Call for Papers
COPIA
A Graduate Renaissance Studies Conference
Yale University
Saturday, April 5, 2003
On Saturday, April 5, 2003, Yale University will host a Graduate
Renaissance Studies Conference, open to students in the northeastern
region working in the Renaissance period. Our goal is to bring
together graduate students from across the region and across the
disciplines to build relationships and share ideas.
In keeping with our theme, "Copia", this one-day symposium aims to
present a cross-section of current research on the English and
Continental Renaissance, and to explore paths for future study. Our
special focus will be on interdisciplinary approaches to Renaissance
studies. In a sense, the study of this period has always been
interdisciplinary; scholars have long understood that the Renaissance
mind was eclectic and assimilative, and did not recognize the
disciplinary divisions that have since been imposed on the Academy. In
recent years, however, students of the Renaissance have reached across
disciplinary boundaries with increasing frequency and creativity,
producing a broader spectrum of approaches to Renaissance culture and
its artifacts. Some of the most exciting work in the field today is
that which tests the possibilities of interdisciplinarity for yielding
new insights into the literature, history, and culture of this period.
We therefore encourage proposals for papers or panels that cross
disciplinary boundaries, or that speak to the opportunities and
challenges of Renaissance studies across the disciplines. Individual
papers need not draw on more than one of the standard disciplines, but
they should address a diverse audience, and panels will be structured
as conversations among students working in different fields. Possible
topics include the following:
- 'ut pictura poesis' and the 'paragone' tradition
- friendship, kinship, and marriage
- patronage and politics
- dialogues across the English Channel
- exchanges between the Italian and Northern Renaissances
- artistic influence and imitation across the genres
- readings, misreadings, and cliches of the Classical past
- questions of style: ornament, artifice, and exaggeration
- artistic self-consciousness and self-representation
Proposals are encouraged from students of History of Art, English
Literature, Comparative Literature, Music, Intellectual and Cultural
History, Italian, Spanish, French, and German Studies, and other
relevant fields. Papers should be between fifteen and twenty minutes
in length.
A $10 conference fee includes a closing reception and a midday concert
of Renaissance vocal music performed by the Yale Collegium Musicum. An
optional lunch will be provided for an additional $5. In either case,
preregistration is required. Inquiries, requests for registration forms,
and 300- to 400-word abstracts of papers or panels should be sent by
February 21, 2003 to:
COPIA Conference
Department of Renaissance Studies
Yale University
P.O. Box 208298
New Haven, CT 06520
copia_conference@hotmail.com
(email submissions should be in .rtf format)
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