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> ****************************************************************** > Negotiations Between Oral and Written Traditions 1450-1650 > > Saturday 26 February 2005 > > Victoria University > University of Toronto > > This cross-disciplinary symposium invites scholars to consider how > orally- > based processes of artistic creation and communication continued to > function > alongside, and in conjunction with, literate forms of expression. > Accessing > oral culture from the early modern period presents a research > challenge, yet > historical texts still carry the imprint of oral practices and can > provide a > basis for exploring negotiations between orality and literacy. > > Conference organisers invite submissions for 20-minute papers in either > English or French. Abstracts should be between 150 and 200 words, and > may be > submitted electronically or in print, accompanied by a one-page c.v., > before > 30 September 2004. Address all submissions to: > > Maureen Epp and Stephanie Treloar > c/o Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies > Victoria University > Toronto M5S 1K7 > e-mail: [log in to unmask] > [log in to unmask] > > The aim of this symposium is to generate scholarship and debate on the > following questions: > > € What contemporary genres or activities had a significant foundation > in oral > tradition? > € In what ways did orality influence the creation of written works? > € What are the indications of oral practices when embedded in written > form? > € In what ways were oral traditions altered in the process of being > committed > to written form? > > Topics of inquiry can include, but need not be limited to, the > following: > > theatre > music > speeches > processions > public rituals > rhetoric > print culture > epic > dialogue > letters > humanist academies > modes of education > political discourse > > > > > _____________________________ > Dr. Stephanie Treloar > Post-Doctoral Fellow, > Faculty of Music, University of Toronto > Edward Johnson Building > 80 Queens Park > Toronto, Ontario > M5S 2C5 > > 416 779 1556 > [log in to unmask] > >