Registration
We wish to announce that registration for the conference is open. The registration deadline is 22 September. In order to register for the conference, please access the following website, and once there, click on the "ENROLL" button and follow the steps. On the top right corner of the website, you'll find the English version. There are two payment options:
-Bank transfer
-Credit card (*exclusively for participants travelling from abroad)
CALL FOR PAPERS
We are pleased to announce that the III SEDERI International Conference for Graduate Students of Early Modern English Studies will be held on 25, 26 and 27 September 2024 at the University of Extremadura (Cáceres, Spain). This event is part of an initiative born within SEDERI, the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies, which seeks to provide a platform where students, PhD candidates and early career researchers from around the globe can gather to exchange different ideas, views, and opinions on the study of the English language and its literature, history and culture of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
RUI CARVALHO HOMEM (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
MARTA CEREZO MORENO (UNED, Spain)
JOSÉ LUIS ONCINS MARTÍNEZ (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain)
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We welcome proposals in English for 20-minute papers that critically explore questions related to the study of early modern literature, language, history and culture, particularly in relation to the English Renaissance and the English Restoration. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Early modern texts, contexts and stages
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Early modern politics, economies and ideologies
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Anglo-Iberian and Anglo-Mediterranean relations in the early modern period
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Early modern cultures of work, customs and rituals
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Early modern utopias and dystopias
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Early modern travel narratives and narratives of migration and exile
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Early modern constructions of the figure of the outsider / the other and their afterlives
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The materiality of the early modern text: critical editions, manuscripts and print culture
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Linguistic contact, variation and change in the early modern period
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Translations, adaptations and appropriations of early modern English texts
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Performance and reception of early modern English plays
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15 June 2024. Proposals must be sent to sederigrad@unex.es as an email attachment (preferably as .doc or .docx files) containing the following information:
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The author’s name, institutional affiliation and email address
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A short biographical note (max. 100 words)
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The full title of the paper, an abstract (250–300 words), and 4 keywords
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Your SEDERI membership status (member, non-member, application submitted). If you wish to join SEDERI, please visit http://www.sederi.org/membership/
Conference fees: SEDERI members (30€), non-SEDERI members (40€)
Registration: 2 September 2024 – 16 September 2024
KEYNOTE
SPEAKERS
MARTA CEREZO MORENO
SENIOR LECTURER OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
UNED, SPAIN
Keynote lecture: “The Shakespeare Sermon (1810-2024): The Homiletic Genre as an Invaluable Site of Shakespeare’s Reception”
Marta Cerezo is Lecturer of English Literature in the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at the UNED (National University of Distance Education, Spain) where she teaches BA and MA level courses on Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Her current area of research is devoted to Shakespeare and religion and, most especially, to the Shakespeare commemorative sermons delivered at Holy Trinity Church (Stratford-upon-Avon) since the nineteenth century. She is Chief Editor of Sederi Yearbook, the journal of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies. She leads the UNED research group ELSSO (English Literary Studies in Society) and is the Principal Investigator of the Research Project PID2021-123341NB-I00 ‘Shakespeare’s Religious Afterlives: Text, Reception, and Performance’ (SHAKREL) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
RUI CARVALHO HOMEM
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO, PORTUGAL
Keynote lecture: “Spicy Elsewheres: Identity, Mobility and Acquisition in The Island Princess and The Sea Voyage”
Rui Carvalho Homem is Professor of English at the University of Porto, Portugal. He has published extensively on early modern writing, Irish poetry, translation studies, and intermediality.
As a literary translator, he has published versions of Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra, Love's Labour's Lost, Richard III) Christopher Marlowe (Hero and Leander), Seamus Heaney and Philip Larkin.
He is currently working on a project involving poetry and painting.
JOSÉ LUIS ONCINS MARTÍNEZ
SENIOR LECTURER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
UNIVERSIDAD DE EXTREMADURA, SPAIN
Keynote Lecture:"Exploring metaphor(s) in Shakespeare's work: suggestions for research".
José Luis Oncins Martínez is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Extremadura, Spain. His research interests include topics such as English literature, corpus linguistics, translation, stylistics and pragmatics. He has authored and co-edited several volumes on these topics.
VENUE
The conference will be held at Espacio UEX (ILM) of the University of Extremadura in Cáceres (Spain), in September 25-27, 2024. It will be hosted by the Departamento de Filología Inglesa (English Philology Department) of the University of Extremadura.
On this website, we will be offering you updated, practical information concerning the conference programme. If you have any queries, please email us at sederigrad@unex.es
We wholeheartedly encourage you to participate in the activities organised during the conference (plenary sessions, panels, social gatherings, etc.).
