The Renaissance Arts of Science and Nature

The Renaissance Arts of Science and Nature
A Two Day Conference held by the Early Modern Colloquium
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
February 19-20, 2010

Keynote Speakers:
Laurie Shannon (Northwestern University)
Carla Mazzio (SUNY Buffalo)

The Early Modern Colloquium, a graduate interdisciplinary group at the
University of Michigan, is requesting submissions for its conference
on the arts of science and nature in early modern culture, to be held
February 19-20, 2010.

Broadly conceived, this conference intends to investigate the
relationship between the arts and sciences in the early modern period.
In contrast to modern disciplinary practices, which tend to
distinguish between – if not divorce – humanistic practice from
scientific endeavor, extant works from the early modern period reveal
a complicated, potentially constitutive relationship between these two
fields of intellectual inquiry, evinced by the term “natural
philosophy”. How might cross-disciplinary thinking – modern and early
modern – inform our understanding of the early modern period? We seek
submissions that address these issues or which respond to any of the
following questions:

To what extent did the arts and natural sciences/philosophies depend
upon one another during the early modern period? How were these
“disciplines” delineated from – and/or defined in relation to – one
another? How can we, as modern scholars, approach and consider
potential dialogues between these disciplines? In what forms did such
exchange(s) take place? What factors enabled the distinction between
the arts and the sciences? How did scientific praxes – including but
not limited to alchemy, humoral medicine, anatomy, mathematics,
geometry, optics, or astronomy – inform early modern culture? How did
such praxes appear within, influence, inform or challenge the fields
of literature, visual art, music, or architecture? How did the
relationship of sciences to the arts inform the orders of nature, the
taxonomies in which humans and animals were placed in relation to one
another? In what ways did craft or artisanal practice enable a merging
of science and art? How might contemporary scientific practice and
knowledge inform our understanding of the arts in the early modern
period?

This conference is co-sponsored by the Early Modern Colloquium, the
Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and the Departments of
English and Romance Languages & Literatures at the University of
Michigan. We therefore welcome submissions from these disciplines and
a wide range of others, including history, art history, musicology,
theater history, philosophy, and anthropology. Priority will be given
to graduate students.

200-250 word proposals should be sent to Andrew Bozio
(bozio@umich.edu) by December 1, 2009.

American Comparative Literature Association 2010: New Orleans

The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) will be hosting its 2010 meeting in New Orleans. For more information, please visit the following url: www.acla.org.

The program committee has approved and posted on their website almost all of the seminar proposals. The last few will have been posted by the end of the week. While the program committee will design additional seminars to accommodate submissions which are not
placed in these seminars, the currently posted seminars will give you an excellent idea for the scope and nature of the conference.

The individual paper submission deadline is *Monday 13 November*
(anytime up to 9 p.m. West Coast time will be fine).

Presenters are invited to look at the full listing of seminars and to check out the descriptions that sound most promising for them to participate in. When you then send in a paper proposal, you’ll find a drop-down menu from which to choose the seminar you’d like to have your proposal considered for. If you are among those who have already sent in a paper proposal without a specific seminar specified, you are welcome to look at the list and send us an email (at info@acla.org) to ask for your proposal to be sent to the seminar you’re most interested in joining.

If you know the organizer of your seminar of choice, and even if the organizer has invited you to participate, you should still send in your paper proposal via the “submit a paper proposal” form on the ACLA website, so that your information gets into our database.

If you don’t specify a seminar for your proposal, the conference committee will evaluate it and find the best venue to place each accepted paper. As past committees have done, new seminars will be formed as needed to provide good homes for papers that don’t seem likely to fit well in an already-proposed seminar.

Association of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS)

CALL FOR PAPERS
41st annual meeting
Ottawa, Canada, April 15-18, 2010

The ASPHS welcomes paper submissions addressing any aspect of the history of Spain or Portugal or their influences in the wider world. Proposals for full-sessions are welcomed. The organizers encourage you to consider proposing bi-national, trans-national and interdisciplinary panels. This year, the organizers want to pay a special homage to the Iberian liberal legacy. The meeting will also serve as a discussion and agenda-setting forum in the field of Lusophone history. Proposals for papers and panels in any area of Lusophone historical studies are strongly invited. For more information, contact Ivana Elbl.

