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Subject: CFP: Renaissance Leisure, University College Dublin 26-27
April 2003
(please circulate)
CALL FOR PAPERS: RENAISSANCE LEISURE
University College, Dublin, 26-27 April 2003
A conference exploring Leisure during the Renaissance period. Possible
topics
could include: gaming; sports; dance; reading; wit and urbanity;
courtliness;
boredom; idleness; exercise; enjoyment; pastimes and hobbies; clothing;
travel;
gambling; pornography; gardens; sleep; events; free time and
retirement;
drinking; football; compilation; excess; hunting; bestiaries; leisure
and
otherness (dwarves, hermaphrodites, giants); exoticism; pictorial
relaxation;
leisure guides; holidays; decorum/ etiquettes of leisure; drugs;
money;
patronage; duelling; clubs; health; food; tennis; laziness; tiredness;
the
contemplative life; gender and leisure; time/ regulated moments;
masquing;
illness and hypochondria; collecting; carnival; locating leisure; the
gaze;
presentation and entertainment; scholarship; leisure and power;
regulation;
rhetoric; money; melancholy; the pastoral; writing; decoration;
rhetoric;
celebration; feasting; technologies of leisure; gadgets; play; joy;
religious
leisure; commonplace books. Theoretical discussions could deploy the
work of
Jean-Francois Lyotard, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Halberstam, Jean
Baudrillard, Laura
Mulvey, Jacques Lacan, and all the usual renaissance suspects.
Papers from postgraduate students will be welcomed, as will papers
relating
specifically to Ireland.
Please send abstracts of 400 words by post or email by 25 January 2003
to
Jerome de Groot, English Department, University College Dublin,
Belfield,
Dublin 4, Republic of Ireland. Email: [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> . Fax: 353-1-283-1174.
Dr. Jerome de Groot
Lecturer in Early Modern Literature
Room C210C
English Department
National University of Ireland
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
Eire
353-1-7168694
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Dr. Gabriele Neher
Lecturer in Art History
Department of Art History
University of Nottingham
Tel.: 0115-951 3184
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