I was not going to forward this to the list, but then I read carefully
and saw that "demons in literature and on the stage" is one of the
topics on which papers and panels are sought....  And it's a chance to
visit sunny (well, sort of) Toronto, home of REED!

A.

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*The Devil in Society in the Pre-modern World*

17 and 18 October 2008
Toronto, Ontario

An international, interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Centre for
Reformation and Renaissance Studies at Victoria College in the
University of Toronto

Keynote speakers include Richard Kieckhefer and Audrey L. Meaney.

This multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine the broad trajectory
of devil beliefs in the period prior to 1650 in order to help explain
what might be termed the general diabolisation of European thought as it
is refracted through society and culture arguably from the middle of the
fifteenth century. By surveying the variety in form and function of
diabolical and demonic discourses and their social expression both at a
series of particular historical moments, and over the /longue durée/,
the conference aims to advance our understanding of the changing role of
the devil in popular and elite culture and aetiology from late antiquity
to its height in the early modern period.

The conference organisers invite submissions for individual 20-minute
papers, for panels (generally consisting of three papers), and workshops
or round-tables dealing with any aspect of demonism and its
manifestation in the classical, medieval, and Early Modern traditions.
Some possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Antichrist and the End of the World
Clerical and popular demonism
Constructions of the Sabbat
Demonic magic
Demonic possession
Demonologists‹medieval and early modern
Demonology and witchcraft
Demons and heresy
Demons and sceptics
Demons in literature and on the stage
Devil in art
Devil in folklore
Demons in hagiography and /exempla/
Demonisation of the ³Other²
Exorcism, lay and clerical
Incubi and succubi
Mysticism and diabology
New World demons
Protestant vs. Catholic demons
Women as healers, mystics, and witches

Abstracts of no more than 150 words should be submitted by 15 December
2007, together with a one-page (max) c.v. to Richard Raiswell (Univ. of
Prince Edward Island) and Peter Dendle (Penn State Univ.) at:
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