| South Central Renaissance Conference CFP -- Exploring the Renaissance 2012 |
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 22.0197 Monday, 15 August 2011
From: Debra Barrett-Graves< This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: August 11, 2011 2:10:59 PM EDT Subject: South Central Renaissance Conference CFP -- Exploring the Renaissance 2012
Exploring the Renaissance 2012 An International Conference New Orleans, Louisiana March 8-10, 2012
Hotel Monteleone French Quarter 214 Royal Street New Orleans, Louisiana
Local Arrangements: Catherine Loomis ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and Susan Krantz University of New Orleans
Program Chair: Debra Barrett-Graves California State University, East Bay
Keynote Lecturer: Sharon O’Dair University of Alabama Louis L. Martz Lecturer: Claire Jowitt Nottingham Trent University William B. Hunter Lecturer: Sabine Mödersheim University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Papers (15-20 minutes in length) are invited on any aspect of Renaissance studies (music, art history, history, literature, emblems, language, philosophy, science, theology, et al. Interdisciplinary studies are especially welcome.) Abstracts only (400-500 words; a shorter 100-word abstract for inclusion in the program) must be submitted online no later than December 15, 2011, via the SCRC website’s abstract submission form @ http://scrc.us.com/.
Suggested topics might include the following:
Papers are also invited for the following special session: Witchcraft and Magic in Early Modern Culture
Sessions: sessions should be proposed no later than November 1, 2011, and e-mailed to the Program Chair (link given in contact info below). Abstracts of papers for approved sessions should be submitted online via the SCRC website’s abstract form @ http://scrc.us.com/. For further 2012 conference information click http://scrc.us.com/, or contact Debra Barrett-Graves, the program chair @ This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Program participants are required to join SCRC and are encouraged to submit publication-length versions of their papers to the SCRC journal, Explorations in Renaissance Culture. Shorter papers (up to 3,000 words) are invited for submission to the SCRC newsletter, Discoveries.
A limited number of graduate travel fellowships are available; graduate students presenting a paper at the conference may apply to the program chair for travel assistance (maximum $300). Complete essays must be submitted electronically by February 1, 2012, to be eligible for consideration. See the graduate travel fellowships page for instruction on how to apply. |