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NeMLA's 56th Annual Convention, March 06-09 2024, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Description: Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own imagines Shakespeare’s plays being written by Judith, a fabricated sister of Shakespeare, who had escaped an arranged marriage, and turned playwright. Woolf’s text proposes that women need private spaces to write, but this view implies that women during the early modern period were not already prolifically writing, which is not true. Many women during the early modern period were writing and publishing texts across genre, often engaging in political, religious, and social discourse that attempted to revolutionize their societies.

Taking Exception: Adversarial Reading in Early Modern Culture

A Paper Panel for RSA 2025, Boston

Sponsored by the Yale Program in Early Modern Studies

From an early stage, the modern African novel has recognized the unjust challenges faced by African women. Even novels of the 1950's, such as Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City (1954), bear witness to the difficulties that women face in transcending traditional norms as well as modern forms of objectification and exploitation. Even though these novels gesture to the need for better physical and societal realities for women, we may not find in the early novels a plan or vision of what exactly is needed for women to surmount various cultural hurdles and to fully actualize their potential in the modern realm.

STAGING SILENCE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE

3–4 July 2025 / St John’s College, Cambridge

This two-day, in-person conference will explore developing traditions of silence in dramatic texts from antiquity to the Renaissance. Papers are sought from scholars across a range of fields, including classical reception, comparative literature, and medieval and/or early modern English literature. Topics may include:

-       mute characters and/or characters who never appear on stage;

-       characters who gain or lose the power of speech (welcoming perspectives e.g. from disability studies);

“Sketching the Spectral: Ghosts in French-language Graphic Novels”

56th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention

Philadelphia, PA

March 6-9, 2025

 Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2024

Call for Papers

THE BEATS, RADICALISM, AND THE BIPOLAR WORLD

European Beat Studies Network

13th Annual Conference

University of Hildesheim

September 15-17, 2025