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• 01 mar 2018

  Paris

  Study days - Language

  Fixed forms and black identities

  Si les versets senghoriens et les vers blancs de Langston Hughes conditionnent en grande partie la réception de ces grands mouvements que sont la Négritude et la Harlem Renaissance, la question de la contrainte poétique est loin d’être anecdotique. L’émergence et la construction d’identités noires, qu’elle se fasse en Afrique, aux Antilles ou en Amérique du Nord, s’est en effet accompagnée de débats esthétiques et formels houleux. Pour des auteurs forcés de se positionner en fonction d’une tradition blanche, le choix, notamment, du sonnet élisabéthain ou pétrarquiste se charge d’un lourd poids symbolique.

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• 20 jan 2017

  Montreal

  Call for papers - History

  National identities and regional identities in the French-speaking space

  Europe and North America from the 1960s to the present day

  Après les premières vagues de revendications identitaires du tournant des XIX^e et XX^e siècles, puis de l’entre-deux-guerres, les années 1960 voient la renaissance et la multiplication des mouvements d’affirmation particulariste en Europe comme en Amérique du Nord. Nous nous limiterons ici aux espaces de la francophonie, qui offrent un vaste champ d’études cohérent, mais cela n’empêchera pas – elle sera bien au contraire encouragée – une mise en perspective grâce à l’étude succincte d’autres aires géographiques et civilisationnelles.

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• 12 fév 2016

  Nantes

  Call for papers - Representation

  Censorship: Creative contemporary constraints and dynamics in the representation of the British and American nations

  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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• 30 avr 2015

  Abidjan

  Call for papers - Africa

  African popular music: the veritable voices of the people?

  Perhaps for reasons related to intellectual elitism or simply because of the lack of an effective means of analysis, African popular arts (Modern African music in particular) keep on being pushed to the margins of academic discourse on postcolonial cultural identities. To this day and more than not, in classroom discussions on African culture(s), a place of pride is ascribed to literature (at films at times) despite the high rate of illiteracy and difficulty distributing them, which makes these products utterly inaccessible to the masses. That African writers like Ngugi (Kenya) and Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal) decide to take their leave from colonial languages on behalf on “penning” their stories in African languages is sometimes hailed as an exceptional way towards cultural affirmation and identity recalibration. In terms of their production and consumption, however, popular musical forms have an absolute impact on African populations. These forms are transfigurations of the people’s daily life experience in that they bring together and crystallize the identities of the musical forms in question more than any other artistic expression.

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• 08 jan 2014

  Call for papers - Representation

  The American and British Nations in Contemporary Landscape Photography

  This second workshop in a series devoted to photography and national identity will question the way in which landscape as represented through the specificities of the photographic medium may participate in the construction of contemporary American and British national identities.

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• 15 déc 2013

  Rouen

  Call for papers - America

  History, fiction, representations: the voices that build the Americas

  Histoire, fiction, représentations

  Ce colloque se propose d’étudier l’état actuel, des années 1970 à nos jours, des questionnements sur l’américanité, saisie dans un sens à la fois local, national et transcontinental. Le continent américain a été et reste un pôle attractif pour des populations/des individus en quête d’un monde nouveau et meilleur, qu’il a acceptés et refoulés tout au long de son histoire. Comment l’américanité, réelle ou mythique, accueillante ou exclusive, opère-t-elle en tant que critère d’une recherche identitaire dans la réélaboration constante et l’évolution des visions culturelles de l’Amérique du nord et de l’Amérique latine ?

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• 25 jui 2013

  Paris

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Postdoc position in Afro-American studies

  EHDLM project, PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité: "Writing history from the margins, the case of Afro-American and the becoming of history"

  Offre d'emploi du PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité concernant un post-doctorat en études africaines-américaines pour 3 ans (XIX^e-XX^e). Le / la post-doctorant(e) devra avancer sa recherche tout en concourant à l'organisation des manifestations du projet EDHML (Écrire l'histoire depuis les marges : le cas des Africains Américains et le devenir de l'histoire), soit 2 colloques, 1 séminaire et 3 journées d'étude. Le/la doctorant(e) sera basé au laboratoire CRIDAF/ Pléiade, Université Paris 13, Villetaneuse. Il (ou elle) travaillera en coordination avec les laboratoires CREW (Paris 3 Sorbonne nouvelle) et Paris Diderot (LARCA). Le projet porte sur l'écriture de l'histoire par les historiens noirs et les récits d'esclaves (pour l'essentiel). 

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• 28 fév 2013

  Paris

  Call for papers - Language

  The Classics in the Americas. Reprising and Rewriting Greek and Latin Classics in the American Continent and the Caribbean

  While classical intertextuality has been a widely studied subject and a much-discussed topic in the field of European literary theory, there exist, as of yet, only one-off studies regarding its developments in the “New World”. Although works by writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Jorge Luis Borges have often been analyzed from an intertextuality-oriented perspective, and although several research projects, by focusing on this or that national or regional literature of the Continent, have helped cover sizeable blind spots in literary history, the groundwork has yet to be laid for an overall theoretical approach on the ways in which the Ancient Classics have hitherto been reprised and rewritten in the Americas.

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