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• 18 nov 2015

  Neuilly-sur-Seine

  Miscellaneous information - Sociology

  Towards a History of Socioeconomic Rights

  This research workshop is organized by Charles Walton, fellow at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies.

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• 15 nov 2015

  Nanterre

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Modernist Emotions

  The second international conference of the French Society for Modernist Studies

  In continuation of the society’s inaugural conference on Modernist communities, we now propose to explore the debate over emotions in the Modernist era. We hope to foster reflection and discussion that will go beyond the paradox of a passionately anti-emotional Modernism towards a reconsideration of the large extent to which Modernism attempts to channel, remotivate, and revalue the power of emotion.

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• 01 oct 2015

  02 oct 2015

  Nanterre

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  Origin-Musics

  Musical narratives, performances, and reconstructions of the past (20th-21st centuries)

  The quest to reconstruct thestyles and histories of musical genres of the past is an old preoccupation. Since the 19^th century, the orientalist imaginary contributed considerably to the notion of the existence of "origin-musics". Whether "Pharaonic", "Arab", or "Hindu", a common reference to the past, seen as prestigious and immutable, contributed to the rationalization of musical knowledge on the basis of constructed connections. The orientalist period being relatively well documented, this workshop is more focused on ways of speaking of and describing the past over the course of the 20^th century and into the 21^st.

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• 15 nov 2015

  Nanterre

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Excess, Madness, Vision

  International D.H Lawrence Conference

  Critics have  often referred, positively or negatively, to the various forms of excess to be found in Lawrence's writings. While some mention the "exuberant merits" of his style, praising the emotional intensity of his works, others blame him for being too prolix, too pompous, too repetitive, too frank about sex, and speak with disapproval of his  "hectic descriptions" and the "Gargantuan passions" of his characters. At the beginning of his Study of Thomas Hardy, Lawrence himself elaborated a theory of excess, which is both the very illustration of excess and one of his most visionary texts. It is, he claims,  the lack of vision, the foolishness or madness of his contemporaries, that led Lawrence to moralize and philosophize so passionately and so obstinately.

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