May 6–8, 2021 • Notre Dame's London Global Gateway
Is the foreigner friend or foe? The rhetoric around immigration has become ever more heated as globalization, climate change, pandemics, civil wars and proxy wars, the ease of travel, and cross-cultural exchange and encounter have rapidly increased. In the transition from the medieval to the early modern period, a similar intensity in such activity within Europe and outside its borders dominated everything from literature to politics to religion.
2020 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
November 5-8, 2020
Call for Papers for WIF at the 2020 MMLA Convention (November 5-8 in Milwaukee, WI). This year’s theme is “Cultures of Collectivity.”
Please send a 250-word abstract in French or English along with your academic affiliation, brief bio, and A/V requirements to Jennifer Howell, Illinois State University, jthowel@ilstu.edu by May 31, 2020.
The editors of French Historical Studies seek articles for a special issue on music in the Francophone world to appear in 2022.
The history of the music of France has traditionally been studied as a separate category without the same robust interest as other cultural artifacts such as film and literature. More recent scholarship illuminates the place of music in French society and suggests that more work should be done to sketch out the particular place of music in all its forms in French history.
Journées d’études — 12 & 13 juin 2020
Faculté des Lettres de Sorbonne Université
Journées organisées par le comité scientifique de la Compagnie Sensible, avec le soutien de la Faculté des Lettres de Sorbonne Université, du Centre Roland Mousnier (UMR 8596, CNRS - Sorbonne Université) et de l’École nationale des Chartes.
Le séminaire « La Régence en fête (1715-1723) a reçu le parrainage de la Société d’étude du XVIIe siècle.
Sponsored by the University of Nevada, held at the Las Vegas Sahara Las Vegas Hotel.
The session title is “Diversity of French and Francophone cinema”, a successful session last year which we are trying to have as a permanent PAMLA session.
The forty-eighth annual conference of the Western Society for French History will be held from November 12-14, 2020, in Victoria, British Columbia. The theme for this year’s conference is “New Stories, New Ways of Telling Them.” The organizers wish to highlight how incorporating new voices, tools, and approaches can transform both our understanding of the history of France and the Francophone world and the way we share that understanding.
20–21 July 2020
Lisbon, National Library of Portugal
Organizers : Denis Ribouillault (University of Montréal, Department of Art History) and Ana Duarte Rodrigues (University of Lisbon, Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e Tecnologia).
43rd Annual Conference, 2-4 September 2020, the University of Exeter
The Society for Early Modern French Studies (SEMFS) will hold its annual conference at the University of Exeter, 2-4 September 2020. The theme is ‘Public and Private’. Papers are invited on any aspect of this theme.
Session organized by the French 18th-Century Literature Forum
We invite proposals that examine the relation between humans and nature in the eighteenth century. We are especially interested in papers that examine this relationship from gender, queer, race, and indigenous perspectives. Please send 250 abstract and brief bio to tlr5393@psu.edu by March 15, 2020.
Building on the success of our 2019 ‘Preparing for Battle’ conference, the War and Peace research cluster in the University of Leeds’ School of History is hosting a conference exploring the transition from war to peace. Drawing on a wide range of approaches, concepts, and time periods, we hope to discuss the consequences of this shift for individuals, organisations, and states. We invite proposals for papers that examine this moment of change and its individual, local, national, or international ramifications.
Calls for papers for MLA Toronto 2021 from the 17th-Century French Forum‘s Executive Committee
Beyond Paris
Decentering Paris in seventeenth-century studies. How are cities and regions throughout early modern France written, pictured, performed, or practiced? How do these locations imagine or position themselves within France and/or the wider early modern world? 250-word abstracts to Anna Rosensweig (anna.rosensweig@rochester.edu) by 15 March 2020.
Reconsidering Forms of Enslavement and Subjection across Disciplines
18 June 2020: Pre-conference panel on getting published & networking event for postgraduate students and early career researchers and practitioners
Supported by the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS)
19–20 June 2020: Conference at the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
