47th Annual Allerton English Articulation Conference:
Reflection and Renewal
April 20 - 21, 2011
Allerton Park and Retreat Center
Monticello, Illinois
Call for Proposals and Participation
In cooperation with Liberal Arts and Sciences External Programming and
the statewide Allerton Planning Committee, NIU's Department of English
is pleased to announce the 47th Allerton English Articulation
Conference, to be held Wednesday and Thursday, April 20-21, 2011.
The Allerton English Articulation Conference, bringing together faculty
from two-year and four-year colleges and universities for discussions
and presentations, will take place at the historic Robert Allerton House
in Allerton Park and Retreat Center in Monticello, Illinois. In keeping
with Allerton tradition, our two-day format will include plenty of
opportunities for collegiality, entertainment, and woodland walks.
Our theme will be Reflection and Renewal, in the context of
articulation in English Studies at two-year and four-year colleges and
universities. By reflection, we celebrate the value of reflective
practice through writing and speaking about our successes and
challenges, our questions and our suggestions to others. By renewal, we
mean how we rejuvenate and renew ourselves as teachers and writers
through the connections we make with students, colleagues, and wider
discourse communities (e.g., through service learning activities).
Suggested proposal topics include but are not limited to:
* Composition
* Culture and diversity
* English education
* Film
* Genre
* Literature
* Reading communities
* Technology
Rather than formal paper-reading, we envision more informal discussion
and interaction. Building upon the success of previous conferences at
Allerton, we are inviting proposals for both conversation strands and
individual presentations, which we will then group topically into a
series of 50-minute roundtables and panels.
Please email a title and one paragraph abstract of your roundtable or
panel presentation proposal to AllertonConference@niu.edu by February 1,http://www.niu.edu/clasep/allerton/index.html
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2011.
We hope you'll join us for convivial, productive conversation as we
celebrate our connections at Allerton House. If you know of colleagues
at your school (or interested high school instructors with an eye toward
college expectations) who might help us shape these discussions, we
would be grateful if you would pass this invitation on to them.
Thanks for your participation. We look forward to seeing you at
Allerton House in April!
Your Allerton Articulation Conference Planning Committee:
John Bennett, Lake Land Community College
Christine Brovelli, North Central College
Suzanne Coffield, Northern Illinois University
Judith Cortelloni, Lincoln College
Michael Day, Northern Illinois University
Bradley Dilger, Western Illinois University
Kathy Ford, Lake Land College
Ellen Franklin, Northern Illinois University
Jack Haines, Joliet Junior College
Rochelle Harden, Parkland College
Spring Hyde, Lincoln College
Jeanne Jakubowski, Northern Illinois University
Sharon McGee, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Jim Nagle, Columbia College Chicago
Janice Neuleib, Illinois State University
Sarah Quirk, Waubonsee Community College
Jan Vander Meer, Northern Illinois University
Joyce Walker, Illinois State University
Ruijie Zhao, Parkland College
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Humanities and Technology Association Call for Articles and Book Reviews
Humanities and Technology Review (HTR), the interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal, published annually, of the Humanities and Technology Association (HTA), is calling for articles and book reviews for the Fall 2011 (Volume 30) edition. HTR explores the interface between the humanities and technology. For manuscript guidelines, contact Frederick B. Mills, Editor, HTR, Department of History and Government, Bowie State University: fmills2003@yahoo.com. The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2011.
2011-2012 Newberry Library Fellowships
The Newberry Library, an independent research library in Chicago, invites applications for its 2011-2012 Residential Fellowships in the Humanities. All proposed research must be appropriate to the collections of the Newberry Library (excluding certain short-term awards). Long-term residential fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars for periods of six to eleven months, generally with a stipend of up to $50,400. Applicants for postdoctoral awards must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application. Short-term residential fellowships are intended for postdoctoral scholars or Ph.D. candidates from outside of the Chicago area who have a specific need for Newberry collections. The tenure of short-term fellowships varies from one week to two months. The amount of the award is generally $1,600 per month. Long-term fellowship applications are due January 10, 2011; most short-term fellowship applications are due February 10, 2011. Visit our website for information and application materials:
http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html
http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html
Monsters, Marvels, and Minstrels: The Rise of Modern Medievalism: Mythcon 42, 15-18 July 2011, Albuquerque NM, Deadline 15 April 2011
Monsters, Marvels, and Minstrels: The Rise of Modern Medievalism
The year 2011 marks the 75th anniversary of both C.S. Lewis’ publication of The Allegory of Love and J.R.R. Tolkien’s lecture “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics.” Spanning the early Anglo-Saxon/Scandinavian heroic legacies and late Continental French-inspired romance traditions, these authoritative works of scholarship dramatically changed academic discussion on their medieval subjects. In addition, their literary reinterpretations laid the groundwork for the modern medievalism that now informs so much modern fantasy literature, Inkling or otherwise. To commemorate these important anniversaries, Mythcon 42 will invite reflection on the impact of these critical works and how they offer new ways to view the fantastic in earlier texts as well as how they initiated many of the approaches modern fantasy applies to its reading of the medieval. While legacies inherited from Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Scandinavian, Biblical, and Classical cultures will be obvious subjects, papers and panels that explore mythological and fantastic works from other early traditions (such as Native American, Asian, and Middle-eastern) are also welcome, as are studies and discussions that focus on the work and interests of the Inklings (especially J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams), of our Guests of Honor, and of other fantasy authors and themes. Papers from a variety of critical perspectives and disciplines are welcome.
Guests of Honor:
Michael D.C. Drout, Scholar
Catherynne M. Valente, Author
Paper abstracts (250 word maximum), along with contact information, should be sent to the Papers Coordinator at the e-mail address below by 15 April, 2011. Please include your AV requests and the projected time needed for your presentation. Time slots for individual papers are one hour (45 minute paper plus discussion) or 1/2 hour (20 minute paper plus discussion). Panels consisting of related short papers may be proposed for a 90 minute time slot. Participants are encouraged to submit papers chosen for presentation at the conference to Mythlore, the refereed journal of the Mythopoeic Society (http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore.html). Undergraduate and graduate presenters are encouraged to apply for the Alexei Kondratiev Award for Best Student Paper.
Janet Brennan Croft, Paper Coordinator
Head of Access Services, University Libraries, University of Oklahoma
jbcroft@ou.edu, mythlore@mythsoc.org
The Mythopoeic Society is an international literary and educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and mythopoeic literature. We believe the study of these writers can lead to greater understanding and appreciation of the literary, philosophical, and spiritual traditions which underlie their works, and can engender an interest in the study of myth, legend, and the genre of fantasy. Find out about past conferences at http://www.mythsoc.org/conferences.html.
The year 2011 marks the 75th anniversary of both C.S. Lewis’ publication of The Allegory of Love and J.R.R. Tolkien’s lecture “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics.” Spanning the early Anglo-Saxon/Scandinavian heroic legacies and late Continental French-inspired romance traditions, these authoritative works of scholarship dramatically changed academic discussion on their medieval subjects. In addition, their literary reinterpretations laid the groundwork for the modern medievalism that now informs so much modern fantasy literature, Inkling or otherwise. To commemorate these important anniversaries, Mythcon 42 will invite reflection on the impact of these critical works and how they offer new ways to view the fantastic in earlier texts as well as how they initiated many of the approaches modern fantasy applies to its reading of the medieval. While legacies inherited from Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Scandinavian, Biblical, and Classical cultures will be obvious subjects, papers and panels that explore mythological and fantastic works from other early traditions (such as Native American, Asian, and Middle-eastern) are also welcome, as are studies and discussions that focus on the work and interests of the Inklings (especially J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams), of our Guests of Honor, and of other fantasy authors and themes. Papers from a variety of critical perspectives and disciplines are welcome.
Guests of Honor:
Michael D.C. Drout, Scholar
Catherynne M. Valente, Author
Paper abstracts (250 word maximum), along with contact information, should be sent to the Papers Coordinator at the e-mail address below by 15 April, 2011. Please include your AV requests and the projected time needed for your presentation. Time slots for individual papers are one hour (45 minute paper plus discussion) or 1/2 hour (20 minute paper plus discussion). Panels consisting of related short papers may be proposed for a 90 minute time slot. Participants are encouraged to submit papers chosen for presentation at the conference to Mythlore, the refereed journal of the Mythopoeic Society (http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore.html). Undergraduate and graduate presenters are encouraged to apply for the Alexei Kondratiev Award for Best Student Paper.
Janet Brennan Croft, Paper Coordinator
Head of Access Services, University Libraries, University of Oklahoma
jbcroft@ou.edu, mythlore@mythsoc.org
The Mythopoeic Society is an international literary and educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and mythopoeic literature. We believe the study of these writers can lead to greater understanding and appreciation of the literary, philosophical, and spiritual traditions which underlie their works, and can engender an interest in the study of myth, legend, and the genre of fantasy. Find out about past conferences at http://www.mythsoc.org/conferences.html.
Monday, November 22, 2010
OLD AND NEW WORLDS. International Congress of Early Modern Archaeology
Old and New Worlds.
International Congress of Early Modern Archaeology
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas | Universidade Nova de Lisboa | 6 -9 April 2011
Call for papers | 31 January 2011
The advent of the Early Modern Age triggered profound changes on the history of Europe. Urban development and increased commercial exchanges went hand in hand with the spread of new cultural ideas and paradigms and major changes in religious geography. All this occurred in a framework of political alterations that were often determined by wars, themselves determined/transformed by a technical revolution in military art. It was also the era of the discovery of new worlds, the first globalisation, with products moving at a previously unknown scale, in which the Iberian kingdoms played a pioneering role. In the American, African and Asian regions, linked by lengthy sea voyages that defied the imagination and the technique of those times, contacts with the local populations led to different types of political domination, economic exploitation and cultural exchange, sometimes radically altering the existing pattern of life. The aim of this congress is to bring together young and renowned archaeologists who have produced works based on academic or protective contexts, which are suitable for our discussions on the various themes concentrating on the period between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries, both in the European context and in colonised areas. The goal is not only to encourage the development of early modern archaeology but also to establish bridges between the archaeological communities spread throughout various parts of the world, namely those concentrating their research on the Iberian kingdoms and their world expansion.
CHAM (Center for Overseas History)
FCSH/New University of Lisbon
Av. de Berna 26C
1069-061 Lisbon
Phone: 00351.217972151
Fax: 00351.217908308
Email: coloquios.cham@fcsh.unl.pt
Visit the website at http://cham.fcsh.unl.pt/congresso_arqueologia_moderna/eng/congressointernacionalarqueologiamoderna_home.html
International Congress of Early Modern Archaeology
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas | Universidade Nova de Lisboa | 6 -9 April 2011
Call for papers | 31 January 2011
The advent of the Early Modern Age triggered profound changes on the history of Europe. Urban development and increased commercial exchanges went hand in hand with the spread of new cultural ideas and paradigms and major changes in religious geography. All this occurred in a framework of political alterations that were often determined by wars, themselves determined/transformed by a technical revolution in military art. It was also the era of the discovery of new worlds, the first globalisation, with products moving at a previously unknown scale, in which the Iberian kingdoms played a pioneering role. In the American, African and Asian regions, linked by lengthy sea voyages that defied the imagination and the technique of those times, contacts with the local populations led to different types of political domination, economic exploitation and cultural exchange, sometimes radically altering the existing pattern of life. The aim of this congress is to bring together young and renowned archaeologists who have produced works based on academic or protective contexts, which are suitable for our discussions on the various themes concentrating on the period between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries, both in the European context and in colonised areas. The goal is not only to encourage the development of early modern archaeology but also to establish bridges between the archaeological communities spread throughout various parts of the world, namely those concentrating their research on the Iberian kingdoms and their world expansion.
CHAM (Center for Overseas History)
FCSH/New University of Lisbon
Av. de Berna 26C
1069-061 Lisbon
Phone: 00351.217972151
Fax: 00351.217908308
Email: coloquios.cham@fcsh.unl.pt
Visit the website at http://cham.fcsh.unl.pt/congresso_arqueologia_moderna/eng/congressointernacionalarqueologiamoderna_home.html
The Printed Image within a Culture of Print: Prints, Publishing and the Early Modern Arts in Europe, 1450-1700
The Printed Image within a Culture of Print: Prints, Publishing and the Early Modern Arts in Europe, 1450-1700
CALL FOR PAPERS
A conference to be held at The Courtauld Institute of Art
Saturday 9 April 2011
From the fifteenth through the seventeenth century, the advent of print utterly changed the production of images. A repertoire of images of all kinds, from the crudest woodcut to the most virtuosic engraving, from broadsides of wonders and prodigies to pictures reproducing famous paintings and sculptures, was put into the hands of both image-makers and consumers of images. New possibilities for allusion and intertextuality came into being thanks to this bridge between the image and its publics. And the publication of printed images, a commercial venture, widened the spectrum of those who bought images, producing new kinds of viewers and readers.
This one-day conference focuses on the relations between print culture and the visual arts as a whole, looking not only at the artist’s print as produced by the peintre-graveur, but at the relations between the entire spectrum of print and what we think of now as ‘fine art’.
Since the 1990s when the studies of Roger Chartier inspired work across many historical disciplines, much has been claimed for the impact of printed media on social, intellectual and cultural life in early modernity. The study of popular culture, the history of mentalités, book history and reception studies across a diverse range of periods and cultures have all profited from opening up the area known loosely as print culture. Art historical studies, however, have not often referred to this body of research. Bringing together some of the disciplines that study print culture to focus on the image and the printed text opens up new questions of concern to historians and literary historians as well as to students of the art print.
