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Étiqueté : Appel à contribution : Congrès de la Renaissance Society of America

Appel à contribution : “Showing Skin – Epidermal Surfaces in Early Modern Art”, RSA, date limite le 1er août 2025

Type : Paper panel Session Abstract (Max. 300 words) : While skin is the largest organ of the human body, it is also a liminal one that equally contains, reveals, and conceals the body’s interior anatomies and psychic states. As such, it has often achieved an uneasy status between visibility and transparency. Artists gaze intently upon the epidermal surfaces of nude models, but often with the intent to reveal underlying bodily structures. Physicians can diagnose...

Appel à contribution : “The Worlds of Abraham Bosse”, RSA, date limite le 1er août 2025

Type : Paper Panel Session Abstract (Max. 300 words) : Although he is perhaps best remembered for his treatise on printmaking, Abraham Bosse (1604-1676) was many things: artist, inventor, theorist, pedagogue, author, illustrator, Calvinist, satirist, agitator, mathematician, and politician. In recognition of the 350th anniversary of Bosse’s death and more than two decades since the major exhibition and accompanying publication, Abraham Bosse, savant graveur (Tours, vers 1604-1676, Paris), this panel seeks papers presenting new scholarly...

Appel à contribution : “Jews and the Arts – Early Modern Perspectives”, RSA, date limite le 25 juillet 2025

Type : Paper Panel Session Abstract (Max. 300 words) : In the early modern period, Jews engaged actively in a wide spectrum of artistic practices, including the visual and applied arts, music, and theatre. This session invites papers that foreground new approaches to the legal, material, and social conditions that structured and mediated Jewish artistic production in diverse contexts. It will consider how Jewish artists and performers navigated questions of identity, community, and visibility within...

Appel à contribution : “Shaping Identities Through Emblems”, RSA, date limite le 25 juillet 2025

Type : Paper Panel Session Abstract (Max. 300 words) : This session investigates the creation, crafting, and/or implementation of emblems to define communities and social groups by shaping their cultural, linguistic, artistic, moral, and national identities. Possible topics include emblems used to preserve traditions, define academies or other institutions, improve moral growth, or transmit a specific political and social message. This session also considers the role of emblems in educational and administrative contexts. Exploring the...

Appel à contribution : “Early Modern Animal and Interspecies Histories”, RSA, date limite le 15 juillet 2025

Type : Paper panel Session Abstract (Max. 300 words) : This session invites papers that explore the histories of animals and animal-human interactions broadly conceived in the early modern period, 1300-1700. Possible topics include but are not limited to: – Animal impacts on humans and environments– Human uses/misuses of animals– Emotional connections and companions between humans and animals– Natural philosophic/scientific approaches to animals– Animals in culture Please submit: Paper title (max. 15 words)Paper abstract (max...

Appel à contribution : “New Perspectives in Italian Art”, Renaissance Society of America, (San Francisco, du 20 au 22 février 2026), date limite le 15 juillet 2025

Session organisée par Ilaria Andreoli, (INHA, Paris), Paris & Kelley Di Dio (University of Vermont) This session aims to create a space for emerging scholars (recent Ph.D.s or Ph.D. candidates) to present their work. The intention is to provide new scholars with a forum to present their work, possibly for the first time at an international conference. Panelists will receive mentorship in preparation for the panel, including receiving constructive feedback from senior scholars in their...

Appel à contribution : “Portraits and Interiors”, RSA, date limite le 15 juillet 2025

Type : Paper Panel Session Abstract (Max. 300 words) : This panel explores how portraits across the early modern world shaped the embodied experience of interiors. The interior spaces of churches, chapels, town halls, institutions, and homes were transformed in multiple ways by the presence of portraits in an array of media, including painting, sculpture, maiolica, print, miniatures, textiles, needlework, metalware, and more. What stories did portraits bring to spaces? How did portraits contribute to...