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De la parole à l’écrit : formes, fonctions et représentations de l’oralité sous l’Ancien Régime: colloque jeunes chercheurs

Posted: Sunday, January 24, 2016 - 14:58

Les 16 et 17 juin prochains se tiendra à l'Université du Québec à Rimouski le seizième colloque « Jeunes chercheurs » du Cercle interuniversitaire d’étude sur la République des Lettres (CIERL) et du Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la première modernité (CIREM), sous le thème De la parole à l’écrit : formes, fonctions et représentations de l’oralité sous l’Ancien Régime. Nous vous invitons à faire part de cet événement aux étudiants de maîtrise, master, doctorat ou postdoctorat dont le thème pourrait susciter l’intérêt.

La date butoir pour l’envoi des propositions est fixée au 26 février 2016.

Pour plus d’informations, veuillez communiquer avec le comité organisateur à l’adresse suivante : veroniquefoisy@gmail.com

Vous pouvez également télécharger l'appel à communications sur le site Internet du CIERL:

http://www.cierl.ulaval.ca/nouvelle/article/appel-a-communications-colloque-jeunes-chercheurs-cierlcirem/

CFP: European Studies Conference, University of Nebraska-Omaha. Due date: 18 May 2016

Posted: Saturday, January 23, 2016 - 13:34

41st European Studies Conference

October 6-8, 2016

University of Nebraska-Omaha

Omaha, Nebraska

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 41st European Studies Conference, which will be held at the University of Nebraska-Omaha on October 7-8, 2016, welcomes papers on European topics in all disciplines. Founded in 1975, our interdisciplinary conference has drawn participants from colleges and universities in the United States and from abroad. Areas of interest have been: art, anthropology, history, literature, current issues and future prospects in cultural, political, social, economic, or military areas; education, business, international affairs, religion, foreign languages, philosophy, information sciences and technology, public administration, urban affairs, public health, music, geography, theater, and film.

Please send an abstract of approximately 250 words to: European Studies Conference, Department of Foreign Languages ASH 301, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182-0192. We encourage submission via e-mail: tnovikov@unomaha.edu.Please include your name, full address, institution affiliation, day telephone, fax and email address with the proposal.

Junior faculty and advanced graduate students are particularly encouraged to participate.

Graduate students are invited to apply for Award for the Best Graduate Student Paper in the amount of $250.

Deadline to submit an abstract for presentation is May 18, 2016.

More information: www.unomaha.edu/esc

Fax: (402) 554-3445. Tel: (402) 554-4840.

Être parisienne sous l’ancien régime : des femmes dans la ville (Moyen Âge- XVIIIe siècle)

Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 10:44

Paris - 17 et 18 mars 2017.

Date limite pour les propositions: le 1er juin 2016.

Dans un billet récent paru dans le Journal du CNRS, le géographe Yves Raibaud formule le constat que la ville du XXIe siècle est « une ville faite pour les garçons ». Si un regard genré sur l’espace urbain permet aujourd’hui d’interroger les pratiques et les politiques de la ville, que peut nous apprendre l’histoire sur la place, l’activité et les représentations des femmes dans la ville ? Notre colloque voudrait ainsi, à partir d’approches pluridisciplinaires, penser les liens entre femmes et ville du Moyen Âge à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Paris, en tant que centre urbain majeur et ville capitale du royaume, mais aussi en tant que creuset privilégié des modèles sociaux et culturels français, apparaît comme un lieu à la fois exemplaire et singulier pour tenter cette approche.

Différents axes de réflexion pourront être envisagés :

quels espaces, laïcs ou religieux, pour les femmes dans la ville de Paris ? quels modes de déplacements ? quels lieux leur sont réservés/interdits ? dans quels lieux parisiensles femmes sont-elles visibles ?

quel travail pour les femmes en ville ? quelles sont les corporations qui leur sont ouvertes ? à quelles conditions ? dans quels champs d’activité exercent-elles leurs compétences ? quel poids économique représente le travail féminin urbain ?
existe-t-il des instances représentatives des Parisiennes, des lieux ou des structures qui permettraient à des voix féminines de se faire entendre, y compris auprès de la municipalité ?
au-delà de l’évocation de grandes figures féminines de l’histoire de Paris, que doit l’actuelle ville de Paris à ses anciennes habitantes ? quelles traces ont-elles laissées dans la toponymie, dans les monuments, dans l’architecture et le tissu urbains ?
existe-t-il de réelles spécificités de la Parisienne par rapport aux femmes des autres cités du royaume, des autres grandes villes européennes ?
quelles représentations de la Parisienne sont diffusées, du Moyen Âge au XVIIIe siècle, par la littérature, les arts de la scène, la musique, l’iconographie ? peut-on faire l’hypothèse qu’existe alors une figure de « la Parisienne », et à quelle fin a-t-elle pu être utilisée en France et en Europe
au-delà du XVIIIe siècle, quelle est la réception de l’imaginaire de la Parisienne d’antan ?

