Announce

University of Bath

29 June – 1 July 2020

We are pleased to invite proposals for papers (in English or French; duration: 20 minutes) for panel sessions on the following topics:

Museums and Collections 

Photography and Visual Culture

Philosophy and Political Protest

Language and Learning

Food and Eating

France and Asia

The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 60 years on

Pollution, Contamination and Contagion

Legitimacy and Illegitimacy

Journeys

Economy, Finance, Bankruptcy

Popular Fiction

Tribalism

The suggested topics may be interpreted widely and are intended to encompass as broad an historical range as may be applicable. Please provide a short abstract (250-300 words), outlining the argument of the proposed paper and indicating the topic you have chosen. Abstracts should be framed with a view to addressing an audience made up of both specialists and non-specialists, and should include the proposer’s contact details (email & regular mail).

The Society encourages proposals for complete panels (of 3 or 4 speakers) on either the suggested topics, or from any area of French studies, and it is hoped that approximately half of the parallel sessions at the conference will emerge from complete-panel proposals. These should include the names, e-mail and postal addresses of all speakers, and those of the proposed session chair, who should not be one of the speakers. As well as a 250-300-word abstract for each speaker, proposals should contain a brief outline of the rationale and motivation of the proposed panel (no more than one printed page). One individual involved should be clearly designated as the proposer with overall responsibility for the proposed session. The Society is also happy to consider other formats than 3 to 4 traditional 20-minute papers for complete panels, which might include (but are not limited to): pre-circulated materials, performance or creative practices, project-based sessions, pedagogical workshops, non-academic partnerships.

Papers and panels are selected on the basis of peer review: you should know by mid November 2019 whether it has been possible to include your paper/panel. We especially invite applications from postgraduate students. NB. In order to encourage as wide a participation as possible, we have revoked the rule that no individual may present a paper at two successive annual conferences.

Please send abstracts (by e-mail) by 20 September 2019 to the Conference Officer, Dr Victoria Turner at the following address:sfsbath2020@gmail.com. For further information on the conference, please see https://www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/2020-annual-conference

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61e Congrès annuel

Université de Bath

29 juin – 1 juillet 2020

APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS

Nous vous invitons à nous faire part de vos propositions de communication (en français ou en anglais; durée: 20 minutes) pour des sessions consacrées aux sujets suivants :

Les musées et les collections

La photographie et la culture visuelle

La philosophie et les manifestations politiques

La langue et l’apprentissage

La nourriture et l’alimentation

La France et l’Asie

L’Éthique de la psychanalyse, 60 ans plus tard

La pollution, la contamination, la contagion

La légitimité et l’illégitimité

Les voyages

L’économie, la finance, la faillite

La fiction populaire

Le tribalisme

Ces sujets se prêtent aux approches disciplinaires et aux contextes historiques les plus divers. Veuillez fournir un court résumé (250-300 mots) de votre proposition de communication, indiquer la session dans laquelle il s’inscrit, ainsi que vos coordonnées (nom, institution, adresse électronique). Nous rappelons que les propositions de communication doivent s’adresser à un public de spécialistes comme de non-spécialistes.

Le Comité scientifique examinera également des propositions de sessions complètes portant soit sur les thèmes ci-dessus, soit sur les différents domaines des études françaises et francophones. Les organisateurs encouragent vivement ce type de propositions qui devraient constituer la moitié des sessions du congrès. Les propositions devront être accompagnées des noms et des coordonnées (institution, adresse électronique) de tous les intervenants (3 ou 4) et du président de la session ainsi que des résumés des interventions (250-300 mots par communication) et d’une page résumant les objectifs de la session proposée. Le président de séance ne figurera pas parmi les intervenants. Le nom de la personne responsable de la session doit être clairement indiqué. Le Comité scientifique prendra également en considération d’autres formats de session que le format traditionnel (3 ou 4 communications de 20 minutes) qui pourraient inclure (mais sans s’y limiter) : des matériaux pré-distribués; des performances/des pratiques créatives; des sessions liées à des projets particuliers; des ateliers pédagogiques; des partenariats non-académiques.

Toutes les propositions seront étudiées par le Comité scientifique et les décisions seront communiquées vers le milieu du mois de novembre 2019. Les doctorant·es sont vivement encouragé·es à participer. Veuillez noter qu’afin d’encourager une participation aussi large que possible, il est possible de donner une communication lors de deux congrès consécutifs.

Les propositions de communication et de sessions sont à envoyer par courriel avant le 20 septembre 2019 à l’organisatrice du congrès, Dr Victoria Turner, au courriel suivant: sfsbath2020@gmail.com. Pour plus de renseignements sur le congrès, veuillez consulter https://www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/2020-annual-conference.

Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3. Faculté de philosophie. IHRIM-Lyon3

1-2 avril 2020

Organisation: M.-F. Pellegrin

Comité scientifique: Ph. Desan, S. Ebbersmeyer, E. Ferrari, I. Garnier, T. Gontier,R. Hagengruber, S. Hutton, M.-F. Pellegrin, L. Shapiro.

Proposals for contributions must include a title and a summary of 200 words. They must be sent as an attachment (word or PDF) to M.-F. Pellegrin (marie-frederique.pellegrin@univ-lyon3.fr) before September 15, 2019. They will then be examined by the scientific committee of the conference.

Link to announcement : https://www.fabula.org/actualites/gournay-philosophe_90624.php

Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565–1645) is a philosopher, or at least that is the premise of this call for papers. A writer, translator, publisher, linguist, critic, literary theorist, she is already recognized as a woman of letters. She is usually associated with philosophy by way of her relationship with Montaigne, who referred to her as his adopted daughter, or fille d’alliance, and entrusted her with the posthumous publication of his Essays. We also know about her connection to La Mothe La Vayer, which invites a study of her intellectual connection to certain modern forms of scepticism beyond just Montaigne (notably with what has been called libertinage érudit). From a philosophical perspective, therefore, it is of interest first of all to look more closely at the role of scepticism in her thought. But reading her work also requires making sense of her use of Platonism and Aristotelianism. Just the variety of these influences shows the role philosophy plays in her thought. This leads on the one hand to a need for a precise study of the philosophical influences in Gournay’s work, and on the other hand to the question of whether Gournay has her own philosophy that can be illustrated and explained.

It would seem, then, that Gournay is not a philosopher simply by erudition and absorption. Her writings confront numerous philosophical issues through a large variety of genres: autobiography, maxims, digressions, philosophical commentary, and the promenade (philosophical novel and meditation), not to mention the treatise, are all ways of thinking and expressing philosophical convictions. The formal abundance of Gournay’s work in itself illustrates, moreover, the need to rethink the recognized forms of philosophical expression in the modern era, especially if we want to include women philosophers.

Many of the topics that interest Gournay touch on philosophy either indirectly or directly: indirectly, for example, when her poetic bias in favour of Petrarchism suggests anti-Stoic concerns; more directly, of course, with her philosophical treatises on equality. It is significant that Bayle cites her alongside Poulain de la Barre among the theorists of gender equality in note B of the article on “Marinella” in the Dictionnaire historique et critique.

Indeed, Gournay proposes a vast reflection on humans and their innate and constructed capacities. She thus examines the question of sex and of gender. At its heart, her philosophical reflection is feminist. Her thought in this respect is original in more than one way. First, the framework of equality that she champions is a minority framework, and thus original in its time. Second, her feminism does not simply have a religious or moral dimension; she makes it a social issue and statement. It is the place of scholars, and especially of female scholars in society that interests her. The issue is therefore also political. In this perspective, Gournay takes part in important political debates.

She is simultaneously associated with the academic projects that were reshaping the world of letters at this time. In light of the significant changes taking place in this milieu, Gournay’s modernism and anti-modernism also deserve to be interrogated in a philosophical and political way.

At any rate, such positions vis-à-vis her own society also demonstrate an ethical reflection whose moralistic themes have a profoundly philosophical depth.

It is finally important to emphasize Gournay as a scientist, who we know still too little. Passionate about experiments, in particular in the alchemical domain, Gournay dedicates a lot of time and of money to her scientific researches. This interest can be put in touch with her appreciation of the role of the curiosity (in particular feminine) in science.

What are de Gournay’s philosophical influences?

Can we identify Gournay’s own philosophy?

What are the anthropological, moral, social, and political stakes of her feminism?

The larger aim of this symposium is to participate in the exhumation of a philosophical matrimoine (exhumantion of a female philosophical heritage) which is actually remarkable for the modern era, but which the standard philosophical canon still largely obscures, especially in France. Many seventeenth-century writers of both sexes who patiently compiled lists of learned women invite this kind of investigation. Specifically, Gilles Ménage encourages such an approach, having published his Histoire des femmes philosophes, which deals only with Antiquity, in 1690. It is appropriate to extend this valorisation of women philosophers into his own time, namely the modern era.

Following the symposium, the contributions retained by the committee will be published in a volume that aims to be a kind of Companion to Gournay. It will be published in English in the collection Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences (Springer; Eds. R. Hagengruber, G. Paganini, M. E. Waithe) in order to reach a large audience of specialists, non-specialists, and curious readers.  