We invite papers across the disciplines of print studies. Issues that we suggest are relevant include:
• printed images used within legal or educational contexts, ceremonies and festivities (‘thesis’ prints, for example)
• the effect of printed images on the readership of books, political pamphlets, broadsides and ballads
• the printed image incorporated within other media, such as paintings or architecture
• the publication of artists’ biographies and printed portraits of artists, changing relations between artists and their publics
• the publication of collections: the gathering of paintings, sculpture, and printed images accruing new significance through their dissemination in print
• publication and the discourse of the arts in early modernity: the effect of print on artists’ biographies, manuals on the crafts of image making, or critical reflections about the nature of artistic beauty
• printed text and printed image: the dialogue and argument between word and image within printed publications
Proposals of 200-300 words (for 20 min papers) may be sent by email by 10 January 2011, to sheila.mctighe@courtauld.ac.uk or by mail to Dr. Sheila McTighe, Emily Gray and Anita Sganzerla, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, the Strand, London WC2R 0RN UK
Organised by Dr. Sheila McTighe (Senior Lecturer, The Courtauld Institute of Art), Emily Gray (PhD candidate, The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Anita Sganzerla (PhD candidate, University of London)
Visit the website at http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/calendar.shtml
CALL FOR PAPERS
A conference to be held at The Courtauld Institute of Art
Saturday 9 April 2011
From the fifteenth through the seventeenth century, the advent of print utterly changed the production of images. A repertoire of images of all kinds, from the crudest woodcut to the most virtuosic engraving, from broadsides of wonders and prodigies to pictures reproducing famous paintings and sculptures, was put into the hands of both image-makers and consumers of images. New possibilities for allusion and intertextuality came into being thanks to this bridge between the image and its publics. And the publication of printed images, a commercial venture, widened the spectrum of those who bought images, producing new kinds of viewers and readers.
This one-day conference focuses on the relations between print culture and the visual arts as a whole, looking not only at the artist’s print as produced by the peintre-graveur, but at the relations between the entire spectrum of print and what we think of now as ‘fine art’.
Since the 1990s when the studies of Roger Chartier inspired work across many historical disciplines, much has been claimed for the impact of printed media on social, intellectual and cultural life in early modernity. The study of popular culture, the history of mentalités, book history and reception studies across a diverse range of periods and cultures have all profited from opening up the area known loosely as print culture. Art historical studies, however, have not often referred to this body of research. Bringing together some of the disciplines that study print culture to focus on the image and the printed text opens up new questions of concern to historians and literary historians as well as to students of the art print.
We invite papers across the disciplines of print studies. Issues that we suggest are relevant include:
• printed images used within legal or educational contexts, ceremonies and festivities (‘thesis’ prints, for example)
• the effect of printed images on the readership of books, political pamphlets, broadsides and ballads
• the printed image incorporated within other media, such as paintings or architecture
• the publication of artists’ biographies and printed portraits of artists, changing relations between artists and their publics
• the publication of collections: the gathering of paintings, sculpture, and printed images accruing new significance through their dissemination in print
• publication and the discourse of the arts in early modernity: the effect of print on artists’ biographies, manuals on the crafts of image making, or critical reflections about the nature of artistic beauty
• printed text and printed image: the dialogue and argument between word and image within printed publications
Proposals of 200-300 words (for 20 min papers) may be sent by email by 10 January 2011, to sheila.mctighe@courtauld.ac.uk or by mail to Dr. Sheila McTighe, Emily Gray and Anita Sganzerla, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, the Strand, London WC2R 0RN UK
Organised by Dr. Sheila McTighe (Senior Lecturer, The Courtauld Institute of Art), Emily Gray (PhD candidate, The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Anita Sganzerla (PhD candidate, University of London)
Visit the website at http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/calendar.shtml
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Call for submissions to Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (OSTMAR)
The Editorial Board of
Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (OSTMAR)
is pleased to announce the official launch of its website.
http://opuscula.usask.ca
We seek single-witness editions of Medieval and Renaissance texts under 6,000 words accompanied by a brief introduction (1000-1500 words) and translation. We invite submission of a broad range of pre-modern texts including but not limited to literary and philosophical works, letters, charters, court documents, and notebooks. Texts should be previously unedited and the edition must represent a discrete text in its entirety.
For more information or to view a sample edition, go to opuscula.usask.ca or write Frank Klaassen, General Editor at editor@opuscula.usask.ca.
OSTMAR is an on-line and open-access journal published by Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies at the University of Saskatchewan under a creative commons license. All submissions are subject to a double-blind peer review and must be accompanied by readable digital facsimiles of the original documents.
Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (OSTMAR)
is pleased to announce the official launch of its website.
http://opuscula.usask.ca
We seek single-witness editions of Medieval and Renaissance texts under 6,000 words accompanied by a brief introduction (1000-1500 words) and translation. We invite submission of a broad range of pre-modern texts including but not limited to literary and philosophical works, letters, charters, court documents, and notebooks. Texts should be previously unedited and the edition must represent a discrete text in its entirety.
For more information or to view a sample edition, go to opuscula.usask.ca or write Frank Klaassen, General Editor at editor@opuscula.usask.ca.
OSTMAR is an on-line and open-access journal published by Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies at the University of Saskatchewan under a creative commons license. All submissions are subject to a double-blind peer review and must be accompanied by readable digital facsimiles of the original documents.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Ann Blair to direct Folger faculty seminar on "Managing Scholarly Information efore the Modern Age"
Interested faculty should consider applying to what promises to be an extraordinary weekend seminar.
Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age Ann Blair to direct a Spring Faculty Weekend Seminar at the Folger Institute
The focus of this weekend seminar will be on the materials and practices involved in reading and/or writing in the early modern period (roughly 1400-1700). Twelve-to-sixteen participants will focus on the process of intellectual work, from reading and note-taking to the composition and revision of texts, published or not. In each case participants will examine what can be garnered from the evidence, including marginal annotations in printed books, surviving manuscripts, and finished texts. Paying attention to the materials, spaces, and people involved throughout the cycle of intellectual work, participants will consider the following questions: Where did readers and authors read, take notes, or compose? What materials did they use for writing (including ink, quills, paper in various forms)? How did they organize their notes and preparatory materials? Did they work alone or rely on the help of others (friends, family members, or servants)? How did they use and cite their sources? Faculty with advanced research projects that usefully illuminate these topics are encouraged to apply; they will have the opportunity to discuss their projects within the seminar’s intellectual framework. One session will be scheduled in the Werner Gundersheimer Conservation Lab for close examination of selected cases and discussion with the professional staff.
Director: Ann Blair is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University where she teaches courses in the history of the book, early modern intellectual and cultural history, and French history. Her publications include The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (1997) and Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age (forthcoming 8 November 2010).
Schedule: All day Friday and Saturday, 4 and 5 February 2011.
Apply: 3 December 2010 for admission (and grants-in-aid for Folger Institute consortium affiliates). Please use the Institute online application process available at www.folger.edu/institute.
Folger Institute faculty weekend seminars convene over a Friday and Saturday and provide participants with the opportunity to introduce and situate their advanced research projects as they connect to the topic designated for investigation. Knowledgeable scholars provide feedback on those projects over an intensive two days.
Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age Ann Blair to direct a Spring Faculty Weekend Seminar at the Folger Institute
The focus of this weekend seminar will be on the materials and practices involved in reading and/or writing in the early modern period (roughly 1400-1700). Twelve-to-sixteen participants will focus on the process of intellectual work, from reading and note-taking to the composition and revision of texts, published or not. In each case participants will examine what can be garnered from the evidence, including marginal annotations in printed books, surviving manuscripts, and finished texts. Paying attention to the materials, spaces, and people involved throughout the cycle of intellectual work, participants will consider the following questions: Where did readers and authors read, take notes, or compose? What materials did they use for writing (including ink, quills, paper in various forms)? How did they organize their notes and preparatory materials? Did they work alone or rely on the help of others (friends, family members, or servants)? How did they use and cite their sources? Faculty with advanced research projects that usefully illuminate these topics are encouraged to apply; they will have the opportunity to discuss their projects within the seminar’s intellectual framework. One session will be scheduled in the Werner Gundersheimer Conservation Lab for close examination of selected cases and discussion with the professional staff.
Director: Ann Blair is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University where she teaches courses in the history of the book, early modern intellectual and cultural history, and French history. Her publications include The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (1997) and Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age (forthcoming 8 November 2010).
Schedule: All day Friday and Saturday, 4 and 5 February 2011.
Apply: 3 December 2010 for admission (and grants-in-aid for Folger Institute consortium affiliates). Please use the Institute online application process available at www.folger.edu/institute.
Folger Institute faculty weekend seminars convene over a Friday and Saturday and provide participants with the opportunity to introduce and situate their advanced research projects as they connect to the topic designated for investigation. Knowledgeable scholars provide feedback on those projects over an intensive two days.
Ancient Rome and Early Modern England: Literature, History, and Politics
ANCIENT ROME AND EARLY MODERN ENGLAND: LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND POLITICS
Interdisciplinary conference, Jesus College Oxford, 21-22 May 2011
Speakers include David Norbrook and Blair Worden
CALL FOR PAPERS
Ancient Rome was a source of endless fascination to the early moderns.
Historians, politicians, divines, and imaginative writers looked to the Roman example for models and inspiration. The aim of the conference is to reassess the place of ancient Rome in the literary and political culture of late Tudor and early Stuart England. In what ways did the translation and reception of the Roman classics stimulate the native literary tradition or influence its political outlook? What was the impact of the Roman precedent on attitudes towards constitutional change, the rights and wrongs of empire, and the law? How did it influence ecclesiastical policy and, more generally, the views of the relationship between church and state? In what ways did Roman historiography, political writings, and rhetoric shape the language and substance of public argument? What was the trajectory of circulation in manuscript and print of the Roman classics? What were the uses and topical appeal of the Roman models in the wider public world and in education? How did the Roman legacy compare with that of ancient Greece?
Our aim is to foster dialogue among literary scholars, classicists, political and intellectual historians, historians of religion, specialists in the history of the book, and historians of historiography. Bringing together scholars representing diverse disciplines and approaches, the conference will encourage reconsideration of much received wisdom about the place of ancient Rome in early modern England's literature and political imagination. It will, we hope, raise new questions about, inter alia, the shaping influence of the Roman example upon formal properties and topical undercurrents of imaginative literature, sermons, and polemical writings; upon conceptions of public institutions and the individual's relationship to them; upon views of foreign policy and international relations as also military theory and practice; upon emergent confessional divisions and incipient notions of religious toleration; and, finally, upon perceptions of social relations in urban, above all metropolitan contexts. No less important will be to assess the utility and pervasiveness of romanitas before and after the union with Scotland, and compare the situation in England with major European states, in particular, France, Spain, Italian principalities, and the Netherlands.
We invite proposals for 30-minute papers. Please e-mail abstracts of no more than 500 words to Felicity Heal (felicity.heal@jesus.ox.ac.uk) or Paulina Kewes (paulina.kewes@jesus.ox.ac.uk) by 30 January 2011.
The Oxford gathering is a follow-up to the conference on 'Ancient Rome and Early Modern England: History, Politics, and Political Thought' to be held at the Huntington Library, 21-22 January 2011. For further information, please contact Carolyn Powell (cpowell@huntington.org).
Interdisciplinary conference, Jesus College Oxford, 21-22 May 2011
Speakers include David Norbrook and Blair Worden
CALL FOR PAPERS
Ancient Rome was a source of endless fascination to the early moderns.
Historians, politicians, divines, and imaginative writers looked to the Roman example for models and inspiration. The aim of the conference is to reassess the place of ancient Rome in the literary and political culture of late Tudor and early Stuart England. In what ways did the translation and reception of the Roman classics stimulate the native literary tradition or influence its political outlook? What was the impact of the Roman precedent on attitudes towards constitutional change, the rights and wrongs of empire, and the law? How did it influence ecclesiastical policy and, more generally, the views of the relationship between church and state? In what ways did Roman historiography, political writings, and rhetoric shape the language and substance of public argument? What was the trajectory of circulation in manuscript and print of the Roman classics? What were the uses and topical appeal of the Roman models in the wider public world and in education? How did the Roman legacy compare with that of ancient Greece?
Our aim is to foster dialogue among literary scholars, classicists, political and intellectual historians, historians of religion, specialists in the history of the book, and historians of historiography. Bringing together scholars representing diverse disciplines and approaches, the conference will encourage reconsideration of much received wisdom about the place of ancient Rome in early modern England's literature and political imagination. It will, we hope, raise new questions about, inter alia, the shaping influence of the Roman example upon formal properties and topical undercurrents of imaginative literature, sermons, and polemical writings; upon conceptions of public institutions and the individual's relationship to them; upon views of foreign policy and international relations as also military theory and practice; upon emergent confessional divisions and incipient notions of religious toleration; and, finally, upon perceptions of social relations in urban, above all metropolitan contexts. No less important will be to assess the utility and pervasiveness of romanitas before and after the union with Scotland, and compare the situation in England with major European states, in particular, France, Spain, Italian principalities, and the Netherlands.
We invite proposals for 30-minute papers. Please e-mail abstracts of no more than 500 words to Felicity Heal (felicity.heal@jesus.ox.ac.uk) or Paulina Kewes (paulina.kewes@jesus.ox.ac.uk) by 30 January 2011.
The Oxford gathering is a follow-up to the conference on 'Ancient Rome and Early Modern England: History, Politics, and Political Thought' to be held at the Huntington Library, 21-22 January 2011. For further information, please contact Carolyn Powell (cpowell@huntington.org).
German History 1500-1815
The German Historical Institute in Washington DC and the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University are pleased to announce the 17th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History, which will be devoted to the time period 1500-1815 and take place at the GHI Washington on May 18-21, 2011.
The seminar brings together young scholars from Europe and North America who are nearing completion of their doctoral degrees. We plan to invite up to eight doctoral students from each side of the Atlantic to discuss their research projects. The organizers welcome proposals on any aspect of German history in the period 1500-1815. Doctoral students working in related disciplines -- such as art history, legal history or the history of science -- are also encouraged to apply, as are students working on comparative projects or on the history of Austria or German-speaking Switzerland. The discussions will be based on papers (in German or English) submitted in advance of the conference. The seminar will be conducted bilingually, in German and English. The organizers will cover travel and lodging expenses.
