Appels à contribution

L’association Mix-Cité Loiret organise avec l’aide de la région Centre et de la médiathèque d’Orléans, un colloque les 4 et 5 avril 2013 intitulé : « Femmes des Lumières et de l’ombre III : savantes femmes et citoyennes de tendre en Europe ». Ce colloque, à l’instar de « Femmes des Lumières et de l’ombre « en 2011 et ? La Belle époque des femmes » » en 2012, veut rendre justice à des personnalités féminines méconnues, et pour cela mettre en évidence les stratégies – en particulier génériques -…

Concerns about fertility and children have been (and still are) common reasons for visiting, and more generally engaging with, the sacred spaces’sanctuaries and shrines, groves and grottoes’of many religions and cultures. The narratives, objects, and rituals associated with places of particular access to the divine across a wide chronological and geographical range testify to this insistent human need: stories of miraculous births, assorted reproductive ex-votos, and prayers for the sterile are…

Existing scholarship on madness in medieval (mostly English) literature is dedicated predominantly to typological schematization or to clinical descriptions of medieval madness, either in terms of medieval theories of insanity or from a more modern, often Lacanian, perspective. More properly literary accounts, notably Sylvia Huot’s excellent Madness in Medieval French Literature (2003), tend to privilege the ways in which madness constructs, deconstructs, and problematizes individual and collec…

Apologies for cross-posting. Proposals of papers are invited for the annualGender and Medieval Studies conference that will meet on thetheme of ‘Gender in Material Culture’ at Bath Spa University (Corsham Courtcampus) from 4th to 6th January 2013. I would be grateful if you couldcirculate this via any email lists you may have. The Conference will consider the gendered nature of social, religious andeconomic uses of ?things’, exploring the way that objects and the materialenvironment were produc…

Paper abstracts are invited for an upcoming multi-disciplinary conference entitled, Politeness and Prurience: Situating Transgressive Sexualities in the Long Eighteenth Century. The conference will attempt to reconcile the dominant discourse of politeness with the subject of illicit sexuality, which have been hitherto pursued as two separate fields of enquiry within cultural histories of the eighteenth century. This two-day event will be hosted by the History of Art Department at the Universit…

25 ans de Women in French (WIF) / 12 ans de Women in French in Scotland (WIFIS) Ce colloque rassemblera pour la première fois les deux rencontres de « Women in French » (UK et Ecosse), autour du thème ?Solitaires, Solidaires’. Argumentaire : Au travers des colloques qu’ils organisent régulièrement, ces deux groupes ont pour objectif de maintenir un réseau de liens et de promouvoir les échanges entre des femmes universitaires, qu’elles soient chercheuses et/ou enseignantes, et travaillant dans…