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Society for Early Modern French Studies 46th Annual Conference, 24-26 June 2024, University of Exeter ‘Ways of Knowing’ « Modes de savoir »
Posted: Monday, October 9, 2023 - 17:58

The Society for Early Modern French Studies will hold its annual conference at the University of Exeter, 24-26 June 2024. Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers or alternative formats* on the topic of Ways of Knowing in Early Modern France.

 

This might include but is not limited to: practices of education; learned circles / communities; institutions and/of knowledge; methodologies; translation; forms and genres of knowledge; indigenous knowledge; bodily knowledge; gender and knowledge; knowledge and the self; history of disciplines; ways of not knowing or knowing imperfectly; mysticism and the occult.

 

*we welcome shorter papers of 10 minutes that relate to pedagogy or serve as a theoretical intervention or an informal workshop.

We shall offer, as usual, postgraduate facilitation bursaries from the Amy Wygant Fund. Details of this scheme will be sent separately.

Proposals for papers (250-300 words: please indicate the length / format of the paper) should be sent by 1 December 2023 to the Secretary, Emma Herdman (eh58@st-andrews.ac.uk). Please note that only current subscribing members of the Society may present a paper at the conference: http://www.semfs.org.uk/join/

Speakers are requested to provide translations from languages other than English or French. 

 

 

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Le colloque annuel de la Société d’étude de la première modernité française (SEMFS) se tiendra du 24 au 26 juin 2024 à l’université d’Exeter. Thème retenu : « Modes de savoir », conçu sous toutes ses formes, par exemple : les pratiques de l’éducation ; les communautés / cercles savants ; les institutions du savoir / de la science ; les méthodologies ; la traduction ; les formes et genres du savoir ; les savoirs indigènes ; la connaissance corporelle ; le savoir et le gender ; la connaissance de soi ; l’histoire des disciplines ; les moyens de ne pas savoir ou de savoir imparfaitement ; le mysticisme et l’occulte.

 

Nous proposerons aux doctorant.e.s, selon notre habitude, des bourses de facilitation provenant du fonds Amy Wygant. Ce programme fera l’objet d’une communication ultérieure de notre part.

 

Veuillez adresser, avant le 1 décembre 2023, une proposition de communication* (250-300 mots : veuillez indiquer la longueur / le format de votre communication) à la secrétaire de la Société, Emma Herdman (eh58@st-andrews.ac.uk).  Nous vous rappelons que seuls les sociétaires à jour de leur cotisation auront le droit d’intervenir lors du colloque : http://www.semfs.org.uk/join/

 

* nous invitons des propositions soit de communications traditionnelles de 20 minutes, soit d’interventions sous formes alternatives : une communication de 10 minutes ; une intervention théorique ou pédagogique ; un atelier informel.

 

Les intervenants sont priés de fournir une traduction de toute langue autre que l’anglais ou le français.

 

Dr Adam Horsley
Lecturer in French, University of Exeter 
Deputy Senior Tutor and Transition & Inductions Officer, Department of LCVS
Web and Publicity Officer, Society for Early Modern French Studies (SEMFS)
http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/modernlanguages/staff/ahorsley/

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Renaissance Society of America - Gendered Genealogies of Power and Authority, 1300–1700
Posted: Monday, July 24, 2023 - 13:05

Medieval and early modern women were no stranger to positions of power, prestige, or authority: from philosophy, religion, and medical science to politics and civil life, examples of women who gained prominence in their respective field(s) pinpoint a significant counter-narrative to the male-centric outlook that was predominant for centuries. But how did these women achieve, maintain, and justify their positions within societies that, largely, still regarded them as subaltern to men?

Some thirty years ago, the philosophy group Diotima questioned the complicated genealogies of women’s political modalities, between power and authority (Oltre l’uguaglianza. Le radici femminili dell’autorità, 1995). While power (from Lat. potestas) implies a non-consensual dominion within unequal relationships, authority (from Lat. augēre) etymologically grows out of a shared relationship that does not suppress uneven differences. This panel welcomes submissions that interrogate genealogies of power and/or authority, in which late medieval and early modern women were able to excel and distinguish themselves, by delineating strategies—rhetorical or pragmatic—that were used to account for their exceptionality. From family ties and professional connections to ideal genealogies writ large, we welcome contributions that add new perspectives to the debate on the dialectic positioning of late medieval and early modern women in their societies.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
gender-biased tensions in political/professional/social spaces
construction of familial vs. authoritative genealogies
counter-narratives to canon formation
scientific and medical embodiments of power/ authority
literary and rhetorical strategies of power/authority
socio-economic power and/or authority
women mystics and authoritative spaces in religious life

Proposals should include a title (max. 15 words), paper abstract (max. 200 words), 1-2 page CV indicating PhD or other terminal degree completion date (past or expected). Please send proposals to Fabio Battista (University of Alabama, fbattista@ua.edu) and Matteo Pace (Connecticut College, mpace1@conncoll.edu) by July 31, 2023. 

CFP for non-plenary sessions / Appel à propositions pour des séances non-plénières
Posted: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 11:45

*English version below*

 

Chères et chers collègues, 

  

L’appel à communications pour le congrès annuel de la Société d’études pluridisciplinaires du XVIIe siècle français est encore en cours ! Cette édition du congrès, présidée par Anna Rosensweig (U. of Rochester), aura lieu à l’Université de Rochester (NY) les 19-21 octobre 2023. 

