Update: Deadline extended to 9/4
----...a very last call for submissions to a panel announced earlier this summer...
Proposals are invited for a panel on "Comparative Colonialisms" for Le 19e siecle "renaissant" / Renaissance in the 19th Century An international and interdisciplinary conference jointly organized by The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (U. of T.) The Joseph Sable Centre for 19th Century French Studies (U. of T.) 4-6 October 2001 at the University of Toronto
Broadly, the conference aims to "examine 19th Century scholarship on the Renaissance, the imitation and emulation of Renaissance works or styles, the renewed interest in humanism, neoplatonism, or in major figures of 15th and 16th Century Europe." Possible topics for the "Comparative Colonialisms" panel might include:
--c19th recuperation of the Renaissance age of expansion
--the activities of learned associations, such as the Hakluyt Society, towards (re)animating and (re)creating Renaissance and Nineteenth-Century imperial histories
--comparative regents: colonial affairs and Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603) and Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
--Renaissance colonisations as c19th guiding, inspiring, or cautionary precedents
--resuscitation of adventure and exploration tropes and characters (leadership, individual agency, masculinity/femininity, moral/physical action)
--c16th and c19th governmental and private religion and politics: the state and imperial servants of state
--colonial/imperial otherings/orientalisms in the c16th/c19th; comparative racial appropriations/re-appropriations
Proposals for the panel may be submitted in English or French. Please submit a title, a 100 word abstract, and a half-page curriculum vitae to:
Dr. Corey Coates Rm 301, Northrop Frye Hall Victoria College, University of Toronto 73 Queen's Park Crescent Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7 Fax: (416)585-4584 E-mail: ccoates@chass.utoronto.ca
DEADLINE: September 4, 2000
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