35th
Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Plymouth
State University
Plymouth,
NH, USA
Friday and
Saturday April 25-26, 2014
Call for
Papers and Sessions
“Authors,
Artists, Audiences”
Keynote
speaker: Rebecca Krug, Professor of English, University of Minnesota
We invite
abstracts or panel proposals in medieval and Early Modern studies that consider
how authors, artists, and audiences functioned in personal, political,
religious, and aesthetic realms.
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How are authorship and artistry defined in different
contexts?
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What roles do audiences play in creativity and
expression?
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How are reading and viewing conceived of or portrayed?
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What relationships exist among creator, creation, and
consumer?
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How do such ideas hold meaning today?
Papers need
not be confined to the theme but may cover many aspects of medieval and
Renaissance life, literature, languages, art, philosophy, theology, history and
music.
Students, faculty, and independent scholars
are welcome.
Undergraduate
sessions are welcome and require faculty sponsorship.
This year’s
keynote speaker is Rebecca Krug, associate professor of English at the
University of Minnesota, who specializes in late medieval English literature
and culture. She is the author of Reading Families: Women's Literate
Practice in Late Medieval England (Cornell University Press, 2002) and of a
number of essays, including recent pieces in The Cambridge Companion to
Medieval English Culture and in A Cultural History of Gardens in the
Medieval Age. She is currently writing an essay about lunar gardening
in the medieval and modern worlds as well as completing a book about Margery
Kempe.
For more
information visit www.plymouth.edu/medieval
Please
submit abstracts, a/v needs, and full contact information to Dr. Karolyn
Kinane, Director PSUForum@gmail.com.
Abstract deadline:
Monday January 15, 2014
Presenters
and early registration: March 15, 2014
