Event Details

End: May 31, 2017
Contact: kbarzman@binghamton.edu

Call for Papers: Technologies of War

Interdisciplinary/Comparative Panel(s)

Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference

New Orleans, 22–24 March 2018

Papers may take a literal or figurative approach to “technologies of war.” Topics may include the machinery or mechanics of weaponry as well as the training and management of troops, from conscription and deployment to armed conflict, collection of booty, and returning in victory or defeat. Work is welcome on maritime infrastructures and modalities of war as well as war on land, including the military encampment in its material and spatial dimensions and the social relations peculiar to the logic that informed its late medieval and early modern instantiations. Also of interest are the discursive and/or embodied practices that constituted opposing forces as subaltern and inimical, from rallying songs to the subjection of prisoners and the mutilation of the bodies of fallen adversaries. Geographic focus is unrestricted; temporal limits, c. 1300-1700.

Submissions Guidelines                                    

Proposals should be for 20-minute papers and should include

• - a preliminary title for the paper
• - an abstract of 150 words
• - a 1-page CV, including current institutional affiliation(s)
• - current contact information

Submit your proposal to kbarzman@binghamton.edu by Wednesday, May 31, 2017. Subject line: “RSA – Technologies of War.”