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Subject: Call For Papers: CRFC Seminars 2009
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:45:46 -0600
From: Leslie Kan <[log in to unmask]>
Organisation: Newberry Library
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Seminars 2009
Center For Research In Festive Culture**
(At the Newberry Library, Chicago, on Friday afternoons, September-November)
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS: December 15, 2008
Dear colleagues and friends,
The seminar is a venue for works in progress. We distribute papers in
advance to those who plan to attend, allowing full time for discussion
during seminar meetings. We are interested therefore in papers that set
forth topics in problematic form, posing questions that should be
addressed, even when sources and circumstances do not allow succinct
conclusions.
The seminar offers that rarest of opportunities, a chance for extended,
informed feedback from colleagues working in similar fields. At the same
time it is an open, public seminar and often attracts a few people
simply intrigued by the particular topic.
Our practice is to designate a centering theme for each year’s seminars.
But we occasionally include papers on other themes than the one
officially proclaimed, so do not hesitate to propose extraneous topics
concerning festive culture. *Next year’s theme is Sexuality and
Gendering in Festivity. * We are interested in secular material, such as
European and African-American masculinist modes, a grand tradition in
Carnivals, now invaded by such hyper-female-ist modes as that in
Trinidad’s “bikini mas,’” studied this year. We hope also to consider
religious involvement with the theme. Examples would be 19^th -century
Protestant American “camp meetings” or Shiite Muharram rites in Iran.
These rites are looked to not only as moments of strong religious
expressiveness but as times when an “unspoken but clearly palpable
sexual energy is released on the streets” (J. Afary & K. Anderson,
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution, p. 48).
As in the past we will pair papers by senior scholars with those by
younger scholars, including those about to finish doctoral work.* * To
apply please send a short synopsis of the proposed paper, a synopsis
which includes a clearly stated hypothesis and the general character of
the documentary evidence to be considered. Kindly also include a
statement about the relation of the paper to your other research and
employment. Send these materials by e-mail either to me, Sam Kinser,
Director, CRFC ([log in to unmask]) or to Leslie Kan, secretary for the
CRFC at the Newberry Library, Chicago ([log in to unmask]).
It is probable that persons whose papers are selected and who live far
beyond the Midwest can be reimbursed for a considerable part or all of
their travel expenses. Lodging is also provided through the hospitality
of Chicago-area seminar members.
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Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/
Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada
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