Please note: the deadline has been extended to June 15. Apologies to
those of you receiving more than one copy of this cfp. Please forward
this email to others who may be interested.
Thanks,
Erika Lin (wearing my non-CFP list editor hat)
----Call for Papers
WRINKLES IN TIME: RUPTURES AND CONTINUITIES IN THE WRITING OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE
October 7, 2000
A Graduate Student Conference at the University of Pennsylvania
Plenary Panel: Chris Chism, Rutgers University (New Brunswick) Sean Keilen, University of Pennsylvania Katherine Rowe, Bryn Mawr College Vance Smith, Princeton University Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
This conference will explore both the writings produced during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and the ways in which those periods have themselves been written to meet a variety of subsequent historical and cultural concerns. We are particularly interested in papers relating specific topics to larger theoretical questions, especially those posed by recent historicist scholarship. Potential topics may come from, but are not limited to, the following areas of interest:
* periodization: historiography, terminology, cultural fantasy * literal "wrinkles" and other objects: material culture in its temporal dimension * religious reformations: innovation and conservation * transformations in gender, sex, and identity * performance: actual practices and theoretical frameworks * the genres of history-writing: chronicles, lives, history plays * marginal, "unwritten" histories * reception and revision of medieval forms in Renaissance literature * manuscript matrix / print culture * communities constructed in space and over time * monarchic regimes and dissenting forms of power
We welcome not only papers focusing primarily on writings in English but also those focusing on literatures and cultures outside of England.
By June 15, 2000, single-page abstracts for twenty-minute papers should be sent to:
(no attachments please). Questions about the conference may be directed to the same address. Questions and abstracts can also be sent via regular mail to:
Wrinkles in Time Conference 119 Bennett Hall Department of English University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6273
More information about the conference can be found at
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~wrinkles
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