The International Spenser Society is sponsoring a panel at the Renaissance Society of America meeting in Venice 8-10 April 2010. Please send 150 word abstracts maximum and a brief cv to chris.warley at utoronto.ca by 1 May 2009. Papers on Spenser’s Italianate systems, styles, sources, sensibilities
CFP: Special Session, MLA 2009: “Mood Swings” (3/13/09)
CFP for the MLA 2009 convention, a Special Session entitled “Mood Swings”:
How did Renaissance engagements with the subjunctive (in the schoolroom or on stage, in Aristotle or as an abstraction) shape theories of poetic domain and/or history’s “indicative” in English literature?
Submission Requirements: 1-page abstracts
Deadline: 13 Mar. 2009
Organizer: Colleen Rosenfeld (crosenf_at_eden.rutgers.edu)
Fell free to contact me with any questions.
CFP: Printing and Urban Culture in Early Modern Europe (5/1/09; RSA ‘10)
for a special session of the
RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, VENICE, 8-10 APRIL 2010
Printing and Urban Culture in Early Modern Europe
How did the establishment of printers’ shops and the books they produced impact European urban centers socially, economically, intellectually? How did the presence of the new technology, new commodity, new identities contribute to a
redefinition of cities and towns? Papers might investigate individual urban locales or individual printers; they might consider the impact of printing and printed books on civic or religious communities; or the role of the market in schoolbooks, university texts, humanist classics or ecclesiastical printed works. Additional approaches could include looking into the cross-border trade of printed books; the transmission or transfer of knowledge between different social groups or identities; or the routing of texts, people and ideas. The purpose of this session is to examine the premise that, in the 15th and 16th centuries, print redrew the map of Europe with regard to urban culture, both within towns and cities and across the continent.
Please email a 150 word abstract and brief c.v. or personal statement to the organizer by May 1, 2009.
Dr. Judith Deitch
j_deitch_at_yorku.ca
CFP: Representing the British Civil Wars 1660-2009 (4/30/09; 12/4-6/09)
Representing the British Civil Wars 1660-2009: Adaptation, Reflection, Transmission, Debate
University of Manchester, 4-6 December, 2009
This conference considers the ways in which the conflict period of the 1640s and 1650s have been manifest in culture, political thought, historiography and popular imagination, from Southey’s Life of Oliver Cromwell to Clarendon, from To Kill a King to the imminent film of Paradise Lost. The conference looks at cultural appropriation and the ways in which particular representational tropes have been developed and perpetuated.
Sessions and panels might consider immediate post-Restoration versions of the conflict, or consider how radical theories of liberty and rights influenced political philosophy during the eighteenth century. Why is the notion of civil dispute still so potent in British culture, and why is the Cavalier/ Roundhead binary so difficult to get rid of? How have the complexities of the conflict been represented? What of the complex and continuing historiography? Which cultural
clichés have become associated with the wars of this period? How have writers, dramatists, novelists, poets and filmmakers adapted texts from the time and how have they imagined the period?
Papers might consider the versions of the war found in popular novels, in drama, in film and in poetry, portraiture and song. Of particular interest might be the following: Iain Pears, David Kinloch, Cromwell, Witchfinder General, Great Britons, Tristram Hunt, popular historical writing, The Devil’s Whore, Scott’s Woodstock, Antonia Fraser, documentary series, docudrama, By the Sword Divided, historiographical paradigms (conflict/ contention, civil war/ revolution/ war of three kingdoms), wargames, boardgames, adaptation, bespoke computer game hacks, museums and exhibits.
Please send abstracts (300 words) or panel proposals by April 30 to
Jerome.degroot_at_manchester.ac.uk.
CFP: MLA 2009 Proposed Special Session Translating Identity: Early Modern Cultural Studies (3/20/09)
One of the intellectual preoccupations of the early modern world was the construction of identity in all of its disparate forms: religious, racial, sexual, and political. At the same time, however, early modern Europeans were expanding beyond their continental borders on both mercantile and colonial missions. Such forays necessitated the creation of discursive practices that made the “new” and “foreign” knowable and sought to analyze that difference in connection with their own identity concerns. In this proposes special session for the 2009 MLA, we seek papers that explore the
theme of translation in the various contexts identified by MLA President Catherine Porter, which include, but are not limited to “decoding, paraphrase, interpretation, and explanation.” We seek papers that explore early modern attempts at translation as well as modern translations of early modern texts. We are especially interested in papers that examine identity in relation to zones of contact—east and west—and travel, race, religion, and sexuality. Please send a 200 word abstract and C.V. to ambereen.dadabhoy_at_boun.edu.tr by March 20, 2009.
