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Frontier(s) and Frontier-zone(s) in the English-speaking world
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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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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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Paris
Serial experiences in a trans-Atlantic perspective: productions, receptions and circulation
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la création d'un groupe de travail « Expériences sérielles dans une perspective transatlantique : productions, réceptions, circulations » à l'université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. Ce groupe se réunira régulièrement autour de lectures et de présentation de travaux de recherche liés à la notion de sérialité dans un contexte spécifiquement américain ou britannique. S'adressant aux chercheurs de toutes disciplines, ce séminaire entend questionner la production d'objets médiatiques sériels dans l'espace anglophone, à toutes époques et sur tous supports, dans le domaine aussi bien de la production audiovisuelle que des arts plastiques, de la littérature, etc.
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Paris
Paris Intellectual History Seminar, 2014
Paris Intellectual History Seminar, 2014
Ce séminaire se veut un lieu de discussion des recherches en cours et des questions historiographiques et théoriques dans le domaine de l’histoire intellectuelle et de l’histoire des idées. Il est pluridisciplinaire et ouvert à tous. Il est co-organisé par le Groupe de Recherche en Histoire Intellectuelle (Centre de recherches historiques, EA 1571, Université Paris 8) et le Centre Roland Mousnier (UMR 8596, Université Paris Sorbonne) le mardi de 147h à 19h.
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Paris
The inaugural international conference of the French Society of Modernist Studies
The aim of this two-day conference is to foster discussion on communities in the modernist period. As discursive constructs and historical practices, communities constitute a privileged phenomenon from which to understand the political and ethical regime of modernist texts, as well as the actual forms of collective experience in which writers and readers were involved. More than a decade after Jessica Berman’s landmark work on "the politics of community" in modernist fiction, we seek to explore the various ways in which communities were configured across genres and artistic media, but also to acknowledge the grounds of their historical and cultural specificity. We hope that this will lead us to distinguish various versions of the communal, from the ideal to the empirical, from the utopian to the everyday, from consensus to dissensus.
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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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Paris
What is the Scottish Enlightenment ?
One-day Conference at the Sorbonne
Journée d’études organisée par le Centre Roland Mousnier (université Paris Sorbonne – Paris IV) & le Groupe de recherches en histoire intellectuelle – université Paris VIII. -
Saint-Denis
Ce séminaire se veut un lieu de discussion des recherches en cours et des questions historiographiques et théoriques dans le domaine d’histoire intellectuelle, pris dans un sens large. Il se tient un vendredi par mois à l'université Paris VIII. Il est ouvert à tous. -
Bordeaux
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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