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Collaborators for Digital Project -- "Generative Waters"

Posted: Sunday, March 17, 2024 - 14:52

“Generative Waters” is an investigation of Palissy's Lost Grotto co-lead by Luis Rodríguez-Rincón (Assistant Professor of Spanish at Haverford College), and Kelley O'Brien (Assistant Professor of New Media at UNC Greensboro). Together we are working on a multi-phase project to recreate Bernard Palissy’s sixteenth-century ceramic grotto, as described in his text Architecture et Ordonnance de la grotto rustique (La Rochelle, 1563), as an immersive 3D environment to complement the translation into English of this description for the first time.

We have already translated his written description of the Grotto from French to English and are working to construct a 3D digital model of the space. Our hope is that this digital model will then take the form of a digital interactive space, specifically a webpage devoted to the translation and a navigable version of the model. Additionally we want to explore the use of Virtual Reality/VR headsets as an immersive animated experience of the model and a specifically designed directional soundtrack.

As part of this work, we are aiming to gather a group of humanist specialists (both art historians, literary scholars, and historians of Early Modern France) to help us brainstorm possible frameworks for bringing our immersive digital project to as wide a public and specialist audience as possible. In working towards this massive project, we are soliciting a multi-stage grant from the NEH to help support this work. One of the goals of the first stage would be to convene humanist scholars of the Renaissance together to discuss ways to best align our project with the needs and insights of specialists in the field. Can our model be made into a useful tool for Renaissance scholarship and pedagogy today? How can we ensure our website and model reflects the most up-to-date insights of specialists in the field? These are just some of the questions we hope to answer to help guide the realization of the project.

Our full Call for Collaborators can be found at in this google doc

Please email your qualifications, interests and questions to Kelley O’Brien at kaobrien@uncg.edu

Appel à contribution pour Albineana 37 (2025), dirigé par Mathilde Bernard, Nadine Kuperty-Tsur et Alicia Viaud

Posted: Sunday, March 17, 2024 - 14:50

Le rapport d’Agrippa d’Aubigné aux femmes n’est pas simple ; l’enfant aegre partus ne doit sa vie qu’à la mort de l’une d’entre elles, ce qui peut expliquer une tendance à la mise à distance. De nombreuses femmes sont ainsi présentées comme des incarnations d’une altérité radicale : la mère, cette figure qui, pour absente qu’elle soit, hante l’entièreté de l’œuvre, sous des dehors la plupart du temps peu rassurants, mais néanmoins ambivalents[i] ; l’amante, qui revêt des habits pétrarquistes aux chatoiements inquiétants et qui, jeunesse éclatante a son double dans les vieilles repoussantes du Printemps[ii] ; les femmes « détestées », qui sont présentées comme des symboles de débauche[iii] ; les reines qui deviennent sorcières sous sa plume[iv] ; les parangons bibliques de l’impiété – Jézabel[v] et autres Athalie – ; ou les femmes mythiques venues du monde gréco‑romain pour faire du poète une proie, Diane la chasseresse[vi], qui bien sûr se cache dans la belle Salviati, autre menace de mort.

À côté de ces femmes si diverses en possibilité d’anéantissement du corps et de l’âme de l’écrivain – car ces figures sont avant tout littéraires –, Agrippa d’Aubigné offre aux lecteurs de nombreux exemples de femmes admirables, qui dans leur grandeur n’en sont pas moins pour la plupart également mises à distance. Au rang de ces femmes viennent en premier lieu les martyres : les sœurs Foucaude – des enfants –, Jane Gray, jeune, reine, vertueuse et pieuse[vii]… Puis les reines protestantes qui ont su gouverner en homme, éloge équivoque s’il en est : Elizabeth, Jeanne d’Albret[viii], figurant de nouvelles Deborah.

Enfin viennent d’autres femmes, plus accessibles sans doute, celles qui se sacrifient pour leur parti, comme Catherine de Bourbon[ix], nouvelle Esther, des femmes poètes et salonnières comme les dames des Roches[x] ou, plus proches encore du peuple, ces figures de la dévotion, jeune fille allaitant le vieillard et à l’inverse femme âgée (aux mamelles taries) allaitant un nourrisson. Quelques‑unes enfin, bien réelles celles‑là, tissées à la vie d’Agrippa d’Aubigné et présentes en ses écrits : ses femmes, ses filles.

Comment dès lors concilier ce mélange d’attirance et de répulsion dont le Printemps se fait l’écho, d’admiration pour des femmes qui sont le lieu et la preuve de la grâce suprême de Dieu, n’agissant jamais tant que lorsqu’elle élève la faiblesse, et de mépris horrifié pour la putain et la sorcière, de connivence[xi] et de hiérarchisation des rapports[xii] ? Comment comprendre que la femme soit le plus souvent tenue à distance respectable : faut‑il en chercher les raisons dans les structures patriarcales d’une société qui n’assigne pas aux femmes un rôle de même importance qu’aux hommes, dans la vie d’un enfant à qui a manqué une présence féminine, d’un amant éconduit, d’un veuf éploré, d’un sujet méfiant d’une souveraine aux finesses italiennes ? Quel est le sens de la parole ou du silence des femmes dans l’œuvre d’Agrippa d’Aubigné ? Comment les voix féminines et les voix de l’énonciateur se mêlent‑elles et dans quelle optique[xiii] ? Quelle possibilité les femmes protestantes ont‑elles de se faire entendre[xiv] ? Peut‑on, avec Catharina Randall Coats[xv], penser un « parler mystique » de la femme albinéenne, qui l’élèverait à un statut équivalent à celui de l’énonciateur de la fin des Tragiques, « extatique », « au giron de son Dieu » ?

Les articles s’intéresseront aux différents aspects de la présence des femmes dans la vie et dans l’œuvre d’Agrippa d’Aubigné. Ils pourront adopter un angle biographique, interrogeant le rôle des amants, des épouses et des filles dans l’existence de l’écrivain, et croiser cette approche avec une analyse des représentations des figures féminines dans l’œuvre. On pourra également axer sa réflexion sur la dimension symbolique et mythique de la représentation des femmes admirées ou honnies, sur la trace, l’inflexion féminines de l’écriture ; considérer la question politique, la résistance, le zèle des femmes ; voir comment en elles réside paradoxalement la plus grande fiance d’Agrippa (les plus zélés sont pour beaucoup des femmes) et son plus grand effroi (les plus machiavéliques sont sans doute des femmes). Les articles se demanderont comment concilier les rapports de l’homme avec les personnes et les rapports de l’écrivain avec les êtres de papier, afin de rendre compte d’une vision des femmes plus riche que les passages canoniques offrant à les voir victimes ou démons nous laissent augurer. Le volume s’ouvrira à des articles présentant la place particulière de la femme protestante à cette époque, ainsi qu’à des réflexions plus larges sur la représentation des femmes à la Renaissance.

Les propositions de contribution, de quelques lignes, sont à rendre avant le 31 mai 2024 aux adresses suivantes : bernardm@parisnanterre.fr, alicia.viaud@umontreal.ca, kuperty@tauex.tau.ac.il.

Après acceptation de la proposition de contribution, les articles d’environ 30 000 signes, en français ou en anglais, seront à rendre pour le 1er mars 2025.

[i] Voir Jean‑Raymond Fanlo, Tracés, ruptures. La composition instable des Tragiques, Paris, Champion, 1990, chap. I, 3.2, « Les figures ambivalentes de la mère », p. 83‑87.

[ii] Voir Véronique Ferrer, L’Amoureuse rage. Agrippa d’Aubigné poète profane, Genève, Droz, 2022 et Le Printemps, Julien Goeury (éd.), Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2023.

[iii] Voir Éliane Viennot, « Agrippa d’Aubigné, Marguerite de Valois et le Divorce satyrique », Albineana, 7, 1996, p. 87-111.

[iv] Voir Jean‑Raymond Fanlo, « Catherine de Médicis, monstre femelle. Agrippa d’Aubigné, Les Tragiques, livre I », dans Régis Bertrand et Anne Carol (dir.), Le « Monstre » humain : Imaginaire et société [en ligne], Aix-en-Provence, Presses universitaires de Provence, 2005.

[v] Voir Gisèle Matthieu‑Castellani, Agrippa d’Aubigné. Le Corps de Jézabel, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1991.

[vi] Voir Jean‑Raymond Fanlo et Marie‑Dominique Legrand (dir.), Le Mythe de Diane en France au XVIe siècle, Albineana, 14, 2002.

[vii] Voir Antoinette Gimaret, « “Ses gants et son livret pour faire testament”. Le récit de la mort de Jane Grey dans l’Histoire des Martyrs de Jean Crespin et les Tragiques d’Agrippa d’Aubigné », dans Line Cottegnies, Anne‑Marie Miller‑Blaise et Christine Sukic (dir.), Objets et anatomie du corps héroïque dans l’Europe de la première modernité, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2019, p. 25‑45.

[viii] Voir Marie‑Madeleine Fragonard, « L’éloge d’Elisabeth », dans François Charpentier (dir.), Les Tragiques d’Agrippa d’Aubigné. Actes de la journée d’étude Agrippa d’Aubigné, 9 nov. 1990, Cahiers Textuel, 9, 19 1, p. 39-52 ; Cécile Huchard, « Jeanne d’Albret, Élisabeth d’Angleterre, reines, et héroïnes protestantes ? », dans Gilbert Schrenck, Anne-Elisabeth Spica, Pascale Thouvenin (dir.), Héroïsme féminin et femmes illustres (XVIe‑XVIIe siècles). Une représentation sans fiction, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2019, p. 91‑105.

[ix] Voir le Traitté des douceurs de l’affliction, Gilbert Schrenck (éd), dans Œuvres, t. III, Paris, Garnier, 2014.

[x] Voir Madeleine Lazard, « Deux féministes poitevines au XVIe siècle : Les dames des Roches », Albineana, 3, 1990, p. 143‑153.

