Appels à contribution

Early modern English culture consistently imagines the regulation of feminine bodies, whether through virtuous exempla, cautionary tales, education and conduct books, medical diagnosis and advice, literary plots or tropes, fashion, or physical disciplines such as needlework, dance, or music lessons. Prescriptions for early modern gender include the watchful regulation of fathers, husbands, doctors, and teachers over women’s intellectual and moral education as well as over their physical activit…

Following another very successful Attending to Early Modern Women conference last week, we would like to invite you to consider submitting your work to Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal. EMWJ is the only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. Each volume gathers essays on early modern women from every country and region by scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines, incl…

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…