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March 8-10, 2012
Andrew Marvell Society at the South-Central Renaissance Conference
Abstracts only (400-500 words; a shorter 100-word abstract for inclusion in the program), for papers of no more than 20 minutes reading time, should be submitted online no later than December 15, 2011 via the SCRC website's submission abstract form: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~nydam/scrc/abstractform.shtml
Sessions should be proposed no later than December 1, 2011.
Program participants are required to join SCRC and are encouraged to submit publication-length versions of their papers to the SCRC journal, Explorations in Renaissance Culture:
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~nydam/scrc/explorations.shtml
For more information, please consult Joan Faust (jfaust@selu.edu).
March 16-17, 2012
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The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) will sponsor four panels at the Renaissance Society of America's annual meeting Washington, D.C., 22-24 March 2012.
Organized by Steven W. May, Anne Lake Prescott and Michael Ullyot, SHARP @ RSA links the RSA with scholars studying the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and print.
We invite submissions that consider English and Continental books and manuscripts from 1350 to 1700, within one or more of these four topics:
1. WHEN READERS WRITE: What led manuscript anthologists to copy the texts they did? An enormous volume of transcribed works in prose and verse circulated widely in early modern England and the Continent. What can we learn about contemporary interests and taste from the choices reflected in a given document or documents?
2. DRESSING GENDER IN PRINT: How did printers or editors exploit the gender of an author on their title pages or paratexts? Did they often (or ever) in fact treat male and female writers differently?
3. MANICULES AND THE 'DIGITAL' HUMANITIES: What are digital humanists doing now with early modern books and manuscripts? Ann M Blair recently argued that medieval and early modern systems of "managing textual information in an era of exploding publications" are precedents for modern information management systems. Do early reference books, annotations and compilations inform, anticipate, or otherwise influence our computer-assisted thinking?
4. THE INTERSECTION OF MANUSCRIPT AND PRINT: It has become increasingly clear that scribal and print culture were complexly intertwined during the Renaissance. What do we learn about the transmission of texts and contemporary regard for both media from works that appeared in both and authors who published in script and print?
Please send paper titles and abstracts (150 words) and one-paragraph CVs to each of the three organizers: ullyot@ucalgary.ca and aprescot@barnard.edu and steven_may@georgetowncollege.edu by Friday, 6 May 2011 (this is earlier than RSA's own deadline).
For more information on SHARP, see http://www.sharpweb.org/.
For more information on the Renaissance Society of America, see http://rsa.org/.
All participants must be members of the RSA by August 2012 or they cannot be included in the programme.
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8-10 March 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana
Deadline: 15 December 2011
The University of New Orleans will host Exploring the Renaissance 2012 on March 8-10, 2012. The Andrew Marvell Society will be hosting sessions on a variety of topics concerning Marvell’s poetry and prose, including a panel discussion on “The Gallery,” featuring presentations by Joan Faust and George Klawitter. Other proposals for papers or for sessions are now invited.
Proposals are especially welcomed on the following topics:
· Last Instructions to a Painter
- Marvell’s Life and Biographical Interpretations
- Marvell and Religion
- Marvell and the Drama
Abstracts only (400-500 words; a shorter 100-word abstract for inclusion in the program), for papers of no more than 20 minutes reading time, should be submitted online no later than December 15, 2011 via the SCRC website's submission abstract form: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~nydam/scrc/abstractform.shtml
Sessions should be proposed no later than December 1, 2011.
Program participants are required to join SCRC and are encouraged to submit publication-length versions of their papers to the SCRC journal, Explorations in Renaissance Culture:
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~nydam/scrc/explorations.shtml
For more information, please consult Joan Faust (jfaust@selu.edu).
Nigel Smith, President
Timothy Raylor, Vice President
Sean McDowell, Past President
George Klawitter, Publications Officer/Webmaster
Joan Faust, Executive Secretary
Executive Committee
Martin Dzelzainis (2011-13)
Alex Garganigo (2010-12)
Gabriella Gruder-Poni (2010-12)
Laurent Curelly (2012-14)
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"Specular Reflections: The Mirror in Medieval and Early Modern Culture"
The Early Romance Studies Research Cluster, along with the Committee for Medieval Studies at the University of British Columbia, solicits contributions for the 40th Annual UBC Medieval Workshop, to be held on March 16-17, 2012. The conference will be held at Green College on the beautiful UBC campus in Vancouver, Canada.
As Margot Schmidt suggests in the Dictionnaire de spiritualité, the mirror's multiple uses as an object translate into highly diversified symbolic functions. Thus, while they have long been associated with scientific exploration, knowledge, and contemplation, owing largely to analogies with their instrumental use-analogies that lead to the book as speculum, as explored by Herbert Grabes, for example--reflective surfaces also function as metaphors for the illusory nature of representation. They can create false, shadowy, or deformed images of earthly reality, as suggested both by the ubiquitous Ovidian theme of Narcissus at the fountain and the Pauline per speculum in aenigmate. The contradictory uses of mirrors in iconography mean they can stand as figures of virtue or vice, depending on whether they accompany Prudence or Venus, or represent Mary--the speculum sine macula--or
Eve. Mirrors are not only ambivalent, but also Janus-like: whether
examined as objects, in their instrumental, decorative, or other functions, or as visual or textual figures, mirrors have fascinated humankind, not least because they seem to serve as a kind of threshold phenomenon allowing for the contemplation of inner and outer worlds, as well as the otherworldly. While these thresholds promise access to other worlds--earthly, imaginary, or divine--they are also suggestive of the limitations of human perception, knowledge, and wisdom.
We are looking for papers dealing with any aspect of 'specular reflections'
through text, image, music or any branch of learning, especially those that engage with the paradoxical ways mirror images are used in all periods, places, and disciplines from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period.
