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The EMREM Postgraduate Forum Annual Symposium (Early Medieval~Medieval~Renaissance~Reformation~Early Modern) Papers are invited for the 2013 EMREM two-day interdisciplinary symposium at the University of Birmingham. This year?s theme focuses on birth, sex and death as rites of passage. How were life stages demarcated in medieval and early modern societies and how were transitions between them negotiated’ In what ways were the defining acts of birth, sex and death understood and represented in r…

– Récits et stratégies narratives- Histoire et fiction dans le roman historique- L’écrivain et l’Histoire- Autofiction et autobiographie- Révisionnisme et historiographie- Mythes, contes et légendes- Histoire collective et histoire individuelle- Histoire(s) et mémoire(s)- Micro-histoires- Histoires cachées- Histoire et oubli- Enjeux de l’histoire littéraire- L’historien et la littérature- L’histoire de la lecture et de la réception- Les grands classiques- La politique et l’Histoire- Histoire et…

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…