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What do we see, what do we hear in Ken Loach's Kes (1969)?
The conference on Kes is, to begin with, an opportunity to look at and listen to what is registered in this remarkable film by Ken Loach, made fifty years ago. To the question “What do we see, what do we hear in Kes?”, the answers should not be anachronistic. The intention is to take in, from a variety of angles and approaches, what is shown and made audible here: a community of women, men, children, their lives woven into, both propped up and confined by, the institutional nexus of component places, home, workplace, school, public house, and component times, early morning, Friday night. What animates Ken Loach’s picture of a mining community are the tensions evident in the sights and sounds through which the modest story of Billy Casper is conveyed, a story affording access to the lives of people as they play out, in occasional and sometimes irreversible conflict with other lives.
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How can one assess the adhesion of individuals and social groups to the multi-ethnic and multicultural British nation of our times? Where should their identity be inscribed on the canvas of composite identities, some of which might either be regarded as tokens of tolerance and inclusion, or be considered (by others) as potential threats for the cohesion of the nation? To penetrate the deepest strata of British identity, we propose to combine the methods of research in civilization with a multi-disciplinary approach...
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Coventry
Transnational Networks and the British Empire (Ca. 18-20th centuries)
This workshop intends to bring together research scholars of history and affiliated fields working on transnational networks fostered through the British Empire. We wish to focus on how certain forms of the “empire”, the “colony”, and the “outside” mutually constituted each other. Such an approach, we believe, could illumine the dense transnational convergences that shape the political, the economic, the social, and the cultural in various locations simultaneously.
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Call for papers - Political studies
Literature, arts and societies in the British Isles, 19th, 20th, 21st centuries
Ce colloque prolonge les travaux de deux séminaires communs aux laboratoires « Cultures anglo-saxonnes » (CAS, université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès) et Études montpelliéraines du monde anglophone (EMMA, université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), portant respectivement sur la littérature et les arts, et sur la civilisation britannique. Son objectif sera de balayer le champ thématique ouvert par l’articulation des notions de singularité et de solidarité, de mobiliser les outils critique et théoriques nécessaires pour l’explorer, et d’affiner notre compréhension de la littérature, des arts et des sociétés des îles britanniques aux XIX-XX-XXIe siècles.
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Besançon
Women in the public space, 1800-1939
Great Britain, Ireland, Empire and Commonwealth
“The Angel in the House” is the image most commonly retained of British women in the nineteenth century. This reductive and repressive ideal, emerging from values propagated by the literary, religious, medical political discourses of the time, still persists today in the collective unconscious. Although this model has increasingly been questioned by researchers in the humanities, the focus has tended to be on the beginning of the 20th century. This one-day conference aims to pursue this still neglected area, bringing the Victorian and Edwardian woman further out of her “cloister” or “sphere”, and exploring the destinies of those women who occupied the public space in Great Britain, Ireland and, by extension, the Empire: activists, explorers, artists, writers and sportswomen to name but a few.
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Nantes
Call for papers - Representation
This 2016 workshop on contemporary US-UK photography will take on the notion of censorship. With photography as its starting point, this edition aims to extend the debate to include the contemporary image on the whole. It is interested in the intermedial forays of other artistic forms in the practice of photographers (art installations, video and/or audio productions, performance, urban art practices, text/image interactions). How does the very artistic form/medium become in itself a means of expression and commitment when confronted with censorship, a means to create unity against censorship, a tool for identity expression of a group or of a minority, to circumvent constraints, or thrive upon these limits and generate creative impetus from them?
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Paris
Music criticism in the twentieth century in America and the english-speaking world
Cette journée d’étude viendra clôturer un ensemble de rencontres initiées depuis 2013 sur divers aspects de la critique musicale au vingtième siècle, envisagée d’un point de vue théorique (théories et conceptions de la critique musicale), thématique (figures, genres et formes de la critique), ou par aires linguistiques et culturelles (Allemagne, Italie, monde hispanophone). Il s’agira d’examiner comment certaines des questions générales abordées au cours des précédentes journées d’études se posent aux États-Unis ainsi qu’au Royaume-Uni et éventuellement dans le reste du monde anglophone.
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Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes (BAM 86) – Varia
Le « Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes » est une revue à comité de lecture, s'intéresse à tous les aspects des études médiévales anglaises : langues, littératures et civilisations.
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Call for papers - Early modern
Scotland: migrations and borders
Revue « Études écossaises » n°19, 2016
The 2016 edition of the journal Etudes écossaises will focus on Scottish culture, history and politics through the prism of migrations and borders. Papers in English or French will be welcomed from specialists in all fields of Scottish studies including arts and literature, civilization studies, history, political science, culture and the media.
