bibliography and history of the book

Connecting the Renaissance Senses: Image ­ Space ­ Text ­ Music
 
This interdisciplinary panel or series of panels will consider the
representation of sensory experience in the arts broadly defined. The early
modern experiences of vision and touch have received significant attention
in recent studies, while those of hearing, taste and/or smell, outside
thematic treatments of the five senses or the formalized hierarchy of the
senses, remain to be more fully described. Though our particular interest
is in the sense of hearing and ideas about sound and sounding objects in the
Renaissance, we invite papers that illuminate connections among the senses

Shakespeare's presence in the 18th century—in book form, on the stage, in art—is overwhelming. This session will explore how artists have transformed Shakespeare's plays in painting or any of the visual arts. By April 30, 2007, please send proposals/abstracts to Chantelle MacPhee, Department of English, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, Cayey, PR 00736. Email submissions are also welcome: englitgirl_at_yahoo.com.

UPDATE: Ian Duncan has been added to the list of plenary speakers due to
the unfortunate and untimely passing of Malcolm Bowie. Thanks for your
understanding.

The Novel and its Borders

3 day Conference organised by The Centre for The Novel
in association with the AHRC Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies

University of Aberdeen
 8-10 July 2008

www.abdn.ac.uk/novelconference/

Reading: Images, Texts, Artefacts (Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference)
Date: 28 - 29 June 2007

Transatlantic Fiction, Transatlantic Readers:
The Audience for the Novel in the US and Britain 1750-1860

Panel proposal for Reception Study Society Conference, Kansas City, MO, 9/27
- 9/29/2007

        The audience for the novel in English in the period 1750-1860 was
global, a result of the Anglophonic diaspora around the Atlantic basin. Yet
it remains to be demonstrated whether and how this fact influenced
individual writers or how best to understand the ways geography, nation,
gender, race, and class produced specific communities of readers-and to what
extent such communities for Anglophonic novels could be considered
transnational.

MMLA Panel on English Literature 1800-1900
The Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
Cleveland, Ohio
November 8-11, 2007
                                         

UPDATE: deadline for proposals extended until April 16

Fragments in nineteenth-century British literature and culture

Call for Papers: "Geographies of Modernist Periodicals"
Modernist Studies Association Proposed Panel
Annual Meeting, 1-4 November 2007 (Long Beach, CA)

This panel will look to the dynamic early twentieth century print
culture to question received versions of modernism and its relation to
geography. Particular questions could include:

On October 25, 2007 the Cartoon Research Library at the Ohio State
University, in collaboration with Project Narrative and the
Department of English, will host a one-day symposium on "Graphic
Storytelling: Academic Perspectives." The gathering will serve as a
prelude to the 2007 Festival of Cartoon Art, which runs from October
26-27, and which is this year devoted to "Graphic Storytelling" and a
celebration of the 100th birthday of Milton Caniff. For the first
time, the triennial Festival is sponsoring an academic pre-conference
in recognition of the exciting developments in academic comics
studies in recent years and the growing collaborations between comics

SAMLA Convention, November 9-11, 2007, in Atlanta
Textual and Bibliographical Studies Session

"Textuality and Canon Formation in the Renaissance"

Renaissance Discovery? (RSA 08)

Scholars of various Renaissance fields – including science, emblems, and
antiquarianism – have observed an instability or paradoxicality around the
operative concept of empirical discovery. Scholars have not, however,
evaluated or explained this strange observation. In some cases, discovery
seems irrelevant to the period's production of knowledge; in others,
relevant, but discouraged or abjured. Given that discovery seems basic to
modern notions of evidence, and of interpretation, the hermeneutic and/or
epistemological consequences of the Renaissance attitude may be
considerable.

Call for Proposals for "The Oral, The Written, and Other Verbal Media:
Interfaces and Audiences": A Conference and Festival

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, June 19-21,
2008

Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention
November 8-11, 2007
The Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
Cleveland, Ohio

History of Critical Reception: "Media and Reception"
Abstract deadline: April 15

University of North Carolina Wilmington
Graduate English Association Conference
(30-31 March 2007)
>>>The Conference is on 31 March 2007
but we plan to host a Creative Reading the night before.<<<
Sea Change (s): The Evolution of Texts and Their Reception

Midwest Modern Language Association, November 8-11-2007, Cleveland, OH

This is a call for papers for the permanent MMLA Bibliography and
Textual Studies Panel. The panel will focus on Transatlantic Studies
and the Book.