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DISBELIEF
From the Renaissance to Romanticism

25-7/May/2017

CFP

// We call for papers that address the issue of disbelief between "the Renaissance" (the Early Modern English period) and the end of "Romanticism", both terms taken in the broadest possible sense. By choosing the negative, rather than the positive attitude as the pivotal notion of our conference, we would like to direct attention to the inner tensions and struggles that have so often characterised processes in which human beings are able to accept that somebody or something is true or real and to have faith in somebody or something. We encourage participants to track down the historical, political, religious, ethical, metaphysical, and aesthetic implications of disbelief as they filter through literary and cultural production in the above period. What are the consequences of disbelief for the real, the  imaginary, the fictional,  the ordinary, the extra-ordinary, the uncanny – for what it means to be human?

// Conference presentations should take 30 minutes, followed by a  10 minute-long slot for discussions. The language of the conference is English and abstracts sent in through the application menu of this website should not exceed 200 words.

// After double-blind peer review, a selection of the papers will be published.

// More information on registration will be coming soon.

APPLICATION DEADLINE (EXTENDED): 20/March/2017

CALL FOR
PAPERS

Photos

THE PHOTOS:

Keynotes

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
At the conference:

Brett
Bourb
on

received his B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Harvard. // He was a professor at Stanford for ten years, and is now an English professor at the University of Dallas.  He is also a Visiting Associate Professor in The Program of Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon. // He has received many awards, including a Fulbright to the University of Lisbon, a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the Harvard English Scholar award, and the top teaching awards from the University of Dallas and Stanford. // He is the author of Finding a Replacement for the Soul: meaning and mind in literature and philosophy (Harvard UP, 2004), as well as numerous essays on philosophy, culture, literature and art.  He is also a poet, publishing most recently Color Boy against the Gods (Reunion, Fall 2015).

Péter
Dávidházi

DSc, MHAS, is a Research Professor in the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Professor at Eötvös Loránd University. // Author of The Romantic Cult of Shakespeare: Literary Reception in Anthropological Perspective (1998). He also published monographs and studies on the classics of Hungarian literature. Recently he edited New Publication Cultures in the Humanities: Exploring the Paradigm Shift (2014). // His current research focuses on biblical allusions in Shakespeare, the prophetic tradition in Hungarian poetry, and the rhetoric of self-persuasion.

Tim

Fulford

Professor Fulford’s research lies in the area of literature in the Romantic era, in the contexts of colonialism, exploration, science, landscape, the picturesque, religion. // He has published many articles and books on these topics, featuring such writers as William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, Robert Bloomfield, Mary Robinson, William Cowper, Jane Austen and John Clare. // He is currently preparing scholarly editions of the letters of Robert Southey and of Humphry Davy.  His most recent monographs are The Late Poetry of the Lake Poets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) and Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries: The Dialect of the Tribe (New York: Palgrave, 2015)

Nicholas
Halmi

is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of University College, Oxford. In 2015 and 2016 he was chair of the Advisory Board of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. // His main areas of research are British and Continental literature, philosophy, and visual arts of the “long eighteenth century”. // He is author of The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol (2007) and the editor, most recently, of the Norton Critical Edition Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose (2013). // At present he is writing a book on historicism and aesthetics with support from a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship for 2015-17.  // more about Nicholas Halmi.

Ágnes
Péter

is Professor Emerita of English at Eötvös Loránd University. // Her research has been focused on the Romantic Age, its critical theory and European contexts, and on individual poets like Keats and Shelley. // Her books include: Késhet a tavasz? Shelley poétikája (2005), a comparative assessment of Shelley and Hölderlin against the critical background of the German Frühromantik; Roppant szivárvány (1996) on the shifting concepts of nature, language and beauty in Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats; and Keats világa (2nd ed. 2010). // She translated and edited the letters of Keats. // Her forthcoming book is on Blake’s illustrations of the Book of Job.

Tzachi
Zamir

is a literary critic and philosopher // and is an Associate Professor of English & Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. // His latest book is Acts: Theatre, Philosophy, and the Performing Self (2014) and his forthcoming one is Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost. He is also the author of Double Vision: Moral Philosophy (2012) and Shakespearean Drama (2006) and Ethics and the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation (2007) // His main areas of research are: Philosophy of Literature, Philosophy Theater and Animal Ethics. // more about Tzachi Zamir.

