> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Gardens of Delight:
> The Pleasures of the Middle Ages
>
> Saturday, October 23, 1999
> Philosophy Hall, Columbia University
>
> Keynote Address: Professor Louise Fradenburg, UC Santa Barbara
>
> This conference will examine the topic of pleasure from a variety of
> angles. How did medieval people represent pleasure and theorize its
> uses and abuses? How do modern critical discourses of pleasure
> condition our responses to medieval texts and images? We will
> scrutinize the categories, terms, and purposes of pleasure in the Middle
> Ages, and we invite papers on material pleasures of all kinds and on
> vocabularies of secular love, mystical rapture, and other forms of
> enjoyment. We are equally interested in papers on how modern paradigms
> of pleasure inform our views of the period.
>
> We welcome papers from all disciplines. Suggested topics include:
>
> Feasting
> Gaming and Hunting
> Friendship and love
> Class, gender, and pleasure
> Forbidden pleasures
> May revels and popular pastimes
> Meadhalls, inns, gardens, and places of pleasure
> Mumming, music, Dance, and drama
> Eroticism
> Virtues and vices
> Pleasure and mysticism
> Utopian and Edenic fantasies
> Eloquence and Decorum
> Jokes, Riddles, and word games
> Beauty: art, architecture, and literature
> Modern theories , medieval texts
>
> Graduate students and recent recipients of the Ph.D. in Art History and
> Architecture, Archaeology, History, Music, Philosophy, Religion, and all
> literature departments are invited to submit a 250-word abstract and
> cover letter indicating any audio-visual requirements by June 30, 1999:
>
> Medieval Guild
> Dept. of English and Comparative Literature
> 602 Philosophy Hall-MC 4927
> Columbia University
> New York, NY 10027-4927
> For further information, please contact :
>
> Mary Agnes Edsall
> mae4@columbia.edu
> (212) 666-5394
>
> Lisa H. Cooper
> lhc11@columbia.edu
> (212) 280-6451
>
> Heather Blurton
> hfb8@columbia.edu
> (212) 316-6507
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