Appels à contribution

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle & Sorbonne UniversitéLe 13 avril 2016, une plaque commémorative en l’honneur des victimes de la Saint-Barthélemy était apposée au pied du pont Neuf, dans le square du Vert-Galant, par la maire de Paris, Anne Hidalgo (voir l’épigraphe, supra). Les représentants des principaux cultes étaient présents dans le public[ii]. Au lendemain des attentats parisiens de 2015, une telle commémoration permettait, selon les organisateurs, de condamner unanimement des violences…

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 (U…

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, Parm…

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 un…

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 r…

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, m…