Conference Description

In recent years, early modern criticism has shown a marked interest in the concept of what constitutes transgression, the liminal and the marginal. Building upon this significant trend, a two-day conference will take place in Trinity College Dublin on August 6th and 7th 2010 exploring the representation and performance of transgression in Tudor and Stuart literature. Funding has been provided for the event by The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, The School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, and The Society for Renaissance Studies.




Plenary Speakers:



Prof. Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University)


Dr. Thomas Rist (University of Aberdeen)


& Prof. Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin)



The two-day conference examines the period’s insistent awareness of transgressive persons, places and things, deviant behaviours and communities, and it attends to discourses on both real and imagined threats. Papers will be sought on a range of diverse yet related topics including: the construction and contravention of society’s norms; rules and regulatory bodies; violation and subversion; heresy and orthodoxy; and treason and legal corruption. In bringing together researchers – from postgraduates to early career academics to established scholars – the conference will exhibit a vista of current critical approaches to Renaissance literature. The conference is an inter-institutional event between Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, and aims to further existing links, and foster new networks of scholarship, between universities in Ireland, the UK, and further afield.







Wednesday, February 24, 2010

SRS postgraduate bursaries

"Staging Transgression" has been awarded several postgraduate travel bursaries by the Society for Renaissance Studies. Please email if you would like to apply for one of these £100 bursaries. For more information on the SRS please see their website: http://www.rensoc.org.uk/


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