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• 15 déc 2014

  Paris

  Call for papers - Language

  Brevity is the soul of wit

  Angles, French Perspectives on the Anglophone World

  For its inaugural issue, Angles: French Perspectives on the Anglophone World welcomes original proposals inspired by the celebrated aphorism: ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’. Often used to describe a literary and social form (humor or sarcasm) or to illustrate commonplaces, the dictum encapsulates beliefs about the relationship between ‘brevity’ and ‘wit’ which have numerous implications in different disciplines and forms of expression. The aphorism not only suggests that brevity is a gateway to revelatory truths, it also implies that true ‘wit’ exists only in shortened form, paradoxically positing depth of meaning (‘soul’) in brevity of form, and also hinting that humor loses its essence when explicated. Additional contradictions emerge when one recalls the context in which the line appears in Hamlet, when Polonius tires the audience by giving some words of wisdom to his departing son.

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• 01 sep 2014

  Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Displacement, Transgression and Dissent

  France, Great Britain and the American Colonies (c.1600-1800)

  This young researchers' conference sets out to examine norms and transgessions in 17th- and 18th-century France, Great Britain and early America, in relation to issues such as knowledge and science, religious dissent and political radicalism, the ontological status of man, definitions of reason and forms of unreason, including melancholy and madness, new discourses of body and mind, including those that shaped concepts of sexual behaviour deemed abnormal or contrary to Nature, the emergence of a political sphere, the beginnings of a public sphere...The aim of the conference will be to explore how these and related issues were explored in literary and artistic forms, as for example in poetry, satirical pamphlets, travel writings and utopias, drama and theological or moral controversies.

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• 04 jui 2014

  05 jui 2014

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Early modern

  How do we globalize the long eighteenth century?

  Quelle globalisation pour le long XVIIIe siècle ?

  Every student of the 17th or 18th century encounters in his or her own way the global historical dimensions of the more or less ‘domestic’ (provincial, national) subject being addressed. For decades, perhaps, many of us ignored these ramifications, which among other things were hard to treat because we are generally hardpressed to bring to such subjects the kind of specialized knowledge we are used to. (There are of course exceptions, involving colleagues who consciously adopt a global approach, e.g. Atlantic studies, though even these are no doubt truncated in different ways.) In all, the global was not an ‘aporia’ of our studies, so much as something more or less difficult to draw into the discussion and, in that sense, an ‘impensé’. 

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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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• 21 mar 2014

  22 mar 2014

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Belly and viscera

  The aesthetics and symbolism of entrails and digestion in the 18th century

  Le colloque international et interdisciplinaire « Ventre et viscères: esthétique et symbolique des entrailles au XVIIIe siècle » ; "Gall and Guts: Entrails and digestion in the Long 18th Century" (France et Grande-Bretagne) aura lieu à l'université Paris-Diderot (amphi Buffon) les 21 et 22 mars 2014. Spécialistes de littérature, d’histoire et d’histoire de l'art y exploreront la permanence du paradigme de la digestion, de l'estomac et des entrailles, dont les représentations forment souvent un contrepoint à la politesse et au lien social à une époque souvent associée de manière restrictive aux nerfs et au cerveau.

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• 21 mar 2014

  Poitiers

  Study days - History

  Predication and society in the British Isles in the 14th and 15th centuries

  Preaching tools and reception

  Cette journée d’étude internationale se concentrera sur les outils de la prédication, à savoir les manuscrits et leurs contenus. Entre autres choses, nous aborderons la question des publics auxquels ils étaient destinés : nous nous intéresserons aux notions de variation et d’adaptation textuelles, puis nous verrons ce que les approches linguistiques et codicologiques peuvent nous révéler sur la prédication à cette époque. Enfin, nous nous pencherons sur les aspects sociétaux et culturels de ce genre littéraire.

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