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Fantasies of the Subject: Affecting Selves in Contemporary American Literatureedited by Paula Barba Guerrero & Laura de la Parra Fernández
<p style=”text-align: right;”>If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly towards and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core —the fountain— of our power […] we give up the future of our worlds. —Audre Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury”</p>
“Nations provoke fantasy”, contends Lauren Berlant (1997, 1). In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City (1997), Berlant argues that citizenship has become privatized in neoliberal America, and political discourses have turned to the private sphere and the appeal of the emotions. This way, what being an American citizen represents has become closely linked to the individual subject, their life choices, and their feelings and emotions. In short, certain choices, feelings or even identities, as Donald Pease claims, can be considered “un-American” (1994, 11). At the same time, the tendency toward the privatization of feeling and politics has developed along with neoliberalism. If, according to Foucault, neoliberalism can be understood as organisation of subjectivity (2008), the subject can then be managed by market rationality, whereby identity is turned into a series of rational consumer choices, risk-management and governmentality. The individual can thus be marketed and capitalised through emotions.Following Benedict Anderson’s claim that nations are “imagined communities” (2006, 22), Timothy Brennan affirms that nations “are imaginary constructs that depend for their existence on an apparatus of cultural fictions in which imaginative fiction plays a decisive role” (1990, 49). In this sense, the idea of national fantasy may be propelled forward by means of cultural artifacts that sustain it, and which put forth the “correct” performance of subjectivity. Amongst them, fiction is a powerful tool to create what Lauren Berlant has called “intimate publics”, which are a group of readers and consumers who “already share a worldview and emotional knowledge that they have derived from a broadly common historical experience” (2008, ix). These productions, especially those traversed by sentimentality and addressed to an intimate public, allow, on the one hand, to voice complaints and express discomfort or disappointments at the failed expectations of the “good life” (Berlant 2011), while on the other hand they reify and uphold these normative narratives.
This volume seeks contributions that deal with representations of emotional selfhood from a variety of perspectives. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
– “Biofiction” and the female self
– Bodies and/in nations
– Re/productive future(s)
– National post-memories, mobility, and the American dream
– Radical hope narratives and emotional (after)lives
– Emotional fantasies and cultures: the self and/as the Other
– Environmental fiction and the anthropocene
– Visual and digital cultures
– Political emotion and intimate publics
– Pleasure narratives, affect-centered writing
– Posthuman subjectivities and the emotions of the future
– Literature, emotion, and activism
Prospective contributors are expected to submit 300 to 400-word abstract proposals, including full name, affiliation, and email address to paulabarbaguerrero@usal.es and lauradelaparra@usal.es by December 30th, 2021. Please indicate “Fantasies of the Subject Proposal” in the email’s subject.
Selected, peer-reviewed contributions will be published in 2023 by a top-tier academic press.
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Please find below some information concerning our new publication, entitled Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction, recently published by Brill (Youth in a Globalising World Series, volume 15, https://brill.com/view/<wbr />title/60245) and edited by Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez, Jorge Sacido Romero and Noemí Pereira Ares. Please notice that the introduction to this volume is now available in Open Access.
ABSTRACT: Youth and the postcolonial are united in that both inhabit a liminal locus where new ways of being in the world are rehearsed and struggle for recognition against the impositions of dominant power structures. Departing from this premise, the present volume focuses on the experience of postcolonial youngsters in contemporary Britain as rendered in fiction, thus envisioning the postcolonial as a site of fruitful and potentially transformative friction between different identitary variables or sociocultural interpellations. In so doing, this volume provides varied evidence of the ability of literature—and of the short story genre, in particular—to represent and swiftly respond to a rapidly changing world as well as to the new socio-cultural realities and conflicts affecting our current global order and the generations to come.
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The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic is pleased to announce a call for papers for Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations (GIFCon) 2022 with the theme of ‘Fantasy Across Media’.Much of fantasy studies has focused on the genre’s presence in literature, with histories and theoretical frameworks often either implicitly or explicitly centring the written word. In some cases, academic, critic, and fan responses to the genre outside of literature even go so far as to erase or question the possibility of the genre’s existence in other media, perhaps most famously embodied in J.R.R. Tolkien’s insistence in ‘On Fairy-stories’ that some media, such as drama, are fundamentally incompatible with fantasy. These types of responses fail to account for the medium-specific benefits and challenges that different media pose for depictions of the impossible, serving to establish hierarchies between media, exclude non-literary media from analyses of the genre, and potentially limit a full understanding of the genre’s history.Fantasy and the fantastic have had long, rich histories outside of literature, playing a central role in the development of theatre, film, and comic books, and celebrating a more recent boom on the small screen. Furthermore, from the innumerable reimaginings of the Arthurian tradition, to The Wizard of Oz, to manga and anime, to contemporary multimedia franchises and cinematic universes, fantasy texts have been integral to the history of transmedia storytelling, allowing their rich storyworlds to expand across multiple media. By examining fantasy with a focus on media, we find a genre shaped in distinct ways by the many different media and creative industries that produce it, with specific creative processes and varying cultural media traditions opening onto distinct forms of fantasy that may not be properly accounted for in fantasy studies’ traditional focus on Anglophone literature.GIFCon 2022 is a three-day virtual conference <wbr />that seeks to examine the myriad narrative possibilities afforded by fantasy across media. We welcome proposals for papers relating to this theme from researchers and practitioners working in the field of fantasy and the fantastic across all media, whether within the academy or beyond it. We are particularly interested in submissions from postgraduate and early career researchers, and researchers whose work focuses on non-Anglocentric fantasy. <wbr />We will also offer creative workshops for those interested in exploring how the creative processes of different media shape fantastic storytelling on a practical level. We ask for 300-word abstracts for 20-minute papers. See our Suggested Topics list below for further inspiration. Please submit a 300-word abstract and a 100-word bionote via this form by December 3rd 2021 at midnight GMT. If you have any questions regarding our event or our CfP, please contact us at GIFCon@glasgow.ac.uk. Please also read through our Code of Conduct. We look forward to your submissions!
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Feminism in Contemporary US Popular Culture /roundtables
Registration is open (and free!) for our Roundtables on Feminism in Contemporary US Popular Culture. I attach the program and you can find further information on the speakers, as well as the registration form, here: http://www.popmec.com/fem
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Please find attached the Call for Papers for the “(De)Writing the Borderline: Human and Non-Human Liminal Identities” conference that is being organised at the University of Vigo, with the University of Santiago de Compostela and the University of A Coruña. The conference will take place on 13th and 14th January 2022 in an on-site/online hybrid format. The submission deadline for abstracts is 30th September 2021 and further information is available at diasporas.uvigo.es
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The registration for the International Conference on Literary Translation and Gender is now open. The conference will be held online between 23 and 24 September and will have África Vidal, Ioanna Nicolaidou, Lawrence Schimmel and Raffaella Tonin as plenary speakers.
Registration as an attendee is free of charge and can be made from September 1 onwards through the conference’s website: https://eventos.uma.es/go/<wbr />traduccionygenero.Please find the programme attached. -
FP – Acotaciones. Revista de Investigación y creación teatral / Acotaciones. Research and Theatre Practice Journal – 16 September 2021 The journal Acotaciones welcomes scholarly essays (6000-9000 words) on any aspect of theatre for its next issue (nº 47) to be published in December 2021. The deadline for submissions is 16 september 2021. Acotaciones is a bi-annual publication devoted to theatre and performance research. It is peer-reviewed following a double-blind policy and is published online in open access. All articles should be original and deal with aspects related to theatre and performance. The journal accepts articles in both English and Spanish. All the information for submission is available in https://www.resad.com/Acotaciones.new/index.php/ACT/about/submissions
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ASYRAS is happy to announce the publication of Volume 1 (Summer 2021) of GAUDEAMUS, the Journal of the Association of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies:
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SOAR: Call for General Submissions
<p tabindex=”-1″ data-thread-perm-id=”thread-f:1704179544784490573″ data-legacy-thread-id=”17a67644505dd04d”>Please find enclosed our Call for General Submissions for SOAR: The Society of Americanists Review. Submissions of interdisciplinary scholarship relating to the culture of the United States are encouraged.</p>
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A new issue of Hélice: Reflexiones críticas sobre ficción especulativa has just been released:
https://www.revistahelice.com/<wbr />helice-30/
- Sara Martín, «Retrospective Posthumanism: Frankenstein According to Our Vocabulary»
- Francisco Collado-Rodríguez, «The Female, the Intertextual, and the Transhuman in William Gibson Molly Millions»
- Beatriz Domínguez-García, «Of Mutants and Monsters: A Posthuman Study of Verhoeven’s and Wiseman’s Total Recall»
- Lidia María Cuadrado Payeras, «Posthuman Worldbuilding in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber: An Exploration of the Techno/Natural Divide»
- Rocío Carrasco Carrasco, «Experiencing the Posthuman: The Cinematic Clone in the 21st Century»
- Amaya Fernández Menicucci, «Mors Dei, Vita Mea: Human, Transhuman, and Posthuman Identities in the TV Altered Carbon and Westworld»
- Mónica Calvo Pascual, «The Tiger Flu: A Critical Posthumanist Response to the Illusion of Transhumanism»
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A new Special Issue of the journal The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, vol. 26, Issue 3-4 (2021) on Beneath the Waves: Feminisms in the Transmodern Era has been issued.
This issue has been co-edited by Silvia Pellicer-Ortín, Silvia Martínez-Falquina and Bárbara Arizti and it can be accessed on the following website: https://www.<wbr />tandfonline.com/toc/cele20/26/<wbr />3-4?nav=tocList
The Table of Contents comprises the following articles:
– Beneath the Waves: Feminisms in the Transmodern Era
– Introduction (Silvia Pellicer-Ortín, Silvia Martínez-Falquina & Bárbara Arizti)
– Jewish Agents of Memory in Linda Grant’s Still Here: A Transgenerational and Intersectional Feminist Reading (Silvia Pellicer-Ortín)
– Social Media and Female Empowerment in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (Violeta Duce)
– Female Chants from the Past: Celtic Myths in Tomm Moore’s Song of the Sea (Burcu Gülüm Tekin)
– Feminist Dystopia and Reality in Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God and Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks (Silvia Martínez-Falquina)
– Disempowerment and Bodily Agency in Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and The Handmaid’s Tale TV Series (Julia Kuznetski)
– Reconfiguring Feminism: Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (Merve Sarıkaya-Şen)
– God is a Female Plant: Femininity and Divinity in the Stories of Anne Richter, Kathe Koja, and Karen Russell (Nieves Pascual Soler)
– Inez Baranay’s Ghosts Like Us as a Stolperstein (Bárbara Arizti)- The Social Importance of How Bodies Inhabit Spaces with Others: A Queer Reading of Sarah Waters’s The Paying Guests ( Susana Onega)
– A Reparative Reading of Feminism (Maite Escudero-Alías)
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Early Career Researchers’ Perspectives onthe Literatures and Cultures of Canada/Turtle Island
Call for Papers for a special issue of Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies (Issue 11, 2022).
Coinciding with its 11th anniversary, Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies has recently joined the University of Salamanca publishing program, and to celebrate this event and recognize the contributions of new scholars working in the field, the journal invites new submissions of original research articles in the field of Canadian Studies from graduate and early career researchers.
We are seeking contributions of scholarly interest that reflect current critical approaches to the literatures and cultures of Canada. If you are a PhD student or an early career researcher in the field, we encourage you to take advantage of the opportunity to publish your research in our peer reviewed, open access journal indexed in MLA. Modern Language Association Database, DIALNET, LATINDEX, ISOC, ERIH+.
You can learn more about the journal’s review process, style guide and past issues here: http://www.uhu.es/publicaciones/ojs/index.php/CanadaBeyond/index
Proposals are invited from graduate and early career researchers in the field of literary and cultural studies of Canada/Turtle Island. Topics for papers may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Ethnicity; Race; Colonization; Post-colonial Canada; Neo-colonial Canada
· Indigenous studies; Resistance, reconciliation and resurgence; Land claims; Land acknowledgements
· Multiculturalism; Migration ; Diasporic writing
· Citizenship; Nationalism and national identities; Border theories
· Queering Canada; Gender, sexuality and beyond
· Cultural (re)constructions of Canada’s past; Politics of apology
· Global and regional Canadas; Comparative or transnational perspectives
· The Canadian wilderness; Urban geographies; Space and place
· Climate Change; Environmental readings
· Posthuman approaches; Dystopian views; Speculative realities
· Disability studies
· Digital productions
All submissions to Canada & Beyond must be original, unpublished work. Articles, between 6,000 and 7500 words in length, including endnotes and works cited, should follow the current MLA bibliographic format. Submissions should be uploaded to Canada & Beyond’s online submissions system (OJS) and simultaneously sent to the editors at c.b@usal.es by October 30, 2021. Your submission will be peer-reviewed for Issue 11, 2022. For more information please contact the general editors at the e-mail address above.
- Ethnicity; Race; Colonization; Post-colonial Canada; Neo-colonial Canada
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Call for Papers for issue 17 of the journal Estudios Irlandeses, to be published in March 2022. Submissions that engage in a critical and original way with aspects of Irish literature, history, arts and the media should be sent to contributions@estudiosirlandeses.org not later than 1 November 2021, following the instructions detailed in https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/submissions-new-issue/.
There is also a second CFP por a Special Issue of the journal, which will be guest edited by James Ward (Ulster University) and Joe Lines (Chang’an-Dublin International College, China), with the title “Enlightenment and Modern Ireland: Legacies and Afterlives”. Please, see the attached file for full information.
Estudios Irlandeses is the scholarly journal of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI). Open accessed, it is published online once a year, around St Patrick’s Day, covering a broad scope of interdisciplinary approaches within the field of Irish studies. Each issue includes original articles, interviews, literary translations and a comprehensive review of Irish-themed books produced the year before both in Spain and around the world. Its publication policy is subject to a double-bind peer review process and guarantees a sound, unbiased and fair evaluation conducted by an expert. With a vision to reach a wide international audience, the mission of Estudios Irlandeses is to offer high-quality research and knowledge relevant for a specialist and non-specialist readership. Since its foundation in 2005, the recognition of the high standard of the journal has significantly increased. Awarded with the FECYT quality seal for excellence in scientific journals, recently renewed in 2021, it is indexed in the following directories and databases: Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index, MLA, DOAJ, Academic Search Premier, Directory of Open Access Journals, MIAR, ERIHPlus, Latindex and Dialnet.
