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CFP: The Virtues and the Formation of the Feminine Moral Subject: 1250-1550
As part of the 7th ANZAMEMS Conference to be held 2-6 December 2008 at
the University of Tasmania, Hobart, we propose to hold a symposium, with
several sessions, devoted to the construction of women as virtuous
agents in texts written by and for them during the period 1250-1550.
This was time during which there were great political upheavals and
setbacks for women, such as their exclusion from the succession in
France but which also spawned the Reformation and querelle des femmes,
and produced a number of significant texts which demonstrate women’s
effective moral didacticism. Our focus will be on works dedicated to
women or written for their edification, such as devotional texts and
manuals for princesses, as well as ethical and didactic works written by
women such as Marguerite Porete, Christine de Pizan, Laura Cereta,
Vitoria Colonna, Gabrielle Bourbon, Marguerite of Navarre, etc. Writing
during a period when contemplative spirituality vied with more classical
representations of active virtue, and against the background of
Aristotelian and biblical representations of women as defective males
and as particularly susceptible to vice, the above women adopted various
strategies of self-authorization. We are particularly interested in
exploring the continuities and discontinuities between women’s texts,
and in women’s understanding of the good life for women and men, as well
as the differences, if any, between female and male authored texts. We
also invite the discussion of Platonic, Stoic, Epicurean, Aristotelian
and monastic conceptions of virtue in women’s self-representation as
virtuous subjects.
Could those interested in contributing to this stream indicate their
interest as soon as possible and no later than 1st July 2008 to
[log in to unmask] A 500 word abstract will be required by
20th August 2008.
A published volume on the topic is proposed. Contributors who are unable
to attend the Hobart Conference, but would like to contribute a paper to
the volume are invited to submit papers for consideration by December
15th 2008.
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Dr Janice Pinder
Learning Skills Adviser
Sir Louis Matheson Library
Building 4 (Clayton Campus)
Monash University VICTORIA 3800
Australia
(Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)
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ph: 61 3 990 51470
fax: 61 3 990 59142
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