Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is organizing a roundtable session for ICMS at Kalamazoo in 2020: ‘Graduate Student Publishing: A Roundtable on Publishing for Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers’

Please consider submitting an abstract by Friday, September 6^th 2019

Roundtable Description:

Publishing while in graduate school, and as early career researchers, is increasingly expected as part of preparing for the current job market in higher education. Now more than ever graduate students need more direction and guidance on how to approach publishing during their graduate school years. This roundtable will address concerns, expectations, and advice for publishing in graduate school to speak to these important issues that are a part of the current graduate school and hiring climate, especially for medieval studies in higher education. The methodology for this session will be focused on providing speakers who have a spread of experience, primarily editors and writers who as graduate students have developed and published pieces of their work. But also, we would like to encourage participants who are editors and/or authors that have published and been involved in publishing as early career researchers and can address what they are looking for in new scholars and authors of publishable pieces.

Email abstract submissions to:

Natalie Whitaker [email protected]

We are pleased to announce that there are new opportunities available to join the Hortulus team! More information about each position is available via the links below. We look forward to hearing from you!

Co-editor (Junior)

Assistant Reviews Editor

Applications for both positions are due July 15, 2018. Send us an email at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Job Purpose

Assistant editors will help in the editing and proofreading of the articles and reviews accepted by the journal. Assistants may also be asked to take on additional projects such as drafting and disseminating calls for papers, PR, and correspondence; opportunities will be given to assistant editors who wish to gain more experience with HTML coding should they be interested. Assistants will work closely with both the Junior and Senior Editors but will have limited contact with one another.  There will be four assistant editor positions open—two for the Spring 2018 open issue and two for the themed  issue, “The Senses,” in the Autumn of 2018. The posts will be roughly 5 months in duration, with the majority of the workload taking place in the 3 months prior to the issue’s publication. Applicants must maintain their position as a graduate student (US)/post-graduate researcher (UK) during the entire length of the position and MUST NOT graduate during this period. If you have already received your doctorate degree or WILL receive your doctorate degree during this term you will be ineligible for the position. An assistant editorship will provide a chance to gain some experience working for Hortulus and if you are interested in becoming a Hortulus Editor in the future, taking on an assistant position would serve you well with respect to experience.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

1. To engage in detailed editing of content published by the journal including but not limited to organization, comprehension, grammar, style, and quality assurance.
2. To accomplish assigned work in a timely and efficient manner
3. To be willing to learn new skills required by the position both generally and specifically related to programs and applications.

Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Ability to edit prose for content, organization, and detailed areas such as grammar and punctuation
• Organizational skills
• IT literacy
• Communicative
• Able to adhere to strict editorial schedule

Desirable

• Familiarity with basic HTML

Rate of Pay

All positions at Hortulus are un-paid voluntary positions and provide an opportunity for MA/PhD students to get more involved in online academic publishing.

Closing Date

8th of January, 2018

Application

Please email the following items to [email protected]

• Your completed Assistant Editor Application Form
• A copy of your CV in PDF format
• A short cover letter with your statement of interest

 

As a born-digital journal created and run entirely by a rotating staff of graduate students, Hortulus concerns itself deeply and directly with innovative technologies used within Medieval Studies. The roundtable for the ICMS 2018, Modern Responses to the Medieval, will interrogate this topic from two points. Firstly, what can we learn today from medieval attitudes towards novelty and innovative technologies? And, secondly, in what ways can we innovate by drawing on medieval sources? Recent studies, for example, have attested the usefulness of drawing upon medieval medical recipes in modern medicine, as in the case of a recipe from Bald’s Leechbook which led to the creation of a new antibiotic. In addition, relationships between medieval (celestial/geographic) cartography and digital cartography might prove useful, as do new examinations of medieval science, such as the Ordered Universe project, which analyses the writings of the medieval scholar Robert Grosseteste and its relevance to quantum theory. Panellists are also encouraged to engage with the introduction of postmodern ideas into medieval studies; especially those that are innovative at the moment (e.g. robotics, cyborgs, AI, technoculture).

The session organizers wish to bring people together to share experiences, compare approaches, as well as discuss potentials and potential problems. We invite papers that explore efforts to apply innovative technologies to the field of Medieval Studies, but also those which both explore and challenge innovations which apply medieval strategies to modern problems. The session will be structured as a roundtable with a series of short ten- and fifteen-minute papers (the number and duration to be determined depending on response), with ample time for discussion.

Please send abstracts of no more than a page, along with a current CV and the Participation Information Form to Gwendolyne Knight and Ryan Lawrence at [email protected] by September 10, and sooner if possible.

Please feel free to circulate this CFP.

We are now accepting applications for the Hortulus Junior Co-Editor position. This is a two-year appointment lasting from 2017-2019; the first year is spent in a junior editorial, training capacity, while the second year comprises senior editorial duties. The deadline for applications is July 1.

Further information can be found here: https://hortulus-journal.com/job-openings/