We are now accepting applications from doctoral students whose dissertations are at an advanced stage but who will be granted their degrees after June 2011. Applications should include a short (2-3 pp.) description of the dissertation project, a curriculum vitae, and a letter of reference from the major dissertation advisor. German-speaking applicants should submit their materials in German; English-speaking applicants in English. Questions may be directed to Dr. Richard F. Wetzell by email at wetzell@ghi-dc.org.
Applications and letters of reference must be received by December 15, 2010. They should be submitted via email (preferably in pdf format) to Ms. Baerbel Thomas at b.thomas@ghi-dc.org. Letters of reference should be submitted directly by the dissertation advisor, preferably by email or by Fax to 1 (202) 483-3430. For further information on the GHI please go to: www.ghi-dc.org.
The next Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar (2012) will be devoted to German history in the nineteenth century; the 2013 Seminar to the twentieth century.
Dr. Richard F. Wetzell
German Historical Institute
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW
Washington DC 20009-2562
(202)387-3355
Email: wetzell@ghi-dc.org
Visit the website at http://www.ghi-dc.org/seminars
The seminar brings together young scholars from Europe and North America who are nearing completion of their doctoral degrees. We plan to invite up to eight doctoral students from each side of the Atlantic to discuss their research projects. The organizers welcome proposals on any aspect of German history in the period 1500-1815. Doctoral students working in related disciplines -- such as art history, legal history or the history of science -- are also encouraged to apply, as are students working on comparative projects or on the history of Austria or German-speaking Switzerland. The discussions will be based on papers (in German or English) submitted in advance of the conference. The seminar will be conducted bilingually, in German and English. The organizers will cover travel and lodging expenses.
We are now accepting applications from doctoral students whose dissertations are at an advanced stage but who will be granted their degrees after June 2011. Applications should include a short (2-3 pp.) description of the dissertation project, a curriculum vitae, and a letter of reference from the major dissertation advisor. German-speaking applicants should submit their materials in German; English-speaking applicants in English. Questions may be directed to Dr. Richard F. Wetzell by email at wetzell@ghi-dc.org.
Applications and letters of reference must be received by December 15, 2010. They should be submitted via email (preferably in pdf format) to Ms. Baerbel Thomas at b.thomas@ghi-dc.org. Letters of reference should be submitted directly by the dissertation advisor, preferably by email or by Fax to 1 (202) 483-3430. For further information on the GHI please go to: www.ghi-dc.org.
The next Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar (2012) will be devoted to German history in the nineteenth century; the 2013 Seminar to the twentieth century.
Dr. Richard F. Wetzell
German Historical Institute
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW
Washington DC 20009-2562
(202)387-3355
Email: wetzell@ghi-dc.org
Visit the website at http://www.ghi-dc.org/seminars
Science and Magic: Ways of Knowing in the Renaissance
Science and Magic: Ways of Knowing in the Renaissance
Keynote Speaker: Bruce Moran, Department of History, University of Nevada Reno
In his Oration on the Dignity of Man, Pico della Mirandola described two forms of magic. There was that branch of sorcery consisting “wholly in the operations and powers of demons,” as well as a more benign craft pertaining to none other than “the highest realization of natural philosophy.” To many Renaissance thinkers, magic was a legitimate field of study as well as a potential threat to established orthodoxies. Inspired by this formulation, this interdisciplinary conference aims to consider scientific thought alongside magic and domains that modern vocabulary would describe as pseudoscience, such as alchemy and astrology, and invites papers related to diverse ways of magical and scientific knowing in the early modern world.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
· Distinctions between magic, science and pseudoscience in theory and practice.
· Forms of scientific literature and art, magical texts and artifacts.
· The transmission of licit and illicit magic; the role of natural philosophy and magic in education.
· The attitudes and policies of secular and ecclesiastical authorities.
· Practical magic: fortune-telling, amulets, etc.
· Early modern European and American witch-hunts and witchcraft trials.
· Alchemical theory and practice.
· The articulation and reception of prophecies.
· The commerce of magic, the financial circumstances of men of science or magicians.
· Fraudulent magic or science, cons and hoaxes.
· Encyclopedic texts, indexing schemes and the organization of knowledge.
· Artistic, literary or musical representations of magic, science or the thirst for knowledge.
· Gender in magic, science, or pseudoscience.
· Magic in the New World and beyond; extra-European influences on Renaissance magic and science.
This conference is conducted under the auspices of the Renaissance Studies Program at Princeton University January 15, 2011 . Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes.
Monday, November 1, 2010
The Marprelate Tracts
Inspired by the recent publication of the first new edition of the Martin Marprelate Tracts for nearly a century, this day conference seeks to re-evaluate the Tracts as both a literary and historic event and act as the impetus for new research directions. The conference will take place in Stratford-upon-Avon in the UK on 9 April 2011 and is of interest to all those working on the political, religious and cultural history of the early modern period as well as those whose interests lie in English literature and early modern print culture.
Cathryn Enis
Email: http://www.blogger.com/goog_1138924365
Visit the website at http://www.reading.ac.uk/english/research/deal-EMRC.aspx
Cathryn Enis
Email: http://www.blogger.com/goog_1138924365
Visit the website at http://www.reading.ac.uk/english/research/deal-EMRC.aspx
Friday, October 29, 2010
Early Modern Migrations: Exiles, Expulsion, & Religious Refugees 1400-1700
http://new.crrs.ca/about/events/conferences/migrations/
This conference invites a sustained, comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of the phenomenon and cultural representation of early modern migrations. It also aims to consider how the transmission and translation of material, textual and cultural practices create identity and cross-cultural identifications in contexts animated by the tension between location and dislocation. While often driven by exclusion and intolerance, the exile/refugee experience also encouraged emerging forms of toleration, multiculturalism and notions of cosmopolitanism. In a period in which mobility was a way of life for many, identifications rooted in location were often tenuously sustained even as they could be forcibly asserted in cultural representation.
Deadline for Submissions: 31 January 2011.
The link to the page for submissions is:
http://new.crrs.ca/about/events/conferences/migrations/
For more information, please contact:
Marjorie Rubright marjorie.rubright@utoronto.ca
Nicholas Terpstra nicholas.terpstra@utoronto.ca
Stephanie Treloar crrs.vic@utoronto.ca
Evidence and the Early Modern Period (Feb. 18-19, 2011)
Call for Papers
Evidence and the Early Modern Period
A conference held by the Early Modern Colloquium
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
February 18-19, 2011
Keynote speakers: Mary Floyd-Wilson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Kathy Eden (Columbia University)
This conference will center on questions pertaining to the status of evidence in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Participants are invited to investigate how early modern culture employed evidence in the (by no means wholly distinct) fields of art, demonology, history, law, literature, math, medicine, music, performance, philosophy, politics, religion, and science. The conference will explore the connections and distinctions between various types of evidence—e.g., aesthetic, empirical, humanistic, legal, medical, rationalistic, rhetorical, and scientific—deployed in the period. How did the use of evidence trouble or define the boundaries between fields? How did evidence appear in diverse genres? The conference will also attempt to delineate the systems of thought upon which various epistemological praxes were predicated and those, in turn, that these praxes sustained. Relatedly, it will evaluate relationships between evidence and authority. In summary, the conference will ask: How did early modern individuals and collectives know? In what terms—explicit or implicit—did they demarcate what there was to know?
Additionally, the conference will consider what counts as evidence in arguments waged by contemporary scholars of the early modern period. How might contemporary conceptions of evidence affect our approaches to understanding prior evidentiary protocols and regimes? How might a careful review of this evidence illuminate further issues at stake? We welcome submissions that address these or other questions related to this topic.
The Early Modern Colloquium is a graduate interdisciplinary group at the University of Michigan. It will give priority to abstracts submitted by graduate students. Please send 250-300 word proposals to Angela Heetderks, Leila Watkins, and Sarah Linwick at slinwick@umich.edu by December 10, 2010.
Evidence and the Early Modern Period
A conference held by the Early Modern Colloquium
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
February 18-19, 2011
Keynote speakers: Mary Floyd-Wilson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Kathy Eden (Columbia University)
This conference will center on questions pertaining to the status of evidence in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Participants are invited to investigate how early modern culture employed evidence in the (by no means wholly distinct) fields of art, demonology, history, law, literature, math, medicine, music, performance, philosophy, politics, religion, and science. The conference will explore the connections and distinctions between various types of evidence—e.g., aesthetic, empirical, humanistic, legal, medical, rationalistic, rhetorical, and scientific—deployed in the period. How did the use of evidence trouble or define the boundaries between fields? How did evidence appear in diverse genres? The conference will also attempt to delineate the systems of thought upon which various epistemological praxes were predicated and those, in turn, that these praxes sustained. Relatedly, it will evaluate relationships between evidence and authority. In summary, the conference will ask: How did early modern individuals and collectives know? In what terms—explicit or implicit—did they demarcate what there was to know?
Additionally, the conference will consider what counts as evidence in arguments waged by contemporary scholars of the early modern period. How might contemporary conceptions of evidence affect our approaches to understanding prior evidentiary protocols and regimes? How might a careful review of this evidence illuminate further issues at stake? We welcome submissions that address these or other questions related to this topic.
The Early Modern Colloquium is a graduate interdisciplinary group at the University of Michigan. It will give priority to abstracts submitted by graduate students. Please send 250-300 word proposals to Angela Heetderks, Leila Watkins, and Sarah Linwick at slinwick@umich.edu by December 10, 2010.
Renaissance Translations, KFLC April 14-16, 2011
"Renaissance Translations"
The Renaissance has traditionally been considered a period of rebirth, a truism that has come increasingly under critical scrutiny. How, instead, might translation work as a defining rubric for the sixteenth century in France: as a period that witnessed a systematic and widespread translation of the past and of other cultures into new languages, forms, and genres? How were classical, antique, and medieval works and ideas resuscitated and recuperated for varied purposes in the sixteenth century in ways that masqueraded as “mere” linguistic translation but in fact served as cultural, intellectual, and political appropriation? How does translation as an intellectual and cultural operation occlude other processes of appropriation? Possible topics include: uses of the past; the rise of the vernacular; the relationship of French to Latin and/or other vernaculars; translation practice; the relationship between translation and projects of adaptation and imitation; translation as a metaphor for broader processes of cultural appropriation.
Please send 250-word abstract for 20-25 minute paper to Katherine Kong (kkong@utk.edu) by November 8, 2010.
For more information on the KFLC, see: http://web.as.uky.edu/kflc/
The Renaissance has traditionally been considered a period of rebirth, a truism that has come increasingly under critical scrutiny. How, instead, might translation work as a defining rubric for the sixteenth century in France: as a period that witnessed a systematic and widespread translation of the past and of other cultures into new languages, forms, and genres? How were classical, antique, and medieval works and ideas resuscitated and recuperated for varied purposes in the sixteenth century in ways that masqueraded as “mere” linguistic translation but in fact served as cultural, intellectual, and political appropriation? How does translation as an intellectual and cultural operation occlude other processes of appropriation? Possible topics include: uses of the past; the rise of the vernacular; the relationship of French to Latin and/or other vernaculars; translation practice; the relationship between translation and projects of adaptation and imitation; translation as a metaphor for broader processes of cultural appropriation.
Please send 250-word abstract for 20-25 minute paper to Katherine Kong (kkong@utk.edu) by November 8, 2010.
For more information on the KFLC, see: http://web.as.uky.edu/kflc/
Memory and Forgetting in the French Renaissance
Many have remarked at the tendency of French Renaissance literature to commemorate past experience. Modern thought tends in the opposite direction, relegating prior experience to oblivion. Sixteenth-century French literature attempts to reconcile the two divergent tendencies, and perhaps for that reason has been dubbed the “early modern” period. Furthermore, the early modern treatment of memory and forgetfulness are determined by various theories from mythology to Christian ideology to medieval humeral philosophy. Through such theories the two are either diametrically opposed or inextricably intertwined and memory becomes aligned with morality and the soul whereas forgetting is associated with morality depravity and the body. At first glance it seems that the art of forgetting is overshadowed by the art of remembering in the literature of the period, but memory and forgetting are, in fact, mutually dependent. On the most basic level, the same fear of passing time and eventual death which inspired the countless carpe diem poems also motivated poets to create testaments to their lives to ensure that they not be forgotten.
We welcome proposals on French literature from the 16th Century / Renaissance that fall within the conference topic. Please send 500-words to Brooke Di Lauro (bdonalds@umw.edu) by November 1, 2010.
We welcome proposals on French literature from the 16th Century / Renaissance that fall within the conference topic. Please send 500-words to Brooke Di Lauro (bdonalds@umw.edu) by November 1, 2010.
Call for Editors Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
CALL FOR EDITORS
FOUNDING EDITORS SEEK AN EDITORIAL TEAM OF 2 OR 3 EDITORS
TO SUCCEED THEM IN 2011
The Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland, original publishers of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, officially closed July 23, 2010 due to budget cuts. The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at Arizona State University will take over the publication of the journal as well as its entire management, including the Managing Editor position. It will also continue the production, design, and distribution work they have provided since 2007. Several Arizona faculty have also agreed to serve on the Editorial Board.
The founding editors—Jane Donawerth and Adele Seeff of the University of Maryland and Diane Wolfthal of Rice University—and the Director of ACMRS—Robert E. Bjork—are seeking an editorial team of two or three editors in different fields of early modern women’s or gender studies to preserve the interdisciplinary character of EMWJ. Proposals should therefore come from a pair or team of potential editors.
The team of editors would be responsible for reviewing submissions, choosing outside readers, offering editorial suggestions, assembling and sending suggestions from editors and readers to authors, sending essays to the Editorial Board for votes, inviting some submissions, overseeing the choice of the annual Forum topic, sending finished revisions to ACMRS for copy-editing, meeting annually with the EMWJ Editorial Board and reporting to the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference or the Attending to Women Symposium, and other tasks related to the pre-publication phase of a scholarly journal.
