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Gender Cartographies: Histories, Texts & Cultures in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1830 – Call For Papers

Gender Cartographies: Histories, Texts & Cultures in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1830
Sixth Conference of the Aphra Behn Europe Society
University of Huelva, Spain
5-7 October, 2016

The Aphra Behn Europe Society invites submissions of papers for its biennial conference, “Gender Cartographies: Histories, Texts & Cultures in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1830”, to be held at the University of Huelva, Spain, from 5-7 October 2016. This conference encourages interdisciplinary approaches to the fields of historical writing and historiography, textual studies, and the analysis of culture(s) with especial emphasis on women’s writing of the long eighteenth century.

Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Imaginary or geographical spaces in the long eighteenth century
  • Women and the material: intersectionalities of text and object
  • Aphra Behn: her production and literary influence
  • Genre theory, gender, and the canon in the long eighteenth century
  • The culture of sensibility: gender inscriptions in the long eighteenth century
  • Representing the exotic
  • Spaces of intimacy: diaries, letters, memoirs
  • Bodies and sexualities in history, politics and fiction
  • Women’s journeys: travel narratives and histories of travel
  • Dramatic theory and practice: women as playwrights and critics
  • Performing gender on stage
  • Poetics in the long eighteenth century
  • Gendered approach to language and linguistics: dictionaries, encyclopaedias and translations

The following plenary speakers have already confirmed their participation:

  • Prof. Sarah Prescott (Aberystwyth University)
  • Dr. Gillian Wright (University of Birmingham)

We welcome proposals for papers (20 minutes) and roundtable discussions (60 minutes).

Contributors must submit the following information:
About the paper:

  1. Full title
  2. A 200-word abstract
  3. Technical requirements for the presentation

About the contributor(s):

  1. Full name
  2. Postal address
  3. Institutional affiliation

Abstracts of approximately 200 words must be sent as an email attachment (.doc; .docx; .rtf) before 1 May, 2016 to: aphrabehn2016@gmail.com.

The ICMA Book Prize – Call For Applications

The ICMA invites submissions for the annual prize for the best single-authored book on any topic in medieval art. Books that will be considered need to be printed in 2015. No special issues of journals or anthologies or exhibition catalogues can be considered.

The prize is international and open to any author; ICMA membership is not required to be considered for the prize.

Languages of publication: English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish.

Jury 2016: Nancy Patterson Ševčenko, Helen Evans, David Raizman, Gerald Guest

Prize money for the author: US $1,000.

Submission of books:
Presses should send a copy of the book directly to each of the jury members (Contact Ryan Frisinger, icma@medievalart.org for names and addresses).

For self-nominations send five copies of the book (or one hard copy and an emailed pdf) to:

Ryan Frisinger
The International Center of Medieval Art
The Met Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park
99 Margaret Corbin Drive
New York, NY 10040
UNITED STATES

Deadline: 31 May, 2016

For more information, please visit: www.medievalart.org/book-prize.