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This month’s issue of Dickens Quarterly sees the publication of my article on the discovery of what appears to be the earliest published translation of writing by Dickens into Spanish. I argue that the unsigned translation should be attributed to Guillermo Macpherson, who would go on to be a noted Shakespeare translator. In a closing section on the diasporic history of print, I compare and contrast the routes by which English-language print reached Cádiz and Madrid in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
Here’s a link to the artlicle:The Earliest Spanish Dickens? The 1844 Alborada Translation of Pickwick’s “Madman’s Manuscript”
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Deadline for submissions: 15th June 2021
German Shakespeare Association, Shakespeare-Tage, 12–14 November 2021 in Weimar, Germany.
Should travel be restricted or deemed unsafe by participants we endeavour to host the seminar as an online or hybrid event. This year’s Shakespeare Seminar seeks to discuss the countless ways in which Shakespeare, his works, early modern culture as well as later performances of Shakespeare’s works are political or have been politicised. To what extent can his plays be seen to endorse certain power politics? Are politics in Shakespeare ultimately a question of genre? What impact did the transition from Elizabethan to Stuart rule have on ‘Shakespeare’s politics’? As critical input for the discussion, we invite papers of no more than 15 minutes that present concrete case studies, concise examples and strong views on the topic. Please send your proposals (abstracts of 300 words) by 15 June 2021 to the seminar convenors Dr. Lukas Lammers, Free University Berlin: l.lammers@fu-berlin.de and Dr. Kirsten Sandrock, University of Göttingen: ksandrock@phil.uni-goettingen.de
CfP: “The Rules of the Game in the Early Modern Period”
Deadline for submissions: 30th June 2021
Maison de la recherche, Sorbonne Université, Paris, 18-19 November 2021
Taking the notion of rule(s) as a starting point, this conference will offer an analysis of playfulness and of the spirit of games in the early modern period. Its goal is to understand the place of games in the cultures of the time, possibly even to challenge Huizinga’s postulate that games constitute the very foundation of culture. The conference will focus mostly on the British Isles, while welcoming comparisons with other European countries. The period under scrutiny is necessarily broad (1600-1800) in order to allow for an analysis of the variety of practices and expressions of games and play, but also to test whether the period, often defined through arbitrary temporal limits, does in fact have an internal, organic unity. This conference will focus on texts and ludic practices, game manuals and cultural representations, which might range from literature (from Shakespeare to the romantic period) to the visual arts or to material culture. Theory and practice will both be discussed and contextualised historically. No type of games will be excluded: children’s games, gambling, punning and word games, board games, social games, and even physical activities and sports. The materiality of games will also be examined, as will the practical approaches to games. Please send a 150-word proposal for a 30-minute paper and a short bio to Line Cottegnies (line.cottegnies@sorbonne-universite.fr) and Alexis Tadié (alexis.tadie@sorbonne-universite.fr) by 30 June 2021.
CfP: The British Milton Seminar autumn meeting
Deadline: 31st July 2021
On Zoom, 16 October 2021, 12-2pm and 3-5pm
We currently intend that each session will have two papers (of approx. 25-30 minutes each), for which proposals are invited. Please send proposals to Professor Hugh Adlington (h.c.adlington@bham.ac.uk) and Professor Sarah Knight (sk218@leicester.ac.uk) by no later than 31 July 2021.
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I would like to share with you the news of the publication of the book entitled Alzheimer’s Disease in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Memory Lost (Routledge, 2021).
This volume seeks to bring readers to a deeper understanding of contemporary cultural and social configurations of Alzheimer’s disease by analyzing 21st-century U.S. novels in which the disease plays a key narrative role.
Via analysis of selected works, Garrigós considers how the erasure of memory in a person with Alzheimer’s affects our idea of the identity of that person and their sense of belonging to a group. Starting out from three different types of memory (individual, social, and cultural), the study focuses on the narrative strategies that authors use to configure how the disease is perceived and represented.This study is significant not only because of what the texts reveal about those with Alzheimer’s, but also for what they say about us – about the authors and readers who are producing and consuming these texts, about how we see this disease, and what our attitudes to it say about contemporary U.S. society. -
Please find attached the Call for Papers for the 9th SELICUP Conference, whose deadline for proposals has been extended to 13 June. This event, hosted by P J Safárik University’s Department of British and American Studies (Kosice, Slovakia), is a joint collaboration with SKASE (Slovak Association for the Study of English), the University of the Balearic Islands’ British and Comparative Cultural Studies Research Group and the ‘21st-Century Anglophone Literatures: Narrative and Performative Spaces’ Research Network.
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ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies has announced the Call for Submissions for the next issue (43 (2022)).
ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies is published yearly by the Department of Filología Inglesa at the University of Valladolid, and accepts submission of original manuscripts in the form of articles and book reviews dealing with all major areas of English Studies. It is freely available online at its open-access website and may be accessed in full text also at DOAJ, LION, MLA International Bibliography, REDIB, Dialnet and UVADoc. The journal is indexed by SCOPUS, ERIHPlus, Latindex-Catálogo v2.0, and MIAR, and disseminated by Crossref, ÍnDICEs-CSIC, JournalTOCs, and Scilit, among other indexing and abstracting services.
The current call for papers is open until 30 November 2021, and the expected date of publication is Autumn 2022. You can find more information on the journal and its publication guidelines at https://revistas.uva.es/index.<wbr />php/esreview/index
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Call For Papers: Ghost Scenes / Scènes de spectres
25-26 November 2021
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l’âge Classique et les Lumières (IRCL – UMR 5186) Montpellier, France
Keynote Speaker:François Lecercle, Sorbonne University
Organised by Pierre Kapitaniak (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), Thierry Verdier (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) and Andrew Hiscock (Bangor University, GB).
This international conference addresses the nature and functions of ghost scenes in the performing arts in France, Britain and elsewhere in Europe from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Spectral appearances may be considered from aesthetic, dramatic and/or scenic, metatheatrical, metaphorical, socio-cultural, political, philosophical, and other perspectives – and here the list is by no means exhausted.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by 15 July 2021, together with a one-page curriculum vitae to pierre.kapitaniak@univ-montp3.fr. Papers will be accepted in English and French.
For more information, please see the pdf attached.
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Please, find below (also in the attached pdf) the CFP for the EJES: European Journal of English Studies Special Issue “Limitrophy in Contemporary Literatures in English” (2023)
Call for Papers for Volume 27 (2023) The editors of EJES are issuing calls for papers for the three issues of the journal to be published in 2023. EJES operates in a two-stage review process. The first stage is based on the submission of detailed proposals (up to 1,000 words) and results in invitations to submit full essays from which a final selection is then made. The deadline for essay proposals for this volume is 30 November 2021, with delivery of completed essays in the spring of 2022, and publication in Volume 27 (2023). Procedure EJES operates a two-stage review process.
- Contributors are invited to submit proposals for essays on the topic in question by 30 November 2021.
- Following review of the proposals by the editorial board panel, informed by external specialists as appropriate, the guest editors will invite the authors of short-listed proposals to submit full-length essays for review with a spring 2022 deadline.
- The full-length essays undergo a second round of review, and a final selection for publication is made. Selected essays are revised and then resubmitted to the guest editors in late 2022 for publication in 2023.
Proposals may address, yet are not restricted to, the following questions:
- Human-animal limits
- Human-artefact limits
- Gendered and sexual limits in 21st-century literature
Detailed proposals (up to 1,000 words) for full essays (7,500 words), as well as a short biography (max. 100 words) should be sent to the editors by 30 November 2021:
Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) laura.lojo@usc.es
Jorge Sacido Romero (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) jorge.sacido@usc.es
Roberto Del Valle Alcalá (Södertörn University, Sweden) roberto.del.valle.alcala@sh.se
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Please find attached the Call for Papers for the “(De)Writing the Borderline: Human and Non-Human Liminal Identities” conference that is being organised at the University of Vigo, with the University of Santiago de Compostela and the University of A Coruña.