[xi] Cette connivence et cette proximité confiante furent semblent‑ils au fondement des liens conjugaux qui unissait Agrippa d’Aubigné tant à Suzanne de Lezay qu’à Renée Burlamacchi (voir Gilbert Schrenck, notices en ligne sur les femmes d’Agrippa d’Aubigné dans le Grand Dictionnaire des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime, 2005 : Aubigné (Michèle), Burlamacchi (Renée), L’Estang (Catherine de), Lezay (Suzanne de), Limur (Anne de), Salviati (Diane)). Elle marque aussi la couleur de la relation qu’il a entretenue avec Catherine de Bourbon, mélange de respect, d’admiration et d’amitié (outre son introduction de l’édition du Traitté des douceurs de l’affliction, on pourra consulter l’article suivant de Gilbert Schrenck : « Rhétorique de l’affliction : Catherine de Bourbon, Agrippa d’Aubigné et la Conférence de Nancy (1600) », dans Claude La Charité et Roxanne Roy (dir.), Femmes, rhétorique et éloquence sous l’Ancien Régime, Saint-Étienne, Publications de l’université de Saint-Étienne, 2012, p. 299‑310).

[xii] Rare sont les femmes qui peuvent gouverner et il semble clair par ailleurs qu’Agrippa d’Aubigné n’assigne pas le même rôle aux femmes qu’aux hommes, comme en témoigne la Lettre à ses filles.

[xiii] Voir Samuel Junod, « Voix féminines dans l’œuvre d’Aubigné », Women in French Studies, 11, 2003, p. 25‑37.

[xiv] Catharina Randall Coats, « Shouting Down Abraham: How Sixteenth Century Huguenot Women Found Their Voice », Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 50, 2, 1997, p. 411‑442?

[xv] Catharina Randall Coats, « La femme : un prétexte silencieux dans l’œuvre d’Agrippa d’Aubigné », Albineana, 7, 1996, p. 76.

Palissy's Lost Grotto NEH Digital Projects for the Public

Posted: Sunday, March 17, 2024 - 10:32

“Generative Waters” is an investigation of Palissy's Lost Grotto co-lead by Luis Rodríguez-Rincón (Assistant Professor of Spanish at Haverford College), and Kelley O'Brien (Assistant Professor of New Media at UNC Greensboro). Together we are working on a multi-phase project to recreate Bernard Palissy’s sixteenth-century ceramic grotto, as described in his text Architecture et Ordonnance de la grotto rustique (La Rochelle, 1563), as an immersive 3D environment to complement the translation into English of this description for the first time.

Our full Call for Collaborators can be found at in this google doc

Please email your qualifications, interests and questions to Kelley O’Brien at kaobrien@uncg.edu

Les femmes dans la vie et l'oeuvre d'Agrippa d'Aubigné / Women in the life and writings of Agrippa d'Aubigné

Posted: Sunday, March 17, 2024 - 10:31

Appel à contribution pour Albineana 37 (2025), dirigé par Mathilde Bernard, Nadine Kuperty-Tsur et Alicia Viaud

À côté de ces femmes si diverses en possibilité d’anéantissement du corps et de l’âme de l’écrivain – car ces figures sont avant tout littéraires –, Agrippa d’Aubigné offre aux lecteurs de nombreux exemples de femmes admirables, qui dans leur grandeur n’en sont pas moins pour la plupart également mises à distance. Au rang de ces femmes viennent en premier lieu les martyres : les sœurs Foucaude – des enfants –, Jane Gray, jeune, reine, vertueuse et pieuse[^vii]… Puis les reines protestantes qui ont su gouverner en homme, éloge équivoque s’il en est : Elizabeth, Jeanne d’Albret[viii], figurant de nouvelles Deborah.

Les propositions de contribution, de quelques lignes, sont à rendre avant le 31 mai 2024 aux adresses suivantes : bernardm@parisnanterre.fr, alicia.viaud@umontreal.ca, kuperty@tauex.tau.ac.il.

Après acceptation de la proposition de contribution, les articles d’environ 30 000 signes, en français ou en anglais, seront à rendre pour le 1^er mars 2025.

[i] Voir Jean‑Raymond Fanlo, Tracés, ruptures. La composition instable des Tragiques, Paris, Champion, 1990, chap. I, 3.2, « Les figures ambivalentes de la mère », p. 83‑87.

[ii] Voir Véronique Ferrer, L’Amoureuse rage. Agrippa d’Aubigné poète profane, Genève, Droz, 2022 et Le Printemps, Julien Goeury (éd.), Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2023.

[iii] Voir Éliane Viennot, « Agrippa d’Aubigné, Marguerite de Valois et le Divorce satyrique », Albineana, 7, 1996, p. 87-111.

[iv] Voir Jean‑Raymond Fanlo, « Catherine de Médicis, monstre femelle. Agrippa d’Aubigné, Les Tragiques, livre I », dans Régis Bertrand et Anne Carol (dir.), Le « Monstre » humain : Imaginaire et société [en ligne], Aix-en-Provence, Presses universitaires de Provence, 2005.

[v] Voir Gisèle Matthieu‑Castellani, Agrippa d’Aubigné. Le Corps de Jézabel, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1991.

[vi] Voir Jean‑Raymond Fanlo et Marie‑Dominique Legrand (dir.), Le Mythe de Diane en France au XVI^e siècle, Albineana, 14, 2002.

[vii] Voir Antoinette Gimaret, « “Ses gants et son livret pour faire testament”. Le récit de la mort de Jane Grey dans l’Histoire des Martyrs de Jean Crespin et les Tragiquesd’Agrippa d’Aubigné », dans Line Cottegnies, Anne‑Marie Miller‑Blaise et Christine Sukic (dir.), Objets et anatomie du corps héroïque dans l’Europe de la première modernité, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2019, p. 25‑45.

[viii] Voir Marie‑Madeleine Fragonard, « L’éloge d’Elisabeth », dans François Charpentier (dir.), Les Tragiques d’Agrippa d’Aubigné. Actes de la journée d’étude Agrippa d’Aubigné, 9 nov. 1990, Cahiers Textuel, 9, 19 1, p. 39-52 ; Cécile Huchard, « Jeanne d’Albret, Élisabeth d’Angleterre, reines, et héroïnes protestantes ? », dans Gilbert Schrenck, Anne-Elisabeth Spica, Pascale Thouvenin (dir.), Héroïsme féminin et femmes illustres (XVIe‑XVII^e siècles). Une représentation sans fiction, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2019, p. 91‑105.

[ix] Voir le Traitté des douceurs de l’affliction, Gilbert Schrenck (éd), dans Œuvres, t. III, Paris, Garnier, 2014.

[x] Voir Madeleine Lazard, « Deux féministes poitevines au XVI^e siècle : Les dames des Roches », Albineana, 3, 1990, p. 143‑153.

[xi] Cette connivence et cette proximité confiante furent semblent‑ils au fondement des liens conjugaux qui unissait Agrippa d’Aubigné tant à Suzanne de Lezay qu’à Renée Burlamacchi (voir Gilbert Schrenck, notices en ligne sur les femmes d’Agrippa d’Aubigné dans le Grand Dictionnaire des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime, 2005 : Aubigné (Michèle), Burlamacchi (Renée), L’Estang (Catherine de), Lezay (Suzanne de), Limur (Anne de), Salviati (Diane)). Elle marque aussi la couleur de la relation qu’il a entretenue avec Catherine de Bourbon, mélange de respect, d’admiration et d’amitié (outre son introduction de l’édition du Traitté des douceurs de l’affliction, on pourra consulter l’article suivant de Gilbert Schrenck : « Rhétorique de l’affliction : Catherine de Bourbon, Agrippa d’Aubigné et la Conférence de Nancy (1600) », dans Claude La Charité et Roxanne Roy (dir.), Femmes, rhétorique et éloquence sous l’Ancien Régime, Saint-Étienne, Publications de l’université de Saint-Étienne, 2012, p. 299‑310).

[xii] Rare sont les femmes qui peuvent gouverner et il semble clair par ailleurs qu’Agrippa d’Aubigné n’assigne pas le même rôle aux femmes qu’aux hommes, comme en témoigne la Lettre à ses filles.

[xiii] Voir Samuel Junod, « Voix féminines dans l’œuvre d’Aubigné », Women in French Studies, 11, 2003, p. 25‑37.

[xiv] Catharina Randall Coats, « Shouting Down Abraham: How Sixteenth Century Huguenot Women Found Their Voice », Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 50, 2, 1997, p. 411‑442?

[xv] Catharina Randall Coats, « La femme : un prétexte silencieux dans l’œuvre d’Agrippa d’Aubigné », Albineana, 7, 1996, p. 76.

MLA Forum on French Sixteenth-Century Language, Literature, and Culture

Posted: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - 18:31

FRENCH SIXTEENTH-CENTURY CALLS FOR PAPERS: MLA 2025

The MLA Forum on French Sixteenth-Century Language, Literature, and Culture invites proposals (in French or English) on the following topic for the Modern Language Association of America’s annual convention (MLA 2025), to be held in New Orleans, 9–12 January 2025. (MLA membership required by April. For regular members traveling from outside the US, small grants are available.) Feel free to circulate this call.

For more information on the MLA convention, please see:

https://www.mla.org/Events/2025-MLA-Convention

New Work in Sixteenth-Century French Literary and Cultural Studies

The Executive Committee for the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature invites proposals (in French or English) for papers on any aspect of sixteenth-century French literature and culture to be delivered at the MLA convention in New Orleans, 9–12 January 2025. We will consider scholarship from a variety of perspectives and theoretical approaches, and welcome abstracts from scholars at any stage of their careers. Please send a 250-word abstract and brief CV to Hassan Melehy (hmelehy@unc.edu) by 15 March 2020.

Teaching the French Sixteenth Century in the Twenty-First century

How do we teach sixteenth-century literature and culture in the twenty-first century? The Executive Committee for the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Language, Literature, and Culture invites proposals for a roundtable on this subject at the MLA Convention in New Orleans, January 9–12, 2025. We are interested in all aspects of the question. Please send a 250-word abstract and brief CV to Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier (cmorandm@uvm.edu) by 15 March 2020.

