I forward this CFP at Katie Larson's request.

CALL FOR PAPERS
International Symposium on Early Modern Songscapes
8-9 February 2019
University of Toronto

Proposals are invited for a two-day international symposium coinciding 
with the launch of the digital platform “Early Modern Songscapes” to be 
held 8-9 February 2019 at the University of Toronto’s Centre for 
Reformation and Renaissance Studies in Toronto, Canada.

We invite contributions from scholars of music, literature, theater, and 
digital humanities interested in “intermedia” approaches to sixteenth- 
and seventeenth-century English song and its performance—that is, 
methodologies that foreground points of connection between music, lyric, 
and performance, and their presentations and transformations across 
different media. Proposals could outline new ways of conceiving of 
song’s media and performance history, discuss formats or methodologies 
for curating song, reflect upon book history and media studies as they 
pertain to song, or consider the role of the digital humanities in 
scholarship on early modern song. The conference will incorporate a 
range of formats, including traditional paper sessions, roundtable 
discussions, and digital media presentations.

Featured keynote speakers include Patricia Fumerton (Professor of 
English at the University of California, Santa Barbara), Whitney 
Trettien (Assistant Professor of English at the University of 
Pennsylvania), and Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Associate Professor of Music 
History and Cultures at Syracuse University).

Formal presentations will be limited to 20 minutes each, and digital 
salon or poster session pieces may be on display for a longer period. 
Please indicate the desired format of your proposal and include a clear 
statement of its originality and significance. Proposals should not 
exceed 300 words and should include the following information: 
contributor’s full name and contact information, institutional 
affiliation, academic status, nationality, and any audio/visual requests.

Proposals should be sent via email in Word format by midnight EST on 15 
April 2018 to the Program Committee at [log in to unmask] 
with the subject header “Early Modern Songscapes Proposal.”

Program Committee: Katherine Larson, University of Toronto; Scott 
Trudell, University of Maryland; and Sarah
F. Williams, University of South Carolina.

The online platform “Early Modern Songscapes,” which will be launched at 
the conference in beta form, is co-developed by the University of 
Toronto Scarborough Library’s Digital Scholarship Unit and the 
University of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. It 
aims 1) to provide insight into song’s versatility in diverse textual 
and performance contexts; 2) to produce Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) 
and Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) editions of a selected corpus of 
early modern songs, together with audio and video recordings of those 
songs in performance; 3) to animate the acoustic and visual facets of 
early modern English song culture; and 4) to generate an 
interdisciplinary and collaborative hub for work on sixteenth- and 
seventeenth-century English songs.


-- 
Dr Gavin Alexander
Reader in Renaissance Literature, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge