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Mary Watt to Give Keynote Address at International Conference on Jerusalem
Mary Watt from the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures has been invited by the Norwegian Academy in Rome to give the keynote address at an international conference, The Impact of Jerusalem, from November 11-13 in Rome, Italy. The conference will provide a forum in which to discuss the impact of Jerusalem on Christian, Jewish, and Muslim identities in medieval and early modern Europe.
Her talk will be “The Role of Jerusalem in the Age of Discovery”
The conference, organized by a group of scholars from the University of Oslo, is intended to elucidate the significance of the city of Jerusalem in the multi-religious Medieval Europe, including an exploration of textual and visual sources from the European peripheries like Iberia and Scandinavia. The core issues to be examined include the notions of sacred history, sacred presence, and sacred topography, physical and spiritual, within the cultural memory of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam together with the exemplary status of Jerusalem for religious, political, and artistic practices formative for religious identities, ideas and myths inherited to the modern world.
News from English
English
September 7, 2009
- Richard Burt’s “‘Being your slave’: Not Citing Sonnets 57 and 58 and the ‘TraUmisSion’ of Race in the United States,” appears in Shakespeare’s Sonnets Global, eds. Manfred Pfister and Jürgen Gutsch (2009). 181–92.
- In June, Tace Hedrick presented “Walter Mercado and Queering Oriental Mysticism” at the international conference of the Latin American Studies Association (Rio de Janiero).
- On May 21, Scott Nygren presented “Yoshida’s Political Purgatory” and Maureen Turim presented “Desire, Filmic Experimentation, and Political Expression in Japan and China, 1960–2000” at Josai International University (Tokyo). These papers were originally part of the 2009 Conference by the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, “SCMS@50, Mobilizing the Future/Screening the Past,” which was cancelled at the last minute due to onerous restrictions by the Japanese government regarding the H1N1 flu. An alternative conference with 200 international scholars took place instead.
- Judith Page presented “Writing from Chawton: The Garden in Mansfield Park” at New Directions in Austen Studies, July 9–11, at Chawton House in the UK. Her review of Nadia Valman’s The Jewess in Nineteenth Century British Literary Culture appears in Women’s Writing 16 (2009).
- Mark A. Reid’s review of Cedric Robinson’s Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II appears in The North Carolina Historical Review 86.3 (July 2009): 368–69.
- Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus (co-edited by Malini J. Schueller and Ashley Dawson) has been published by the University of Michigan Press.
- Phil Wegner’s essay “Darko Suvin (1930–)” appears in Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction, ed. Mark Bould, et al (Routledge).
- Ed White’s edition of Hugh Henry Brackenridge’s novel Modern Chivalry (1792–1815) has been published by Hackett Press.
News of Current Students
- J. Stephen Addcox’s essay “Inoculation and Empire: Cigarette’s Healing Power in Ouida's Under Two Flags” appears in Victorian Network 1.1: 22–38.
- Wesley Beal’s essay “Theorising Connectivity: the Form and Ideology of the Network Narrative” appears in Networks of Design (2009), the conference proceedings of the 2008 Design History Society conference.
- Jeff Rice’s essay “Devising Collective Knowledges for the Technical Writing Classroom: A Course-Based Approach to Using Web 2.0 Writing Technologies in Collaborative Work” appears in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 52.3 (September 2009): 303–15.
- Horacio Sierra’s essay “Convents as Feminist Utopias: Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure and the Potential of Closeted Dramas and Communities” appears in Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 38.6 (2009): 647–69.
