Thresholds of Knowledge Subthemes
1. Chronological / spatial
- Thresholds of modernity and medieval/early modernity
- Challenging traditional periodization
- History of ideas (e.g. equality, gender, race)
- Repositories of knowledge and technē (e.g. early modern print shop)
- Accessing the archive (museums, libraries, galleries)
- Discursive and linguistic change, continuities, transformations
- Reception studies, transmission (e.g. oral, textual) and circulation
- Digital humanities
2. Textual/ Visual
- Book history
- What counts as text: fragments to tweets
- Life-writing and autofiction
- Genre fluidity and resistance
- Paratexts
- Thresholds of media (manuscript / print / digital); intermedia studies
- Text and image
3. Epistemological / Aesthetic
- Culture and science (e.g. body/mind; postmodern/posthuman; organism/mechanism)
- Ethics and aesthetics; literature and philosophy
- Creativity and critical practice
- World literature
- Narrative and ‘gaps’ in language
- Liminality and culture; place and placelessness
- Literary anthropology; nature and subject; ecohistory/ecocriticism
- Poetry and ontology; language and experience
- Sound and resonance