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When reading a text, the reader is often confronted with the issue of voice. Who is speaking? Is it an affirmed voice or, on the contrary, a discreet voice? Is it a single or a collective voice? Voice is polymorphous and can take several aspects in the text: speech, shout, whispering, song. The reader must constantly keep in mind these interactions between voice, writing, and silence. In the Early Modern Period, voice can took many forms; In Montaigne’s Essais, we find occurrences of the term “voice” to designate both “word” and “speaking.” In La Rhétorique Française, Fouquelin refers to voice to talk about pronunciation.

Call For Papers

Renaissance Society of America

Annual Conference, 30 March -2 April, 2022, Dublin, Ireland

“Inglese Italianato e un diabolo incarnato” 

Translation and the Appropriation of Italian Culture in Early Modern England 

(Session of Papers; Session ID: 2568)

Recent work on Shakespeare has shown the myriad ways in which the plays can be used productively to think through contemporary cultural and political issues. Books like Shakespeare and Latinidad (Trevor Boffone and Carla Della Gatta, eds.), Shakespeare and the Shades of Racism (Ruben Espinosa), Shakespeare and the 99% (Sharon O’Dair and Timothy Francisco, eds.), and Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare (Hilary Eklund and Wendy Beth Hyman, eds.) have demonstrated the relevance of Shakespeare to modern discourses of race, ethnicity, sexuality, colonialism, bilingualism, economic justice, social justice, education, and politics.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Life Narratives: Prismatic World of the Author and Beyond

The Milton Society of America will sponsor a panel on Critical Race Milton at the 2022 RSA meeting in Dublin. This panel seeks to continue the ongoing discussions concerning race and racial thinking in premodern eras. Submissions might consider the importance of race in John Milton’s thinking or the role of Milton’s writings in the formation of racial discourses.

To propose a paper, please submit a title (maximum fifteen words) and a 150-word abstract, along with a short cv, to Eric Song (esong1@swarthmore.edu), no later than JULY 30 (please note this is an extended deadline).

Sidney at Kalamazoo 2022

deadline for submissions: 

September 15, 2021

full name / name of organization: 

International Sidney Society

contact email: 

jbdavis@stetson.edu

SIDNEY AT KALAMAZOO, MAY 9-14, 2022 (virtual)

57th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Virtual 

The Center for Medieval-Renaissance Studies of the University of Virginia's College at Wise announces

Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXIV, September 16-18, 2021

Keynote Address

                                                                                                                            Elizabeth Rhodes

                                                                                                                              Boston College

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal Volume 17.1 (Fall 2022) will feature a forum on “Women’s Soundscapes in the Early Modern World.” 

This collection will consider relationships between performances and archives, and the impact of race, gender, sexuality, and class on how performance is documented. It will ask what is remembered and forgotten by theatre archives, how archives supplement and occasionally supplant memories of performances, and how those memories and omissions carry into later performances. 

This panel examines the language used to represent disdained or illicit early modern labor. We seek papers that ask how gender functions in cultural attempts to prohibit, criminalize, or disparage marginalized workers or practioners of unsanctioned professions  (e.g., cure peddalers, sex workers, pirates, poachers, counterfeiters). What do representations of such disruptive laborers tell us about the dynamic between subsistence pursuits and the accumulation of economic surplus in early modern burgeoning capitalism? How do these disruptive economies depend upon and sustain already authorized systems?

Oceanic Mobility

A special issue of The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies

edited by Jane Hwang Degenhardt and Benjamin VanWagoner

HerBook: Women and Book Ownership in Europe, 16th-18th centuries

International Conference, Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris, 17-18 June 2022

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Plenary Speakers:

Hussein Fancy, Department of History, Yale University

Elina Gertsman, Department of Art and Art History, Case Western Reserve University