The conference will take place on 13th and 14th January 2022 in an on-site/online hybrid format. The submission deadline for abstracts is 30th September 2021 and further information is available at diasporas.uvigo.es
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The call for presentations for our Popularizing STEM: Science and Technology in 21st-Century US Popular Culture international conference is now open. The event will take place in mixed format on the days 15-19 November 2021.
We are particularly interested in presentations that seek to engage with questions of intersectional discrimination in STEM representations in popular culture, spanning from cultural products aimed at dissemination and debate on STEM to texts such as films, TV series, comics and graphic novels, genre fiction, video games, new media narratives. You can submit your abstract at popmec.stem@gmail.com by August 1, 2021.
You can find more information, description and practical details on the conference page: https://www.popmec.com/stem-cfp/.
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“Queer Temporalities in Literature,
Cinema and Video Games”
December 2-4, 202This International Conference sees the study of time as being central to the understanding of identity configurations. Studying time as a producer and reproducer of identities can be approached as the unearthing of past events, the imagining of other futures, or as the exploration of time as a formal factor that shapes cultural texts. While conceptions of time as something stable, singular, and unequivocal favor discourses about equally unequivocal identities, approaches to time as being defined by multiple rhythms, interruptions and uncertainties allow for other cultural/social practices to come to life in time or through specific representations of time.
We invite scholars from a variety of backgrounds (Cinema, Cultural, Game, and Literary Studies) to think about time and its impact on processes of queer world-making through its relation with memory, futurities, discontinuities, and expanded approaches to everydayness.
This conference is being organized by members of the Research Project PGC2018-095393-BI00 Temporalidades Queer en la Cultura Anglófona Contemporánea (Literatura, Cine y Videojuegos) [Queer Temporalities in Contemporary Anglophone Cultures (Literature, Cinema, and Video Games)] funded by the Spanish National Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación). The academic host for the conference is the Department of English Studies at the University of Murcia, Spain. Proposals should be around 350 words long. Submissions should be sent to queertemp@gmail.com.
Deadline: June 10, 2021
In view of the current pandemic, this conference will be held fully online.
See the CFP attached for more information. For any inquiries, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us at queertemp@gmail.com.
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CFP: Recognition and Recovery of Caribbean Canadian Cultural Production (Deadline: July 31, 2021)
Please find attached the Call for Papers for the next Special Issue of the Journal Canada & Beyond, guest edited by Michael A. Bucknor and Cornel Bogle.Deadline: July 31, 2021
Recognition and Recovery of Caribbean Canadian Cultural Production: a special issue of Canada and Beyond: a Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies (Issue 10, 2021), with guest editors Michael A. Bucknor and Cornel Bogle.
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AEDEI
The program for the 19th International AEDEI virtual Conference: “Silences and Inconvenient Truths in Irish Culture and Society”, University of Vigo, 27-28 May, is now ready. Please check our website with the latest information: https://aedei2020.wixsite.com/<wbr />vigoconference Our 19th International AEDEI Conference is a free live streaming virtual event. The link to follow the Conference live is https://tv.uvigo.es/live/<wbr />5b60870c8f4208dd20625884
ESSE
Registration to ESSE 2021 online conference is now open. All participants (ESSE members and non-ESSE members) need to register and are kindly asked to do so before July 15th to make sure their registration is validated before the summer break.
The registration procedure is explained here. For ESSE members, registration is free: you’ll only need to create your account and then accept the terms of the contract in the Pre-register tab. Your registration will then be complete. Please do NOT click on “Complete my registration”, which is only for non-ESSE members.
For non-ESSE members, registration is 35 euros until June 15th (50 euros from June 16th): you’ll need to create your account, accept the terms of the contract in the Pre-register tab, and then click on “Complete my registration” and continue until payment.Free guided tours of the city center (broadcast live online) and a free lecture on the world-renowned Lyon chef Paul Bocuse will be offered to registered participants (both ESSE members and non-ESSE members) by our partner New Generation Guide. To sign up, please click on the following link:
https://www.<wbr />newgenerationguide.com/en/<wbr />guided-tours/ESSE2021The latest version of conference programme and book of abstracts is available here.The conference will take place on the Cisco Webex web conferencing platform. You can download the application and test it by clicking on https://www.webex.com/test-<wbr />meeting.html
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We’d like to send this e-mail to promote the book Leonard Cohen, the Modern Troubadour published in December 2020 by Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. It may be relevant to those who specialise in Canadian studies, popular culture, musicology or comparative literature.
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This monograph arose from thinking about the literary tradition as described by the Anglo-American modernist writers Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. In their view, the tradition of European love-lyrics crystallized in the work of the medieval Occitan troubadours, who represented the cultural and political milieu of the Occitanie of that period and whose work reflected the religious influences of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The main subject of their poetry was the worship of a divinized feminine character resembling the Virgin Mary, the Gnostic Sophia, or the ancient Mother Goddess. Their literary preoccupations further flourished in Tuscany, as well as among the German Minnesängers, and at the court of the Sicilian King Frederick II (1194–1250), from where they infiltrated into English literature during the Renaissance. In this period, Classical literature, in combination with troubadour poetry, became the cornerstone of English artistic production. However, it is not so well known that troubadour poetry took as its model the medieval poetry written in Andalusian Arabic. This enigmatic essence is what makes this literature so relevant as it is the first instance of the synthesizing of religions, mythologies, philosophies, literatures, symbols, and motifs coming from cultures other than our own. Nowadays, it is not surprising that contemporary artists draw on the troubadour poets and that they are even contrasted with them by critics. Such is the case of Leonard Cohen, who, during his career, revealed erudition in medieval poetry and religion, and whose work shows many parallels with the work of his Occitan and Andalusian predecessors. For this reason, the book presents a comparison of the texts and motifs present in their works and refers to another important facet of their œuvre: religion and mysticism. The purpose is to highlight the importance of troubadour poetry in the rise of popular culture in the second half of the 20th century. https://www.vydavatelstviupol.cz/en/978-80-244-5784-0 (paperback)
https://www.vydavatelstviupol.cz/en/978-80-244-5787-1 (iPDF)+ an overview of the book is attached to this e-mailAuthor Jiří Měsíc holds a doctorate in English and American literature from Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. His main interests are the mystical branches of Abrahamic religions (Christian mysticism, Kabbalah, Sufism) and their echoes in literature and popular music. Among his most recent publications are the monograph Leonard Cohen, the Modern Troubadour published by Palacký University in December 2020, the critical edition of John Pass’s poetry, Větrná zvonkohra (Protimluv, 2020), the critical edition of Gertrude Stein’s work, Mluvit a naslouchat (Éditions Fra, 2019), as well as several book chapters and academic articles dealing with religious influences in popular music. His most recent research focuses on the exploitation of popular music for commercial purposes, political marketing, as well as on the presence of religious symbolism in advertising campaigns. Currently, he teaches courses on modern language, anthropology, Christian social thought, and ethics at ESIC University in Madrid.
If you’d like to obtain the book, feel free to contact the author on the following e-mail: jirimesic@gmail.com
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We are very pleased to announce the publication of our new book Latinidad at the Crossroads: Insights into Latinx Identity in the Twenty-First Century (Brill Rodopi 2021) ISBN: 978-90-04-46043-0Edited by Amanda Ellen Gerke and Luisa María González Rodríguez Latinidad at the Crossroad: Insights into Latinx identity in the Twenty-First Century provides insight into the ways in which Latinas/os struggle to forge their multiracial and multicultural identities within their own communities and in mainstream U.S. society.
