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LGBTQIA+ sexualities: subjectivities, movements, languages
LGBTQIA+ studies for contemporary history, having produced a vast amount of researches, are still questioning history and historiography: how can LGBTQIA+ history be written? Does it merely overlap with the history of LGBTQIA+ subjectivities or does it exceed the boundaries of the LGBTQIA+ community? Does it challenge the historical imagination in terms of sources, archives, political and disciplinary boundaries, gender categories? Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea is looking for contributions aimed at investigating these issues.
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Call for papers - Representation
Trans Identities in the French media
Abstracts are welcome for an edited volume that will address the question of the representations of trans identities in the French media. This volume aims more specifically at observing how trans identities have been portrayed in the past decades (from the 1990s’ to the present time). Possible topics include (but are not limited to)(a) the evolution of the representation of trans identities in news coverage, (b) transgender characters in films and series, (c) pitfalls and biases regarding the way trans identities are portrayed in the French media, and/or (d) the analysis of a specific body of work.
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Paris
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation
"All Alone" in East-Central Europe: Reinventing the Orphan from the Fascist to the Socialist Era
International PhD Contract 2020-2023
Full-time, 36-month-long international PhD contract at Sorbonne University (PhD program IV) within the research centre Eur'ORBEM and in partnership with the French Research Centre in Social Sciences (CEFRES) in Prague, from 1 October 2020, under the supervision of Clara Royer. The PhD thesis may be written in French or in English. PhD propositions should focus on the discourses and practices surrounding the orphan condition in literature and/or visual arts (cinema, photography, graphic arts and so forth) in the wake of the violence and demographic upheavals that characterized 20th century East-Central Europe. Because of its interdisciplinary scope, applicants with a background in social history, literary studies and/or visual arts specialized in one or several countries of East-Central Europe may apply.
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Paris
Women behind the camera in family films
La journée d’études « Tuer les pères : Femmes derrière la caméra dans les films de famille » propose une réflexion collective autour des images d’amateur tournées en famille. En affirmant et en perpétuant l’institution familiale dans sa configuration patriarcale, nucléaire et hétérosexuelle, le film de famille a contribué à reproduire les codes et les hiérarchies de genre et de sexualité de la société bourgeoise. En concevant le cinéma d’amateur comme une « technologie de genre », les communications porteront sur les images réalisées par des femmes-amatrices afin de découvrir et décortiquer leur propre « regard familial ».
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Tempe
Conference, symposium - Early modern
Gendered Species: Colette, Gender and Sexual Identities
Espèces genrées : Colette, le genre et les identités sexuées
Although French woman writer Colette was indifferent to and even critical of the feminist movement of the early 1900s, in the way she lived her life as in her fiction, she exemplified financial and social independence and shame-free sexuality, or what would be call today “gender fluidity”. This international conference will show how Colette represents a vibrant and radical expression of feminism in tune with the #MeToo spirit in today's society
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Winston-Salem
“Marine Feet and Vesuvian Eyes”: The Volcanic Aesthetics of Maria Orsini Natale
Edited Collection
This volume intends to fill a gap in the critical reception of a remarkable Southern Italian woman writer. A journalist, a poet and a writer, Maria Orsini Natale (1928-2010) lived and worked at the foot of Vesuvius, and began writing at age 69, receiving several literary recognitions. Her novel, initially written as Ottocento Vesuviano, then entitled Francesca and Nunziata, and published for the first time in 1995, was also made into a 2001 film directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Sophia Loren and Giancarlo Giannini. The book earned her a semifinalist’s place in the Strega Prize, the most prestigious Italian literary award, and features a family from Amalfi, dedicated for generations to the white art of pasta making. More than fiction, it illustrates what in Neapolitan is called a ‘cunto’, part historical account and part allegorical tale, derived from a reservoir of collective as well as personal memories.
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Salamanca
La hispanidad y las presencias andalusíes y orientales en la obra de Gilberto Freyre
En el contexto del 120º aniversario del nacimiento del sociólogo pernambucano, Gilberto Freyre, el Centro de Estudios Brasileños organiza el congreso internacional de ciencias sociales y humanas “La hispanidad y las presencias andalusíes y orientales en la obra de Gilberto Freyre”. El congreso hace un llamamiento a la investigación de las hipótesis ibéricas de Casa-Grande y Senzala y de la posterior formulación de la hispanotropicología.
