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Conference, symposium - Representation
L’omniprésence des images pose au chercheur la question de leur conceptualisation. Le terme recouvre une diversité d’objets menant à des définitions instables et des questionnements mouvants. Une image se définit-elle par ses frontières ? La définition d’une image varie-t-elle en fonction de son médium ? Comment les frontières de l’image visuelle sont-elles interrogées par d’autres pratiques artistiques ? Dans la mesure où les nouvelles technologies peuvent se substituer aux savoir-faire des artistes dans le traitement des matériaux – production d’effets de vraisemblance, altération des impressions visuelles captées sur un support... –, nous proposons de poursuivre le travail de redéfinition de l’art et de ses frontières, auquel nous incite cette malléabilité des images. La relation entre réel et virtuel avec les nouvelles technologies induit-elle une modification anthropologique de notre perception ?
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Nice
Frontier(s) and Frontier-zone(s) in the English-speaking world
Call for papers
It may be argued that any frontier is the expression of what is discontinuous, of the existence of an ‘inside’ and of an ‘outside’, in short, that a frontier is an attempt to keep the ‘other’ at bay, whatever the meaning of the term – a given geographical territory, or a specific political entity, or a different culture, or else all of these put together. These considerations are in tune with the etymological origin of the word ‘frontier’ itself, i.e. anything that helps a group of people ‘develop a united front’. Examples abound, from the so-called ‘natural’ frontier of this or that country to Brexit, to the wall that President Trump has set out to build between his own country and Mexico.
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Paris
Biological Perspectives in 21st century Literature and Performance
New Scales
In 2019 and 2020, the Sorbonne Nouvelle “science and literature” group will continue to explore the biological imagination in contemporary arts. We are delighted to invite you to two symposiums on Biological Perspectives in 21st-century Literature and Performance : “New Scales”, on June 7th 2019 “New Images”, on June 12th 2020.
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Paris
Cultural transfers in European, colonial and global contexts (1650-1850)
The circulation of models of sociability
Le groupement d'intérêt scientifique « Sociabilités/ Sociability » du long dix-huitième siècle est heureux de vous communiquer le programme des trois prochaines conférences de son cycle sur les transferts culturels, « Cultural Transfers in European, Colonial and Global Contexts (1650-1850): the Circulation of Models of Sociability », qui constituent l’un des axes de sa réflexion sur l’histoire et la circulation des modèles de sociabilité en Europe et dans les empires coloniaux de 1650 à 1850.
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Paris
Christianity, language contact, language change
The present workshop addresses questions of language contact and language change, as well as language standardization in the Christian context both in Europe and in the New World (Americas, Africa) through a study of diachronic and synchronic corpora. Special attention is paid, on the one hand, to the role of translation as a sight of language contact, and on the other hand, to register variation as an indicator of differential propagation of innovations appeared in Christian context.
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Reims
Dissonance, eclecticism and the fusion of genres in modern and contemporary English-speaking culture
L’objet de cette journée d’études est d’interroger les possibilités ouvertes par la sociologie culturelle - notamment les concepts d'omnivorisme, d'éclectisme, de dissonance - aux autres disciplines, notamment celles (civilisation, littérature, histoire) traditionnellement attachées à des aires culturelles (anglophone notamment) et plus ouvertes au syncrétisme théorique que la sociologie. La problématique du mélange des genres constitue-elle une approche permettant d’appréhender la culture dans son ensemble ? C’est ce que nous nous proposons de déplier pendant cette journée d’études, en s’attachant à la fois au point de vue des consommateurs, des créateurs et des créations culturelles.
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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 | La Richardais | Saint-Père | La Vicomté-sur-Rance
Conference, symposium - Europe
Energy from tides past, present and future
Pourquoi un pays sujet aux marées devrait-il choisir entre énergie potentielle et cinétique ? La présence des deux au sein d'un mix énergétique ne serait-elle pas préférable ? Aménagements particuliers, traitement de l'interface terre-mer à travers des enjeux liés à l'architecture, au paysage, à l'aménagement ou aux usages sur les littoraux, approches historiques, archéologiques, patrimoniales, géographiques, environnementales, juridiques, prospectives ou encore technologiques seront les axes développés au sein du colloque.
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Reims
The circulation of popular culture between Ireland and the USA (18th-21st centuries)
Dans le système de culture mondialisée qui caractérise les sociétés contemporaines, l'organisation d'un colloque international invite à concentrer l’attention sur un cas d’étude, la circulation des diverses formes de culture populaire entre Irlande et États-Unis. L’ancienneté, la constance et de l’intensité des échanges culturels entre les deux nations sont en effet largement antérieurs à la mondialisation culturelle ultra-contemporaine. Cette singularité inscrite dans la longue durée permet de mettre en perspective les phénomènes contemporains tout en les interrogeant.
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Paris
Revue Études Canadiennes / Canadian Studies (n°80 – June 2016)
The editors of Revue Études Canadiennes/Canadian Studies seek papers (in French or in English) that explore the ways in which WWI might have transformed Canada and Canadians, at home and in the Empire, or how Canadians’ participation in the Great War was represented in literature and the arts.
