Washington, D.C., March 22-24, 2012 Deadline : May 15, 2011
The Renaissance and Contemporary Critical Theory
This session asks the question, can the present responsibly inform the past ? Renaissance studies have, in general, long resisted the desire to invoke such important twentieth-century theorists as Derrida, Lacan and Deleuze (just to name a few), in their discussion of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This tendency is perhaps most pronounced in the field of art history, where (...)