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 > <[log in to unmask]> >From: Jones DeRitter <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: CFP: The Explorer as Hero and/or Villain >To: [log in to unmask] > >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] > > ******************************** * Mary Ellin D'Agostino * * [log in to unmask] * * Department of Anthropology * * University of California * * Berkeley, CA 94720-3710 * ********************************