NEMLA Convention, 2012
Session title:
Shakespeare at the Opera
Description: The panel examines operatic adaptations of Shakespeare plays. How do Shakespearean operas serve as ‘readings’ that illuminate facets of the plays on which they are based? How do different treatments of Shakespeare shed light on the historical and cultural conditions that produced the operas? How can studying Shakespeare as opera function as a miniature historical lens om Shakespearean reception across the centuries? Send 300 to 500-word abstract to Josh.Cohen@massart.edu.
43nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 15-18, 2012
Rochester, New York – Hyatt Rochester
Host Institution: St. John Fisher College
Keynote speaker: Jennifer Egan, 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Deadline: September 30, 2011
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration) The 43rd annual convention will be held March 15-18th in Rochester, New York at the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown, located minutes away from convenient air, bus, and train transportation options for attendees. St. John Fisher College will serve as the host college, and the diverse array of area institutions are coordinating with conference organizers to sponsor various activities, such as celebrated keynote speakers, local events, and fiction readings.
Joshua Cohen
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Phone: (617) 824-4288
Email: josh.cohen@massart.edu
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Cool, Calm and Collected: The Dutch and their Emotions in Pre-Modern Times'
The Conference 'Cool, Calm and Collected: The Dutch and their Emotions in Pre-Modern Times', will take place in the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) in The Hague, November 4, 2011. The conference aims to enhance the burgeoning history of emotions in the Netherlands. Speakers at the conference will present their current research, integrating the study of emotional standards in advice literature with the study of actual emotional practices in ego documents, chronicles or archival sources. The fields covered will range from politics, philosophy and the urban feud to religion, the stage and the visual arts. The conference will not only be of interest to specialists in the history of emotions but also to the greater historical community. Keynote lecture: Thomas Dixon (Queen Mary, London).
Although the history of emotions was already suggested as an interesting topic by Lucien Febvre and Johan Huizinga it has been taken up seriously as a subject of historical study only fairly recently. Initially, historians limited themselves largely to the study of documents that prescribed emotional ideals and standards. Researchers are now going beyond such texts. They are currently identifying transformations in emotional ‘communities’ and ‘styles’ on the basis of letters, autobiographies and memoirs, as well as a variety of narrative, archival and visual sources. Historians are also emphasising performativity, what emotions actually do. At the institutional level, in Europe two important research centres have been started: in London the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions (Thomas Dixon, director); in Berlin the ‘Forschungsbereich Geschichte der Gefühle’ (Ute Frevert, director). This conference seeks to establish a more solid footing for the history of emotions in the Netherlands and join in with these international trends.
The speakers at the conference will discuss the emotional styles of the Modern Devouts and the cult of pugnacity in Late Medieval feuds. Focusing on the seventeenth century, they will reconsider the performativity accorded to the emotions in painting, the theater, and pietist religious movements. For the eighteenth century, speakers will analyse the Dutch ‘cult of sensibility’, the contemporary appreciation and navigation of the sentiments. The day will be closed with a lecture by Dorothee Sturkenboom. She is a pioneer in the study of emotions in the Netherlands and will relate the emotional history of the Dutch to contemporary and more recent views on their ‘national character’. The conference’s keynote lecturer, the well-known English historian Thomas Dixon, will discuss the latest developments in the field.
The organisers: Wessel Krul, Herman Roodenburg, and Catrien Santing.
The conference will take place in the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) in The Hague.
The conference fee is € 30,- (€ 25,- for members of the KNHG and € 15,- for students and PhD students) and includes lunch. The conference fee should be transferred to account number 6934391 of Nederlands Historisch Genootschap in The Hague. Registration by way of an e-mail to: info@knhg.nl, or by telephone: +31 (0)70 3140363.
Programme
9. 45 - 10.00: Welcome Catrien Santing (Groningen University), chair
10.00 – 10.15: Introduction Herman Roodenburg (Meertens Institute)
10.15 - 11.00: Keynote lecture Thomas Dixon (Queen Mary, London, History in British Tears: Some Reflections on the Anatomy of Modern Emotions
11.00 - 11.15:Coffee/tea
11.15 - 11.45: Mathilde van Dijk (Groningen University), 'Just some silly Beguine': being pious and showing it in the Devotio Moderna
11.45 - 12.15: Matthijs Gerrits ( Leiden University ), Anger and Feuding in the Late Medieval Northern Low Countries
12.15 - 13.30: Lunch
13.00-13.30: Annual Meeting Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap
13.30 - 14.00: Kristine Steenbergh (VU University, Vondel and the Role of Emotions in the Public Sphere
14.00 - 14.30: Fred van Lieburg (VU University), The Use of Emotions by the Hotter Sort of Protestant
14.30 - 15.00: Eric Jan Sluyter (Amsterdam University), The Changing Representation of the Passions in History Paintings by Rembrandt and his Amsterdam Colleagues
15.00 - 15.15: Coffee and tea
15.15 - 15.45: Wessel Krul (Groningen University), Phlegmatic Excitement. The Dutch and the Discovery of the Emotions in the 18th Century
15.45 - 16.15: Edwina Hagen (VU University), The Passionate Politics of Rutger Jan and Catharina Schimmelpenninck: Dialogue between the Head and the Heart.
16.15 - 16.45: Dorothée Sturkenboom (independent scholar), The Dutch Temperament: An Enigma to be Explained...
16.45 - 17.30: Reflections by Dixon, Roodenburg and Santing, followed by Plenary Discussion
17.30-18.00: Drinks
Although the history of emotions was already suggested as an interesting topic by Lucien Febvre and Johan Huizinga it has been taken up seriously as a subject of historical study only fairly recently. Initially, historians limited themselves largely to the study of documents that prescribed emotional ideals and standards. Researchers are now going beyond such texts. They are currently identifying transformations in emotional ‘communities’ and ‘styles’ on the basis of letters, autobiographies and memoirs, as well as a variety of narrative, archival and visual sources. Historians are also emphasising performativity, what emotions actually do. At the institutional level, in Europe two important research centres have been started: in London the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions (Thomas Dixon, director); in Berlin the ‘Forschungsbereich Geschichte der Gefühle’ (Ute Frevert, director). This conference seeks to establish a more solid footing for the history of emotions in the Netherlands and join in with these international trends.
The speakers at the conference will discuss the emotional styles of the Modern Devouts and the cult of pugnacity in Late Medieval feuds. Focusing on the seventeenth century, they will reconsider the performativity accorded to the emotions in painting, the theater, and pietist religious movements. For the eighteenth century, speakers will analyse the Dutch ‘cult of sensibility’, the contemporary appreciation and navigation of the sentiments. The day will be closed with a lecture by Dorothee Sturkenboom. She is a pioneer in the study of emotions in the Netherlands and will relate the emotional history of the Dutch to contemporary and more recent views on their ‘national character’. The conference’s keynote lecturer, the well-known English historian Thomas Dixon, will discuss the latest developments in the field.
