Appels à contribution

Although the focus here is clearly on British actresses, the conference organisers would be interested to see papers, in English, on continental actresses. Chawton House LibraryChawton, AltonHampshire GU34 1SJ, United KingdomJuly 9-10 2015. The stage offered women an unprecedented freedom to speak out. It was a place where women were listened to, where they were respected, and where they had the potential to out-earn their male colleagues. This two-day interdisciplinary conference will explore…

Featuring a roundtable discussion with Dr Jane Gilbert (UCL),Professor Ad Putter (Bristol), and Professor Emma Dillon (KCL) Call for PapersWhat are the boundaries of the courtly in the Middle Ages’ How useful is ‘courtliness’ as a category for thinking about medieval texts of different kinds, including those not conventionally considered to be courtly? To what extent is courtliness a notion that translates between or among texts written in different languages or associated with particular cultu…

Argumentaire :Le pluriel du titre choisi pour ce futur dossier de la revue Clio, Femmes, Genre, Histoire invite à réfléchir à la plasticité et à la polysémie du concept de citoyenneté, aux mots traduits par « citoyen.ne.s « ou » citoyenneté » dans différentes langues, à la diversité des pratiques en montrant comment l’histoire des femmes et du genre a contribué à redéfinir le vocabulaire et les contours de ce que nous appelons la citoyenneté et donc notre conception du politique. Il s’agit par…

?Genesis’, the Journal of the Italian Association of Women Historians invites contributions for a forthcoming issue on gender relations in urban contexts. In past years the study of urban contexts through an approach focused on the use of cities as resources has contributed to reshaping aspects of labour history, family and kin relations, and of social and geographical mobility as well as rethinking the intersection of public and private. Since then, national history has progressively lost its…

Deadline extended to November 15 The conference website has a list of people seeking co-organizers for workshops. Check there if you are looking for a possible workshop. If you are seeking a co-organizer, send a message with your idea and contact info to the conference e-mail address and it will be posted there. Taking as its inspiration the fact that 2015 marks the 25th anniversary of the first Attending to Early Modern Women conference, the ninth conference, « It’s About Time, » will focus o…

Dans le cadre d’un numéro consacré à la littérature de langue française à l’âge classique, lapremière question devrait être d’ordre méthodologique et terminologique, impliquant demesurer l’impact des problématiques de genre/gender venues très largement de l’aire anglosaxonne.Le pari, à cet égard, serait que nous nous trouvons désormais à un moment depossible mesure de la spécificité de cet impact, le transfert culturel et conceptuel ayant eulieu, en France et, plus largement, sur le continent e…