Areas of interest might include, but are in no way limited to: literature, translation, history, art history, philosophy, science and optics, musicology, etc.
Submissions are invited for 20-minute papers and full panels (three papers and a chair). Selected papers from the workshop will be collected as part of a thematic volume of proceedings to be published with a major scholarly press. Proposals (250 words) for papers and panels should be sent by August 1, 2011 to:
Nancy Frelick, Chantal Phan, or Juliet O'Brien Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies University of British Columbia
797-1873 East Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1
CANADA
or by email to: ubcmedievalworkshop@gmail.com
For further details and updated information check:
http://ubc2012medieval.blogspot.com/
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Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting 2012: Call for Papers
The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy will be held 22-24 March 2012, on the campus of Saint Louis University (Saint Louis, Missouri) and hosted by the Saint Louis University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal, except that those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2010 and 2011 are not eligible to speak in 2012. Please do not submit more than one proposal.
Sessions usually consist of three thirty-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length. A different format for some sessions may be chosen by the Program Committee after the proposals have been reviewed. Session organizers may wish to propose different formats for their sessions, subject to Program Committee approval.
Themes. The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy brings together medievalists from all disciplines and time periods. The Program Committee will capitalize on this strength by encouraging sessions that (1) address subjects of interest to a wide range of medievalists, and (2) put scholars from different disciplines and time periods in dialogue with each other. We are seeking innovative proposals for papers and sessions and hope to see cross-disciplinary participation wherever possible. For both the commissioned and the open sessions, we are looking for the broadest possible range of proposals of topics and of time periods, within and across all disciplines.
Selection procedure. Papers will be evaluated for promise of quality and significance of topic. Session organizers make an initial selection of papers and submit a plan to the Program Committee, which makes final decisions by 15 September 2011. Notification of acceptance or rejection will take place shortly thereafter.
Submissions. Proposals should be submitted to Thomas F. Madden, preferably by e-mail to maddentf@slu.edu, or, on paper to Thomas F. Madden, Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University, 3800 Lindell Blvd. Saint Louis, MO 63108.
The deadline is 1 August 2011. Please do not send proposals to session organizers or to the Academy office.
March 22-24, 2012
Call for Papers: SHARP @ RSA 2012
Organized by Steven W. May, Anne Lake Prescott and Michael Ullyot, SHARP @ RSA links the RSA with scholars studying the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and print.
We invite submissions that consider English and Continental books and manuscripts from 1350 to 1700, within one or more of these four topics:
1. WHEN READERS WRITE: What led manuscript anthologists to copy the texts they did? An enormous volume of transcribed works in prose and verse circulated widely in early modern England and the Continent. What can we learn about contemporary interests and taste from the choices reflected in a given document or documents?
2. DRESSING GENDER IN PRINT: How did printers or editors exploit the gender of an author on their title pages or paratexts? Did they often (or ever) in fact treat male and female writers differently?
3. MANICULES AND THE 'DIGITAL' HUMANITIES: What are digital humanists doing now with early modern books and manuscripts? Ann M Blair recently argued that medieval and early modern systems of "managing textual information in an era of exploding publications" are precedents for modern information management systems. Do early reference books, annotations and compilations inform, anticipate, or otherwise influence our computer-assisted thinking?
4. THE INTERSECTION OF MANUSCRIPT AND PRINT: It has become increasingly clear that scribal and print culture were complexly intertwined during the Renaissance. What do we learn about the transmission of texts and contemporary regard for both media from works that appeared in both and authors who published in script and print?
Please send paper titles and abstracts (150 words) and one-paragraph CVs to each of the three organizers: ullyot@ucalgary.ca and aprescot@barnard.edu and steven_may@georgetowncollege.edu by Friday, 6 May 2011 (this is earlier than RSA's own deadline).
For more information on SHARP, see http://www.sharpweb.org/.
For more information on the Renaissance Society of America, see http://rsa.org/.
All participants must be members of the RSA by August 2012 or they cannot be included in the programme.
‘Sidney and Fulke Greville’
As well as his reflected fame as the ‘biographer’ and champion of his friend, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Fulke Greville is one of the most remarkable writers of early modern England. Indeed, he survived Sidney by forty years, and in addition to being a lyric poet in the Sidney vein, he wrote across the genres and in a variety of styles. Remarkable among these is his development of a form of philosophical poetry unique to himself. It is now forty years since the publication of Ronald Rebholz’s ground-breaking biography of Greville. In the meantime, the areas of Greville’s primary interest – absolutist monarchy, political theology, Islamic culture, as well as the ethics of friendship and the passions – have undergone a transformation. In addition, the patronage and coterie circles surrounding Sidney – in which Greville played a major role – have been illuminated in new dimensions. This session invites papers on any aspect of the relationship between Sidney and Greville, or on Greville’s literary patronage, or on Greville himself.
Previously announced topics--
Manuscripts and the Sidney Circle
An open session on the Sidney Circle
Please send abstracts to me by 1 May 2011 for distribution to the Sidney Program Committee.
Email attachments in Microsoft Word are preferred.
Margaret Hannay, Secretary
International Sidney Society
March 24-26, 2012
* 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
April 26-28, 2012
Disciplines of knowing in the early-modern world
Simon Fraser University Vancouver, B.C.
April 2012
Extended proposal deadline: OCTOBER 18th, 2011
This is the third and final call for *Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early-Modern World*, a conference to be held in Vancouver, B.C., under the auspices of Simon Fraser University, April 26th-28th, 2012. As described in the original CFP (below, in English and French), the conference is situated at the nexus of interdisciplinary early-modern/Renaissance studies, and history/philosophy of science. It thus cuts across the grain of both those sorts of meetings, providing an opportunity for concerted and holistic focus on early-modern science as a topic _sui generis_.
