This UNESCO-funded conference is being convened at Marsh’s Library in Dublin to interrogate the notion of Dublin as a Renaissance “city of literature”. The organizers invite papers discussing literature and literary production in early modern Ireland, with a focus on Dublin. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
• Language and identity
• Women’s writing
• Bibliography studies
• Print and manuscript cultures
• Book history
• Author studies
• Composition and agency
• Writing for the stage and Dublin theatres
• Literary networks
• Genre studies
• Book trade
We are pleased to announce the following plenary speakers for the day:
Professor Raymond Gillespie, NUI Maynooth; Professor Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex; Dr Marie-Louise Coolahan, NUI Galway; Dr Sandy Wilkinson, University College Dublin; and Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Edward Worth Library.
Please submit 300-word abstracts, accompanied by a 100-word biography, for 20-minute papers to the conference organizers, Crawford Gribben (crawford.gribben@tcd.ie) and Kathleen Miller (millerka@tcd.ie), of Trinity College Dublin. The deadline for submissions is 20 April 2011.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Spenser Roundtable at Sixteenth Century Conference, 27-30 Oct, Forth Worth 2011
The Spenser Roundtable is a beloved annual event at the SCSC that's always very well attended. Typically, the Roundtable session features 3-5 speakers who each present papers of about 10 minutes, before we open up the session for discussion, which is always stimulating.
This year's topic will be "Spenser and Philosophy" -- interpreted in the widest possible senses (moral, political, natural...)! We'd also be open to papers that think about "philosophy" in conjunction (or against) other discourses in Spenser's work, such as theology, aesthetics, etc.
Please send an abstract of 200-250 words to me (ayesha.ramachandran@stonybrook.edu) by 27 MARCH (note that the final SCSC submission deadline is 1 April). As in previous years, if there are more exciting abstracts than the roundtable can accommodate, we will arrange more Spenser sessions, so please do send me something if you have project you are working on.
This year's topic will be "Spenser and Philosophy" -- interpreted in the widest possible senses (moral, political, natural...)! We'd also be open to papers that think about "philosophy" in conjunction (or against) other discourses in Spenser's work, such as theology, aesthetics, etc.
Please send an abstract of 200-250 words to me (ayesha.ramachandran@stonybrook.edu) by 27 MARCH (note that the final SCSC submission deadline is 1 April). As in previous years, if there are more exciting abstracts than the roundtable can accommodate, we will arrange more Spenser sessions, so please do send me something if you have project you are working on.
The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies, Vol. II, eds. Paul Cefalu, Gary Kuchar, and Bryan Reynolds
We invite abstracts that bring together theory and early modern English literature and culture. Relevant categories/topics might include historical phenomenology/post-phenomenology; affect theory; species/animal theory/posthumanism; genre theory; ecocriticism; and communication/network theory. Selected essays will be published in a collection entitled the *The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies,* Volume II, eds. Paul Cefalu, Gary Kuchar, and Bryan Reynolds, a companion volume to the recently published collection, *The Return of Theory: Tarrying with the Subjunctive,* eds. Paul Cefalu and Bryan Reynolds (Palgrave, 2011). Please send copies of abstracts to Paul Cefalu (cefalup@Lafayette.edu).
[UPDATE] Deadline Extension: "Shakespeare and the Material World" (April 1, 2011)
Early English Studies Journal is an online journal under the auspices of the University of Texas, Arlington English Department and is devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in the medieval and early modern periods. EES is published annually, peer-reviewed, and open to general submission.
Early English Studies Journal is now accepting submission for our next issue, which will be titled, Shakespeare and the Material World. We welcome submissions that deal with any aspect of Shakespeare and material culture. We are interested, for example, in the ways in which materiality informs theatrical practices and is reflected in the plays. How do objects or the idea of an object construct identity and gender or create a sense of space, time, or location? What is the meaning of materiality in the early modern world and the world of Shakespeare’s plays? Submissions (7000-9000 words including notes) are due on April 1, 2011.
Please include a brief bio and 200-word abstract with your electronic submission, all in Word documents. Please visit the website at http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/ for more specific submission guidelines and to read past issues.
In Volume 4, we will also have a new section of book reviews. If you would like to have your book, which has been published in the last two years and concerns medieval or early modern literary and or cultural studies, considered for review, please send an email to Sarah Farrell, Review Editor, sarah.farrell@mavs.uta.edu.
Early English Studies Journal is now accepting submission for our next issue, which will be titled, Shakespeare and the Material World. We welcome submissions that deal with any aspect of Shakespeare and material culture. We are interested, for example, in the ways in which materiality informs theatrical practices and is reflected in the plays. How do objects or the idea of an object construct identity and gender or create a sense of space, time, or location? What is the meaning of materiality in the early modern world and the world of Shakespeare’s plays? Submissions (7000-9000 words including notes) are due on April 1, 2011.
Please include a brief bio and 200-word abstract with your electronic submission, all in Word documents. Please visit the website at http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/ for more specific submission guidelines and to read past issues.
In Volume 4, we will also have a new section of book reviews. If you would like to have your book, which has been published in the last two years and concerns medieval or early modern literary and or cultural studies, considered for review, please send an email to Sarah Farrell, Review Editor, sarah.farrell@mavs.uta.edu.
Edited Volume: Reclaiming the Soul: Thinking Beyond the Body in Renaissance England, 30 April 2011
Call for Chapters – Edited Volume
Working Title: Reclaiming the Soul: Thinking Beyond the Body in Renaissance England
Editors: Drs. Sarah E. Johnson, Johnathan H. Pope, and Deanna Smid
This book aims to provide a comprehensive engagement with discussions and representations of the soul in Renaissance England. The recent abundance of body criticism has enriched our understanding of corporeality during the period. Despite the centrality of the soul to discourses of the body, however, the soul has received relatively little scholarly attention and has often been relegated to foregone conclusions even as scholarship on the minutiae of the body continues to proliferate. This book will focus on the wide variety of lively debates that were taking place in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England in an effort to ‘reclaim the soul’ as a productive and multi-faceted subject of inquiry that informed Renaissance understandings of the self, the body, and one’s relationship with other selves and bodies.
In this book we are interested in perspectives on the soul that reflect the scope of the discourse in Renaissance England. We encourage submissions that address the representation of the soul in all types of writing from approximately 1558 to 1660, but particularly in literary texts as the site on which these debates played out. We are interested in all theoretical approaches, and interdisciplinary chapters are also welcome.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
Proposals of approximately 300 words along with a short CV should be attached as .doc, .docx, or .rtf files. Please include contact information along with your submission. Proposals must be received by April 30th, 2011. Completed chapters of approximately 6000 words from authors whose proposals have been selected will be due by September 30th, 2011. Publication of all material will be subject to publisher approval.
The Editors
Dr. Sarah Johnson is revising her dissertation on women and the soul-body divide in Jacobean drama for book publication. Her current research focuses on women’s writing and shifting ideas about the soul-body dynamic in Interregnum and Restoration literature. Sarah is Assistant Editor with Early Theatre. This summer she is taking up a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at Queen’s University. Her publications include articles on The Witch of Edmonton and on The Birth of Merlin and The Devil Is an Ass.
Dr. Johnathan Pope is currently a CLT Assistant Professor in the Department of English at St. Francis Xavier University. He has recently published articles on the anatomist John Banister and the emblematist Francis Quarles. He is currently revising his dissertation, “An Anatomy of the Soul in English Renaissance Religious Poetry,” for publication.
Dr. Deanna Smid is currently a part-time instructor in the Department of English at Redeemer University College. Her dissertation, “‘The World in Man’s Heart’: The Faculty of Imagination in Early Modern English Literature,” analyzes the characteristics and necessity of imagination in Renaissance texts. Her research interests also include emblems and science fiction, two areas in which she has recently published articles. She will be taking up a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto this summer.
Working Title: Reclaiming the Soul: Thinking Beyond the Body in Renaissance England
Editors: Drs. Sarah E. Johnson, Johnathan H. Pope, and Deanna Smid
This book aims to provide a comprehensive engagement with discussions and representations of the soul in Renaissance England. The recent abundance of body criticism has enriched our understanding of corporeality during the period. Despite the centrality of the soul to discourses of the body, however, the soul has received relatively little scholarly attention and has often been relegated to foregone conclusions even as scholarship on the minutiae of the body continues to proliferate. This book will focus on the wide variety of lively debates that were taking place in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England in an effort to ‘reclaim the soul’ as a productive and multi-faceted subject of inquiry that informed Renaissance understandings of the self, the body, and one’s relationship with other selves and bodies.
In this book we are interested in perspectives on the soul that reflect the scope of the discourse in Renaissance England. We encourage submissions that address the representation of the soul in all types of writing from approximately 1558 to 1660, but particularly in literary texts as the site on which these debates played out. We are interested in all theoretical approaches, and interdisciplinary chapters are also welcome.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
- the soul in medical and/or anatomical texts
- the soul-body dialectic
- devotion and the soul
- denominational debates over the soul
- the soul and subjectivity/selfhood
- the soul and class
- imagining the soul
- mortalism/the afterlife of the soul
- superstition about the soul
- spirits and/vs. ghosts
- representations of the soul in drama
- images of the soul in emblem books
- the soul and the mind
- soul-body dialogues in poetry
- gender/sex and the soul
- the soul in women’s writings
- the soul and political debate
- the soul and its attributes/components: imagination, memory, the common sense, appetite, passions, reason
- the soul and animals
Proposals of approximately 300 words along with a short CV should be attached as .doc, .docx, or .rtf files. Please include contact information along with your submission. Proposals must be received by April 30th, 2011. Completed chapters of approximately 6000 words from authors whose proposals have been selected will be due by September 30th, 2011. Publication of all material will be subject to publisher approval.
The Editors
Dr. Sarah Johnson is revising her dissertation on women and the soul-body divide in Jacobean drama for book publication. Her current research focuses on women’s writing and shifting ideas about the soul-body dynamic in Interregnum and Restoration literature. Sarah is Assistant Editor with Early Theatre. This summer she is taking up a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at Queen’s University. Her publications include articles on The Witch of Edmonton and on The Birth of Merlin and The Devil Is an Ass.
Dr. Johnathan Pope is currently a CLT Assistant Professor in the Department of English at St. Francis Xavier University. He has recently published articles on the anatomist John Banister and the emblematist Francis Quarles. He is currently revising his dissertation, “An Anatomy of the Soul in English Renaissance Religious Poetry,” for publication.
Dr. Deanna Smid is currently a part-time instructor in the Department of English at Redeemer University College. Her dissertation, “‘The World in Man’s Heart’: The Faculty of Imagination in Early Modern English Literature,” analyzes the characteristics and necessity of imagination in Renaissance texts. Her research interests also include emblems and science fiction, two areas in which she has recently published articles. She will be taking up a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto this summer.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
[Update--date correction] Southeastern Renaissance Conference 6/1; 10/21-22
Southeastern Renaissance Conference
contact email:
staubsc@appstate.edu
Please submit your full essay (20 minute reading time) by email attachment to Dr. Robert L. Reid, President of the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, rlreid@ehc.edu by June 1, 2011.
Submission of your work to the Conference is also an automatic submission to Renaissance Papers, the journal of the Conference. Even those articles not accepted for delivery at the meeting will be considered for publication in the journal. Conference dues are $17.50, which includes registration fees, refreshments and festive entertainment, and a subscription to Renaissance Papers.
Historicizing Somaesthetics: Body-Mind Connections in the Medieval and Early Modern Viewer (CAA, Feb 22-25, 2012)
Historicizing Somaesthetics: Body-Mind Connections in the Medieval and Early Modern Viewer
College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, Feb. 22-25, 2012
Session Organizer and Chair: Allie Terry-Fritsch, Bowling Green State University (alterry@bgsu.edu)
Session Description: Despite rigorous scholarly attention to Medieval and Early Modern bodies and beholders, discussions of historical art experience remain tied to anthropological notions of “ritual,” “religious practice,” and “performance” or concerned with intellectual traditions that informed the visual process. This session considers somaesthetic fashioning, a term used in recent years to point to the purposeful cultivation of the mind-body connections of individuals to heighten contemporary aesthetic experience, as a means to theorize the visual experience of Medieval and Early Modern art and architecture. By “historicizing somaesthetics,” this session seeks to highlight the mind-body connections of historical viewers and to forge a new theoretical construct of the historicized aesthetic experience. Submissions might address: What is at stake in defining Medieval and Early Modern aesthetic experience in “somaesthetic” terms? How did Medieval and Early Modern individuals cultivate aesthetic experience through their bodies? How, apart from the language used to describe such experiences, does such an understanding help to bridge the Medieval and Early Modern viewer to their contemporary counterparts?
Deadline for Paper Proposals: May 2, 2011
Proposals should be sent in hard copy to:
Dr. Allie Terry-Fritsch
Art History, School of Art
Bowling Green State University
1000 Fine Arts Building
Bowling Green, Ohio 43403
Proposals must include:
1) Completed session participation form, found at: http://www.collegeart.org/proposals/2012callforparticipation
2) Preliminary abstract of one to two double-spaced, typed pages
3) Letter explaining speaker’s interests, expertise in the topic, and CAA membership status
4) CV with home and office mailing address, email address and phone and fax numbers. Include summer address, if applicable
5) If mailing internationally, it is recommended that proposals be sent via certified mail
If applicants have any questions, please contact Allie Terry-Fritsch (alterry@bgsu.edu)
College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, Feb. 22-25, 2012
Session Organizer and Chair: Allie Terry-Fritsch, Bowling Green State University (alterry@bgsu.edu)
Session Description: Despite rigorous scholarly attention to Medieval and Early Modern bodies and beholders, discussions of historical art experience remain tied to anthropological notions of “ritual,” “religious practice,” and “performance” or concerned with intellectual traditions that informed the visual process. This session considers somaesthetic fashioning, a term used in recent years to point to the purposeful cultivation of the mind-body connections of individuals to heighten contemporary aesthetic experience, as a means to theorize the visual experience of Medieval and Early Modern art and architecture. By “historicizing somaesthetics,” this session seeks to highlight the mind-body connections of historical viewers and to forge a new theoretical construct of the historicized aesthetic experience. Submissions might address: What is at stake in defining Medieval and Early Modern aesthetic experience in “somaesthetic” terms? How did Medieval and Early Modern individuals cultivate aesthetic experience through their bodies? How, apart from the language used to describe such experiences, does such an understanding help to bridge the Medieval and Early Modern viewer to their contemporary counterparts?
Deadline for Paper Proposals: May 2, 2011
Proposals should be sent in hard copy to:
Dr. Allie Terry-Fritsch
Art History, School of Art
Bowling Green State University
1000 Fine Arts Building
Bowling Green, Ohio 43403
Proposals must include:
1) Completed session participation form, found at: http://www.collegeart.org/proposals/2012callforparticipation
2) Preliminary abstract of one to two double-spaced, typed pages
3) Letter explaining speaker’s interests, expertise in the topic, and CAA membership status
4) CV with home and office mailing address, email address and phone and fax numbers. Include summer address, if applicable
5) If mailing internationally, it is recommended that proposals be sent via certified mail
If applicants have any questions, please contact Allie Terry-Fritsch (alterry@bgsu.edu)
PODCAST: Ewan Fernie – Mea Culpa: Measure for Measure and Complicity' or 'Shakespeare Found Me Out'
The Shakespeare Institute and the University of Birmingham present:
Professor Ewan Fernie – Mea Culpa: Measure for Measure and Complicity' or 'Shakespeare Found Me Out'
This event has been recorded and is available as a podcast at the following URL:
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/03/ewan-fernie-%E2%80%93-mea-culpa-measure-for-measure-and-complicity-or-shakespeare-found-me-out/
Professor Ewan Fernie – Mea Culpa: Measure for Measure and Complicity' or 'Shakespeare Found Me Out'
This event has been recorded and is available as a podcast at the following URL:
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/03/ewan-fernie-%E2%80%93-mea-culpa-measure-for-measure-and-complicity-or-shakespeare-found-me-out/
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
CFP Aphra Behn Society/CSECS/NEASECS-- Adaptation and 18th-Century Literature
Recently adaptation theorists have argued for a re-valuing of adaptations and of the dynamic between originary texts and their adaptation. Critics such as Brian McFarlane, Imelda Whelehan, and Deborah Cartmell have argued that adaptations carry “cultural capital” equal to the original’s, and that putting a material, original text in dialogue with an adaptation provides an opportunity to revalue, perhaps increase the value of the original.