 

Nous vous encourageons à soumettre une proposition pour une des séances non-plénières : 

La pédagogie

Les groupes de lecture

Les ateliers ouverts et les ateliers de recherches en cours (séances fermées au public)

 

Veuillez consulter l’appel à propositions pour une description détaillée de chaque séance non-plénière. La date limite est le 1er juin 2023.  

 

Veuillez noter la participation virtuelle à toutes les séances non-plénières—à l’exception de la pédagogie—sera possible pour des frais d’inscription réduits : $25 pour les professeur.e.s à temps plein ; $15 pour les doctorant.e.s. Ceux et celles qui veulent participer virtuellement sont vivement encouragé·e·s à soumettre une proposition. Sachez aussi que les propositions des personnes qui ne présentent pas dans une séance plénière seront privilégiées.  

 

Cordialement, 

  

Emma Gauthier-Mamaril 

Université de Montréal 

 

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Dear colleagues, 

  

The call for papers for the annual conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies is still ongoing! This edition of the conference, chaired by Anna Rosensweig (U. of Rochester), will take place at the University of Rochester (NY) on October 19-21, 2023. 

  

We encourage you to proposal for one of this year’s non-plenary sessions: 

Pedagogy

Reading groups

Open workshops

Work-in-Progress Workshops or Working Groups (closed to the public) 

 

Please see the CFP for details on each type of session. Proposals for non-plenary sessions are due June 1. 

 

Please note that virtual participation in all these sessions—with the exception of Pedagogy—will also be possible for a significantly reduced nominal registration fee: $25 for full-time faculty; $15 for graduate students. Those who would like to participate virtually are warmly encouraged to submit a proposal. Please also note thatwhile all are welcome to submit proposals to these sessions, preference will be given to those who are not already presenting in plenary sessions. 

 

  

Sincerely, 

  

Emma Gauthier-Mamaril 

Université de Montréal 

 

SPACE IN TIME: FROM THE HEAVENS TO OUTER SPACE -- The Warburg Institute, 12-13 October 2023
Posted: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 15:17

*Call for Papers*

Space in Time is a forum for new work in the long and global cultural history of the space beyond Earth, from the ancient heavens to modern outer space. While space history is a vibrant field of study, extending across the humanities and social sciences, it often breaks down along familiar geographical, disciplinary, and period-based boundaries. In particular, the field’s predominant interest remains in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, especially following what is now increasingly referred to as the First Space Age. However, while outer space undeniably gains in interest in this period, this interest is preceded and underwritten by a cross-cultural history stretching as far back as the human imagination itself, much of it yet to be written.
 
Space in Time invites work sparking new cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural, and cross-period conversations in this field, encompassing, but not limited to, perspectives in the histories of art, astronomy, cosmology, geography, literature, philosophy, religion, science and technology, and intellectual and cultural history at large. Contributions challenging traditional approaches to outer space are particularly welcome, as well as those working across one or more established domains of inquiry, and especially across the premodern/modern divide. The event is open to researchers of any disciplinary background, of any career stage, working in any regional or cultural tradition, from the ancient world to the present day.
 
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Shifting depictions, descriptions, and understandings of spaces(s) above and around the earth, its domains and inhabitants, in different periods and contexts: e.g. the heavenly spheres, astrological houses, the apeiron, the sensorium of God, a sphere whose circumference is nowhere, outer space, deep space, etc. What cosmological, ontological, epistemological, theological, metaphysical, aesthetic, ethical concerns have shaped representations of superlunary space? 

New directions in space history. Is it possible to write a history of outer space beyond ‘official’ histories of science? How have different senses and media informed perceptions and imaginations of outer space? How have terrestrial geopolitics, intercultural relations, and geographical imaginations shaped extra-terrestrial imaginations?

Contrasting and complementary perspectives on outer space or the superlunary regions—e.g. ‘enchanted’ / ‘disenchanted’, local / global, popular / elite, timeless / historical.

The Second / Third Space Age in historical perspective. How does a long cultural history of space inform the recent resurgence of public and private space programmes, controversial developments in space industry, space junk, and space tourism, and their complex political and cultural dynamics?

Sounds of and from outer space, from the celestial music of the heavenly spheres to the signals of early satellites’ radio beacons, radiotelescopy, and the first sound recordings from Mars.

Space, citizen science, and amateur initiatives: e.g. IGY Moonwatchers, radio amateurs, amateur astronomy, rocketry, SETI, diverse social and historical contexts of astrology, etc.

Long history of science fiction and speculative voyages beyond Earth.

Space in classical tradition / classical tradition in space. 

We stress that these topics are meant as indicative only. If you are unsure about whether your topic fits the event’s remit, please do not hesitate to be in touch with a preliminary inquiry.
 
Space in Time will be a ‘hybrid’ event, combining in-person and online participation. Limited financial support may be available for early-career presenters attending in person.
 
The event will feature a keynote lecture by Frédérique Aït-Touati (History of Science, CNRS) as well as invited presentations by Oliver Dunnett (Geography, QUB), Andrew Gregory (History and Philosophy of Science, UCL), and others TBC.
 
Please send an abstract (up to 500 words) and abbreviated CV (2 pages) to spaceintime.conference@gmail.com by 31 May 2023, with an indication of whether you wish to attend in person or online. Please direct any inquiries, including about financial support, to the same address.
 
Organizers: Vladimir Brljak (English, Warburg/Durham), Veronica della Dora (Geography, Royal Holloway), Stamatina Mastorakou (History of Science, MPIWG), and John Tresch (History of Art, Science, and Folk Practice, Warburg).
 