In order to give all who may be interested the opportunity to submit a proposal, despite the pressures of the academic autumn, the deadline for *Scientiae* has been extended to OCTOBER 18TH, 2011. Proposals should be sent as Word or .pdf attachments to:
The keynote speakers for *Scientiae* will be Mario Biagioli (UC Davis) and Peter Harrison (Oxford). Dr. Biagioli is the author of *Galileo's Instruments of Credit* (Chicago, 2006) and *Galileo, Courtier* (Chicago, 1993), among many other publications. Dr. Harrison's publications include *The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science* (Cambridge, 2007), *The Bible, Protestantism and the Rise of Natural Science* (Cambridge, 1998), and, as editor, *The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion* (Cambridge, 2010).
Palgrave Macmillan has expressed an interest in bringing out a volume of essays based on papers given at *Scientiae*, and we are currently working out further publication arrangements.
All sessions of *Scientiae* will be held in the Segal and Fletcher meeting spaces of the Harbour Centre campus, Simon Fraser University:
All conference spaces are tech-enabled, modern, bright, and comfortable.
A favorable conference rate will be available at the Delta Suites Hotel, directly across the street from Harbour Centre: see http://www.deltahotels.com/en/hotels/british-columbia/delta-vancouver-suites/ .
Many other accommodation options are available in the immediate area. The conference location, waterfront in the heart of downtown Vancouver, is excellent for walking, dining, shopping, etc. Late April, with luck, brings warm spring weather to the region; even while skiing continues on the local mountains, including Whistler.
For more information, and ongoing updates, see the conference website:
Original CFP
Paper and panel proposals are invited for *Scientiae*: a new interdisciplinary conference on early-modern science, to be held in Vancouver, B.C. (under the auspices of Simon Fraser University), April 26th-28th, 2012. The working assumption of the conference is that interdisciplinarity is not only an option, but a necessity, for the study of early-modern culture in its knowledge of the natural world. That is because period science is itself an interdisciplinary function, emerging from Biblical exegesis, advanced design, and literary humanitas; as well as from natural philosophy, alchemy, craft traditions, etc. By the same token, emergent science lends unique coherence to the gathered diversity of early-modern or Renaissance scholarship, when it is taken as an intellectual focal point. *Scientiae* offers a forum for scholars of the period’s art and literature, as well as its intellectual history, to illuminate aspects of early-modern science in the latter’s proper strangeness.
Topics and questions may include, but are by no means limited to:
-- Protestantism and science: a decisive thesis?
-- Period medicine, from Scholasticism to Humanism and beyond.
-- Nature and scripture: which interprets which?
-- Integrating the Iberian empires – a recalibration, or a transformation?
-- “Experimental” reading.
-- Royal Society rhetoric: how well has it really been understood?
-- Renaissance philosophy and the development of a “new” cosmology and anthropology.
-- Paracelsianism, Neoplatonism, alchemy: where are we now?
-- Invention and discovery: separable economies?
-- Theological origins of the new science.
-- Hermeneutic consequences of the Newtonian settlement.
-- Scholastic scientia and postmodern theory.
-- Early-modern information: is there any?
-- Science and mimesis: reflection, or transformation?
-- Early-modern literature and the new knowledge: friends, or foes?
(French):
Nous invitons la soumission de propositions de communication ou de session pour *Scientiae*, un colloque inter-disciplinaire sur la science d’Ancien Régime qui prendra place à Vancouver,C.B. (sous les auspices de l’Université Simon Fraser), du 26 au 28 avril 2012. Le principe de ce colloque est de poser que l’interdisciplinarité n’est pas seulement une possibilité, mais constitue une absolue nécessité pour qui veut étudier la culture des temps modernes (16e-18e siècles) quant au savoir qu’elle élabore sur la nature. Cette exigence vient du fait que la science de cette époque est elle-même une fonction interdisciplinaire, qui provient de l’exégèse biblique, des avancées des théories sur l’harmonie naturelle et de l’ humanitas littéraire, ainsi que de la philosophie naturelle, de l’alchimie, des traditions artisanales etc. Dans cette perspective, la science qui naît alors confère une exceptionnelle cohérence à la diversité qu’elle reçoit en héritage de l’érudition pré-moderne et Renaissance, dès lors qu’elle la prend comme point de référence. *Scientiae* se propose comme un forum pour les chercheurs travaillant sur l’art et la littérature de cette époque, tout autant que sur l’histoire intellectuelle afin de mettre en lumière certains aspects de cette science pré-moderne tout en lui conservant, comme il se doit, sa particulière étrangeté.
Sujets et questions pourront comprendre, sans que ctte liste soit exhaustive :
-- Protestantisme et science: une thèse définitive?
-- Histoire de la médecine, depuis la Scholastique jusque l’Humanisme, et ses suites.
-- Nature et écriture: laquelle interprète laquelle?
-- Prendre en considération les empires ibériques – recentrage ou transformation?
-- Lecture “expérimentales”.
-- Rhétorique de la Royal Society: comment a-t-elle été comprise?
-- La philosophie de la Renaissance et le développement de “nouvelles” cosmologie and anthropologie.
-- Paracelsianisme, Néoplatonisme, alchimie: où en sommes-nous?
-- Invention et découverte: des économies distinctes?
-- Origines théologique de la nouvelle science.
-- Conséquences herméneutiques du consensus Newtonien.
-- Scientia scholastique et théorie postmoderne .
-- Information avant les temps modernes: peut-on en parler?
-- Science et mimesis: reflet ou transformation?