Seeing, Watching, Looking in Sixteenth Century France (1480–1630)

Beyond eyewitness testimony and our modern emphasis on eyesight, how do writers and characters see, watch, look at things and beings in the long sixteenth century (1480–1630), in France and in other Francophone regions? What implications do literary and cultural explorations of scopic acts have on fields of knowledge and practice such as—among others—aesthetic representation, embodied cognition, relationality and intersubjectivity, and power and agency? What figurative implications prevail? How does seeing intersect with other sensory perceptions? We welcome proposals examining significant genre differences, in particular: What are the messenger recounting acts of violence on the tragic stage, the mystic transcribing her vision, the ethnographer watching alien rituals, the philosopher eulogizing a blind sage, the lover circumscribing forbidden sights, the prophet articulating the invisible, or the poet dismembering beauty in a blason or satire, really doing, literarily? And—within and beyond literature—how do different forms afford different ways to experience and think about seeing and looking? Please send a 250-word abstract and brief CV to Corinne Noiroit (cnoirot@vt.edu) by 15 March 2020.

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Research fellowships, Paris Institute for Advanced Study

Posted 27 Feb 2018 - 13:21

The Paris Institute for Advanced Study is launching two calls for applications for research fellowships in 2019-2020, open to researchers of all nationalities:

- one call for 5 or 10-month fellowships in the "Blue Sky Research" program, open to all disciplines and themes in the humanities and social sciences. - one call for 5 or 10-month fellowships in the “Brain, Culture and Society” program. This call is for researchers willing to conduct a project at the interface between neuroscience, cognitive science and the humanities and social sciences.

Deadline for applications: Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018, 3:00pm (Paris, France time)

More informations on https://www.paris-iea.fr/en/

Source: H-France/C. zum Kolk

Society for French Studies: Visiting International Fellowship

Posted 18 Jan 2018 - 10:15

The Society for French Studies is pleased to accept applications for the 2018 Visiting International Fellowship scheme. The deadline for this round is 1 April 2018. The scheme is intended to support an annual visiting fellowship, tenable in any UK or Irish university, or institution of higher education in the UK or Ireland, to allow outstanding academics in the French Studies field based in overseas universities to spend time at UK or Irish higher education institutions.

In order to extend the global reach of the scheme, the Society has increased the maximum value of the award to £5,000 and extended the maximum length of the Fellowship to eight weeks. It strongly encourages applications to support visits from scholars in all parts of the world, including Africa, Australasia and the Caribbean. The key objective of the Fellowship grant is to encourage the internationalization of French Studies in the UK and Ireland through engagement with those active in the field elsewhere. It is also intended that the Fellow will use the occasion to further their own academic interests, and to visit more than one UK institution. Visits should be of no more than eight weeks’ duration, although an extended period may be appropriate if additional funding is available from institutional sources.

Full details of how to apply are on the Society’s website: www.sfs.ac.uk/funding-visiting-fellowships/.

Funding: Visiting Fellowships | The Society for French Studies

www.sfs.ac.uk

To access information on our new Prize Research Fellowships scheme, click here. To access information on our Research Support scheme, click here

Applications must be completed by an academic member of staff in the UK or Irish host institution. The UK or Irish host applicant is also expected to organise, direct and take academic and organisational responsibility of the fellowship. Host applicants must be members of or associated Higher Education departments of French (or departments which teach French) in the UK and Ireland. Main applicants must also be members of the Society for French Studies. No more than one application may be submitted by any institution in one academic year (this applies to collegiate and non-collegiate universities alike, and includes joint applications from two or institutions).

The Society will offer a grant of up to £5,000 to support travel, accommodation, subsistence and other expenses; up to an additional £500 is also available to cover the costs of visiting other institutions in the UK or Ireland. Personal expenditure on items such as visa costs, car hire and health insurance are not eligible, and it is expected that host institutions will offer support for these. Application for this award will be competitive, and it cannot be made retrospectively. Informal enquiries can be directed to Professor Edward Welch, University of Aberdeen,edward.welch@abdn.ac.uk.

SFHS research awards and fellowships

Posted 13 Dec 2017 - 00:45

The Society for French Historical Studies solicits applications for the following fellowships (application deadline, 15 February 2018).

1. Research Travel Award, jointly awarded by the SFHS and the Western Society for French History

Eligibility:

Scholars from the US and Canada, awarded PhD since January 2013, for research conducted outside of North America on any aspect of French history

2. Farrar Memorial Awards, two awards will be made

Eligibility:

Graduate students enrolled in program in US or Canada, with preference given to scholars interested in relating the history of France to another part of Europe or the world

3. Institut Français d’Amérique Fund Research Fellowship (Harmon Chadbourn Rorison Fellowship)

Eligibility:

Doctoral students or scholars awarded PhD since January 2015, conducting research in France for at least one month on any topic in French historical and cultural studies (travel to and France may not be supported by this fellowship)

4. Institut Français d’Amérique Fund Research Fellowship (Catherine Maley)

Eligibility:

Doctoral students or scholars awarded PhD since January 2015, conducting research in France for at least one month on any topic in French historical and cultural studies, with preference given to projects in cultural history, art history, or literary studies, broadly-defined (travel to and France may not be supported by this fellowship)

For more information on these and other awards and prizes, please see:

https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes/

The committee entrusted with deciding these awards is:

Stéphane Gerson, Chair (2018)

Institute of French Studies New York University 15 Washington Mews New York, New York 10003 (USA) stephane.gerson@nyu.edu

Jeffrey Burson (2019)

Department of History Georgia Southern University PO Box 8054 Statesboro, GA 30460-8054 (USA) jburson@georgiasouthern.edu

Jennifer Boittin (2020, Western Society for French History representative)

Department of French and Francophone Studies Pennsylvania State University 326 Burrowes Building University Park, PA 16802 (USA) Jab808@psu.edu

Tamara Chaplin (2020)

Department of History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 309 Gregory Hall MC 466 810 South Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801 (USA) tchaplin@illinois.edu

RSA 2018 Research Fellowships

Posted 15 Oct 2017 - 01:36

The Renaissance Society of America is pleased to announce that our 2018 Research Fellowships competition is now open. For the 2018 cycle, the RSA will award up to thirty-three (33) individual fellowships to scholars working in the field of Renaissance studies (1300–1700). Fellowships are made possible by donations and bequests from RSA members, and grants from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. A link to the application site and details about the application process, eligibility, residential fellowships, non-residential fellowships, and publication subventions are available on the RSA Fellowships webpage. The deadline for applying is 9 November 2017. Model proposals, a recorded webinar, and statistics about previous fellowship cycles are intended to provide additional information about the application process. The stipend varies between $3,000 and $4,000 depending on the fellowship. During the past five years, the RSA has awarded fellowships to more than 100 scholars working on topics from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century; a list of previous award winners is posted on the RSA website. Our Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) scholarship competition is also open. DHSI scholarship applications are due 17 October 2017. Best of luck to all applicants. The Renaissance Society of America

Franklin Research Grants

Posted 15 Sep 2017 - 03:00

Scope

Since 1933, the American Philosophical Society has awarded small grants to scholars in order to support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. In 2016–2017 the Franklin Research Grants program awarded $470,000 to 89 scholars, and the Society expects to make a similar number of awards in this year’s competition. The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.

Franklin grants are made for noncommercial research. They are not intended to meet the expenses of attending conferences or the costs of publication. The Society does not pay overhead or indirect costs to any institution, and grant funds are not to be used to pay income tax on the award. Grants will not be made to replace salary during a leave of absence or earnings from summer teaching; pay living expenses while working at home; cover the costs of consultants or research assistants; or purchase permanent equipment such as computers, cameras, tape recorders, or laboratory apparatus.

Special Programs Within the Franklin Research Grants

APS/British Academy Fellowship for Research in London In collaboration with the British Academy, the APS offers an exchange postdoctoral fellowship for a minimum of one and a maximum of two months’ research in the archives and libraries of London during 2018. This award includes travel expenses between the United States and the United Kingdom and a monthly subsistence paid by the APS. Candidates should specify that they are asking for the British Academy Fellowship and apply by October 2; applicants not selected for the British Academy Fellowship will be considered for a Franklin Research Grant.

APS/Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Fellowship for Research in Edinburgh In collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, the APS offers a visiting fellowship of between two and four months for research in Edinburgh in the calendar year 2018 in any aspect of the humanities and social sciences. To maximize the benefits of the fellowship, applicants are strongly encouraged to schedule their visit to overlap with one of the two main teaching semesters (January–March and September–December). This award includes travel expenses between the United States and the United Kingdom, a private office, library and research facilities at the IASH, and a monthly subsistence paid by the APS. Travel expenses and the monthly subsistence amount will not exceed a maximum of $6,000. Candidates should specify that they are asking for the IASH Fellowship and apply by October 2; applicants not selected for the IASH Fellowship will be considered for a Franklin Research Grant. Further information about the IASH, including current research themes, is available at http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/.

Eligibility

Applicants are expected to have a doctorate or to have published work of doctoral character and quality. Ph.D. candidates are not eligible to apply, but the Society is particularly interested in supporting the work of young scholars who have recently received the doctorate. Independent scholars and faculty members at all four-year and two-year research and non-research institutions are welcome to apply provided that all eligibility guidelines are met. American citizens and residents of the United States may use their Franklin awards at home or abroad. Foreign nationals not affiliated with a U.S. institution must use their Franklin awards for research in the United States. Applicants who have previously received a Franklin grant may reapply after an interval of two years.

Awards

Funding is offered up to a maximum of $6,000. Grants are not retroactive.

Grants are payable to the individual applicant. Franklin grants are taxable income, but the Society is not required to report payments. It is recommended that grant recipients discuss their reporting obligations with their tax advisors.

Letters of Support

Note that letters of support must directly address the project outlined in the proposal. Submission of letters through Interfolio is discouraged as these letters are often too long (and may be truncated at the point at which they reach limit of allowable space) and not related to the project at hand.

Deadlines

For applications and two letters of support:

October 2, for a January 2018 decision for work in February 2018 through January 2019 December 1, for a March 2018 decision for work in April 2018 through January 2019

It is the applicant’s responsibility to verify that all materials, including the required two letters of support, reached the Society on time; contact Linda Musumeci, Director of Grants and Fellowships, at LMusumeci@amphilsoc.org or 215-440-3429.

Requirements

Project and financial reports are due one month after completion of the funded portion of the work, per the time frame indicated on the proposal. Instructions will be provided with notification of an award.