Organisation
Société internationale pour l’étude des femmes de l’Ancien Régime (SIEFAR)
En partenariat avec :
- Université Columbia à Paris – Centre Reid Hall
- Université de Nantes – L’AMO EA 4276

Comité organisateur
· Jeanne Chiron (U. Paris-Est/Siefar)
· Nathalie Grande (U. Nantes/Siefar)
· Ramona Herz-Garzeau (U. de Caen /Siefar)
· Julie Piront (U. Louvain et U. Liège/Siefar)
· Rotraud Von Kulessa (U. d’Augsbourg/Siefar)

Les propositions (titre et résumé en dix lignes, accompagnés d’une bio-bibliographie de
cinq lignes) sont à envoyer pour le 1er juin 2016 à l’adresse suivante :
parisiennes2017@gmail.com

http://siefar.org/category/actualites-de-la-siefar/

CFP: MHRA Conference, "Navigating Interstices Between Public/Private Knowledge," due date: 15 Feb 2016

Posted: Friday, January 15, 2016 - 12:02

Call for Papers

Have you Heard…?

Navigating the Interstices Between Public and Private Knowledge

The annual MHRA Conference

Friday, 14 October 2016

at the Institute of Modern Languages Research,

University of London, Senate House, London WC1E 7HU

Keynote speakers: Professor Alison Sinclair (University of Cambridge) and Dr Philippo de Vivo (Birkbeck College, University of London)

One of the things that makes us human is language, both in the power of speech, and the production of written texts. How do ideas and opinions get into the public domain, and what is the nature of the sometimes fragile boundary between public and private? The aim of this conference is to explore the power and vicissitudes of the transmission of knowledge, and of unofficial modes of communication. Its intention is to go beyond the corpus of public elite literature and to bring into consideration the transmission of knowledge in a broad range of forms, including the trivial and ephemeral (as in pamphlets, chapbooks, street literature and newspapers). This range of material allows us to explore the cultural imaginary in ways that are many, various and erratically policed. What we choose to suppress in terms of public knowledge may well be as significant as what we choose to propagate. This interdisciplinary conference aims to consider the interactions between public and private knowledge, and the ambiguous, unofficial space that lies between.

We invite proposals covering a range of periods (from the medieval and early-modern to the twenty-first century) and across different national contexts (including French-, Hispanic-, Germanic-, Italian-, Slavonic- and English-speaking cultures). We hope to attract scholars working in different fields (Modern Languages, English studies, Comparative Literature, Cultural History, Film and Media studies and Digital Humanities, Performance and Reception History, History of the Book and of Print Culture, and others). Interdisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome.

Topics could include, but are not limited to:

Unofficial production and consumption: peddling, trafficking, barter
Purposeful or purposeless dissemination of news, ideas, opinion, images
Construction, regulation, censorship: public opinion, the cultural imaginary
Gossip, rumour and the power of hearsay
Gender and power in public and private knowledge
Private vs published materials: correspondences, diaries, the ‘hidden’ archive
Theorising the ‘unofficial’ (theorists might include, but are not limited to: Bakhtin, Bourdieu, Habermas, Foucault, Simmel, de Certeau)
Questions of power and pleasure in the reception and/or dissemination of knowledge

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers. Please send your abstract – of no more than 250 words – accompanied by a short biographical statement on the same page, to a.lewis@bbk.ac.uk by 15 February 2016.

Society for French Studies Postgraduate Conference - Protest. Due date: 1 Feb 2016

Posted: Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 11:58

The Society for French Studies Postgraduate Conference 2016

Call for Papers: Protest in French and Francophone Arts and Culture

Date and Place: Saturday 23 April 2016, IMLR (formerly IGRS), Senate House (London)

Deadline for Submission: Monday 1 February 2016

Deadline for Registration: Friday 8 April 2016

Keynote Speaker: ‘(Self-)censorship and the limitations of artistic intervention in Merzak Allouache's Normal! (2011)', Professor Will Higbee (University of Exeter)

Training Session: ‘How to Get Published as a PhD or ECR’, Dr Jamal Bahmad (University of Leeds)

Protest is an intrinsic part of human culture, which enables subjects to express their dissatisfaction with existing social structures and hegemonic hierarchies of power. Protests have occurred across time periods and contexts, and have taken numerous different forms, ranging from personal expressions of discontent to united movements for revolutionary change. Protests can be individual or collective, personal or political, spontaneous or carefully planned, but they are generally orientated towards destabilising the status quo and establishing new modes of existence. Over the ages, political, social and cultural protests have successfully toppled authoritarian regimes, exposed and confronted dominant imbalances of power, and ameliorated conditions for disenfranchised members of society.

