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Nanterre
English journeys past and present, explorations of the condition of England
The conference will address the following hypothesis: the illustration of a certain way of being English, of a specific English way of inhabiting and making sense of the world, were given definition and cultural force through a series of writings which record the impressions of things seen in the course of a journey dedicated to the exploration of a territory, whether the land of England in its national extension or the more local territory of a particular community. The organizers are calling for papers which will examine a corpus of writing proposing a first-person observations of a condition of England at various moments in the history of a territory.
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Dijon
“Literary Offenses” and Other Contentious Matter
This one-day conference will address the subject of controversial or polemical texts such as reviews, essays, letters, prefaces and/or postfaces published between 1800 and 1900 in Britain and the United States. It seeks to open fresh approaches to controversies or polemics by focusing on literature and the literary aspects of these questions. Indeed, if controversy can be defined as a debate between two or more parties with different viewpoints before an audience, studies have mainly come from the fields of social sciences and science studies, with some interest in rhetoric and/or argumentation. However, literary controversies are as important as scientific ones for the constitution of the public, democratic debate as it was shaped in Britain and in the U.S. in the nineteenth century. Controversies and polemics contributed to legitimizing some literary genres; they gave publicity to new or avant-garde authors; they redefined the content and contours of the public debate.
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Rennes
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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Aix-en-Provence
Voicing Dissent in the Long Reformation
The 8th Triennial Conference of the International John Bunyan Society
The conference will concentrate on the expression and representation of Protestant Dissent, Nonconformity and Puritanism (1500–1800), with an emphasis on the relationship between written and oral cultures. Topics might include: preaching, singing and praying; public and private devotion; conferences and disputations; epistolary conversation; religion and politics; rumour and defamation; reading and publishing Dissent; the representation of emotions...
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Villetaneuse
1660-1688: A Landmark Period in the History of British Sociability
1660-1688: un tournant dans l’histoire de la sociabilité britannique ?
Dans le cadre du projet interdisciplinaire « History and Dictionary of Sociability in Britain (1660-1832) », la journée d’étude du 14 novembre 2014, organisée par PLEIADE (université Paris 13) et HCTI (UBO Brest) vise à étudier la période de la Restauration à la Glorieuse Révolution (1660-1688) comme une période charnière dans l’histoire de la sociabilité britannique, portant en elle les germes d’une sociabilité nouvelle. Il s’agira d’identifier les facteurs politiques, sociaux, économiques et culturels propices à l’essor de la sociabilité britannique et d’interroger le caractère novateur des formes, des pratiques et des vecteurs de cette sociabilité.
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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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Lyon
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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Paris
The inaugural international conference of the French Society of Modernist Studies
The aim of this two-day conference is to foster discussion on communities in the modernist period. As discursive constructs and historical practices, communities constitute a privileged phenomenon from which to understand the political and ethical regime of modernist texts, as well as the actual forms of collective experience in which writers and readers were involved. More than a decade after Jessica Berman’s landmark work on "the politics of community" in modernist fiction, we seek to explore the various ways in which communities were configured across genres and artistic media, but also to acknowledge the grounds of their historical and cultural specificity. We hope that this will lead us to distinguish various versions of the communal, from the ideal to the empirical, from the utopian to the everyday, from consensus to dissensus.
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London
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation
Visiting Professorships at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2013-2015
Sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art
Visiting Professorships at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2013-2015 The deadline for all professorship applications is January 15, 2013. Two professorships are available at the Courtauld Institute to present the best recent scholarship on historical American art. A twelve-week professorship requires administering one full-term course integrated with the institute’s curriculum and participating in other scholarly activities. A one-week intensive professorship entails a public scholarly event, a seminar, and a special visit to a London gallery, archive, collection, or library relevant to American art history. Stipends are determined by seniority of the scholars. For more information, please visit courtauld.ac.uk. -
London
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2013-2015
Sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2013-2015 The deadline for all fellowship applications is January 15, 2013. This two-year postdoctoral fellowship supports advanced inquiry in the history of American art, conservation, and museum studies and is integrated with the postdoctoral fellowship program of the Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum. The selected fellow teaches three historical American art courses, participates in scholarly activities organized by the institute, and organizes an international scholarly event. Fellow receives a $134,564 stipend (over two years). For more information, please visit courtauld.ac.uk. -
Reims
Autrefois société pré-industrielle dans laquelle la distinction entre culture d'élite dominante et culture populaire subalterne survécut plus longtemps que dans d'autres nations européennes, l'Irlande a néanmoins toujours été caractérisée par l'hybridité. La lutte politique pour l'indépendance s'accompagna de la sacralisation d'un certain genre de « culture populaire », entendue au sens de la culture du peuple d'origine, qui fut par la suite promue au statut de culture dominante. Aujourd'hui, la mondialisation de l'économie et de la culture irlandaises ont transformé cette dernière en une marque publicitaire connue internationalement, détournée et exploitée par les industries culturelles du néo-capitalisme libéral. On peut se demander ce qui rend la culture irlandaise si attirante aux yeux du monde entier : est-ce sa réputation de soit-disant authenticité ? Son enracinement supposé dans un contexte local ? Ou encore le romantisme attaché à un passé de souffrance et de lutte ? -
Call for papers - Representation
Habitually characterised as a late-appearing variant upon the Victorian Quest Romance, The Lost World in fact marked the beginning of Arthur Conan Doyle’s prolonged investigation of science, ideology and belief under the inhibiting constraints of early twentieth-century modernity. The narratives span from 1912 to 1929 and this new collection will be dedicated to re-evaluating the narratives, their author, the wider culture that he inhabited and the legacy of his work for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We are interested in work that treats the texts either directly or tangentially through other aspects of Conan Doyle’s life and thought. -
Paris
Conference, symposium - Language
Shakespeare et les arts de la table
Congrès 2011 de la Société française Shakespeare
Congrès international sur « Shakespeare et les arts de la table », réunissant des spécialistes de trois continents. -
Music, Nation and Identity: the English Musical Renaissance, forms and conditions.
