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Paris
Conference, symposium - Modern
History, Law and the Environment
The aim of this international and pluri-disciplinary two-day conference is to explore the current concern for land reform in its social, cultural, legal and environmental contexts. The intention is to gather specialists from a range of disciplines including history, geography, law, literature, political science, economics, sociology, and the arts, as well as environmental and climate change specialists, to explore the interactions between land and power in Scotland.
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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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Essen
Class in the Long Eighteenth Century: Britain and Beyond
We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for LAPASEC 2025. Christoph Heyl (Univ. Duisburg-Essen) and Rémy Duthille (Univ. Bordeaux Montaigne) are continuing the long tradition of the Landau-Paris Symposia on the Eighteenth Century, welcoming both established scholars and early career researchers. The LAPASEC series focuses on the literature and culture of the British Isles of the period, but it is also open to topics relating to the British colonies, France, Germany, and further afield.
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Mulhouse
The Invention of Traditions in the United Kingdom and the British Empire, 1840-1940
The year 2023 will mark the fortieth anniversary of the publication of The Invention of Tradition, a collective work edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger. Since this publication, the invention of tradition has become a key concept in cultural studies. While the book edited by Hobsbawm and Ranger brings together contributions on the invention of the Scottish kilt tradition, Welsh national culture, scouting, and British monarchical ceremonies, which cover the period from 1840 to 1914, this conference invites us to explore other invented traditions over a longer period, from the 1840s to the 1940s. It will also analyze the reactivation of certain traditions at key moments in history.
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Paris
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881): His Lives and Afterlives
Celebrating the 220th anniversary of the birth of a Victorian iconoclast
“Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881): His Lives and Afterlives” is the interdisciplinary subject chosen to celebrate the 220th anniversary of the birth of a Victorian iconoclast. The Victorian Conservative Prime Minister is still perceived today as an extraordinary politician who transformed himself, his party and the UK over a long period of time from the 1830’s to his death in 1881. The conference will aim to undercover a number of still unexplored sides of Disraeli and bring him up to date. Both his political and literary talents will be taken into account as well as the long-lasting impact of his heritage (whether mythologised or not).
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Paris
The politics of culture: the first "new left" in Britain (1956-1962)
Intellectual contexts and heritage
La « nouvelle gauche » (New Left) désigne un vaste ensemble de mouvements politiques et de courants d’idées qui émergent d’abord en France et en Angleterre dans les années 1950, puis dans les années 1960 aux États-Unis et dans le reste de l’Europe, ainsi qu’en Amérique du Sud et au Japon. Cet ensemble très divers se caractérise par une forte mobilisation étudiante, un rejet conjoint du stalinisme, du capitalisme consumériste et de leur commun militarisme, et la recherche de nouvelles manières de vivre et de lutter. Cette journée d’étude interdisciplinaire s'intéressera à la « nouvelle gauche » anglaise dans sa première phase (1956-1962) et explorera sa fécondité intellectuelle et son rôle dans l’avènement des cultural studies.
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Études médiévales anglaises journal, no.100
The French Journal of Medieval English Studies Études Médiévales Anglaises is seeking submissions for its 100th anniversary issue focusing on the notion of “time”. On the occasion of its anniversary issue, the journal invites papers on the measuring of time, as well as on the marginal treatment of time in ritualized celebrations which punctuate daily life, sometimes subverting its usual hierarchies, as in the case of carnival and misrule. Papers can consider material representations of time and its measure, as well as the subtle representation of past, present and future in medieval literature: romance worlds often conflate several layers of time which coexist in the mind of the reader.
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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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Reims
Call for papers - Political studies
Founding, selecting, defending: how to make democracy survive (1918-1960)?
Ce colloque international s’inscrit dans le projet de formation-recherche « Quelle démocratie ? La réflexion sur la crise, la modernisation et les limites de la démocratie en Allemagne, en France, en Angleterre et en Europe centrale entre 1919 et 1939 ». Ce projet pluridisciplinaire propose de revenir sur les réflexions autour de la démocratie de l’entre-deux-guerres en s’intéressant particulièrement aux discours critiques et aux projets de réformes issus du camp démocratique au sens large. Sa démarche consiste à insérer ces discours dans leurs contextes historique, idéologique et socio-culturel, tout en s’intéressant également à leur impact sur la vie politique et sociale de l’époque. Dans la logique de ce projet, ce colloque portera sur la question de l’enracinement démocratique, c’est-à-dire sur la question des moyens à mettre en œuvre pour faire survivre une démocratie en milieu (potentiellement) hostile.
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Nice
Frontier(s) and Frontier-zone(s) in the English-speaking world
Call for papers
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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Montpellier
Writing violence on stage in France and England (1560-1600)
Hippolyte (Robert Garnier) and Richard III (Shakespeare)
Il s'agit de proposer une lecture croisée de deux pièces de théâtre au programme de l'agrégation des lettres, l'une du dramaturge français Robert Garnier, Hippolyte, et l'autre de Shakespeare (Richard III), d'initier une série de comparaison dans la façon dont ces deux dramaturges se saisissent notamment de l'héritage sénéquien pour rendre compte de la violence, du désir macabre et des liens qui se tissent entre terreur et pouvoir.