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Killing the fathers: Women behind the camera on home movies
The Study day « Killing the fathers : Women behind the camera on home movies » proposes a collective reflection on amateur images produced by the family. By affirming and perpetuating the family institution in its patriarchal, nuclear and heterosexual configuration, the home movie has thus contributed to reproduce the bourgeois codes and hierarchies of gender and sexuality. By conceiving amateur cinema as a “technology of gender” (De Lauretis, 1987), we welcome papers on amateur images made by women to uncover and analyse their own “familial gaze”.
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Montreal
"Toujours debouttes!" The perspectives for the feminist revival in Quebec
Ce colloque vise à revisiter, cinquante ans après l’émergence du Front de libération des femmes du Québec, l’héritage de cette frange des mouvements féministes en (ré)examinant les discours, les publications, les créations, les revendications et les mobilisations – mais aussi les limites et les absences.
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Toulouse
Après un premier volet sur la chanson de lutte, ce deuxième volet de la thématique : « Opera contro: la chanson », sera consacré à la chanson « hors la loi ». La journée prévoit deux sections : la matinée sur les chansons qui parlent des hors-la-loi: chants de prison, chansons de la pègre, chansons sur la mafia entre autres ; l'après-midi sera centrée sur l'étude de la chanson elle-même « hors-la-loi » : chants féministes ou anarchistes et chansons censurées pour des raisons « morales » ou politiques.
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Prague
Collective Identities and Post-War Violence in Europe 1944–1948
The conference will analyze the composition of nationalities (who belonged to the national community?), the legitimizing function of nationalism, and its relation to acts of violence at the end of war and to the reshaping of postwar societies. At the same time, we want to address the differences between countries. How did a specific occupation policy in a specific place, with its specific national and racist criteria, influence the “responses” of the occupied society? Is there any evidence of a biological understanding of nationhood? How did competing concepts shape a new understanding of the “nation”—particularly taking into consideration the different political and cultural developments in various nation-states after the war ended? We are interested in papers that touch upon violent acts occurring at the end of World War II and stemming from nationalism as reshaped by previous war experiences.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - History
Sexologies and theories of sexuality - translation, appropriation, problematisation, medicalisation
Le colloque se propose d’examiner l’histoire des conceptions de la sexualité qui ont été mobilisées – explicitement ou implicitement – dans les différentes constructions sexologiques depuis le dix-neuvième siècle jusqu’aux temps présents. Le champ des connaissances, des théories et des pratiques – le dispositif – qui sont désignées sous le terme de « sexologie » renvoie à des conceptions spécifiques de la sexualité. La sexologie constitue une forme de réponse sociale – et surtout médicale, psychologique, psychiatrique et parfois légale – aux questions posées par les humains à propos de « leur sexualité ». Et à leur tour, les savoirs élaborés par la sexologie influencent la formulation des questions que se posent les personnes sur « leur sexualité ».
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Paris
Performance through the prism of gender and language
Depuis la publication de Gender trouble de Judith Butler en 1990 (traduit en français en 2005), le concept de performance a connu un vif succès dans les études de genre et il est devenu un outil extrêmement fécond pour appréhender le genre en tant que processus et actualisation dans le langage. La focalisation des recherches autour du genre en tant que « faire », « pratique », « routine » est en étroite corrélation avec les travaux menés en micro-sociologie de la vie quotidienne par Goffman (1959) concernant la mise en scène de soi et avec les recherches en ethnométhodologie (Garfinkel 1967, West et Zimmerman 1987) sur le genre en tant qu’accomplissement pratique et quotidien.
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Conference, symposium - Modern
An International Conference on Serge Gainsbourg
In 1989, a survey of French cultural taste revealed that Serge Gainsbourg was both one of the most popular singers and yet a near outcast in his native country. When he died, two years later, President Mitterrand called him “our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire,” claiming he had “elevated chanson to the level of art.” But he might just as well have acknowledged Gainsbourg as the first artist to top the British charts with a single in a foreign language. With the hindsight of almost thirty years, one thing is, in any case, certain: sampled by Beck, De La Soul, Massive Attack and Fatboy Slim, remixed by Howie B. and David Holmes, translated by Mick Harvey and covered by Iggy Pop, Donna Summer, Portishead, Madeleine Peyroux, the Pet Shop Boys and Franz Ferdinand, “the man with the cabbage head” remains the Francophone songwriter whose contribution to the international appeal of French popular music has been the most significant in the post-war era.
