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G R O U P F O R E A R L Y M O D E R N
C U L T U R A L S T U D I E S
( G E M C S )
http://www.english.fsu.edu/gemcs/main.htm
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NINTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE,
PHILADELPHIA, PA
NOVEMBER 15-18, 2001
"A SPACE ODYSSEY"
The Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies invites submissions for its
ninth annual conference. Speakers should plan to speak for ten minutes and
participate in a discussion period afterwards.
GEMCS was formed in 1993 to promote the study of culture from the
Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century (and sometimes later), in its
various forms and across disciplinary boundaries. We are comprised of people
working in a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to
literature, history, art history, music, and film, and we welcome a wide
variety of disciplinary approaches, promoting and providing a forum for the
exchange of ideas among junior as well as more senior scholars.
This year's conference theme is "A Space Odyssey." We seek proposals
dealing with material, ideological, social, economic, aesthetic, sexual,
philosophical, artistic, political, racial, and gendered manifestations of
space. We are particularly interested in work that not only demonstrates
the existence of such manifestations, but examines how they were expressed
culturally and reveals how cross-disciplinary investigations can elicit a
range of provisional and thought-provoking answers to questions of
historical context and historiographical authenticity.
Possible topics might include:
o "domestic space/public space" (in early modern texts, genre paintings,
etc.)
o "theatrical space, staged space"
o "interiority and subjectivity"
o "the staging of 17th and 18th century opera"
o "early modern etiquettes of space"
o "early modern utopias and travel literature"
o "liminal spaces"
o "the gendering of early modern space"
... and so forth.
Not to mention astronomical and astrological topics!
We strongly encourage proposals for pre-constituted panels or workshops of
no fewer than four and no more than five participants, and in order to allow
the greatest possible amount of discussion, will ask that presenters in
these panels limit their comments to ten minutes each.
****In the interest of promoting alternative format panels and
cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas, we will offer for the first time four
open sessions designated as "works in progress" sessions for scholarship
devoted to 16th-, 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century topics relating to the
conference theme.****
In addition, we welcome proposals for individual presentations (10 minutes
limit) in open sessions, pedagogical workshops, and other works-in-progress
sessions. We will gladly arrange for links from our website to information
pertinent to sessions with prepared readings or other materials for
discussion. Panel chairs looking for panelists or workshop participants are
encouraged to post calls for submissions to the GEMCS listserve
[GEMCS-L@Hofstra.edu] 3-4 weeks before the submission deadline. (For sample
pre-constituted panels and open subscription panels, scroll to the bottom of
this email.)
One-page abstracts for individual talks must include talk title, presenter's
name, complete mailing address, institutional affiliation (if any), and
email address; proposals for panels must include a designated panel chair,
titles for each talk, and one-paragraph abstracts for each presenter along
with his or her name, complete mailing address, institutional affiliation
(if any), and email address. Again, panels or workshops of four or five
participants will be given preference.
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Address all submissions BY MAY 1, 2001 to:
POSTAL SUBMISSIONS
Professor Chris Orchard
Department of English
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA 15705
EMAIL SUBMISSIONS
picturingwomen@earthlink.net
Please submit either postal OR email proposals (NOT both).
ATTENTION: DO NOT E-MAIL SUBMISSIONS BY HITTING THE REPLY BUTTON.
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For further information -- or to fill out a 2001 Pre-Conference
Questionnaire -- visit our website at
http://www.english.fsu.edu/gemcs/main.htm
SAMPLE PRE-CONSTITUTED PANEL:
Session Title: "Sequestered Spaces?: The Etiquette of Cultural Space In
17th- and 18th-Century England"
o Susan Shifrin (Independent Scholar), Chair
o Julia Marciari Alexander, Yale Center For British Art: "As if through a
Kaleidoscope: Viewing The Picture Gallery at Althorp"
o Robert Bucholz, Loyola University, Chicago: "Drawing Room Manners and
Backstairs Influence: The Etiquette of Public and Private (?) Space at the
Later Stuart Court"
o Elizabeth Chew, Monticello: "Purselin and Pantadoes: Spaces of Exoticism
in Lady Arundel's Tart Hall"
o Andrew Walkling (Independent Scholar): "The Theatre of the Court and the
Space of Theatre in Restoration England"
SAMPLE WORKS-IN-PROGRESS SESSION:
(This panel is composed of works still in progress-NOT completed papers.
The presentation style will be rather informal, even by GEMCS standards.
This panel is looking for one or two more participants working on similar
topics.)
Session Title: "Conceptualizing Performance Space(s)"
o Meg Powers Livingston, Penn State Altoona, Chair
o Nova Myhill, Boston University: "The Place of Execution: Locating and
Dislocating Public Punishment on the London Stage"
o Meg Powers Livingston, Penn State Altoona: "Changing Spaces/ Changing
Plays: Revising Early Jacobean Plays for Indoor Performance Venues"
o Joanne Rochester, University of Toronto: ""The Conceptual Space of
Performance in Caroline Drama"
SUGGESTED PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOPS:
(These suggestions are ideas; no one has yet stepped forward to organize
such workshops.)
o "The Classroom as SPACE: How to make best use of a 'bad' classroom?"
o "Is Your Classroom a Performance Space?: Performance Aspects-for both
teachers and students-of Good Teaching"
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Meg Powers Livingston
Assistant Professor of English
Penn State Altoona
126C Smith Bldg.
3000 Ivyside Dr.
Altoona, PA 16601
Office: 814-949-5745
Fax: 814-949-5011
Email: mpl10@psu.edu
http://www.personal.psu.edu/mpl10
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