The organisers: Wessel Krul, Herman Roodenburg, and Catrien Santing.
The conference will take place in the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) in The Hague.
The conference fee is € 30,- (€ 25,- for members of the KNHG and € 15,- for students and PhD students) and includes lunch. The conference fee should be transferred to account number 6934391 of Nederlands Historisch Genootschap in The Hague. Registration by way of an e-mail to: info@knhg.nl, or by telephone: +31 (0)70 3140363.
Programme
9. 45 - 10.00: Welcome Catrien Santing (Groningen University), chair
10.00 – 10.15: Introduction Herman Roodenburg (Meertens Institute)
10.15 - 11.00: Keynote lecture Thomas Dixon (Queen Mary, London, History in British Tears: Some Reflections on the Anatomy of Modern Emotions
11.00 - 11.15:Coffee/tea
11.15 - 11.45: Mathilde van Dijk (Groningen University), 'Just some silly Beguine': being pious and showing it in the Devotio Moderna
11.45 - 12.15: Matthijs Gerrits ( Leiden University ), Anger and Feuding in the Late Medieval Northern Low Countries
12.15 - 13.30: Lunch
13.00-13.30: Annual Meeting Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap
13.30 - 14.00: Kristine Steenbergh (VU University, Vondel and the Role of Emotions in the Public Sphere
14.00 - 14.30: Fred van Lieburg (VU University), The Use of Emotions by the Hotter Sort of Protestant
14.30 - 15.00: Eric Jan Sluyter (Amsterdam University), The Changing Representation of the Passions in History Paintings by Rembrandt and his Amsterdam Colleagues
15.00 - 15.15: Coffee and tea
15.15 - 15.45: Wessel Krul (Groningen University), Phlegmatic Excitement. The Dutch and the Discovery of the Emotions in the 18th Century
15.45 - 16.15: Edwina Hagen (VU University), The Passionate Politics of Rutger Jan and Catharina Schimmelpenninck: Dialogue between the Head and the Heart.
16.15 - 16.45: Dorothée Sturkenboom (independent scholar), The Dutch Temperament: An Enigma to be Explained...
16.45 - 17.30: Reflections by Dixon, Roodenburg and Santing, followed by Plenary Discussion
17.30-18.00: Drinks
call for chapter proposals: anthology on early modern Europe 1500-1800
After the successful completion of two anthologies on Modern European history, the editor is now looking for contributors to write chapters on early modern Europe. The anthology is aimed at university students and teachers in South East Asia. Chapters should be written in an accessible manner covering events, processes, approaches and debates in about 15,000 words. Scholars having some expertise and teaching experience in the relevant area may send a 1,000 word proposal and C.V. Possible themes include the Renaissance, the Reformation, geographical discoveries, overseas trade, commercial revolution, seventeenth century crisis, the scientific revolution, the English revolution, popular culture, literacy and education, gender relations, absolutism. transition from feudalism to capitalism and the Enlightenment.
europeanhistory2010@gmail.com
Email: europeanhistory2010@gmail.com
europeanhistory2010@gmail.comEmail: europeanhistory2010@gmail.com
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Renaissance Italy and the Idea of Spain: 12-14 Jan 2012
This conference explores the perception of Spain and the Habsburg monarchy in early modern Italy. Its aim is to demonstrate how groups of Italians from across the peninsula who came into contact with the imperial power of the Spanish crown imagined the wider Iberian culture brought amongst them by its servants and subjects. In particular, it will excavate the factors and circumstances that determined Italians’ responses to the Spanish presence, their intentions for the images they created, and the forums through which they articulated and projected them. The keynote speaker is Simon Ditchfield (University of York) and other speakers include Harald Braun (University of Liverpool), Nicholas Davidson (University of Oxford) and Robert Gaston (University of Melbourne). Bursaries, provided by the Royal Historical Society, are available for a number of Postgraduate Students. For further information please consult the website or contact the organisers directly:
Website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~magd2505/conference.html
Organisers and Contacts: Miles Pattenden, University of Oxford: miles.pattenden@history.ox.ac.uk and Piers Baker-Bates, Open University: p.baker-bates@open.ac.uk.
Website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~magd2505/conference.html
Organisers and Contacts: Miles Pattenden, University of Oxford: miles.pattenden@history.ox.ac.uk and Piers Baker-Bates, Open University: p.baker-bates@open.ac.uk.
[REMINDER] "Rethinking Seneca’s Influence on Early Modern Drama" (09/30/2011; NEMLA, Rochester NY: 03/15-18)
For years, scholars have demonstrated the debt that Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and other playwrights owe to Seneca’s work. Such foundational criticism has often pointed to Seneca’s plot devices, characterization, language, and form that inspired later Renaissance dramatists. However, recent scholarship demonstrates Seneca’s effect on early modern subject construction and performance conditions. This panel aims to continue and extend current reconsiderations of Seneca’s influence on early modern drama by gathering papers that “rethink” Seneca’s works and influence in light of feminist, queer, post-colonial, and materialist theoretical perspectives. In so doing, this panel seeks to articulate the cultural, historical, and literary implications of early modern appropriations of Seneca’s plays, letters, and philosophy, thereby contributing to ongoing scholarly dialogue that re-conceptualizes the role and significance of Humanism in the early modern period.
This panel seeks papers that consider Seneca in a post-Humanist theoretical framework and that attempt to articulate what such reexaminations may teach us about the early modern period. Therefore papers may explore, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Early modern English translations of Seneca’s works and their dramatic influence
Seneca’s staging and early modern theatre practices
The performance history of Seneca in early Modern England
The role of gender, sexuality, disability, and race in Seneca and early modern Senecan-inspired dramas
Senecan stoicism and the construction of identity
Early modern drama’s exploration of Senecan philosophy
Appropriations of Classicism on the early modern stage
Senecan politics in early modern drama
Appropriation of Seneca in the ongoing debate over the nature and morality of theatre in the 16th an 17th centuries
Seneca’s staging and early modern theatre practices
The performance history of Seneca in early Modern England
The role of gender, sexuality, disability, and race in Seneca and early modern Senecan-inspired dramas
Senecan stoicism and the construction of identity
Early modern drama’s exploration of Senecan philosophy
Appropriations of Classicism on the early modern stage
Senecan politics in early modern drama
Appropriation of Seneca in the ongoing debate over the nature and morality of theatre in the 16th an 17th centuries
Please send a 250-word abstract to nicola.imbracsio@unh.edu by September 30th, 2011.
