Announce: AALAC Workshop on Teaching Early Modern France (October 16-17, 2015)

Alliance for the Advancement of Liberal Arts Colleges (AALAC) Workshop   “Blended Learning Approaches to Teaching Early Modern France in a Liberal Arts Context”   Workshop Date: Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015 Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA  Organizers: Hélène Bilis, Hélène Visentin, Thomas Parker, David Harrison, and Jean-Vincent Blanchard

Teaching Resources:

ACLA Seminar: Signs, Symptoms, Stigmata: Early Modern Techniques of Inscribing the Body and their Contemporary Relevance", due date: 23 Sept 2015

Dear Colleagues, The following seminar will be held at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.  March 17-20, 2016: Signs, Symptoms, Stigmata: Early Modern Techniques of Inscribing the Body and their Contemporary Relevance.

New book publication: "Le Dos de ses livres. Descartes a-t-il lu Montaigne?", Herve Baudry, Champion

"Le Dos de ses livres. Descartes a-t-il lu Montaigne?" par Herve Baudry, publ. Honore Champion, collection Bibliothèque littéraire de la Renaissance nº 90.

Announcements:

CFP Session M17. Legal Pluralism in European and Colonial Cities, 1600–1940, due date: 31 Oct 2015

CFP Session M17. Legal Pluralism in European and Colonial Cities, 1600–1940

 

Keywords:

Colonial cities, European cities, justice, legal pluralism

 

George Rude Seminar in French History and Civilisation, Western Sydney U, due date: 1 Dec 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS

 

GEORGE RUDÉ SEMINAR IN FRENCH HISTORY AND CIVILISATION

Western Sydney University

13th-16th July 2016

 

(Version en français ci-dessous)

 

We are pleased to announce the 20th George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation, which will be held at the Parramatta Campus of the Western Sydney University, NSW from the 13th to 16th of July 2016.

 

Appel a contribution, "Maternites," Revue Genre, sexualite, & societes. Date limite: 15 sept 2015

 

 

Appel à contribution

Revue Genre, sexualité & sociétés, n° 16 – automne 2016

« Maternités »

Sous la direction de Coline Cardi, Lorraine Odier Da Cruz, Michela Villani et Anne-Sophie Vozari

 

 

Lecturer in French, Durham University, due date: 4 Oct 2015

Lecturer in French

Reference Number 4885

Location Durham City

Faculty/Division Arts & Humanities

Department School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Grade 7/8

Position Type Full Time

Contract Type Permanent

Salary (£) 31342 - 45954

Closing Date 4 October 2015

Job Description

Announcements:

Last call for Coimbra, CIR-17

XIVe Colloque du CIR 17 – Centre International de Rencontres sur le 17e siècle

Mineurs, minorités, marginalités au Grand Siècle

Université de Coimbra (Portugal)

19-21 mai 2016

Appel à contributions: http://www.cir17.info/colloques/coimbra

Réimpression, Les Pensées (classement Brunschvicg, éd. M. Escola)

Pascal, Les Pensées. GF-Flammarion, 2015.

Présentation et notes par M. Escola (2011 et 2015). Préface de D. Descotes (1976). ISBN : 978-2-08-136665-7.

Announcements:

MOOC: Louis XIV a Versailles

FREE, 7-week French-language MOOC on Louis XIV à Versailles

When: Begins 26 October 2015 and ends 21 February 2016

To access:  https://solerni.org/mooc/35/Louis_XIV_a_Versailles/sessions

[Thanks to Joy Palacios for bringing this to our attention]

Une histoire de la conversation

Emmanuel Godo. Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2015. ISBN 978-2-8124-3482-2. 39 €

Publié pour la première fois en 2003, cet ouvrage retrace l'histoire de la conversation dans ses rapports avec la création littéraire depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'à nos jours. Il fait l'objet ici d'une réédition que l'auteur a enrichie de nombreux chapitres inédits, notamment un consacré à la littérature médiévale.

Table des matières: http://www.classiques-garnier.com/editions-tabmats/EgoMS01_tabmat.pdf

Announcements:

Tempêtes en mer - Permanence et évolution d'un topos littéraire (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle)

Éva Riveline, Tempêtes en mer - Permanence et évolution d'un topos littéraire (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle). Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2015. ISBN 978-2-8124-3557-7. 59 €.

