Year: 2021

Colloque international organisé par le CELLF 16-18, la faculté des Lettres de Sorbonne Université et l’EA CLARE (CEREC) de l’université Bordeaux-Montaigne.Cet événement aura lieu en Sorbonne les 2 et 3 juin 2022.Les propositions de communications, de 500 mots maximum, sont à envoyer à Emmanuel Bury (Emmanuel.Bury@sorbonne-universite.fr), Delphine Amstutz (Delphine.Amstutz@sorbonne-universite.fr) et Françoise Poulet (francoise.poulet@u-bordeauxmontaigne.fr) avant le 31 juillet 2021.L’éloge a fait l’objet de nombreux travaux de référence au cours des dernières décennies. D’un point de vue...

Association des Études Françaises et Francophones d’IrlandeADEFFI 2021 – XXIIIe Colloque annuelConférencier d’honneur: Prof. Sylvain Ledda (Université de Rouen)Cet appel, pour le XXIIIe colloque annuel de l’ADEFFI, invite à proposer des communications concernant tout aspect de la notion de ‘révélations’ et de sa relation aux domaines littéraire, culturel, social, politique, de langue française – à tout niveau d’historicité ou d’actualité. Parmi les centres d’intérêt abordables, on pourra considérer les possibilités ci-dessous :Libérer la parole / Unmute!Les énigmes du passé / historical...

Organisers: Karunika Kardak (IMLR) and Catherine Barbour (University of Surrey)This online symposium invites abstracts for 20-minute papers on historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and cultural settings. The aim is to facilitate a dialogue between scholars working on and/or from the Global South and North on intersectional feminist approaches to women’s histories and literary texts.We invite papers which explore how the genre unearths women’s historical experiences, retrieves them from the archive and fills gaps in historical narratives through fiction in order...

Work can be a source of freedom, wealth and self-respect, but also exploitation, poverty and subjugation. Existing grand narratives suggest that labour in fifteenth-century Western Europe became ‘free’ after the end of serfdom.Yet some workers had more freedom than others. Women were excluded from many occupations, while in some cultures married women had no right to own property or the fruits of their labour. Labour laws controlled workers such as servants and apprentices, who were placed in the same legal relationship to the household head as children. As recent studies of serfdom and...