CFP: THE POWER OF AFFECTIONS: POETRY, MUSIC, AND SPECTACLE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ITALIAN OPERA LIBRETTOS
13-14 November 2014, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. An international conference organized by the Center for Italian Studies and the Music Department of the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with the Institute for Music of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy. We invite scholars of music, literature, theater, spectacle, and the visual arts, as well as practitioners to submit 300-word proposals for twenty-minute papers on any subject related to opera librettos written in Italian (or translated from it) in the seventeenth century.For more on the theme of the conference, please see the conference website. Send abstracts to Mauro Calcagno.  Organizing Committee: Fabio Finotti, Mauro Calcagno, Carlo Lanfossi, Marina Della Putta Johnston. Registration Fee: professionals $100; students $70; Closing Dinner: $50. Deadline 3o June 2014.