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"Telling Tales: Manuscripts, Books and the Making of Narrative," Biennial conference of the Early Book Society, University of Oxford, July 2-5, 2015
Due 30 November 2014
The conference will take place from lunchtime on Thursday 2 July 2015 to early afternoon on Sunday 5 July 2015. Abstracts of 300 words or fewer for 20-minute presentations should be sent to the organizers by 30 November 2014 to the conference e-mail address email@example.com. Abstracts should include your name, affiliation (where relevant) and email address. Computers and data-projectors will be available for all sessions; speakers would need to bring presentations on a memory stick / USB plug-in device. People who have other AV needs should specify this on their abstract.
The theme, which may be interpreted narrowly or broadly, invites special attention to the material records of different genres of narrative, such as verse, romance, chronicle, biography or history. It might consider the ways that manuscripts, printed books and other media serve a narrative function: whether page layouts were modified for chronicles and annals, whether collections of documents were compiled to tell stories, whether images in books are important components of storytelling, whether poems on monuments recount lives.
The topic also invites participants to tell different kinds of stories about early books. In particular, we may reflect on our storytelling as scholars. What is the role of biography – of the author, of the 'celebrity' scribe, of the idiosyncratic reader – in the study of early books? How sure can we be of cause and effect, of chronology and dating, of different kinds of paleographical, codicological and bibliographical evidence, in studying these books? Are history and narrative the best models for 'book history' or might studies of manuscript and print serve literary criticism, linguistics or philology in other ways?
Finally, papers which concern books in or around Oxford are also encouraged. But, in general, proposals for papers on any aspect of the history of manuscripts and printed books from 1350 to 1550, including the copying and circulation of models and exemplars, style, illustration, and/or the influence of readers and patrons, artists, scribes, printers, are welcome. The website with details of registration and accommodation will go live later this winter and will be announced on the EBS listserv and also on the EBS website http://www.nyu.edu/projects/EBS
Concilium Lateranense IV: Commemorating the Octocentenary of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, Rome, 25-29 November 2015
Due: 30 November, 2014
Committee: Peter Clarke, (Southampton) Chair; Danica Summerlin (München) Secretary;
Brenda Bolton (London); Barbara Bombi (Kent); Maureen Boulton (Notre Dame);
Christoph Egger (Wien); Damian Smith (Saint Louis); Lila Yawn (Rome)
On Monday 30 November 1215 in the Basilica of St John Lateran, Innocent III brought the first assembly of the whole Church since the Council of Chalcedon (451) to a rousing finale by summoning all the delegates to unite in faith and by issuing Ad Liberandam, an encyclical calling for a crusade to liberate the Holy Land. This Council, fourth in the Lateran series but the twelfth ecumenical gathering of the Church in the Western tradition, included the five patriarchs or their representatives, together with more than one thousand bishops, abbots and other dignitaries, both ecclesiastical and secular. At each of the three plenary sessions held on 11, 20 and 30 November respectively, Innocent preached a set-piece sermon whilst, behind the scenes, delegates debated such major issues as who was more worthy to lead the Empire and how to contain the Albigensian heresy.
The accounts of eyewitnesses reveal that Innocent's consecration of Santa Maria in Trastevere and celebrations for the anniversary of the dedication of the Vatican Basilica served not only to emphasize the history, majesty and ritual of the Church but also offered a welcome respite from the intensive discussions in the Lateran Palace. The Fathers of the Council promulgated seventy decrees, covering topics as diverse as heresy, Jewish-Christian relations, pastoral care and Trinitarian theology as well as ecclesiastical governance. Monks and secular clergy were to be reformed, the nascent mendicant orders welcomed to the Church and diocesan bishops instructed to implement far-reaching conciliar decisions across Christendom.
Eight hundred years on, Lateran IV still stands as the high-water mark of the medieval papacy, its political and ecclesiastical decisions enduring down to the Council of Trent whilst modern historiography has deemed it the most significant papal assembly of the Later Middle Ages. In November 2015, we have a unique opportunity to re-evaluate the role of this Council in the reform of the universal Church. Taking an inter-disciplinary approach, we shall investigate how its decisions affected the intellectual, cultural, social and religious life of the medieval world. We particularly encourage individual papers from disciplines such as art history, theology, canon law, crusade studies, literature and from those who work on relations between Jews and Christians, which we hope will broaden current interpretations of the events of the Council, their subsequent importance and long-term impact. Alternatively, three-paper session proposals on a common theme will also be most welcome.
Papers may be delivered in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish but must be limited to 30 minutes. Abstracts of no more than 200 words with all the necessary contact details should be sent no later than 30 November 2014.
Please direct any questions to email@example.com.
"Shakespeare's Unsung Heroes and Heroines, "Shakespeare Seminar at the Annual Conference of the German Shakespeare Society, Berlin, 23-26 April 2015
Due: 30 November 2014
Without Paulina and Antigonus there would be no reunion, however tainted, between Leontes and Hermione, and there would be no union of Perdita and Florizel in The Winter's Tale. In a sense, then, Paulina and Antigonus are the unsung heroine and hero of the play. Undoubtedly, Antigonus' exit pursued by a bear is not typical of a tragic hero. Taking Antigonus melodramatic exit as an example, Sir Walter Raleigh, then Professor of English Literature at Oxford, famously complained in 1907 that Shakespeare disposed of his minor characters "in the most unprincipled and reckless fashion."
In this seminar we would like to explore heroic qualities in Shakespeare's 'minor' characters, and thus equally revisit preconceived notions about the status of these minor characters as well as traditional concepts of the (tragic) hero. What did Shakespeare's contemporaries make, for example, of Enobarbus deserting Antony and then dying of grief when confronted with Antony's generosity and Octavius' cynicism? Was Enobarbus a tragic hero in the eyes of contemporary audiences of Antony and Cleopatra? Do we see him as a tragic hero? What about the minor female characters? Are Ophelia and Lady Anne, for instance, the tragic heroines of Hamlet and Richard III? Considering heroic qualities in Shakespeare's minor characters can help bring into focus changing attitudes to heroism and hero worship. At the same time, this perspective also allows for probing into more fundamental dramatic and literary conventions: how 'minor' are minor characters in Shakespeare's plays? Does poetic justice only appertain to the great? Which concepts of heroism can we use to take account of marginal characters in the comedies and romances? Which role do categories such as gender and race play in our / the early modern conception of what is 'heroic'? Which methods (genre theory, network theory, New Historicism) are productive tools to analyse Shakespeare's minor characters? How have theatrical and filmic adaptations dealt with Shakespeare's unsung heroes and heroines?
Our seminar plans to address these and related questions with a panel of six papers during the annual conference of the German Shakespeare Association, Shakespeare-Tage (23-26 April 2015 in Berlin), which will focus on "Shakespeare's Heroes and Heroines." As critical input for the discussion and provocation for debate, panellists are invited to give short statements on the basis of pre-circulated papers presenting concrete case studies, concise examples and strong views on the topic. Please send your proposals (abstracts of 300 words) and all further questions by 30 November 2014 to the seminar convenors:
Felix Sprang, Humboldt University, Berlin: firstname.lastname@example.com
Christina Wald, University of Konstanz: email@example.com
See also: http://shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/publikationen/seminar.html
Scrutinizing Surfaces in Early Modern Thought: The Second Northern Renaissance Roses Seminar
8-9 May 2015
Due: 30 November 2014
Keynote speakers
Dr Helen Smith (University of York)
Professor Richard Wistreich (Royal College of Music, London).
Run jointly by the universities of Lancaster and York, this interdisciplinary seminar takes up and develops Joseph Amato's trans-historical investigation of how 'humans, ourselves a body of surfaces, meet and interact with a world dressed in surfaces' (2013: xv) in the early modern period. We will consider the topic broadly, addressing such questions as:
- What kinds of surfaces are prevalent in early modern thought?
- How might surfaces be viewed as a threshold between actor and spectator, writer and reader, teacher and student?
- What is the relationship between animate and inanimate surfaces?
- How are surfaces theorized in the early modern period?
- Is sound a surface?
- What kinds of interplay exist between early-modern photology and surfaces?
- How do twenty-first century theoretical perspectives engage with early modern surfaces?
The seminar will take place in the Storey, Lancaster City Centre and the Regimental Chapel, Lancaster Priory, and will feature a recital of early-modern music by Lancaster Priory's Choir. Funded by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster, 'Scrutinizing Surfaces in Early Modern Thought' particularly encourages early career scholars and post-graduates working in any Renaissance discipline. Please send abstracts (c. 250 words) and a brief CV to Kevin Killeen (email@example.com) and Liz Oakley-Brown (email@example.com): deadline 30 November 2014)
Call for Sessions, 20th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, London, 10-15 July 2016
Due: 1 December 2014
The NCS Program Committee for the 2016 Congress taking place in London has determined that this program will comprise two kinds of sessions: sessions tied to particular thematic threads (see below) and independent ("open") sessions. We invite proposals for sessions of either type with a deadline of December 1, 2014. All proposals should be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.
A session proposal should include a brief description of the session (approx. 100 words), the intended thread affiliation (if any), and an indication of its format. It should also contain a short bio of the proposer (2-3 sentences).
Sessions may be proposed in the following formats: paper panels, roundtables, seminars, or poster sessions. A brief description of each genre of session can be found below the thread descriptions. Please note that each thread will contain sessions of each type. We also encourage members to submit sessions on pedagogy, particularly in relation to thread topics.
After these sessions and their organizers have been established, a general call for individual papers and posters will go out to the membership in early February 2015. Members may submit proposals to no more than two sessions, of different types.
Please note that we are asking for proposals to the call below (and attached) to be sent to a dedicated email account so that we can keep track of every single proposal: firstname.lastname@example.com. Make sure you send your proposals there!
