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27.04.2010

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.

 

Von:  Berthold Hub

Publiziert von: Kai Nonnenmacher