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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:

 

  1. The name of the proposed seminar or workshop leader(s), with university affiliation as applicable, and e-mail address(es).
  2. The title of the proposed seminar or workshop.
  3. 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).
  4. 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).
  5. 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.

 
 

-- 

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*
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 : 1er 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.

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Le Roi et l'État Regards sur quelques institutions de la France moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle) (dir. Bernard Barbiche)
Posted: 23 Dec 2021 - 12:02

Le Roi et l'État  Regards sur quelques institutions de la France moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle), dir. Bernard Barbiche, Paris, Les éditions de l'École des charte, 2021.

Dans ce volume sont réunies, avec des mises à jour, vingt-cinq études publiées de 1960 à 2015 sur le fonctionnement de l'État royal pendant les trois siècles de ce qu'on appelle couramment l'« Ancien Régime ». Certaines, diachroniques, mettent en lumière des évolutions sur le long terme. D'autres sont centrées sur l'époque de Henri IV et de Sully, artisans de réformes décisives. Sont ainsi revisités les origines et les premiers développements de plusieurs grandes charges comme celles de garde des sceaux, de surintendant des finances, de grand voyer de France, de surintendant des bâtiments, de même que les régences en l'absence du roi et le statut nobiliaire des favorites royales devenues duchesses. La plupart de ces articles sont écrits de première main et illustrent la richesse des fonds d'archives (en particulier ceux du Conseil du roi et des parlements) que nous ont légués les institutions de l'ancienne France. Plusieurs ont bénéficié du concours des élèves et anciens élèves de l'École des charte.

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

ISBN : 978-2-35723-165-8

394 pages

Anna Rosensweig — ​​​​​​​Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage
Posted: 17 Dec 2021 - 12:42

Subjects of Affection offers an alternative to the modern model of human rights in an unexpected archive: the monarchist tragedies that shaped Louis XIV’s absolutist France. Pairing political theory with performance studies, Anna Rosensweig argues that the right of resistance, largely thought to have disappeared from French political thought in the aftermath of the religious wars of the sixteenth century, actually endured throughout the seventeenth century as a conceptual framework embedded and embodied in tragic drama.

Contemporary scholars have critiqued the modern rights paradigm for its failure to acknowledge the ways in which individual rights depend upon state protection and national belonging. Through a reappraisal of early modern French tragedy, Rosensweig provides a corrective to accounts of human rights that begin with the French Revolution, exploring previously unrecognized models for collective action that had emerged during the religious wars. Subjects of Affection reveals how French tragedy sustained these models of collective action by binding together individuals and groups through affect. Rosensweig places sixteenth-century political treatises in dialogue with dramas by Robert Garnier, Jean Rotrou, Pierre Corneille, and Jean Racine that were performed and published between 1550 and 1700. In so doing, she demonstrates how these tragedies, through their poetics and performance potential, stage a subject of rights whose collective constitution differs from the individualism of our modern rights framework. Through fresh insights and incisive readings, Subjects of Affection explores a form of political subjectivity that locates political power in connection to others—from staged characters and choruses to unseen collectives

Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage

 

Praise: 

“Compelling and original . . . one of the most interesting accounts of early modern French theater that I have read in the last decade.” —Katherine Ibbett, author of Compassion’s Edge: Fellow-Feeling and Its Limit in Early Modern France


“In the wake of France’s wars of religion, the right of resistance under absolutism persisted, if not in the political treatises of the day then on stage in tragic drama where the figure of conscience, the private representative of the public, remained to be found. Anna Rosensweig’s brilliant book makes the case for seeing the individual subject of rights as rooted in community; for reading performance as, and not just alongside, politics; and for tracking political affect beyond ‘the monarch’s grasp.’ A model of clarity, this book shows the virtues of interdisciplinarity. Essential reading for those working in political theory, affect studies, performance studies, history of the early modern state, and classical reception.” —Bonnie Honig, author of A Feminist Theory of Refusal

Une oeuvre en dialogue. Le théâtre de Michel-Jean Sedaine (dir. Judith le Blanc, Raphaëlle Legrand et Marie-Cécile Schang-Norbelly)
Posted: 3 Dec 2021 - 06:41

Une oeuvre en dialogue. Le théâtre de Michel-Jean Sedaine, dir. Judith le Blanc, Raphaëlle Legrand et Marie-Cécile Schang-Norbelly, Paris, Sorbonne Université presses, coll. "e-Theatrum Mundi", 2021.

