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Lyon (24-25 mars 2017), propositions avant le 15 octobre 2016.

Colloque organisé à l’École Émile Cohl

Souvent associé à la décadence de la fin du XIXe siècle, le thème de la femme fatale ne cesse de nourrir les arts et la littérature. Cette femme, dont le comportement conscient ou inconscient amène l’homme ou la société à sa déchéance, se retrouve dans les textes mythologiques et bibliques. Véritable mythologie de la féminité, elle questionne les rapports qu’entretiennent l’homme, l’artiste et l’écrivain avec cette muse devenue fatale. Comment comprendre cette fascination où se mêle fantasme et angoisse ? Notre propos vise à questionner les identités de cette femme fatale au cours des siècles. De la réception de ces grandes figures féminines de l’histoire des civilisations dans les différents domaines artistiques à l’élaboration de nouvelles femmes fatales à partir du XIXe siècle, ce colloque souhaite questionner ce personnage en mettant en place une certaine typologie de la femme fatale avec ses codes et ses attributs. Le but est de comprendre les enjeux sociaux, culturels, et esthétiques quant à l’élaboration de ce thème et d’en questionner son devenir. Au-delà de la traduction plastique et littéraire d’un thème, l’enjeu est de comprendre comment les interprétations parviennent à s’insérer dans la pensée de leur société, c’est-à-dire comment ils arrivent à influer sur la lecture de ce thème.

Les propositions pourront porter sur ces axes :
. Définition(s) et origine(s) de la femme fatale à travers les siècles . Femme fatale : pour une histoire littéraire et plastique de la tentation et de ses conséquences
. Identités et attributs de la femme fatale
. Femme Fatale, cette nouvelle muse
. La mise en scène de la Femme Fatale, des planches au grand écran
. Que reste-t-il de « fatale » dans les nouveaux médias ? (Jeu vidéo, publicité, etc.)

Le colloque souhaite s’ouvrir à tous les domaines scientifiques, notamment la psychanalyse. Les communications, si elles peuvent avantageusement s’appuyer sur un corpus textuel, devront privilégier l’approche visuelle et la question des représentations.

Temps de parole : 20 min
Lieu & date : École Émile Cohl à Lyon, les 20 et 21 mars 2015 Responsable : Cyril Devès (CRHI)
Consignes : Les personnes intéressées devront faire parvenir, au plus tard le 15 octobre 2016, une proposition de communication (250-300 mots) accompagnée d’un court CV à l’adresse électronique suivante : deves.cyril@gmail.com
Les réponses quant aux propositions acceptées seront envoyées le 30 octobre 2016.
Les actes du colloque seront publiés.

Le colloque sera accompagné d’une exposition réalisée par les étudiants de l’école de dessin Émile Cohl. Nous souhaitons ouvrir cette exposition aux anciens étudiants de l’école mais également à ses professeurs. Titre de l’Exposition : Femme fatale, à la recherche de ses identités visuelles

Where: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

When: August 2-5, 2017

Deadline for Abstracts: January 10, 2017

Acceptances by February 15, 2017

Plenary Speakers and Workshop Leaders: Pauline Greenhill, Dan Taulapapa McMullin,

Veronica Schanoes, Kay Turner, Jack Zipes, and more to be confirmed.

Conflict can give rise to violence but also to creativity. In the 1690s, French fairy-tale writers

imagined through their fairy tales ideal resolutions to political conflict (Louis XIV’s absolutism),

as well as conflict in conceptions of gender and marriage practices. The German tale tradition

was transformed by the migration of French Huguenots to Germanic territories after the

Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, which prohibited the practice of Protestantism in

France. The German Grimm Brothers drew from the tale tradition to create a cohesive notion of

Germanic traditions and to contest French domination in the nineteenth century. Postcolonial

writers such as Salman Rushdie, Patrick Chamoiseau, Nalo Hopkinson, and Sofia Samatar draw

from wonder tale traditions in ways that disrupt Western narrative traditions. And multimedia

storytelling that dips both into history and the fantastic has advanced decolonial and social

justice projects. These are only a few examples of the ways in which authors think with stories in

times of conflict.

