Workshop for the Early Modern Period Michaelmas Term 2024 – Constructing Identities
Call for Papers, deadline – 5 September 2024
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The Workshop for the Early Modern Period (WEMP) invites submissions for papers to be presented during Michaelmas Term (October-November 2024). The theme of this term is Constructing Identities, c. 1450-1800. All current graduate students at the University of Cambridge and any other institutions are encouraged to apply. Possible topics may include but are not restricted to:
- Methods and sources of identity construction
- Notions of gender, sexuality and identity
- Religious, political, and social identities
- Intellectual approaches to human identity and difference
- Processes of self- and/or community- fashioning
- Perception and reception of identity construction
- Identities across borders, or challenges to early modern identities
The workshop provides a forum for graduate students (MPhil/MA and PhD) to present their research on any aspect of early modern history in a friendly and welcoming environment. WEMP aims to provide a platform to present new ideas, receive feedback on your work-in-progress, and gain experience presenting in front of an audience of fellow early modernists. The format consists of two twenty-minute papers followed by a joint Q&A, refreshments, and the opportunity to mingle and socialise.
In Michaelmas Term 2024, WEMP will be running fortnightly on Mondays at 5 pm (UK time). The workshop will also run in a hybrid format. Non-Cambridge-based speakers and members of the audience will be welcome to join us on Zoom.
If you are interested in presenting your work, please send a provisional title, an abstract (300 words max.), and a short bio to the convenors at camwemp2024@gmail.com by 5 September.
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If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the convenors, Marlo Avidon, Jackson Hartigan, and Christian Owen. The convenors will be delighted to help potential speakers conceptualise their abstracts.