Event homepage: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/CFP-space-in-time.

CfP: CIREM 16-18
Posted: Sunday, March 5, 2023 - 13:19

Raconter à l'époque moderne : Le récit et ses usages XVIe-XVIIIe siècle

Le XXIIe Colloque jeunes chercheurs du CIREM 16-18, qui se tiendra les 25-26 mai 2023 à l’Université d’Ottawa, aura pour thème le récit et ses usages à la période moderne. Afin d’accueillir des chercheurs et chercheuses de divers horizons, nous avons retenu une définition large du récit comme acte de relater des évènements factuels ou fictifs.

Fidèle à la tradition du CIREM 16-18, ce colloque cherche à réunir en un même lieu différentes disciplines : histoire, littérature, philosophie, théâtre et histoire de l’art. Le thème du colloque invite précisément à des formes de décloisonnement et permet d’interroger la frontière poreuse entre ces nombreuses disciplines à l’époque moderne.

Par exemple, dans le récit littéraire se tissent des liens étroits entre philosophie et littérature. Sous l’impulsion d’une rationalité réfléchissante qui éclot dans le courant de l’humanisme, les récits fictifs connaissent une grande effervescence, ainsi que le montrent au XVIIIe siècle les contes philosophiques de Voltaire. Les écrits irrévérencieux se mettent à foisonner et on voit s’éployer un éveil nouveau à l’orientalisme et à ses infinies potentialités narratives et philosophiques. Le théâtre est aussi le lieu d’un usage renouvelé des récits bibliques que la Réforme et la Contre-Réforme convoquent à leurs fins. C’est alors que naît, au confluent de l’imitation des Anciens et des exigences de l’époque, la tragédie biblique qui jouira d’une fortune exceptionnelle jusqu’au XVIIIe siècle. Ces exemples invitent à explorer les manières par lesquelles différents acteurs et actrices se saisissent du récit et l’investissent à l’époque moderne. Certains portent, par ailleurs, à réfléchir aux stratégies de vulgarisation et de diffusion de savoirs spécialisés ou encore à la position intermédiaire que peut occuper le récit entre réalité et fiction. Tel est le cas par exemple de nombreuses formes — canards, histoires tragiques, causes célèbres — qui émergent à la croisée du droit et de la littérature.

Nous encourageons ainsi des communications portant sur le récit dans son acception plus restreinte (conte de fées, récit de voyage, récit biblique, conte philosophique, etc.), ou mettant en valeur la part de récit dans d’autres types de sources (par exemple le récit de soi dans la correspondance ou la place du récit dans une théorie picturale fondée sur l’ut pictura poesis), mais aussi sur des questions plus théoriques. À l’époque moderne, différentes possibilités d’expérimentation s’entrouvrent à la fois dans les formes que peut prendre le récit et dans les objets qui peuvent être racontés. Les modernistes se retrouvent ainsi devant des enjeux méthodologiques (comment traiter ou vérifier de telles sources ?), épistémologiques (que peut-on connaître par le récit ?), esthétiques (quelle expérience esthétique se déploie dans le récit mis en mots, en images ou en scène ?), politiques (quelles critiques peuvent se faire par le truchement du récit ; comment peut-il être utilisé comme outil politique ?) et rhétoriques (comment aide-t-il ou non à vulgariser ou à convaincre ?). Nous invitons aussi les chercheurs et chercheuses à renouveler notre compréhension du récit et à s’interroger sur son rôle au sein de leur propre démarche. Comment raconte-t-on l’histoire à l’époque moderne et comment raconter l’histoire de cette période ? Qu’est-ce que l’usage du récit apporte aux écrivain·es et aux philosophes de l’époque ou encore aux chercheurs et chercheuses contemporain·es ?

Ce colloque accueillera les communications de jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses (à la maîtrise ou au « master », au doctorat ou au postdoctorat) qui travaillent dans différents champs des sciences humaines : histoire, philosophie, littérature, théâtre, histoire de l’art, etc. Les communications, inédites et en français, ne devront pas dépasser les vingt minutes allouées à chaque participant·e. Les propositions de communication (titre et résumé de 250 mots, niveau d’études, ancrage institutionnel) doivent être envoyées au comité organisateur avant le 17 février 2023 à l’adresse suivante : cirem.jeunes.chercheurs@uottawa.ca

Les actes du colloque seront publiés dans Les Collections de la République des Lettres (Hermann, Paris).

Comité organisateur :

Maud Brunet-Fontaine

Pascale Couturier-Rose

Elena Chudzia-Conde

Béatrice Leblanc-Martineau

Anderson Magalhães

Alexis Tétreault

Comité scientifique :

Mawy Bouchard

Geneviève Boucher

Sébastien Côté

Michel Fournier

Louise Frappier

Sylvie Perrier

Mitia Rioux-Beaulne

https://cirem16-18.ca/fichier/document/Appel-a-communication-CJC-CIREM20...

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Research fellowships, Paris Institute for Advanced Study

Posted 27 Feb 2018 - 13:21

The Paris Institute for Advanced Study is launching two calls for applications for research fellowships in 2019-2020, open to researchers of all nationalities:

- one call for 5 or 10-month fellowships in the "Blue Sky Research" program, open to all disciplines and themes in the humanities and social sciences. - one call for 5 or 10-month fellowships in the “Brain, Culture and Society” program. This call is for researchers willing to conduct a project at the interface between neuroscience, cognitive science and the humanities and social sciences.

