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Nanterre
Conference, symposium - History
Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking world
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For this international conference on the social history of psychiatry, we are pleased to welcome our keynote speakers, Rory DuPlessis (University of Pretoria) and Susan Hogan (University of Derby & Institute of Mental Health), as well as about 30 researchers in the history of psychiatry.
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Montpellier
Call for papers - Representation
What Matters in Contemporary Anglophone Cultures
“What Matters” is an invitation to rethink the weight of habits, established structures and validated categories. Arguing that someone/something counts goes against economic/budgetary/financial accounting, which is typically the work of a dominant power that keeps precise accounts, compiling or capitalising, trying to contain or control. “What matters” is an invitation to give an account of what does not seem to count, what is unthought of or invisible. “What matters” is a response to what is challenging research, and a direct appeal to its agency to redefine the common space and what would be a (co-)habitable world. It invites us to grasp how research can make people act and react, and provoke awakening. We are looking for papers in linguistic, literary, dramatic, historical, sociological, political, film and serial studies and, more broadly, cultural studies.
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Sex (Mis)Education in the English-Speaking World
Historical, Literary and Socio-political Perspectives
This call for papers seeks contributions that will engage with the competing forms of formal and informal sex education as they pertain to the English-speaking world with a special focus on English speaking societies from the Indian ocean. Our aim is to propose varied, innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to the broad question of sex education, welcoming papers from historians, linguists, literary critics, sociologists, specialists in gender studies and others. Keeping in mind Foucault’s notion that sex is both hyper visible and taboo, we aim at providing in-depth discussions which will help better understand both formal and informal sex education taking into account the fact that sex education is fraught with cultural tensions and political feuds.
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Paris
This one-day symposium for PhD students and early-career researchers aims to reflect on the French fantasies of North American authors and, conversely, on the North American fantasies of their French receptors and intermediaries. Participants are encouraged to think about the ways in which misunderstandings shaped the transatlantic literary relations which developed between North America and France from the 18th century up to the present days. The symposium hopes to foster discussions about these misunderstandings along three lines of investigation : that of literary criticism, with a focus on the emergence of a ‘fantasy of France’ in the works of North American authors (and on the disenchantments and surprises that go hand in hand with fantasies) ; that of the French reception of these same writers ; and, finally, that of translation.
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Caen
Call for papers - Representation
Musical Tale and Children’s Opera in the English-speaking World
This conference’s main argument lies at the crossroads of these two somewhat similar yet different traditions, offering specialists an opportunity to discuss a vast array of topics in relation to the musical tale and the opera for children, with a particular focus on the role of young audiences and young musicians in the field of musical entertainment and musical productions intended for young audiences in the contemporary world.
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Durham
Conference, symposium - Thought
Time at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in American-British Philosophy
Around the turn of the twentieth century, time became a major focus of American-British philosophy. Against a broadly Kantian-Hegelian backdrop, philosophers began developing new questions and theories about time. Shadworth Hodgson argued humans perceive a ‘specious present’, a short duration rather than an infinitesimally small one; this view was further developed by Mary Calkins and William James. J. M. E. McTaggart advanced a new argument for the unreality of time. A. N. Whitehead made time the foundation of his process philosophy. This event brings together philosophers from Europe and North America exploring this period that was to become defining for the contours of twentieth-century English-speaking philosophy of time. The event will deliberately be scheduled to be compatible with European and North American time zones.
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Grenoble
Electoral strategies and practices in the English-speaking world (1867-2017)
Cette journée d’étude, qui s’inscrit dans le cadre du projet transversal « Politique, discours et innovation » de l'Institut des langues et cultures d'Europe, Amériques, Afrique, Asie et Australie (ILCEA4), sera le premier volet d’une réflexion visant à confronter les stratégies et pratiques électorales dans le cadre d’une mobilisation initiale ou d’une remobilisation d’électorats dans une perspective tout d’abord « descendante », qui s’attachera aux efforts des partis politiques pour conquérir de nouveaux électeurs ou reconquérir des électeurs démobilisés ou perdus à d’autres partis, puis « ascendante » - impliquant cette fois la base, les mouvements populaires sur le terrain, du type grassroots en anglais.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - Sociology
Abortion in the British Isles, France and North America (Canada, USA), 19th-21st centuries
L’année 2018 marque le cinquantenaire de l’entrée en vigueur en Grande-Bretagne de la Loi relative à l’interruption volontaire de grossesse (IVG) le 27 avril 1968 (adoptée en 1967), l’anniversaire des 45 ans, aux États-Unis, de l’arrêt de la Cour suprême Roe vs. Wade du 22 janvier 1973, ainsi que le 25e anniversaire de l’arrêt de la Cour suprême du Canada mettant fin à des conditions très restrictives d’IVG (R. v. Morgentaler). Un référendum sur l’abrogation de l’Article 8 de la Constitution de la République d’Irlande sera également organisé en 2018 et pourrait mener à une dépénalisation de l’avortement en Irlande. Par ailleurs, le parlement britannique a décidé en juillet 2017 d’autoriser les femmes en Irlande du Nord (où la Loi relative à l’IVG britannique ne s’applique pas) à procéder à une IVG sur le sol de la Grande-Bretagne et à faire prendre en charge leurs frais médicaux (ce qui n’était pas le cas jusque-là). Un état des lieux sera donc le bienvenu afin d’apprécier en France et à l’échelle internationale (Royaume-Uni, Irlande, Amérique du Nord) l’histoire et l’évolution de l’IVG.