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Assistant Professor of Early Modern French Theater and Performance (1500-1800) at Yale University

Posted 19 Sep 2024 - 14:55

The Yale University Department of French intends to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor in Early Modern French Theater and Performance (1500-1800) to begin on July 1, 2025. Applicants will be affiliated with the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) Program, although the position would be fully in the French Department.

Beyond traditional text-based approaches, the candidate must be able to think at the intersection of disciplines. Their research will be situated within the framework of an archaeology of media and of visual culture(s), underscoring the link of theater with other forms of performance (such as dance, ballet, mime and opera), and emphasizing political, anthropological, sociological, economical, philosophical or gender/identity issues. Feminist, queer, and decolonial approaches are welcome. Fields of research may also include the history of performance criticism, the material conditions of performance and its impact on the spectator's body and mind, or methodological questions.

Applicants should have strong potential for excellence and achievement in scholarship and in undergraduate and graduate teaching. They must have expertise in canonical texts as well as lesser-known ones, which radically renew the canon. The successful candidate will be expected to teach in their area of specialty and in broader areas (like history of theater), meeting the needs of the Program and the Department. Applicants should have native or near-native fluency in French.

We welcome applications from scholars who already hold teaching positions, as well as recent PhDs and those who expect their PhD or equivalent degree by the time of appointment.

All applicants should submit a letter of application, C.V., a research statement, a teaching statement, three confidential letters of reference, and a chapter-length writing sample prepared for anonymous reading via http://apply.interfolio.com/153121).

To ensure full consideration, please submit all materials by November 15, 2024. For questions regarding this position, please email Agnes Bolton, administrative coordinator, at agnes.bolton@yale.edu.

Yale University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Yale values diversity among its students, staff, and faculty and strongly welcomes applications from women, persons with disabilities, protected veterans, and underrepresented minorities.

Assistant Professor of French at the University of Miami

Posted 29 Mar 2024 - 11:33

University of Miami, Michele Bowman Underwood Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is seeking applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor, beginning August 15, 2024. This Assistant Professor is expected to contribute to the department’s intellectual life by maintaining an active research and publication agenda focusing on French literature and/or language, teaching courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, directing dissertations, and serving on departmental, college, and/or university committees. We seek candidates whose teaching and research intersect with the work of other faculty in Modern Languages and Literatures and elsewhere in the College of Arts and Sciences. The teaching assignment is two courses per semester.

Minimum requirements include a Ph.D. in French or a closely related field.

Applications consisting of a curriculum vitae (CV), cover letter, and list of recommenders should be submitted through the UM website [see link below]. Review of applications will begin April 20 and will continue until the position is filled. Three letters of recommendation, a statement of teaching philosophy, and a writing sample will be required of all candidates chosen for remote interviews.

Inquiries may be addressed to the Department Chair, Dr. Logan Connors, logan.connors@miami.edu .

To apply, see the advertisement on Workday for the University of Miami:

https://umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMFaculty/jobs/details/Assistant-Professor-of-French_R100075740-1?q=R100075740

Assistant Professor in Early Modern French (Temporary Cover) at the University of Cambridge

Posted 20 Mar 2024 - 21:59

The Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint a full-time University Assistant Professor in Early Modern French, from 1 October 2024 for a period of three years.

The Assistant Professor will contribute to the teaching and examining of 17th-Century French Literature, Thought and Culture, more broadly across early modern French Studies.

We invite applications from candidates with a record of, or clear potential for leading outstanding research in 17th-century French studies along with a broad-based expertise in early modern French. A particular interest in French Thought, while not obligatory, would be welcome.

It is also expected that the appointee will have the opportunity to participate in teaching and examining at postgraduate level in their field of expertise. The role includes an active contribution to the administration of the Faculty's activities. We welcome applicants with a record of excellence in research, commensurate with career stage, and a strong trajectory.

Candidates will have relevant teaching experience, have successfully completed a PhD in a relevant field by the start date for the post and be able to demonstrate active, collegial engagement in research, teaching and outreach in early modern French Studies. A native or near-native command of both French and English is essential.

For your application to be considered please ensure that you upload the following documents to your online application:

A covering letter
Your Curriculum Vitae, including a full list of publications
An article-length example of your written work (max 8,000 words, e.g. a previous publication or thesis chapter)
Three references are required, and applicants should ask their referees to send their reports to references@mmll.cam.ac.uk by the closing date

The closing date for applications is midnight (GMT) on Thursday 18 April 2024. We plan to hold interviews and selection activities in person during mid-May, subject to change.

Prospective candidates are welcome to seek more information beyond the Further Particulars by contacting Professor Nicholas Hammond at ngh20@cam.ac.uk. On questions of procedure, please contact the School HR team on MMLLPersonnel@admin.cam.ac.uk.

This post is fixed-term for 36 months or the return of the post holder, whichever is the earlier.

Please quote reference GP40804 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and we particularly welcome applications from candidates from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background for this vacancy as they are currently underrepresented at this level in our Faculty. Details of some of the family-friendly policies operated by the University are at: https://www.hr.admin.cam.ac.uk/pay-benefits/cambens-employee-benefits/family-friendly

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

To apply, and for further information, follow this link to the advertisement on the University of Cambridge website:

https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/45559/

Thèse financée — Colportage urbains XVIe siècle - XVIIe siècle

Posted 15 Jan 2024 - 10:26

Une équipe de recherche à Sorbonne Université propose le projet de thèse "COLPORTAL", jusqu'au 31 janvier 2024.
Il s'agit d'étudier des écrits de colportage urbains de la fin 16eme siècle à la fin du 17eme siècle, d'un point de vue linguistique et discursif. La langue qu'ils emploient a-t-elle des traits spécifiques ? Des caractéristiques d'une langue 'populaire'? Une langue écrite par des lettrés vers des moins lettrés pour connoter le "populaire? On voudrait interroger la formation des publics à partir des formes linguistiques de l'écrit.
Le projet reposera sur un corpus numérisé qu'il s'agira de préparer, d'annoter, de fouiller. Des notions en humanités numériques et une appétence pour les méthodes du TAL (NLP) sont requises.
Le candidat ou la candidate doit avoir passé moins de 12 mois en France dans les 36 derniers mois. Une audition sera organisée. La date limite est le 31 janvier 2024. Les conditions complètes d'éligibilité sont ici : https://soundai.sorbonne-universite.fr/dl/for_students

Descriptif étendu

COLPORTAL - Detailed Doctoral Research Project
SUMMARY

Chapbooks, broadcasted by peddlers, are known to have been the first means of disseminating books outside the elite, in both town and country, from the 16th century onwards. Its effect has been compared to that of the mass media (Botrel 1993). They have already addressed for the French area as way of circulation of norms and ideas, but not enough yet as a resource for linguistic knowledge. The aim of this thesis is to propose an automatic approach of these data, which, from a computer science point of view, questions the ability of systems to be effective on discursive forms that evolve diachronically.

TITLE

Distant reading of chapbooks: questioning the varieties of French in the 16th and 17th centuries

SUPERVISORS

Gaël Lejeune and Karine Abiven (Sorbonne University)

Eligibility criteria for the candidates

https://soundai.sorbonne-universite.fr/dl/for_students

Applications : until 31st of January.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

   Chapbooks are known to have been the first way of disseminating books outside the elite, in towns from the 16th century onwards, and later in the countryside. Their effect has been compared to that of mass media (Botrel 1993). It is thus a source of "pop culture", a culture that can be said to be popular, in the sense that it has a wide social circulation (and not because it relates to "the people", an overly essentializing notion).
   Studies on the subject have so far focused on the uses of reading (Chartier), the history of the print (Chartier and Lüsebrink), the social history of the peddlers' guild (Fontaine 1993) or the mediation of literature by these writings (in particular tales, Andries and Bolleme). But no study to date has embraced the many genres present in these documents : news (“faits divers”), fun facts, songs, broadside ballads, almanacs, fictions. Indeed, it's difficult for the human eye to study such a wide range of textual genres together. If chapbooks have been taken so far as a source of knowledge on ancient societies, we'd like to make them contribute to the history of language.
   This is why the contribution of automatic analysis methods, Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision is necessary. First of all, we need to have a general view of this data, which is impossible for the human mind, but also to observe the internal dynamics of these sets of documents, particularly at the linguistic and discursive level. More concretely, the aim is to challenge one of the prejudices about chapbooks: their inertia (always the same tales, the same repeated almanacs ...). The texts are said to be reproduced more or less identically, an impression that lends credence to the thesis of the "conservative" mind of the "people" (Mandrou 1964 reed. 1981). In the case of songs, for example, Keilhauer (2000) has shown that the repertoire is much more mobile than previously thought. The same is true of news items ("canards"), which are certainly based on well-known themes, but also adapt to current events. What about the evolution of forms of discourse? Is street literature fundamentally conservative (as would be "mass literature" in the capitalist regime of the contemporary area: Dubois 1983: 131), or can we find formal, discursive and linguistic innovations?
   Wide diffusion writings are an exceptional source of linguistic variation : diatopic variation (regional languages or local variations of language) ; diastratic variation (i.e. according to the social situation of the speakers); diachronic variation (according to the evolution of discursive forms over time). Computational methods (in particular classical similarity calculations or the use of diachronic embeddings) will be able to reveal the modifications that affect writings as they are republished and as society evolves. This project will take a more textual approach than the usual treatments this corpus has undergone, in order to determine what the content of the writings themselves can tell us about the uses and appropriations of these widely circulated objects.
   The variations exhibited by these documents raise the question, little addressed on the Natural Language Processing side, of the ability of language models (including LLMs, Large Language Models) to represent plural languages. What can an LLM trained on contemporary data reveal about 16th-century French, and about all the internal variations of this language ? If there is not one French but various forms of French, what kind of French do we model if we fine-tune an existing LLM to these data? Does a model of the French language at some point become a model of an unique French language, and thus a multilingual model? How much this can bias the representation of language variations ? This work would enrich our knowledge of the behavior of LLMs on varied and under-resourced language states (Dufter 2020, Imani Googhari 2023).
   Another interesting aspect of this corpus is the material form of the documents: formatting, visual structure of the leaflets, presence or absence of illustration (woodcuts in particular), typographical formatting (bold, italics). This materiality of the document can provide information on its cognitive apprehension: what sequence of text is highlighted (summaries of texts, slogan-type forms or elements of language)? How can we infer hypotheses from the interactions between text and image, particularly for strategies of dissemination and memorization? The visual structure of documents will be another angle of study. Indeed, the cross-fertilization between Computer Vision and NLP is seldom exploited in Digital Humanities. In particular it appears that the typo-dispositional considerations of corpora are relatively little studied in the field.
   This angle of study, which borrows the point of view of sciences of the text, requires working on precise and structured corpora. For the study to be feasible, the corpus needs to be narrowed down: we have chosen to do this by focusing on productions from the early days of the peddlers' guild in Europe (late 16th-late 17th century). On the one hand, this allows us to focus on the penetration of written culture in a largely non-reading population at that time (later periods are already better studied). On the other hand, it allows us to focus on an urban language (since at the time, peddling was more concentrated in towns and not yet widespread in the countryside). The other limitation concerns linguistic observables: we'll be focusing on fixed forms of the language (in particular proverbs) and markers of orality (apostrophe, stimulus connectors, etc.). In return for these limitations, the corpus will take into account the generic heterogeneity of the content (tales, but also songs, miscellaneous facts, almanacs). In addition, and as far as possible according to the profile of the doctoral student, the study would be multilingual : English chapbooks, German Volkbuch, or Spanish papeles públicos and Portuguese litteratura de cordel. As research on peddling is more developed in these other linguistic fields, the resources would be more readily exploitable.