With this conference we hope to bring fairy-tale scholars together to reflect upon the genre in

relation to questions that include but are not limited to: migrants and migration in different

geographical locations and historical periods; political and social upheaval; and transformations

with an eye to alternative futures. One of our goals is to encourage a dialogue between creative

and scholarly thinking with wonder tales in times of conflict.

The conference will consist of plenary talks, workshops, panels with papers, and roundtables.

Papers for panels: Please send us a 300-word abstract along with your institutional affiliation for

papers of no more than 20 minutes.

Roundtables: If you would like to propose a roundtable, please include a 150-word abstract of

the topic and a list of participants with their institutional affiliations; each presentation by

roundtable participants should be no more than 10 minutes.

Cristina Bacchilega (cbacchi@hawaii.edu) and Anne Duggan (a.duggan@wayne.edu)

Tracy Rutler (Penn State) and Jennifer Row (Boston U/ U Wisconsin-Madison) are seeking a few more participants for our roundtable "Alternative Intimacies: Queer Families in Eighteenth-Century Literature" for ASECS that may be of interest to some of you. Please consider sending an abstract and joining us in beautiful Minneapolis March 30-April 2, 2017!
(email jrow@bu.edu and tlr5393@psu.edu by Sept. 15, 2016)

Eighteenth-century fiction and drama, far from presenting only licentious or scandalous configurations of households (e.g. Sade or Cleland), also depict nontraditional intimacies and kinships that are nourishing (e.g. Defoe or Saint-Pierre). These “queer families,” whether in subtly polyamorous triangulations or in unique cohabitation arrangements attest to the belief that an alternative economy of care may be possible apart from the nuclear family structure. Are such imagined structures of kinship overly optimistic, or philosophically radical? This roundtable seeks brief presentations on literature that eschew the more blatant erotics of libertine literature to examine subtle, tender, and ephemeral pathways of intimacy in queer kinships. How might recent work on new materialism or animal studies (Braidotti, Chen, and Ahmed, among others) help us understand forms of kinship that undermine and/or exceed inter-human relationships? How do the rich and robust affects that thread through such queer kinships challenge or subvert recent work on loneliness and anti-futurity (Edelman, Kahan, Cobb, etc.)? We also invite presentations that consider how recent studies on queerness and disability (Alison Keefer, Robert McRuer, etc.) might help us to understand not only what it means to be human, but also what it means for humans to come together in intimate communities.

July 6-9, 2016, Utrecht

“The anima is in a sense the essence of animal life.” –Aristotle, De anima

This seminar will explore what theater and the performing arts contribute to early modern theories of life, the soul, and autonomy. At a time when European philosophers debated the distinction between material bodies and lively bodies, between organic machines and ensouled beings, artists and performers innovated new techniques for bringing stage objects to life through mechanical or human manipulation. We invite contributions that examine a wide array of techniques for “animation” in theater and the performing arts of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, from any national/cultural perspective. Topics or objects of study might include theater machines, scenography and architecture, costumes, puppetry, automata, ventriloquism, dance and choreography, and music. Together, we hope to explore questions such as: How does performance or staging give the illusion of breath, movement, speech, emotion, and/or volition to inert matter or (in the case of allegory) to abstract concepts? What constituted an effective imitation of life? What technologies were used to accomplish it? How does theatrical animation dialogue with early modern philosophies of life and movement, and what does this say about notions of what it meant to be human, beast, or inanimate? How do we understand the artist’s role as animator in relation to the divine?

Proposals for papers may be submitted on the ACLA website from September 1 to September 20, 2016. Please visit http://acla.org/animating-early-modern-stage

Prospective participants may also contact the co-organizers Alison Calhoun (abcalhou@indiana.edu) and Ellen Welch (erwelch@email.unc.edu) for more information.