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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Call for Papers for the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 24-27, 2013.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Convent Networks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The Renaissance convent’s perceived isolation from the world outside was arguably its chief religious and social asset. And yet, historians have demonstrated that women religious not only had contact with individuals outside their communities; they also exploited those associations to serve their own aims. This session focuses in particular on relationships that extended beyond the enclosure, connecting convent to convent and to the public world in ways that were in some cases cooperative, and in others antagonistic. These ties could be established, cultivated, or even rejected in a variety of ways and influenced nuns’ devotional lives, their relationships with their patrons, and their art and architecture. For instance, in Florence, Sister Domenica da Paradiso, foundress of La Crocetta, used her correspondence with other abbesses and religious figures to advance her reform agenda, while the nuns of Le Murate appealed to the courts to exempt them from their submission to the convent of Sant’Ambrogio, which prevented them from collecting alms that would support their community’s growth. In Venice, the nuns of San Zaccaria traveled to examine the convent church at Santa Croce, supposedly to inform decisions about their own church’s construction. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Although we are especially interested in the ways in which these connections and networks expressed themselves through spatial practices or affected the built environment, we are also open to proposals that consider the topic more broadly. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a CV by February 28 to Marilyn Dunn <a href="mailto:mdunn@luc.edu">mdunn@luc.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:mdunn@luc.edu">mailto:mdunn@luc.edu</a>> and Saundra Weddle <a href="mailto:sweddle@drury.edu">sweddle@drury.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:sweddle@drury.edu">mailto:sweddle@drury.edu</a>> . <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>For more information see <a href="http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/conference/">http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/conference/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Marilyn R. Dunn Ph.D. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Department of Fine and Performing Art <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>1213 Mundelein Center <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Loyola University Chicago <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>6525 N. Sheridan <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chicago, IL 60626<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>