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Tours | Dijon
Frantz Fanon’s Legacy in the Literature and the Arts of the Americas
One-day conferences
It turns out to be an epistemological necessity to analyze the scope of Fanon’s thought and style in the cultural and artistic productions of the Americas, not only because of Fanon’s concern for the creation and defense of a national culture but also because of his obvious interest for literature and the care he devoted to the process of writing. The transdisciplinary approach of the two one-day conferences « Frantz Fanon’s Legacy in the Literature and the Arts of the Americas » will encompass all the countries and areas of the Americas and the Caribbean, whatever their languages. We also welcome papers on all kinds of art, ranging from literature to cinema, painting, songs and street art (as in Bogota for instance). We warmly welcome papers that will adopt a comparative approach between different geographical areas. Papers will preferably be written in French, but English and Spanish will be accepted.
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Messina
Scritture femminili del Novecento Europeo
In un momento in cui i flussi migratori ci interpellano sempre più e in un’ottica sempre meno nazionale e sempre più europea, e in cui la categoria di frontiera è in via di profonda ridefinizione, il pensiero di coloro che hanno conosciuto/raccontato l’esilio è un supporto prezioso alle nostre riflessioni più attuali. I Club Soroptimist International di Messina e di Spadafora Gallo-Niceto organizzano un Convegno sulla Letteratura femminile del Novecento Europeo sul tema dell’Esilio. Gli interventi che si succederanno andranno ad abbracciare: l’esperienza esistenziale di autrici di testi letterari di qualsiasi genere che hanno vissuto in prima personale la fuga e il confino, attraverso i loro scritti personali e autobiografici; le storie di finzione (romanzi, poesie, racconti, radiodrammi, …) pubblicate da autrici che hanno affrontato tali tematiche senza per questo aver vissuto necessariamente sulla propria pelle l’erranza e l’estradizione.
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Paris
Men in Eastern Europe – Ruptures, Transformations, and Continuities in the 20th Century
Our main objectives are to reconsider the state of the art and discuss new ways for writing a history of masculinities under socialism. The central questions of the workshop are: Which role were men and fathers to play in the construction of a “new” socialist family? How where masculinities transformed in socialist movements and state-socialist countries? The workshop is interested, on the one hand, in the ideologies and the utopian reflexions of the place of men in a future communist society. On the other hand, it aims at questioning the everyday life of socialist men and fathers, as well as the everyday life of men and fathers living under socialism.
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Paris
The history of Jewish women in France during WWII and in the postwar period
1939-to the late 1950s
Si l’histoire des Juifs en France pendant l’Occupation et dans les années qui l’ont suivie a fait l’objet de très nombreuses recherches et publications, la spécificité de ce que fut l’histoire des femmes pendant ces périodes est restée un angle aveugle. Or celles qui étaient mariées furent très souvent privées de leurs maris, prisonniers de guerre, internés ou déportés et durent affronter seule la persécution tout en tentant de sauver leurs enfants. Dans l’après-guerre, comme le montrent quantité d’œuvres littéraires et de témoignages, elles durent vivre dans des conditions précaires avant que le dispositif de « réparations » soit mis sur pied.
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Montreal
Call for papers - Representation
Forms and issues of transmission in contemporary teen fiction
Depuis les années 1980-1990, de nombreuses fictions (littéraires, télévisuelles et cinématographiques) représentent des univers juvéniles dont les personnages principaux sont des adolescents·e·s. Elles rendent compte de la complexité du « moment adolescent » et de la diversité de ses manifestations enmettant notamment en scène les relations plus ou moins harmonieuses avec la famille, les adultes (les enseignant·e·s, par exemple) et les pairs. Bien que de nombreux travaux aient été menés sur les fictions pour dolescents·e·s, qu’elles soient littéraires, cinématographiques ou télévisuelles, la question de la transmission (ses formes, ses enjeux, ses objets) envisagée conjointement dans les fictions littéraires, télévisées et cinématographiques demeure inexplorée.
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Paris
Men's fashions 1820-1970 (II): bodies and objects
Seminar of the "History of Fashion and Clothing" program
Après une première année consacrée aux sources d’étude, la seconde année du séminaire « La mode masculine 1820-1970 », organisé dans le cadre du programme « Histoire de la mode et du vêtement », se propose de traiter des corps et des objets. En poursuivant le même objectif qui est de mettre en lumière la singularité et la complexité de ces cent cinquante années de mode masculine.
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