{"id":2192,"date":"2011-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"20293"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"specular-reflections-the-mirror-in-medieval-and-early-modern-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancien.siefar.org\/en\/specular-reflections-the-mirror-in-medieval-and-early-modern-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Specular Reflections: The Mirror in Medieval and Early Modern Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The
\n Early Romance Studies Research Cluster, along with the Committee for
\nMedieval Studies at the University of British Columbia, solicits
\ncontributions for the 40th Annual UBC Medieval Workshop, to be held on
\nMarch 16-17, 2012. The conference will be held at Green College on the
\nbeautiful UBC campus in Vancouver, Canada.
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As
\n Margot Schmidt suggests in the Dictionnaire de spiritualit\u00e9, the
\nmirror?s multiple uses as an object translate into highly diversified
\nsymbolic functions. Thus, while they have long been associated with
\nscientific exploration, knowledge, and contemplation, owing largely to
\nanalogies with their instrumental use?analogies that lead to the book as
\n speculum, as explored by Herbert Grabes, for example?reflective
\nsurfaces also function as metaphors for the illusory nature of
\nrepresentation. They can create false, shadowy, or deformed images of
\nearthly reality, as suggested both by the ubiquitous Ovidian theme of
\nNarcissus at the fountain and the Pauline per speculum in aenigmate.
\nThe contradictory uses of mirrors in iconography mean they can stand as
\nfigures of virtue or vice, depending on whether they accompany Prudence
\nor Venus, or represent Mary\u00ab the speculum sine macula \u00bbor Eve. Mirrors
\nare not only ambivalent, but also Janus-like: whether examined as
\nobjects, in their instrumental, decorative, or other functions, or as
\nvisual or textual figures, mirrors have fascinated humankind, not least
\nbecause they seem to serve as a kind of threshold phenomenon allowing
\nfor the contemplation of inner and outer worlds, as well as the
\notherworldly. While these thresholds promise access to other
\nworlds’earthly, imaginary, or divine?they are also suggestive of the
\nlimitations of human perception, knowledge, and wisdom.
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We
\n are looking for papers dealing with any aspect of ?specular
\nreflections’ through text, image, music or any branch of learning,
\nespecially those that engage with the paradoxical ways mirror images are
\n used in all periods, places, and disciplines from Late Antiquity to the
\n Early Modern Period. Areas of interest might include, but are in no
\nway limited to: literature, translation, history, art history,
\nphilosophy, science and optics, musicology, etc.
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Submissions
\n are invited for 20-minute papers and full panels (three papers and a
\nchair). Selected papers from the workshop will be collected as part of a
\n thematic volume of proceedings to be published with a major scholarly
\npress. Proposals (250 words) for papers and panels should be sent by
\nAugust 1, 2011 to:
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Nancy Frelick, Chantal Phan, or Juliet O?Brien
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Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
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University of British Columbia
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797-1873 East Mall
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Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1
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CANADA
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or by email to: <\/span>ubcmedievalworkshop@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>
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For further details and updated information check: <\/span>http:\/\/ubc2012medieval.blogspot.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>
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