Attending to Early Modern Women 7–Conflict and Concord

I just returned from another wonderful Attending to Early Modern Women conference. These happen only once every three years, but the event is always worth the wait. For those of you who have not yet had a chance to attend, I highly recommend keeping an eye out for the call for the 2012 one (the cfp comes out very early for these).

ATW is one of the few places a person who works on gender in early modern studies can really feel at home and surrounded by like-minded scholars. It is also a good place to connect with people you might not otherwise have a chance to meet.

See The Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at The University of Maryland for info about some of their other activities.

 

Genre Dynamics: Exchange and Transformation–A Seminar/Panel at ACLA 2010 New Orleans April 1-4, subm. deadline, Nov. 13, 2009 | cfp.english.upenn.edu

As conceptual categories that both derive from and frame our understanding of particular works, genres are determined largely by what Ludwig Wittgenstein calls “family resemblances” rather than by particular qualities that all works in a given genre necessarily share. While ambiguities at the periphery of genres produce hybrid forms like the prose poem or collage, even works at the center of a genre are shaped by disputes at its edges. For example, one could argue that the growing popularity of the novel as a chief means of narrative expression at the end of the eighteenth century urged poets to re-conceive the fundamental features of their art, thereby shaping the conventions of Romantic poetry. Other examples include photography’s influence on the development of Impressionist painting and the effects that adaptations of a given work into other media might have on one’s understanding of the work in its original form. In this seminar, we propose to gather a diverse set of papers for a discussion of questions regarding the formation and maintenance of genres and other conceptual categories. How does an artist’s differential awareness of genre characteristics serve to blur such distinctions in cross-genre hybrids? How are the essential features of a genre defined for a particular moment in cultural history? How do genre boundaries relate to the formation and maintenance of other conceptual categories like those determining personal and national identities? We welcome proposals for papers that adopt an interdisciplinary approach or that address genre distinctions within a single discipline.Please send us any questions/comments, but proposals must be submitted through the ACLA website to be considered: http://www.acla.org/acla2010/

via Genre Dynamics: Exchange and Transformation–A Seminar/Panel at ACLA 2010 New Orleans April 1-4, subm. deadline, Nov. 13, 2009 | cfp.english.upenn.edu.

Gossip, gospel, and governance: orality in Europe 1400-1700 | cfp.english.upenn.edu

The aim of the conference is to explore the spoken word and its power in a broad range of various contexts:

Street life orality in any European urban context 1400-1700; Reading aloud using the lectern for dissemination of written text in convents and monasteries, public proclamation of misdemeanour and laws, 1400-1700;Teaching and learning in University schools 1400-1700; Declamation and discourse in Parliament; Incantation and magic; Performance theatre, court poetry, poetry competitions;Preaching history of the preaching orders, biographies of preachers; Parley and discourse of war; Women’s speechDrawing on interdisciplinary approaches including literature, art history, musicology and the history of language, the conference will bring together scholars from an international field, working in different languages and cultures. The language of the conference will, however, be English.

Proposals for papers, accompanied by abstracts of no more than 200 words in both the original language and in English, should reach the organizers by January 4 2010. We are planning to request financial support for speakers, although this cannot be guaranteed at this stage.For further information, contact Dr Alex Cowan a.cowan@northumbria.ac.uk and Dr Lesley Twomey lesley.twomey@northumbria.ac.uk

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Turning Points and Transformations Deadline Extended | cfp.english.upenn.edu

http://english.louisiana.edu/laconference/Home/index.php

The Louisiana Conference invites papers and creative work on the effects of transformative moments and experiences—textual, cultural and academic. Topics might include but are not limited to: effects of historical and political crises on literature and culture; revolutions; linguistic transformations; bodily transformations; religious conversions; personal turningpoints in autobiographies, literary characters, academic careers, etc.; genre transformations; texts into film; dissertation into book; academic turning points.

Guidelines for Submission: 350-500 word proposals for 20 min papers should be submitted via email as attachment in rich text .rtf format by our extended deadline of November 14, 2009 to langlit2010@louisiana.edu. Do not include name on abstract. Include name, affiliation, email address, phone number, and title of paper, as well as a brief biographical statement in the body of the email. Indicate possible A/V needs. Panel proposals three presenters should explain in 500 words the panel topic and include a 500 word abstract and biographical statement for each presenter. Creative submissions should include a short, descriptive abstract as well as a sample of the work to be considered. Please specify “Creative Submission” in your proposal.

Darrell Bourque Award

The Louisiana Conference on Language, Literature, and Culture is organized to meet the needs of advanced graduate students and junior faculty, but welcomes contributions from academics at all levels.

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[REMINDER] Women and the Gendering of Talk, Gossip, & Communication Practices Across Media | cfp.english.upenn.edu

Deadline for Abstract 500 word maximum: November 15th, 2009Please send abstract and a brief biographical statement to Sarah Burcon & Melissa Ames at: sburcon@gmail.com and mames@eiu.edu. The subject line should read: Submission for Women and the Gendering of Communication.

