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Appel à communication : « Le génie à l’épreuve du genre »
Posted: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 - 19:55

« Le génie à l’épreuve du genre »

Au cours de la première journée du Laboratoire Junior FIGÉE, consacrée à la définition des différentes acceptions du terme « génie » dans les discours savants et théoriques des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, est apparue comme une nécessité l’approche du « génie » au prisme du genre.

 

En effet, si rien ne permet a priori d’affirmer que le génie soit exclusivement masculin, il convient de remarquer dans les textes de l’époque une écrasante majorité d’occurrences décrivant des hommes glorifiés pour leur perception du « génie » poétique de la langue ou de considérations sur le génie de telle ou telle profession exclusivement masculine.

Du génie d’abord perçu collectivement au génie de plus en plus individualisé – philosophique, poétique ou même scientifique – les textes paraissent ainsi résister à une inclusion des femmes d’Ancien Régime qui se retrouveraient reléguées hors de toute génialité. Pourtant, si l’on s’en tient à l’identification du génie particulier avec un « démon » telle qu’elle était si courante à la Renaissance, n’est-il pas encore possible de trouver au XVIIe siècle ne seraient-ce que les traces d’un « mauvais génie » féminin dans les nombreux récits de possessions et d’exorcismes ? À une période où les chasses aux sorcières font encore rage, où les sages-femmes sont progressivement inféodées aux médecins, où les épistolières doivent se ranger aux règles du bon goût et de la pudeur telles que définies par des auteurs de traités de civilité, est-il possible de déceler quelque part dans les textes d’Ancien Régime une description du génie qui ne soit pas en fait exclusivement masculine ? Au XVIIIe siècle, Diderot lui-même ne considérait-il pas, suivant en cela Aristote et Galien, que les femmes pussent transmettre du génie à leurs enfants sans en être elles-mêmes pourvues ? En faisant des femmes des êtres « mutilés et imparfaits » par rapport aux hommes, la tradition scolastique a-t-elle également amputé les femmes de toute possibilité d’être géniales ? Toutes ces questions sont autant d’invitations à explorer, sous l’angle de la notion de génie, des textes écrits non seulement sur les femmes, souvent pour des femmes, et – pourquoi pas même ? – par des femmes.

 

Il est possible de définir cinq pistes autour desquelles organiser cette journée d’étude. Devant le constat que l’histoire socio-culturelle et littéraire survalorise les écrits des hommes au détriment de ceux des femmes, sans doute n’est-il pas si paradoxal de repartir de considérations écrites par des hommes, sur des femmes, mais à destination d’autres hommes – ce qui constituerait une sorte d’entre-soi masculin – afin d’essayer d’identifier, dans les blancs de ces discours ou même en creux sous les préjugés souvent misogynes, un génie proprement féminin.

Une deuxième approche consisterait à explorer la littérature masculine directement à destination des femmes afin de tenter d’y déceler les contours d’un génie qui leur serait imposé de l’extérieur. Jacques Du Bosc publie par exemple en 1632 un traité à la postérité exceptionnelle, L’Honnête femme, suivi d’une multitude de déclinaisons et rééditions comme La Femme héroïque ou les héroïnes comparées avec les héros en toutes sortes de vertus. Jusqu’où est-il possible d’y voir un effort normatif d’édification d’un génie féminin ?

Cette dichotomie du « génie » se heurte toutefois à une troisième conception, qui suppose au contraire l’universalité de la notion. À l’opposé de la cour et de Du Bosc, Descartes affirme que la pensée n’est pas liée aux idiosyncrasies du corps et résume son projet dans le Discours de la méthode, « un livre, où [il a] voulu que les femmes même pussent entendre quelque chose ». Est-il dès lors possible d’affirmer que le génie n’est pas l’apanage du seul genre masculin et que lecogito puisse suffire pour penser la possibilité même d’un génie partagé, affranchi de la barrière des corps, des sexes, des genres ? S’appuyant en particulier sur Poullain de la Barre, Elsa Dorlin n’hésite pas à répondre à l’affirmative. Pourtant, cette question déchire les cartésiens : Malebranche, Poullain de la Barre ou encore Spinoza y apportent des réponses radicalement opposées.

Quatrièmement, la littérature à destination des femmes ne se limitant pas aux écrits d’homme, il convient d’envisager à part entière les œuvres de femmes philosophes, autrices ou artistes de la période, pour voir dans quelle mesure elles ont elles-mêmes pu proposer des réflexions sur la notion de génie et des exemples dont elles ne soient pas exclues. Il s’agira alors de désinvisibiliser ces conceptions issues de femmes de lettres afin d’enrichir tant et plus les différentes acceptions du génie évoquées lors de la précédente journée du laboratoire.

Enfin, une cinquième approche consisterait à analyser rétrospectivement la question du génie à partir du moment où, au XVIIIe, il s’individualise. En effet, quelles femmes des XVIIe et XVIIIesiècles seraient à présent considérées comme géniales ? Naturellement douées pour tel ou tel art, telle ou telle science ? Capables de produire des réalisations sublimes ? Sont-elles des individus d’exception, selon des conceptions plus tardives du génie ? Ces femmes de génie, injustement méconnues, méritent sans doute aujourd’hui d’être considérées comme telles et de sortir de l’ombre. Il devient dès lors possible de repenser les possibles figures de « génies » au féminin, depuis la sage-femme Louise Bourgeois jusqu’aux plus communément admises femmes de sciences comme les célèbres Christine de Suède et Émilie du Châtelet qui, suscitant souvent la jalousie, ont su imposer leur indiscutable génie aux yeux de leurs condisciples masculins.

La journée d’étude est prévue en vidéo-conférence le mercredi 9 juin 2021. Les propositions de communication, rédigées en français ou en anglais et d’une longueur maximale de 500 mots, sont à faire parvenir avant le 19 avril 2021 à l’adresse figee@ens-lyon.fr.

Molière on stage - International Conference
Posted: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 08:36

Molière on stage - International Conference

Lessons in Interpretation 


  
The Maison Française, Oxford, June 27-28, 2022 
Avignon, July 11-12 2022 
  
Organized to mark the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Molière’s birth, this joint conference and festival seeks to re-examine his plays, through the prism of modern and contemporary (20th-21st century) productions. The aim of the conference will be to examine the ways in which the great directors of the 20th century such as Baty, Jouvet or Planchon have shaped our understanding of these plays, as well as to understand how the stage can in itself serve as an instrument of knowledge of Molière’s work. How does the director, in staging the text, reveal new dramaturgical functions and mechanisms, which would go unnoticed without the crucible of the stage? 
 Direction is a hermeneutic device by vocation, one that reveals latent meaning – conscious or otherwise – in the dramatic text. But it is also a heuristic device: the great series of incarnations that embodied Molière’s characters (Jouvet’s austere and grandiose Don Juan, Richard Fontana’s feverish and seductive Tartuffe directed by Vitez, the adolescent Agnès played by Isabelle Adjani directed by Roussillon) allowed for an awareness of the plays’ multiple potentialities. Similarly, certain observations on the dramatic structure can only be made upon the passage to the stage (the pacing of the acts, the importance of scene transitions, the structuring of the declamation for the voice, writing conceived entirely according to breath, etc.). Having established themselves as authorities in their own right in the artistic process as of the end of the 19th century, directors have opened new avenues for the continuation of Molière’s legacy and the understanding of his work, which hitherto largely borrowed tools from historical and literary analysis. 
 This conference will adopt a global perspective on the staging of Molière’s plays for live theatre, with a particular emphasis on francophone theatre, where Molière has been the object of numerous adaptations and hybridizations, as well as on theatre in other languages and cultures (English, Spanish, and Asian languages...), where Molière’s legacy is continually renewed through the act of translation. 
  