Deadline for applications: Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018, 3:00pm (Paris, France time)

More informations on https://www.paris-iea.fr/en/

Source: H-France/C. zum Kolk

Society for French Studies: Visiting International Fellowship

Posted 18 Jan 2018 - 10:15

The Society for French Studies is pleased to accept applications for the 2018 Visiting International Fellowship scheme. The deadline for this round is 1 April 2018. The scheme is intended to support an annual visiting fellowship, tenable in any UK or Irish university, or institution of higher education in the UK or Ireland, to allow outstanding academics in the French Studies field based in overseas universities to spend time at UK or Irish higher education institutions. 

 

In order to extend the global reach of the scheme, the Society has increased the maximum value of the award to £5,000 and extended the maximum length of the Fellowship to eight weeks. It strongly encourages applications to support visits from scholars in all parts of the world, including Africa, Australasia and the Caribbean. The key objective of the Fellowship grant is to encourage the internationalization of French Studies in the UK and Ireland through engagement with those active in the field elsewhere. It is also intended that the Fellow will use the occasion to further their own academic interests, and to visit more than one UK institution. Visits should be of no more than eight weeks’ duration, although an extended period may be appropriate if additional funding is available from institutional sources.

 

Full details of how to apply are on the Society’s website: www.sfs.ac.uk/funding-visiting-fellowships/.

 

 
To access information on our new Prize Research Fellowships scheme, click here. To access information on our Research Support scheme, click here

Applications must be completed by an academic member of staff in the UK or Irish host institution. The UK or Irish host applicant is also expected to organise, direct and take academic and organisational responsibility of the fellowship. Host applicants must be members of or associated Higher Education departments of French (or departments which teach French) in the UK and Ireland. Main applicants must also be members of the Society for French Studies. No more than one application may be submitted by any institution in one academic year (this applies to collegiate and non-collegiate universities alike, and includes joint applications from two or institutions).

 

The Society will offer a grant of up to £5,000 to support travel, accommodation, subsistence and other expenses; up to an additional £500 is also available to cover the costs of visiting other institutions in the UK or Ireland. Personal expenditure on items such as visa costs, car hire and health insurance are not eligible, and it is expected that host institutions will offer support for these. Application for this award will be competitive, and it cannot be made retrospectively. Informal enquiries can be directed to Professor Edward Welch, University of Aberdeen,edward.welch@abdn.ac.uk. 

 

SFHS research awards and fellowships

Posted 13 Dec 2017 - 00:45

The Society for French Historical Studies solicits applications for the following fellowships (application deadline, 15 February 2018).

 

1. Research Travel Award, jointly awarded by the SFHS and the Western Society for French History

Eligibility:

Scholars from the US and Canada, awarded PhD since January 2013, for research conducted outside of North America on any aspect of French history

 

2. Farrar Memorial Awards, two awards will be made

Eligibility:

Graduate students enrolled in program in US or Canada, with preference given to scholars interested in relating the history of France to another part of Europe or the world

 

3. Institut Français d’Amérique Fund Research Fellowship (Harmon Chadbourn Rorison Fellowship)

Eligibility:

Doctoral students or scholars awarded PhD since January 2015, conducting research in France for at least one month on any topic in French historical and cultural studies (travel to and France may not be supported by this fellowship)

 

4. Institut Français d’Amérique Fund Research Fellowship (Catherine Maley)

Eligibility:

Doctoral students or scholars awarded PhD since January 2015, conducting research in France for at least one month on any topic in French historical and cultural studies, with preference given to projects in cultural history, art history, or literary studies, broadly-defined (travel to and France may not be supported by this fellowship)

 

 

For more information on these and other awards and prizes, please see:

https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes/

 

The committee entrusted with deciding these awards is:

 

Stéphane Gerson, Chair (2018)

Institute of French Studies New York University 15 Washington Mews New York, New York 10003 (USA) stephane.gerson@nyu.edu

 

Jeffrey Burson (2019)

Department of History Georgia Southern University PO Box 8054 Statesboro, GA 30460-8054 (USA) jburson@georgiasouthern.edu

 

Jennifer Boittin (2020, Western Society for French History representative)

Department of French and Francophone Studies Pennsylvania State University 326 Burrowes Building University Park, PA 16802 (USA) Jab808@psu.edu

 

Tamara Chaplin (2020)

Department of History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 309 Gregory Hall MC 466 810 South Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801 (USA) tchaplin@illinois.edu

 

 

RSA 2018 Research Fellowships

Posted 15 Oct 2017 - 01:36

The Renaissance Society of America is pleased to announce that our 2018 Research Fellowships competition is now open. For the 2018 cycle, the RSA will award up to thirty-three (33) individual fellowships to scholars working in the field of Renaissance studies (1300–1700). Fellowships are made possible by donations and bequests from RSA members, and grants from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. A link to the application site and details about the application process, eligibility, residential fellowships, non-residential fellowships, and publication subventions are available on the RSA Fellowships webpage. The deadline for applying is 9 November 2017. Model proposals, a recorded webinar, and statistics about previous fellowship cycles are intended to provide additional information about the application process. The stipend varies between $3,000 and $4,000 depending on the fellowship. During the past five years, the RSA has awarded fellowships to more than 100 scholars working on topics from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century; a list of previous award winners is posted on the RSA website. Our Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) scholarship competition is also open. DHSI scholarship applications are due 17 October 2017. Best of luck to all applicants. The Renaissance Society of America

Franklin Research Grants

Posted 15 Sep 2017 - 03:00

Scope

Since 1933, the American Philosophical Society has awarded small grants to scholars in order to support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. In 2016–2017 the Franklin Research Grants program awarded $470,000 to 89 scholars, and the Society expects to make a similar number of awards in this year’s competition. The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.

