Month: July 2018

WOMEN IN FRENCH UK 15th BIENNIAL CONFERENCE (WiF UK / CCWW)INTERVENANTE INVITÉE : Leïla SlimaniAPPEL À COMMUNICATIONSLe thème « femmes et pouvoir » revêt une pertinence particulière dans le contexte de la France d’aujourd’hui. Cinquante ans après les événements de mai 68, la société française est en train de vivre une nouvelle vague de mouvements revendicatifs tels que « La Barbe », ou, plus récemment, la campagne « Balance ton porc » contre le harcèlement sexuel et le sexisme dans la vie publique. De la même manière, l’écriture féministe française a joué un rôle déterminant en lançant un...

Newcastle UniversityKeynote Speakers: Professor Sian Moore, University of Greenwich and Professor Jan Windebank, University of SheffieldWebsite: https://womenworkandactivism2018.wordpress.com/Abstract Submission: Please send to womenworkactivismconference@gmail.com by 31st July 2018Sponsored by: Labour and Society Research Group, Newcastle University and Gender Research Group, Newcastle UniversityWork by women: pay deficit; inferior employment status; fewer promotion prospects; less social value; greater precarity; often invisible and unmeasured. All this is true despite decades of...

We are happy to confirm that the 10th Christine de Pizan International Congress will be held in Paris, at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, from the 18th to the 22nd of June 2019.The theme of this meeting will be: Genesis and FiliationsThis meeting aims to examine the way in which Christine de Pizan evokes and inscribes the theme of filiation in her texts; first of all, her own filiation as a daughter and as a mother. Other filiations, literary and fictional, are added to biological filiation: from one work to another, new processes of genesis and generation are built or invented and, with them, new...

Récit et vérité à l’époque classique VColloque international organisé par Catherine Ramond (EA 4195 TELEM Bordeaux Montaigne), Marc Hersant, Érik Leborgne, Nathalie Kremer (EA 174 FIRL Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3)Lieu du colloque : Maison de la recherche de l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III (4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris). « Il faut qu’on s’accoutume de bonne heure à mes digressions », avertit Jacob au début du Paysan parvenu. La narration rétrospective à la première personne accueille naturellement les réflexions morales, scientifiques – philosophiques au...

XXXIIIe Colloque international de la La SATOR (Société d’analyse des topiques romanesques, http://satorbase.org), sous l’égide du laboratoire Patrimoine-Littérature-Histoire (PLH) et de l’Équipe Littérature Herméneutique (ELH) organise son colloque international annuel de l’année 2019 à l’Université Jean Jaurès de Toulouse.Il s’agira d’examiner non seulement la place et le sens qu’a pu tenir le sens de l’ouïe dans les textes narratifs d’Ancien Régime, mais surtout de se demander en quelle mesure l’objet sonore participerait de la scène topique, voire lui donnerait parfois tout son sens, au...

2019 RSA  During the past decade, increased scholarly attention has been given to early modern women’s participation in cultural production through groups—salons, literary circles, scientific and philosophical circles and academies, religious circles, and correspondence and patronage networks. Panelists are invited to consider the following:-Salons, circles, academies, and networks enabling women to participate in cultural production—literary, scientific, philosophical, religious, and/or political-the sociopolitical conditions/strictures in such groups-Participation in such groups across...

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 activity. Representations of the internalized practice of self-regulation reveal that early modern women...

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, including art history, cultural studies, music, history, languages and literatures, political...

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 debate over not just how women should act, but also whether or not they were even capable...