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Chicago
The spirituality of the classical age through the mirror of the 19th century
Le collectif d’anthropologie et d’histoire du spirituel et des affects, le CASHA, sollicite des contributions pour ses prochaines sessions d’étude en ligne, qui feront office d’ateliers préparatoires en vue du colloque « La spiritualité de l’âge classique au miroir du XIXe siècle » initialement prévu à Chicago en octobre 2020 et reporté à l’automne 2021 en raison de la crise sanitaire. Il s'agira d'explorer des métamorphoses et/ou des continuités au XIXe siècle de la spiritualité des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles en France et dans ses colonies.
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New York
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives Fellowship Program
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for its 2020 fellowship program.
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Buffalo
The borders of the French-speaking world
Annual congress of the Société d’histoire coloniale française
Le thème de cette année portera sur « les frontières francophones », ce qui permettra de considérer les périphéries de l’Empire français comme les éléments essentiels pour comprendre l’empire colonial français et ses habitants ; les zones et les points de contact sont également révélateurs des expériences coloniales. Cependant comme tous les ans, les propositions de communication sur d’autres aspects de l’histoire coloniale française seront également prises en considération.
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Tempe
Conference, symposium - Early modern
Gendered Species: Colette, Gender and Sexual Identities
Espèces genrées : Colette, le genre et les identités sexuées
Although French woman writer Colette was indifferent to and even critical of the feminist movement of the early 1900s, in the way she lived her life as in her fiction, she exemplified financial and social independence and shame-free sexuality, or what would be call today “gender fluidity”. This international conference will show how Colette represents a vibrant and radical expression of feminism in tune with the #MeToo spirit in today's society
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Rennes | Santa Barbara
Conference, symposium - Modern
Vegetarian epiphanies - awareness and transition
Prise de conscience et transition alimentaire
In anticipation of this event, we encourage the interdisciplinary confrontation of points of view in the humanities (anthropology, cultural studies, economics, animal studies and critical animal studies, history, geography, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, etc.). Papers will discuss the social, cultural, ideological, political, behavioural as well as ethical aspects of vegetarian epiphanies.
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Winston-Salem
“Marine Feet and Vesuvian Eyes”: The Volcanic Aesthetics of Maria Orsini Natale
Edited Collection
This volume intends to fill a gap in the critical reception of a remarkable Southern Italian woman writer. A journalist, a poet and a writer, Maria Orsini Natale (1928-2010) lived and worked at the foot of Vesuvius, and began writing at age 69, receiving several literary recognitions. Her novel, initially written as Ottocento Vesuviano, then entitled Francesca and Nunziata, and published for the first time in 1995, was also made into a 2001 film directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Sophia Loren and Giancarlo Giannini. The book earned her a semifinalist’s place in the Strega Prize, the most prestigious Italian literary award, and features a family from Amalfi, dedicated for generations to the white art of pasta making. More than fiction, it illustrates what in Neapolitan is called a ‘cunto’, part historical account and part allegorical tale, derived from a reservoir of collective as well as personal memories.
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Chicago
European and global responses to the concept of “literary engagement” between 1945 and 1968
ACLA 2020 panel
The question of “engagement” (or commitment) became one of the defining elements of post-WWII literature and was, for a long period, at the center of the discussions about the relationship between aesthetics and politics in several European countries. Commonly associated with the name of Jean-Paul Sartre, the success of the notion of “committed literature,” however, went well beyond the French national space. This panel focuses on the transnational circulation of the concept of “committed literature” and, more broadly, on the circulation of related notions, such as writers’ “responsibility,” as well as on any type of counter-discourse or counter-theory targeting “committed literature.” We would like to explore the different degrees of transnational propagation and dissemination of these debates both in regions that absorbed the intellectual debates taking place in France and in the case of countries which remained more impermeable to them.
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St Louis
“Faceless”: A Journal on the Works of Pascal Quignard – Varia
Le sans-visage, a bilingual, international and interdisciplinary journal, publishes articles on all aspects of Pascal Quignard’s works. It particularly welcomes new perspectives, essays by junior researchers, and interdisciplinary approaches, to which a special section is devoted in every issue. It also welcomes creative pieces.
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New Orleans
Boris Vian: an Artist “Outside the Norm”?
In celebrating Boris Vian’s centennial in the birthplace of jazz, our conference wishes to pay a tribute to the author and his work by bringing him to the place that so powerfully struck his imagination. Vian’s Centennial is also an opportune moment to cast a new light on a multifaceted artist, in continuation of the meeting organized by Marc Lapprand (March 2020) whose project is to re-examine a body of work that has remained only marginally investigated. By focusing precisely on the notions of artistic freedom, irreverence, unconventionality and spontaneity, this conference aims to provide new directions in our interpretations of Vian. Given that playfulness and the rejection of the norm take on such an important part in Vian’s work, it comes as twist of irony that he trained as an engineer and became first employed by the Association Française de Normalisation (French Standardization Association).
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Princeton
The long 18th century in France - Franco-American doctoral school
École doctorale franco-américaine
Cette école d’été souhaite réunir une dizaine de doctorants et de doctorantes, issus d’universités nord-américaines et françaises et dont les recherches portent sur l’histoire moderne de la France (1500-1800), pour une semaine de lectures et de discussions intensives animée par David Bell (Princeton), Rafe Blaufarb (Florida State) et Clyde Plumauzille (Sorbonne-CNRS).