CFP: Law, Literature, and Religion (3/15/09; 10/1-10/3/09)
FIRST ANNUAL VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW AND DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
LAW AND LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM
OCTOBER 1 – 3, 2009
Villanova’s Law School and Department of English will hold a law and literature symposium, the first in a projected annual series, beginning Thursday evening, October 1, 2009, and ending Saturday afternoon, October 3, 2009. The symposium has also been supported by a grant from the Law and Humanities Institute.
We invite interested scholars to submit abstracts of proposed papers. Peter Goodrich (Professor of Law and Director of Law and Humanities, Cardozo School of Law), Steven Mailloux (Professor of English and Chancellor’s Professor of Rhetoric, Department of English, University of California – Irvine), and Robin West (Associate Dean, Research and Academic Programs, and Frederick J. Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy, Georgetown University Law Center), will be keynote speakers.
The conference theme for 2009, “Law, Literature, and Religion”, is broadly conceived. Papers may include but are not limited to papers on any literary, rhetorical, narrative, or textual aspects of law and religion; the exegesis and hermeneutics of legal texts or topics; interpretation in law, literature, and religion; shared languages and histories of law and religion; discursive intersections of civil and canon law; ethics and justice explored in religious and secular literature; the comparative poetics or rhetoric of legality and religion; legal priesthoods; political theology;
orthodoxies and/or heterodoxies; humanisms; Pauline studies; religious images in law; literary works about religion in/and/as law; and law as a civil religion. Papers will be 20-25 minutes long to permit time for discussion.
Abstracts should be sent to Professor Penelope Pether (pether_at_law.villanova.edu), to whom inquiries may also be addressed. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words, and should arrive before March 15, 2009. Invitees will be notified by April 30, 2009, and will receive room and board at (but not transportation to and from) the symposium, provided by Villanova University School of Law.
It is anticipated that a limited number of places will be available for attendees who are not presenting papers. The symposium is being convened by Professor David S. Caudill, Arthur M. Goldberg Family Chair in Law, and Professor Penelope J. Pether of Villanova University School of Law; and Professors Evan Radcliffe (Departmental Chair) and Cristina Maria Cervone of the Department of English at Villanova University.
CFP: RMMLA: Seventeenth Century British Culture (3/1/09; 10/8-10/09)
This is an open panel on culture in the British Isles in the seventeenth century for the upcoming RMMLA conference in Snowbird, Utah (8-10 October 2009). All proposals are invited; cultural studies and historical materialist submissions are particularly welcome.
Send a 200 word abstract to Daniel G Anderson at dander5 at gmu.edu by 1 March 2009.
For conference information, see www.rmmla.org.
CFP: Maternity and Romance Narrative in the Renaissance (4/18/09; Venice, 8-10 April 2010)
Helen Hackett notes the “profoundly ambivalent attitude to the maternal” in Shakespeare’s last plays (_Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance_, 155). In spite of the associations of romance as a genre
with a female readership, such ambivalence to the maternal may characterize the romance tradition more broadly. This panel will explore aspects of the maternal in the romance narratives that ciruclated in England and continental Europe in the Renaissance. Papers may consider romance in any genre or guise.
Proposals are invited from graduate students as well as more senior scholars of literature for papers at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, to be held in Venice on 8-10 April 2010.
Please send a brief abstract, as well as a short CV, to kbamford_at_mta.ca, by Friday, April 18th. Accepted proposals will be announced by May 2nd.
CFP: Special Session: Women and Work in Literature (3/15/09; PAMLA 09)
Conference: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), November 6 and 7, 2009, San Francisco State University
Special Session: Women and Work in Literature
Description: We seek three to four papers that analyze how particular writers represent labor in women’s lives. Please send submissions by March 15, 2009 to Susanne Weil, Centralia College, Department of English, sweil_at_centralia.edu and sespewild_at_aol.com. Please send proposals and inquiries to both email addresses.