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable. For more information on NeMLA and the conference, please visit: www.nemla.org
Educating the Imagination: A Conference in Honour of Northrop Frye on the Centenary of His Birth
EDUCATING THE IMAGINATION: A CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF NORTHROP FRYE ON THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH
October 4,5,6, 2012 | Victoria University in the University of Toronto
October 4,5,6, 2012 | Victoria University in the University of Toronto
Twenty years after his death, Northrop Frye, the author of Fearful Symmetry and Anatomy of Criticism, continues to be one of the most read and the most quoted of literary critics. His attention to form, specifically to genre and mode, and his understanding of literature as a totality have directly influenced two later generations of critics, including Hayden White, Fredric Jameson, and Franco Moretti. In order to celebrate this ongoing legacy, the Department of English and the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, Frye's home throughout his career, have organized a three-day symposium in his honour.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
--Ian Balfour, York University, author of Northrop Frye (1988), The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy (2002)
--Robert Bringhurst, poet, author of A Story As Sharp As a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World (1999) and Selected Poetry (2009)
--J. Edward Chamberlin, University of Toronto, author of Come Back to Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies (1993) and If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? (2003)
--Michael Dolzani, Baldwin-Wallace College, editor of Frye's Notebooks
--W.J.T. Mitchell, University of Chicago, editor of Critical Inquiry and author of What Do Pictures Want? (2005) and Picture Theory (1994)
--Gordon Teskey, Harvard University, author of Delirious Milton (2006); Allegory and Violence (1996)
--Ian Balfour, York University, author of Northrop Frye (1988), The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy (2002)
--Robert Bringhurst, poet, author of A Story As Sharp As a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World (1999) and Selected Poetry (2009)
--J. Edward Chamberlin, University of Toronto, author of Come Back to Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies (1993) and If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? (2003)
--Michael Dolzani, Baldwin-Wallace College, editor of Frye's Notebooks
--W.J.T. Mitchell, University of Chicago, editor of Critical Inquiry and author of What Do Pictures Want? (2005) and Picture Theory (1994)
--Gordon Teskey, Harvard University, author of Delirious Milton (2006); Allegory and Violence (1996)
There will be panels devoted to Frye's specific legacy, which we are now in a better position to appreciate because of the completed publication of the Collected Works in thirty volumes. But we also invite speakers to take inspiration from Frye and to consider literary and cultural topics such as:
1. Educating the imagination when the humanities are under threat; Frye and Comparative Literature
2. The place of Western Literature and theory in a global context; the spread and the provincialization of Europe; the limits of the Great Code
3. Contemporary manifestations of traditional literary modes; the popular romance; contemporary tragedy; irony after postmodernism
4. Creative responses to the Bible in an era of fundamentalism and secularism
5. The survival of the literary imagination in a digital age
6. Canadian literature in a postnational age
7. The Great Code and Islam
8. History as Narrative
9. Nature in an era of environmental crisis
10. Local literature, local forms
2. The place of Western Literature and theory in a global context; the spread and the provincialization of Europe; the limits of the Great Code
3. Contemporary manifestations of traditional literary modes; the popular romance; contemporary tragedy; irony after postmodernism
4. Creative responses to the Bible in an era of fundamentalism and secularism
5. The survival of the literary imagination in a digital age
6. Canadian literature in a postnational age
7. The Great Code and Islam
8. History as Narrative
9. Nature in an era of environmental crisis
10. Local literature, local forms
Proposals for papers or panels of papers are welcome.
Abstracts of 200 words (for papers) are due January 31, 2012.
Please send abstracts by e-mail to frye.2012@utoronto.ca
Abstracts of 200 words (for papers) are due January 31, 2012.
Please send abstracts by e-mail to frye.2012@utoronto.ca
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Shakespeare Studies Journal, 10/10/2011
The Journal of the Wooden O is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published at Southern Utah University with the support of the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Gerald Sherratt Library, the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and the Department of English.
The Journal of the Wooden O invites essays on any topic related to Shakespeare and early modern drama, but gives priority to papers on plays produced in the Utah Shakespeare Festival's 2011 summer and fall seasons: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, and The Winter’s Tale.
Also, in celebration of their 50th anniversary, the Utah Shakespeare Festival in cooperation with the Sherratt Library will be hosting an exhibit featuring a First Folio. In recognition of this singular event, we also welcome journal submissions on subjects related to the First Folio and Shakespeare’s quartos, including but not limited to editing practices and the use of the First Folio in performance.
Submissions should be prepared following The Chicago Manuel of Style (16th edition) and submitted by October 10, 2011 to: The Editors, Journal of the Wooden O Symposium, Gerald R. Sherratt Library, 351 W. Center St., Cedar City, UT 84720; or via email to: woodeno@suu.edu.
Shakespeare and Performance
The 2012 issue will focus on "Shakespeare and Performance." We are interested in articles that consider any aspect of performance in historical or contemporary productions of Shakespeare and his contemporary playwrights. The following list is of possible topics, but should not be considered exhaustive:
Comparative performance in England
Comparative performances in England and other countries
Street performance
Provincial performance
Performance of Guilds
Women and Performance
Boy’s companies
Current Productions of early modern plays
Shakespeare Festivals
Playing spaces
Actors and the text
Theatrical Gesture
Court Performances and Masques
Film or TV productions of Shakespeare
Comparative performances in England and other countries
Street performance
Provincial performance
Performance of Guilds
Women and Performance
Boy’s companies
Current Productions of early modern plays
Shakespeare Festivals
Playing spaces
Actors and the text
Theatrical Gesture
Court Performances and Masques
Film or TV productions of Shakespeare
Please submit double-spaced manuscripts in Times New Roman, 12 pt font that do not exceed thirty pages in length, including notes (9,000 words total); electronic submission in Word format is required. Please use endnotes rather than a bibliography, formatting to Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Ed. The author’s name, affiliation, and academic history should be included on the first page of the document. Thereafter, the author’s name should not appear in the document. For more information about submissions or about the journal generally please see http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/
Submissions are due January 31, 2012. Please send submissions to Amy Tigner,earlyenglishstudies@gmail.com or altigner@gmail.com. The issue will appear in Fall 2012.
Early Modern Studies Journal (EMSJ) formerly Early English Studies (EES) is an online journal under the auspices of the University of Texas, Arlington English Department and is devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in early modern period. EMSJ is published annually, peer-reviewed, and open to general submission.
[UPDATE] Shakespeare and the Natural World
“Shakespeare and the Natural World”
A graduate student conference jointly sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Kings College London
Location: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Campus
March 30-31, 2012
Recently, Shakespeare studies have taken a “natural” turn. With the advent of ecocriticism and posthumanist thinking, a “green Shakespeare” has begun to emerge. The purpose of this conference is to consider the construction, politics, and history of the trope of “nature,” both in Shakespeare’s works and in current Shakespeare scholarship. Papers for this conference may consider animal studies, early modern zoology, bio-politics, climate theory, geohumoralism, food, medicine, botany, demonology, and more. Our aim will be to discuss a variety of questions: What constitutes early modern environmental studies? How did early modern writers define “nature,” as opposed to supernature, or preternature, or culture? In what ways did travel, global exchanges, or economic shifts affect the construction of early modern “nature”? What role does gender play in conceptions of “nature”? What was natural knowledge? Who had access to it? How do these questions, and others, inform the worlds represented in Shakespeare’s plays?
Faculty speakers will include Wendy Wall, Mary Floyd-Wilson, David J. Baker, and Gordon McMullan.
