****PLEASE NOTE: THIS CALL FOR PAPERS IS CROSS-POSTED*****
CALL FOR PAPERS
"The Past at Present: Varieties of Historicism in Medieval and Early
Modern Studies"
Friday-Saturday March 1-2, 1996
Hosted by: The Medieval and Renaissance Seminar,
The University of Western Ontario
This conference is a follow-up to our 1995 conference, "The Cultural Work
of Ritual, Symbol, and the Other." Like that conference, this one will
address the relationship between the revolution in methodology which has
taken place in the humanities and social sciences over the past decades
and the past which is the common object of study for medieval and early
modern scholars. In this case, the focus will be on any aspect of the
topic of "historicism." Ideally, we are looking for papers which address
both specific questions of history (political, social, literary, musical,
artistic, religious, economic etc.) and some of the larger methodological
concerns those questions raise. We hope to have papers from as large a
range of disciplines and relevant periods as possible, and to organize
them into sessions which emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of our
work and which leave ample time for discussion. Send 2-page abstracts,
if possible by November 1st, to
Nicholas Watson, Dept. of English, University of Western Ontario, London,
Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7 -- nwatson@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca -- 519-679-2111x5806
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