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Events Elsewhere & Calls for Papers

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

Manuscript Identities and the Transmission of Texts in the English Renaissance [41kb]

Friday 25 and Saturday 26 May 2012, Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield University

As part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project 'Early Modern Manuscript Poetry: Recovering our Scribal Heritage', this conference will explore the role of manuscripts in the production of individual and corporate identities in early modern culture, including the commissioning, copying, circulation, and collection of manuscripts. The conference welcomes multidisciplinary approaches and is keen to consider the relationships between manuscript and print identities in the period.

Topics might include: ownership and commissioning; selection criteria (authorial, thematic, generic, miscellaneous); scribal identities; collection and donation; manuscripts and place; the construction of poetic, religious, political, and regional identities in manuscript; coteries; circulation and dissemination; manuscript afterlives; editing

Speakers include: Julia Boffey (Queen Mary, London), Arthur Marotti (Wayne State University), Steve May (Sheffield University), Mary Morrissey (Reading University), Fred Schurink (Northumbria University), Jeremy Smith (Glasgow University), and Henry Woudhuysen (University College, London)

Please submit 200-word proposals for 20 minute papers by Friday 30 September to Alan Bryson (a.bryson@sheffield.ac.uk) and Cathy Shrank (c.shrank@shef.ac.uk).

Enquiries should be directed to a.bryson@sheffield.ac.uk .

INTERNSHIP - ROYAL LIBRARY

Please see link for further details. Further information on the Royal Library and its holdings is available on the Royal Collection web-site www.royalcollection.org.uk

CALL FOR PAPERS:

William Morris Society: 2011 Modern Language Association Annual Convention
6-9 January 2011, Los Angeles, CA

1. "Morris and the Arts: Books, Painting, Crafts, Architecture"

This is a regular session sponsored by the William Morris Society in the United States. We seek 15-minute papers which deal with William Morris and his close associates' work in, and connections to, the decorative and fine arts, crafts, architecture, printing/book arts, and architecture. Proposals to Florence S. Boos, florence-boos@uiowa.edu , by 20 March 2010.

2. "Pre-Raphaelite Uses of the Past"

Proposed session co-sponsored by the William Morris Society in the United States and the Society for Arthurian Literature. This session would examine aspects of Victorian historicism, especially neo-medievalism in painting, book design, poetry, romance narrative, translation and other genres. Papers might consider ways in which the Pre-Raphaelites and their associates and successors reshaped the works of Dante, Chaucer, Boccaccio, Froissart, the Icelandic sagas, Malory and other Arthurian sources for a middle-class Victorian audience. Reflections on the different forms of Victorian medievalism, variant uses of the same legends (e. g., of Launcelot and Guenevere), and the social context and psychological motivations of Victorian medievalism are also welcome. Proposals for 15-minute papers should be be sent to Michelle R. Warren,michelle.r.warren@dartmouth.edu, and Florence Boos, florence-boos@uiowa.edu , by 20 March. Notice of the MLA Program Committee's decision regarding this proposed session will be posted on the William Morris Society website in late Spring 2010.

Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library, 181 South College Avenue, Newark, DE 19717; Tel (302) 831-3250; marksl@udel.edu; biblio@aol.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

'The "Sister Arts" in the Popular Theatre, 1820-1910' [163kb]

8-10 July, 2010
University of Birmingham

As part of the AHRC-funded project 'A Cultural History of English Pantomime, 1837-1901' we invite proposals for papers on the Victorian theatre and the 'sister arts' of spectacle, painting, music, and dance. Our particular, but not exclusive, focus is on pantomime, but we are interested in exploring a wide range of theatrical practices in the Victorian period.

For further information see: http://www.drama.bham.ac.uk/pantomime.shtml

Proposals for 30 minute papers should be sent to Peter Yeandle by no later than 30 April 2010. Please include a 250-300 word abstract.

CALL FOR PAPERS

SEMINAR ON TEXTUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Monday, 14 June 2010
Conference Centre
The British Library

We are seeking four or five papers of approx. 30 minutes each, one at 11.15 a.m. and the others after lunch, with ample time for discussion after each paper. Papers dealing with any aspect of printing and book production in Continental Eastern and Western Europe are warmly invited, as are papers dealing with other aspects of historical bibliography, editing, and the history of the book and reading. Papers giving an account of work in progress or offers to introduce discussion of bibliographical interest are a long-standing feature of the seminar.

Please let us know by the end of April if you are willing to give a paper.

We should be grateful if you would send us the names and addresses of potential new participants in the seminar, especially postgraduate students.

Barry Taylor (tel: 020 7412 7576)
Susan Reed (tel: 020 7412 7572)

Early Printed Collections
The British Library
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London, NW1 2DB
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