Toleration and Cosmopolitanism I: English and Transnational European Literature (RSA Paper Panel)
Organizers: Rhema Hokama (Univerisity of Washington) and Jonathan Koch (Pepperdine University)
This is a call for submissions for a guaranteed session in English Literature sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America for the 2026 RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026).
This panel invites papers that explore the themes of toleration and cosmopolitanism in early modern English literature and its transnational connections. Tolerationist and cosmopolitan ideals, while often aspirational, also reveal tensions between universal humanism and local or national allegiances.