ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) invites session and paper proposals for its 23rd Annual Conference. We welcome papers that explore any topic related to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance and especially those that focus on the general theme of "Paradigm Shifts during the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance."
DEADLINES: Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis until midnight, MST on December 2, 2016. Responses will be given within a week of submission. Please submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief CV to ACMRSConference@asu.edu. Proposals must include audio/visual requirements and any other special requests; late requests may not be accommodated. Visit our web page at www.acmrs.org/Conferences/annual-acmrs-Conference for further details.
We welcome papers that offer new perspectives on well-known networks as well as those that uncover unusual or less well-known alliances, relationships and cultural constellations. Topics may include, but are certainly not limited to:
·Network theory as applied to literature - social, anthropological, scientific, cultural and political
·Representations of 'networked thinking' in literature
·Clinical networks in the field of medical humanities
·Mutual influence, reciprocity and support between groups or writers or cultural practitioners
·The cultural significance of friendships
·The politics of patronage
·Salon and coterie culture
·Epistolary networks
·Postcolonial networks
·Digital Humanities and the network
·Technologies, spaces and geographies that enable networks
·National and transnational networks
Submission details:
Proposals for 20-minute papers should include a 250-300 word abstract and short bio. Please send your proposal to literarynetworks2016@gmail.com
Submission deadline: Friday 10th June 2016
Website: https://literarynetworks.wordpress.com/
Proposals should address the material aspects of late antique, medieval, or Renaissance manuscripts. Papers are twenty minutes in length and a full session normally consists of three papers. Submissions of papers may address an original topic or one of the session themes already proposed. Submissions of original session themes are welcome from those who wish to be organizers.
The latest research in the field of Semantic Web for the preservation and exploitation of our scientific heritage, the study of the history of ideas and their transmission.
May 29-June 2, 2016
Heraklion, Crete, Greece
For the joint sessions of Preservation and Conservation Section, Rare Books and Special Collections Section, and Audiovisual and Multimedia Section
Deadline: 26 Feb 2016