CFP: Staging Femininity: Women and the Theater (4/1/2008; SAMLA 11/7/2008–11/9/2008 )

CFP: Staging Femininity: Women and the Theater (4/1/2008; SAMLA 11/7/2008–
11/9/2008)

Historically the relationship between women and the theater has been a site of contestation. A woman’s place in the theater, whether as a character, an actor, an author, or an attendee, often has drawn pointed social and literary commentary. In keeping with the theme of the 2008 SAMLA Convention, Drama, the 2008 SAMLA Women’s Studies Panel seeks paper proposals that address the ways that femininity has been and is written, performed, staged, and received in theatrical works.

Interested individuals might choose to address any historical period and any aspect of women and theater, for example: the impact of the legalization of professional acting for women in the Restoration, the performance of femininity in Renaissance plays, the roles of women as theater-goers or patrons, the different ways that femininity is written by
female playwrights as opposed to their male counterparts, the visuality of women’s performance, or the perceptions and enactments of women in national or international theatrical performances. Proposals focusing on the influence, impact, or idea of women and theater will be considered.

Please submit a 250- to 300-word abstract, a brief professional biography, and relevant contact information by April 1, 2008.

Submit via email attachment with email subject line “SAMLA 2008” to Lauren Holt Matthews, lhmatth_at_emory.edu; please also copy Keme Hawkins, klhawki_at_emory.edu. While electronic submissions are preferred, you may also submit by post to:

Lauren Holt Matthews
English Department, Emory University
N-302 Callaway Center
537 Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322

For more information on the 2008 SAMLA Convention, please see the SAMLA
website: http://samla.gsu.edu/convention/convention.htm.

CFP: Early Modern Women’s Writing (Australia)(5/19/2008; 12/2/2008-12/6/2008)

The NEER (Network for Early European Research) Research Cluster on Early Modern Women’s Writing will be sponsoring three panels at the 2008 ANZAMEMS (Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies) 7th Biennial International Conference, to be held at the University of Tasmania, Australia, December 2-6, 2008.

We are soliciting papers on any aspect of early modern women’s writing in English, and are particularly interested in proposals that explore new authors, topics, approaches, or theories in the field, from coteries and collaboration, through sensation and the senses, to reading and rhetoric. How have the critical paradigms that we employ to investigate early modern women’s writing changed over the last thirty years? What challenges face the field in the future? Postgraduate and graduate student submissions are welcome.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to coordinators Ros Smith  (Ros.Smith_at_Newcastle.edu.au) and Patricia Pender (Patricia.J.Pender_at_Newcastle.edu.au) by June 15, 2008.

Further information about the ANZAMEMS conference can be found at
http://www.anzamems.arts.uwa.edu.au/conferences

CFP: Beowulf to Shakespeare: Popular Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (6/15/08; 10/30-11/2/08 MAPACA)

UPDATE: New deadline June 30, 2008

Call for Papers MAPACA 2008
Beowulf to Shakespeare: Popular Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Conference October 30-November 2, 2008 Niagra Falls, Ontario

The wealth of material found in the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance continues to attract modern audiences with new works in fiction, film, and other areas, whether through adaptation or incorporation of themes and characters. This is a call for papers or panels dealing with any aspect of medieval or renaissance representation
in popular culture. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to:

-modern portrayals of any aspect of Arthurian legends or Shakespeare

-modern versions or adaptations of any other Medieval or Renaissance writer

-modern investigations of historical figures such as Eleanor of Aquitaine, The Richards, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots

-teaching medieval and renaissance texts to modern students

-Medieval or Renaissance links to fantasy fiction, gaming, comics, video games, etc.

-the Middle Ages or Renaissance on the Internet-Renaissance fairs

Presentations can be in the form of individual papers, panels, workshops, roundtables, or other formats, and presenters are urged to consider choosing an alternative format if it would better suit their topic.

Submit a 250 proposal including av requests by June 15, 2008 to:

Diana Vecchio
dmvecchio_at_widener.edu

or via snail mail to
Diana Vecchio
Widener University
1 University Place
Chester, PA 19013

CFP: Renaissance Drama (3/26/08; 11/6-8/08)

CFP: Renaissance Drama – Open Topic

South Central MLA,
San Antonio, Texas, November 6-8, 2008.

The Renaissance Drama Open Topic panel invites papers for the 2008 SCMLA.

Please submit abstracts or completed papers by March 26, 2008 to:

J. Caitlin Finlayson
Literature, Philosophy and the Arts
3011 CB
University of Michigan-Dearborn
4901 Evergreen Rd.
Dearborn, MI 48128-2406
cfinlay_at_umd.umich.edu

CFP: Attending to Early Modern Women: Conflict, Concord (10/1/08; 11/5-7/09)

“Attending to Early Modern Women: Conflict, Concord,” will be held November 5-7, 2009, at the University of Maryland. Plenaries are: “Negotiations”; “Economies”; “Faiths and Spiritualities”; and “Pedagogies.” The complete conference description is available at
www.crbs.umd.edu/atw/atw7.

Submit interdisciplinary workshop proposals by October 1, 2008.

Workshops that facilitate active participation and focused discussion of questions and issues raised by the conference theme and plenary topics have been an essential part of previous Attending to Early Modern Women symposia. Workshop proposals should be comparative or interdisciplinary in focus and should allow participants to share information and ignorance, pass on knowledge, ask advice, and learn something new.

