Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:31:32 -0800 From: Ray Siemens <[log in to unmask]> To: Ray Siemens <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Renaissance Communities (Call for Papers, 31 January deadline) [please re-circulate; please excuse x-posting] *Renaissance Communities* Call for Papers Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society, 2003 Meeting 1-3 May, 2003 Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada < http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/PNRS2003/ > Call for Papers The Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society invites submissions for its 2003 meeting. The theme of this year's gathering is community, with reference both to early modern communities of many types and the interpretive communities today that study them and their output. Plenary speakers include Paul Stevens (Queens U) and Mark Vessey (U British Columbia). We invite proposals for individual papers as well as member-organised panels and seminar-workshops that address the conference theme or report on new and ongoing work in Renaissance studies. To submit a proposal, please follow this link: http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/PNRS2003/PNRS-Proposal.asp The deadline for proposals is 31 January 2003. About the PNRS and Malaspina U-C The Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society is an academic organization that promotes scholarship in Early Modern Studies by hosting an annual conference. The conference is held alternately in the United States and Canada and is open to all scholars and graduate students from North America. Traditionally the conference features two plenary speakers (speakers in the past have included Stephen Greenblatt, Barbara Lewalski, and Alexander Leggatt), up to twenty sessions of three to four papers each, a formal dinner and a business lunch. The PNRS is an affiliate of both the Renaissance Society of America and the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies. The PNRS maintains both a website, at http://www.sfu.ca/english/pnrs.htm, and an e-mail list, at [log in to unmask]; to join this list, please send a message to [log in to unmask] Malaspina University-College is host to the 2003 meeting of the PNRS. Located in Nanaimo, British Columbia -- on the beautiful east coast of Canada's Vancouver Island -- Malaspina is easily accessible via direct air and sea-ferry service from Vancouver, as well as by connections from Victoria and Seattle. For travel directions, and other information about Malaspina, please visit its website, at http://www.mala.ca. _____________ R.G. Siemens English, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. V9R 5S5. Office: 335/120. Phone: (250)753-3245, x2046. Fax: (250) 740-6459. [log in to unmask] http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm