Conference Theme: The Power of Poetry in the Modern World
Southeastern Renaissance Conference (SRC) [Affiliated Group]
Chair: Lynne Simpson, Presbyterian College (lsimpson@presby.edu)
Secretary: Daniel Mills, Georgia State University (engsdm@langate.gsu.edu)
Sir Philip Sidney wrote that poetry "is an art of imitation; for so Aristotle termeth it in the word [Greek text]; that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth: to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture, with this end, to teach and delight." With the humanities under siege and humanities faculty being asked to justify their role in higher education, how might we rethink teaching English Renaissance poetry to make it more relevant to the 21st century college student? For instance, what approaches to teaching poetry can we use to teach the ever-elusive critical thinking? Can we still allow poetry to delight while we teach more marketable skills?
Possible topics may include:
How to use poetry to teach critical thinking
How to use poetry to teach ethics
How to use poetry to teach reading skills
How to use poetry to teach writing
Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to Dan Mills at engsdm@langate.gsu.edu by August 1, 2011.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
‘Mortality and Imagination: the Life of the Dead in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance’ September 2012, Stellenbosch
The 21st Biennial Conference of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will be held at Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 30 August to 2 September 2012.
The theme of the conference is ‘Mortality and Imagination: The Life of the Dead in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance’. In an effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation, we encourage scholars working in any discipline to submit abstracts addressing this theme. A selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published in a special issue of the Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (accredited for South African research subsidy purposes).
Please send proposals (250-300 words) for 20-minute papers to Professor David Scott-Macnab by 31 January 2012.
The theme of the conference is ‘Mortality and Imagination: The Life of the Dead in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance’. In an effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation, we encourage scholars working in any discipline to submit abstracts addressing this theme. A selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published in a special issue of the Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (accredited for South African research subsidy purposes).
Please send proposals (250-300 words) for 20-minute papers to Professor David Scott-Macnab by 31 January 2012.
[UPDATE] North West Renaissance Drama Colloquium 23rd June 2011
Registration is now open for the inaugural North West Renaissance Drama Colloquium, a one-day event to be held at John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester, Thursday 23rd June 2011
A keynote lecture will be given by Professor Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex), author of The Uncanny, How to Read Shakespeare, After Derrida and Quilt
Registration fee: £10/£5 for students
To express interest please email
renaissance.drama@manchester.ac.uk
Registration ends Friday 10th June
A keynote lecture will be given by Professor Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex), author of The Uncanny, How to Read Shakespeare, After Derrida and Quilt
Registration fee: £10/£5 for students
To express interest please email
renaissance.drama@manchester.ac.uk
Registration ends Friday 10th June
Renaissance Alchemy (RSA 2012, Washington DC)
Medieval and Renaissance alchemists often described mercury not merely as the quintessence, but as the medium within which opposing elements combined to produce the philosopher’s stone. In many respects, the practice of alchemy itself was a medium uniting diverse--and sometimes opposing--elements:
To submit a proposal, please email a brief CV and 200-word abstract to Chad Engbers (engbers@calvin.edu) by Wednesday, May 25.
- Its practitioners included earnest philosophers and materialistic charlatans;
- it formed a transition from medieval mysticism to modern medicine and chemistry;
- it was a thoroughly international practice whose texts and adepts constantly traveled from one country to another;
- it was a thoroughly interdisciplinary practice which, although it seems not to have produced much gold, produced voluminous texts and significantly influenced literature and the visual arts.
To submit a proposal, please email a brief CV and 200-word abstract to Chad Engbers (engbers@calvin.edu) by Wednesday, May 25.
Futuristic Epistemologies in Early Modern Literary and Scientific Thought (RSA 2012/ Abstract Deadline 5/15/2011)
Sixteenth and seventeenth-century works, from Utopia to Paradise Lost, construct fictional worlds through the appeals to the epistemic and ontological status of the future. In the Defence of Poesy, Philip Sidney elucidates how futures govern both poetic production and dissemination. The poet is a "vates" who can prophesize the future, or the "maker" who creates imitable models for the reader. The act of imitation is transferred to the reader of poetry, whose "well-doing" in the real world uniquely fulfills the poet’s work. Early modern “scientific” theories and practices, too, were often predicted on notions of futurity: In The Advancement of Learning, Francis Bacon elaborates on temporality of knowing, and suggests that “all knowledge is but remembrance.” Writing in the 1660s, Thomas Sprat draws on Bacon’s methods explicated in Advancement and Novum Organum, and discourages premature theorizing. Experimental philosophers, as proper practitioners of a new practical epistemology, must suspend judgment, and let the experimental action determine facts.
