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From: "Ian Gadd" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 11:15 AM
Subject: CFP: London in Text and History, 1400-1700 (Oxford, UK): FINAL CALL


> **This is a final call for papers for London in Text and History, 
> 1400-1700
> (13-15 September 2007 at Jesus College, Oxford, UK); the deadline for
> proposals is 1 March. We'd be grateful if this CFP could be cross-posted 
> to
> medieval listservs if possible.**
>
> London in Text and History, 1400-1700
>
> 13-15 September 2007 at Jesus College, Oxford, UK
>
> Organisers: Ian Archer (Oxford), Matthew Davies (Centre for Metropolitan
> History, London), Ian Gadd (Bath Spa), Tracey Hill (Bath Spa), Paulina 
> Kewes
> (Oxford)
>
> Plenary speakers: Caroline Barron, Paul Griffiths, Rob Hume, Mark Jenner,
> Mark Knights, Peter Lake and Peter Stallybrass
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> This conference will focus on the variety of metropolitan identities, and
> how these were constructed, represented, and contested by contemporaries
> through a variety of media, including text (broadly
> defined), visual culture, maps, architecture and performance.
>
> Between 1400 and 1700, London expanded hugely in population; it was 
> affected
> by religious and political upheaval; it emerged from the shadow of its
> near-neighbour European competitors to become a world metropolis; and its
> physical face was transformed by the dissolution and the Great Fire. Our
> concern, however, is not so much with what these political, economic, or
> religious changes were but rather how they were figured in a range of 
> forms
> and genres: ballads, drama, civic shows, sermons, pamphlets, poems, urban
> chronicles, topographical guides, paintings, engravings, and maps.
>
> Lively literatures exist for medieval and early modern London but they
> rarely engage with each other nor do studies of post-Restoration London
> connect with the pre-civil war period. Consequently, plenary speakers will
> range widely to set up the major areas of debate, while the panels will be
> designed to encompass broad time-spans and to facilitate exchange among
> scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, including history, 
> literature,
> art history, architecture and cartography. The conference will also 
> reflect
> on the impact of some 10-15 yearsworth of unprecedented scholarly 
> attention
> to London.
>
> We would particularly welcome proposals for papers relating to the 
> following
> topics:
>
> Ideas and beliefs
>
>    * The idea of the City. How contemporaries understood the city in 
> local,
> national, and international terms
>    * Citizenship. The shaping and contestation of notions of citizenshipin
> London
>    * History and civic memory. Chronography, chorography, and civic
> history. The ways Londonersidentities were informed by their sense of the
> citys past and by the associations of particular places
>    * Belief and the citizen. Perceptions of the place of religion in the
> life of the capital; responses to and interpretations of religious change
> and controversy
>
> Places and people
>
>    * The urban landscape. Ideas of civic/communal/private space;
> perceptions of boundaries, streetscapes and neighbourhoods; the
> representation of Londons physical expansion
>    * Urban deviance. The shaping of languages of deviance by the
> metropolitan experience; the representation of disorder and criminality
>    * Visual London. The changing ways in which the city was represented to
> itself and to others in maps, prints, and paintings
>    * Inclusion and exclusion: the problem of the stranger. Representations
> of aliensand foreigners; newcomers and the problem of marginality
>    * Londons business and commerce. The perception and representation of
> economic change and the citys position in relation to other cities;
> consumerism; financial and productive network
>
> Texts and art
>
>    * Literary London. The ways in which writings about London were both
> shaped by and shaped the identities of Londoners
>    * Civic entertainments. Lord Mayors Shows, royal entries: pageantry,
> display, and politics
>    * Communication and information. Licit and illicit communication; the
> production and consumption of advertising and propaganda; gossip and civic
> reputation
>    * Readers, writers and the circulation of texts. Reading communities in
> the city; the creation of cultural networks
>
> Proposals for papers (300 words max) should be sent by email to
> [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] by 1st March 2007.
>
> --------------------------------
> Dr Ian Gadd
> School of English & Creative Studies
> Bath Spa University
> Newton Park
> Bath BA2 9BN
> [log in to unmask] / 01225-875455
> (alternative e-mail: [log in to unmask])
>
> --------------------------------
> Dr Ian Gadd
> School of English & Creative Studies
> Bath Spa University
> Newton Park
> Bath BA2 9BN
> [log in to unmask] / 01225-875455
> (alternative e-mail: [log in to unmask])
>
>
>
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