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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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• 25 avr 2019

  26 avr 2019

  Lille

  Study days - Political studies

  What are we making fun of?

  The spaces of satire

  Qu’elle s’exprime par des mots, des paroles, des gestes ou des images, la satire repose sur la croyance fondamentale en la capacité du langage à agir sur la réalité. Son action corrosive, consistant à utiliser la ressource du rire pour jeter le discrédit sur les vices et les dissimulations, semble trouver son origine dans des rituels archaïques, avant d’entrer dans les domaines de la littérature, des arts visuels et de la caricature politique que nous connaissons. En tant qu’acte de de dénonciation, la satire est toujours porteuse d’une conception sous-jacente des rapports de pouvoir et de domination, et d’une idée de la justice qu’elle oppose aux dérèglements du monde. Or, ces éléments sont susceptibles d’être discutés, contestés et mis à mal, faisant de la satire une activité intrinsèquement suspecte. Ce colloque réunit politistes, philosophes, historiens, linguistes, sociologues et juristes pour dessiner l’espace de contraintes dans lequel évolue la pratique satirique.

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• 20 mar 2016

  Münster

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Four Visiting Fellowships for Postgraduates "Cultures of Decision-Making"

  The Integrated Graduate School of the Collaborative Research Centre/SFB 1150 “Cultures of Decision-making”, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the University of Muenster since July 1^st 2015, is offering  four visiting fellowships for postgraduates/doctoral candidates  in 2016 for a period of up to six months, starting in April 2016. The closing date for applications is March 20^th 2016.

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• 07 nov 2012	08 nov 2012	09 nov 2012
  10 nov 2012

  Lisbon

  Conference, symposium - Language

  Alves Redol e as ciências sociais: a literatura e o real, os processos e os agentes

  O objectivo deste colóquio é convocar investigadores de ciências sociais e humanas para olhar para Alves Redol - o homem, a obra e a sua produção -, bem como para as conjunturas nacionais e internacionais que se reflectem nos contextos tratados nos seus livros. Pretendemos que seja lido por antropólogos, historiadores, geógrafos, sociólogos, etnógrafos, folcloristas, etc. e que sejam as realidades, os processos e os agentes sociais que se tornem o fulcro da análise, numa ou em várias obras do autor.

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• 28 fév 2011

  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.

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