Women’s Studies Journal Seeks Submissions

Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal invites submissions for its 2009-2010 editorial year. Women’s Studies provides a forum for the presentation of scholarship and criticism about women in the fields of
literature, history, art, sociology, law, political science, economics, anthropology and the sciences. We encourage scholars from all disciplines to submit articles based in film, television, literature, art, or other
media. Women’s Studies also publishes creative fiction, creative non-fiction, and book reviews. Submissions for cover art or art essays are always welcome.

The editorial board will also consider suggestions for issues with a special focus or theme as well as issues edited by a guest editor. Each manuscript must be accompanied by a statement that it has not been

published elsewhere and that it has not been submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts must be formatted according to MLA guidelines. Essays should be approximately 25 pages in length. Authors should also supply a shortened version of the title for a running head, not exceeding 50 character spaces, an abstract of approximately 100 words, the author’s affiliation and location. Each submitted article must contain author’s mailing address, telephone number, e-mail, and a short biographical paragraph.

Send a cover letter, three copies of the manuscript, and a copy on disk to:

Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Sharon Becker, Associate Editor
Claremont Graduate University
Department of English, Blaisdell House
143 East Tenth Street
Claremont, CA 91711

Queries welcome: womstudj_at_cgu.edu

CFP: Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture (1/10/09)

Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture

Editors Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) and Melissa Terras (University College London) invite submissions for a collection of essays on “Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture” to be published in the New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies Series edited by Ray Siemens and William Bowen.

This collection of essays will build on the accomplishments of recent scholarship on materiality by bringing together innovative research on the theory and praxis of digitizing material cultures from roughly 500 A.D. to 1700 A.D. Scholars of the medieval and early modern periods have begun to pay more attention to the material world not only as a means of cultural experience, but also as a shaping influence upon culture and society, looking at the world of material objects as both an area of study and a rich source of evidence for interpreting the past. Digital media enable new ways of evoking, representing, recovering, and simulating these materials in non-traditional, non-textual (or para-textual) ways and present new possibilities for recuperating and accumulating material from across vast distances and time, enabling both preservation and comparative analysis that is otherwise impossible or impractical. Digital mediation also poses practical and theoretical challenges, both logistical (such as gaining access to materials) and intellectual (for example, the
relationship between text and object). This volume of essays will promote the deployment of digital technologies to the study of material culture by bringing together expertise garnered from complete and current digital projects, while looking forward to new possibilities for digital applications; it will both take stock of the current state of theory and practice and advance new developments in digitization of material culture.

The editors welcome submissions from all disciplines on any research that addresses the use of digital means for representing and investigating material culture as expressed in such diverse areas as:

• travelers’ accounts, navigational charts and cartography
• collections and inventories
• numismatics, antiquarianism and early archaeology
• theatre and staging (props, costumes, stages, theatres)
• the visual arts of drawing, painting, sculpture, print making, and
architecture
• model making
• paper making and book printing, production, and binding
• manuscripts, emblems, and illustrations
• palimpsests and three-dimensional writing
• instruments (magic, alchemical, and scientific)
• arts and crafts
• the anatomical and cultural body

We welcome approaches that are practical and/or theoretical, general in application or particular and project-based. Submissions should present fresh advances in methodologies and applications of digital technologies, including but not limited to:

• XML and databases and computational interpretation
• three-dimensional computer modeling, Second Life and virtual worlds
• virtual research environments
• mapping technology
• image capture, processing, and interpretation
• 3-D laser scanning, synchrotron, or X-ray imaging and analysis
• artificial intelligence, process modeling, and knowledge representation

Papers might address such topics and issues as:

• the value of inter-disciplinarity (as between technical and humanist experts)
• relationships between image and object; object and text; text and image
• the metadata of material culture
• curatorial and archival practice
• mediating the material object and its textual representations
• imaging and data gathering (databases and textbases)
• the relationship between the abstract and the material text
• haptic, visual, and auditory simulation
• tools and techniques for paleographic analysis

Enquiries and proposals should be sent to brent.nelson[at]usask.ca by 10 January 2009. Complete essays of 5,000-6,000 words in length will be due on 1 May 2009.

CFP: The Religious Turn in Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies (12/15/08; 2/6-7/09)

Call for Papers

The Religious Turn in Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies
A Two-Day Conference held by the Early Modern Colloquium
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
February 6-7, 2009

Keynote Speakers: Sarah Beckwith (Duke University) and Arthur Marotti (Wayne State University)

The Early Modern Colloquium, a graduate interdisciplinary group at the University of Michigan, is requesting submissions for its conference on the religious turn in late medieval and early modern studies, to be held February 6-7, 2009.

Most broadly conceived, this two-day conference is about religion in the late medieval and early modern periods and our contemporary critical relationship to it. Not only do we intend this conference to deal with
religion around the time of the Reformation – both the tensions governing religious practice and the manifestation of those tensions in literature, art, music, and culture – but we also hope to address methodologies for interpreting religion within and beyond historical paradigms.