Please submit abstracts (500 words maximum) to Jennifer Parkjennifer.m.park@gmail.com and Katie Walker walkerkn@email.unc.edu by *October 1, 2011*.
Shakespeare's inside-out immunities:
This is a CFP for a panel proposal for the upcoming British Shakespeare Association conference, February 2012. The theme of the conference is 'Shakespeare Inside-Out'
Shakespeare's inside-out immunities:
This panel seeks to explore spaces of liberty in Shakespeare's plays. Where does Shakespeare present us with protected spaces (religious, economic, legal or political) where outlaw speech or practices might be tolerated inside the community? How are these spaces defined and what purpose do they serve within the represented community? How are they threatened by and threatening to their wider socio-political context? How do these spaces refer to the body as social metaphor and (perhaps) point to medical understandings of immunity that would become gradually more common in the 17th and 18th centuries? How do different kinds of immunity interrelate to offer a vital and versatile mechanism in different fields of social experience?
Paper proposals that examine some aspect of 'immunity' or 'immune' space are welcome whether they approach the topic from a materialist or metaphorical perspective.
Please send 150 word proposals by Friday, 16 September 2011.
Medieval Association of the Pacific, 30-31 March 2012
The 2012 Conference of the Medieval Association of the Pacific will take place at Santa Clara University on Friday and Saturday March 30-31, 2012.
The Program Planning Committee welcomes proposals for individual presentations and organised sessions. Although the conference will not have a theme and papers on any topic relevant to our understanding of medieval culture will be welcome, the Committee invites members to take advantage of the 800 year anniversary of Clare of Assisi's foundation of a community of women on Palm Sunday in March 1212.
Proposals for papers or sessions may be submitted using the online submission system on the MAP web site: http://www.csun.edu/english/map09/.
The deadline for submissions is 3 October, 2011.
CFP The Legacy of the Will - JNR Special Issue. Deadline: March 2012
The semantic slipperiness of 'will' fascinated the Renaissance: in all manner of texts of the period we find ‘Will too boote, and Will in over-plus’. The structural conceit of the opening lines of John Donne’s poem, ‘The Will’, exemplifies a key thematic construct to be found in much early modern literature and a prevalent intellectual thread in the culture from which this literature emerges: ‘Before I sigh my last gasp, let me breath / Great Love, some legacies’. This poem – this willed enactment of the speaker’s last will and testament to the world he will shortly leave behind – encapsulates the polyvocal qualities of the human ‘will’ and all that it signifies. The rich intellectual legacy of the European Renaissance that we, as critics and researchers, struggle to understand is constructed from the physical and literary legacies that writers such as Donne, Erasmus, Calvin, Elizabeth I, Marlowe, Middleton and others have bequeathed us. It is from these legacies of authorial ‘will’ that our very idea of what represents or constitutes the early modern period is shaped.
The Journal of the Northern Renaissance is a peer-reviewed, open-access online journal dedicated to the study of both the cultural productions and the concept of the Northern Renaissance. This special issue builds on a symposium held at the University of Strathclyde, and will be guest-edited by Alison Thorne; however, for this issue JNR also welcomes further submissions on this theme. We would welcome papers of up to 8,000 words on the ‘will’ in the northern Renaissance. Topics might include (but are not limited to):
Will as desire or volition: willfulness; will as voluntas; will as membrum pudendum, male or female; possession of one’s will; excessive willing, transgressive will.
Theological and philosophical wills: freedom of the will; the negation or undoing of the will; will as futurity; theological debates on the relationship between ‘will’ and ‘fate’.
Literary and legal wills: the exercise or abdication of authorial will or intentionality; will as testament; framing legal wills; the interplay between ‘wit’ and ‘will’; Will as a proper name and authoritative mark.
Submission deadline: March 2012. Expected date of publication October 2012
Preliminary enquiries are welcome, and should be addressed tonorthernrenaissance@gmail.com
Historicizing Performance in the Early Modern Period, Manchester, UK, 20th January 2012
Keynote Speakers: Professor Julie Sanders (Nottingham)
Professor Tiffany Stern (Oxford)
Professor Tiffany Stern (Oxford)
This one-day academic conference aims to bring together scholars working on all aspects of performance in the early modern period (taken broadly to include the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries). We intend to interrogate what performance and its related terminologies and practices might have meant to early modern readers, playgoers, and congregations; how performance shaped and/or undermined distinctions between private/public bodies and selves. Although drama is an essential point of reference for this discussion, we encourage that “historicizing performance” be taken as broadly as possible. Topics might include (but are not limited to):
- Plays and play-going
- Music and singing
- Public spectacles, ceremonies and architecture
- Ritual, devotional expression, spirituality / the sermon as performance
- Plays and play-going
- Music and singing
- Public spectacles, ceremonies and architecture
- Ritual, devotional expression, spirituality / the sermon as performance
- Autobiography and Performative Texts
- Performing gender/ sexuality/ the domestic
- Performance and the performative in theory
- Performing gender/ sexuality/ the domestic
- Performance and the performative in theory
Please email abstracts (400 words max.) for a 20 minute paper to Michael Durrant and
Naya Tsentourou at: Historicizing.Performance@manchester.ac.uk
Deadline for abstracts: September 23th, 2011
Notifications of acceptance to be sent out by October 14th, 2011
Naya Tsentourou at: Historicizing.Performance@manchester.ac.uk
Deadline for abstracts: September 23th, 2011
Notifications of acceptance to be sent out by October 14th, 2011
Commons: Shared Resources and Collective Activity in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Abstract due Nov. 1)
Friday and Saturday, April 20 – 21, 2012
Keynote Speaker: Julian Yates, University of Delaware
The commons once referred to tracts of land – forests and meadows, seas and waterways – open to collective use by members of one or more communities. The commons were shared spaces where public goods were generated through activities such as agriculture and hunting. They were also sites where social practices (for example, the rites of May) took place, marking the commons as an essential component to the shared cultural heritage of the people. However, the enclosure system sealed off these lands for exclusive use, dissolving the commons and opening the possibility for modern forms of private property. The commons also referred to a people distinguished from nobility by virtue of their birth, occupations, and cultural practices. There was a distinctly political characteristic to the commons that implied the bearing of communal burdens and the sharing of certain limited rights and privileges. The commons became an indicator of plebeian identity, shared backgrounds, beliefs, and ways of experiencing everyday life.
Today the term is widely associated with shared cultural legacies, open-source software, and public space and resources that are collectively owned and shared among members and populations. The commons may include everything from physical to intellectual property, water to ecosystems, media, languages and literatures, performances, public health and infrastructure, and the internet. This conference aims to gather models of the commons in its various modes including but not limited to land, public space, joint ownership, and collective action in medieval and Renaissance practice, with some sense of their viability as models for alternative economic, spatial, artistic, and political practice today.