Editors will be expected to deliver the final edited copy of each issue to ACMRS by July 1, in time for an October publication date. Editors should expect an average of six hours of pro bono work each week year-round, with fluctuations over the course of the year.
All managing and editing responsibilities will be handled by ACMRS: subscription records and bookkeeping, logging submissions and reviews, receiving and mailing books for reviews, advertisements, copy-editing, typesetting, final proofreading, printing, etc.
The ideal proposal will come from a team of editors who are specialists in early modern women’s or gender studies and whose disciplines balance literature and history (or art history or music, etc.). The editorial team should have strong support from a Chair, Dean, or Provost. Ideal candidates will hold a Ph. D. in the humanities and have a strong sense of the scholarly traditions of gender and early modern studies and its future.
Preferably, new editors would begin the transition during the winter of 2011 and would take over formally by June 30, 2011. Some flexibility is possible. The current editors will be available for advice and support to ease the transition.
Please send a statement describing your interest and qualifications to:
Editors
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
0139 Taliaferro Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Electronic submissions also are welcomed at emwjournal@umd.edu.
Applications should include:
1. Statement of interest
2. Current CVs for all editors
3. Signed letter of support from a Chair, Dean, or Provost (support might include financial support, travel funds, a staff person, graduate assistant, or work-study student, etc.)
4. Indication of possible start date, preferably before June 30, 2011.
Editing experience is desirable but not required. A commitment to the field of Early Modern Women and Gender Studies and to collaborative scholarship is essential.
DEADLINE for application: December 1, 2010
For more information about the Journal please see, http://www.emwjournal.umd.edu/, or contact the journal at emwjournal@umd.edu.
CALL FOR EDITORS
FOUNDING EDITORS SEEK AN EDITORIAL TEAM OF 2 OR 3 EDITORS
TO SUCCEED THEM IN 2011
The Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland, original publishers of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, officially closed July 23, 2010 due to budget cuts. The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at Arizona State University will take over the publication of the journal as well as its entire management, including the Managing Editor position. It will also continue the production, design, and distribution work they have provided since 2007. Several Arizona faculty have also agreed to serve on the Editorial Board.
The founding editors—Jane Donawerth and Adele Seeff of the University of Maryland and Diane Wolfthal of Rice University—and the Director of ACMRS—Robert E. Bjork—are seeking an editorial team of two or three editors in different fields of early modern women’s or gender studies to preserve the interdisciplinary character of EMWJ. Proposals should therefore come from a pair or team of potential editors.
The team of editors would be responsible for reviewing submissions, choosing outside readers, offering editorial suggestions, assembling and sending suggestions from editors and readers to authors, sending essays to the Editorial Board for votes, inviting some submissions, overseeing the choice of the annual Forum topic, sending finished revisions to ACMRS for copy-editing, meeting annually with the EMWJ Editorial Board and reporting to the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference or the Attending to Women Symposium, and other tasks related to the pre-publication phase of a scholarly journal.
Editors will be expected to deliver the final edited copy of each issue to ACMRS by July 1, in time for an October publication date. Editors should expect an average of six hours of pro bono work each week year-round, with fluctuations over the course of the year.
All managing and editing responsibilities will be handled by ACMRS: subscription records and bookkeeping, logging submissions and reviews, receiving and mailing books for reviews, advertisements, copy-editing, typesetting, final proofreading, printing, etc.
The ideal proposal will come from a team of editors who are specialists in early modern women’s or gender studies and whose disciplines balance literature and history (or art history or music, etc.). The editorial team should have strong support from a Chair, Dean, or Provost. Ideal candidates will hold a Ph. D. in the humanities and have a strong sense of the scholarly traditions of gender and early modern studies and its future.
Preferably, new editors would begin the transition during the winter of 2011 and would take over formally by June 30, 2011. Some flexibility is possible. The current editors will be available for advice and support to ease the transition.
Please send a statement describing your interest and qualifications to:
Editors
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
0139 Taliaferro Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Electronic submissions also are welcomed at emwjournal@umd.edu.
Applications should include:
1. Statement of interest
2. Current CVs for all editors
3. Signed letter of support from a Chair, Dean, or Provost (support might include financial support, travel funds, a staff person, graduate assistant, or work-study student, etc.)
4. Indication of possible start date, preferably before June 30, 2011.
Editing experience is desirable but not required. A commitment to the field of Early Modern Women and Gender Studies and to collaborative scholarship is essential.
DEADLINE for application: December 1, 2010
For more information about the Journal please see, http://www.emwjournal.umd.edu/, or contact the journal at emwjournal@umd.edu.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Anti-masonry
The Canonbury Masonic Research Centre (CMRC) is pleased to announce the program for its twelfth annual conference on the theme of 'Anti-Masonry' scheduled for 29/30-31 October, 2010.
Soon after its emergence in early Hanoverian London, organised Freemasonry earned the enmity of both religious institutions and governments alike, and by the summer of 1738 the association had been proscribed by the Magistrate in The Hague, the French government of Cardinal Fleury, and by Pope Clement XII, in what was to be the first of many Papal Bulls issued against the order. In the wake of the French revolution of 1789, polemicists such as the Catholic priest, Abbé Barruel, accused the Freemasons of helping to bring about these momentous events, and within a few years a Jewish component had been introduced to this heady tale. It was an elaboration that was to have disastrous consequences.
During the nineteenth century Freemasonry also found itself accused of fomenting the European revolutions of 1848 and a highly successful anti-masonic party was established in the United States. By the close of century, the story that Freemasonry was somehow intertwined with Jewish interests (what American historian Gabriel Jackson termed 'The Black Legend') had metamorphosed into one of the most outlandish conspiracy tales of all time - The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. This notorious forgery of the Tsarist Secret Police - an imagined blueprint for Judeo-Masonic world domination - was eagerly embraced by the European Fascist regimes, and it helped prepare the ground for the Holocaust as well as the imprisonment and execution of thousands of Freemasons, along with the targeted theft of vast masonic archives, many of which are still being restituted to their original owners today. In post-war Europe the publication and appeal of the Protocols dwindled, although in the case of Spain General Franco continued to maintain a belief in the existence an imaginary Bolshevik-Masonic complot until his death in 1975. And today, this infamous document is still viewed as genuine in many parts of the world, particularly in the Middle East where it is typically used to justify an over-arching anti-Western rhetoric. But while the anti-Jewish or anti-Zionist aspects of this phenomenon are frequently discussed by academics, the anti-masonic element is all too often ignored.
Consequently, this international conference aims to address this neglected topic in all its aspects.
For further information please email:
conference@canonbury.ac.uk or telephone 00 44 (0)20 7226 6256
----------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday 29 October
The conference will commence with a rare showing of 'Les Forces Occultes' - a feature length anti-masonic film made in wartime occupied France (1943) complete with English subtitles - at University College London.
Saturday 30 October 09:00 Registration and coffee
09:50 Official opening
10:00 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Professor Michael Hagemeister, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
10:45 Morning coffee
11:15 Chair: Professor Andrew Prescott, Hatii, University of Glasgow
Anti-masonry and masonic trans-nationalism: a complex interplay Dr. Joachim Berger, Institute of European History, Mainz
Blaming the Great War on the masons' entente: Friedrich Wichtl, 1872-1921
Dr. Reinhard Markner, Berlin
The anti-masonic writings of General Erich Ludendorff
Jimmy Köppen, Free University of Brussels
Anti-masonry as political protest: Fascist attitudes to Freemasonry in interwar Romania
Roland Clark, University of Pittsburgh
12:35 Panel discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Keynote: Franco's persecution of Freemasonry
Professor José Antonio Ferrer Benimeli, University of Zaragoza
15:00 Afternoon Tea
15.30 Chair: Dr. Andreas Önnerfors, University of Sheffield
'Anti-masonry' in nineteenth-century Ottoman Lebanon: an offensive against Anglo-Saxon and protestant missionaries?
Said Chaa EPHE/Sorbonne Paris
Anti-masonry among the Ottomans and in contemporary Turkey
Professor Thierry Zarcone, CNRS/Sorbonne Paris
Trends of anti-masonry in Eastern Orthodox cultures
Dr. Yuri Stoyanov, Research Fellow, SOAS, University of London
'The Devil's sons': one century of anti-masonry in the Arab world
Stephan Schmid, American University of Beirut
16:50 Panel discussion
17:30 Close
19:00 Dinner
Sunday 31 October
10:00 Keynote: Professor John Robison (1739-1805)
Professor Andrew Prescott, Hatii, University of Glasgow
10:45 Morning coffee
11:15 Chair: Professor Jeffrey Tyssens, Free University of Brussels
The reception of anti-masonry in the eighteenth-century English press
Dr. Róbert Péter, Senior Assistant Professor, University of Szeged
Barruel's conspiracy theory - a theoretical approach
Claus Oberhauser, University of Innsbruck
A Swedish diplomat's recently deciphered perspective on the Unlawful Societies Act of 1799
Dr. Andreas Önnerfors, University of Sheffield
'The voice of Morgan's blood cries from the ground': reading American anti-masonry through anti-masonic almanacs, 1827-1837
Jeff Croteau, MA MLS, National Heritage Museum, Lexington MA
12:35 Panel discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Keynote: War on Freemasons: The restitution of stolen masonic archives from Russia
Dr. Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
15:00 Afternoon tea
15:30 Chair: Dr. Tim Baycroft, University of Sheffield
Anti-masonic thought in France: the example of Bernard Faÿ Jen Farrar, University of Sheffield
Visual evidence used by Franco's Police in the persecution of Spanish Freemasons
Dr. Sylvia Hottinger, Carlos III University, Madrid
Stolen truth or truth stolen?
Dr. Hans Kummerer, Quatuor Coronati Research Lodge, Austria
The ongoing restitution of the Norwegian masonic library and archives
Helge Bjørn Horrisland, Norwegian Order of Freemasons
16:30 Panel discussion
17:00 Close
Soon after its emergence in early Hanoverian London, organised Freemasonry earned the enmity of both religious institutions and governments alike, and by the summer of 1738 the association had been proscribed by the Magistrate in The Hague, the French government of Cardinal Fleury, and by Pope Clement XII, in what was to be the first of many Papal Bulls issued against the order. In the wake of the French revolution of 1789, polemicists such as the Catholic priest, Abbé Barruel, accused the Freemasons of helping to bring about these momentous events, and within a few years a Jewish component had been introduced to this heady tale. It was an elaboration that was to have disastrous consequences.
During the nineteenth century Freemasonry also found itself accused of fomenting the European revolutions of 1848 and a highly successful anti-masonic party was established in the United States. By the close of century, the story that Freemasonry was somehow intertwined with Jewish interests (what American historian Gabriel Jackson termed 'The Black Legend') had metamorphosed into one of the most outlandish conspiracy tales of all time - The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. This notorious forgery of the Tsarist Secret Police - an imagined blueprint for Judeo-Masonic world domination - was eagerly embraced by the European Fascist regimes, and it helped prepare the ground for the Holocaust as well as the imprisonment and execution of thousands of Freemasons, along with the targeted theft of vast masonic archives, many of which are still being restituted to their original owners today. In post-war Europe the publication and appeal of the Protocols dwindled, although in the case of Spain General Franco continued to maintain a belief in the existence an imaginary Bolshevik-Masonic complot until his death in 1975. And today, this infamous document is still viewed as genuine in many parts of the world, particularly in the Middle East where it is typically used to justify an over-arching anti-Western rhetoric. But while the anti-Jewish or anti-Zionist aspects of this phenomenon are frequently discussed by academics, the anti-masonic element is all too often ignored.
Consequently, this international conference aims to address this neglected topic in all its aspects.
For further information please email:
conference@canonbury.ac.uk or telephone 00 44 (0)20 7226 6256
----------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday 29 October
The conference will commence with a rare showing of 'Les Forces Occultes' - a feature length anti-masonic film made in wartime occupied France (1943) complete with English subtitles - at University College London.
Saturday 30 October 09:00 Registration and coffee
09:50 Official opening
10:00 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Professor Michael Hagemeister, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
10:45 Morning coffee
11:15 Chair: Professor Andrew Prescott, Hatii, University of Glasgow
Anti-masonry and masonic trans-nationalism: a complex interplay Dr. Joachim Berger, Institute of European History, Mainz
Blaming the Great War on the masons' entente: Friedrich Wichtl, 1872-1921
Dr. Reinhard Markner, Berlin
The anti-masonic writings of General Erich Ludendorff
Jimmy Köppen, Free University of Brussels
Anti-masonry as political protest: Fascist attitudes to Freemasonry in interwar Romania
Roland Clark, University of Pittsburgh
12:35 Panel discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Keynote: Franco's persecution of Freemasonry
Professor José Antonio Ferrer Benimeli, University of Zaragoza
15:00 Afternoon Tea
15.30 Chair: Dr. Andreas Önnerfors, University of Sheffield
'Anti-masonry' in nineteenth-century Ottoman Lebanon: an offensive against Anglo-Saxon and protestant missionaries?
Said Chaa EPHE/Sorbonne Paris
Anti-masonry among the Ottomans and in contemporary Turkey
Professor Thierry Zarcone, CNRS/Sorbonne Paris
Trends of anti-masonry in Eastern Orthodox cultures
Dr. Yuri Stoyanov, Research Fellow, SOAS, University of London
'The Devil's sons': one century of anti-masonry in the Arab world
Stephan Schmid, American University of Beirut
16:50 Panel discussion
17:30 Close
19:00 Dinner
Sunday 31 October
10:00 Keynote: Professor John Robison (1739-1805)
Professor Andrew Prescott, Hatii, University of Glasgow
10:45 Morning coffee
11:15 Chair: Professor Jeffrey Tyssens, Free University of Brussels
The reception of anti-masonry in the eighteenth-century English press
Dr. Róbert Péter, Senior Assistant Professor, University of Szeged
Barruel's conspiracy theory - a theoretical approach
Claus Oberhauser, University of Innsbruck
A Swedish diplomat's recently deciphered perspective on the Unlawful Societies Act of 1799
Dr. Andreas Önnerfors, University of Sheffield
'The voice of Morgan's blood cries from the ground': reading American anti-masonry through anti-masonic almanacs, 1827-1837
Jeff Croteau, MA MLS, National Heritage Museum, Lexington MA
12:35 Panel discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Keynote: War on Freemasons: The restitution of stolen masonic archives from Russia
Dr. Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
15:00 Afternoon tea
15:30 Chair: Dr. Tim Baycroft, University of Sheffield
Anti-masonic thought in France: the example of Bernard Faÿ Jen Farrar, University of Sheffield
Visual evidence used by Franco's Police in the persecution of Spanish Freemasons
Dr. Sylvia Hottinger, Carlos III University, Madrid
Stolen truth or truth stolen?
