“Performative Spaces”
Society for Renaissance Studies 6th Biennial Conference
University of Southampton
13-15 July, 2014
The conference theme is ‘Performative Spaces’. We invite Renaissance scholars from the disciplines of archaeology, architecture, history of art, history, history of science and medicine, literature, music, philosophy and other fields to submit proposals for panels (90 mins), and individual papers (20 mins), that engage with ‘Performative Spaces’:
- as liturgical or religious performances;
- by addressing the ways objects were intended to tell stories;
- as processions, rituals, and ceremonies;
- as houses, and through building design;
- by exploring diplomatic and political spaces;
- as actual and textual musical and dramatic performances;
- through artistic representation;
- as anatomies or scientific experiments;
- through clothing or furniture;
- as seascapes/ landscapes;
- through the use of new technologies such as podcasts, blogs, twitter;
- by addressing public engagement and pedagogy.
In addition there is an ‘Open Strand’ which welcomes proposals for panels or papers on any aspect of Renaissance studies.
Plenary lectures will be given by Lena Cowen Orlin (Georgetown), Sharon Strocchia (Emory), Simon Thurley (English Heritage),and Greg Walker (Edinburgh) and there will be workshops on publishing and research funding and tours of historic buildings around the city.
Proposals (max. 400 words) are welcome from both established scholars and postgraduates and they should be sent by Friday 27 September 2013 to the conference organizers:
- Professor Ros King Director, CMRC
- Professor Claire Jowitt Conference Convenor, SRS