Initially formed as a response to critical responses to film adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels, adaptation theory potentially applies more widely, to originals and adaptations in a variety of media both material and immaterial, and by a variety of authors: Southerne’s stage adaptation of Behn’s Oroonoko, Inchbald’s use of Kotzebue’s plays, sequels to Austen’s novels posted on The Republic of Pemberley website, the recent film adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels, and so forth. Questions posed by adaptation itself and by adaptation theory include
•What is the relationship between an originary eighteenth-century text and an adaptation? Does a tradition of adapting a text (Shakespeare’s plays in the eighteenth century, Austen’s novels in the twentieth) affect its standing? In what ways? For whom?
•What is the significance of factors such as gender, class, or genre in making or valuing adaptation?
•What does adaptation theory suggest to us about the role of originality in a digital age?
•How should “originality” be used in analyzing, evaluating, teaching, canonizing eighteenth-century texts?
This panel seeks papers considering the relationship between eighteenth-century literature and adaptations, whether during the eighteenth century or subsequent periods, and whether in print or less material forms.
Chair and Organizer: Dr. Karen Gevirtz, Dept. of English, Seton Hall University, Karen.gevirtz@shu.edu.
Initially formed as a response to critical responses to film adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels, adaptation theory potentially applies more widely, to originals and adaptations in a variety of media both material and immaterial, and by a variety of authors: Southerne’s stage adaptation of Behn’s Oroonoko, Inchbald’s use of Kotzebue’s plays, sequels to Austen’s novels posted on The Republic of Pemberley website, the recent film adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels, and so forth. Questions posed by adaptation itself and by adaptation theory include
•What is the relationship between an originary eighteenth-century text and an adaptation? Does a tradition of adapting a text (Shakespeare’s plays in the eighteenth century, Austen’s novels in the twentieth) affect its standing? In what ways? For whom?
•What is the significance of factors such as gender, class, or genre in making or valuing adaptation?
•What does adaptation theory suggest to us about the role of originality in a digital age?
•How should “originality” be used in analyzing, evaluating, teaching, canonizing eighteenth-century texts?
This panel seeks papers considering the relationship between eighteenth-century literature and adaptations, whether during the eighteenth century or subsequent periods, and whether in print or less material forms.
Chair and Organizer: Dr. Karen Gevirtz, Dept. of English, Seton Hall University, Karen.gevirtz@shu.edu.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Ancient Rome and Early Modern England: Literature, History, and Politics Interdisciplinary conference Jesus College Oxford, 21-22 May 2011
Ancient Rome and Early Modern England: Literature, History, and Politics
Interdisciplinary conference
Jesus College Oxford, 21-22 May 2011
PLENARY LECTURES
David Norbrook:
‘Lucretius and Seventeenth-Century Political Culture’
Blair Worden: ‘Clarendon, Ben Jonson, and the Conspiracy of Catiline’
Speakers include:
Warren Chernaik
Richard Hillman
Gesine Manuwald
Mary Nyquist
Richard Rowland
Richard Serjeantson
Interdisciplinary conference
Jesus College Oxford, 21-22 May 2011
PLENARY LECTURES
David Norbrook:
‘Lucretius and Seventeenth-Century Political Culture’
Blair Worden: ‘Clarendon, Ben Jonson, and the Conspiracy of Catiline’
Speakers include:
Warren Chernaik
Richard Hillman
Gesine Manuwald
Mary Nyquist
Richard Rowland
Richard Serjeantson
Locating the Foreign in Early Modern Italy: RSA 2012
Long before the Grand Tour became de rigueur for European peripatetics, the Italian peninsula witnessed an influx of merchants, pilgrims, refugees, and slaves whose presence in Italy contributed to polyglot cultures, multicultural exchange, and international commerce. Whether attracted by piety, pleasure, or profit, or forced through poverty and persecution, these outsiders challenged peninsular regimes to define the proper social, economic, and cultural place for foreign populations. Particularly when examined in the context of the Ottoman wars in Europe, post-Tridentine repression, and the economic shift towards the Atlantic, the presence of foreign people, ideas, and merchandise in post-Renaissance Italy offers a compelling counter-narrative that challenges the cultural stagnation and decline of Italy’s “forgotten centuries.
This panel will examine the social, economic, and cultural place of foreign people and ideas in Italy between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. Papers may investigate the physical presence of foreigners and diasporas in Italy’s ghettos, fondacos, and neighborhoods, or may examine the strategies used by peninsular authorities in accommodating these people. Scholars are also encouraged to submit papers that interpret the theme conceptually, by interrogating ideas of the foreign propagated by early-modern Italians or ideas of Italy held in the mind of foreigners. Cross-disciplinary studies are welcome.
Please send a CV and paper abstract of up to 250 words by April 11, 2011 to:
minoritytopographies@gmail.com
Panel Chair: Daniel Bornstein, dbornste@wustl.edu Panel Co-organizers:
Lisa M. Lillie, Washington University, mlillie@wustl.edu
Stephanie Nadalo, Northwestern University, snadalo@gmail.com
This panel will examine the social, economic, and cultural place of foreign people and ideas in Italy between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. Papers may investigate the physical presence of foreigners and diasporas in Italy’s ghettos, fondacos, and neighborhoods, or may examine the strategies used by peninsular authorities in accommodating these people. Scholars are also encouraged to submit papers that interpret the theme conceptually, by interrogating ideas of the foreign propagated by early-modern Italians or ideas of Italy held in the mind of foreigners. Cross-disciplinary studies are welcome.
Please send a CV and paper abstract of up to 250 words by April 11, 2011 to:
minoritytopographies@gmail.com
Panel Chair: Daniel Bornstein, dbornste@wustl.edu Panel Co-organizers:
Lisa M. Lillie, Washington University, mlillie@wustl.edu
Stephanie Nadalo, Northwestern University, snadalo@gmail.com
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Job Posting: Editor
The Sixteenth Century Journal (SCJ) invites applications and nominations
for the position of editor. This editor will replace Professor Raymond
Waddington, who is stepping down after long years of service to the journal. The
new editor will have primary responsibility for submissions to the SCJ in
literature as well as in other fields of the individual’s expertise, and
will work with Merry Wiesner-Hanks, David Whitford, Kathryn Brammall, Gary
Gibbs, and other members of the SCJ staff. This is a three-year renewable
position, and the new editor will assume full responsibility upon
appointment in January 2012.
Qualifications include appointment at the rank of advanced associate or
full professor, a significant record of scholarly publication, an ability to
meet publication deadlines, an understanding of the scholarly communication
process, and a broad knowledge of early modern literature.
In publication since 1969, the Sixteenth Century Journal prints twenty to
twenty-five articles in a number of different fields and over four hundred
book reviews a year. The SCJ is dedicated to providing readers with
thought-provoking research and inquiry into the sixteenth century broadly defined
(i.e., 1450-1648). Its articles are designed to appeal to an
interdisciplinary audience; most focus on Europe, but an increasing number also examine
other parts of the world.
Nominations and applications should be sent by 15 September 2011 to David
Whitford at dwhitford at united dot edu. Letters of application should
include a cover-letter, CV and the names of three references.
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Waddington, who is stepping down after long years of service to the journal. The
new editor will have primary responsibility for submissions to the SCJ in
literature as well as in other fields of the individual’s expertise, and
will work with Merry Wiesner-Hanks, David Whitford, Kathryn Brammall, Gary
Gibbs, and other members of the SCJ staff. This is a three-year renewable
position, and the new editor will assume full responsibility upon
appointment in January 2012.
Qualifications include appointment at the rank of advanced associate or
full professor, a significant record of scholarly publication, an ability to
meet publication deadlines, an understanding of the scholarly communication
process, and a broad knowledge of early modern literature.
In publication since 1969, the Sixteenth Century Journal prints twenty to
twenty-five articles in a number of different fields and over four hundred
book reviews a year. The SCJ is dedicated to providing readers with
thought-provoking research and inquiry into the sixteenth century broadly defined
(i.e., 1450-1648). Its articles are designed to appeal to an
interdisciplinary audience; most focus on Europe, but an increasing number also examine
other parts of the world.
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Whitford at dwhitford at united dot edu. Letters of application should
include a cover-letter, CV and the names of three references.
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NEW JOURNAL - The Hare
jeremy.lopez@utoronto.ca, paulmenzer@gmail.com
THE HARE will be published in an on-line format and hosted by the the Mary Baldwin College Shakespeare and Performance Program. The general editors are Paul Menzer (Mary Baldwin College) and Jeremy Lopez (University of Toronto).
Please see below for the journal's prospectus, which provides further information on the journal's mission and editorial board, and on article & review content and length.
Send submissions or queries by email to the editors:
paulmenzer@gmail.com
jeremy.lopez@utoronto.ca
Overview
The Hare solicits short essays on the dramatic, poetic, and prose works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The journal also publishes academic book reviews, and provides a public forum for open exchange between scholars in the field.
Articles
Article submissions should be approximately 1000 – 3000 words, including all notes and references. Longer submissions will not be considered. The Hare encourages the submission of conference papers, lectures, out-takes, first gestures, and other occasional pieces whose exposition does not require the 7000 – 10000 words and extensive apparatus typical of a scholarly article. By soliciting only short pieces, the Editors hope to encourage the submission of stylistically and interpretively adventurous work that addresses out-of-the-way subjects, non-canonical literature, and/or current scholarly controversy. Essays on familiar, canonical texts & subjects are of course welcome as well. The Hare asserts copyright over all published material but will freely grant permission for future publication without any reservations.
Book reviews
The Hare solicits reviews of old books. The Editors believe that scholarship and pedagogy benefit from the continuous reappraisal of foundational or seminal critical works—and also the reconsideration of works whose importance has been forgotten, or heretofore overlooked. The definition of “old” will remain flexible, and contributors are encouraged to interpret it creatively. Reviews of recently published books will be considered if they are discussed in conjunction with old books. Book reviews should be 1000 – 3000 words; they may cover more than one book; they may cover books that are foundational in, seminal for, or otherwise important to the field of early modern literary studies, or literary studies in general. Book reviews should be submitted with titles.
Letters
Readers are encouraged to respond to content in The Hare, or to call attention to scholarly matters that might be of interest to other readers, in the form of publishable letters. Letters should be addressed to the Editors, should be no more than 500 words long, and must be signed. Letters may be edited for content and length.
Editorial Board
Pascale Aebischer, University of Exeter
Alice Dailey, Villanova University
Matt Davies, Mary Baldwin College
Andrew Hartley, UNC Charlotte
Peter Kanelos, Loyola University, Chicago
Farah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare’s Globe
Matt Kozusko, Ursinus College
Rebecca Lemon, USC
Zachary Lesser, University of Pennsylvania
Genevieve Love, Colorado College
Kirk Melnikoff, UNC Charlotte
Richard Preiss, University of Utah
Paul Prescott, University of Warwick
Melissa Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania
Peter Smith, Nottingham-Trent University
Tiffany Stern, Oxford University
Andrea Stevens, University of Illinois
Holger Syme, University of Toronto
Henry Turner, Rutgers University
Brian Walsh, Yale University
Christopher Warley, University of Toronto
William West, Northwestern University
UVa-Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXV (6/17; 9/15-17)
The University of Virginia's Medieval-Renaissance Conference is pleased to accept abstracts for out twenty-fifth conference.
September 15-17, 2011
Keynote Address
David Bevington
University of Chicago
Shakespeare on Religion
The conference is an open event that promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines of Medieval and Renaissance studies. We welcome proposals for papers and panels on Medieval or Renaissance literature, language, history, philosophy, science, pedagogy, and the arts. Abstracts for papers should be 300 or fewer words. Proposals for panels should include: a) title of the panel; b) names and institutional affiliations of the chair and all panelists; c) abstracts for papers to be presented (300 or fewer words). A branch campus of the University of Virginia, the University of Virginia’s College at Wise is a public four-year liberal arts college located in the scenic Appalachian Mountains of Southwest Virginia.
Deadline for Submissions: June 17, 2011
Please direct submissions on English Language and Literature and requests for general information to:
Kenneth J. Tiller
Department of Language and Literature
UVA’s College at Wise
Wise, VA 24293
(276) 376-4587
kjt9t@uvawise.edu
Submissions on Art, Music, and Continental Literature:
Amelia J. Harris
Academic Dean
UVA’s College at Wise
Wise, VA 24293
(276) 376-4557
ajh7a@uvawise.edu
Submissions on History or Philosophy:
Donald Leech
Department of History and Philosophy
UVA’s College at Wise
Wise, VA 24293
dl4fh@uvawise.ed
September 15-17, 2011
Keynote Address
David Bevington
University of Chicago
Shakespeare on Religion
The conference is an open event that promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines of Medieval and Renaissance studies. We welcome proposals for papers and panels on Medieval or Renaissance literature, language, history, philosophy, science, pedagogy, and the arts. Abstracts for papers should be 300 or fewer words. Proposals for panels should include: a) title of the panel; b) names and institutional affiliations of the chair and all panelists; c) abstracts for papers to be presented (300 or fewer words). A branch campus of the University of Virginia, the University of Virginia’s College at Wise is a public four-year liberal arts college located in the scenic Appalachian Mountains of Southwest Virginia.
Deadline for Submissions: June 17, 2011
Please direct submissions on English Language and Literature and requests for general information to:
Kenneth J. Tiller
Department of Language and Literature
UVA’s College at Wise
Wise, VA 24293
(276) 376-4587
kjt9t@uvawise.edu
Submissions on Art, Music, and Continental Literature:
Amelia J. Harris
Academic Dean
UVA’s College at Wise
Wise, VA 24293
(276) 376-4557
ajh7a@uvawise.edu
Submissions on History or Philosophy:
Donald Leech
Department of History and Philosophy
UVA’s College at Wise
Wise, VA 24293
dl4fh@uvawise.ed
Shakespeare and the Material World
Early English Studies Journal
contact email:
earlyenglishstudies@gmail.com
Early English Studies Journal is an online journal under the auspices of the University of Texas, Arlington English Department and is devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in the medieval and early modern periods. EES is published annually, peer-reviewed, and open to general submission.
contact email:
earlyenglishstudies@gmail.com
Early English Studies Journal is an online journal under the auspices of the University of Texas, Arlington English Department and is devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in the medieval and early modern periods. EES is published annually, peer-reviewed, and open to general submission.
CSULB Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Student Conference
The California State University, Long Beach
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Third Annual Student Conference
April 2, 2011
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, California
The Medieval and Renaissance Students' Association at CSULB is seeking proposals for individual papers and group panels from graduate and undergraduate students in all disciplines for its Third Annual Student Conference. Proposals should be sent as presentation abstracts of 250 words or less. Presentations should be approximately 15-20 minutes in length, allowing 5-10 minutes for discussion and questions.
In the interests of exploring the many avenues of pre-modern studies, MaRSA welcomes proposals from all disciplines and levels of study, but submissions should be limited to topics ranging from the Ancient through Early Modern periods. Modern topics relevant to the pre-modern period, such as anachronism or medievalism, as well as proposals pertaining to regions outside of Europe, are also welcome.
