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Turin
Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World
Our two-day conference, “Narratives of Water : Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World,” wishes to explore the multifaceted dimensions of water through literary texts (understood broadly to include also theatre plays, graphic novels, movies, TV series, video games, podcasts, and other cultural products). While Blue Humanities started out focusing primarily on oceans, we encourage scholars interested in submitting a contribution to expand the scope of their investigation also to other waterscapes, including freshwater bodies on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and to water-related atmospheric phenomena such as rain, snow, hail, and storms.
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Aix-en-Provence
Power struggles in popular music
International Congress French Association of American Studies “Power and empowerment”
For the last fifty years, scholars have routinely analyzed popular music as a site of resistance against the dominant social, political, and economic structures. Typically, the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) founded in 1964 by Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart explored, on the basis of the subcultural theory developed in the 1920s at the University of Chicago, the appropriation and transformation by working-class and middle-class youth of the commercial products thrown at them by the culture industry, claiming that “popular music is an integral node in the lifeworlds, collective identification, and resistance practices of young people” (Taylor 4). They also examined the “semiological guerilla warfare” (Eco) that resulted when, in turn, the cultural industries appropriated and commodified the sounds and practices released by subcultural youth and converted them into “an exceptionally profitable commodity” (Drake 3).
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Poitiers
Pas de (ré)conciliation sans décolonisation ?
Dialogue(s) et dissonance(s) entre communautés autochtones, allochtones et autorités publiques en Amérique du Nord
Malgré un processus dit de réconciliation initié en 2008 au Canada, le dialogue entre populations autochtones, allochtones et autorités publiques au Canada et aux États-Unis, quand il est amorcé, semble souvent se heurter à des obstacles. Si certains sont évidents, tels que la discrimination systémique qui perdure envers les Autochtones, d’autres le sont moins, et découlent par exemple des difficultés à exposer et assumer la mémoire des crimes passés ou de l’éloignement entre les différents acteurs en question, produit du colonialisme. Face à ce constat, ce colloque se donne pour but de chercher à cerner ce qui demeure de l’ordre du colonialisme, du néo-colonialisme, de la colonialité, des impasses du post-colonialisme – autant de concepts essentiels qu’il s’agira d’explorer. En somme, l’objectif est d’étudier ce qui empêche encore, souvent, une relation « équitable et inclusive » entre populations autochtones et allochtones.
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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
Call for papers - Representation
L’engouement pour les séries en France et dans le monde ne cesse de progresser. À l’écran, ce goût pour la sérialité a plus d’un siècle. Des Mystères de New York (Louis Gasnier et George B. Seitz, 1914) ou Judex (Louis Feuillade, 1917), à Lupin (George Kay et François Uzan, 2021) ou Stranger Things (Matt et Ross Duffer, 2023), les formes d’écritures, les modes de production et les habitudes de consommation de ces produits culturels ont changé tout en conservant certaines particularités propres au phénomène de la sérialité. Ce colloque international a pour objectif, dans une perspective culturaliste, d’appréhender les films à épisodes dans leur globalité, de leur production à leur réception en passant par leur circulation et par leur écriture. Il s’agira également de mieux comprendre la fascination des publics pour cette forme narrative, révélatrice de nouvelles pratiques culturelles à l’image de la société de consommation émergente.
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Paris
Regards croisés États-Unis/Monde
Dans sa troisième année, ce séminaire explore une question à laquelle les spécialistes d’époques historiques très variées ont répondu de manière très diverse : quelles temporalités choisir pour ce que l’on appelle « capitalisme » ? Les choix en ce domaine entraînent aussi des choix définitionnels, mais notre hypothèse est qu’il sera plus facile de préciser les termes et les enjeux, et de construire un dialogue productif entre positions théoriques différentes, si la discussion porte sur les rythmes chronologiques, sur la périodisation, sur des moments identifiables et délimitables qui permettraient de baliser de quel « capitalisme » chacun parle, et de situer la discussion dans l’épaisseur des pratiques. Nous prendrons comme point de référence les évolutions en Amérique du Nord et chercherons à les confronter principalement à celles de l’Europe de l’Ouest, sans nous interdire d’explorer d’autres régions.
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Washington
Scholarship, prize and job offer - America
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and its Renwick Gallery
2024–2025 Fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and its Renwick Gallery invite applications to its premier fellowship program, the oldest and largest in the world for the study of American art. Scholars from any discipline who are researching topics that engage the art, craft, and visual culture of the United States are encouraged to apply, as are those who foreground new perspectives, materials, and methodologies. SAAM is devoted to advancing inclusive excellence in the discipline of art history and in higher education more broadly, and therefore encourages candidates who identify as members of historically underrepresented groups to apply.
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Aix-en-Provence
Rethinking the study abroad movement and its impact on modern China (1850-1950s)
This international workshop aims to revisit the foundational intellectual migration that drove thousands of Chinese to study abroad from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, from a long-term and comparative perspective. The participants will reassess its impact on modern China and their host countries in the light of new sources ad methodologies.
