City University of New York Graduate Center

4th Annual EMIG Graduate Student Conference

Conference Date: April 18, 2008

Call for Papers and Panels

early modern afterlives

Representations of the afterlife haunt the early-modern period, while echoes and ghosts of

the early modern period continue to reverberate through subsequent cultures and

imaginations. The Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group of the Graduate Center, City

University of NY, invites proposals for papers for its fourth annual graduate student

conference to be held on April 18, 2008 in New York City.

We encourage scholars of all disciplines to submit papers related to the period inclusive of the fourteenth through the

seventeenth centuries, and we especially welcome papers with an interdisciplinary

methodology. This conference will focus on both representations of the afterlife in the

early modern era as well as later iterations and interpretations of early modern themes and

artifacts. Possible topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

Heaven & hell

God and the devil

Religious strife

Saints and angels

Religious iconography

Ghosts

The supernatural

Dreams and prophecy

Body and soul

Funeral and burial rites

Elegies and eulogies

Early modern wills and testaments

Memorial markers (gravestones, monuments, etc.)

Death-bed confessions

Resurrection motifs

Later interpretations of early modern works

(film, art, literature, music etc.)

Renaissance and new media

Enduring early modern cultural influences

and references

Quotation of Renaissance texts

Early modern archives

After-life conspiracy theories (ex. accounts

of Marlowe's death)

Send 200 word abstracts by January 15th, 2008 to EMIGconference@gmail.com or mail to Balaku Basu

(English Department, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016).

Please includeyour name and institutional affiliation, mailing address, email address, and phone number.

EMIG provides a forum for the exchange of ideas related to the period between the fourteenth and seventeenth

centuries. The group serves as a bridge between the English Department of the Graduate Center (CUNY) and the

Renaissance Studies Association, while also serving the larger community of humanities scholars with an interest in

this period. By emphasizing connections between developments in philosophy, theology, politics, rhetoric, law,

science, sociology, theater, music, literature, and the visual arts during this important period, EMIG engages scholars

from many academic disciplines. In doing so, we hope to broaden not only our knowledge of the period, but our

scholarly approaches as well. EMIG meets monthly at the Graduate Center, City University of New York during the

academic year.