-- La littérature et les nouveaux savoirs sous l’Ancien Régime: amis ou ennemis?
The plenary speakers for *Scientiae* will be Mario Biagioli and Peter Harrison. Dr. Biagioli is Distinguished Professor of Law and Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Director of the Center for Innovation Studies at the University of California (Davis). Dr. Harrison is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion, Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre, and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College at Oxford University.
Other prominent speakers currently expected at *Scientiae* include: Amir Alexander, Stephen Clucas, Sven Dupré, Angus Gowland, Hakan Hakansson, Kevin Killeen, William Newman, Lawrence Principe, Claire Preston, and Jonathan Sawday. The conference co-organizers are James Dougal Fleming (English, SFU); and Steven Matthews (History, U of Minnesota at Duluth).
All conference sessions will take place at SFU Harbour Centre, overlooking the waterfront in the heart of downtown Vancouver. A conference rate will be available at the Delta Suites Hotel, located directly across the street from Harbour Centre. Rich options for dining, shopping, and entertainment are within walking distance of the conference site. Direct transport links to Vancouver Airport, and to almost anywhere in the metropolitan area, including extensive outdoor recreational opportunities, are available from Waterfront Station, also steps away from Harbour Centre.
Paper and/or panel proposals of no more than 500 words, in Word or .pdf format, by SEPTEMBER 30, 2011, to SILENUS@SFU.CA.
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May 10-13, 2012
The deadline for session proposals is June 1, 2011, extended to 15 September.
May 10-13, 2012
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan).
The conference website is here: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/
The International Sidney Society sponsors three open sessions on Philip Sidney and related topics
Abstracts are invited on any subject dealing with the writings of Sir Philip Sidney and those writers, intellectuals, and historical figures associated with the Sidney family. We especially encourage proposals from younger scholars and proposals from new scholarly projects.
Papers should be limited to twenty minutes in reading time. Please do not submit an abstract to two different sessions of the conference in the same year.
Abstracts (500 words maximum) should be submitted electronically and should indicate clearly your mailing address and phone number. If you need special equipment for the talk (digital projector, etc.), let us know when you submit your abstract, rather than later, please.
Deadline for abstracts: September 15, 2011.
Please send your abstracts (email preferably) to:
Joel Davis
jbdavis@stetson.edu
Editing Old English: Ælfric's Lives of the Saints Special Session at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 2012)
2012 marks the 100-year anniversary of the death of W. W. Skeat, the eminent lexicographer and editor of Anglo-Saxon texts. Skeat is known among Ælfric scholars as the editor of the four-volume Lives of Saints (1881-1890). This edition has numerous limitations, including an incomplete scholarly apparatus, a dated translation, and infrequent availability. A new edition is needed - but what would it look like? Who would it be for?
This session will feature papers that examine Skeat's editorial choices and look towards what is needed for a future edition.
Please send abstracts of around 300 words to Grant Simpson at glsimpso@indiana.edu by September 15. (Early submissons would be much
appreciated.)
The comparison of Old Norse literature to Old English literature is now a frequent and established practice. The cultural parallels between the two are clear enough, but what about Old Norse’s connections to Middle English? Old Norse literature had a head start, but many of its most famous works were produced in the same period that gave rise to Chaucer and the first Middle English romances, between 1200 and 1400. The influences and analogues run from the broad to the specific. There are broad themes, motifs, and texts that the two literatures have in common, like the Icelandic romances (riddarasögur) that share Old French sources with Middle English romances. These riddarasögur include Bevers saga (Sir Bevis of Hampton), Saga af Tristram og Isönd (Sir Tristrem), and Flores Saga ok Blankiflur (Floris and Blancheflour). Then there are more specific influences, as is evident from the Norse diction (and the giant's ax) in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It is time to put these two literatures in closer critical conversation. Possible topics could include:
-nationalism
-gender roles
-the representation of history
-the riddarasögur and romances
-vengeance and reconciliation
-Norse words and place-names
-exile
-travel and exploration
-the heroic
-pagan gods
-objects and material culture
-translation
-the Old French connection
Please submit abstracts of around 250 words and the congress Participant Information Form (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF)
to 6mbs@queensu.ca by September 15th
2011. Papers are to be no longer than twenty minutes, please.
phone: 540-828-5341 | online: bridgewater.edu
ESRA SHAKESPEARE CONFERENCE
Money Talks: Personification and the Dan Denier Tradition
Poems satirizing the abuses of money appeared in all languages during the medieval period, but have received little scholarly commentary in recent years. What commentary has appeared has treated them in the larger context of venality or estates satire, and not as a discrete genre or as specific texts. Among the most interesting of these poems are those that personify money. Situated as they are at a nexus between language and money, art and commerce, the poems invite analysis from a wide variety of critical positions. Thus, this panel seeks papers that analyze these poems not only from a variety of linguistic traditions but also from different theoretical perspectives and aims to foster discussion among medievalists working in different fields as well as of varying critical persuasions.
Potential works include those by canonical authors such as Chaucer's "Complaint to his Purse" or Froissart's "Dit dou Florin" or the many anonymous works known as "Sir Penny" or "Dan Denier."
Possible approaches include
use of personification or other tropes and their relation to money as a semiotic system.
the poems' connection to scholastic discussions of money.
the poems as links between high or academic culture and popular traditions.
the poems as links between various linguistic traditions.
Send proposals by 9/15 to (email preferred) Christian Sheridan Bridgewater College Dept. of English, Box 99
402 E. College St.
Bridgewater, VA 22812
Phone: 434-205-4063
Christian Sheridan, PhD | Department of English | Assistant Professor
BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE
Oregon Medieval English Literature Society Session for the International Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 10-13, 2012
Session IV: Aglæca: What’s in a Word?
