NEER Research Cluster

Knowledge Networks and Reading Communities

MEMBERS

Professor Michael Bennett (Tasmania) - Co-ordinator
Dr Jenna Mead (Tasmania) - Co-ordinator
Professor Linne Mooney (York, UK)
Dr Faye Getz (Cambridge, UK)
Professor Rod Thomson (Tasmania)
Dr Lawrence Warner (Sydney)
Dr Elizabeth Freeman (Tasmania)
Professor Alexandra Gillespie (Toronto)
Assoc. Professor Hilary Carey (Newcastle, Australia)

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

This Research Cluster aims to draw together Australian and international researchers, across a broad range of cognate specialised areas, to develop collaborative projects on researching the nature of knowledge networks in late medieval England and the reading communities consequent on and sustained by those networks.

EVENTS (INCLUDING MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS)

Meetings:

Feb 2007: Business Meeting at the bienniel ANZAMEMS Conference, University of Adelaide.

Conferences and symposia:

February 2007: 2 panels at the biennial ANZAMEMS Conference, University of Adelaide.

July 2007: 2 Sponsored sessions at the inaugural NEER International Conference, "Networks, Communities, Continuities: Europe 400 - 1850", University of Western Australia.

November 2007: Symposium "Useful Knowledges and Vernacularity: Manuscripts, Readers and Information in Late Medieval England", University of Tasmania, Hobart.

December 2007: Symposium "Time and Temporalities" with Professor Carolyn Dinshaw, New York University, held at the University of Tasmania, Hobart.

Seminars:

February 2007: Professor David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania on "Imperium, Commerce, and National Crusade: the Romance of Malory's Morte", University of Tasmania, Hobart.

December 2007: NEER Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS) on "Time and Temporalities", University of Tasmania, Hobart.

PUBLICATIONS

The members of the consortium are publishing papers on relevant topics, and collaboration and exchange is continuing. A doctoral thesis has been completed by one of the graduate students presenting in the symposium, and three others will complete in the next six months. The work on manuscripts and early printed books in the University of Tasmania Library is continuing, and will result in an expanded exhibition and a published catalogue in December 2008.

GRANTS APPLIED FOR

There was discussion of a collaborative application for an ARC Discovery Project. Key players had old and new ARC commitments, but the seeds are sown for something in the future. Application was made to the Faculty of Arts at the University of Tasmania for support of the Symposium in November 2007 and further application has been to the University of Tasmania Foundation to subsidise the publication of the catalogue on manuscripts and early printed books.

GRANTS ACHIEVED

The cluster received funding of $5000 from the Faculty of Arts, University of Tasmania, for the 2007 Symposium, and has been promised the funds necessary for the publication of the catalogue.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Exhibition: "From Manuscript Page to Early Printed Book", an exhibition of early books to 1550 from the Rare Books, Royal Society and Christ College Collections held at the Morris Miller Library, University of Tasmania, Hobart. A further, expanded exhibition, and scholarly catalogue will be published in December 2008.

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