Dear Colleagues,
here is a Call for Papers that will hopefully interest some of you
(Medievalists + Early Modern Scholars specifically). Previous symposia
were well attended and extremely interested. And I do not need to point
out to you how pleasant South Florida is in February!
Thanks,
Dr. Maria Galli Stampino
**** CALL FOR PAPERS ****
“Arts of Calculation: Counting, Measurement and Cultural Production”
Tenth Annual Symposium
Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Studies
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Miami
22-24 February, 2001
The conference seeks to examine the cultural roles and effects of
numbers and various kinds of counting in the medieval and early modern
periods. It will provide a forum for exploring such questions as: What
kinds of cultural work do numbers do? What roles do calculation play in
colonial, imperial, and/or national projects and ideologies? What are
the relationships between aesthetic practices and bureaucratic modes of
calculation (such as accounting, census taking, and demography)? How do
various kinds of literacy relate to what Ian Hacking has called
“numeracy”? What kinds of agencies and subjectivities do numbers and
numbering enable or foreclose? How do different kinds of economic
strategies (e.g exchange, gift, capital, debt, interest) affect
representational strategies—and vice versa? What have been the social
and political effects of temporal calculations (e.g calendars,
chronometers, annals, genealogies)? What cultural dynamics inform
spatial measurements, such as cartography? What do analyses of counting
practices tell us about the production of knowledge more generally? What
have been the repercussions of musical and rhythmic forms? How does
periodization shape the understanding of academic disciplines, and of
history itself? Proposals addressing any world region or
representational form are welcome; we are especially interested in
interdisciplinary projects that interrogate the relations among
humanistic calculations (e.g. literature, historiography, art,
architecture, music, dance) and histories of science and political
philosophy.
Keynote Speaker:
Timothy J. Reiss, New York University
Author most recently of Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early
Modern Europe (Cambridge, 1997)
We welcome abstracts for 20-minute papers, as well as proposals for
alternative presentation formats (e.g full panels, round tables,
debates, performance, etc.). This is a small conference, with no
concurrent panels; sessions will be scheduled in the configurations most
appropriate to the proposals. The conference will conclude with a
summary panel discussion.
Send proposals by 15 October 2000 to one of the co-organizers; proposals
by e-mail preferred.
Prof. Michelle R. Warren
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of Miami
PO Box 248093
Coral Gables, FL 33124-4650
Tel: 305. 284. 4858, ext 7255
Fax: 305. 284. 2068
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Prof. David Glimp
Department of English
University of Miami
P.O. Box 248145
Coral Gables, FL 33124-4632
Tel: 305. 284. 4075
Fax: 305. 284. 5635.
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