CFP: Color: Between Silence and Eloquence (02/28/09; 06/25/09-06/26/09)
SAIT (Société des Amis d’Intertexte)
Sorbonne, Institut du monde anglophone, Université Paris 3
5, rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris
Keynote speaker: Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Professor of Aesthetics at
Université Paris 3-Sorbonne.
SAIT and the Sorbonne invite proposals for their international,
interdisciplinary conference on “Color: Between Silence and Eloquence” in
Paris on June 25-26, 2009.
“Color is the material in, or rather of, painting, the irreducible
component of representation that escapes the hegemony of language, the pure
expressivity of a silent visibility that constitutes the image as such”
Jacqueline Lichtenstein (The Eloquence of Color)
Following up on the analysis of text-and-image relationships as initiated
in the previous conferences on art writing, the 2009 international SAIT
conference will focus on color, envisaged as a transversal theme lending
itself to a multidisciplinary exploration in perspectives which may be
historical, artistic, philosophical, literary and/or linguistic. The goal
of this conference is to analyze the role of color not only in the visual
arts – painting, sculpture, photography, and the cinema – but also in
texts, literary or theoretical, by taking the question of meaning and
representation down to its very limits, the ineffable.
As a trace irreducible to language, a mark, a spot, or a flash of light
which resists both verbalization and the capture of the gaze, color makes
the (visual or textual) work of art oscillate between form and lack of
form, between the figurative and the figural, the visible and the
invisible, the readable and the unreadable, between eloquence and silence.
Moreover, the ambivalence of color between light and matter conjures up
both the optical and the haptical function of the gaze, both the eye and
the hand, the sight and the touch in a dialectical to-and-fro movement
corresponding to two modes of viewing and apprehending the text.
We welcome submissions which relate color in art and color in texts, since
it is at the junction between art, literature, and the discourse on art
that colorist aesthetics came into being (see Jacqueline Lichtenstein, The
Eloquence of Color, The Blind Spot), from the Ancient quarrel between
drawing and color (as early as in Plato’s Cratylus) to the liberation of
color with the Modernists, via the famous conflict between Poussinists and
Rubenists. Along those lines, submissions may also examine the latent or
patent manifestations of the often overlooked, and yet, omnipresent
ambivalence of color between an intellectual, cerebral, rational,
spiritual, purified, and dematerialized pole (austere and mystical
conception of color) and an unbridled, sensual, ludic, impulsive,
naturalistic and anti-conformist pole (sensual and libertine conception of
color).
We invite contributors to analyze the ways in which color can open a gap in
the image by tearing its legible surface and leaving in it a remainder or a
vacant space, as well as the ways in which color, the untamable, eludes
“obedience to words” (see Jean-Pierre Guillerm), or is used by some writers
to transcend generic boundaries, and in particular to break the limits
between the verbal and the visual. Within this view of color as silent
inscription, one may consider the specificity of white, as both the arch
expression of the inherent silence of colors and a metaphor of the writer’s
block, and black, as both the saturation of meaning and a metaphor of
opacity and nonsense.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Color and the Discourse on Art
- Color and Literature
- Color and the Visual Arts
- Color and Music
- Color and Architecture
- Color and Language
- The History of Color
Bibliography:
Ivan Bargna & alt., La couleur dans l’art. Paris : Citadelles et Mazenod, 2006.
Lichtenstein, Jacqueline. The Eloquence of Color: Rhetoric and Painting in
the French Classical Age. Berlekey: University of California Press, 1993.
Lichtenstein, Jacqueline. The Blind Spot: An Essay on the Relations between
Painting and Sculpture in the Modern Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2008.
Deleuze, Gilles. Francis Bacon. The Logic of Sensation. Minneapolis: The
University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Elkins, James. On Pictures and the Words that Fail Them. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Gage, John. Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to
Abstraction. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999 (1993).
Michel Pastoureau & Dominique Simonnet. Couleurs: le grand livre. Paris :
Panama , 2008.
Please send a 250-word abstract and a short 100-word biography as a Word
attachment to: Laurence Petit: laurence.petit_at_univ-lyon2.fr or
laurence.petit_at_ccsu.edu and
Murielle Philippe: murielle.philippe_at_u-paris10.fr
Submissions must be received by February 28th, 2009.