Announcements:

States of Change in Early Modern France

Call for Papers

States of Change in Early Modern France

A proposed seminar of the American Comparative Literature Association conference

(Cambridge, MA, 17-20 March 2016)

Tiphaine Rolland

Tiphaine Rolland
Doctorante contractuelle, Université Paris-Sorbonne

Please join me in congratulating Tiphaine Rolland for the publication of her book, L'atelier du conteur. Les Contes et nouvelles de Jean de La Fontaine : ascendances, influences, confluences, Paris: Honoré Champion, 2014.

You can find more information, such as a summary and the table of contents, on the following site: http://www.honorechampion.com/fr/champion/8569-book-08532663-9782745326638.html

Furman College, TT asst prof, 17th and 18th cent French lit and culture. Due date: 2 Nov 2015

Assistant Professor of French, tenure-track position tobegin August 2016. Ph.D. in French with specialization in 17th- and/or 18th-century French literature and culture. Candidates must demonstrate outstanding teaching potential at all levels of French language and Francophone literatures and cultures as well as an ability to relate to and inspire undergraduate students. Furman University is a nationally ranked liberal arts college offering a thriving French major and study abroad program in Versailles. Teaching load is 5 courses per year.

Announcements:

Call to contributions

Dear colleagues, 

 

In order to create a useful and practical teaching resources platform on the new SE17/NASSCFL portal, we need your help! There are two ways in which you can participate and none of them should take much of your time. We are looking for examples of syllabi that you would agree to post on the website as well as samples of particularly successful lessons or sequences that you would like to share with the members of the SE17/NASSCFL portal. 

 

Teaching Resources:

Call to Contributions

Dear colleagues, 

 

In order to create a useful and practical teaching resources platform on the new SE17/NASSCFL portal, we need your help! There are two ways in which you can participate and none of them should take much of your time. We are looking for examples of syllabi that you would agree to post on the website as well as samples of particularly successful lessons or sequences that you would like to share with the members of the SE17/NASSCFL portal. 

 

Teaching Resources:

L'Âge classique et les Lumières. Une histoire brève de la littérature française

Alain Viala. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, coll.«Une histoire personnelle de…», 2015. EAN13: 9782130650676. 19.00 EUR

Présentation de l'éditeur

Announcements:

Lectures de Madame de Lafayette

Jean  Rohou et Gilles Siouffi, Lectures de Madame de Lafayette

Presses Universitaires de Rennes, coll. "Didact Français", 2015. EAN 9782753541702 16,00 EUR

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Announcements:

Amherst College, TT asst prof, 17th and 18th cent French theater. Due date: 15 Nov 2015

Amherst College

Department of French, P.O. Box 5000, Amherst MA 01002-5000

 

Assistant Professor of French

 

http://www.amherst.edu/

 

Announcements:

CfP: ”Religious Dramas on the Enlightenment Stage: Revelation, Conversion, Martyrdom”, due date: 15 Sept 2015

CfP: ”Religious Dramas on the Enlightenment Stage: Revelation, Conversion, Martyrdom”    
 

Over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, explicitly Christian forms of theater began to decline in popularity.  Rather than see this shift merely as a sign of declining popular belief, this panel seeks to investigate the way that new formal demands complicated the representation of Christian themes.

projet Bretez // https://sites.google.com/site/louisbretez/home

Dans le cadre de ce projet, notre équipe de recherche propose de restituer Paris au milieu du xviiisiècle, à partir du plan réalisé par l’ingénieur Louis Bretez pour le prévôt des marchands Michel-étienne Turgot entre 1734 et 1739.

Scholarly Resources:

Exhibit: 300 Years of French Landscape Painting

Where: Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe Street, Toledo, OH 43604

When: July 17 - Oct 11, 2015

For more info, see: http://www.toledomuseum.org/exhibitions/frenchlandscapes/

 

 

Jakob Willis

Jakob Willis
Graduate student at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Congratulations to Jakob Willis for three recent publications:

1) Willis, Jakob (2014): Emotions and Affects of the Heroic – An Analysis of Pierre Corneille’s Drama Nicomède,  in: helden. heroes. héros. E-Journal on Cultures of the Heroic. Special Issue 1, pp. 24–35.

2) Willis, Jakob & Posselt-Kuhli, Christina (2015): La Gloire du Val-de-Grâce ou l’artiste en héros chez Molière et Pierre Mignard, in: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Vol. XLII, No. 83, pp. 409–441.

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