For more information, visit the symposium website at www.crbs.umd.edu/atw/atw7 or contact Karen Nelson, Ph.D., by email at crbs_at_umd.edu

Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies

0139 Taliaferro Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

301-405-6830| FAX: 301-405-0956 | www.crbs.umd.edu

Call for Submissions: Forum II: Early Modern Women and Material Culture (10/08)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Forum II: Early Modern Women and Material Culture

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (EMWJ) invites submissions to an interdisciplinary Forum Early Modern Women and Material Culture, slated for publication in Volume IV (2009). Contributors to the forum will explore the nature of the material culture of early modern women and girls from different socioeconomic levels and from regions across the globe. Which objects–garments, manuscripts, jewelry, toys, housewares, tools, furniture, and musical instruments–did they own or use? How did such objects construct identity, strengthen social ties, teach social or economic roles, or perform other cultural functions? What objects were commonly associated with women and girls? What unusual objects did they own or use? Were specific objects associated with certain times in a woman’s life, certain places, or particular rituals? What values, ideas, and assumptions were linked to the material culture of women and girls? Submissions may also address how men and women might view the same material objects differently, how they were branded for gender, and how they were used to mediate between men and women.

Submissions should be 1300 words in length (plus footnotes). Building on such recent exhibitions as the Victoria and Albert Museum’s At Home in Renaissance Italy (2006) and on such recent books as Jacqueline Musacchio’s Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy (1999) and Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass’s Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory (2001), contributions may focus on a single object or group of objects that still exist, or on references to objects in images, literary texts, or archival documents. Submissions that explore a range of socioeconomic groups and regions across the globe are especially welcome.

The deadline for forum submissions is October 31, 2008.

More information about Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal is available at www.emwjournal.umd.edu.

CFP: RMMLA: Critical Approaches to the Jonsonian Masque: abstract extension to 3/21/08

Ben Jonson in the 21st Century: Critical Approaches to the Jonsonian Masque: Special Session at RMMLA – Reno, NV, 10/08. The publication of the Cambridge Jonson still is impending, but excitement among early modern scholars continues unabated. Whether 2008 finally is the year of publication, Jonson studies continues to reenergize and to diversify in its momentum. The 2008 session aims to continue a vibrant conversation, reconsidering Jonson in the wake of 20th and 21st century scholarship, recognizing Jonson as a key figure for 21st century literary studies, and addressing the challenges Jonson offers to students.

( From: Heather C. Easterling <easterling_at_gonzaga.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:44:26 -0500 (EST))

CFP: Continuities and Innovations: Popular Print Cultures – Past and Present, Local and Global (5/30/08; 8/27-30/08)

Call for Papers and Presentations
Continuities and Innovations: Popular Print Cultures – Past and Present, Local and Global University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
27-30 August 2008

Papers and presentations are invited for any aspect of the conference theme. Proposals should be 200 to 300 words in length and clearly state the central theme or argument, the kind of popular print or related media to be considered, and its social and cultural location in time and place.

Please indicate any equipment requirements (data projector; conference computer; overhead projector; video or dvd player; audio player, etc). A brief resumé should accompany each proposal, stating the proposer’s name, address, contact information, and relevant academic, professional, or personal background and knowledge of form of popular print culture discussed.

Send proposals and resumés by email as pasted-in documents or attachments in an up-to-date format to: popprint_at_ualberta.ca

Or mail hard copies to: Popprint, Kirsten MacLeod, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E5. Questions to either address.
        Deadline for proposals is 30 May 2008. But space on the program is limited, and proposals will be considered on a first-come, first-accommodated basis.

This conference and popular arts festival consider what most people read, here and elsewhere, now and in the past. Popular print characteristically includes both words and images, and is intertwined with music and performance. In these forms it has been and continues to be one of the most powerful cultural forces in history, morphing into new media and new technologies, from the phonograph record through radio, film, and
television to video games and the internet.
        Popular print culture is now a global phenomenon, with striking similarities in what most people read, anywhere. Yet there are also striking local differences, inflections, and variations in what most people read, here or elsewhere. “Continuities and Innovations” will bring together all those interested in popular print culture–readers and writers,
publishers and fans, librarians and collectors, teachers and students, and of course researchers in many academic disciplines.

Proposals are invited from all of these groups, directly addressing the conference theme, or taking up any aspect of “Popular Print Cultures, Past and Present, Local and Global.” Topics can include relations between popular print and other media, between popular and “high” literatures, between words and images, between words and music, between past and present forms, and so on. Presentations may be from writers, readers, publishers, teachers, students, distributors, sellers, librarians, illustrators, opponents, promoters, adapters to other media, fans, collectors, et al. Papers and presentations can be on any relevant topic—reading popular print and creating it, writing it and illustrating it, publishing it and selling it, counteracting it or transforming it, adapting it and influencing it, censoring it and living it, and more. Participants may consider popular
print and politics, religion, sexuality, class, ethnicity, “race,” nationality, or any other theme.

Google “Edmonton Alberta” and “University of Alberta” for information on the venue. Program and other information, including travel and accommodation details, regularly updated, will be available on the conference website: www.arts.ualberta.ca/popprint