[Englecturers] Northern California Renaissance Conference (NCRC) 2008, Call for Proposals

[John Ganim]

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>>CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
>>2008 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE
>>UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
>>SEPTEMBER 28
>>
>>
>>Sponsored by the Center for British Studies and Departments of English,
>>Comparative Literature, Italian, Spanish-Portuguese, and French.
>>
>>
>>         The 2008 Northern California 
>> Renaissance Conference (NCRC) will be held
>>Sunday, September 28 at the University of California, Berkeley.  We seek
>>proposals representing a broad range of early modern scholarship,
>>including but not limited to studies of British literature, pan-European
>>languages and literatures, history, art history, and historical
>>musicology.  The banner for this year’s conference will be Contours and
>>Crossroads: Mapping Early Modern Europe, an admittedly broad theme
>>intended to court diverse proposals treating a range of early modern arts
>>and cultures.  Topics under this umbrella might include—but are by no
>>means limited to——cross-cultural or inter-media engagements; the emerging
>>pan-European economy and trade; colonization; early modern subjectivity;
>>religion, humanism and secularism; and inter-linguistic mediations.  We
>>also encourage proposals for entire three-person panels or roundtables
>>offering discussions of a particular and pressing scholarly issue.  We
>>will additionally accept proposals located more firmly within
>>disciplinary boundaries that have no obvious bearing on our general
>>theme.
>>
>>         Our featured keynote speaker will be 
>> Roland Greene (Professor English and
>>Comparative Literature, Stanford), who will deliver a talk titled, “The
>>Rise of ‘Experience’ in Early Modern Culture.”  The conference will also
>>include a coffee/pastry registration, three panel sessions, and a
>>wine-and-hors d’oeuvres reception.
>>
>>         Speakers will have twenty minutes to 
>> deliver their presentations—which
>>means a length of approximately ten pages.  If you have a paper or would
>>like to develop one for the conference, please send abstracts (500 words
>>or less) via email to prawdzik at berkeley.edu (Chair) and
>>fiona_smythe at berkeley.edu (Assistant Chair).  The deadline is June 6,
>>2008.  (Please email with a general topic if more time is needed.)  We
>>will contact all senders by early August for confirmation.  Please note
>>that we may not be able to accept all proposals.
>>
>>
>>Brendan Prawdzik, NCRC 2008 Chair
>>University of California
>>Department of English
>>Berkeley, CA  94720-1030
>>
>>(510) 684-8211
>>prawdzik at berkeley.edu
>>
>>
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