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I'm on this great mailing list but I am not an academician, nor someone who can claim previous expertise in Renaissance sports. Is there a place at this conference for an "audience" ?</div>
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Please let me know.<br>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Thank you,</span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 22, 2023 1:15 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> sport_literature_association@lists.ku.edu <sport_literature_association@lists.ku.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ARETE] Sixteenth Century Society Conference - Baltimore, MD - 26/29 October 2023: Sports and Games in the Renaissance</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">Hello,</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">I was wondering if you could circulate this cfp to your mailing list.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">Many thanks,</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot"><br>
Francesco Brenna</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:Didot">CFP: Sixteenth Century Society & Conference</span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:Didot">Baltimore, MD - 26-29 October 2023</span></b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt; font-family:Didot">Sports and Games in the Renaissance</span></b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">This panel aims to bring scholars together to reflect on sports and games in the Renaissance. Examples of possible topics include but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the definition of “sport” in early modernity vs “game,” “recreation,” “contest,” “exercise”;</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the representation of sports and games in poetry and imaginative literature;</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the representation of sports and games in visual arts;</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- sports and games and performative arts;</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the gaze on sports provided by poetry and the arts vs other types of documents;
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- sports and gaming metaphors in various types of texts;</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the role of sports and games in pedagogical texts and educational curricula;</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the relationship between sports and games and war;</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- gender roles in the theory and practice of early modern sports and games;</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the role of sports and games in different social contexts—e.g., courts, academies...;
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- sports and games in schools and universities;</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- modern aspects of early modern sports;</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- sports and game theory in early modernity;</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the sources to study early modern sports and games;</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the Renaissance in contemporary sports and games: from the
<i>calcio storico fiorentino</i> to videogames; </span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the use of sports and games to teach the Renaissance today.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot"> </span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Didot">Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2023
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">Please send an abstract (up to 300 words) and a short bio (up to 100 words) to
<b>Francesco Brenna (fbrenna@towson.edu).</b> </span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot; color:black">________________________</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Didot; color:black">Francesco Brenna, PhD</span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">Assistant Professor of Italian</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">Italian Program Coordinator</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">Towson University</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">8000 York Rd | Towson, MD 21252 | USA</span></p>
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