UPDATE: This conference will be a hybrid conference, with both in-person and virtual presentations.
Deadline extended to 9 February 2022
Engaging the Audience: From Antiquity to the Renaissance
This conference welcomes proposals for 20-minute papers on issues involved in
the social activity of engaging the audience in classical antiquity, the Middle Ages,
and the Renaissance. All disciplines in the humanities are welcome.
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
Public speaking: oration/sermon/disputation/lecture
Theatre: classical/medieval/Renaissance
Theatricality: courtroom/parliament/church/palace
Hospitality and entertainment
Festivals, ceremonies, games
Architecture, performer, and audience
Collecting and displaying: cabinets of curiosities/museums/libraries
Unusual spectacles
Rhetoric and culture
Social etiquette and impression management
Artist and patron
Oral tradition
Visual communication
Spectatorship/readership
Adaptation and remakes
Cross-cultural narratives
Transnational audiences
TACMRS warmly invites papers and sponsored panels (of 3 to 4 speakers), in
either English or Chinese. Please submit proposals (250 words in English, or 500
words in Chinese) along with a brief CV to tacmrs2022.tku@gmail.com by 9 February 2022.
There is no registration fee for the conference. Presenters residing in Taiwan
should be members of TACMRS. The membership application form can be
downloaded from the TACMRS website or can be obtained via email upon request.
For more information, please see the attached.
Contacts:
Secretariat TACMRS
tacmrs.official@gmail.com
Hui-chuan Wang, Department of English, Tamkang University