Renaissance Society of America – Chicago, 2024 (March 21 – 23rd)
Organizers:
Marta Albalá Pelegrín, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Maria Vittoria Spissu, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
Submission Deadline: August 7th, 2023.
In the Early Modern period, the transmission of ideas and the movement of people, artworks, and commodities embraced diverse cultural worlds on a planetary scale. This panel seeks contributions exploring these phenomena from innovative perspectives that challenge and nuance concepts such as translation and circulation.
The exchange of ideas, iconographies, allegories, moral beliefs, and political projections reveals the role of writers and artists, clerics, diplomats, and merchants in connecting distant geographies and visualizing ideologies of power.
This panel welcomes case studies – with a transoceanic and global dimension – focusing on images (paintings and prints), literary and musical compositions, treatises, accounts, and maps, committed to redistributing targeted worldviews.
It examines how works represented moral superiority, political legitimacy, and economic prerogatives related to the salvation of the faithful or imperialistic aims and how they contested or reworked these ideas.
We encourage proposals from all fields of Early Modern studies.
Possible topics:
– Exchange of ideas and imageries concerning empire and evangelization
– Movements of objects and iconographies
– New paradigms of thinking about transmission, translation, and circulation
– Early capitalism and material culture
– Repurposing of ideas, transformation of models, and ‘distributed agency’
– Ideas of sovereignty through visual and literary representations
– Religious, political, and mercantile networks and patronage
The CMRS Center for Early Global Studies – UCLA will be sponsoring this panel.
To submit a paper proposal, please send a Word or PDF document to Maria Vittoria (Mavi) Spissu [mariavittoria.spissu@unibo.it] & Marta Albalá Pelegrín [martaa@cpp.edu].
Please ensure to include:
– Presenter’s first and last name
– Current academic affiliation (or “Independent Scholar”) and title
– Email address
– Paper Title (15-word maximum)
– Paper Abstract (150-word maximum)
– Short CV / Résumé (300-word maximum, expected)
Please also follow the RSA Guidelines.
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