Accepted participants will also be given the opportunity to work with MaRSA in publishing their work in a collection of essays on the conference's proceedings.
Proposals should include:
- The presenter or panel organizer's name and contact information
-A presentation title
-A 250 word abstract
The deadline for abstracts is March 12, 2011; a list of accepted participants will be announced by March 19.
Proposals should be submitted in the body of an email to : csulbmarsa@gmail.com
Please use the following subject heading when submitting abstracts: MARSA 2011
Inquiries may be directed to the MaRSA staff at csulbmarsa@gmail.com
Registration forms and additional conference information available at www.sites.google.com/site/csulbmarsa/
The Medieval and Renaissance Students' Association at California State University, Long Beach, founded in 2007, is the student association of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and dedicated to fostering an arena of collegial dialogue and support for the pre- and post-baccalaureate community.
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Third Annual Student Conference
April 2, 2011
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, California
The Medieval and Renaissance Students' Association at CSULB is seeking proposals for individual papers and group panels from graduate and undergraduate students in all disciplines for its Third Annual Student Conference. Proposals should be sent as presentation abstracts of 250 words or less. Presentations should be approximately 15-20 minutes in length, allowing 5-10 minutes for discussion and questions.
In the interests of exploring the many avenues of pre-modern studies, MaRSA welcomes proposals from all disciplines and levels of study, but submissions should be limited to topics ranging from the Ancient through Early Modern periods. Modern topics relevant to the pre-modern period, such as anachronism or medievalism, as well as proposals pertaining to regions outside of Europe, are also welcome.
Accepted participants will also be given the opportunity to work with MaRSA in publishing their work in a collection of essays on the conference's proceedings.
Proposals should include:
- The presenter or panel organizer's name and contact information
-A presentation title
-A 250 word abstract
The deadline for abstracts is March 12, 2011; a list of accepted participants will be announced by March 19.
Proposals should be submitted in the body of an email to : csulbmarsa@gmail.com
Please use the following subject heading when submitting abstracts: MARSA 2011
Inquiries may be directed to the MaRSA staff at csulbmarsa@gmail.com
Registration forms and additional conference information available at www.sites.google.com/site/csulbmarsa/
The Medieval and Renaissance Students' Association at California State University, Long Beach, founded in 2007, is the student association of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and dedicated to fostering an arena of collegial dialogue and support for the pre- and post-baccalaureate community.
Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama, October 6-8, 2011 (Scottsdale, AZ). Deadline for submission, March 10, 2011
respinosa2@utep.edu
RMMLA session "Early Modern Spanish Writers" - Deadline extended
This is a CPF for the proposed session "Early Modern Spanish Writers" for the 2011 RMMLA Convention which will meet in Scottsdale, AZ, October 6-8, 2011.
200 word proposals are solicited on any aspect of works by Spanish writers during what is referred to as "Early Modernity", that is, the period that encompasses late Middle Ages to 18th century.
The deadline has been extended past the March 1, 2011 submission date: please, submit to me directly as soon as possible.
rodriel@lemoyne.edu
200 word proposals are solicited on any aspect of works by Spanish writers during what is referred to as "Early Modernity", that is, the period that encompasses late Middle Ages to 18th century.
The deadline has been extended past the March 1, 2011 submission date: please, submit to me directly as soon as possible.
rodriel@lemoyne.edu
English Renaissance Literature
Open topic panel for English Renaissance Literature - all literary genres and theory. Please reply quickly as our deadline has passed. RMMLA Scottsdale, AZ annual conference.
andrea.vannort@usafa.edu
andrea.vannort@usafa.edu
Ingenious Acts: The Nature of Invention in Early Modern Europe USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Annual Conference
Ingenious Acts: The Nature of Invention in Early Modern Europe
USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Annual Conference
Friday 1st April
9-9:15: Opening Remarks (Peter Mancall, Alex Marr)
9:15-10:00: Session I
Chair: Peter Mancall (USC)
Paul Binski (Cambridge University): Gothic Invention
10-10:30: Coffee
10:30-12:00: Session II
Chair: Deborah Shuger (UCLA)
Bruce Smith (USC): The Congeniality of Shakespeare’s Genius
Timothy Chesters (Royal Holloway, University of London): Montaigne: The Lure of Invention
12-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00: Session III
Chair: Mary Terrall (UCLA)
Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr College): History and Invention in the Middle Ages
Vera Keller (USC/University of Oregon): The Murder of Invention
3:00-3:15: Coffee
3:15-4:00: Session IV
Chair: Mordechai Feingold (Caltech)
Rhodri Lewis (University of Oxford): Literate Experience? Francis Bacon on Reading, Imagination and Discovery
Saturday 2nd April
9:30-10:15: Session V
?Chair: David Brafman (Getty Research Institute)
Michael Cole (Columbia University): What did Michelangelo Invent?
10:15-10:45: Coffee
10:45-12:15: Session VI Chair: Matthew Hunter (Caltech)
Sean Roberts (USC): Inventing Engraving in Vasari’s Florence
Frances Gage (Buffalo State College, SUNY): ‘Fantasia’ and the Habit of Invention in Seicento Rome
12:15-1:30: Lunch
1:30-3:00: Session VII
Chair: John Heilbron (Oxford University/Caltech)
Jessica Ratcliff (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): “Pretended Good and Profitable”: Vernacular Representations of Projectors and Technological Invention, c. 1630-70
Matthew L. Jones (Columbia University): Reinventing the (Stepped) Wheel: Invention and Nescience around Enlightenment Calculating Machines
3:00-3:15: Coffee
3:15-4:45: Session VIII
Chair: Daniela Bleichmar (USC)
Nicholas Wilding (Georgia State University): Obsolete Objects in the Scientific Imagination
Daniel Rosenberg (University of Oregon): Data Before the Fact
4:45-5:00 Concluding remarks
USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Annual Conference
Friday 1st April
9-9:15: Opening Remarks (Peter Mancall, Alex Marr)
9:15-10:00: Session I
Chair: Peter Mancall (USC)
Paul Binski (Cambridge University): Gothic Invention
10-10:30: Coffee
10:30-12:00: Session II
Chair: Deborah Shuger (UCLA)
Bruce Smith (USC): The Congeniality of Shakespeare’s Genius
Timothy Chesters (Royal Holloway, University of London): Montaigne: The Lure of Invention
12-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00: Session III
Chair: Mary Terrall (UCLA)
Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr College): History and Invention in the Middle Ages
Vera Keller (USC/University of Oregon): The Murder of Invention
3:00-3:15: Coffee
3:15-4:00: Session IV
Chair: Mordechai Feingold (Caltech)
Rhodri Lewis (University of Oxford): Literate Experience? Francis Bacon on Reading, Imagination and Discovery
Saturday 2nd April
9:30-10:15: Session V
?Chair: David Brafman (Getty Research Institute)
Michael Cole (Columbia University): What did Michelangelo Invent?
10:15-10:45: Coffee
10:45-12:15: Session VI Chair: Matthew Hunter (Caltech)
Sean Roberts (USC): Inventing Engraving in Vasari’s Florence
Frances Gage (Buffalo State College, SUNY): ‘Fantasia’ and the Habit of Invention in Seicento Rome
12:15-1:30: Lunch
1:30-3:00: Session VII
Chair: John Heilbron (Oxford University/Caltech)
Jessica Ratcliff (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): “Pretended Good and Profitable”: Vernacular Representations of Projectors and Technological Invention, c. 1630-70
Matthew L. Jones (Columbia University): Reinventing the (Stepped) Wheel: Invention and Nescience around Enlightenment Calculating Machines
3:00-3:15: Coffee
3:15-4:45: Session VIII
Chair: Daniela Bleichmar (USC)
Nicholas Wilding (Georgia State University): Obsolete Objects in the Scientific Imagination
Daniel Rosenberg (University of Oregon): Data Before the Fact
4:45-5:00 Concluding remarks
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the history of Early Modern North America and/or the Atlantic World at the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in the history of early modern North American and/or the Atlantic world, 2011-2013, at the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute seeks applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in the history of early modern North America and/or the Atlantic world, c. 1500 to c. 1800. The annual salary is $58,000, with a $2,000 research/travel allowance annually. The Institute, founded in 2003, is a partnership between the University of Southern California and the Huntington Library in nearby San Marino, California. The Institute sponsors 75 to 90 scholarly presentations each year, has an annual workshop with the William and Mary Quarterly each May, an annual conference in April or May, and sponsors a book series on “The Early Modern Americas” with the University of Pennsylvania Press. The fellow will teach one course per semester at USC, have research space at the Huntington, and will be expected to participate in Institute programs relevant to the fellow’s interests. Candidates must have completed all of the requirements for the Ph.D. by August 15, 2011. To apply, please send a letter of application, c.v., thesis abstract, two letters of recommendation (to be sent directly by the referees and one of which must speak to teaching abilities), and a writing sample to emsifellowship@college.usc.edu. The deadline for the receipt of all materials is March 21, 2011. Inquiries should be directed to emsi@usc.edu. Information about Institute programs can be found at our website, usc.edu/emsi. Details about the Huntington’s holdings can be found at huntington.org. USC strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity in employment. Women and men, and members of all racial and ethnic groups, are encouraged to apply.
Early Modern Studies Institute
c/o Department of History
SOS 153
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California 90089-0034
Email: emsi@usc.edu
Visit the website at http://usc.edu/emsi
The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute seeks applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in the history of early modern North America and/or the Atlantic world, c. 1500 to c. 1800. The annual salary is $58,000, with a $2,000 research/travel allowance annually. The Institute, founded in 2003, is a partnership between the University of Southern California and the Huntington Library in nearby San Marino, California. The Institute sponsors 75 to 90 scholarly presentations each year, has an annual workshop with the William and Mary Quarterly each May, an annual conference in April or May, and sponsors a book series on “The Early Modern Americas” with the University of Pennsylvania Press. The fellow will teach one course per semester at USC, have research space at the Huntington, and will be expected to participate in Institute programs relevant to the fellow’s interests. Candidates must have completed all of the requirements for the Ph.D. by August 15, 2011. To apply, please send a letter of application, c.v., thesis abstract, two letters of recommendation (to be sent directly by the referees and one of which must speak to teaching abilities), and a writing sample to emsifellowship@college.usc.edu. The deadline for the receipt of all materials is March 21, 2011. Inquiries should be directed to emsi@usc.edu. Information about Institute programs can be found at our website, usc.edu/emsi. Details about the Huntington’s holdings can be found at huntington.org. USC strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity in employment. Women and men, and members of all racial and ethnic groups, are encouraged to apply.
Early Modern Studies Institute
c/o Department of History
SOS 153
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California 90089-0034
Email: emsi@usc.edu
Visit the website at http://usc.edu/emsi
Workshop: North-South Connections in the Late Middle Ages
Workshop: North-South Connections in the Late Middle Ages
The aim of this Workshop is to promote the criticism in young medievalists in order to improve their researches. We encourage postgraduate students interested in connections between North and South in the Late Middle Ages, to participate and send a proposal paper. Scientific committee will choose those to be explained as an oral paper in the Workshop. They will be published as monographic volume of AMEA (International Journal of Atlantic Europe in the Middle Ages)
STRUCTURE OF THE WORKSHOP
Workshop will take place in University of Cantabria (Santander, Spain), on 26 and 27 May. Speakers should be adjusted to the practical spirit of the Workshop. So, they should deal with the following subjects:
•Current status of the issue
•Sources and Methodology
•Obtained results
The time for each oral paper will be 15 minutes. Later, one commentator will ask some questions (less of 10 minutes) and the communicants will can reply for 5 minutes. Finally, there will be a debate about all works led by a commentator (1 hour).
CALL FOR PAPERS We are seeking proposals of 150-300 words about different aspects of connections between North and South in Late Middle Ages to be presented at the workshop. Proposed papers will be accepted until 31 March 2011 at 23:59. Authors should send a text about their paper (with texts, maps, images or others materials) before 16 April 2011.
Interested can contact with Javier AñÃbarro RodrÃguez
anibarroj@unican.es
Universidad de Cantabria. Facultad de FilosofÃa y Letras.
Avenida Los Castros s/n 39005
Santander. Spain
Organised by University of Cantabria in collaboration with University of Valladolid and University of Basque Country (Research projects: Ciudades y villas portuarias en la articulación del litoral atlántico en la Edad Media (HAR2009-08474) – UC; Poder, Sociedad y Fiscalidad en las merindades de Palencia, Burgos y Valladolid en la época trastámara (HAR2008-05841-Co2-01) – UVa; Poder, Sociedad y Fiscalidad en las merindades de allende Ebro y La Rioja durante el reinado de la dinsatÃa Trastamara (HAR2008-05841) – UPV). Sponsored by Faculty of Arts, (University of Cantabria) and Histar (Research group of History and Archaeology of Ancient and Medieval World)
Attendence at the Workshop is free of charge
The aim of this Workshop is to promote the criticism in young medievalists in order to improve their researches. We encourage postgraduate students interested in connections between North and South in the Late Middle Ages, to participate and send a proposal paper. Scientific committee will choose those to be explained as an oral paper in the Workshop. They will be published as monographic volume of AMEA (International Journal of Atlantic Europe in the Middle Ages)
STRUCTURE OF THE WORKSHOP
Workshop will take place in University of Cantabria (Santander, Spain), on 26 and 27 May. Speakers should be adjusted to the practical spirit of the Workshop. So, they should deal with the following subjects:
•Current status of the issue
•Sources and Methodology
•Obtained results
The time for each oral paper will be 15 minutes. Later, one commentator will ask some questions (less of 10 minutes) and the communicants will can reply for 5 minutes. Finally, there will be a debate about all works led by a commentator (1 hour).
CALL FOR PAPERS We are seeking proposals of 150-300 words about different aspects of connections between North and South in Late Middle Ages to be presented at the workshop. Proposed papers will be accepted until 31 March 2011 at 23:59. Authors should send a text about their paper (with texts, maps, images or others materials) before 16 April 2011.
Interested can contact with Javier AñÃbarro RodrÃguez
anibarroj@unican.es
Universidad de Cantabria. Facultad de FilosofÃa y Letras.
Avenida Los Castros s/n 39005
Santander. Spain
Organised by University of Cantabria in collaboration with University of Valladolid and University of Basque Country (Research projects: Ciudades y villas portuarias en la articulación del litoral atlántico en la Edad Media (HAR2009-08474) – UC; Poder, Sociedad y Fiscalidad en las merindades de Palencia, Burgos y Valladolid en la época trastámara (HAR2008-05841-Co2-01) – UVa; Poder, Sociedad y Fiscalidad en las merindades de allende Ebro y La Rioja durante el reinado de la dinsatÃa Trastamara (HAR2008-05841) – UPV). Sponsored by Faculty of Arts, (University of Cantabria) and Histar (Research group of History and Archaeology of Ancient and Medieval World)
Attendence at the Workshop is free of charge
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
North West Renaissance Drama Colloquium 23rd June 2011
Proposals are invited for papers to be delivered at the first North West Renaissance Drama Colloquium. The event will bring together researchers and students from all institutions and at all career stages for a day of papers and discussion. A short list of plays being spoken on will be circulated in advance of the event and all delegates will be encouraged to come prepared to share ideas on interpretation and teaching. The venue in Manchester is to be confirmed.
A keynote lecture will be given by Professor Nicholas Royle (Sussex), author of The Uncanny, How to Read Shakespeare, After Derrida and a novel, Quilt.
To express interest in attendance or to propose a 20 minute paper on any aspect of Renaissance or Restoration drama (preferably focussing on a single play), please email a 300 word abstract by 08.04.11 to Naya Tsentourou and James Smith at:
renaissance.drama@manchester.ac.uk
A keynote lecture will be given by Professor Nicholas Royle (Sussex), author of The Uncanny, How to Read Shakespeare, After Derrida and a novel, Quilt.