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Cultures of Differences: National / Indigenous / Historical, May 24 to 30, 2010 | cfp.english.upenn.edu

The International Association for Philosophy and Literature will be hosted from May 24 to 30, 2010 by the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. The conference theme is “Cultures of Differences: National / Indigenous / Historical”. The final deadline for applications is approaching November 7, but inquiries may be directed to Dr Hugh Silverman at execdir@iapl.info or Dr Lynn Wells at wellsl@uregina.ca We welcome proposals for individual papers and for organized sessions.

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CFP: Mood and Gender WiG 2010 03/15/10 | cfp.english.upenn.edu

Mood and Gender: Pre-Twentieth-Century Panel of the Coalition of Women in German Annual Conference in Augusta, MI October 21-24, 2010This panel will explore the interrelationships between concepts, representations, and modulations of mood and gender. Moods are generally understood as enduring affects like melancholy and sadness, boredom, happiness or anger that do not appear to have a clearly identifiable source and that can combine a variety of sensations and feelings, making them often difficult to describe. As recent scholarship demonstrates cf. Elisabeth Goodstein, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Thomas Pfau, Juliana Schiesari, and Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, definitions and evaluations of moods have changed radically over time, from the ancient four humors theory, to late 19th century psychology, psychiatry, and early psychoanalysis: Hildegard von Bingen’s descriptions of “sanguine,” “phlegmatic,” “choleric,” and “melancholic” women transgressed and challenged gender boundaries; in the romantic period, melancholy was considered a characteristic of the male genius; as the nineteenth century progressed, the same mood became increasingly associated with femininity as an illness hindering creativity.

This panel invites papers that explore the interrelationships between mood and gender in changing historical, cultural, intellectual, and social contexts from the Middle Ages to the end of the nineteenth century.

Possible areas of investigation include: literary and cultural representations and modulations of mood and gender mood and gender in medicine, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy the moods of genre and gender i.e. the relationships between poetry, melancholy, and the male genius

Please submit a 300-500-word proposal electronically by March 15, 2010 to both organizers:Lisabeth Hock, Wayne State University lhock@wayne.edu andMay Mergenthaler, Ohio State University mergenthaler.4@osu.edu

Selected panelists must become members of Women and German by May 15, 2010.

via CFP: Mood and Gender WiG 2010 03/15/10 | cfp.english.upenn.edu.

ArchivePress

ArchivePress is a blog-archiving project being undertaken by the University of London Computer Centre and the British Library Digital Preservation department, funded by the JISC Information Environment Programme under its Rapid Innovation Grants Call 03/09.The project will explore practical issues around the archiving of weblog content, focusing on blogs as records of institutional activity and corporate memory. As an alternative to the web crawling/harvesting approach of the Internet Archive and the UK Web Archive, ArchivePress will test the viability of using RSS feeds and blog APIs to harvest blog content including comments, embedded content and metadata. The archived content will be stored and managed using instances of WordPress, thereby maintaining the blogs’ native data structures, formats and relationships.We hope to develop tools and methodology that will enable organisations to use simple, free, open source blogging software to manage a central archive of designated institutional blog outputs, even if they are spread over different blog hosts and platforms.

The benefits of this approach will include: targeted gathering of selected weblogs improved reliability and authenticity of records citable blog content with persistent identifiers automated, ongoing harvesting, via newfeeds accessibility of content, using native blog interfaces use of native web and database file formats, compatible with registry-based preservation activities.

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Collection of Critical Essays on MACBETH | cfp.english.upenn.edu

ROMAN Books, a leading publisher of literature and literary criticism, is planning to publish a collection of critical essays on William Shakespeare’s MACBETH. We are presently seeking articles on any topic related to MACBETH for possible publication in this critical anthology. The collection will be edited by Suman Chakraborty.

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1. The article should be electronically typed and printed on one side of an A4 sized paper with 1.5 line spacing, 12 pt Palatino Linotype font and a minimum of 1” margin on each side.

2. The article MUST strictly follow the house style of ROMAN Books which can be downloaded from http://www.romanbooks.co.in/housestyle.pdf.

3. The author MUST follow the Arden edition of the text of MACBETH, edited by Kenneth Muir, for textual referencing.

4. The maximum word limit permissible for each article is 3000. Longer articles or articles with less than 1500 words may also be accepted with prior arrangements with the editor.

5. The article MUST be directly related to MACBETH. The author may, if necessary, include discussions on any other related texts written by Shakespeare. But the predominant discussion MUST be linked to Macbeth.

6. Previously published articles are welcome if the contributor owns the copyright of the article. Please mention in your covering e-mail where the article was first published.

7. Please use endnotes and NOT footnotes.

8. Please use UK English spellings.

9. Please send your articles as an MS Word attachment with a covering e-mail to the editor suman.chakraborty@yahoo.co.uk.

10. In your covering e-mail please mention clearly your name, contact details and your institutional affiliation if any.

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31st January 2010. Early submission appreciated.

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[UPDATE] Open Call for Papers / Teaching Medieval and Renaissance Literature | cfp.english.upenn.edu

This Rough Magic – A Peer Reviewed, Academic, Online Journal Dedicated to the Teaching of 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 enhancing pedagogical approaches in 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 MagicState University of New York at Stony Brook Department of English, Humanities 2088 Nicolls Road Stony Brook, New York 11790-5350USA

Electronic Format .doc or .pdf:Bente.Videbaek@Stonybrook.edu;boechem@sunysuffolk.eduThe submission deadlines are open.

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