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IN VINO VERITAS:
A SYMPOSIUM ON WINE AND THE INFLUENCE OF BACCHUS
FROM CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY THROUGH THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
By the time of Pliny the Elder, in vino veritas (“in wine, truth”) had
already attained the status of aphorism, having made its earliest
appearance in the writings of the Greek poet Alcaeus. Beyond the
reaches of the Greco-Roman world, wine has also had a long history.
Its fortunes may be traced around the globe through the medieval and
early modern periods when trade in wine increasingly linked diverse
cultures, the social uses and symbolic associations of wine proliferated,
and Bacchus made his appearance on numerous stages, in images, and in a
wide range of other texts and contexts.
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton
University invites papers for a symposium to be held on the
Binghamton University campus, April 24–25, 2009. Papers may address
any area of scholarship concerning wine, its symbolic import, its
appearance in or impact on cultural production (from painting to poetry),
and its effects. Papers are also welcome on Dionysus/Bacchus, the
god of wine, from classical antiquity to the eighteenth century. We
encourage submissions in a broad range of disciplines, methodologies, and
perspectives. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
· The production and
consumption of wine
· The ritual use of wine
(social, political, religious)
· The effects of wine in
thought and discourse
· Wine and its
associations with disease
· The medicinal use
of wine
· Wine in trade and
commerce
· Wine in the economy and
culture of monasteries
· Wine and
conviviality
· Wine in court
culture
· Wine in folk
culture
· Wine in myth
· Wine in prose and
poetry
· Wine in song
· Wine and
lust
· Wine and
allegory
· Bacchus, the god of
wine, as an allegorical figure
· Bacchus in
text
· Bacchus in the visual
arts
· Bacchus on
stage
· Wine and archaeological
study
· Inebriation and the
law
Proposals for individual papers (20 minutes maximum) should be no more
than 500 words in length, and may be sent either as an attachment in
Microsoft Word format or as text within an e-mail message to
[log in to unmask] (“Re: IN VINO VERITAS Conference). Those wishing to
submit a hard copy should forward it to: CEMERS [ATTN.: IN VINO
VERITAS Conference], Binghamton University, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton,
NY 13902-6000. We also welcome proposals for integrated panels.
Panel organizers should describe the organizing principle of the panel
and send abstracts, names, and affiliations of each participant. A panel
should consist of no more than three papers, each twenty minutes in
length. Selected papers will be published in Acta, a journal of the
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Submission Deadline: Please submit abstracts by December 15,
2008.
Dan Malleck, PhD
Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Secretary/Treasurer, The Alcohol and Drugs History Society
Editor-in-chief, Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An
Interdisciplinary Journal
http://historyofalcoholanddrugs.typepad.com
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