{"id":1070,"date":"2014-05-07T17:20:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T17:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/?page_id=1070"},"modified":"2014-05-07T17:24:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T17:24:17","slug":"2014-call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/conferences\/2014-lovers-madmen-and-poets\/2014-call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 &#8211; Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CALL FOR PAPERS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;Lovers, Madmen and Poets:<br \/>\nShakespeare and the Imaginary, Supernatural, and Divine&#8221;<br \/>\nOctober 24 and 25, 2014<br \/>\nOhio State University<br \/>\nColumbus, Ohio<\/p>\n<p>Plenary Speakers:<br \/>\nEvelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas<br \/>\nDavid George, Urbana University<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference seeks papers and panels relating to all things Shakespearean, especially those focusing on the spectral, the fantastic, the mad, and the fey. We take our cue from Theseus: \u201cLovers and madmen have such seething brains, \/ Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend \/ More than cool reason ever comprehends.\u201d The place of the world-beyond-the world, the line between reality and fantasy, and the demarcation of the sane from the mad are ever-present and controversial aspects of Shakespeare\u2019s work and of early modern literature more broadly. As the plays we now call \u2018romances\u2019 or \u2018dark comedies\u2019 suggest, the transformation of the tragic into the comedic relies, to some extent, on the willing suspension of disbelief, on the capacity to accept what is otherwise contrary to our understanding, expectation, or experience. From Samuel Pepys\u2019 condemnation of A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, to the oblique resonances between Hamlet and Derrida\u2019s Specters of Marx, the relationship between the \u2018unreal\u2019 and the \u2018real\u2019 is everywhere present and significant in Shakespeare\u2019s works, and centrally a focus of performance history and critical reception from the earliest moments to the present. This conference will especially highlight these aspects of Shakespeare\u2019s oeuvre.<\/p>\n<p>Join us October 24-25, 2014 in Columbus, Ohio. Papers of 20 minutes, roundtable topics, and suggestions for panels on Shakespeare\u2019s work and that of his contemporaries welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Please send abstracts of 500 words to nunn@uakron.edu by September 12, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The OVSC publishes a volume of selected papers each year, and conferees are welcome to submit revised versions of their papers for consideration. Students who present are eligible to compete for the M. Rick Smith Memorial Prizes. More information is available at http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALL FOR PAPERS &#8220;Lovers, Madmen and Poets: Shakespeare and the Imaginary, Supernatural, and Divine&#8221; October 24 and 25, 2014 Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio Plenary Speakers: Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas David George, Urbana University The Ohio Valley &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/conferences\/2014-lovers-madmen-and-poets\/2014-call-for-papers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1388,"featured_media":0,"parent":1026,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1070","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1070\/revisions\/1082"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}