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>Subject: CFP: Dynamic Economies in the Early Modern World (12/20/06;
>EMIG, 2/16/07)
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>City University of New York Graduate Center
>3rd Annual EMIG Conference
>Conference Date: February 16, 2007
>Call for Papers and Panels:
>Strange Currencies:
>Dynamic Economies in the Early Modern World
>The Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group of the Graduate Center, City
>University of NY, invites proposals for papers for its third annual
>conference to be
>held on February , 2007 in New York City. We encourage scholars of all
>disciplines to submit papers related to the period inclusive of the
>fourteenth
>through the seventeenth centuries, and we especially welcome papers with an
>interdisciplinary methodology. This conference will focus on Early Modern
>market representations and modes of exchange in financial, social, and sexual
>spheres. Possible topics for papers include, but are not limited to:
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>Philosophies of Economics
>The physical marketplace
>Economies of gender & sexuality
>Housekeeping and domestic economies
>Economics and the Law
>Credit, loans & banking
>Currency and Coinage
>Wealth, Poverty & Charity
>Money , exchange & business
>Property, Inheritance & Real Estate
>Publicity and the cult of celebrity
>Advertising and desire
>Anti-Semitism & Racism
>Banking Families
>Usury & Interest
>Economic Crimes (counterfeiting, theft, fraud, debt, etc.)
>Luxury goods
>Imports and exports
>Products, Services & Industries
>The Guilds
>Populuxe
>Mercantile Stereotypes
>The Slave trade
>Professionals & Careers
>Consumption & consumers
>Taxation & State Finance
>Church finance
>Pragmatism
>Trading spaces; trading bodies
>Patronage
>Class dynamics
>Commodification of genres
>The theatre and economics
>Commercialism and Literature
>Trading Companies (East India et al)
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>Send 500 word abstracts by December 20th, 2006 to [log in to unmask],
>or mail to Balaka Basu (English Department, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth
>Avenue, New York, NY 10016). Please include your name and institutional
>affiliation, mailing address, email address, and phone number.
>
>EMIG provides a forum for the exchange of ideas related to the period
>between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. The group serves
>as a bridge
>between the English Department of the Graduate Center (CUNY) and
>the Renaissance
>Studies Association, while also serving the larger community of humanities
>scholars with an interest in this period. By emphasizing connections between
>developments in philosophy, theology, politics, rhetoric, law, science,
>sociology, theater, music, literature, and the visual arts during
>this important
>period, EMIG engages scholars from many academic disciplines. In doing so, we
>hope to broaden not only our knowledge of the period, but our scholarly
>approaches as well. EMIG meets monthly at the Graduate Center, City
>University of New
>York during the academic year.

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