 
Organizing Committee 
Gilles Declercq, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, IRET 
Jean de Guardia, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Litt&Arts 
Sylvie Chalaye, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, IRET 
Céline Candiard, Université Lumière Lyon II, IHRIM 
Tristan Alonge, Maison Française d’Oxford (CNRS), Université de la Réunion 
Stella Spriet, University of Saskatchewan, Canada 
 
 
Scientific Committee 
Jean-Marie Apostolidès 
Georges Banu 
Jan Clarke 
Marco Consolini  
Sylvaine Guyot 
Tiphaine Karsenti  
Mario Longtin 
Pierre Longuenesse  
Bénédicte Louvat 
Daniel Mesguich 
Catherine Naugrette 
Florence Naugrette  
Wes Williams 

Transcription collaborative – Correspondances familières aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
Posted: Monday, February 1, 2021 - 09:19

Correspondances familières aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles

Les Correspondances familières aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles est un projet hébergé sur la plateforme TACT, plateforme de transcription et d’annotation collaborative de corpus textuels, hébergée par Huma-Num et développée conjointement par des ingénieurs du laboratoire Litt&Arts (Université Grenoble-Alpes) dans le cadre du projet Démarre SHS !.

Le projet Correspondances familières aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles vous propose de participer à la transcription de lettres de personnalités et de manuels épistolographiques du XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle, dans lesquelles vous pourrez découvrir un lexique, une orthographe, ou encore des pratiques sociologiques singulières à cette période. À ce jour sont ouverts à la transcription 3 ouvrages épistolographiques du XVIIe siècle, vous trouverez la suite peu à peu au cours des prochains mois.

Ce projet entre dans le travail de recherche doctorale d'Iris Fabry sous la direction de Julie Sorba (LIDILEM) et Cécile Lignereux (Litt&Arts), pour le laboratoire LIDILEM et financé par l’Université Grenoble Alpes.

Pour en savoir plus, rendez-vous sur la plateforme TACT à l’adresse suivante : https://tact.demarre-shs.fr/project/30

Calls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022 
Posted: Sunday, January 24, 2021 - 21:47

How the French 17th Century Invented (or Not)... 

What ideas, practices, forms, or genres can be ascribed to 17th-century France and what should be reconsidered in light of a different temporality or geographic origin? Send 300-word proposals to harrisod@grinnell.edu by 1 March 2021.  

 

Restarts in 17th-Century France  

Instances of “starting over” in 17-century French literature, art, philosophy, culture, and politics, and the rhetorical or performative gestures of beginning again. Send 300-word proposals to erwelch@email.unc.edu by 1 March 2021.  

 

Francophonie and the Early Modern: Intertextual Connections 

Ways 20th/21st-century Francophone authors engage with early modern literary works or colonial histories; anti-racist/decolonial approaches to researching and teaching early modern texts.  

Collaborative, non-guaranteed roundtable organized by Francophone and 17th-Century Forums.  

Send 300-word proposals to ajosephg@umich.edu and awilliar@mailbox.sc.edu by 15 March 2021.  

 

The Political Ends of Early Modernity  

How have early modern texts, images, and ideas been used to promote or justify contemporary political discourses and actions, such as white supremacy or imperialism? Non-guaranteed roundtable. Send 300-word proposals to anna.rosensweig@rochester.edu by 1 March 2021. 

Curiosité, entreprises intellectuelles et explorations scientifiques dans les écrits de femmes à l’époque moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)
Posted: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 - 06:26

 

Curiosité, entreprises intellectuelles et

explorations scientifiques dans les écrits de femmes à l’époque moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)

Colloque international, 18-19 novembre 2021

CRINI-EA 1162

 

avec le Séminaire interdisciplinaire « Le Concert des Nations à l’époque moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), CRINI, CRHIA, L’AMO

et la collaboration du projet de recherche « Another Humanism: Gendering Early Modern Libertinism and the Boundaries of Subjectivity » (project funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond), Université de Stockholm (Suède)

 

 

 

 

La thématique proposée envisage d’étudier la place des femmes dans le développement des idées scientifiques de la Renaissance aux Lumières à partir de la notion de curiosité.

Les travaux récents menés sur le rôle des femmes dans la constitution des cabinets de curiosité, au cœur du tournant moderne de l’histoire des collections, ont fait ressortir une dynamique majeure, jusqu’alors ignorée mais pourtant déterminante dans différents contextes de politiques culturelles européennes[1].

L’objet de ce colloque international invite à considérer la part des questionnements intellectuels des femmes dans la République des Lettres. Une série de questions se posent, en effet, sur la contribution de la curiosité des femmes dans le renouveau des savoirs à l’époque moderne et de la scientia en particulier.

Quelle  construction d’une subjectivité féminine ressort de ce rapport nouveau aux choses naturelles (naturalia) ? La curiosité reste-t-elle marquée par la dimension transgressive qui en avait pesé sur elle, durant le Moyen Age notamment ?

Ce désir de savoir (libido sciendi) porte-t-il la marque d’un goût exclusif pour le secret et les arcanes (incluant pratiques médicales, recettes, usage des drogues et poisons) à la Renaissance ?[2]? Comment, par ailleurs, la curiosité féminine s’est-elle trouvée aiguisée par le goût de l’étrange et de la merveille ? Enfin, la thématique invite à repenser le rapport de la curiosité à la rationalité scientifique qui modifie le champ de la science à l’époque moderne. 

 

Quelques lignes thématiques pourront être considérées, de manière non exhaustive :

 

Curiosité et savoirs en question

- objets de savoirs et instruments de connaissance de la nature dans les cabinets de curiosité, contribuant au renouveau de la curiosité naturaliste, liée à de nouveaux instruments de connaissance : les récits et les données d’explorations extra-européennes ; la nature comme objet de la libido sciendi

- l’émergence d’une conscience féminine de l’utilité du savoir, au-delà de la vana curiositas

- curiosité et secrets aux frontières de l’hérésie

- la curiosité comme moteur d’un questionnement des doctrines philosophiques 

- les femmes lectrices des écrits naturalistes 

- Les femmes et la nature : de l’histoire naturelle à la philosophie naturelle comme objets d’une curiosité au tournant de la révolution scientifique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)

- curiosité, expérimentation, empirisme 

 

Méthodes, pratiques et discours savants

 

- curiosité : expression rhétorique et sophistication stylistique

-les arguments d’une défense de la curiosité

- les femmes et les institutions scientifiques, cabinets, cercles, académies, en Europe XVIIe- XVIIIe siècles. Réseaux et correspondances

 

La thématique du colloque s’inscrit dans les travaux de recherche du laboratoire CRINI, au Séminaire interdisciplinaire et transversal « Le Concert des Nations à l’époque moderne » qui réunit des chercheurs du CRINI, CRHIA, L’AMO. Il s’inscrit par ailleurs dans le cadre du projet de recherche ARCO, « Les arts du consensus dans le concert des Nations. Penser les formes d’instauration de la concorde à l’époque moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)/ The Arts of Concord in the Concert of Nations : Instituting Concord through Scientific Cooperation in the Modern Era », qui fédère les travaux du séminaire depuis 2019.

