A conference on early modern French and English literature
Glendon College, York University (Toronto, Canada) and the University of Richmond (Virginia, USA) announce the first joint conference on Early
Modern French and English Literature to be held at Glendon College (York University) on Saturday, October 4th, 2008.
The conference topic will be:
Imagining a Common Past in Early Modern England and France.
The histories, languages, literatures, and cultures of England and France have been inextricably linked since the Norman Conquest in 1066, and
never more so than in the period between the Hundred Years War and the end of the seventeenth century – a time that also sees the birth of
England and France as nation-states and global empires. This conference invites scholarship in both English and French from a broad range of
disciplines (e.g. literature, linguistics, history, historiography, comparative literature, cultural studies, art history, etc.) that focuses
primarily on the early modern English and French imagination of the medieval period: the nature of their memory of a shared past, and the
multiple “uses” of it in early modern public discourse and culture. Also welcome are papers exploring aspects of the medieval period which later
become the subject of early modern memory.
Keynote Address:
Prof. Mary Catherine Davidson, Glendon College, York University.
Single papers as well as complete panels are welcome. Please send proposals for panels and papers as Word attachments in English or French
to conference organizers:
Igor Djordjevic
Department of English
Glendon College
York University
idjordjevic_at_glendon.yorku.ca
Lidia Radi
Director of Italian Studies
Department of Modern Literatures and Cultures
University of Richmond
lradi_at_richmond.edu
Proposals for panels should include an abstract of 250-300 words for each paper, a one-page CV for each presenter and, if a chair is suggested, the
following info: name, affiliation, and email address.
Deadline for proposals:
February 29th, 2008
CFP: Anglo-French Imagining (2/29/08; 10/4/08)
CFP: EARLY MODERN WOMEN: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL
EARLY MODERN WOMEN: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL
Call for Submissions
Essays on Women and Gender from 1400-1700
EARLY MODERN WOMEN: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL is now accepting submissions for Volume 3. We will accept submissions of essays related to women and gender covering the years 1400 to 1700. We especially encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary boundaries. Essays may consider art history, cultural studies, history, history of philosophy, history of science, literature, music, politics, religion, theater, and any global region. Newer and interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome.
FORMAT: Five paper copies and one electronic copy of each manuscript should be sent to
Editors
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies
0139 Taliaferro Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7727
USA
All manuscripts must be printed double-spaced (including documentation) on one side of letter-size paper, and should not exceed 35 pages (8750 words) including notes. Documentation should appear as endnotes, and MUST follow Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (2003), chs. 16 and 17 (NOT author-date style). All manuscripts are subject to editorial modification with authorial approval.
Editors will accept submissions on a continuous basis. Queries and electronic copies may be addressed to emwjournal_at_umd.edu. More information about Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal is available at www.emwjournal.umd.edu.
CFP: Diplomats, Agents, Intelligencers and Spies, 1500-1700 (4/30/08; 9/17-19/08)
The Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (University of Kent) and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (QMUL) are pleased to co-sponsor a 3-day conference to be held at the University of Kent on 17-19th September 2008. We invite speakers from across the disciplines to consider early modern agency and the transfer of knowledge between states, agents, travellers and spies in the period 1500-1700. Whilst recent scholarship in this area has focussed on early modern interactions and questions of
policy, polity and politics, the negotiations and encounters of intelligencers, diplomats and spies remain relatively unexplored. Considering the relationship between agents and information we seek to address some of the following questions: how did intelligencers retrieve, transmit, and present information? What was the value of this information
and how was it received? How were networks of influence constructed and maintained?
We welcome proposals for papers of 20 minutes. Speakers are invited to consider, but are not confined to, the following areas of interest:
* Spies, Intelligence and Information-gathering
* Diplomacy and Embassy
* Protocol and Spectacle
* Travel, navigation and the transmission of information
* Intelligence materials, e.g. letters/maps/objects
* Patronage and Agency
* Networks of influence
Confirmed speakers include:
William Sherman, Alan Stewart, Jerry Brotton, Peter Barber, Gerald MacLean,
Hugh Adlington, Chloe Houston, Nadine Akkerman.
For more information, visit:
http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/events/2008/09/17/diplomats-agents-adventurers-and-spies-1500-1700-conference
Please send proposals of 300-500 words to Dr Robyn Adams (Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London):
r.adams_at_qmul.ac.uk and Dr Rosanna Cox (School of English, University of Kent): R.Cox_at_kent.ac.uk
Reconsidering Early Modern Women’s Chastity, Silence, and Obedience–2 panels of interest at the Northeast MLA
Here are two panels you should come to if you are at the Northeast MLA April 10-13 in Buffalo. They are both on Saturday, April 12th.
