16-17 February 1996
Keynote Speaker: Professor Randolph Starn,
Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
This conference is designed to bring together students and faculty from a variety of disciplines to consider aspects of work in late medieval and early modern culture. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
the division of labor: topography, class, gender * specialization in the urban context * guilds * professional identity * public perception of individual occupations * competition * training * mastery * labor and production * labor as process * body and mind * "industry and idleness" * play as work * the cult of "sprezzatura" and the erasure of work * the culture of the workplace * technology * obsolescence * unemployment * leisure * barter and trade * labors of love * domestic labor * "women's work" * working class culture * the theorization of labor, utopian and other * cultural work: the function of art, literature, spectacle.
Interested scholars should submit abstracts for 20-minute presentations. Abstracts must be postmarked by 1 December 1995 and sent to Robert Williams, Dept. of the History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. Tel. (805) 893-7586,fax (805) 893-7117. Please include holiday/January address and telephone number.
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