Transforming Objects: Call for Papers
12 January 2012
Call for Papers: Transforming Objects
28-29 May 2012, Northumbria University
This two-day conference invites papers that consider the transformation of objects and the transformations effected by objects from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Approaches to this theme are welcomed from established scholars and especially from postgraduate research students.
Object theory and discourses of materiality largely engage with objects as stable items of a permanent nature; this conference seeks to address those moments which slip through the gaps of such readings. We wish to explore the method and process of transformation, the between-ness or not fully realised state of an object or discipline, and to consider its effect upon the culture. …
http://transformingobjects.blogspot.com/p/call-for-papers.html
A conference organized jointly by ‘Print Networks’ and the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester (July 2012)
Offers are invited for conference papers of 30 minutes’ duration. The theme of STREET LITERATURE: CHEAP PRINT, POPULAR CULTURE AND THE BOOK TRADE is broadly defined. Papers may relate to aspects of the production, distribution and reception of ‘street literature’ (chapbooks, ballads, broadsides, newspapers, popular prints and other cheap printed matter) in the British Isles, or in other English-speaking parts of the world, between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, inclusive.
An abstract (up to 650 words) of the offered paper and a biographical statement (up to 100 words) should be submitted, preferably as an email attachment, by 31st January 2012
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?p=2023
Call for Papers: Bedtime Stories – Beds and Bedding in Britain, 1650-1850 (June 2012, Leeds)
28 November 2011
This conference is being held as part of a year long celebratory exhibition of beds at bedrooms at Temple Newsam House, following the restoration of the Queen Anne State Bed from Hinton House. The conference brings together both museum professionals and scholars to share insights on historic beds and bedrooms in order to further understanding and inform the interpretation of beds and bedroom interiors. …
Topics to consider are:
Conservation or restoration projects related to beds and bedroom interiors
Material culture of the bedroom; waking up, going to sleep, making and cleaning beds and other rituals and practices associated with the bedroom
Interpretation of beds and bedrooms to different audiences within museums and other heritage settings
Upholstery and textiles of the bedroom
Types of beds, nomenclature, materials and construction
The bedroom and its place in relation to other domestic spaces.
Deadline for titles and abstracts (no more than 300 words): 30th January 2012.
http://historiesofhomessn.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/call-for-papers-bedtime-stories-beds-and-bedding-in-britain-1650-1850/
This one-day symposium will explore the relationship between walls and art in early modern visual culture. During the period 1550-1850 the interplay between work and wall became increasingly complex as art objects began to pull away from the walls which had previously defined them. The enduring association between artistic skill and craft production meant that many art works were often still regarded as elements in overarching decorative schemes; paintings installed in eighteenth-century English domestic interiors, for example, continue to be described as part of the ornamentation, even as the furniture, of a room…
Saturday, 19 November 2011
10.00 – 17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
The Courtauld Institute of Art
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2011/autumn/nov19_ArtAgainsttheWall.shtml
CFP Memory Cultures in Early Modern Europe
30 September 2011
Memory before Modernity.
Memory Cultures in Early Modern Europe
Leiden University, The Netherlands
20-22 June 2012
https://collab.vuw.leidenuniv.nl/sites/tales/emm/Pages/Conference.aspx
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CFP: COMMONS: Shared Resources and Collective Activity in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance
25 September 2011
Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference for the Group for the Study of Early Cultures, The University of California, Irvine
April 20 – 21, 2012
Keynote Speaker: Julian Yates, University of Delaware
The commons once referred to tracts of land – forests and meadows, seas and waterways – open to collective use
by members of one or more communities… The commons
also referred to a people distinguished from nobility by virtue of their birth, occupations, and cultural practices. There was a distinctly political characteristic to the commons that implied the bearing of communal burdens and the sharing of certain limited rights and privileges…
This conference aims to gather models of the commons in its various modes including but not limited to land, public space, joint ownership, and collective action in medieval and Renaissance practice, with some sense of their viability as models for alternative economic, spatial, artistic, and political practice today.
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/SOH/bin/display_news_detail.php?recid=1626&dept_code_val=993&css_path=earlycultures&bkgd=e7d9ac
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Conference: Migration of Knowledge, Oxford, March 2012
25 September 2011
How the secularization of religious houses transformed the libraries of Europe, 16th-19th centuries
The closure of religious houses, in varying circumstances, affected all of Europe at some point between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. At different times and in different countries the consequences were widely varied, in some cases preserving medieval and early modern collections intact, in others abandoning books to their fate, or transferring them piecemeal into new ownership to serve different cultural purposes.
What impact did these historic changes have on the shape of libraries, access to libraries, and in particular on the preservation or otherwise of books from the past —the intellectual heritage of Europe?
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/MigrationofKnowledge.htm
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CFP: COMMONS: Shared Resources and Collective Activity in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance
17 September 2011
Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference for the Group for the Study of Early Cultures, The University of California, Irvine
April 20 – 21, 2012
Keynote Speaker: Julian Yates, University of Delaware
The commons once referred to tracts of land – forests and meadows, seas and waterways – open to collective use
by members of one or more communities… The commons
also referred to a people distinguished from nobility by virtue of their birth, occupations, and cultural practices. There was a distinctly political characteristic to the commons that implied the bearing of communal burdens and the sharing of certain limited rights and privileges…
This conference aims to gather models of the commons in its various modes including but not limited to land, public space, joint ownership, and collective action in medieval and Renaissance practice, with some sense of their viability as models for alternative economic, spatial, artistic, and political practice today.