1. London: Books, Texts, Lives (organized by Bruce Holsinger and Marion Turner)
This thread will examine the many roles of London – as city and spectacle, as site and sight, as inspiration and mental landscape – in shaping literary culture and artistic imagining, both in Chaucer's world and in our own. Sessions might explore theories of space and place; relations among bodies, texts, and city spaces; urban and domestic built environments; the life of things in the city and its texts; the senses and the city; cognitive approaches to space; London books, scribal culture and urban reading communities; urban geography and physical boundaries (walls, the river, Southwark and Westminster, wards and parishes); the afterlives of London in literature, culture, and the arts.
2. Medieval Media (organized by Will Robins and Katherine Zieman)
Media Studies has been a fast-growing field in the humanities, with inquiries tending to focus on mass media forms of communication prominent in late modern culture. Yet many intriguing innovations in media theory move away from modern gadgetry to consider more broadly how information is constituted and how it moves within systems, complicating simple notions of agency and materiality. Medieval Studies has much to offer scholars in these fields, who often think only as far back as print. Within Medieval Studies, questions about media provide opportunities for new dialogues among manuscript studies, literary theory, visual studies, textual criticism, linguistics, cognition, and literacy studies. This thread invites consideration of the phenomena of medieval media (manuscript books, performances, images, sounds, etc.) or post-medieval media (print, digitization) in light of ecologies and processes of perception, communication, circulation, cognition, and participation, including the material, aesthetic, and socio-cultural dynamics such processes reveal.
3. Error (organized by Anthony Bale and Steven Kruger)
Proposals for sessions on the theme of Error, including but not limited to: erroneous groups, such as Jews, "Saracens," and heretics; interfaith perspectives on error; erroneous "races" and bodies; error in relation to queerness, sexuality, and the normal; mistranslation, misattribution, and misinterpretation in medieval texts; doctrinal error, correction, and censorship; the detection and definition of error (as opposed to heresy); cultures of purgatory and self-reform; erroneous and exemplary behavior in hagiography and conduct literature; artistic representations of inappropriate or transgressive behavior; literary culture as a stage for error and its regulation; scribal error, errors in Chaucerian manuscripts; and printer's errors; Dantean error and Spenser's Error; erroneous post-medieval understanding of medieval texts; our own scholarly errors: "getting it right," embracing error within our methodologies, and positing alternatives to positivistic scholarship.
4. Scientiae (organized by Kellie Robertson and D. Vance Smith)
Since Foucault, we have assumed that practices of knowledge are necessarily practices of power. But what practices underlay medieval theories of knowledge? This thread offers opportunities for examining the pressures under which late medieval epistemologies flourished as well as how individual disciplines self-consciously imagined their own modernity. Sessions might address: scientific taxonomies, natural and moral philosophies, visual geographies, medieval humanisms, religious and mystical frames of experience, skepticism, institutions and the schematization of power, secularization and sacralization of knowledges, and the discursive formation of sovereignty. Taken as a whole, these sessions would contribute to a re-thinking of the intellectual landscape of Chaucer's world and how this geography may have changed in the decades following the poet's death.
5. Chaucerian Networks (organized by Peter Brown and Shayne Legassie)
The concept of "network" has a long, multifaceted history in the humanities and social sciences and in scholarship on Chaucer and other medieval authors. We invite proposals for sessions that consider the various networks that sustained the careers of Chaucer and other late-medieval writers, as well as sessions that examine the methodological assumptions that underpin traditional and emergent conceptions of "network" in the study of medieval literature and society. Possibilities include:
patronage and social networks in the Age of Chaucer
late-medieval networks of intellectual, cultural, and economic exchange, especially those that gave rise to new interpretive communities, or that promoted dialogue across established linguistic, religious, ethnic, social, or institutional divides
medieval paradigms that anticipate later notions of "network"
conceptions of "network" that developed in other disciplines (anthropology, ecology, medicine, computer science, etc.) but that might be useful to Chaucerian or Medieval Studies.
6. Ritual, Pageant, Spectacle (organized by Tamara Atkin and Emily Steiner)
We invite proposals for sessions on any aspect of medieval performance focusing on England and the British Isles, c. 1300-1550. We hope to sponsor sessions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to the following: 1) The place of play (the cultural role of drama, its various sites and location, or its location in cities and towns); 2) Pageantry and civic life (drama and city politics, staging protest and critique, and propaganda); 3) religious ritual (liturgy, sacramentality, emotion and gesture, miracle, wonder and doubt); 4) The culture of spectatorship; 5) Court spectacle (royal pageants, ceremony, and the staging of kingship, including cross-Channel spectacle); 6) Periodization and performance; 7) legal dramas (trials, inquisition, punishment, proclamations and enactments of law); 8) Texts in plays/plays in texts.
7. Corporealities (organized by Jonathan Hsy and Katie Walter)
This thread seeks sessions exploring the norms, forms, and manifold possibilities of corporeality and the ways we think about bodily variety writ large. In particular, sessions might think about the non-"natural," artificial or synthetic bodies constituted variously in medieval notions of the body politic, the spiritual body (of Christ), and community, as well as the forms of (human and non-human) corporeality constructed through the vehicles of theology, law, medicine, history and government. This thread will ask how diverse modes of embodiment shape our understanding of medieval culture; so too will it ask how modes of embodiment shape our own movements through a profession that seeks to better understand and rethink the past. This thread welcomes sessions that will address the complex intersections of race, disability, skin, parchment, environment, monstrosity, and embodied difference – in the age of Chaucer as well as the present.
8. Literary Forms (organized by Arthur Bahr and Anke Bernau)
Form, formalism, aesthetics and the distinctiveness of something called "the literary"—all these have been objects of renewed engagement and contestation in recent years. Sessions might:
delve more deeply into one or two key aspects of form (such as meter or rhyme), or on topics such as genre or alliterative poetry;
explore how literary effects emerge from the intersection of textual form with other kinds of form (such as manuscripts, or specific socio-cultural formations);
ask what and how "literary effects" actually are;
consider which different aesthetic categories operated or emerged within late medieval literature, and what sensory experiences they came out of, or gave rise to;
consider the relation of literariness to value.
We would also welcome a poster session that use the constraints of the poster form itself as a way of investigating the formal strangeness that so much medieval literature displays.
9. Uses of the Medieval (organized by Kathleen Davis and Hannah Johnson)
The Middle Ages have been recuperated, co-opted, exploited, and invented anew with each succeeding era. Few other scholars wrestle with such large questions of conceptualization, method, and first principles as do medievalists, even as we are aware of the ideological attachments that cling to our efforts. This thread encourages inquiry into wide-ranging methodological and disciplinary issues concerning the ideological uses of Chaucer or the medieval in diverse contexts. Sessions might examine how either Chaucer or the category of the medieval more generally serves as the theoretical scaffolding for a variety of intellectual models, such as philosophical claims, disciplinary formulations, or philosophies of history and/or forms of rationality. For example, some sessions might examine how the formation, or the forgetting, of the Middle Ages underlies discourses of modernity or anti-modernity; questions of alterity and ontology; or claims about epistemology and method.
Session Types
Paper panel: A paper session showcases scholarly work in the form of extended presentations of 20 minutes each. A paper panel should include no more than 3 presenters total (either 3 papers or 2 papers and a respondent) and should allow for at least 30 minutes of open discussion.
Roundtable: The goal of a roundtable is to focus discussion on a narrow topic, theme, or question, such as "John Shirley," or "Chaucer's 'Retraction.'" Roundtables should include no more than 5 presenters and allow for at least 30 minutes of open discussion.
Seminars: The goal of a seminar is to generate extended conversation about a topic (e.g., "Re-Orienting Disability"), before, during, and after the NCS meeting. Participants are encouraged to circulate and discuss materials in advance of the seminar. Seminars should include no more than 7 presenters and allow for at least one hour of open discussion.
Poster sessions: Poster sessions are groupings of posters on a particular topic; each thread will have a group of posters associated with it. During the conference, all posters will be displayed in a single timeslot, with presenters in attendance to discuss their work and answer questions.
NB: NCS tried out a poster session for the first time in 2014, and the membership deemed it a great success. Posters usually include narrative, illustrations, tables, graphs, and similar presentation formats. The poster should concisely communicate the essence of the presenter's research and/or showcase a particular artefact and the researcher's findings. Colorado State University has published useful general information on poster sessions, which can be accessed here: http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/guide.cfm?guideid=78.
Some handsome example posters are available by following this link:
A note on pedagogy sessions:
A pedagogy session can take the form of a paper panel, roundtable, seminar, or another innovative form (interview, debates, etc.). It should address topics or questions relevant to teaching medieval literature and culture at a variety of academic institutions.
Please note that we are asking for proposals to the call below (and attached) to be sent to a dedicated email account so that we can keep track of every single proposal: firstname.lastname@example.com. Make sure you send your proposals there!
Seminar: "European Women in Early Modern Drama"
Due: 1 December 2014
Convenors: Dr Edel Semple, University College Cork, firstname.lastname@example.com
Dr Ema Vyroubalova, Trinity College Dublin, firstname.lastname@example.com
While England's early modern drama presents us with a plethora of foreign female characters – women such as Franceschina, the eponymous villain in The Dutch Courtesan, Queen Katherine inHenry VIII, the displaced Bella-Franca in Four Prentices of London, and Tamora in Titus Andronicus – no single study has taken these pervasive and significant figures as its focus. This seminar seeks to redress this gap in existing scholarship by exploring representations of European women in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Building on work by critics including Ton Hoenselaars, Jean E. Howard, Lloyd Edward Kermode, Michele Marrapodi, Jean-Christophe Mayer, Marianne Montgomery, and Jane Pettegree, and drawing on recent developments in studies of gender, race, culture, and politics, this seminar aims to explore why and how early modern dramatists repeatedly fashioned female characters of distinct nationalities. How notions of gender and foreignness intersect and/or diverge in early modern English play-texts will be the central concern of the seminar.
