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II SEDERI International Conference for Junior Researchers

We are pleased to announce that the II SEDERI International Conference for Junior Researchers of Early Modern
English Studies will be held on 5, 6 and 7 October 2022 at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / Autonomous
University of Madrid (UAM) in Spain. This event is part of an initiative born within SEDERI, the Spanish and
Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies, which seeks to provide a platform where junior researchers
from around the globe can gather in order to exchange different ideas, views and opinions on the study of the
English language and its literature, history and culture of the 16th and 17th centuries.

K EYNOTE A DDRESSES
• Alexander Samson (University College London)
• Sabine Schülting (Freie Universität Berlin)
• Jesús Tronch Pérez (Universitat de València)

We welcome proposals in English for 20-minute papers that critically explore questions related to the study of early
modern literature, language, history and culture, particularly in relation to the English Renaissance and the English
Restoration. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Early modern texts, contexts and stages

• Early modern politics, economies and ideologies in texts and on the stage
• Anglo-Iberian and Anglo-Mediterranean relations in the early modern period
• Early modern cultures of work, customs and rituals
• Early modern utopias and dystopias
• Early modern travel narratives and narratives of migration and exile
• Early modern constructions of the figure of the outsider/ the other and their afterlives
• The materiality of the early modern text: critical editions, manuscripts and print culture
• Linguistic contact, variation and change in the early modern period
• Translations, adaptations and appropriations of early modern English texts
• Performance and reception of early modern English plays

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15 June 2022. Acceptance will be notified before 30 June 2022.
Proposals must be sent to sederijunior2022@gmail.com as an email attachment (preferably as .doc or .docx files)
containing the following information:

• The author’s name, institutional affiliation and email address

• A short biographical note (max. 100 words)
• The full title of the paper, a 250-300 word abstract, and 4 keywords
• Your SEDERI membership status (member, non-member, application submitted). If you wish to join
SEDERI, please visit http://www.sederi.org/membership/

Conference fees: SEDERI members (€30), non-SEDERI members (€40)

Registration: 15 July 2021– 15 September 2021

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