The CEMS Postgraduate Conference 2017: Living Well and Dying Well in the Early Modern World
Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Exeter
15-16 June, 2017
Keynote Speakers: Dr Lucy Munro (KCL); Dr Amy Erickson (Cambridge)
Following the success of our inaugural conference last year, the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Exeter is pleased to announce our second annual postgraduate conference. This two-day conference will explore the varied aspects of life and death and their representations in art, literature, and culture between 1500 and 1800, and we welcome proposals for twenty-minute papers from postgraduate students in any humanities discipline.
Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:
- Ideas of a good life in the early modern period
- The economic lives of early modern families
- Concepts of happiness, satisfaction, or enjoyment
- Advice on how to ensure a good life or death
- Class and society
- Celebrations and memorials (in society, art, music, and drama)
- Medical, scientific, and other advances which contributed to the quality of life
- Work and labour
- Valued relationships, beliefs, or objects
- Gendered virtue, sociability, or affection
- Stage representations of living, the life cycle, death, and dying
Proposals should comprise a 200-word abstract and a brief biography. Please email proposals to cemsconference@exeter.ac.uk with the heading ‘2017 conference proposal’ by 31 March, 2017. Any queries can also be emailed to the same address. Some travel grants will be available and will be announced closer to the conference.
