Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
Courtyard Philadelphia Downtown
2–4 April 2020
Conference hashtag: #RenSA20
Submission deadline: 15 August 2019
The submission website will open later this month (June 2019). The link will be posted in this space. A current RSA membership will be required to enter the submission website.
Conference details:
Conference submission process
Calls for papers
Seminar sessions
Conference hotel
Teaching the conference
Travel, diversity, and on-site care grants
Annual meeting policies
Professional conduct policy
Conference submission process
The submission period for RSA 2020 Philadelphia will open in June 2019 and close in mid-August. Acceptance decisions will be conveyed to submitters in early November 2019.
The RSA Program Committee solicits proposals for both individual papers and organized sessions, which may take the form of a panel, roundtable discussion, or workshop. For more information on the types of proposals accepted, see the Submission guidelines page.
Calls for papers
Calls for papers can be found on the 2020 Philadelphia CfP Blog. Session organizers may post a call for papers by using the "Add New Post" link above the most recent entry (you must be logged in to a current rsa.org membership to create a post).
Seminar sessions
The RSA Program Committee invites proposals for topics for seminar sessions to be held at the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Each seminar session will be moderated by one or two conveners and will feature discussion of a set of papers circulated in advance of the conference. Seminar topics may address any theme of relevance to Renaissance studies (1300–1700). Seminars that encourage dialogue across disciplines and/or open up new fields are especially welcome.
Find more information and the link to the seminar proposal form on the Philadelphia 2020 Seminars page.
Conference hotels
We have booked accommodations and meeting rooms at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown and the nearby Courtyard Philadelphia Downtown, both of them a short walk from the famed Reading Terminal Market and City Hall. The Philadelphia Historic District, which was the first World Heritage city in the US, is also within walking distance or accessible by a short cab, bus, or subway ride. The Library Company of Philadelphia houses collections on American society and culture dating from the seventeenth century. The majestic Philadelphia Museum of Art, originally chartered for the Centennial Exposition in 1876, with its main building on Fairmont Hill completed in 1928, has pay-as-you-wish evening hours on Wednesdays and evening hours on Fridays as well.
Teaching the conference
Attending the conference can be a useful educational tool for undergraduates and beginning graduate students who are interested in learning about Renaissance studies or the academic profession generally. Professor Christopher Carlsmith wrote about his experience bringing undergraduates to the 2016 Annual Meeting in Boston.
Please contact rsa@rsa.org to request more information on bringing students to the Annual Meeting as a pedagogical tool.
Travel, diversity, and on-site care grants
RSA members are invited to apply for travel, diversity, and on-site care grants for the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Each grant has a separate application with different requirements. The deadline for all grant applications will fall in November 2019 (precise date TBA). For more information on eligibility and the grants application process, see the Conference grants page.
Showing posts with label Historiography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Historiography. Show all posts
CALL FOR PAPERS: Truth and Truthiness: Belief, Authenticity, Rhetoric, and Spin in the Middle Ages & Renaissance
Truth and Truthiness: Belief, Authenticity, Rhetoric, and Spin in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
December 1, 2018
The 26th Biennial Conference of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program of Barnard College
Plenary Speakers: Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Dyan Elliott (Northwestern University)
The capacity of language both to communicate truth and to manipulate perceptions of it was as vexed a problem for the Middle Ages and Renaissance as it is today. From Augustine to Erasmus, enthusiasm for the study of rhetoric was accompanied by profound concern about its capacity to mask the difference between authenticity and deceit, revelation and heresy, truth and truthiness. Even the claim of authenticity or transparency could become, some thinkers argued, a deliberate form of manipulation or “spin.”
In our current era when public figures aim to create effects of immediacy and authenticity, this conference looks at the history of debates about rhetoric and, more generally, about the presentation of transparency and truthfulness. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this conference considers the role of the verbal arts in the history of literature, law, politics, theology, and historiography, but also broadens the scope of rhetoric to include such topics as the rhetoric of the visual arts and the language of the new science to produce effects of objective access to “things themselves.”
Please submit an abstract of 250–300 words and a 2-page CV by April 30, 2018 to Rachel Eisendrath
The 26th Biennial Conference of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program of Barnard College
Plenary Speakers: Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Dyan Elliott (Northwestern University)
The capacity of language both to communicate truth and to manipulate perceptions of it was as vexed a problem for the Middle Ages and Renaissance as it is today. From Augustine to Erasmus, enthusiasm for the study of rhetoric was accompanied by profound concern about its capacity to mask the difference between authenticity and deceit, revelation and heresy, truth and truthiness. Even the claim of authenticity or transparency could become, some thinkers argued, a deliberate form of manipulation or “spin.”
