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CFP: Shakespeare's Hamlet in an Era of Textual Exhaustion

updated: 
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - 1:54pm
Allison Kellar Lenhardt; Sonya Loftis
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Shakespeare’s Hamlet in an Era of Textual Exhaustion

The editors of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in an Era of Textual Exhaustion are reposting the CFP for the edited collection, which is now under contract with Routledge as a part of the Studies in Shakespeare series. We are particularly interested in rounding out our collection with an essay that focuses on multimedia, cognition, ecocriticism, digital humanities, and/or global performance. Please see the original CFP below and submit a CV and abstract by September 15 to a.lenhardt@wingate.edu.

Special issue on “Transatlantic Renaissance Supernatural”

updated: 
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - 1:53pm
Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 1, 2016

Revenant, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to the study of the supernatural, the uncanny and the weird, based out of Falmouth University in the United Kingdom is looking for submissions for a special theme issue dedicated to the “Transatlantic Renaissance Supernatural”. Guest-edited by Ed Simon of Lehigh University, Revenant is looking for scholarly, academic and creative exploration of the supernatural during the Renaissance across literature, history, folklore, philosophy, science, religion, sociology, and popular culture.

Elizabeth and Material Culture: Kalamazoo. 11-14 May, 2017

updated: 
Monday, August 1, 2016 - 2:27pm
Queen Elizabeth I Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Our panel in 2017 will consider Elizabeth and her ruling strategies in relation to the material culture of early modern England. How did Elizabeth participate in production and consumption of material culture? How did material culture of early modern England reflect, shape, or ignore Elizabeth's taste, needs, and preferences? What household practices were modeled on those of the royal household? How did the city of London, the royal palaces, and places Elizabeth visited during her progresses accommodate the queen's needs? How were the material aspects of trade, gift-giving, cooking, writing, theater, etc. affected by Elizabeth's prominent position as a ruler?

CFP Conference "The Fine Art of Lying: Disguise, Dissimulation and Counterfeiting in Early Modern Culture" Florence, IT

updated: 
Thursday, July 28, 2016 - 9:35am
The 2017 IASEMS Graduate Conference - Florence, Italy
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2016

Call for Papers - The 2017 IASEMS Graduate Conference

THE FINE ART OF LYING: DISGUISE, DISSIMULATION AND COUNTERFEITING IN EARLY MODERN CULTURE

Florence, 7 April 2017

The 2017 IASEMS Graduate Conference at The British Institute of Florence is a one-day interdisciplinary forum open to PhD students and researchers who have obtained their doctorates within the past 5 years.

Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to know when to tell truth, and to do it. Therefore it is the weaker sort of politics, that are the great dissemblers! (Francis Bacon, “Of Dissimulation”)

Shakespeare on Film and Television

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2016 - 1:23pm
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 1, 2016

SHAKESPEARE ON FILM & TELEVISION

CALL FOR PAPERS

POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
2017 NATIONAL CONFERENCE

April 12-15, 2017, San Diego, CA, at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina

DEADLINE:  OCTOBER 1, 2016

ALL Proposals Must Be Submitted Through the PCA Database:  http://conference.pcaaca.org
More information at http://pcaaca.org/national-conference/

We have previously had papers on the following topics and invite new ideas all the time.

The Biannual International Margaret Cavendish Society Conference

updated: 
Monday, July 18, 2016 - 2:18pm
Lisa Walters/Liverpool Hope University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 9, 2017

The International Margaret Cavendish Society is pleased to announce that the next biannual conference is set to take place on June 22nd-24th, 2017 at Bates College, Maine. Professor Carolyn Merchant from the University of California, Berkeley, will be the keynote speaker.  Preference will be given to abstracts that closely relate to the conference theme, but all talks about Cavendish, her family, and related subjects will be considered.   The conference theme is "Margaret Cavendish: Reception and Representations."   Cavendish has increasingly garnered intense academic interest during the past twenty five years by scholars from a wide range of disciplines such as literature, history of science, philosophy, history and politics.

A Century without Chaucer (Kalamazoo 2017)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 - 10:50am
Lydgate Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 15, 2016

The shadow of Geoffrey Chaucer loomed large over the century after his death.  Later poets such as John Lydgate used words coined by him, explicitly referenced Chaucer’s mastery of poetry, and mentioned their relationship with him in the development of their poetic personae and the writing of their poetic works.  These connections, in turn, have left a tradition of scholarship that takes such conceits at face value and maligns the poetry of the fifteenth century for allegedly not being the equal of Chaucer’s.

Lydgate and Literary Technologies - A Roundtable (Kalamazoo 2017)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 - 10:50am
Lydgate Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Whether it is tweeting Lydgate’s Fall of Princes, making witnesses of his poems both in and out of the codex available to scholars worldwide, or engaging in digital prosopography, the “Digital Turn” in recent literary scholarship provides heretofore unavailable opportunities for engagement with the poetry of John Lydgate.  However, this is not the first time the introduction of new technology has effected reception, understanding, and interpretation of the poet.  The shift from manuscript to print spread Lydgate’s poems in numbers that were not possible before, while modern editorial practices developed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have created a set of “standard” editions of the poet’s works, for good and ill.

