Over its time in Milwaukee, Attending to Early Modern Women first asked “where?” (Remapping Routes and Spaces, 2012). Then we asked “when?” (It’s About Time, 2015). Now we ask “how?” For both our subjects and ourselves, the answer is the same: action and agency. The conference will address these themes, posing such questions as: How do we understand the sites and modes of gendered confrontations in the early modern period? What collectivities were possible, then and now, and how and why do they form and fade? How do women imagine choice, and what role does choice or the illusion of choice play in their lives? How can our work as scholars and teachers of a distant period become action?
The conference will retain its innovative format, using a workshop model for most of its sessions to promote dialogue, augmented by a keynote lecture, and a plenary panel on each of the four conference topics: confrontation, collectivity, choice, and pedagogy. It will be held at the UW-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education in the heart of downtown Milwaukee, and conference attendees will stay in the near-by Doubletree Hotel. Attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in a pre-conference workshop at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Start thinking now about organizing workshop sessions. These are 90-minute sessions organized by a group of two to four leaders who circulate readings, questions, and other materials in advance through the conference website. Leaders spend no more than twenty minutes framing the issues and opening up the conversation, then facilitate active participation and focused discussion. The best workshops are often comparative and interdisciplinary, and all allow participants to share information and ignorance, pass on knowledge, ask advice, and learn something new. All workshop organizers are expected to register for, attend, and participate in the entire conference, not just their workshop.
Workshops that consider action and agency in relationship to the following topics are welcome:
Confrontation
Resistance and revolt; conflict within and across communities and cultures; contesting categorization; opposing authority; clashes within and across disciplines; crises and resolutions
Collectivity
Cultural, intellectual, and religious spaces; familial and economic networks; labor organization; building consensus; objects in circulation; collaboration and alliances; expressing identities; border-crossing
Choice
Creativity and imagination; constraint; autonomy and agency beyond the human realm; articulating sexuality; consumer practices and material culture
Pedagogy
Engaged scholarship in public spaces and the classroom; defending the premodern and the humanities; choosing technologies; learners as agents
The formal call for proposals will be out this summer, and the due date for proposals will be November 15.
In the meantime, if you have an idea for a workshop session or questions about the conference, please contact Merry Wiesner-Hanks, ATW-2018 Organizing Committee Chair, at atw-2018@uwm.edu.
Au XVIIe siècle, en France, le chœur, véritable colonne vertébrale des tragédies grecques, déserte les scènes théâtrales. Mais s'il disparaît en tant que groupe physiquement présent, l'élément choral ne s'absente pas pour autant.
Les rapports entre le cardinal et l'architecture sont envisagés au travers de la genèse du collège des Quatre Nations et celle du palais Mancini à Rome. Il est ensuite question des agents du cardinal à Rome, l’abbé Elpidio Benedetti et Plautilla Bricci, une femme artiste. Puis sont abordés les rapports entre art et diplomatie avec l’échange des portraits entre les cours de France et de Modène, le mécénat de Laura Martinozzi d’Este, la symbolique du pouvoir et plus particulièrement la mise en scène du «couple» Anne d’Autriche et Mazarin, dans un but de propagande commune, l’histoire du collectionnisme contemporain (notamment la collection du cavalier Gualdi) et celle des grandes migrations d’œuvres d’art et de leurs incidences à l’échelle européenne (la dispersion des collections de Gonzague de Mantoue). Les questions de l’impact des missions romaines de Paul de Chantelou, de l’évocation du ballet contemporain à l’époque de Mazarin et enfin de la postérité des collections cardinalices au lendemain de la mort de Mazarin en 1661 viennent clore le volume.
Texte rare et anonyme, Le Grifonage (1645) évoque le récit d'une « fête galante » et des genres littéraires. Le principe de reproduction de l’édition originale adoptée, ainsi que l’ajout d'une annotation spécifique, permettent de se distinguer des éditions modernes des récits de fête.
