This three-day conference will feature research and teaching approaches that explore how women participated in and contributed to different kinds of community in medieval and early modern Europe. Conference sessions will feature presentations based on texts and images in traditional manuscript and print format, as well as work that employs new technology and media projects. The conference will be interdisciplinary, and will consider the function and importance of female communities in the natural and social sciences, religion, literature, history, music and fine arts.Presentation topics may...

The study of women and gender offers some of the most vital and innovative challenges to current scholarship on the early modern period. For more than a decade now, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World has served as a forum for presenting fresh ideas and original approaches to the field. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in scope, this Ashgate book series strives to reach beyond geographical limitations to explore the experiences of early modern women and the nature of gender in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. We welcome proposals for both single-author volumes and...

« Comme le désir sexuel, la mémoire ne s’arrête jamais. Elle apparie les morts aux vivants, les êtres réels aux imaginaires, le rêve à l’histoire. » (Annie Ernaux, Les Années, 15.)En honneur du XXème anniversaire de la revue Women in French Studies (1993), ce colloque prend pour thème les femmes, la mémoire et les formes qu’elle revêt dans les œuvres par ou concernant les Françaises et les Francophones. Nous invitons les participant-e-s à réfléchir aux multiples façons dont on commémore, recueille, rappelle, étudie et enseigne les œuvres des Françaises et des...