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The Journal of the Western Society for French History, published from 1974 to 2015 as the Proceedings, is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal published in an open-access, online format with the Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan Library. Volumes are available at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wsfh/. The journal is indexed in Historical Abstracts; America: History and Life; PapersFirst; and ProceedingsFirst with full online access and without subscription charges. Please encourage your university library to link the site to its catalog.  Authors who publish with the Journal of the Western Society for French History maintain ownership of their copyright, and may republish their articles in other venues, so long as they acknowledge publication with The Journal of the Western Society for French History.

The Journal of the Western Society for French History invites submissions from all scholars of France and the Francophone world.

Deadline for submission is 15 January each year. Acceptance, rejection, or revise and resubmit letters will be sent to authors in April. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically to wsfh.proceedings.editors@gmail.com. All submissions must conform to the following procedure guidelines to receive consideration for publication:

• Papers must be reformatted as a journal article in accordance with Chicago Manual of Style (16th  or 17th ed.)

• The entire manuscript needs to be double-spaced (including footnotes) as a Word document (____.doc or _____.docx).

• Include panel information if applicable, including session number and e-mail contact information for the session commentator and chair.

• A SPO copyright form will be sent to authors after acceptance and prior to publication.

Peer Review: Publication in The Journal of the Western Society for French History involves a double peer review process, one report by the session commentator and a second reviewer from the author’s field of expertise. The editors make final decisions about publication.

GUIDELINES and STYLE SHEET FOR AUTHORS

The Journal of the Western Society for French History is a peer-reviewed publication of the Western Society for French History. We look for articles that make a significant contribution to the field, are properly formatted for journal publication, and incorporate revisions suggested by peer reviewers and the editors.

Papers with recommendations that require minor stylistic or content revisions are most likely to be published. Papers that require major revision before recommendation for publication may or may not receive further consideration. Papers that are not recommended by the reviewers will not be published.

DUE DATE: 15 January  is the due date for all submissions each year. No second call will be issued for errant or late submissions.

SUBMISSION: Manuscripts must be submitted electronically to The Journal of the Western Society for French History co-editors Bethany Keenan, Julia Osman, and Sarah Shurts at wsfh.proceedings.editors@gmail.com.

COPYRIGHT FORMS: An author whose paper is accepted for publication must complete and sign an “Author Copyright” form. This form is available on the WSFH website at http://www.wsfh.org/Proceedings-Information.htm. The editors will fill in the last section, “Journal Representative.” After acceptance and before publication, please complete the form (via a program that writes to PDF documents, or complete the form by hand and then scan it) to the editors’ email addresses, above.

LENGTH: Ten thousand words is the maximum length for articles (including footnotes, charts, maps, graphs). The entire manuscript needs to be double-spaced (including footnotes) as a Word document.

STYLE: The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS), 16th or 17th edition, is the stylebook generally employed by the editors. Manuscripts should conform to its recommendations, and the examples below, as closely as possible. Articles that do not conform to proper style will be returned to authors and will not be considered for publication until submitted as requested.

DATES: Dates should all be European (diplomatic) style, e.g. 14 July 1789; 1790s (no apostrophe); hyphenate mid-1990s. No internal punctuation is used when using just month and year (e.g. the events of August 1914 were decisive). See CMS (16th or 17th ed.)

LANGUAGE : Articles are usually published in English, unless they were presented in French at the meeting. The editors prefer authors to use English rather than French (or other foreign languages) whenever possible (e.g., Old Regime instead of ancien régime, generality instead of généralité, nobility instead of noblesse). Translate all quotations into English unless the French version is vital for clarity, accuracy, or pungency. In such cases, provide the English translation in the text from the original French in a footnote. When using a French term, please include an English translation in parentheses. When a French or foreign language title appears in your text, please make its meaning apparent or provide a translation in parentheses.

Use American, not British, spelling (honor, not honour; labor, not labour). Carefully check accent marks in titles, names, etc. Please check—and double check—the spelling of all foreign language names, words, phrases, and publication titles. 

NOTES: Please use the footnoting function in MSWord, and remember to double-space notes. Follow CMS (16th or 17th ed.) as a guide for notes. Abbreviate information for second and subsequent references, usually including the last name of author, a shortened title, and page number. Do not use Latin references (e.g., op. cit., loc. cit.) with the exception of Ibid. and et al.

