We are pleased to announce the call for papers for our 59th annual meeting, to take place in San Diego, 4–6 April 2013.
The Program Committee welcomes submissions for individual papers or panels on any aspect of Renaissance studies, or the era ca. 1300–1650. Proposals will be evaluated by the Program Committee for their original scholarly contribution to an aspect of the field.
Members are invited to submit proposals for individual papers or full sessions to the Program Committee for review.
If you wish to organize a session and invite others to participate, you may post your own calls for papers on blogs set up for this purpose. You must sign in as a member to post. There are four blogs: one for art history, one for history, one for literature, and one for interdisciplinary and other CFPs. You may cross-post to as many blogs as you wish. They are available on our San Diego page (midway down the page), or via our site's main menu. Please remember that these blogs are set up to help you organize a session; neither a blog post nor a reply to a post constitutes a submission. All submissions—papers or sessions, whether organized by Discipline or Association Representatives or by individuals—must be submitted via our online submissions system in order to be considered for the program. Sessions organizers are responsible for submitting all the materials for that session, including individual abstracts and supporting information.
The online submission system is not yet open. The link will be posted on the San Diego page when it becomes available. The deadline for submissions is 15 June 2012. You need not be a member of RSA to submit a proposal for a session or a paper, but all presenters whose proposals are accepted must be(come) members.
If you have questions please contact the RSA office.
We are already looking forward to another successful meeting.
Sincerely,
Ann E. Moyer
Executive Director
Program Committee Chair
All Roads lead to Slindon
Filling in some gaps in Slindon's religious history
Saturday 23rd March 2013
Venue: Slindon College, St Mary’s, & St Richard’s Churches,
Slindon, West Sussex BN18 0RH
10.00 Assemble at Slindon College and coffee.
10.30 Welcome and Introduction
Dr Andrew Foster & Ian Graham (Headmaster, Slindon College)
11.00 Professor Michael Questier (Queen Mary, University of London) Current research on early modern English Catholicism in the localities.
11.45 Dr Caroline Bowden (QMUL) - ‘Who were the nuns?’ project: the database and family connections
12.15 Dr James Kelly (QMUL and Centre for Catholic Studies, University of Durham) – ‘Who were the nuns? new developments’.
12.45 Phillip Berry (Slindon History Group) - Brief History of Slindon Hall.
Lunch
2.00 Guided Tours: Slindon Hall (College), St Mary’s & St Richard’s Churches– in groups. Exhibitions available for unescorted visitors
3.30 Re-assemble at St Mary’s Church.
Boxgrove Choir – programme of 16th and 17th century church music.
4.00 Plenary panel discussion chaired by Dr Andrew Foster
The significance of Slindon and the value of research in the localities.
Saturday 23rd March 2013
Venue: Slindon College, St Mary’s, & St Richard’s Churches,
Slindon, West Sussex BN18 0RH
10.00 Assemble at Slindon College and coffee.
10.30 Welcome and Introduction
Dr Andrew Foster & Ian Graham (Headmaster, Slindon College)
11.00 Professor Michael Questier (Queen Mary, University of London) Current research on early modern English Catholicism in the localities.
11.45 Dr Caroline Bowden (QMUL) - ‘Who were the nuns?’ project: the database and family connections
12.15 Dr James Kelly (QMUL and Centre for Catholic Studies, University of Durham) – ‘Who were the nuns? new developments’.
12.45 Phillip Berry (Slindon History Group) - Brief History of Slindon Hall.
Lunch
2.00 Guided Tours: Slindon Hall (College), St Mary’s & St Richard’s Churches– in groups. Exhibitions available for unescorted visitors
3.30 Re-assemble at St Mary’s Church.
Boxgrove Choir – programme of 16th and 17th century church music.
4.00 Plenary panel discussion chaired by Dr Andrew Foster
The significance of Slindon and the value of research in the localities.
4.30 Close Tea and biscuits.
Registration: Attendees are advised to register a place by contacting Jane Greenshields via email j.greenshields291@btinternet.com
Catering: Light refreshments at each venue but please bring your own lunch.
Registration: Attendees are advised to register a place by contacting Jane Greenshields via email j.greenshields291@btinternet.com
Catering: Light refreshments at each venue but please bring your own lunch.