This panel will explore the intersections between these various disciplinary vectors by asking how futurity in particular, and temporality, more generally, governed early modern epistemic modes and shaped literary, philosophical, and scientific thought. We will ask: how did early modern thinkers appeal to the future in order to know the past? How were memory and remembrance predicated on strategic forgetting? How do predictive epistemic modes, such as prophecy, promise to make the future fully knowable? How do specific genres, such as romance and utopia, generate epistemologies of uncertainty through narrative deferral? How did early modern writers mediate relations between chronological understandings of time – often long durations of time – with their concerns about the present? How do probabilistic scientific methods borrow from literary works, and reshape early modern “science” as implicitly or explicitly futuristic? How did writers use the “uncertainty” of futures to comment on or examine contemporary ethical, political, and social issues? How do futuristic epistemologies enable us to understand the ontology of early modern fiction? Finally, how does the idea of “futurity,” through appeals to counterfactuals and theories of possibility, shape our own disciplinary practices?
Please send a brief abstract (150 words or less); keywords; a one-page curriculum vitae; and any A/V requirements by 15 May 2011 to Debapriya Sarkar at dsarkar@eden.rutgers.edu. This panel will be sponsored by the Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium at Rutgers University. The Colloquium has affiliate status with RSA.
This panel will explore the intersections between these various disciplinary vectors by asking how futurity in particular, and temporality, more generally, governed early modern epistemic modes and shaped literary, philosophical, and scientific thought. We will ask: how did early modern thinkers appeal to the future in order to know the past? How were memory and remembrance predicated on strategic forgetting? How do predictive epistemic modes, such as prophecy, promise to make the future fully knowable? How do specific genres, such as romance and utopia, generate epistemologies of uncertainty through narrative deferral? How did early modern writers mediate relations between chronological understandings of time – often long durations of time – with their concerns about the present? How do probabilistic scientific methods borrow from literary works, and reshape early modern “science” as implicitly or explicitly futuristic? How did writers use the “uncertainty” of futures to comment on or examine contemporary ethical, political, and social issues? How do futuristic epistemologies enable us to understand the ontology of early modern fiction? Finally, how does the idea of “futurity,” through appeals to counterfactuals and theories of possibility, shape our own disciplinary practices?
Please send a brief abstract (150 words or less); keywords; a one-page curriculum vitae; and any A/V requirements by 15 May 2011 to Debapriya Sarkar at dsarkar@eden.rutgers.edu. This panel will be sponsored by the Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium at Rutgers University. The Colloquium has affiliate status with RSA.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Ninth Annual Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Graduate Conference
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst will host its annual graduate student conference on Saturday, October 15, 2011.
Graduate students are invited to submit abstracts for a ten to fifteen minute paper on any range of topics or approaches to Renaissance literature and history, including textual studies, performance history, philosophy, print culture, religious studies, gender studies, post-colonial interpretations, and other new theoretical perspectives. The purpose of the conference is to provide graduate students with an opportunity to share their work and place it in a greater context of interests and concerns. The conference is designed to foster conversation among students who share similar challenges and construct a space where participants may expect serious feedback on their work.
Please send an abstract of 250-300 words by email or email attachment to April Genung or Meghan Conine (MArenaissanceconference@gmail.com) by Thursday, September 15, 2011. For more information on the conference, you can visit our website: http://renaissanceconference.wordpress.com/.
We are organizing the conference to bring graduate students with similar interests together to share their work. Last year’s conference had an intimate feel with all participants able to view the other presentations. As before, we intend to divide the conference into several small panels, with ample time for discussion among peers, and we welcome the attendance of faculty from your department as well.
Best,
April Genung
Meghan Conine
Graduate students are invited to submit abstracts for a ten to fifteen minute paper on any range of topics or approaches to Renaissance literature and history, including textual studies, performance history, philosophy, print culture, religious studies, gender studies, post-colonial interpretations, and other new theoretical perspectives. The purpose of the conference is to provide graduate students with an opportunity to share their work and place it in a greater context of interests and concerns. The conference is designed to foster conversation among students who share similar challenges and construct a space where participants may expect serious feedback on their work.
Please send an abstract of 250-300 words by email or email attachment to April Genung or Meghan Conine (MArenaissanceconference@gmail.com) by Thursday, September 15, 2011. For more information on the conference, you can visit our website: http://renaissanceconference.wordpress.com/.
We are organizing the conference to bring graduate students with similar interests together to share their work. Last year’s conference had an intimate feel with all participants able to view the other presentations. As before, we intend to divide the conference into several small panels, with ample time for discussion among peers, and we welcome the attendance of faculty from your department as well.