The Group for the Study of Early Cultures focuses mainly on fields that investigate pre-modern societies, including but not limited to: Classics, Late Antiquity, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, 18th Century Studies, East Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, and Islamic Studies. We are also interested in a wide range of disciplinary approaches to Early Cultures, including literary studies, history, art history, drama, visual studies, sociology, culture studies, anthropology, political science, philosophy, and religious studies. All interested graduate students from any university and discipline are welcome to submit a proposal (title and 200-300 word abstract) toearly.cultures.conference@gmail.com by November 1, 2011.
For more information about our organization, please visit our website:
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/earlycultures/
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/earlycultures/
Topics for consideration include:
● Common pastures and the rise of enclosure; imagining the commons in pastoral poetry
● Seas and waterways as commons; piracy, tourism, immigration, environmentalism
● Forests, hunting, poaching; parks, greenwoods and Robin Hoods
● Holiday as a form of temporary commons
● Theater as a public art form (its urban and spatial dynamics, “properties,” and publics)
● Imitation, allusion, intertextuality: building a literary commons
● Corporate life of medieval and Renaissance cities (plays, pageants, entries)
● Constituent sovereignty, non-sovereign or unsovereign forms of self-rule and collective action
● Community and immunity: medieval and Renaissance biopolitics, and life worlds
● Public education and shared (common) curriculum
● Hospices and public health care
● Religion as commons, and religious communities
● Copyright law now and then
● Folklore and common narratives
● Open Source Renaissance: new media and early studies
● The commons and food studies
● Collective agency
● Queer commons
● Colonial and postcolonial commons
● Gender conventions as commons
● Local, national, and international commons
● Planned communities and common space
● Legal and juridical dimensions of the commons
● Race and common identity
● Seas and waterways as commons; piracy, tourism, immigration, environmentalism
● Forests, hunting, poaching; parks, greenwoods and Robin Hoods
● Holiday as a form of temporary commons
● Theater as a public art form (its urban and spatial dynamics, “properties,” and publics)
● Imitation, allusion, intertextuality: building a literary commons
● Corporate life of medieval and Renaissance cities (plays, pageants, entries)
● Constituent sovereignty, non-sovereign or unsovereign forms of self-rule and collective action
● Community and immunity: medieval and Renaissance biopolitics, and life worlds
● Public education and shared (common) curriculum
● Hospices and public health care
● Religion as commons, and religious communities
● Copyright law now and then
● Folklore and common narratives
● Open Source Renaissance: new media and early studies
● The commons and food studies
● Collective agency
● Queer commons
● Colonial and postcolonial commons
● Gender conventions as commons
● Local, national, and international commons
● Planned communities and common space
● Legal and juridical dimensions of the commons
● Race and common identity
he Medici Archive Project 2011 on-line Paleography Course
The Medici Archive Project announces the 2011 on-line Paleography and Archival Studies Course. The course is designed to increase access to the wealth of information contained in manuscript historical materials, particularly those from late fifteenth- through seventeenth-century Tuscany.This 12-week online course running from September 26, 2011 to December 17, 2011 teaches the requisite skills to read historical Italian writings, and offer a broad introduction to the nature of Italian archives. Please visit our website for more information.
The Medici Archive Project
Viale Giovine Italia, 6
50122 Firenze, ITALY
0039-055-240221
Email: ebrizio@medici.org; info@medici.org
Visit the website at http://www.medici.org
The Medici Archive Project
Viale Giovine Italia, 6
50122 Firenze, ITALY
0039-055-240221
Email: ebrizio@medici.org; info@medici.org
Visit the website at http://www.medici.org
Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grant Program
ach year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the library’s research collections. Up to $3,500 is available per award. Applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and other rare and unique holdings of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, including Mudd Library; as well as rare books in Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, and in the East Asian Library (Gest Collection). Special grants are awarded in several areas: the Program in Hellenic Studies supports a limited number of library fellowships in Hellenic studies, and the Cotsen Children’s Library supports research in its collection on aspects of children’s books. The Maxwell Fund supports research on materials dealing with Portuguese-speaking cultures. The Sid Lapidus '59 Research Fund for Studies of the Age of Revolution and the Enlightenment in the Atlantic World covers work using materials pertinent to this topic.
For more information, or to apply, please go to http://www.princeton.edu/rbsc/fellowships/f_ships.html The deadline to apply is January 15, 2011.
For more information, or to apply, please go to http://www.princeton.edu/rbsc/fellowships/f_ships.html The deadline to apply is January 15, 2011.
Medieval Panels at 2012 NeMLA
Call for Papers
Medieval Sessions at
Northeast Modern Language Association 43rd Annual Convention
Rochester, New York
March 15-18, 2012
Deadline for abstracts Sept. 30, 2011
Please consider submitting an abstract for NeMLA 2012 in Rochester. In addition to the sessions below, the Russell Hope Robbins library at the University of Rochester is rapidly becoming one of the most acclaimed research libraries for medievalists and is one of the headquarters of the TEAMS project. The Robbins Library has recently acquired a significant stained glass and research collection as well.
Continuities in English Literature between the Norman Conquest and Reformation Too often, students of medieval English literature unnecessarily categorize Old and Middle English as completely disconnected, highlighting Beowulf and Chaucer as the exemplary markers, with little in between. This panel seeks instead to explore moments of interaction across the spectrum of earlier and later medieval English literature. Send paper abstracts to Pamela Longo (pamela.longo@uconn.edu) or Brandon Hawk (brandon.hawk@uconn.edu).
New Approaches to Old Texts: Studying Medieval and Early Modern Women and Gender This panel seeks to elicit new interpretations and approaches to studying women and gender in medieval and early modern Europe. Submissions on how to re-evaluate new or existing texts about/by/for medieval and early modern European women are especially welcome as are works that intend to use new technologies such as the internet. Please submit abstracts to Lyn Blanchfield, Department of History, SUNY Oswego, Oswego NY 13126 or lyn.blanchfield@oswego.edu.
Representing Identity and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain This panel will explore the construction of identity and its relationship to power in medieval and early modern Spanish literary texts. Submissions are invited that interrogate both the representation of different subject positions and their connection with the constantly shifting discourses of power that characterize the socio-cultural landscape of these periods. Send 250-300 word proposals to Ryan Prendergast, University of Rochester (pdst@mail.rochester.edu).
Teaching Medieval German Literature and Culture Share successful models of undergraduate courses that focus on medieval German topics (e.g., from Hero to Knight, medieval heroes/ heroines and villains), of courses that approach modern themes from a medieval perspective (e.g., gender studies), or that offer a major German medieval component (Crossroads of Medieval Cultures and Literatures) for crosslisted courses. Abstracts to Rosemarie Morewedge at rmorewed@binghamton.edu
The Notion of Friendship in Dante and Medieval Italian Writers The representation of friendship and its theoretical background (as found in works by Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine and others) has not yet been sufficiently probed in the field of Italian literature. This panel seeks to foster critical discussion on friendship in Dante and other medieval authors. Abstracts to Francesco Ciabattoni fc237@georgetown.edu
Using and [Re]Fusing The Bible: Revision and Parody in Medieval Britain What was the value of The Bible in medieval Britain? The study of biblical paraphrase, expansion of biblical narrative, and the creation of literary parodies of biblical material provide possibilities for understanding how cultural context shaped the uses of this text, the decentralization of political or religious power, public and private performance of devotion, and the development of notions about artistic ownership. Please submit 250-500 word abstracts about the uses of The Bible in medieval Britain to David Pecan atdavid.pecan@ncc.edu.