This volume encompasses an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex range of latinidades that confronts stereotypical connotations, and simultaneously advocates a more flexible (re)definition that may overcome static collective representations of identity, ethnicity, and belonging. Well-positioned in the current political context, the notion of latinidad is examined as a complex sociological phenomenon of identity-construction which is affected by outside influences and is used as a powerful linguistic, cultural and ideological weapon to denounce oppression and deconstruct stereotypes. Including chapters from foundational and influential scholars, this collection moves towards a dynamic exploration of how Latinx are remapping their identity positions in twenty-first century America.
Table of Contents:
- “Introduction: Revisiting Latinidad in the 21st Century” by Amanda Ellen Gerke and Luisa María González Rodríguez
- “Seismic Shifts in Chicano/a Literature Leading to the Twenty-First Century: Are Latinos/as Now Coasting or Still Breaking New Ground?” by Francisco A. Lomelí
- “Digging Through the Past to Reconcile Race and Latinx Identity in Dominican-American Women’s Memoirs” by Luisa María González Rodríguez
- “Dominicans and the Political Realm of Latinidad in New York City” by Fernando Aquino
- “Identity, De-colonization and Cosmopolitism in (Afro)Latina Artists’ Spoken Word Performances” by Esther Álvarez López
- “Encarnaciones Cubanas: Elías Miguel Muñoz and Queering of the Latina/o Canon” by Ylce Irizarry
- “Revisiting La Frontera: Consuelo Jiménez Underwood and Ana Teresa Fernández” by Ewa Antoszek
- “Borders and Immigration: Revisiting Canonical Literature under Trump’s Regime” by José Antonio Gurpegui
For more information please see our flyer: https://brill.com/view/title/59115
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Jornada de Seminarios de Investigación I+D+ i: lengua, lingüística y literatura will take place online on the 18th of May (coming Tuesday).
Visit this blog with further information details: https://blogs.uned.<wbr />es/filologiasextranjeras/
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Please find attached the Call for Papers for the I International Conference Literary Translation: A World that Makes Women (In)visible, which will be held online in September 2021. This event will be a place for debate on the intersection between literary translation and gender.
Confirmed Speakers are Lawrence Schimel (Literary Translator and Writer), Associate Prof. Raffaella Tonin (Università di Bologna) and Prof. África Vidal (University of Salamanca).
There will be no registration fee for speakers or attendees and proposals should be sent by May 17 to the following email address: traduccionygenero@uma.es.
The conference website is: http://eventos.uma.es/go/<wbr />traduccionygenero.
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Dressing a Picture: Reimagining the Court Portrait 1500-1800
6 – 7 May 2021
CRASSH, University of Cambridge
As Ulinka Rublack asserts in Dressing Up, her seminal book on dress in early modern Europe, society was extremely dress-literate and nowhere more so than in the courtly environments that generated and fuelled fashion. Within these sartorially-minded elite communities, one was constantly on display. Capturing dressed sitters in paint for prosperity, portraiture was a unique vehicle for the inherent dialectic in clothing between subject and observer, and presentation and perception. As such, this conference will examine three themes surrounding early modern portraiture: the artist, the depicted material culture and the setting for its iconographic display, that is the court. The conference aims to examine these connections via the prism of the period’s intricate social stratification and complex gender power dynamics. The conference will present papers dealing with material between 1500 and 1800. http://courtportrait.crassh.cam.ac.uk/
Investigating American Collections on Paper
35th International Association of Paper Historians (IPH) Congress
June 7-11, 2021
See http://www.paperhistory.org/ for details and registration.
The Congress will open with a keynote address from the eminent paper historian John Bidwell, Astor Curator and Head of the Department of Printed Books and Bindings at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York, and will feature talks given by 35 other outstanding international scholars. Presenters will discuss international paper history, artists’ papers, book papers, watermark databases, new methodologies in paper studies, and toolkits for paper and watermark identification. The 2021 IPH Congress brings together an unprecedented assembly of experts and is designed for interactive discussion. In addition to the pre-recorded presentations with live question and answer sessions, live workshops will allow participants to gain greater familiarity with watermark imaging tools and international watermark databases, guided by their creators.
Medieval & Early Modern Studies Festival
Deadline: Friday 30 April 2021
MEMS, University of Kent, 18 – 19 June 2021
The two-day MEMS Summer Festival celebrates Medieval and Early Modern history, 400 – 1800, and encourages a wide range of interdisciplinary topics, including but not limited to, politics, religion, economics, art, drama, literature, and domestic culture. MEMS Fest aims to be an informal space in which postgraduate students, early career researchers, and academics can share ideas and foster conversations, whilst building a greater sense of community. The conference invites abstracts of up to 250 words for individual research papers of 20 minutes in length on ANY subject relating to the Medieval and Early Modern periods. It also encourages 700-word abstracts proposing a three-person panel, presenting on a specific subject or theme in Medieval or Early Modern studies. https://memsfestival.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/CfP: University of Kent’s seventh annual MEMS Summer Festival
Deadline for all Paper and Panel Proposals is Friday 30th April 2021
Online, 18 – 19 June 2021
This two-day event celebrates Medieval and Early Modern history, 400 – 1800, and encourages a wide range of interdisciplinary topics, including but not limited to, politics, religion, economics, art, drama, literature, and domestic culture. MEMS Fest aims to be an informal space in which postgraduate students, early career researchers, and academics can share ideas and foster conversations, whilst building a greater sense of community. Undergraduate students in their final year of study are also welcome at the conference. We invite abstracts of up to 250 words for individual research papers of 20 minutes in length on ANY subject relating to the Medieval and Early Modern periods. We also encourage 700-word abstracts proposing a three-person panel, presenting on a specific subject or theme in Medieval or Early Modern studies. If you have an idea and would like us to advertise for it, please contact us at memsfestival@gmail.com
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VIRTUAL EME: Early Modern Futures
04 May 2021, 11:30 am–1:30 pm
UCL’s Centre for Early Modern Exchanges celebrates its ten year anniversary this year and the launch of its PhD programme in Early Modern Studies. To mark this occasion, we are bringing together researchers associated with the Centre with colleagues from the award-winning Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) for a roundtable discussion of future directions in research, methodologies and the state of the field of early modern studies. Our focus will be on how different methodologies from connected histories to digital humanities are generating innovative perspectives on the frontiers between old and new worlds, new theoretical understandings and shedding new light on intercultural interactions in the period 1450-1800. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2021/may/virtual-eme-early-modern-futures
Transgender Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
04 May 2021, 3:00 pm–4:30 pm
‘Transgender Shakespeare and His Contemporaries’ features talks on transgender interpretations and adaptations of Shakespeare and contemporary early modern writers, and creative responses to how trans actors and writers can use these texts in modern practice. With Professor Kate Chedgzoy, Dr Colby Gordon, Dr Andy Kesson, Emma Frankland, Robin Craig and Dr Ezra Horbury (chair). https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2021/may/virtual-ias-festival-transgender-shakespeare-and-his-contemporaries
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We are pleased to announce the publication of the book, Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction, as part of the Peter Lang Series Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture.
