Appels à contribution

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, m…

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 fai…

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 consid…

Organisers: Karunika Kardak (IMLR) and Catherine Barbour (University of Surrey)This online symposium invites abstracts for 20-minute papers on historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and cultural settings. The aim is to facilitate a dialogue between scholars working on and/or from the Global South and North on intersectional feminist approaches to women’s histories and literary texts. We invite papers which explore how the genre unearths women’s historical experience…

Work can be a source of freedom, wealth and self-respect, but also exploitation, poverty and subjugation. Existing grand narratives suggest that labour in fifteenth-century Western Europe became ‘free’ after the end of serfdom.Yet some workers had more freedom than others. Women were excluded from many occupations, while in some cultures married women had no right to own property or the fruits of their labour. Labour laws controlled workers such as servants and apprentices, who were placed in t…

Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender (http://ssemw.org) will sponsor up to three panels at next year’s annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), to be held in Dublin, Ireland, on 30 March – 2 April 2022. The SSEMWG supports and promotes inclusive and creative scholarship on women and gender across the early modern world. We are committed to interdisciplinary, intersectional approaches that are historicall…