In a range of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, foreign women are depicted as valuable links to European nations, and as threatening apertures within the English nation. In Sharpham's The Fleer, for instance, the Italian courtesans bring strange customs to London, while in The Patient Man and the Honest Whore, the Italian courtesan is accused of spreading disease across national borders. Conversely, in Henry V, the 'wooing' of Katherine is a moment for linguistic exchange and she is seen as the desirable conduit to unite England and France. Thus, the seminar will consider how the staging of foreign women may enable English dramatists and their audiences to engage in debates about international relations, to deliberate on racial anxieties, to play out strategies of integration or exclusion, and to imagine England's future vis-à-vis the rest of Europe.
Furthermore, in considering such a diverse range of characters, the seminar seeks to uncover points of commonality and difference in representations of European women, and will consider whether these women – from different nations, with varied social, religious, economic, and political identities – constitute a distinct phenomenon in the drama of the period. We are particularly interested in papers discussing theatrical depictions of European women as agents of and conduits for social, sexual, political, economic, linguistic and cultural interchange.
The papers may examine, among other aspects, representations of European women in early modern English drama in relation to:
- social, sexual, or cultural encounters and interactions
- notions and theories of race, ethnicity, hybridity, and miscegenation
- misogyny and/or xenophobia
- political and/or economic power
- crime and transgression
- linguistic exchange (e.g. accents or multilingualism)
- religious and/or social identities and groups (e.g. refugees, economic migrants)
- early modern geography and cartography
- locations and their theatrical renderings
- travel, travellers, and mobility
- early modern staging (e.g. playhouses, costumes, or stage props)
- printing and circulation of play-texts
- source texts and/or dramatic genres
Please submit an abstract (200-300 words) and a brief biography (150 words) by 1 December 2014 to all seminar conveners. All participants will be notified about the acceptance of their proposals by 1 March 2015. The deadline for submitting the completed seminar papers (3,000 words) is 1 May 2015.
Deadline: 1 December 2014
Keynote Speaker: Professor Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in History will present on "The Uses of History: Political Leaders and the Past".
Luncheon Workshop: A roundtable discussion on the future uses and implications of the rise of digital humanities on the field of history.
Practical and Impractical Past: Given the varied public applications and misapplications of history, the McGill-Queen's Graduate Conference in History invites graduate scholars from across the disciplines to submit papers on any history related topic. We especially welcome papers that interrogate the uses of history to understand current social and cultural issues such as:
· Social Movements
· Material Cultures and Art
· Religious Practices
· Mythologies and Mythmaking
· Digital History and the Humanities
· Political and Economic Agendas
· Settlement and Migration Patterns
· Space, Geography, and the Environment
· Issues of Methodology
· Applications of History
We encourage proposals from any geographic region or temporal period. Interdisciplinary submissions are welcome.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words as well as a 125 word academic biography in Word or PDF format to email@example.com by 1 December 2014.
MQ15 Conference Committee, Queen's University
Mid-America Medieval Association, 2015 Annual Conference , The University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, February 28, 2015
Due: 1 December 2014
Theme: Collectivity and Exchange
Keynote Address: Dr. Pamela Sheingorn
Papers are invited on a range of topics, including the conference theme of "Collectivity & Exchange," for the annual meeting of the Mid-America Medieval Assn, which will convene on Saturday, 28 February 2015, at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Collectivity might be imagined expansively to include not just temporal but also ephemeral and spiritual communities. Exchange might also be considered in various forms, from economic and material to ideological and philosophical.
Please send proposals of 250 words by 1 December 2014 to:
Dr. Virginia Blanton
Department of English
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5121 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, Missouri 64110 USA
Seminar on Shakespeare and emotion, 2015 European Shakespeare Research Association's conference at the University of Worcester (29 June-2 July).
Due: 1 December 2014
This seminar focuses on the importance of emotion in Shakespeare's plays and poems and their significance within various European contexts. Acknowledging that emotion can be both culturally and historically contingent, as well as something shared across different cultures and communities, this seminar is interested in searching out the fault-lines of Shakespeare's emotional registers and understanding their power to transcend different kinds of European boundaries, as well as reinforce them.
Papers in this seminar might take a historical approach, considering, for instance, how Shakespeare's works participated in scholastic debates about the relationship between emotion and the body, the rhetoric of emotion, the role of emotion in politics and governance, or the ethics of emotion. They might in turn consider how religious change across Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries shaped Shakespeare's representation of emotion and its place within spiritual devotion, personal piety, and holy ritual.
Other participants may choose to take a different approach, using literary readings or performance-based analyses to consider how emotion in Shakespeare has been interpreted more recently by European readers, philosophers, directors, actors, and audiences. Such papers might focus, for instance, on the role emotion has played in the acting styles developed by famous practitioners such as Stanislavski, Brecht, or Laban, and the subsequent effect this has had on Shakespearean performance, or on how particular emotions have been generated within the context of European national theatres, Shakespeare festivals, and other performance venues.
Whatever their preferred approach, participants in the seminar are invited to consider the extent to which emotion is a hallmark of Shakespeare's literary and dramatic craft, and whether or not it is a constant, or at least translatable, feature across different European cultures and communities. To what extent does emotion in Shakespeare bring European readers, performers, and audiences together, and to what extent does push them apart?
If you're interested please submit an abstract (200-300 words) and a brief biography (150 words) by 1 December 2014 to both me and Kristine. All participants will be notified about the acceptance of their proposals by 1 March 2015, and the deadline for submitting the completed seminar papers (3,000 words) will be 1 May 2015.
Please feel free contact the organizers with any questions:
Dr Erin Sullivan, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham,email@example.com
Dr Kristine Steenbergh, VU University of Amsterdam, email@example.com
"Recent European (Re)translations of Shakespeare," a seminar at the ESRA conference, 2015, Worcester
Due: 1 December 2014
Conveners: Lily Kahn (UCL), firstname.lastname@example.com
Márta Minier (University of South Wales), firstname.lastname@example.com
Martin Regal (University of Iceland), email@example.com
The longevity of Shakespearean translations is generally somewhat limited. Although some canonical translations have a relatively long life as literary works and/or in the theatre, it is common for Shakespeare to be retranslated periodically. Within Europe there is a widespread phenomenon of systematic series of (re)translations of Shakespeare's complete works; in recent years this trend has given rise to the WSOY Finnish Complete Works, completed in 2013, the new Polish Complete Works, the New Romanian Shakespeare series, and others. In addition, specially commissioned individual retranslations designed for specific productions are a common feature of the European theatrical scene. Examination of the rich variety of issues surrounding this phenomenon of retranslation in the European context can provide valuable insights into the theory and practice of Shakespearean interpretation.
This proposed seminar will bring together scholars, editors and practising translators engaged in the production and analysis of Shakespearean translations. It will also be open to dramaturges or directors who would like to comment on working with new or revised (that is, dramaturgically adjusted) translations. Proposals will be welcomed on topics including but not limited to the following:
· factors galvanising the decision to produce new translations, including philological and interpretive shifts, changing conventions of theatre, and the emergence of new performance and directorial styles;
· the collaborative framework behind commissioned translations and the relationship between the translator and other stakeholders;
· societal perceptions of the modern Shakespeare translator; trends in the selection of different translation strategies (e.g. foreignising vs. domesticating);
· comparisons between alternative translations of the 'same' play (both synchronically and diachronically);
· different translations of a single play by the same translator; the use of updated and otherwise modified versions of existing translations in new productions instead of commissioning completely original work;
· the critical reception of new translations both in textual format and in theatrical contexts.
We will consider papers focusing on academic translation series not necessarily intended for performance in addition to those specifically commissioned or designed for theatrical use that may not be as suitable for employment in educational contexts.
Please submit an abstract (200-300 words) and a brief biography (150 words) by 1 December 2014 to all seminar conveners. All participants will be notified about the acceptance of their proposals by 1 March 2015. The deadline for submitting the completed seminar papers (3,000 words) is 1 May 2015.
"Mediating the Sacred and Secular in the Medieval and Early Modern Period," Graduate conference hosted by the University of Michigan Early Modern Colloquium (EMC) February 20-21, 2015
Due December 5th, 2014
The Early Modern Colloquium, a graduate interdisciplinary group at the University of Michigan, is seeking submissions for its conference on the conceptualizations of the sacred and secular during the Medieval and Early Modern periods. This conference will engage with issues of periodicity through questions of secular versus sacred authority both during and between these eras. More specifically, it will investigate particular literary and visual representations that negotiate and mediate the divide of the sacred and the secular in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Keynote speakers will be Nancy Warren, Professor of English (Texas A&M) and Sara Poor, Associate Professor of German (Princeton).
· How is the sacred or the secular defined?
· How does premodern culture define the status and authority of religion and state?
· Do changes in geographical borders or ideologies produce new discourses of sacred or secular?
· How might we consequently think about or challenge periodicity?
· What are the meeting places or shared spaces of sacred and secular? How do these terms come together to confront rival forms or terms?
Conference participants are invited to examine how Medieval and/or early modern writers, collectives, and cultures grappled with these questions within a series of interrelated realms—e.g., academic, artistic, economic, geographical, legal, medical, philosophical, private, public, religious, and scientific.
The Early Modern Colloquium will give priority to abstracts submitted by graduate students. Please send 250-300 word proposals to Maia Farrar at firstname.lastname@example.com. The deadline is December 5th.
