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Pathos. Forms and fortunes of literary emotions
The goal of this summer school is to explore the role of emotions in literature, namely with respect to the excess of pathos in different forms and times. Pathos has been a fundamental aspect of literature in every epoch. Great poetry has always foregrounded its ability to represent feelings, evoke intense and vivid moods, and elicit readers’ emotions and empathy. On the other hand, the novel – the genre dominating literary modernity – has been o!en accused of indulging in sentimental excess, giving too much space to melodramatic expression. Indeed, in Western cultures, there is a widespread suspicion towards pathos, which has o!en been identified as a shortcoming of literature. Great books – according to a common implicit assumption – can prompt reflection and laughter, but not tears: pathos only concerns lowbrow production. The summer school is an opportunity to engage in a reflection on issues related to pathos in literature in the last few centuries. Different perspectives will be taken into account: specific literary works, reader response theory, cognitive narratology, transmedia adaptation, and publishing history.
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Paris
16th annual symposium of the International Medieval Society – Paris
For its 16th annual symposium, the International Medieval Society Paris invites scholarly papers on any aspect of time in the Middle Ages. Papers may deal with the experience or exploitation of time, its reckoning or measuring, its inscription, its theorization, or the question of how or why or whether we should demarcate the “Middle Ages.” Papers focusing on historical or cultural material from medieval France or post-Roman Gaul, or on texts written in medieval French or Occitan, are particularly encouraged, but compelling papers on other material will also be considered.
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Africa’s books, books in Africa
This Africa e Mediterraneo dossier proposes to examine the real situation of the African publishing industry in the context of globalization and its impact on the diversity of the local and global editorial offer in the era of globalization. Being this edition at a crossroads of several disciplines, the dossier will be enriched by contributions from different fields of study: history of the book, anthropology, linguistics, economics, sciences of communication or sociology of culture.
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Oxford
Call for papers - Representation
The Maison Française conference committee invites proposals on the social history of the British, American or French photobook from 1900 to the present. Papers will address: commitment or explicit political engagement; memory, commemoration and the writing of history; materiality (whether real or virtual), and how material form affects circulation, handling, critical responses and the social life of the photobook. We invite contributors to analyse these topics with respect to the growth of the market for the photobook as a commodity and an object of bibliophilic attention. Proposals focusing on contemporary productions are particularly welcome.
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Saint-Omer
First Saint-Omer international colloquium
The first Saint-Omer international colloquium is co-organized by the Centre de Recherche et d’Études Histoire et Sociétés (EA 4027 CREHS - Université d’Artois), and the Cultural Services of St Omer country’s Urban district (CAPSO). It is part of the pluri-disciplinary research programme The Renaissance in the Northern Provinces, coordinated since 2015 by Pr. Charles Giry-Deloison and Dr. Laurence Baudoux, and is in the continuity of the conferences already held at the University of Artois. The Saint-Omer colloquium aims to address all expressions of the Renaissance in the field of Humanities (philosophy, literature, arts), in the former Southern Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It will focus in particular on the exchanges, encounters and bonds between the main actors of this cultural revival.
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Florence
Call for papers - Early modern
Methodologies, objectives, perspectives
In the last four decades, scholars have begun to go beyond the traditional perspective of linguistic and literary studies, and to consider the translations as cultural practices and the result of various processes of cultural and intellectual “negotiation” between two different contexts. In recent years also historians have progressively started to take a close interest in translations as sources to investigate the ways in which knowledge and ideas were constructed, disseminated, re-elaborated and assimilated in new cultural, social and political contexts. The aims of this international conference is to encourage an interdisciplinary dialogue on these problems, bringing together scholars, graduate students and early career researchers from Translation Studies, History, History of Book, History of Science, Literary Studies and related disciplines who are interested in discussing methodologies, objectives and perspectives in the study of translations.
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Oxford
Towards a Social History of Photoliterature and the Photobook
(Séminaire, Maison Française d'Oxford, 2017-2018)
This international seminar brings together researchers working on photography and the book with interdisciplinary approaches, connecting the aesthetic and material dimensions of the photobook with social, economic and political perspectives.
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Brno
English Printed Books, Manuscripts and Material Studies
14th ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) Conference, Seminar 51
This seminar’s focus is on the physicality of English printed books and manuscripts, whether they be strictly literary or not. We are especially interested in how particular editions and manuscripts shape the text’s interpretation and reading practices. Research topics include, but are not restricted to: finding rare editions and manuscripts, archival work, book and manuscript collections, printing practices and scribal work, palaeography, manuscripts as books, the coexistence of manuscripts and printed books, editing printed books and manuscripts, electronic versus printed editions, editing and digital humanities.
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Oxford
Towards a social history of photoliterature and the photobook
This international seminar brings together researchers working on photography and the book with interdisciplinary approaches, connecting the aesthetic and material dimensions of the photobook with social, economic and political perspectives.