We look forward to seeing you all in Cáceres.
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TIMELINE
15 JUNE
SUBMISSIONS DUE
2 - 16 SEPTEMBER
REGISTRATION
25 - 27 SEPTEMBER
CONFERENCE
Travel
The Autonomous Community of Extremadura lies in the South-west of the Iberian Peninsula and is made up of the two largest provinces in Spain: Cáceres and Badajoz. The city of Cáceres is 2 and a half hours from Madrid and Lisbon.
Cáceres doesn't have an airport, although flying is still the quickest way to get to the city. The best option is usually to fly to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport and catch a train from the Madrid-Atocha Cercanías to Cáceres city centre. Depending on which terminal you arrive at, you can either directly take the Cercanías commuter train at Terminal T4 (about 30 minutes to Atocha train station) or take a free shuttle bus from terminals T1-T3 to get to T4. Take the Cercanías train to Atocha. Once in Atocha, make your way to the Renfe Media Distancia platform (not AVE) and check which platform the train is in on your day of departure (it usually alternates between platforms 3 and 6). The train journey takes from 3 hours and 7 minutes to 4 hours and 15 minutes. You can also take the Cercanias train in T4 to Mendez-Alvaro station directly, which is right below and connected to the Estación Sur de Autobuses de Madrid (South Station) where many national bus lines depart from. The bus to Cáceres is operated by Avanzabus. The bus journey is about 4 hours including rest stops. There is also a daily bus departing from Terminal T4 at 11.00 a.m. and T1 at 11.20 a.m. to Cáceres (approx. a 5-hour trip, stopping in Navalmoral de la Mata and Trujillo before arriving to Cáceres).
For detailed advice on how to get to Cáceres, please follow this link
Accommodation
Gran Hotel Don Manuel 4*
NH Collection Cáceres Palacio de Oquendo 4*
Extremadura Hotel 4*
Address: San Justo 15, 10003 Cáceres
Phone number: (+34) 927 242 524
E-mail: info@granhoteldonmanuel.com
Web page: https://www.granhoteldonmanuel.com/
Address: Plaza San Juan, 11, 10003 Cáceres, España
Phone number: (+34) 91 2665708
E-mail: nhcollectionpalaciodeoquendo@nh-hotels.com
Web page: https://www.nh-collection.com/es
Address: Virgen de Guadalupe, 28, 10001 Cáceres
Phone number: (+34) 927 629 639
E-mail: info@extremadurahotel.com
Web page: https://www.extremadurahotel.com/
Hotel Alcántara 3*
Address: Avenida Virgen de Guadalupe, 14, 10001 Cáceres, España
Phone number: (+34) 927 22 39 00
E-mail: reservas@hotelalcantaracaceres.com
Web page: https://www.hotelalcantaracaceres.com/
Hotel Don Carlos Cáceres 2*
Address: Calle Donoso Cortés, 13-15, 10003 Cáceres, España
Phone number: (+34) 927 22 55 27
E-mail: hotel@hoteldoncarloscaceres.com
Web page: https://www.hoteldoncarloscaceres.com/
Hotel Alfonso IX 2*
Address: Calle Parras, 9, 10003, Cáceres
Phone number: (+34) 606 573 114 / (+34) 927 24 64 00
E-mail: info@hotelalfonsoix.com
Web page: https://hotelalfonsoix.com/
Hotel Iberia Plaza Mayor 2*
Address: Calle Pintores, 2, 10003 Cáceres
Phone number: (+34) 927 24 76 34
E-mail: iberia@iberiahotel.com
Web page: https://iberiahotel.com/
Recommended Restaurants
If you are looking for a restaurant that offers an affordable daily menu, AlcaraVán Gastroteca (C/Clara Campoamor), Bar Centro (C/Pintores) or Tapería BOS (C/Maestro Sánchez Garrido) are excellent choices.
Additional good alternatives without daily menu include Tapería, La Tía Tula (C/Plaza Marrón), Perhaps (C/Plaza Marrón) or La Morocha (C/Plaza de San Juan), which offer a mix of traditional and modern flavors.
For those seeking vegan and vegetarian options, consider Zeri’s Food&drinks (Plaza Mayor), Restaurante Tapería 8º Arte (C/General Ezponda; with gluten free menu available) and Mahalo Poké (C/Pintores).
Enjoy your meals!
Look forward to welcoming you to Cáceres!
En colaboración con la Diputación Provincial de Cáceres
