RENAISSANCE POWER PLAY
The Uses and Abuses of Power in Early Modern Europe
Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society
Marlborough School, Los Angeles, California
4-6 April, 2002
It will come as no surprise that the current state of Renaissance
studies has emerged from a fruitful engagement with "discourses of
power," both in terms of the discipline's relation to its traditional
historical subject matter, as well as its place within a larger
postmodern academic climate. Recognizing that discussions of power
relations have, by now, reached their d=E9nouement, this conference
endeavours to assess where this dominant critical paradigm has left us,
and where we might proceed from here. This year's theme should be
interpreted broadly, and papers are invited to consider any aspect of
power negotiations in political, social, or artistic spheres throughout
the Renaissance. We're especially interested in studies that adopt a
comparative approach, perhaps discussing "power" in more than one
national, social, or institutional context. We hope that the dynamic
created among the papers will articulate new directions for
understanding how our positioning within current academic culture
informs-or betrays-our analyses of early-modern power configurations.
Plenary Speakers:
Richard Helgerson (Department of English, University of California-Santa Barbara)
Kenneth Bartlett (Department of History, University of Toronto)
Proposal of no more than 500 words should be sent to either of the
following conveners before 31 December, 2001. Electronic submissions
are encouraged. Please visit the conference website at
http://www.english.ohio-state.edu/people/bayer.23/pnrs.htm
Dr. Brent Whitted
Marlborough School
250 South Rossmore Avenue
Los Angeles, California
90004
Phone: 323-935-7978
FAX: 323-933-0542
whittedb@marlborough.la.ca.us
Mark Bayer
Department of English, Ohio State Univ.
164 West 17th Avenue
Columbus, Ohio
43210
Phone: 614-292-6065
FAX: 614-292-7816
bayer.23@osu.edu
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