To express interest in attendance or to propose a 20 minute paper on any aspect of Renaissance or Restoration drama (preferably focussing on a single play), please email a 300 word abstract by 08.04.11 to Naya Tsentourou and James Smith at:
renaissance.drama@manchester.ac.uk
Shakespeare and Related Topics
A call to all enthusiasts of the bard to consider submitting a paper to the session "Shakespeare and Related Topics" for the Fall 2011 Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), taking place November 5-6 2011 at Scripps College in sunny Claremont California.
The provisional session theme is "Shakespeare and the Senses," and papers are especially welcome that explore the role of one or more of the five senses either as themes in the plays and poetry or as features in dramatic performance. However, as the official session title suggests, any and all papers on Shakespeare or related topics are heartily welcome.
The deadline for paper submissions is March 25, 2011. For more information visit the PAMLA conference site: http://www.pamla.org/2011/session-topics or e-mail the presiding officer, Laura Aydelotte lea1@uchicago.edu Anyone who wishes to be considered for the session must submit a proposal through the Online Proposal Submission Form at the PAMLA website: http://www.pamla.org/2011/proposals
The provisional session theme is "Shakespeare and the Senses," and papers are especially welcome that explore the role of one or more of the five senses either as themes in the plays and poetry or as features in dramatic performance. However, as the official session title suggests, any and all papers on Shakespeare or related topics are heartily welcome.
The deadline for paper submissions is March 25, 2011. For more information visit the PAMLA conference site: http://www.pamla.org/2011/session-topics or e-mail the presiding officer, Laura Aydelotte lea1@uchicago.edu Anyone who wishes to be considered for the session must submit a proposal through the Online Proposal Submission Form at the PAMLA website: http://www.pamla.org/2011/proposals
CfM: Medieval and Medievalist Scholarship
Witan Publishing welcomes submissions of scholarly work addressing medieval studies and medievalism. Because Witan produces high-quality double-blind peer-reviewed scholarship in e-publishing formats only, we are not bound by print market prices; therefore Witan especially welcomes conference proceedings, Festschrifts, and other edited collections. Although Witan will consider manuscripts of any length, we are particularly interested in monographs between 40-200 pages that are too long for journal articles, yet too short for print books.
Witan Publishing is dedicated to creating an e-publishing revolution in medieval scholarship by producing professional-grade peer-reviewed work, distributing it through all major online booksellers, and pricing it very affordably for the widest possible audience. To that end, we welcome journals that have found the print market financially untenable. Witan Publishing will produce your journal for free and distribute it extremely inexpensively through major online booksellers.
To begin the submission progress, visit our proposal submissions page at http://www.witanpublishing.com/submit/
Witan Publishing is dedicated to creating an e-publishing revolution in medieval scholarship by producing professional-grade peer-reviewed work, distributing it through all major online booksellers, and pricing it very affordably for the widest possible audience. To that end, we welcome journals that have found the print market financially untenable. Witan Publishing will produce your journal for free and distribute it extremely inexpensively through major online booksellers.
To begin the submission progress, visit our proposal submissions page at http://www.witanpublishing.com/submit/
[DEADLINE EXTENDED] Locating George Herbert: Family, Place, Traditions--Wales--Oct. 13-16, 2011 (New Deadline April 21, 2011)
The George Herbert Society announces its next international, interdisciplinary conference, which will seek to locate Herbert’s Welsh origins and earliest influences. These include the gifted and competitive Herbert family; the Welsh border country around his Montgomery birthplace; and the literary, spiritual, and aesthetic traditions of Celtic culture. We also will locate Herbert’s legacy among other Welsh poets, including Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, Dylan Thomas, and R. S. Thomas.
We will meet at the University of Wales’s up-to-date yet historic and tranquil Gregynog (gruh GAN ogk) Conference Center, nestled among the rolling hills and fields of Powys in mid-Wales. Our plenary speakers will be Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales; Jeremy Davies, Precentor and Canon, Salisbury Cathedral; and Achsah Guibbory, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of English, Barnard College of Columbia University.
Conference activities will include poetry readings, a rich range of paper panels and discussion sessions, a poetry competition, a choral concert, and an optional worship service. We also will visit the Herbert family monuments in St. Nicholas Church, Montgomery, the Herbert family castles of Montgomery and Powis, the workings of the Gregynog Press, and we will enjoy a supper in the historic Montgomery Town Hall. And there will be plenty of time for quiet walks, convivial teas and drinks, and shared meals in the Gregynog dining room. For those wishing to add a few days to their British travels, there also will be opportunities to visit nearby Ludlow Castle, site of the first performance of John Milton’s Comus, and Salisbury/Bemerton in England, where Herbert ministered and wrote for the last three years of his life.
We invite proposals for papers and for full panels from literary scholars, historians, and theologians who seek to discuss Herbert from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and especially in relation to issues of family, place, and Celtic cultural traditions. We also invite proposals for creative presentations involving music, dramatic performance, and the visual arts. We particularly encourage those who wish to propose panels linked by attention to a common theme, poem, site, or setting.
More specifically, we welcome paper and panel proposals on topics such as but not limited to the following: Herbert’s poetic debt to nearby buildings and landscapes; questions of border politics and cultural intersection in late medieval and Tudor-Stuart Wales; Herbert’s relation to Welsh language and poetic forms, and to Celtic spirituality; Herbert’s near family connections, especially to his father Richard Herbert, his mother Magdelen Newport Herbert, and to his brothers Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury and Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels; Herbert’s connections to his cousins and later kinsmen the Earls of Pembroke, Montgomery, and Powis; and his debt to and influence on Welsh poets.
We invite e-mail submissions. For 15-20-minute papers, send a 250-word titled abstract; for a complete 3-4-person panel, send an overall title and individual 250-word titled abstracts for each paper; for creative presentations, please send a 250-word description indicating any other introductory materials (pdf’s, CD’s, DVD’s) that the conference program committee might then request for evaluation. Please indicate Wales 2011 in your subject line and include a 1-page CV giving an e-mail and a regular mail address at which you can be reached; and indicate any expected audio-visual needs (including special software needs)—Gregynog Conference Center is fully equipped for PowerPoint presentations and wireless Internet access.
We will meet at the University of Wales’s up-to-date yet historic and tranquil Gregynog (gruh GAN ogk) Conference Center, nestled among the rolling hills and fields of Powys in mid-Wales. Our plenary speakers will be Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales; Jeremy Davies, Precentor and Canon, Salisbury Cathedral; and Achsah Guibbory, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of English, Barnard College of Columbia University.
Conference activities will include poetry readings, a rich range of paper panels and discussion sessions, a poetry competition, a choral concert, and an optional worship service. We also will visit the Herbert family monuments in St. Nicholas Church, Montgomery, the Herbert family castles of Montgomery and Powis, the workings of the Gregynog Press, and we will enjoy a supper in the historic Montgomery Town Hall. And there will be plenty of time for quiet walks, convivial teas and drinks, and shared meals in the Gregynog dining room. For those wishing to add a few days to their British travels, there also will be opportunities to visit nearby Ludlow Castle, site of the first performance of John Milton’s Comus, and Salisbury/Bemerton in England, where Herbert ministered and wrote for the last three years of his life.
We invite proposals for papers and for full panels from literary scholars, historians, and theologians who seek to discuss Herbert from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and especially in relation to issues of family, place, and Celtic cultural traditions. We also invite proposals for creative presentations involving music, dramatic performance, and the visual arts. We particularly encourage those who wish to propose panels linked by attention to a common theme, poem, site, or setting.
More specifically, we welcome paper and panel proposals on topics such as but not limited to the following: Herbert’s poetic debt to nearby buildings and landscapes; questions of border politics and cultural intersection in late medieval and Tudor-Stuart Wales; Herbert’s relation to Welsh language and poetic forms, and to Celtic spirituality; Herbert’s near family connections, especially to his father Richard Herbert, his mother Magdelen Newport Herbert, and to his brothers Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury and Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels; Herbert’s connections to his cousins and later kinsmen the Earls of Pembroke, Montgomery, and Powis; and his debt to and influence on Welsh poets.
We invite e-mail submissions. For 15-20-minute papers, send a 250-word titled abstract; for a complete 3-4-person panel, send an overall title and individual 250-word titled abstracts for each paper; for creative presentations, please send a 250-word description indicating any other introductory materials (pdf’s, CD’s, DVD’s) that the conference program committee might then request for evaluation. Please indicate Wales 2011 in your subject line and include a 1-page CV giving an e-mail and a regular mail address at which you can be reached; and indicate any expected audio-visual needs (including special software needs)—Gregynog Conference Center is fully equipped for PowerPoint presentations and wireless Internet access.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
[Update] 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 instruction 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, Humanities 2088
Nicolls Road
Stony Brook, New York 11790-5350
USA
Electronic Format (.doc or .pdf):
Bente.Videbaek@Stonybrook.edu;
boechem@sunysuffolk.edu
The submission deadlines are open. Young scholars and veteran faculty are encouraged to submit.
• 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, Humanities 2088
Nicolls Road
Stony Brook, New York 11790-5350
USA
Electronic Format (.doc or .pdf):
Bente.Videbaek@Stonybrook.edu;
boechem@sunysuffolk.edu
The submission deadlines are open. Young scholars and veteran faculty are encouraged to submit.
"Shakespeare and Ethics" 2011 OVSC (Michigan State U) 11/3-5/11 (Abstracts due 6/5 or 8/28)
A Call for Papers
SHAKESPEARE AND ETHICS
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
NOVEMBER 3-5, 2011
The planning committee of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference is seeking abstracts and paper proposals that investigate questions of ethics in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. We’re thinking of ethics in a broad sense, to include issues of gender, race, class, culture, religion, labor, economics, justice, environmentalism, and nature. Papers might consider issues of ethics as they are reflected upon within a particular play or more broadly within the dramatic and poetic works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and may take up questions concerning the role of Shakespeare as a cultural icon and literary figure, his works within the performance tradition or in the English and global literary canons, and in relation to early modern as well as contemporary values.
Abstracts or proposals are due by June 5, 2011 (early decision) or August 28th (final deadline). All inquiries should be directed to: Sandra Logan logans@msu.edu or c/o Department of English / 201 Morrill Hall / Michigan State University / 48824. E-mail abstracts to logans@msu.edu with the subject line OVSC Proposal. Please include contact information, academic affiliation, if any, and status: independent, faculty, grad student, or undergrad.
Keynote Speakers:
Emily Bartels – Professor of English, Rutgers University. She is the author of Speaking of the Moor: Alcazar to Othello (2008), and Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation, and Marlowe (1993), and extensive publications on critical race studies in the early modern period, as well as questions of early modern gender and desire. She is currently working on a monograph on Intertextual Shakespeare.
Bradin Cormack – Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago. He is the author of A Power to Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common Law, 1509–1625 (2007), and a wide range of publications on law, drama, and poetry in the work of Shakespeare and other early modern authors.
OVSC invites graduate and undergraduate students to compete for the M. R. Smith Prize. Select conference proceedings are published in a juried, online journal.
Visit our website (which will soon be updated) for information about events and entertainments during the conference: http://www.marietta.edu/~engl/OVSC/
SHAKESPEARE AND ETHICS
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
NOVEMBER 3-5, 2011
The planning committee of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference is seeking abstracts and paper proposals that investigate questions of ethics in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. We’re thinking of ethics in a broad sense, to include issues of gender, race, class, culture, religion, labor, economics, justice, environmentalism, and nature. Papers might consider issues of ethics as they are reflected upon within a particular play or more broadly within the dramatic and poetic works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and may take up questions concerning the role of Shakespeare as a cultural icon and literary figure, his works within the performance tradition or in the English and global literary canons, and in relation to early modern as well as contemporary values.
Abstracts or proposals are due by June 5, 2011 (early decision) or August 28th (final deadline). All inquiries should be directed to: Sandra Logan logans@msu.edu or c/o Department of English / 201 Morrill Hall / Michigan State University / 48824. E-mail abstracts to logans@msu.edu with the subject line OVSC Proposal. Please include contact information, academic affiliation, if any, and status: independent, faculty, grad student, or undergrad.
Keynote Speakers:
Emily Bartels – Professor of English, Rutgers University. She is the author of Speaking of the Moor: Alcazar to Othello (2008), and Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation, and Marlowe (1993), and extensive publications on critical race studies in the early modern period, as well as questions of early modern gender and desire. She is currently working on a monograph on Intertextual Shakespeare.
Bradin Cormack – Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago. He is the author of A Power to Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common Law, 1509–1625 (2007), and a wide range of publications on law, drama, and poetry in the work of Shakespeare and other early modern authors.
OVSC invites graduate and undergraduate students to compete for the M. R. Smith Prize. Select conference proceedings are published in a juried, online journal.
Visit our website (which will soon be updated) for information about events and entertainments during the conference: http://www.marietta.edu/~engl/OVSC/
Shakespeare and the Material World
Early English Studies Journal is an online journal under the auspices of the University of Texas, Arlington English Department and is devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in the medieval and early modern periods. EES is published annually, peer-reviewed, and open to general submission.
Early English Studies Journal is now accepting submission for our next issue, which will be titled, Shakespeare and the Material World. We welcome submissions that deal with any aspect of Shakespeare and material culture. We are interested, for example, in the ways in which materiality informs theatrical practices and is reflected in the plays. How do objects or the idea of an object construct identity and gender or create a sense of space, time, or location? What is the meaning of materiality in the early modern world and the world of Shakespeare’s plays? Submissions (7000-9000 words including notes) are due on March 2, 2011.
Please include a brief bio and 200-word abstract with your electronic submission, all in Word documents. Please visit the website at http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/ for more specific submission guidelines and to read past issues.
In Volume 4, we will also have a new section of book reviews. If you would like to have your book, which has been published in the last two years and concerns medieval or early modern literary and or cultural studies, considered for review, please send an email to Sarah Farrell, Review Editor, sarah.farrell@mavs.uta.edu.
Deadline for Paper: March 2, 2011
Send submissions to: Amy L. Tigner, earlyenglishstudies@gmail.com
Call for Papers website: http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/
Early English Studies Journal is now accepting submission for our next issue, which will be titled, Shakespeare and the Material World. We welcome submissions that deal with any aspect of Shakespeare and material culture. We are interested, for example, in the ways in which materiality informs theatrical practices and is reflected in the plays. How do objects or the idea of an object construct identity and gender or create a sense of space, time, or location? What is the meaning of materiality in the early modern world and the world of Shakespeare’s plays? Submissions (7000-9000 words including notes) are due on March 2, 2011.
Please include a brief bio and 200-word abstract with your electronic submission, all in Word documents. Please visit the website at http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/ for more specific submission guidelines and to read past issues.
In Volume 4, we will also have a new section of book reviews. If you would like to have your book, which has been published in the last two years and concerns medieval or early modern literary and or cultural studies, considered for review, please send an email to Sarah Farrell, Review Editor, sarah.farrell@mavs.uta.edu.
Deadline for Paper: March 2, 2011
Send submissions to: Amy L. Tigner, earlyenglishstudies@gmail.com
Call for Papers website: http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/
Rehearsing Shakespeare: Alternative Strategies in Process and Performance - Shakespeare Bulletin (Vol. 30 No. 4 Winter 2012)
Rehearsing Shakespeare: Alternative Strategies in Process and Performance
Special Issue of Shakespeare Bulletin (Vol. 30 No. 4 Winter 2012), Johns Hopkins University Press.