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/SOH/bin/display_news_detail.php?recid=1626&dept_code_val=993&css_path=earlycultures&bkgd=e7d9ac
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Law and Governance in pre-Modern Britain (14-15 Oct 2011)
9 September 2011
Law and Governance in pre-Modern Britain is the third conference on this general theme held at The University of Western Ontario, and the first to focus entirely on the pre-modern period. Over the course of two days we will hear from an international group of leading legal historians with interests in literature, gender, marriage, and rebellion as well as legal education, the development of the profession, pardon, process and performance. The theme of the conference is intentionally broad, and the speakers have been asked simply to talk about whatever aspect of their research interests them most at the time.
http://history.uwo.ca/law-and-governance/index.html
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Play in the Eighteenth Century (cfp 2012)
6 September 2011
The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University is pleased to announce the eleventh Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Workshop, to be held on May 9-11, 2012. The workshop is part of a series of annual interdisciplinary events that has been running since 2002, with a dozen or so scholars presenting and discussing papers on a broad topic in a congenial setting.
Our subject for 2012 is “Play.” From the aesthetics of Schiller to the card tables of socialites; from Pascal’s wager to Emile’s childhood (“which is or ought to be only games and frolicsome play”)—the long eighteenth century was a century of play. …
We invite papers that range across aesthetic, anthropological, historical, and philosophical registers, and that offer new ways to see the relation between these fields and disciplines. …
[Deadline for applications Friday, January 13, 2012.]
http://www.indiana.edu/~voltaire/cfp2012.html
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As part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project ‘Early Modern Manuscript Poetry: Recovering our Scribal Heritage’, this conference will explore the role of manuscripts in the production of individual and corporate identities in early modern culture, including the commissioning, copying, circulation, and collection of manuscripts. The conference welcomes multidisciplinary approaches and is keen to consider the relationships between manuscript and print identities in the period.
*Topics might include:
* ownership and commissioning; selection criteria (authorial, thematic, generic, miscellaneous); scribal identities; collection and donation; manuscripts and place; the construction of poetic, religious, political, and regional identities in manuscript; coteries; circulation and dissemination; manuscript afterlives; editing
25-26 May 2012, Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield University
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?p=1733
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15 July 2011, University of Sheffield
A one-day conference to showcase the work of postgraduate and early career researchers whose research into early modern Europe relates to communities. We would like to encourage interdisciplinary approaches from across the arts and humanities and the social sciences.
The early modern period has often been linked with the birth of the individual, of the cultivation and presentation of the Self… However, such ideas about the primacy of the individual mush be reconciled with the strength of various social groups in this period, such as the numerous religious communities resulting from the Reformation or the family; as Natalie Zemon Davis has argued “certain forms of embeddedness – most especially in the family – could assist in consciousness of self”. Therefore, the aim of this conference is to explore the concepts and discussions relating to communities and individuals in early modern Europe across a broad range of contexts.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/conferences/communities.html
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A two-day conference at the Queen’s House, Greenwich
15–16 February 2012
The Queen’s House in Greenwich is acknowledged as one of the most significant architectural sites in Britain, and as an outstanding expression of the cosmopolitan court culture of early Stuart England…
The Queen’s House provides both the venue and the central intellectual focus for a two-day conference organized by the National Maritime Museum for February 2012. The conference has been conceived to bring together scholars working in a variety of disciplines to discuss the origins, meanings and legacy of the Queen’s House, and to deepen understanding of the cultural languages embodied within its fabric. It aims to explore the architectural, artistic and broader cultural meanings of the House and related sites in London and beyond. We hope to publish an edited selection of papers from the conference.
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/conferences-and-seminars/call-for-papers-inigo-jones-the-queens-house-and-the-languages-of-stuart-culture
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Aphra Behn, the most successful female playwright of the seventeenth century, forged her public identity in the theatre. However, her oeuvre extends to a range of genres including prose fiction, translation, and verse. This conference aims to explore Behn’s writing and the writings of her forebears and contemporaries, in order to begin the process of placing Behn and her literary peers back into their context of seventeenth-century England.
We invite papers that explore the writing of Behn and/or her contemporaries in its historical or generic contexts, the literary networks of the mid- to late seventeenth century, or how Restoration authors placed themselves in relation to their contemporaries.
Deadline: Enquiries and abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to the organizers no later than 16 September 2011
http://www.aphrabehneurope.org/conferences.php
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James Harrington (1611-1677) is a key figure in 17th-century English republican thought… Harrington’s ideas had their place in the American and French Revolutions and beyond, while the study of his work has contributed to a boom in republican scholarship over the past thirty to forty years. This conference focuses on the much neglected European dimension of English republican thought, in particular the personal networks that contributed to the dissemination of English republican ideas on the Continent.
Scholars from different countries and disciplines will engage among others with the following questions. How did ideas travel in early modern Europe? What was the role of personal friendships, or political and business connections in the transmission of ideas? How did ideas circulate in letters or in manuscript form? Which role did printers, publishers and booksellers play in the process? And how were works adapted and transformed when they crossed national boundaries?
http://www.uni-potsdam.de/erin-conference/index.html
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