Announce

Saturday, 21 March 2020 The Huntington Library and Gardens Pasadena, CA

Plenary Roundtable

Interdisciplinary Research and the Renaissance: How to Do It

Amy Buono (Art History, Chapman University) Katherine Powers (Music, California State University, Fullerton) Martine van Elk (English, California State University, Long Beach)

Call for Papers

The RCSC, a regional affiliate of the Renaissance Society of America, welcomes proposals for individual papers as well as complete panels on the full range of Renaissance disciplines (Art, Architecture, History, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Science). In keeping with the 2020 Plenary Roundtable theme, papers and panels that employ interdisciplinary modes of inquiry are especially encouraged. The RCSC promotes the study of the period c. 1300–1800, broadly interpreting the Renaissance within a global framework. Please note that membership in the RCSC is required for conference participation.

Please see our website for membership details.

Individual paper submissions should include:

abstract of approximately 250 words

contact information and one-page CV

Panel Submissions are welcome and should include:

contact information and one-page CV for organizer / chair names and abstracts (c. 250 words) for all presenters

one-page CVs of all presenters

title and short (c. 150 word) description of the panel itself

Please submit all application materials here or on our website (http://rcsconline.org/), where you can also find more information about the conference.

Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2019

If you have any questions, please contact the RCSC president, Heather Graham (heather.graham@csulb.edu).

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

February 7–8, 2020 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Unfreedom marked the lives of various people in the premodern world. Many factors played a role in shaping the forms of unfreedom prevalent in the premodern era: violence and coercion; shame and dishonor; disconnection of kin groups and destruction of social networks; and individual and collective strategies for economic, political, and social success that depended on the subjection of others. This year’s conference will focus on those whose status was defined primarily in terms of unfreedom, coercion, and constraint rather than the enjoyment of freedoms or privileges, including but not limited to slaves, serfs, captives, prisoners, pledges, hostages, and forced marriage or concubinage. We welcome panels and papers that theorize and/or historicize the status of unfreedom in medieval and renaissance contexts.

Deadlines: Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis until midnight, Mountain Standard Time on November 10, 2019. Please submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief CV to ACMRSconference@asu.edu. Proposals must include audio/visual requirements and any other special requests; late requests may not be accommodated.

Information for presenters: All sessions (panels, roundtables, workshops, etc.) are 90 minutes long. In order to maximize conversation and collaboration, sessions should be comprised of three to five 10-minute, individual presentations of new, cutting-edge work followed by discussion.

How does literature respond to event(s), monumental changes, ruptures and transitions? This upcoming conference at Warwick University attempts to answer some of these questions.

The conference invites abstracts that address, but may not necessarily be restricted to, the following areas:

Theories of Event and Literary Event 

Questions of Testimony and Writing

Literature and Change

Plasticity, Contingency and Speculation

Practices of Reading

Fragility and Literature

Biopolitical Events

Climate‘change’asanundoingofallevents

Theories of Non-Event

Postcolonialiality and Event

Re-definition of event from a world-literature perspective 

Inviting proposals for 20-minute presentations. Please submit at least 350-word abstracts, along with a short biographical note (50-100 words) by November 10th, 2019 to litandevent@gmail.com.

More details can be found here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/event/cfp/

14 Jul 2020 to 16 Jul 2020 Liverpool John Moores University

The history of the senses and the emotions has become a rapidly expanding field in recent years; in early modern studies, these developments segue with a growing interest in how sounds shaped everyday life. The experience of sound may be ephemeral, but its very transience highlights how acoustic ecology is relational, phenomenological and specific to its environment. Which sounds are made, how they are made, what spaces these sounds occupy, how they are listened to, and how they are heard, connect to wider questions about agency, identity and interaction. This interdisciplinary conference, the last in a series of events organised by the Soundscapes in the Early Modern World AHRC-funded research network, brings together scholars working in the fields of sound studies and early modern studies to interrogate historic sounds and agency.

We invite abstracts of 200-250 words for individual papers of twenty minutes, or of up to 850 words for panels comprising no more than three papers. In addition to the conventional panel sessions, we are also keen to explore other forms of presenting scholarly research. These might include pre-circulated papers for discussion in a seminar group, workshops and round-tables. If you would like to propose a session in an alternative format that will not last more than ninety minutes, please submit an outline of up to 600 words.

The deadline for submissions is 20th December 2019. For further details about the soundscapes network, and information on how to sub-mit, please see the project website https://emsoundscapes.co.uk/

Congrès annuel de la Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance

Western University, London (Ontario), 2020

Cette séance se propose d’explorer com-ment les scripteurs et scriptrices d’Ancien Régime (auteurs masculins, féminins, anonymes) font parler les femmes dans leur oeuvre. Lorsque des personnages féminins prennent la parole au théâtre, en poésie ou dans des narrations, de quelle façon ces voix se distinguent-elles ou non de celles des protagonistes masculins?

Il s’agira de se pencher sur l’actio des femmes (prononciation rhétorique) qui est mise en scène et les caractéristiques de l’énonciation ou de la gestuelle des locu-trices. Nous nous demanderons s’il y a des scenarii récurrents (notamment lorsque le contexte d’énonciation se situe dans la sphère domestique : salon, chambre, mar-ché), ainsi que des topoï spécifiques (modestie affectée associée au genre fémi-nin, femmes déplorant leur sort, émettant des plaintes ou pleurant, etc.), en nous interrogeant sur les finalités de ces procé-dés de simulation de la voix féminine.

Veuillez envoyer votre proposition de communication en anglais ou en français, accompagnée d’une brève notice (100 mots) indiquant le nom du conférencier, son affiliation institutionnelle, son statut (étudiant au cycle supérieur, professeur, chercheur indépendant, etc.) et ses coor-données complètes (adresse postale et adresse courriel), aux deux corespon-sables : Diane Desrosiers (diane.desrosiers@mcgill.ca) et Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (jean-philippe.beaulieu@umontreal.ca) avant le 6 janvier 2020.