https://www.peterlang.com/<wbr />view/title/73773?format=EPDF
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The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood, ed. by Coral Ann Howells. Cambridge University Press, 2021. Second edition. http://services.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/canadian-literature/cambridge-companion-margaret-atwood-2nd-edition?format=PB&isbn=9781108707633
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We are delighted to announce the publication of Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage. The link on the Palgrave site is here: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/<wbr />book/9783030584856
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Queer Temporalities in Literature, Cinema and Video GamesDecember 2-4, 2021
This International Conference sees the study of time as being central to the understanding of identity configurations. Studying time as a producer and reproducer of identities can be approached as the unearthing of past events, the imagining of other futures, or as the exploration of time as a formal factor that shapes cultural texts. While conceptions of time as something stable, singular, and unequivocal favor discourses about equally unequivocal identities, approaches to time as being defined by multiple rhythms, interruptions and uncertainties allow for other cultural/social practices to come to life in time or through specific representations of time. We invite scholars from a variety of backgrounds (Cinema, Cultural, Game, and Literary Studies) to think about time and its impact on processes of queer world-making through its relation with memory, futurities, discontinuities, and expanded approaches to everydayness. This conference is being organized by members of the Research Project PGC2018-095393-BI00 Temporalidades Queer en la Cultura Anglófona Contemporánea (Literatura, Cine y Videojuegos) [Queer Temporalities in Contemporary Anglophone Cultures (Literature, Cinema, and Video Games)] funded by the Spanish National Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación). The academic host for the conference is the Department of English Studies at the University of Murcia, Spain. Proposals should be around 350 words long (with a 15% flexibility). Submissions should be sent to queertemp@gmail.com.
Deadline: June 10, 2021 In view of the current pandemic, this conference will be held fully online. Conference website: https://eventos.um.es/event_detail/63251/detail/queer-temporalities-in-literature-cinema-and-video-games-international-conference..html?private=0e561169b533ba6d0524See the CFP attached for more information. For any inquiries, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us at queertemp@gmail.com.
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CALL FOR PAPERS (Sep-Dec 2022) Gothic Studies Special Issue N. 19 Ibero-American Gothic: Gothic productions in the Iberian Peninsula and in Latin America.
The Journal Abusões is pleased to announce a call for papers for issue 19, on the topic of “IberoAmerican Gothic: Gothic Productions in the Iberian Peninsula and in Latin America”. We invite innovative, original submissions on any aspect of Iberian and Latin American Gothic. Abusões is a four-monthly periodical that publishes new research in Gothic Studies and the Fantastic. The origins of Gothic Literature go back to, among others, the Anglo-Saxon, German and French traditions, and the mode is most often associated with them. However, there is also a long-standing tradition of Spanish and Portuguese-language Gothic (Iberian Gothic, Latin American Gothic), which has both followed imported canons and developed unique tropes and myths of its own. The aim of this special issue on Gothic Studies (to be published in 2022) is to bring together research that considers the influence and reception of external models on the Iberian and Latin Gothic, as well as overlooked authors or those in need of critical reappraisal. In so doing, the issue will make a contribution to debates around the legacy and cultural work of the Gothic in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries. The issue invites contributions in English, Spanish or Portuguese. All submissions must follow the guidelines specified at: https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/abusoes/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE FEBRUARY 21, 2022.
Editors Javier Sánchez-Verdejo (UNED, Spain) Júlio França (UERJ, Brazil) Xavier Aldana Reyes (MMU, United Kingdom)
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Please find below the CFP for a special issue of ABEI Journal on the Irish poet Eavan Boland: https://www.abeibrasil.org/news/call-for-papers-abei-journal-232-special-issue-eavan-boland-in-her-many-images.html?lang=pt
“The Journal Abusões is pleased to announce a call for papers for issue 19, on the topic of “Ibero-American Gothic: Gothic Productions in the Iberian Peninsula and in Latin America”. We invite innovative, original submissions on any aspect of Iberian and Latin American Gothic. Abusões is a four-monthly periodical that publishes new research in Gothic Studies and the Fantastic.
The origins of Gothic Literature go back to, among others, the Anglo-Saxon, German and French traditions, and the mode is most often associated with them. However, there is also a long-standing tradition of Spanish and Portuguese-language Gothic (Iberian Gothic, Latin American Gothic), which has both followed imported canons and developed unique tropes and myths of its own. The aim of this special issue on Gothic Studies (to be published in 2022) is to bring together research that considers the influence and reception of external models on the Iberian and Latin Gothic, as well as overlooked authors or those in need of critical reappraisal. In so doing, the issue will make a contribution to debates around the legacy and cultural work of the Gothic in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries. The issue invites contributions in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
All submissions must follow the guidelines specified at: https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/abusoes/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
Submissions are due February 21, 2022.
Editors
Javier Sánchez-Verdejo (UNED, Spain)
Júlio França (UERJ, Brazil)
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El grupo GIECO organiza en la UAH la tercera edición de su curso de verano on line titulado “Introducción a las Humanidades Ambientales” los días 14, 15 y 16 de julio. Si lo consideráis de interés para vuestros colegas o alumnos os agradecería la difusión. Fecha límite de matriculación: 7 de julio. Este es el link a la web: https://www.uah.es/es/vivir-la-uah/actividades/cursos-de-extension-universitaria/cursos-de-extension/26-01-Introduccion-a-las-Humanidades-Ambientales-3.-Ed./
Objetivos del curso: el objetivo que pretende este curso es facilitar a los alumnos una introducción a las Humanidades Ambientales y a su práctica en el ámbito académico y de la comunicación. Las Humanidades Ambientales son el resultado del giro posthumano en las humanidades y nos llevan a cuestionarnos el papel que las humanidades pueden tener en la consecución de modelos de vida sostenibles. Las Humanidades Ambientales tienen un carácter interdisciplinar que permite que aporten un enfoque novedoso a los problemas derivados de la crisis ecológica. Además, suponen la apertura de un diálogo fructífero entre las dos culturas, las humanidades y las ciencias. Dentro de las Humanidades Ambientales, el curso tendrá dos objetivos primordiales: la narrativa sobre la naturaleza y el entorno y la aplicación práctica en el aula.Este curso está organizado por la Dra. Carmen Flys Junquera, pionera de la ecocrítica en España y con amplia trayectoria internacional. Fue de 2010 a 2012 la presidenta de la European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment, y fundó y dirige la revista Ecozon@: European Journal for Literature, Culture and Environment. Y por la Dra. Montserrat López Mújica coordinadora del Grupo de Investigación de Ecocrítica y Humanidades Ambientales con sede en el Instituto Franklin de la UAH y profesora Contratada Doctora en el Departamento de Filología Moderna de la misma universidad.
