Announce

41st Annual Conference, 3^rd-5^th September 2018

Peterhouse, Cambridge

The Society for Early Modern French Studieswill hold its annual conference at Peterhouse, Cambridge, 3-5 September 2018.  The theme is ‘Early-Modern France in Early-Modern Europe’. Papers are invited on any aspect of this theme. Subjects may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Thinking across national frontiers 
• Foreignness and fashion
• The adaptability and constraints of literary genres and styles
• Cross-cultural comparisons and criticisms

Proposals for papers (250-300 words) should be sent by 6 April 2018 to the Secretary, Professor Richard Maber (r.g.maber@durham.ac.uk). Please note that only members of the Society may present a paper at the conference.

We are delighted and honoured to announce that our keynote speaker will be Professor Catriona Seth (Oxford).

Contributors are requested to provide translations into English or French of any illustrative material taken from other European languages.

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Le colloque annuel de la Société d’étude de la première modernité française (SEMFS) se tiendra du 3 au 5 septembre 2018 à Peterhouse (Université de Cambridge).  Thème retenu :

« La France pré-moderne dans l’Europe pré-moderne », conçu sous toutes ses formes, à titre d’exemple non-limitatif :

• La pensée à travers les frontières nationales
• L’étranger et la mode
• La souplesse et les contraintes des genres et des styles littéraires
• Comparaisons et critiques trans-culturelles

Veuillez adresser, avant le 6 avril 2018, un résumé de toute proposition de communication (250-300 mots) au secrétaire de la Société, prof. Richard Maber (r.g.maber@durham.ac.uk).  A noter que seuls les sociétaires à jour de leur cotisation auront le droit d’intervenir lors du colloque.

Nous avons le plaisir et l’honneur de vous annoncer que notre invitée d’honneur sera le prof. Catriona Seth (Oxford).

Les intervenants sont priés de fournir une traduction anglaise ou française de toute citation originaire d’une autre langue européenne.

Early Modern Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed book series of Brepols Publishers that explores the complexities of the early modern world. Early modernity is broadly conceived as the period from around 1300 to 1700. With our international editorial board, we welcome monographs and edited volumes that shed new light on and adopt new approaches to the histories and cultural products of this period.

The thematic scope allows works in this series to investigate trends and events in cultural, intellectual, social, political, and economic history which are indicative both of change and continuity with the past. The series thus covers issues ranging from (but not limited to) gender, identity, society, emotions, space, material culture, religion, and politics and their intersections. We accommodate books rich in illustrations and are particularly interested in studies in art and architectural history.

For submission guidelines, please see our website: www.crrs.ca/pub/emcs

For further inquiries, please contact Dr. Joanna Ludwikowska, Chief Editor: crrs.emcs@vicu.utoronto.ca

Source: RSA

Series Editors: Claire Jowitt, University of East Anglia, UK & John McAleer, University of Southampton, UK

Editorial Board: Mary Fuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Fred Hocker, Vasa Museum, Sweden; Steven Mentz, St John’s University, USA; Sebastian Sobecki, University of Groningen, Netherlands; David J. Starkey, University of Hull, UK; & Philip Stern, Duke University, USA

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press (AUP)

Interdisciplinary in its approach, Maritime Humanities, 1400–1800: Cultures of the Sea puts maritime humanities at the centre of a transnational historiographical scholarship that seeks to transform traditional land-based histories of states and nations by focusing on the cultural meanings of the early modern ocean. The series welcomes proposals from across the full range of humanities subjects, and invites submissions written in English that conceptually engage with issues of globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism, and the histories of science and technology. We consider proposals for monographs or essay collections, but in the case of the latter, we consider proposals for a complete volume only. We are not able to place individual chapters.

Contact AUP acquisitions editor Erika Gaffney with questions about the series: Erika.gaffney@arc-humanities.org

Source: RSA

April 26–27, 2019

Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College in the University of Toronto

During the sixteenth and seventeenth century princes and the nobility found tomb sculpture an effective means of refashioning their identity and promoting their interests in a rapidly changing society. Enormous funds were spent on these monuments, often well before the occupants’ death or by their heirs, for whom the sepulchers became a generalized marker of family status. Epitaphs were also fashioned of words, penned in ink and published as well as engraved in stone. Poetical tributes and eulogies to rulers gave them another type of public persona.

For this conference we wish to focus on the agency of these creations in the social and political arena of Northern Europe and Iberia. Previous discussions have concentrated on the culture of death and remembrance. Although these concepts are integral to any consideration of tombs and epitaphs, we want to concentrate here on their broader cultural significance. We are interested in the ways tombs and epitaphs helped establish a viable image for leading families and facilitated participation in important networks. In which ways did tombs and epitaphs take part in the debates fostered by the Reformation and the Catholic response? How was inquiry into different religions reflected in tomb sculpture? And how did notions of presence inflect the design of and response to these monuments?

In which ways did these works extoll virtues of conquest and triumph? How did monuments to military heroes, noble and commoner, evolve in this period? How did gender alter the equation? How did the tombs of the upper bourgeoisie and professional classes relate to the monuments of the nobility? How did the choice of materials effect the perception of these objects? And how did carved monuments related to memorial representations in other media such as painting and prints? Networks of artists, writers, academies, patrons, and their agents soon formed, and knowledge of renowned monuments spread throughout Europe, via travel and by reproductive drawings and prints. What formal languages were adopted by the elite and their artists and what sort of communication was there between the different regions of Europe? Were there particular sculptors or writers who developed enduring paradigms?

We welcome papers of 20 minutes devoted to these and related issues. Please send an abstract of 200-300 words and a brief cv by March 31, 2018 to Ethan Matt Kavaler (University of Toronto) at matt.kavaler@utoronto.ca and to Birgit Ulrike Münch (University of Bonn) at bmuench@uni-bonn.de. Participants selected will be notified by June 2018.

Source: RSA