Call for papers

Date limite : 12 mars 2010
The sixteenth century was a period of transition for mythical animals. On the one hand, world exploration and scientific inquiry threw increasing doubt upon the existence of dragons, unicorns, mermaids, etc. But on the other hand, these same creatures flourished in heraldry, emblematics, poetry and novels, and sometimes even zoological tracts. What place did such imaginary creatures have in the sixteenth-century? Did their meaning and symbolism shift during this (…)

The next issue of the Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere e Filosofia will devote its monographic section to the censorship of writings and artworks, either as an act of imposition by official powers or as self-censorship. Interdisciplinary articles on patterns and techiniques of recreation, readjustment and reuse of works – or part of them – resulting from the destruction or alteration of the originals, due to censorship, expurgation or damage (incidental or (…)

Durham University organises a two-day symposium for postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers exploring the visual, material and representational cultures surrounding the inner depths and outer surfaces of the human body, c.1400-c.1800.
Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):
– Dissection, the medical ’gaze’ and medical illustration
– Corporeality and the flesh in the visual, written and performing arts
– The body in religious iconography, hagiography and religious (…)

An international and interdisciplinary conference at The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies.
Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada : 15-17 October 2010
The view that early modernity saw the transformation of European societies into cultures of print has been widely influential in literary, historical, philosophical, and bibliographical studies of the period. The concept of print culture has provided scholars with a powerful tool for analyzing and (…)

Metochi Study Centre, Limonos Monastery, Kalloni, Lesbos
University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
16-19 May 2010
The collections of epigrams known as the Greek anthology (the Planudean and later Palatine anthologies) were diffused in Italy by the late Quattrocento, although knowledge of the epigrams can be traced to the previous century. From the 1494 edition of Janus Lascaris the epigrams had a European-wide success, constituting a major object of imitatio, with numerous renderings (…)

Second Biennial Conference of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies (SAMEMES)
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Colin Burrow (Oxford)
Patrick Cheney (Penn State)
Helen Cooper (Cambridge)
Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
Robert Edwards (Penn State)
Alastair Minnis (Yale)
Authorship has come to the forefront of medieval and early modern English studies in recent years. The objective of this conference is to take stock of a duly socialized form of authorship (…)

St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, Saturday, 20 March 2010
Abstracts for papers are invited for a one-day colloquium on the translation of French poetry into English in the later Middle Ages, co-hosted by Queen’s University, Belfast and the University of Oxford, to be held on the 20th March 2010 at St. Hilda’s College. The conference will aim to investigate the concept of ‘translation’ between the two vernaculars during this period, taking into account linguistic concerns, but (…)

On the occasion of the AAH (Association of Art Historians) Annual Conference, 15-17 April 2010, University of Glasgow, a session on the following topic will be held:
ART IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE, PUBLIC SPHERES IN ART. MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE
Art has helped to define spaces for communication in the public sphere since the middle ages, and its own basic concepts have been shaped by these processes. Correspondingly, genres and themes, methods and tasks have had constantly to be adapted to (…)

Session:
Images of Corporal Mortification and Corruption, Martyrdom and Mercy: 1250-1550.
The psychological implications of the new religiosity with which the devotional image was in accord are just as complex as the social conditions from which the religious individual developed his self-awareness. What took place in the thirteenth century was one of the most comprehensive transformations European society ever underwent. While the symptoms were often only visible in images at a later (…)

CFP - RSA Annual Meeting, Venice 2010
The Vision of Architecture in Religious Reform Movements (15th-16th Centuries)
A Comparative Assessment.
This panel aims to compare studies whose topic has been the relationship between architecture and religious reform in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, prior to the Counter-Reformation, including the Observantist movements and the Devotio moderna. Among the questions we would like to address are: was the aspiration to reinstating the ideal (…)