NOTE: Updated title, submission deadline, and description (as of July 21)
CFP – Edited Volume: The Dynamics of Media and Technology: Before the Modern Era
Abstract Submission Deadline (extended): October 15, 2021
As the digital age has shaped our ways of viewing ourselves, society, and culture is has also reframed and revealed new perspectives on viewership and ritual. We invite proposals for an edited volume that seeks to explore the effects of this digital age before Modernity. This collection of essays aims to engage in both the examination of pre-electric media, mediation, and technology from a theoretical framework. The second grouping of essays aims to explore how the digital humanities have shaped pre-modern studies today.
We seek papers that explore these topics. Among others, we encourage submissions that are concerned with issues of technological and material manipulation, mediation, as well as mnemonic devices, perception, tech methodology, and pedagogy. Essays should be 5000-7000 words. Authors are responsible for securing copyrights to all images, diagrams, graphs, etc.
We welcome all aspects of pre-modern studies (musicology, art history, history, literature, language, philosophy, science, religion, law, history of the church, etc.) Trans-European, visual culture, and interdisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome.
Submissions: To apply, please submit two abstracts : 1 ) 400-500 words; and 2) about 100 words. a short biographical note of no more than 100 words, and your institutional affiliation (if any), to Katharine.d.Scherff@ttu.edu.