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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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• 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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• 01 déc 2012

  Pessac

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Sociability and conviviality in Europe and North America, 17th-18th centuries

  Académies, loges maçonniques, clubs et salons, société de lecture ou de débats, lycées et « musées » tel celui de Bordeaux créé en 1783, les lieux de sociabilité se multiplient aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, alliant au plaisir de la convivialité et à l’art de la conversation une visée scientifique d’élaboration et de discussion des savoirs. Une abondante littérature normative n’a eu de cesse de définir les contours d’une sociabilité idéale. Plutôt qu’aux manuels de civilité ou de bienséance en eux-mêmes, on s’intéressera au fonctionnement effectif, quotidien, de ces espaces de sociabilité, aux mécanismes d’interaction qui confirment, ou parfois infirment, la validité de ces modèles. On s’intéressera à l’extension et aux limites de la sociabilité dans les sociétés hiérarchisées.

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