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Nantes
Representations of Power and Power of the Image in British and American Contemporary Photography
Représentations du pouvoir et pouvoir de l’image dans la photographie contemporaine américaine et britannique
From the power of images to images of power, this workshop will explore the representations of power and the power of representation in contemporary American and British photography. What is photography capable of doing? Whether in the form of a public person, the environment of power (emblematic places and explicit or underlying forms) or its symbolism, what is photography capable of revealing about power itself? Political, institutional, economic or social power all depend upon a system of relations or tensions between groups or individuals (accepted, rejected, questioned, expressed visually or internalized) participating in the construction of the identity, myths or memories of the American or British nations. In what manner does photography enhance or contribute to this construction or deconstruction of the notion of identity and nation?
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Call for papers - Representation
The American and British Nations in Contemporary Landscape Photography
This second workshop in a series devoted to photography and national identity will question the way in which landscape as represented through the specificities of the photographic medium may participate in the construction of contemporary American and British national identities.
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Neuilly-sur-Marne
Electronic Games and Exclusions
This call for papers is for a multidisciplinary day conference on the subject of "Games and Exclusion" with a main focus on electronic and video games in social work approaches to socially excluded groups and populations. Papers can be submitted by researchers in all fields of the human and social sciences, professionals in social work as well as students in social work, masters and Phd programs. This day conference will take place on the 21st November 2013.
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Besançon
Environment and post-human in Scotland
Representation and memory of land, nature and the living
Ce colloque international étudiera comment l'environnement — la terre et la nature — a été représenté et considéré à travers les âges et comment l'environnement a souvent assumé une place centrale dans l'expression artistique, politique, sociale et culturelle de l'Écosse. Nous examinerons comment ces éléments se situent par rapport à l'être humain, à son passé et son histoire, son existence présente et son devenir : ses dimensions humaines et posthumaines. L'environnement et la nature sont au cœur des préoccupations actuelles et des paradigmes scientifiques : les discours politiques, imprégnés d'écologie et de respect de l'habitat, ont souvent mis en avant un retour à la nature. L'histoire, la civilisation, la politique, l'art, la littérature et le cinéma écossais nous permettront d'explorer ces thèmes. -
Paris
Britons and Americans in transnational projects, 1783 – 1914
Reassessing Anglo-Saxonism and Anglobalisation
Les relations anglo-américaines sont abordées le plus souvent dans le cadre de l’histoire des relations internationales et de la diplomatie. Nous proposons de les étudier plutôt à travers l’histoire de projets internationaux, qu’ils relèvent du commerce et des affaires ou qu’ils poursuivent des objectifs politiques ou réformateurs au sens large. -
Call for papers - Representation
Habitually characterised as a late-appearing variant upon the Victorian Quest Romance, The Lost World in fact marked the beginning of Arthur Conan Doyle’s prolonged investigation of science, ideology and belief under the inhibiting constraints of early twentieth-century modernity. The narratives span from 1912 to 1929 and this new collection will be dedicated to re-evaluating the narratives, their author, the wider culture that he inhabited and the legacy of his work for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We are interested in work that treats the texts either directly or tangentially through other aspects of Conan Doyle’s life and thought. -
Brest
Call for papers - Representation
De la fin du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours
L'objectif de cette manifestation scientifique est d'enrichir l'historiographie des relations entre le Royaume-Uni et la France, de la fin du dix-huitième siècle à nos jours, à travers le regard porté par les caricaturistes sur les dirigeants des deux pays. Réagissant tels des sismographes, les caricaturistes rendent bien souvent compte des réactions spontanées de larges pans de l'opinion publique et l''étude de leur œuvre permet sans conteste de mieux mesurer l'état de ces relations, marquées par un mélange d'attraction et de répulsion. Il est attendu que les communications proposées soient également à même de mettre en évidence les ressorts graphiques de la satire britannique et française. -
Poitiers
Call for papers - Representation
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Colloque « Alasdair Gray » organisé conjointement par les universités de Poitiers (FORELL, EA 3816) et Brest (HCTI, EA 4249). -
Paris
Landscape as the locus for artistic transfers between Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain
From 1968 to the present day
Le paysage serait-il au cœur des échanges entre les artistes intéressés par la représentation de l’Irlande et le Royaume-Uni au-delà de la période 1968-1998 ? Comment les artistes, les galeristes, les institutions et les œuvres d’art contemporaines s’approprient et interrogent-ils la représentation du paysage au Royaume-Uni et en Irlande ? -
Réseaux journal
Appel à contribution pour un numéro sur les séries télévisées de la revue Réseaux. -
Call for papers - Representation
Le terme « paysage » fait l’objet de nombreux débats conceptuels. En effet, la perception du temps et de l’espace varie précisément selon les époques et les lieux, chacun se représentant et inventant un paysage nouveau (Westphal, La Géocritique, 2007). L’enjeu est de dépasser le clivage entre acteur et spectateur du paysage, pays et paysan, paysage et environnement et d’éviter d’abstraire le lien entre les paysages et leur territoire. Les paysages concernent autant le spectateur et son point de vue subjectif et parfois esthétique, que l’expérience concrète du promeneur.
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