In our current era when public figures aim to create effects of immediacy and authenticity, this conference looks at the history of debates about rhetoric and, more generally, about the presentation of transparency and truthfulness. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this conference considers the role of the verbal arts in the history of literature, law, politics, theology, and historiography, but also broadens the scope of rhetoric to include such topics as the rhetoric of the visual arts and the language of the new science to produce effects of objective access to “things themselves.”
Please submit an abstract of 250–300 words and a 2-page CV by April 30, 2018 to Rachel Eisendrath
CALL FOR PAPERS: Ancient and Modern Knowledges
A two-day colloquium at the University of Sheffield
Friday 22 and Saturday 23 June 2018
Categories which seek to draw distinctions between different areas of scholarly inquiry in the history of knowledge, most obviously, perhaps, the distinction between ‘humanities’ and ‘sciences’ have, in many cases, spawned their own extensive sub-histories – the history of science and, more recently, the history of the humanities. Yet categories which instead seek to draw boundaries between bodies of knowledge based on distinctions of chronological time also need to be interrogated. The spatial turn in the history of knowledge has been particularly important, with much attention paid in recent years to exploring circuits, networks, geographies and mobilities of knowledge. Less consideration, however, has been given to distinctions of chronological distance (in particular, the use of the terms ‘ancient and modern’) and the associated claims of authority, legitimacy, originality and significance, which are implied when these terms are used.
The colloquium aims to explore two related sets of questions:
(1) Firstly, how have ancient knowledges been discussed, adapted, interrogated, included, excluded or ignored by scholars, writers and thinkers but also merchants, diplomats and other creators of knowledge consciously identifying as modern?
In referring to ‘ancient’ knowledges, we are not limiting our consideration to the knowledge of Greece and Rome alone, but are keen to hear from scholars working on the later reception of ideas, texts, images and objects originating in other ancient cultures – in China, India, Persia, Africa.
In defining ‘modern’ knowledges, we are adopting Peter Burke’s identification of 15th and 16th century Renaissance humanism as the first point at which societies began to view themselves as self-consciously modern, and we will extend our area of inquiry up to the long 18th century. In adopting this definition, we are aware that we are choosing to focus on a predominantly Western understanding of modernity. At the same time, we welcome papers exploring the concept of alternative and multiple modernities developed in other parts of the globe.
(2) The second set of questions we are interested in involve the different ways in which chronological markers (‘ancient’, ‘modern’, ‘new’, ‘old’, ‘traditional’, ‘novel’) have been used to draw distinctions and make claims about the legitimacy, authority and significance of different bodies of knowledge from the Renaissance onwards.
Papers could, for example, address the following issues:
Please send abstracts of 250 words for papers of 20 minutes and a short bio to:
h.l.ellis@sheffield.ac.uk or d.miano@sheffield.ac.uk by Tuesday 1st May 2018
Heather Ellis and Daniele Miano
University of Sheffield
Dr Heather Ellis
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow
School of Education
University of Sheffield
Email: h.l.ellis@sheffield.ac.uk
Friday 22 and Saturday 23 June 2018
Categories which seek to draw distinctions between different areas of scholarly inquiry in the history of knowledge, most obviously, perhaps, the distinction between ‘humanities’ and ‘sciences’ have, in many cases, spawned their own extensive sub-histories – the history of science and, more recently, the history of the humanities. Yet categories which instead seek to draw boundaries between bodies of knowledge based on distinctions of chronological time also need to be interrogated. The spatial turn in the history of knowledge has been particularly important, with much attention paid in recent years to exploring circuits, networks, geographies and mobilities of knowledge. Less consideration, however, has been given to distinctions of chronological distance (in particular, the use of the terms ‘ancient and modern’) and the associated claims of authority, legitimacy, originality and significance, which are implied when these terms are used.
The colloquium aims to explore two related sets of questions:
(1) Firstly, how have ancient knowledges been discussed, adapted, interrogated, included, excluded or ignored by scholars, writers and thinkers but also merchants, diplomats and other creators of knowledge consciously identifying as modern?
In referring to ‘ancient’ knowledges, we are not limiting our consideration to the knowledge of Greece and Rome alone, but are keen to hear from scholars working on the later reception of ideas, texts, images and objects originating in other ancient cultures – in China, India, Persia, Africa.
