Mois : août 2020

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal Volume 16.1 (Fall 2021) will feature a forum on “Early Modern Women and Epidemics”As Covid-19 has swept the world, early modern scholars have become acutely aware of the ways that its manifestations and the public’s reactions to them have resonated with outbreaks of disease in the premodern world. Social boundaries change and class mobility is brought into sharp focus—who can stay home; who must work, who can escape “hot spots”; who cannot; who cares for the sick and how. Moreover, epidemics provoke plagues of fear, grief, and other...

The book covers the figure of the woman reader in Europe during the early modern period. Unlike the woman writer, she left us only a few written testimonies, but there are now sources that can bring out, with different perspectives for analysis, new dimensions of reading, including the women familiarity with books.Milena Sabato received a PhD (2006) in early modern history from the University of Salento, Italy, where she has since taught and researched. She qualified as Associate Professor in Modern History (2014 and 2018). Her main research interests are censorship, history of the book,...

Présidentes du Colloque :Carrie F. Klaus, DePauw UniversityKathrina LaPorta, New York UniversityLa Société d’Études Pluridisciplinaires du Dix-septième Siècle Français (SE17) a le plaisir d’annoncer son tout premier colloque virtuel, lequel se tiendra en deux sessions synchrones en ligne, du jeudi 22 octobre au vendredi 23 octobre, et du vendredi 6 novembre au samedi 7 novembre 2020, avec des ateliers portant sur les travaux en cours et une variété d’activités asynchrones offertes aux participant·e·s, s’étalant sur une période de deux semaines.La SE17 se réjouit d’avance d’explorer de...

52nd Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention Multiple moments of upheaval—clashes between European powers, violent religious conflict, political instability, and epidemics—shook early modern France. Increased contact with the Americas contributed to greater European awareness of the wider world and human diversity, which generated an interrogation of France’s place in it. These shifts in the global landscape mirrored a new interest in exploring humankind, and the early modern became the breaking ground of what we now understand as the humanities.  In the midst of the early...