Saturday 8:30-10 AM
Reconsidering Early Modern Women’s Chastity, Silence, and Obedience
Chair: Jessica C. Murphy, University of California-Santa Barbara
- “Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in The Tragedy of Mariam“
Cristina León Alfar, Hunter College
- “‘Her Head is Cut Off’: Middleton’s Widows and their Division from Virtue”
Nathaniel Leonard, University of Massachusetts
- “Advice to the Ladies of London: Broadside Ballads and Feminine Virtue”
Jessica C. Murphy, University of California-Santa Barbara
Saturday 3:15-4:45
Reconsidering Early Modern Women’s Chastity, Silence, and Obedience II
Chair: Elisa Oh, Boston University
- “Shakespeare’s Aural Insurgents”
Keith M. Botelho, Kennesaw State University
- “‘My Heart Was Puffed Up With Pride’: Spectacle, Silence, and Authority in The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont“
Andrea Fabrizio, CUNY Graduate Center
- “Embodied Ideals in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama”
Jennifer Forsyth, Kutztown University
- “In/authentic Femininity: Viola and Epicoene’s Intentional Silences”
Elisa Oh, Boston University
Unfortunately, the following presenter is unable to attend:
- “Venus’ Nuns: Hero, Helen and the Psychology of Renaissance Chastity”
Paul Gleed, SUNY Binghamton
Note about Maryland Conference
There is a grad conference at the University of Maryland in May for which a CFP was posted January 13th, but the deadline for submissions was yesterday (January 15th), so I am not posting it here. However, their topic is “Mutability,” so you might want to find out more about the conference: Contact gradconf.umd_at_gmail.com with questions or requests for additional
information.
CFP: ESSE 9 conference – Aarhus, Denmark: Shakespeare and Discourse Stylistics (3/21/08; 8/22-26/08)
ESSE 9 conference – Aarhus, Denmark, 22-26 August 2008
Seminar 20: Shakespeare and Discourse Stylistics
The next ESSE conference will be held at the University of Aarhus Denmark from 22 to 26 August 2008. We invite papers for seminar 20 on ‘Shakespeare and Discourse Stylistics’:
>From copia to stylistic reticence, Shakespeare’s playtexts map out the extreme limits and impasse of verbal communication. The present seminar aims at assessing and highlighting the discourse strategies and structures at stake in conversational exchange and interaction in the very process of capturing the world of human understanding and
relationships. Such a process involves the difficulty, sometimes the impossibility, and the exhilaration of mediating that world through language. Shakespeare’s playtexts should be envisaged as being rooted in a cultural and rhetorical context in which meaning (and
the difficulties of conveying meaning)is a collaborative construction, involving author, text, culture, and reader. Papers are welcome on the range of Shakespeare’s negotiations with the problematics of the production of meaning. Areas of exploration include semantics,
pragmatics, and semiotics.
Panel Organisors:
Dr. Mireille Ravassat (University of Valenciennes, France)
E-mail: mireilleravassat_at_yahoo.fr
Dr. Lene Petersen (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)
E-mail: Lene.Petersen_at_uwe.ac.uk
Those wishing to participate in the Conference are invited to submit 200-word abstracts of their proposed papers directly to BOTH convenors of the seminar in question before 1 March 2008. The convenors will let the proponents know whether their proposals have been accepted no later than 21 March 2008.
For more details, see the conference website:
http://www.esse2008.dk/cfp_seminars.html
- and the general conference website at: http://www.esse2008.dk/
CFP: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (3/15/08; MLA 08)
MLA Panel 2008
Sponsored by Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
_Renaissance Medievalisms in Performance_
As Chris Brooks argues, the Renaissance inherited the Middle Ages both as a material presence and as a complex of ideas and feelings—real and imaginary. This panel seeks papers that examine how Renaissance communities used performance to construct, evaluate, mythologize, or re-imagine the Middle Ages. Although we can find evidence of such “medievalism” in play texts, we might also identify it in staging choices, patronage, and other aspects of the theatrical enterprise.
Papers that address non-English contexts are welcome.
Submit one-page abstracts and contact information to Jill Stevenson at jillstevenson_at_gmail.com by March 15th, 2008.
CFP: Milton (3/1/08; RMMLA, 10/9/08-10/11/08)
This is a Special Topic Session at the 2008 RMMLA conference, to be held in Reno, Nevada. The conference will run from 9 October to 11 October 2008.
Papers may concern any aspect of Milton.
Send a 200-300 word abstract to William John Silverman, Jr. (wsilverman_at_fsu.edu) by 1 March 2008 for consideration.
Hard copies of submissions may be sent to:
William John Silverman, Jr.
Department of English
Florida State University
405 Williams Building
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1580
Details can be found at www.rmmla.org.
CFP: Life and Death (due 1/22/08)
This conference may be tangentially related to your work on Early Modern Women. I thought I would put it up because it looks interesting and is grad student run. http://lifeanddeath.wordpress.com/