In defining ‘modern’ knowledges, we are adopting Peter Burke’s identification of 15th and 16th century Renaissance humanism as the first point at which societies began to view themselves as self-consciously modern, and we will extend our area of inquiry up to the long 18th century. In adopting this definition, we are aware that we are choosing to focus on a predominantly Western understanding of modernity. At the same time, we welcome papers exploring the concept of alternative and multiple modernities developed in other parts of the globe.
(2) The second set of questions we are interested in involve the different ways in which chronological markers (‘ancient’, ‘modern’, ‘new’, ‘old’, ‘traditional’, ‘novel’) have been used to draw distinctions and make claims about the legitimacy, authority and significance of different bodies of knowledge from the Renaissance onwards.
Papers could, for example, address the following issues:
- the role of ancient knowledge in the intersection of (and the distinction between) the natural sciences and humanities
- the role that individuals and informal institutions such as learned societies have played as agents in the formation of concepts and categories of knowledge.
- how reading and re-reading classical authors and ancient historians, in particular, helped to shape concepts of history, verisimilitude, plausibility and falsehood.
- the relationship between ancient and modern historiography
- the tradition of other ancient authors such as Plutarch, Suetonius, Cicero and Sextus Empiricus which has been particularly influential in the formation of concepts of history.
Please send abstracts of 250 words for papers of 20 minutes and a short bio to:
h.l.ellis@sheffield.ac.uk or d.miano@sheffield.ac.uk by Tuesday 1st May 2018
Heather Ellis and Daniele Miano
University of Sheffield
Dr Heather Ellis
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow
School of Education
University of Sheffield
Email: h.l.ellis@sheffield.ac.uk
Neapolitan Phoenix: Heritage and Renewal in Renaissance and Early Modern Naples’ (1442-1647)
Registration is now open for ‘Neapolitan Phoenix: Heritage and Renewal in Renaissance and Early Modern Naples’ (1442-1647) on Thursday 26th May 2016. Jointly hosted by the University of Warwick’s Renaissance Centre and the University of Avignon, the conference will be held at Compton Verney Art Gallery in Warwickshire. Places are limited. Neapolitan Pheonix
26 May 2016 at Compton Verney Art Gallery
Naples – Nea-polis – is, by virtue of its name, eternally a “new” city. Yet in studies of the history and intellectual culture of the Italian, or indeed, the European Renaissance –that period of “rebirth” and “renewal” par excellence– the city and the region are often left somewhat apart. This multi-disciplinary workshop aims to take stock of the various ways in which Renaissance and Early Modern Naples treated its Ancient and Medieval heritage and adapted it to changing political and socio-cultural circumstances. How did the Neapolitans reconcile their medieval legacy with the discovery and recovery of Ancient ruins? How did Naples negotiate the transition from the reign of the house of Anjou, to Alfonsine and later Spanish and Bourbon Naples? What role did humanists and Neo-Latin poets play in this never-ending process of reinvention?
26 May 2016 at Compton Verney Art Gallery
Naples – Nea-polis – is, by virtue of its name, eternally a “new” city. Yet in studies of the history and intellectual culture of the Italian, or indeed, the European Renaissance –that period of “rebirth” and “renewal” par excellence– the city and the region are often left somewhat apart. This multi-disciplinary workshop aims to take stock of the various ways in which Renaissance and Early Modern Naples treated its Ancient and Medieval heritage and adapted it to changing political and socio-cultural circumstances. How did the Neapolitans reconcile their medieval legacy with the discovery and recovery of Ancient ruins? How did Naples negotiate the transition from the reign of the house of Anjou, to Alfonsine and later Spanish and Bourbon Naples? What role did humanists and Neo-Latin poets play in this never-ending process of reinvention?
Draft Programme:
09:45-10:15 Registration
10:15-10:30. Opening comments: Ingrid De Smet and Steven Parissien (Director of Compton Verney)
10:30 Florence Bistagne. ‘O Franza o Spagna purché se magna’: pseudo-Guicciardinian misinterpretation and the construct of a Neapolitan identity.
11:30 Roxane Chilà. Royal Ideology in a Nutshell: the Preamble of the Neapolitan Privileges during the Reign of Alfonso the Magnanimous (1442-1458).
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45 David Dominé-Cohn. Naples, Nantes, Guingamp. Circulation culturelles autour d’un modèle politique angevin entre XIVe et XVe siècle.