Issue Editor: Christian M. Billing (University of Hull) c.m.billing@hull.ac.uk
This special issue of Shakespeare Bulletin will explore a number of actor training methods and rehearsal processes used globally in a variety of performance contexts that challenge, resist or offer profitable alternatives to dominant British and North American, psychologically-based modes of character preparation and performance. Such alternative approaches may include (but will not necessarily be limited to): original staging practices (particularly the recent use by theatre professionals of current academic scholarship in this field); performances created during site-specific rehearsal processes; biomechanical approaches (such as those of Meyerhold, or Suzuki); Brechtian gestus and Epic acting; processes influenced by Eastern traditions (particularly Butoh; Kathakali; Noh, Kabuki and Kyogen); clowning and clown training; extra-daily practices (as defined by Grotowski and Barba); corporally-based methods and systems (such as those outlined by Copeau and Lecoq); multi-media, new media and technological interventions; Viewpoints; intercultural practices; and contemporary voice training (e.g. Linklater).
Following initial selection of authors via abstract and one-page CV, commissioned essays of up to 7,000 words will consider both process (as suggested above) and developmental decisions taken in rehearsal, with regards to eventual performances. Papers should be based upon particular examples drawn from the work of individual companies, directors and practitioners. A strong emphasis on rigorously documented rehearsal practice and the performance outcomes thereby generated will form an essential component of all essays included in this issue.
The principal aim of this special issue is to re-define scholarly understanding of the spectrum of practices used currently in rehearsal and performance processes that deal with the Shakespearean dramatic canon. What do such alternative approaches bring to our understanding of the Shakespearean text in/as performance? How do alternative processes move actors and audiences away from the performative cul-de-sac of psychological realism? How are dramatic and/or performative meanings created through such practices in the rehearsal room and beyond? Equally, does/how does the Shakespearean text offer extended possibilities for developments in actor training and rehearsal methodology?
Timescale:
February 22nd, 2011: Open Call for Papers (via CFP (UPenn), SHiP and SCUDD lists)
April 4th, 2011: Deadline to submit abstacts of 500 words and one page academic CVs to issue editor (c.m.billing@hull.ac.uk).
May 2nd, 2011: Decision on abstracts by editor, and commissioning of essays for the special issue
May 21st, 2012: Submission of final essays to special issue editor
1st June – 1st September 2012: Final peer review and editing process
Dec 2012: Publication
Special Issue of Shakespeare Bulletin (Vol. 30 No. 4 Winter 2012), Johns Hopkins University Press.
Issue Editor: Christian M. Billing (University of Hull) c.m.billing@hull.ac.uk
This special issue of Shakespeare Bulletin will explore a number of actor training methods and rehearsal processes used globally in a variety of performance contexts that challenge, resist or offer profitable alternatives to dominant British and North American, psychologically-based modes of character preparation and performance. Such alternative approaches may include (but will not necessarily be limited to): original staging practices (particularly the recent use by theatre professionals of current academic scholarship in this field); performances created during site-specific rehearsal processes; biomechanical approaches (such as those of Meyerhold, or Suzuki); Brechtian gestus and Epic acting; processes influenced by Eastern traditions (particularly Butoh; Kathakali; Noh, Kabuki and Kyogen); clowning and clown training; extra-daily practices (as defined by Grotowski and Barba); corporally-based methods and systems (such as those outlined by Copeau and Lecoq); multi-media, new media and technological interventions; Viewpoints; intercultural practices; and contemporary voice training (e.g. Linklater).
Following initial selection of authors via abstract and one-page CV, commissioned essays of up to 7,000 words will consider both process (as suggested above) and developmental decisions taken in rehearsal, with regards to eventual performances. Papers should be based upon particular examples drawn from the work of individual companies, directors and practitioners. A strong emphasis on rigorously documented rehearsal practice and the performance outcomes thereby generated will form an essential component of all essays included in this issue.
The principal aim of this special issue is to re-define scholarly understanding of the spectrum of practices used currently in rehearsal and performance processes that deal with the Shakespearean dramatic canon. What do such alternative approaches bring to our understanding of the Shakespearean text in/as performance? How do alternative processes move actors and audiences away from the performative cul-de-sac of psychological realism? How are dramatic and/or performative meanings created through such practices in the rehearsal room and beyond? Equally, does/how does the Shakespearean text offer extended possibilities for developments in actor training and rehearsal methodology?
Timescale:
February 22nd, 2011: Open Call for Papers (via CFP (UPenn), SHiP and SCUDD lists)
April 4th, 2011: Deadline to submit abstacts of 500 words and one page academic CVs to issue editor (c.m.billing@hull.ac.uk).
May 2nd, 2011: Decision on abstracts by editor, and commissioning of essays for the special issue
May 21st, 2012: Submission of final essays to special issue editor
1st June – 1st September 2012: Final peer review and editing process
Dec 2012: Publication
CSULB Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Student Conference
The California State University, Long Beach
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Third Annual Student Conference
April 2, 2011
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, California
The Medieval and Renaissance Students' Association at CSULB is seeking proposals for individual papers and group panels from graduate and undergraduate students in all disciplines for its Third Annual Student Conference. Proposals should be sent as presentation abstracts of 250 words or less. Presentations should be approximately 15-20 minutes in length, allowing 5-10 minutes for discussion and questions.
In the interests of exploring the many avenues of pre-modern studies, MaRSA welcomes proposals from all disciplines and levels of study, but submissions should be limited to topics ranging from the Ancient through Early Modern periods. Modern topics relevant to the pre-modern period, such as anachronism or medievalism, as well as proposals pertaining to regions outside of Europe, are also welcome.
Accepted participants will also be given the opportunity to work with MaRSA in publishing their work in a collection of essays on the conference's proceedings.
Proposals should include:
- The presenter or panel organizer's name and contact information
-A presentation title
-A 250 word abstract
The deadline for abstracts is March 12, 2011; a list of accepted participants will be announced by March 19.
Proposals should be submitted in the body of an email to : csulbmarsa@gmail.com
Please use the following subject heading when submitting abstracts: MARSA 2011
Inquiries may be directed to the MaRSA staff at csulbmarsa@gmail.com
Registration forms and additional conference information available at www.sites.google.com/site/csulbmarsa/
The Medieval and Renaissance Students' Association at California State University, Long Beach, founded in 2007, is the student association of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and dedicated to fostering an arena of collegial dialogue and support for the pre- and post-baccalaureate community.
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Third Annual Student Conference
April 2, 2011
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, California
The Medieval and Renaissance Students' Association at CSULB is seeking proposals for individual papers and group panels from graduate and undergraduate students in all disciplines for its Third Annual Student Conference. Proposals should be sent as presentation abstracts of 250 words or less. Presentations should be approximately 15-20 minutes in length, allowing 5-10 minutes for discussion and questions.
In the interests of exploring the many avenues of pre-modern studies, MaRSA welcomes proposals from all disciplines and levels of study, but submissions should be limited to topics ranging from the Ancient through Early Modern periods. Modern topics relevant to the pre-modern period, such as anachronism or medievalism, as well as proposals pertaining to regions outside of Europe, are also welcome.
Accepted participants will also be given the opportunity to work with MaRSA in publishing their work in a collection of essays on the conference's proceedings.
Proposals should include:
- The presenter or panel organizer's name and contact information
-A presentation title
-A 250 word abstract
The deadline for abstracts is March 12, 2011; a list of accepted participants will be announced by March 19.
Proposals should be submitted in the body of an email to : csulbmarsa@gmail.com
Please use the following subject heading when submitting abstracts: MARSA 2011
Inquiries may be directed to the MaRSA staff at csulbmarsa@gmail.com
Registration forms and additional conference information available at www.sites.google.com/site/csulbmarsa/
The Medieval and Renaissance Students' Association at California State University, Long Beach, founded in 2007, is the student association of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and dedicated to fostering an arena of collegial dialogue and support for the pre- and post-baccalaureate community.
Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference 2011
Proposals are sought for papers and panels focusing on the themes of Culture, Identity and Power during the Tudor and Stuart eras in Ireland. Proposals from all disciplines are welcome in order to encourage discussion on as many aspects of the period as possible. Postgraduate students are particularly encouraged to offer papers. The closing date for proposals is Friday, 29 April 2011.
See http://www.tudorstuartireland.com/ for the full CFP.
See http://www.tudorstuartireland.com/ for the full CFP.
PODCAST: Jacquelyn Bessell - Advice from the Players
The Shakespeare Institute
Stratford-upon-Avon
Dr Jacquelyn Bessell (Lecturer, Shakespeare Institute) – Advice from the Players
The Shakespeare Institute
An internationally renowned research institution established in 1951 to push the boundaries of knowledge about Shakespeare Studies and Renaissance Drama. The Shakespeare Institute offers a wide range of innovative postgraduate degrees, including postgraduate research.
During the Autumn and Spring terms, the Institute runs a series of Thursday seminars which are given by members of staff and invited speakers. The Thursday Seminars for the Spring Term 2011 are listed below. The seminars start at 2.00pm lasting approximately 45 minutes followed by a question and answer session. University of Birmingham staff and students, and guests are welcome to attend.
This event has been recorded and is available as a podcast at the following URL: http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/02/jacquelyn-bessell-advice-from-the-players/
Stratford-upon-Avon
Dr Jacquelyn Bessell (Lecturer, Shakespeare Institute) – Advice from the Players
The Shakespeare Institute
An internationally renowned research institution established in 1951 to push the boundaries of knowledge about Shakespeare Studies and Renaissance Drama. The Shakespeare Institute offers a wide range of innovative postgraduate degrees, including postgraduate research.
During the Autumn and Spring terms, the Institute runs a series of Thursday seminars which are given by members of staff and invited speakers. The Thursday Seminars for the Spring Term 2011 are listed below. The seminars start at 2.00pm lasting approximately 45 minutes followed by a question and answer session. University of Birmingham staff and students, and guests are welcome to attend.
This event has been recorded and is available as a podcast at the following URL: http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/02/jacquelyn-bessell-advice-from-the-players/
PODCAST: Anna Whitelock - ‘Woman, Warrior, Queen’: Rethinking Mary I and Elizabeth I
Royal Holloway Department of History
Dr Anna Whitelock (Royal Holloway)
Woman, Warrior, Queen’: Rethinking Mary I and Elizabeth I
This event has been recorded and is available as a podcast at the following URL:
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/02/anna-whitelock-'woman-warrior-queen'-rethinking-mary-i-and-elizabeth-i/
Dr René Wolf
Department of History
Royal Holloway University of London
Egham Surrey
TW 200EX
Email: r.wolf@rhul.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/02/anna-whitelock-
Dr Anna Whitelock (Royal Holloway)
Woman, Warrior, Queen’: Rethinking Mary I and Elizabeth I
This event has been recorded and is available as a podcast at the following URL:
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/02/anna-whitelock-'woman-warrior-queen'-rethinking-mary-i-and-elizabeth-i/
Dr René Wolf
Department of History
Royal Holloway University of London
Egham Surrey
TW 200EX
Email: r.wolf@rhul.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/02/anna-whitelock-
Thursday, February 17, 2011
CFP: Southeastern Renaissance Conference 6/1/11; 10/20-21/11
Papers are invited on any aspect of Renaissance literature and culture for presentation at the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, October 20-21, 2011, at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.
Please submit your full essay (20 minute reading time) by email attachment to Dr. Robert L. Reid, President of the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, rlreid@ehc.edu by June 1, 2011.
Submission of your work to the Conference is also an automatic submission to Renaissance Papers, the journal of the Conference. Even those articles not accepted for delivery at the meeting will be considered for publication in the journal.
Please submit your full essay (20 minute reading time) by email attachment to Dr. Robert L. Reid, President of the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, rlreid@ehc.edu by June 1, 2011.
Submission of your work to the Conference is also an automatic submission to Renaissance Papers, the journal of the Conference. Even those articles not accepted for delivery at the meeting will be considered for publication in the journal.
[UPDATE] CFP- Shakespeare and the Material World (March 2, 2011)
Early English Studies Journal is an online journal under the auspices of the University of Texas, Arlington English Department and is devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in the medieval and early modern periods. EES is published annually, peer-reviewed, and open to general submission.
Early English Studies Journal is now accepting submission for our next issue, which will be titled, Shakespeare and the Material World. We welcome submissions that deal with any aspect of Shakespeare and material culture. We are interested, for example, in the ways in which materiality informs theatrical practices and is reflected in the plays. How do objects or the idea of an object construct identity and gender or create a sense of space, time, or location? What is the meaning of materiality in the early modern world and the world of Shakespeare’s plays? Submissions (7000-9000 words including notes) are due on March 2, 2011.
Please include a brief bio and 200-word abstract with your electronic submission, all in Word documents. Please visit the website at http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/ for more specific submission guidelines and to read past issues.
In Volume 4, we will also have a new section of book reviews. If you would like to have your book, which has been published in the last two years and concerns medieval or early modern literary and or cultural studies, considered for review, please send an email to Sarah Farrell, Review Editor, sarah.farrell@mavs.uta.edu.
Deadline for Paper: March 2, 2011
Send submissions to: Amy L. Tigner, earlyenglishstudies@gmail.com
Call for Papers website: http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/
Early English Studies Journal is now accepting submission for our next issue, which will be titled, Shakespeare and the Material World. We welcome submissions that deal with any aspect of Shakespeare and material culture. We are interested, for example, in the ways in which materiality informs theatrical practices and is reflected in the plays. How do objects or the idea of an object construct identity and gender or create a sense of space, time, or location? What is the meaning of materiality in the early modern world and the world of Shakespeare’s plays? Submissions (7000-9000 words including notes) are due on March 2, 2011.
Please include a brief bio and 200-word abstract with your electronic submission, all in Word documents. Please visit the website at http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/ for more specific submission guidelines and to read past issues.
In Volume 4, we will also have a new section of book reviews. If you would like to have your book, which has been published in the last two years and concerns medieval or early modern literary and or cultural studies, considered for review, please send an email to Sarah Farrell, Review Editor, sarah.farrell@mavs.uta.edu.
Deadline for Paper: March 2, 2011
Send submissions to: Amy L. Tigner, earlyenglishstudies@gmail.com
Call for Papers website: http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/
PAMLA 2011 Special Session - The Dialogues of Love: An Early Modern Best-Seller
Papers on any aspect of the life and work of Leone Ebreo (Yehudah Abravanel), author of The Dialogues of Love. Penned by a Spanish Sephardic exile and published in Rome in 1535, The Dialogues is one of the most eclectic and influential vernacular philosophical works of sixteenth century.
The 109th Annual PAMLA Conference will be held at Scripps College in Claremont, California, on November 5 and 6, 2011.
A paper title, an approximately 500-word proposal, and an approximately 40-word abstract should be submitted online at: http://www.pamla.org/2011/proposals by March 25, 2011.
The 109th Annual PAMLA Conference will be held at Scripps College in Claremont, California, on November 5 and 6, 2011.
A paper title, an approximately 500-word proposal, and an approximately 40-word abstract should be submitted online at: http://www.pamla.org/2011/proposals by March 25, 2011.
New Directions in Earlier Tudor Drama (MLA 2012)
We welcome proposals for innovative papers on all aspects of and approaches to Tudor drama before Shakespeare. Please send 300-word abstracts by 18 March 2011.
CFP: Shakespeare and Film (Abstracts: 30 April 2011; Conference: 13-15 October 2011; Jaipur, India)
Increasingly Shakespeare studies have included in their ambit performance both on stage and screen, and some of the most interesting recent critical studies have been in this area. We are no longer caught between the virtuality of the playscript and the ephemerality of the performance. Cinematic texts have a life all their own, dealing as they do with the international marketplace of culture and communication. In this seminar, while the paramount focus will be on Shakespeare in Indian cinema, be it successful Hindi films like Gulzar’s Angoor or Vishal Bhardwaj’s Maqbool and Omkara, attention will be paid to Shakespeare performed in regional language cinema—classics like the Bengali Bhranti Bilash or the Malaylam Kaliyattam. In addition, we hope to have papers on Shakespeare as interpreted in the British film industry (the films of Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh, for example,) in Hollywood (the work of Orson Welles and Baz Luhrman to name a few) and by renowned international directors like Grigori Kozintsev of the USSR, Akira Kurosawa of Japan and Franco Zeffirelli of Italy. Modern cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare plays, such as Gil Yunger’s Ten Things I Hate About You, Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet 2000 and Julie Taymor’s recent Tempest (2010) will also be included.