The aim is to work jointly on textual data and metadata (dates, language, text genre, format, presence or absence of illustrations). Many resources already exist, in several languages (see numerous digital libraries or other online databases infra : websites references). The data produced as part of the thesis may be provided in open source format to enrich existing websites devoted to digitized chapbooks collections. Data obtained via trained model OCR could be contributed, possibly enriched by applying Named Entity Recognition (useful for detecting referent variability).

Domaine :
Littérature – Linguistique – Humanités numériques- TAL – Histoire de l’imprimé

REFERENCES

-   Andries, Lise, et Bollème, Geneviève (éd.), La Bibliothèque bleue, en collaboration avec G.Bollème, Paris, Laffont, 2003.
-   Botrel, Jean-François, Les Aveugles colporteurs d'imprimés en Espagne, Mélanges de la casa Velazquez, 1993, n°9, p. 417-482.
-   Chartier, Roger, Lectures et lecteurs dans la France d’Ancien Régime, Seuil, Univers historique, 1987.
-   Chartier, Roger, et Lüsebrink Hans-Jürgen (dir.), Colportage et lecture populaire. Imprimés de grande circulation en Europe, XVIᵉ-XIXᵉ siècles, Paris, IMEC Éditions et Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 1996.
-   Dubois, Jacques, L’institution de la littérature. Introduction à une sociologie, Bruxelles, Éditions Labor/Fernand Nathan, 1983.
-   Dufter, Philipp et Schütze, “Hinrich Identifying elements essential for BERT’s multilinguality”, in Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020, p. 4423–4437.
-   Fontaine, Laurence, Histoire du colportage en Europe (XVᵉ-XIXᵉ siècle), Paris, Albin Michel, 1993.
-   Imani Googhari, Ayyoob et Lin, Peiqin et Kargaran, Amir Hossein et Severini, Silvia et Sabe, Masoud Jalili et Kassner, Nora et Ma, Chunlan et Schmid, Helmut et Martins, André, et Yvon, François et Schütze, Hinrich Glot500: Scaling Multilingual Corpora and Language Models to 500 Languages, 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023, p. 1082–1117.
-   Keilhauer, Annette, « La compétence vendue : Aspects de la relation entre éditeurs, chanteurs et public dans le colportage des chansons à Paris au XVIIIe s. », dans Chansons de colportage, Reims, ÉPURE - Éditions et Presses universitaires de Reims, 2002, p. 171-190.
-   Mandrou, Robert, De la culture populaire aux XVIIᵉ-XVIIIIᵉ siècles, La Bibliothèque bleue de Troyes, Paris, Stock, 1964.

Assistant Professor, French/Francophone Studies at Appalachian State University

Posted 30 Nov 2022 - 13:35

Location: Boone, NC
Tenure Status: Tenure Track
Provide Rank: Assistant Professor
Position Number: 044761
Department: Languages, Literatures & Cultures - 250250

Posting Date: 11/16/2022
Closing Date: 12/16/2022
Open Until Filled: No
Evaluation of Applications Begins: 12/16/2022
Proposed Date of Hire: 08/21/2023

Suggested Salary Range: Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Minimum Qualifications: Terminal degree French and Francophone Studies or related discipline, Native/near-native fluency in French and English, Evidence of an active record in research, scholarly or creative activities in Francophone Studies, Evidence of willingness to teach all levels French language, literature, and culture, Evidence of excellence in teaching, Commitment to service

Areas of Interest (No Minimum Level Required)

Commitment to mentoring and advising

Commitment to support graduate program and/or honors program in French

Willingness to work on student recruitment and retention

Willingness to develop courses in Francophone Studies

License/Certification Required: N/A

Special Instructions to Applicants

For a complete application, please apply and submit all below-required documents electronically through Appalachian State University's job board:

Cover letter

Curriculum vitae

Statement of teaching philosophy

Diversity statement, describing plans to promote diversity issues and inclusive excellence in teaching, service, and/or outreach

Teaching Evaluations/Peer Reviews

Research Sample

Names and full contact information for three professional references

Unofficial undergraduate and graduate-level transcripts

Background Check Statement

Any offer of employment to a successful candidate will be conditioned upon the University's receipt of a satisfactory criminal background report.

Eligibility for Employment

Proper documentation of identity and eligibility for employment will be required before the hiring process can be completed.

Search Chair Name
Dr. Beverly Moser

Search Chair Email
moserba@appstate.edu

Quick Link
https://appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/37174

Posting Number
FA00289P

Please note this position is based on enrollment and subject to available funding.

Individuals with disabilities may request accommodations in the application process by contacting Maranda Maxey, ADA/504 Coordinator, at 828-262-3056 or maxeymr@appstate.edu.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Teach undergraduate language and literature courses at all levels as needed

Teach regular undergraduate and graduate courses in Francophone literature and culture

Maintain an active research agenda

Provide department and university serviceType of Position: Full Time Position

Appointment Type: 1.0

Number Of Months Per Year: 9

Physical Demands of Position

Typical demands of classroom and educational environments.

The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures is home to a diverse faculty. The department offers a variety of courses in language, culture, literature, and linguistics; these courses support General Education as well as the department's programs, which include Bachelor's degrees in East Asian Languages and Cultures, French and Francophone Studies, German, Spanish and Hispanic Studies, and initial licensure programs for K-12 French and Spanish teachers. The department also offers minors in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and TESL/Applied Linguistics, two years of instruction in Latin and Portuguese, and graduate programs in French and Spanish K-12 and College Teaching.

The department collaborates with the Honors College, the International Business program, the Reich College of Education, and the interdisciplinary Global Studies program within the College of Arts and Sciences. The department also works closely with Appalachian's Office of International Education and Development, offering short-term faculty-led programs abroad and a large number of semester- and year-long exchange programs.We at Appalachian State University are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusive excellence both locally and globally.

We understand that the successful implementation of diversity, equity, and inclusive excellence is the responsibility of the entire university community, including alumni and official university governing bodies. A diverse campus community supports an influx of broad and distinct ideas that increase learning opportunities and strengthen the impact of our community as we work collectively to achieve a just experience for all.

We actively encourage, support, and promote a global mindset and an equitable environment where all will know that they belong and are safe to express their culture, identity, values, ideas, opinions, and creativity. We are committed to creating a culture of equity opportunity for all, one that has an expectation of fairness, justice, and equity-minded practice at all levels of the university community.

Appalachian State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. The University does not discriminate in access to its educational programs and activities, or with respect to hiring or the terms and conditions of employment, on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, political affiliation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information or sexual orientation.

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Fellowship / Bourse: The Newberry Library

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 - 10:25

The Newberry is now accepting fellowship applications for the 2017-18 academic year.

The Newberry Library's long-standing fellowship program provides outstanding scholars with the time, space, and community required to pursue innovative and ground-breaking scholarship. In addition to the Library's collections, fellows are supported by a collegial interdisciplinary community of researchers, curators, and librarians. An array of scholarly and public programs also contributes to an engaging intellectual environment.

We invite interested individuals who wish to utilize the Newberry's collection to apply for our many fellowship opportunities:

Long-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars for continuous residence at the Newberry for periods of 4 to 12 months; the stipend is $4,200 per month. Applicants must hold a PhD by the application deadline in order to be eligible. Long-Term Fellowships are intended to support individual scholarly research and promote serious intellectual exchange through active participation in the fellowship program. The deadline for longterm fellowships is November 15, 2016.

Short-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars, PhD candidates, and those who hold other terminal degrees. Short-Term Fellowships are generally awarded for 1 to 2 months; unless otherwise noted the stipend is $2,500 per month. These fellowships support individual scholarly research for those who have a specific need for the Newberry's collection and are mainly restricted to individuals who live and work outside of the Chicago metropolitan area. The deadline for shortterm opportunities is December 15, 2016.

Many of the Newberry's fellowship opportunities have specific eligibility requirements; in order to learn more about these requisites, as well as application guidelines, please visit our website.

Questions should be addressed to research@newberry.org.

Résidences à la Fondation Camargo (Cassis, France)

Posted: 4 Oct 2016 - 16:42

La Fondation Camargo, située à Cassis, a été créée par l’artiste et philanthrope Jerome Hill depuis 40 ans. Il s’agit d’un lieu de résidence dédié à l’art et aux sciences humaines et sociales. Elle offre un environnement de qualité pour penser, créer et échanger.

Le programme de résidence Camargo propose des résidences de 6, 8 ou 11 semaines pour les chercheurs et penseurs travaillant sur les cultures françaises/francophones, y compris l’influence des cultures méditerranéennes ainsi que les artistes de toute discipline. Les périodes de résidences sont à l’automne 2017 (8 semaines) et au printemps 2018 (6, 8 ou 11 semaines).

