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> >From: Carrie Shanafelt <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: CFP: Early Modern Eros and Thanatos (grad) (11/20/04; EMIG, 2/11/05) > >Call for Conference Papers > >The Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG) >invites submissions for our first annual graduate >student conference to be hosted at the Graduate >Center, City University of New York on February 11, >2005. The theme of the conference is ìEarly Modern >Eros and Thanatos.î > >Possible topics include, but are not limited to: >Scandal and murder at court >Transgressive eroticism >The Middle Passage >The science of sex and death >Physical monsters and monstrous behavior >Reformation sexualities >Religious self-mortification >Ars Moriendi in Renaissance literature and art > >Send 500 word abstracts by November 20th, 2004 to >[log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask], or mail >to Carrie Shanafelt (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. > > ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Meghan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html