Best,
April Genung
Meghan Conine
Renaissance and Baroque in Critical Theory, SRS conference, University of Manchester, July 9-11, 2012
Renaissance and Baroque in Critical Theory
A panel to be held at the 5th Biennial conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies, University of Manchester, July 9-11, 2012
Proposals are invited for papers making up a panel on representations and appropriations of culture from the mid-1300s to the early 1700s by modern critical theory. Taking ‘critical theory’ broadly to include all those writing in the wake of Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and feminism, this panel seeks discussions of its passing remarks (such as those by Nietzsche and Lacan), sustained analyses (Bakhtin, Foucault, Kristeva), and more multifarious appropriations (Deleuze’s baroque) on and of Renaissance texts, culture and terminology.
Other welcome topics include the relationship or tension between readings of the Renaissance by critical theory and other differently-motivated forms of scholarship (Benjamin and the Warburg Institute, for instance), and assessments of the intervention critical theory can make in the situation of the study of the Renaissance today, or indeed, vice versa.
Applications of around 400 words should be sent to James Smith at renaissance.drama@manchester.ac.uk by 01/09/11.
For further information about attending the SRS conference in 2012:
http://www.rensoc.org.uk/SRSNationalConference2012.htm
For further information on ‘Renaissance and Baroque in Critical Theory’ at the SRS conference 2012:
http://manchester.academia.edu/JSmith
A panel to be held at the 5th Biennial conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies, University of Manchester, July 9-11, 2012
Proposals are invited for papers making up a panel on representations and appropriations of culture from the mid-1300s to the early 1700s by modern critical theory. Taking ‘critical theory’ broadly to include all those writing in the wake of Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and feminism, this panel seeks discussions of its passing remarks (such as those by Nietzsche and Lacan), sustained analyses (Bakhtin, Foucault, Kristeva), and more multifarious appropriations (Deleuze’s baroque) on and of Renaissance texts, culture and terminology.
Other welcome topics include the relationship or tension between readings of the Renaissance by critical theory and other differently-motivated forms of scholarship (Benjamin and the Warburg Institute, for instance), and assessments of the intervention critical theory can make in the situation of the study of the Renaissance today, or indeed, vice versa.
Applications of around 400 words should be sent to James Smith at renaissance.drama@manchester.ac.uk by 01/09/11.
For further information about attending the SRS conference in 2012:
http://www.rensoc.org.uk/SRSNationalConference2012.htm
For further information on ‘Renaissance and Baroque in Critical Theory’ at the SRS conference 2012:
http://manchester.academia.edu/JSmith
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Transcultural/Transmedia Adaptations of Shakespeare [UPDATE]
Outerspeares: Transcultural / Transmedia Adaptations of Shakespeare
The 1st Annual Conference of the Guelph Early Modern Studies Group
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario - November 1, 2011
Deadline for Proposals: May 1, 2011
Description:
Our globalized, digitized textual environment has truly become, in Shakespearean terms, a “brave new world” of virtual realities, post-/trans- national identities, and unprecedented constructs of communication and meaning that shapeshift transculturally across different media. Ania Loomba suggests that “emerging national/imperial identities in Europe could never be entirely pure, could never successfully erase the long histories of intermingling.” In our contemporary globalized and digitized media environment, the concept of “intermingling” speaks not only to our distant past but also to our sense of our post-national and increasingly virtual future.
As conceptions of the world have changed, so has Shakespeare accommodated new attitudes to culture, cultural negotiations, and emerging forms of human expression. Shakespeare's continual, pervasive adaptation across an array of cultural contexts and media platforms forces consideration of the ways meaning is assigned to literary texts, and how meaning is located in the particulars of these cultural events. Transcultural, Intercultural, Multicultural and cross-, mixed-, or transmedia adaptations of Shakespeare reconfigure the relationship between textual autonomy and historical particulars, pushing beyond conventional understandings of the literary event and the complexities of historical time.
This conference explores transcultural and transmedia adaptations of Shakespeare and the Shakespeare effect through a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, welcoming papers that address the transcultural and/or transdisciplinary aspects of Shakespeare in the contemporary world. Outerspeares focuses on the radical reshaping that multiple forms of media sampling engage to produce new forms of knowledge associated with “wild Shakespeare," a form of anarchic “engagement with prior texts that cannot be policed and refuses containment.”
Keynotes:
The keynote speaker on transcultural Shakespeares at the conference will be Tom Magill, Director of “Mickey B,” The Educational Shakespeare Company’s innovative adaptation of Macbeth featuring prisoners from Belfast’s Maghaberry Prison, who will screen the film and give a plenary talk. Click here for more information on the film.
