The International Sidney Society will sponsor two open sessions at the
Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, May 14 – 17, 2015. We invite abstracts
on any topics related to Phillip Sidney or the Sidney Circle, including
family, friends and associates.
Abstracts that address the topics of Sidneian Networks or Poetics will
be of special (though certainly not exclusive) interest. Either topic
should be considered broadly. Papers might consider literary networks
from the vantages of recent digital work, editorial practice, the
circulation of texts, patronage, authorship, politics or some other
angle. Similarly, we invite work that values or re-evaluates
sixteenth-century poetics, whether formalist, devotional, ideological or
cultural, or that engages with recent rediscoveries in the area.
In addition to the open paper sessions, the International Sidney Society
will sponsor its biennial Van Dorsten lecture. This year’s lecture will
feature the incomparable Mary Ellen Lamb, whose scholarship of the
Sidney Circle, early modern women’s writing, and early modern culture
has taught and inspired us all.
Please submit an abstract of 300 words via email attachment to Andrew
Strycharski ([log in to unmask]). Include your name and email address, as
well as requests for special equipment such as a digital projector.
Please also include a Participant Information Form (PIF), which you can
download from the conference website:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF Final
papers are limited to twenty minutes reading time. You will receive a
prompt response, and any papers not accepted will automatically be
forwarded to the general call for the conference.
Deadline for abstracts: September 15, 2014.
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Andrew Strycharski
President, International Sidney Society
Instructor, English Department
Interim Director, Film Studies
Florida International University
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