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Keynote Address:

“Eloquent Blood and Body Thoughts: John Donne and Corporeality”

Michael Schoenfeldt
Professor of English and Assistant Dean of the Humanities at the University of Michigan

Call for Papers 2008: Passions, Affect, and Zeal

This graduate student conference will engage medieval and early modern notions of passions, affect, and zeal as they apply broadly to natural philosophy, religion, politics, rhetoric, and poetry.  Possible topics include, but are not limited to: how passions connect with various theories of the body, the spirit, and the soul; the relationship between reason and emotion and what each contributes to the human; explorations of traditionally sinful emotions such as wrath, envy, and lust, along with the virtues of charity, love, and mercy; religious devotional practices encouraging sympathy and imaginative meditation; the  influence of divine enthusiasm, melancholy, anger, or passionate love on the writing of poetry; how rhetoric both harnesses and incites emotion; and enthusiastic or radical movements in politics and religion.

Paper proposals of no more than 350 words should be submitted to raschko@email.unc.edu by December 10, 2007.