The keynote speakers on transmedia Shakespeares at the conference will be Anthony Del Col and Connor McCreery, creators of the Kill Shakespeare graphic novel series, soon to be mediated into a major motion picture. Please see the following link for more information on Kill Shakespeare: http://www.killshakespeare.com/press.html.
Papers on the following topics are of particular interest:
• Transcultural adaptations of Shakespeare across media platforms (Film, Television, Visual Art, Performance Art, and the like)
• Transmedia Shakespeares with a focus on how Shakespeare has been sampled, appropriated, and transformed in and across a variety of new and old media
• Theorizing the transculturation of Shakespeare
• Shakespeare and the transculturalism of the Global Early Modern Period
• Shakespeare and Media Subcultures (Graphic Novel subcultures, Film Subcultures, etc.)
• Shakespeare and Diaspora
• Any other topic that falls within the conference theme.
Contact:
Send a (maximum)one-page Abstract to the conference organizers at gems@uoguelph.ca.
Please note any audio/visual equipment required. For more information, use the above contact or visit our conference website, http://gemsconference.blogspot.com/.
Conference organizers encourage graduate students to submit proposals. Conference organizers plan to produce a book based on conference proceedings.
The 1st Annual Conference of the Guelph Early Modern Studies Group
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario - November 1, 2011
Deadline for Proposals: May 1, 2011
Description:
Our globalized, digitized textual environment has truly become, in Shakespearean terms, a “brave new world” of virtual realities, post-/trans- national identities, and unprecedented constructs of communication and meaning that shapeshift transculturally across different media. Ania Loomba suggests that “emerging national/imperial identities in Europe could never be entirely pure, could never successfully erase the long histories of intermingling.” In our contemporary globalized and digitized media environment, the concept of “intermingling” speaks not only to our distant past but also to our sense of our post-national and increasingly virtual future.
As conceptions of the world have changed, so has Shakespeare accommodated new attitudes to culture, cultural negotiations, and emerging forms of human expression. Shakespeare's continual, pervasive adaptation across an array of cultural contexts and media platforms forces consideration of the ways meaning is assigned to literary texts, and how meaning is located in the particulars of these cultural events. Transcultural, Intercultural, Multicultural and cross-, mixed-, or transmedia adaptations of Shakespeare reconfigure the relationship between textual autonomy and historical particulars, pushing beyond conventional understandings of the literary event and the complexities of historical time.
This conference explores transcultural and transmedia adaptations of Shakespeare and the Shakespeare effect through a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, welcoming papers that address the transcultural and/or transdisciplinary aspects of Shakespeare in the contemporary world. Outerspeares focuses on the radical reshaping that multiple forms of media sampling engage to produce new forms of knowledge associated with “wild Shakespeare," a form of anarchic “engagement with prior texts that cannot be policed and refuses containment.”
Keynotes:
The keynote speaker on transcultural Shakespeares at the conference will be Tom Magill, Director of “Mickey B,” The Educational Shakespeare Company’s innovative adaptation of Macbeth featuring prisoners from Belfast’s Maghaberry Prison, who will screen the film and give a plenary talk. Click here for more information on the film.
The keynote speakers on transmedia Shakespeares at the conference will be Anthony Del Col and Connor McCreery, creators of the Kill Shakespeare graphic novel series, soon to be mediated into a major motion picture. Please see the following link for more information on Kill Shakespeare: http://www.killshakespeare.com/press.html.
Papers on the following topics are of particular interest:
• Transcultural adaptations of Shakespeare across media platforms (Film, Television, Visual Art, Performance Art, and the like)
• Transmedia Shakespeares with a focus on how Shakespeare has been sampled, appropriated, and transformed in and across a variety of new and old media
• Theorizing the transculturation of Shakespeare
• Shakespeare and the transculturalism of the Global Early Modern Period
• Shakespeare and Media Subcultures (Graphic Novel subcultures, Film Subcultures, etc.)
• Shakespeare and Diaspora
• Any other topic that falls within the conference theme.
Contact:
Send a (maximum)one-page Abstract to the conference organizers at gems@uoguelph.ca.
Please note any audio/visual equipment required. For more information, use the above contact or visit our conference website, http://gemsconference.blogspot.com/.
Conference organizers encourage graduate students to submit proposals. Conference organizers plan to produce a book based on conference proceedings.
Recasting the Past: Early Modern to Postmodern Medievalisms 7-8 September 2011
Recasting the Past: Early Modern to Postmodern Medievalisms
A Conference supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) at the University of Exeter
7-8 September 2011
In 1649, the radical Digger movement called on the people of England to ‘throw down that Norman yoke’; in 1849, at the launch of the periodical the Anglo-Saxon, its British readers were addressed as ‘Anglo-Saxons all’; and in 2009, a cover story for Harpers magazine accused American soldiers in Afghanistan of acting ‘exactly like the crusaders of 1096’.