Please send a 500-word abstract with a title by 30 April 2011 to nitakr@gmail.com (Secretary, SSI). You will hear back from us by 30 May 2011.
If the Seminar Committee approves your abstract, you will be expected to submit the full paper, approximately 5000 words including notes and in MLA 7th edition format, by September 30, 2011.
Please send a 500-word abstract with a title by 30 April 2011 to nitakr@gmail.com (Secretary, SSI). You will hear back from us by 30 May 2011.
If the Seminar Committee approves your abstract, you will be expected to submit the full paper, approximately 5000 words including notes and in MLA 7th edition format, by September 30, 2011.
REMINDER: UW-Madison PRINT CULTURE COLLOQUIUM with Michael Witmore: "Data-Mining Early English Dramatic Texts from the Text Creation Partnership"
Michael Witmore, Professor, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thursday, February 17, 2011, 12:00 Noon-1:00 p.m.
SLIS Commons
4207 Helen C. White Hall
600 North Park Street
University of Wisconsin-Madison
In this talk, Professor Witmore will discuss his work on digitized versions of early modern printed texts using multivariate statistics and a text-analysis tool called Docuscope. His presentation will focus on the following question: what can we learn from data-mining large numbers of early modern texts that we couldn’t learn by simply reading a representative sample of them? Witmore is organizer of the Working Group for Digital Inquiry, a research collective that is mapping the prose genres of Early English Books online using techniques from bioinformatics and corpus linguistics.
Christine Pawley, Director
Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America
University of Wisconsin-Madison
School of Library and Information Studies
Room 4234 Helen C. White Hall
600 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 263-2945 or (608) 263-2900
Fax: (608) 263-4849
Email: printculture@slis.wisc.edu
Visit the website at http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~printcul/index.html
Thursday, February 17, 2011, 12:00 Noon-1:00 p.m.
SLIS Commons
4207 Helen C. White Hall
600 North Park Street
University of Wisconsin-Madison
In this talk, Professor Witmore will discuss his work on digitized versions of early modern printed texts using multivariate statistics and a text-analysis tool called Docuscope. His presentation will focus on the following question: what can we learn from data-mining large numbers of early modern texts that we couldn’t learn by simply reading a representative sample of them? Witmore is organizer of the Working Group for Digital Inquiry, a research collective that is mapping the prose genres of Early English Books online using techniques from bioinformatics and corpus linguistics.
Christine Pawley, Director
Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America
University of Wisconsin-Madison
School of Library and Information Studies
Room 4234 Helen C. White Hall
600 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 263-2945 or (608) 263-2900
Fax: (608) 263-4849
Email: printculture@slis.wisc.edu
Visit the website at http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~printcul/index.html
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
CFP: Early Modern Devotional Writing
The Renaissance English Text Society invites abstracts for sessions on Early Modern Devotional Writing at the following conferences:
* Renaissance Society of America, 24-26 March 2012 in Washington, D.C.
* International Congress on Medieval Studies, 10-13 May 2012 in Kalamazoo, Michigan
* Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 25-28 October 2012 in Cincinnati, OH
Please send abstracts to Margaret Hannay (hannay@siena.edu) and Susan Felch at (felch@calvin.edu) by 1 May 2011 for RSA and Kalamazoo; by 1 February 2012 for SCSC.
* Renaissance Society of America, 24-26 March 2012 in Washington, D.C.
* International Congress on Medieval Studies, 10-13 May 2012 in Kalamazoo, Michigan
* Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 25-28 October 2012 in Cincinnati, OH
Please send abstracts to Margaret Hannay (hannay@siena.edu) and Susan Felch at (felch@calvin.edu) by 1 May 2011 for RSA and Kalamazoo; by 1 February 2012 for SCSC.
Sixth Blackfriars Conference, Staunton, VA (October 25-30, 2011)
In 2011, the American Shakespeare Center’s Education and Research Department will once again host Shakespeareans, scholars and practitioners alike, to explore Shakespeare in the study and Shakespeare on the stage and to find ways that these two worlds – sometime in collision – can collaborate. Past conferences have included such notable scholars as Andrew Gurr, the “godfatASC actor and 2009 Blackfriars Conference presenter: James Keegan as Falstaff in 1H4.her” of the Blackfriars Playhouse, Tiffany Stern, Russ McDonald, Gary Taylor, Stephen Greenblatt, Roz Knutson, Tina Packer, and many more in five days full of activities.
Except for banquets, all events – papers, plays, workshops, – take place in the world’s only re-creation of Shakespeare’s indoor theatre, the Blackfriars Playhouse. This conference distinguishes itself from saner conferences in a variety of other ways. First, to model the kind of collaboration we think possible we encourage presenters to feature actors as partners in the demonstration of their theses. For instance, in 2009, Gary Taylor’s keynote presentation “Lyrical Middleton” featured ASC actors singing and dancing to the songs in Middleton’s plays. Second, we limit each paper session to six short papers (10 minutes for solo presentations, 13 minutes for presentations with actors). Third, we enforce this rule by ursine fiat – a bear chases from the stage those speakers who go over their allotted time. Delegates also attend all of the plays in the ASC fall season – Hamlet, Henry V, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe, and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde – and, for the past several conferences, bonus plays written by their colleagues and performed by actors in the Mary Baldwin College MFA in Shakespeare in Performance program. The spirit of fun that imbues the conference manifests itself in the annual Truancy Award, for the sensible conferee who – visiting the Shenandoah Valley at the height of Fall – has the good sense to miss the most sessions.
The 2011 gathering will include a returning keynote speaker, Shakespearean scholar Tiffany Stern, author of essential performance studies such as Making Shakespeare, Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan, and Documents of Performance. Professor Stern’s work has played an influential role in the development of the American Shakespeare Center’s Actors’ Renaissance Season, and her presentations continue to inspire the further exploration of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the ASC’s educational and artistic programming. Additionally, George T. Wright, author of Shakespeare’s Metrical Art, will present. Professor Wright’s text on prosody illuminates Shakespeare’s use of meter for actors and scholars. We will invite our other speakers with an eye to other aspects of Shakespeare’s plays in performance such as playing the possibilities of rhetoric, playing in early modern theatres, early modern play audiences (then and now), metrical analysis, early modern rehearsal practice, early modern visual design, pedagogy (early modern and current practice and its influence on performance).
Since each conference expands on the activities of the preceding conferences, the 2011 incarnation will include thematic panels following each keynote address. The work of the conference always echoes in the work on stage at the Blackfriars Playhouse and in the American Shakespeare Center’s Research and Scholarship department, and it has provided the material for two books devoted specifically to essays from the conference (Inside Shakespeare, edited by Paul Menzer, and Thunder in the Playhouse, edited by Matt Kosusko and Peter Kanelos). Plans are already afoot to include papers from the upcoming conference in a third book.
ASC Education and Research extends this call for papers on any matters to do with the performance of early modern drama (historical, architectural, political, dramatical, sartorial, medical, linguistical, comical, pastoral) to all interested parties for our bi-annual conference to be held at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia, 25-30 October 2011. The deadline to submit your abstract is 31 May 2011.
Link to Abstract Submission Form: http://www.formstack.com/forms/?1007217-Fa8fydC0oQ
Except for banquets, all events – papers, plays, workshops, – take place in the world’s only re-creation of Shakespeare’s indoor theatre, the Blackfriars Playhouse. This conference distinguishes itself from saner conferences in a variety of other ways. First, to model the kind of collaboration we think possible we encourage presenters to feature actors as partners in the demonstration of their theses. For instance, in 2009, Gary Taylor’s keynote presentation “Lyrical Middleton” featured ASC actors singing and dancing to the songs in Middleton’s plays. Second, we limit each paper session to six short papers (10 minutes for solo presentations, 13 minutes for presentations with actors). Third, we enforce this rule by ursine fiat – a bear chases from the stage those speakers who go over their allotted time. Delegates also attend all of the plays in the ASC fall season – Hamlet, Henry V, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe, and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde – and, for the past several conferences, bonus plays written by their colleagues and performed by actors in the Mary Baldwin College MFA in Shakespeare in Performance program. The spirit of fun that imbues the conference manifests itself in the annual Truancy Award, for the sensible conferee who – visiting the Shenandoah Valley at the height of Fall – has the good sense to miss the most sessions.
The 2011 gathering will include a returning keynote speaker, Shakespearean scholar Tiffany Stern, author of essential performance studies such as Making Shakespeare, Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan, and Documents of Performance. Professor Stern’s work has played an influential role in the development of the American Shakespeare Center’s Actors’ Renaissance Season, and her presentations continue to inspire the further exploration of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the ASC’s educational and artistic programming. Additionally, George T. Wright, author of Shakespeare’s Metrical Art, will present. Professor Wright’s text on prosody illuminates Shakespeare’s use of meter for actors and scholars. We will invite our other speakers with an eye to other aspects of Shakespeare’s plays in performance such as playing the possibilities of rhetoric, playing in early modern theatres, early modern play audiences (then and now), metrical analysis, early modern rehearsal practice, early modern visual design, pedagogy (early modern and current practice and its influence on performance).
Since each conference expands on the activities of the preceding conferences, the 2011 incarnation will include thematic panels following each keynote address. The work of the conference always echoes in the work on stage at the Blackfriars Playhouse and in the American Shakespeare Center’s Research and Scholarship department, and it has provided the material for two books devoted specifically to essays from the conference (Inside Shakespeare, edited by Paul Menzer, and Thunder in the Playhouse, edited by Matt Kosusko and Peter Kanelos). Plans are already afoot to include papers from the upcoming conference in a third book.
ASC Education and Research extends this call for papers on any matters to do with the performance of early modern drama (historical, architectural, political, dramatical, sartorial, medical, linguistical, comical, pastoral) to all interested parties for our bi-annual conference to be held at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia, 25-30 October 2011. The deadline to submit your abstract is 31 May 2011.
Link to Abstract Submission Form: http://www.formstack.com/forms/?1007217-Fa8fydC0oQ
Early Modern Possible Worlds (MLA 2012, Abstract Deadline 3/1/2011)
This is a proposed special session for the 2012 MLA convention. Sixteenth and seventeenth-century works, from Utopia to The Blazing World, engaged in acts of worldmaking by speculating on or inventing "possible worlds.” This panel will examine the scope and limitations of these early modern possible worlds, and more generally, the condition of the “possible,” which authors variously define through the terms “what may be,” “what should be,” or even “what if.”
We will ask: What distinct epistemological claims are enabled through these acts of worldmaking? How does the concept and example of the possible world become a vehicle through which one examines contemporary social, political and epistemological issues? How do possible worlds enable us to think of the relation between reality and imagination, between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between utopia and possible worlds? How does the notion of possibility vary across genres? And finally, how does the idea of the “possible,” as an unactualized or counterfactual epistemological framework, shape our own disciplinary and critical practices? Interdisciplinary approaches particularly welcome.
Please send a 300-word abstract by 1 March 2011 to Debapriya Sarkar at dsarkar@eden.rutgers.edu.
We will ask: What distinct epistemological claims are enabled through these acts of worldmaking? How does the concept and example of the possible world become a vehicle through which one examines contemporary social, political and epistemological issues? How do possible worlds enable us to think of the relation between reality and imagination, between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between utopia and possible worlds? How does the notion of possibility vary across genres? And finally, how does the idea of the “possible,” as an unactualized or counterfactual epistemological framework, shape our own disciplinary and critical practices? Interdisciplinary approaches particularly welcome.
Please send a 300-word abstract by 1 March 2011 to Debapriya Sarkar at dsarkar@eden.rutgers.edu.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Transformation and Innovation in the British Military from 1642 to 1945
Transformation and Innovation in the British Military from 1642 to 1945
13 April 2011
This symposium, organised by the Centres for First and Second World War Studies at the University of Birmingham, intends to give postgraduate and early career historians the opportunity to examine the process of transformation and innovation in the British military as recent literature on the subject has highlighted a need to evaluate the process from 1642 to the present day. The symposium will be held at the Edgbaston campus of the University of Birmingham.
The symposium will also give delegates the opportunity to present aspects of their research to a wider audience and engage with the academic community in military history. The symposium programme is attached; it includes eighteen papers on aspects of transformation and innovation in the British military from the early modern period to the early twentieth century and from a range of perspectives. Professor John Buckley, Chair of Military History at the University of Wolverhampton, will deliver the keynote lecture. Professor Gary Sheffield, Chair of War Studies at the University of Birmingham, will deliver the symposium’s closing address.
The symposium fee, which includes tea & coffee and lunch on the day, is £10 for postgraduate students and Friends/Members of the Centres for First and Second World War Studies and £20 for other interested parties. Please see the website for the booking form and further details.
Ross Mahoney
C/O School of History and Cultures
College of Arts and Law
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
Email: birminghamwarstudies@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://warstudies.wordpress.com/symposium/
13 April 2011
This symposium, organised by the Centres for First and Second World War Studies at the University of Birmingham, intends to give postgraduate and early career historians the opportunity to examine the process of transformation and innovation in the British military as recent literature on the subject has highlighted a need to evaluate the process from 1642 to the present day. The symposium will be held at the Edgbaston campus of the University of Birmingham.
The symposium will also give delegates the opportunity to present aspects of their research to a wider audience and engage with the academic community in military history. The symposium programme is attached; it includes eighteen papers on aspects of transformation and innovation in the British military from the early modern period to the early twentieth century and from a range of perspectives. Professor John Buckley, Chair of Military History at the University of Wolverhampton, will deliver the keynote lecture. Professor Gary Sheffield, Chair of War Studies at the University of Birmingham, will deliver the symposium’s closing address.
The symposium fee, which includes tea & coffee and lunch on the day, is £10 for postgraduate students and Friends/Members of the Centres for First and Second World War Studies and £20 for other interested parties. Please see the website for the booking form and further details.
Ross Mahoney
C/O School of History and Cultures
College of Arts and Law
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
Email: birminghamwarstudies@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://warstudies.wordpress.com/symposium/
Friday, January 21, 2011
Midwest Conference on British Studies 57th Annual Meeting
CALL FOR PAPERS
Midwest Conference on British Studies 57th Annual Meeting
November 4-6, 2011, Terre Haute, IN
The Midwest Conference on British Studies is proud to announce that its fifty-seventh annual meeting will be hosted by Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN.
The MWCBS seeks papers from scholars in all fields of British Studies, broadly defined to include those who study England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Britain's empire. We welcome scholars from the broad spectrum of disciplines, including but not limited to history, literature, political science, gender studies and art history. Proposals for complete sessions are preferred, although proposals for individual papers will be considered. Especially welcome are roundtables and panels that:
--offer cross-disciplinary perspectives on topics in British Studies
--discuss collaborative or innovative learning techniques in the British Studies classroom
--situate the arts, letters, and sciences in a British cultural context
--examine representations of British and imperial/Commonwealth national identities
--consider Anglo-American relations, past and present
--examine new trends in British Studies
--assess a major work or body of work by a scholar
The MWCBS welcomes papers presented by advanced graduate students and will award the Walter L. Arnstein Prize at its plenary luncheon for the best graduate student paper(s) given at the conference.
Proposals should include a 200-word abstract for each paper and a brief, 1-page c.v. for each participant, including chairs and commentators. For full panels, please include a brief 200-word preview of the panel as a whole. Please place the panel proposal, and its accompanying paper proposals and vitas in one file. Please make certain that all contact information, particularly email addresses are correct and current. All proposals should be submitted online by April 15, 2011, to the Program Committee Chair, Lia Paradis at lia.paradis@sru.edu.
