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This call for papers should be directed at graduate students in the humanities, particularly those studying English and comparative literature, history, music, and art history in the renaissance period. Students from both sides of the Atlantic are welcome to submit.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Columbia Early Modern Colloquium invites abstracts for its inaugural graduate student conference entitled "Early Modern Histories", now to be held on 7 April 2006 in New York City.
We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines, with a special interest in work of an interdisciplinary nature. Papers should run approximately 20 minutes. Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
*history as genre
*historiography
*histories domestic and foreign
*literature and history
*strange histories
*historia
*plots & narrative
*the history play
*visual representations of history
*telling tales
*modern histories/accounts/versions of the Renaissance
*reading/misreading history *prose histories/chronicles
*historicism as critical method *lives, diaries, memoirs,
biographies
Please send abstracts of 250 words or less to CEMC.Conferencegmail.com by March 1st, 2006.
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