Dr. Hans Kummerer, Quatuor Coronati Research Lodge, Austria
The ongoing restitution of the Norwegian masonic library and archives
Helge Bjørn Horrisland, Norwegian Order of Freemasons
16:30 Panel discussion
17:00 Close
The Sincerest Form: Literary Imitation, Adaptation, and Parody
The Sincerest Form: Literary Imitation, Adaptation, and Parody
Notre Dame English Graduate Student Conference
University of Notre Dame
South Bend, Indiana
March 3-4, 2011
Keynote Speaker: Professor Julie Sanders, University of Nottingham
From mash-up videos to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the refashioning of cultural artifacts is a primary mode of artistic expression in the twenty-first century. Such appropriative strategies are part of a long literary tradition, one shared by writers as diverse as Geoffrey Chaucer, Carlo Goldoni, Bertolt Brecht, and Jean Rhys. This graduate student conference will explore how writers from around the world reimagine European literature through imitation, adaptation, and parody, from the Middle Ages to the present. These texts, which often cross temporal, spatial, linguistic, and cultural boundaries, raise intriguing questions about the relationships between the past and the present, centers of power and peripheries, the canonical and the non-canonical, and the highbrow and the lowbrow. In addition, we will examine the role that these texts play in cultural interchange within Europe and between Europe and the rest of the world. We will consider as well how these texts disrupt traditional Western notions of intellectual property rights.
A keynote address will be given by Julie Sanders, Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham. Professor Sanders is the author of "Novel Shakespeares: Twentieth-Century Women Novelists and Appropriation" (2001), "Adaptation and Appropriation" (2005), and "Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings" (2007), and serves on the editorial board of "Adaptation," Oxford University Press’s journal on literature and film.
The conference will include a roundtable on the pedagogy of imitations, adaptations, and parodies. The roundtable participants are Professor Sanders; Professor John Sitter, chair of the English Department at the University of Notre Dame; and Dr. Abigail Palko, Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Gender Studies Program at the University of Notre Dame.
Please send abstracts to Lauren Rich at rich.12@nd.edu by December 17, 2010. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words for papers 15-20 minutes in length.
For more information, please contact James Creech (jcreech2@nd.edu) or Lauren Rich (rich.12@nd.edu).
Notre Dame English Graduate Student Conference
University of Notre Dame
South Bend, Indiana
March 3-4, 2011
Keynote Speaker: Professor Julie Sanders, University of Nottingham
From mash-up videos to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the refashioning of cultural artifacts is a primary mode of artistic expression in the twenty-first century. Such appropriative strategies are part of a long literary tradition, one shared by writers as diverse as Geoffrey Chaucer, Carlo Goldoni, Bertolt Brecht, and Jean Rhys. This graduate student conference will explore how writers from around the world reimagine European literature through imitation, adaptation, and parody, from the Middle Ages to the present. These texts, which often cross temporal, spatial, linguistic, and cultural boundaries, raise intriguing questions about the relationships between the past and the present, centers of power and peripheries, the canonical and the non-canonical, and the highbrow and the lowbrow. In addition, we will examine the role that these texts play in cultural interchange within Europe and between Europe and the rest of the world. We will consider as well how these texts disrupt traditional Western notions of intellectual property rights.
A keynote address will be given by Julie Sanders, Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham. Professor Sanders is the author of "Novel Shakespeares: Twentieth-Century Women Novelists and Appropriation" (2001), "Adaptation and Appropriation" (2005), and "Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings" (2007), and serves on the editorial board of "Adaptation," Oxford University Press’s journal on literature and film.
The conference will include a roundtable on the pedagogy of imitations, adaptations, and parodies. The roundtable participants are Professor Sanders; Professor John Sitter, chair of the English Department at the University of Notre Dame; and Dr. Abigail Palko, Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Gender Studies Program at the University of Notre Dame.
Please send abstracts to Lauren Rich at rich.12@nd.edu by December 17, 2010. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words for papers 15-20 minutes in length.
For more information, please contact James Creech (jcreech2@nd.edu) or Lauren Rich (rich.12@nd.edu).
Performance Studies Focus Group Call for Proposals-ATHE 2011 Chicago
Call for Proposals: PSFG/ATHE 2011
The Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) invites session proposals for the 2011 25th Anniversary Conference at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago, 11-14 August on the conference theme of "Performance Remains, Global Presence: Memory, Legacy, and Imagined Futures."
Beyond the discipline of Performance Studies, what lies ahead? Where might the academy's move toward interdisciplinarity take Performance Studies and/or what influence might Performance Studies have had on the academy's changing view of the discipline? Because Performance Studies is predicated upon being wide-ranging, can it approach legacy? How might we explore the tensions within our own imagined community by thinking about the temporal confines of our field? Additionally, where might our individual research break new ground? How indeed do we incorporate past methodologies into our present work? PSFG invites submissions that embrace the discipline's past as well as envision its future. Taking Performance Studies in the larger scope of an institutional move toward hybridity, what remains?
All session proposals are filed electronically directly to ATHE. A link to the session proposal form, along with full explanations, can be found at http://www.athe.org/conference/sessions. All session proposals have a deadline of 1 November.
ATHE also accepts proposals for Multidisciplinary (MD) sessions. Multidisciplinary panels must be sponsored by three different focus groups. All MD session organizers must contact the Conference Planners of all three sponsoring groups before submitting their session directly to ATHE. If you would like to learn more about ATHE Focus Groups, go to: http://www.athe.org/getinvolved/focusgroups/index. All session proposals are due by 1 November.
While individual papers will receive consideration, submissions that pull together a strong panel of participants are preferred. With individual papers, the Focus Group Conference Planner will curate panels, attempting to match up related papers. In order to facilitate this process, these papers must be received directly by the Conference Planner Megan Shea at megan.shea@nyu.edu, by October 10th. Individual paper proposals should include title, contact information, and an abstract of 250 words.
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact:
Megan Shea
PSFG Conference Planner
Expository Writing Program
New York University
411 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003
megan.shea@nyu.edu
The Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) invites session proposals for the 2011 25th Anniversary Conference at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago, 11-14 August on the conference theme of "Performance Remains, Global Presence: Memory, Legacy, and Imagined Futures."
Beyond the discipline of Performance Studies, what lies ahead? Where might the academy's move toward interdisciplinarity take Performance Studies and/or what influence might Performance Studies have had on the academy's changing view of the discipline? Because Performance Studies is predicated upon being wide-ranging, can it approach legacy? How might we explore the tensions within our own imagined community by thinking about the temporal confines of our field? Additionally, where might our individual research break new ground? How indeed do we incorporate past methodologies into our present work? PSFG invites submissions that embrace the discipline's past as well as envision its future. Taking Performance Studies in the larger scope of an institutional move toward hybridity, what remains?
All session proposals are filed electronically directly to ATHE. A link to the session proposal form, along with full explanations, can be found at http://www.athe.org/conference/sessions. All session proposals have a deadline of 1 November.
ATHE also accepts proposals for Multidisciplinary (MD) sessions. Multidisciplinary panels must be sponsored by three different focus groups. All MD session organizers must contact the Conference Planners of all three sponsoring groups before submitting their session directly to ATHE. If you would like to learn more about ATHE Focus Groups, go to: http://www.athe.org/getinvolved/focusgroups/index. All session proposals are due by 1 November.
While individual papers will receive consideration, submissions that pull together a strong panel of participants are preferred. With individual papers, the Focus Group Conference Planner will curate panels, attempting to match up related papers. In order to facilitate this process, these papers must be received directly by the Conference Planner Megan Shea at megan.shea@nyu.edu, by October 10th. Individual paper proposals should include title, contact information, and an abstract of 250 words.
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact:
Megan Shea
PSFG Conference Planner
Expository Writing Program
New York University
411 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003
megan.shea@nyu.edu
CFP Purdue Comitatus Grad Conference, Feb 4-5th, 2011
Dear All,
I am pleased to announce that the 9th Annual Comitatus Graduate
Student Medieval Conference will be held at Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana, on Feb 4th-5th, 2011.
CALL FOR PAPERS: THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK—TEXTS AND RECEPTION
9th Comitatus Graduate Conference on Medieval Studies, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Feb. 4-5th, 2011.
Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies Graduate Student Organization,
is pleased to announce its ninth annual Graduate Conference on
Medieval Studies to be held on February 4-5, 2011. The theme of this
year’s conference is "The History of the Book: Texts and Reception,"
and it will feature a keynote address from Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, The
Notre Dame Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
Kerby-Fulton has written many works on manuscript studies, religious
writers and visionaries, and textual reception, and is author of
_Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing
in Late Medieval England_ (Winner of the 2007 Snow Prize from the
North American Conference on British Studies, as well as the Medieval
Academy of America Haskins Gold Medal in 2010).
We invite submissions of abstracts for papers on any area of the
history of the book and its reception in the medieval to the early
modern period. Possible themes include but are not limited to:
1. Textual studies of manuscripts and early printed books
2. The material culture surrounding the text
3. The history of textual dissemination and its impact
4. The contents of libraries
5. Textual illuminations, artwork, and its relationship to text
6. Cultural support for literary production
7. The relationship between the text and the reader
8. Reception theory
9. Book or textual fetishism
10. Trust in the written record
11. Religious and secular theories of the book
12. The social life of texts
13. Marginalia and glosses
14. Medieval literacy and the text
15. Sponsored educational and literacy programs and the use of the text
16. Renaissances and renewals, and their impact on readers and texts
17. Political uses for the text and literacy
18. Writing and memory
Please submit an abstract of approximately 200 words to
cjudkins@purdue.edu by Dec. 1st, 2010.
Please see http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~comitatu/conference.html for
further details and for registration.
Warm Regards,
Chad Judkins
Comitatus President
Doctoral Student
English Medieval Literature
Purdue University
Heavilon 209/SC G025
I am pleased to announce that the 9th Annual Comitatus Graduate
Student Medieval Conference will be held at Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana, on Feb 4th-5th, 2011.
CALL FOR PAPERS: THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK—TEXTS AND RECEPTION
9th Comitatus Graduate Conference on Medieval Studies, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Feb. 4-5th, 2011.
Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies Graduate Student Organization,
is pleased to announce its ninth annual Graduate Conference on
Medieval Studies to be held on February 4-5, 2011. The theme of this
year’s conference is "The History of the Book: Texts and Reception,"
and it will feature a keynote address from Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, The
Notre Dame Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
Kerby-Fulton has written many works on manuscript studies, religious
writers and visionaries, and textual reception, and is author of
_Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing
in Late Medieval England_ (Winner of the 2007 Snow Prize from the
North American Conference on British Studies, as well as the Medieval
Academy of America Haskins Gold Medal in 2010).
We invite submissions of abstracts for papers on any area of the
history of the book and its reception in the medieval to the early
modern period. Possible themes include but are not limited to:
1. Textual studies of manuscripts and early printed books
2. The material culture surrounding the text
3. The history of textual dissemination and its impact
4. The contents of libraries
5. Textual illuminations, artwork, and its relationship to text
6. Cultural support for literary production
7. The relationship between the text and the reader
8. Reception theory
9. Book or textual fetishism
10. Trust in the written record
11. Religious and secular theories of the book
12. The social life of texts
13. Marginalia and glosses
14. Medieval literacy and the text
15. Sponsored educational and literacy programs and the use of the text
16. Renaissances and renewals, and their impact on readers and texts
17. Political uses for the text and literacy
18. Writing and memory
Please submit an abstract of approximately 200 words to
cjudkins@purdue.edu by Dec. 1st, 2010.
Please see http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~comitatu/conference.html for
further details and for registration.
Warm Regards,
Chad Judkins
Comitatus President
Doctoral Student
English Medieval Literature
Purdue University
Heavilon 209/SC G025
Medicine at the margins: ideas, knowledge and practice from c. 1500 to 2000
Medicine at the margins: ideas, knowledge and practice from c. 1500 to 2000
Friday, April 15th 2011. University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK.
A conference jointly organised by the Department of History and the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS) and supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust.
Throughout the history of medicine there has always been knowledge and practices considered to be (or portrayed as) outside the normal or orthodox: these include early modern popular and magical healing, mesmerism, ‘quack’ remedies, and alternative or complementary medicine. They have all existed at the boundaries of acceptability and legitimacy, and these boundaries have frequently shifted. Similarly, some illnesses have placed patients beyond the margins of acceptability. Mental health problems, sexually-transmitted diseases and conditions incurring great disfigurement have all been intertwined with social concepts of the taboo .
What exactly can be found at these margins of medicine, and who determined them? How did practitioners and patients understand unorthodox practices, and how did this affect the treatment choices they made? Were patients and practitioners prepared to subvert social and cultural expectations in order to treat disease? How far have patients hidden or disguised the symptoms of a taboo illness, and how have doctors reacted to patients with shameful or forbidden illnesses? How were such practices culturally represented?
