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• 07 nov 2019

  08 nov 2019

  Tempe

  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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• 31 jan 2020

  Winston-Salem

  Call for papers - Modern

  “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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• 23 sep 2019

  Chicago

  Call for papers - Modern

  European and global responses to the concept of “literary engagement” between 1945 and 1968

  ACLA 2020 panel

  The question of “engagement” (or commitment) became one of the defining elements of post-WWII literature and was, for a long period, at the center of the discussions about the relationship between aesthetics and politics in several European countries. Commonly associated with the name of Jean-Paul Sartre, the success of the notion of “committed literature,” however, went well beyond the French national space. This panel focuses on the transnational circulation of the concept of “committed literature” and, more broadly, on the circulation of related notions, such as writers’ “responsibility,” as well as on any type of counter-discourse or counter-theory targeting “committed literature.”  We would like to explore the different degrees of transnational propagation and dissemination of these debates both in regions that absorbed the intellectual debates taking place in France and in the case of countries which remained more impermeable to them. 

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• 15 oct 2017

  Paris | Arles | Stirling | New Haven

  Call for papers - Language

  The humanities factory

  New training program for translators in philosophy, the humanities and social sciences

  ATLAS, association pour la promotion de la traduction littéraire, lance un appel à candidature pour quatre ateliers intensifs d’une semaine en résidence, consacrés à la traduction en sciences humaines et sociales (anglais-français). Encadrés par deux traducteurs expérimentés, ces ateliers réunissent de jeunes chercheurs francophones et anglophones pour approfondir leurs compétences traductives dans leur domaine de recherche. Consacrées aux domaines de l'histoire, de la philosophie, de la sociologie et de l'anthropologie et de la pensée critique, ces quatre sessions se tiendront respectivement à l'université de Stirling (du 04/12/17 au 08/12/17), à Arles (CITL, du 18/12/17 au 22/12/17), à Paris (EHESS, du 08/01/18 au 12/01/18) et à l'université de Yale (États-Unis, du 16/01/18 au 20/01/18).

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• 20 sep 2013

  Chicago

  Call for papers - Modern

  Sounds of Freedom: Music and Performance Across the Black Atlantic World

  The Editors of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal in partnership with the Center for Black Diaspora, DePaul University, announce a Call for Papers on “Sounds of Freedom: Music and Performance Across the Black Atlantic World” for a special issue of journal. The Editors are seeking papers that explore the nexus between music and performance over place and time, showing through myriad examples how music and performance of diverse sites of the African diaspora is critical in the making of the modern Black Atlantic living tradition.

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• 21 déc 2009

  Ann Arbor

  Call for papers - Representation

  The Turning Point: Crisis & Disaster

  The 17th Annual Charles F. Fraker Conference

  On behalf of the graduate students of the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at the University of Michigan, we are pleased to announce The 17th Annual Charles F. Fraker Conference, entitled The Turning Point: Crisis & Disaster, to be held in Ann Arbor on March 25th, 26th and 27th, 2010. We would like to invite graduate students from your program to participate and would greatly appreciate it if you could post the attached Call for Papers in your department, as well as forward this email to any concerned/interested parties and listserves you may know of. The deadline for submission of abstracts is December 21st, 2009. We would also like to inform you that the department online journal Tiresias will publish some of the papers after the conference (the deadline for submission of your papers will follow ASAP)

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