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The Blood Conference – Call For Papers

The Blood Conference
Theories of Blood in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Culture
St Anne’s College, Oxford
8-10 January, 2014

Conference Website

 
Blood in the medieval and early modern periods was much more than simply red fluid in human veins. Defined diversely by theologians, medics, satirists and dramatists, it was matter, text, waste, cure, soul, God, and the means by which relationships were defined, sacramentalised and destroyed. Blood was also a controversial ingredient in the production of matter, from organic and medical to mechanical and alchemical. Between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries debates about the nature and function of blood raised questions about the limits of identity, God’s will for his creatures, science’s encounter with the self, and the structure of families and communities, and its impact was felt in artistic constructions on stage, in print, and on canvas.

This two and a half day conference will gather early modern and medieval scholars from English, history, art history and medical history, to ask: ‘What is Renaissance blood?’

Plenary addresses by Frances Dolan (UC Davis), Patricia Parker (Stanford), Helen Barr (Oxford) and Elisabeth Dutton (Fribourg).

Discussions will cover a range of topics including blood and satire, blood and revenge, blood and gender, blood and genre, queer blood, royal blood, blood and wounding, William Harvey, blood and race, blood on the stage, blood and witchcraft, blood and alchemy, bloodlines, blood and sacrifice, blood and friendship, blood and disease, and blood and automata.

The Blood Conference will feature a professional production of the Croxton Play of the Sacrament directed by Elisabeth Dutton, and a session led by David Fuller, with the help of Oxford singers, on early sacramental music and Eucharistic blood. Wellcome Trust archivists will also be offering a session on blood material in their collection.

More speakers are now warmly invited. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary papers, and those with an emphasis on art history and medical history. But any innovative approaches to historical blood are most welcome.

Please send a 500 word abstract to Micah Coston by September 9th, 2013.

Digital Humanities Australia 2014 – Call For Papers

Digital Humanities Australia 2014: Expanding Horizons
University of Western Australia
18-21 March, 2014

Conference Website

The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) is pleased to announce its second conference, to be held at The University of Western Australia, 18-21 March, 2014. The aim of DHA 2014 is to advance digital methods, tools and projects within humanities research and develop new critical perspectives. The conference will provide a supportive, interdisciplinary environment to explore and share new and advanced research within the digital humanities. The conference is sponsored by iVEC@UWA, The University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University, Perth Convention Bureau, and the Australian Literature Westerly Centre, UWA.

The conference will feature long and short papers, posters and workshops, and informal ‘birds of a feather’ discussions. We invite proposals on all aspects of digital humanities, and especially encourage papers showcasing new research and developments in the field and/or responding to the conference themes.

Proposals may focus on, but need not be limited to:

1. WORKING WITH TEXT such as;

  • Critical text editing and electronic editions
  • Digitisation, text encoding and analysis
  • Text mining in historical scholarship
  • Book history, and digitising the book
  • Computational stylistics and distant reading
  • Digital curation and archives for cultural materials

2. NEW MEDIA and the DIGITAL such as;

  • Computational approaches in new media and Internet studies
  • The digital in culture, creativity, arts, music, performance

3. METHODS, APPROACHES, USERS such as;

  • Crowd-sourcing scholarship in the humanities
  • Quantitative methods in humanities research
  • Code studies, and code in the humanities
  • Mapping and spatial visualisation
  • Human Computer Interaction (HCI) in digital humanities research
  • Gaming for learning, serious gaming, and game archiving
  • Archaeology using digital methods including marine archaeology

4. WORKING WITH DATA

  • Modelling humanities data
  • Linked Data and the humanities

5. BUILDING the DH COMMUNITY and PRESENCE

  • Measuring and valuing research in the digital humanities
  • Institutionalisation, interdisciplinarity and collaboration
  • Curriculum and pedagogy in the digital humanities
  • Virtual research environments in humanities research

6. INDIGENOUS AND CROSS-CULTURAL DIGITAL RESEARCH

  • Cross-cultural studies
  • International comparisons

Abstracts of no more than 600 words, together with a biography of no more than 100 words, should be submitted to the Program Committee by 14 September 2013. All proposals will be fully refereed.

Proposals should be submitted via the online form at http://www.conftool.net/dha2014/

Please indicate whether you are proposing a poster, a short paper (10 mins + 5 mins questions), a long paper (25 mins + 5 mins questions), or birds of a feather session (60 mins). Proposals will be assessed in terms of alignment with the conference themes and the quality of research within these or related themes. Presenters will be notified of acceptance of their proposal on 14 October 2013.