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• 15 Jun 2024

  Paris

  Call for papers - Representation

  Ecological Grief and Mourning in the Literature and the Arts in the Anglophone World (18th – 21st c.)

  This conference proposes to explore the concept of ecological grief and the fast-growing body of theoretical work that is developing around it against the background of the ongoing sixth-mass extinction and biodiversity loss. With this conference, we also wish to think about the longer history of ecological grief from the eighteenth century onwards, including by exploring some of the consequences of the Industrial Revolution. Is nature grievable? How do we grieve for it? What is the role of writers and artists in this individual and collective process? While to some, environmental grief gives way to desolation or an irredeemable sense of melancholy, others view it as a form of resilience or even a spur to action, a source of activism in art.

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• 30 Jun 2016

  Clermont-Ferrand

  Call for papers - History

  Youth and political involvement: art and politics in France 18th-21st centuries

  La jeune équipe du Centre d’histoire « Espaces et cultures » (CHEC) éprouve la nécessité d’organiser une journée d’étude appréhendant la notion d’engagement du point de vue de la jeunesse. Si, comme l’a montré Hannah Arendt, chaque nouvelle génération a pour fonction de s’arroger, au détriment du passé, l’espace nécessaire à l’exercice de sa liberté, assurant ainsi le renouvellement de la vie politique, il semble important de s’interroger sur les causes, les formes et les conséquences de l’engagement de la jeunesse.

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