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Losers of the Scientific Revolution
The 13th Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
5–10 July 2013, Bran, Romania
Organized by the Research Centre for the Foundations of Modern Thought (FME), University of Bucharest, in collaboration with the Philosophy Department at Princeton University
Invited speakers include: Igor Agostini (Università del Salento), Stefano Di Bella (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Daniel Garber (Princeton University), Sophie Roux (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris), Emanuela Scribano (Università Ca'Foscari Venezia)
History is written by the victors -- but not when it comes to the Scientific Revolution. Revisionist historiographies in the post-Kuhnian tradition have often championed the losers. Questioning the traditional accounts (Whiggish or Marxist), recent narratives of the scientific revolution have drastically altered the portraits of the relevant actors, parties and currents of thought, while also questioning the categories and concepts formerly used to tell the story of the emergence (or ‘origins’) of modern science. However, not all the traditional historiographical categories have been replaced: narratives in terms of 'winners' and 'losers' still prevail. Meanwhile, intellectual historians have begun to ask a number of questions relative to these categories, such as:
Our seminar invites reflection on such (and related) issues and investigation of particular cases that may illuminate them. It aims to do so by using the vantage point of the losers (variously defined), which may be the more profitable in trying to understand what exactly is going on when ‘you win some, you lose some’.
The Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy is an international annual meeting of scholars interested in various aspects of early modern thought. The aim of the seminar is to create a stimulating environment for discussing papers and ideas. It includes workshops in the morning and presentations of papers in the afternoon, where participants can present work in progress. While the morning sessions will focus on the theme of “The Losers of the Scientific Revolution*,*” the afternoon sessions seek to give participants an opportunity to discuss their own special interests with an open and sympathetic audience of students and scholars with broad interests in early modern thought. Throughout we try to maintain a balance between the high scholarly level and the informal friendly spirit of a colloquium.
The Seminar will take place in Bran, a small mountain resort near Brasov, in Transylvania. It will be hosted in a small, friendly Bed and Breakfast (single or double rooms). The participation fee is 150 EUR for faculty and
90 EUR for students (covering accommodation with breakfast). We invite applications for contributions (from researchers) and for attendance (from students). If you want to contribute a paper, please send a CV and a one-page abstract, and if you want to attend, a CV and a letter of intent – *by April 20* – to Vlad Alexandrescu (valexandrescu@gmail.com), Sorana Corneanu (soranacorneanu@yahoo.com), Dana Jalobeanu (dana.jalobeanu@celfis.ro).
5–10 July 2013, Bran, Romania
Organized by the Research Centre for the Foundations of Modern Thought (FME), University of Bucharest, in collaboration with the Philosophy Department at Princeton University
Invited speakers include: Igor Agostini (Università del Salento), Stefano Di Bella (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Daniel Garber (Princeton University), Sophie Roux (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris), Emanuela Scribano (Università Ca'Foscari Venezia)
History is written by the victors -- but not when it comes to the Scientific Revolution. Revisionist historiographies in the post-Kuhnian tradition have often championed the losers. Questioning the traditional accounts (Whiggish or Marxist), recent narratives of the scientific revolution have drastically altered the portraits of the relevant actors, parties and currents of thought, while also questioning the categories and concepts formerly used to tell the story of the emergence (or ‘origins’) of modern science. However, not all the traditional historiographical categories have been replaced: narratives in terms of 'winners' and 'losers' still prevail. Meanwhile, intellectual historians have begun to ask a number of questions relative to these categories, such as:
- What historiographical assumptions underwrite our decision that a thinker, an idea or a theory are to be numbered among the winning or the losing camp? Do these roles change with the specific perspective we adopt?
- What kinds of interaction do we take the winners and the losers to have been engaged in -- battles between diverging worldviews or debates based on at least some shared presuppositions? polemical clashes or confrontations issuing in modified positions on either side?
- What kinds of context (intellectual, social, religious, political, institutional, material) can best account for the fate of ideas or theories and their winner or loser status?
Our seminar invites reflection on such (and related) issues and investigation of particular cases that may illuminate them. It aims to do so by using the vantage point of the losers (variously defined), which may be the more profitable in trying to understand what exactly is going on when ‘you win some, you lose some’.
The Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy is an international annual meeting of scholars interested in various aspects of early modern thought. The aim of the seminar is to create a stimulating environment for discussing papers and ideas. It includes workshops in the morning and presentations of papers in the afternoon, where participants can present work in progress. While the morning sessions will focus on the theme of “The Losers of the Scientific Revolution*,*” the afternoon sessions seek to give participants an opportunity to discuss their own special interests with an open and sympathetic audience of students and scholars with broad interests in early modern thought. Throughout we try to maintain a balance between the high scholarly level and the informal friendly spirit of a colloquium.
