Calls for Papers
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The annual Durham Medieval and Early Modern Student Association (MEMSA) conference. This year's theme is Transition and Transformation in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures and will be held in Durham from 5-6 July 2012. Keynote speakers include Professor Margaret Cormack, College of Charleston, South Carolina, and Professor David Cowling from the Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Durham). The conference will also feature a special exhibition of the Durham manuscript collection by Professor Richard Gameson, to be hosted in Durham Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Send abstracts of no more than 300 words to imrs.memsa@durham.ac.uk by no later than 31 March, 2012. Registration for attendance and the conference banquet will be sent in May. Please note that The Economic History Society has generously awarded a number of travel bursaries for postgraduate speakers presenting on economic and/or social matters. If you wish to be considered for a bursary, please note this at the end of your abstract. Imaginative Geographies: Travels of the Mind in Early Modern EuropeA Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Conference, 28th September, 2011 at the University of Bristol, deadline for submission of abstracts is 27 June, 2011. Conference poster, application details here IMAGINING EUROPE - Perspectives, Perceptions and Representations from Antiquity to the Present The Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines will organise an interdisciplinary graduate conference on 27 and 28 January 2011, and the deadline for the proposals is 1 November 2010. Conference poster, application details here ITALY AND ITS PASTS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE Association for the Study of Modern Italy Annual Conference 2010, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, London,19-20 November 2010. Please note that the deadline to submit your paper has now been extended to 15th June 2010. Details on their website: http://www.asmi.org.uk/conferences/ Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium, 17-19 July 2010, University of Cambridge CFP Deadline December 15 2009 Detailed information including contact details here Event Poster here Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, 28th Annual Graduate Student Conference, Thursday, January 21 – Saturday, January 23, 2010 CFP Deadline: October 15, 2009 Organized and run by graduate students, this conference is a premier opportunity for maturing scholars to present papers, participate in discussions, and develop collaborations across the field of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern studies. Participants find a supportive and collegial forum for their work, meet future colleagues from other institutions and disciplines, and become familiar with the Newberry Library and its resources. Selected papers will be published in a peer-edited online conference proceedings. In celebration of the Center’s thirtieth anniversary, this year’s conference is expanded to three days and will include nine panels with up to thirty-six student papers, a keynote address by eminent scholar Jean Howard of Columbia University (sponso! red by the University of Illinois at Chicago), and a staged reading of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by the Shakespeare Project of Chicago. Call for Papers: We invite abstracts for 15-20 minute papers from master's or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies. Please submit a curriculum vitae and an abstract of up to 300 words to renaissance@newberry.org. Priority is given to students from member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium, who may be eligible for reimbursement for travel expenses to attend. See www.newberry.org/renaissance for more information. Society for Renaissance Studies National Conference, 16-18th July 2010 Proposals (max. 400 words) are welcome from both established scholars and postgraduates, on one of the following themes: Rethinking the Medieval/Renaissance Divide / At the Boundaries of Science / Soundscapes and Landscapes, Environments and Ecologies / Possessions and Collections / Between Spirituality and Materiality / Cultural Encounters. They should be sent by Friday 25 September 2009 to the conference organiser: Professor William Sherman, ws505@york.ac.uk Further details, click here Music, Literature, Illustration: Collaboration and networks in English manuscript culture, 1500 – 1700 A conference for postgraduate students and early career researchers, hosted by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton, Chawton House Library, Hampshire, 16-17 February 2010. Abstracts (300 words max.) for proposed papers should be sent by email to both conference organisers Michael Gale (mdg@soton.ac.uk) and Louise Rayment (L.Rayment@soton.ac.uk) by October 16th 2009: Further details, click SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS 1 MAY, 2009 MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities; theme of Space/Time. See website 28 February 2008 / 20 May 2008 "Belief and Time": a Postgraduate Conference at the University of Nottingham's Centre for Medieval Research - 1 February 2008 / 25-27 Sept 2008 "New Worlds, New Publics: Re(con)figuring Association and the Impact of European Expansion, 1500-1700" - 16 November 2007 / 15 March 2008 Venice & the League of Cambrai - 7-11 July 2008 Ninth International Milton Symposium: Call for Papers 2008 marks the quatercentenary of John Milton’s birth in Bread Street, London – the city in which he was to live and work for much of his life. It is therefore appropriate that the Ninth International Milton Symposium will be celebrating this event with a five-day conference, 7-11 July 2008, under the auspices of the Institute of English Studies at the University of London. The Planning Committee (see below) invites papers on − but not restricted to − the following broad themes: Places - London itself provides one obvious focus of interest since Milton was unquestionably the most important writer the city has ever produced. But places, whether real or imaginary, play a large and arguably under-examined part in his writings. Beliefs - There has recently been a resurgence of interest in Milton’s religious beliefs, sparked off in particular by the debate over the authorship of De Doctrina Christiana. We would therefore welcome papers on such themes as heresy, orthodoxy and unorthodoxy, and radicalism. Writings - The texts, contexts, and conditions of publication of Milton’s writings in various genres on various occasions. Events - Fresh papers dealing with key events in Milton’s life and times will be welcome as will those dealing more generally with his responses to the revolutionary upheavals of the seventeenth century. Proposals for papers (500 words maximum, and preferably in the form of an email attachment) should be submitted in the first instance to Professor Martin Dzelzainis, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX; m.dzelzainis@rhul.ac.uk Planning Committee: Warren Chernaik (King’s, London); Martin Dzelzainis (Royal Holloway, London); Karen Edwards (Exeter); Stephen M. Fallon (Notre Dame); Tom Healy (Birkbeck, London); Michael Lieb (Illinois, Chicago); Peter Lindenbaum (Indiana); David Loewenstein (Madison-Wisconsin); Regina Schwartz (Northwestern); Kevin Sharpe (Queen Mary, London) 7 December 2006 / 5-8 July 2007 Varieties of Cultural History: Theory and Practice in the Cultural |
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