{"id":746,"date":"2013-04-04T18:08:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T18:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/?page_id=746"},"modified":"2013-04-04T18:10:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T18:10:43","slug":"2013-call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/conferences\/2013-courtliness-and-convention\/2013-call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 &#8211; Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Courtliness and Convention<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">THE 37TH ANNUAL<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">OHIO VALLEY SHAKESPEARE CONFERENCE<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Cleveland, Ohio<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Sheraton Cleveland, Airport<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">October 10-12, 2013<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The planning committee of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference seeks proposals for papers or panels from across today&#8217;s theoretical and methodological landscape that engage Courtliness and Convention in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. How do Shakespearean plays illustrate and critique early modern conceptions of conventional courtly behavior?\u00a0\u00a0More broadly, how do the era&#8217;s plays and poems incorporate, problematize, and establish social convention \u2013 political, literary, educational, rhetorical, or otherwise? How do we understand the conventions of courtliness in today&#8217;s theaters and classrooms?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The OVSC invites papers that explore representation of Shakespearean Courtliness and Convention in the early modern context and in contemporary adaptations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Possible topics might include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Shakespearean Ritual<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Royals and Peasants<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Artfulness and Leisure<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Courtly Love<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Machiavels and Gladhanders<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Masques<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Satire<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Staging Conventions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Fools and Clowns<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Literary Customs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Gender and Power<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ceremony<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Command Performances<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Patronage<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Honor and Violence<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Chivalry and Reputation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Surveillance<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Domestic and the Political<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Renaissance Education<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dumb Shows<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Literary Homage and Originality<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Courtly Hospitality<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Plenary Speakers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Richard Dutton,\u00a0The Ohio State University<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Sandra Logan,\u00a0Michigan State University<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Please submit 500-word abstracts for papers by September 1, 2013 to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:nunn@uakron.edu\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">nunn@uakron.edu<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0We welcome roundtable discussion proposals as well. 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 Prize. More information is available at\u00a0<a title=\"blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\" href=\"blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtliness and Convention THE 37TH ANNUAL OHIO VALLEY SHAKESPEARE CONFERENCE Cleveland, Ohio Sheraton Cleveland, Airport October 10-12, 2013 The planning committee of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference seeks proposals for papers or panels from across today&#8217;s theoretical and methodological landscape &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/conferences\/2013-courtliness-and-convention\/2013-call-for-papers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1386,"featured_media":0,"parent":741,"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-746","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/746","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\/1386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/746\/revisions\/942"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}