Relación de Profesores participantes: Carmen Flys Junquera (UAH), Montserrat López Mújica (UAH), Gala Arias (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid), Lorraine Kerslake (Univ. Alicante), Diana Villanueva Romero (Univ. Extremadura), Irene Sanz Alonso (UAH)
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European Romances Across Languages: Book Celebration and Research Perspectives
7 June 2021, 14:30 – 16:00 pm BST / 15:30 – 17:00 pm CEST
Sofia Lodén and Lydia Zeldenrust have both recently published books that look at romances across multiple languages and literary traditions. To celebrate the occasion, we invite you to join us for this online event, sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Literature (Odense/York) and Boydell and Brewer, and chaired by Elisabeth de Bruijn. Lydia and Sofia will talk briefly about their books, but instead of only looking back we want to take the opportunity to consider the future of the study of medieval European literature. To this end, we have invited three researchers working on romances from different areas of medieval Europe to each give a short reflection on what they see as the main obstacles, opportunities, and rewards in the transnational study of medieval romance (in manuscript and print). Their comments will serve as prompts for a general discussion, whereall participants are welcome to ask questions and share their own reflections (although you are also welcome to just join and listen!). Register at https://boybrew.co/3epwPUu
‘Performance in History’
Tragedy (Macbeth): 7 June 2021, 6pm – 7.30pm
Comedy (A Midsummer Night’s Dream): 8 June 2021, 6pm – 7.30pm
History (Richard III): 9 June 2021, 6pm – 7.30pm BST
A series of conversations taking place over three evenings in June, bringing together doctoral and early career researchers to think about the ways in which some of Shakespeare’s best known plays have shifted and changed through their performance(s) across history. Each event begins with a series of short presentations, with each panellist introducing a single performance of the panel’s designated play-text. Thereafter, the panel will reflect upon some of the questions raised by these (and other) performances as the play moves across languages, places, and periods. Audience members will be encouraged to contribute their own memories and responses during the final part of the evening. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/performance-in-history-shakespeare-tickets-152329927915
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The Experience of Loneliness in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries29–30 June 2021
Registration is now open. Our speakers will investigate how people understood and coped with loneliness within their immediate circles and as exiles from the Henrician era to the Restoration. There will also be a final roundtable on precarity, loneliness and becoming an ‘independent scholar’ in humanities research today.https://earlymodernloneliness.blogspot.com/p/news.html
Investigating American Collections on Paper
35th International Association of Paper Historians (IPH) Congress: June 7-11, 2021
The Congress will open with a keynote address from the eminent paper historian John Bidwell, Astor Curator and Head of the Department of Printed Books and Bindings at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York, and will feature talks given by 35 other outstanding international scholars. Presenters will discuss international paper history, artists’ papers, book papers, watermark databases, new methodologies in paper studies, and toolkits for paper and watermark identification. The 2021 IPH Congress brings together an unprecedented assembly of experts and is designed for interactive discussion. In addition to the pre-recorded presentations with live question and answer sessions, live workshops will allow participants to gain greater familiarity with watermark imaging tools and international watermark databases, guided by their creators. See http://www.paperhistory.org/ for details and registration.
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Online seminar: Thanatic Ethics. The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces.
Speakers: Dr. Bidisha Banerjee (University of Hong Kong), Dr. Judith Misrahi-Barak (Université Paul Valéry), Dr .Thomas Lacroix (Maison Française d’Oxford)
9th June
See the pdf attached for more information on registration.
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The politics of piracy in Renaissance England: the case of Thomas Tomkins
Online- via Zoom
22 March 2021, 5:15PM – 7:00PM
IHR Seminar Series: Tudor & Stuart History with Paul Hammer (University of Colorado Boulder). This work-in-progress paper explores the misfortunes of a gentleman privateer, Thomas Tomkins, who was branded as a pirate after the Venetian Republic complained to the new Jacobean regime about his seizure of the Balbiana in early 1603. Tomkins has featured as a minor footnote in several histories of English piracy of this period, mainly as a cautionary tale of plundering a foreign vessel whose value was too great to be overlooked in international diplomacy. However, a fuller exploration of Tomkins’ blighted career suggests a more complicated story which highlights the intersections between piracy, diplomacy, commerce, patronage and politics in the 1590s and early 1600s. Professor Paul Hammer is Director of the Center for British & Irish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. All welcome. This event is free, but booking is required. Joining details included in the booking confirmation. https://www.history.ac.uk/events/politics-piracy-renaissance-england-case-thomas-tomkins
Digital Resources In Early Modern Studies
29th March, 2-3.30 p.m. (Swiss time, UTC+1)
Zurich Early Modern Online Resources Seminar (ZEMORS) with Dr Devani Singh (University of Geneva, FNS Ambizione), Dr Regula Hohl Trillini (University of Basel, FNS project) , Prof. Dr Laura Estill (St Francis Xavier University, Canada). This seminar aims to promote the use of digital resources in early modern studies, as early as at BA level. Students are therefore very welcome, as well as academics who would like to learn more about these digital resources and how to promote them amongst their students. Each speaker will offer an overview of how to use a particular digital resource and will then give a practical example of how this could be used both for academic research and also by students for a research paper or thesis. There will be time to ask questions at the end. https://uzh.zoom.us/j/6040228421?pwd=QnJDQVJWM3ZqTm8zc2M5TFVpOFNpUT09
Meeting ID: 604 022 8421, Passcode: UZH
Courage, Language, Discretion and Learning’: Lancelot Andrewes and Early Modern Religious Culture
New date, 26-27 March 2021
This celebration of the wonderfully named Lancelot Andrewes is the hard work of Tilly Zeeman (York) and Joseph Ashmore (Caius College, Cambridge) will be available on Zoom and you can book your place via the following link,https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lancelot-andrewes-and-early-modern-religious-culture-tickets-130543883269
Reviving the Trinity: New Perspectives on 15th-Century Scottish Culture
27 March 2021, 09:30 – 17:30This collaborative, interdisciplinary project looks again at the Trinity Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, Trinity Collegiate Church, and Trinity Hospital as emblems of Scotland’s inventive and ambitious cultural milieu, and its active, outward looking engagement with Europe and beyond.https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reviving-the-trinity-new-perspectives-on-15th-century-scottish-culture-tickets-141678898399
Wastelands: space, reuse and the urban body in early modern Genoa and Venice
30 March, 5:15pm via Zoom
Edinburgh Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Speaker: Jane Stevens-Crashaw, School of History, Philosophy and Culture, Oxford Brookes University.
Dire Straits: Patagonia and the Magellan Circumnavigation at 500
30 March 2021, 12:45 pm–8:00 pm
This conference aims to unite new and diverse critical perspectives on the Strait, its surrounding regions, and the Pacific spaces that it brought into European view for the first time, across a broad time frame. This event seeks to avoid the triumphalist commemorative narrative typifying many celebrations of this anniversary, and provide a space that privileges alternative, decolonial and emerging research that continues to question the tropes of barrenness and desolation that have long been associated with Patagonia. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2021/mar/online-conference-dire-straits-patagonia-and-magellan-circumnavigation-500
Wastelands: space, reuse and the urban body in early modern Genoa and Venice
30 March, 5:15pm via Zoom
Edinburgh Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Speaker: Jane Stevens-Crashaw, School of History, Philosophy and Culture, Oxford Brookes University.https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/centre-medieval-renaissance/news-events/seminars/medieval-renaissance-seminar
Glorious Sounds: Exploring the Soundscapes of British Nonconformity, 1550-1800
14 – 15 April 2021International John Bunyan Society (IJBS), Northumbria University
This major two day multi-disciplinary conference seeks to explore the various ways that sound impacted the lives and writings of early modern Nonconformists and, in turn, their spiritual practices. How did godly noises/speeches/music compete with and/or complement one another? Did the propinquity of households/meeting houses/churches hinder or help religious worship? How were the same prayers and sermons spoken/heard differently? Did silence, or its lack thereof, effect the delivery/auditory of God’s Word? In short, what sounds defined and defied British nonconformity? https://glorioussounds.org/
California Rare Book School: The Renaissance Book, 1400 – 1650
August 2 – 6, 2021
This course will serve as a comprehensive introduction to the history of the book in early modern Europe, from the beginning of the fifteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth. Our goal will be to use the holdings of the UCLA Special Collections, focusing on Aldines and other pre-1600 imprints, the Getty Research Institute Special Collections, and the Huntington Library to learn to “read” a Renaissance book, both as a physical object and as a carrier of both informational content and cultural values. We will examine in turn how these books were produced, distributed, and used by those who bought and read them. The course is intended for special collections librarians, collectors, booksellers, and scholars and graduate students in any field of Renaissance studies. For more information and how to apply please visit: http://www.calrbs.org/admissions/
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CfP: Women and Agency: Transnational Perspectives, c.1450-1790
Deadline for submission: 28th March 2021
Virtual Symposium, University of Oxford, 24-25 June 2021
This two-day interdisciplinary symposium invites scholars to examine early modernwomen’s agency from a transnational perspective. Conversations about women’s agency continue to ripple across the world, from new, passionate campaigns in Mexico and Poland that have fought to address feminicide and sexual violence, to the Women’s Marches, which have annually inspired global response. Now, we turn with fresh urgency to early modern women’s participation in intellectual and literary cultures that bridged regional, national, and transnational divides. Please submit an abstract (no longer than 250 words for an individual paper or 500 words for a three-person panel) and a short CV to womenandagency@gmail.com by the 28th March 2021.