Franklin grants are made for noncommercial research. They are not intended to meet the expenses of attending conferences or the costs of publication. The Society does not pay overhead or indirect costs to any institution, and grant funds are not to be used to pay income tax on the award. Grants will not be made to replace salary during a leave of absence or earnings from summer teaching; pay living expenses while working at home; cover the costs of consultants or research assistants; or purchase permanent equipment such as computers, cameras, tape recorders, or laboratory apparatus.

Special Programs Within the Franklin Research Grants

APS/British Academy Fellowship for Research in London In collaboration with the British Academy, the APS offers an exchange postdoctoral fellowship for a minimum of one and a maximum of two months’ research in the archives and libraries of London during 2018. This award includes travel expenses between the United States and the United Kingdom and a monthly subsistence paid by the APS. Candidates should specify that they are asking for the British Academy Fellowship and apply by October 2; applicants not selected for the British Academy Fellowship will be considered for a Franklin Research Grant.

APS/Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Fellowship for Research in Edinburgh In collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, the APS offers a visiting fellowship of between two and four months for research in Edinburgh in the calendar year 2018 in any aspect of the humanities and social sciences. To maximize the benefits of the fellowship, applicants are strongly encouraged to schedule their visit to overlap with one of the two main teaching semesters (January–March and September–December). This award includes travel expenses between the United States and the United Kingdom, a private office, library and research facilities at the IASH, and a monthly subsistence paid by the APS. Travel expenses and the monthly subsistence amount will not exceed a maximum of $6,000. Candidates should specify that they are asking for the IASH Fellowship and apply by October 2; applicants not selected for the IASH Fellowship will be considered for a Franklin Research Grant. Further information about the IASH, including current research themes, is available at http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/.

Eligibility

Applicants are expected to have a doctorate or to have published work of doctoral character and quality. Ph.D. candidates are not eligible to apply, but the Society is particularly interested in supporting the work of young scholars who have recently received the doctorate. Independent scholars and faculty members at all four-year and two-year research and non-research institutions are welcome to apply provided that all eligibility guidelines are met. American citizens and residents of the United States may use their Franklin awards at home or abroad. Foreign nationals not affiliated with a U.S. institution must use their Franklin awards for research in the United States. Applicants who have previously received a Franklin grant may reapply after an interval of two years.

Awards

Funding is offered up to a maximum of $6,000. Grants are not retroactive.

Grants are payable to the individual applicant. Franklin grants are taxable income, but the Society is not required to report payments. It is recommended that grant recipients discuss their reporting obligations with their tax advisors.

Letters of Support

Note that letters of support must directly address the project outlined in the proposal. Submission of letters through Interfolio is discouraged as these letters are often too long (and may be truncated at the point at which they reach limit of allowable space) and not related to the project at hand.

Deadlines

For applications and two letters of support:

October 2, for a January 2018 decision for work in February 2018 through January 2019 December 1, for a March 2018 decision for work in April 2018 through January 2019

It is the applicant’s responsibility to verify that all materials, including the required two letters of support, reached the Society on time; contact Linda Musumeci, Director of Grants and Fellowships, at LMusumeci@amphilsoc.org or 215-440-3429.

Requirements

Project and financial reports are due one month after completion of the funded portion of the work, per the time frame indicated on the proposal. Instructions will be provided with notification of an award.

Application

Click here to apply online 

https://amphilsoc.org/grants/franklin

Source: RSA

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of French, pre-1800, University of Utah
Posted 17 Sep 2022 - 11:07

The Department of World Languages & Cultures at the University of Utah invites applications for a tenure-track position in French at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in Fall 2023 (contract begins July 1). French is a vibrant language section in WLC with collaborative faculty, a large number of majors and minors, and a direct connection to the thriving dual immersion program in Utah’s K–12 public schools.

We seek a dynamic scholar with an active research agenda and demonstrated commitment to excellence in teaching. The successful candidate will have broad expertise in French literature and culture, particularly before 1800. Primary specialization may include one or more of the following: the Middle Ages, 16th, 17th, and/or 18th centuries. Additional specialization in fields such as poetry, theater and performance studies, visual studies, New World studies, environmental studies or ecocriticism, gender studies, and popular culture are also welcome.

A diverse scholarly community stimulates innovation and educational excellence. The College of Humanities and the Department of World Languages & Cultures work to maintain a respectful, inclusive, and supportive environment where everyone can flourish. We are actively working to increase our diversity and to promote belonging and community for all. We value constructive input and welcome feedback from our community.

Native/near-native fluency in French and English is a prerequisite. The teaching load is two courses per semester (2-2) at the upper-division and graduate levels. Service commensurate with the position of assistant professor is expected. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in French, Comparative Literature, or a related field in hand by the time of appointment.

Complete applications will include a letter of application, a CV, a writing sample of no more than 20 pages, a teaching philosophy, and three letters of recommendation. All materials must be submitted by October 31st. Applications MUST be submitted online at: https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/139224.  Questions may be addressed to Prof. Christopher Lewis, Chair of World Languages & Cultures (christopher.t.lewis@utah.edu).

