Given the interest in the Storytelling sessions at the SHA, some of you
might be interested in this.
 
>Sender: H-NET/OIEAHC Electronic Association in Early American Studies
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>From: Jones DeRitter <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      CFP: The Explorer as Hero and/or Villain
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>This is for the GEMCS (Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies) conference to
>be held in Newport, RI from Nov. 19-22, 1998.
>
>I'd like to put together a roundtable discussion on the topic of "The
Explorer
>as Hero and/or Villain."  The idea would be to encompass both early modern
and
>20th-c. treatments of the explorer figure, and to attempt to arrive at some
>preliminary conclusions about recurring tropes, character types, revisionist
>movements, and so forth.  Since the subject is already on the cusp between
>literature and history, participants should feel free to pursue specific
>interests in either or both areas.
>
>The topic should be assumed to include not only English and American
explorers
>(Hakluyt, Ralegh, Smith, Cook, Lewis & Clark), but also Spanish, French,
>Portuguese, and so forth.
>
>If you're interested, please contact me a.s.a.p., and certainly by April
24th.
>
>        Jody DeRitter
>        Dept. of English
>        University of Scranton                  (717/941-6148)
>        Scranton, PA   18510-4644               [log in to unmask]
>
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