Le relief apporté aux échanges interculturels, l’interdisciplinarité seront appréciées

 

 

Bibliographie sommaire :

Beugnot, B., « La Curiosité dans l’anthropologie classique », in U. Döring, A. Lyroudias, and R. Zaiser (eds.), Ouverture et dialogue: Mélanges offerts à Wolfgang Leiner, Tübingen, 1988, pp. 17–30.
 

Blair, A. , « Curieux, curieusement, curiosité », Littératures classiques, 47, 2003, pp. 101–7.


Bolufer, Mónica, « Medicine and the Querelle des Femmes in Early Modern Spain », Medical History Supplements, 29, 2009, pp. 86-106.

Céard, J. (ed.), La curiosité en France à la Renaissance, Paris,  SEDES, 1986.

Cottegnies, Line, John Thompson, Sandrine Parageau, Women and Curiosity in Early Modern England and France, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2016. 

Daston, L., and Park, K., Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750,  New York, MIT Press, 1998.

Evans, R.J. W., Alexander Marr,  Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, Londonc, Ashgate,  2016.

Findlen, Paula, « Ideas in the Mind : Gender and Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century », Hypatia, vol. 17, n°1 (Winter 2002), pp. 183-196.

Goldgar, A., Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters 1680–1750, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1995.  

Harrison, Peter, « Curiosity, Forbidden Knowledge, and the Reformation of Natural Philosophy in early Modern England », Isis, Jun. 2001, vol. 92 pp. 265-290.

Houdard, Sophie, Nicole Jacques-Chaquin (éd.), Curiosité et Libido Sciendi. De la Renaissance aux Lumières, Lyon, ENS Editions, 1998, 2 vol.

Kenny, Neil, The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Labhardt, A., « Curiositas : Notes sur l’histoire d’un mot et d’une notion », Museum Helveticum, 1960, 17, pp. 206-224.

Long, Kathleen P., Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture, London, Ashagte, 2010.

Pellegrin, Marie-Frédérique (ed.), « Penser au féminin au XVIIe siècle », Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger, t. 203, n°3, juillet-septembre, 2013.

Pomata, Gianna, « Was there a Querelle des Femmes in Early Modern Medicine ? », Arenal, julio-diciembre 2013, 20 :2, pp. 314-341.

Ray, Meredith, K., Daughters of Alchemy. Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy, Cambridge Mass., Harvard University Press, 2015.

Ross, Sarah Gwyneth, The Birth of Feminism. Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England, Cambridge Mass., Harvard University Press, 2009.

Schiebinger, L., « Gender in Early Modern Science », in D. R. Kelley (ed.), History and the Disciplines: The Reclassification of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, New York, University of Rochester Press, 1997, pp. 319–34. 

- « European Women in Science », Science in Context, 15 (4), 2002, pp. 473-481.

Schwartz, Janelle A.,  Nhora Lucia Serrano, Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities : An Interdisciplinary Study, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.

Trotot, Caroline, C. Delahaye, I. Mornat, Femmes à l’oeuvre dans la construction des savoirs. Paradoxes de la visibilité et de l’invisibilité, Collection Savoirs en texte, laboratoire Littératures, Savoirs et Arts, Université Gustave Eiffel, 2020.

Whaley, Leigh, Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Waller, Gary, The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture : From Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn,  Amsterdam University Press, 2020 (jstor) : 2. The Female Baroque, pp. 47-74.

Whitaker, K. « The Culture of Curiosity », in : Jardine, N., Scord. J.A, Spary E.C (eds.), Cultures of Natural History, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 75-90. 

 

 

Les propositions de communications, de 300 mots accompagnées d’une notice biographique d’une page maximum (institution de rattachement, CV, publications significatives) seront à adresser avant le 15 février 2021 à Karine Durin (karine.durin@univ-nantes.fr), conferencecuriositynantes@gmail.com.

Langues du colloque : français, anglais.

Les communications n’excèderont pas 30 minutes.

 

 

COMITÉ SCIENTIFIQUE :

Pierre Carboni, CRINI 

Nicolas Correard, L’AMO 

Karine Durin, CRINI

Eric Schnakenbourg, CRHIA 

Carin Franzén, Université de Stockholm, Suède

Nan Gerdes, Université Roskilde, Copenhague, Danemark

Susana Åckerman, Stockholm

 

 

 

 

Curiosity, Intellectual Enterprises and

Scientific Explorations in the Writings of Women in the Early Modern Period (16th-18th centuries)

International Conference 18-19/11/2021

CRINI-EA 1162

 

with the collaboration of the interdisciplinary seminar « Le Concert des Nations à l’époque moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) », CRINI, CRHIA, L’AMO (University of Nantes)

and the research project :« Another Humanism: Gendering Early Modern Libertinism and the Boundaries of Subjectivity » (project funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond), Stockholm University (Sweden)

 

The subject of this international conference is the participation of women in the development of scientific ideas from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. It welcomes reflections on women’s intellectual contributions to the creation of the « Republic of Letters », and how female curiosity was connected to the development of a new rationality that opened new paths towards modern science, while simultaneously being stimulated by the marvellous and the strange, as was manifest in the creation of scientific cabinets and collections of rare objects. It aims at encouraging reflections on the concept of female scientific curiosity. Recent studies on women’s contribution to the cabinets of scientific curiosities has brought to light important dynamics hitherto unapproached in previous studies, showing major differences on the constitution of these collections, within different European contexts[3]. This can open new paths for studying  the different processes that led to the renovation of of knowledge in XVIth-century Europe, particularly regarding the concept of scientia. This will allow us to discuss the construction of a female subjectivity emerged from new approaches towards collections of naturalia, as female scientific curiosity became imbued with a profound sense of cultural and social transgression. The desire for knowledge (libido sciendi), marked by an inclination towards the arcane and the secret, including experimentation with medical practices and recipes, and the use of poisons and drugs, will be discussed as an aspect of the emergence of a female scientific identity, trascending vana curiositas and contributing to the development of scientific discourse through women’s appropriation of libido sciendi.

 

Papers are welcome on the following (and related) topics :

 

Objects and instruments for the knowledge of nature found in curiosity cabinets.

Changing attitudes towards the understanding of nature based on transatlantic and transpacific exploration.

The study of nature as libido sciendi. Curiosity and secrecy on the verge of heresy.

Female scientific curiosity and the questioning of philosophical doctrines

Women lecturers and writings on natural history

Women and nature : natural history and natural philosophy as subjects of female curiosity in the scientific revolution

Female curiosity, experimentation, empiricism

Female curiosity and rhetorical expression

Women and scientific institutions, XVI-XVIIIth centuries.

