La cohésion et l’harmonie sociales reposent largement sur la sociabilité, une forme de « douce police » qui renvoie à la capacité des individus à interagir, à communiquer et à vivre ensemble sans l’intervention continuelle d’un pouvoir coercitif. La sociabilité réfère ainsi aux multiples façons qu’ont les individus d’entrer en contact avec des amis ou des inconnus, que ce soit en personne, au sein de clubs, de salons, de sociétés ou d’autres associations, ou à distance, par le biais des correspondances, des traités et des discours.Le congrès se propose...

For the next Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) to be held October 16-19, 2014 at the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (SSEMW) is offering sponsorship for panels on topics focusing on women and gender in the early modern era (ca. 1450 ? ca. 1660).SSEMW-sponsored panels are pre-approved for SCSC.Proposals must include the following:-a 150 word abstract describing the topic of the proposed session.-names of organizer/s and chair, as well as the speakers and respondent, if inviting one.-Institutional affiliations...

Organizers: Anne Larsen and Diana RobinWe would like to organize a panel on « Revisiting Early Modern Salons. »The place of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century salons and salon sociabilité in the production of culture has been a topic of renewed interest for literary historians for well over a decade. As we and other scholars have begun to take into consideration women’s leadership and patronage in such contexts, in Italy, France, England, and Spain, the notions about what constitutes women’s empowerment regarding the production of literary culture, especially, but also their...