CFP: Duchess Mazarin (7/1/05; GEMCS, 12/1/05-12/4/05)

Panel Proposal for GEMCS 2005, San Antonio
Abstract Deadline; July 1, 2005

Desperately seeking the Duchess Mazarin!

We are seeking additional participants for a cross-disciplinary panel
on the 17th-century femme fatale Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin,
which will consider her as a case study for women "crossing borders"
in the early modern period. The proposed panel will explore in
various contexts how such a figure was perceived by her
contemporaries -- and is investigated today by scholars -- as
crossing borders: in a geographical/nationalistic sense, in a
gendered sense, and in a disciplinary sense ("portraits" of the
Duchess Mazarin and contemporary commentaries bridge text-based,
musical, and visual media). The panel will also invite audience
participation through the discussion of the Duchess Mazarin as a
figure for other such women whose lives and representations are the
subject of other current scholarship.

Please send a 200-300-word abstract via email to Susan Shifrin by
July 1, 2005, at sshifrin_at_ursinus.edu OR picturingwomen_at_earthlink.net.

For more information on GEMCS and this year's conference, please
visit the conference Website at http://www.english.fsu.edu/gemcs/

-- 
Susan Shifrin, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Education
Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art
Assistant Professor of Art History
Ursinus College
P.O. Box 1000
Collegeville, Pa  19426-1000
tel: (610) 409-3000 x2636
fax: (610) 409-3664
email: sshifrin_at_ursinus.edu
picturingwomen_at_earthlink.net
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