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Urban MetaMapping Seminar Series, 2023/24
The UrbanMetaMapping Research Consortium warmly invites you the third edition of our online, midday academic talks on issues connected to our research interests on mapping man-made and natural catastrophes, heritage, urban planning, and digital tools used for researching these.
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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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Paris
Iconoclasm, Reenactments, and Alternative Commemorations in the United States since 2000
As demonstrated by Wendy Bellion’s scholarship, iconoclasm lies at the foundation of the United States. Yet Bellion also shows us that, rather than being sealed in the past, iconoclastic projects continue into the present. Iconoclastic destruction invariably entails creation—whether it is the construction of new monuments to replace the toppled ones, or the coalescence of a new community, movement, or nation. This conference seeks to bring together scholars interested in monuments and their destruction, public history and public art, historical reenactments, memory studies, and artistic practices across diverse media. We invite papers that evaluate recent commemorative projects, examine acts of iconoclasm and their aftermath, and study or propose novel approaches to representing historic events.
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Paris 04 Hôtel-de-Ville
The American Developmental State : The Origins of American Capitalism in Comparative Perspective
How can we best account for the historical trajectory of American capitalism over the “long” nineteenth century ? With this conference we aim to deploy the idea of an “American developmental state” as a lens for investigating the formative years of US capitalism. Now is an opportune moment to reconsider the role of government in US economic history.
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Le Mans
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
Hemingway et l’Amérique du Sud
La fabrique transculturelle du vivant
The study of transculturality in Hemingway’s work, as proposed in this international conference, has a triple dimension: experiential, transtextual and intersubjective. Hemingway’s practice of transculturality was inspired by his passion for nature and the unconstrained possibilities of receiving and transmitting knowledge that the focus on nature as a universal good makes possible.
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Paris
Following on the heels of the recent modernist celebrations of 1922, 2023 marks the centenary of the publication of Mina Loy’s first collection of poems Lunar Baedecker, published in Paris by Robert McAlmon in his Contact collection. This conference aims to prompt new perspectives on Loy scholarship, paying particular attention to her networks and her presence in French artistic circles and to the French reception of her work.
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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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Montpellier
Call for papers - Representation
Black Lives Matter: Political and artistic mobilization against systemic racism in the US and the UK
Within the context of the Black Lives Matter movements in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 2010s and 2020s, this conference will examine antiracist mobilizations and their historical continuities, their transatlantic circulations, their political resonance, as well as the many responses they have elicited, particularly in the arts.
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Dijon
Cris et chuchotements : le mainstream musical contemporain
Dans le cadre du 54e congrès de l’Association française d’études américaines (AFEA) - Voix, sons, bruits, silences - qui se tiendra du 23 au 26 mai 2023, cet atelier propose de s’intéresser tout particulièrement au rapport que les musiques mainstream étatsuniennes actuelles entretiennent avec l’esprit de la protest song.
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Dijon
Les défis des alliances et dialogues sur les questions raciales aux États-Unis (1815-2023)
Bien conscientes du fait que les questions raciales et les réalités de l’esclavage et de la ségrégation n’ont jamais été durablement étouffées dans le temps long de l’histoire des États-Unis, les organisatrices de cet atelier souhaitent réfléchir à ce qui rend les questions de responsabilité nationale, de réconciliation et de réparations si difficiles à aborder jusqu’à ce jour.
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Pessac
Féministes, voyageuses transatlantiques et écrivaines des Amériques
Programme de formation de l’école doctorale de l’université Bordeaux Montaigne
Cette journée d’étude propose de dialoguer autour des réflexions sur les motivations du voyage et de l’exil de figures féminines des Amériques durant les XXe et XXIe siècles. L’intérêt qui nous motive réside dans la volonté de diffuser leur vie et leur œuvre pour faire reconnaître l’importance de ces contributions. Notre intention est de dédier une attention particulière aux figures féminines originaires des Amériques et aux étrangères qui se sont installées sur ce continent au cours des deux derniers siècles et qui ont laissé des témoignages et des traces qui contribuent aujourd’hui à donner un regard différent de l’histoire.
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Dijon
« Dans l’espace, personne ne vous entend crier, ou peut-être bien que si »
“In space no one can hear you scream, or can they?”
« Dans l’espace personne ne vous entend crier », l’accroche publicitaire, devenue iconique, du film Alien de Ridley Scott souligne le rôle prépondérant joué par les « voix, sons, bruits, silences » en science-fiction. Pour Nis Gron, « William Whittington a démontré combien Alien (1979) a été un tremplin essentiel qui a montré l’importance et a permis le développement de la bande sonore, notamment dans l’utilisation expressionniste des effets sonores, des sons ambiants et des bruitages dans les films de science-fiction ». La science-fiction joue avec les complexités et les contradictions des « sons et silences » à travers les bandes sonores et au sein des intrigues.
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