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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Subject: Call for papers |
Renaissance Society of America Conference Mar 2007<br>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:30:31 -0700<br>
Thread-Topic: Call for papers | Renaissance Society of America Conference
Mar 2007<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>Call for Papers<br>
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Proposed session(s) for the Renaissance Society of America Conference in
Miami,<br>
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March 22-24, 2007, on: Court Space / Common Space<br>
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In 1974, French cultural historian, Henri Lefebvre, published his
Production de l'espace, in which he called for investigations into the
"cultural construction of space" through everyday social,
political, and economic life. Cultural and political historians have
recently begun to do this in a number of specific contexts, including
investigations of royal palaces and courts, and of urban spaces and
rituals. But not enough work has been done on how the construction of
space by court elites related to the spatial dimensions of popular and
public life.<br>
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This session or sessions, co-sponsored by the Court Society of North
America and the Renaissance Conference of Southern California, solicits
abstracts for 20 minute papers in history, literature, art and
architectural history; papers should address comparative issues of
"court space" and "common space" in mutual
interrelation, and perhaps deconstruct the separation of "high"
and "low culture" relating to the city, countryside, and
realm.<br>
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The RSA website states a chronology of ca.1350-1650, with global
implications.<br>
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Send abstracts by e-mail to Malcolm Smuts (Malcolm.Smuts@umb.edu),
History, University of Massachusetts, Boston; George Gorse
(ggorse@pomona.edu), Art History, Pomona College; and Lloyd Kermode
(lKermode@csulb.edu), English, California State University, Long Beach by
May 19, 2006.<br>
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