Representations of the Wound in French and Francophone Literature This panel seeks papers on the representation of wounds and physical injury in French/Francophone literature and film. From the Middle Ages to the present day, this topos has challenged the limits of representation. To what degree can the wound qua corporeal inscription be read as a master metaphor for text? What are its implications for our understanding of the relationship between the artwork and its audience? Please send inquiries or abstracts to Kathryn Rose (kgrose@fas.harvard.edu) and Ian Thomas Fleishman (ifleishm@fas.harvard.edu).
For more information on the Convention, visit www.nemla.org and VisitRochester.org
Medieval Sessions at
Northeast Modern Language Association 43rd Annual Convention
Rochester, New York
March 15-18, 2012
Deadline for abstracts Sept. 30, 2011
Please consider submitting an abstract for NeMLA 2012 in Rochester. In addition to the sessions below, the Russell Hope Robbins library at the University of Rochester is rapidly becoming one of the most acclaimed research libraries for medievalists and is one of the headquarters of the TEAMS project. The Robbins Library has recently acquired a significant stained glass and research collection as well.
Continuities in English Literature between the Norman Conquest and Reformation Too often, students of medieval English literature unnecessarily categorize Old and Middle English as completely disconnected, highlighting Beowulf and Chaucer as the exemplary markers, with little in between. This panel seeks instead to explore moments of interaction across the spectrum of earlier and later medieval English literature. Send paper abstracts to Pamela Longo (pamela.longo@uconn.edu) or Brandon Hawk (brandon.hawk@uconn.edu).
New Approaches to Old Texts: Studying Medieval and Early Modern Women and Gender This panel seeks to elicit new interpretations and approaches to studying women and gender in medieval and early modern Europe. Submissions on how to re-evaluate new or existing texts about/by/for medieval and early modern European women are especially welcome as are works that intend to use new technologies such as the internet. Please submit abstracts to Lyn Blanchfield, Department of History, SUNY Oswego, Oswego NY 13126 or lyn.blanchfield@oswego.edu.
Representing Identity and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain This panel will explore the construction of identity and its relationship to power in medieval and early modern Spanish literary texts. Submissions are invited that interrogate both the representation of different subject positions and their connection with the constantly shifting discourses of power that characterize the socio-cultural landscape of these periods. Send 250-300 word proposals to Ryan Prendergast, University of Rochester (pdst@mail.rochester.edu).
Teaching Medieval German Literature and Culture Share successful models of undergraduate courses that focus on medieval German topics (e.g., from Hero to Knight, medieval heroes/ heroines and villains), of courses that approach modern themes from a medieval perspective (e.g., gender studies), or that offer a major German medieval component (Crossroads of Medieval Cultures and Literatures) for crosslisted courses. Abstracts to Rosemarie Morewedge at rmorewed@binghamton.edu
The Notion of Friendship in Dante and Medieval Italian Writers The representation of friendship and its theoretical background (as found in works by Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine and others) has not yet been sufficiently probed in the field of Italian literature. This panel seeks to foster critical discussion on friendship in Dante and other medieval authors. Abstracts to Francesco Ciabattoni fc237@georgetown.edu
Using and [Re]Fusing The Bible: Revision and Parody in Medieval Britain What was the value of The Bible in medieval Britain? The study of biblical paraphrase, expansion of biblical narrative, and the creation of literary parodies of biblical material provide possibilities for understanding how cultural context shaped the uses of this text, the decentralization of political or religious power, public and private performance of devotion, and the development of notions about artistic ownership. Please submit 250-500 word abstracts about the uses of The Bible in medieval Britain to David Pecan atdavid.pecan@ncc.edu.
Representations of the Wound in French and Francophone Literature This panel seeks papers on the representation of wounds and physical injury in French/Francophone literature and film. From the Middle Ages to the present day, this topos has challenged the limits of representation. To what degree can the wound qua corporeal inscription be read as a master metaphor for text? What are its implications for our understanding of the relationship between the artwork and its audience? Please send inquiries or abstracts to Kathryn Rose (kgrose@fas.harvard.edu) and Ian Thomas Fleishman (ifleishm@fas.harvard.edu).
For more information on the Convention, visit www.nemla.org and VisitRochester.org
Forbidden Places and Prohibited Spaces in English Women’s Writing (1640-1740)
In early modern England, travel has the disruptive potential to alter the female traveler as well as to question, defy, and change the shape, rules, and parameters of her social space. Physical journeys open up opportunities for more impalpable travel, including but not limited to social, political, and internal journeys. As Rosi Braidotti has said, “some of the greatest trips can take place without physically moving from one’s habitat. It’s the subversion of set conventions that defines the nomadic state, not the literal act of traveling” (Nomadic Subjects, 5). This panel seeks to draw a connection between the physical act of traveling itself and the variety of figurative journeys that ensue because of a woman’s movement in the world. We will discuss travel as including the more subtle movements through immaterial social and hierarchical boundaries. Early modern texts are full of narratives, both fictional and real, of these journeys into prohibited places and spaces. This panel will explore the transformative effects of travel on women. In what ways does physical movement permit other immaterial types of movement and create a space for subversion? How does movement within society, across its social and hierarchical boundaries, challenge existing beliefs and practices? How do intangible journeys alter the landscape of power in which women operate? Please send 300 word abstracts to Andrea Fabrizio or Ruth Garcia at FabrizioGarciaabstracts@gmail.com by September 30, 2011.
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)
43rd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) March 15-18, 2012
Rochester, New York – Hyatt Rochester
Host Institution: St. John Fisher College
Keynote speaker: Jennifer Egan, 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, A Visit from the Goon Squad
The 43rd annual convention will be held March 15-18th in Rochester, New York at the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown, located minutes away from convenient air, bus, and train transportation options for attendees. St. John Fisher College will serve as the host college, and the diverse array of area institutions are coordinating with conference organizers to sponsor various activities, such as celebrated keynote speakers, local events, and fiction readings.
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/cfp.html
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)
43rd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) March 15-18, 2012
Rochester, New York – Hyatt Rochester
Host Institution: St. John Fisher College
Keynote speaker: Jennifer Egan, 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, A Visit from the Goon Squad
The 43rd annual convention will be held March 15-18th in Rochester, New York at the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown, located minutes away from convenient air, bus, and train transportation options for attendees. St. John Fisher College will serve as the host college, and the diverse array of area institutions are coordinating with conference organizers to sponsor various activities, such as celebrated keynote speakers, local events, and fiction readings.
