Mois : décembre 2016

Journées d’études – CELIS // // Cité internationale de la tapisserie et de l’art tissé d’AubussonJournée d’étude organisée avec le CHECLes historiens de l’art recherchent constamment les sources littéraires des tapisseries [1]. De la période moderne jusqu’au XXIe siècle, la tapisserie occidentale relève en effet de la peinture d’histoire : ses sources littéraires se trouvent dans la mythologie, l’histoire sainte, l’histoire antique ou contemporaine, ou encore la Fable [2]. À toutes les époques, les tapisseries permettent la représentation de mythes ou de récits, mais aussi de...

Journée d’étude : Maison Française, OxfordOn conçoit aujourd’hui la promenade comme un exercice physique, comme une pratique touristique ou comme une activité solipsiste, tournée vers la rêverie. Mais, avant les promeneurs solitaires ou les flâneurs des villes qu’a étudiés Walter Benjamin, la promenade relève aussi des comportements et des usages sociaux : c’est dans cette perspective que nous souhaiterions aborder l’histoire et la représentation d’une pratique moins spontanée que contrainte par des usages et des traditions multiples. La journée d’étude s’inscrira dans la continuité d’une...

We are pleased to announce that the book series, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World, has moved to University of Nebraska Press!Over the past forty years, the study of women and gender has become foundational for understanding the early modern period. By challenging, revising, and expanding scholarly discourse about the lives, power, prerogatives, and challenges of women across classand geographical boundaries, the field has broadened our understanding of art, literature, science, politics, music, families, sexuality, and other quotidian experiences from the fifteenth to the...

New Publication and Call for Collaborators The Women Writers Project has recently published Women Writers in Review (http://wwp.neu.edu/review/) an open-access collection of around 600 reviews, publication notices, and other documents that respond or relate to texts by the authors in Women Writers Online. They are now inviting expressions of interest from potential pedagogical development consultants, who would work with them to create assignments that use WWiR. They are planning to use these pilots to develop a sample set of assignments that they can publish on the WWP’s sites....

Members of the National Women’s Studies Association Early Modern Women Interest Group seek paper proposals for a panel on “Early Modern Nasty Women: Shrews, Scolds, and Whores” for the NWSA annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland, Nov 16-19 2017.The Early Modern Women Interest group aims to propose a sponsored panel under the conference subtheme of “engaging, questioning, and transcending the state.”We seek papers that address:Canonical early modern women writers’ support of state powerEarly modern representations of disruptive, unruly, or innovative womenHow early modern women’s...