Women and erudite networks.

 

This conference is part of the academic activities of the CRINI and the Seminar for Interdisciplinaryt Research « Le Concert des Nations à l’époque moderne » (CRINI, CRHIA, L’AMO). It is also part of the following resrarch project : ARCO, « The Arts of Concord in the Concert of Nations : Instituting Concord through Scientific Cooperation in the Modern Era » (since 2019).

 

Selected bibliography :

Beugnot, B., « La Curiosité dans l’anthropologie classique », in U. Döring, A. Lyroudias, and R. Zaiser (eds.), Ouverture et dialogue: Mélanges offerts à Wolfgang Leiner, Tübingen, 1988, pp. 17–30.
 

Blair, A. , « Curieux, curieusement, curiosité », Littératures classiques, 47, 2003, pp. 101–7.


Bolufer, Mónica, « Medicine and the Querelle des Femmes in Early Modern Spain », Medical History Supplements, 29, 2009, pp. 86-106.

Céard, J. (ed.), La curiosité en France à la Renaissance, Paris,  SEDES, 1986.

Cottegnies, Line, John Thompson, Sandrine Parageau, Women and Curiosity in Early Modern England and France, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2016. 

Daston, L., and Park, K., Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750,  New York, MIT Press, 1998.

Evans, R.J. W., Alexander Marr,  Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, Londonc, Ashgate,  2016.

Findlen, Paula, « Ideas in the Mind : Gender and Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century », Hypatia, vol. 17, n°1 (Winter 2002), pp. 183-196.

Goldgar, A., Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters 1680–1750, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1995.  

Harrison, Peter, « Curiosity, Forbidden Knowledge, and the Reformation of Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England », Isis, Jun. 2001, vol. 92 pp. 265-290.

Houdard, Sophie, Nicole Jacques-Chaquin (éd.), Curiosité et Libido Sciendi. De la Renaissance aux Lumières, Lyon, ENS Editions, 1998, 2 vol.

Kenny, Neil, The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Labhardt, A., « Curiositas : Notes sur l’histoire d’un mot et d’une notion », Museum Helveticum, 1960, 17, pp. 206-224.

Long, Kathleen P., Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture, London, Ashagte, 2010.

Pellegrin, Marie-Frédérique (ed.), « Penser au féminin au XVIIe siècle », Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger, t. 203, n°3, juillet-septembre, 2013.

Pomata, Gianna, « Was there a Querelle des Femmes in Early Modern Medicine ? », Arenal, julio-diciembre 2013, 20 :2, pp. 314-341.

Ray, Meredith, K., Daughters of Alchemy. Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy, Cambridge Mass., Harvard University Press, 2015.

Ross, Sarah Gwyneth, The Birth of Feminism. Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England, Cambridge Mass., Harvard University Press, 2009.

Schiebinger, L., « Gender in Early Modern Science », in D. R. Kelley (ed.), History and the Disciplines: The Reclassification of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, New York, University of Rochester Press, 1997, pp. 319–34. 

- « European Women in Science », Science in Context, 15 (4), 2002, pp. 473-481.

Schwartz, Janelle A.,  Nhora Lucia Serrano, Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities : An Interdisciplinary Study, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.

Trotot, Caroline, C. Delahaye, I. Mornat, Femmes à l’oeuvre dans la construction des savoirs. Paradoxes de la visibilité et de l’invisibilité, Collection Savoirs en texte, laboratoire Littératures, Savoirs et Arts, Université Gustave Eiffel, 2020.

Whaley, Leigh, Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Waller, Gary, The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture : From Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn,  Amsterdam University Press, 2020 (jstor) : 2. The Female Baroque, pp. 47-74.

Whitaker, K. « The Culture of Curiosity », in : Jardine, N., Scord. J.A, Spary E.C (eds.), Cultures of Natural History, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 75-90. 

 

 

Please send 300-words proposals (lenght 30mn) and a brief biographical note to : karine.durin@univ-nantes.fr, conferencecuriositynantes@gmail.com, by 15/02/2021

Languages : English and French

 

Scientific Board:

 

Pierre Carboni, CRINI

Nicolas Correard, L’AMO

Eric Schnakenbourg, CRHIA

Karine Durin, CRINI

Carin Franzén, Université de Stockholm, Suède

Nan Gerdes, Université Roskilde, Danemark

Susana Åckerman, Stockholm

 

 

[1] On pourra se reporter, entre autres, aux ouvrages suivant sur le mécénat féminin: Swann, Marjorie, Curiosities and Texts. The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001 ; Gaude-Ferragu, Murielle, Cécile Vincent-Cassy, La Dame de cœur. Patronage et mécénat religieux des femmes de pouvoir dans l’Europe des XIVe-XVIIe siècles, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016 ; Van Wyhe, Cordula, Isabel Clara Eugenia : Female Sovereignty in the Courts of Madrid and Brussels, Madrid, Centros de Estudios Europa Hispánica, 2011 ; Paranque, Estelle, Probasco Nate, Claire Jowitt, Colonization, Piracy and Trade in Early Modern Europe. The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens, London, Palgrave Macmilla,,2017.

[2] Rankin, Alisha, Elaine Long, Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500-1800, London, Ashgate, 2011; Long, Elaine, Recipes and Everyday Knowledge, Medicine, Science and the the Household in Early Modern England, Chicago & London, The University of Chicago Press, 2018, 

[3] Concerning female patronage, see : Swann, Marjorie, Curiosities and Texts. The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001 ; Gaude-Ferragu, Murielle, Cécile Vincent-Cassy, La Dame de cœur. Patronage et mécénat religieux des femmes de pouvoir dans l’Europe des XIVe-XVIIe siècles, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016 ; Van Wyhe, Cordula, Isabel Clara Eugenia : Female Sovereignty in the Courts of Madrid and Brussels, Madrid, Centros de Estudios Europa Hispánica, 2011 ; Paranque, Estelle, Probasco Nate, Claire Jowitt, Colonization, Piracy and Trade in Early Modern Europe. The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens, London, Palgrave Macmilla, 2017.

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Assistant Professor of French or Italian at Duke University
Posted 10 Nov 2021 - 11:42

The Department of Romance Studies at Duke University in Durham, NC invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level to begin July 1, 2022. The department seeks a specialist in the literature and culture of early modern (1400-1700) France and/or Italy who can contribute to a vibrant multilingual and multidisciplinary department. Candidates with research and expertise in additional Romance languages (Spanish and Portuguese) are strongly encouraged to apply. Strong candidates will investigate the period in a global or comparative perspective, and may engage themes such as migration, race, gender, sexuality, translation, history of science and medicine, environmental humanities, or digital humanities. Research in law, diplomacy, and political thought is also encouraged, as well as work on Islamic – Ottoman cultures. The position requires active scholarly publication, innovative teaching, and departmental service. Candidates are required to have a Ph.D. at the time of appointment. Please submit a cover letter, a CV that includes the names of three references, and a brief writing sample (of no more than 20pp.) through the Academic Jobs Online portal: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/20002

Applications received by November 15, 2021 will be guaranteed consideration.

