Funded by the French Department of Trinity College, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TCD), the Society for French Studies (SFS) and the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF).
‘There’s a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma.’ -Diane Arbus
The twenty-second biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place 12–14 March 2020 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites 250-word abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, music and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work is particularly appropriate to the conference’s broad historical and disciplinary scope. Planned sessions are also welcome.
Paris-Sorbonne, Hôtel de Lauzun, 23 et 24 avril 2020
Comité d’organisation : Emanuele De Luca (Université Côte d’Azur), Andrea Fabiano (Sorbonne Université), Judith le Blanc (Université de Rouen) et Marie-Cécile Schang (Université de Bretagne-Sud)
The conference “The Salon and the Senses in the Long Eighteenth Century: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” seeks to join the intellectual heritage of the salons with their multidisciplinary, multisensory natures. We will explore the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and tactile aspects of the salon, considering the arts and sensory pleasures of the salon alongside the verbal arts—the poetry, literature, theater, and conversation—that were cultivated there.
It is with great pleasure that we announce two sessions for NeMLA’s 51st Annual Convention to be held in Boston, MA on March 5-8, 2020. Please find the CfPs below; abstracts may be submitted by September 30, 2019 via the links provided. Feel free to disseminate this invitation and send any questions to the organizers Erin Myers and Kate Bastin (erin.a.myers@gmail.com and bastink@eckerd.edu). Thank you for your consideration!
Les intenses troubles sociaux et politiques connus par la France depuis les conflits religieux (dès 1560) jusqu’à la fin de la Fronde (1653) ont fait l’objet de nombreux travaux sur les dynamiques propres aux débats et querelles de l’époque, sur la circulation des idées et des livres, etc. L’histoire et la critique littéraires ont en particulier retenu et analysé les publications qui rendaient compte de la cruauté et de la violence des conflits de manière frontale (théâtre et récits sanglants notamment).
Comité organisateur :
Jacqueline Bel, Jean Devaux, Xavier Escudero, Carl Vetters (UR H.L.L.I., Université Littoral Côte d’Opale)
Ramón Pérez Parejo, José Soto Vázquez (L.I.J., Université de Extremadura)
Les genres du conte et du récit bref, par leur densité et leur intensité, font appel de façon récurrente – naturelle ? – à la cruauté et à la violence, lesquelles adoptent de multiples écritures, formes et visages.
Le professeur Rainer Zaiser (Université de Kiel), éditeur scientifique de la revue Œuvres & Critiques, m’a autorisé à solliciter des contributions pour le numéro de la mi-2020. Je lui ai proposé comme thème l’histoire orientale, ce qu’il a accepté volontiers.
Following the successful student-led conference held in October 2017 in London under the sponsorship of the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, we seek unpublished and original papers on the theme of cross-disciplinarity and forms of knowledge-making in the early modern world. The papers will compose a special issue to be pitched to leading journals of early modern studies in English, particularly in the fields of history of science and intellectual history, at the end of 2019.