This conference offers the opportunity to bring fresh insight to the energetic debates about the concepts of ‘orthodox’ and ‘unorthodox’ in medicine by exploring the peripheries of the medical experience through history and its cultural forms. We welcome proposals for papers on any of the following themes, or others which potential participants recognise as relevant to the conference:
• Relationships between the medical orthodoxy and laity
• The impact of folklore in medical history
• Sufferers’ experiences and narratives of unorthodox medicine
• Geographical margins, such as rural areas and provincial towns
• Concepts of health, well-being and disability through time
• Taboo illnesses or afflictions
• Self-inflicted injury
• Status illnesses or injuries
• Representations of health and medicine in art and literature
• Medicine and colonial expansion
• Medicine and ethnology
Please send proposals of no more than 200 words, with a brief personal CV of 50 words by January 30th 2011 to Dr Alun Withey, History (ARWithey@glam.ac.uk) and Professor Andrew Smith, RCLAS (Asmith5@glam.ac.uk)
Friday, April 15th 2011. University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK.
A conference jointly organised by the Department of History and the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS) and supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust.
Throughout the history of medicine there has always been knowledge and practices considered to be (or portrayed as) outside the normal or orthodox: these include early modern popular and magical healing, mesmerism, ‘quack’ remedies, and alternative or complementary medicine. They have all existed at the boundaries of acceptability and legitimacy, and these boundaries have frequently shifted. Similarly, some illnesses have placed patients beyond the margins of acceptability. Mental health problems, sexually-transmitted diseases and conditions incurring great disfigurement have all been intertwined with social concepts of the taboo .
What exactly can be found at these margins of medicine, and who determined them? How did practitioners and patients understand unorthodox practices, and how did this affect the treatment choices they made? Were patients and practitioners prepared to subvert social and cultural expectations in order to treat disease? How far have patients hidden or disguised the symptoms of a taboo illness, and how have doctors reacted to patients with shameful or forbidden illnesses? How were such practices culturally represented?
This conference offers the opportunity to bring fresh insight to the energetic debates about the concepts of ‘orthodox’ and ‘unorthodox’ in medicine by exploring the peripheries of the medical experience through history and its cultural forms. We welcome proposals for papers on any of the following themes, or others which potential participants recognise as relevant to the conference:
• Relationships between the medical orthodoxy and laity
• The impact of folklore in medical history
• Sufferers’ experiences and narratives of unorthodox medicine
• Geographical margins, such as rural areas and provincial towns
• Concepts of health, well-being and disability through time
• Taboo illnesses or afflictions
• Self-inflicted injury
• Status illnesses or injuries
• Representations of health and medicine in art and literature
• Medicine and colonial expansion
• Medicine and ethnology
Please send proposals of no more than 200 words, with a brief personal CV of 50 words by January 30th 2011 to Dr Alun Withey, History (ARWithey@glam.ac.uk) and Professor Andrew Smith, RCLAS (Asmith5@glam.ac.uk)
Graduate and early career research call for papers: Shakespeare: Sources and Adaptation, 9th-11th September 2011
Graduate and early career research call for papers:
Shakespeare: Sources and Adaptation
The University of Cambridge
9th-11th September 2011
In association with the Cambridge University English Faculty, Cambridge Marlowe Dramatic Society and Association for Adaptation.
Proposals for graduate and early career research academic papers are invited on various aspects of the topic: Shakespeare: Sources and Adaptation, including:
* Beyond Shakespeare Adaptation
* Shakespeare for children and young people
* Shakespeare's Classical sources
* Shakespeare's Historical sources
* Shakespeare in Art
* Shakespeare in Music
* Shakespeare on film and television
* Foreign language adaptations of Shakespeare
* Shakespeare's influence on contemporary playwrights
* Shakespeare in 20th and 21st century fiction
The conference is aimed at academics, theatre and film practitioners and teachers. Confirmed plenary speakers include: Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Rosen, Professor Helen Cooper, Professor Stephen Greenblatt, a panel of directors of the BBC Shakespeare Series led by former controller of BBC 1 Jonathan Powell and a panel of actors (including Imogen Stubbs) discussing acting in Shakespeare on film, RSC new writing department and Theatre Royal Bury.
200 word proposals should be sent to Chris O’Rourke, cpo25@cam.ac.uk and Simon Ryle, sjr80@cam.ac.uk
Shakespeare: Sources and Adaptation
The University of Cambridge
9th-11th September 2011
In association with the Cambridge University English Faculty, Cambridge Marlowe Dramatic Society and Association for Adaptation.
Proposals for graduate and early career research academic papers are invited on various aspects of the topic: Shakespeare: Sources and Adaptation, including:
* Beyond Shakespeare Adaptation
* Shakespeare for children and young people
* Shakespeare's Classical sources
* Shakespeare's Historical sources
* Shakespeare in Art
* Shakespeare in Music
* Shakespeare on film and television
* Foreign language adaptations of Shakespeare
* Shakespeare's influence on contemporary playwrights
* Shakespeare in 20th and 21st century fiction
The conference is aimed at academics, theatre and film practitioners and teachers. Confirmed plenary speakers include: Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Rosen, Professor Helen Cooper, Professor Stephen Greenblatt, a panel of directors of the BBC Shakespeare Series led by former controller of BBC 1 Jonathan Powell and a panel of actors (including Imogen Stubbs) discussing acting in Shakespeare on film, RSC new writing department and Theatre Royal Bury.
200 word proposals should be sent to Chris O’Rourke, cpo25@cam.ac.uk and Simon Ryle, sjr80@cam.ac.uk
Monday, October 4, 2010
Bollywood Shakespeare 12/15/2010
Bollywood Shakespeare: Cultural Dialogues through World Cinema and Theater
Abstracts/drafts/letters of interest due by Dec. 15 2010. Email as attached to both: kapadiap@nku.edu and cdionne@emich.edu
This collection of essays will focus on the way Shakespeare’s dramatic work is appropriated by different generations of Bollywood film artists to reflect on the complicated place Shakespeare has in the postcolonial English world canon. Ideally, we are looking for theoretical engagements with the latest adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays in contemporary Hindi cinema, such as Merchant Ivory’s Shakespeare Wallah (1965), Angoor (1982) directors like Vishal Bhadwaj’s Maqbool (2003) and Omkara (2006), Mehta’s Bollywood/Hollywood (2002) and Water (2006). However, we are also interested in how world cinema and theater responds to Bollywood's representation of "Shakespeare" by incorporating gestures and styles on stage and in different pop forms. Questions that drive this collection include...
--What aspects of Shakespeare's dramatic work appeal to Bollywood? As a popular cinema? What Shakespeare, exactly, becomes part of this popular cinema? How does Shakespeare's participation in the early modern "hodge podge" of cultural dramatic forms get picked up, or "identified" by Bollywood's mixture of aesthetics?
--Is the category "Bollywood" being broadened and/or misapplied when used in reference to Shakespeare films from India?
--How closely must the forms and aesthetics of Bollywood be followed for a Shakespeare film to be considered "Bollywood Shakespeare"?
--Does Bollywood Shakespeare suggest or point towards a transnational Shakespeare genre included in Bollywood’s global reach with audiences in the Middle East, Northern Africa, the subcontinent and diasporic communities in the UK, Europe, and North America?
--How does Shakespeare figure in the way Bollywood negotiates its relative "distance" to/from Hollywood? Bollywood posits itself against the Western film industry but Bollywood does not conform to aims of Third Cinema. Where does Shakespeare figure in this dynamic?
--What is distinct about Bollywood Shakespeare? That is, what makes this form of appropriation different from other cinemas? Asian Shakespeare on film? Third cinema?
Parmita Kapadia
kapadiap@nku.edu
Associate Professor
Department of English
Northern Kentucky University
Craig Dionne
cdionne@emich.edu
Professor of English Literature
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197
Abstracts/drafts/letters of interest due by Dec. 15 2010. Email as attached to both: kapadiap@nku.edu and cdionne@emich.edu
This collection of essays will focus on the way Shakespeare’s dramatic work is appropriated by different generations of Bollywood film artists to reflect on the complicated place Shakespeare has in the postcolonial English world canon. Ideally, we are looking for theoretical engagements with the latest adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays in contemporary Hindi cinema, such as Merchant Ivory’s Shakespeare Wallah (1965), Angoor (1982) directors like Vishal Bhadwaj’s Maqbool (2003) and Omkara (2006), Mehta’s Bollywood/Hollywood (2002) and Water (2006). However, we are also interested in how world cinema and theater responds to Bollywood's representation of "Shakespeare" by incorporating gestures and styles on stage and in different pop forms. Questions that drive this collection include...
--What aspects of Shakespeare's dramatic work appeal to Bollywood? As a popular cinema? What Shakespeare, exactly, becomes part of this popular cinema? How does Shakespeare's participation in the early modern "hodge podge" of cultural dramatic forms get picked up, or "identified" by Bollywood's mixture of aesthetics?
--Is the category "Bollywood" being broadened and/or misapplied when used in reference to Shakespeare films from India?
--How closely must the forms and aesthetics of Bollywood be followed for a Shakespeare film to be considered "Bollywood Shakespeare"?
--Does Bollywood Shakespeare suggest or point towards a transnational Shakespeare genre included in Bollywood’s global reach with audiences in the Middle East, Northern Africa, the subcontinent and diasporic communities in the UK, Europe, and North America?
--How does Shakespeare figure in the way Bollywood negotiates its relative "distance" to/from Hollywood? Bollywood posits itself against the Western film industry but Bollywood does not conform to aims of Third Cinema. Where does Shakespeare figure in this dynamic?
--What is distinct about Bollywood Shakespeare? That is, what makes this form of appropriation different from other cinemas? Asian Shakespeare on film? Third cinema?
Parmita Kapadia
kapadiap@nku.edu
Associate Professor
Department of English
Northern Kentucky University
Craig Dionne
cdionne@emich.edu
Professor of English Literature
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197
Open Call for Papers / Teaching Medieval and Renaissance Literature
This Rough Magic is affiliated with the State University of New York – Stony Brook and Suffolk County Community College. We are looking for academic articles devoted to the teaching of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Paper themes should focus on, but are not limited to, the teaching of the following categories:
• Authorship
• Genre Issues
• Narrative Structure
• Poetry
• Drama
• Epic
• Nation/Empire/Class
• Economics
• History
• Religion
• Superstition
• Philosophy
• Rhetoric
• Race/Ethnicity
• Multi-Culturalism
• Gender
• Sexuality
• Art
Submissions must follow The MLA Handbook with regards to style and bibliography, will be sent for peer-review, and must be between 15 and 35 pages. Any illustrations should accompany the manuscript; edited texts should be in old-spelling with introduction, textual variants, and annotations each printed separately. Published essays will be reproduced in electronic form, followed by printed format at a later date. All submissions should be sent to the co-editors, Bente Videbaek and Michael Boecherer, at the following addresses:
Hardcopy Format:
Editors, This Rough Magic
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Department of English
Stony Brook, New York 11790
USA
Electronic Format (.doc or .pdf):
Bente.Videbaek@Stonybrook.edu /
boechem@sunysuffolk.edu
The submission deadlines are open. However, individuals wishing to be included in our third issue (Spring 2011) should submit no later than January 1st.
Young scholars and veteran faculty are encouraged to submit.For more information, check us out on the web!
• Authorship
• Genre Issues
• Narrative Structure
• Poetry
• Drama
• Epic
• Nation/Empire/Class
• Economics
• History
• Religion
• Superstition
• Philosophy
• Rhetoric
• Race/Ethnicity
• Multi-Culturalism
• Gender
• Sexuality
• Art
Submissions must follow The MLA Handbook with regards to style and bibliography, will be sent for peer-review, and must be between 15 and 35 pages. Any illustrations should accompany the manuscript; edited texts should be in old-spelling with introduction, textual variants, and annotations each printed separately. Published essays will be reproduced in electronic form, followed by printed format at a later date. All submissions should be sent to the co-editors, Bente Videbaek and Michael Boecherer, at the following addresses:
Hardcopy Format:
Editors, This Rough Magic
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Department of English
Stony Brook, New York 11790
USA
Electronic Format (.doc or .pdf):
Bente.Videbaek@Stonybrook.edu /
boechem@sunysuffolk.edu
The submission deadlines are open. However, individuals wishing to be included in our third issue (Spring 2011) should submit no later than January 1st.
Young scholars and veteran faculty are encouraged to submit.For more information, check us out on the web!
Borderlands and Meeting Points The 6th Annual Brown University Graduate Student Conference
Borderlands and Meeting Points
The 6th Annual Brown University Graduate Student Conference
Key Note Speaker: Professor Timothy Snyder, Yale University
Brown University, Providence, RI
April 8-9, 2011
Borderlands and meeting points represent sites of exchange, mediation, cooperation, and conflict. As “in-between” areas, borderlands foster interactions between individuals, communities, and nations. Similarly, meeting points facilitate both ideological and physical contact. Such contact may involve not only political, economic, social and religious dynamics, but also evolving conceptions of self and other. Thus, whether real or imagined, borderlands and meeting points affect the way identities are variously constructed, perceived, negotiated, and performed.
This conference seeks to generate new interdisciplinary perspectives about borderlands and meeting points, putting into conversation fields such as history, literature, anthropology, political science, geography, law, and art. Through these conversations, we will consider the strategies – particularly cultural ones – that are employed at such sites both to pursue particular interests and to engender or resist change. The study of borderlands and meeting points presents us with a methodological and theoretical challenge: to find creative means of giving expression to people and interactions often shaped by charged political and ethnic concerns.
Potential paper topics include, but are not limited to, historical and/or theoretical explorations of the following:
-Urban, regional, and national space and identity
-Ethnic conflict or concord
-Cross-cultural interactions
-Circulation of ideas and materials
-Translation and interpreters
-Trade and commerce
-Religion, missionaries, and conversion
-Gender and sexuality
-Movement, migration and diaspora
Submission Guidelines:
Interested graduate students should submit a 250-word abstract by November 15, 2010. Each proposal should clearly state its relevancy to the conference theme. Candidates proposing full panels should also include a 150-word abstract on the organizing theme of the proposed panel. Successful candidates will be notified by early January and should submit final papers by March 14, 2010.