12:15 Oren Margolis. After the Angevins: Their Legacy in the Humanistic Literature of Quattrocento Europe.
12:45 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Gallery Tour
14:30 Carlo Vecce. Et in Arcadia Neapolis. Naples in the Pastoral Imagery of the Early Modern Age.
15:00 Lorenza Gianfrancesco. Antiquity and civic identity in early modern Naples: historiography, iconography and politics.
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45 Jean-Louis Fournel. Campanella, Naples et la pensée politique napolitaine du début du XVIIe siècle.
16:15 Carlo Caruso. Poetic celebrations of Neapolitan art collections, ancient and modern.
16:45 Conclusion/closing remarks
Organised by Florence Bistagne (Avignon/IUF) and Ingrid De Smet (Warwick), the workshop will be held at Compton Verney Gallery on Thursday May 26th 2016, approx 10-6pm, and registration is now open. We currently have eight confirmed speakers (Florence Bistagne, Carlo Caruso, Roxanne Chilà, David Dominé-Cohn, Jean-Louis Fournel, Lorenza Gianfrancesco, Oren Margolis and Carlo Vecce), minibus travel is being arranged from campus, and there will also be a tour of the gallery after lunch (inc). Costs for the workshop are £40 (external), £35 (Warwick staff), £30 (students) and numbers are very limited, so early registration is essential, by using the online form (on left) or by sending your details/cheque to renaissance@warwick.ac.uk (Cheques need to be made payable to the 'University of Warwick', and have your name and the event title on the back).
Jayne Brown
09:45-10:15 Registration
10:15-10:30. Opening comments: Ingrid De Smet and Steven Parissien (Director of Compton Verney)
10:30 Florence Bistagne. ‘O Franza o Spagna purché se magna’: pseudo-Guicciardinian misinterpretation and the construct of a Neapolitan identity.
11:30 Roxane Chilà. Royal Ideology in a Nutshell: the Preamble of the Neapolitan Privileges during the Reign of Alfonso the Magnanimous (1442-1458).
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45 David Dominé-Cohn. Naples, Nantes, Guingamp. Circulation culturelles autour d’un modèle politique angevin entre XIVe et XVe siècle.
12:15 Oren Margolis. After the Angevins: Their Legacy in the Humanistic Literature of Quattrocento Europe.
12:45 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Gallery Tour
14:30 Carlo Vecce. Et in Arcadia Neapolis. Naples in the Pastoral Imagery of the Early Modern Age.
15:00 Lorenza Gianfrancesco. Antiquity and civic identity in early modern Naples: historiography, iconography and politics.
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45 Jean-Louis Fournel. Campanella, Naples et la pensée politique napolitaine du début du XVIIe siècle.
16:15 Carlo Caruso. Poetic celebrations of Neapolitan art collections, ancient and modern.
16:45 Conclusion/closing remarks
Organised by Florence Bistagne (Avignon/IUF) and Ingrid De Smet (Warwick), the workshop will be held at Compton Verney Gallery on Thursday May 26th 2016, approx 10-6pm, and registration is now open. We currently have eight confirmed speakers (Florence Bistagne, Carlo Caruso, Roxanne Chilà, David Dominé-Cohn, Jean-Louis Fournel, Lorenza Gianfrancesco, Oren Margolis and Carlo Vecce), minibus travel is being arranged from campus, and there will also be a tour of the gallery after lunch (inc). Costs for the workshop are £40 (external), £35 (Warwick staff), £30 (students) and numbers are very limited, so early registration is essential, by using the online form (on left) or by sending your details/cheque to renaissance@warwick.ac.uk (Cheques need to be made payable to the 'University of Warwick', and have your name and the event title on the back).
Jayne Brown
Centre Administrator
Centre for the Study of the Renaissance
H448b, 4th Floor Annexe, Humanities Building
H448b, 4th Floor Annexe, Humanities Building
The University of Warwick
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Email: renaissance@warwick.ac.uk ~ Web: go.warwick.ac.uk/renaissance
Tel: 024 7652 4587 ~ Fax: 024 7657 4582
Office Hours: Tues-Fri 9-5pm
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Email: renaissance@warwick.ac.uk ~ Web: go.warwick.ac.uk/renaissance
Tel: 024 7652 4587 ~ Fax: 024 7657 4582
Office Hours: Tues-Fri 9-5pm
https://www.facebook.com/renaissancestudies.warwick ~ @Ren Warwick
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