GRAPHICS: The The Journal of the Western Society for French History does publish graphics such as photographs, tables, and other figures. In the case of photographs, however, you must secure all permissions to publish and provide captions attributing credit to the image holder. In the case of figures that you yourself have generated, please contact the editors about the best way to prepare your graphics for publication. All photographs, figures, or other graphics should be submitted as separate files in .png or .jpg format at a resolution of 600 dpi. In a separate document, please provide captions as you want them to appear, including permissions.

Manuscripts that have not been properly formatted for review will be returned to their authors before any further consideration for publication.

Please submit manuscripts by 15 January each year. Acceptance, rejection, or revise and resubmit letters will be sent to authors in April. Electronic Submission: The Journal of the Western Society for French History co-editors Bethany Keenan, Julia Osman, and Sarah Shurts at wsfh.proceedings.editors@gmail.com.

Edited volume.

At RSA 2019 we presented a successful pair of panels on the networks of non-elite women in early modern societies. We are now developing an edited collection on this topic with a broad scope in space (global) and time (ca. 1400-1750). We are interested in the wide variety of networks which non-elite women built and used, especially but not only those with other women. Our aim is to elaborate understandings of the lives of working, poor, and marginalized women in early modern societies and to compare cross-culturally. Themes might include: relationships between peers or across social categories, such as mistress and servant; meanings of friendship among plebeian women; the role of gender in female same-sex relationships; emotions, especially empathy and compassion; instrumentality and collaboration; and coping strategies, including the illegal. Representations drawn from archival sources, visual imagery, and literary texts are welcome.

If you are interested in contributing, please send a title, 150-word abstract, and one-page CV to Marlee Couling at marleej@yorku.ca by October 31st, 2019.

Londres (5-6 mars 2019), avant le 30 novembre 2019

Venue: Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Closing date for submissions: 30 November 2019

This two-day conference aims to recover and put across the voices of women in France, Italy and across Europe who defied the existing order and the rules of society. It intends to recover the forgotten voices and experiences of these women, who might not have had a prominent role in their world during their lifetimes, but, nevertheless, contributed to shape our present.

For centuries, concepts such as infirmitas, imbecillitas and levitas were considered key characteristics of women. Therefore, the construction of the identities of both women and men was framed by the dichotomy between the private and the public sphere, and by the opposition between obedience, a woman’s virtue, and command, the prerogative of men.

Beyond the conceptualisation and idealisation of the female sex, however, a close investigation of everyday realities questions this long-standing, stereotyped notion of women, uncovering a different scenario, including women who did not passively accept their status. In a static, hierarchical, male-dominated society, some of these women reacted against the constraints imposed upon them and challenged their family, their society, their worlds. Theirs were small, but powerful acts of resistance against and disruption of the status quo.

Confirmed keynote speakers include: Professor Helena Sanson (University of Cambridge) and Professor Alberto Mario Banti (University of Pisa).

Proposals: Proposals for 20-minute papers should be submitted to Dr Sara Delmedico (sd683@cam.ac.uk) by 30 November 2019, and should contain the following information: name, email, title of the paper and abstract (max 300 words) and a short bio.

Conference fee: The attendance fee (£35) will cover the costs for lunch and other refreshments.

Organisers: Dr Katia Pizzi (University of London) and Dr Sara Delmedico (University of Cambridge).

The organisers are grateful to the Cassal Trust, University of London, and Il Circolo for their sponsorship of this event.

The 27th Annual Conference of the Society for Reformation Studies

31 March–2 April 2020

Westminster College, Cambridge

Themes of migration and exile are written deep into the Judaeo-Christian tradition. The Pentateuch tells the story of the migration of the Patriarchs to the Promised Land of Canaan, of the exodus and wilderness wanderings. The Babylonian Exile of the sixth century BC and the promise of return shapes the later literature of the Old Testament, while the New Testament describes Christians as ‘strangers and pilgrims’ here on earth. 2020 marks 400 years since the Pilgrim Fathers set sail on The Mayflower, heading to the New World in search of religious liberty. The Puritan settlers who travelled westwards in the Great Migration of the early and middle decades of the seventeenth century did so in search of religious liberty which would free them to establish ideal Christian community.

Inspired by this anniversary, this conference will explore themes of migration and exile across the Reformation. Papers might consider the people or communities that moved in response to religious change, persecution or conflict, exploring the experience of displacement and exile, and the ways in which that experience shaped belief, practice and identity. Equally, they might explore the theme more conceptually. Alex Walsham has discussed religious change across the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries in terms of ‘migrations of the holy’. Papers might, therefore, discuss how beliefs and practices migrated from one theological framework to another, or the ways in which texts and ideas moved across geographical, chronological or confessional boundaries. Consideration might be given to how biblical narratives and themes of migration and exile were treated in the scholarship, commentary, preaching and devotion of the various churches of the Reformation.

