----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I am forwarding an announcement about an interdisciplinary conference that may be of interest to map librarians, cultural geographers and historians of cartography. Joan Winearls From: MX%"[log in to unmask]" 25-FEB-1994 16:58:32.54 To: WINEARLS CC: Subj: CFP: Decentring the Renaissance From: [log in to unmask] (Germaine Warkentin) Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: Decentring the Renaissance To: [log in to unmask] (Joan Winearls) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 16:59:48 -0500 (EST) PLEASE CROSS-POST TO RELEVANT LISTS: CALL FOR PAPERS: DE-CENTRING THE RENAISSANCE: Canada and Europe in Multi-Disciplinary Perspective 1350-1700 On March 7 - 10, 1996, the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, will host an innovative conference bringing together the fields of Early Modern and Canadian Studies. The occasion is the 500th anniversary of Henry VI's grant of letters patent to the Italian explorer John Cabot on March 5, 1496. Cabot was given "full and free authority . . . to set up our aforesaid banners and ensigns in any town, city, castle, island or mainland whatsoever, newly found by them." Intellectually, those banners have flown for a long time. But the transformation in our concepts of discovery and exploration during the past decade has shown how unfruitful it is to confine the study of the "newly found" lands within traditional conceptual boundaries. This conference will challenge such boundaries even further by addressing the extent to which Canada, in the period roughly 1350-1700, was not merely an arena of European operations - - whether Renaissance, Reformation, or Early Modern -- but an authentic historical sphere interacting with forces and events from within and without. To do this will involve bringing together specialists from a variety of fields: students of Italian Humanism with those in Native North American studies, investigators of the Bristol trade with those studying Jesuit learning, economists working on French financial policy with students of Mohawk culture, of the lives of women and working people, of English courts from Henry VII to Charles II, of Huron land-use, and juxtaposing the work of researchers working on Basque and Portuguese fishing practices with those studying the life of aboriginal nations living far in the interior and in the north. The Organizing Committee will be looking for papers which are solidly based in ongoing research and at the same time framed in interdisciplinary ways which reflect this broad representation of fields. Format: The conference programme will include invited plenary sessions, sessions for which the papers will be circulated ahead of time, and "Work-in-Progress" sessions structured around a problem rather than presenting formal papers. We hope that confirmed acceptances can be issued by January, 1995. Proposals for Papers: proposals of 300 words maximum, accompanied by a one-page CV should be submitted by October 1, 1994 to the address below. Papers may be in English or in French. The Organizing Committee may ask to see completed papers before confirming acceptance. Note that papers will be circulated ahead of time and the Committee must therefore receive them in finished form by December 1, 1995. Proposals for sessions: A 500-word position paper outlining the purpose of the session should be submitted along with the CVs of chair and participants. Sessions may be in English or French, or in both languages. Organizing Committee: Germaine Warkentin, English, Victoria College, University of Toronto (Chair) Jennifer S. H. Brown, History, University of Winnipeg Jane Couchman, French Studies, Glendon College, York University, Toronto Deborah Doxtator, Graduate student, History, University of Western Ontario Franc,ois Pare`, Department of French, University of Guelph Krystyna Sieciechowicz, Anthropology/Canadian Studies, University College, University of Toronto Conference Sponsors: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto Canadian Studies Programme, University College, University of Toronto Rupert's Land Research Centre, University of Winnipeg Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies/Soci t Canadienne d'Etudes de la Renaissance Please send proposals by October 1, 1994 to: Germaine Warkentin Victoria College University of Toronto Toronto, Ont. M5S 1K7 Canada. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Fax: (416) 585-4584