Located in metropolitan Salt Lake City in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains, the University of Utah is the state’s flagship R1 research institution and a member of the Association of American Universities. The university emphasizes exceptional scholarship, quality teaching, and professional service. It serves over 34,000 students from across the U.S. and the world, with over 72 major subjects at the undergraduate level and more than 90 major fields of study at the graduate level, including law and medicine. Known for its proximity to seven world-class ski resorts within 40 minutes of campus, the University of Utah encourages an active, holistic lifestyle, innovation, and collaborative thinking to engage students, faculty, and business leaders. Salt Lake City is a vibrant, major metropolitan area with a diverse, multicultural population and numerous cultural and outdoor activities.

Vanessa Brutsche, PhD (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor of French 
Department of World Languages & Cultures
University of Utah
vanessa.brutsche@utah.edu

Lecturer of French at Tennessee Tech University
Posted 11 May 2022 - 14:20

Department: Foreign Languages

Job Purpose

Teach a variety of French courses and support the mission of the Department of Foreign Languages.

Tennessee Tech provides impact through its engaged students, dedicated faculty, and career-ready graduates known for their creativity, tenacity, and analytical approach to problem solving. As a STEM-infused, comprehensive institution, Tennessee Tech delivers enduring education, impactful research, and collaborative service that creates, advances, and applies knowledge to expand opportunity and economic competitiveness.

Tennessee Tech is committed to a diverse workforce by fostering an inclusive work environment for students, faculty, and staff. Successful candidates should have a demonstrated commitment and contribution to fostering and advancing equity, diversity and inclusion. Tennessee Tech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Essential Functions

Teach equivalent to 15 hours per semester of courses, including course preparation, and grading; serve on committees and other service in the department; assist in fulfilling the mission of the Department of Foreign Languages.

Minimum Qualifications

Master's degree in French from an accredited institution. Two years' experience teaching French at the university level. Demonstrated commitment to evidence-based instruction and current ACTFL guidelines. Native or near-native command of French. Professional level of English. Strong commitment to excellence in undergraduate instruction. Ability to teach online courses.

Preferred Qualifications

Proficiency in pedagogical applications of technology in foreign-language instruction. Willingness to be actively involved in student-oriented activities. Ability to interact effectively in a multi-language department. A Ph.D. in French is preferred but not required.

Salary
Commensurate with education and experience. This is a three year temporary non-tenure-track appointment to begin August 2022 and end May 2025.

Benefits Information

Faculty (9/10 month): Benefits include the accumulation of one (1) sick leave day per month and thirteen (13) University holidays. Other benefits include medical and life insurance (shared cost with the university), retirement, optional 401k, and educational benefits. Deferred income and benefits over 12 months.

Screening Date: 06/05/2022

Open Until Filled: Yes

Special Instructions to Applicants

Applicants will be required to electronically upload a cover letter, curriculum vitae, copy of transcript for highest degree earned (official transcripts for all degrees conferred required upon hire), and email contact information for three references who will be contacted via email to provide a reference letter (all letters must contain an assessment of the candidate's university-level teaching). It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure all materials are received. Applications without all required materials are incomplete and will not be considered.

Tennessee Tech University is an AA/EEO employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, sex, disability, age (40 and over), status as a protected veteran, genetic information or any other category protected by federal or state law. Inquiries regarding the nondiscrimination policies should be directed to equity@tntech.edu.

French/World Language Instructor at Washtenaw Community College
Posted 11 May 2022 - 14:19

Anticipated date of appointment is August 2022. Initial annual salary range approximately $61,018 to $79,613 depending on education and work-related experience; base load of 32 weeks/160 days/450 student contact/clock hours per academic year. Benefits include Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Life Insurance, Aflac and Life with Long-Term Care, Vision Insurance, Legal and Identity Theft Protection, Long Term Disability, Retirement, Tuition, Flexible Spending Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Paid Leave. Deadline for Receipt of Application is: May 19, 2022.


Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Teach first-year and second-year college -level courses in French, as primary teaching load, with the ability to also teach courses in either Arabic, Chinese, German, Japanese, or Spanish.

Teach a diverse student body in daytime, evening, and if needed weekend classes on the main campus, and if needed at extension centers, business and industry sites.

Teach a diverse mode of instruction ranging from face-to-face, to virtual (zoom), mixed mode and online.

Participate in department, division, and general faculty meetings, applicable college committee activities and other forms of college service.

Prepare and update instructional materials for French and a second departmental language, according to evolving technology and college needs.

Participate actively in professional activities such as, but not limited to, curriculum planning, syllabus writing, examination development, textbook selection, program evaluation/revision, assessment duties, Blackboard site development, and professional planning activities.

Teach a minimum of 15 credit hours during fall and winter semester and be prepared to work on curriculum development and other professional duties on a year-round basis.

Maintain an active program of professional development related to institutional objectives.

Mentor a variety of part-time faculty in the language discipline and coordinate curriculum and assessment duties.

Regular presence on campus is required.

Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Earned Master’s degree or higher from a regionally-accredited institution in French language or culture OR master’s degree with a minimum 18 graduate credits in French language OR master’s degree and “Distinguished” or “Superior” rating on the ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) Tests for Higher Education in French OR fluent native speaker with relevant Master’s degree.

Equivalent of two (2) years of full-time successful teaching experience, preferably at the community college level or higher. 

Demonstrated experience in preparing instructional materials and teaching language courses.

Demonstrated experience in using up-to-date technology and multi-media.

Demonstrated experience in curriculum development and assessment.

