CALL FOR PAPERS: Communication, Correspondence and Transmission in the Early Modern World

The University of Leeds will be hosting a Northern Renaissance Seminar on 12-13th May 2016.

We are now inviting submissions from a range of disciplines, including history, literature, art history, archaeology, languages, and drama. It is a commonplace that the advent of printing in Europe revolutionised communication and the transmission of ideas. This Northern Renaissance Seminar event seeks to complicate and move beyond the “printing revolution” narrative to consider the messy and multiplicitous facets of communication, correspondence and transmission in the early modern world. How was it conceptualised, theorised or deployed as metaphor? What were its geographical, temporal or linguistic limits? How might it be transgressive or disruptive, and who might try to circumscribe it? 

Please email proposals of no more than 300 words to nrsleeds2016@gmail.com by Friday 15th January 2016.  All queries should also be directed to this address. Please also include biographical information detailing your name, research area, institution and level of study (if applicable).

Further details can be found on our website:

https://nrsleeds2016.wordpress.com/

The Northern Renaissance Seminar: ‘To set the word against the word’: new directions in early modern textual analysis’

The Northern Renaissance Seminar in association with CREME: http://creme.lancs.ac.uk/

‘To set the word against the word’: new directions in early modern textual analysis’, Lancaster University, Saturday 22 February 2014, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Building, Meeting Room 3

Programme

10.00-10.30 Jonathan Culpeper and Alison Findlay-Contemporary understandings of Welsh, Scottish and Irish identities: Celtic characters in Shakespeare’s Henry V

10.30-11.00 Helen Davies-The Digitisation of early modern ‘disability’: ways of reading bodily difference in Tudor literature.

11.00-11.30 Amanda Pullan-Locating the discourse surrounding ‘Hagar and Ishmael’ in early modern English texts

11.30-1.00 Brunch

1.00-2.00 Andrew Hardie-The affordances of corpus analysis software in approaching EEBO-TCP

2.00-2.30 Jake Halford-Everything goes with Bacon: The legacy of Francis Bacon in the seventeenth century

2.30-3.00 Break

3.00-3.30 Rachel White-Surly Areopagites and Poetic Reform

3.30-4.00 Liz Oakley-Brown-Thomas Churchyard’s Corpus: material body and digital text

NB There is no registration fee. Please contact Liz Oakley-Brown (e.oakley-brown@lancaster.ac.uk) to register