CFP: “Digitizing the Senses” (10/14/08; 2/12-14/09)

Deadline: 14 October 2008

Call for Papers: *Digitizing the Senses*
a panel for the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference in Tempe, AZ, 12-14 February 2009

While digital media have enabled new and innovative access to medieval and Renaissance texts, these same media hold perhaps even more potential for investigating and representing the material cultures of these periods. This panel of papers will build on recent scholarship on materiality by bringing together innovative research on the theory and praxis of digitizing medieval and Renaissance material culture, especially as it relates to the senses. Topics may address theory and/or practice in the application of digital technology to the study of material culture, including but not limited to art, architecture, cartography, the anatomical and cultural body, collections, antiquarianism and early archeology, dramaturgy, arts and crafts, printed and manuscript materials. Accepted papers may also be considered for a collection of essays on “Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture” to be edited by Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) and Melissa Terras (University College London) for the New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies series edited by Ray Siemens and Bill Bowen.

Please submit title, brief abstract, and statement of affiliation to
brent.nelson_at_usask.ca by October 14, 2008.

Conference website:
http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/conferences/conferences.html

Dr. Brent Nelson, Associate Professor
Department of English
9 Campus Dr.
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5

my office ph.: (306) 966-1820
main office ph.: (306) 966-5486
fax.: (306) 966-5951
e-mail: nelson@arts.usask.ca

NOTE: this is not specifically about Early Modern Women, but I thought it relevant to include here since so much work on women in the period is also being done in the digital world.

CFP: Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference (10/27/08; 4/30-5/1/09)

Call for papers for the annual PNRS conference to be held April 30 – May 2, 2009 in Bozeman, Montana at Montana State University.

The theme is “Performance of Place/ Place of Performance.” Areas of investigation should reflect the conference theme and might include such general topics as stage venues, textual locales, cartographic sites,
travel narratives, social positions, religious rituals, and performed identities.

Abstracts for individual papers and proposals for three-paper panels are invited. Abstracts should run 250 words for papers of 20-minute delivery length. Panel proposals must include abstracts for all three papers.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Monday, October 27, 2008
Acceptances will be sent by February 2009.

Submissions should be sent to:

Professor Gretchen Minton, PNRS President
MSU Department of English
P.O. Box 172300
Bozeman, Montana
59717-2300
minton_at_english.montana.edu

Conference Co-Chairs: Gretchen Minton and Sharon Beehler

CFP: Interruption — Narrative Conference, Birmingham, (10/15/08; 8/4-6/09)

Interruption

Organizers: Matthew Garrett (Wesleyan University), Kara Wittman (Stanford University)

This panel explores the function and significance of narrative interruptions. Interruption appears in many ways: as break in formal structure (caesura, sentence, paragraph, chapter division, serial issue), as dilation (in the shift from narration to description, in the magnification of a detail, in the development of a theme), as digression, as pause, or as repetition or stutter that produces a hesitation in the flow of story. We are interested in the various ways interruption determines both what and how a text means by affecting, for example, the distribution of readerly attention, the pace of reading, the constitution of formal structure, the capacity to provoke, suggest, or mystify, and so on. We welcome papers that engage with questions of meaning and form as such, as well as those that attempt to draw inferences about reading from the analysis of formal traits — especially those that unite formal and historical questions. Papers on narratives from any place, period, or medium are welcome: one goal of the panel will be to present a comparative account of the question of narrative interruption.

Send a 250-word abstract and a short CV to Matthew Garrett at

mcgarrett_at_wesleyan.edu by October 15.