20 Feb 2015
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SSSEW/MLA 2016 Call For Papers and Proposals

Call for Papers or Proposals
“Religious Matters: Women, Worship and Artifacts” The Society for Early Modern Women (www.ssemwg.org/) invites proposals for a sponsored session at the Modern Language Association in Austin, Texas, January 7-10, 2016. This session approved by SSEMW (as an Affiliated Organization) is automatically accepted for the MLA convention. All participants must be members of both MLA and SSEMW by April 7, 2015. We invite proposals for a roundtable exploring the interplay of material artifacts (relics, images, memorials and monuments, printed books and manuscripts) and early modern women’s religious practice in England and Continental Europe. Contributions from a variety of disciplines and national…
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20 Feb 2015
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SSEMW/MLA 2016 Call for Papers and Proposals

Call for Papers or Proposals
“Early Modern Women and Transnational Exchanges” The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (ssemwg.org) invites proposals for individual papers or full panels for MLA 2016 on early modern women’s transnational encounters, engagements, and activities, including textual, physical, and material transmissions and exchanges across borders within Europe or between the old world and the new. Contributions from a variety of disciplines and national languages are encouraged. Proposals for full panels must include: - an abstract describing the objective of the panel (150 words max.) - names of organizer(s)/chair and speakers; institutional affiliations; and email addresses - one page CV…
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04 Feb 2015
By Pia Jakobsson
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CFP: Feminist Art History Conference

Call for Papers or Proposals
CFP: FEMINIST ART HISTORY CONFERENCE at American University in Washington, DC November 6-8, 2015 (Friday-Sunday) This annual conference builds on the legacy of feminist art-historical scholarship and pedagogy initiated by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard at American University. To further the inclusive spirit of their groundbreaking anthologies, we invite papers on subjects spanning the chronological spectrum, from the ancient world through the present, to foster a broad dialogue on feminist art-historical practice. Papers may address such topics as: artists, movements, and works of art and architecture; cultural institutions and critical discourses; practices of collecting, patronage, and display; the gendering…
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01 Feb 2015
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MLA, 16thC France, CFA

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Call for Abstracts for Modern Language Association Conference 2016 in Austin, Texas MLA Sixteenth-Century French Literature Executive Committee Affect in Sixteenth-century France How is affect intersubjective, defined/undefined, related to emotion? Close or distant readings welcome. 200-word abstracts to Todd Reeser, reeser@pitt.edu, by 3/15/15. Prefiguring “Disability” in Renaissance France How are monstrous, castrated, marginal, or otherwise “defective” bodies represented? What is the role of ethnicity, travel, gender, or other factors? 200-word abstracts to Todd Reeser, reeser@pitt.edu, by 3/15/15. The following sessions are not guaranteed, but will be proposed by the Committee: Pre-modern Queenship Theories of queenship and practices of queens; relations…
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01 Feb 2015
By Pia Jakobsson
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Call for Panels Sponsored by SSEMW for SCSC 2015

Call for Papers or Proposals
Call for Panels Sponsored by SSEMW for SCSC 2015 For the next Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) to be held October 22 - 25, 2015 at the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (SSEMW) is offering sponsorship for panels on topics focusing on women and gender in the early modern era (ca. 1450 – ca. 1660). SSEMW-sponsored panels are pre-approved for SCSC. Proposals must include the following: * A 150-word abstract describing the topic of the proposed session. * Names of organizer/s and chair, as well as…
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