renaissance

CALL FOR PAPERS—EXTENDED DEADLINE 

International Symposium on Early Modern Songscapes 

8-9 February 2019 

University of Toronto 

Proposals are invited for a two-day international symposium coinciding with the launch of the digital platform “Early Modern Songscapes” to be held 8-9 February 2019 at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies in Toronto, Canada. 

Please see the following link for the conference cfp: http://www.pnrs.org/conference.html The conference theme is “Renaissance Perspectives: Lens, frames, optics, focus, proportion; points of view, sightlines, stages, visions, spectacle; theoretical, historical, philosophical perspectives; subjectivity, objectification, the gaze; world views, macrocosms and microcosms; illusions, insights, shifts, representations; and more…”

 Dr. Samantha Dressel (Chapman University and University of California, Irvine) and Alexander Cosh (University of British Columbia) seek a third presenter for this panel proposal. Our current papers are:

Truth and Truthiness: Belief, Authenticity, Rhetoric, and Spin in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

December 1, 2018 

The 26th Biennial Conference of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program of Barnard College 

Plenary Speakers:
 
Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford)
Dyan Elliott (Northwestern University)

What’s Missing in Shakespeare?

Shakespeare's plays are often complicated by what they lack. Key characters go missing from scenes or drop out of the action entirely; absent characters exert influence over those onstage; mislaid or immaterial objects are pivotal to the resolutions of plots; urgent questions are settled through silences; and plays are frequently haunted by untaken roads or abandoned plot threads. In addition, contemporary performances are shaped significantly by cuts to the script, with some scenes or characters rarely realized in performance, and some plays rarely performed at all.

The editors of Arthurian Literature invite submissions for Volume 35 (2019).

Arthurian Literature is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published annually by Boydell & Brewer. Previous editors include Richard Barber, James P. Carley, Felicity Riddy, Roger Dalrymple and Keith Busby. The current editors are Elizabeth Archibald and David Johnson. For further information on the journal, please see:

https://boydellandbrewer.com/series/arthurian-literature.html