Forgive me – combining two of my passions, I have to share this article!
Long after their iconic American quilts caught the art world’s attention, the Gee’s Bend artisans are taking control of their legacy.
Nineteenth-Century Music Review – CFP
Spotted on Twitter, shared in haste – this might be of interest to network readers:-
Call for papers for a themed edition of Nineteenth-Century Music Review: ‘Rediscovering and Playing the Classics in the Nineteenth Century’
The full CFP can be read in Marten Noorduin’s recent tweet
And here’s the journal itself:-
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nineteenth-century-music-review
If you’re rushing to submit a proposal, then the following whispered (well, tweeted) insider comment might make you feel a bit less stressed:- “Officially the deadline is today, but I won’t actually be looking at them until Monday morning. Anyone who sends me an abstract before 9 am on 6 February will still be considered!”
The Wild Goose Chase
Weekend frivolity on Facebook!
Call for Essays on 18th Century Collecting
This is turning into a busy week! Here’s another interesting call for essays, this time from the Women’s Study Group. Picture me, if you will, twirling like a top as I decide which of all these opportunities to turn my attention to first!
Quoting, with permission, from the email that was kindly forwarded to me:-
“The Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Edited by Dr. Arlene Leis and Dr. Kacie Wills
“We are inviting chapter abstracts for a collection of essays designed for academics, specialists and enthusiasts interested in the interrelations between art, science and collecting in Europe during the long 18th century. Our volume will discuss the topic of art, science and collecting in its broadest sense and in diverse theoretical contexts, such as art historical, feminist, social, gendered, colonial, archival, literary and cultural ones. To accompany our existing contributions, we welcome essays that take a global and material approach, and are particularly keen on research that makes use of new archival resources. We encourage interdisciplinary perspectives and are especially interested in essays that reveal the way in which women participated in art, science, and collecting in some capacity.
“The compendium will consist of around 15 essays, 6000 words each (including footnotes), with up to four illustrations. In addition to these more traditional essays, we are looking for shorter (circa 1,000 words) case studies on material objects pertaining to collections/collectors from that period. The subject of art, science and collecting will also be central to these contributions. These smaller pieces will each include one illustration. The following topics/case studies are particularly desired:
- Women’s Collecting Interests
- Histories and methodologies of collecting, taxonomies, cataloging, arrangement, and modes of display
- Cabinets of curiosities
- Catalogues
- Collections housed in art and/or science institutions
- The boundaries between the natural and the artificial
- Scientific and artistic tools and instruments
- Seriality vs. Rare objects
- Transitional Objects
- Conservation
- Collecting networks
- The artist collector
- The scientist collector
- The overlapping of art, science and collecting in domestic spaces.
- Antiquarian collections
- Print culture
“All inquiries should be addressed to Arlene Leis, aleis914@gmail.comor Kacie Wills, kacie.wills@gmail.com
“Essay abstracts of 500 words and 300 word abstracts for smaller case studies are due January 30, 2019 and should be sent along with a short bio to:Â artsciencecollecting@gmail.com
“Finished case studies will be due July 30, 2019, and due date for long essays will be September 30, 2019.
Musica Scotica Conference Registration Opens
Must be the start of the year – there’s a sudden outpouring of calls for papers, conference registrations and other exciting challenges. Here’s one for this morning – Musica Scotica is a network I’ve long been associated with.
Musica Scotica 14th Annual Conference
Friday 3 – Sunday 5 May 2019 (Tolbooth, Stirling)
Registration for the Musica Scotica conference is now open. It is posted on Musica Scotica’s Facebook page:- https://www.facebook.com/events/374235653379262/
Musica Scotica homepage: http://www.musicascotica.org.uk/
Sharing a Cool Call for Papers
We are happy to share another call for papers, this time on behalf of CopyrightLiteracy.org :-
Please put 26th June 2019 in your diaries, and Edinburgh as the location! Booking is via the CILIP website – click the link below.
ICEPOPS
We are delighted to announce that the Icepops 2019 call for contributions is now open. The conference is taking place on 26th June 2019 at the University of Edinburgh and you have from now until the 4th February to come up with an idea for your presentation.
