CFP: PNRC; 21 to 23 Oct. 2010; Victoria, BC | cfp.english.upenn.edu

The 53rd annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society will be held in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada from 21 to 23 October 2010. The theme for this year’s conference is “Renaissance Reading, Writing, Performance, and Printing.”

Scheduled keynote speakers include Randall McLeod University of Toronto and Marta Straznicky Queen’s University.The conference organizers invite proposals for individual papers, panels, and special sessions. For an individual paper, please send a one-page proposal and one-page c.v. to pnrc2010@gmail.com no later than 15 February 2010. To propose a panel, please send an abstract for each paper, a one-page c.v. for each presenter, and a paragraph from the panel organizer describing the overall focus of the session to pnrc2010@gmail.com no later than 15 February 2010. To propose a special session, such as a roundtable discussion or digital humanities project demonstration, please send a message outlining your ideas to pnrc2010@gmail.com no later than 31 January 2010.

Receipt of proposals will be acknowledged by e-mail. Acceptance notices accompanied by a preliminary conference schedule will be distributed no later than April 2010. Please note that papers addressing any aspect of renaissance culture from a scholar working in any relevant academic discipline will be considered. Submissions by junior scholars and graduate students are welcome.For more conference information or to have individual questions answered, please contact Erin E. Kelly Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Victoria at ekelly@uvic.ca.For information about the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society or its annual conferences, please see the organization website at http://www.pnrs.org/.

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Digital Archives & the Field of Production 12/31/09 | cfp.english.upenn.edu

Digital Archives & the Field of ProductionAPPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culturehttp://appositions.blogspot.com/

Call for Papers: APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture seeks new work addressing the theme of digital archives. How and why does electronic access to archival materials reconfigure the teaching and study of literary texts, related cultural documents, and methodologies for disciplinary or interdisciplinary research and interpretation? What are the benefits and/or limitations of such new media? What are the politics of the digital archive, or of electronic special collections? What is the significance of the original work—or of authorship, or scholarship—in the electronic age? How and why does the digitization of archival documents either celebrate or challenge the status of manuscripts, pamphlets, printed books, and the literary canon? Within that capacious scope, a variety of topics will be engaged.

APPOSITIONS is an electronic, international, annual conference for studies in Renaissance & early modern literature and culture hosted by APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture, ISSN: 1946-1992, http://appositions.blogspot.com/.Abstracts 500-words: November-December, 2009.E-Conference: February-March, 2010.

Guidelines: APPOSITIONS seeks submissions simultaneously on both tracks: abstracts & papers for the e-conference; and article manuscripts for Volume Three of the peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed, EBSCO-distributed journal. Selected papers from the e-conference will be solicited as completed articles for submission and peer-review. Article manuscripts may be submitted separately from the e-conference and will be evaluated via the journal’s standard peer-review process.

APPOSITIONS is an open-access, independently managed conference and journal. Journal publication: May, 2010.Electronic Submissions: Send submissions to showard@du.edu attached as a single .doc, .rtf, or .txt file. Visuals should be attached individually as .jpg, .gif, or .bmp files. Please include the words “Appositions Submission” in the subject line of your message.

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Aemilia Lanyer, 17th-C English Woman Poet

Aemilia Lanyer, 17th-C English Woman Poet.

Spaces of Consumption and Disposable Culture: A Material Dialogue in Medieval Europe c.1100-1500 | cfp.english.upenn.edu

Rebecca Flynn and Salvatore Musumeci are seeking further proposals for a collection of essays entitled Spaces of Consumption and Disposable Culture: A Material Dialogue in Medieval Europe c.1100-1500.

This volume seeks to thematically explore the social and cultural implications of how private or public acts of consumption during the medieval period defined relationships between people and the spaces they inhabited. Proposals concerning the consumption of material goods and how such acts relate to gender, power, and culture will be of particular interest. By exploring the complexity of material consumption in the medieval period, the authors seek to advance the recent movement of material and consumption studies from the margins of social history to a fertile cross-section of the humanities and social sciences.

We seek submissions pertaining to consumption and/or material exchange in relation to the following areas:

–Religious Experience, Devotion and Practice: Sacred Spaces, Sacred and Profane Consumption, and Holy Relics

—Forging Bonds and Making Connections: The Politics of Circulating Material Goods in Secular Spaces

—Cultural Crossroads: Consumption, Trade and Circulation between East and West

We invite submissions from various disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and comparative perspectives. If you are interested in contributing to this volume, please send your C.V. and a 250-500 word abstract of your proposed essay including your theoretical framework and your primary sources to Rebecca.Flynn@usd.edu and Salvatore.Musumeci@usiouxfalls.edu by February 1, 2010.

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Spectrum calling for submissions DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 12, 2010 | cfp.english.upenn.edu

SPECTRUM is an annual journal of art and literature published by UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies. Founded in 1957, it is the longest-standing literary magazine in the UC system. We accept art, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction works from everyone, regardless of age or school affiliation. Art can be either black and white or in color. Any form of poetry and any genre of fiction is allowed; non-fiction works can range from interviews, personal essays, and creative or scholarly essays. We do not follow themes and no subject will be censored.http://www.ccs.ucsb.edu/spectrum/submissions.html

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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/

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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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