Mois : mai 2018
Call for Panel Proposals Renaissance Society of America Annual MeetingThe Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (http://ssemw.org) will sponsor up to four panels at the 2019 annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), to be held in Toronto, 17-19 March 2019. I am soliciting proposals for pre-formed panels in any discipline that explore women and their contributions to the cultural, political, economic, or social spheres of the early modern period. Proposals that include young/emerging scholars are especially welcome. Sponsorship of a panel by the SSEMW signifies...
Théâtre de société et société (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles) : quelles interactions ?
Université de LausanneDans le cadre du projet Théâtres de société. Entre Lumières et Second Empire (2016-2020) soutenu par le Fonds National de la Recherche Suisse.Organisation : Valentina Ponzetto (Professeure Boursière FNS/Université de Lausanne) ; Jennifer Ruimi (Post-doc FNS/Université de Lausanne)Le terme de société est contenu dans la dénomination même de « théâtre de société ». Mais quels sont précisément les rapports et les interactions entre les deux ? De quelle manière les théâtres de société s’inscrivent-ils dans un contexte social ? Comment ce phénomène est-il perçu au XVIIIe et...
Diplomacy and Gender in the Early Modern World (1400-1800)
University of OxfordOrganiser: Ruggero SciutoKeynote Speaker: Lucien Bély (Université Paris-Sorbonne)Monday, 11 June 20189:00 – Arrival and registration9:30 – Opening remarks9:45-11:00 – First panel: Masculinity and diplomacyTracey Sowerby (University of Oxford) – ‘A duelling diplomat? Chivalry, masculinity, and representative character in late Elizabethan diplomacy’Lisa Dallavalle (Independent Researcher) – ‘The lifelong friendship of Sir John Finch and Dr Thomas Baines’11:00-11:20 – Coffee break11:20-13:00 – Second panel: Princesses, consorts, and regentsFederico Piseri (Università di...
Rethinking Intimacy in Women’s Reading and Writing at the Peripheries of Europe
The Department of literature, history of ideas and religion at Gothenburg University, Sweden is pleased to announce the international exploratory workshopRETHINKING INTIMACY IN WOMEN’S READING AND WRITING AT THE PERIPHERIES OF EUROPE. The workshop strives to explore the issue of intimacy, its representations, scenes and scenarios in women’s reading and writing between the 1700s to the 1900s, starting from the evidence that extensive research has been done on the topic in Western and Central Europe but to a lesser extent in the peripheries of Southern, Eastern and Northern Europe. The first...
Renaissance Society of America (RSA)
CFPs for potential French-focused discipline-representative-sponsored panels at the RSA in Toronto : 1. Natural Contracts in the French Renaissance(Proposed French Discipline Sponsored Panel)Beginning with his discussion of Goya’s “Fight with Cudgels,” Michel Serres in his Natural Contract brings attention to “the marsh” into which the (purely human) struggle “sinks.” More generally, Serres’s text opens out onto a new emphasis on the “world of things themselves” and onto the proposition of negotiating not only a “social contract” but also a “natural one.” Paper proposals are sought for a...
Genre et Migrations
Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire Appel à contributions « Genre et Migrations », n° 51, printemps 2020Dans une approche d’histoire globale et transnationale, l’historiographie des migrations a élargi ses horizons et analyse la variation sexuée des migrations dans la longue durée. Elle a montré l’accélération de la mobilité il y a 6000-5000 ans avec le phénomène d’urbanisation ; puis l’intensification des mobilités et interactions du VIème au XVIème siècle avec le développement des échanges commerciaux ou de travail entre différentes espaces (Harzig et Hoerder, 2009). Du VIème au XVème siècle,...