"Jan Kott Our Contemporary: Contexts, Legacies, New Perspectives" An international one-day conference, Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames, KINGSTON SHAKESPEARE SEMINAR, Thursday 19 February 2015
Due 5 December 2014
On the hundredth anniversary of his birth, and half a century to the day after the English publication of Jan Kott's Shakespeare Our Contemporary, this conference will bring together scholars, students, practitioners, reviewers, and members of the general public, to discuss the role of the Polish critic Jan Kott in Shakespeare and Theatre Studies, as well as his contribution to the intellectual life of the twentieth century. The event is part of a centenary celebration that includes evening performances of Songs of Lear, an acclaimed production by the Polish Song of the Goat Theatre, at the Battersea Arts Centre, London.
Proposals are invited for 20-min seminar papers. Possible topics include:
1. Jan Kott as academic critic. How has Shakespeare Our Contemporary shaped the development of Shakespeare criticism and Theatre Studies?
2. Kott and the art of the essay. What made Kott's essays influential; and do we still need them?
3. Kott and ancient Greek drama. How has the critic influenced Classical Studies?
4. Kott and Existentialism. What was the importance of Kott's work as a translator of Sartre?
5. Kott and the theatre of the absurd: the critic's response to Beckett, Ionesco and Gombrowicz.
6. Kott and global theatre. What was the importance of the critic's interest in Kabuki and Noh?
7. Kott's and the anthropology of theatre. What was the extent of Kott's interaction with Jerzy Grotowski, Tadeusz Kantor and Peter Brook?
8. Kott and Modernism. Can the critic be read as a Modernist writer?
9. Kott and religion. What were the critic's views on Catholic doctrine on morality and sexuality, particularly in light of his writings on androgyny in Renaissance art and literature?
10. Kott's politics. What were the critic's reactions to Marxist and Post-Marxist political theory, and to their impact on Polish and international theatre and theatre theory?
11. Kott and Jewish ethnicity. What is the significance of the Shoah on Polish and world theatre?
12. Kott, Polish emigration, and émigré culture. How do exiled artists and intellectuals like the critic shape the societies in which they work?
If you are interested in participating in 'Jan Kott Our Contemporary', please send a 200-word abstract with a 50-word cv. by December 5 2014 to Aneta Mancewicz and Richard Wilson: firstname.lastname@example.com
Alternatively you may use this postal address:
Aneta Mancewicz and Richard Wilson
Kingston University
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Penrhyn Road
Kingston upon Thames
Surrey KT1 2EE
Speakers will be notified of acceptance by 8 December 2014.
There is no registration fee for 'Jan Kott Our Contemporary'. The conference will be free and open to the general public. Tickets for the Song of the Goat Theatre production of Songs of Lear at the Battersea Arts Centre on February 20 and 21 2015 will be on sale at a special rate.
John Elsom (Kingston Shakespeare Seminar), Anna Godlewska (Polish Cultural Institute), Anna Gruszka (Polish Cultural Institute), Aneta Mancewicz (Kingston University), Aleksandra Sakowska (British Friends of the Gdansk Theatre Trust), Richard Wilson (Kingston University)
'Feast or Famine in the Early Modern Period' Birkbeck Early Modern Society's 8th Student Conference, Saturday 21 February 2015.
Due: 5 December 2014, 5pm
We are interested in notions of feasting or famine during the Early Modern Period, 1500-1800. Conference papers could address a range of subject areas such as; material culture, culinary history, medical and social history, population studies, economics, affluence, consumption, plenitude or absence, verbosity or silence, art, religion, music, literature, drama, philosophy, psychology. We are looking for a diverse collection of papers that connect with our conference theme.
Please send your abstract as a Microsoft word document.Please put your name, and programme of study at the top of your abstract. The abstract should be no more than 250 words for papers lasting 20-25 minutes (about 2,000-2,500 words).
Please email your abstract to Dr Laura Jacobs, Secretary, Birkbeck Early Modern Society, email@example.com by 5pm on Friday 5 December 2014. We will be holding a selection meeting shortly after the deadline and may not be able to consider late submissions.
21st Annual ACMRS Conference "Trades, Talents, Guilds, and Specialists: Getting Things Done in the Middle Ages and Renaissance," Feb. 2-7, 2015
Due: December 5, 2014
Interdisciplinary Conference in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Thursday, February 5, 2015 to Saturday, February 7, 2015
Scottsdale, Arizona
Online submission date(s):
Sunday, June 1, 2014 to Friday, December 5, 2014
ACMRS invites session and paper proposals for its annual interdisciplinary conference to be held February 5-7, 2015 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Scottsdale. We welcome papers that explore any topic related to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and especially those that focus on: "Trades, Talents, Guilds, and Specialists: Getting Things Done in the Middle Ages and Renaissance".
Globe Education at Shakespeare's Globe's spring conference, "The Halved Heart: Shakespeare and Friendship" (Friday 17– Sunday 19 April 2015)
Due: 12 December, 2014
For men and women in Shakespeare's England, friendship was a relation that spanned the exquisite virtue of amicitia perfecta and the everyday exchanges of neighbourliness and commerce. A friend might be 'another self', but it was essential to be wary of false friends or flatterers. The complex nature of early modern friendship was a rich source of inspiration for early modern dramatists.
Speakers may address the Renaissance fascination with the ethical demands of idealised friendship, or the pragmatic reality of instrumental alliances, as explored on stage. Papers might consider the theatre as a site of social promiscuity, where spectators could be instructed in the arts (and hazards) of friendship even as such relationships were enacted in the auditorium. Or they might examine the overlap between friendship and eroticism, and the points of conflict between friendship and other forms of social alliance such as marriage, or the relationship between monarch and subject.
The conference will conclude on Sunday 19 April with a staged reading by a company of Globe actors of The Faithful Friends (Anon., King's Men, c.1614). Proposals of no more than 300 words for papers (or panels of up to three papers) may be submitted to Dr Will Tosh on email@example.com. The deadline for submissions is Friday 12 December 2014. The conference is for scholars and students but is open to all members of the public who are interested in debates about early modern theatre and friendship.
Rethinking Shakespeare and Italy: Cultural Exchanges from the Early Modern Period to the Present, ed. by Enza De Francisci and Chris Stamatakis (Routledge: Studies in Shakespeare Series)
Due: 12 December 2014
This volume brings together international scholars from English literature, Italian studies, drama, and linguistics, as well as actors and playwrights, and offers new perspectives on the vibrant relationships that can be traced between Shakespeare and Italy from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Besides offering a selection of individual examples of exchanges from Shakespeare's own time to the present, this volume also ventures more theoretical paradigms to explain the fascinating dynamics by which exchange between Shakespeare and Italy is a two-way process. It is not simply that the literary, dramatic, and linguistic culture of Renaissance Italy shaped Shakespeare's drama in his own time, but rather that, as this book shows by tracing his literary afterlife, Shakespeare's plays helped shape Italian artistic culture in the ensuing centuries, in the realms of drama, opera, novels, and film. Unifying the chapters in this book is an interest in how Shakespeare's drama represents, enacts, and becomes the subject of exchanges across the national, political, and cultural boundaries separating England and Italy.
Abstracts of approximately 250 words are sought for essays that address any period and any aspect of exchange between Shakespeare and Italian culture. Essays can be either empirical or more theoretical in nature, and can explore any mode of cultural interchange – from theatrical influences in either direction, to the cross-border travel of actors and acting troupes, to the artistic and political afterlife of Shakespeare's plays in Italy, to the polyglot, linguistic exchanges that take place through translation, to name a few. The deadline for submissions is 12th December 2014. Abstracts should be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com, and will be subjected to peer review. First drafts of chapters (c. 6,000 words) should then be submitted to the editors ideally by March 2015.
So far, the volume includes chapters and case studies on the following areas:
- Shakespeare's representation of travel in Italy – Shakespeare and Florio – Shakespeare's relationship with the commedia dell'arte – Shakespeare's early reception in Italy – Verdi's operatic adaptations of Shakespeare – Performances of Shakespeare by the Italian grandi attori – Early Hebrew translations of Shakespeare's plays set in Italy – Adaptations of Shakespeare in Fascist Italy – Strehler's staging of Shakespeare's histories – Recent stage and screen adaptations of Shakespeare by Italian translators and playwrights
For any questions or further information, please do not hesitate to contact firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Journal of the Northern Renaissance, Open-themed 7th Issue
Due: 1 January 2015
The Journal of the Northern Renaissance (northernrenaissance.org) is calling for submissions for our open-themed seventh issue on any aspect of the cultural practice of Northern Europe in the period circa 1430-1650, including but not limited to:
- literature
- the history of art and architecture
- music history
- philosophy
- theology
- politics
- scientific technologies
The Journal of the Northern Renaissance (JNR) is a peer-reviewed, open-access online journal dedicated to the study of early modern Northern European cultural production. We are particularly interested in studies exploring alternative cultural geographies, challenging existing conceptualizations and periodizations of the Renaissance in the North, and/or establishing continuities and ruptures with earlier and later epochs. Part of our intention, however, in having an open, unthemed issue, is to gauge where the most interesting work is being done and what questions are being asked by scholars working on Northern Renaissance culture across a wide range of disciplines.
Potential contributors are advised to consult the Information page of our website for details of the submissions procedure and style guidelines. We also welcome initial enquiries regarding possible contributions, which can be sent to us at email@example.com.
"POLY-OLBION AND THE WRITING OF BRITAIN," Royal Geographical Society, London, 10-11 September 2015
Due: 5 January 2015
Confirmed speakers include Alison Chapman, Andrew Hadfield, Bernhard Klein, Sara Trevisan, and Angus Vine. The conference will also feature presentations by the Poly-Olbion Project Team: Andrew McRae, Philip Schwyzer, Daniel Cattell, and Sjoerd Levelt.
