The Colloquium on Early Literature and Culture in English is pleased to announce our first graduate student conference, scheduled for Thursday and Friday, March 13 and 14, 2008. We invite papers that take interdisciplinary approaches to representations of borders (spatial, temporal, semiotic, and sensory), and the ways in which respecting or crossing them affected individuals and societies in English-speaking worlds from the medieval period up to the eighteenth century.
Some possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- Cultural exchanges within the Old World (e.g. the French in medieval England; interactions between East and West; Africa in Europe, etc.)
- Trans-Atlanticism
- Slavery and captivity
- Cultural translation
- Early print culture and the changing face of literacy
- When language fails: Visual, aural, and other extra-linguistic representations in texts
- Cultural/Systemic change and representation of transitional periods
Please send your 250-word abstract to the CELCE coordinators by November 15, 2007.
Thank you,
Lea Puljcan Juric
lpj212@nyu.edu
Ruth F. Simon
ruth.simon@nyu.edu