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On
Religious Grounds: From
Discipline to Disciplinarity in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
University of Michigan,
Rackham Assembly Hall, January 29 & 30, 2000
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Conference
program
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How might we understand
the recent resurgence of interest in religion in a number of disciplines
within the humanities? A range of medieval and early modern scholars have
begun to emphasize--as one new volume puts it--the "massive centrality of
religion to this period's cultural imagination." While this turn (or return)
to religion is in part a response to the marginalization of religion in
recent historicist accounts of culture, it may also have broader implications
in terms of the status of history and cultural study itself at the turn
of the twenty-first century. |
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conference organizer:
Carla Mazzio
conference coordinator:
Chris Olberding
conference committee:
Gina Bloom, Jennie Evenson, Elise Frasier
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This
conference will draw together key scholars in medieval and early modern
studies working on music, literature, historical narrative, philosophy,
and the visual arts to discuss their work on histories and practices of
shared belief. The conference will have two central components. The papers
themselves will move beyond general statements about religion as
culture or religion as discipline and map out specific intersections
among religious concerns, cultural artifacts, and imaginative lives. Papers
will range from a radical rethinking of particular disciplinary models (with
papers on the "Aesthetics of Calvinism" and on "The Rebel Codpiece and the
State") to nuanced discussions of religious doctrines in relation to bible-marketing,
print technology, the production of music, theater, visual representation,
forms of cultural memory, erotic desire, and popular belief. In addition
to considering religion in early modern culture, the conference aims to
assess the place of religion in early modern studies at this particular
historical moment. To that end, the conference will culminate in a roundtable
discussion where participants will work together to consider the cultural,
ideological, and methodological implications of the renewed interest in
religion in a number of disciplinary fields. |
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Participants:
Julia Adams (University of
Michigan) Sarah Beckwith (Duke University) Gina Bloom (Univeristy of Michigan)
James Borders (University of Michigan) Catherine Brown (University of
Michigan) Celeste Brusati (University of Michigan) David Cressy (Ohio
State) Diane Hughes (University of Michigan) Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont)
Johnathan Freedman (University of Michigan) Elliot Ginsburg (University
of Michigan) Linda Gregerson (University of Michigan) Elizabeth Ingram
(Eastern Michigan) Ashby Kinch (University of Michigan) John Knott (University
of Michigan) Arthur Marotti (Wayne State) Carla Mazzio (University of
Michigan) Steven Mullaney (University of Michigan) Chris Olberding (University
of Michigan) Sara Rubinstein (University of Michigan) Michael Schoenfeldt
(University of Michigan) Debora Shuger (University of California, Los
Angeles) Pat Simons (University of Michigan) Louise Stein (University
of Michigan) Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania) Amanda Watson
(University of Michigan) Jack Williamson (University of Michigan).
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There
is no fee for this conference. We do ask, however, that you register
for the conference. This conference is sponsored by Medieval and Early Modern
Studies, Rackham Graduate School, the Center for European Studies, the Institute
for the Humanities, the Office of the Vice President of Research, Departments
of English, History, History of Art, Romance Languages, the Program on Religion,
and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. We are grateful for
these generous contributions. |
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