Year: 2015

Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) This session will explore the social implications of intimacy in the production, reception, and circulation of early modern art. Among the questions that could be addressed are: How did artists deploy particular media or exploit the material qualities of their works to craft advantageous intimacies with their desired constituents? To what ends did patrons ask artists to portray socially intimate relationships? In what ways did the display or circulation of works help to shape intimacy, whether through forging or fissuring bonds? Could...

Proposed Session at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference 18-20 August, 2016, in Bruges, Belgium. Organizers:  Julie Campbell (Eastern Illinois University), Anne Larsen (Hope College), and Diana Robin (The Newberry Library) This session invites papers on connections with early modern women in reform, scientific, and travel discourses. We are interested in papers that consider both national and cross-border forms of connections in England, the Continent, and the American Colonies. The focus may be on any of the following: Reform movements and religious cults Scientific Women, Men, and Lab...