Duke is committed to encouraging and sustaining work and learning environments that are free from harassment and prohibited discrimination. Duke prohibits discrimination and harassment in the administration of both its employment and educational policies. Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender expression, gender identity, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status. Duke also makes good faith efforts to recruit, hire, and promote qualified women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans.

Lecturer in French at University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Posted 10 Nov 2021 - 11:41

The Department of Languages and Culture Studies (https://languages.charlotte.edu/) in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences seeks a Lecturer in French. This is a three-year, full-time, renewable, non-tenure-track position to begin August 2022. It includes full benefits.

 

Required qualifications include: MA in French; native or near-native proficiency in French; excellent skills in spoken and written English; evidence of successful teaching at the college/university level; ability to teach courses in French language, as well as Francophone literature, culture and civilization at all undergraduate levels; knowledge of classroom technology; strong commitment to working with faculty, staff and students from diverse backgrounds; interest in supervising extra-curricular activities with students. Desired qualifications include: a Ph.D. in French; experience with course supervision and/or the supervision of Graduate Teaching Assistants.

 

Duties will include teaching four courses per semester, at all levels: serving as Course Coordinator for our elementary French language sequence; advising; and service activities, including the supervision of MA fellows and/or part-time faculty. The Department offers a BA in French, a Certificate in Translation (French to English), and a minor in Francophone Studies.

 

As the largest and most diverse college at UNC Charlotte, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences houses 21 departments in the humanities, social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences and mathematics, and military sciences, as well as 28 applied research centers and interdisciplinary programs. With its 34 undergraduate degrees, 56 undergraduate minors, 24 master’s degrees, 10 doctoral degrees, 17 undergraduate certificates, 19 graduate certificates, 23 graduate early-entry programs, and 23 honors programs, the College is connected to the world and its concerns and is particularly supportive of the greater Charlotte region.

 

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is a doctoral, research-intensive urban university, located on an expanding modern campus. The second largest of the 16 UNC System campuses, UNC Charlotte is a diverse and inclusive institution, offering more than 30,000 culturally and ethnically varied students a wide range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The University is a Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement campus and an APLU Innovation and Economic Prosperity University. It supports faculty with excellent family and medical leave policies, junior faculty development awards, internal faculty research grant opportunities, and other research opportunities. Charlotte offers a dynamic space to live, work and connect for faculty, students, alumni, and staff, with its outstanding cultural, recreational, and business amenities. As the 15th largest U.S. city, Charlotte is consistently ranked as one of the best cities to live (#20 on the 2021-22 list by U.S. News and World Report).

 

Diversity Statement: Finalists will be asked during their screening interview to discuss how the topics of diversity and inclusion are incorporated into their teaching and research.

 

Applicants must apply electronically at https://jobs.charlotte.edu/. Please include the following documents with your electronic submission: cover letter, current and complete CV, teaching statement, a copy of the graduate transcript, and the names and contact information for three references. For questions, please contact Dr. Michèle Bissière, Chair, at mhbissie@uncc.edu. Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2021. The position will remain open until filled.

 

As an EOE/AA employer and an ADVANCE Institution that strives to create an academic climate in which the dignity of all individuals is respected and maintained; the University of North Carolina at Charlotte encourages applications from all underrepresented groups. The candidate chosen for this position will be subject to criminal background check and will be required to provide an official transcript of their highest earned degree.

French Language Coordinator / Full-time Lectureship at Tufts University
Posted 10 Nov 2021 - 11:39

The Department of Romance Studies at Tufts University invites applications for a French Language Coordinator/Full-time Lecturer position to begin September 1, 2022. The French Language Coordinator will teach three courses annually and oversee curriculum and faculty.

Responsibilities

• Design and teach French language courses

• Train, supervise, and evaluate instructors of all levels of the French language program

• Coordinate outreach efforts to promote the French program

• Organize co-curricular events and oversee the French House, a dorm-like residence open to all students interested in French language and culture and not limited to majors.

• Coordinate and administer placement exams

• Advise students

• Supervise two course administrators, who work closely with language instructors, amend intermediate syllabi, update shared course materials, supervise the French recitation program, and oversee French foreign exchange student TAs.

Requirements and skills

• Native or near-native fluency in French and English

• Master’s degree required; Ph.D. or equivalent experience preferred.

• Experience in designing and teaching French language courses at the college level in the U.S.

• Evidence of a commitment to designing curricula that address issues of equity and justice with a focus on marginalized communities

• Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills

• Experience with technology applications for language learning

• Specialized training in second language acquisition, pedagogy, and/or assessment is highly desirable, with original and creative ideas that reflect current methodologies.

• Thorough understanding of current French and Francophone cultural issues

To apply, please submit a letter of application and a CV, and have three confidential letters of recommendation sent directly by their authors. All materials must be submitted via Interfolio  at http://apply.interfolio.com/96900. Note that our department is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and candidates’ materials should address how they will promote these priorities in their professional career.

Questions about the position may be directed to Gari Horton at gari.horton@tufts.edu.

Review of applications will begin December 1, 2021, and will continue until the position is filled.

In order to ensure a healthy and safe work environment, Tufts University is requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated and provide proof of their COVID-19 vaccine before their start date. Employees who cannot receive the vaccine because of a disability/medical contraindication or sincerely-held religious belief may request an accommodation (e.g., an exemption) to this requirement. Learn more about the COVID-19 vaccine requirement here.

Tufts University, founded in 1852, prioritizes quality teaching, highly competitive basic and applied research, and a commitment to active citizenship locally, regionally, and globally.

Tufts University also prides itself on creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community. Current and prospective employees of the university are expected to have and continuously develop skill in, and disposition for, positively engaging with a diverse population of faculty, staff, and students.

See the University’s Non-Discrimination statement and policy here https://oeo.tufts.edu/policiesprocedures/non-discrimination/. If you are an applicant with a disability who is unable to use our online tools to search and apply for jobs, please contact us by calling Johny Laine in the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) at 617-627-3298 or at johny.laine@tufts.edu. Applicants can learn more about requesting reasonable accommodations at http://oeo.tufts.edu.

Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Rhodes College
Posted 10 Nov 2021 - 11:37

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Rhodes College (Memphis, TN) invites applications for a three-year visiting position at the rank of Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies to begin in August 2022. We seek a specialist in pre-revolutionary French Studies. Preference will be given to candidates who can also teach courses in Francophone North African Studies.  Rhodes College believes that diversity and inclusion are critical to our success as an institution, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Furthermore, Rhodes College is committed to supporting the work-life balance of its faculty. Applicants should hold or expect to receive a Ph.D. in French Studies or a closely related field by July 2022.  Duties of the position include teaching courses at all levels of the undergraduate French curriculum. The teaching distribution is 3-3, including introductory and intermediate language courses, and advanced literature and culture courses for majors and minors. The applicant should be able to translate their current scholarship into the liberal arts classroom and demonstrate successful teaching experience. Native or near-native fluency in French is required. Candidates will have the opportunity to contribute to interdisciplinary programs such as Jewish, Islamic, and Middle East Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Film and Media Studies, among others.   