Hosted by the Poly-Olbion Project, the conference will explore Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion within the wider context of early modern British discourses of space, place, nationhood, and regional identity. The conference will coincide with the opening of a major exhibition and series of public-facing events devoted to Poly-Olbion, derived from the AHRC-funded project and the associated HLF-funded 'Children's Poly-Olbion'. Papers dealing with aspects of Michael Drayton's poem, John Selden's commentary, William Hole's maps, or the wider context of chorography and cartography in early modern Britain will be welcome. Please send abstracts or full papers to Andrew McRae (email@example.com) and Philip Schwyzer (email@example.com) by 5 January 2015.
"Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800," An Interdisciplinary Conference, 9-11 July 2015 University of Cambridge
Due 7 January, 2015
Across faiths and regions and throughout the world, the home was a centre for devotion in the early modern period. Holy books, prayer mats, candlesticks, inscriptions, icons, altars, figurines of saints and deities, paintings, prints and textiles all wove religion into the very fabric of the home. While research into religious practice during this period often focuses on institutions and public ceremonies, it is clear that the home played a profound role in shaping devotional experience, as a place for religious instruction, private prayer and contemplation, communal worship, and the performance of everyday rituals.
The ERC-funded research project Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home will be hosting this three-day international interdisciplinary conference in July 2015. The project team invites proposals for 20-minute papers that explore domestic devotions in the early modern world. Papers may consider this theme from a variety of perspectives, including material culture studies, art and architectural history, gender studies, theology, religious studies, economic and social history, literary studies, musicology, archaeology and anthropology. Topics may include, though are not limited to
• Religion, ritual and belief in the home
• The use of images, objects or books in private devotion
• Daily life and life cycles
• The relationships between collective (e.g. institutional or non-familial) devotion and private devotion
• The role of the senses in spiritual experience
• The production and ownership of religious objects found in the home
• Gender, race or age and devotional life
• Policing and regulating household religion
• Encounters between different faiths and traditions in domestic context
• Domestic devotional spaces
• Music in domestic devotion
• Devotional literature
Plenary speakers will be Debra Kaplan (Bar-Ilan University), Andrew Morrall (Bard Graduate Center) and Virginia Reinburg (Boston College).
Please email abstracts of no more than 300 words to Maya Corry at firstname.lastname@example.com, Marco Faini at firstname.lastname@example.com, and Alessia Meneghin at firstname.lastname@example.com by 7th January 2015. Along with your abstract please include your name, institution, paper title and a brief biography. Successful applicants will be notified by 7th February 2015.
The conference will take place at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. College accommodation will be bookable nearer the time. Registration fees (tbc) will be kept as low as possible and graduate bursaries will be available to help with costs.
"John Fletcher: A Critical Reappraisal," Friday 26th and Saturday 27th June 2015, Canterbury Christ Church University
Due: 9 January 2015
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Gordon McMullan (King's College London)
Dr Lucy Munro (King's College London)
Professor Sandra Clark (Professor Emerita, Institute of English Studies, University of London)
Professor Clare McManus (University of Roehampton)
It is fair to say that John Fletcher remains an understudied and underappreciated writer in recent early modern scholarship. Even the very recent success of non-Shakespearean drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, and the Swan Theatre's commitment to staging Shakespeare's contemporaries, has proved fruitless so far in introducing Fletcher to a new generation of academics and theatre-goers. In the near 390 years since his death, it is now time for a complete re-evaluation of the work of a man who made a considerable impact on Jacobean theatre and society by producing a vast corpus of about 53 plays that challenged, commented on, and critiqued Renaissance England. By investigating Fletcher's ideas and ideals, apparent in his work, we can gain a significant understanding of Jacobean theatre practices and politics: his career virtually encompassed the entirety of the reign of James I, under whose patronage he worked as Shakespeare's successor as the resident dramatist of the King's Men. In short, to study Fletcher is to study the soul of the age.
The conference seeks to bring together leading experts, early career researchers, and postgraduate students working on John Fletcher to reassess his engagement with the ideas, culture, politics, and society of Renaissance England.
This call for papers asks for contributions considering:
- Any aspect of Fletcher's involvement with the theatre of Jacobean England;
- His use of European literary sources, particularly those of Spanish origin;
- The textual and performance history of his plays;
- His status as a collaborative writer and his working relationship with his more frequent writing partners (Beaumont, Field, Massinger);
- His influences and ideas on politics, gender, and culture;
- The Fletcher 'canon' of plays;
- Fletcher's collaborative plays with Shakespeare;
- Fletcher's influence on Shakespeare and Shakespeare's influence on Fletcher;
- The trials and tribulations of editing or staging them in our modern world;
- New approaches to analysing his work as a dramatist.
This is by no means an exhaustive or constrictive list, and we invite contributions for papers that critically re-evaluate and extend our knowledge of a writer whose plays helped shape and redefine the place and importance of the theatre in Renaissance London.
After the sessions in Canterbury, the conference will reconvene for a one day event at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, where the Shakespeare Institute Players will perform an unabridged script-in-hand production of one of Fletcher's plays. The performance will take place on Saturday 25th July 2015. A conference website will be set up in the next few weeks where delegates and members of the public will be able to vote, from a list of 5 Fletcher plays, for which one they would like to see staged. The play with the most votes will be performed by the Players! We invite people to use the Twitter hashtag #TeamFletcher or to get in touch with us at the email address below to cast a vote. One vote per Twitter account or email address, please!
Please send proposals of no more than 300 words for papers lasting 20 minutes in length to Dr Steve Orman (Canterbury Christ Church University) and José A. Pérez Díez (Shakespeare Institute), conference conveners, at the following email address: firstname.lastname@example.com
Canada Chaucer Seminar, Saturday, April 18, 2015, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
Due: 10 January 2015
The seventh annual Canada Chaucer Seminar will be held at the University of Toronto on Saturday, April 18th, 2015. The seminar provides a one-day forum where scholars, from Canada and elsewhere, come together to discuss current research on Chaucer and on late medieval literature and culture.
The 2015 gathering will include keynote papers by Paul Strohm (Columbia) and Emily Steiner (Pennsylvania), and several sessions of conference papers.
Proposals are invited for 20-minute conference papers on any aspect late medieval English literary culture. Submit one-page abstracts by January 10th 2015 to:
firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com
"Pleasure and Pain" (Equinoxes 2015), 3-4 April 2015, Brown University,Providence, Rhode Island
Due: 15 January, 2015
Keynote: Cary Howie (Associate Professor of Romance Studies, Cornell University)
As culturally transcendent as pleasure and pain might seem, the discourse surrounding
these two sensations can vary widely depending on socio-historical context. With
Equinoxes 2015, we propose to investigate the heterogeneity of these prima facie
universal experiences as they appear throughout the various periods and mediums of
cultural production within the French-speaking world.
From the Classicist emphasis on "plaire et instruire" to the sensualist thought of
Condillac, according to whom all knowledge originates with the avoidance of pain and
the pursuit of pleasure, the production of meaning in French and Francophone culture
has, from its earliest stages, been bound to a pleasure/pain dichotomy. Our exploration of
these concepts will touch upon concerns that are 1) ontological, 2) ethical, and 3)
aesthetic in nature. In the first place, our conference hopes to analyze the diverse ways
French thinkers have defined these terms, asking: what constitutes pleasure and pain, and
ought we indeed view these concepts as two distinct categories, or rather as sometimes
indistinguishable states along a continuous spectrum? In the second place, we shall
explore the circumstances under which French thinkers have attributed ethical
significance to pleasure and pain, and to whom (or what) these circumstances apply. In
the third place, we ask: in what ways can language ever hope to do justice to the feelings
of pain and pleasure? What techniques have French letters adopted to (re)produce these
states (potentially in the face of censorship), and how do these techniques differ across
more visual or aural art forms?
Equinoxes encourages proposals from a variety of disciplines (French & Francophone
Studies, Comparative Literature, History, Philosophy, Postcolonial Studies, Art History,
Media & Cultural Studies, etc.). Potential avenues of exploration may include, but are not
limited to:
-Depictions of pain and pleasure in various artistic media
-Aesthetic theories on the portrayal of pleasure and pain
-The pleasure in artistic consumption/production
- Love, desire, and sexuality
-Empathy, sympathy, pity
-Legitimations/utilizations of suffering (i.e. questions regarding capital punishment,
torture, war, etc.)
-Questions regarding the body
-Human and animal rights
-Religious suffering (expiation, martyrdom, asceticism, etc.)
-Definitions of happiness
-Questions of censorship
-Pedagogical dimension of pleasure and/or pain ("plaire et instruire")
-Theories regarding the senses
Graduate students who wish to participate in the conference should submit an
abstract of no more than 250 words. Abstracts must be sent, as attachments, to
email@example.com before January 15, 2015. Emails should include the
author's name, institutional affiliation, and contact information. Presentations, whether in
English or in French, should not exceed 20 minutes.
For more information, please visit our website:
"The Biggest Comebacks: Tenacious Resurgence of Cultural Topoi," 4th Annual Graduate Student Conference for Romance Languages and Literatures at University of Buffalo, March 27-28, 2015
Due: January 15, 2015
Scholars of every epoch may experience in them a rather uncanny déjà vu: The themes of seasoned and cutting-edge blockbusters like The Walking Dead, Twilight, and Dracula, which share commonalities with the first European "tabloids" and miscellanea featuring stories of miracles, gruesome crimes, and monstrosities. Widely interpreted as signs of a 17th-century state of mind, the fascination with the grotesque, uncanny, macabre, and apocalyptic is just as alive and well today as it was then, and serves as an instrument of critique of modern concerns of mass consumerism and loss of individuality in a globalizing, capitalist world.
