Appels à contribution

Convents throughout Catholic Europe were often closely associated with individual families over several generations. This session seeks to address convents as sites of multi-generational female patronage or presence. Can a case be made that certain convents served as female dynastic « palaces’ in contradistinction to the overtly patrilineal family palace » In addition to patronage–for decorations, intentions, or convent maintenance–placing young women in convents where female relatives were a…

La SCSC est une association professionnelle américaine mondialement reconnue dans le domaine de la littérature et des études françaises pré-modernes. Comme dans le passé, les langues de travail de nos sessions de la conférence (y compris, bien entendu, celles portant sur la littérature française) seront l’anglais et le français. Fondée au seizième siècle, et enjeu de la guerre anglo-espagnole de 1585, San Juan jouit d’une longue histoire et demeure aujourd’hui une ville bilingue et cosmopolite…

The journal « Genesis’ calls for papers for a special issue on the theme »women migrants (emigrant/immigrant) in the past and present. The Italian case?.During the last decades the theme of migration has registered in Italy rich and relevant contributions, while also providing a fertile ground for the convergence of different disciplinary approaches. The massive population shifts brought about in recent years by globalization has enriched this field of research with new problems and issues to b…

Consuming Passions engages a range of topics involving thetreatment of desire, obsession, and appetites as expressed intexts, images, and music in the early modern period. Allconference participants will focus on issues related to France,and many will choose to connect France in two or moreperiods (medieval through the eighteenth century) and/or tomake connections between France and other countries. Interdisciplinary in focus, the conference’s broad historicalsweep from the medieval period thro…

Journée d’étudeorganisée par le Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine, avec le concours de l’Institut Universitaire de France et du projet ANR CITERE,qui se tiendra à Nice le 13 septembre 2013, sous la responsabilité scientifique de David Rousseau et Marie Villion. Dès leur plus jeune âge, les héritiers de l’aristocratie et de ceux qui dans la haute bourgeoisie aspirent à y parvenir sont sensibilisés aux différentes formes artistiques, tant dans la sphère domestique que dans les in…

Download ‘Call for Papers’ flyer This international conference will bring together scholars interested in exploring how we “source” emotions of the medieval and early modern period, whether by performing, acting, hearing, finding, or reading within the varied disciplines interested in this period. Abstracts are welcome on such questions as:Where we look for emotions in the extant sourcesHow we ‘read’ across multiple source types to create a composite understanding of the emotions of a particula…