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Calls for Papers and Contributions

CFP: Society for the Study of Early Modern Women

Posted: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 - 00:59

Washington (17-19 avril 2019), avant le 29 janvier 2018

The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women sponsors one paper seminar at each Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, and we now solicit your proposals for SAA 2019, to be held in Washington, DC from April 17 to April 20, 2019. Proposals submitted both to SAA and SSEMW, or only to SSEMW, are welcome. The chosen proposal will be recognized as the SSEMW seminar in the conference program.

Please note that seminar proposals need not be focused on Shakespeare; early modern women’s writing and related topics are also welcome at this conference. In 2017, SSEMW- sponsored SAA seminar was organized by Jessica C. Murphy (University of Texas at Dallas) and Elisa J. Oh (Howard University) on the topic: « Regulating Early Modern Women’s Bodies: Fiction, Prescription, and Practice. » In March 2018, the sponsored seminar is « Margaret Cavendish Now! », organized by Lara Dodds (Mississippi State University).

Please contact me with questions, and submit your proposals in the format outlined below to trull@stolaf.edu by January 29, 2018 for consideration as the SSEMW-sponsored seminar. Below, I’ve copied part of the description of the paper seminar process from the SAA website; please click here for full details. A paper seminar at SAA is not a traditional panel; instead, 10-15 participants who sign up for the seminar circulate their essays ahead of the conference and engage in discussion during the two-hour workshop.

Proposing a Seminar or Workshop

Eligibility: Proposals are accepted only from postdoctoral scholars who are members in good standing of the SAA. A previous policy prohibiting seminar or workshop leadership in successive years has been lifted. SAA members may propose to lead a seminar or workshop in the year immediately following one in which they have spoken on an SAA panel or led an SAA seminar or workshop.

Guidelines: SAA seminars should open a number of pathways into a subject, recognizing that the seminar meeting is an occasion for focused but open discussion of written work completed in advance. Advance work in SAA programs may involve readings, online discussions, shared syllabi, performances, and pedagogical exercises, as well as research papers. For descriptions of seminars and workshops from previous years, consult any of the June Bulletins uploaded to the SAA Archives page.

Required Information:

The name of the proposed seminar or workshop leader(s), with university affiliation as applicable, and e-mail address(es).
The title of the proposed seminar or workshop.
A description of the objectives of the proposed seminar or workshop, including potential issues to be raised or practices to be modeled (maximum 2,300 characters, including spaces).
A short biographical statement or statements for the proposed seminar or workshop leader(s), including a description of previous experience with the SAA (maximum 750 characters per person, including spaces).
Audio-visual equipment, data projectors, and internet access are not generally provided for seminars and workshops. If the proposed program relies upon equipment and services, these should be requested and described in the proposal.

CfP: Teaching the Early Modern Period: A Roundtable

Posted: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 - 00:57

Regina (Canada, 26-28 mai 2018), avant le 2 février 2018

We invite proposals for participation in a roundtable on teaching the Renaissance / early modern period to be held at the annual conference of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, May 26 to 28, 2018 in Regina, Saskatchewan. Proposals should anticipate how the speaker will contribute to this session in a presentation lasting between 10 to 15 minutes. The goal of the roundtable is to generate discussion of pedagogical philosophies and strategies relevant to teaching any aspect of the early modern period, including, but not limited to, early modern and Renaissance cultures, genders, social and political history, literatures, philosophy, political theory, races and ethnicities, and religions.

Aspects to be considered could include, for example:

the role of social justice in a post-2017 Renaissance classroom
historiographical challenges to teaching in light of current disagreements about the status of truth
the role of research in teaching the Renaissance
how contemporary feminist and critical race theories can shape our approach to early modern women’s polemical writing in the classroom
defending the humanities in teaching early modern literatures and cultures

Please submit your proposal together with a brief (100-word) bio indicating your name, institutional affiliation, position (graduate student, faculty member, independent scholar, etc.) and full contact information to both Margaret Reeves (margaret.reeves@ubc.ca) no later than Feb. 2nd, 2018.

