Cornucopia

Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 May 2016

University of Exeter

 

Keynote Speakers: Professor Steven Gunn, Merton College, Oxford

 Professor Tiffany Stern, University College, Oxford

 

Postgraduate students are cordially invited to submit abstracts for papers for this year’s Centre for Early Modern Studies Postgraduate Conference.

The theme is ‘Fate, chance and happenstance in the early modern period’. Submissions are encouraged from masters and Ph.D students from all relevant disciplines, included but not limited to history, English, drama, history of art, music and languages.

The conference will take place in Reed Hall, a stunning Italianate mansion in the grounds of the university, with a conference dinner in the historic city centre. Suggested topics for papers are:

• The role played by chance in historical events in the early modern period
• The role played by chance in the creation of early modern literature, drama and music
• The themes of fate and chance in early modern literature, drama and music
• Fate and chance relating to Shakespeare and/or his works
• Fate and chance in early modern performance
• Contemporary views on fate, chance and superstition
• Chance meetings and their consequences, both for individuals and on a wider level

However, papers not directly related to these suggested topics but relevant to the overall theme will be positively welcomed.

If you ae interested in presenting a twenty minute paper, please email Imogene Dudley at id243@exeter.ac.uk with a 200 word abstract and a short biography by 5pm on Thursday 25 February 2016.