Registration form available on the website of the SAIT:
http://www.textesetsignes.org/colloque.html
Colloque SAIT – 25-26 juin 2009
Institut du monde anglophone, 5, rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris
La couleur : entre silence et éloquence
Conférence plénière de Jacqueline Lichtenstein, professeur d’esthétique et
de philosophie de l’art à l’Université Paris 3-Sorbonne.
“La couleur, c’est le sensible dans ou plutôt de la peinture, cette
composante irréductible de la représentation qui échappe à l’hégémonie du
langage, cette expressivité pure d’un visible silencieux qui constitue
l’image comme telle” Jacqueline Lichtenstein (La Couleur éloquente)
Poursuivant la réflexion engagée sur les relations entre texte et image par
les colloques précédents consacrés aux écrits sur l’art, le colloque
international de la SAIT 2009 portera sur la couleur, envisagée comme thème
transversal se prêtant à une exploration pluridisciplinaire dans une
perspective qui pourra être historique, artistique, philosophique,
littéraire et/ou linguistique. Il s’agira d’analyser le rôle de la couleur
non seulement dans les arts visuels — peinture, sculpture, photographie,
cinéma — mais aussi à travers les textes, littéraires ou autres, en
s’interrogeant sur la question du sens et de la représentation, jusque dans
ses limites, là où l’écriture se heurte à l’ineffable.
Trace irréductible au langage, tache, pan ou éclat qui résiste à la saisie
du regard comme à la verbalisation, la couleur fait osciller l’œuvre
(visuelle ou textuelle) entre forme et informe, figuratif et figural,
visible et invisible, lisible et illisible, éloquence et silence.
L’ambivalence de la couleur entre lumière et matière suscite, en outre,
tantôt la fonction optique du regard, tantôt sa fonction haptique, tour à
tour l’œil ou la main, le voir ou le toucher dans un mouvement dialectique
de l’éloignement ou du rapprochement qui renvoie à deux modes de vision ou
d’appréhension du texte.
Seront particulièrement bienvenues les études qui mettent en relation
couleur dans l’art et couleur dans les textes, puisque c’est à la croisée
de l’art, de la littérature et du discours sur l’art que se déploie
l’esthétique coloriste (cf. Jacqueline Lichtenstein, La Couleur éloquente,
La Tache aveugle), depuis la querelle des Anciens entre dessin et couleur
(et ce, dès le Cratyle de Platon) jusqu’à la libération de la couleur chez
les Modernistes, en passant par le fameux conflit entre Poussinistes et
Rubénistes. Souvent occultée par ce débat, ne cesse néanmoins de resurgir,
patente ou latente, l’ambivalence de la couleur entre un pôle intellectuel,
cérébral, spirituel, purifié et dématérialisé (conception austère et
mystique de la couleur) et un pôle débridé, sensuel, ludique, impulsif,
vitaliste et anti-conformiste (conception sensuelle et libertine de la
couleur).
Les communications pourront s’intéresser à la façon dont la couleur ouvre
des brèches dans l’image ou dans le texte en déchirant la surface lisible,
en y laissant des réserves, des vacances, à la façon dont la couleur,
insoumise, échappe à “l’obédience des mots” (cf. Jean-Pierre Guillerm) ou
est utilisée par certains écrivains pour transcender les frontières
génériques, et en particulier pour tenter de briser les limites entre le
visuel et le verbal. Au sein de cette problématique de la couleur comme
inscription indicible, peuvent alors se poser la question particulière du
blanc, à la fois expression suprême du silence inhérent des couleurs et
métaphore de la panne langagière, et la question du noir, à la fois
saturation de sens et métaphore de l’opacité ou du non-sens.
Les sujets abordés pourront inclure, sans pour autant s’y limiter :
- Couleur et discours sur l’art
- Couleur et littérature
- Couleur et arts visuels
- Couleur et musique
- Couleur et architecture
- Couleur et langage
- Avatars historiques de la couleur
Références bibliographiques :
Ivan Bargna & alt., La couleur dans l’art. Paris : Citadelles et Mazenod, 2006.
Lichtenstein, Jacqueline. La Couleur éloquente : rhétorique et peinture à
l’âge classique. Paris : Flammarion, 2003 (1989).