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Paris
Karl Marx and exile - new approaches
A l'occasion du bicentenaire de la naissance de Karl Marx, cet atelier transdisciplinaire, réunissant philosophes et historiens, veut s'intéresser aux multiples exils de Karl Marx dans l'Europe du XIXe siècle, en France, en Belgique mais aussi en Grande-Bretagne. Il cherche à rappeler la chronologie et la cartographie des exils européens de Marx en montrant combien ses séjours forcés à l'étranger ont pu être l'occasion d'échanges, de contacts, mais aussi d'affrontements idéologiques.
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London
Conference, symposium - Europe
Stages of Utopia and Dissent, 50 years on...
15 May 1968: the Odeon theatre in Paris is occupied by students and becomes the insurgent headquarters where every night militants recount the days' action in occupied factories to an audience of people camping in the auditorium. Youth rebellion was never as mythologised as that of the French students’ fight against institutional oppression. The effects were felt across the Channel, too – but the nature of those effects was, and remains, disputed. 50 years on… where are we? What remains of autogestion and emancipatory education? What remains of theatre inventiveness and sedition? What remains of a need for participatory audiences? What remains of utopia and dissent?
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Brest
Call for papers - Early modern
Bien qu’abondantes, les études sur l’épistolaire ne semblent jamais s’être focalisées sur le concept de premières lettres, que ce colloque se propose d’interroger. L’idée même de premières lettres peut s’entendre de différentes manières : il peut s’agir des premières lettres rédigées par un individu, et se pose alors la question formelle du rapport au genre épistolaire, de l’apprentissage d’une écriture codifiée : nous pouvons penser aux lettres d’enfants, aux brouillons de lettres conservés, retouchés et recopiés. Mais la première lettre peut également s’écrire après des années de correspondance : il n’est pas impossible qu’on se soit essayé préalablement à la forme épistolaire quand on écrit ses premières lettres d’amour, sa première lettre à une personne de rang supérieur, sa première lettre de condoléance...
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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
Comparative histories - France and Great Britain in the 18th century
New historiographical approaches
Cette journée d'étude portera sur l’histoire transnationale des relations et échanges franco-britanniques au XVIIIe siècle. Nous aborderons les thèmes des échanges culturels, intellectuels, politiques et économiques entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne, dans le but de dresser un bilan des nouvelles approches historiographiques, tout en tentant de contribuer à l’élargissement de ce champ florissant de recherches. L’atelier sera transnational en pratique aussi : il réunira en effet des spécialistes d’Amérique du Nord et de la Grande Bretagne, ainsi que des historiens français.
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Amiens
Conference, symposium - History
Commemorating the Battle of the Somme in Anglophone and Germanophone countries
Les journées consacrées au premier centenaire de la Bataille de la Somme s’inscriront dans une approche comparée des résonances qu’engendre le choc initial au sein des populations des deux grands protagonistes : le Royaume-Uni et l’Allemagne. Ce sont en effet leurs troupes qui s’affrontent principalement le 1er juillet 1916, véritable point de bascule de la guerre pour la Grande-Bretagne et son empire.
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Paris
Call for papers - Representation
Congrès 2017 de la Société Française Shakespeare
En ces temps de violences économiques, d’angoisses écologiques, de migrations forcées, de guerres et de terrorismes, il apparaît pertinent d’examiner les manières dont les scènes élisabéthaine et jacobéenne ont thématisé et utilisé la peur, et de réfléchir aux résonances qu’elles continuent de susciter aujourd’hui. On citera à cet égard le livre de Robert Appelbaum, qui n’hésite pas à nommer « terrorisme » la violence qui a secoué la société anglaise de la première modernité, du massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy aux complots et aux révoltes populaires. Le rapport entre Shakespeare et la peur passe notamment par les réappropriations des pièces dans le contexte des crises que nous traversons aujourd’hui. Comment se sert-on ou s’est-on appuyé sur Shakespeare pour conjurer la peur, ou pour déconstruire les mécanismes de la terreur, tant celle de la dictature que celle des attentats aveugles.
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London
Creating the Europe 1600-1815 Galleries
This conference celebrates the opening of the V&A’s new Europe 1600-1815 Galleries. It will introduce some of the new patterns of living that laid the foundations for our modern world. The papers will be presented according to the three main themes that create a narrative structure for the displays and interpretation in the galleries: first, that, for the first time ever, Europeans systematically explored, exploited, and collected resources from Africa, Asia and the Americas in their art and design; second, that France took over from Italy as leader of fashion and art in the second half of the 17th century; and third, that ways of living came to resemble those we know today.
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Lyon
The theories of light and vision in Anglo-Saxon thought in the 17th and 18th centuries
Philosophical Enquiries – Revue des philosophies anglophones
Ce numéro thématique est consacré aux « Théorie de la lumière et théorie de la vision dans le monde anglo-saxon aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles ». La thématique inclut bien sûr tous les travaux portant sur les interactions entre la pensée anglo-saxonne et les travaux en optique et sur la théorie de la lumière développés en Europe à la même époque.
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