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• 15 jui 2017

  Rennes

  Study days - Europe

  Industrial Heritage in the UK

  Mutations, Conversions and Representations

  The chosen perspective for this one-day conference is an inter- and pluri-disciplinary one and it is therefore articulated around a variety of approaches such as cultural geography, cultural history, art history, media studies, urban studies, heritage studies, architecture, etc.

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• 03 sep 2016

  Rennes

  Call for papers - History

  Art and the Environment in Britain 1700-today

  Whether one thinks of environment as context, setting, climate change, green spaces or sounds, today’s epistemology invites us to rethink man’s relation to the external world to the extent that the “inside” and “outside” coalesce, nature and culture merge, man and animal are reconfigured. How have British artists responded to these shifting perceptions of the world around them, of this great swirling circle of life and non life in which they found – or imagined – themselves diversely positioned, for a long time at the centre, then in a more undefined place – at the margin even? How has art itself positioned itself in this newly defined environment?

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• 15 jui 2013

  Rennes

  Call for papers - Europe

  War Memories

  Commemoration, Re-enactment, Writings of War in the English-speaking World (18th-21st centuries)

  The wars of the past have not left the same imprint on collective memory. Wars of conquest or liberation have marked the history of the British Empire and its colonies in different ways. American foreign policy seems to be motivated by what is sometimes viewed as an imperialist vision which led the army into the quagmire of Vietnam and more recently into controversial involvement in the Gulf. Whether they end in victory or defeat, or are a source of patriotic pride or collective shame, wars are commemorated in museum exhibitions or through literature and the cinema in which the threads of ideological discourse and the expression of subjective experience are intertwined. From the upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War to the Boer Wars in South Africa, from the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland to the carnage and devastation of the two World Wars, some conflicts seem to attract “duties of memory” while others are simply forgotten.

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• 01 fév 2011

  Rennes

  Call for papers - Representation

  Representing Animals in Britain

  La question de la ou des représentation(s) des animaux dans les îles Britanniques évoque d’emblée plusieurs éléments majeurs de la tradition et de l'histoire récente du pays : les gravures de Hogarth en 1751, la création de la Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals en 1824, les écrits de Locke, de Bentham sur le statut de l’animal, les travaux de Darwin sur les espèces, ou encore le débat contemporain sur l’expérimentation animale ou l’élevage intensif. Il semble que les Britanniques aient accordé une grande place aux animaux dans leurs arts, leur pensée, leurs loisirs, leurs sciences, et leur vie quotidienne. Cependant, l’idée que nos voisins d’outre-Manche aiment beaucoup les animaux révèle-elle quelque chose de profond dans la culture de ce pays, ou bien n'est-elle qu'un cliché que les Britanniques se plaisent à colporter ? C’est à cette question que nous souhaiterions répondre.

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• 07 jan 2010

  Rennes

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Censorship and Discourse in English-Speaking Countries (XVIth-XXIst centuries)

  L’unité de recherche ACE (EA 1796, Rennes 2) organise un colloque international sur « Censure et discours dans les pays anglophones ». L’objectif est de générer des approches interdisciplinaires sur le thème de la censure, du XVIe au XXIe siècle. Les aires culturelles sont celles du Royaume-Uni et des pays du Commonwealth ainsi que de l’Amérique du Nord (Etats-Unis, Canada). Pour les besoins de la communication internationale, le colloque se déroulera intégralement en langue anglaise.

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