This conference hopes to assemble perspectives on the representation of the human body in early modern life narratives. Biographies (or “lives”, as they were generally called then) often claimed objectivity and even historical truth about their subjects. The representation of the body is particularly relevant in the creation of that alleged "truth", as its description in the text, sometimes illustrated by a portrait of the subject, attempts to evidence a kind of proof.  

Prof. Dr. Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier and her team look forward to welcoming you to this international conference at Hildesheim University from 14-16 June 2012. Scholars and theatre professionals will discuss  Shakespeare's impact on  culture  and literature today. A variety of  well-known keynote speakers  will  provide important insights into  Shakespeare's significance for us  and  the enormous scope of meaning of his works.

All participants are  asked  to join our negotiations of the Bard's works. If you would like  to  practice your voice and your acting or your teaching skills, please enroll for one of  our  workshops. If you have graduated recently you might wish to present your research at our postgraduate forum.

Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2012

 

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In particular, we invite proposals on any of the following topics:

Proposals for full panels are very welcome. These should include three proposed speakers, including, or in addition to, a chair and/or a respondent. Individual papers will be grouped with two others. Parallel sessions will last an hour and a half, which means that papers should be no longer than 20 minutes to leave sufficient time for discussion.

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Procedure for submitting proposals for papers:
Those wishing to participate in the Conference are invited to submit 200-word abstracts of their proposed papers directly to all convenors of the seminar in question before 31 January 2012. The convenors will let the proponents know whether their proposals have been accepted by no later than 29 February 2012.

S3) Performances of The Body In The Renaissance Period

The seminar intends to analyze the concept of the "body" in the Renaissance period and its subsequent re-articulations and re-interpretations. Modernity considers the body as a place of regulation, shaped by social and political ideologies and specific networks of power; it is strictly connected with the representation of individual identity and the shaping of the juridical persona. Literature and the performing arts (through a language that is written on the body and with the body), can absorb and retain the effects of political power as well as resist the very effects they appear to incorporate in structures of parody, irony, and pastiche.

Prof. John Drakakis (University of Stirling, UK) john.drakakis@stir.ac.uk Dr. Sidia Fiorato (University of Verona, IT) sidia.fiorato@univr.it

 

S28) The New Seventeenth Century: Literature and Genre in Britain and Ireland, 1603 - 1660

This session brings together recent work on the extensive range of seventeenth-century writing, juxtaposing critically established genres/authors with hitherto relatively understudied ones whose contemporary popularity prompts an interrogation of literary and critical canons as well as of the role of these genres/authors in the evolution of early-modern into modern across the North-East Atlantic Archipelago. In doing so, this session also explores the manner in which genre(s) became implicated in literary negotiations of variously troubled local and (inter-) national cultural-political loyalties. Papers might address (among others) sonnet sequences, romances, travel-writing, diaries and other ego-documents, sermons, historiography, plays, epistolary formats, broadsheets and ballads; engage in conceptual approaches, including book history; or analyse the seventeenth-century reception of pre-1600 texts..

Theo van Heijnsbergen (University of Glasgow, UK) 
Theo.VanHeijnsbergen(at)glasgow.ac.uk
Patrick Hart (İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi, TR) 
p.hart(at)iku.edu.tr

 

S5O) Crowd Control in the Renaissance

This seminar will discuss the notion of ‘crowd control' from various viewpoints, distinguishing ‘crowd controllers' and the ‘crowds controlled' in different loci : on the stage, in the Church, the royal entourage, urban/rural milieus, in the British Isles or elsewhere.

The seminar seeks to build on ideological and Foucauldian-based approaches to notions and instances of rebellion and social control, favored by critics in the 80s and 90s, by taking into account recent interdisciplinary research on manuscripts, law, iconography, film and performance studies, among others. Papers will discuss instances of crowd control, based on historical accounts, pamphlets, legal precedents, moral recommendations, or take fictional accounts from the stage or print culture. Theoretical approaches to the topic will also be welcome.

Pascale Drouet (Université de Poitiers, FR) 
pascale.drouet(at)neuf.fr 
Yan Brailowsky (Université Paris, FR) 
yan.brailowsky(at)u-paris10.fr
Zenon Luis Marinez (Universidad de Huelva, ES) 
luis(at)dfing.uhu.es

 

S62) Shakespeare's Language
With the development of computer technology and the increasing availability of electronic texts, exciting new possibilities for research into Shakespeare's language have opened up. Following the success of the seminar held in Turin we would like to take further the question of approaches to the study of Shakespeare's language. The discussion would address both the methods of research and the questions that they seek to answer: questions, for instance, of authorship and chronology, but also of language and ‘character' (class/gender), linguistic ideology and the politics of style/grammar.

Margaret Tudeau-Clayton (University of Neuchâtel, CH) 
margaret.tudeau-clayton(at)unine.ch
Jacqueline Mullender (University of Birmingham, UK) 
JEM516(at)bham.ac.uk
Jonathan Hope (Strathclyde University, UK) 
jonathan.r.hope(at)strath.ac.uk

 

S72) "Have We Devils Here? : Exclusion In Shakespeare Studies
Cultural, social and political exclusion/inclusion, generated by e.g. race, age, gender, religion, ethnicity, has been a facet of existence since the inception of civilization. Drawing on work by Byrne, 2005; Young, 2002; Fraser, 2000, we propose to use 'exclusion' as a conceptual and critical category to negotiate Shakespeare works, their translations, adaptations, productions and criticism by investigating their causal and instrumental links with deprivation, disentitlement and market inaccessibility. We believe that by focusing on exclusion and the struggles for emancipation promised through the recognition of difference, both the marginalised and the occluded will be highlighted, facilitating innovative readings of Shakespeare.

Krystyna KUJAWINSKA-COURTNEY (The University of Lodz, PL) 
krystyna.kujawinska52(at)gmail.com
Sarbani CHAUDHURY (University of Kalyani, IN)