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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">Hello,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">I was wondering if you could circulate this cfp to your mailing list.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">Many thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot"><br>
Francesco Brenna</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:Didot">CFP: Sixteenth Century Society & Conference</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:Didot">Baltimore, MD - 26-29 October 2023</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="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><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the definition of “sport” in early modernity vs “game,” “recreation,” “contest,” “exercise”;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the representation of sports and games in poetry and imaginative literature;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the representation of sports and games in visual arts;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- sports and games and performative arts;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="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;
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- sports and gaming metaphors in various types of texts;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the role of sports and games in pedagogical texts and educational curricula;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the relationship between sports and games and war;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- gender roles in the theory and practice of early modern sports and games;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the role of sports and games in different social contexts—e.g., courts, academies...;
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- sports and games in schools and universities;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- modern aspects of early modern sports;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- sports and game theory in early modernity;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the sources to study early modern sports and games;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="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><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Didot">- the use of sports and games to teach the Renaissance today.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Didot">Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2023
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<p class="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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot;color:black">________________________</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Didot;color:black">Francesco Brenna, PhD</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">Assistant Professor of Italian</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">Italian Program Coordinator</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">Towson University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Didot">8000 York Rd | Towson, MD 21252 | USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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