Une bourse mensuelle de 1000 USD est disponible ainsi qu’une prise en charge du voyage. Les conjoints et enfants de plus de 6 ans sont bienvenus.

Date limite de postulation: 24 novembre 2016
Plus d’informations sur l’application : http://camargofoundation.org
RESPONSABLE : Julie Chénot
URL DE RÉFÉRENCE : http://camargofoundation.org

IMLR Visiting Fellowships and Scholarships Program. Due date: 1 March 2016

Posted: 12 Feb 2016 - 09:49

Closing date for applications/references: 1 March 2016

INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH University of London School of Advanced Study

Visiting Fellowships and Scholarships Programme 2016-17

The Institute of Modern Languages Research now invites applications for Visiting Fellowships and Visiting Scholarships for the academic year 2016-17. Applicants, with or without funding, may conduct research into any field relevant to the work of the IMLR.

Up to ten Visiting Fellowships and five Visiting Scholarships are available annually on a non-stipendiary basis, tenable at the Institute or within one of the IMLR's research centres: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Centre for Quebec and French-Canadian Studies Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies (NEW from January 2016 - website under construction)

Visiting Fellowships and Scholarships are open to applicants from the UK and overseas. Candidates applying for Fellowships should have completed their doctorate and have a strong publications record. Doctoral students may apply for Visiting Scholarships.

Further details / How to Apply – Application Form

Closing date for receipt of applications and references: 1 March 2016

Brown University Postdocs - due date: 10 Feb 2016

Posted: 14 Jan 2016 - 11:29

Brown University: DOF: University Wide

Brown University Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowships

Location: Providence, RI

Closes: Feb 10, 2016 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time (GMT-5 hours)

Brown University invites applications for one- to two-year Postdoctoral Fellowships to support the development of early career scholars from diverse backgrounds (with particular attention to historically underrepresented groups in the academy) who show promise as innovative scholars in the following integrative scholarship areas:

• Creating Peaceful, Just, and Prosperous Societies | Economic, political and cultural development are as important as defense and diplomacy in establishing peaceful and just societies. This area invites rigorous scholarship in international studies, promotes active engagement in the world of international affairs, and supports scholarship that promotes social justice and economic prosperity domestically and internationally.

• Exploring Human Experience | Brown has a long and distinguished record of innovation in the humanities. Learning from the historical record, analyzing present conditions, and comprehending our future possibilities are fundamental to the University’s mission and its contributions to society. This area seeks to develop a robust environment for the study of human experience in all its diversity throughout history and around the world.

• Cultivating Creative Expression | Creative expression is used to explore human values and communicate new ideas, to challenge societies, and to draw disparate groups together. At Brown, the creative arts are tightly integrated into the liberal arts. This area focuses on scholarship that can foster an environment in which artists are operating at the highest levels of their crafts and learn from and inform scholars in disciplines across the campus.

• Understanding the Human Brain | This area focuses on efforts to understand functions of the brain that distinguish us as humans, discover treatments for disorders that diminish our capacities, and create technologies to improve lives.

• Sustaining Life on Earth | Environmental change can threaten global supplies of food and water, harm human health, and undermine the stability of societies around the world. This area focuses on the relationship of the environment to human societies combining the efforts of natural, physical, and social scientists, together with humanists, to understand the determinants of environmental change, alter norms of human behavior, consider ethical issues related to sustainability, and develop sound environmental policies.

• Using Science and Technology to Improve Lives | The development of new technology is critical to human progress, and Brown is at the forefront of discovery in areas such as computing, nanoscience and bioengineering. We recognize that the benefits of new technologies hinge on how well they ultimately align with societal needs. This area emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to innovation, grounded in a broad understanding of local and global needs and concerns.

• Deciphering Disease and Improving Population Health | Improving human health requires an integrated approach to understanding the causes of disease and translating that knowledge into new modes of diagnosis, treatment, and ultimately prevention – from bench to bedside to population.

The successful candidate will teach one course per year as part of the appointment and will participate in activities related to the President’s Diversity Postdoctoral Fellows Program. Scholars with a Ph.D. in the humanities, social sciences, sciences or engineering will be considered. The candidate’s dissertation must be complete by July 1, 2016

These one- to two-year Postdoctoral Fellowships are not renewable. Candidates should submit a letter of application that describes how the candidate’s scholarship fits into one or more integrative area, and describes the candidate’s interest in and plans for impacting the ethnic, gender, and/or racial diversity of the campus. Please also indicate clearly your desired departmental affiliation. In addition, a curriculum vitae and three letters of reference are required.

Deadline for applications is February 10, 2016.

The appointment will be effective July 1, 2016.

To apply go to Interfolio at the following link:

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Doctoral Study at Royal Holloway, University of London - Studentships

Posted: 14 Jan 2016 - 11:18

Funding for Doctoral Study at Royal Holloway

AHRC and College Postgraduate Studentships

School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway University of London.

French, German, Hispanic Studies and Italian and

Comparative Literature and Culture

The School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway is pleased to invite applications to its PhD programmes in French, German, Hispanic Studies and Italian and Comparative Literature and Culture. You can find out more about the research environment and range of expertise we offer on our research pages.

https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/mllc/research/home.aspx.

Royal Holloway is the lead member of the TECHNE London and South-East Doctoral Training Partnership, which offers Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) awards for those commencing postgraduate study in September 2016. TECHNE (http://www.techne.ac.uk) comprises seven universities and is one of the 11 AHRC Doctoral Training Partnerships. TECHNE's vision is to produce scholars who are highly motivated and prepared for academic, public or professional life. Its students will benefit from a diverse range of training workshops and opportunities to engage with partners in the arts and cultural sector.

Students may apply to TECHNE for a doctoral award by submitting a TECHNE application through Royal Holloway. If you are interested in applying for a TECHNE award, the first step is to speak to a prospective supervisor or the Director of Graduate Studies (sarah.wright@rhul.ac.uk). It is not possible to submit an application directly to TECHNE: you must apply through one of the member universities. Overseas students are not eligible for AHRC awards (although they may be considered for other College awards), and EU students are eligible for fees only.

There are around 50 awards per annum for students who are applying to undertake PhD study. Students who apply for a TECHNE award will be considered automatically for a College Scholarship.

How to apply

Prospective doctoral students who are interested in applying for a studentship should contact the Director of Graduate Studies, Dr Sarah Wright. The deadline for applications is 7 February 2016 (note that all references must also be received by this deadline).

Students whose research falls within the remit of Freedom and Rights of the Individual in the Digital Age may be considered for an alternative stream of funding (deadline 20^th January 2016).

Masters by Research Fee Waivers: We are pleased to announce that we are currently offeringfee waivers for Masters by Research, available in all areas of the School's research interests. Fee waivers are allocated on a competitive basis by the School. Eligibility conditions apply. Please note that only candidates who have been offered, and who have accepted, a place to study at Royal Holloway will be considered for any available funding opportunities. You should therefore apply for an MA program as soon as possible. Deadline 29^th February 2016.

For more information on any of these awards, or for postgraduate study more generally at Royal Holloway, write to the Director of Graduate Studies, Dr Sarah Wright (sarah.wright@rhul.ac.uk).

Dr Ruth Cruickshank

Director of Comparative Literature and Culture Senior Lecturer in French School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures Royal Holloway, University of London TW20 0EX

+44 (0)1784 44 3252 Room IN112 ruth.cruickshank@rhul.ac.uk

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Cahiers-Débats, n° 1 – Feminisms and Early Modern France | Féminismes et première modernité

Posted: 22 May 2025 - 10:14

Sylvaine Guyot et Hélène Bilis ont le grand plaisir de vous informer que le premier numéro des Cahiers-Débats, Feminisms and Early Modern France | Féminismes et première modernité, est à présent publié en ligne, sur le nouveau site des Cahiers du dix-septième, à l'adresse suivante : https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/cahiers17e/issue/view/2001.

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Cher·es collègues, cher·es ami·es,

Nous avons le plaisir d’annoncer la parution en ligne, dans la revue Cahiers du dix-septième, du numéro spécial Feminisms and Early Modern France | Féminismes et première modernité, coordonné par Hélène Bilis et Sylvaine Guyot. Il est désormais disponible à l'adresse suivante : https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/cahiers17e/issue/view/2001. Vous en trouverez ci-dessous la table des matières.

Ce numéro inaugure les Cahiers-Débats, une série spéciale des Cahiers du dix-septième, lancée sous la direction d'Hélène Bilis et Sylvaine Guyot, et centrée sur les enjeux méthodologiques qui animent aujourd’hui le champ des études sur la France de la première modernité. Pour chaque numéro, des chercheuses et chercheurs de générations, de disciplines et de traditions nationales différentes sont invité·es à aborder de front les débats que cristallise, au sein des sciences humaines, la question de la pertinence et de la fécondité d’étudier le passé au prisme d’approches critiques nouvelles ou renouvelées. En portant une attention particulière à leur position critique et à leur trajectoire intellectuelle, les auteur·rices proposent des essais aux styles variés, dont l’ensemble vise à refléter autant les convergences que les désaccords.

Nous vous signalons également que tous les numéros des Cahiers du dix-septième (1988-2023) sont disponibles en ligne et en libre accès sur le nouveau site de la revue, consultable sur le lien suivant : https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/cahiers17e/index.

Très cordialement,

Sylvaine Guyot & Hélène Bilis

[ENGLISH VERSION]

Dear friends, dear colleagues,

We are delighted to announce the online publication of a special issue of Cahiers du dix septième, Vol. 21, Feminisms and Early Modern France | Féminismes et première modernité, edited by Hélène Bilis and Sylvaine Guyot : https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/cahiers17e/issue/view/2001. You will find the table of contents below.

This is the first of a series of special issues, Cahiers-Débats, launched by Hélène Bilis and Sylvaine Guyot, around key methodological questions surrounding Early Modern French and Francophone Studies. Established and emerging scholars from a variety of fields, national traditions, academic institutions, and cultural contexts are invited to grapple with major debates and divides in the humanities today, in particular on the relevance, value, and legitimacy of turning to new critical approaches to study the past. Paying particular attention to positionality and critical anchoring, the contributors offer short-form essays as part of a dialogue intended to make visible the intersections, divisions, and even frictions within the field of early modern French Studies.

