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• 11 déc 2014

  12 déc 2014

  Lyon

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Genre et sexualités

  Où ? Quand ? Comment ? Avec qui ? Et après ?

  GenERe proposera, les 11 et 12 décembre 2014, un colloque de deux jours portant sur les liens entre genre et sexualité(s). Il s'agira de questionner le contexte (où et quand ?) des pratiques en fonction du genre, autant que la réflexion sur ses relations avec les modalités mêmes de cette pratique (l’influence du genre sur la manière de faire l’amour). On essaiera aussi de voir comment les choix sexuels sont faits par les individus (avec qui ?), avant de s’intéresser aux conséquences genrées (et après ?) de ces choix, que ces conséquences soient liées à l’orientation sexuelle, aux relations à l’identité perçue ou assignée, ou aux partenaires choisi·e·s.

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• 15 aoû 2014

  Bordeaux

  Call for papers - Political studies

  "An Gorta Mór", the Great Irish Famine (1845-1851)

  The Great Irish Famine is recognized today as the most significant event inmodern Irish history. From the first appearance of the potato blight in 1845 to its disappearance in 1849 it is estimated that the country lost about a quarter of its population when a million died and a further million emigrated.The Famine, its causes, its demographic and migratory consequences for Ireland and the world and the (in)action of the British government are all topics which have become major political, historiographical and memorial issues. Interpretations have varied and given rise to lengthy debates between those adopting an anti-British nationalist position and others proposing revisionist versions of these events. Since the 1990s, many historians have followed in the footsteps of Cormac O'Grada and Christine Kinealy and have tried, with varying renewed historical approaches, to remove the Great Irish Famine from the grip of this two-sided vision of events.

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• 14 jui 2014

  Paris

  Study days - Representation

  Representing Play and Games in English-speaking literature XIXth-XXIst century

  Cette journée d’étude se propose d’analyser les différentes représentations du jeu dans la littérature d’expression anglaise du début du XIX^e siècle à nos jours. En s’appuyant sur des références explicites au(x) jeu(x) – du revers de fortune subi par Nell Trent et ses grands-parents dans The Old Curiosity Shop de Dickens, au revers lifté de la Lolita de Nabokov – il s’agira de s’interroger sur la manière dont le jeu se trouve au cœur des enjeux poétiques, politiques et métatextuels de l’écriture fictionnelle.

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• 31 mai 2014

  Pessac

  Call for papers - Modern

  Faire-valoir et seconds couteaux

  Le but de ce colloque sera d'étudier les faire-valoir et les « seconds couteaux » dans la sphère culturelle anglophone. Nous considèrerons avec attention et sans exclusive les propositions envoyées par des spécialistes de littérature, cinéma, cultures populaires, arts, histoire, politique et civilisation de tous les pays anglophones.

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• 04 avr 2014

  Paris

  Study days - History

  Police and Public Order in France and England (1750-1850)

  Perspectives from current historiography

  Traditional historiography has often opposed the French police model to its English counterpart. However, for twenty years, many researchers relativized the differences of these models and focused more on the interactions between cultures of social control. Recent studies have shown the limits of approaches focused on the only national police models as well as the importance of the circulation of police knowledge and technics in the late 18th century and early 19th century. Everywhere in Europe, this period is marked by the will to reform and by reflections on the procedures for the exercise of the police. Through a panel of international researchers, the conference aims to investigate beyond the national perspective by questioning the permanence and changes in police practices on both sides of the Channel. We will ultimately highlight the major trends of contemporary historiography and identify new paths of work.

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• 31 jan 2014

  Lyon

  Call for papers - History

  British Philanthropies 1750-1914

  Reforming and Redeeming the World and the Metropolis

  This one-day conference wishes to explore those concurring and complementing aspects and the evolutions that philanthropy underwent between 1750 and 1914 in the British Empire and the metropolis. PhD and postgrad students whose researches focus on philanthropic endeavours and societies, missionary organizations and/or philanthropic literature from the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century are more than welcome to speak on this occasion. Speakers are also invited to reflect on the historiographical perspectives of those issues and discuss their representations and treatment in school curricula, commemoration events and ceremonies, such as the 2007 Bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in the UK.

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