Appels à contribution

Renaissance Society of America Annual MeetingToronto, 17-19 March 2019“Do you really believe … that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.” – The Worth of Women (1600)Writing about women in the late medieval and early modern period focused on ideals of female behaviour. In the 16th and 17th centuries the discussion became a public deb…

Appel à communicationsUn certain nombre de travaux consacrés aux femmes dans la guerre, particulièrement au XXe siècle, ont accordé une part de plus en plus importante aux combattantes. Ce champ d’étude est assez récent, pour deux raisons : le double stéréotype d’une aversion et d’une incapacité naturelles proprement féminine pour la guerre – les femmes subissant le départ de leurs hommes pour le combat et restant dans l’attente de leur retour ou de la nouvelle de leur mort, les femmes trop fai…

INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCHSchool of Advanced Study • University of LondonThis half-day workshop will bring together scholars working across the arts, humanities, and sciences, whose research relates to bodies, death and dying in the long eighteenth century. Specifically, it hopes to explore how approaches to mortality and the afterlife changed in this period, as reflected in the literature, art, medicine, military discourse, and funereal and mourning practices of the period.In our c…

Michigan State University We are now accepting proposals from graduate students who wish to participate in the inaugural Legacies of the Enlightenment Workshop, to be held on the campus of Michigan State University October 5-7, 2018.Your research does not have to focus solely on the period of the Enlightenment, but it should address in some form how the Enlightenment continues to exert an influence on our social, political, cultural, and ideological landscape into the present. We are pleased to…

Colloque international de l’Université de GuelphLa littérature et les arts sont des produits d’échanges et de dialogues entre cultures. Ils sont produits également grâce aux interactions avec les objets culturels de périodes antérieures.Partant du principe que les pratiques culturelles ne respectent pas les frontières, ce symposium examinera comment les échanges culturels peuvent constituer des identités hybrides et de nouveaux objets culturels, de nouvelles structures et institutions. Il exami…

Call for Panel Proposals Renaissance Society of America Annual MeetingThe Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (http://ssemw.org) will sponsor up to four panels at the 2019 annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), to be held in Toronto, 17-19 March 2019. I am soliciting proposals for pre-formed panels in any discipline that explore women and their contributions to the cultural, political, economic, or social spheres of the early modern period. Proposals that include…