 

Material Lydgate (Kalamazoo 2017)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 - 10:50am
Lydgate Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Medieval studies has made serious inroads into inquiries surrounding the relationship between objects and environments, between objects and their spiritual power, as well as between descriptions of objects and their literal presence. These issues also pertain to Lydgate studies, as his relationship with matter is complex. As Lisa H.

Persecution, Punishment, and Purgatory I-II: Methodological Considerations, Historical Explorations

updated: 
Monday, July 11, 2016 - 8:31am
Pearl Kibre Medieval Study/Medieval Studies Certificate Program, Graduate Center, CUNY
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 15, 2016

CFP: Persecution, Punishment, and Purgatory I-II: Methodological Considerations, Historical Explorations

Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Certificate Program, Graduate Center, CUNY

52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 11-14, 2017, Kalamazoo, MI

 

Beowulf to Shakespeare Area

updated: 
Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - 11:31am
Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association (MAPACA), November 3-5, Atlantic City, NJ
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 7, 2016

The Medieval/Renassiance area of MAPACA ("Beowulf to Shakespeare") seeks papers concerning the use of medieval and Renaissance materials in modern productions.  Topics include, but are not limited to, the incorporation of medieval or Renaissance elements in modern artistic productions such as films, t.v. series, novels and music; the creation of medieval and Renaissance "themed" festivals, restaurants, etc., and the use of medieval or Renaissance elements in video games.   The area also seeks panelists interested in presenting on the ways in which contemporary theories and pedagogies influence our perceptions of these eras.

Two Shakespeare Panels for ICMS Kalamazoo 2017

updated: 
Friday, July 1, 2016 - 11:52am
Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Shakespeare at Kalamazoo

International Congress for Medieval Studies 2017

 

Shakespeare at Kalamazoo invites submissions for two sessions at the 2017 Congress, which will be held at Western Michigan University on May 11-14, 2017.

 

‘For they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time’: Negotiating Shakespearean Characters in Performance from Past to Present

updated: 
Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - 11:14am
One of the Seminars of Asian Shakespeare Association, Biennial International Conference, New Delhi, 1-3 December, 2016
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 15, 2016

In criticism, relying on character study or treating Shakespearean characters as real
people, has often been censured. But, in performance, where actors especially need to
get under the skin of the characters they portray, Shakespearean personae do exhibit
some kind of biographical reality.

Rethinking Early Modern Subjectivity (NeMLA 2017)

updated: 
Monday, June 27, 2016 - 11:31am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2016

Modernity is often defined as a series of political, social, and economic shifts related to the emergence of an autonomous subject. Nevertheless, there is a lack of consensus of how to measure the underlying forces driving this supposed change of paradigm. In light of recent approaches to subjectivity, we invite participants to circulate 5-8 pages papers (with theoretical or empirical foci on the topic) and discuss them after a brief presentation. The goal of the seminar is therefore to interrogate the condition of the “early modern subject” through the analysis of established binaries such as (but not limited to) unity/plurality, transcendence/immanence, individual/communal, East/West, local/global, medieval/modern, etc.

Fourteenth Annual Graduate Conference at the Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies

updated: 
Monday, June 20, 2016 - 9:13am
Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 4, 2016

The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst will host its fourteenth annual graduate student conference on Saturday, October 1st, 2016. We are delighted to welcome Diana Henderson of MIT as our keynote speaker.

 

Pre-Modernisms

updated: 
Monday, June 20, 2016 - 9:13am
Pearl Kibre Medieval Study
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Pre-Modernisms: Friday, October 28th, The Graduate Center, CUNY

12th Annual Pearl Kibre Medieval Study Graduate Student Conference

Encountering Shakespeare

updated: 
Monday, June 20, 2016 - 9:09am
Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 15, 2016

Inviting proposals for

ENCOUNTERING SHAKESPEARE

The 40th Annual Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

October 20–22, 2016

Wright State University Dayton, Ohio

Proposals accepted until August 15, 2016

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Ayanna Thompson, Professor of English at George Washington University  

Dr. Curtis Perry, Professor of English at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

Call for Scholarly Articles

updated: 
Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 9:47am
The Shakespeare Newsletter
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

The Shakespeare Newsletter seeks submissions of a scholarly nature and scope (4000-6000 words) on contemporary engagements with Shakespeare/Early Modern English Drama and/or Theater. We expect “contemporary engagements” to be understood in the most general of ways, including but not limited to the following: contemporary appropriations, approximations, and adaptations; film; performance; digital media; new theoretical approaches; new pedagogies; popular culture; global Shakespeare; archival encounters. Submissions will undergo double-blind peer-review.  One accepted essay will appear in each issue as “The Pendleton Essay,” named after the late SN editor, Thomas Pendleton.

Sport in Italian Literature and Arts: NEMLA 2017, Baltimore MD

updated: 
Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 9:45am
Francesco Brenna
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2016

The panel is dedicated to the relationship between sport and Italian literature. How is sport portrayed in Italian literature? How does it function within a literary work? Is sport employed only as metaphors and to add a touch of color, or does it have deeper meanings? What can it tell us about an author? Papers on literary and artistic aspects of sport in journalism or various media, as well as on sport and the visual arts, cinema, etc., are welcome.