For more information about the CSRS/SCER, visit our website at http://csrs-scer.ca/

Appel à communications: Journée des doctorants de l'ADEFFI 2018

Posted: Saturday, January 20, 2018 - 21:05

ournée des doctorants de l'ADEFFI 2018

ADEFFI Postgraduate Symposium 2018

samedi 14 avril 2018 / Saturday 14 April 2018

National University of Ireland, Galway

APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS

CALL FOR PAPERS

L'Association des études françaises et francophones d'Irlande (ADEFFI) invite les jeunes chercheurs en études françaises et francophones à venir participer à la Journée des doctorants qui se tiendra à NUI Galway, le 14 avril 2018. Cette année nous avons le plaisir d’organiser cet événement en partenariat avec l’Institute for Modern Languages Research (IMLR). La Journée se veut l’occasion pour les doctorants à la fois de présenter leurs recherches et d’en faire l’état des lieux dans un contexte universitaire. Elle sera également l’occasion pour eux de rencontrer leurs pairs ainsi que des chercheurs en poste dans le domaine des études françaises et francophones venus de l’Irlande, du Royaume-Uni et de plus loin. Afin que cet échange soit aussi ouvert et varié que possible, aucun thème n’a été retenu. Les propositions de communication d’une longueur de 200 mots (correspondant à une présentation de vingt minutes environ) peuvent être rédigées soit en français, soit en anglais, et doivent être envoyées à adeffipostgrad@gmail.com avant le 16 février 2018 au plus tard. Merci de bien vouloir joindre cinq mots clés ainsi que votre rattachement universitaire à votre proposition.

The Association for French and Francophone Studies in Ireland (ADEFFI) invites contributions from postgraduate students in all areas of French and Francophone studies for a postgraduate symposium to be held at NUI Galway on Saturday 14 April 2018. We are pleased to be organising this year's event in partnership with the Institute for Modern Languages Research (IMLR). This event will provide a supportive scholarly forum for postgraduates to present both work in progress and new research and will allow participants to meet established researchers and fellow postgraduates in French and Francophone Studies from Ireland, the UK and beyond. In order to ensure that this forum for exchange is as open and diverse as possible, no central theme is specified. Abstracts of 200 words for 20-minute presentations in French or English should be sent to adeffipostgrad@gmail.com by 16 February 2018. Students are asked to provide five keywords in addition to their abstract and to give details of their institutional affiliation.

Clíona Hensey

ADEFFI Postgraduate Representative

National University of Ireland, Galway

c.hensey1@nuigalway.ie

Nous tenons à remercier le Département de français à NUI Galway,

le Moore Institute et l’Institute for Modern Languages Research.

www.adeffi.ie

www.facebook.com/adeffi

Irish Journal of French Studies

Cliona Hensey

Irish Research Council scholar

PhD Candidate (French)

National University of Ireland Galway

Source: H-France

Appel à contributions: "Qu'est-ce qu'une époque?", revue Tracés

Appel à contributions: "Qu'est-ce qu'une époque?", revue *Tracés*

Posted: Saturday, January 20, 2018 - 21:00

La revue Tracés invite l’ensemble des sciences humaines et sociales à interroger « l’époque » comme l’un des fondements de nos modes de raisonnement et de nos pratiques. Tout d’abord, l’époque, et l’opération consistant à caractériser des périodes historiques, occupent une place décisive dans les sciences humaines et sociales. Les études scientifiques n’ont cependant pas l’apanage de la caractérisation historique : les acteurs sociaux interrogent également le temps dans lequel ils vivent et font régulièrement référence à d’autres époques pour le distinguer et le définir. Enfin, la définition des époques légitimes et leur dénomination font l’objet de conflits et de contestations, tant elles représentent des enjeux de pouvoir déterminants. Époque en sciences humaines et sociales, époque ordinaire ou époque contestée : ce numéro propose d’explorer les différentes façons de « faire époque », de la définir comme d’en faire l’expérience.