Le présent ouvrage est le fruit d’une collaboration entre spécialistes du théâtre, musicologues et historiens de l’art. Il jette un éclairage inédit et pluridisciplinaire sur Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719-1797), acteur essentiel du renouvellement dramatique de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Les lieux du dialogue sont multiples dans le théâtre de Sedaine. Son œuvre met en résonance les genres, les textes, les arts, les pays (notamment l’Espagne et l’Italie), les registres, le haut et le bas, l’héroïque et le burlesque, le sublime et le grotesque, le lyrique et le prosaïque, le texte et la musique, les vivants et les morts (parmi lesquels Diderot, Beaumarchais, Pixerécourt, Shakespeare ou Molière). Il manifeste un goût singulier pour l’expérimentation, un sens aigu des situations, une forme d’empathie ou de génie dans l’art de la collaboration avec les compositeurs (notamment Monsigny et Grétry), qui font de lui l’un des principaux artisans de l’opéra-comique au siècle des Lumières. Son théâtre, s’il est parfaitement en prise avec la sensibilité de son époque et dans l’air du temps, rayonne par-delà les frontières et par-delà les siècles, et ouvre toutes grandes les portes du romantisme.

Téléchargement libre sur le site de l'éditeur.

ISBN : 979-10-231-1585-7

Date de publication : 19/11/2021

Format : 145 x 210 mm

Nombre de pages : 344

Un âge d'or des chapitres nobles de chanoinesses en Europe au XVIIIe siècle. Le cas de la Franche-Comté (Corinne Marchal)
Posted: 3 Dec 2021 - 04:04

Corinne Marchal, Un âge d'or des chapitres nobles de chanoinesses en Europe au XVIIIe siècle. Le cas de la Franche-Comté, Turnhout, Brepols, 2021.

Les raisons sociales et religieuses d’un âge d’or des chapitres de dames nobles au XVIIIe siècle par l’exemple de ceux de Franche-Comté

S’il est difficile d’ignorer les chapitres nobles lorsqu’on aborde l’histoire des noblesses européennes au XVIIIe siècle, notamment dans les rapports qu’elles entretenaient avec l’Église, ces instituts restent toutefois peu étudiés. Plus marqué que pour les chapitres nobles masculins, le dynamisme de ceux de femmes intrigue. Le cas des chapitres nobles de chanoinesses de Franche-Comté, demeurés réguliers en un siècle qui ne passe pas pour avoir été favorable à l’Église régulière, comme le confirme la sécularisation d’un certain nombre de ces compagnies, est très éclairant sur les raisons de leur faveur. Celle-ci ne réside pas dans cette fonction d’asile et de secours matériel à destination d’une ancienne noblesse paupérisée que décrivaient leurs contemporains, mais dans leurs réponses précoces aux attentes de reconnaissance d’un groupe social convaincu de son déclin ainsi que dans leur aptitude à contenter une spiritualité en phase avec celle des Lumières et adaptable à la personnalité de chaque dame noble. L’effort accompli par les chapitres de chanoinesses, à l’apogée de la Réforme post-tridentine, pour conserver et développer leur spécificité en dépit de l’hostilité du clergé nous conduit par ailleurs à relativiser le concept de « Dorsale catholique » toujours très débattu chez les historiens, la plupart de ces établissements étant pourtant implantés dans ce front de catholicité identifié par René Taveneaux, reliant les anciens Pays-Bas à l’Italie du Nord.

 

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

284 p., 14 b/w ill., 3 b/w tables, 156 x 234 mm, 2021
ISBN: 978-2-503-59579-5
Languages: French
Paperback
The publication is available.
Retail price: EUR 69,00 excl. tax

Revue Bossuet. Littérature, culture, religion, 2021, n° 12 : Bossuet et l’Angleterre
Posted: 2 Dec 2021 - 08:31

Revue Bossuet. Littérature, culture, religion, 2021, n° 12 : "Bossuet et l’Angleterre".

Directeurs d'ouvrage: Moriarty (Michaël), Régent-Susini (Anne), Trouchaud (Jean)

La Revue Bossuet publie des articles sur la littérature et la culture religieuse du xviie siècle, ainsi que des recensions d’ouvrages récents et une bibliographie annuelle.

Sommaire.

Nombre de pages: 208

Parution: 01/12/2021

ISBN: 978-2-406-12551-8

ISSN: 2117-8844