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• 10 mar 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Language

  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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• 15 déc 2014

  Paris

  Call for papers - Language

  Brevity is the soul of wit

  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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• 30 sep 2013

  Call for papers - Psyche

  Lire la littérature et les arts visuels du monde anglophone avec le Lacan de l’après-encore

  Reading English-language Arts and Literature with the Later Lacan

  Lacanian analysis of literature and the arts has not been in vogue in France for some time now. Following the publication of Écrits in 1966, there was a period of analytic fascination with the imaginary capture of the mirror phase and its intersection with the structures of the symbolic in both literary and film studies. Since the 1980s, academic engagement with Lacanian theory in the cultural field has been in a slump, and this for several reasons: the reputed difficulty of Lacan’s style as apprehended through Ecrits, the opposition of numerous feminist critics, and the general decline of theory in the field of literary studies. Today, in light of the growing force of scientistic conceptions of the human subject (at the level of intelligence, behaviour, reproduction, the limits of the body, mortality), Lacanian theory finds renewed relevance in its unwavering postulate of the subject as singular, unique and incalculable, insusceptible to scientific conclusiveness.

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• 30 oct 2010

  Créteil

  Call for papers - Religion

  Profane Imprints on the Sacred: What Religion Owes to Politics

  Ce colloque organisé par le groupe CIMMA (Constructions Identitaires et Mobilisations dans le Monde Anglophone), composant d'IMAGER (EA 3958) portera sur les racines historiques et sur les formes contemporaines de la présence, des traces et des effets du politique dans le religieux, de façon à approfondir ce que révèlent les liens entre religion et politique au Royaume-Uni, aux États-Unis, mais aussi dans les autres sociétés anglophones. Plus précisément, on se demandera quelle est, dans ces aires culturelles, la place du politique dans les mobilisations et les constructions identitaires religieuses, autour de trois axes principaux : sacralisation du politique ; politisation du religieux ; instrumentalisation religieuse de la politique.

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• 28 fév 2010

  Bordeaux

  Call for papers - Thought

  From Shore to Shore: Cultural Guides and Conveyors

  Le thème « Passeurs » offre l'opportunité d'explorer la dynamique de la transmission culturelle, littéraire et linguistique dans le domaine de l'anglistique. Le passeur est à la fois un guide et un intermédiaire, entre deux rives ou deux pays, deux cultures, deux générations ou deux langues. Figure mythologique ou biblique traditionnelle, située dans l’entre-deux de l’enfer et du paradis, du monde des vivants et du royaume des morts, il occupe dès son origine un large territoire symbolique et investit l’imaginaire collectif grâce à son pouvoir de sceller le destin des âmes.

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