Expanding Visions: Women in the Medieval and Early Modern World

Expanding Visions: Women in the Medieval and Early Modern World
University of Miami
March 2-4, 2017

Sponsored by the University of Miami Department of Modern Languages and Literatures,
the Center for the Humanities, and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund

Keynote Speaker: Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Distinguished Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

The Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Symposium at the University of Miami and Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite papers and three-paper sessions on new research on women’s activities—their literary, cultural, social, and/or political interventions in the medieval and early modern world. We encourage papers with interdisciplinary approaches that focus on the period 1400–1750. The presentations, in English, should not exceed twenty minutes. Please send 350-word abstracts and a scholarly biography of 200 words by October 15, 2016 to emwj@miami.edu.

The organizing committee will respond no later than December 1, 2016.