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Gainesville
Migration, Mobility, and Sustainability: Caribbean Studies and Digital Humanities Institute
Partners in the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) are pleased to invite applications to an NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities entitled “Migration, Mobility, and Sustainability: Caribbean Studies and Digital Humanities Institute.” This Institute is designed for anyone who teaches or supports Caribbean Studies courses or sections dealing with Caribbean Studies in courses. This Institute is also aimed at people who are interested in learning ways to utilize digital collections and implement digital tools and methods into their teaching and collaborative practices.
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Washington
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation
Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize
SAAM invites submissions for the 2019 Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize. The prize recognizes excellent scholarship by a non-U.S. citizen in the field of historical American art (pre-1980).
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Washington
Towards a political ecology of ambiances/atmospheres
American Association of Geographers meeting, Washington, DC
This session aims at questioning the possibility of reconciling descriptive approaches of mundane social life (attentive to its sensitive, emotional and atmospheric/ambient dimension), with critical approaches? In other words, how can the sensory, affective, atmospheric research convey issues of social and political criticism?
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Kalamazoo
Transfer of Cultural Products: France and the Mediterranean Area in the 12th-13th centuries
Part I and II
Pour la troisième année consécutive, le Centre d'études supérieures de la civilisation médiévale (CESCM), en association avec l’International Medivela Society-Paris, organise des sessions au congrès international des médiévistes de Kalamazoo qui se tiendra dans le Michigan (USA) du 9 au 12 mai 2019. Les sessions porteront sur les transferts de produits culturels entre la France et l’espace méditerranéen au cours des XIIe et XIIIe siècles.
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College Station
Call for papers - Representation
Misperformance: staging law and justice in the African diaspora
Numéro spécial de la revue « CALLALOO »
Callaloo invites papers for a special issue on “Misperformance: Staging Law and Justice in the African Diaspora” guest edited by Jason Allen-Paisant (University of Leeds, United Kingdom). This special issue of Callaloo wishes to consider forms of performance that engage the legal apparatuses of colonialism as a site for critical thought and intervention in the political present. We wish to harness the enabling potential of the concept of “failing yet performing acts” for providing new understandings of performative interventions that confront histories of racial violence and imperial crimes despite disavowal, lack of official recognition, and absence of memorialization.
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Madison
Rejuvenating politics? Student politics and the history of youth’s political selves in South Asia
UW Madison conference (October 2018)
By drawing attention to the historical formation of both master narratives and counter claims developed by educated youth in the postcolonial period, the panel explores the relevance of campus spaces in the fashioning of political selves. After partition, many scholars regretted that students’ ‘movement’ had given way to sporadic, dispersed ‘agitations’, focused primarily on campus issues. Instead of dismissing group-based demands as ‘parochial’, or looking at students’ dispersion as a problem, this panel proposes to explore the myriad ways in which student politics supported, challenged or re-interpreted mainstream understandings of South Asian societies.
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Tucson
Conference, symposium - Language
Arizona Graduate Conference in French
Le Département de français et d'italien à l'université d'Arizona est ravi d'organiser ce colloque auquel tous les mastérants et doctorants en français sont invités à participer afin d'avoir l'opportunité de : présenter leur recherche lors d'une communication orale avec le format traditionnel de 20 minutes pour la communication suivie de 10 minutes pour les questions et commentaires, en français ou en anglais ; ou présenter leur recherche en cours dans une table ronde qui permettra une communication de 15 minutes suivie d'un véritable échange et retour d'information, en français ou en anglais ; s'inscrire à des ateliers ludiques de recherche sur deux thèmes différents (voir Ateliers ci-dessous) ; rencontrer d'autres étudiants et des professeurs ; assister à deux sessions plénières de chercheurs éminents portant sur des thématiques différentes ; assister à un film francophone pour l'ouverture du colloque le 23 février.
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Medford
Call for papers - Representation
Ancient Greek and Roman painting and the Digital Humanities
When in 1921, A. Reinach published the Recueil des textes grecs et latins relatifs à la peinture ancienne (Recueil Milliet), it was mainly to make accessible these texts about painting and aesthetics to a broader audience. Since two years, a team gathered around the Perseus Digital Library and the Perseids Project (Tufts University) seek to revitalize the Recueil Milliet (an essential tool for historians of Greek and Roman Art) implementing it into a digitalized format (http://digmill.perseids.org/commentary). In relation to the work made, the proposed conference seek to question methodologies which combine Digital Humanities and scientific research, especially in the field of history of Greek and Roman art. But also, to put forward the relationship between textual sources and the most recent archaeological findings.
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Oracle
Call for papers - Science studies
Biocosmos - Our sense of place, our sense of life in the universe
Planet scientists and exoplanet astronomers are re-shaping our understanding of the universe, presenting a fascinating cosmos filled with places and destinations, not an empty void. At the same time, Earth physicists and biologists design models of self-sustainable ecosystems such as Biosphere 2 and the Mars/Lunar Greenhouse, with the goal of engineering bio-regenerative mini-worlds that can function on their own. As these scientific revolutions unfold, with distant spaces and global life systems as objects of “field work”, what counts as the “human environment”? How do we, as individuals and societies, relate to spaces, things, and processes we do not or cannot experience directly and which we see as “extreme” or “beyond” human?
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New York
Haunted History: When the ghosts of slavery resurface
Cette année, la conférence annuelle du programme de français au Graduate Center de CUNY (City University of New York) coïncide avec le cent soixante-dixième anniversaire de l'abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies. Aussi avons-nous choisi pour thème : esclavage et mémoire des deux côtés de l'Atlantique.
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