Appel à contributions pour un prochain numéro de la Revue française de civilisation britannique consacré à ce qu'on appelle la Renaissance de la musique anglaise à la fin du XIXe siècle. On pourra s'intéresser au débat sur le nationalisme en musique, la production et la réception d'une musique dite nationale, à la construction d'un mythe identitaire anglais ou britannique par la musique, par l'appropriation de modèles étrangers ou indigènes du passé, aux personnalités qui ont favorisé la légitimité et le développement de la musique dans la société anglaise, comme au mouvement choral, aux éditeurs, aux institutions et à la critique musicale du temps. -
Paris
Landscape as the locus for artistic transfers between Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain
From 1968 to the present day
Le paysage serait-il au cœur des échanges entre les artistes intéressés par la représentation de l’Irlande et le Royaume-Uni au-delà de la période 1968-1998 ? Comment les artistes, les galeristes, les institutions et les œuvres d’art contemporaines s’approprient et interrogent-ils la représentation du paysage au Royaume-Uni et en Irlande ? -
Paris
Visions of Reconstruction in Britain, 1918-1939
Ce séminaire fait partie d’un projet plus large de collaboration avec le Centre d’étude de la première guerre mondiale de l’Université de Birmingham, et a pour ambition de créer un réseau international de chercheurs de disciplines différentes travaillant sur l’entre-deux-guerres en France et en Grande-Bretagne. En s’appuyant sur les études récentes des démobilisations politiques et culturelles, il s’agit de contribuer à l’historiographie des sorties de guerre à travers une approche renouvelée de la reconstruction en Europe. -
Paris
Call for papers - Representation
Echoes of the Georgian and Victorian societies in contemporary British arts
Conference organised by the association One Piece at a Time (GEIAB) and the université Paris-Diderot (English studies)
La deuxième journée d'étude de l'association One Piece at A Time sur les arts britanniques est réalisée en partenariat avec l'université Paris-Diderot et aura lieu le 5 juin 2010. Elle sera consacrée aux échos des sociétés géorgiennes et victoriennes dans les arts contemporains britanniques. Comment se manifestent ses résurgences et que disent-elles du moment postmoderne dans lequel elles s'inscrivent ? Comment les différentes disciplines, d'histoire de l'art, de littérature et de civilisations anglophones ou encore d'esthétique ou d'histoire répondent ces cette problématique commune ? -
Reims
Call for papers - Representation
Representing the people
Les participants seront amenés à s’interroger sur la notion de peuple. Comment le peuple se définit-il ? De façon autonome et/ou dans son rapport aux autres ? Pourquoi, comment et quand la notion de peuple émerge-t-elle dans l’histoire, la langue, la littérature et les arts ? Le peuple s’écrit-il lui-même ? Sinon, qui se charge de lui donner une voix ? Cette démarche est-elle légitime ou intéressée ? A qui ces représentations sont-elles destinées ? Quelles sont enfin les modalités de ces représentations ? -
Paris
Séminaire franco-britannique d'histoire
Séminaire organisé en partenariat avec : Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, University of London in Paris, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway et l’Institute of Historical Research (University of London) -
Call for papers - Representation
The intellectuals in France and Britain
The International Conference organized by ASMCF and CRECIB to be held at Paris 13 University from 4 to 6 September 2003 on the theme "France and Britain : cross influences, mutual representations, comparisons" will include a workshop on "the intellectuals
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