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"Value and Judgment in the Renaissance," New England Renaissance Conference, October 30-31, 2009
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Posted by: Boston University
Deadline: 08/01/09
The focus of the conference will be how developing technologies—whether the printing press, navigation, scientific instruments, importation of new materials, etc.—changed, challenged, and reinforced concepts of value and judgment in the Renaissance. Questions around authority and trustworthiness emerge across disciplines as previous standards of taste and value no longer apply.
Possible topics for papers could include, but are not limited to, the following: The role of emotion, reason, and the senses in judgment; Judgment and taste as mediators to antiquity; Patronage and new priorities in collecting; The relationship between subjectivity and taste in the arts; Changing worldviews and destabilization as a result of new technologies. We also seek papers that draw a comparison between these Renaissance concerns and those in our contemporary age of technological change.
Please send abstracts of 250-500 words by August 1 to cranston@bu.edu with cc: to blues@bu.edu
Posted on 06/15/09
Expires on 08/01/09 at midnight.
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