The Seminar will take place in Bran, a small mountain resort near Brasov, in Transylvania. It will be hosted in a small, friendly Bed and Breakfast (single or double rooms). The participation fee is 150 EUR for faculty and
90 EUR for students (covering accommodation with breakfast). We invite applications for contributions (from researchers) and for attendance (from students). If you want to contribute a paper, please send a CV and a one-page abstract, and if you want to attend, a CV and a letter of intent – *by April 20* – to Vlad Alexandrescu (valexandrescu@gmail.com), Sorana Corneanu (soranacorneanu@yahoo.com), Dana Jalobeanu (dana.jalobeanu@celfis.ro).
CALL FOR PAPERS: Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference
Proposals for papers and panels (of three speakers) are invited for the third Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference, to be held in University College Dublin on 30 and 31 August 2013. Papers relating to any aspect of Irish society during the Tudor and Stuart eras are welcome, including:
Proposals from postgraduate students are particularly welcome.
- Writing (and rewriting) History in Tudor and Stuart Ireland
- The pursuit of profit: The merchant class in Tudor and Stuart Ireland - The Irish in England and on the continent
- The role of women in Tudor and Stuart Ireland
- Military History
Proposals from postgraduate students are particularly welcome.
Abstracts of 250 words may be submitted via the conference website. The closing date for submission of proposals is Friday, 10 May 2013.
For more information, please visit the conference website www.tudorstuartireland.com or email info@tudorstuartireland.com.
In the Beginning: Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry
The Spring Meeting of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC):
Saturday 16 March 2013, 13.00 to 17.30
Richard Eden Room, Gillian Beer House, Clare Hall (West Court site), Herschel Road, Cambridge
The early sources of alchemy, chemistry and chemical technology - influential antique and early medieval works, composed in Greek, Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew - remain relatively little known, and present unique challenges to scholarship. This meeting showcases the most up-to-date work on these intriguing sources: both shedding new light on early ideas, practices and authorities, and evaluating their impact on the development of western alchemy, chemistry and chemical medicine.
The meeting celebrates the completion of the first volume of a new series, *Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry*. The series will provide monograph-length critical editions and English translations of influential works of early alchemy and chemistry, to be included in subscriptions to the Society's journal, Ambix.
Programme:
Lawrence M. Principe (Johns Hopkins University): "Early Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry"
Matteo Martelli (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): "Zosimus and the First Book of Alchemy"
Gabriele Ferrario (Cambridge University Library): "Judaeo-Arabic Alchemy in the Cairo Genizah"
Sébastien Moureau (Université catholique de Louvain): "Elixir and Ferment, Alchemy and Medicine: The Link Between Pseudo-Avicenna's De anima, Roger Bacon, and Pseudo-Aristotle's Secretum secretorum"
Jennifer Rampling (University of Cambridge): "Plotting the Future of Medieval Alchemy"
Roundtable discussion
Full programme here: http://www.ambix.org/sources/
Registration is £10 (£6 for students and SHAC members). Online registration here: http://www.ambix.org/registration-form/
Colloquium organized by SHAC, with support from the British Society for the History of Science and the Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe.
Please contact Jennifer Rampling with any queries: jmr82@cam.ac.uk
Saturday 16 March 2013, 13.00 to 17.30
Richard Eden Room, Gillian Beer House, Clare Hall (West Court site), Herschel Road, Cambridge
The early sources of alchemy, chemistry and chemical technology - influential antique and early medieval works, composed in Greek, Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew - remain relatively little known, and present unique challenges to scholarship. This meeting showcases the most up-to-date work on these intriguing sources: both shedding new light on early ideas, practices and authorities, and evaluating their impact on the development of western alchemy, chemistry and chemical medicine.
The meeting celebrates the completion of the first volume of a new series, *Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry*. The series will provide monograph-length critical editions and English translations of influential works of early alchemy and chemistry, to be included in subscriptions to the Society's journal, Ambix.
Programme:
Lawrence M. Principe (Johns Hopkins University): "Early Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry"
Matteo Martelli (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): "Zosimus and the First Book of Alchemy"
Gabriele Ferrario (Cambridge University Library): "Judaeo-Arabic Alchemy in the Cairo Genizah"
Sébastien Moureau (Université catholique de Louvain): "Elixir and Ferment, Alchemy and Medicine: The Link Between Pseudo-Avicenna's De anima, Roger Bacon, and Pseudo-Aristotle's Secretum secretorum"
Jennifer Rampling (University of Cambridge): "Plotting the Future of Medieval Alchemy"
Roundtable discussion
Full programme here: http://www.ambix.org/sources/
Registration is £10 (£6 for students and SHAC members). Online registration here: http://www.ambix.org/registration-form/
Colloquium organized by SHAC, with support from the British Society for the History of Science and the Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe.
Please contact Jennifer Rampling with any queries: jmr82@cam.ac.uk
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