Current historiography suggests a multiplicity of religions existing in late medieval and early modern Europe, in place of a binary between Catholicism and Protestantism. This multiplicity includes, but is not limited to, Lollardy, mysticism, martyrology, female hagiography, particular religious formations within monasteries and convents, the Counter-Reformation, and the Puritan movement. Papers are sought which address the implications of this view of late medieval and early modern religion or which respond to any of the following questions:

In what ways does this multiplicity of religious practices revise our former assumption of a Catholic medieval period and a Protestant Reformation/Renaissance? To what extent does a theory of a split subject,
one who belongs to multiple religious communities at once, complicate our critical understanding of religion? How do we as critics respond to religion? In the wake of New Historicism, what critical or theoretical models can be used for interpreting religion in the late medieval and early modern periods? Is there, for example, a performativity of religious experience? Do practices such as typological readings of drama, devotional meditation, and mystical experience constitute such a performativity? What are the implications of theorizing religion as performative, rather than as a kind of ritual or as an expression of a private belief?

This conference is sponsored by the Departments of English, History, and Romance Languages & Literatures at the University of Michigan. We therefore welcome submissions from these disciplines and a wide range of others, including art history, musicology, theater history, religious studies, philosophy, and anthropology. Priority will be given to graduate students.

200-250 word proposals should be sent to Andrew Bozio (bozio_at_umich.edu) by December 15, 2008.

CFP: Region, Religion and Early Modern Literature (11/28/08; 4/2/09)

Region, Religion and Early Modern Literature: A One-Day Conference
Institute of English Studies, University of London
2 April 2009

Keynote Speakers: Tom Healy, Willy Maley

Confirmed Speakers include: Rebecca Bailey, Francisco J. Borge, Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, Helen Hackett

Thanks to the generous support of the Society for Renaissance Studies, a number of postgraduate travel bursaries are available for postgraduates wishing to participate in this event. Preference will be given to those postgraduates speaking at the conference; to this end, the conference organiser is republishing the CFP (see below), and interested postgraduate students are requested to submit a proposal by 28 November 2008. Further information is available from the conference organiser.

Call For Papers: The first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion of interest in religious texts and communities among scholars of early modern literature. While this is in part a reaction to global politics – religious politics have been in the media spotlight for the best part of the decade – the intensity of the interest also derives from more local concerns, from a professional dissatisfaction with the failure of earlier generations of historicist critics to illuminate fully the relationship between religion and literature in the early modern period.

This one-day conference aims to build on this renewed interest in early modern religion, to explore the significance of ‘regional’ religious and/or textual communities in early modern Britain and Ireland. Papers are sought which address the conference themes, although contributions will be particularly welcome which focus on any of the following: the development of sectarian identities and/or religious intolerance; the relationship between the ‘religious’ and the ‘secular’; the network of discourses surrounding religion, ethnicity and culture which emerge in the early modern period and/or their links with contemporary issues; the regional context of both canonical writers and lesser-known texts and communities; the political/intellectual implications of critical/historical methodology.

250-300 word proposals should be sent to the conference organiser by 28 November 2008.

Conference Organiser: Dr David Coleman, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University, UK (david.coleman_at_ntu.ac.uk)

Enquiries: Jon Millington, Events Officer, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1 7HU; tel +44 (0) 207 664 4859; email jon.millington_at_sas.ac.uk

CFP: APPOSITIONS: Dialogues & Exchanges (November 2008)

Call for Abstracts & Articles; APPOSITIONS: Dialogues & Exchanges

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APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture
http://appositions.blogspot.com/

Volume Two: Dialogues & Exchanges (writers/readers/texts/fields)

*Call for Abstracts & Articles: APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture, http://appositions.blogspot.com/, seeks new work addressing the theme of dialogues & exchanges
(writers/readers/texts/fields). How and why do literary texts emerge and change within and against fields of cultural production? Or, alternately:
how and why do social forces or technologies shape distinctive modes and forms of literary art? Or, antithetically: how and why do literary works celebrate or challenge cultural narratives? Beyond such chiastic
formulations, what other factors (e.g. audience, gender, identity, occasion, politics) also contribute to the dialogues & exchanges that literary texts invite and receive? Comparative, interdisciplinary, and
trans-historical approaches are encouraged. APPOSITIONS is an electronic, peer-reviewed, international, annual conference and consequent digital journal for studies in Renaissance/early modern literature and culture.
APPOSITIONS is an open-access, independently managed conference and journal. ISSN forthcoming.

*Conference Abstracts (200-words): November, 2008.

*Conference Proposals (500-words): January, 2009.

*E-Conference: February, 2009.

*Manuscripts (articles): November, 2008-March, 2009.

*Journal Publication: May, 2009.

*Guidelines: APPOSITIONS seeks submissions simultaneously on both tracks: abstracts and proposals for the e-conference; and articles for Volume Two of the journal. Selected proposals/presentations from the e-conference will be solicited as completed articles for submission and review. Article manuscripts may also be submitted separately from the e-conference.

*Electronic Submissions: showard_at_du.edu. Submissions should be attached as a single .doc, .rtf, .pdf 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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