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Saint-Denis
Race and class in Great Britain and America (17th-19th centuries)
Les nouvelles populations rencontrées en Afrique et en Amérique suite aux premières découvertes à l’époque moderne, captèrent l’intérêt des naturalistes européens qui cherchèrent à catégoriser l’espèce humaine en différents sous-groupes raciaux ayant des traits biologiques et moraux communs. De cette classification émergea l’idée de supériorité « naturelle » d’un groupe par rapports aux autres, celui de l’élite blanche européenne. Ainsi, les taxonomies raciales qui se développèrent aux XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles en Grande-Bretagne et en Amérique étaient et continuent d’être inséparables des questions de classe et de hiérarchisation sociale.
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Paris
Territorialisation and the challenge of territorial reforms (and vice versa)
International comparative approaches
À travers une mise en perspective comparée des processus de réforme territoriale en France, Grande Bretagne, Canada, Maroc, Italie et Suisse, ce séminaire sera consacré à la manière dont ces réformes territoriales pensent (ou non), produisent (ou non), réclament (ou non) un processus ou des formes particulières de territorialisation.
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Tours
Mother Figures and Representations of Motherhood in English-speaking Societies
This conference aims to question the various ways in which motherhood is judged, how political choices are translated into cultural representations of mothers as either icons or scapegoats, and how these representations are received and challenged in a quest for either conformity or agency.
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Paris
Revue Études Canadiennes / Canadian Studies (n°80 – June 2016)
The editors of Revue Études Canadiennes/Canadian Studies seek papers (in French or in English) that explore the ways in which WWI might have transformed Canada and Canadians, at home and in the Empire, or how Canadians’ participation in the Great War was represented in literature and the arts.
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Nantes
Call for papers - Representation
This 2016 workshop on contemporary US-UK photography will take on the notion of censorship. With photography as its starting point, this edition aims to extend the debate to include the contemporary image on the whole. It is interested in the intermedial forays of other artistic forms in the practice of photographers (art installations, video and/or audio productions, performance, urban art practices, text/image interactions). How does the very artistic form/medium become in itself a means of expression and commitment when confronted with censorship, a means to create unity against censorship, a tool for identity expression of a group or of a minority, to circumvent constraints, or thrive upon these limits and generate creative impetus from them?
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Gennevilliers | Lyon
Homeschooling, home education: contemporary practices of alternative schooling in western countries
Ce séminaire présente et discute des travaux consacrés à la socialisation et à l’éducation des enfants qui, soumis à l'instruction obligatoire, ne sont pas scolarisés. Il porte en particulier sur les trajectoires biographiques, les pratiques pédagogiques, les relations familiales et les modalités d’encadrement public de la non scolarisation.
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Paris
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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Paris
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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Paris
Serial experiences in a trans-Atlantic perspective: productions, receptions and circulation
Serial experiences seminar! 2014-2015 programme
Le séminaire « Expériences sérielles dans une perspective transatlantique : productions, réceptions, circulations » à l’université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, dans le cadre de l’axe 2 « information, médias et représentations » de l’équipe d’accueil CREW (centre de recherche sur les mondes anglophones) EA 4399 se réunira régulièrement autour de lectures et de présentations de travaux de recherche liés à la notion de sérialité dans un contexte spécifiquement américain ou britannique.
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Paris
The history of politics in the English-speaking world
Ce séminaire dont les séances sont en français ou en anglais présente des travaux récents ou en cours d'histoire, sciences politique ou sociologie sur l'aire anglophone au sens large (Grande-Bretagne, Etats-Unis, Commonwealth, anciennes colonies anglophones). Les présentations sont le plus souvent faites par des collègues étrangers. Séminaire de recherche de l'axe « Histoire du politique » de l'UMR 8225 LARCA, Laboratoire de recherches sur les cultures anglophones, Université Paris Diderot - CNRS.
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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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Call for papers - Representation
The American and British Nations in Contemporary Landscape Photography
This second workshop in a series devoted to photography and national identity will question the way in which landscape as represented through the specificities of the photographic medium may participate in the construction of contemporary American and British national identities.
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