CFP: Echoing Anglo-Saxon England (grad) (12/1/06; 2/17/07)
Echoing Anglo-Saxon England: Continuities, Encounters, Influence
The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium 3rd Annual Graduate Student
Conference
Saturday February 17, 2007
The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium (Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton,
NYU) invite interdisciplinary submissions for the 3rd annual
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium Graduate Student Conference to be
held at Columbia University. This conference seeks to explore the
ways in which Anglo-Saxon literature and culture echoes (spatially
and temporally) in surrounding or distant cultures, as well as how
alterity echoes from within Anglo-Saxon texts and cultures.
Submissions can address issues of cultural identity between
Anglo-Saxon England and other societies, both medieval and modern;
the presence of the Anglo-Saxon canon in debates on textual studies
and criticism; and the influence of Anglo-Saxon on the modern
literary imagination and other artistic mediums. Paper topics might
include:
CONTINUITIES
--Pre and Post continuities: Anglo-Saxon influences after the Norman
invasion, continuities in pre and post colonial England, Romanity
and Anglo-Saxon England., Middle English and AS affinities.
--Anglo-Saxon palimpsests in Middle / Medieval / Renaissance English
--The Circum-Atlantic Anglo-Saxon World: American racial
Anglo-Saxonism, Jeffersonian Anglo-Saxonism and revolutionary
democracy
--Anglo-Saxon law and polity, and legal history, evidence and
witnessing
-- Icelandic folklore
--The Antiquarian's Task: conserving and preserving the Anglo-Saxon
archive
ENCOUNTERS
--Anglo-Saxon readings or translations of those who came before them
(i.e. Classical or Eastern texts / cultures)
--Anglo-Saxon encounters with their Scandinavian, European, Eastern
or Celtic contemporaries
--Critical theory and post-colonial studies; theorizing Anglo-Saxon
canon, and vice-versa
--Reader responses to Anglo-Saxon texts from the Old English period
to the present
--History of the book and Anglo-Saxon studies
--Modernity in Anglo-Saxon texts
--Anglo-Saxon and 20th-century pedagogy
--Anglo-Saxon texts or subject matter and modern cinema, theatre,
and music
INFLUENCE
--Polemics and politics in modernist translations of early
literature
--Anglo-Saxon and Celtic influence in the visual arts: from the
Pre-Raphaelites to the tattoo parlor
--the Anglo-Saxon influence on modern authors, including
W.H. Auden Robert Bridges
Robert Graves Thom Gunn
Gerald Manley Hopkins C.S. Lewis
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Richard Wilbur
Walt Whitman
--The impact of new media on Anglo-Saxon studies and pedagogy
Please submit an abstract of up to 250 words in length by email
attachment to ASechoing_at_hotmail.com. Also include your contact
information, including active email address, street address, and
phone number, and any requests for audio-visual equipment. We will
consider all submissions addressing the theme and encourage
interdisciplinary approaches. Submissions must be received by Dec.
1, 2006 to be given full consideration for inclusion in the
program. For more information contact ASechoing_at_hotmail.com.
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