A quick reminder – proposals for papers and panels for the Tenth Biennial ANZAMEMS Conference, to be held at the University of Queensland on the 14–18 July 2015 are due by 31 October.

For the full CFP please visit: http://anzamems.org/?page_id=186

Call for Papers for a panel session at Tenth Biennial ANZAMEMS Conference, to be held at the University of Queensland on the 14–18 July 2015:

The Land and Landscapes of Emotion in War

The thematic relation of war to ideas of ‘the land’ is surpassingly long-lived: from the Medieval through the Romantic periods, war can – and must – be read in the natural landscape. In numerous medieval and early modern literary and historical texts, the ravages of war are recorded in descriptions of the wasteland: the land laid waste, or its agricultural potential futilely ‘wasted’, by the effects of war. Land itself can become a record of war, and a space in which war’s emotions can be inscribed and interpreted. We invite contributions of 20-minute papers to a session on the land and landscapes in war writing, focusing on the ways in which land represents, commemorates, or even rejects the desolation and destruction of war. We invite papers that pay particular attention to textual associations of the land with emotional affect, whether before, during or after wartime. In what ways might the emotions of war and the effects of violent conflict be written and read in the landscape? How and where can land itself be said to emote? What is the relationship between the physical land and earth, death or burial; or idealised land as patria, yearned for and lamented, as well as fought over or on?

Papers may wish to consider these or other aspects of the land and emotion in literary and historical records of war, from the medieval period up to the eighteenth century, and might include medieval or early modern versions of the classical and early medieval associations of land and war; or might approach the subject in post-1800 ‘medievalist’ or ‘early modernist’ texts, including, but not limited to, poetry, novels, theatre and film.

Wider topics linking war and land could address:

• War in Georgic and Pastoral traditions
• War burial and commemoration
• ‘Waste’ and ‘wasted’ land: war and agriculture
• ‘Grim war’ and ‘smiling peace’: land, embodiment and personification in war
• Dispossession, depopulation and trauma in war
• Bleeding earth: the land in civil war
• Exile and nostalgia in war
• Viewing the land at war / in war
• War, nature and ecology
• Weather, seasons and the ‘atmosphere’ of war
• The cartographic / topographic imaginary of war
• ‘Ownership’, use and possession of land in war
• National landscapes of war

Please submit a 200-word proposal and brief biographical note (not more than 50 words) by Friday, October 24 to:

andrew.lynch@uwa.edu.au; stephanie.downes@unimelb.edu.au; or katrina.oloughlin@uwa.edu.au

Conference website: http://anzamems.org/?page_id=186
ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/research/research-projects/the-emotions-in-medieval-war-literature.aspx

As a reaction to the implicit masculine gendering of history and literature up until the latter part of the twentieth century, gender-based studies of the medieval and early modern period have tended to focus on representations of femininity at the expense of masculinity. While this approach has been invaluable in exposing the way in which women have been marginalised and effaced across time, it risks obscuring some elements of both the constructed nature of masculinity and of historical representations of masculine/feminine binaries.

This panel seeks to explore the possibilities offered by an explicitly gendered focus on representations of masculinity within the medieval and early modern period. The panel will convene at the ANZAMEMS Tenth Biennial Conference at the University of Queensland on the 14–18 July, 2015: http://anzamems.org/?page_id=7.

Possible topics for papers include but are not limited to:

• Masculinity and labour
• Masculinity and race
• Masculinity and violence
• Masculinity and physiology
• Masculinity and domesticity
• Masculinity and honour
• Masculinity and sexuality
• Masculinity and kingship

If you would like to contribute a paper to this panel, please send a 250 word abstract for a 20 minute paper together a brief biography to deborah.seiler@research.uwa.edu.au by the 23 October, 2014. Please put ‘Masculinities Panel’ in the subject line.

Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
10th Biennial Conference
The University of Queensland
14-18 July 2015

Sponsored by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Queensland

We invite proposals for papers and panels for ANZAMEMS 2015.

This is an open-themed conference in order to encourage the widest range of participation in the academic disciplines of medieval and early modern studies. We welcome individual papers and full panels on themes from across the period 600 to 1800, that includes, but is in no way limited to, the disciplines of history, literary studies, music, art history, intellectual history, theology and religious studies, the history of emotions, cultural studies, philosophy, science, political and constitutional history, medicine, maritime studies, law, performance studies, gender studies, and cultural heritage.

We particularly encourage papers and panels from graduate students, early career researchers, as well as honours students.

The deadline for paper and panel submissions is 31 October 2014. Early submissions, however, are encouraged and will be processed immediately.

Conference papers are no longer than 20 minutes each in order to leave 10 minutes discussion time for each paper in any session. Each session contains three papers, and the conference program is arranged in parallel sessions spanning all 5 days of the conference. Proposals for full panels, comprising three papers, centred on a theme, as are individual paper submissions, are most welcome.

All proposals should be sent to: anzamems2015@uq.edu.au.

Please find the full CFP for the conference HERE.