CFP: Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society
The next conference of the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society will be held from October 18th to 21st, 2012 in Abbotsford, British Columbia.
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CFP: Sensualising Deformity: Communication and Construction of Monstrous Embodiment Last Call | cfp.english.upenn.edu
Deformity is traditionally sanitised and fitted into a structure of normality. The academy tends to obscure the complexity of the sensuous/sensual/sensed body of the deformed subject, and of the questions, anxieties, and denials which surround deformity when it is located within a continuum of sense.
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CFP: English Renaissance Literature Excluding Drama-Open Topic SCMLA 3/30/12; 11/8-10/12 | cfp.english.upenn.edu
We are currently accepting submissions for the Renaissance Excluding Drama Panel of the South Central Modern Language Association conference, November 8th-10th in San Antonio, TX.
The topic is open, but we encourage paper proposals to engage meaningfully with some aspect of the conference theme, “Death, Eros, and the Literary Enterprise.” Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words to Jessica C. Murphy (jessica.c.murphy@gmail.com) by March 30, 2012.
For more information on the SCMLA and the conference location, visit http://www.southcentralmla.org/
Early Modern Studies Journal EMSJ formally Early English Studies EES
The 2012 volume will focus on “Shakespeare and Performance.” We are interested in articles that consider any aspect of performance in historical or contemporary productions of Shakespeare and his contemporary playwrights. The following list is of possible topics, but should not be considered exhaustive:
Comparative performance in England
Comparative performances in England and other countries
Street performance
Provincial performance
Performance of Guilds
Women and performance
Boy’s companies
Current productions of early modern plays
Shakespeare Festivals
Playing spaces
Actors and the text
Theatrical Gesture
Court Performances and Masques
Film or TV productions of Shakespeare
Please submit double-spaced manuscripts in Times New Roman, 12 pt font that do not exceed thirty pages in length, including notes (9,000 words total); electronic submission in Word format is required. Please use endnotes rather than a bibliography, formatting to Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Ed. The author’s name, affiliation, and academic history should be included on the first page of the document. Thereafter, the author’s name should not appear in the document. For more information about submissions or about the journal generally please see: http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/
Submissions are due January 31, 2012.
Please send submissions to Amy Tigner, earlyenglishstudies@gmail.com or altigner@gmail.com. The issue will appear in Fall 2012.
Early Modern Studies Journal (EMSJ) formerly Early English Studies (EES) 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 early modern period. EMSJ is published annually, peer-reviewed, and open to general submission.
via Shakespeare and Performance [Update: January 31, 2012] | cfp.english.upenn.edu.
This special session for the 2012 PAMLA Conference seeks papers that address constructions, representations, and interpretations of dreams and dreamlike states. What extent do we have control over our dreams? What is the purpose of dreaming, if such purpose exists? What of other, dream-like altered states of consciousness?
This session welcomes papers from across the disciplines. Please use the PAMLA 2012 site to submit a proposal before Saturday, March 31, 2012.
Fun Facts about Everything Early Modern Women from WP: 2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,600 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Women and Media: Representations Past and Present
An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference
9th-10th March 2012
Queen’s University Belfast
This two-day interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine the multi-faceted nature of women’s relationship with the media. Encompassing the press, art, advertising and literature alongside a progressive shift towards more modern
forms such as social networking and blogging, this conference will look at the media’s categorization and censorship of women through culture and the law, issues of prostitution, abortion, illegitimacy, rape and asylums as well as challenges to heteronormativity.
We seek to discuss the marginal experiences of women and highlight the silences in the news cycle, while acknowledging the ways in which women have sought redress for this
silence, clawing back a female space in the column inches.
We welcome (20 minute) papers that address,
but are not limited to, the following themes:
•Celebrity culture and the journalist’s cult of
personality
•Media treatment of rape and abortion
•Historical aspects of newspaper reporting
•Censorship, victimisation and exploitation
•Social networking and feminism in media
•Representations of female criminality
•Political control of the media
•Silence and absent voices
•Spectacle and hysteria
Proposals (max. 250 words) are invited from postgraduate students and early career researchers, and should be submitted by 10th February 2012 to the conference organisers at womenandmedia2012@gmail.com
For more information, please visit our website:http://womenandmedia2012.wordpress.com/
via Women and Media: Representations Past and Present | cfp.english.upenn.edu.
