Appel à communication : “Habitual behaviour in early modern Europe, 1500–1750”.

Klaes Molenaer, Les Musiciens, s.d., huile sur toile, 19.7 x 20.3 cm, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. (c) Glasgow Museums

Type : Appel à communication.
Date de la manifestation : 1er et 2 juin  2017.
Lieu : Sheffield, university of Sheffield.
Date limite : 16 novembre 2016.

What habits, practices, or routines, made up day-to-day life in Europe between 1500-1750? At what point was habitual behaviour, such as excessive drinking, considered problematic? And how did ideas about habitual practice fit into early modern concepts of body and self?

This two-day interdisciplinary conference aims to draw together scholars working on material culture, digital humanities, medicine, consumption, daily routine, practice, theory, and more, and invites them to consider their research under the heading of ‘habit’. We welcome papers on habitual behaviour, customs and practices, and daily routines, whether mealtimes or medicine, venery or vinosity.

Keynote speakers: Professor Steven Shapin (Harvard University) and Dr Sasha Handley (University of Manchester).
Please submit abstracts of 250 words for 20 minute papers, accompanied by a short speaker biography. We accept proposals for panels of 3 papers, under a session title. Submissions welcome from postgraduate research students as well as established scholars.

Please send to earlymodernhabits@gmail.com no later than Wednesday 16 November 2016. For more details visit our website.