Artistic creation, such as literature, music and film, has sometimes supported hegemonic hierarchies and underpinned restrictive regimes. However, art has also played an important role in protesting against unjust power structures and opposing dominant societal mores. In different times and contexts, the Arts have contributed to the institution of social, political and cultural change by facilitating the emergence of subversive viewpoints and previously silenced voices or subjectivities. In both a candid and a concealed manner, the Arts have functioned as vehicles for challenging societal injustice and expressing individual and/or collective feelings of discontent.

The Society for French Studies Postgraduate Conference 2016 invites proposals for twenty-minute papers in English or French that address the broad theme of protest as it relates to the interdisciplinary field of French and Francophone Studies. Contributions from all periods and disciplines are welcome. These might include literary, film, theatre, music, post-colonial, queer, cultural, spatial and translation studies, to name but a few. Individual papers should aim to examine the ways in which French and Francophone art forms have contributed to political, social, cultural, economic, discursive, personal and collective means of protest in France and the wider Francophone world from the past to the present day.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

· The French Revolution

· Charlie Hebdoand freedom of speech

· Anti-racism protests

· Humour and satire

· Gender and sexual rights

· Religious rights

· Class-based protest

· Protest and writing

· Protest and music

· The “Arab Spring”

· Grassroots political protest (i.e. street art, graffiti)

· Censorship

· Mass demonstrations, rallies and marches

· Reactionary protests (i.e. ‘La Manif Pour Tous’)

· Insurrection and riots

· Civil disobedience

· Changing modes of protest

· Social media and political protest

· Past forms of protest (i.e. Jacquerie, La guerre des farines)

· Iconoclasm

· Protest figures past and present

Registration and catering are free of charge, but speakers are asked to seek financial help from their own institutions to cover travel costs.

Please send abstracts (250 – 300 words) for twenty-minute papers (in French or English) along with the name of your institution, the title of your PhD and your year of study to Kaya Davies Hayon (kaya.davieshayon@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk) and Joseph Ford (J.V.Ford@leeds.ac.uk) no later than 1 February 2016. Informal enquiries are also very welcome.

Conference organisers: Kaya Davies Hayon (University of Manchester) and Joseph Ford (University of Leeds).

Please visit our blog for further information: https://sfspgconf2016.wordpress.com/

New Publications

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Marie Saint Martin, L’Urne et le Rossignol. Représentations d'Électre, antiques et modernes

Posted: 18 Dec 2019 - 21:27

Classiques Garnier, 2019. ISBN: 978-2-406-08589-8. DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-08591-1. 559 p. 59€.

Cet ouvrage explore, dans une enquête qui court de la Grèce antique jusqu’aux débuts du xixe siècle, les enjeux que revêt la lecture d’Électre pour les différents publics. Ce parcours social, juridique et esthétique est une invitation à une relecture en mouvement des grands mythes.

https://classiques-garnier.com/l-urne-et-le-rossignol-representations-d-electre-antiques-et-modernes.html?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=Lettre_dinformation_-_novembre_2019&utm_medium=email

Jay R. Berkovitz, Law's Dominion: Jewish Community, Religion, and Family in Early Modern Metz

Posted: 18 Dec 2019 - 21:22

Brill Academic Publishers, 2019. ISBN: 978-90-04-41740-3. 404 p. $76.

Law’s Dominion is a detailed study of Jewish communal autonomy in the century prior to the French Revolution. Set in the city of Metz, this new examination of a vibrant prerevolutionary community draws on a wide spectrum of unknown or underutilized legal sources that tell a story about communal governance, religion, and family that has not been told before. Concentrating on the community’s leadership, public institutions, and judiciary, Law’s Dominion challenges the commonly held assumption that Jewish life was in a steady state of decline before the French Revolution. To the contrary, it presents a portrait of a robust community that integrated religious values and civic consciousness, interacted with French society, and showed remarkable signs of collaboration between Jewish law, general law, and the French judicial system.

The focus of Law’s Dominion is the emergence of “the rule of law” as the basic principle of Jewish social and political organization. Law served as the community’s core cultural value and as the foundation for the relationship of the Jews to the state and the surrounding society. Through the process of juridification—the institutionalization of law and judicial frameworks—vast areas of communal life were subsumed under the authority of the law, particularly as the community took greater notice of external legal and judicial systems. Building on the author’s previous works, Law’s Dominion offers new evidence of how practitioners of Jewish law, as well as its consumers, navigated the Jewish and French legal systems. Communal registers of the Metz Kahal, judicial records of the rabbinic court and Metz Parlement, rabbinic responsa literature, and the French translation of Jewish law commissioned by French authorities furnish a wider framework and broader context for the analysis of Jewish law, legislation, and public policy. By focusing on prevailing norms, mechanisms of change, and emerging patterns of legal culture, Law’s Dominion seeks to understand how rabbinic and lay leaders struggled to meet challenges to their authority.