Rhodes is a nationally ranked residential college committed to the liberal arts and sciences. Our highest priorities are intellectual engagement, service to others, commitment to diversity and inclusion, and honor among ourselves. Our students live and learn on one of the country’s most beautiful campuses, located in the heart of Memphis, an economic, medical, and culturally diverse center, making Rhodes one of a handful of prominent liberal arts colleges in a major metropolitan area. https://www.rhodes.edu/admission-aid/why-rhodes/liberal-arts-city 

 

Rhodes College prides itself on being a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming environment.  We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and anti-discrimination.  (https://handbook.rhodes.edu/college-handbook-employee-policies/employment-policies/anti-di...)

Please apply online at jobs.rhodes.edu. A complete application will include 1) a cover letter that addresses the strengths the candidate will bring as a teacher and scholar to a liberal arts college environment; 2) a curriculum vitae; 3) the names and contact information for three references; 4) a separate statement that addresses how your teaching, scholarship, and/or service will contribute to a college community that includes a commitment to diversity and inclusion as one of its core values. Review of completed applications will begin November 1, 2021 and will continue until the position is filled. Candidates from backgrounds typically underrepresented in higher education are strongly encouraged to apply. Background checks are required before candidates can be brought to campus for interviews. Rhodes College requires all employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19 with exceptions for medical or religious reasons, which will be handled on a case-by-case basis.

Applicants should hold or expect to receive a Ph.D. in French Studies or a closely related field by July 2022.

Visiting Assistant Professor in French/Francophone Studies at Union College
Posted 10 Nov 2021 - 11:36

French/Francophone Studies: Visiting Assistant Professor

Beginning September 2022

(Three-Year Appt.)

https://www.union.edu/MLL

 

Union College (Schenectady, NY) invites applications for a 3-year visiting position in French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. This position begins September 2022 and is contingent on final budget approval.  We seek a colleague with demonstrated excellence at all levels of language instruction (native or near-native fluency in French is required), potential to teach upper-level cultural studies-oriented courses in French and/or translation, and notable interest in coordinating co-curricular related programs.  Specialization open; interest in offering courses that contribute to the College’s interdisciplinary programs (Film Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Africana Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, etc.) is preferred. Ph.D. must be in hand or near completion by 9/22.  Under current policy, visitors at Union have access to research and travel funds and other benefits.

 

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and Union College are strongly committed to student and workforce diversity and inclusion. Union has committed itself to providing a blend of intellectual, social, and cultural opportunities to facilitate the integrated academic, social, and personal development of a diverse community. We value and are committed to a host of diverse populations and cultures including, but not limited to, those based on race, religion, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, and veteran status, and we welcome applications from groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in our fields.

 

To ensure applications receive full consideration, they should be submitted by November 22, 2021. Please upload a cover letter which includes ways in which your candidacy represents a commitment to the ideals of joining a community of diverse faculty, students, and staff, CV, graduate transcript, and a statement of teaching and research interests and any other related materials to http://jobs.union.edu.  Please provide names and contact information for three references when you complete the online application. An email will be sent automatically to references requesting a letter of recommendation.

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L'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (1648-1793). La naissance de l'École française ( Christian MICHEL)
Posted: 7 Dec 2024 - 10:24

Christian MICHEL, L'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (1648-1793). La naissance de l'École française, Genève, Droz, 2024.

L’Académie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture a régi les arts en France pendant un siècle et demi. Or l’institution demeure largement méconnue et continue d’être présentée aujourd’hui encore en fonction des discours, élogieux ou critiques, qui ont été portés sur elle, tant durant son existence que depuis sa suppression. Christian Michel fait son histoire et en retrace l’évolution à l’aune des rapports de pouvoir et des querelles de goût qui agitèrent la société française entre 1648 et 1793. Une histoire de l’Académie permet en effet d’apprécier la définition de l’art qu’elle mit en œuvre sous l’Ancien Régime. Sont successivement étudiés les conditions de sélection de ses membres, la façon dont elle construisit sa réflexion sur l’art et comment elle enseigna celui-ci, la fonction des Salons, l’élaboration des critères de fabrication pour qu’une pièce, d’objet manufacturé, pût être élevée au statut d’œuvre d’art, les effets économiques et sociaux qu’eut, pour les artistes, l’appartenance au corps et, enfin, la place que l’Académie tint dans le système des arts en France et en Europe. Si l’histoire sociale et politique est interrogée par ce livre, son principal enjeu relève de l’histoire de l’art : il entend montrer comment la production artistique a été marquée par l’Académie.

Plus d'informations ici.

Dieu dramaturge. Bible et tragédie de Buchanan à Racine ( Tristan ALONGE)
Posted: 7 Dec 2024 - 10:21

Tristan ALONGE, Dieu dramaturge. Bible et tragédie de Buchanan à Racine, Genève, Droz, 2024.

Un paradoxe étonnant caractérise les débuts du théâtre français : alors même que la Bible constitue l’une, sinon la principale source du théâtre sérieux aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, rares sont les dramaturges bibliques qui sont parvenus à s’assurer quelques lignes dans les manuels de littérature (La Taille, Garnier, Montchrestien, Du Ryer et Racine). L’explication de ce décalage a été donnée depuis longtemps : tragédie et Bible ne seraient tout simplement pas compatibles en raison d’une différence théologique incontournable, la première se fondant sur la confrontation entre l’homme et un destin incompréhensible, la seconde reposant sur une alliance nouée entre la créature et le Créateur, Dieu de justice et de miséricorde. Prenant résolument le parti de la Littérature et non celui de l’Histoire, de l’interprétation dramaturgique des textes et non de leur contextualisation, le présent ouvrage se propose de redécouvrir cet ensemble disparate de fragments oubliés de l’histoire théâtrale, à la recherche d’une tragédie véritablement biblique et des preuves qu’une rencontre, sous une forme ou sous une autre, a bien eu lieu dans l’atelier de travail de certains dramaturges, démentant ainsi toute prétendue incompatibilité entre Bible et tragédie.

Plus d'informations ici.

 

Les Temples de la mémoire. Recueils protestants de Vies et portraits (xvie-xviie siècles) (Marion Deschamps)
Posted: 7 Dec 2024 - 10:10

Marion Deschamps, Les Temples de la mémoire. Recueils protestants de Vies et portraits (xvie-xviie siècles), Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2024.

Aux xvie et xviie siècles, des recueils de portraits et de Vies dédiés aux héros de la Réformation paraissent dans l’Europe protestante. Ce livre montre comment leurs auteurs et lecteurs inventent une nouvelle culture du souvenir et de l’image et participent à la construction de l’identité protestante.

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Jean Ogier de Gombauld, Endymion (éd.Florence Dumora)
Posted: 7 Dec 2024 - 09:50

Jean Ogier de Gombauld, Endymion, édition critique par Florence Dumora, Paris, H. Champion, 2024.

