The Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies invites submissions for its
seventh annual conference, to be held in Miami, Florida, October 14-17,
1999.
GEMCS provides a forum for innovative and experimental inquiries into
all aspects of early modern culture and society. The rubric of cultural
studies enables us to encompass a variety of disciplinary fields and
theoretical approaches, among them anthropology, art, history, law,
literature, and music. Approaches include, but are not limited to,
feminist, materialist, multiculturalist, gay and lesbian, historicist,
disability-related, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, and ethnological
analyses of European, American, Native American, African, Near Eastern,
and Asian cultures.
This year's theme is "Labor and Leisure, 1440 - 1840," and we seek
proposals dealing with the social, economic, aesthetic, sexual,
gendered, artistic, political, racial, and philosophic aspects of either
or both of these spheres. We solicit works that investigate, discuss,
challenge, or undermine the definitions and cultural manifestations of
labor and leisure.
We are particularly interested in proposals that address the following
topics:
•Working-Class Authorship
•Saturnalia
•Duelling
•Hunting
•Freak Shows, Oddities, and Other Forms of
Bodily Entertainments
•Merchant and Industrial
•Able-bodied workers/Disabled
Non-workers
•Capitalism
•Factory Life
•Literature and/as Work
•Literature and/as Leisure
•Revisiting Marxist Theories of Labor
•Rethinking Foucauldian Notions of
Pleasure
•Conspicuous Consumption
•Crafts and Hobbies
•Sex Work(ers)
•Commerce and Trade
•Leisure and Landscape
•The Art of Leisure
•The Invention of Leisure/Leisure Activities
•Pornography and the Family
•Games
•Labor Relations
•The Division(s) of Labor
•The Psychology of Leisure
•The Ethic of Work
In order to allow the greatest possible amount discussion, presentations
will be limited to ten minutes. GEMCS actively seeks alternative format
panels -- workshops, large panels, discussion groups, informal
presentations. Workshops and seminars on innovative pedagogy and
institutional politics are especially welcome. Once again, the
conference will feature a series of critical debates on selected topics
drawn from the conference theme as well as from contemporary academic
concerns. Group leaders will facilitate discussions on topics to be
announced shortly before the conference.
One-page abstracts for individual papers must include NAME, AFFILIATION,
and E-MAIL address; proposals for panels must include one-page abstracts
for each presenter, as well as the names, affiliations, and e-mail
addresses of ALL participants. Panels of 4-6 participants will be given
preference. Participants will be notified of their acceptance to the
conference by e-mail.
Address all postal submissions by April 15, 1999 to:
Professor Lisa Blansett
Department of English DM461 A
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33199
Send all e-mail submissions by April 15, 1999 to:
Pat Gill -- gill@wmich.edu
Please use subject line: GEMCS Proposal
Send only ONE abstract. Submit abstracts and proposals EITHER by post OR
by e-mail. Do NOT use both means of
delivery. Check this site for conference info and updates.
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