renaissance

CFP: Sixteenth Century Society & Conference
Baltimore, MD – 26/29 October 2023

Sports and Games in the Renaissance

‘Shakespeare Beyond All Limits’7-9 December 2023At the University of Sydney and the State Library of NSW

The Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA) is delighted to announce its next conference will be ‘Shakespeare beyond all Limits’ hosted by the University of Sydney from 7-9 December 2023. We are now inviting proposals for scholarly papers and panels.

Our keynote speakers are:

The Center for Medieval-Renaissance Studies at the University of Virginia's College at Wise announces the Thirty-Sixth Medieval-Renaissance Conference, September 21-23, 2023

Keynote Address

 Matthew Gabriele

Virginia Tech University

 Oathbreakers: The Long Shadow of Fontenoy (841 CE)

in the European Middle Ages

The Milton Society of America invites papers considering the freedom or unfreedom of the body as a political, religious, philosophical, and artistic concept. Potential topics include reproduction, restrictions on movement, and enslavement. Please send a brief abstract (approximately 200 words) and an abbreviated cv to Eric Song (esong1@swarthmore.edu) no later than March 15, 2023.

RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

66th Annual Conference

Saturday, 23 September 2023

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for our 66th Annual Conference, to be held at the University of San Diego.

CALL FOR PAPERS

This non-guaranteed panel invites contributions that explore notions of health, care, and disability in early modern Francophone spaces in various contexts and perspectives. Potential topics might include (but are certainly not limited to): the relation between care, charity, and religion in the early modern; literature featuring characters with disabilities; texts that challenge gendered notions of care; the various ways bodily ability are articulated in different spaces within the early Francophone world. We especially welcome papers engaging with these topics from global and/or intersectional perspectives, as well as those considering diachronic and transtemporal approaches.

Polyglot Pages in Early Modern England (c.1500-1700)

The deadline for submissions has been extended to Monday, March 20

Editors: Agnès Lafont - Charlotte Coffin

Publisher: Brepols

Series: Polyglot Encounters in Early Modern Britain, https://www.brepols.net/series/peemb

Deadline for submitting chapter proposals (400 words):March 20, 2023

Deadline for essay submission (6000-8000 words): September 15, 2023

International Conference: “Dancing Shakespeare”, Sorbonne Université, November 9-10, 2023, Paris, France

Please find below a call for contributions for issue 19.1 of Textes et Contextes, an online jounal published by the University of  Burgundy). The papers we are calling for will be published along with the proceedings of the two-day symposium, entitled “Music and Memory in Anglophone Literature” that was held in Dijon on September 19-20, 2019.

MLA LLC (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) 16th-Century English (D024)

 The MLA LLC Forum for Sixteenth-Century English Literature is sponsoring a guaranteed panel on “Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context” at the MLA 2024 conference in Philadelphia (4-7 Jan. 2024). We welcome submissions and inquiries from scholars at all career stages.

Call for Papers: How might we study disability aesthetics alongside histories of empire, settler colonialism, racial capitalism, etc.? How did global encounters shape depictions of dis/ability?

Send queries to Penelope Geng (pgeng@macalester.edu). 250-word abstracts due 28 Feb. 2023.

From moving statues to artificial animals to marionette performances, puppetry seems to have appeared in every sector of medieval and early modern European society. Jointed religious figures illustrated the liturgy, while dragon effigies processed through cities on feast days, and popular and courtly audiences enjoyed puppet shows of legendary and historical events. Despite the ubiquity of medieval and early modern puppets in Europe, scholarly consideration of these performing objects is often limited to case studies. Consideration of “puppetry” as a particular form with its own norms and commonalities is also uncommon, due in part to the marginal position of puppetry in Western culture.

The Uses and Abuses of Civility, 1500-1700',

26th-27th May 2023, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

This conference provides an opportunity for scholars to re-examine early modern Europe’s fascination with civil conduct. What actions were performed in the name of civility, and who benefitted from the culture of civility that flourished in early modern Europe? How were codes of manners popularly used to justify the stratification of society within and outside of Europe? What legacy has the genre of conduct literature left behind?

We welcome papers that provide new analyses of:

August 7-9, 2023

Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival

The 2023 Wooden O Symposium invites panel and paper proposals on any topic relating to Shakespeare and his plays:

• Literary Analysis & Theoretical Approaches
• Shakespeare and Adaptation
• Shakespeare on Screen
• Shakespeare and History, Culture, and Society
• Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
• Shakespeare and Rhetoric
• Shakespeare in Performance
• Shakespeare and the Arts

We encourage papers and presentations that speak to the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 2023 summer season: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, and Romeo and Juliet. 

Deadline extended to January 31, 2023

The Seventeenth International Conference of

the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)

20-21 October 2023

Chinese Culture University

Taipei, Taiwan

Call for Papers

Harmony and Chaos: The Dialectics of Order and Disorder