Mois : juillet 2021

During the 16th and 17th centuries, many European women were able to forge a place in the world of entertainment—as actresses, dancers, singers, musicians, instrumentalists, composers, poetesses and playwrights—developing careers that, in some cases, were possible thanks to the financial support of other women. France and Italy are interesting case studies given the importance of female patrons such as the Queens of France, the Italian female sovereigns of various courts (Florence, Mantua, Parma, Modena, etc.), and noblewomen in Rome from many patrician families (Barberini, Colonna,...

Revue Genealogy, special issueScholarship on the marital status of early modern women has proliferated over the last two decades. We now know much more about the experiences of single, married, and widowed women in the past and how marital status affected women’s social, economic, legal, and cultural identities. We know much less, however, about separated and divorced wives in the early modern period. In that era, divorce was frowned upon and also not available to women in many countries and under various religions and cultures. Thus, women whose marriages were irrevocably broken chose or...

53rd Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) ConventionDeadline for Abstract Submissions: September 30, 2021 This panel seeks to consider how the works of French writers and thinkers of the early modern period and the eighteenth century envision entanglements and interconnections between humans and their nonhuman « kin, » whether animal, vegetable, or other forms of life. The feminist science studies scholar Donna Haraway defines “kin” not as a solely biological concept but as a method of redefining and re-envisioning our relations with other beings beyond the ties of ancestry and...

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary JournalVolume 17.1 (Fall 2022) Moving beyond attention to early modern women’s “voices,” this forum investigates their participation in soundscapes — the acoustic environment in which they were immersed, to which they responded, and which they shaped. These investigations may focus on architecture and the built environment, art and other visual representations, history (cultural, economic, social, and other approaches), literary and rhetorical studies, musicology, and other disciplines. We are aiming for contributions that address diverse global...

Colloque international organisé par le CELLF 16-18, la faculté des Lettres de Sorbonne Université et l’EA CLARE (CEREC) de l’université Bordeaux-Montaigne.Cet événement aura lieu en Sorbonne les 2 et 3 juin 2022.Les propositions de communications, de 500 mots maximum, sont à envoyer à Emmanuel Bury (Emmanuel.Bury@sorbonne-universite.fr), Delphine Amstutz (Delphine.Amstutz@sorbonne-universite.fr) et Françoise Poulet (francoise.poulet@u-bordeauxmontaigne.fr) avant le 31 juillet 2021.L’éloge a fait l’objet de nombreux travaux de référence au cours des dernières décennies. D’un point de vue...

Association des Études Françaises et Francophones d’IrlandeADEFFI 2021 – XXIIIe Colloque annuelConférencier d’honneur: Prof. Sylvain Ledda (Université de Rouen)Cet appel, pour le XXIIIe colloque annuel de l’ADEFFI, invite à proposer des communications concernant tout aspect de la notion de ‘révélations’ et de sa relation aux domaines littéraire, culturel, social, politique, de langue française – à tout niveau d’historicité ou d’actualité. Parmi les centres d’intérêt abordables, on pourra considérer les possibilités ci-dessous :Libérer la parole / Unmute!Les énigmes du passé / historical...