CFP [UPDATE] Literature, Science and Medicine in the Medieval and Early Modern English Periods | cfp.english.upenn.edu
The 2012 SAMEMES International Conference, ‘Literature, Science and Medicine in the Medieval and Early Modern English Periods’, will take place in Lausanne, 27 – 29 June 2012.
We are pleased to announce the participation of seven eminent, guest speakers : Vincent Barras (University of Lausanne), Margaret Healy (University of Sussex), Tony Hunt (University of Oxford), Eric Masserey (Lausanne), Carole Rawcliffe (University of East Anglia), Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University) and Heirinch von Staden (Princeton University). For more information about these keynote speakers, whose varied research interests reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, please consult the website at:www.unil.ch/samemes12.
Please do take note of the date of the conference, 27 – 29 June 2012, as this was incorrectly advertised in an earlier announcement.
The extended deadline for submission of proposals is 15 December 2011.
We invite you to submit a proposal of not more than 300 words, including your name, title and institutional affiliation (where relevant) and a brief biography (max. 100 words). Proposals for full panels are very welcome. These should include three proposed speakers, including, or in addition to, a chair and/or a respondent. Individual papers will be grouped with two others, and each paper should last no more than 20 minutes. A session of three papers will last 1.5 hours, and will include time for discussion and debate.
A selection of papers from the conference will be published in SPELL (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature). For more information on SAMEMES and how to become a member, please consult the SAMEMES website at: http://www.samemes.org
Conference organisers:
Professors Rachel Falconer and Denis Renevey (English Department, University of Lausanne)
Rachel Falconer
Professeur ordinaire
Modern English Literature
Rachel.Falconer@unil.ch
Denis Renevey
Professeur ordinaire
Medieval Literature
Denis.Renevey@unil.ch
CFP UPDATE “Age Studies and Drama” | cfp.english.upenn.edu
Abstracts are invited for a panel exploring drama of any nationality or period from an age-studies perspective. Sponsored by the academic journal Comparative Drama, this panel will be held at the 36th Comparative Drama Conference, hosted by Stevenson University in Baltimore, MD, March 29-31, 2012.
Papers may focus on questions of childhood, middle age, old age, the aging process, or the life course, among other aging-related concepts. While papers may focus on the representation of aging in drama—on the page and onstage—they may also address issues of aging and artistic production e.g., a playwright’s “late style,” the way that aging has determined a performer’s career, etc.
Papers should be 15 minutes in length and accessible to a multi-disciplinary audience. Scholars are invited to email a 250-word abstract to Dr. Anthony Ellis at comparative-drama@wmich.edu by 28 November 2011. Please note: the journal Comparative Drama is a separate entity from the Comparative Drama Conference. Please include paper title, author’s name, status faculty, graduate student, other/scholar-at-large, institutional affiliation, and postal address at top left. Also include any technical requirements for your presentation. Those whose abstracts are accepted for presentation are expected to attend the conference. Abstracts will be printed in the conference program.
“Using Medieval and Early Modern Digital Archives” at Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium, UNT, 11/10/11
On Thursday, I will be giving a talk at the University of North Texas that surveys a few digital archives for those who study and teach medieval and early modern subjects. Here is the list of the archives I will be touching on in that talk (by no means comprehensive I am sure):
Medieval and Early Modern Digital Archives
Broadside Ballads
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads. http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/.
English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA). http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/.
Early Modern Drama
Records of Early English Drama (REED). http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/index.html.
Early Modern London Theatres (EMLoT). http://www.emlot.kcl.ac.uk/.
The Shakespeare Quartos Archive (SQA). http://www.quartos.org/index.html.
Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE). http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/
Literature and Women
Brown University Women Writers Project (WWO/WWP).* http://www.wwp.brown.edu/.
Poetess Archive. http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~poetess/
Materials in Print
Early English Books Online (EEBO).* http://eebo.chadwyck.com.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).* http://gdc.gale.com/products/eighteenth-century-collections-online/.
Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
Digital Scriptorium. http://www.digital-scriptorium.org/
Scriptorium. http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk/.
Maps at the Folger Library http://t.co/NgGwPKj
Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin: http://research.hrc.utexas.edu/pubmnem/index.cfm
Medieval Studies
Medieval Sourcebook. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index. http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/feminae/
Witchcraft
Cornell Univ. Library Witchcraft Collection. http://digital.library.cornell.edu/w/witch/.
Witches in Early Modern England (WEME). http://witching.org/.
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft. http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/Research/witches/index.html.
*These archives are available by subscription only.
