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Due to the overwhelming interest in the conference, we are sorry that we cannot accept any further participants.

The conference aims to explore the role of cultural intermediaries in 16th and 17th- century Britain and Continental Europe. "Going-between" constitutes a major driving force in the mapping of early modern culture. It fuels the unprecedented circulation of political, social, religious and artistic ideas which permeates and indeed defines the Renaissance. Negotiating not only between geographic territories, but also between identities, mental landscapes, systems of belief, contemporaneity and the classical past, the intervention of the go-between characteristically involves a dialectics of transgression and delimitation, defining the boundaries between genders, nations, religions, philosophies and artistic traditions even in the act of transgressing them. This perspective reveals Renaissance culture as a continuous process of appropriation, contestation and adjustment; always suspended in mediation – "in between".

Keynote speakers:

• Peter Burke
• Carlo Ginzburg

Speakers include:

• Aleida Assmann
• Catherine Belsey
• Hans Belting
• Philippa Berry
• Elisabeth Bronfen
• Marta Gibinska
• Herbert Grabes
• Anthony Grafton
• François Laroque
• Dieter Mehl
• Manfred Pfister
• Paola Pugliatti
• Klaus Reichert
• Richard Wilson
  

Conference Programme:
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We welcome papers addressing the workings and impact of intercultural exchange as manifested in the agency of exemplary individual "go-betweens" (such as e.g. Giordano Bruno, John Florio, Inigo Jones, Anthony Munday) and/or, more broadly, in the mental topographies and discursive formations of the period, and/or in fictional representations, such as the plays of Shakespeare, which offer particularly varied displays of intermediary figures and configurations.

Proposals of no more than 500 words together with a brief c.v. should be sent to the conveners before
December 31, 2001

Please register before March 31, 2002

Due to the overwhelming interest in the conference, we are sorry that we cannot accept any further participants.

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How to get there

For further information please contact

Prof. Andreas Höfele Prof. Werner von Koppenfels
Dept. für Anglistik und Amerikanistik,
Schellingstr. 3, D-80799 München
Tel. +89-2180-3388 Fax +89-2180-1385
e-mail: andreas.hoefele@anglistik.uni-muenchen.de