Central to the inquiry undertaken in this new volume is the question of how religion functioned in the early modern period and the degree to which it served the goals of social cohesion and corporate identity. Religion continued to exert a formative, if occasionally contested, impact on the values embraced by communal leaders and on the boundaries that defined relations with the state and society. Rituals embodied modes of thinking about historical origins, about interactions with the surrounding culture and society, and about identification with particular cultural traditions.

In addition to embodying the foregoing themes, legal texts pertaining to family offer entrée into a web of culture and relationships for which there is virtually no other documentation. The majority of cases that came before the Metz Beit Din were related, either directly or indirectly, to inheritance, guardianship of children, marital property, sexuality, and the participation of women in the judicial process. Rulings in these areas, and the legal mechanisms that evolved in response to changing social and economic conditions, contain images of women and family that are strikingly at variance with representations conveyed in prescriptive legal sources alone.

Emerging from this analysis is a new narrative that reconsiders central themes of pre-modern Jewish history: the nature and scope of Jewish communal autonomy; the relations between the Jews and the state; Jewish interaction with the surrounding society and culture; the multifaceted nexus between acculturation and modernization; lay-rabbinic relations; the role of religion in early modern culture; and transformations in family life.

In sum, Law’s Dominion seeks to elucidate the complicated role of law in the life of a community that faced significant internal and external challenges to its precarious political condition, religious ethos, and cultural identity.

https://brill.com/view/title/34224

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment, ed. Mitchell Greenberg

Posted: 15 Dec 2019 - 23:55

Bloomsbury, 2019. Volume 4 in the Cultural History of Tragedy set. General Editor: Rebecca Bushnell. ISBN 978-1-4742-8805-7.

The period covered by this volume in the Cultural History of Tragedy series is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of a king, Charles I of England in 1649 and Louis XVI of France in 1793. The period between these two dates saw enormous political, social, and economic changes that altered European society’s cultural life. Tragedy which had dominated the European stage at the beginning of this period gradually saw itself replaced by new literary forms, culminating in the gradual decline of theatrical tragedy from the heights it had reached in the 1660s. The dominance of France’s military and cultural prestige during this period is reflected in the important, almost, exclusive space dedicated in this volume to the French stage. The tragedies of France’s two greatest playwrights—Pierre Corneille (1606–84) and Jean Racine (1639–99) would dominate not only the French stage but, through translations and adaptations, became the model of tragic theater across Europe, finding imitators in England (Dryden), Italy (Alfieri), and as far afield as Russia. This dominance continued well into the 18th-century with the triumph of Voltaire’s tragedies. Nevertheless the writings of Diderot and Lessing changed the direction of theatre and after the Revolution, in the writings of Goethe, Shiller, and Hegel, tragedy and the tragic will be reimagined and become the sign of European modernity. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual, and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

Mitchell Greenberg is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, USA.

Volume 4 in the Cultural History of Tragedy set. General Editor: Rebecca Bushnell

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/a-cultural-history-of-tragedy-9781474288149/

Mineurs, Minorités, Marginalités au Grand Siècle, dir. Marta Teixeira Anacleto

Posted: 15 Dec 2019 - 10:59

Classiques Garnier, 2019. ISBN: 978-2-406-09206-3. DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09208-7. 387 p. 32€.

Les études qui composent ce volume témoignent de l’intérêt actuel de repenser les mineurs, les minorités et les marginalités au Grand Siècle, et permettent d’élargir les discussions critiques entamées ces dernières années autour de la notion épistémologiquement ambigüe de « Classicisme ».

Chapitres individuels en vente :

https://classiques-garnier.com/mineurs-minorites-marginalites-au-grand-siecle.html?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=Lettre_dinformation_-_novembre_2019&utm_medium=email

Roberto Romagnino, Décrire dans le roman de l’âge baroque (1585-1660). Formes et enjeux de l’ecphrasis

Posted: 15 Dec 2019 - 10:56

Classiques Garnier, 2019. ISBN: 978-2-406-09002-1 DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09004-5 617 p. 63€.

Cette étude propose d’éclairer les enjeux de l’ecphrasis telle qu’elle était pratiquée par les romanciers de l’âge baroque. Cette catégorie discursive offre un point d’observation précieux pour évaluer le croisement entre l’histoire du goût et les pratiques savantes chez le lectorat mondain.

PDF des chapitres individuels en vente :

https://classiques-garnier.com/decrire-dans-le-roman-de-l-age-baroque-1585-1660-formes-et-enjeux-de-l-ecphrasis.html?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=Lettre_dinformation_-_novembre_2019&utm_medium=email