[Milton-L] GEMCS 2009 Call for Papers

[JEMCS]

Call for Papers

*Early Modern Culture, 1450-1850*

*The Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
(GEMCS)*

*"Tracing Footprints"*

*October 22-25, 2009*

*Dallas, Texas*

Deadline extended to July 14.

GEMCS was formed in 1993 to promote the study of literature, history, art
history, and material culture from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth
century across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries.

This year's theme, "Tracing Footprints," is intended to be suggestive rather
than prescriptive. As always, GEMCS welcomes panels and proposals on all
aspects of culture between 1450 and 1850.As always, GEMCS is interested in
all aspects of early modern culture, and will welcome papers and panels on
any topic relevant to the broadly defined concerns of the Group.  The theme
for this year’s conference is “Tracing Footprints,” and so we would like to
encourage proposals that focus on the different valences and metaphorical
possibilities of the footprint.  We are especially concerned with exploring
the many meanings of the footprint and expanding it as a paradigm for early
modern representation.  The ecological footprint is a measure of human
demand on ecosystems; the representational footprint may be a measure of a
variety of demands on and by a text-social, historical, institutional, and
textual.  The “carbon footprint” questions the global space that a city, an
automobile industry, or a single individual occupies; it thus complicates
differences and demarcations between built and wild spaces, technology and
climate, people and nature.  How does tracing a text’s footprint challenge
existing definitions and boundaries of the space it occupies?   How do we
trace the genealogies of texts?  What sorts of competing histories are
embedded in objects of representation?

Send one-page proposals for individual papers or fully constituted panels to
*rsudan at smu.edu* <rsudan at smu.edu> by July 14, 2009.  We encourage proposals
for pre-constituted panels or workshops of no fewer than four and no more
than five participants, and in order to allow the greatest possible amount
of discussion, will ask that presenters in these panels limit their comments
to ten minutes each.

One-page abstracts for individual papers must include presenter’s name,
complete mailing address, institutional affiliation, phone number, and email
address; proposals for panels must identify a designated panel chair and
include one-paragraph abstracts for each presenter, as well as his or her
name, complete mailing address, institutional affiliation, phone number, and
email address.  Panels of four or five participants will be given
preference.  Participants will be notified of their acceptance to the
conference by email.
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