The term aglæca has received more than its share of critical attention, but there is still some disagreement on what it means in its many manifestations. In Christ and Satan, Guthalc, Juliana, The Phoenix, and The Whale its context in explicitly religious, but this is not necessarily the case in Beowulf (where it occurs most often). Because the word refers to Sigemund, Beowulf, Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon, understanding its denotation and its connotation(s) has presented scholars with a number of difficulties.
This session invites presenters to (re)consider those difficulties—to consider a single word, aglæca, in new and different ways. What are we to make of its use in the Old English corpus? Are there new etymological or linguistic insights to help us find our way? Do contemporary theories on monsters and/or gender shed light on these issues? How much should its religious usage outside Beowulf affect our understanding of it in the poem itself? A variety of approaches are possible: papers may focus on a specific text (not necessarily Beowulf) or on the word across the Old English corpus, they may be largely theoretical or pursue close readings of only a few lines.
Please send queries or abstracts (of no more than 250 words) to Marcus Hensel (mhensel1@uoregon.edu) by 15 September 2011 for consideration. Any papers not included in this session will be forwarded to the Congress Committee for possible inclusion in the General Sessions.
Health and Healing in Early Medieval Medicine: Influences, Theory and Practices
This interdisciplinary session will explore all aspects of the health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean world from approximately 400 to 1100 AD. We are open to all ways of measuring health and welfare from archaeology to psychology and literature. Diseases, concepts of healing, and the responses of early medieval populations to disease are of special interest.
This session is co-sponsored by Medica <http://medicasociety.blogspot.com/>:
the Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages and *The Heroic Age<http://www.heroicage.org/>:
A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe.*
We are seeking papers on any of the following topics:
- All aspects of early medieval health including (mal)nutrition, child mortality, aging, health beliefs, and health practices.
- All aspects of the Plague of Justinian and other infectious diseases
- Bioarchaeology of early medieval populations.
- All aspects of early medieval medical practice in art, literature, history, and archaeology.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words and the Participant Information Form should be sent to Michelle Ziegler at ZieglerM@slu.edu by September 15.
The Participant Information Form and additional information be found at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html.
The following sessions are all sponsored by Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (http://medievalelectronicmultimedia.org/); one of these sessions is being co-sponsored with Studies in Medievalism (http://www.medievalism.net/) and Medievally Speaking (http://studiesinmedievalism.blogspot.com/).
I. ROUNDTABLE: Neomedievalism and the Corporate (co-sponsored with Studies in Medievalism and Medievally Speaking) How have corporate structures contributed to the development of neomedievalism? How has neomedievalism affected the development of corporate structures? What is medieval in corporate structures? What is corporate in the medieval? For the past several years, MEMO has been working with Studies in Medievalism to generate several volumes of work that explore neomedievalism; in fact, “Neomedievalism and the Corporate” is a title borrowed from the editor of Studies in Medievalism, Karl Fugelso. One recent out-growth of these publications, that also appeared in MEMO's 2011 paper session, was a beginning exploration of the influence(s) of corporate sponsorship upon medievalist products (particularly video games).
II.PAPER SESSION: Realms of Play, Regimes of Truth: Explorations of medieval electronic media in terms of neomedievalism, free will epistemology, ethics and agency, becoming the Other, questing theory, human rights, freedom of expression, and/or freedom of choice. This session is inspired by some of the ideas and arguments presented at the 2011 Congress in MEMO's sessions, in volumes of Studies in Medievalism, and in MEMO's forthcoming anthology of essays. At the 2011 Congress MEMO paper session and round table discussion session (which were back-to-back), a deeper discussion of how power (corporate, discursive, pedagogical,...) influences and/or is controlled by play and “truth” in (neo)medievalist electronic media. In what ways is that power contemporary in structure? In what ways is it medieval? Why do we look to the Middle Ages for inspiration? Is this a form of power-play with contemporary chaos? This includes analysis of portrayals of reality under the power of discourse, be it “authentic” or not.
III.WORKSHOP & POSTER SESSION: Festive Electronic Games Each year, we work to improve upon our annual video game workshop. This year, in addition to providing video game demonstrations, complemented by posters (either on laptops or on poster-board), we would like to divide the room between game developers and game users. Submit proposals for posters and demonstrations of games under analysis and/or construction: MMORPGs, 2nd Life, Open Source/Free Software Games, priority software games, text-based games, gaming communities and their forums and blogs,...
Please submit proposals of up to 300 words along with the Participant Information Form (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/Assets/pdf/congress/PIF2012.pdf) by September 20, 2011. Participants will be contacted regardless of whether or not their proposal has been accepted, and all proposals submitted but not accepted will be sent on to the general committee for consideration in one of the general sessions at Kalamazoo.
Please submit proposals and Participant Information Forms via email or fax:
Carol L. Robinson
EMAIL: clrobins@kent.edu
FAX: 330-437-0490
Space and Place in the Medieval Imagination
Sponsored by Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies
This session welcomes scholars working on medieval representations of spatial order, or on the sense of place in the construction of social identities. We are seeking papers which investigate any time and place in medieval Europe in which a strong local or regional identity was emphasized; the papers should explore how an imagined order of space, or the meaning of a particular place, aided in defining those identities. The topic encourages literary scholars, historians and art historians to consider the meaning of space in the past by situating it in its precise historical context.
Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words, along with the conference Participant Information Form, to Meghan Glass at
*m.r.glass@durham.ac.uk* by September 14, 2011. The Participant Information Form can be found on the Congress website:
Participants will be contacted regardless of whether or not their proposal has been accepted. All proposals submitted but not accepted will be sent on to the general committee for consideration in one of the general sessions at Kalamazoo. All proposals will additionally be considered for special publication in Hortulus Journal. For further information:
Animal Narratives in Old English Poetry
Animals frequently appear as symbols or allegories in medieval literature.