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/cfp.html
Monday, September 12, 2011
Markets, Law, and Ethics, 1400-1850.
This call seeks papers addressing market culture in the late medieval and early modern periods, conceived broadly as the norms, laws, customs and practices of exchange, 1400-1850. Scholars have made the case for distinctively late medieval/early modern instantiations of social and economic life, for example as “competence and competition,” a “competitive household economy,” or a “baroque economy”. But what is next? Historians from diverse historiographical backgrounds will compare and contrast findings across conventional chronologies and geographies, reflect on the implications of supra-imperial and global approaches, and ponder future interpretations of development of market culture. Confirmed speakers include: Christopher L. Tomlins, Martha Howell, Robert DuPlessis, Pierre Gervais, Alex Shepard, James Masschaele, Julie Hardwick. The three-day meeting will be held at the University of Sheffield 22 June -- 24 June, 2012. See longer cfp. for details and email paper titles and 300 word abstracts to s.middleton@sheffield.ac.uk and j.e.shaw@sheffield.ac.uk by December 15, 2011.
Call For Papers - Religious Rules for Female Communities in the later Middle Ages
The Theme for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds 2012 (9-12 July, 2012) is 'Rules to Follow - Or Not.' In keeping with this theme, Bert Roest and I are organizing a number of sessions entitled ‘Forms of Life’, Rules and Other Normative Texts in late Medieval Female Religious Communities (1200-1500)’. We still have a number of places left, and are eager to hear from anyone who has a paper to offer. We ask anyone who is interested to send a title, brief outline, and affiliation details to either Bert Roest (b.roest@let.ru.nl) or Alison More (a.more@let.ru.nl).
Further details:
Theme: This session sheds light on the way in which 'forms of life’, religious rules, house constitutions and other normative texts (such as exemplary hagiographic dossiers) were used to shape the life of late medieval female religious communities, both those considered to be fully monastic (such as Damianite/Poor Clare and female Dominican houses) and those that had a much more indeterminate status (such as communities of beguines and ‘Franciscan’ and non-Franciscan tertiaries). Participants are asked to approach this issue from four different angles:
· Authority: Who imposes/implements the normative texts and what transformatory repercussions could this have for the female religious communities in question?
· Content: What way of life is proposed in these normative texts (fasting and enclosure regimes, liturgical demands, communal hierarchy and relationship with outside visitators and spiritual directors etc.) and what does that imply for the normative representations of female religious life in the later medieval period?
· Sitz im Leben: It is possible to find out how these normative texts functioned in individual religious houses? And to what extent were these texts able to ‘normalize’ or ‘standardize’ religious practices among a variety of religious communities?
· Diachrony: Sources suggest that many female religious houses went through several institutional phases, during which they adhered to different rules and constitutions. Did the adoption of a ‘new’ rule meant a total transformation of lifestyle, or are we sometimes dealing with an incrementive process, in which older normative traditions worked alongside of more recently imposed/adopted religious regimes? Did the rule a particular community followed have implications for its association with, or perceived membership in, a particular religious order?
Further details:
Theme: This session sheds light on the way in which 'forms of life’, religious rules, house constitutions and other normative texts (such as exemplary hagiographic dossiers) were used to shape the life of late medieval female religious communities, both those considered to be fully monastic (such as Damianite/Poor Clare and female Dominican houses) and those that had a much more indeterminate status (such as communities of beguines and ‘Franciscan’ and non-Franciscan tertiaries). Participants are asked to approach this issue from four different angles:
· Authority: Who imposes/implements the normative texts and what transformatory repercussions could this have for the female religious communities in question?
· Content: What way of life is proposed in these normative texts (fasting and enclosure regimes, liturgical demands, communal hierarchy and relationship with outside visitators and spiritual directors etc.) and what does that imply for the normative representations of female religious life in the later medieval period?
· Sitz im Leben: It is possible to find out how these normative texts functioned in individual religious houses? And to what extent were these texts able to ‘normalize’ or ‘standardize’ religious practices among a variety of religious communities?
· Diachrony: Sources suggest that many female religious houses went through several institutional phases, during which they adhered to different rules and constitutions. Did the adoption of a ‘new’ rule meant a total transformation of lifestyle, or are we sometimes dealing with an incrementive process, in which older normative traditions worked alongside of more recently imposed/adopted religious regimes? Did the rule a particular community followed have implications for its association with, or perceived membership in, a particular religious order?
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
"Shakespeare and Ethics" OVSC (due 9/15/11)
A Call for Papers
SHAKESPEARE AND ETHICS
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
NOVEMBER 3-5, 2011
The abstract submission deadline has been extended to September 15, 2011
The planning committee of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference is seeking abstracts and paper proposals that investigate questions of ethics in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. We're thinking of ethics in a broad sense, to include issues of gender, race, class, culture, religion, labor, economics, justice, environmentalism, and nature. Papers might consider issues of ethics as they are reflected upon within a particular play or more broadly within the dramatic and poetic works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and may take up questions concerning the role of Shakespeare as a cultural icon and literary figure, his works within the performance tradition or in the English and global literary canons, and in relation to early modern as well as contemporary values.
Abstracts or proposals are due by September 15. All inquiries should be directed to: Sandra Logan logans@msu.edu or c/o Department of English / 201 Morrill Hall / Michigan State University / 48824. E-mail abstracts tologans@msu.edu with the subject line OVSC Proposal. Please include contact information, academic affiliation, if any, and status: independent, faculty, grad student, or undergrad.
Keynote Speakers:
Emily Bartels – Professor of English, Rutgers University. She is the author of Speaking of the Moor: Alcazar to Othello (2008), and Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation, and Marlowe (1993), and extensive publications on critical race studies in the early modern period, as well as questions of early modern gender and desire. She is currently working on a monograph on Intertextual Shakespeare.
Bradin Cormack – Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago. He is the author of A Power to Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common Law, 1509–1625 (2007), and a wide range of publications on law, drama, and poetry in the work of Shakespeare and other early modern authors.
OVSC invites graduate and undergraduate students to compete for the M. R. Smith Prize. Select conference proceedings are published in a juried, online journal.
SHAKESPEARE AND ETHICS
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
NOVEMBER 3-5, 2011
The abstract submission deadline has been extended to September 15, 2011
The planning committee of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference is seeking abstracts and paper proposals that investigate questions of ethics in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. We're thinking of ethics in a broad sense, to include issues of gender, race, class, culture, religion, labor, economics, justice, environmentalism, and nature. Papers might consider issues of ethics as they are reflected upon within a particular play or more broadly within the dramatic and poetic works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and may take up questions concerning the role of Shakespeare as a cultural icon and literary figure, his works within the performance tradition or in the English and global literary canons, and in relation to early modern as well as contemporary values.
