{"id":126,"date":"2013-12-03T22:47:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T22:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2013-12-03T22:48:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T22:48:05","slug":"cfp-emblems-and-enigma-the-heraldic-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"CfP – Emblems and Enigma: The Heraldic Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Emblems<\/a><\/p>\n

Professor Fiona Robertson<\/a> and Dr Peter Lindfield<\/a> are co-organising a symposium entitled Emblems and Enigma: The Heraldic Imagination<\/em><\/a>; this event will take place at the Society of Antiquaries in London on Saturday 26th April 2014. \u00a0The full Call for Papers is both below and available on the conference site<\/a>.\u00a0 To further tempt Romanticists, Professor Robertson writes that, ‘There’ll be a special session on Walpole and Beckford, the poster image (above) is from Chatterton, I’ll be talking about Scott and 19th-c American literature, and we’d very much welcome proposals for papers on Romantic Period authors (De Quincey, Peacock, Scott, Radcliffe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats) and on topics related to this authoritative but occluded set of signs in the culture of the Romantic Period.’\u00a0 The deadline for abstracts is 10th January 2014.<\/p>\n

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Emblems and Enigma: The Heraldic Imagination<\/strong><\/p>\n

An Interdisciplinary Symposium at the Society of Antiquaries of London, Saturday 26th April 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Time has transfigured them into \/ Untruth\u2019 (Philip Larkin)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In his 1844 short story \u2018Earth\u2019s Holocaust\u2019, Nathaniel Hawthorne sees heraldic signs reaching \u2018like lines of light\u2019 into the past, but also as encrypted and obsolete. Proliferating and arcane, unique, ubiquitous, and inscrutable, the heraldic has been a major presence across the arts since medieval times; yet it remains, culturally and critically, enigmatic. The organisers of this interdisciplinary symposium, Professor Fiona Robertson (St Mary\u2019s University College) and Dr Peter Lindfield (University of St Andrews) invite proposals for twenty-minute papers on any aspect of the employment and perception of the heraldic in literature, history, art, architecture, design, fashion, and contemporary and historical practice. The programme will include a keynote address by Professor Vaughan Hart (University of Bath); a special session on the heraldry of Horace Walpole\u2019s Strawberry Hill and William Beckford\u2019s Fonthill Abbey; and papers on eighteenth-century antiquaries\u2019 exploration of the heraldic, and on heraldry in nineteenth-century British and American literature.<\/p>\n

Topics may include, but are not restricted to:<\/p>\n

– the languages and grammar of heraldry<\/p>\n

– armoiries parlantes, allusions and puns<\/p>\n

– imaginary and fantastical heraldry<\/p>\n

– decoration and display<\/p>\n

– blazonry and identity: nations, groups, individuals<\/p>\n

– mock- and sham-heraldics; parody and subversion<\/p>\n

– practices of memory and memorialisation<\/p>\n

– history, development, and modern practice<\/p>\n

– blazon and the body<\/p>\n

– heraldic revivalism; medievalism; romance<\/p>\n

– enigma, error, and absence: the bar sinister and the blank shield<\/p>\n

– individual designers, writers, and collectors<\/p>\n

– gendered identity<\/p>\n

– hierarchies of signs<\/p>\n

– international and interdisciplinary perspectives<\/p>\n

Proposals of 200 words should be sent to heraldics2014@gmail.com by 10 January 2014.<\/p>\n

Fiona Robertson and Peter Lindfield plan to edit a collection of essays arising from the symposium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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