Visit the MWCBS website at http://mwcbs.edublogs.org/.
MWCBS Program Committee: Lia Paradis, Chair, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania; Gene Beiriger, DePaul University; Lori Campbell, University of Pittsburgh; Essaka Joshua, University of Notre Dame; Chris Otter, Ohio State University; Anne Rodrick, Wofford College.
Midwest Conference on British Studies 57th Annual Meeting
November 4-6, 2011, Terre Haute, IN
The Midwest Conference on British Studies is proud to announce that its fifty-seventh annual meeting will be hosted by Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN.
The MWCBS seeks papers from scholars in all fields of British Studies, broadly defined to include those who study England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Britain's empire. We welcome scholars from the broad spectrum of disciplines, including but not limited to history, literature, political science, gender studies and art history. Proposals for complete sessions are preferred, although proposals for individual papers will be considered. Especially welcome are roundtables and panels that:
--offer cross-disciplinary perspectives on topics in British Studies
--discuss collaborative or innovative learning techniques in the British Studies classroom
--situate the arts, letters, and sciences in a British cultural context
--examine representations of British and imperial/Commonwealth national identities
--consider Anglo-American relations, past and present
--examine new trends in British Studies
--assess a major work or body of work by a scholar
The MWCBS welcomes papers presented by advanced graduate students and will award the Walter L. Arnstein Prize at its plenary luncheon for the best graduate student paper(s) given at the conference.
Proposals should include a 200-word abstract for each paper and a brief, 1-page c.v. for each participant, including chairs and commentators. For full panels, please include a brief 200-word preview of the panel as a whole. Please place the panel proposal, and its accompanying paper proposals and vitas in one file. Please make certain that all contact information, particularly email addresses are correct and current. All proposals should be submitted online by April 15, 2011, to the Program Committee Chair, Lia Paradis at lia.paradis@sru.edu.
Visit the MWCBS website at http://mwcbs.edublogs.org/.
MWCBS Program Committee: Lia Paradis, Chair, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania; Gene Beiriger, DePaul University; Lori Campbell, University of Pittsburgh; Essaka Joshua, University of Notre Dame; Chris Otter, Ohio State University; Anne Rodrick, Wofford College.
Friday, January 7, 2011
special journal issue on Milton's "Paradise Regained"
Of the two Miltonic epics, Paradise Regained has been under-served by criticism while its longer counterpart has perhaps been over-served. The Huntington Library Quarterly now seeks proposals for essays to be included in a special issue devoted to Paradise Regained.
To propose an essay, submit a 500-word abstract and a cv. We will review proposals received by June 30, 2011. We will then invite submissions of full manuscripts (of 7,000 to 15,000 words), to be completed by December 31, 2011. These will be circulated to referees, with publication planned before the end of 2012.
Please send your proposal by e-mail with the subject line “Milton HLQ submission” to Susan Green at sgreen@huntington.org.
For more information, visit http://www.ucpressjournals.com/journal.asp?j=hlq&jDetail=submit.
To propose an essay, submit a 500-word abstract and a cv. We will review proposals received by June 30, 2011. We will then invite submissions of full manuscripts (of 7,000 to 15,000 words), to be completed by December 31, 2011. These will be circulated to referees, with publication planned before the end of 2012.
Please send your proposal by e-mail with the subject line “Milton HLQ submission” to Susan Green at sgreen@huntington.org.
For more information, visit http://www.ucpressjournals.com/journal.asp?j=hlq&jDetail=submit.
Ancient Rome and Early Modern England: History, Politics, and Political Thought
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. This international conference reassesses the place of ancient Rome in the political culture of late Tudor and early Stuart England. 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? How did the Roman legacy compare with that of ancient Greece?
Speakers include: Annabel Brett, Anthony Grafton, Paulina Kewes, Eric Nelson, Markku Peltonen, Malcolm Smuts, Freyja Cox Jensen, Patricia Osmond, Nick Popper, and Arthur Williamson.
Venue: The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
Dates: 21-22 January 2011
Speakers include: Annabel Brett, Anthony Grafton, Paulina Kewes, Eric Nelson, Markku Peltonen, Malcolm Smuts, Freyja Cox Jensen, Patricia Osmond, Nick Popper, and Arthur Williamson.
Venue: The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
Dates: 21-22 January 2011
Best & Worst Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama Productions 2000-2010
SHAKESPEARE BULLETIN, a peer reviewed academic journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press, is seeking short theatre reviews for one or more issues in the 2012 volume.
We solicit accounts & reviews of the BEST and/or WORST productions of Shakespeare and other early modern dramatists of the past decade.
Our goal is to run a great many of these reviews, and to encourage formally and stylistically innovative & adventurous writing about performance. Therefore, reviews should be a MAXIMUM of 500 words.
Submissions will be accepted from now through September 30, 2011.
To submit reviews or to request further information, submission and editorial guidelines, etc., please contact Shakespeare Bulletin's theatre review editor Jeremy Lopez:
jeremy.lopez@utoronto.ca
We solicit accounts & reviews of the BEST and/or WORST productions of Shakespeare and other early modern dramatists of the past decade.
Our goal is to run a great many of these reviews, and to encourage formally and stylistically innovative & adventurous writing about performance. Therefore, reviews should be a MAXIMUM of 500 words.
Submissions will be accepted from now through September 30, 2011.
To submit reviews or to request further information, submission and editorial guidelines, etc., please contact Shakespeare Bulletin's theatre review editor Jeremy Lopez:
jeremy.lopez@utoronto.ca
Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature 4/8 - 4/9 2011
On April 8-9 of 2011, the Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature (NPCEBL) will hold its nineteenth annual conference, hosted by Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, nestled in the bluffs along the Mississippi river in Winona, MN. The conference attracts advanced scholars, graduate students, and select undergraduates from the upper Midwest (and farther) to discuss literary-critical, theoretical, and pedagogical issues concerning the early literatures of the British isles (medieval through long 18th century). The keynote speaker this year will be Dolores Frese of the University of Notre Dame.
ABSTRACTS are being accepted in any related area until February 14. Please send abstracts, panel proposals, and any inquiries to jkerr@smumn.edu. Selected papers will be published in the annual proceedings.
We will have 30 rooms available at the conference center for $55 per night, available in order of abstract submission/registration. (These are essentially small motel rooms with double bed, television, and internet service). There will also be traditional motel rooms available at a discounted rate. The conference fee will be $65.
ABSTRACTS are being accepted in any related area until February 14. Please send abstracts, panel proposals, and any inquiries to jkerr@smumn.edu. Selected papers will be published in the annual proceedings.
We will have 30 rooms available at the conference center for $55 per night, available in order of abstract submission/registration. (These are essentially small motel rooms with double bed, television, and internet service). There will also be traditional motel rooms available at a discounted rate. The conference fee will be $65.
The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment
The dating of Beowulf is one of the most controversial and pressing issues in Anglo-Saxon studies. It has animated and continues to animate a great deal of scholarship on Beowulf, often with ramifications for the study of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture as a whole. Scholars had once agreed with near unanimity that Beowulf was one of the earliest extant Old English poems, yet the University of Toronto’s 1980 conference on the dating of Beowulf – presenting arguments for ninth, tenth, and early eleventh century composition – threw open the question again. Despite the uncertainty ushered in by the conference and the subsequent collection of essays, many scholars have made important contributions to our efforts to date Beowulf over the last thirty years, and strong arguments have emerged on paleographical, linguistic, metrical, cultural, and historical grounds, among others.
Harvard University’s English Department, with support from the Morton Bloomfield Trust and the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, will be hosting a conference entitled “The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment” on September 23 – 24, 2011. We are pleased to announce that R.D. Fulk, Class of 1964 Chancellor’s Professor of English at Indiana University, will be giving the conference’s plenary address.
We invite scholars to supplement, evaluate, or interrogate the scholarship on the dating of Beowulf that has emerged over the last three decades. We welcome both highly specific investigations as well as holistic attempts to integrate the findings of various approaches.
Presentations should be no longer than twenty minutes. There will be a short discussion period after each paper. Potential presenters should send an abstract of approximately 250 words by e-mail to HarvardBeowulf@gmail.com. Abstracts are due by March 31, 2011.
Harvard University’s English Department, with support from the Morton Bloomfield Trust and the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, will be hosting a conference entitled “The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment” on September 23 – 24, 2011. We are pleased to announce that R.D. Fulk, Class of 1964 Chancellor’s Professor of English at Indiana University, will be giving the conference’s plenary address.
We invite scholars to supplement, evaluate, or interrogate the scholarship on the dating of Beowulf that has emerged over the last three decades. We welcome both highly specific investigations as well as holistic attempts to integrate the findings of various approaches.
Presentations should be no longer than twenty minutes. There will be a short discussion period after each paper. Potential presenters should send an abstract of approximately 250 words by e-mail to HarvardBeowulf@gmail.com. Abstracts are due by March 31, 2011.
CFP: Book Design from the Middle Ages to the Future. Traditions and Evolutions
The objective of this international congress is to explore traditions and innovations in book design and typography from the manuscript era to the age of the electronic book. The following questions will be addressed: How did the design of books evolve during the Middle Ages, the early modern period and beyond? Which traditions survived the successive transitions from manuscripts to hand press books in the early modern period, at the end of the eighteenth century (the period of mechanization and automatisation), and at the end of the twentieth century from the paper book to the electronic book? How did the changing conditions of production and use affect the appearance and content of books? Which elements endured and which ones were altered or disappeared? How is the design of books embedded in culture and how do the arts interact where the presentation of texts is concerned? Twenty-minute papers are invited addressing different aspects of book design, typography and book layout from a comparative or long-term perspective. They may deal with single aspects, such as title pages, type and illustrations, or with strategies for the articulation of texts, such as rubrication, colour, typographical white, ornaments and initials. Contributions should focus on traditions and the long-term evolution of book design, or explore the interaction of different cultures that have influenced the typography of books in neighbouring regions.
Keynote speaker: Prof David McKitterick (Cambridge University) Confirmed speakers include Dr Erik Kwakkel (Leiden University) & Prof Gerard Unger (Leiden University)
The congress will be preceded by a Miræus Lecture in the Nottebohm Hall of the Antwerp Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, and will be followed by a guided tour of the Museum Plantin Moretus in Antwerp on Saturday 1 October.
For further information & questions, please contact Dr Goran Proot, University of Antwerp, Grote Kauwenberg 18, room d218, b-2000 Antwerp, Belgium.
Please send twenty-line abstracts by 28 February 2011 to goran.proot@gmail.com.
Keynote speaker: Prof David McKitterick (Cambridge University) Confirmed speakers include Dr Erik Kwakkel (Leiden University) & Prof Gerard Unger (Leiden University)
The congress will be preceded by a Miræus Lecture in the Nottebohm Hall of the Antwerp Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, and will be followed by a guided tour of the Museum Plantin Moretus in Antwerp on Saturday 1 October.
For further information & questions, please contact Dr Goran Proot, University of Antwerp, Grote Kauwenberg 18, room d218, b-2000 Antwerp, Belgium.
Please send twenty-line abstracts by 28 February 2011 to goran.proot@gmail.com.
Early English Studies Journal CFP
Early English Studies Journal is an online journal under the auspices of the University of Texas, Arlington English Department and is devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in the medieval and early modern periods. EES is published annually, peer-reviewed, and open to general submission.
Early English Studies Journal is now accepting submission for our next issue, which will be titled, Shakespeare and the Material World. We welcome submissions that deal with any aspect of Shakespeare and material culture. We are interested, for example, in the ways in which materiality informs theatrical practices and is reflected in the plays. How do objects or the idea of an object construct identity and gender or create a sense of space, time, or location? What is the meaning of materiality in the early modern world and the world of Shakespeare’s plays? Submissions (7000-9000 words including notes) are due on March 2, 2011.
Please include a brief bio and 200-word abstract with your electronic submission, all in Word documents. Please visit the website at http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/ for more specific submission guidelines and to read past issues.
In Volume 4, we will also have a new section of book reviews. If you would like to have your book, which has been published in the last two years and concerns medieval or early modern literary and or cultural studies, considered for review, please send an email to Sarah Farrell, Review Editor, sarah.farrell@mavs.uta.edu.
Deadline for Paper: March 2, 2011
Send submissions to: Amy L. Tigner, earlyenglishstudies@gmail.com
Call for Papers website: http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/
Early English Studies Journal is now accepting submission for our next issue, which will be titled, Shakespeare and the Material World. We welcome submissions that deal with any aspect of Shakespeare and material culture. We are interested, for example, in the ways in which materiality informs theatrical practices and is reflected in the plays. How do objects or the idea of an object construct identity and gender or create a sense of space, time, or location? What is the meaning of materiality in the early modern world and the world of Shakespeare’s plays? Submissions (7000-9000 words including notes) are due on March 2, 2011.
Please include a brief bio and 200-word abstract with your electronic submission, all in Word documents. Please visit the website at http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/ for more specific submission guidelines and to read past issues.
In Volume 4, we will also have a new section of book reviews. If you would like to have your book, which has been published in the last two years and concerns medieval or early modern literary and or cultural studies, considered for review, please send an email to Sarah Farrell, Review Editor, sarah.farrell@mavs.uta.edu.
Deadline for Paper: March 2, 2011
Send submissions to: Amy L. Tigner, earlyenglishstudies@gmail.com
Call for Papers website: http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/
Early Modern Architecture Website
There is a new website devoted to the architecture of Europe and its colonies, 1400-1800 at: http://earlymodernarchitecture.com. The website aims to: 1) highlight new research trends (through announcements of CFPs, recently published volumes, and upcoming conferences as well as exhibitions), 2) provide basic information on the field (from images to fellowship and job announcements), and 3) offer the opportunity for discussion and photo exchange.
Monday, January 3, 2011
RMMRA Conference 2011: Faith and Doubt in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
The Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
Faith and Doubt in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
April 7-9, 2011
Salt Lake City, Utah
The Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association invites panel and paper proposals on the conference theme, “Faith and Doubt in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.”
The Conference will be held at the Crystal Inn in downtown Salt Lake City, just ten minutes from the Salt Lake City International Airport. Our keynote speaker will be Raymond Waddington, Professor of English at the University of California at Davis. He is the author of numerous articles, essays, and books including Aretino's Satyr, 2004; The Expulsion of the Jews (co-editor), 1994; The Age of Milton (co-editor), 1980; The Mind's Empire, 1974; and The Rhetoric of Renaissance Poetry (co-editor), 1974. He also serves as Senior Editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal.
The RMMRA seeks to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of European medieval and Renaissance studies. We welcome abstracts addressing, among other topics, the literary, historical, scientific, religious and cultural representations of faith and doubt and their various permutations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. However, as in previous years, abstracts, papers, and sessions on all aspects of the study of the European Middle Ages and Renaissance are also welcome.
Please note that we will be hosting a special panel on academic publishing, featuring Professor Waddington, which will be of great use to advanced graduate students and junior faculty.
Proposals for panels or abstracts for individual papers should be directed to one of the conference’s co-organizers: Kimberly Johnson (kimberly_johnson@byu.edu), Ginger Smoak (ginger.smoak@utah.edu), and Michael Walton (waltonmar@aol.com). Abstracts are due January 31, 2011.
Faith and Doubt in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
April 7-9, 2011
Salt Lake City, Utah
The Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association invites panel and paper proposals on the conference theme, “Faith and Doubt in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.”