Before the conference

// We held an in-house competition at Eötvös Loránd University, where prospective researcher from the BA and MA track could showcase studies concerning the topic of the conference. After careful consideration It is with great pleasure that we can announce Eszter Törék as an outstanding presenter of the event. Her paper, entitled:

// Dis/belief: Personas of the Muse in the Fair Youth Sonnets of Shakespeare

 

// will be presented at the conference.

BA/MA
SYMPOSIUM
ON DISBELIEF

BA/MA Symposium
Venue

THE VENUE:
Eötvös Loránd University

25-7/05/2017

our team

OUR TEAM:
At Eötvös Loránd  University:

Géza Kállay

Renaissance Project Leader // Research area: Renaissance and Early Modern English Literature, Especially Shakespeare, the Relationship Between Literature and Philosophy, Literary Theory // His latest book is A Deed Without a Name: Shakespeare's Macbeth Through the Philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Ludwig Wittgenstein (2015), in connection with his translation of Macbeth // Co-founder of the Early Modern English Research Group (EMERG) at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) // Professor, Core Member of the Department of English Studies at ELTE.

 Andrea Tímár

Romanticism Project Leader // Research area: 18-th- 19th century literature culture, philosophy, especially Romanticism, S. T. Coleridge, Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory // Her latest book is A Modern Colerdige. Cultivation, Addiction, Habits (2015) // Senior Lecturer, Core member of the Department of English Studies at Eötvös Loránd University.

Bence Levente
Bodó

Responsible for internal communications and design // Research area: Early Modern English Poetry, especially Milton // Co-founder of the Early Modern English Research Group (EMERG) at Eötvös Loránd University // Ph.D. Student

 Zsolt
Bojti

 

Responsible for tenders and financial matters of the conference // Research area: Victorian Fiction // Co-founder of the Early Modern English Research Group (EMERG) at Eötvös Loránd University // Ph.D. Student

Gergő
Dávid

Responsible for logistics // Research area: Renaissance theatre, Marlowe and Shakespeare // Member of the Early Modern English Research Group (EMERG) at Eötvös Loránd University // Ph.D. Student

 Ágnes
Füzessy-Bonácz

 

Responsible for travel and accomodation coordination // Research area: Early Modern English Poetry // Co-founder of the Early Modern English Research Group (EMERG) at Eötvös Loránd University // Ph.D. Student

Kristóf
Kiss

 

Responsible for academic relations // Research area: Romantic poetry, especilly Wordsworth // Eötvös Loránd University, Ph.D. Student

Orsolya

Komáromi

 

Responsible for logistics and catering // Research area: the Condition-of-England Novel & self-referentiality, Maggie Gee and David Lodge // Eötvös Loránd University, Ph.D. Student

Program
Abstracts
Travel & Accomodation

TRAVEL&
Accommodation Information:

Assistence

ASSISTANCE!

Dear MA/BA Students of ELTE:

We invite you to take an active part in this project, join us in one of these areas: // help us welcome our guests ("Registration"), // serve them with coffee ("Coffee Break"), look after their coats and bags ("Cloakroom"), and // provide technical assistance in the lecture halls ("Technical Assistance"). 

 

We are happy to announce that we can show our gratitude for your help by issuing a certificate proving that you have taken part in organising a conference. This will translate into extra points for you when applying for various grants.

 

Let us know which area you feel like joining and when you would be available via email to: komaromi.orsi@gmail.com.

 

We hope to hear from you soon! 

Contact

CONTACT US:

Should you have any questions turn to us at: disbelief2017@gmail.com

Sponsors

OURS SPONSORS:

The international conference has been sponsored by the host university, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest and by the Ministry of Human Capabilities in Hungary through its program in honor of the 500 years anniversary of the Reformation. A special mention should be made, honoring the contributions of the Department of English Studies at ELTE University. The organizers are thankful for all the support that the conference has received. // The conference is jointly organized by members of the faculty at the Department of English Studies at ELTE, Géza Kállay is the renaissance project leader, while Andrea Tímár is the romanticism project leader, PhD students are also part of the team, Orsolya Komáromi and Kristóf Kiss alongside members of the department’s Early Modern English Research Group (EMERG): Bence Levente Bodó, Zsolt Bojti, Gergő Dávid, and Ágnes Füzessy-Bonácz.

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