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• 31 mai 2015

  Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - History

  Voicing Dissent in the Long Reformation

  The 8th Triennial Conference of the International John Bunyan Society

  The conference will concentrate on the expression and representation of Protestant Dissent, Nonconformity and Puritanism (1500–1800), with an emphasis on the relationship between written and oral cultures. Topics might include: preaching, singing and praying; public and private devotion; conferences and disputations; epistolary conversation; religion and politics; rumour and defamation; reading and publishing Dissent; the representation of emotions...

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• 24 avr 2015

  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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• 14 nov 2014

  Villetaneuse

  Study days - History

  1660-1688: A Landmark Period in the History of British Sociability

  1660-1688: un tournant dans l’histoire de la sociabilité britannique ?

  Dans le cadre du projet interdisciplinaire « History and Dictionary of Sociability in Britain (1660-1832) », la journée d’étude du 14 novembre 2014, organisée par PLEIADE (université Paris 13) et HCTI (UBO Brest) vise à étudier la période de la Restauration à la Glorieuse Révolution (1660-1688) comme une période charnière dans l’histoire de la sociabilité britannique, portant en elle les germes d’une sociabilité nouvelle. Il s’agira d’identifier les facteurs politiques, sociaux, économiques et culturels propices à l’essor de la sociabilité britannique et d’interroger le caractère novateur des formes, des pratiques et des vecteurs de cette sociabilité.

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• 09 oct 2014

  11 déc 2014

  09 avr 2015

  Brest

  Seminar - History

  History and Dictionary of Sociability in Britain (1660-1832)

  National and International Perspectives: Emergence, Evolution, Resistance

  Dans le cadre du Projet international "History and Dictionary of Sociability in Britain (1660-1832)", HCTI (UBO Brest) et PLEIADE (Université Paris 13) organisent trois séances de séminaire et trois journées d'étude en 2014-2015.

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• 01 sep 2014

  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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• 17 mar 2011

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Language

  Shakespeare et les arts de la table

  Congrès 2011 de la Société française Shakespeare

  Congrès international sur « Shakespeare et les arts de la table », réunissant des spécialistes de trois continents.

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