CONFERENCE

The Organising Committee and the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies (SEDERI) invite you to participate in the 24th International Conference, SEDERI 2013, which will be held in Huelva (Spain) on 13-  15 March, 2013.   The Conference theme revolves around ideas of mapping and charting that feature so prominently in the Early  Modern period, a time of travel and discoveries. Besides taken in their literal, geographical meanings, these  ideas may also encompass the linguistic concern with English in its varieties and contacts with other languages,  and above all, in a wider sense addressing the multiple ways in which language shapes early modern minds and  represents culture. The following plenary speakers have already confirmed their participation in the conference:   o Richard Halpern (New York University) o Willy Maley (University of Glasgow) o Susan Wiseman (Birkbeck College, London) Papers should not exceed the 20-minute delivery, plus 10 minutes discussion. Abstracts, of up to 200 words,  should be submitted by e-mail attachment (as .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdf files) to sederi24@dfing.uhu.es. They  should include name(s), institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s), post and e-mail address and the technical  support required for the presentation. The deadline for submission of abstracts is December 20, 2012.   Participants may also want to their own thematic panels to include papers delivered by 3 or 4 participants. Panel  convenors should submit their proposal in broad observance of the criteria for individual proposals (title for panel  and individual papers, a short general abstract and a two-hundred word abstract for each paper).  Please notice that English is the official language of the Conference. You can download the full CFP here.