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Year: 2021

Les femmes dans les monarchies européennes. Paradigmes institutionnels, rôles politiques et économiques, modèles culturels (XIIIe-XIXe siècles)

Appel du concours du 7e séminaire doctoral sur l’Histoire et l’économie des pays méditerranéensL’Institut d’études sur la Méditerranée – Centre National  de la Recherche (CNR)-  de Naples, en collaboration avec l’Institut des Sciences du Patrimoine Culturel – CNR, l’Institut d’Histoire de l’Europe Méditerranéenne – CNR, l’Université  Suor Orsola Benincasa de Naples, l’Université  de l’Aquila, l’Institut Historique Italien pour le Moyen Àge, l’Institution Milà i Fontanals du Conseil Supérieur de la Recherche Scientifique  de Barcelone, l’Université de Rouen Normandie – GRHis, l’Université de...

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Le Grand siècle en mouvement : négociations, circulations, dynamiques

The Grand Siècle in Movement: Negotiations, Circulations, Dynamics40ème Congrès international annuel de la Société d’études pluridisciplinaires du dix-septième siècle français40th Annual International Conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies SE1714-15 Oct. & 22-23 Oct. 2021 (Congrès Virtuel / Virtual Conference) Organisatrices / Organizers:Anne Duprat (Université de Picardie-Jules Verne / Institut Universitaire de France)Charlotte Trinquet du Lys (University of Central Florida)***Aux Etats-Unis comme en France, nombreux ont été les appels à une...

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Women, Money, Music and Theatre: exploring the Political economy of Performing arts (Italy and France: 1550-1700)

During the 16th and 17th centuries, many European women were able to forge a place in the world of entertainment—as actresses, dancers, singers, musicians, instrumentalists, composers, poetesses and playwrights—developing careers that, in some cases, were possible thanks to the financial support of other women. France and Italy are interesting case studies given the importance of female patrons such as the Queens of France, the Italian female sovereigns of various courts (Florence, Mantua, Parma, Modena, etc.), and noblewomen in Rome from many patrician families (Barberini, Colonna,...

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Separated and Divorced Wives in the Early Modern World

Revue Genealogy, special issueScholarship on the marital status of early modern women has proliferated over the last two decades. We now know much more about the experiences of single, married, and widowed women in the past and how marital status affected women’s social, economic, legal, and cultural identities. We know much less, however, about separated and divorced wives in the early modern period. In that era, divorce was frowned upon and also not available to women in many countries and under various religions and cultures. Thus, women whose marriages were irrevocably broken chose or...

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Making Kin in Early Modern France: Interspecies Ecologies of Care

53rd Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) ConventionDeadline for Abstract Submissions: September 30, 2021 This panel seeks to consider how the works of French writers and thinkers of the early modern period and the eighteenth century envision entanglements and interconnections between humans and their nonhuman “kin,” whether animal, vegetable, or other forms of life. The feminist science studies scholar Donna Haraway defines “kin” not as a solely biological concept but as a method of redefining and re-envisioning our relations with other beings beyond the ties of...

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Women’s Soundscapes in the Early Modern World

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary JournalVolume 17.1 (Fall 2022) Moving beyond attention to early modern women’s “voices,” this forum investigates their participation in soundscapes — the acoustic environment in which they were immersed, to which they responded, and which they shaped. These investigations may focus on architecture and the built environment, art and other visual representations, history (cultural, economic, social, and other approaches), literary and rhetorical studies, musicology, and other disciplines. We are aiming for contributions that address diverse global...

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