CALL FOR PAPERS: Early Modern Studies Conference, 2015, University of Reading, 6 – 8 July 2015.
The plenary speakers are Professor Jennifer Richards (Newcastle) and Professor Evelyn Welch (KCL).
The Reading Early Modern Studies Conference is an event that has been held annually since 2008 and continues a long tradition of interdisciplinary conferences that began over twenty-five years ago in 1989.
This international event brings together early modern scholars from around the world working in the fields of literature, history, art history, politics, modern languages and philosophy, and papers address topics that extend across early modern Britain, Europe and the wider world.
Panels have been proposed on the following themes and further panels or individual papers are also invited on these topics or any other aspect of early modern studies:
* Placing performance in early modern Britain and Europe;
* Archaism, memory and nostalgia;
* Networks, friendship and sociability;
* Marvels, miracles and monsters;
* Cultures of consumption in early modern Britain and Europe;
* Craft and technology in the early modern period;
* The Hanoverians: politics and culture in transition;
* The reception of classical political thought;
* Genres across time and place: pastoral and satire;
* Reading, voices and the senses in the early modern period;
* Metaphors of making: the composition of books.
Proposals for panels should consist of a minimum of two and a maximum of four papers. Each panel proposal should contain the names of the session chair, the names and affiliations of the speakers and short abstracts (200 word abstracts) of the papers together with email contacts for all participants. A proposal for an individual paper should consist of a 200 word abstract of the paper with brief details of affiliation and career.
Proposals for either papers or panels should be sent by email to the chair of the Conference Committee, Prof. Helen Parish. We welcome proposals from postgraduates, and the conference hopes to make some funds available for postgraduate bursaries. Anyone for whom some financial assistance is a prerequisite for their attendance should mention this when submitting.
Deadline: 9 January 2015.