Abstracts or proposals are due by September 15. All inquiries should be directed to: Sandra Logan logans@msu.edu or c/o Department of English / 201 Morrill Hall / Michigan State University / 48824. E-mail abstracts tologans@msu.edu with the subject line OVSC Proposal. Please include contact information, academic affiliation, if any, and status: independent, faculty, grad student, or undergrad.
Keynote Speakers:
Emily Bartels – Professor of English, Rutgers University. She is the author of Speaking of the Moor: Alcazar to Othello (2008), and Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation, and Marlowe (1993), and extensive publications on critical race studies in the early modern period, as well as questions of early modern gender and desire. She is currently working on a monograph on Intertextual Shakespeare.
Bradin Cormack – Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago. He is the author of A Power to Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common Law, 1509–1625 (2007), and a wide range of publications on law, drama, and poetry in the work of Shakespeare and other early modern authors.
OVSC invites graduate and undergraduate students to compete for the M. R. Smith Prize. Select conference proceedings are published in a juried, online journal.
Historicizing Performance in the Early Modern Period, January 20, 2012, The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchest
This one-day academic conference aims to bring together scholars working on all aspects of performance in the early modern period (taken broadly to include the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries). We intend to interrogate what performance and its related terminologies and practices might have meant to early modern readers, playgoers, and congregations; how performance shaped and/or undermined distinctions between private/public bodies and selves. Although drama is an essential point of reference for this discussion, we encourage that “historicizing performance” be taken as broadly as possible. Topics might include (but are not limited to):
- Plays and play-going
- Music and singing
- Public spectacles, ceremonies and architecture
- Ritual, devotional expression, spirituality / the sermon as performance
- Autobiography and Performative Texts
- Performing gender/ sexuality/ the domestic
- Performance and the performative in theory
Plenary Speakers:
Professor Julie Sanders (Nottingham)
Professor Tiffany Stern (Oxford)
Please email abstracts (400 words max.) for a 20 minute paper to Michael Durrant and Naya Tsentourou at:
Historicizing.Performance@manchester.ac.uk
Deadline for abstracts: September 23th, 2011
Notifications of acceptance to be sent out by October 14th, 2011
- Plays and play-going
- Music and singing
- Public spectacles, ceremonies and architecture
- Ritual, devotional expression, spirituality / the sermon as performance
- Autobiography and Performative Texts
- Performing gender/ sexuality/ the domestic
- Performance and the performative in theory
Plenary Speakers:
Professor Julie Sanders (Nottingham)
Professor Tiffany Stern (Oxford)
Please email abstracts (400 words max.) for a 20 minute paper to Michael Durrant and Naya Tsentourou at:
Historicizing.Performance@manchester.ac.uk
Deadline for abstracts: September 23th, 2011
Notifications of acceptance to be sent out by October 14th, 2011
[UPDATE] Best & Worst Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama Productions 2000-2010
Shakespeare Bulletin - Special Theatre Reviews Section - Spring 2012
We are soliciting reviews of the BEST and the WORST productions of Shakespeare and other early modern drama in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
The theatre reviews section in the Spring 2012 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin will follow a somewhat unusual format. We would like to run approximately forty very short production-reviews that, in the aggregate, give some sense of the range of productions, and vivid responses to them, positive and negative, over the last ten years.
Reviews may not be longer than 500 words. The idea behind this length requirement is to encourage formal and stylistic innovation as well as a high degree of focus. Detailed descriptions of production design, casting, plot development, etc., are not required--not least because many of the productions noted will likely have been reviewed previously in the pages of SB. We encourage reviewers to find exciting ways of conveying the one or two things that made a given production linger in the memory.
Each review should be prefaced by a short headnote giving the play title, the name of the company that produced it, the venue in which it was produced, and the year of its production.
Reviewers may submit multiple reviews. All submissions are, of
course, subject to editorial review before being accepted.
Please send reviews by email to the theatre review editor,Jeremy Lopez:
jeremy.lopez@utoronto.ca
Reviews may be submitted any time before October 31, 2011.
SHAKESPEARE BULLETIN is a peer-reviewed academic journal of performance criticism and scholarship, published quarterly by Johns Hopkins University Press.
http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/shakespeare_bulletin/
We are soliciting reviews of the BEST and the WORST productions of Shakespeare and other early modern drama in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
The theatre reviews section in the Spring 2012 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin will follow a somewhat unusual format. We would like to run approximately forty very short production-reviews that, in the aggregate, give some sense of the range of productions, and vivid responses to them, positive and negative, over the last ten years.
Reviews may not be longer than 500 words. The idea behind this length requirement is to encourage formal and stylistic innovation as well as a high degree of focus. Detailed descriptions of production design, casting, plot development, etc., are not required--not least because many of the productions noted will likely have been reviewed previously in the pages of SB. We encourage reviewers to find exciting ways of conveying the one or two things that made a given production linger in the memory.
Each review should be prefaced by a short headnote giving the play title, the name of the company that produced it, the venue in which it was produced, and the year of its production.
Reviewers may submit multiple reviews. All submissions are, of
course, subject to editorial review before being accepted.
Please send reviews by email to the theatre review editor,Jeremy Lopez:
jeremy.lopez@utoronto.ca
Reviews may be submitted any time before October 31, 2011.
SHAKESPEARE BULLETIN is a peer-reviewed academic journal of performance criticism and scholarship, published quarterly by Johns Hopkins University Press.
http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/shakespeare_bulletin/
"Queering the Cougar" ICMS, Kalamazoo 2012
As a follow-up to the 2011 “Medieval Cougars” ICMS panel, this panel seeks to interrogate the medieval social and gender expectations associated with the modern concept of a ‘cougar,’ such as issues of authority, pursuit, agency, and sexuality; however, this panel will examine texts wherein the dynamic between the older woman and the object of her attention shifts from heteronormative to homoerotic. Medieval literature presents several instances of such ‘queer cougars’: some of these women accidentally pursue same-sex partners who happen to be cross-dressed or whose gender identity is not immediately clear, while others openly seek a relationship with a younger, female protagonist. Submissions should examine how the homoeroticism of the relationship impacts the cougar’s transgression of social and gender norms and how the text treats these homoerotic relationships, often by resolving them into heteronormative ones. All submissions are due by September 15, 2011. Please email abstracts to Cameron Hunt McNabb atchmcnabb@mail.usf.edu.
"Parody, Farce, and Authority in Early Drama" ICMS, Kalamazoo 2012
Without authority, there is no parody or farce— in the words of C. L. Barber, “the license depends utterly on what it mocks” (Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy 214). This symbiotic dynamic between the systems of authority and their detractors at once reinforces authorized models because they license their own mocking while simultaneously undercutting them through critique. Early drama is one vehicle for observing this dynamic of parody, farce, and authority, in such wide-ranging issues as religious orthodoxy and heterodoxy, political models of governance and rebellion, and social frameworks of class and gender. Submissions can examine any facet of parody, farce, and authority within early drama. All submissions are due by September 15, 2011. Please email abstracts to Cameron Hunt McNabb at chmcnabb@mail.usf.edu or Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby at ccoulson2@su.edu.
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