CfP: Edmund Spenser and Animal Life
Deadline for submissions: 31st March 2021
University of Sussex, Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies, 18th June 2021
Horses, lions, apes, butterflies, sheep, and aqueous creatures of many forms populate Spenser’s landscapes and poetic worlds – from the romance geography of The Faerie Queene to the pastoral realm of The Shepheardes Calender and beyond. Despite its panoply of non-human life, though, Spenser’s oeuvre has so far been neglected by animal studies. Led by scholars such as Erica Fudge, Laurie Shannon, Bruce Boehrer, and Karen Raber, this is a critical and philosophical approach that has lately gained much traction in early modern scholarship. Spenserians have brought posthuman approaches more broadly into dialogue with the poet’s works, namely in the special edition ofSpenser Studies entitled Spenser and ‘The Human’ (2015, ed. Ayesha Ramachandran and Melissa E. Sanchez). And some important representative writings exist, Joseph Loewenstein’s 2007 essay ‘Gryll’s Hoggish Mind’, being key. But are we right to think that Spenser has ‘virtually no affective’, but instead a ‘highly theoretical’, engagement with fauna?[1] What might that theoretical engagement look and sound like? What are the affect and the effect of the animal in Spenser’s work? How do we position animal life in Spenser’s thought and his creativity? Please send 200 word proposals, with a 50 word bio, to Dr Rachel Stenner at the University of Sussex (rachel.stenner@sussex.ac.uk) and Dr Abigail Shinn at Goldsmiths (a.shinn@goldsmiths.ac.uk) by Wednesday 31st March 2021.
Seminar Religion and Shakespeare’s Afterlives
Online 11th World Shakespeare Congress (Singapore, 18-24 July 2021)
Deadline for submissions: 1 April 2021
The seminar welcomes contributions that explore the ‘turn to religion’ in Shakespeare studies. Papers may consider how Shakespeare’s works have been reinvented in religious terms and used as religious ideological instruments; how Shakespearean explorations of spiritual themes can become pivotal in religious discourses worldwide; whether the religious instrumentalisation of Shakespeare and his work may contribute to the resolution of current religious conflicts; how circulation between secular and religious energies are propelled by Shakespeare’s religious afterlives; how diverse and inconclusive interpretations of Shakespeare’s religious beliefs and practices may have triggered different literary, religious, and political appropriations of the author and/or his work; how theology, divinity, and religious studies make use of Shakespeare. Possible contexts for the religious use of Shakespeare may include religious ceremonies and commemorative acts, politics and diplomacy, educational activities and institutions, fictional and biographical representations of Shakespeare, and the complexities of translating and editing Shakespeare between cultures. Convenors: Marta Cerezo Moreno (UNED, Spain, mcerezo@flog.uned.es), Olivia Coulomb (Aix Marseille University, ocoulomb@hotmail.com) You should submit your enrolment form (before April 1 2021) and registration at the WSC 2021 website (http://www.wsc2021.org/index.html) in order to confirm your registration in our session and the Congress. Financial grants are available to seminar and workshop participants. For more details on financial grants, please see the Congress registration page: http://www.wsc2021.org/registration.html
CfP: The Experience of Loneliness in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Deadline for submissions: 1 April 2021
Online Conference, University of Birmingham, 29–30 June 2021
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, public health experts worldwide have been concerned about a loneliness epidemic. This has wider ramifications within the academy too. How might we better support unaffiliated scholars who may feel that they are writing in isolation without the support of a community of colleagues? How might one feel ‘lonely’ even within an institution? And how could our understanding of ‘loneliness’ in early modern prose and poetry deepen our perception of social isolation for scholars and writers today? Building upon important work on the spatial, material and religious dimensions of solitude in late medieval and early modern Europe (Enekel and Göttler, eds, Solitudo (Brill, 2018)) and ongoing research at Queen Mary, University of London (‘Pathologies of Solitude, 18th–21st Century’), this two-day symposium aims to explore the notion of loneliness and isolation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writings. Contributions from independent scholars and ‘precarious’ ECRs, in addition to papers which touch upon personal experiences of loneliness in modern academic life, are especially welcomed. Papers must be delivered in English, not exceeding 20 minutes in length. Accommodations will be made for contributors delivering their papers from outside the UK. Please send abstracts (max. 300 words) and a short biography (max. 100 words) to Hannah Yip and Thomas Clifton (earlymodernloneliness@gmail.com) by 1 April 2021.https://earlymodernloneliness.blogspot.com
Crossing Borders, Contesting Boundaries
Deadline: Friday 16 April 2021
MEMSA, University of Durham, 19 – 21 July 2021
Borders and boundaries divided the medieval and early modern world, both its physical space and its more intangible social hierarchies and networks. They helped to construct and reinforce identities, creating a sense of belonging and security; but they also partitioned, segregated, and excluded. Thus, once set, borders and boundaries invited debate, defence, and defiance. MEMSA’s 15th annual postgraduate conference will be running as a digital event, with papers presented as pre-recorded videos. It welcomes abstract submissions from postgraduate students and early career academics addressing the theme of ‘Crossing Borders, Contesting Boundaries’ in its broadest possible sense. https://durhammemsa.wordpress.com/memsa-conferences-and-conference-proceedings/
CfP: Classical Reformations: Beyond Christian Humanism
Deadline 16 April 2021
Online with The Warburg Institute, 3 September 2021
This conference explores how the literature and ideas of the classical world calibrated early modern Christianity—its interpretation, ordinances, moral instruction, politics, theology, cultural expression, and polarizing impulses of confessionalisation. Looking beyond the Christian absorption of pagan material and Erasmian humanism redux, this conference focuses instead on a classical Christianity, even a Greco-Roman monotheism, in the generations after Erasmus. Where recent scholarship has replaced confessionalism at the heart of early modern philology, we aim to replace classicism at the heart of theology and religious politics. The classical tradition was too ubiquitous and authoritative a presence in early modern intellectual life to have left theology untouched. We welcome any proposals that engage with these themes. Proposals may relate to any aspects of this phenomenon across Europe, and case-studies may feature the vernacular or the languages of Latin, Greek, or Hebrew. We warmly welcome papers on scholarly as well as popular literature, Protestant as well as Catholic communities, and those that engage with the religious politics of the Reformation more generally. Abstracts of no more than 250 words, and any queries, should be sent to classicalreformations21@gmail.com by 16 April 2021.
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