Proposal Submission Deadline: Monday, April 11, 2022
The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) invites proposals for individual presentations and complete panels for its 2022 annual conference. Under the presidency of Susannah Monta (University of Notre Dame), the conference will take place from October 27-30, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, Minnesota. The 2022 annual meeting will be held in person. A submission at this stage assumes a commitment to attending an in-person conference. The safety of all participants is our primary concern and we will be guided in our decisions by recommendations made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) and federal, state, and local guidelines.
The SCSC was founded to promote scholarship on the early modern era (c. 1450 – c. 1660). The SCSC encourages the participation of international scholars and warmly welcomes early career researchers and postgraduates and graduate students who have advanced to candidacy to the academic community. Panels and papers are invited in the following fields:
- Art & Architectural History
- Digital Humanities
- English Literature
- French Literature
- German Studies
- Global History
- History
- History of Science & Medicine
- Interdisciplinary
- Italian Studies
- Pedagogy and Professionalization
- Spanish and Latin American Studies
- Religion and Theology
Within approximately four weeks of this date, the Program Committee will contact all those who have made submissions about their proposals. In addition to standard panels, the organizing committee will consider proposals for four alternative panel types:
- Round Tables sponsored by affiliated societies
- Workshop A: Discussion of pre-circulated papers in a workshop format (limit of 5 participants)
- Workshop B: Analysis of thorny translation or paleography questions; pre-circulation is not required (limit of 4 participants)
- Workshop C: Examination of a big issue or question with brief comments from presenters and lively audience participation. These are similar to round tables but with more audience engagement (limit of 4 participants)
In addition to these options, the conference also welcomes poster sessions. Those who are interested in contributing to a poster session should submit their proposals as papers to the Digital Humanities track and indicate in the proposal that the proposal is a poster session. Abstracts (up to 250 words in the length) for individual presentations and panels should be submitted online here. Questions about the conference format should be directed to conference@sixteenthcentury.org.