Endymion endormi est aimé de la Lune dans une grotte du mont Latmos. C’est cette fable ténue du paganisme que Gombauld, poète de cour et dramaturge, futur Académicien et protestant fervent, transforme en 1624 en un récit d’une belle étrangeté, Endymion, oublié des histoires littéraires. La première édition critique de ce livre quatre cents ans plus tard, orné des dix-sept gravures de Crispijn de Passe, affronte les énigmes : incertitudes de la biographie, mystère du lien du petit volume à deux reines, Marie de Médicis et Anne d’Autriche, interprétation de la figure d’Endymion à l’âge baroque de la vie comme songe, inspirée du dernier mythographe de la Renaissance, Natale Conti, et inspirant à son tour Nicolas Poussin, curieux comme lui des sacrifices de l’Antiquité. Enfin mystère que ce récit qui, bien avant la naissance du fantastique, s’enroule sur lui-même et devient, d’une éclipse de lune à l’autre, l’aventure d’un homme qui dort, ou l’Aurélia du XVIIe siècle.

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Benoît de Maillet, Nouveau système du monde (éd. Geneviève Artigas-Menant)
Posted: 7 Dec 2024 - 09:47

Benoît de Maillet, Nouveau système du monde, édition critique du manuscrit de Vire avec les variantes de tous les manuscrits par Geneviève Artigas-Menant, Paris, H. Champion, 2024.

Avant de devenir en 1748 un livre imprimé, Telliamed, l’audacieux « traité de la diminution de la mer » de Benoît de Maillet, a été lu dans de nombreuses copies manuscrites. La découverte à la Bibliothèque municipale de Vire (Calvados) d’une de ces copies, qui s’avère notamment être la source directe de la copie possédée par Voltaire, a éclairé la genèse du texte. Il s’agit d’un manuscrit de travail d’un intérêt exceptionnel. En confrontant minutieusement ses pages mille fois raturées aux treize autres manuscrits aujourd’hui accessibles, cette édition critique contribue à une meilleure connaissance du rôle, des objectifs, des méthodes et des pratiques des copistes des manuscrits philosophiques clandestins de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle, dans une démarche de critique génétique appliquée à ce qu’on peut appeler « l’édition manuscrite ».

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Conferences and Colloquia

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Journée d’études en ligne : "AUTOUR DU LIVRE", en l'honneur de Colette Winn
Posted: 12 Oct 2020 - 17:15

Friday, October 16, 2020 at 9 AM CDT – 4 PM PDT

Public · Hosted by French Connexions at Washington University in St Louis

Online Event

The French cultural center at Washington University in St Louis presents:

"AUTOUR DU LIVRE"

Silver Colloquium Journée d’études en l'honneur de Colette Winn

16 october 2020

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL)

Washington university in St. Louis

for contact about registration : Lionel Cuillé, lcuille@wustl.edu

 

Schedule (all times in CDT / GMT -5)

9:00 Welcome

9:15-10:15 Session I : Book Culture

Julie Singer, Washington University in St Louis "Enseignements à mon frère? Anne of France and the Bourbon memory of Saint Louis" (BnF MS fr. 2829)

Faith Beasley, Dartmouth College "Textes et contextes: Writing Conversation"

Anne Larsen, Hope College "Salons, Network Patronage, and the Self-Representation of French Seventeenth-Century Women of Science"

 

10:15-10:30 Coffee Break

 

10:30-11:15 Session II : Self-Fashioning Women’s Identities

Cathy Yandell, Carleton College "Reading the Bodies of Witches: The Case of Jeanne des Anges (1632-1637)"

Karen de Bruin, University of Rhode Island "Transcending the Father: Germaine de Staël and the Perfectibility of the Human Species"

 

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

 

11:30-12:15 Session III : Poètes courtisans

François Rouget, Queen's University (Canada) "Catherine de Retz et ses admirateurs : Complément d’enquête sur Amadis Jamyn et Cholières"

Cynthia Skenazi, University of Santa Barbara "Modes d'emploi du livre: L'exemple du "Poète Courtisan" de Du Bellay"

 

12:15-1:30 Lunch

 

1:30-2:30 Session IV : Visualizing the Text

Marilynn Desmond, Binghamton University (SUNY), "Visualizing Briseida in Late Medieval Manuscript Illustration"

Harriet Stone, Washington University in St Louis " Through the Dutch Doorway to the House that Lafayette Built for the Princesse de Clèves"

Andrew Clark, Fordham University "Performing Portraits: How Women in the Ancien Régime Use Portraits to Confirm and Upend Historical Truth"

 

2:30-2:45 Coffee Break

 

2:45-3:45 Session V : Defending Women

Deborah McGrady, University of Virginia "The Return of Joan of Arc: The Slow Transformation of the Heretic into a Heroine in Sixteenth-Century France"

Tili Boon Cuillé, Washington university in St. Louis "The Scepter and the Distaff: Rousseau’s "La Reine Fantasque" as Intertext"

Fabienne Moore, University of Oregon "Re-authorizing the Social Contract: Etta Palm’s "Lettre d’une amie de la vérité" (March 1791)

 

4:00-5:00 Celebrating Colette

Please also visit our online companion online companion "Autour du livre": https://library.wustl.edu/spec/exhibits/ curated by Zhiyuan Meng and Julie Singer and featuring Early Modern French books from Washington University Libraries’ Special Collections.

We thank the Washington University Libraries, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the estate of Isidore and Edith Silver for their generous support.

Professor Colette Winn has taught French language and literature courses at every level. She has supervised decades of Washington University students both in St. Louis and in France, including as part of the French for the Pre-Med Program in Nice, a vibrant and successful summer program which she created in 1993 and has directed ever since. Colette was named Chevalier de l’ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1995 in recognition of her extensive contributions to French Studies. Colette has always been, and remains, an extremely dedicated teacher and mentor whose students have, year after year, course after course, séjour after séjour, benefitted from her profound commitment to their education and well-being. It is in honor of her many accomplishments and contributions that we celebrate Colette today. The organizers:

Tili Boon Cuillé, Julie Singer, Harriet Stone

* For a full list of Colette Winn's publications, see  https://rll.wustl.edu/files/rll/2019Winn.pdf

Talk: 'In a Manner that Might have No': Sexual Desire and Intellectual Disability in French Fairy Tales
Posted: 12 Oct 2020 - 17:02

Greetings! I wanted to share a talk that I am giving with the "Women, Gender and Early Modern World" research group at the Harvard Mahindra Center. 

The talk is from my second book project in progress (The Body Perfect: the Aesthetics of Ableism in the Early Modern French and Francophone World). This particular talk is titled "'In a Manner that Might have No': Sexual Desire and Intellectual Disability in French Fairy Tales" https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/manner-might-have-meant-no-sexual-desire-and-intellectual-disability-early-modern

The talk is 10/22 at 5 PM EST (4PM CST) and the zoom link will be sent upon registration. I'd love to see you there!