Please send your proposals (maximum one-page long), to Ivana Elbl (ielbl@trentu.ca) and Antonio Cazorla (acazorla@trentu.ca).

The deadline for proposals is December 15, 2009

For more information, please consult the following web page: http://www.asphs.net/

Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, March 4-6, 2010

Second Call for Papers

Association for Hispanic Classical Theater
Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, March 4-6, 2010

The 2010 AHCT Golden Age Theater Symposium will take place March 4-6, 2010 in El Paso, Texas. These dates coincide with the 2010 Siglo de Oro Theater Festival at the Chamizal National Memorial. Sessions will begin Thursday morning, March 4, and end Saturday afternoon, March 6, 2010.

Call for Papers: The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater particularly encourages studies on all aspects of performance of Siglo de Oro dramatic texts, though proposals for papers or special sessions at the annual symposium on other topics related to Spanish Golden Age theater are welcome. Papers should be 20 minutes in length, and may be delivered in Spanish or English. Those submitting proposals should include in their proposal any special equipment needs that they may have, including overhead projectors, computer projectors, screens, and VCR and DVD players and monitors. As in previous years, those planning on using Power Point for their presentations should bring their own laptops.

College and university faculty are asked to send paper titles with one-page abstracts and/or proposals for special sessions to the following e-mail address: abstracts@comedias.org abstracts@comedias.org%20> .They should be submitted as attachments in Word. The deadline for receipt of all submissions is December 1, 2009.

Graduate students who are interested in participating in the conference are asked to submit completed papers of approximately ten pages, rather than abstracts. This stipulation applies to all students, including those who have been invited to be members of panels, whether organized by faculty members or others. Papers should be sent as an e-mail attachment in Word to: gradsubmissions@comedias.org gradsubmissions@comedias.org> . Graduate students whose papers are accepted for presentation will be considered for the AHCT Everett W. Hesse Travel Support Grant. Please note that:
1) These instructions are somewhat different from those previously announced.
2) The deadline for the submission of completed papers is November 1, 2009.

Events of Particular Interest at the 2010 Symposium: The Donald T. Dietz Keynote Address at next year's symposium will be given by Laurence Boswell, former Associate Director of both the Gate Theatre in London and of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also directed extensively in the West End and on Broadway. In recent years Mr. Boswell has gained renown as the pre-eminent director of Spanish Golden Age plays in English, and he also enjoys wide recognition as a translator. His production of Fuente Ovejuna was one of the highlights of the 2009 season of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada.

Mr. Boswell will also participate in a second plenary session during the conference, a conversation with David Johnston, the distinguished translator, whose version of The Dog in the Manger was presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2004 and again by the Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington, D.C. during the winter of 2009, and whose witty and insightful address dealing with the translation of the plays of Lope de Vega scored a great hit with attendees of the 2009 AHCT symposium. Both sessions should be highlights of the upcoming conference.

Hotel Reservations: The Symposium will take place at the Camino Real Hotel in El Paso, Texas. Hotel reservations may be made by phone at 1-800-769-4300 or 1-915-534-3099, Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm (MST). The deadline for the conference room rate is February 2, 2010. Participants must mention the AHCT conference and request the group rate of $90 for a single or double room, or $109 for a triple room, or $124 for a quadruple room. Rollaway beds may be requested for an additional charge of $15 per night. All rates are subject to a 15.5% tax. The group rate applies Tuesday, March 2, 2010 to Saturday, March 6, 2010.

AHCT Conference Registration: You must be a member of the AHCT to register for the conference. Current membership dues are $40 (or $70 for two years) for faculty and $30 (or $50 for two years) for retired members and students. The registration fee for the conference for all faculty attendees, as well as for graduate students who are reading papers or participating in a special session, is $105. A late fee of $25 is assessed if registration is paid after February 8, 2010. Registration includes conference attendance, the annual banquet of the AHCT, transportation to and from the Chamizal National Memorial every evening for the Siglo de Oro Spanish Drama Festival, and refreshments in the Hospitality Room after the theater performances. (Note: a special registration rate of $30 applies to students who do not present papers or attend the banquet. An additional $15, payable at the time of registration, purchases tickets for the banquet.)

