CALL FOR PAPERS:
Cultures of Consumption
The 12th Annual Conference
for the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS)
Hosted by the Florida State University English Department, our conference
convenes (appropriately) in the heart of Disney: Orlando, Florida, November
18-21, 2004 at the beautiful Wyndham Palace Resort and Spa.
GEMCS's annual conference, averaging 400 participants, provides a lively
forum for innovative and experimental inquiries into all aspects of
pre-modern and early modern culture and society. We invite scholarly
presentations dealing with issues of literary-cultural-social history and
criticism in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Papers, panels, discussion
groups, or workshops that engage either specific or a variety of formats
and approaches are sought out, and alternative modes of presentation
encouraged.
Proposals for papers and panels on the following topics are welcome:
* Entertainment and Escapism
* Material/Textual Consumption
* Early Modern Consumerisms
* Consumption as Disease
* Consuming the Exotic: the raree show, exotic spectacles, and pageantry
* Consuming Bread and Circuses
* Self-Consuming Artifacts
* Food and Drink (Gluttony, drunkenness); Obesity and Eating disorders
in the early modern period; Sacraments
* Love/Eroticism/Consuming passions
* Territories, Exploration, and Colonization
* The Exotic; luxuries; strange appetites
* Cannibal Theory
* Magic Kingdoms; fantasies of Overproduction
* Early Modern Disney (On Pocahontas, Aladdin, etc.)
* Early Modern Rodents/Plagues of Consumption
Theatrical Consumption: A Special Session in Memory of J. Douglas Canfield
Other topics related to our theme or to early modern cultural studies are
also welcome.
Panelists should be aware of the need to reserve a full half an hour to
forty-five minutes for group discussions after papers have been delivered.
In the case of larger panels, this will mean that each speaker must limit
their presentation to less than fifteen minutes. Please send abstracts and
inquiries to gemcs2004@english.fsu.edu. The deadline for abstracts for
individual papers (250 words), workshops, discussions (eight or more
participants), and paper sessions (three to six participants) is May 15,
2004.
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Bruce Boehrer
Director of Graduate Studies
Bertram H. Davis Professor
Department of English
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
Phone: 850-644-3029
Fax: 850-644-0811
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