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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Margins of the Human
the fifth annual interdisciplinary conference of the Rennaisance Studies
Program, University of California, Santa Barbara 14-15 April 1995
Keynote Speaker: Claire Farago, Dept. of Fine Arts, University of
Colorado, Boulder
This conference is designed to bring together students and faculty from a
variety of disciplines to consider how the category of the human was
constructed and located in late medieval and early modern europe.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
racial and ethnic others, sexual practices, the "civilized" and the
"barbarous," the "primitive" and the "decadent," the supraterrestrial
(angels, demons, spirits), men, women, replicants (homunculi, automatons,
imposters), children, animals (pets, predators, food), "bestiality,"
monsters, witches, fools, yokels, saints, villains/villeins, vagrants,
rebellious bodies, linguistic and cultural regionalism, ignorance, fear
and rationality, the unknown and the inconceivable, subjectivity,
humanism, music, rhetoric, technology
Interested scholars must submit abstracts by 15 January 1995.
Please send them to:
Robert Williams
Dept. of the History of Art and Architecture
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
(805) 893-2417
FAX 805/893-7117
