category: renaissance

Building the Degree: The Potential and Pitfalls of Establishing a B.A. Program in English During Uncertain Times

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Special Session- November 8-10, Atlanta
contact email: 
SOrtolano@Edison.edu

This panel invites participants from any college or university where there is an interest in building a B.A. in English or establishing a new programmatic track within the discipline.

Folger Colloquium: Constructing and Representing Authorship in Early Modern England

full name / name of organization: 
Folger Institute
contact email: 
institute@folger.edu

Public Engaging using the Digital - A Postgraduate Training Event for Arts/Humanities Students

full name / name of organization: 
The C21 Scholar
contact email: 
oxford@thec21scholar.com

Monday 17 June 2013, University of Oxford

Transforming Postgraduate Research: Engaging with the Digital World

The event will include keynote addresses by:

[New Submission Deadline] Legacy: Mythology and Authenticity in the Humanities (29 April, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
De Montfort University
contact email: 
dmulegacyconference@gmail.com

This conference focuses on the influence of cultural ‘legacies’ within current humanities research.

Literary Identities: Kingdoms, Nations, Villages, Conference 3rd June 2013

full name / name of organization: 
King's College, London
contact email: 
rebecca.a.dobson@gmail.com

This year, we are taking the theme of Kingdoms, Nations and Villages to explore how literature has represented, interpreted and subverted identities.

Micro vs Macro Literatures in English: Aesthetics, Politics, and Ethics of Distant Reading in Literatures, Cultures, Humanities

full name / name of organization: 
English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)
contact email: 
conference@ellak.or.kr

CALL FOR PAPERS
2013 ELLAK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

“Micro versus Macro Literatures in English:

Memorials for Merchants: The Funerary Culture of Late Medieval Europe’s New Elite. CAA Chicago, February 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Emily Kelley and Vanessa Crosby
contact email: 
edkelley@svsu.edu and vanessacrosby2013@u.northwestern.edu

During the late Middle Ages, the rise of urban centers and long-distance trade brought the emergence of wealthy mercantile elites who spent lavishly on funerary monuments.

Memorials for Merchants: The Funerary Culture of Late Medieval Europe’s New Elite. CAA Chicago, February 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Emily Kelley and Vanessa Crosby
contact email: 
edkelley@svsu.edu and vanessacrosby2013@u.northwestern.edu

During the late Middle Ages, the rise of urban centers and long-distance trade brought the emergence of wealthy mercantile elites who spent lavishly on funerary monuments.

"Except Asia: Agamben's Work in Transcultural Perspective" conference open for registration

full name / name of organization: 
Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University
contact email: 
conference2013@gmail.com

The international conference “Except Asia: Agamben’s Work in Transcultural Perspective,” to be held at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 25-27, 2013, is now open for regist

The Society for Utopian Studies Conference, Charleston, SC (Nov. 14-17th)

full name / name of organization: 
The Society for Utopian Studies
contact email: 
dina.smith@drake.edu

"Freedom and Utopia"
38th Annual Meeting
Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, South Carolina
November 14-17, 2013

DH SoCal Research Slam

full name / name of organization: 
DH SoCal
contact email: 
stephanie.harper.15@my.csun.edu

DH SoCal is a network dedicated to building community and collaboration amongst digital humanists in Southern California.

Magic and Witchcraft in medieval and early modern Europe

full name / name of organization: 
Special Session, UVa-Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXVII
contact email: 
ajh7a@uvawise.edu

This session welcomes papers on historical and aesthetic representations of magic and witchcraft from the middle ages through the early modern period.

Alchemists and Alchemy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (6/17; 9/19-21)

full name / name of organization: 
Special Session, UVa-Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXVII
contact email: 
dl4fh@uvawise.edu

This session welcomes presentations on all aspects of alchemy and alchemical practices--from the original appearance of alchemy in antiquity to the early modern practices that would eventually give wa

Picking Richard’s Bones: Richard III in History, Literature, and Art (6/17; 9/19-21

full name / name of organization: 
Special Session, UVa-Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXVII
contact email: 
jma6x@uvawise.edu

Picking Richard’s Bones: Richard III in History, Literature, and Art

14th International Conference of Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature, July 28-31, 2014 (Bochum, Germany)

full name / name of organization: 
ICMRSLL
contact email: 
icmrsll@rub.de

WRITING IDENTITY — 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SCOTTISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
28TH–31ST JULY 2014, RUHR-UNIVERSITY BOCHUM, GERMANY

[UPDATE] Legacy: Mythology and Authenticity in the Humanities (Submission deadline 16 April 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
De Montfort Unversity
contact email: 
dmulegacyconference@gmail.com

This conference focuses on the influence of cultural ‘legacies’ within current humanities research.

Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques Conference October 25-27

full name / name of organization: 
Young Professional and Graduate Conference Department of Religious Studies Rice University
contact email: 
heyes@rice.edu

“Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques” aims to create conversations on the impact of monstrosity and examples of the grotesque in discourse related to religion and the sacred.