Numéro coordonné par Thomas Angeletti, Quentin Deluermoz et Juliette Galonnier

Date limite de soumission des articles : 1^er mai 2018

Vous pouvez accéder à l’argumentaire complet par ce lien :

http://traces.hypotheses.org/1975

Christelle Rabier, pour le comité de rédaction de Tracés _______________________

Tracés. Revue de sciences humaines, en accès ouvert intégral

Blog: http://traces.hypotheses.org/

Source: H-France

CfP: grad student conference, Forms of Dissent in the Medieval and Early Modern World

Posted: Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 10:28

18th Annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Within the contemporary political and academic climate, a notion of dissent–as protest, as critique, as resistance–seems in many ways embedded into our political culture and academic practice. No less central was dissent in the medieval and early modern period. While religious and political structures are most visibly invoked as sites of medieval and early modern resistance and reform, adjacent spheres of hermeneutics, law, gender, intellectual discourse, the creative and performing arts, and more were all arenas in which various forms of dissent could be imagined, interpreted, and played out. From the Latin dissentio–to differ in sentiment, to feel differently–dissent is a capacious enough concept to encompass action, but also reflection; contentiousness, but also acknowledgment; separation, but also concurrence. Thus, while dissent in the medieval and early modern period can certainly be said to include the often widely consequential currents of religious, social, and political reform and revolution that permeate the years between late antiquity and the seventeenth century, it may also be illuminatingly imagined as encompassing more particular–but equally generative–forms. To what extent, for example, can innovations and experimentations in artistic forms and representations be conceptualized as aspects of dissent? Or, how might close study of particular individual or local acts of dissent–heresies, polemics, lawbreaking, convention-shirking, etc.–illuminate and expand our understanding of premodern conceptions of what it means to “feel differently”? By expanding our definition of dissent to include a more capacious set of actions, ideas, and forms, we hope to encourage broad discussion and engagement with the myriad ways that dissent is imagined and represented across the medieval and early modern period.

Now in its 18th year, the Annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies invites graduate students to submit proposals for twenty-minute paper presentations to an interdisciplinary audience that consider the forms and functions of dissent (broadly conceived) throughout the medieval and early modern world. In addition to investigations of forms of dissent against established structures, hierarchies, and institutions, we especially invite papers which seek to explore how forms of dissent operated as turning points or pivots, as “sites of conversions,” within and as an integral part of those same structures. In this sense, we invite participants to consider in what ways dissent might be imagined not only as a rupture or a break, but also as an ongoing process of conversion or even innovation. With support from the international Early Modern Conversions Project, we are interested in considering dissent in all its forms–social, religious, political, artistic–and especially in its points of contact with conceptions of conversion, broadly considered.

We welcome graduate students working in all fields of inquiry concerned with the period from late antiquity to the end of the 17th century, including but not limited to history, literature, theology, philosophy, musicology, cultural studies, anthropology, art history, gender and sexuality studies, religion, and political theory. Topics for papers might consider dissent’s interaction with one or more of the following broad categories, but all pertinent submissions are warmly welcomed:

Religion, theology, and ecclesiology
Literature, textuality, hermeneutics
Politics, law, and legal thought
Gender and sexuality
The creative and performing arts
Intellectual history and philosophy
Social history and material culture

Interested participants should submit a 250-word abstract no later than January 22, 2018. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by February 1, 2018. Free accommodations and local travel assistance during the conference with host students may be available for interested participants traveling from outside the Triangle area; please indicate in your application if you might be interested in staying with a graduate student host. All applications and inquiries should be sent to dissentconference@gmail.com. Please include the presenter’s name, institutional affiliation, and contact information in the body of the email; abstracts should be attached as a separate PDF or Word document.

New Publications

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Le Geste autobiographique. Écrire sa vie (xviie-xviiie siècles) (dir. Marilina Gianico et Christine Hammann-Décoppet)

Posted: 29 Nov 2021 - 09:34

Le Geste autobiographique. Écrire sa vie (xviie-xviiie siècles), dir. Marilina Gianico et Christine Hammann-Décoppet, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2021.

