Text and Image in Early Modern Society

CALL FOR PAPERS

A postgraduate conference organised by the Centre for Early Modern Studies to be held at the University of Sussex, 9-11 September 2008

Plenary Speakers: Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex), Tom Healy (Birkbeck, University of London), Jennifer Richards (University of Newcastle)

New extended deadline for Abstracts:
15th April 2008

Subjects: Theatre and Performance, The Bible, the Inns of Court and law, Music, Art, Printing, popular culture, court and elite culture, food and music, woman writers, politics, gender and sexuality, race and colonialism, others, rhetoric, writing lives, architecture, religion, graffiti and libels, pamphlets and broadsheets, polemic, fables, almanacs, poetry, the epic, satire, the body, erotica, witchcraft and ghosts, philosophical discourse, monsters.

Abstracts will be accepted on diverse topics and do not necessarily have to examine both ‘Text’ and ‘Image’

Costs: £35 conference fee (exclusive of accommodation)
Postgraduate Bursaries available

Abstracts of 200-300 words should be sent electronically to textandimage2008@googlemail.com