The City in Word and Image - Problems and Possibilities of the Metropolis

full name / name of organization: 
University of Dundee
contact email: 
e.r.rogers@dundee.ac.uk

“All great art is born of the metropolis” - Ezra Pound

[UPDATE] The Lost Subject, 14th May, University of Dundee

full name / name of organization: 
University of Dundee
contact email: 
e.r.rogers@dundee.ac.uk

Tuesday 14th May 2013
Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee

[UPDATE] Studia theodisca - Deadline: 30th September of each year

full name / name of organization: 
Studia theodisca - An international journal devoted to the study of German culture and literature - http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaTheodisca/
contact email: 
fausto.cercignani@unimi.it or fausto.cercignani@gmail.com

Studia theodisca
An international journal devoted to the study of German culture and literature
Published annually in the autumn
ISSN 1593-2478
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaTheodisca/

Philament 2013 [UPDATE] Deadline extended May 31st 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Philament: The University of Sydney Journal of the Arts
contact email: 
philament.usyd@gmail.com

Issue 19: Surface/Depth

‘There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.’
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories edited collection

full name / name of organization: 
Editors: Amy L. Stone, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Trinity University Jaime Cantrell, Doctoral Candidate, Department of English, Louisiana State University
contact email: 
outinthearchives@gmail.com

Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories
Call for Proposals, due May 1

Editors:
Amy L. Stone, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Trinity University

CFP - 2nd Annual Marginalised Mainstream Conference: Fading and Emerging, 12-13 September 2013 [Deadline 17 May 2013]

full name / name of organization: 
Marginalised Mainstream 2013
contact email: 
marginalisedmainstream@gmail.com

Keynote speakers include: Dr Kate Macdonald (Ghent University, Brussels) and Dr Nicola Humble (University of Roehampton, London)

Near-Death Experience in the Renaissance (RSA 2014, New York 27-29 March)

full name / name of organization: 
Giulio Pertile and Emily Vasiliauskas, Princeton University
contact email: 
gpertile@princeton.edu

Hamlet called death the "undiscovered country from whose bourn | No traveller returns.” Yet from the ghost of King Hamlet himself, to the resurrection of Hermione in The Winter's Tale and Donne’s

[REMINDER] When “I” Means “We”: Poetry and Social Life

full name / name of organization: 
Princeton Comparative Poetry and Poetics Colloquium
contact email: 
comparativepoetics@gmail.com

REMINDER: Abstract submission deadline is April 10, 2013.

CALL FOR PAPERS

When “I” means “We”: Poetry and Social Life

“Many straunge and horrible events” – Omens and Prophecies in Histories and Tragedies by Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

full name / name of organization: 
Shakespeare 450
contact email: 
yan.brailowsky@u-paris10.fr

(This seminar is part of 'Shakespeare 450', the international week-long conference in Paris celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in April 21-27, 2014.)

Shakespearean festivals and anniversaries in Cold War Europe 1947-1988

full name / name of organization: 
Shakespeare 450
contact email: 
erica.sheen@york.ac.uk

(This seminar is part of 'Shakespeare 450', the international week-long conference in Paris celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in April 21-27, 2014.)

Legal Perspectives on Shakespearean Theatre

full name / name of organization: 
Shakespeare 450
contact email: 
daniela.carpi@univr.it

(This seminar is part of 'Shakespeare 450', the international week-long conference in Paris celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in April 21-27, 2014.)

‘In this distracted globe’?: Cognitive Shakespeare

full name / name of organization: 
Shakespeare 450
contact email: 
wood@uni-mainz.de

(This seminar is part of 'Shakespeare 450', the international week-long conference in Paris celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in April 21-27, 2014.)

Global Shakespeare as Methodology

full name / name of organization: 
Shakespeare 450
contact email: 
acyhuang05@gmail.com

(This seminar is part of 'Shakespeare 450', the international week-long conference in Paris celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in April 21-27, 2014.)

Shakespeare and the Visual

full name / name of organization: 
Shakespeare 450
contact email: 
michele.marrapodi@unipa.it

(This seminar is part of 'Shakespeare 450', the international week-long conference in Paris celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in April 21-27, 2014.)

Shakespeare on Screen: The Romances

full name / name of organization: 
Shakespeare 450
contact email: 
s_hatchuel@hotmail.com

(This seminar is part of 'Shakespeare 450', the international week-long conference in Paris celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in April 21-27, 2014.)

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Dissent: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Dalhousie Association of Graduate Students in English
contact email: 
dagse.conference@gmail.com

On December 11th 2012, Chief Theresa Spence of the Attawapiskat First Nation in Northern Ontario declared a hunger strike to critique the federal government’s abuses of treaty rights and First Natio

Sirens - 10/10 - 10/13; deadline May 10

full name / name of organization: 
Cora Anderson / Narrate Conferences
contact email: 
programming at sirensconference.org

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Sirens
Stevenson, Washington
October 10–13, 2013
A conference on women in fantasy literature presented by Narrate Conferences, Inc.

[UPDATE] Call for Papers: AULLA 2013: Worldmaking - Deadline Extension

full name / name of organization: 
Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA)
contact email: 
subscriptions@aulla.com.au

NEW DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 31 May, 2013

The theme of the 37th Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) is ‘Worldmaking’.

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