Northeast MLA
Baltimore, Maryland
March 23-26 2017
Proposals due September 30, 2016
See http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html for submission and other information, including all session titles. Of particular interest to dix-septiémistes :
16189. Literature and Ideas: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century French Writers (Panel)
French and Francophone / Women's and Gender Studies
Chair: Stephane Natan (Rider University)
This panel will focus on uncovering the ideas and philosophies proposed by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French writers to criticize, change, or improve their world. We will discuss their personal ideas, beliefs, and value systems in light of the reality of their time. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century authors will include female and male philosophers, moralists, essayists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. The method of analysis is open.
16547. Le Sexe avant la lettre (sponsored by Women in French) (Panel)
French and Francophone / Women's and Gender Studies
Chair: Stephen Shapiro (Bennington College)
This panel (sponsored by Women in French) seeks to bring together researchers working on questions of sex and sexuality in pre- and early-modern France (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Grand Siècle, Enlightenment). Ideally, a variety of methodological approaches would allow us to find common themes and questions that mark the study of sexual practices and discourse prior to the nineteenth-century's scientia sexualis as well as a particular, culturally-rooted French perspective. Papers examining a variety of textual practices are welcome and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged.
16545.
Traveling Objects, Objects of Travel
(Panel)
French and Francophone / Cultural Studies and Media Studies
Chair: Claudia Esposito (University of Massachusetts Boston)
This panel seeks to explore notions of global displacements and journeys through the lens of material cultures. Taking a long view of history, and a wide meaning of both travel and object, this panel encourages contributions from all periods and all areas of literature written in French or works of art produced in the French speaking world.