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Nantes
Call for papers - Representation
This 2016 workshop on contemporary US-UK photography will take on the notion of censorship. With photography as its starting point, this edition aims to extend the debate to include the contemporary image on the whole. It is interested in the intermedial forays of other artistic forms in the practice of photographers (art installations, video and/or audio productions, performance, urban art practices, text/image interactions). How does the very artistic form/medium become in itself a means of expression and commitment when confronted with censorship, a means to create unity against censorship, a tool for identity expression of a group or of a minority, to circumvent constraints, or thrive upon these limits and generate creative impetus from them?
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Gennevilliers | Lyon
Homeschooling, home education: contemporary practices of alternative schooling in western countries
Ce séminaire présente et discute des travaux consacrés à la socialisation et à l’éducation des enfants qui, soumis à l'instruction obligatoire, ne sont pas scolarisés. Il porte en particulier sur les trajectoires biographiques, les pratiques pédagogiques, les relations familiales et les modalités d’encadrement public de la non scolarisation.
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Paris
Music criticism in the twentieth century in America and the english-speaking world
Cette journée d’étude viendra clôturer un ensemble de rencontres initiées depuis 2013 sur divers aspects de la critique musicale au vingtième siècle, envisagée d’un point de vue théorique (théories et conceptions de la critique musicale), thématique (figures, genres et formes de la critique), ou par aires linguistiques et culturelles (Allemagne, Italie, monde hispanophone). Il s’agira d’examiner comment certaines des questions générales abordées au cours des précédentes journées d’études se posent aux États-Unis ainsi qu’au Royaume-Uni et éventuellement dans le reste du monde anglophone.
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Paris
Call for papers - Early modern
Modes of Silence in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American World
The aim of this conference is to explore modes of silence, understood as the voluntary or involuntary renunciation of speech, in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Anglo-American world. Various approaches covering a wide range of disciplines are welcome: literature, art history, history of religion, politics and science, history of the book. The organisers will especially value papers that study the dynamics of silence and speech.
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Paris
Unsettling endings in English-language fiction
This conference seeks to shed new light on the final sections of English language film and literary works from all periods, and to theorize unsettling excipits, whether last lines, last verses, last scenes, or last words.
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Paris
Angles, French Perspectives on the Anglophone World
For its inaugural issue, Angles: French Perspectives on the Anglophone World welcomes original proposals inspired by the celebrated aphorism: ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’. Often used to describe a literary and social form (humor or sarcasm) or to illustrate commonplaces, the dictum encapsulates beliefs about the relationship between ‘brevity’ and ‘wit’ which have numerous implications in different disciplines and forms of expression. The aphorism not only suggests that brevity is a gateway to revelatory truths, it also implies that true ‘wit’ exists only in shortened form, paradoxically positing depth of meaning (‘soul’) in brevity of form, and also hinting that humor loses its essence when explicated. Additional contradictions emerge when one recalls the context in which the line appears in Hamlet, when Polonius tires the audience by giving some words of wisdom to his departing son.
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Paris
Serial experiences in a trans-Atlantic perspective: productions, receptions and circulation
Serial experiences seminar! 2014-2015 programme
Le séminaire « Expériences sérielles dans une perspective transatlantique : productions, réceptions, circulations » à l’université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, dans le cadre de l’axe 2 « information, médias et représentations » de l’équipe d’accueil CREW (centre de recherche sur les mondes anglophones) EA 4399 se réunira régulièrement autour de lectures et de présentations de travaux de recherche liés à la notion de sérialité dans un contexte spécifiquement américain ou britannique.
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Nantes
Representations of Power and Power of the Image in British and American Contemporary Photography
Représentations du pouvoir et pouvoir de l’image dans la photographie contemporaine américaine et britannique
From the power of images to images of power, this workshop will explore the representations of power and the power of representation in contemporary American and British photography. What is photography capable of doing? Whether in the form of a public person, the environment of power (emblematic places and explicit or underlying forms) or its symbolism, what is photography capable of revealing about power itself? Political, institutional, economic or social power all depend upon a system of relations or tensions between groups or individuals (accepted, rejected, questioned, expressed visually or internalized) participating in the construction of the identity, myths or memories of the American or British nations. In what manner does photography enhance or contribute to this construction or deconstruction of the notion of identity and nation?
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Aix-en-Provence
Call for papers - Early modern
Displacement, Transgression and Dissent
France, Great Britain and the American Colonies (c.1600-1800)
This young researchers' conference sets out to examine norms and transgessions in 17th- and 18th-century France, Great Britain and early America, in relation to issues such as knowledge and science, religious dissent and political radicalism, the ontological status of man, definitions of reason and forms of unreason, including melancholy and madness, new discourses of body and mind, including those that shaped concepts of sexual behaviour deemed abnormal or contrary to Nature, the emergence of a political sphere, the beginnings of a public sphere...The aim of the conference will be to explore how these and related issues were explored in literary and artistic forms, as for example in poetry, satirical pamphlets, travel writings and utopias, drama and theological or moral controversies.
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Paris
Representing Play and Games in English-speaking literature XIXth-XXIst century
Cette journée d’étude se propose d’analyser les différentes représentations du jeu dans la littérature d’expression anglaise du début du XIXe siècle à nos jours. En s’appuyant sur des références explicites au(x) jeu(x) – du revers de fortune subi par Nell Trent et ses grands-parents dans The Old Curiosity Shop de Dickens, au revers lifté de la Lolita de Nabokov – il s’agira de s’interroger sur la manière dont le jeu se trouve au cœur des enjeux poétiques, politiques et métatextuels de l’écriture fictionnelle.
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