This AHRC-supported conference will draw together research examining how, from the Renaissance to the present, historical narratives about Britain’s ‘medieval’ past have been drawn on to foster communal identities; to fuel, legitimate or oppose social and political change; and to resist or moderate the forces of modernity. Confirmed speakers include Rosemary Hill, author of God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (2007) and Bruce Holsinger, author of The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory (2005).
Proposals for individual papers of 20 minutes or 3-paper panels are invited. Possible topics might include:
• The formation of regional and national identities
• The politics of Pre-Raphaelitism
• Gothic architecture
• The reception of historical medieval figures – King Alfred, Richard III, the Black Prince, etc
• The social/political agendas of translation and editing projects
• The uses of chivalry, monasticism, feudalism, etc in post-medieval thought and praxis
• The establishment of medieval-inspired institutions and associations
• The social uses of King Arthur, Robin Hood and other medieval myths/legends/folklore
Please send proposals of 200-300 words to Dr Joanne Parker, Dr Philip Schwyzer, and Dr Corinna Wagner at medievalisms@exeter.ac.uk by 13 Friday 2011. We will notify delegates of their acceptance by 29 May.
Each year the AHRC provides funding from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities. Only applications of the highest quality are funded and the range of research supported by this investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of the UK. For further information on the
AHRC, please go to: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/.
A Conference supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) at the University of Exeter
7-8 September 2011
In 1649, the radical Digger movement called on the people of England to ‘throw down that Norman yoke’; in 1849, at the launch of the periodical the Anglo-Saxon, its British readers were addressed as ‘Anglo-Saxons all’; and in 2009, a cover story for Harpers magazine accused American soldiers in Afghanistan of acting ‘exactly like the crusaders of 1096’.
This AHRC-supported conference will draw together research examining how, from the Renaissance to the present, historical narratives about Britain’s ‘medieval’ past have been drawn on to foster communal identities; to fuel, legitimate or oppose social and political change; and to resist or moderate the forces of modernity. Confirmed speakers include Rosemary Hill, author of God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (2007) and Bruce Holsinger, author of The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory (2005).
Proposals for individual papers of 20 minutes or 3-paper panels are invited. Possible topics might include:
• The formation of regional and national identities
• The politics of Pre-Raphaelitism
• Gothic architecture
• The reception of historical medieval figures – King Alfred, Richard III, the Black Prince, etc
• The social/political agendas of translation and editing projects
• The uses of chivalry, monasticism, feudalism, etc in post-medieval thought and praxis
• The establishment of medieval-inspired institutions and associations
• The social uses of King Arthur, Robin Hood and other medieval myths/legends/folklore
Please send proposals of 200-300 words to Dr Joanne Parker, Dr Philip Schwyzer, and Dr Corinna Wagner at medievalisms@exeter.ac.uk by 13 Friday 2011. We will notify delegates of their acceptance by 29 May.
Each year the AHRC provides funding from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities. Only applications of the highest quality are funded and the range of research supported by this investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of the UK. For further information on the
AHRC, please go to: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/.
Battle of Agincourt
For a book marking the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt (1415), I am seeking essays providing novel, interdisciplinary perspectives on this pivotal event in European history. I welcome chapter ideas from scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies. Please send queries or brief abstracts to tftuleja@yahoo.com.
Early Modern Architecture Request for Information on Research Projects in Progress
The Early Modern Architecture initiative (http://earlymodernarchitecture.com) is now starting a list of research projects in progress, in response to a series of inquiries following the announcement of our PhD dissertation list and as an additional step in forging a network of international and rigorous scholarly exchange. As with the PhD dissertation list, we welcome projects from any discipline and on any aspect of the architecture (design, theory, and practice) of Europe and its colonies, 1400-1800.
If you have a research project in progress, please email us at emalistserv@gmail.com with your name, the working title of your project, and the names of your department as well as institution. We will then add your project to our list and will post the list as soon as we have a number of projects.
More information is available on our website at: http://wp.me/P1fiUy-qC.
If you have a research project in progress, please email us at emalistserv@gmail.com with your name, the working title of your project, and the names of your department as well as institution. We will then add your project to our list and will post the list as soon as we have a number of projects.
More information is available on our website at: http://wp.me/P1fiUy-qC.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Dublin: Renaissance City of Literature, Dublin, 5 September 2011
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.
• 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.
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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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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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.
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