This panel, however, seeks to recover the original animality that is lost when we dismiss the animals as transparent allegories. We might know what the animals mean for the narrative, but why does the story use animals—and why these particular animals—in order to convey such meanings? Papers can potentially combine animal studies, close-reading, and historicism to examine the portrayals of animals as animals in medieval literature. Papers could consider such wide-ranging topics as:
The micro-narratives of animals in the midst of larger medieval tales (such as the weasels in the* Volsungsaga* or beasts of battle in heroic poetry).
The portrayal of particular animals throughout a wider intertextual corpus (for instance, wolves in Old English literature).
The use of the animal as a symbol or allegory in a specific text.
Please send a 200-250 word abstract, in addition to your area of study, institution, and contact information, to erik.wade@rutgers.edu by 15 September 2011. Any papers not included in this session will be forwarded to the Congress Committee for possible inclusion in the General Sessions.
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May 25-26 2012
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6th National conference of the South African Journal of Art History, sponsored by the Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012
6th National conference of the South African Journal of Art History, sponsored by the Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012
The conference will be hosted by the Department of Architecture, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria
Conference dates: 25-26 May 2012
Abstract deadline: 31 April 2012
Theme: The human body in the visual disciplines
Submissions should deal with any of the following subjects:
- The human body depicted in art
- Architecture designed for the human body
- Dressing the human body
- Decorating the human body
- The human body as art
- Anatomy, medicine and the human body
- The human body depicted in photography
- The human body depicted in cinema
- Craft, tools, weapons and the human body
- Martyrdom and the human body
- Proportions of the human body
- Gender and visual culture
- Beauty and ugliness of the human body
- Religion, cult, ritual and the human body
- Pornography, kitsch, gender and the human body
- All the ages and the death of the human body
- The immortalization of the human body
Abstracts will be
peer reviewed and notices of acceptance sent by 10 February 2012. Due to time constraints, only the authors of the first 24 abstracts submitted and approved will be invited to prepare and present full papers.
The South African Journal of Art History will publish a special 2012 issue on The human body in the visual disciplines . Closing date for the receipt of
articles: 31 April 2012.
Conference fee: R500, which will include refreshments and two lunches.
Abstracts and articles should be submitted to the editor, Estelle Mare, at mare_estelle@fastmail.fm.
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June 14-16, 2012
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June 18 - 20 July 2012
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June 14-16, 2012
The British
Graduate Conference
We invite
graduate students with interests in both Shakespeare and Renaissance studies to
join us in June for the Fourteenth Annual British Graduate Conference.
The
interdisciplinary conference provides a friendly but stimulating academic forum
in which graduate students from all over the world can present their research
and meet together in an active centre of Shakespeare research:
Shakespeare’s home town of Stratford-upon- Avon. Undergraduate students in
their final two years of study are also invited to attend the conference as
auditors.
The conference
will feature talks by Peter Holland (Notre Dame), Tiffany Stern (Oxford), Paul
Menzer (Mary Baldwin), and Katherine Duncan-Jones (Oxford). Delegates also have
the opportunity to attend the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Richard
III, part of the World Shakespeare Festival, at a group-booking price.
Lunch will be provided on each day, and we will be hosting a dance and a drinks
reception for the delegates.
We invite
abstracts of approximately 200 words for papers twenty minutes in length
(3,000 words or less) on subjects relating to Shakespeare and Renaissance
studies. Delegates wishing to give papers must register by Friday May 4, 2012.
Due to the growing success of this annual conference, we strongly encourage
early registration to ensure a place
on the conference programme.
We welcome
abstracts from graduate students with an interest in Shakespeare and
Renaissance Studies.
For more
information about the conference, please see our website: http://britgrad.wordpress.com/
or e-mail us at britgrad@yahoo.com
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June 18 - 20 July 2012
Tudor Books and Readers: 1485-1603, an upcoming NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers.
Deadline March 1, 2012.
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June 30 2012
CFP—Edited Collection—Rereading Mary Wroth
Editors: Naomi Miller, Katherine Larson, Andrew Strycharski
Deadlines:
Abstracts of 400 – 500 words and a brief cv by June 30, 2012.
Final Essays of 5,000 – 6,000 words will be due in January, 2013
2010 marked the twentieth anniversary of Reading Mary Wroth, edited by Naomi Miller and Gary Waller, a collection that helped to propel interest in one of the first “canonized” women writers of the English Renaissance. As we move into the second decade of the twenty-first century, new work on Wroth is appearing that will transform our experiences of reading her—innovative editions, unique scholarly investigations, and creative writing inspired by her life. This volume sets out to chart opportunities for scholars and students to re-read Wroth now that the necessity of reading her has been established. It takes seriously, moreover, the many different practices that emerge around the term “reading”—editing, performance, revision, scholarly and creative writing, as well as manual, mechanical and digital reproduction.
Because this volume charts new directions for the opening “second wave” of interest in Wroth's canonical texts, we are especially enthusiastic about contributions that exemplify how re-reading Wroth can engage, extend, and transform the increasingly dynamic reading experiences of humanities scholars and students. We aim for work that is both rigorous and accessible. Essays might address objects, affects, archives, or performances; they might rethink gender and sexuality or generate new understandings of print, manuscript, and the digital; they might open vantages on questions of form; or they might strike out in very different directions. We would also welcome contributions to the sections on “Re-editing Wroth” or “Re-imagining Wroth,” which visits the conjunction of biography and creative writing.