Washtenaw Community College does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, height, weight, marital status or veteran status in provision of its educational programs and services or in employment opportunities and benefits. WCC is committed to compliance in all of its activities and services with the requirements of Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, Public Act 453, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended, Public Act 220, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Inquiries regarding compliance in employment should be directed to the College Affirmative Action Officer in the Office of Human Resource Management, Business Education Building, and (734) 973-3497. Inquiries concerning access to facilities should be directed to the Associate Vice President of Facilities Development and Operations, Plant Operations Building, (734) 677-5300.

Assistant Teaching Professor of French and French Language Coordinator (Non-Tenure Track) at Syracuse University
Posted 11 May 2022 - 14:18

Job Description

The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, in The College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University, invites applications for full-time, non-tenure track Assistant Teaching Professor of French, who will also serve as French Language Coordinator. Ph.D. in French Language, Literature and Culture or related field; strong interest in French as foreign language, teaching pedagogy and methodology; ability to teach Business French, French Phonetics, and Translation courses would be a plus. Position will be hired on a three-year term contract with the possibility of renewal. This is an academic year appointment, although duties associated with serving as coordinator may require summer work, which will be compensated separately. Appointee must be available to start summer work July 16, 2022, with academic year appointment to start August 22, 2022.

To learn more about the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University please visit http://lll.syr.edu.

Qualifications

Ph.D. in French Language, Literature and Culture, or related field, required.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will develop curricula for French language courses, supervise and train teaching and part-time instructors, and teach a 2/2 load.
Teaching will be in 100-200 level French Language courses, with the possibility to teach at the upper-division undergraduate and MA levels.
Additional administrative duties as assigned by department chair, including but not limited to placement exam administration, professional development leadership and participation, advising, and committee service.
The department is interested in candidates who have developed effective teaching strategies for the educational advancement of students from groups underrepresented in higher education. Salary is competitive.

Application Instructions

For a detailed position description and online application instructions, please go to http://www.sujobopps.com/postings and attach: (1) cover letter underlining scholarship and prior teaching experience and qualifications for the position; (2) Curriculum Vitae; (3) names and emails of three professional referees to provide letters of recommendations; (4) statement of teaching philosophy and (5) evidence of teaching excellence.

Priority consideration will be given for applications received by May 31, 2022. Position will be open until filled.

Syracuse University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Applications from candidates who are underrepresented in higher education generally, and in the discipline specifically, are especially encouraged to apply.

For a detailed position description and online application instructions, please go to http://www.sujobopps.com/postings and attach: (1) cover letter underlining scholarship and prior teaching experience and qualifications for the position; (2) Curriculum Vitae; (3) names and emails of three professional referees to provide letters of recommendations; (4) statement of teaching philosophy and evidence of teaching excellence.

Priority consideration will be given for applications received by May 31, 2022. Position will be open until filled.

Syracuse University is interested in candidates who have the communication skills and cross-cultural abilities to maximize their effectiveness with diverse groups of colleagues, students and community members. Women, military veterans, individuals with disabilities, and members of other traditionally underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. Syracuse University is an equal opportunity employer, as well as a federal contractor required to take affirmative action on behalf of protected veterans.

Tenure Track Faculty Position in French at Covenant College
Posted 5 May 2022 - 08:26

The World Languages Department at Covenant College, an agency of the Presbyterian Church in America and an academically rigorous Christian college emphasizing the liberal arts in the Reformed and Presbyterian tradition, invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position beginning July 1, 2022.  

The candidate who fills this position will be expected to teach a wide range of courses at the undergraduate level in supporting the French major and program and the general education requirement for language. 

A doctoral degree in French from a regionally accredited institution is preferred but we will consider a candidate with an M.A. degree.  Preference will be given to candidates with a specialization in Linguistics and/or a second  World Language.  The World Languages department offers a major in French and Spanish, as well as courses in German, American Sign Language, and Arabic; and cooperates closely with the history, politics, and international studies department in offering an International Studies major, as well as providing courses to satisfy the general education requirements of the college. A desirable candidate will be an excellent teacher, will be dedicated to developing further as a Christian scholar and will be enthusiastic about active participation in the larger community of Christian scholars at the college.  Rank and compensation will be commensurate with experience.   

Interested and qualified candidates should send the following documentation to Dr. Jeff Hall:

Curriculum Vitae

A Testimony of Christian Faith and Experience

A Response to the Westminster Confession (located at https://www.pcaac.org/bco/westminster-confession/) indicating agreement, and any scruples, with rationales, with the Confession

Philosophy of Christian Higher Education

 

Dr. Jeff Hall 

Vice-President for Academic Affairs

Covenant College

14049 Scenic Highway

Lookout Mt., GA 30750   

Email:  academicaffairs@covenant.edu

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Fellowship / Bourse: The Newberry Library
Posted: 13 Oct 2016 - 10:25

The Newberry  is now accepting fellowship applications for the 2017-18 academic year.

The Newberry Library's long-standing fellowship program provides outstanding scholars with the time, space, and community required to pursue innovative and ground-breaking scholarship. In addition to the Library's collections, fellows are supported by a collegial interdisciplinary community of researchers, curators, and librarians. An array of scholarly and public programs also contributes to an engaging intellectual environment.

We invite interested individuals who wish to utilize the Newberry's collection to apply for our many fellowship opportunities:

Long-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars for continuous residence at the Newberry for periods of 4 to 12 months; the stipend is $4,200 per month. Applicants must hold a PhD by the application deadline in order to be eligible. Long-Term Fellowships are intended to support individual scholarly research and promote serious intellectual exchange through active participation in the fellowship program. The deadline for longterm fellowships is November 15, 2016.