At this conference we would like to discuss the biggest comebacks of your area of research in a quest for a common ground and connecting junctures that point to similar patterns of human thinking and behavior. In the same way in which the Baroque, for instance, has resurfaced in diverse shapes and forms at various moments of literary history, implying a struggle shared among different generations of art movements, what genres, tropes, metaphors, themes, leitmotifs, transformations, and patterns of movement have been revitalized and reframed in your field of research? What has allowed these to transplant themselves into cultural products spanning across centuries? Which conclusions and lessons can we draw from these findings?
The conference committee welcomes proposals that explore patterns and concepts that have resurged to relevance after a period of absence or dormancy in any type of text of any era, as well as of any discipline (literature, linguistics, classics etc.) and critical approaches.
Suggested content areas include but are not limited to:
Language sur-/revival
Diachronic and historical linguistics
Myth and folklore
Zombies, Monsters, Walking dead
Atypical and monstruous sexualities
Peripheral culture
The fantastic and uncanny
This conference will provide a collaborative environment for students and faculty to present and discuss their work in an intellectual and dynamic atmosphere. Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes long, technology will be provided upon request.
Proposal Submission by January 15, 2015
• 250-word abstract in English, institutional affiliation, and research interests.
• Preference will be given to presentations in English, but communications in the major
Romance languages will be considered upon request and depending on demand.
• Please email submissions and enquiries to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Looking forward to reading your proposal,
The RLL Conference Committee
"Beyond Leeches and Lepers: Medieval and Early Modern Medicine Conference." Anatomy Lecture Theatre, The University of Edinburgh. Saturday 2nd May, 2015.
Due: 15 January, 2015
This is a one-day public engagement conference for postgraduate students and early career researchers. We are excited to announce that Dr. Irina Metzler has been confirmed as the keynote speaker.
There are many misconceptions about the quality of health care in the medieval and early-modern periods. Even Blackadder II, set in the sixteenth century, popularises the idea that early-modern medical practices were both limited and ineffective:
Edmund: I've never had anything you doctors didn't try to cure with leeches. A leech on my ear for ear ache, a leech on my bottom for constipation.
Doctor: They're marvellous, aren't they?
Edmund: Well, the bottom one wasn't. I just sat there and squashed it.
"Beyond Leeches and Lepers" refers to the intention of this conference to look beyond a simplistic coverage of these subjects that are commonly associated with medieval and early-modern medicine, and to explore this area of history more broadly and in greater detail. As a public engagement conference, this is an opportunity for postgraduate students and early career researchers to develop their ability to communicate their research and ideas to the public. This will allow scholars to impart our current understanding of medieval and early-modern medicine, and the public to engage with this subject and address their preconceptions. The conference is to be held in the historic Anatomy Lecture Theatre in the Old Medical Building at the University of Edinburgh. This historically notable space will help to emphasise the seminal importance of medicine in the medieval and early-modern periods inside the long history of medicine.
Possible topics for exploration include: anatomy and dissection; plagues, pandemics and diseases; disability and impairment; hospitals and healthcare; surgery, physicians and medical manuscripts; bloodletting, and the bodily humors. Papers should be prepared with a non-expert audience in mind.
Please send proposals up to 250 words for 15-20 minutes papers to Helen F. Smith and Jessica Legacy at email@example.com by January 15th, 2015.
'Namque ego suetus eram hos libros legisse frequenter': Early Medieval Practices of Reading and Writing, Den Haag, The Netherlands, 3-5 June 2015
Due: 15 January 2015
Organized by: Mariken Teeuwen, Irene van Renswoude and Evina Steinova, Huygens ING
Contact address: firstname.lastname@example.com
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2015
This is a call for papers for a conference on the subject of books, practices of writing, reading, copying and studying in the early middle ages. It is organized by the research project 'Marginal Scholarship: The Practice of Learning in the Early Middle Ages (c. 800 – c. 1000)', which seeks to map the phenomenon of writing in the blank space of manuscripts (in the margin, in between the lines, on fly-leaves or inserted leaves) in the early middle ages, in order to gain a better understanding of the way in which books and texts were used in that period. In essence, we aim to understand the intellectual practices of the period as reflected by the manuscripts and to re-evaluate both how traditional the period was, and how innovative. Furthermore, we hope to explore how the developments of the culture of writing in this period led to developments in later periods, and also how they compare to those in other cultures, such as the Byzantine world or the world of Late Antiquity. Confirmed speakers include David Ganz and John Contreni.
The following questions and themes will be addressed in the sessions:
1. Practices of annotating
Who were allowed to make annotations in manuscripts? What can we learn about the hierarchical organization of the writing process in monastic or cathedral environments, and are there ways to say something about the status of scribes and/or scholars working in manuscript margins?
Annotating practices reflect many different functionalities of the appropriation of text: they can, for example, reflect a process of text comparison and textual criticism; they can have the aim to gather information in order to facilitate the composition of a new text; they can offer guidance to the reader, either in the sense of offering explanation or interpretation, or in the sense of warning the reader and delivering criticism; they can engage in a discussion with the author of the text, or with another annotator, or create stepping stones from one text to others, in order to broaden the reading of the text by offering new and different opinions. We would like to discuss these and other functionalities, and replace the mono-dimensional 'annotated book = school book' with a richer and more accurate model of interpretation.
2. The profile of annotating practices
Can we see patterns in the relationship between textual genres and the kind of marginal activity encountered in the margin? Were certain textual genres treated differently than others? For example, do theological texts invite other types of critical reflection than scientific texts or historical texts? Are there genres with 'empty' margins, and what would be the reason for that?
Can we distinguish sets of annotating practices which are specific to certain intellectual centres or groups of scholars? Can we distinguish individual practices even, which allow us to identify the scholar who worked in the manuscript? It has been argued, for example, that the group around Florus of Lyon had a very particular set of signs to mark patristic texts, in order to prepare florilegia of patristic quotations on certain subjects. Are there other examples of such private practices, and what happened to them after the death of the scholar(s) at their centre?
Some annotating practices are particular to a certain period in history. Tironian notes, for example, seem to have been used in a specific time and space for marginal comments, and are rarely found outside that period. The Nota sign gets company in the shape of a pointing hand at a certain moment in time, is perhaps even replaced by it. Could we mark annotation practices on a chronological scale, just as we can with letter shapes or other physical features of manuscripts?
3. Cultures of writing
Manuscripts, scholars and books travelled, and thus the culture of writing is a dynamic and ever evolving field. Can we map the circles of influence from one scholar, or one school to the next through the eyes of manuscripts? Can we trace specific practices of annotating or writing in general through history, and follow their historical development? And do these practices offer us insight into the intellectual networks of the time? What would be good strategies to map the dynamics of the lives of manuscripts, both in the sense of their actual travels, and in the sense of their changing contents?
A selection of the papers from the conference will be collected in an edited volume, to be published in 2016.
If you are interested in participating in this conference, please send us a title and abstract (ca 400-500 words), your contact information and affiliation to firstname.lastname@example.com. The deadline for sending in abstracts is 15 January 2015. You will hear back from us before 15 February 2015 whether your proposal has been accepted.
The organizers offer to cover your expenses of accommodation. No fee will be asked, lunches will be provided and one conference dinner. For your travel expenses we kindly ask you to rely on the budget of your own university or other academic sponsor. If this is a problem, please indicate this in your correspondence with us.
Mariken Teeuwen, Irene van Renswoude and Evina Steinova: email@example.com
"Literature and Philosophy 1500-1700," A Postgraduate Conference at the University of Sussex, 14th-16th July 2015
Due: 15th January 2015
Plenary speakers: Katrin Ettenhuber (Pembroke, University of Cambridge); Neil Rhodes (University of St Andrews); Christopher Tilmouth (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge)
The Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies (CEMMS: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cems/) at the University of Sussex is pleased to announce its forthcoming Postgraduate Conference on the theme of 'Literature and Philosophy 1500-1700', which will take place on the 14th-16th July 2015.
This conference will explore the relationship between early modern literature and philosophical thought, theories and issues. How philosophical was literature in this period? Did literature and philosophy work in symbiosis or discordantly? How are philosophical ideas approached in early modern literary texts? In what ways could literature function to promote or critique philosophical ideas? What was the role of commercial literature in disseminating philosophical thought? How did circulation of courtly literature influence contemporary political and philosophical thinking? What was the role of different textual mediums (such as codices, pamphlets or newsbooks) in disseminating philosophical ideas? How were philosophical theories engaged with in poetry, prose or drama? Did the genre or medium matter?
We welcome abstracts of 200-300 words for individual papers of 20 minutes or of 600 words for panels of three related papers. These could be on topics including but not limited to:
- Aristotelianism
- Atheism
- Augustinism
- Averroism
- Casuistry
- Equivocation
- Epicurianism
- Ethics/ Moral philosophy
- Figures of Space
- Humanism
- Logic
- Machiavellianism
- Philosophy of Nature
- Philosophy of Religion
- Platonism/Neo-Platonism
- Political philosophy
- Rationalism
- Scepticism
- Scholasticism
- Stoicism
- Thomism
- Toleration
Please submit your abstract along with your institution, paper title and a brief biography to email@example.com by 15th January 2015.
Call for Contributors: Queenship and Counsel in the Early Modern World
Due: 15 January, 2015
Editors: Helen Graham-Matheson (UCL) and Joanne Paul (NCH)
This collection attempts to highlight the ways in which queenship and counsel were negotiated and represented throughout the early modern age (1400-1800). Advice-giving was one of the most prevalent topics in early modern political discourse, but was often limited to the interaction between a male monarch and his male councillors. Queenship and counsel thus posed a potential problem for early modern political theory and practice. Although this topic has been studied with reference to individual queens, no collection has attempted to study the relationship between queenship and counsel in grand perspective. The volume will be submitted to the Queenship and Power series (Palgrave Macmillan) edited by Carole Levin and Charles Beem, with planned publication in early 2017.