The Conference will be held at the Crystal Inn in downtown Salt Lake City, just ten minutes from the Salt Lake City International Airport. Our keynote speaker will be Raymond Waddington, Professor of English at the University of California at Davis. He is the author of numerous articles, essays, and books including Aretino's Satyr, 2004; The Expulsion of the Jews (co-editor), 1994; The Age of Milton (co-editor), 1980; The Mind's Empire, 1974; and The Rhetoric of Renaissance Poetry (co-editor), 1974. He also serves as Senior Editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal.
The RMMRA seeks to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of European medieval and Renaissance studies. We welcome abstracts addressing, among other topics, the literary, historical, scientific, religious and cultural representations of faith and doubt and their various permutations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. However, as in previous years, abstracts, papers, and sessions on all aspects of the study of the European Middle Ages and Renaissance are also welcome.
Please note that we will be hosting a special panel on academic publishing, featuring Professor Waddington, which will be of great use to advanced graduate students and junior faculty.
Proposals for panels or abstracts for individual papers should be directed to one of the conference’s co-organizers: Kimberly Johnson (kimberly_johnson@byu.edu), Ginger Smoak (ginger.smoak@utah.edu), and Michael Walton (waltonmar@aol.com). Abstracts are due January 31, 2011.
California State University Shakespeare Symposium (Update)
Call for Papers
for the Nineteenth Annual
California State University Shakespeare Symposium
May 5-6, 2011
California State University, Stanislaus
Keynote Speaker: Professor Frances Dolan, University of California, Davis
Proposal submission deadline extended to: January 20th, 2011
Conference hotel: Candlewood Suites
1000 Powers Court
Turlock, CA 95380
Phone: (209) 250-1501
Email: http://www.candlewoodsuites.com/
The symposium committee invites proposals for papers and presentations on any aspect of the works of William Shakespeare. We are currently accepting submissions on a wide range of topics, discipline-specific or interdisciplinary, authored by graduate students or professors. General topics may include, but are not limited to, Shakespeare and early modern culture; Shakespeare’s influence on or appropriation by contemporary culture; Shakespeare on film or television; digital Shakespeare; Shakespearean sources or adaptations; aesthetic approaches to Shakespeare’s work; the Shakespearean stage; Shakespeare in performance; teaching Shakespeare; Shakespeare in the high school classroom. A selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in a special fall edition of The San Joaquin Valley Journal, a refereed online journal published by graduate students and professors in CSU Stanislaus’ English Department (http://sjvjcsustan.com/).
The symposium will be held on the campus of California State University, Stanislaus, on Thursday, May 5th and Friday, May 6th. The beautiful 228-acre campus is situated in the heart of California’s great Central Valley—a short distance from the San Francisco Bay Area, Monterey, and Sacramento. The conference will coincide with the University Theater Department’s production of Romeo and Juliet, which will be performed in the evening in an outdoor amphitheatre. Conference attendees are invited to performances of the play at no additional cost. Additionally, guest director Daniel Gately will address the conference at a reception preceding the Thursday night performance.
If you are interested in presenting at this year’s symposium, please send a 250-word abstract and a brief (one-page) CV to shakespeare@csustan.edu. Finished papers should have a presentation time of no more than twenty minutes. Though the conference welcomes all graduate students and college educators, submissions are particularly encouraged from current and former faculty, instructors, and students of any California State University campus. The deadline for submissions will be January 20th, 2011. If you want to chair a special session, please submit your session title, a brief description and justification for the session, and three abstracts (including CVs) from session participants.
for the Nineteenth Annual
California State University Shakespeare Symposium
May 5-6, 2011
California State University, Stanislaus
Keynote Speaker: Professor Frances Dolan, University of California, Davis
Proposal submission deadline extended to: January 20th, 2011
Conference hotel: Candlewood Suites
1000 Powers Court
Turlock, CA 95380
Phone: (209) 250-1501
Email: http://www.candlewoodsuites.com/
The symposium committee invites proposals for papers and presentations on any aspect of the works of William Shakespeare. We are currently accepting submissions on a wide range of topics, discipline-specific or interdisciplinary, authored by graduate students or professors. General topics may include, but are not limited to, Shakespeare and early modern culture; Shakespeare’s influence on or appropriation by contemporary culture; Shakespeare on film or television; digital Shakespeare; Shakespearean sources or adaptations; aesthetic approaches to Shakespeare’s work; the Shakespearean stage; Shakespeare in performance; teaching Shakespeare; Shakespeare in the high school classroom. A selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in a special fall edition of The San Joaquin Valley Journal, a refereed online journal published by graduate students and professors in CSU Stanislaus’ English Department (http://sjvjcsustan.com/).
The symposium will be held on the campus of California State University, Stanislaus, on Thursday, May 5th and Friday, May 6th. The beautiful 228-acre campus is situated in the heart of California’s great Central Valley—a short distance from the San Francisco Bay Area, Monterey, and Sacramento. The conference will coincide with the University Theater Department’s production of Romeo and Juliet, which will be performed in the evening in an outdoor amphitheatre. Conference attendees are invited to performances of the play at no additional cost. Additionally, guest director Daniel Gately will address the conference at a reception preceding the Thursday night performance.
If you are interested in presenting at this year’s symposium, please send a 250-word abstract and a brief (one-page) CV to shakespeare@csustan.edu. Finished papers should have a presentation time of no more than twenty minutes. Though the conference welcomes all graduate students and college educators, submissions are particularly encouraged from current and former faculty, instructors, and students of any California State University campus. The deadline for submissions will be January 20th, 2011. If you want to chair a special session, please submit your session title, a brief description and justification for the session, and three abstracts (including CVs) from session participants.
Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Nov 4-5, 2011) Deadline extended to Feb 20
The Fifth International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Ludi Civitatis: the Church, the Court, and the Citizens
‘Civilization arises and unfolds in and as play’ (Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens). In civic entertainment, ‘play’ constitutes the primary formative element in human culture that affords and sustains common interest and amusement. Texts produced in the classical, medieval and the Renaissance periods document how the Church, the Court, and the citizens devise their ‘play’ in triumphal entries, court entertainment, civic festivals, religious rituals, processions, drama, music and dance.
But why does culture endlessly produce and consume entertainment? What are the motives that prompt people to create civic entertainment? How did civic entertainment and its effects resonate through manuscripts, print, economics, politics and the arts from the classical period to the Renaissance?
This year’s conference explores complex manifestations of ‘play’, aiming to look into ‘makers’ and consumers of civic entertainment in the city, the ‘common’ stage for cultural productions across the classical, medieval and Renaissance periods. TACMRS now invites proposals for papers on one of the following themes:
The Church and religious ‘play’ in the city
Court entertainment and the city
Popular festivals in the civic space
Playwrights and their ‘play’
Artists and the performing arts
TACMRS provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussions and debates on the motives, performances, and effects of civic entertainment, and seeks to create dialogue between and across disciplines and periods. We would particularly encourage submissions with cross-cultural approaches, and on this premise welcome papers that reach beyond the traditional chronological and disciplinary borders of classical, medieval and Renaissance studies. Please send the paper proposals to TACMRS.NSYSU@gmail.com by Feb 20, 2011.
‘Civilization arises and unfolds in and as play’ (Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens). In civic entertainment, ‘play’ constitutes the primary formative element in human culture that affords and sustains common interest and amusement. Texts produced in the classical, medieval and the Renaissance periods document how the Church, the Court, and the citizens devise their ‘play’ in triumphal entries, court entertainment, civic festivals, religious rituals, processions, drama, music and dance.
But why does culture endlessly produce and consume entertainment? What are the motives that prompt people to create civic entertainment? How did civic entertainment and its effects resonate through manuscripts, print, economics, politics and the arts from the classical period to the Renaissance?
This year’s conference explores complex manifestations of ‘play’, aiming to look into ‘makers’ and consumers of civic entertainment in the city, the ‘common’ stage for cultural productions across the classical, medieval and Renaissance periods. TACMRS now invites proposals for papers on one of the following themes:
The Church and religious ‘play’ in the city
Court entertainment and the city
Popular festivals in the civic space
Playwrights and their ‘play’
Artists and the performing arts
TACMRS provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussions and debates on the motives, performances, and effects of civic entertainment, and seeks to create dialogue between and across disciplines and periods. We would particularly encourage submissions with cross-cultural approaches, and on this premise welcome papers that reach beyond the traditional chronological and disciplinary borders of classical, medieval and Renaissance studies. Please send the paper proposals to TACMRS.NSYSU@gmail.com by Feb 20, 2011.
Sixteenth Century Society Conference 2011
The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) is now accepting proposals for individual papers and complete sessions for its annual conference, to be held at the Renaissance Worthington Hotel, Fort Worth, Texas, Oct 27-30, 2011. This hotel (awarded four diamonds by AAA) is in the center of Fort Worth on historic Sundance Square, and is moments away from the museum district, which includes the Kimall Art Museum, the Museum of American Art, and the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth.
The SCSC, founded to promote scholarship on the early modern era (ca. 1450 – ca. 1660), actively encourages the participation of international scholars as well as the integration of younger colleagues into the academic community. We also welcome proposals for roundtables sponsored by scholarly societies that are affiliated with the SCSC.
Abstracts (up to 250 words in length) for papers and sessions may be submitted online at: http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/conf_proposals.shtml
If you experience any difficulty with our online submission process or have questions about how to submit a proposal please send an email message to: conference@sixteenthcentury.org
The deadline for submissions is 1 April 2011. Within four weeks after the deadline, the Program Committee will notify all those who submitted proposals.
The SCSC, a not-for-profit scholarly organization, receives no governmental or institutional funding. In order to participate in this conference, delegates or their sponsoring institution/organization will need to fund their own travel and lodging expenses in addition to a $155 per delegate registration fee ($93 student fee). The registration fee is used to pay for conference facilities and general events. By paying the fee, delegates become members in the SCSC.
Prof. Randall Zachman
Notre Dame University
235 Malloy Hall
South Bend, IN 46556
Email: rzachman@nd.edu
Visit the website at http://sixteenthcentury.org/
The SCSC, founded to promote scholarship on the early modern era (ca. 1450 – ca. 1660), actively encourages the participation of international scholars as well as the integration of younger colleagues into the academic community. We also welcome proposals for roundtables sponsored by scholarly societies that are affiliated with the SCSC.
Abstracts (up to 250 words in length) for papers and sessions may be submitted online at: http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/conf_proposals.shtml
If you experience any difficulty with our online submission process or have questions about how to submit a proposal please send an email message to: conference@sixteenthcentury.org
The deadline for submissions is 1 April 2011. Within four weeks after the deadline, the Program Committee will notify all those who submitted proposals.
The SCSC, a not-for-profit scholarly organization, receives no governmental or institutional funding. In order to participate in this conference, delegates or their sponsoring institution/organization will need to fund their own travel and lodging expenses in addition to a $155 per delegate registration fee ($93 student fee). The registration fee is used to pay for conference facilities and general events. By paying the fee, delegates become members in the SCSC.
Prof. Randall Zachman
Notre Dame University
235 Malloy Hall
South Bend, IN 46556
Email: rzachman@nd.edu
Visit the website at http://sixteenthcentury.org/
The Power of Print: The Marprelate Tracts
Printed on a secret press transported at night, the Marprelate Tracts were one of the most dramatic political and literary events in late sixteenth century England. This is a one-day conference designed to celebrate the first new edition of the Marprelate Tracts and provoke new research on these fierce, witty and subversive works.
Cathryn Enis
Department of History
University of Reading
Whiteknights Campus
Reading
United Kingdom
Email: c.e.enis@reading.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.reading.ac.uk/emrc
Cathryn Enis
Department of History
University of Reading
Whiteknights Campus
Reading
United Kingdom
Email: c.e.enis@reading.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.reading.ac.uk/emrc
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Shakespeare: From the Globe to the Global An NEH Summer Institute for College & University Teachers Directed by Michael Neill
At the Folger Institute Center for Shakespeare Studies 13 June – 14 July 2011
In today’s multicultural classrooms, a nuanced understanding of such early modern English concepts as nation, race, and imperial destiny is needed to address the culturally sensitive issues raised in many of Shakespeare’s plays.
This institute will equip college teachers with the knowledge to introduce their students to Shakespeare in his global and historical contexts. While the plays initially reflected the concerns of an expanding early modern world, Shakespeare soon emerged as a voice and an icon of empire and Englishness. He is now the most significant representative of a globalized literary culture and the most popular playwright of the non-Anglophone world. Twenty participants will examine this history of reception, adaptation, translation, and re-appropriation. With a distinguished faculty and the unparalleled Folger collections, they will integrate their discoveries into their courses and disseminate them through a resource-rich website.
Adrienne Shevchuk, Program Assistant
The Folger Institute
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003-1094
202/675-0333
Email: institute@folger.edu
Visit the website at http://www.folger.edu/institute/neh2011
In today’s multicultural classrooms, a nuanced understanding of such early modern English concepts as nation, race, and imperial destiny is needed to address the culturally sensitive issues raised in many of Shakespeare’s plays.
This institute will equip college teachers with the knowledge to introduce their students to Shakespeare in his global and historical contexts. While the plays initially reflected the concerns of an expanding early modern world, Shakespeare soon emerged as a voice and an icon of empire and Englishness. He is now the most significant representative of a globalized literary culture and the most popular playwright of the non-Anglophone world. Twenty participants will examine this history of reception, adaptation, translation, and re-appropriation. With a distinguished faculty and the unparalleled Folger collections, they will integrate their discoveries into their courses and disseminate them through a resource-rich website.
Adrienne Shevchuk, Program Assistant
The Folger Institute
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003-1094
202/675-0333
Email: institute@folger.edu
Visit the website at http://www.folger.edu/institute/neh2011
Why and How Gender Matters: The Concept(s) of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern World
During the latest decades, the questions, problems and theoretizations of gender history have become more nuanced. It has become clear that special attention is needed for studying gender history of medieval and early modern world. The central focus of the symposium is to test and verify the methodology and use the concept of gender specifically applicable to the period of great change and transition, often failed to be seen by scholars as an independent item. Late medieval period (14th and 15th centuries) is often lost in the shadow of humanism and Renaissance coming while 17th century is observed as something in between Renaissance and the Age of Reason. Geography of change is quite important as well, as in different parts of the European continent changes happened within distinct cultural, social and political contexts. It is these contexts the organizers try to bring together to see whether one universal gender concept should and might be applied cross boundaries and times.
Understanding the multifaceted aspects of gender, gendered positions and access to knowledge and power in medieval and early modern times will ultimately help to see even the present day gender positions as historically and culturally defined, not universal or monolithic. However, medieval and early modern period has too often been neglected by gender historians. The aim of the symposium is to help to increase the awareness of the significance of the field and challenge the still persistent assumption of medieval and early modern women simply as victims of misogynist thought.
The conference aims at dialogue between the scholars and researchers of different age/era, culture and discipline background. We especially encourage younger scholars to participate in our discussion.
See the program at: http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/why_gender.htm
Ms. Kirsi Reyes
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
University of Helsinki
Fabianinkatu 24a
Helsinki
Finland
Email: kirsi.reyes@helsinki.fi
Visit the website at http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/why_gender.htm
Understanding the multifaceted aspects of gender, gendered positions and access to knowledge and power in medieval and early modern times will ultimately help to see even the present day gender positions as historically and culturally defined, not universal or monolithic. However, medieval and early modern period has too often been neglected by gender historians. The aim of the symposium is to help to increase the awareness of the significance of the field and challenge the still persistent assumption of medieval and early modern women simply as victims of misogynist thought.
The conference aims at dialogue between the scholars and researchers of different age/era, culture and discipline background. We especially encourage younger scholars to participate in our discussion.
See the program at: http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/why_gender.htm
Ms. Kirsi Reyes
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
University of Helsinki
Fabianinkatu 24a
Helsinki
Finland
Email: kirsi.reyes@helsinki.fi
Visit the website at http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/why_gender.htm
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