The easiest way to pay dues and/or to register for the upcoming conference is online at the new AHCT echapters website for Association members. Please go to the following link: http://www.ahct.echapters.com <http://www.ahct.echapters.com/> . <https://webmail.usma.army.mil/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ahct.echapters.com./>

Conference Up-Dates: For additional information about the conference, please contact the AHCT Conference Director, Professor Angel Sánchez, Arizona State University, Department of Languages and Literatures, PO Box 870202, Tempe, Arizona 85287-0202. TEL: 480-965-4576 (office) or 480-786-4633 (home). E-mail: Angel.Sanchez@asu.edu. Further details regarding the conference and the Siglo de Oro Drama Fesetival will appear on the Comedia bulletin board, in the Winter Newsletter, and on the AHCT webpages, as they become available.

The Limits of Performance

Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium
Villanova University
Villanova, PA

Conference Theme:
The Limits of Performance
Keynote Speaker: Richard Schechner
January 12, 2010


The Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium is seeking abstracts for papers for its fourth annual gathering of theatre scholars and practitioners. This year’s PTRS seeks to highlight the work of new scholars in the area of Performance Studies and Theatre. The symposium offers the opportunity to present work in progress and to share ideas with other researchers.

The PTRS is pleased to announce that the 2010 Keynote Speaker will be the renowned theatre artist and scholar Richard Schechner. As the influential founder of the Performance Studies Department at NYU, Schechner is also a theorist whose work has transformed the study and practice of theater production.

The theme for the 2010 PTRS invites papers that consider performance in its broadest definition. Topics may include queries into changing paradigms of performance, site specific theatre practices, theatre and theory, the performance of the everyday, gender and performance, race and performance, the economy of theatre, and politics and performance.

We are proud to announce that this year’s symposium will launch an accompanying journal. Participants in the conference are eligible for publication consideration. This journal will include established scholars but seeks to create publishing opportunities for new scholars and practitioners in the area of theatre and performance studies.

Abstracts of 250 words or less should be submitted to Dr. David Cregan at david.cregan@villanova.edu.


A series of panels will begin at 10am followed by Richard Schechner’s keynote address at 3pm.

The deadline for submission is December 1, 2009.

Re-Imagining the Americas: (Im)migration, Transnationalism, and Diaspora

Call for Papers
Re-Imagining the Americas: (Im)migration, Transnationalism, and Diaspora
An interdisciplinary conference on Latin America and the Caribbean and their Diasporas in the twenty-first century.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Syracuse University

Sponsored by Syracuse University’s PLACA (Program on Latin America and the Caribbean) and LLAS (Latino-Latin American Studies) and by Cornell University’s LASP (Latin American Studies Program) and LSP (Latino Studies Program).

Syracuse and Cornell Universities invite participation of faculty and students to share their research on the (Latin) Americas, including the Spanish and non-Spanish speaking Caribbean, and Brazil, especially as it relates to the notions of migration, immigration, transnationalism, or diaspora. Through images, practices, or texts in history, politics, economics, anthropology, geography, literature, art, or performance, among others, the Americas and the Caribbean have been defined and circumscribed since pre-colonial times. This conference hopes to re-imagine the Americas in the face of twenty-first century research and the discourse of globalization. Papers may be presented in any language spoken in the Americas. Presentations will be limited to 15 minutes, approximately eight pages, double spaced, in 12-point font.

Cornell will host a pre-conference event and a performance by their Hispanic theater troupe, Teatrotaller. Saturday will feature a full day of intellectual and social activities at Syracuse University, including scholarly presentations, performances by both universities’ Latino/Latin American student dance groups, and an interdisciplinary keynote panel. A film series on each campus and the Bartell lecture at Cornell by former Brazilian president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, will lead up to the culminating activities.

Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Diasporic ethnicities and identities
• Narco trafficking
• Immigration policies and practices
• Political expulsions, los desterrados, or los desaparecidos
• Violence and agency in the Americas
• Transcultural production
• Political systems and (in)stability
• NGOs or IGOs
• Education and Schooling in Transnational Contexts
• Popular Culture, Music, Art, Literature, Film, or Media studies
• Religion, Ethics, or Morality
• Human Rights
• Gender
• Marginalization
• Border identities

Deadline for Abstracts: January 11, 2010. Submit electronically an abstract of 250 words or less to Gail Bulman, gabulman@syr.edu . For more information, contact Lori Klivak (laklivak@syr.edu ) or Marti Dense (mfd1@cornell.edu).

From Border Building to Border Hopping: The Shifting Nature of the Text

16th Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
March 25-27, 2010

From Border Building to Border Hopping: The Shifting Nature of the Text


Artistic production carries with it an inherent quality of crossing
borders, given that the artist must cross from a public face to an insular,
creative self at each moment of creation. This conference is dedicated to
analyzing the various aspects of borders as seen in artistic creation -
authors and characters crossing geographic borders, sexual and gender
boundaries; transgressing the norms allowed by a given political regime;
bending or breaking traditional boundaries of genre and medium; rejecting
the High Culture / Low Culture dichotomy; the dispersion of texts
themselves across boundaries geographic, political, temporal and more.

At the same time, presenters may consider the parallel and opposing
phenomenon of Border Building – including the role of artistic production
in nation-building and in the construction of borders of identity, as well
as the (re)definition of academic disciplines – and how such construction
is carried out by artists and academics.

Keynote speakers for the 2010 Carolina Conference are Réda Bensmaïa
(Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature), Teresa Fiore
(Professor of Italian Studies) and José Manuel Prieto (Novelist, Professor
of Spanish-American Literature). There will also be an Invited Reading by
author Manuel Muñoz.

Abstracts must be submitted by December 18, 2009. Abstracts are limited to
250 words and must be submitted online at: ccrl.unc.edu

Papers or panels on all aspects of literature and film in French, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, and Comparative Literature will be considered.
Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Individual presentations
should be limited to 20 minutes.

Exceptional papers by both graduate students and professors will be
considered for publication in Romance Notes.

Newberry Renaissance Center Graduate Student Conference

Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies
28th Annual Graduate Student Conference
CFP Deadline: October 15, 2009
Conference Dates: Thursday, January 21 b ! ! d by the University of Illinois at Chicago), and a staged reading of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by the Shakespeare Project of Chicago.

Call for Papers
We invite abstracts for 15-20 minute papers from master's or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative
literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies. Please submit a curriculum vitae and an abstract of up to 300 words to renaissance@newberry.org.

Priority is given to students from member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium, who may be eligible for reimbursement for travel expenses to attend. See
www.newberry.org/renaissance for more information.

Printable PDF poster:
http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/CallForPapers2010.pdf

Stop Day Colloquium

Department of Spanish & Portuguese Stop Day Colloquium
Call for Participants

Are you preparing to make a conference presentation and want to practice your delivery with a friendly audience? Are you considering submitting a paper for a conference and seeking constructive feedback on your work? Do you want to have the professional experience of presenting your work to a scholarly audience without incurring the costs of conference travel?

GRASP and the department's faculty invite you to submit a brief description and title (no more than 100 words) to participate in the Stop Day Colloquium, an informal forum for sharing your work with your colleagues and professors. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes (normally the equivalent of 9-10 pages of double-spaced text), the standard allotment for conference presentations. Whether you're exploring the experience of reading a paper to an academic audience for the first time or looking to polish your skills before your next conference performance, the colloquium is meant to foster this important aspect of professional development. Feel free to contact your GRASP representatives, Professor Bayliss (rbayliss@ku.edu) or Professor Rivera (ijrivera@ku.edu) for further information. Proposals are due by Tuesday, December 1 and should be sent to either Professors Rivera or Bayliss.