Daily Archives: 29 January 2019

Royal Studies Journal 2019 Book and Article Prizes

Entries are now open for the Royal Studies Journal (RSJ) 2019 Annual Book and Early Career/Post-Graduate Researcher’s Article Prizes.

Book Prize

Launched in June 2015, the Royal Studies Journal Annual Book Prize recognizes
outstanding contributions to the field of royal studies. Authors, publishers, Royal Studies Network (RSN) members, or other interested parties may nominate books, either monographs or edited collections, published during the previous two calendar years (2017-18). Self-nomination is accepted.

Entries must be submitted by 1 March, 2019.

For more information and to register a nomination, go to https://www.rsj.winchester.ac.uk/about/prizes/ and https://royalstudiesjournal.wordpress.com/2018/07/17/cccu-prizes-2018

Early Career Researcher/Post-Graduate Annual Article Prize

Launched in June 2015, the RSJ Early Career and Post-Graduate Researcher’s prize is
awarded annually to a current Early Career or Post-Graduate Researcher for the best
published or unpublished scholarly article-length work (approx. 5,000-10,000 words)
based on original research on any topic that falls within the scope of royal studies.

Contributions are accepted on a year-round basis, with a submission deadline of 1 March, 2019 for inclusion in the current year’s prize campaign. Articles (approx. 5,000-10,000
words) should be submitted in electronic form.

For more information go to https://www.rsj.winchester.ac.uk/about/prizes/ and
https://royalstudiesjournal.wordpress.com/2018/07/17/cccu-prizes-2018/

CPF 2021World Shakespeare Congress, Singapore

The Programme Committee of the 2021 World Shakespeare Congress welcomes proposals for panels, roundtables, seminars, and workshops responding to the conference theme ‘Shakespeare Circuits’.

The trope of circuits draws attention to the passage of Shakespeare’s work between places and periods, agencies and institutions, positionalities and networks of production, languages and mediums. Topics may include, but are not restricted to:

  • Renaissance circuits: socio-cultural economies, ecologies, and performance practices
  • Transmissions: textual transfer, translation, intermediaries
  • Colonial and postcolonial Shakespeares and their intertwining
  • Shakespeare in virtual networks, computing, and the digital humanities
  • Intercultural, transnational, diasporic engagements
  • Media, intermedial and cross-platform circulations
  • Relationships among performances and texts over four centuries of afterlives
  • Tracking and tracing: quotation, allusion, echo, revision, reference
  • Circulations of identity and difference within or between plays and their appropriations
  • Failures, distortions and blockages in transmission
  • Nodal points and their relations: festivals, centres, exhibitions, venues, and archives
  • Relations conducted via Shakespeare among broader historical events, eras, or period

All proposals must be submitted to http://wsc2021.org
The deadline for all proposals is 1 July 2019.

Please see the guidelines (downloadable PDF) for full details on submitting programme proposals.

Registration open for Complaint and Grievance: Literary Traditions Symposium, Wellington, 14-15 February

This two-day symposium explores the literature of complaint and grievance, centring on the texts of the Renaissance but welcoming contributions from related areas. Shakespeare (A Lover’s Complaint) and Spenser (Complaints) are central authors of Renaissance complaint, but who else wrote complaint literature, why, and to what effect? Female-voiced complaint was fashionable in the high poetic culture of the 1590s, but what happens to complaint when it is taken up by early modern women writers? What forms—and what purposes—does the literature of complaint and grievance take on in non-elite or manuscript spheres, in miscellanies, commonplace books, petitions, street satires, ballads and songs? What are the classical and biblical traditions on which Renaissance complaint is based? And what happens to complaint after the Renaissance, in Romantic poetry, in the reading and writing cultures of the British colonial world, in contemporary poetry, and in the #metoo movement?

Keynotes

  • Professor Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin)
  • Professor Kate Lilley (University of Sydney)
  • Professor Rosalind Smith (University of Newcastle, Australia)

Venue

Rutherford House
Victoria University of Wellington Pipitea Campus, Bunny Street
Wellington, New Zealand.

Registration

Symposium attendance is free. For catering purposes, please register your attendance by Friday 8 February with the convenor, Dr Sarah Ross: Sarah.Ross@vuw.ac.nz

For more information, see the full draft programme downloadable here.

CFP Limina conference, UWA July 2019

The call for papers is now open for the 14th annual Limina conference, which will be held at the University of Western Australia on 18-19 July 2019. The theme of this interdisciplinary conference is ‘HUMANIFESTO: Dissecting the Human Experience’. We invite submissions for 20 minute presentations for any topic relating to the intersection of the physical body and the expression of humanity. 

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

– performing bodies / body as spectacle / body art

– social / cultural / political expectations

– identity: race, religion, gender, age, sexuality

– augmented reality / artificial intelligence / genetic manipulation

– rights and rituals / funerary practices

– dysmorphia / alienation

– unembodiment / ghosts / haunting / manifestations

– dehumanisation / othering / objectification

– medicine / public health

– sport / human achievement

Please send submissions with the subject line ‘Humanifesto 2019’ to liminajournal@gmail.com, including a title, abstract (200 words), and short biography (50 words) in a single document.

Deadline for submission is 31 March, 2019.