Leading us in our consideration of these themes will be: Liesbeth Corens (Queen Mary University London), Crawford Gribben (Queen's University Belfast), Polly Ha (University of East Anglia) and Graeme Murdock (Trinity College Dublin). As always, papers which reflect the current work of participants, regardless of their relevance to the theme, are welcome. The conference is always particularly keen to hear communications from postgraduate and early career scholars.

Proposed paper titles together with an abstract (100–150 words) should be submitted by 10 January 2020 to Professor Charlotte Methuen (charlotte.methuen@glasgow.ac.uk).

Registrations must be received by 10 February 2020, either by the booking form (available from Charlotte Methuen or via reformationstudies.org) or via Eventbrite (https://srs2020.eventbrite.com).

A limited number of bursaries will be available for postgraduate students or early career scholars. For further information, contact Professor Charlotte Methuen (charlotte.methuen@glasgow.ac.uk).

"Engaging the World: The Jesuits and Their Presence in Global History"

Lisbon, Portugal | 17–19 June 2020

Co-organized by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College and Brotéria in Lisbon, in partnership with the Catholic University Portugal.

Scattered around the globe for nearly five centuries of evangelization, Jesuit missionaries adopted different strategies to communicate with local communities. They were pivotal cultural mediators, serving as cartographers, astronomers, ethnographers, and anthropologists. They were also artists who adapted to local styles, translators and grammarians of native languages, and correspondents who conveyed images of societies previously unknown to European audiences. They fostered commerce and accompanied scientific voyages. They published journals, treatises, biographies, travel logs, and maps, and they participated in worldwide networks circulating literature and art. This symposium is hosted in Portugal, from which thousands of Jesuits departed to engage with people and environments on a global scale. This scholarly event will investigate how such a global engagement developed over time, how it varied from place to place, and how it was similar in different settings.

Proposals are welcomed from across thematic, chronological, and disciplinary boundaries that address methods or instruments the Jesuits used to engage the world and its natural or societal environs. Presentations might address such questions as these:

What strategies did Jesuits employ when, as articulated by their Constitutions, “dispersed throughout Christ’s vineyard to labor”?

How did the internal structure of the Society of Jesus (and the personalities of the Jesuits themselves) facilitate or hinder missionary labors?

How were those labors impacted by external forces, either local or global, cultural or political? For example, how did the Jesuits’ relations with different European powers spark, facilitate, limit, or curtail evangelization efforts within competing global empires?

How did Jesuit missionaries and their superiors determine where to labor (“consideration should also be given to where greater fruit is likely to be reaped”) and whom to evangelize (“the spiritual aid which is given to important and public persons ought to be regarded as more important, since it is a more universal good”)? What are revealing examples of successful determinations and unsuccessful ones?

What were the benefits, hindrances, and consequences of Jesuit accommodation to local customs and virtues? How can Jesuit accommodation be seen in art, theological treatises, scientific work, and pedagogical approaches?

How can we recapture the motives of these Jesuit missionaries, and how those motivations changed from one location to another or over time? And what might these motivations reveal about the Society of Jesus and its many places in the world?

How can indigenous people be seen in the books, maps, correspondence, and other materiality produced by Jesuits? And in what ways do those sources obscure those communities? What new sources should be consulted to better understand the indigenous people’s experiences with Jesuit evangelization?

Is there (or has there been at any point) evidence of a distinctively Portuguese trait to the roots of the Jesuits’ worldwide mission?

The 2020 Symposium will be the sixth annual scholarly conference organized by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies. The Institute is pleased to collaborate with Brotéria, the new cultural center of the Jesuits in Lisbon, in organizing this event on the Jesuits’ global engagements. Previous symposia have taken place in Boston (in collaboration with Boston College), Nairobi (with the Jesuit Historical Institute of Africa), and Seville (with the Universidad Loyola Andalucía).

Proposals and a narrative CV (together no more than 500 words) are due before the end of Monday, October 28, 2019. Proposals for individual papers or panels are accepted. Contact the Institute with questions (iajs@bc.edu). Selected papers may be peer-reviewed and published in open access following the event.

More details are available at The Portal to Jesuit Studies: https://jesuitportal.bc.edu/news/june-2019-call-for-papers-for-the-2020-international-symposium-on-jesuit-studies-engaging-the-world/