UPDATE: Call for abstracts deadline has been extended to November 23, 2002.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
“Bodies, Bawdies, and Nobodies": Early Modern Women, 1500-1800
University of California, Santa Barbara, February 21-22, 2003
Keynote Speaker: Felicity Nussbaum (Professor of English, UCLA)
Conference Website:
http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/confbodies/index.asp
New deadline for abstracts: 11/23/02
The Early Modern Center of UC Santa Barbara, and its affiliates, invite paper
and session proposals for an interdisciplinary conference to be held at the
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center on the UC Santa Barbara campus, February
21-22, 2003.
“Bodies, Bawdies, and Nobodies”: Early Modern Women, 1500-1800 is a conference
exploring the concept of embodiment as it relates to women as creators,
subjects, and consumers of British, Continental, and early American cultures.
How has our understanding of the association of women with the body been
complicated by recent critical investigations into the female body in culture?
Possible topics include:
Anatomy
Beauty and Ugliness
Books, Print and/or Communication
Childbirth, Procreation, and Family
Courtship and Desire
Disease and Disorders
Epistles and Love Letters
Fashion and Clothing
Geography
Material Culture
Medicine
Poverty
Prostitution
Public Sphere
Sexuality and/or Sexualities
Spectacle
Women in Drama/Theater
Work
We also invite papers on other topics related to Early Modern women. We
invite papers, from a range of disciplines that utilize literary,
historical,cultural studies, and/or interdisciplinary approaches.
Individual papers as well as suggestions for whole panels are welcome.
Proposals for panels and/or papers should take the form of a 250 word
abstract. Abstracts are due by November 15, 2002. Please visit our website
(http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/confbodies/index.asp) and submit your abstracts
on-line, or send them to Diana Solomon via e-mail dks1@umail.ucsb.edu or via
fax (805) 893-4622.
For questions, please contact:
Diana Solomon
Department of English
University of California
Santa Barbara, California 93106
(805) 893-4365
dks1@umail.ucsb.edu
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