Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading
10-11 July 2017
Literary Complaint:
- Material cultures of complaint: production, transmission, reception
- Erotic complaint: narratives of abandonment, grief and loss
- Early modern women writers and complaint
- Voicing others: complaint as prosopopoeia
- Religious complaint: satire and exhortation
Medical Complaints and Grievances:
- Experiencing or witnessing suffering and pain
- Learning to live with disease and disability
- Painful or pain-relieving medical/surgical treatments
- Sensory aspects of medicine and surgery: sounds, sights, smells, tastes, and tactile sensations
- Complaints about medical practitioners, nurses, or patients
Political and Religious Complaints and Grievances:
- Petitioning and pamphleteering
- From grievances to politics: the personal, the local, and the national
- The popular and elite politics of complaint
- Complaint, crime and the law
- Travellers’ complaints: religion, politics and the lived experience of travel
Each panel proposal (minimum of two and a maximum of four papers) should contain the names of the session chair, the names and affiliations of the speakers and 200 word abstracts of the papers together with email contacts for all participants. A proposal for an individual paper (20 minutes) should consist of a 200 word abstract of the paper with brief details of affiliation and career.
Proposals for either papers or panels should be sent by email by Friday 16 December 2016, with the subject heading ‘2017 Conference’, to the Conference Committee, emrc@reading.ac.uk