 

Please submit your abstract online by September 30, 2016:

 

https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16216

The Great Fire: Reconsidered

updated: 
Monday, June 13, 2016 - 4:23pm
Gabriella Infante & Rebecca Rideal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 30, 2016

The Great Fire: Reconsidered – Call for Papers

3 September 2016 – Wren Suite, St Paul’s Cathedral

 

The Great Fire of London has long been held as a watershed moment in London’s history. Over the course of four days in September 1666, an infernal blaze claimed over 13,000 houses, 87 churches and 52 livery halls, and rendered an estimated 70,000 people homeless. Yet while cellars still burned there were whispers at court that the conflagration might actually be ‘the greatest blessing that God ever conferred’ upon King Charles II because it had crippled the ‘rebellious’ City of London; forever opening its gates to royal power.

International Medieval Congress at Leeds

updated: 
Monday, June 13, 2016 - 10:16am
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Call for Papers: New Research in the Early Drama of the Low Countries

International Medieval Congress at Leeds

July 3-6, 2017

 

The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society seeks three 20-minute presentations on

any aspect of medieval and early modern Dutch and Flemish drama for a session at the 2017

International Medieval Congress at Leeds.

We particularly encourage papers that focus on the 2017 IMC conference theme of

otherness. The Low Countries seems a particularly fruitful area of focus for this theme, as they

spent much of the Middle Ages as perpetual “others” with fluid boundaries and constant

"Sincerity" -- *Deadline Extended* (July 10) -- Special Issue

updated: 
Thursday, June 9, 2016 - 10:07am
Christianity & Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Special Issues - Christianity & Literature - "Sincerity" full name / name of organization: Christianity & Literature contact email: mjsmith@apu.edu 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Christianity & Literature
Two Special Issues:
"SINCERITY" 

Special Issue Editors: Matthew J. Smith and Caleb Spencer 

Nomadic Objects

updated: 
Sunday, June 5, 2016 - 4:30pm
Universities of Paris 3, Paris 7, Paris 10 and Paris 13
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 15, 2016

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Nomadic Objects:

Material Circulations, Appropriations and the Formation of Identities

in the Early Modern Period (16th-18th c.)

 

International Conference – March 2-4, 2017

 

Musée National de la Renaissance (Écouen), Musée Cognac-Jay (Paris, 3e),

Maison de la Recherche de l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris, 5e)

 

Intersectionality

updated: 
Sunday, June 5, 2016 - 3:46am
Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Student Association at The Ohio State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

The Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Association at The Ohio State University would like to invite abstracts from any area of medieval and early modern studies for their fourth annual conference, to be held on October 14-15, 2016 in Columbus, OH.

Abstracts of 250-300 words are due August 31, 2016.

The theme of this years conference is Intersectionality.

The Sermon as Literature

updated: 
Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 12:06pm
Dr. Mark K. Fulk, Panel Organizer/
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

This panel seeks informed readings of British sermons written between 1500 and 1900, reflecting on the ways that the sermon fits in the literature classroom and for literature readers today.What new avenues of research can be pursued in studying the sermon in Great Britain's literature from 1500-1900? How do the well-known sermon writers (e.g., Donne, Andrewes, Wesley) and lesser-known (Barrow, Whitefield, Edwards) form, transform, and deform the genre? And how do we respond to the form as instructors of British literature in the post-Christian, twenty-first century? This panel seeks informed readings of sermons and ability to discuss them in their historical context as well as pedagogically for college/university classrooms today.

[UPDATE-DEADLINE EXTENDED] CFP: Early Modern Utopian Literature (SAMLA, November 4-6, 2016)

updated: 
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 4:11pm
Southeast Renaissance Conference, SAMLA Affiliate
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 6, 2016

2016 marks the 500th anniversary of the first printing of Thomas More’s Utopia, the text that created and provided the name for its own genre.  Since the appearance of More’s text, utopias have been imagined as unreal realities and worlds where people exist according to a specific vision of an author, whose aim might be justice, art, or an imagined reality with a specific agenda. 

We request abstracts that address any aspect of early modern utopianism.  Please submit 250-300 word abstracts along with a brief bio or a one page C.V. by June 6, 2016 to: Dr. Ruth McIntyre, rmcinty1@kennesaw.edu.

Passion, Power, and Rhetoric: Latin Influences on Early Drama

updated: 
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 4:11pm
Elza C. Tiner / Lynchburg College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE DRAMA SOCIETY

Call for Papers: Leeds IMC 2017

Passion, Power, and Rhetoric: Latin Influences on Early Drama

 

The twenty-fourth International Medieval Congress will take place in Leeds, UK, from 3-6 July 2017.  The IMC seeks to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval Studies. However, every year, the IMC chooses a special thematic strand which – for 2017 – is ‘Otherness’. This focus has been chosen for its wide application across all centuries and regions and its impact on all disciplines devoted to this epoch.

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