We request abstracts of 400 – 500 words and a brief cv by June 30, 2012. Final Essays of 5,000 – 6,000 words will be due in January, 2013. Please submit these materials to Andrew Strycharsk i (strychar@fiu.edu). Questions or queries are welcome. For these, please contact any of the volume co-editors: Naomi Miller (njmiller@smith.edu), Katherine Larson (katie.larson@utoronto.ca) or Andrew Strycharski.
June 26-29, 2013
John N. King of The Ohio State University and Mark Rankin of James Madison University will direct a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers on the manufacture and dissemination of printed books and the nature of reading during the era of the Tudor monarchs (1485-1603). In particular, they plan to pose the governing question of whether the advent of printing was a necessary precondition for the emergence of new reading practices associated with the Renaissance and Reformation. Participants will consider ways in which readers responded to elements such as book layout, typography, illustration, and paratext (e.g., prefaces, glosses, and commentaries).
Employing key methods of the history of the book and the history of reading, this investigation will consider how the physical nature of books affected ways in which readers understood and assimilated their intellectual contents. This program is geared to meet the needs of teacher-scholars interested in the literary, political, or cultural history of the English Renaissance and/or Reformation, the history of the book, the history of reading, art history, women s studies, religious studies, bibliography, print culture, library science (including rare book librarians), mass communication, literacy studies, and more.
This seminar will meet from 18 June until 20 July 2012. During the first week of this program, we shall visit 1) Antwerp, Belgium, in order to draw on resources including the Plantin-Moretus Museum (the world s only surviving Renaissance printing and publishing house) and 2) London, England, in order to attend a rare-book workshop at Senate House Library and consider treasures at the British Library. During four ensuing weeks at Oxford, participants will reside at St. Edmund Hall as they draw on the rare book and manuscript holdings of the Bodleian Library and other institutions.
Those eligible to apply include citizens of USA who are engaged in teaching at the college or university level, graduate students, and independent scholars who have received the terminal degree in their field (usually the Ph.D.). In addition, non-US citizens who have taught and lived in the USA for at least three years prior to March 2012 are eligible to apply. NEH will provide participants with a stipend of $3,900.
Full details and application information are available at http://www.jmu.edu/english/Tudor_Books_and_Readers. For further information, please contact Mark Rankin (rankinmc@jmu.edu). The application deadline is March 1, 2012.
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June 30 2012
CFP—Edited Collection—Rereading Mary Wroth
Editors: Naomi Miller, Katherine Larson, Andrew Strycharski
Deadlines:
Abstracts of 400 – 500 words and a brief cv by June 30, 2012.
Final Essays of 5,000 – 6,000 words will be due in January, 2013
2010 marked the twentieth anniversary of Reading Mary Wroth, edited by Naomi Miller and Gary Waller, a collection that helped to propel interest in one of the first “canonized” women writers of the English Renaissance. As we move into the second decade of the twenty-first century, new work on Wroth is appearing that will transform our experiences of reading her—innovative editions, unique scholarly investigations, and creative writing inspired by her life. This volume sets out to chart opportunities for scholars and students to re-read Wroth now that the necessity of reading her has been established. It takes seriously, moreover, the many different practices that emerge around the term “reading”—editing, performance, revision, scholarly and creative writing, as well as manual, mechanical and digital reproduction.
Because this volume charts new directions for the opening “second wave” of interest in Wroth's canonical texts, we are especially enthusiastic about contributions that exemplify how re-reading Wroth can engage, extend, and transform the increasingly dynamic reading experiences of humanities scholars and students. We aim for work that is both rigorous and accessible. Essays might address objects, affects, archives, or performances; they might rethink gender and sexuality or generate new understandings of print, manuscript, and the digital; they might open vantages on questions of form; or they might strike out in very different directions. We would also welcome contributions to the sections on “Re-editing Wroth” or “Re-imagining Wroth,” which visits the conjunction of biography and creative writing.
We request abstracts of 400 – 500 words and a brief cv by June 30, 2012. Final Essays of 5,000 – 6,000 words will be due in January, 2013. Please submit these materials to Andrew Strycharsk i (strychar@fiu.edu). Questions or queries are welcome. For these, please contact any of the volume co-editors: Naomi Miller (njmiller@smith.edu), Katherine Larson (katie.larson@utoronto.ca) or Andrew Strycharski.
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January 3-6, 2013
January 3-6, 2013
“Robin Hood and the Canon”, MLA Boston
What is the place and status of the Robin Hood texts and tradition in the canon? The Robin Hood literary texts are decidedly varied in terms of genre and form (historical writings, ballads, broadsides, dramas, novellas, and novels, for example), and the tradition stretches from the medieval period to the present. While such canonical writers as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Keats, and Sir Walter Scott, among others, have written about the outlaw, Robin Hood’s presence within the canon is, for many, questionable. While Arthur and the Matter of Britain are fixtures within the canon (and like Robin Hood associated with aspects of popular culture), Robin Hood and the Matter of the Greenwood are in many ways still outside of literary and cultural officialdom – why?
This panel seeks papers that examine the reasons behind the status of the Robin Hood tradition in the canon. Papers that address the interdisciplinary nature of the tradition as it relates to canonicity are encouraged.
Please send 300-word abstracts to Alexander L. Kaufman (akaufman@aum.edu) by March 15, 2012.
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April 4-6 2013
The International Sidney Society invites
abstracts for RSA 2013 (4-6 April in San Diego) on the following topics:
April 4-6 2013
Religious Writing in the Sidney Circle
Political Writing in the SIdney Circle
Patronage in the Sidney Circle
Open session on the Sidneys
Please send abstracts to me by 1 May
2012 for distribution to the Sidney Program Committee.