Les Confessions de Rousseau figurent souvent comme texte inaugural d’un genre autobiographique ainsi distingué des mémoires et d’autres formes d’écriture de soi. Cet ouvrage remet en cause ce clivage, en envisageant le geste autobiographique dans des formes diverses, tout en ressaisissant l’entreprise rousseauiste.

Disponible en librairie et sur le site de l'éditeur.

Nombre de pages: 331

Parution: 24/11/2021

Collection: Rencontres, n° 523

Série: Le dix-huitième siècle, n° 38

ISBN: 978-2-406-12058-2

ISSN: 2103-5636

"Sur l’ekphrasis" : "Exercices de rhétorique" n°17 (2021)

Posted: 29 Nov 2021 - 09:23

"Sur l’ekphrasis" : "Exercices de rhétorique" n°17 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.4000/rhetorique.1178
ISBN 978-2-37747-325-0

DOSSIER. Usages et fonctions de l’ekphrasis
Sous la direction de Julie Dainville et Lucie Donckier de Donceel

Julie Dainville et Lucie Donckier de Donceel
Les usages de l’ekphrasis. Introduction

Benoît Sans
D’une ekphrasis à l’autre : des exemples antiques à l’expérimentation pédagogique [Texte intégral]

Diane Desrosiers et Olivier Séguin-Brault
De la vue à l’ouïe. Les ekphraseis du temple de la Dive Bouteille et la tradition des progymnasmata [Texte intégral]

Julie Dainville
Comment « mettre sous les yeux » la volonté des dieux ? L’ekphrasis dans le Sur la réponse des haruspices [Texte intégral]

Emmanuelle Danblon
L’ekphrasis au secours du sens commun : analyse d’un défi testimonial [Texte intégral]

Lucie Donckier de Donceel
Le témoin face au défi de la vraisemblance. L’usage de l’ekphrasis chez une rescapée du génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda [Texte intégral]

Sébastien Chonavey
La Maison brûle-t-elle ? Une analyse d’une figure « enargique » dans les discours écologistes de Greta Thunberg [Texte intégral]

DOCUMENTS

Julie Dainville
Les réponses oraculaires dans la Division des questions de Sopatros [Texte intégral]

Julie Dainville
L’épitomé de Matthieu Camariotès [Texte intégral]

ANALYSE D’UN DISCOURS

Giuliano Ferreti et Francis Goyet
Édition et analyse de la Remontrance à Monsieur par un Français de qualité (1631) [Texte intégral]

The Comédie-Française Registers Project - New Website

Posted: 19 Nov 2021 - 21:35

Site web: cfregisters.org

Contact: info@cfregisters.org

[version française ci-dessous]

The Comédie-Française Registers Project (CFRP) is an international digital humanities research initiative that aims to develop a data-driven approach for the historical study and (re)examination of French theater history (17^th-19^th centuries). Founded in 2008, the CFRP is a transatlantic collaboration between the Comédie-Française and universities in France (Paris-Nanterre, Paris-Sorbonne, & Rouen), the USA (MIT, Harvard, & NYU), and Canada (U. of Victoria).

The CFRP is dedicated to the manuscript registers that have been regularly produced and maintained by France’s first national theatre company since its founding in 1680. This singular archive of historical data is unique for the period both for the variety and detail of information that it contains and for the comprehensivity of its coverage (1680-today). The registers of the Comédie-Française provide a rich and understudied body of primary sources concerning the troupe’s everyday operations (such as revenue, expenses, programming, and administrative management), as well as providing us with more general insight into the theatrical landscape of the period.

The CFRP situates itself in terms of recent work and projects at the intersection of theatre history and the digital humanities. In doing so, the initiative aims to offer an historical exploration of early modern theater that is given new life and scope by digital methods while remaining grounded in critical humanistic and performance-oriented inquiry.