Email proposals to: BrownHGSAConference@gmail.com. Questions should be directed toward Laura Perille (Laura_Perille@Brown.edu) or Ania Borejsza-Wysocka (Anna_Borejsza-Wysocka@Brown.edu).
The 6th Annual Brown University Graduate Student Conference
Key Note Speaker: Professor Timothy Snyder, Yale University
Brown University, Providence, RI
April 8-9, 2011
Borderlands and meeting points represent sites of exchange, mediation, cooperation, and conflict. As “in-between” areas, borderlands foster interactions between individuals, communities, and nations. Similarly, meeting points facilitate both ideological and physical contact. Such contact may involve not only political, economic, social and religious dynamics, but also evolving conceptions of self and other. Thus, whether real or imagined, borderlands and meeting points affect the way identities are variously constructed, perceived, negotiated, and performed.
This conference seeks to generate new interdisciplinary perspectives about borderlands and meeting points, putting into conversation fields such as history, literature, anthropology, political science, geography, law, and art. Through these conversations, we will consider the strategies – particularly cultural ones – that are employed at such sites both to pursue particular interests and to engender or resist change. The study of borderlands and meeting points presents us with a methodological and theoretical challenge: to find creative means of giving expression to people and interactions often shaped by charged political and ethnic concerns.
Potential paper topics include, but are not limited to, historical and/or theoretical explorations of the following:
-Urban, regional, and national space and identity
-Ethnic conflict or concord
-Cross-cultural interactions
-Circulation of ideas and materials
-Translation and interpreters
-Trade and commerce
-Religion, missionaries, and conversion
-Gender and sexuality
-Movement, migration and diaspora
Submission Guidelines:
Interested graduate students should submit a 250-word abstract by November 15, 2010. Each proposal should clearly state its relevancy to the conference theme. Candidates proposing full panels should also include a 150-word abstract on the organizing theme of the proposed panel. Successful candidates will be notified by early January and should submit final papers by March 14, 2010.
Email proposals to: BrownHGSAConference@gmail.com. Questions should be directed toward Laura Perille (Laura_Perille@Brown.edu) or Ania Borejsza-Wysocka (Anna_Borejsza-Wysocka@Brown.edu).
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies Special Call for Papers
Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies
Special Call For Papers for 2010 Issue on
Exile in the Middle Ages
Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the literature, history, and culture of the medieval world. Published electronically once a year, its mission is to present a forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share their ideas. Article submissions on the selected theme are welcome in any discipline and period of medieval studies. We are also interested in book reviews on recent works that reflect on some aspect of our theme: an abbreviated list of possible review titles appears on our website. Given the wide scope of the theme, we invite additional proposals for reviews. For further information please visit our website at http://hortulus.net/
Our upcoming issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations of exile – political, spiritual, or intellectual - in art, chronicles, letters, literature, and music from the Middle Ages. Expulsion, banishment, or prolonged separation from one’s homeland was experienced by many in the medieval world; it is likewise one of the earliest topics in literature. From the Biblical depiction of Adam and Eve, to the Life of St. Brendan, Grettir’s Saga, and the works of Dante, the pain and difficulty inherent in the experience of exile lent itself to metaphoric exploitation. Exile appears, too, in various religious traditions as a symbol of separation, alienation, and the need for redemption. Hence, an expanded definition of exile might encompass any forced displacement, be it political, social, cultural, or spiritual. Though loss is inherent in the experience of exile, it may also represent an opportunity for change and growth. Self-imposed exile could be a form of protest against, or a search for something in opposition to, known experience.
Possible article topics include, but are not limited to:
-Literary and artistic depictions of exile
-Kings, conflicts, and legal exile
-Cultural aspects of separation: ethnicity, religion, gender
-Christian exile in the Celtic tradition
-The depiction of Classical exile in medieval literature
-Exile in the Jewish imagination
-Exile in hagiography
-Religious exiles: interdict, excommunication, anathema, the expulsion of heretics
-Treatments of the Garden of Eden; the concepts of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory
-Self-imposed exile: quest and transformation; exile as a form of political protest, as pilgrimage, in anchoritic monasticism
-Diseases, such as plague and leprosy, and exclusion
-Women as migrants and exiles
The 2010 issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies will be published in May of 2011. All graduate students are welcome to submit their articles and book reviews or send their queries via email to submit@hortulus.net by March 1, 2011.
Special Call For Papers for 2010 Issue on
Exile in the Middle Ages
Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the literature, history, and culture of the medieval world. Published electronically once a year, its mission is to present a forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share their ideas. Article submissions on the selected theme are welcome in any discipline and period of medieval studies. We are also interested in book reviews on recent works that reflect on some aspect of our theme: an abbreviated list of possible review titles appears on our website. Given the wide scope of the theme, we invite additional proposals for reviews. For further information please visit our website at http://hortulus.net/
Our upcoming issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations of exile – political, spiritual, or intellectual - in art, chronicles, letters, literature, and music from the Middle Ages. Expulsion, banishment, or prolonged separation from one’s homeland was experienced by many in the medieval world; it is likewise one of the earliest topics in literature. From the Biblical depiction of Adam and Eve, to the Life of St. Brendan, Grettir’s Saga, and the works of Dante, the pain and difficulty inherent in the experience of exile lent itself to metaphoric exploitation. Exile appears, too, in various religious traditions as a symbol of separation, alienation, and the need for redemption. Hence, an expanded definition of exile might encompass any forced displacement, be it political, social, cultural, or spiritual. Though loss is inherent in the experience of exile, it may also represent an opportunity for change and growth. Self-imposed exile could be a form of protest against, or a search for something in opposition to, known experience.
Possible article topics include, but are not limited to:
-Literary and artistic depictions of exile
-Kings, conflicts, and legal exile
-Cultural aspects of separation: ethnicity, religion, gender
-Christian exile in the Celtic tradition
-The depiction of Classical exile in medieval literature
-Exile in the Jewish imagination
-Exile in hagiography
-Religious exiles: interdict, excommunication, anathema, the expulsion of heretics
-Treatments of the Garden of Eden; the concepts of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory
-Self-imposed exile: quest and transformation; exile as a form of political protest, as pilgrimage, in anchoritic monasticism
-Diseases, such as plague and leprosy, and exclusion
-Women as migrants and exiles
The 2010 issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies will be published in May of 2011. All graduate students are welcome to submit their articles and book reviews or send their queries via email to submit@hortulus.net by March 1, 2011.
Workshop on digital Shakespeare at the WSC in Prague
Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, Prague 2011
Call for Participants
Workshop: Global Shakespeares in the Digital Archive
Deadline: November 30, 2010
Conveners: Peter Donaldson, Ford Foundation Professor of Humanities, MIT, and Alexander Huang, Associate Professor at Penn State and Research Affiliate at MIT
Workshop description:
The age of global Shakespeares and digital video archive is upon us, and online video research tools have become indispensable when we research and teach worldwide performances of Shakespeare. It is an age when Shakespeare and world cultures foster symbiotic and antithetical relationships with equal force. This workshop serves two purposes:
(1) to introduce participants to the resources, research tools and new pedagogical possibilities afforded by the MIT Global Shakespeares digital performance archive and research space located at http://globalshakespeares.org/ The project provides global, regional, and national portals to Shakespeare productions within a federated archive. There are portals to Shakespeare performances in the UK and North America, the Arab World, India, Asia, and Brazil, containing full videos and video highlights.
and (2) to work with practitioners, users of digital archives, and any one curious about new pedagogical possibilities; to brainstorm about the practical and theoretical implications of a broad range of digital Shakespeare projects including video and textual archives. What can one do with these digital tools that has not been possible until now? Are there any limitations or drawbacks? What critical resources might we bring to thinking about the place of the archive in Shakespeare studies today?
Participants without any experience with digital archives are welcome!
Register online: http://www.shakespeare2011.net/
Please return Registration form (see website above) to
Dr Nick Walton,
by e-mail to isa@shakespeare.org.uk.
or to International Shakespeare Association, The Shakespeare
Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 6QW, UK
Call for Participants
Workshop: Global Shakespeares in the Digital Archive
Deadline: November 30, 2010
Conveners: Peter Donaldson, Ford Foundation Professor of Humanities, MIT, and Alexander Huang, Associate Professor at Penn State and Research Affiliate at MIT
Workshop description:
The age of global Shakespeares and digital video archive is upon us, and online video research tools have become indispensable when we research and teach worldwide performances of Shakespeare. It is an age when Shakespeare and world cultures foster symbiotic and antithetical relationships with equal force. This workshop serves two purposes:
(1) to introduce participants to the resources, research tools and new pedagogical possibilities afforded by the MIT Global Shakespeares digital performance archive and research space located at http://globalshakespeares.org/ The project provides global, regional, and national portals to Shakespeare productions within a federated archive. There are portals to Shakespeare performances in the UK and North America, the Arab World, India, Asia, and Brazil, containing full videos and video highlights.
and (2) to work with practitioners, users of digital archives, and any one curious about new pedagogical possibilities; to brainstorm about the practical and theoretical implications of a broad range of digital Shakespeare projects including video and textual archives. What can one do with these digital tools that has not been possible until now? Are there any limitations or drawbacks? What critical resources might we bring to thinking about the place of the archive in Shakespeare studies today?
Participants without any experience with digital archives are welcome!
Register online: http://www.shakespeare2011.net/
Please return Registration form (see website above) to
Dr Nick Walton,
by e-mail to isa@shakespeare.org.uk.
or to International Shakespeare Association, The Shakespeare
Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 6QW, UK
Jesters and Gestures: Irony at a Crossroads
The Students of the Department of Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center present an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on February 24-25th, 2011.
Jesters and Gestures: Irony at a Crossroads
February 24-25, 2011
In the first chapter to her book Irony, Claire Colebrook writes, “We live in a world of quotation, pastiche, simulation, and cynicism: a general and all-encompassing irony. Irony, then, by the very simplicity of its definition [of saying something contrary to what is meant] becomes curiously indefinable.” This year’s conference proceeds for the assumption that it is irony’s very indeterminability that makes a central consideration in every act of interpretation. Because of this, acts of interpretation necessarily reflect the anxiety burrowed between understanding and misunderstanding, and meaning remains unsettled. The power of irony is that it skirts meaning, says what it does not mean, and means what it cannot exactly say. As a result, irony remains an illusive and adumbrated literary trope that requires an uneasy acknowledgement that “something” is going on that does not have clear definitions, limits, or guidelines.
We invite papers from all disciplines that focus on works from any period that explore the way irony functions as a trope in art, literature, film, or society. Some questions we seek to address include, but are in no way limited to:
-How does irony as rhetoric, trope, technique, and hermeneutic serve as the mirror-image of a world out of joint?
-Does irony as a self-reflective literary mode necessarily place all subjectivity, autonomy, and self into question?
-What role do ironic characters play in literature, film, or art?
-How does irony explore the representational limits of language?
-How does the definition of irony change throughout history or between cultures?
-Does irony as a technique that constantly reminds us of our linguistic contingency serve as a form of ideological critique, and post-universalist, post-metphysical aesthetics?
-How does the dialectical movement of irony question the ontological status of literature and the arts?
-What role does irony play in the much overlooked humor of the modernist period?
-What is the relationship between irony and other literary techniques, including but not limited to humor?
Please submit a 300 word abstract for a 15-20 minute paper by November 1st, 2010 to ironyconference2011@gmail.com. Proposals should include the title of the paper, presenter’s name, institutional and departmental affiliation, and any technology requests. We also welcome panel proposals of three to four papers.
This conference is co-sponsored by the Writers’ Institute at the City University of New York Graduate Center, an un-MFA program devoted to bringing together the country’s most talented writers and today’s most celebrated editors, and by the Center for the Humanities, an interdisciplinary public forum devoted to promoting the humanities programs both for CUNY students and for all New Yorkers.
To contact us by mail, please send queries to:
The Irony Conference Board
c/o The Department of Comparative Literature
The CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Jesters and Gestures: Irony at a Crossroads
February 24-25, 2011
In the first chapter to her book Irony, Claire Colebrook writes, “We live in a world of quotation, pastiche, simulation, and cynicism: a general and all-encompassing irony. Irony, then, by the very simplicity of its definition [of saying something contrary to what is meant] becomes curiously indefinable.” This year’s conference proceeds for the assumption that it is irony’s very indeterminability that makes a central consideration in every act of interpretation. Because of this, acts of interpretation necessarily reflect the anxiety burrowed between understanding and misunderstanding, and meaning remains unsettled. The power of irony is that it skirts meaning, says what it does not mean, and means what it cannot exactly say. As a result, irony remains an illusive and adumbrated literary trope that requires an uneasy acknowledgement that “something” is going on that does not have clear definitions, limits, or guidelines.
We invite papers from all disciplines that focus on works from any period that explore the way irony functions as a trope in art, literature, film, or society. Some questions we seek to address include, but are in no way limited to:
-How does irony as rhetoric, trope, technique, and hermeneutic serve as the mirror-image of a world out of joint?
-Does irony as a self-reflective literary mode necessarily place all subjectivity, autonomy, and self into question?
-What role do ironic characters play in literature, film, or art?
-How does irony explore the representational limits of language?
-How does the definition of irony change throughout history or between cultures?
-Does irony as a technique that constantly reminds us of our linguistic contingency serve as a form of ideological critique, and post-universalist, post-metphysical aesthetics?
-How does the dialectical movement of irony question the ontological status of literature and the arts?
-What role does irony play in the much overlooked humor of the modernist period?
-What is the relationship between irony and other literary techniques, including but not limited to humor?
Please submit a 300 word abstract for a 15-20 minute paper by November 1st, 2010 to ironyconference2011@gmail.com. Proposals should include the title of the paper, presenter’s name, institutional and departmental affiliation, and any technology requests. We also welcome panel proposals of three to four papers.
