{"id":8490,"date":"2020-08-10T16:11:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T15:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siefar.org\/?p=8490"},"modified":"2020-08-10T16:11:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T15:11:57","slug":"changing-worlds-worlds-of-change-early-modern-texts-in-times-of-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/changing-worlds-worlds-of-change-early-modern-texts-in-times-of-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Worlds, Worlds of Change: Early Modern Texts in Times of Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><strong>52nd Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Multiple moments of upheaval\u2014clashes between European powers, violent religious conflict, political instability, and epidemics\u2014shook early modern France. Increased contact with the Americas contributed to greater European awareness of the wider world and human diversity, which generated an interrogation of France\u2019s place in it. These shifts in the global landscape mirrored a new interest in exploring humankind, and the early modern became the breaking ground of what we now understand as the humanities.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In the midst of the early modern\u2019s multi-faceted interest in the human, its authors grapple with a world they see changing, and they imagine changing worlds. This panel seeks to explore how these texts respond to\u2014or participate in\u2014the often jarring, violent changes and debates that took place. What if the world were different? How can we change it? How should we change it? For a time in which the difference between the \u201creal world\u201d and the \u201cfictional world\u201d is slippery at best, responding to turmoil becomes a textual exercise in which literary representation radically changes the world.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In seeking submissions that address these textual engagements, our panel will invite reflection on what we learn from studying early modern French and francophone texts today. What can reading texts from a time so removed from our own\u2014but whose turmoil finds echoes in current headlines\u2014tell us about the present and about early modern literature\u2019s place in it?<br \/>Abstracts of 250 words in English or French should be submitted through the NeMLA website by 30 September, 2020.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Please feel free to contact Emily Epperson (<a href=\"mailto:epperson@g.harvard.edu\">epperson@g.harvard.edu<\/a>) and Therese Banks (<a href=\"mailto:tbanks@g.harvard.edu\">tbanks@g.harvard.edu<\/a>) with any questions.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>52nd Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention \u00a0 Multiple moments of upheaval\u2014clashes between European powers, violent religious conflict, political instability, and epidemics\u2014shook early modern France. Increased contact with the Americas contributed to greater European awareness of the wider world and human diversity, which generated an interrogation of France\u2019s place in it. 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