Email attachments in Microsoft Word are
preferred.
Margaret Hannay, Secretary
International Sidney Society
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SHAKESPEARE AND MYTH
Montpellier (France)
Wednesday 26 - Saturday 29 June 2013
Deadline: 15 March 2012
Organised by the Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l’âge Classique et les Lumières
(UMR 5186 CNRS, University of Montpellier)
Under the auspices of the Société Française Shakespeare and the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA)
Conference announcement and call for seminar proposals
Conference announcement:
Shakespeare and Myth
A shaper of European identity, Greco-Roman mythology has been invoked down the centuries both to glorify and undermine rulers, to uphold or subvert political or social order, and to probe and question issues including those of gender, religion and history. Simultaneously, Europe has been the cradle of classical mythology, which has infused all modes of artistic creation and inspired influential theoretical and critical approaches well beyond the continent’s borders, in the fields of history, literature, psychology and anthropology. In this process, the legacy of Antiquity encountered other European myths (Nordic, Celtic, etc.). Over the past fifty years or so, Europe has increasingly acted as an area of exchanges between its own mythologies, ideas and representations and those of other continents. Today, the continent’s heritage is challenged, refashioned and reconsidered in the light of other cultural forms that reflect an increasing diversity, out of which a new European melting-pot of myths may be emerging that interacts with other cultures in an increasingly globalized world.
Within this process, Shakespeare enjoys a privileged position. Like myth, and through classical and other myths, his work “To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe”, is “not of an age, but for all time” and, indeed, places, and has contributed to the building of a continental identity, providing tools to apprehend and comprehend, endorse and critique European history and culture. However, this European Shakespeare is to be taken not as confined to a Eurocentric vision but rather as pushing back boundaries, challenging assumptions and inviting a criss-crossing of perspectives worldwide. Reception and appropriation of his work has also involved its processing through non-European mythological and cultural prisms, drawing attention to, and inviting research into, a plasticity that is akin to the flexibility of myth.
Following upon the exploration of Europe’s cultural landscapes and seascapes through Shakespeare’s works at previous conferences of the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA), the Montpellier conference proposes a journey into Shakespeare’s kaleidoscopic “Mythscape”.
This journey can take three main directions:
- Myth in Shakespeare: classical mythology pervades the work of Shakespeare and his European contemporaries, like a kind of lingua franca or culturally bonding material; other mythological influences are also present in his work, or may be processed into it through stagings, adaptations or other forms of recreation.
- Shakespeare as Myth-Maker: Shakespeare has contributed to raise to the status of myth Mediterranean and (other) European locations (including Bohemia, Cyprus, Elsinore, Navarre, Roussillon, Verona, Vienna, as well as Stratford-upon-Avon) and figures (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Desdemona) that have found a place in the collective imagination, alongside classical and legendary places and characters.
- Shakespeare as Myth: the paradox of his own elusive biography and the universality of his works have contributed to a process whereby Shakespeare himself is at the centre of a myth – his own, and that of all those who claim him as their own, through translation and other forms of appropriation.
Within these three directions, which are neither watertight nor mutually exclusive, the conference invites papers on a wide range of topics that include:
Theatre
- (Re)presenting myth(s) on Shakespearean stages and screens
- Shakespeare’s mythology as a common ground for, or an obstacle to, understanding and exchange
- The (ir)relevance of Shakespeare’s mythological references on the contemporary and global stage and screen.
- Processing Shakespearean performances and performers into “myths”
Translation
- Shakespeare’s place in the transfer and circulation of classical mythology between Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance Europe
- Shakespeare as “translator” of Ovid, Virgil and other classical authors for his time
- The impact of translation on Shakespeare’s mythological subtext
- Shakespeare’s “translating” of the politics of Olympus and Rome into a critique of the Elizabethan and Jacobean context
- “Mythical” translations and/or translators of Shakespeare
Criticism
- Shakespeare’s place in the transfer and circulation of classical mythology between Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance Europe
- Mythography as a key to Shakespeare
- Iconography in relation to myth, Shakespeare and the visual arts
- The relevance of classicist scholarship to Shakespeare studies (Claude Calame, Marcel Détienne, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Charles Martindale)
- Addressing 20th century critical approaches on the relation of Shakespeare and myth (Georges Dumézil, Mircéa Eliade, Claude Lévi-Strauss)
- Shakespeare’s mythical figures in interdisciplinary studies
Afterlives
- The “mythologizing” of Shakespeare’s world (characters, places, Stratford-upon-Avon)
- Representing and receiving the Shakespeare icon in contemporary cultures
- (Re)fashioning, perpetuating and/or subverting the Shakespearean myth through film, TV and the Internet
- Shakespeare’s myths as an enduring form of (re)creation
- Working on and with Shakespeare’s myths in the classroom
Call for seminar proposals ESRA 2013
From 26 June to 29 June 2013, the IRCL, under the Auspices of the Société Française Shakespeare, will organise the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA) Conference around the theme of “Shakespeare and Myth”
Members of ESRA are invited to propose a seminar that they would like to convene on “Shakespeare and Myth”.
Proposals of 300-500 words (stating topic, relevance, and approach) should be submitted by 2 or 3 potential convenors who agree to work together.
If you have ideas for a seminar, please submit your proposals to:
- Clara Calvo, ESRA conference liaison officer: ccalvo@um.es
- and to the IRCL organizing committee (Jean-Christophe Mayer, Janice Valls-Russell, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin) : esraircl@univ-montp3.fr
by 15 March 2012
The board of ESRA will make its final choice of seminars in April 2011. By this time, all the convenors will be personally informed of the choices made, and the list of seminars will be made available on the IRCL, the ESRA and the Société Française Shakespeare websites.
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