Lichtenstein, Jacqueline. La Tache aveugle : Essai sur les relations de la
peinture et de la sculpture à l’âge moderne. Paris : Gallimard, 2003.
Deleuze, Gilles. Francis Bacon. Logique de la sensation. Paris : la
Différence, 1996.
Elkins, James. On Pictures and the Words that Fail Them. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Gage, John. Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to
Abstraction. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999 (1993).
Michel Pastoureau & Dominique Simonnet. Couleurs: le grand livre. Paris :
Panama , 2008.
Les propositions de communications (250 mots) accompagnées d’une courte
biographie (100 mots) sont à envoyer aux organisatrices avant le 28 février
2009 :
Laurence Petit : laurence.petit_at_univ-lyon2.fr ou laurence.petit_at_ccsu.edu et
Murielle Philippe : murielle.philippe_at_u-paris10.fr
Bulletin d’inscription sur le site de la SAIT :
http://www.textesetsignes.org/colloque.html
Colloque annuel de la SAIT 2009 :
La couleur : entre silence et éloquence
Color: Between Silence and Eloquence
Institut du monde anglophone, 25-26 juin 2009
5, rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris
Fiche d’inscription pour les participants ne présentant pas de communication
/ Registration form for the general public
NOM / Last name:
Prénom / First name:
Affiliation :
Statut/Title :
E-mail :
Adresse courrier / Snail mail :
Souhaitez-vous être tenu au courant des activités de la SAIT ?/ Would you
like to be kept informed of the SAIT’s activities ?
Oui / Yes Non / No
Les frais d’inscription sont de 15 euros (10 euros pour les doctorants ;
les membres de la SAIT ne sont pas tenus de payer cette inscription : pour
plus d’information sur l’adhésion à la SAIT, vous pouvez consulter notre
site, http://www.textesetsignes.org l’adhésion à l’association étant de 30
euros). Chèques à l’ordre de la SAIT, à envoyer à Isabelle Gadoin, 22 rue
Thierry, 92160 ANTONY ou à remettre le premier jour du colloque. Cette
somme n’inclut pas les repas. Un reçu pourra vous être remis sur demande.
Je souhaite recevoir un reçu / I would like a receipt :
Oui / Yes Non / No
Registration fees are 15 euros (10 euros for doctoral students; members of
the SAIT do not need to pay the registration fees: for more information on
SAIT membership, please check out our website,
http://www.textesetsignes.org; annual membership is 30 euros). Cheques are
payable to SAIT, and should be sent to Isabelle Gadoin, 22 rue Thierry,
92160 ANTONY or handed in on arrival at the conference. The registration
fees do not include the cost of meals. A receipt will be issued on request.
INSCRIPTION AUX REPAS / REGISTERING FOR MEALS
Merci de nous retourner la fiche d’inscription aux repas et cocktail
ci-dessous AVANT LE 15 JUIN 2009 en indiquant votre nom clairement / Please
fill in the registration form below for meals and / or drinks BY JUNE 15th
2009.
le jeudi 25 juin 2009 / Thursday June 25th 2009
- Déjeuner / Lunch : restaurant à proximité Bld St Michel (coût:
facturation individuelle mais inscription préalable nécessaire / cost: on
an individual basis but prior booking is necessary)
- 17h30 : cocktail /drinks : à l’Institut du Monde Anglophone (gratuit/free).
- 20h : dîner / dinner : restaurant du CROUS, Marché St Germain des Prés.
Métro : Mabillon. Coût : 19 euros + boissons / Cost : 19 euros + drinks.
le vendredi 26 juin 2009 / Friday June 26th 2009
- 12h30: buffet / snacks : à l’Institut du Monde Anglophone (coût 10 euros
– à régler au plus tard lors de l’arrivée au colloque / cost 10 euros
payable on arriving at the conference).
NOM / Name:
25 juin / June 25th
Déjeuner/ Lunch oui / non (à régler au restaurant / to be paid at the
restaurant)
Cocktail / Drinks oui / non (gratuit / free)
Dîner / Dinner oui / non (à régler au restaurant / to be paid at the
restaurant)
26 juin / June 26th
Buffet / snacks oui / non (à régler au plus tard le 25 juin / to be paid at
the latest on June 25th)
