Appels à contribution

Organisers: Rachel Delman (Oxford) & Phoebe Linton (Edinburgh) Keynote Speakers: Dr Rachel Moss (Oxford) & Dr Sarah Dunnigan (Edinburgh). In recent years, scholars from a range of disciplines have considered how concepts such as « family« and »the home » can be used to understand and explore the wider structures of medieval society. This two day interdisciplinary conference will bring together researchers from across the Humanities, in order to consider these approaches and to identify…

Abstracts of up to 250 words in length by April 1, 2015, to pearson@american.edu. This session will explore the social implications of intimacy in the production, reception, and circulation of early modern art. Among the questions that could be addressed are: How did artists deploy particular media or exploit the material qualities of their works to craft advantageous intimacies with their desired constituents’ To what ends did patrons ask artists to portray socially intimate relationships’ In…

For the next Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) to be held October 22 – 25, 2015 at the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (SSEMW) is offering sponsorship for panels on topics focusing on women and gender in the early modern era (ca. 1450 ? ca. 1660). SSEMW-sponsored panels are pre-approved for SCSC. Proposals must include the following:*A 150-word abstract describing the topic of the proposed session.*…

Call for Abstracts for Modern Language Association Conference 2016 in Austin, Texas MLA Sixteenth-Century French Literature Executive Committee Theories of queenship and practices of queens; relations to networks, gender, transnationalism, etc. (Please note that this session is not guaranteed.). 200-word abstracts to Leah Chang lchang@gwu.edu by by 15 March 2015; Todd W. Reeser (reeser@pitt.edu).

Au commencement, Dieu créa le ciel et la terre.La terre était sans forme et vide, il n’y avait que ténèbres à la surface de l’abîme, et l’esprit de Dieu soufflait au-dessus des eaux.Dieu dit « que la lumière soit ! » ; et la lumière fut.Genèse, 1, 1-3 ArgumentaireCes phrases, qui comptent probablement parmi les plus célèbres du monde, renvoient à la cosmogonie chrétienne, originale puisqu’elle pose en son coeur le Verbe divin, originelle puisqu’elle est à la base de l’histoire de l’homme. Ouvrant…

Deadline for submission: February 28, 2015 Contact e-mail: caglioti@unina.it ; rizzod@unior.it The Department of Social Sciences of the Università di Napoli Federico II, theDepartment of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Università di NapoliL’Orientale together with the International collaborative doctoral network inWomen’s and Gender History will be jointly running the Graduate Conferenceon Gender and Crisis in History, to be held June 22-24, 2015, on the island ofProcida (Napoli). This co…