CfP: "Religion in the Hispanic Baroque. The First Atlantic Culture and its Legacy"
- Ort: Liverpool, UK
- Beginn: 12.10.10
- Ende: 14.10.10
- Disziplinen: Literaturwissenschaft, Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft
- Sprachen: Spanisch
- Frist: 30.09.09
The Hispanic Baroque Project, Liverpool
12.05.2010-14.05.2010, The Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, 1
Brownlow Street, Liverpool, L69 3GL, United Kingdom
RELIGION IN THE HISPANIC BAROQUE:
THE FIRST ATLANTIC CULTURE AND ITS LEGACY
The Foresight Centre, Liverpool, 12-14 May 2010
This interdisciplinary conference will look at the role of religion in
the Hispanic Baroque. We propose to explore the Baroque not merely as a
specific and historical set of literary, artistic and architectural
styles. Rather we seek to study it as a complex cultural system that
emerged from early modern transatlantic interaction and exchange of
knowledge and imagination, and that continues to shape the political,
social and cultural reality of the Atlantic world and beyond to this
day. We invite the submission of proposals from every disciplinary
background interested in one or both of our two main strands of
investigation.
Our first strand focuses on religion as a media through which political
and social conflict in the early modern and modern Hispanic world are
exacerbated as well as negotiated. We want to examine the ways in which
religion shaped individual and collective identities and was in turn
shaped by conflict and compromise arising from colonization, resistance
and mestizaje. This strand seeks to deepen our understanding of the
mutually transformative relationship between religion and society in the
Hispanic world from the fifteenth century to the present by looking at
religion as the means, medium or obstacle to the creation of social,
political and cultural stability. We thus hope to be able to pinpoint
the features of interaction between religion and society that are
specific to the Hispanic Baroque.
In our second strand of investigation we want to compare complex
transatlantic technologies and patterns of interaction characteristic
for the Hispanic Baroque with those of other cultural spheres. For
instance, in how far can we describe Baroque religion as a cultural
system and system of communication transcending the boundaries of
confession, nation, language and mode of artistic expression? Can we
regard Baroque religion and also the Baroque generally as cross-cultural
phenomena producing and sustaining patterns of cultural interaction that
are dynamic and stable over long periods of time? What can the study of
Baroque cultures and their modes of conflict and resolution tell us
about the need and the ways to balance complex contemporary societies?
Possible Themes for Panels include:
- The Universal Baroque?
- Baroque Media from the Sixteenth to the 21 Century
- Baroque Science
- Baroque Arts
- Baroque Spaces
- Religion, Conflict and Identity in Baroque Societies
- Religion, Culture, and Commerce
- Complex Legacy: Enduring Patterns of Baroque Religion
PROPOSALS for papers should include a title, an abstract of about 250
words, and your full contact details (including an e-mail if possible).
We welcome the proposal of panels and we warmly encourage postgraduate
submissions. Please send your proposals by 30th September 2009 (post or
email) to:
Dr Harald E. Braun
School of History
University of Liverpool
9 Abercromby Square
Liverpool
L69 7WZ
UNITED KINGDOM
h.e.braun@liv.ac.uk
OR
Professor Jesús Pérez-Magallón
Department of Hispanic Studies
McGill University
688 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC,
H3A 3R1
CANADA
jesus.perez@mcgill.ca
REGISTRATION The registration fee will be £100.00 for the full
three-day-conference (including all coffee/tea breaks and lunches). The
day-rate will be £35.00. There is a small subsidy of £10.00 for the
subsidised conference dinner. A limited amount of financial support for
postgraduate research students may be available. You can find the
REGISTRATION FORM and more INFORMATION on the conference website at:
www.liv.ac.uk/iberianatlantic/2010conference.htm
LOCATION and TRAVEL the Venue is the Foresight Centre, University of
Liverpool: www.foresightcentre.co.uk
For how to get there see:
www.foresightcentre.co.uk/location.html
ACCOMMODATION Information on accommodation for all budgets will be made
available on the conference website on 1st November 2009.
This conference is part of the The Hispanic Baroque Project
a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Major Collaborative Research Initiative.
Publiziert von: Kai Nonnenmacher