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Le corps est devenu un objet central de la recherche en sciences humaines : l’histoire de l’art,la philosophie, la sociologie, l’histoire et la littérature s’en sont emparées et interrogent deux corpsbien différents. Le premier est un corps médiatisé par un système de représentation, un corpssémiotique. C’est ce corps-là que l’on retrouve dans les oeuvres d’art mais aussi dans des sources nonartistiques « comptes rendus de procès, correspondance privée etc. » qui ont recours à un systèmed’écrit…

In 2002, the year before the opening of Chawton House Library, as a research collection and centre for research in women’s writing of the long eighteenth century, a call for papers was sent out from the University of Southampton and Chawton House Library inviting proposals for an international conference to be held in July 2003. The resulting presentations focused on the rich field for the study of women writers and their careers, celebrating the range of women whose writing was seen as key to…

A reexamination of the lives, exchanges and everyday experiences of radical religious women, 1500-1800 This one-day interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together scholars of all levels whose research touches upon thdomestic scenee everyday lives and networks of dissident women in early modern England, America and Europe. Traditional histories of sectarian and non-conformist women in the early modern period have attested to the prominent role women had in the spread of religious sectarian…

Deadline extended til January 7, 2013 We invite papers for the 2013 Reading Early Modern Studies Conference onany aspect of the various material cultures through which early modernwomen’s writing has been produced, transmitted and received. Criticismof the last decade has increasingly emphasised women’s engagement withdiverse generic forms and modes of circulation, expanding the parametersof the field beyond literary interpretation of the texts themselves to anew engagement with their textual h…

Early Modern Women An Interdisciplinary Journal invites submissions of articles on the topic of women and gender in the early modern period, 1400-1750. The Journal has now established an award of $1000 for the best article in each issue:The Forum for Volume 8 will commemorate the 40th anniversary of Joan Kelly?s?Did Women Have a Renaissance?? Topics to be considered may include: questions of periodization (medieval and Renaissance) in the study of early modern women; the shift between these his…

OrganisateursIsabelle Ortega, MCF Histoire, Université de Nîmes (isabelle.ortega@unimes.fr)Marc-Jean Filaire, PRAG Lettres, Université de Nîmes (marc-jean.filaire@unimes.fr) Argumentaire scientifique Même si elle n’est pas le lieu unique de transmission des valeurs et des modèles culturels, la parenté constitue un espace privilégié pour la diffusion des représentations. Il y a plusieurs décennies, le structuralisme a placé la parenté au c’ur de la logique interne des sociétés, cependant si les…