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> >Subject: CFP: Knowledge/Power in the Middle Ages and Early Modern >Period (South Africa) (3/15/06; 9/6/06-9/9/06) >From: "vhouliston" <[log in to unmask]> > >CFP: Knowledge/Power in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (South >Africa)(3/15/06; 9/6/06 -- 9/9/06) > >18th Biennial Conference of the Southern Africa Society of Medieval and >Renaissance Studies, 6-9 September 2006. Venue: Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch. >Keynote speaker: Jerry Brotton, Department of English, Queen Mary College, >University of London, author of The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road >to Michelangelo (OUP, 2004), etc. >Theme: "Knowledge/Power". In an effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, >interdisciplinary conversation, we encourage scholars working in any >discipline to submit abstracts addressing this theme: especially, the >relationship between knowledge production and its material, discursive and >political contexts. In particular, we hope that participants will address >the complex and unstable processes whereby knowledge transmits and (re) >produces power, but also undermines and subverts it. >Publication: Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. >Proposals (250-300 words) for 20-minute papers: Victor Houliston, >[log in to unmask] by 15 March 2006. ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Megan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html