The CFRP brings together scholarly research, creative practice, and participative pedagogy. Our new website reflects this multidimensional approach and presents an array of tools and resources, including:

access to the digitized registers, and links to a complementary corpus of theater criticism in the periodical press of the period;
data manipulation and visualization tools, each of which centers on a different facet of the registers (programming, casting, etc.), as well as full access to the CFRP databases;
online scholarly publications, creative productions, pedagogical resources, and news about upcoming workshops and events;
a CFRP encyclopedia of theater history terminology.

Facebook: Programme des Registres de la Comédie-Française

Le programme des Registres de la Comédie-Française (RCF) est un programme de recherche internationale en humanités numériques qui invite à (re)considérer l’histoire du théâtre français (XVII^e-XIX^e siècles) par la voie des données. Fondé en 2008, RCF est le fruit d'une collaboration entre la Comédie-Française et les universités du MIT, de NYU, de Harvard, de Paris-Nanterre, de Rouen, de la Sorbonne et de Victoria (Canada).

Les registres manuscrits tenus par la troupe de la Comédie-Française depuis sa fondation en 1680 forment le cœur du programme RCF. Ils constituent une archive singulière dont la spécificité repose autant sur la systématicité et la diversité des informations qu’ils contiennent que sur la richesse de leur longue durée (de 1680 à nos jours). Dédiés à l'activité administrative de l’institution parisienne – recettes, dépenses, programmation, gestion –, ces registres témoignent plus largement de la vie théâtrale de la première modernité au XIX^e siècle.

S’inscrivant dans le courant actuellement vivace de travaux et de projets à la croisée des humanités numériques et de l’histoire du théâtre, le programme RCF vise à renouveler l’historiographie du théâtre par une approche numérique soucieuse de demeurer au plus près d’une lecture humaniste sensible, critique et performative.

Le programme RCF met en lien recherche, création et pédagogie participative, comme le reflètent les diverses ressources et les différents outils de travail proposés sur le site :

registres numérisés et liens vers un corpus complémentaire de presse périodique ;
outils de recherche et de visualisation centrés sur les différentes catégories de données (programmation, distribution, etc.) et accès direct aux bases de données du programme RCF ;
publications numériques, réalisations pédagogiques, actualités culturelles et artistiques ;
encyclopédie des termes associés aux registres de la Comédie-Française.

Nous retrouver sur Twitter : @rcf_cfrp

Nous retrouver sur Instagram : programme_rcf

Facebook : Programme des Registres de la Comédie-Française

Duchesse du Maine, Antoine Houdar de La Motte, Mme de Lambert, Rose de Staal-Delaunay, Lettres (éd. Catherine Cessac)

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 - 12:17

Duchesse du Maine, Antoine Houdar de La Motte, Mme de Lambert, Rose de Staal-Delaunay, Lettres, éd. Catherine Cessac, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2021.

Les lettres réunies dans ce volume émanent principalement de deux figures importantes de la première moitié du xviiie siècle dont les vies furent étroitement liées pendant quarante ans : la duchesse du Maine et Madame de Staal-Delaunay.

Disponible en librairie et sur le site de l'éditeur.

Nombre de pages: 264

Parution: 27/10/2021

Collection: Bibliothèque du xviiie siècle, n° 53

ISBN: 978-2-406-11983-8

ISSN: 2109-7623

Mirabilia Indiae. Voyageurs français et représentations de l’Inde au xviie siècle (Mathilde Bedel)

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 - 12:14

Mathilde Bedel, Mirabilia Indiae. Voyageurs français et représentations de l’Inde au xviie siècle, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2021.

Cet ouvrage s’inscrit dans la recherche sur la littérature de voyage au xviie siècle et réunit de façon inédite un ensemble exhaustif de voyageurs français ayant séjourné en Inde. Leurs récits transmettent les anecdotes vécues ou transformées pour le bien de la narration afin de satisfaire le lectorat.

Disponible en ligne et sur le site de l'éditeur.

Nombre de pages: 349

Parution: 10/11/2021

Collection: Lire le xviie siècle, n° 74

Série: Voyages réels et voyages imaginaires, n° 5

ISBN: 978-2-406-12153-4

ISSN: 2108-9876