We are seeking proposals for submissions from graduate students and scholars in history, literature, philosophy, art history or related fields. Although some longue durée and comparative papers will be accepted, the intention is to produce a collection of chapters each focusing on a single reign, individual or relationship. We welcome submissions which focus on any geographical area within the early modern world, and those from a non-European perspective are especially encouraged. Submissions might focus on any of the four categories of queenship – regnant, regent, dowager and consort – and on both formal and informal varieties of counsel.
Suggested themes include:
- Rhetoric, persuasion and power
- Reason, prudence and emotion
- Legislation and institutionalized councils
- Ceremonials, representation and symbolism
- Diplomacy, intelligence and espionage
- Marriage, family, sexuality and the body
- Religion and philosophy
- Culture and patronage
Chapter proposals of 500 words, accompanied by a short summary of biography and research interests (maximum of 250 words), must be submitted to email@example.com by 15 January 2015 to be considered. Accepted authors will be notified by March 2015, and final submissions due Dec 2015.
Helen Graham-Matheson will complete her PhD at University College London in 2014. Her thesis focuses on the political role of female courtier at the mid-Tudor courts. She has published on related topics in Journal of Early Modern Women, The Politics of the Female Household (Brill, 2013) and Book Culture in Provincial Society (Ashgate, 2014).
Joanne Paul is Lecturer in the History of Ideas at New College of the Humanities, London. Her PhD completed at Queen Mary, University of London (2013) explored the discourse of political counsel in Anglophone writing from 1485-1651, and she has published on related topics in Renaissance Quarterly, the Journal of Intellectual History and Political Thought and in her own co-edited volume,Governing Diversities (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011).
Special Issue of Gender & History: Marriage's Global Past
Due: 15 January 2015
Editors: Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), Sarah Pearsall, Cambridge University
This special issue of Gender & History explores marriage's global past from the medieval to the modern era. We solicit contributions that examine aspects of the history of marriage in societies and cultures throughout the world, with special attention to ideas and practices of monogamy and polygamy. Of particular interest is the role of gender in the construction and reconstruction of marriage. We also solicit papers that interrogate the relationship of marriage to various forms of power, including those of state, religious, and colonial institutions as well as the complicated dynamics of authority within households. We welcome both broad, comparative studies and more narrowly-focused ones.
Many imagine marriage as a timeless institution. In fact, as William Alexander wrote in 1779, in his History of Women, From the Earliest Antiquity, to the Present Time, "Marriage is so far from having been an institution, fixed by permanent and unalterable laws, that it has been continually varying in every period, and in every country." This historian thus acknowledged both the shifting nature of marriage as an institution in a global context, as well as the ways that marriage profoundly shapes, and is shaped by, the role and status of women and men. This special issue similarly assumes varieties of marriages, in terms of both chronology and geography.
This special issue will also interrogate the profound interconnection of gender and marriage, especially with reference to issues of rank, race, age, nationality, culture, religion, and sexuality. Indeed, what might constitute "traditional" marriage in one context might appear radical in another. Indeed, while many contemporary scholars and advocates have called for a redefinition of what is termed "traditional marriage," recent scholarship has also emphasized how very little is traditional about what is currently described in the Oxford English Dictionary as: "the formal union of a man and a woman, typically as recognized by law, by which they become husband and wife."
One of the goals of this special issue is to explore how the idea of so-called "traditional marriage" took root and spread in many cultures. Often, of course, it did so even as local social practices deviated, sometimes notably, from this norm. Christian teachings beginning in the first millennium endorsed a particular model of marriage that became not only a centerpiece of Christian faith but also a potent political and social force across the world. In this model, marriage had to be exclusive and indissoluble, a monogamous and enduring commitment between one man and one woman. At that time and in subsequent centuries, as Christian teachings spread throughout the world, this model of marriage came into contact with cultures that had a variety of different ideas about the best ways to marry, and the purpose of marriage. Clashes between different practices of marriage lay at the heart of many early modern and modern encounters. This special issue of Gender & History hopes to offer new interpretations of this complex and fascinating history.
The volume will begin with a colloquium to be held 18-20 March 2016 at Cambridge University. Paper proposals (750 words maximum) are to be submitted by 15 January 2015. Invitations to present at the colloquium will be issued in February 2015. All those presenting must submit articles for pre-circulation by 15 January 2016. Participants will also be expected to read all the other articles and to participate fully in the two-day colloquium. This participation will include commenting on the paper of another participant, as well as more general discussions. After the colloquium, participants will be invited to submit their revised papers for publication. Those accepted by the editors for publication will be expected to submit their manuscripts by 1 September 2016. This timeframe will allow the editors to work with authors to produce the final text of the issue for publication in 2017.
Please send paper proposals to email@example.com email@example.com by 15 January 2015, with "Marriage's Global Past" in the subject heading.
"Cannibalism in the Early Modern Atlantic, " The University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, 15-16 June 2015
Deadline: 15 January 2015
On early modern voyages, people ate to survive. They fried, roasted, and stewed turtles; they netted fish—including sharks; and they gathered shellfish. During dire moments they sampled penguins and seals. And in even more extreme circumstances, they consumed each other. Last May archaeologists at the Jamestown Rediscovery Project excavation in Virginia unearthed bones that, for the first time, provide physical evidence suggesting that early American colonists ate each other during the Starving Time of 1609-10. Historians have long acknowledged documents detailing the events of that winter, but public interest in the new discovery testifies to the enduring power of cannibalism stories. Such tales, however, tend to deteriorate into debates over whether or not cannibalism occurred, or grisly anecdotes that elide a larger picture of the past. This conference asks participants to think broadly about what occurrences of cannibalism reveal about food history, Atlantic history, and maritime history. Questions that persist include: How did fears about cannibalism shape Europeans' quest for food? How did early modern actors reconcile medicinal cannibalism with worries about anthropophagy? How did cannibalism tales influence exchanges of food between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans? How did the daily concerns of maritime travel result in occurrences of famine and man-eating? And how does cannibalism challenge the Atlantic World paradigm?
This two-day conference will take place at the University of Southampton from 15-16 June, 2015. It seeks to bridge disciplinary gaps between (but not limited to) anthropology, archaeology, history, and literature. Dr. William M. Kelso (Hon. CBE, FSA), Director of Archaeological Research and Interpretation at the Preservation Virginia Jamestown Rediscovery Project, will give the keynote address. It is expected that presenters will speak for twenty minutes. Thanks to the generous assistance of the Wellcome Trust, some funding is available to assist with food and lodging costs for conference presenters. Selected papers will appear as an edited volume under contract with the University of Arkansas Press. A 250-word proposal and short CV (of no longer than three pages) should be submitted on this website (via the Call for Papers link) by 15 January 2015. Questions should be directed to Dr. Rachel Herrmann (email@example.com).
British Milton Seminar, 14 March 2015, Birmingham and Midland Institute
Due: 16 January 2015
The Spring 2015 meeting of the British Milton Seminar will be held on Saturday 14 March 2015 at the Birmingham and Midland Institute. There will be two sessions, from 11.00 am to 12.30 pm and from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm
We currently intend that each session will have two papers (of approx. 25-30 minutes each), for which proposals are invited.
Please send proposals to Dr Sarah Knight (firstname.lastname@example.com) and/or Dr Hugh Adlington (email@example.com) by no later than 16 January 2015.
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"VOICES AND BOOKS 1500-1800," July 16th-18th 2015, Newcastle University and City Library, Newcastle
Due: 16 January 2015
Organiser: Jennifer Richards, Newcastle University with Helen Stark, Newcastle University
Keynote Speakers
Heidi Brayman Hackel (University of California, Riverside)
Anne Karpf (London Metropolitan University)
Christopher Marsh (Queen's University, Belfast) with The Carnival Band
Perry Mills, Director of Edward's Boys (King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon)
Although it is often acknowledged that early modern books were routinely read aloud we know relatively little about this. Oral reading is not embedded as an assumption in existing scholarship. On the contrary, over the last two decades it is the studious and usually silent reader, pen in hand, who has been placed centre stage. This conference invites contributions that explore the kind of evidence and research methods that might help us to recover this lost history; that think about how reading / singing aloud relates to other kinds of orality; that recover the civic and / or social life of the performed book in early modern culture; and reflect on how the performance of the scripted word might inform our reading of early modern writing today. We also welcome papers that think through what it might mean to make 'voice' central to our textual practice.
We invite proposals (in English) that address the relationship between orality and literacy in any genre in print or manuscript in any European language. The genres might be literary, religious, musical, medical, scientific, or educational. We encourage proposals that recover diverse communities and readers/hearers. We also welcome papers that consider problems of evidence: e.g. manuscript marginalia; print paratexts; visual representations; as well as non-material evidence (voice; gesture). We will be particularly pleased to receive suggestions for presentations that include practical illustrations, performances or demonstrations.
Topics might include, but are not restricted to:
• The sound of print
• The physiology of voicing
• Singing and speaking
• Rhetoric: voice and gesture
• Performance and emotions
• Communities of hearers
• Acoustic reconstructions
• Children's reading / reading to children
200-word abstracts for 20-minute papers from individuals and panels (3 speakers) to be sent to email@example.com The DEADLINE for abstracts is: Friday 16th January 2015.
There will be a small number of travel bursaries for postgraduate and early career researchers. If you are interested in applying for support please contact firstname.lastname@example.com. Deadline: May 1st 2015.