We also wish to announce that all past issues of Cahiers du dix-septième (1987-2023) are openly accessible on the new website of the journal, at the following link: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/cahiers17e/index.

With best wishes,

Hélène Bilis & Sylvaine Guyot

Table of Contents | Table des matières

Introduction

Hélène Bilis & Sylvaine Guyot

Troubles dans l’historiographie, ou le genre à l’œuvre : féminismes et première modernité (parcours, pratiques et perspectives plurielles)

Section 1. Historicities | Historicités

Anne Tomiche

Études de genre et pratique raisonnée de l’anachronisme

David Harrison

Feminist Signatures, National Singularity: Joan DeJean’s Early Modern Women

Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin

Voir, entendre et lire les femmes. Enjeux thématiques et matrimoniaux en philosophie moderne

Matthieu Dupas

Le désir baroque du Menteur de Corneille

Sarah Grandin

A Conversation with Andaleeb Badiee Banta, Curator of Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800

Section 2. Feminist Situations-Trajectories | Situations-Trajectoires féministes

Mita Choudhury

Echo Chambers and Enlightenment

Marie-Élisabeth Henneau

Oser le genre en histoire monastique

Faith E. Beasley

Revising/Mastering Memory: Reflections on the Changing Nature of Feminist Scholarship

Jennifer Tamas

Entrée en féminisme par l’école de la banlieue. Itinérance d’une néo-précieuse en mer d’inimitié

Juliette Cherbuliez

Collaboration as a Premodernist Feminist Praxis in Three Parlor Games

Section 3. Gendered Positionings | Positionnements genrés

Nathalie Freidel

Sévigné vs Madame de Sévigné. Pour une lecture féministe de la Correspondance

Mitchell Greenberg

Nasty Women: Classicism’s Seductive Misogyny

Mark Franko

The Feminist Unconscious of French Court Ballet

Julia Doe

Gender and Musical Labor in Early Modern France: The Case of Louise Roussel Leclair

Section 4. Book Reviews | Comptes rendus

Laura J. Burch

Angela Hunter and Rebecca Wilkin, eds. and trans., Louise Dupin’s Work on Women: Selections, 2023

Sara Harvey

Deborah Steinberger, Women’s Stories in Le Mercure galant (1672-1710). Feminine Fictions in an Early French Periodical, 2024

Natasha Roule

Anne Le Berre, Michelle Poncet ou la « Destouches-Lobreau », directrice de l’opéra de Lyon au XVIIIe siècle, 2023

Rebecca Wilkin

Helena Taylor, Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France, 2024

LOUISE MARIE DE GONZAGUE (1611-1667) REINE DE POLOGNE Passion et politique à la cour des Vasa. Tome I : Le temps de l'attente. Tome II : Le temps de l'action - Chantal Grell

Posted: 24 Apr 2025 - 14:23

Chantal Grell, LOUISE MARIE DE GONZAGUE (1611-1667) REINE DE POLOGNE Passion et politique à la cour des Vasa. Tome I : Le temps de l'attente. Tome II : Le temps de l'action, Paris, H. Champion, 2024.

Sur l’échiquier politique européen, Louise Marie de Gonzague, reine de Pologne (1645-1667), est une pièce clef. Pour Richelieu et Mazarin, son mariage, durement négocié, doit contrer l’influence autrichienne en Pologne-Lituanie, État le plus étendu et le plus vulnérable d’Europe, neutre pendant la Guerre de Trente Ans. La reine n’est toutefois pas l’instrument docile attendu. Exilée dans un pays étranger, cette femme pieuse, angoissée, courageuse et avide de pouvoir fait face à la tragédie de la Pologne, fragilisée par l’avidité des magnats et la faiblesse du pouvoir royal, envahie et ruinée. Soucieuse de bien faire, elle tente en vain de rendre héréditaire cette monarchie élective. Haïe, victime d’une damnatio memoriæ, elle a néanmoins tissé des liens durables entre France et Pologne.

Plus d'informations ici.

FRANÇOIS DE JAUCOURT DE VILLARNOUL, MARQUIS D'AUSSON, Mémoires - éd. Éliane Itti

Posted: 24 Apr 2025 - 14:20

FRANÇOIS DE JAUCOURT DE VILLARNOUL, MARQUIS D'AUSSON, Mémoires, éd. Éliane Itti, Paris, H. Champion, 2025.

Les Mémoires de François de Jaucourt (1653-1727) sont restés enfouis dans les oubliettes de l’Histoire pendant trois siècles. Volontaire à dix-huit ans dans la cavalerie, ce gentilhomme huguenot s’est battu pour son roi pendant la guerre de Hollande sous des chefs prestigieux, Condé, Turenne, Schomberg, mais sa carrière militaire est brisée net par la révocation de l’édit de Nantes. Pour rester fidèle à sa religion, il sort du royaume au péril de sa vie et réussit à se réfugier en Brandebourg, où l’électeur Frédéric Guillaume lui octroie un emploi de cour et un emploi de guerre.

Il vivra pendant une vingtaine d’années à la cour de Berlin, jusqu’à la mort de la reine Sophie Charlotte. Il donne ainsi un éclairage original sur les événements historiques, politiques et religieux dont il fut le témoin amusé ou indigné, parfois l’acteur et presque toujours l’observateur lucide. En même temps, son regard critique sur l’éternelle comédie humaine tire son ouvrage vers ce qu’on n’appelle pas encore une autobiographie, avec le portrait d’un personnage qui revendique une intégrité à toute épreuve, mais qui avoue sa misanthropie grandissante. Aussi exigeant envers autrui qu’envers lui-même, Jaucourt apparaît comme un homme qui ne transige pas avec sa conscience, un homme d’honneur.

Plus d'informations ici.

JEAN DE LA FONTAINE ET LA FABLE ÉSOPIQUE Genèse et généalogie d'un filiation ambiguë - Antoine Biscéré

Posted: 24 Apr 2025 - 14:17

Antoine Biscéré, JEAN DE LA FONTAINE ET LA FABLE ÉSOPIQUE Genèse et généalogie d'un filiation ambiguë, Paris, H. Champion, 2025.

Au seuil de ses Fables, La Fontaine affirme qu’il « chante les héros dont Ésope est le Père ». Souvent prise pour argent comptant, cette généalogie affichée a conduit la critique à envisager la composition des Fables dans le cadre d’un face-à-face schématique entre le « Père » supposé du genre et son Fils incarné dans la France du Grand Siècle. Après un examen approfondi de l’origine et de la nature du corpus des fables dites d’Ésope et de la biographie fictive du fabuliste grec (Vie d’Ésope), le présent ouvrage analyse la réception et la transmission de ces textes aux XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles : cet examen révèle que la filiation apparemment directe, évidente et sans médiation entre l’inventeur légendaire de l’apologue et son héritier majeur demande une révision de nos préjugés critiques, à la lumière de l’archéologie d’un modèle, d’un genre et d’une tradition qui s’avèrent d’une complexité et d’une diversité que La Fontaine lui-même ne soupçonnait peut-être pas, mais qui promet à l’analyste moderne la révélation d’un mode d’invention et de réception du genre fable beaucoup plus ouvert, fluide, voire confus, que ne le laisserait supposer l’annotation actuelle des éditions du fabuliste français.

Plus d'informations ici.

ÉTUDES SUR LE "DICTIONNAIRE HISTORIQUE ET CRITIQUE" DE PIERRE BAYLE Sous la direction de Hans Bots et Antony McKenna

Posted: 24 Apr 2025 - 14:14

ÉTUDES SUR LE "DICTIONNAIRE HISTORIQUE ET CRITIQUE" DE PIERRE BAYLE

Sous la direction de Hans Bots et Antony McKenna

Paris, H. Champion, 2025.

Cet ouvrage est publié en souvenir de et en hommage à Jean- Luc Couret, maire de Carla-Bayle, qui, dès 1983, a eu l’idée d’associer la commune à la figure éminente de Pierre Bayle et à l’idéal européen. En 1989, il a créé un musée dans la maison natale du philosophe au Carla-Bayle au moyen d’un partenariat entre la municipalité du Carla-Bayle, le Musée historique de Rotterdam et l’Institut Pierre Bayle de Nimègue, qui a permis la reconstitution du cabinet de travail du philosophe à Rotterdam et la constitution d’une bibliothèque baylienne. Il a organisé bon nombre de colloques consacrés à l’œuvre du philosophe. En 2006, il a réussi, avec le soutien d’amis du Carla tels que Pierre Joxe et Laurent Fabius, à faire éditer un timbre à l’effigie de Pierre Bayle pour commémorer le tricentenaire de sa mort. Les travaux présentés ici ont été conçus comme un hommage à la mémoire d’un maire engagé et dévoué, qui a fait en sorte que son village incarne les valeurs défendues par Bayle : la tolérance et l’esprit critique.

Le lecteur trouvera dans cet ouvrage douze articles de référence, regroupés selon trois thématiques fortes : « Bayle et ses imprimeurs », « L’argumentation philosophique, religieuse et historique du Dictionnaire historique et critique » et « Lectures et réceptions ».

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Conferences and Colloquia

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Online Book Talk: Rori Bloom in Conversation with Anne Duggan

Posted: 1 Apr 2023 - 12:03

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us for our SECFS conversations online series showcasing recent books about eighteenth-century France.

At our meeting on Friday, April 14 at 3pm EST, Rori Bloom of the University of Florida will present her book — Making the Marvelous: Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts (University of Nebraska Press, 2022) — in conversation with Anne Duggan of Wayne State University. After their conversation, there will be time for further questions from the audience.

To register, please use this link, which you may forward to interested colleagues and students:

https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlfumupzIqHNIjddkUFFvH9cHEa_uFYfbR

We look forward to seeing you soon,

Yann Robert, SECFS president (yrobert@uic.edu)

Fayçal Falaky, SECFS vice-president (ffalaky@tulane.edu)

Masano Yamashita, SECFS executive secretary (Masano.Yamashita@colorado.edu)

Chers/Chères Collègues,

Vous êtes invité.e.s à la prochaine rencontre de la série des Conversations en visioconférence qui tout au long des prochains mois permettront de découvrir des ouvrages publiés récemment sur la France du XVIIIe siècle.

