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Panel proposed for the Renaissance Society of America conference, Chicago, March 30-April 1, 2017.

http://Vision and its Instruments in Early Modern Literature" (1300-1700)

Organized by Nancy Frelick and Sanam Nader-Esfahani. Please contact sanam.nader@gmail.com if interested.

Source: Nancy Frelick

American University and The George Washington University will be co-hosting the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington, D.C. from Thursday, April 20 through Sunday, April 23, 2017.  Lisa Leff (AU) and Katrin Schultheiss (GWU), co-Presidents of the Society for 2017, will organize the conference.

The program features a number of special events.  At the Friday luncheon, Robert Zaretsky (University of Houston) will join Jonathan Judaken (Rhodes College) for a plenary conversation on French historical studies and the public sphere.  On Friday afternoon, curators at the National Gallery of Art, located walking distance from the conference hotel, will offer three separate private tours for groups of fifteen: one of the Bazille exhibition; one of the NGA’s collection of nineteenth-century French paintings; and one of the NGA’s collection of eighteenth-century French paintings. The banquet will take place at the hotel; our plenary speaker will be Sophia Rosenfeld (Yale University). 

The Program Committee welcomes panel proposals on all subjects of the history of France, the French Empire, and other Francophone countries, as well as France within a global or transnational framework.  We strongly encourage you to organize complete panels, though individual submissions are also permitted and in those cases, we will do our best to arrange them into coherent panels, space permitting. 

The traditional format for panels is three 15-20 minute papers, with a chair and a commentator.  We also encourage submissions for panels in other formats, such as roundtables, flipped panels, lightning sessions, pedagogy panels, workshops, and panels dealing with the digital humanities. If you are proposing a non-traditional format, please explain how the session time of 1.75 hours will be used. A description of some of these alternate format possibilities is available on the conference website.

All sessions will be held at the conference hotel, the Washington Court (525 New Jersey Avenue N.W.) which is located right next to Union Station (Washington’s train station; also a Metro station).  The Washington Court is walking distance from the Capitol, the Library of Congress and the National Mall. The SFHS has secured a special conference room rate of $179 per night.

Proposals in English or French must be submitted electronically (through the conference website: http://www.sfhsconference.org) by October 1, 2016.  For questions, please contact the conference organizers at sfhs2017@gmail.com.

Source: H-France

Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2016

Following the success of the first meeting (University of Bologna, 30 June-2 July 2016), the second Transnational Opera Studies Conference will be hosted by the University of Bern, at the Musikwissenschaftliches Institut, from 5 to 7 July 2017. Its name will therefore be: tosc@bern.2017

The Programme Committee will consist of:

Marco Beghelli (Università di Bologna)

Céline Frigau Manning (Université de Paris-VIII)

Anselm Gerhard (Universität Bern)

Axel Körner (Univerity College London)

Gundula Kreuzer (Yale University)

Vincenzina C. Ottomano (Universität Bern)

Arne Stollberg (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Cristina Urchueguía (Universität Bern)

Anselm Gerhard and Vincenzina C. Ottomano will also serve as Conference organizers, assisted by Valeria Lucentini.

All are invited to take part, regardless of professional status. As with other events of this kind, participants and spectators will be required to pay for themselves; registration fees and other costs, however, will be kept as low as possible.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Submissions are invited on any subject related to opera and other forms of music theatre, including history, dramaturgy, libretto studies, philology, genesis, reception, voice studies, performer studies, performance practice, interpretation, the relationship between opera and society, between opera and other arts, opera and media, opera on film, and so on.  Preference will be given to proposals that explore issues, rather than simply offering descriptive accounts.

– full name

– country and institution

– e-mail address

– paper title

– abstract in no more than 350 words

Abstracts should include all information necessary to allow the Programme Committee to evaluate the argument, research findings and originality of the proposal, as well as its potential as a conference paper. Following acceptance, there will be an opportunity to change abstracts for publication in the conference programme.