For more information on the AHRC Network Voices and Books 1500-1800, co-led by Professor Jennifer Richards (Newcastle) and Professor Richard Wistreich (RCM London), please visit our website: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/voicesandbooks/
"Travel and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern World," Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) Aberystwyth-Bangor, Biennial conference, 3rd-5th September 2015, Bangor University
Due: 25 January, 2015
Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Daniel Carey (National University of Ireland, Galway)
The meeting points between travel, mobility, and conflict are numerous. Travel can be a conflictual experience; in medieval Europe, movement may be perceived as being restricted to travel motivated by the exigencies of piety, pillage, or trade. It would however be too easy to suggest a clear binary between a medieval state of stasis and the more leisurely travel and exploration in the early modern period. Until relatively recently, domestic travel and voyages to the wider world remained dangerous undertakings. Utopian fiction and travel writing are two genres that have been closely aligned by scholars who recognise how these genres reshape medieval discourses on the ideal state for an early modern audience. Weary travellers arrive at geographically unspecified places comprising ideal societies, but these ideal societies occupy a liminal space between fiction and reality: these spaces are ultimately unattainable due to the imprecision and prevarication present in the narrative. This draws to focus tensions within documenting imaginary travel and the material world. Far from being a site of concord, they become spaces of conflict. Travel – whether it is real or imagined, or if it has been implemented for public or private purposes – can be obstructed by conflicts; it remains often restricted and always bitterly debated.
This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars working in the fields of medieval and early modern studies to interrogate the relationship between travel and conflict. Topics might include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Travel in times of war and conflict
- Restricted travel
- Forbidden travel
- Exile and travel
- Colonial encounters
- Piracy
- Travel, subterfuge and deceit
- Conflict of body and mind in travel
- Travel, religion and conversion
- Conflicting readings of travelogues
- Debates on travel
- Liminal spaces
- Utopian/Dystopian travel
- Travel and synaesthesia
- Vagrancy
- Matter, materiality and the unreal
- Travel as a violent act
- Remembering and forgetting travel
- Conflict between topography and spatial movement
- Conflict between mapped space and inhabited space
- Language communication and miscommunication
- Pilgrimage or Crusade
- Migration and persecution
We invite abstracts of 200-250 words for individual papers of twenty minutes, or of up to 850 words for panels comprising no more than three papers, to be sent to email@example.com by 25th January 2015. Please send your abstract in the text of your message, and not in an attached file.
The conference organisers are Rhun Emlyn, Gabor Gelléri, Andrew Hiscock, and Rachel Willie.
Social Networks 1450-1850, 16-17 July 2015, University of Sheffield
Due: 31 January 2015
The term 'social network' has become a prominent part of modern day discourse, and in recent years there has been rapid growth in the field of social network studies. Yet a world in which individuals are connected to one another in multifarious ways—spanning time, place, institutional affiliation, and other social boundaries—is not just a modern phenomenon. In the early modern period, neighbourhoods, villages, cities and continents were criss-crossed with relationships and ties of obligation, through which passed friendship, as well as animosity; money, ideas, information, material goods, and more. The concepts and methodologies of social network analysis, together with new digital technologies, provide the tools to uncover the nature of these communities in the past.
At stake is the very nature of society: how did people connect to one another, to what ends, and with what results? These are questions with relevance to disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. As such, this conference brings together historically minded scholars with an interest in social networks from a range of perspectives and disciplinary backgrounds. Confirmed speakers: Edward Muir, Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences (Northwestern) Emily Erikson, Assistant Professor of Sociology (Yale) Mark Philp, Professor of History (Warwick)
Proposals for 20-minute papers or panels of three speakers are welcome from a wide chronological and geographical reach, exploring social network concepts, methodologies and findings. For example, papers might consider:
- Methodologies: sources, challenges, and approaches; digital technologies and techniques for the collection, storage, analysis and presentation of data
- 'Ego-centric' or 'whole' networks
- Familial and kinship networks
- Merchants or trading communities
- Religious, intellectual, literary, political or institutional communities
- The cultural values underpinning social networks: for example honesty, trust, or desire for profit
- How social networks change over time
- The geographical reach of networks: local, regional, national or international; urban or rural
For individual paper proposals, please submit a title and 200-word abstract, along with contact details. For panel proposals, please include a title and 200-word abstract for each paper and contact details for one speaker on the panel.
For more information, please contact the conference organizer, Kate Davison (email@example.com)
Details about postgraduate bursaries will be publicised in due course.
The Spiritual Geopolitics of the Early Modern World (1500-1800), March 13, 2015 – Service Historique de la Défense, Château de Vincennes (France).
Due: Feb. 15, 2015
Proposals, which should not exceed 500 words, should be sent by September 15, 2014 to firstname.lastname@example.com. Papers, which will be precirculated, are due by Feb. 15, 2015. They may be in French or English. http://redehja.hypotheses.org/263
"Heroes and Heroines," Special issue for 2016 volume of Shakespeare Shakespeare Jahrbuch / Yearbook of the German Shakespeare Society
Due: 31 March 2015
The editorial board of Shakespeare Jahrbuch invites articles on the following topics:
• Shakespeare as a cultural/national hero
• Heroes and heroines in Shakespeare's plays
• Heroism in Shakespeare's plays
• Shakespearean anti-heroes
• Tragic and comic heroes/heroines
• Heroism and genre
• Shakespeare and the heroes of early modern England
• Shakespeare and (early modern, Romantic, Victorian, modern …) hero-worship
• Actors and actresses as heroes/heroines
• Heroes /heroines in Shakespeare adaptations
• …
Shakespeare Jahrbuch, the Yearbook of the German Shakespeare Society, is a peer-reviewed journal. It offers contributions in German and English, scholarly articles, an extensive section of book reviews, and reports on Shakespeare productions in the German-speaking world.
Papers to be published in the Shakespeare Jahrbuch should be formatted according to our style sheet, which can be downloaded from the website of the German Shakespeare Society at http://shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/en/jahrbuch/note-on-submission.html.
Please send your manuscripts (of not more than 6,000 words) to the editor of the Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Prof. Dr. Sabine Schülting (email: firstname.lastname@example.com), by 31 March 2015.
"The Functions and Dysfunctions of the Medieval and Renaissance Family," 2015 annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, in conjunction with the Wooden O Symposium, Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, August 3-5.
Due: 1 May, 2015
The 2015 annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association will be held in conjunction with the Wooden O Symposium at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, August 3-5. The Wooden O Symposium, sponsored by the Utah Shakespeare Festival and Southern Utah University, is a cross-disciplinary conference focusing on the text and performance of Shakespeare's plays, and is held in one of the most beautiful natural settings in the western U.S. Both the RMMRA and Wooden O Symposium will organize sessions in this year's joint conference.
The RMMRA invites all approaches to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, welcoming scholars in a broad range of disciplines including history, literature, art history, music, and gender studies, with special consideration given to paper and panel proposals that investigate this year's theme, "The Functions and Dysfunctions of the Medieval and Renaissance Family." Abstracts for consideration for the RMMRA sessions should be sent to Program Chair Jen McNabb at firstname.lastname@example.com. Participants in RMMRA sessions must be members of the association; RMMRA graduate students and junior scholars are encouraged to apply for the $250 Walton Travel Grants; see details at http://rowdy.msudenver.edu/~tayljeff/RMMRA/Index.html
The Wooden O Symposium invites panel and paper proposals on any topic related to the text and performance of Shakespeare's plays. The conference also seeks papers/panels that investigate how his works reflect or intersect with early modern life and culture.
This year's symposium encourages papers and panels that speak to the Utah Shakespeare Festival's 2015 summer season: The Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV Part Two, and King Lear. Abstracts for consideration for the Wooden O sessions and individual presentations should be sent to email@example.com.
The deadline for proposals is May 1, 2015. Session chairs and individual presenters will be informed of acceptance no later than May 15. Included with 250-word abstracts or session proposals (including individual abstracts) should be the following information:
• name of presenter(s)
• participant category (faculty, graduate student, undergraduate, or independent scholar)
• college/university affiliation
• mailing address
• email address
• audio/visual requirements and any other special requests.
Call for Book Manuscripts: Maps, Spaces, Cultures
Edited by Surekha Davies (Western Connecticut State University) and Asa Simon Mittman (California State University, Chico). Editorial board: Ricardo Padrón (University of Virginia), Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University) and Dan Terkla (Illinois Wesleyan University). Publisher: Arjan van Dijk (Brill).
This innovative series seeks monographs and essay collections that investigate how notions of space, geography, and mapping shaped medieval and early modern cultures. While the history of cartography has traditionally focused on internal developments in European mapping conventions and technologies, pre-modern scribes, illuminators, and printers of maps tended to work in multiple genres. Spatial thinking informed and was informed by multiple epistemologies and perceptions of the order of nature. Maps, Spaces, Cultures therefore integrates the study of cartography and geography within cultural history. It puts genres that reflected and constituted spatial thinking into dialogue with the cultures that produced and consumed them, as well as with those they represented.
The editors welcome submissions from scholars of the histories of art, material culture, colonialism, exploration, ethnography (including that of peoples described as monsters), encounters, literature, philosophy, religion, science and knowledge, as well as of the history of cartography and related disciplines. They encourage interdisciplinary submissions that cross traditional historical, geographical, or methodological boundaries, that include works from outside Western Europe and outside the Christian tradition, and that develop new analytical approaches to pre-modern spatial thinking, cartography, and the geographical imagination.
Authors are cordially invited to write to either of the series editors, Surekha Davies (email@example.com) and Asa Simon Mittman (firstname.lastname@example.com), or to the publisher at Brill, Arjan van Dijk (firstname.lastname@example.com), to discuss the submission of proposals and/or full manuscripts.
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