Daily Archives: 3 August 2018

CFP: Fraud, Mockery, Jest, and Cony-Catching in the Early Modern Period (RSA 2019, Toronto)

Proposals are invited for a session on Fraud, Mockery, Jest, and Cony-Catching in the Early Modern Period, to be convened at RSA 2019 conference, Toronto, 17-19 March 2019.

To what extent is a jest also a lie? Are frauds funny? Taking a cue from “mockery” as mimic, sham, and spoof, this panel is interested in the ways fraud, imposture, and deceit function as ludic entertainment – whether intentionally or as byproduct.

This panel invites submissions that consider the jocularity of fraud, counterfeit, trickery, disguise, quackery, and cozenage. Papers are welcome to explore the theme in regards to:

  • Material culture including trick objects like blow books, mock almanacs, or fraudulent copies of famous works
  • Gendered experiences of deception or artifice
  • Jestbooks, ludic ballads, mock pamphlets
  • Mountebanks, street performers, gambling games, and pick-pockets
  • Medicine, especially the preoccupation with quack physicians
  • Natural philosophy and debates pushing back against charges of superstition
  • Magic, either through a focus on prestidigitation or representations and discussions of witchcraft
  • Satire
  • Parody
  • Religious debates including displays of anti-Catholic sentiment and fears as well as fetishizations of “Popery”
  • Theatre, stagecraft, and/or anti-theatrical sentiment

Proposals should be for 20-minute papers, and should include:

  • title for the paper
  • abstract of 150 words
  • 1-page CV
  • current contact information
  • A/V requirements

Submit proposals to agovjian@live.unc.edu by 10 August, 2018. Subject line: “RSA – Fraud and Mockery.”

CFP: Encountering Medieval Iconography in the Twenty-First Century (ICMS Kalamazoo, 2019)

Proposals are invited for a roundtable on ‘Encountering Medieval Iconography in the Twenty-First Century: Scholarship, Social Media, and Digital Methods’, to be convened at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 9-12 May, 2019.

Organizers: M. Alessia Rossi and Jessica Savage (Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University)
Sponsored by the Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University

Stemming from the launch of the new database and enhancements of search technology and social media at the Index of Medieval Art, this roundtable addresses the many ways we encounter medieval iconography in the twenty-first century. We invite proposals from emerging scholars and a variety of professionals who are teaching with, blogging about, and cataloguing medieval iconography. This discussion will touch on the different ways we consume and create information with our research, shed light on original approaches, and discover common goals.

Participants in this roundtable will give short introductions (5-7 minutes) on issues relevant to their area of specialization and participate in a discussion on how they use online resources, such as image databases, to incorporate the study of medieval iconography into their teaching, research, and public outreach. Possible questions include: What makes an online collection “teaching-friendly” and accessible for student discovery? How does social media, including Twitter, Facebook, and blogging, make medieval image collections more visible? How do these platforms broaden interest in iconography and connect users to works of art? What are the aims and impact of organizations such as, the Index, the Getty, the INHA, the Warburg, and ICONCLASS, who are working with large stores of medieval art and architecture information? How can we envisage a wider network and discussion of professional practice within this specialized area?

Please send a 250-word abstract outlining your contribution to this roundtable and a completed Participant Information Form (available via the Congress Submissions website: https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions) by 15 September 2018 to M. Alessia Rossi (marossi@princeton.edu) and Jessica Savage (jlsavage@princeton.edu).

More information about the Congress can be found here: https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress.

 

Call for editors: Journal of Women’s History

The Journal of Women’s History, founded in 1989 as the first journal devoted exclusively to the international field of women’s history, invites proposals for a new editorial home for a five-year term beginning 1 June, 2020.  Over the course of nearly three decades, the Journal has successfully bridged the divide between ‘women’s’ and ‘gender’ history by foregrounding women as active historical subjects in a multiplicity of places and times. In doing so, it has not just restored women to history, but has demonstrated the manifold ways in which women as gendered actors transform the historical landscape. Admirably, the journal has never advanced a specific feminist agenda, but has consistently aimed to make visible the variety of perspectives, both intellectual and methodological, which feminist historiography has generated over the last thirty years. Both by design and by virtue of the diverse research undertaken by scholars of women, gender and feminism, the journal itself constitutes a living archive of what women’s and gender history has been, as well as a testament to its indispensable place in the historical profession at large. Moreover, it sets the agenda for the plurality of feminist histories yet to be written.

We seek an editorial team that will continue to foster these traditions while also bringing new and innovative ideas to the Journal.  Interested parties should contact the Journal office as soon as possible to request a prospectus that outlines the current organization and funding of the Journal.

Proposals to edit the Journal should include:  

  1. A statement of editorial policy, including an analysis of the current place of the Journal in the historical profession and a potential agenda for the future
  2. An organizational plan for the editorial and administrative functions of the Journal
  3. A statement of commitment of institutional support
  4. Copies of curriculum vitae for the editor or editors.  Please note that available software for online article submission and review now make it possible to assemble an editorial team from more than one institution.

Proposals are due to Teresa Meade, President, Board of Trustees, Journal of Women’s History, Department of History, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308 by 1 March, 2019.  The proposal can be sent via hard copy and/or email in a Word file to meadet@union.edu.  

If you send only via email, please send a communication in advance so that we will know it is arriving.  You will receive a confirmation via email upon receipt of the full proposal.