ANNOUNCEMENTS ~

2008 Conference

The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) will be at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown St. Louis, MO, 23-26 October 2008.

Check back soon for registration information.

The SCSC is an interdisciplinary scholarly society that is interested in the early modern era (ca. 1450-1660), and its geographical scope is broadly defined. We also welcome roundtable proposals sponsored by scholarly societies that are affiliated with the SCSC.

Call for Papers:

Sixteenth Century Society at the Renaissance Society of America
Los Angeles, March 2009

The Sixteenth Century Society invites submissions to panels under its sponsorship at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Los Angeles, 19-21 March 2009. Submissions are due 16 May 2008.

Submissions may be either

(a) individual papers submitted on the following themes:

a. Henry VIII Revisited. A panel for the five-hundredth anniversary of Henry’s ascent to the English throne (crowned 24 June 1509). Interdisciplinary examinations of his person, politics, and court are especially welcome.

b. In Praise of Folly. A panel for the five-hundredth anniversary of Erasmus’ famous satire (composed in 1509, printed in 1511). Contextual and intertextual analyses are especially welcome.

(b) complete panels on any appropriate theme. Full panels should in general consist of three papers and designate a chair. Full panels may also include a commentator. Total presentation time for a panel (including papers and commentator, but not including Q&A) should not exceed 60 minutes.

Individual papers are to be no more than 20-minutes in length, i.e., roughly ten typewritten pages. Papers should be original in content and not have been previously delivered.

Submissions are to be emailed to at scsc-rsa@georgetown.edu . They are due Friday, 16 May 2008. Decisions will be made within two weeks. Submissions should include

• a two-hundred word abstract of the paper. Full panel submissions should also include an abstract of the panel as a whole.
• a brief c.v. for each participant.
• Full panel submissions should be submitted as a single email.

By submitting a paper, the applicant promises that if his/her paper is accepted, s/he will deliver the paper at the conference in person. Membership in the RSA is required for attendance at the conference. All arrangements to attend the conference are the responsibility of the individual panelists.

Prof. David J. Collins, S.J., liaison of the SCSC to the RSA
History Department
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
scsc-rsa@georgetown.edu
www.rsa.org/meetings/annualmeeting_2009.php
www.sixteenthcentury.org/

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

Foundations of Modernity: A Graduate Symposium on the Italian Renaissance
at Yale University, April 3-5, 2009

Keynote speaker: Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University)

Call for papers:

On behalf of the Department of Italian Language and Literature, we are pleased to announce the first Graduate Student Symposium on the Italian Renaissance, to be held on April 3-5, 2009 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

The Renaissance has long been considered the laboratory of Western modernity. But is this a valid proposition? This conference aims to investigate the authentic meaning of such a relationship and the role Italian cultural production played between the late 14th and the end of the 16th century.

In the interests of interdisciplinarity, paper topics may consider, but are not limited to the following:

• Literary and political performances of Renaissance courts
• New worlds and early modern state formation
• Questions of science and technology
• Authorship, readership, and theories of imitation
• Renaissance and the ancient world
• Questions of orthodoxy and transgression in theology
• Formulations of Humanism
• Medieval and Renaissance: continuity or rupture?
• History of Renaissance as a critical category
• Renaissance art and its relation to modern image culture

Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes (approximately 9-10 pages of double-spaced text) and may be in Italian or in English.

Please submit an anonymous abstract (no longer than 250 words) and, on a different page, a cover sheet with the title of your paper, your name, affiliation, and contact information (including telephone and e-mail address). Kindly send this information as Microsoft Word file attachment to foundationsofmodernity@yahoo.com by November 15, 2008.

Future information will be available on the events webpage of the Yale Italian Department: www.yale.edu/italian/news/ as the symposium draws nearer.