Warm regards, 

Jennie 

-- 

Jennifer E. Row, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of French and Italian, University of Minnesota

Affiliate faculty, Theatre Arts & Dance

304D Folwell Hall  

2020-2022 Imagine Chair in Arts, Design, and Humanities with Tammy Berberi and Jigna Desai

Critical Disability Studies Collective co-chair 

(she/her/hers; Jennie or J.Row) 

November 2020 zoom conference, Masculinities in the Premodern World: Continuities, Change, and Contradictions
Posted: 27 Sep 2020 - 14:45

12-14 November 2020

The past twenty-five years have witnessed a bourgeoning of studies on sexuality and gender in the pre-modern world. In particular, men and masculinities have received considerable attention. Building on the theoretical perspectives provided by feminism, Foucault, and cultural studies, the study of men and masculinities is increasingly theoretically inflected and sophisticated. Studies have encompassed questions pertaining to men of various social statuses, secular and ecclesiastical, as portrayed in historical, literary, philosophical, theological, and art historical sources among others.

The conference, sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC), seeks to locate the study of premodern men and masculinities in its current richness and complexity. 

REGISTER BY OCTOBER 30 AT EventBrite.

https://trrc.itergateway.org/2020_conference

Panic & Plague in 1720 & 2020: The View from Minnesota (Lecture Series)
Posted: 20 Sep 2020 - 21:40

The Center for Early Modern History invites you to join us for our fall lecture series, Panic and Plague in 1720 & 2020: The View from Minnesota. In 1720, the Mississippi Company, a project of financial speculation in the Mississippi River region, collapsed. The explosion of this financial bubble coincided and was entangled with the last mass outbreak of bubonic plague in European history in Marseilles, followed shortly thereafter by a devastating outbreak of smallpox in Boston. This series brings together scholars from across disciplines and across the globe to discuss the intercutting relationships between disease and financial disaster in the early 1720s -- reflecting on parallels in the early 2020s.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZCL8ocR12e-3FCBROVSPCD9yxJwa-tea/view

Addressing Racism and Anti-Blackness in French and Francophone Studies: A Virtual Colloquium Series
Posted: 13 Sep 2020 - 17:03

SPONSORED BY THE FRENCH DEPARTMENT AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE

https://sites.google.com/wellesley.edu/addressing-antiblackness/schedule

Registration required

All talks take place from 2:30–3:45 PM EST

Speakers and dates:

Marlene L. Daut, Professor of African Diaspora Studies, University of Virginia, Thursday, September 17, 2020

Alice L. Conklin, Distinguished Professor of History, Ohio State University, Thursday, September 24, 2020

Anne Lafont, Directrice d'études, EHESS, Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Philippe Blanchet, Professeur de sociolinguistique, Université Rennes 2, Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Dorian Bell, Associate Professor of Literature and Jewish Studies, UC Santa Cruz, Thursday, November 5, 2020

Tyler Stovall, Dean of Fordham University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Thursday, November 12, 2020

Crystal Fleming, Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University, Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Please see the website for titles of talks and other details:

https://sites.google.com/wellesley.edu/addressing-antiblackness/schedule

Member News Briefs

Hélène Bilis
Wellesley College

Bravo to Hélène Bilis for several recent accomplishments and new undertakings:

1. Her book -- Passing Judgment: The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty in French Tragedy from Hardy to Racine  --  is forthcomingwith University of Toronto Press in January 2016.

2. Hélène received an Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts College (AALAC) Mellon Grant for a workshop entitled, “Blended Learning Approaches to Teaching Early Modern France in a Liberal Arts Context," in coordination with Hélène Visentin, David Harrison, Thomas Parker, and Jean-Vincent Blanchard. The workshop is scheduled for October 2015.

3. Hélène has been appointed editor of medieval to 17th-century France literary studies for the H-France Forum.

 

 

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Michael Call
Brigham Young University

Congratulations to Michael Call for his new book, The Would-Be Author: Molière and the Comedy of Print, recently published with Purdue UP. Please see the description below :

Book Description

This book is the first full-length study to examine Molière’s evolving (and at times contradictory) authorial strategies, as evidenced both by his portrayal of authors and publication within the plays and by his own interactions with the seventeenth-century Parisian publishing industry. Historians of the book have described the time period that coincides with Molière’s theatrical activity as centrally important to the development of authors’ rights and to the professionalization of the literary field. A seventeenth-century author, however, was not so much born as negotiated through often acrimonious relations in a world of new and dizzying possibilities.

The learning curve was at times steep and unpleasant, as Molière discovered when his first Parisian play was stolen by a rogue publisher. Nevertheless, the dramatist proved to be a quick learner; from his first published play in 1660 until his death in 1673, Molière changed from a reluctant and victimized author to an innovator (or, according to his enemies, even a swindler) who aggressively secured the rights to his plays, stealing them back when necessary. Through such shrewdness, he acquired for himself publication privileges and conditions relatively unknown in an era before copyright.

As Molière himself wrote, making people laugh was “une étrange entreprise” (La Critique de L’École des femmes, 1663). To an even greater degree, comedic authorship for the playwright was a constant work in progress, and in this sense, “Molière,” the stage name that became a pen name, represents the most carefully elaborated of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin’s invented characters.

ISBN : 9781612493855

http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/titles/format/9781612493855

 

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Francis Assaf
The University of Georgia

Congratulations to Francis Assaf for his recent publications.

Book chapters:

"Première journée : voir, dire et savoir". Un Autre dix-septième siècle : mélanges en l’honneur de Jean Serroy. Patis : Champion, 2014. pp. 41-51.

"La Mort de Louis XIV commémorée par les premier Bourbon d'Espagne, Madrid 1716"
Les Funérailles princières en Europe XVIe-XVIIIe siècle 3. Le deuil, la mémoire, la politique
Presses Universitaires de Rennes/Centre de recherches du château de Versailles, 2015.  pp. 259-267.
 

Articles:

“Abraham de Vermeil, poète maniériste.” Maniérisme et literature (Didier, Souiller, ed.), Series “Comparaisons”. Paris: Orizons, 2013 (ISBN: 978-2-296-08850-4): 219-236.

“Les Paratextes du Francion, ou la mise en fiction de l’écriture.” PFSCL XLI, 81, 2014 : 302-314.

“Les Horreurs du Grand Siècle : un échantillonnage du crime sous les deux premiers Bourbons. Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate, Vol. LXVII, Fasc. 2, aprile-giugno 2015, pp. 119-138.

"La pompe funèbre de Louis XIV à Madrid, 1716 : image et fascination du pouvoir royal." In Fascination des images, images de la fascination. Paris : Presses de l’université de Paris-III Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2015.

"Les Derniers jours de Louis XIII : chronique d’une mort annoncée." PFSCL XLII (2015) : pp. 253-262.

 

 

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Steve Fleck
CSU Long Beach

Please join me in congratulating Steve Fleck on his new promotion ... to retired!

Steve Fleck promoted himself to retired status at CSU Long Beach and has moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Notwithstanding these shifts of status and venue, his article "Speaking Folly to Power: Molière's Moebius Saraband" was published in PFSCL and he looks forward to seeing his second book on Molière, to be published with Biblio 17, in print in the very near future. 

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Vincent Grégoire
Berry College

Congratulations to Vincent Grégoire, whose article « Emploi d’ ‘objets magiques’ et prédiction de phénomènes célestes dans les Relations des jésuites : une stratégie originale de conversion en Nouvelle-France au dix-septième siècle », will appear in 2016 in the Cahiers du XVIIème: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

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