[H-verkko] CFP: CFP: Shaping Strangers in Early Modern English Travel Writing 1500-1700

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CFP: Shaping Strangers in Early Modern English Travel Writing
1500-1700

Shaping Strangers in Early Modern English Travel Writing, 1500–1700
Proposed session for the RSA meeting in Venice, 2010

Early modern English professional and educational travellers were
fascinated by the variety of foreigners they encountered abroad,
whether in the Mediterranean islands, the vast domains of the Ottoman
Empire, Persia, or the Mughal Empire. The ways in which they depicted
foreign peoples, their practices of every day life, religious rituals
and outward appearance, sheds light on the categorizations of
religious and ethnic identities available in the early modern period,
and how these were connected to then current world views and cultural
knowledge systems. The organizers welcome proposals from graduate
students as well as more senior scholars of early modern history and
literature for papers at the Renaissance Society of America Annual
meeting, to be held in Venice on 8-10 April 2010.

Possible topics include:
- signs of ethnicity in outward appearance
- representations of religious practices and rituals
- ideas about foreign customs and every day life
- depictions of minorities and majorities
- The impact of climate and geography on people

Please send a brief abstract (max. 200 words), specification of
audio-visual requirements, and contact data (email and academic
addresses) as well as a short CV, to the organizers, Dr Eva Johanna
Holmberg, (eva.holmberg at utu.fi) and Dr Chloë Houston
(c.houston at reading.ac.uk) with the subject line 'Venice RSA', by
Friday, April 11th. Accepted proposals will be announced by early
May. It is hoped to edit selected papers into a collection of
articles.

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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Eva Johanna Holmberg <eva.holmberg at utu.fi>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 11.04.2009
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