Colloque international pluridisciplinaire

Paris-Sorbonne, Hôtel de Lauzun, 23 et 24 avril 2020

Comité d’organisation : Emanuele De Luca (Université Côte d’Azur), Andrea Fabiano (Sorbonne Université), Judith le Blanc (Université de Rouen) et Marie-Cécile Schang (Université de Bretagne-Sud)

Comité scientifique : Marie-Claude Canova-Green (Université de Londres), Manuel Couvreur (Université de Bruxelles), Sébastien Drouin (Université de Toronto), Ariane Ferry (Université de Rouen), Raphaëlle Legrand (Sorbonne Université), Frank Lestringant (Sorbonne Université), Sophie Marchand (Sorbonne Université), Marc Martinez (Université de Rouen), François Moureau (Sorbonne Université), Barbara Nestola (Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles), Marina Nordera (Université Côte d’Azur), Marzia Pieri (Université de Sienne),Sylvie Requemora-Gros (Université Aix-Marseille)

Le motif insulaire est un topos dramatique récurrent sur les scènes européennes des XVIIe  et XVIIIe siècles. Au XVIIe siècle, l’île entretient un lien privilégié avec la représentation du pouvoir politique en tant qu’espace symbolique idéalisé dans le cadre des fêtes de cours, comme dans Les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée, à Versailles en 1664. Au siècle suivant, elle devient laboratoire de pensée, prétexte philosophique pour réfléchir le monde sous la plume de Marivaux, moyen d’une représentation renversée des valeurs de la société d’Ancien Régime. On peut citer par exemple L’Île de Merlin ou le Monde renversé de Gluck et Anseaume (1753), adapté du Monde renversé de Lesage et d’Orneval (1718). Il Mondo alla roversa, opera buffa de Galuppi composé sur un livret de Goldoni, se situe sur une île et a fait l’objet d’une  résurrection sous la direction de Françoise Lasserre et dans une mise en scène de Vincent Tavernier, le vendredi 15 février 2019 à 20h30 à la Philharmonie de Paris. Du même Galuppi, on peut citer également L’Uomo femmina qui se passe sur une île, joue sur l’inversion des genres et sera remis en scène prochainement par Vincent Huguet sous la direction musicale de Vincent Dumestre. Dans cette même veine des utopies féministes, le répertoire français compte L’Île des Amazones de Lesage et d’Orneval et d’autres œuvres qui reflètent des enjeux sociétaux dans l’air du temps – Les Mal-Assortis (Dufresny, 1693), L’Île du divorce (Biancolelli et Romagnesi, 1730) ou L’Île du mariage (Carolet, 1733). Certains opéras-comiques plus « documentaires » de la fin du XVIIIe, prennent pour cadre exotique des îles réelles dont il conviendrait de mesurer la part fantasmatique (Elisa ou l’habitante de Madagascar, Grétry, 1799). L’île apparaît aussi comme un espace de contrainte ou d’exclusion pour contenir esclaves, naufragés, fous ou malades. Loin d’être un simple décor exotique, en tant que motif structurel, elle apparaît dans les divertissements d’opéras, mais aussi comme vecteur de renouvellement dramaturgique pour la comédie ou l’opéra-comique. 

Quels sont dès lors les rapports que l’île entretient avec l’espace théâtral ? Que le théâtre de société entretient avec l’imaginaire de l’île ? Quel est le rôle politique et social joué par les îles au XVIIe siècle et au siècle des Lumières ?

Ce colloque international pluridisciplinaire envisage d’explorer les enjeux dramaturgiques, philosophiques, politiques et esthétiques du motif insulaire sur les scènes européennes. De Scio à Naxos, en passant par Ceylan, Cythère, Madère, Macao ou Madagascar, il s’agira d’évaluer la spécificité de l’île dans la dramaturgie, de confronter le corpus dramatique aux réalités géographiques et anthropologiques de l’époque mais aussi de voir comment les metteurs en scène d’aujourd’hui s’emparent du corpus insulaire pour dire quelque chose de notre monde.   

Plusieurs axes pourront ainsi être abordés, parmi lesquels : - insularité et théâtre de société - insularité et utopies / dystopies - insularité et dramaturgie épisodique - insularité et censure - insularité et utopies féministes - insularité et folie - insularité et divertissement - insularité et enchantement - insularité et espace de contrainte - iconographie insulaire - le rapport aux colonies - L’analyse sérielle et contextualisée de pièces prenant pour sujet Ariane, Télémaque, Sancho Pança, Robinson Crusoé serait aussi bienvenue.

Les propositions de communication, assorties d’un résumé de 300 mots et d’une courte bio-bibliographie sont à envoyer à colloque.insulaire@gmail.com avant le 15 octobre 2019.

April 2–3, 2020 

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

The conference “The Salon and the Senses in the Long Eighteenth Century: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” seeks to join the intellectual heritage of the salons with their multidisciplinary, multisensory natures. We will explore the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and tactile aspects of the salon, considering the arts and sensory pleasures of the salon alongside the verbal arts—the poetry, literature, theater, and conversation—that were cultivated there.

