Call for Papers

For reading maketh thee full; conference, ready; and writing, exact.
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:
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  • Early modern texts, contexts and stages
  • Early modern politics, economies and ideologies
  • 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 31 May 2026. Proposals must be sent to [email protected] as an email attachment (preferably as .doc or .docx files) containing the following information:
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  • The author’s name, institutional affiliation and email address
  • A short biographical note (max. 100 words)
  • The full title of the paper, an abstract (250–300 words), 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 (35€), non-SEDERI members (55€)

Registration: 15 July 2026 – 30 September 2026
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