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Conference, symposium - Early modern
Gendered Species: Colette, Gender and Sexual Identities
Espèces genrées : Colette, le genre et les identités sexuées
Although French woman writer Colette was indifferent to and even critical of the feminist movement of the early 1900s, in the way she lived her life as in her fiction, she exemplified financial and social independence and shame-free sexuality, or what would be call today “gender fluidity”. This international conference will show how Colette represents a vibrant and radical expression of feminism in tune with the #MeToo spirit in today's society
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Winston-Salem
“Marine Feet and Vesuvian Eyes”: The Volcanic Aesthetics of Maria Orsini Natale
Edited Collection
This volume intends to fill a gap in the critical reception of a remarkable Southern Italian woman writer. A journalist, a poet and a writer, Maria Orsini Natale (1928-2010) lived and worked at the foot of Vesuvius, and began writing at age 69, receiving several literary recognitions. Her novel, initially written as Ottocento Vesuviano, then entitled Francesca and Nunziata, and published for the first time in 1995, was also made into a 2001 film directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Sophia Loren and Giancarlo Giannini. The book earned her a semifinalist’s place in the Strega Prize, the most prestigious Italian literary award, and features a family from Amalfi, dedicated for generations to the white art of pasta making. More than fiction, it illustrates what in Neapolitan is called a ‘cunto’, part historical account and part allegorical tale, derived from a reservoir of collective as well as personal memories.
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St Louis
“Faceless”: A Journal on the Works of Pascal Quignard – Varia
Le sans-visage, a bilingual, international and interdisciplinary journal, publishes articles on all aspects of Pascal Quignard’s works. It particularly welcomes new perspectives, essays by junior researchers, and interdisciplinary approaches, to which a special section is devoted in every issue. It also welcomes creative pieces.
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Charlottetown
Freedom: texts and contexts on both sides of the Atlantic
L’objet de ce colloque sera de réfléchir, tant sur la forme, le contenu que sur l’approche critique, aux processus par lesquels l’œuvre s’appuie sur la liberté ou sur son absence (apparente ou non) pour se renouveler, pour se dépasser. Les réseaux construits entre les différentes aires géographiques des deux côtés de l’océan Atlantique, les interactions avec les différentes zones linguistiques – l’Europe plurilingue, le continent américain anglophone, ses minorités de langue française, les Caraïbes, l’Amérique latine, l’Afrique plurilingue – pourront aussi être examinés. Il s’agira d’étudier comment rendre compte de la liberté dans un contexte pan-Atlantique.
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Montreal
Meetings, Conflicts, Exchanges: Mediterranean Space in the Middle Ages
Fernand Braudel writes in his The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II: “The Mediterrenean has no unity but that created by the movements of men, the relationships they imply, and the routes they follow” [1972: 276]. The position of the Mediterranean, at the intersection of three continents, has made it a vital location in these movements of men, women and children. These movements continue, sometimes with tragic consequences, to this day. In the Middle Ages, the meeting of peoples and cultures enabled the exchange of ideas, traditions, texts, languages, and things.
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Tucson
Arizona Graduate Conference in French
The French & Italian Department at the University of Arizona is delighted to organize this conference to which all MA and doctoral students in French are invited to participate so that they may have the opportunity to present their work. Abstracts will address one or more of the following strands: theoretical and applied linguistics; first, second language acquisition; teaching French as a second/foreign language; digital technologies and pedagogy; French and Francophone literature, culture and civilization ; Francophone cinema; Women's studies, queer studies and sexuality.
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Quebec City
Thinking, representing and living space
De l’exploration des terres inconnues au cadastre des propriétés, de l’arpentage des territoires au geste cartographique, des propositions mathématiques aux théories physiques, de l’intimité du for privé à l’exercice public d’un espace partagé, de l’hôtel particulier à la rue, du cabinet de travail au café, de la cellule au boudoir, de la représentation de la ville à celle de la nature, pour ne citer, parmi d’autres, que ces quelques exemples, l’espace se découvre, s’invente, s’expérimente, s’organise, mobilisant savoirs, pratiques, acteurs, dont nous proposons d’explorer les fondements, les dynamiques, les formes et les discours.
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Ottawa
Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society
Le congrès annuel de la Société d'histoire coloniale française se tiendra du 18 au 21 mai 2016 à Ottawa. Le thème de cette année portera sur les « francophonies oubliées », afin d'inclure et de souligner l'existence de groupes et de peuples habituellement invisibles à l'intérieur de catégories plus larges. Cependant, comme tous les ans, les propositions de communications sur d'autres aspects de l'histoire coloniale française sont les bienvenus.
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Saint-Claude
Call for papers - Representation
Terre(s) promise(s) : représentations et imaginaires
Ce colloque interdisciplinaire consacré à la question de la ou des Terre(s) promise(s), organisé par le groupe de recherches ECMEA / CRILLASH (Écritures et cultures : études croisées des mondes européens et américains) de l’université des Antilles et le Département pluridisciplinaire de lettres, langues et sciences humaines (DPLSH), se propose, dans une approche croisant des champs d’étude relevant aussi bien de la littérature, de la civilisation que des sciences humaines, de tenter d’explorer la richesse et la fécondité de la notion de terre promise, sans en édulcorer la force ni la portée symbolique, d’en traduire, en termes d’imaginaire, d’expériences et de vécu les différentes représentations ou les possibles avatars sans exclusive de temps, d’espace ou de culture.
