SFS Conference Registration: Cardiff University

Dear Colleagues We are delighted to open registration for the 56th Annual French Studies Conference. The conference will be held this year at Cardiff University, 29 June – 1 July 2015. The conference programme and full registration details/forms can be found on the Society’s web page: http://www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/ We are delighted to be welcoming the following plenary speakers at the conference: Eric Méchoulan, Université de Montréal Peter Dayan, University of Edinburgh

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Graduate Teaching Assistantship Available in French & Intercultural Communication (UMBC), source: Dr. Denis M. Provencher

Dear Colleagues,
 
I would very much appreciate if you could share this information with
your best undergraduate students who demonstrate potential for graduate
study and who possess advanced-level language proficiency in French.  
Please encourage them to contact me if they are interested.
 
The Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural
Communication at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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La Bibliothèque française, Ch. Sorel (source: Sandrine Blondet)

Charles Sorel

La Bibliothèque française Edition critique réalisée par Filippo d'Angelo, Mathilde Bombart, Laurence  Giavarini, Claudine Nédelec, Dinah Ribard, Michèle Rosellini, Alain Viala Paris, Champion, coll. "Sources classiques", janvier 2015, 680 p.

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La Représentation de Rome en France au tournant des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (source: Sandrine Blondet)

"Rome n'est plus dans Rome ?"
Entre mythe et satire
La Représentation de Rome en France au tournant des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
Actes du colloque international de Rome (8-10 mars 2012), publiés par Gérard Ferreyrolles et Letizia Norci Cagiano de Azevedo
Paris, Champion, coll. "Colloques, congrès et conférences, le Classicisme", janvier2015, 256 p.
 
 
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Margret Scharrer Zur Rezeption des französischen Musiktheaters an deutschen Residenzenim ausgehenden 17. und frühen 18. Jahrhundert Sinzig, STUDIO • VERLAG, 2015 (source: Sandrine Blondet)

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FOLLAIN, Antoine (dir.), Brutes ou braves gens ? La violence et sa mesure, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle, Strasbourg, PUS, 2015, 532 p. (source:Jeremy Hayhoe)

Annonce de parution : FOLLAIN, Antoine (dir.), Brutes ou braves gens ? La violence et sa mesure, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle, Strasbourg, PUS, 2015, 532 p.

Lien vers la page de la LCDPU :

http://www.lcdpu.fr/livre/?GCOI=27000100862720

 

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MA in Early Modern Studies at Queen Mary, University of London (source: Una McIlvenna)

MA in Early Modern Studies, 1300-1700 The MA in English Studies: Early Modern Studies, 1300­1700 at Queen Mary gives you the opportunity to explore the vibrant culture that existed in Europe during this period. Our approach to this material is genuinely interdisciplinary: you will look at the literature, history, religion, and visual culture of the period, and be taught  by experts working at the cutting edge of research in these areas. Specially designed modules examine key debates in the period, and address

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Qui est John Law? (source: Francis Assaf)

PROCHAINEMENT EN LIBRAIRIE John Law. La dette ou comment s'en débarrasser... Un ouvrage de Nicolas Buat dans la collection Penseurs de la liberté, Les Belles Lettres. [http://img.sbc36.com/5545/fmi3pqUo7ESBVzqVkenTSA/JL2.jpg] Nicolas Buat vous propose d'aller à la rencontre de l'aventurier économiste John Law (1671-1729), au-delà de la banqueroute retentissante de 1720 historiquement liée à son nom, dans cette première biographie générale, rocambolesque et accessible à tout lectorat.

Séductions de la fable, d’Esope à La Fontaine (source: Antoine Biscéré)

Séductions de la fable, d’Esope à La Fontaine (collectif coordonné par Frédéric Calas et Nora Viet), Classiques Garnier, 2015

 

 No 107, 432 p., 15 x 22 cm 

Broché, ISBN 978-2-8124-3213-2, 53 € 

Relié, ISBN 978-2-8124-3214-9, 84 €

 
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02/08/1690 The Schenectady Massacre

Date: 
8 Feb 1690

The Schenectady Massacre saw a party of more than 200 French Canadian and allied Mohawk, Sault (Ojibwe), and Algonquin warriors attack the village of Schenectady in the colony of New York. Sixty residents were killed. The French raid was mounted in retaliation for the Lachine massacre, an attack by Iroquois forces on a village in Quebec.

02/07/1639

Date: 
7 Feb 1639

The Académie française begins work on Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise, which is first published fifty-five years later, in 1694

Le musée par la scène Le spectacle vivant au musée: pratiques, publics, médiations; date limite: 1 Mai 2015 (source: REZZOUK Aurélie)

Le musée par la scène

Le spectacle vivant au musée: pratiques, publics, médiations

 

Colloque international, 18/19/20 novembre 2015, Paris

 

 

Pauline Chevalier (ELLIADD - CIMArtS, Université de Franche-Comté)

Aurélie Mouton Rezzouk (CEREdI, Université de Rouen)

Daniel Urrutiaguer (EA 4160 – Passages XX-XXI, Université Lumière Lyon 2)

 

 

 

CFP 'Dangerous Cities? Crime, Gender and Survival Strategies, 1600-1900' - AHA 2016, deadline: February 10, 2015 (source: Marion Pluskota)

Call for Papers - Panel Proposal Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
January 7-10, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia. 
 
 
Dangerous cities? Crime, gender and survival strategies in European towns 1600-1900.
 

Theater Without Borders Research Collective, deadline: Feb. 15, 2015 (source: Sandrine Blondet)

Theater Without Borders
 
 
Translation and Boundary-Crossing
 
in Early Modern European Theater and Performance
 
 
June 30-July 3
 
Paris, France

The eleventh annual meeting of the Theater Without Borders Research Collective will take place in Paris, at the NYC in Paris Center (Latin Quarter), June 30-July 3, 2015. 

Larsen on Beasley, ed., TEACHING SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH WOMEN WRITERS

H-France Review Vol. 15 (January 2015), No. 6

Faith Beasley, ed., Teaching Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, Options for Teaching 33, 2011. xii + 379 pp. Works Cited and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-60329-095-1; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-60329-8.

Review by Anne R. Larsen, Hope College.

La théâtralité comme (contre)-modèle esthétique Perspectives artistiques croisées 29 et 30 janvier 2015, Université Rennes 2 (source: Laura Naudeix)

La théâtralité comme (contre)-modèle esthétique Perspectives artistiques croisées 29 et 30 janvier 2015 Université Rennes 2 Campus Villejean, amphi. L3

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