Appels à contribution

Gina Luria Walker, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at New School University, seeks scholars to participate in the Female Biography Project, a collaborative feminist effort in which the Chawton House Library Edition of Mary Hays’s pioneering six volumes of Female Biography (1803) are being enriched with the most recent scholarship about the 300 women she included. The project has attracted an international group of 112 distinguished scholars, however scholars are needed to write annotatio…

Keywords: Gender, Luxury, European Town, Consumption, Retail Section: Main session Leading question: The role of the town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations and for competition and emulation, relating this to the longue durée. Key issues and scientific relevance: The themes of consumer culture and of luxury are now well-worked, but most of the studies on these topics concentrate on England – as a laboratory of new practices and as the cradle of the consumer society – a…

In the past two decades, many societies in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe have experienced an increase in the writing, publication, and scholarly analysis of autobiographical works by women. But these works have not been available to a broad international audience. Volume 7 of Aspasia will focus on the autobiographical writings of women in CESEE, including their diaries, memoirs and correspondence. We seek original research based on such sources, analyzed in the context of the social…

Projet proposé par Nathalie Grande et Claudine Nédelec L’intitulé de ce projet est emprunté à un ouvrage de Vaumorière, Histoire de la galanterie des Anciens (Paris, 1671), où l’auteur raconte sous forme romancée les amours des personnages illustres de l’Antiquité à l’époque de Trajan. Mais bien avant Vaumorière, et bien après lui, de nombreux ouvrages, en divers genres, ont cherché à « et souvent été accusés de ?? peindre Caton galant et Brutus dameret » (Boileau, Art poétique, chant III, v…

Sous la direction de Lucie Joubert. Revue GREMF. Présentes désormais dans presque toutes les sphères de la société, les femmes demeurent encore sous-représentées dans les spectacles, les galas et les festivals d’humour. Pourtant, elles ont été et sont toujours nombreuses à jouer avec les mots, à manifester de l’esprit, à faire rire : on ne le soupçonne guère parce qu’elles empruntent des voies qui passent rarement par les feux de la rampe ou par les scènes officielles. Elles travaillent en mar…

The 58th Annual Society for French Historical Studies conference will be held at the Omni Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, California from Thursday, March 22, through Saturday, March 24, 2012 and will be hosted by the University of Southern California. The theme for this conference will be « Media and French History. » Featured speakers include film director, producer, screenwriter, and installation artist, Agnès Varda (definitive confirmation pending); Emannuelle Loyer (Sciences Po), Antoine d…