**FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE**
CALL FOR PAPERS: THE TENTH MARGARET CAVENDISH SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
DATES: 12 TO 14 JULY, 2013
HOST: Professor Brandie Siegfried,
Brigham Young University
VENUE: Sundance Resort, Utah, USA
THEME: The Cavendish Circle and Seventeenth-Century Ideas on Art, Nature, and Science: Contemporary Developments and Later Elaborations
*NEW DEADLINE: Registration Form due by May 3, 2013
Early modernists and modernists from all disciplines (e.g. art history, social history, history of science, literature, ecofeminism, political theory etc) are invited to submit proposals for papers related to the theme of the conference.
PAPER PROPOSALS: 20-minute papers are invited on topics related directly or indirectly to the theme of the conference.
ABSTRACTS of 150 to 200 words should be emailed to the conference organizers.
**NEW DEADLINE** for submission of abstracts: 11 January 2013!
Conferences Organizers:
James Fitzmaurice: Email
Sara Mendelson: Email
Brandie Siegfried: Email
QUERIES: about the conference or about the Margaret Cavendish Society
should be directed to: Sara Mendelson or Brandie Siegfried
You can find more up-to-date information about some Cavendish resources on the Margaret Cavendish Society Facebook page here, managed by Professor James Fitzmaurice.
Announcements
We are also pleased to announce our next meeting:
Forthcoming Conference
CFP for the RSA 2014 meeting in New York
***The International Margaret Cavendish Society announces plans to offer two or three sessions at the Renaissance Society of America meeting in New York. There are no set topics at this point, though organizers expect to group papers in panels according to themes that emerge. In the past, sessions have been held on Cavendish and -- philosophy and natural history, art and architecture, other Early Modern women writers, other writers in the larger Cavendish family, and biography/autobiography.***
Send abstracts of 150 words together with a vita as soon as possible (but no later than 20 May 2013) to:
Jim Fitzmaurice -- j.fitzmaurice@shef.ac.uk
and
Lisa Walters -- Elizabeth.Walters@ugent.be
Past Cavendish Conferences and Past Sessions in Other Conferences
2013 RSA, San Diego, USA, April 2013
2012 Two Cavendish Sessions at RSA, Washington, D.C., March, 2012
2011 Ninth Biennial Margaret Cavendish Conference, Ghent and Antwerp, Belgium
(Delegate e-mail list Details)
2009 Margaret Cavendish Society Conference, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
2007 Margaret Cavendish Society Conference, Sheffield, United Kingdom 2005 Margaret Cavendish Society Conference, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 2003 MLA Margaret Cavendish Society panel, San Diego, California, USA 2003 Margaret Cavendish Society Conference, Chester, United Kingdom 2001 Margaret Cavendish Conference, Massachusetts, USA 2000 MLA Cavendish panel, Washington DC, USA 1999 Margaret Cavendish Conference, Paris, France 1998 MLA Margaret Cavendish panel, San Francisco, USA 1997 Margaret Cavendish Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom 1996 Margaret Cavendish Conference, Norwich, United Kingdom 1995 Margaret Cavendish Colloquium, London, United Kingdom
Organizers: Lisa Sarasohn, Jim Fitzmaurice, Sara Mendelson & Brandie Siegfried
Organizers: Lisa Sarasohn, Jim Fitzmaurice, Sara Mendelson and Brandie
Siegfried
Organizers: Sara Mendelson & Mary O'Connor
Organizer: James Fitzmaurice
Organizers: Emma Rees & Gweno Williams
Organizers: Susanne Woods & Anne Shaver
Organizers: Suzanne Araas Vesely & James Fitzmaurice
Organizer: Line Cottegnies
Organizer: Nancy S. Weitz
Organizer: Shirley Stacy
Organizer: Emma L. E. Rees
Organizer: Stephen Clucas