We are looking for speakers on all aspects of copyright education from a variety of different perspectives. Last year we attracted expert speakers from educational & cultural institutions, publishing houses and government departments as well as an impressive number of international delegates. Our first keynote this year is composer, publisher and scholar Simon Anderson, who will be opening the conference with a musical theme. We particularly welcome sessions that might compliment this. However, we also retain the playful learning theme from last year and our afternoon keynote, the award-winning Charlie Farley from the University of Edinburgh will be leading an interactive workshop.
We would like to encourage presenters to address one of the themes of this year’s conference:
– Universal Copyright Literacy: bridging the gaps between lawyers, IP teachers, specialists and copyright muggles
– Engaging and creative approaches to copyright education including using games, music and performance
– Copyright education as part of digital and information literacy initiatives
– Copyright education in the cultural heritage sector
– Teaching copyright as part of scholarly and open practices
However, we wouldn’t want you to feel constrained if you have a great idea relating to copyright literacy that doesn’t fit 100% into any of the above. Please just let us know and we’ll see if it fits in the programme.
Sharing The Legacy Press’s Call for Essays
I’m pleased to be sharing this call for essays, which I saw on a mailing-list to which I subscribe. I’m just quoting the entire call, by permission of the editors:-
Call for Essays
Impressions, Vol. 2: Essays on the Art of Printing, The Legacy Press
The Impressions series encompasses all the printing arts: relief, intaglio, lithographic, serigraphic, and digital, as well as related arts, such as stamping, stenciling, and pochoir.
Vol. 1 has filled, and we are taking essays for Vol. 2, which is open to any Impressions topic. Impressions welcomes published scholars, new authors, established areas of inquiry, and topics not previously addressed in other publications. Impressions is particularly interested in studies that use images both as evidence and examples for visual learning.
- printing and printmaking
- book arts
- practical printing
- bibliography
- history and criticism (book, printing, literary, art, cultural)
- interviews
- digitization and the printing arts
- conservation
- archives, collections, libraries, information
- collecting
If you have an essay in preparation or if you would like more information about Impressions, please email series editor Rebecca Chung: chung.rm@gmail.com
Christmas Cheer
Season’s Greetings to all followers of the Claimed From Stationers’ Hall music research project. I bring you pictures of Edinburgh in festive mode, after yesterday’s trip to the University Library! There’s a big posting coming up tomorrow – do check back in to see!
Missing! The Cook’s Oracle!
Since my kitchen is littered with (most of) the ingredients for our Christmas cake, it seems appropriate to devote a short post to a significant publication from 1817 (yes, my new favourite year!) – Dr William Kitchiner’s The Cook’s Oracle. We’ve encountered Dr Kitchiner before, on account of his patriotic and sea song books. They weren’t particularly well-received.
Dr Kitchiner had other interests, though. He lectured on optics, and was a published expert on cookery and nutrition. He hoped that his cookbook would provide good, solid nutritional guidelines. Wikipedia reports that he was an exceptional cook, and his was a household name. I haven’t gone so far as to check this out, but I’ve found you a simple suet pudding to try!
You can read the ENTIRE book online, if you’re so inclined:-
Apicius Redivivus: Or, The Cook’s Oracle
(The 2nd edition even begins with an Anacreontic Song, if you please, combining his passions for music and food.)
Whilst checking the King’s Inns guardbooks for national songbooks, I naturally looked for Kitchiner, though I didn’t really imagine there would be much appetite for English national songs. I was unsurprised to find it absent from the catalogue – but there was clearly an appetite for Apicius Redivivus! There it was, in the guardbook under Kitchiner’s name. Perhaps struggling to decide where to shelve it, the Victorian librarians ended up putting it in the “literature” section – the same as the minstrelsy material.
But it wasn’t on the shelves. (Someone kindly checked for me!) Who borrowed the cookbook and didn’t return it? Or misshelved it? Or dropped it in the broth, or used it until it fell to bits? I have a good imagination, but maybe I should stick to hard facts. And, tempting as it is to try the recipes straight away, I should probably bake our own Christmas cake first! My family will probably be glad to learn that Dr Kitchiner only mentions Christmas in connection with the seasons for oysters and House Lamb – which differs from Grass Lamb , and is eaten from Christmas until Lady-Day. So their annual treat won’t be any different from previous iterations!
The EAERN Network
I’ve been a member of the Eighteenth-Century Arts Education Research Network for the past couple of years. Although I wasn’t able to attend the third and final Colloquium, I have followed with interest, so I thought I’d share the link to their latest blogpost here. It summarises the day’s activities – and makes me wish I’d been there!!
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 