Rori Bloom (University of Florida) présentera son ouvrage — Making the Marvelous: Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts (University of Nebraska Press, 2022) — en conversation avec Anne Duggan (Wayne State University), le vendredi 14 avril à 15h (EST). L'intervention sera suivie d'une séance de questions et réponses.

Pour s'inscrire : https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlfumupzIqHNIjddkUFFvH9cHEa_uFYfbR

Le lien sera communiqué après inscription.

Au plaisir de vous y voir bientôt,

Yann Robert, président de la SECFS (yrobert@uic.edu)

Fayçal Falaky, vice-président de la SECFS (ffalaky@tulane.edu)

Masano Yamashita, secrétaire de la SECFS (Masano.Yamashita@colorado.edu)

Digital Conference by C. Schuwey — Digital Interfaces and the Politics of Literature

Posted: 12 Mar 2023 - 18:59

Christophe Schuwey, Université de Bretagne Sud, will discuss the contributions of digital humanities to literature, taking French seventeenth-century literature as a case study. He will do so by articulating this question with the issue of “literature”: how the very idea of literature, “text,” “canon” shaped, and continue to shape the way digital humanities are seen and done. He will argue that digital humanities are a way out for literary studies, a chance to ask critical new questions and to challenge notions of "work" and internal, textual interpretations.

Join online: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/prof-christophe-schuwey-digital-interfaces-the-politics-of-li...

A pen of one’s own: The legacy of Women Letter-Writers in 17th-century France (2 March 2023)

Posted: 31 Jan 2023 - 12:55

Please join us for the fourth event of University College Dublin's 2022-2023 Crossing Cultures UCD@SLCL Seminar Series:

A pen of one’s own: The legacy of Women Letter-Writers in 17th-century France

2 March 2023 @ 6:00 pm GMT/1:00 pm EST

Zoom link: https://ucd-ie.zoom.us/j/65261392555?pwd=eUpGWVNQOU82WDA0SU1kd3J3OWcwQT09

featuring

Dr. Nathalie Freidel (Wilfrid Laurier University)

and

Emma Gauthier-Mamaril (Université de Montréal)

followed by a Q &A conversation moderated by Dr. Janée Allsman (University College Dublin)

This event is free and open to all. The event will be conducted primarily in English, with interventions in French also welcome.

Dr. Freidel will discuss her recent book, Le Temps des “écriveuses". L'œuvre pionnière des épistolières au XVIIe siècle, which explores how through letter-writing, seventeenth-century women gained access to and influenced the cultural and literary scene that they were excluded from. It also examines how and to what ends these écriveuses constructed and extended their communication networks of family, friends, and wider circles of sociability.

Emma Gauthier-Mamaril and Dr. Freidel will also demonstrate their SSHRC-funded Épistolières-17 database of 17th-century women letter writers and answer questions about this exciting ongoing project.

Organised by: Janée Allsman, Katherine Calvert, Sara Delmedico,

Serena Laiena, Laëtitia Saint-Loubert, and Valeria Taddei

With special thanks to: The Irish Research Council, Marsh's Library, and University College Dublin's School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Derval Conroy Seminar on Le Moyne's La Gallerie de femmes fortes (7 December - on Zoom)

Posted: 29 Nov 2022 - 11:59

Dr Williams’s Trust & Library, London

Assoc. Professor Derval Conroy (University College Dublin: School of Languages, Culture and Linguistics)

Changing places: paratexts and gender in translations of Le Moyne's

“La Gallerie de Femmes Fortes” (1647)

DATE: Wednesday 7th December 2022 TIME: 5.30 pm - 7.00 pm GMT

By ZOOM: Meeting ID: 853 5419 0446 Pass: 377656

For further information contact: daniel.rafiqi@kcl.ac.uk

This seminar is one of a forthcoming occasional series highlighting the riches and diversity of collections held by the Dr Williams’s Trust in London. The Trust’s sizable early modern French print holdings, numbering over 1000 texts, covers a range of topics including prose literature, rhetoric and travel writing.

The focus of this evening’s talk will be on themes of gender and power, a field well represented in the collections. The Dr Williams’s collections contain funeral sermons written for aristocratic women, panegyrics and works concerned with modelling female virtue.

The author of Ruling Women, Vol 1 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Prof Conroy’s talk will focus on Pierre Le Moyne’s La Gallerie de femmes fortes (1647), particularly on the translation of paratextual elements in the text in the Spanish language edition of Le Moyne’s text. In addition to the broad themes of gender and power, she will touch upon the history of printing as well as the theorisation of paratexts, text and images.

Mary Queen of Scots from Le Moyne: La Gallerie… (Coll. Dr Williams’s Trust)

Revendications des gens de théâtre (interprètes et techniciens) jeudi 20 octobre

Posted: 3 Oct 2022 - 14:42

Journée d'études
Revendications des gens de théâtre (interprètes et techniciens)
jeudi 20 octobre de 10h à 18h

dans le cadre du programme de recherche ThéPARis. Les Théâtres Parisiens sous l'Ancien Régime
Université Paris Sorbonne, Salle des Actes 17 rue de la Sorbonne
L'entrée est libre sur réservation (nécessaire pour accéder aux locaux de l'université) : theparis.seminaire@gmail.com

Lien vers le webinaire: https://cmbv.fr/fr/evenements/revendications-des-gens-de-theatre-interpr...

Programme

10h-13h

Emanuele De Luca (Université Côte d'Azur), Barbara Nestola (CESR-CMBV), Jennifer Ruimi (Université Montpellier 3)
Femmes de théâtre et revendications : en guise d'introduction

Modératrice
Bénédicte Louvat (Sorbonne Université)

Intervenantes :

Françoise Rubellin (Université de Nantes)
Revendications des joueurs de marionnettes : suppliques, procès et fictionnalisation

Marion Danlos (Université de Nantes)
L’affaire Ferrari : les revendications du tailleur de la Comédie-Italienne

Charline Granger (ENS Lyon)
« Pour des bouts de chandelles ». Les revendications des décorateurs de la Comédie-Française aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles

14h30-18h

Modérateurs
Renaud Bret-Vitoz (Sorbonne Université)
Sophie Marchand (Sorbonne Université)

Intervenantes :

Petra Dotlačilová (Stockholm University/CMBV)
Revendiquer les mains invisibles : les voix et les porte-paroles des ouvriers de costume à l’Opéra et à la cour

Suzanne Rochefort (Université Gustave Eiffel)
Marché du travail, circulations et revendications des comédiens et des comédiennes (Paris, seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle)

Lola Salem (University of Oxford)
L’emploi en tant qu’objet de revendications légales entre actrices rivales

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Geoffrey Turnovsky - article in the Romanic Review

University of Washington

Congratulations are also in order for Geoffrey Turnovsky, whose piece “Crying into Print: Sentimental Reading, Spiritual Exaltation, and Typographic Standardization” has been published in the current issue of the Romanic Review (107.1–4 January–November 2016 A Tribute to Gita May (1929–2016).

https://french.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/Romanic107_1-4_TOC.pdf

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Ronald Tobin - article in Romanic Review

University of California Santa Barbara

Please join me in congratulating Ronald Tobin for the publication of his article “Britannicus or The Secrets of Space” in the current issue of the Romanic Review (107.1–4 January–November 2016 A Tribute to Gita May (1929–2016).

You can access the article here.

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Tristan Alonge - Parution ouvrage

Université de la Réunion

Félicitations à Tristan Alonge pour la parution de son nouveau livre, Racine et Euripe : La révolution trahie (Genève : Droz, 2017). Veuillez trouver ci-dessous un précis :

Helléniste remarquable, Jean Racine se distingue de tous ses contemporains, et de Corneille en particulier, par le retour incessant à la tragédie grecque. C'est en traduisant Aristote, en annotant les pièces athéniennes et en adaptant Euripide sur scène, qu'il retrouve le secret du « héros tragique », ni tout à fait coupable ni tout à fait innocent. En bousculant les codes dramaturgiques de l'époque, Racine fera de sa découverte le symbole d'une « révolution » dans l'art de fabriquer des tragédies. L'ouvrage se propose de reconstruire l'évolution de cette « révolution racinienne », en explorant son origine grecque et ses manifestations les plus explicites, à savoir les quatre pièces inspirées d'Euripide : La Thébaïde, Andromaque, Iphigénie et Phèdre. La lecture croisée de l'ensemble des sources permet de décoder le palimpseste racinien en laissant émerger le rôle crucial joué par le texte euripidéen sous-jacent. Pourtant, en véritable caméléon, Jean Racine n'hésitera pas à sacrifier son souffleur athénien et sa propre révolution sur l'autel du succès. http://www.droz.org/france/fr/6509-9782600057974.html

Post date: 8 years 3 months ago

Katherine Ibbett - new book

Trinity College

Congratuations to Katherine Ibbett, whose book Compassion's Edge has just appeared with The University of Pennsylvania UP. Please find further details below.

Compassion's Edge: Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France (Pennsylvania, 2017) Katherine Ibbett

Compassion's Edge examines the language of fellow-feeling—pity, compassion, and charitable care—that flourished in France in the period from the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which established some degree of religious toleration, to the official breakdown of that toleration with the Revocation of the Edict in 1685. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division. Early modern fellow-feeling drew distinctions, policed its borders, and far from reaching out to others, kept the other at arm's length. This book ranges widely over genres, contexts, and geographies, taking up major figures such as D'Aubigné, Montaigne, Lafayette, Corneille, and Racine, as well as less familiar Jesuit theologians, Huguenot ministers, and nuns from a Montreal hospital. Investigating the affective undertow of religious toleration, Compassion's Edge provides a robust corrective to today's hope that fellow-feeling draws us inexorably and usefully together.

Full Description, Table of Contents, and More: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15747.html

304 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4970-5 | $79.95s | £66.00 Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9456-9 | $79.95s | £52.00 A volume in the Haney Foundation Series: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/HFS.html

Post date: 8 years 3 months ago

Article de Francis Assaf

The University of Georgia (Emeritus)

Congratulations to Francis Assaf, whose article "Le Page disgracié: l’Histoire ou une histoire?" has been published in the most recent volume of Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (XLIV, 86 (2017): 7-18).

Post date: 8 years 5 months ago