CALL FOR PAPERS
A proposed panel for the RSA, in NYC March 25-27, 2004
"Renaissance Performativities"
In *How to Do Things with Words*, J. L. Austin argues that the first
condition of a successful performative utterance is that the utterance
must reproduce “an accepted conventional procedure having a certain
conventional effect.” This panel will attempt to recover and analyze the
conventional procedures of Renaissance performatives, by taking up what
Derrida has called “the questions posed by the very historically
sedimented notion of ‘convention’.” We seek interdisciplinary work that
focuses on either England or the Continent, from the fifteenth through
the seventeenth century. Some possible topics include, but need to be
limited to, the following:
conjuring/adjuring
exorcism
betrothal and/or the marriage ceremony (on stage and off)
verbal contracts
the eucharist
blessings/absolutions
challenges to duels/declarations of war
swearing and oaths
curses
pardons
convictions/condemnations
imitations of Christ
150-word abstracts and cv (as attachments in RTF format) by May 1 to:
vive@socrates.berkeley.edu
or as hard copy to:
Genevieve Guenther
Department of English, UC Berkeley
319 Wheeler Hall
Berkeley, CA. 94720-1030
Anyone whose proposal is accepted will be required to be a member of RSA
at the time of registration for the New York meeting.
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