Dear all,
With the usual apologies for cross-posting, please find attached a
call for abstracts for a session I am organising at Leeds IMC next
year (12-15 July).
With best wishes,
Kate Maxwell
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Performance and the page: exploring manuscript production and interpretation
This interdisciplinary session will consider the metaphorical journey
undertaken by all those involved in manuscript production and
interpretation. From manuscript design to current presentation and
preservation, from the conception of a work to its reception today,
this session seeks to explore how manuscript layout and design
influence (and are influenced by) reception, past and present.
Papers are invited on all aspects of "performance and the page", and
could include:
Issues of manuscript interpretation (medieval and/or contemporary)
Issues of manuscript design
Reconstruction of manuscript "texts" (including music)
Aural performance of manuscript "texts" (including music)
The visual impact of the manuscript page
Presentation of manuscripts and their contents
The influence of media (e.g. printing, digitisation) on the
interpretation of manuscript contents
The impact of manuscript digitisation on reception
Reader manipulation through manuscript layout and design
The manuscript portrayal of the author(s)
Editing processes (both medieval and contemporary)
The roles of some or all of those involved in manuscript production
and transmission, from author to 21st-century reader.
Relations between "text" and image
The conference theme for 2010 is "travel and exploration", and papers
should address this theme in some way.
Please send proposals of 200 words before 8th Aug 2009 to:
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(The early date allows time for any papers not included to be sent to
the IMC general session before their deadline of 31st Aug.)
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