Proposals should be submitted as attachments by email to: tosc@musik.unibe.ch<mailto:tosc@musik.unibe.ch>, by 31 October 2016. Everyone submitting a proposal will be sent a confirmation email; if this has not been received within five days, please resend the proposal.

All abstracts will be anonymized before being seen by the Programme Committee; you are requested not to include in your abstract any information that could reveal your identity (such as “As I have shown in my earlier article…”).

All those who have submitted a proposal will be notified of the outcome by 20 December 2016.

FEES

The costs of the conference are funded directly by the participants (speakers and those attending). The exact registration fee will therefore depend on the number of participants, and will be confirmed along with the notification of papers accepted; it will, however, be no more than €100, and will include three buffet lunches.

2nd Transnational Opera Studies Conference

                    tosc@bern.2017

                    5 – 2 July 2017

e-mail: tosc@musik.unibe.ch<mailto:tosc@musik.unibe.ch>

web site: http://www.musik.unibe.ch/forschung/tagungen/index_ger.html

Universität Bern

Institut für Musikwissenschaft

Hallerstrasse 5

CH-3012 Bern

http://www.musik.unibe.ch

Tel. (Büro): +41 (0) 31 / 631 4717

ANZAMEMS (Australian and New Zealand Medieval and Early Modern Society conference)

Wellington, New Zealand

7–10 February 2017

Abstracts by 1 August 2016

The Early Modern Women's Research Network (EMWRN) is convening panels on Gender and Textual Mobility at the upcoming ANZAMEMS conference in Wellington, 7–10 February, 2017. This is the 11th biennial conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and three keynote speakers have an interest in gender in the medieval and early modern world: Professor Lorna Hutson (English, St Andrews, sponsored by EMWRN), Professor Martha Howell (History, Columbia), and Dr Erin Griffey (Art History, Auckland).

EMWRN invites proposals for papers engaging with gender and textual mobility, for a dedicated stream of panels. Potential topics might include but are not limited to:

• gender and textual transmission, including coteries, circles, and networks of readers, writers, and performers;
• gendered histories of reading and writing, including markings, marginalia, excerpting and commonplacing;
• women as writers and readers at the royal court, the country house, in the city, and in exile;
• women as patrons, facilitators, interpreters, and transmitters of texts;
• the mobility of genre(s), literary and non-literary, 'high' and 'low';
• theories and practices of gender and editing, the archive and digital technologies.

We welcome proposals from PhD students and early career researchers. Please send any enquiries and paper proposals by 1 August 2016 to both Trisha Pender (patricia.j.pender@newcastle.edu.au) and Amy Dewar (amy.dewar@newcastle.edu.au). Proposals should include:

1. Paper title
2. Abstract (up to 150 words)
3. Your name, affiliation, and email address
4. A brief CV (2 pages maximum)
5. An indication of AV requirements.

Source: RSA

The University of Delaware Press invites submissions on a rolling basis to its series:

The Early Modern Exchange

Series Editors:

Gary Ferguson, University of Virginia, author of Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome: (Hi)stories of Sexuality, Identity, and Community

Meredith K. Ray, University of Delaware, author of Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

The Early Modern Exchange publishes studies of European literature and culture (c. 1450–1700) exploring connections across intellectual, geographical, social, and cultural boundaries: trans-national, trans-regional engagements (e.g., Europe and the Americas or the Ottoman Turks, France and Spain, Italy and Dalmatia); networks and processes for the development and dissemination of knowledges and practices; gendered and sexual roles and hierarchies and the effects of their transgression; relations between different ethnic or religious groups; travel and migration; textual circulation/s. The series welcomes critical approaches to multiple disciplines (e.g., literature and law, philosophy, science, medicine, music, etc.) and objects (e.g., print and material culture, the visual arts, architecture), the reexamination of historiographical categories (such as medieval, early modern, modern), and the investigation of resonances across broad temporal spans.

For further information or to submit a manuscript or proposal, please contactmkray@udel.edu or rgf3y@virginia.edu. Please note that the University of Delaware Press publishes books in English.