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New York
Miscellaneous information - Language
African and Gypsy categorizations in France
The process of ethnicization in ordinary discourse
In France, Bulgarian and Romanian migrants identified as “Roma” and usually living in slums are regularly the targets of categorizations, of rejection and of xenophobic violence. Even though other immigrated populations, such as Africans, have been subject to this type of ostracism for some time, the spectre of racism and xenophobia has spread under the effect of the diffusion of a number of political and media discourses. Whether coming from the right or the left of the political spectrum, these differentialist discourses stem from the highest level of the State, and have been regularly relayed by the media, thus legitimizing their presence within the French public space.
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Durham
Call for papers - Representation
International conference
L’univers cinématographique d'Alain Resnais (1922-2014) forme un paysage aussi singulier qu’insaisissable, privilégiant les démarcations floues, les topographies imprévues. Dans leur ouvrage, Alain Resnais : liaisons secrètes, accords vagabonds (Paris, 2006), Jean-Louis Leutrat et Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues invoquent l’image de l’archipel comme point d’entrée dans un monde à la fois dense et élusif, constitué de territoires multiples et éparpillés néanmoins reliés par un fil souterrain. Ce colloque a pour but de (re)baliser l’« archipel Resnais » en traçant les héritages et les sources d’influences du cinéaste. Favorisant un dialogue interdisciplinaire, il accueillera des intervenants venant de disciplines les plus diverses. Cet événement représentera aussi la première étape vers une publication d’essais novateurs sur Resnais.
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Vancouver
Troubadour Poetry : "Lieux de mémoire"
In keeping with the 2015 Presidential theme for the 130th MLA Annual Convention (Vancouver, BC; 8-11 January, 2015) the MLA Provençal Discussion group seeks proposals for its session devoted to troubadour poetry and 'lieux de mémoire,' or sites of memory.
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Montreal
Appel à communications pour le colloque québéco-norvégien « Frontières » qui aura lieu les 20 et 21 mars 2014 à Montréal. Ce colloque international et pluridisciplinaire s’inscrit dans une volonté de rapprochement et de comparaison entre les cultures québécoise et norvégienne. Aussi, les propositions qui contribuent à ce rapprochement seront priorisées ; toutefois, tous les sujets liés à l’idée de « frontière » sont les bienvenus, même s’ils traitent d’autres corpus nationaux. La langue du colloque et des communications est le français et la date limite pour soumettre une proposition est le 15 janvier 2014.
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Calgary
The Micropolitical Aspects of Language Policy
Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning 2014 Conference
The colloquium on the Micropolitical Aspects of Language Policy will form part of the Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning Conference (Calgary, Canada) , September 4-6 2014. The aim of the symposium is to explore micropolitical agency in language policy from a variety of points of view: narratology, didactics, theory, anthropological linguistics, language and area studies, corpus linguistics, language economics, etc.
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Fort-de-France
Albert Camus / Aimé Césaire, the poetics of revolt
Dans le cadre du Centenaire des naissances d’Albert Camus et d’Aimé Césaire, l'Association mélanges caraïbes organise un colloque intitulé : Albert Camus, Aimé Césaire, poétiques de la révolte Du 13 au 16 novembre 2013 en Martinique. -
New Haven
Conference, symposium - Modern
Beyond French New Languages for African Diasporic Literature
In recent years, Africans from former French colonies in both the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan regions have been settling in countries other than France and writing in languages other than French. This break with the colonial and postcolonial habits of la Françafrique – the familiar bind of metropole and colony – has been going on for years and is now ripe for analysis. Writing in German, Italian, Dutch, Catalan, Spanish, English, and other languages, these authors suggest new patterns of diasporic belonging and raise new questions about the postcolonial world. Issues of immigration, language choice, cosmopolitanism, global citizenship, and world literature will be addressed. -
Montreal
Second Annual Conference of the Quebec Network for Slavic Studies
À l’occasion de la seconde édition du colloque annuel du Réseau québécois d’études slaves, nous invitons les chercheurs à une réflexion pluridisciplinaire interrogeant les notions d’espace et de territoire dans le contexte spécifique de la Russie comme dans celui du monde slave dans son ensemble. -
Montreal
Francophonies trans-océaniques : vertiges de la balkanisation, rêves de mondialisation
À force d’observer les littératures francophones dans un contexte géographique étroit (national ou, au mieux, régional), les réflexions théoriques qui les accompagnent ont fini par imposer l’image d’une francophonie littéraire balkanisée, d’une somme d’expériences et de pratiques discordantes ignorant une possible interculturalité francophone. -
Boulder
Conference, symposium - History
The Western Society for French History
Founded in 1974, the Western Society for French History seeks to promote the study of French and Francophone history. Its international membership includes university faculty and graduate students, independent scholars and amateur historians in the general public from across the United States and Canada, as well as from France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan and many other countries. Drawing inspiration from the frontier spirit of the North American West, it brings together specialists in the study of France and French culture from a wide variety of interdisciplinary backgrounds, beginning with history, but also embracing literary studies, art and music history, as well as political theory, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology. Since its formation, it has encouraged the exploration of French history through an openness to new methods of research, while also continuing to support more traditional fields of interest. Finally, the Society takes pride in its support of graduate education through its scholarship program.
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