Mois : juin 2013

Sous la direction d’Yves BAUDELLE et Mirna VELCIC-CANIVEZ, Université Charles-de-Gaulle – Lille 3.Les relations compliquées et intenses entre la fiction et l’histoire sont un thème récurrent dans la théorie littéraire. Depuis les polémiques autour des thèses de H. White elles n’ont jamais cessé de ramener au centre des débats entre théoriciens et critiques littéraires, historiens et sémioticiens, des questions épistémologiques importantes. Nous l’avons vu encore ces dernières années à l’occasion de la publication d’ouvrages fictionnels qui empiètent...

Organizer: Andrea Pearson, American University, Washington, DCSponsor: The Society for the Study of Early Modern WomenThe Society for the Study of Early Modern Women seeks papers for an open session that explores women’s engagement with the visual arts between 1400 and 1700. All subjects and approaches are welcome, including, for example, women’s contributions to art-making and art patronage, the deployment of the arts for social intervention and change, the gendering of pictorial representation and artistic practices, and the use and manipulation of architectural space.Please...

RSA seeks panels for sessions on any area of women’s engagement between 1400-1700. Submissions for panels in all fields concerning women and gender are welcome, including: science, medicine, religion, music, art, theater, architecture, literature, patronage, politics, the publishing industry, and entrepreneurship in any field. Panels on women’s intervention and leadership in new venues and arenas are especially sought.Please send proposals for panels and brief cvs for all panel participants by June 1, 2013 to diana.robin@rcn.com. Each panel proposal should have a title, a...

Organizers: Julie Campbell, Anne Larsen, and Diana RobinWe would like to propose a series of panels on women’s participation in the areas of philosophy, theology, and science (natural philosophy) in the early modern period.As more information comes to light about women’s participation in philosophical debates, activities involving religion and religious controversy, and their engagement in natural philosophy during the early modern period, it becomes clear that we have much to learn about the women who incorporated such interests into their lives, and, in some cases, dedicated...

This session explores the relationship of early modern women to shifting conceptions of the public and private realms as well as domesticity. How did early modern women, especially early modern women writers, articulate their own place in the public realm or different spheres that were conceived as public to varying degrees’ How, when, and why did women see themselves as members of « counterpublics’ » How did they represent public and private spaces in different types of writing or in visual arts and objects’ Conversely, how did men represent women in these spaces’...

Early work on literary authorship stressed the concept’s associations with men and masculinity?and, hence, its difficulties for women. Recent scholars have nuanced such claims, focusing not only on early modern women’s widespread involvement in literary culture, but also on the slippages and tensions that arise in Renaissance discussions of authorship and gender. What happens to our understanding of the early modern literary field when we consider the gendering of authorship as shifting and contested’This panel, sponsored by the Rutgers Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium,...