of the building.  Over the two years since it was opened, the Peltz has hosted a wide range of exhibitions based on the research interests and public engagement activities of academics and other staff at Birkbeck. Over the coming year, the range of exhibitions, and associated public events, is due to expand with plans for an artist-in-residence scheme. This provides a valuable opportunity for Birkbeck MPhil/PhD students to gain valuable experience in curating and event management processes.

We are delighted to offer MPhil/PhD students at Birkbeck the opportunity to develop their experience of working in a gallery.  We wish to appoint one intern per academic term during this academic year to work closely with the Peltz Director Annie Coombes, Dr Wendy Earle (Impact development officer), Peltz committee members as appropriate, and the Gallery Administrator and Media Technician. In particular, the interns would be involved in:

  • Supporting the curation and organisation of exhibitions at the Peltz
  • The organisation, promotion and hosting of academic and cultural events, symposia, workshops, screenings and master classes, including the artist-in-residence scheme.
  • To coordinate documentation and recording of events, audience surveys and follow up, social media practices and development, to participate in and contribute to Peltz Committee meetings and liaise across the Schools and College on behalf of the Gallery.

We need to recruit an intern for next term. The position involves a total 40 hours work paid at £15.55/hr.

The essential components of this role are:

  • Event co-ordination and promotion to target audiences (using online resources and social media)
  • Help with promotion, installation and deinstalling exhibitions in the Peltz
  • Manage design and print of event publications
  • Promotion of exhibition through social and other media
  • Monitor numbers and feedback
  • Draft evaluation report

Please note that the job requires hands on assistance and willingness to troubleshoot

 

Knowledge and experience required:

We are looking for a Birkbeck MPhil/PhD student with some experience of

  • working in a gallery and curating exhibitions – including installation and de-installation
  • liaising between individuals in different organisations and within different departments
  • scheduling and managing schedules

 

Interested individuals should send an expression of interest together with CV to w.earle@bbk.ac.uk by 6pm, Monday December 21.

 

(Funding for this post comes from Birkbeck’s Generic Skills Fund overseen by Birkbeck Graduate Research School.)

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Birkbeck Peltz Gallery Internship: Closing Date 19 October 2015

Birkbeck’s Peltz Gallery, hosted at the School of Arts, is a flexible exhibition space for digital and material displays, small-scale performances, lectures and meetings. The space allows a constellation of research and creative activities to happen at the heart of the building.  Over the two years since it was opened, the Peltz has hosted a wide range of exhibitions based on the research interests and public engagement activities of academics and other staff at Birkbeck. Over the coming year, the range of exhibitions, and associated public events, is due to expand with plans for an artist-in-residence scheme. This provides a valuable opportunity for Birkbeck PhD students to gain valuable experience in curating and event management processes.

We are delighted to offer PhD students at Birkbeck the opportunity to develop their experience of working in a gallery.  We wish to appoint one intern per academic term during this academic year to work closely with the Peltz Director Annie Coombes, Dr Wendy Earle (Impact development officer), Peltz committee members as appropriate, and the Gallery Administrator and Media Technician. In particular, the interns would be involved in:

  • Supporting the curation and organisation of exhibitions at the Peltz
  • The organisation, promotion and hosting of academic and cultural events, symposia, workshops, screenings and master classes, including the artist-in-residence scheme.
  • To coordinate documentation and recording of events, audience surveys and follow up, social media practices and development, to participate in and contribute to Peltz Committee meetings and liaise across the Schools and College on behalf of the Gallery.

We urgently need to recruit an intern for the current term to start as soon as possible. The position involves a total 40 hours work paid at £15.55/hr.

The essential components of this role are:

  • Event co-ordination and promotion to target audiences (using online resources and social media)
  • Help with promotion, installation and deinstalling exhibitions in the Peltz
  • Manage design and print of event publications
  • Promotion of exhibition through social and other media
  • Monitor numbers and feedback
  • Draft evaluation report

Please note that the job requires hands on assistance and willingness to troubleshoot

Knowledge and experience required:

We are looking for a Birkbeck PhD student with some experience of

  • working in a gallery and curating exhibitions – including installation and de-installation
  • liaising between individuals in different organisations and within different departments
  • scheduling and managing schedules

Interested individuals should send an expression of interest (for this term only) together with CV to w.earle@bbk.ac.uk by 6pm, Monday October 19.

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