This conference is co-sponsored by the Writers’ Institute at the City University of New York Graduate Center, an un-MFA program devoted to bringing together the country’s most talented writers and today’s most celebrated editors, and by the Center for the Humanities, an interdisciplinary public forum devoted to promoting the humanities programs both for CUNY students and for all New Yorkers.
To contact us by mail, please send queries to:
The Irony Conference Board
c/o The Department of Comparative Literature
The CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
SHAKESPEARE ON FILM, TELEVISION, AND VIDEO
CFP: SHAKESPEARE ON FILM, TELEVISION, AND VIDEO
PCA/ACA & SW/TX PCA/ACA
Joint Conference, San Antonio, TX
April 20-23, 2011
Submission deadline: December 15, 2010
Proposals are now being accepted for the Shakespeare on Film, Television, and Video Area. While any topic on Shakespeare and moving images is welcome, here are some to consider:
• Shakespeare and the genre film
• viral Shakespeare (viral videos)
• apocalyptic Shakespeares
• Shakespeare online
• Shakespeare and parody/homage
• Shakespearean auteurs
• foreign Shakespeare
• silent Shakespeare
• political Shakespeare
• transgressive Shakespeare
• Shakespeare and gender
• Shakespeare and race
• Shakespeare and class
• postmodern Shakespeare
Please send all proposals (approx. 250 words) and queries to
the Shakespeare on Film, Television, and Video Area Chair:
the Shakespeare on Film, Television, and Video Area Chair:
Kelli Marshall
The University of Toledo
Dept. of Theatre and Film, MS 611
2801 W. Bancroft
Toledo, OH 43606
kellirmarshall_at_gmail.com
Along with professors, independent scholars, teachers, and professionals, graduate students are particularly welcome at PCA/ACA conferences. Please note that PCA/ACA generally does not accept previously presented (or published) papers. Additionally, it permits only one presentation per person per year.
Online registration will take place from Dec. 31, 2010 through Jan. 13, 2011 (early-bird rates will be announced soon!). All participants MUST register online at the SW/TX website as soon as papers are accepted; more information and forms are available at http://swtxpca.org.
Book travel and reserve your room at the
Marriott Rivercenter San Antonio
101 Bowie Street
San Antonio, TX 78205 USA
Phone: 1-210-223-1000
Readings and Representations of the Seventeenth Century: 28th-29th January 2011
‘Such Total and Prodigious Alteration’ / ‘The Wounds May Be Again Bound Up’:
Readings and Representations of the Seventeenth Century
Chetham’s Library, Manchester, 28th-29th January, 2011
During the restoration and eighteenth century, the civil war period was consistently represented as a traumatic break in the history of England and the British Isles, separating the institutionally and culturally modern Augustans from either the primitiveness or idealised simplicity of the earlier epoch. Today, much academic practice silently repeats the period’s self-representation as a century divided between pre and post civil war cultures, whether in research, job descriptions or in undergraduate survey courses. Among the effects of this division of labour is a tendency for the earlier ‘Renaissance’ decades to be privileged over the restoration, which is frequently treated as a poor relation to the eighteenth century.
This conference provides a forum for researchers in all disciplines whose work spans all or any part of the long seventeenth century. As our titular quotations from Clarendon’s *History of the Rebellion* and Swift’s sermon ‘On the Martyrdom of King Charles I’ suggest, we also encourage papers on subsequent imaginings of the period that have contributed to or contested the ways in which it is read today.
Concerns include but are not limited to:
· The comparative study of seventeenth-century writing, sciences, visual arts and music before, during and after the civil war period; their material and intellectual dissemination; their relationship to ideas of what constitutes the early modern and the restoration.
· Constructions of the seventeenth century from the restoration to the present; representations in literature, art, history and film; the cultural influence of the seventeenth century on subsequent periods.
· The role critical theory can play in our reading of the period and/or narratives of the long seventeenth century from within literary criticism and critical theory; e.g. Leavis and Eliot on the Metaphysical poets, Walter Benjamin on the baroque, Foucault on madness, Habermas on the public sphere.
· The study of non-canonical and marginalized texts and materials, and nationally comparative readings of the period.
· The representation and reception of pre-seventeenth-century culture during the seventeenth century; the place of the past in the period’s self-representations.
Confirmed speakers include Rosanna Cox (Kent), Jeremy Gregory (Manchester), Helen Pierce (York), George Southcombe (Oxford), Jeremy Tambling (Manchester), Edward Vallance (Roehampton), Jerome de Groot (Manchester).
Please send abstracts of 300-500 words to James Smith (Manchester) and Joel Swann (Keele) by 15th October 2010: c17.conference@manchester.ac.uk. We particularly encourage the participation of postgraduate students, whose attendance will be generously supported by the Society for Renaissance Studies.
Go to http://www.chethams.org.uk/c17conference.html for more information.
Readings and Representations of the Seventeenth Century
Chetham’s Library, Manchester, 28th-29th January, 2011
During the restoration and eighteenth century, the civil war period was consistently represented as a traumatic break in the history of England and the British Isles, separating the institutionally and culturally modern Augustans from either the primitiveness or idealised simplicity of the earlier epoch. Today, much academic practice silently repeats the period’s self-representation as a century divided between pre and post civil war cultures, whether in research, job descriptions or in undergraduate survey courses. Among the effects of this division of labour is a tendency for the earlier ‘Renaissance’ decades to be privileged over the restoration, which is frequently treated as a poor relation to the eighteenth century.
This conference provides a forum for researchers in all disciplines whose work spans all or any part of the long seventeenth century. As our titular quotations from Clarendon’s *History of the Rebellion* and Swift’s sermon ‘On the Martyrdom of King Charles I’ suggest, we also encourage papers on subsequent imaginings of the period that have contributed to or contested the ways in which it is read today.
Concerns include but are not limited to:
· The comparative study of seventeenth-century writing, sciences, visual arts and music before, during and after the civil war period; their material and intellectual dissemination; their relationship to ideas of what constitutes the early modern and the restoration.
· Constructions of the seventeenth century from the restoration to the present; representations in literature, art, history and film; the cultural influence of the seventeenth century on subsequent periods.
· The role critical theory can play in our reading of the period and/or narratives of the long seventeenth century from within literary criticism and critical theory; e.g. Leavis and Eliot on the Metaphysical poets, Walter Benjamin on the baroque, Foucault on madness, Habermas on the public sphere.
· The study of non-canonical and marginalized texts and materials, and nationally comparative readings of the period.
· The representation and reception of pre-seventeenth-century culture during the seventeenth century; the place of the past in the period’s self-representations.
Confirmed speakers include Rosanna Cox (Kent), Jeremy Gregory (Manchester), Helen Pierce (York), George Southcombe (Oxford), Jeremy Tambling (Manchester), Edward Vallance (Roehampton), Jerome de Groot (Manchester).
Please send abstracts of 300-500 words to James Smith (Manchester) and Joel Swann (Keele) by 15th October 2010: c17.conference@manchester.ac.uk. We particularly encourage the participation of postgraduate students, whose attendance will be generously supported by the Society for Renaissance Studies.
Go to http://www.chethams.org.uk/c17conference.html for more information.
“‘What is bettre than gold?’: Economies and Values in the Middle Ages”
The Columbia University Medieval Guild is pleased to announce its 21st annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, “‘What is bettre than gold?’: Economies and Values in the Middle Ages,” taking place on October 22nd 2010.
The aim of this conference is to explore the interface between medieval economies and societies in both literal and symbolic terms. Monetary exchange was only one of many forms of economic thought and activity in the Middle Ages. On the one hand, the language of the market permeated many other spheres of medieval life, such as spirituality, social relationships, and artistic production. At the same time, non-economic values and non-monetary currencies influenced the market and offered alternative avenues of exchange. We welcome papers from graduate students in all disciplines, in the interests of examining the variety of ways in which economic discourses and practices in the Middle Ages were themselves evaluated, converted, debased, counterfeited, multiplied, circulated, and exchanged.
Keynote Speaker:
Diane Cady, Mills College (English): "Damaged Goods: Selling Poetry in the Man of Law's Tale"
Methodology Panel:
Susanna Barsella, Fordham University (Modern Languages and Literatures-Italian)
Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania (History)
Derrick Higginbotham, Barnard College/Columbia University (English)
Joel Kaye, Barnard College/Columbia University (History)
Stephen Murray, Columbia University (Art History)
Topics may include but are not limited to:
poverty and wealth
gift-giving and gift exchange
need and charity
treasure and hoarding
luxury, largesse, and consumption
symbolic capital and cultural currency
social, cultural and artistic exchange
literary and artistic patronage
textual circulation and book production
redemption and spiritual economies
circulation and use of money
debt and usury
investment and credit
currency and coinage
numismatics
financial techniques (bookkeeping, money-changing, etc.)
commercial and commercialized spaces and communities
trade, markets, and fairs
merchants and merchant culture
guilds and networks (professional, national, etc.)
circulation of objects (commodities and non-commodities)
household economy
finance and institutional administration
labor, prices and wages
taxation
commercial law
mercenaries
tithes and benefices
ports and customs
Please send your proposal (no longer than 300 words) for a 15 to 20-minute paper to the organizers at medievaleconomies [at] gmail [dot] com by Tuesday, September 21st 2010.
Proposals should include the title of the paper, presenter's name, institutional affiliation (including department), email address, mailing address, telephone number, and any audio-visual equipment needs. Please also indicate if you would be willing to moderate a panel.
The aim of this conference is to explore the interface between medieval economies and societies in both literal and symbolic terms. Monetary exchange was only one of many forms of economic thought and activity in the Middle Ages. On the one hand, the language of the market permeated many other spheres of medieval life, such as spirituality, social relationships, and artistic production. At the same time, non-economic values and non-monetary currencies influenced the market and offered alternative avenues of exchange. We welcome papers from graduate students in all disciplines, in the interests of examining the variety of ways in which economic discourses and practices in the Middle Ages were themselves evaluated, converted, debased, counterfeited, multiplied, circulated, and exchanged.
Keynote Speaker:
Diane Cady, Mills College (English): "Damaged Goods: Selling Poetry in the Man of Law's Tale"
Methodology Panel:
Susanna Barsella, Fordham University (Modern Languages and Literatures-Italian)
Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania (History)
Derrick Higginbotham, Barnard College/Columbia University (English)
Joel Kaye, Barnard College/Columbia University (History)
Stephen Murray, Columbia University (Art History)
Topics may include but are not limited to:
poverty and wealth
gift-giving and gift exchange
need and charity
treasure and hoarding
luxury, largesse, and consumption
symbolic capital and cultural currency
social, cultural and artistic exchange
literary and artistic patronage
textual circulation and book production
redemption and spiritual economies
circulation and use of money
debt and usury
investment and credit
currency and coinage
numismatics
financial techniques (bookkeeping, money-changing, etc.)
commercial and commercialized spaces and communities
trade, markets, and fairs
merchants and merchant culture
guilds and networks (professional, national, etc.)
circulation of objects (commodities and non-commodities)
household economy
finance and institutional administration
labor, prices and wages
taxation
commercial law
mercenaries
tithes and benefices
ports and customs
Please send your proposal (no longer than 300 words) for a 15 to 20-minute paper to the organizers at medievaleconomies [at] gmail [dot] com by Tuesday, September 21st 2010.
Proposals should include the title of the paper, presenter's name, institutional affiliation (including department), email address, mailing address, telephone number, and any audio-visual equipment needs. Please also indicate if you would be willing to moderate a panel.
Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature, Kalamazoo 2011
[The deadline for proposals for this panel has been extended to September 25th.]
Game studies is quickly emerging as a popular, interdisciplinary field within the humanities and social sciences, yet medieval scholars are still only beginning to explore the relationship between recreational games and literature from a literary or cultural context. This session seeks to broaden this field of study by focusing on depictions of games and gaming in medieval literature and their relation to recreation in the Middle Ages.
As one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the Middle Ages, medieval recreational games were sometimes depicted in literature: from games of chance such as the Middle French dice poem Le Jeu D'Amour to depictions of social, courtly games such as the one described in the fifteenth-century Middle English dream vision The Floure and the Leafe, medieval recreational games were prominent in the cultural imaginations across Europe and beyond. This session welcomes papers on all aspects of games and literature, including but not limited to:
• Depictions of games such as chess, backgammon, or dice
• Books as board games
• Readers as "players," authors as "game designers"
• Mathematical puzzles, riddles, and word games
• Courtly love games
• Les Demaundes D'Amour tradition
• Gaming and exemplary literature
• Games that focus on gender and sexuality
Please send a 250-300 word abstract suitable for a twenty-minute paper, a CV or biographical note, and completed Participant Information Form (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) by September 25, 2010, to Serina Patterson, University of British Columbia, Department of English, serinap@interchange.ubc.ca
Game studies is quickly emerging as a popular, interdisciplinary field within the humanities and social sciences, yet medieval scholars are still only beginning to explore the relationship between recreational games and literature from a literary or cultural context. This session seeks to broaden this field of study by focusing on depictions of games and gaming in medieval literature and their relation to recreation in the Middle Ages.
As one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the Middle Ages, medieval recreational games were sometimes depicted in literature: from games of chance such as the Middle French dice poem Le Jeu D'Amour to depictions of social, courtly games such as the one described in the fifteenth-century Middle English dream vision The Floure and the Leafe, medieval recreational games were prominent in the cultural imaginations across Europe and beyond. This session welcomes papers on all aspects of games and literature, including but not limited to:
• Depictions of games such as chess, backgammon, or dice
• Books as board games
• Readers as "players," authors as "game designers"
• Mathematical puzzles, riddles, and word games
• Courtly love games
• Les Demaundes D'Amour tradition
• Gaming and exemplary literature
• Games that focus on gender and sexuality
Please send a 250-300 word abstract suitable for a twenty-minute paper, a CV or biographical note, and completed Participant Information Form (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) by September 25, 2010, to Serina Patterson, University of British Columbia, Department of English, serinap@interchange.ubc.ca
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