CfP: Gender Ideologies in Italian Renaissance Historiography
- Ort: Montreal (Canada)
- Beginn: 24.03.11
- Ende: 26.03.11
- Disziplinen: Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft
- Sprachen: Italienisch
- Frist: 20.05.10
Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
Gender Ideologies in Italian Renaissance Historiography
A number of artworks, such as Donatello's David or Michelangelo's
Captives, have relatively recently become icons of gender ambiguity
in Renaissance historiography. In the twentieth century, however,
art historians have primarily offered vague and elusive
interpretations regarding works with obvious sexual connotations.
This call intends to explore the Renaissance historiography of
sexuality, focusing on the scholarship of the twentieth century.
We invite proposals that examine art historical studies either of a
particular work or an aspect of the period, the emphasis being on
the views of one or more scholars. Our purpose is to investigate the
attitude of art historians towards sexuality and gender in an effort
to contextualize it. Questions to be addressed include: To what
extent does the visual evidence of the work conform to the scholarly
interpretation in question? How does the personal ideology of the
historian inform the reading of the work itself? Which are the
predominant socio-political ideologies of gender that have
historically determined our current view of Renaissance sexuality?
Methodological approaches, such as gender studies, deconstruction
and psychoanalysis are particularly welcome.
Please submit your abstract (up to 150 words) and a short CV
(including affiliation and contact information) to:
Dr. Angeliki Pollali,
DEREE-The American College of Greece
apollali@acg.edu
and
Dr. Berthold Hub,
Universität Wien
berthold.hub@univie.ac.at
Speakers must be members of the Renaissance Society of America at
the time of the conference.
Publiziert von: Kai Nonnenmacher