Salons of the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries knew no disciplinary boundaries. More than other institutions of the age, salons offered their habitués opportunities to engage with a wide range of social, cultural, artistic, literary, and verbal practices. A multidisciplinary approach requires that we—like salon hostesses and guests before us—open our minds across modern intellectual boundaries and reanimate the embodied practices of the institution. By bringing together scholars from numerous fields, we hope to shed new light on salons in all of their complexity. Above all, we seek to understand the multi-sensory nature of the salon: its sights, sounds, tastes, and smells; its conversations, texts, and subtexts. 

We welcome proposals for conference presentations, performances, or interactive sessions. 

Possible topics include, but are not limited to: 

·      Senses and sensory experience 

·      Material culture, furniture, and fashion 

·      Emotions and expressive culture 

·      Gender, sexuality, and the body 

·      Salons as sites of global or local cultural exchange 

·      Aesthetics and philosophy 

·      Natural philosophy, collecting, and experimentation 

·      Letters and other texts 

·      Music and visual art 

·      Poetry, theater, and the novel 

·      Games, food, and sociability 

Abstracts of up to 350 words, as well as a one-page curriculum vitae, should be sent by September 15, 2019 to jemjones@sas.rutgers.edu. Graduate students and early-career scholars are encouraged to apply. Selected participants will be notified by the end of October. The conference will be hosted by the Center for Cultural Analysis (CCA) at Rutgers University and is convened by the CCA’s “Experiencing the Salon” working group, led by Jennifer Jones (Department of History, jemjones@sas.rutgers.edu) and Rebecca Cypess (Department of Music, rebecca.cypess@rutgers.edu).  For more information, contact Jennifer or Rebecca.

Dear Colleagues,

It is with great pleasure that we announce two sessions for NeMLA’s 51st Annual Convention to be held in Boston, MA on March 5-8, 2020. Please find the CfPs below; abstracts may be submitted by September 30, 2019 via the links provided. Feel free to disseminate this invitation and send any questions to the organizers Erin Myers and Kate Bastin (erin.a.myers@gmail.com and bastink@eckerd.edu). Thank you for your consideration!

Vegetative/Meditative States and Other Lessons from Plants in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Seminar)

In the Age of the Anthropocene, it is often hard to look away from the human, yet it is vital that we turn our attention to the world around us. American nature essayist Annie Dillard wrote, “I suspect that the real moral thinkers end up, wherever they may start, in botany” (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek). Our seminar, “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Thinking with the Non-Human in Old Regime French Literature” for NeMLA 2019 in Washington, DC drew our attention to the non-human in a French context. Our seminar this year urges participants interested in Plant Studies in an early-modern context to consider plants and their roles in European cultures during this time period.

Possible areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to:

Herbal treatises and manuscripts

Plant taxonomy and botanical philosophy

Medicinal properties of plants and plant lore

Herbs and plants used for childbearing and postpartum purposes

Plants in literature or visual art

Food Studies and plants

Garden Studies

Book Studies and plants

Critical plant studies and/or ecocriticism

Colonial botany

Cabinets of curiosity, herbaria and botanical gardens

Horticulture & wonder

Plant-human crossroads/hybridity

Early-modern forestry

We welcome papers in English since we hope to cultivate exchange across geographic borders and disciplines. This seminar will be conducted by reading pre-circulated papers of 10 pages or fewer; each participant will be assigned to closely read another participant’s article, introduce it, generate some thoughtful questions, and moderate discussion. In this way, we hope to delve into the world of plants and draw out rich connections and divergences between papers. Please submit an abstract of 250 words or less by September 30, 2019.

You may submit your abstract directly through the NeMLA portal here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/CFP

Motherhood in the Academy II: Policy Roundtable

We enjoyed fantastic discussion at the 50th NeMLA Convention during our roundtable, “Motherhood in the Academy.” In response to a suggestion by the Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus to focus on policy for our next roundtable on Motherhood in the Academy, we invite you to join us for a presentation by two experts who combine research and experience in changing campus culture through pro-family policy. They will discuss ways to amend university/college policies so that the structure of academic labor clearly and effectively supports parents and family life in all ranks and divisions: faculty, staff, administrators, and students. After the presentation, they will assist in a break-out session of groups of 2-3 people tasked with discussing current policies and brainstorming ways to promote parenthood on campus. We invite you to contact us with any questions regarding this roundtable: Erin Myers (erin.a.myers@gmail.com) and Kate Bastin (bastink@eckerd.com).

You may submit your abstract directly through the NeMLA portal here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18111

September 30, 2019: Abstracts due via NeMLA portal

October 15, 2019: Applicants will be notified of acceptance status

March 5-8, 2020: NeMLA Convention in Boston, MA (http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html)

Warm regards,

Erin Myers and Kate Bastin