Call for Papers: Symposium on Reading and Health in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800
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Call for Papers: Symposium on Reading and Health in Early Modern
Europe, 1500-1800
Medieval and Early Modern Research Group, Newcastle University, United
Kingdom 05-06 July 2013
This symposium will explore how early modern texts engage with the
regulation of the body and mind through reading. It will investigate the
connections between reading and health and consider how reading was
understood as an embodied practice in the period with profound
implications for both personal well being and conception of the healthy
body politic.
We invite proposals that address the relationship between health and
reading in any genre in print or manuscript in any European language.
The genres might include medical, scientific, literary, religious, or
pedagogical and rhetorical writings. We encourage proposals that recover
diverse reading communities and practices and readers/hearers. We also
welcome papers that consider problems of evidence: e.g. manuscript
marginalia; print paratexts (and directions to readers); visual
representations; non-material evidence (voice; gesture; touch).
Topics might include, but are not restricted to:
• Reading as therapeutic (devotional; recreational etc.)
• Reading medical writing
• The physiology of reading
• Reading and well-being
• Reading and disability
• Health and the senses
• Health as a literary theme
• Reading and the healthy body politic (censorship; free speech;
reading communities etc.)
300-word abstracts for 20-minute papers from individuals and panels (3
speakers) to be sent to the conference organisers – Jennifer Richards
(jennifer.richards@ncl.ac.uk) and Louise Wilson (elw5@st-andrews.ac.uk).
The deadline for abstracts is Thursday, January 31st, 2013.
Call for Papers: Symposium on Reading and Health in Early Modern
Europe, 1500-1800
Medieval and Early Modern Research Group, Newcastle University, United
Kingdom 05-06 July 2013
This symposium will explore how early modern texts engage with the
regulation of the body and mind through reading. It will investigate the
connections between reading and health and consider how reading was
understood as an embodied practice in the period with profound
implications for both personal well being and conception of the healthy
body politic.
We invite proposals that address the relationship between health and
reading in any genre in print or manuscript in any European language.
The genres might include medical, scientific, literary, religious, or
pedagogical and rhetorical writings. We encourage proposals that recover
diverse reading communities and practices and readers/hearers. We also
welcome papers that consider problems of evidence: e.g. manuscript
marginalia; print paratexts (and directions to readers); visual
representations; non-material evidence (voice; gesture; touch).
Topics might include, but are not restricted to:
• Reading as therapeutic (devotional; recreational etc.)
• Reading medical writing
• The physiology of reading
• Reading and well-being
• Reading and disability
• Health and the senses
• Health as a literary theme
• Reading and the healthy body politic (censorship; free speech;
reading communities etc.)
300-word abstracts for 20-minute papers from individuals and panels (3
speakers) to be sent to the conference organisers – Jennifer Richards
(jennifer.richards@ncl.ac.uk) and Louise Wilson (elw5@st-andrews.ac.uk).
The deadline for abstracts is Thursday, January 31st, 2013.