La méchanceté et la cruauté se mesurent-elles? Ces formes de violences décrivent des comportements qui prennent leur source chez une personnalité déviante, dangereuse. Interroger ces perversions c’est comprendre les motivations qui initient l’attitude, les amonts de la violence, étant entendu qu’elle peut demeurer à l’état de projet.
Submitted by ccarlin on 8 September 2018 - 12:14am
Dear colleagues,
I am organizing the following session at next year's ACLA in Washington D.C. (March 7-10, 2019) with a colleague working on Haitian literature. Our goal is to put early modern and modern scholars working on polemic / performativity into dialogue, and with that, I would like to invite any interested colleagues to kindly submit a proposal via the ACLA portal between this coming Thursday, August 30 and September 20, 2018. Details on the call can be found through the following link:
Submitted by ccarlin on 7 September 2018 - 11:59pm
An updated version of the CFP of tosc@paris.2019 (3rd edition of the Transnational Opera Studies Conference, 27-29 June 2019) is now available.
The third Transnational Opera Studies Conference will be organized by the Université Paris 8, hosted by the Opéra de Paris and the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, partners of tosc@paris.2019, with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Musée du Louvre, the Opéra-Comique and the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
Paris, Honoré Champion, 2018. ISBN 9782745348623. 334 p. 47,40€.
Durant ces trente dernières années, Myriam Yardeni a étudié l’histoire des huguenots : migrations, intégration, persécutions religieuses, développement intellectuel et relations interreligieuses. Cet ouvrage est un recueil d’études sur les mentalités de minorités religieuses, et plus particulièrement sur celle des huguenots de l’époque moderne (XVIe-XVIIe siècle).
Anna BELLAVITIS & Beatrice ZUCCA MICHELETTO (dir.). Routledge, 2018. ISBN 9781138571518. 282 p. $149.95.
This book offers a comparative perspective on Northern and Southern European laws and customs concerning women’s property and economic rights. By focusing on both Northern and Southern European societies, these studies analyse the consequences of different juridical frameworks and norms on the development of the economic roles of men and women.
Sylvie Steinberg, Christine Bard, Sandra Boehringer, Gabrielle Houbre, Didier Lerr, dir. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France - PUF, août 2018. ISBN 978-2130729792. 517 p. 22€.
Scripps College, a women’s liberal arts college with a strong interdisciplinary tradition, invites applications for a tenure-track position in the department of French Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in fall 2019.
Le Comité de Rédaction de la revue académique Acta Iassyensia Comparationis – revue semestrielle, interdisciplinaire, publiée par La Chaire de Littérature Comparée de l’Université „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” de Iasi, Roumanie – vous invite à collaborer au numéro 23 (1/2019), consacré au thème FRAŢI INAMICI / INIMICAL BROTHERS / FRÈRES ENNEMIS dans la littérature universelle.
La date limite pour l’envoi des articles scientifiques et des comptes rendus est le 26 novembre 2018.
The RCSC, a regional affiliate of the Renaissance Society of America, welcomes proposals for individual papers as well as complete panels on the full range of Renaissance disciplines (Art, Architecture, History, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Science). The RCSC promotes the study of the period c. 1300–1800, broadly interpreting the Renaissance within a global framework.
We invite participants from around the world to join us for the twelfth biennial Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS) Conference to be held in Sydney, Australia, 5-8 February 2019 at the Camperdown Campus of the University of Sydney.
The Camargo Foundation, located in Cassis, France, and founded by artist and philanthropist Jerome Hill, is an international residential center offering programming in the humanities and the arts. It offers time and space in a contemplative environment to think, create, and connect. The Foundation encourages the visionary work of artists, scholars, and thinkers in the arts and humanities.