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Dublin
The Waldensians in the Medieval and Early Modern context
The Waldensians in the Medieval and Early Modern European context is an interdisciplinary conference to be held in Trinity College Dublin on February 9-10, 2018, and hosted by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
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First issue of new journal “Early Modern Low Countries”
In the spring of 2017, Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) will publish its first issue. The new open access journal will appear in two installments every year, containing high-quality, original scholarship for an international readership on any aspect of the history and culture of the Low Countries between 1500 and 1800. The successor of two well-reputed Dutch-language journals (De Zeventiende Eeuw and De Achttiende Eeuw) EMLC aspires to publish papers by scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds working anywhere in the world.
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Ghent
Conference, symposium - Representation
Comparative analyses of nineteenth-century sketches
A new wave of scholarship has emerged in recent years, which examines nineteenth-century sketches (sometimes referred to as “panoramic literature”) from a transnational perspective. The present international conference seeks to continue this comparative reflection by placing the spotlight on the comparative analysis of texts and images of specific types and by tracing how these representations vary across sketches from different places, media and editorial contexts.
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Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades
Revue Études Canadiennes / Canadian Studies, n°77, February 2015
The Revue Études Canadiennes / Canadian Studies seeks contributions in English dealing with Alice Munro’s short fiction writing (particularly Dance of the Happy Shades).
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Handbook of Research on Multimedia Integration and Interactivity in Electronic Books
The purpose of the publication is to summarize the international current body of research on history, theory, models, methods, and experimentations on e-books and “enhanced” e-books (also named “media-enriched”, “augmented”, “interactive”, “multimedia”, “social”, e-books, etc.) in the fields of information and documentation studies, design, art theory and practice, literary studies, and computer science.
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Call for papers - Early modern
On Contemporary Writing in the Arabian Peninsula
Depuis la fin du XXe siècle, la production littérature de la Péninsule s’est affirmée sur la scène littéraire arabe comme un acteur incontournable du devenir de la littérature arabe, à la fois par ses écrivains, ses structures de légitimation et l’évolution du lectorat présent dans cette région. La contribution de certains pays comme l’Arabie saoudite et le Yémen est notable. Elle a parfois fait oublier l’activité littéraire d’autres pays de la Péninsule et les publications prévues porteront sur l'ensemble de la production des pays de la péninsule Arabique. -
Lausanne
Textual (id)entities in late medieval Europe (13th-15th c.)
Dans le cadre du projet de recherche OPVS ("Old Pious Vernacular Successes), financé par le conseil européen de la recherche de novembre 2010 à octobre 2015 (www.opus.fr), un colloque est organisé au sujet des identités textuelles au cours du Moyen Âge tardif. Celui-ci se tiendra à Lausanne en février 2013. -
Tokyo
Keisai (1764-1824) et l'art du livre illustré
D'Edo à Paris
Symposium public en japonais sans traduction, à l'occasion de la publication des Dessins abrégés de Keisai (INHA, éd. Picquier, 2011). -
Baltimore
Le domaine littéraire se définit par des frontières, plus ou moins mouvantes selon les époques : inévitablement, celles-ci incluent, définissent et excluent. Au cours de ce colloque nous proposons d’explorer les enjeux de l’établissement des normes, des formes et des genres, tout aussi bien que les transgressions et les obéissances vis-à-vis de ceux-ci. En unissant une approche historique et un souci théorique, la question de la valeur littéraire et des modalités de son attribution seront également au cœur du colloque. -
Belfast
Call for papers - Representation
States of Crime: The State in Crime Fiction
L’université Queen’s de Belfast organise les 17 et 18 juin 2011 un colloque international et interdisciplinaire sur l’État et le roman policier. Les propositions de contribution venues de nombreux domaines des sciences sociales et des sciences humaines et s’intéressant à cette relation sont les bienvenues et peuvent être adressées jusqu’au 28 février 2011, sous forme d’un résumé d’environ 300 mots à statesofcrime2011@gmail.com. Les communications, d’une durée de vingt minutes, devront être en anglais. -
Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture journal
Dédiée à la diffusion de travaux d’histoire du livre, Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture accueille des études portant sur tous les supports de l’écrit, du manuscrit à l’écran, en passant par l’imprimé. La perspective historique n’exclut pas ici les recherches portant sur des phénomènes contemporains, envisagés sous l’angle de la sociologie, de la bibliothéconomie, de la statistique et de l’analyse des professions. Dedicated to the dissemination of research in the history and culture of the book, Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture welcomes studies pertaining to all types of media for the written word, from manuscript to print to the screen. Our historical perspective broadens to include research on contemporary phenomena undertaken from a sociological point of view, whether in library and information studies, statistics, or an analysis of the various trades related to the book world.
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