Blood, Sweat, Tears: Corporeality in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies & Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group 21st Annual Conference
The University of Western Australia
12 September, 2015
This one-day conference will explore aspects of embodiment and corporeality in medieval and early modern worlds, both within Europe and between European and non-European cultures.
We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers or ninety-minute panels on the following themes:
- cultural exchanges and conflict, particularly their material dimensions and repercussions as meetings and mixings of bodies and bloods;
- social, theological, ethnic, and physiological definitions of bodies and bloods;
- the formation of metaphorical bodies through affective discourses and discourses of violence;
- boundaries, bodily integrity, dismemberment, and contagion;
- somatic expressions of emotion (the force of tears, sweat and blood as tangible emotion);
- intersections between medical theories and practices relating to humours and effluvia.
We expect to publish a collection of essays from this conference.
Submissions for individual papers should include a paper title, a c.300-word abstract, participant’s name, affiliation (if any), email address, and audio/visual requirements. Submissions for panels should include a panel title and brief description, the name and affiliation of the panel chair (if one is being provided), paper titles, 300-word abstracts, participants’ names, affiliations and contact details for individual papers within the panel, and audio/visual requirements.
Please email submissions to Dr Joanne McEwan joanne.mcewan@uwa.edu.au by the extended deadline of 31st July 2015.
The Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group is able to offer a limited number of bursaries (up to AUS$500) to Honours students, postgraduate students and unwaged Early Career Researchers who would like to present papers at the “Blood, Tears, Sweat: Corporeality in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds” conference. These bursaries are intended partially to reimburse costs associated with attending the conference. Bursary application forms are available on the conference website: http://conference.pmrg.org.au. The date of application for travel bursaries is 1st July.