Short-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars, PhD candidates, and those who hold other terminal degrees. Short-Term Fellowships are generally awarded for 1 to 2 months; unless otherwise noted the stipend is $2,500 per month. These fellowships support individual scholarly research for those who have a specific need for the Newberry's collection and are mainly restricted to individuals who live and work outside of the Chicago metropolitan area. The deadline for shortterm opportunities is December 15, 2016.

Many of the Newberry's fellowship opportunities have specific eligibility requirements; in order to learn more about these requisites, as well as application guidelines, please visit our website.

Questions should be addressed to research@newberry.org.

Résidences à la Fondation Camargo (Cassis, France)
Posted: 4 Oct 2016 - 16:42

La Fondation Camargo, située à Cassis, a été créée par l’artiste et philanthrope Jerome Hill depuis 40 ans. Il s’agit d’un lieu de résidence dédié à l’art et aux sciences humaines et sociales. Elle offre un environnement de qualité pour penser, créer et échanger.

Le programme de résidence Camargo propose des résidences de 6, 8 ou 11 semaines pour les chercheurs et penseurs travaillant sur les cultures françaises/francophones, y compris l’influence des cultures méditerranéennes ainsi que les artistes de toute discipline. Les périodes de résidences sont à l’automne 2017 (8 semaines) et au printemps 2018 (6, 8 ou 11 semaines).

Une bourse mensuelle de 1000 USD est disponible ainsi qu’une prise en charge du voyage. Les conjoints et enfants de plus de 6 ans sont bienvenus.

Date limite de postulation: 24 novembre 2016
Plus d’informations sur l’application : http://camargofoundation.org
RESPONSABLE : Julie Chénot
URL DE RÉFÉRENCE : http://camargofoundation.org

IMLR Visiting Fellowships and Scholarships Program. Due date: 1 March 2016
Posted: 12 Feb 2016 - 09:49
Closing date for applications/references: 1 March 2016
 
INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH University of London School of Advanced Study
Visiting Fellowships and Scholarships Programme 2016-17
The Institute of Modern Languages Research now invites applications for Visiting Fellowships and Visiting Scholarships for the academic year 2016-17. Applicants, with or without funding, may conduct research into any field relevant to the work of the IMLR.
Up to ten Visiting Fellowships and five Visiting Scholarships are available annually on a non-stipendiary basis, tenable at the Institute or within one of the IMLR's research centres: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Centre for Quebec and French-Canadian Studies Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies (NEW from January 2016 - website under construction)
Visiting Fellowships and Scholarships are open to applicants from the UK and overseas. Candidates applying for Fellowships should have completed their doctorate and have a strong publications record. Doctoral students may apply for Visiting Scholarships.
Closing date for receipt of applications and references: 1 March 2016

Brown University Postdocs - due date: 10 Feb 2016
Posted: 14 Jan 2016 - 11:29

Brown University: DOF: University Wide

Brown University Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowships

Location: Providence, RI

Closes: Feb 10, 2016 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time (GMT-5 hours)

Brown University invites applications for one- to two-year Postdoctoral Fellowships to support the development of early career scholars from diverse backgrounds (with particular attention to historically underrepresented groups in the academy) who show promise as innovative scholars in the following integrative scholarship areas:

• Creating Peaceful, Just, and Prosperous Societies | Economic, political and cultural development are as important as defense and diplomacy in establishing peaceful and just societies. This area invites rigorous scholarship in international studies, promotes active engagement in the world of international affairs, and supports scholarship that promotes social justice and economic prosperity domestically and internationally.

• Exploring Human Experience | Brown has a long and distinguished record of innovation in the humanities. Learning from the historical record, analyzing present conditions, and comprehending our future possibilities are fundamental to the University’s mission and its contributions to society.  This area seeks to develop a robust environment for the study of human experience in all its diversity throughout history and around the world. 

• Cultivating Creative Expression | Creative expression is used to explore human values and communicate new ideas, to challenge societies, and to draw disparate groups together. At Brown, the creative arts are tightly integrated into the liberal arts. This area focuses on scholarship that can foster an environment in which artists are operating at the highest levels of their crafts and learn from and inform scholars in disciplines across the campus. 

• Understanding the Human Brain | This area focuses on efforts to understand functions of the brain that distinguish us as humans, discover treatments for disorders that diminish our capacities, and create technologies to improve lives. 

• Sustaining Life on Earth | Environmental change can threaten global supplies of food and water, harm human health, and undermine the stability of societies around the world. This area focuses on the relationship of the environment to human societies combining the efforts of natural, physical, and social scientists, together with humanists, to understand the determinants of environmental change, alter norms of human behavior, consider ethical issues related to sustainability, and develop sound environmental policies. 

• Using Science and Technology to Improve Lives | The development of new technology is critical to human progress, and Brown is at the forefront of discovery in areas such as computing, nanoscience and bioengineering. We recognize that the benefits of new technologies hinge on how well they ultimately align with societal needs. This area emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to innovation, grounded in a broad understanding of local and global needs and concerns.

• Deciphering Disease and Improving Population Health | Improving human health requires an integrated approach to understanding the causes of disease and translating that knowledge into new modes of diagnosis, treatment, and ultimately prevention – from bench to bedside to population.

The successful candidate will teach one course per year as part of the appointment and will participate in activities related to the President’s Diversity Postdoctoral Fellows Program. Scholars with a Ph.D. in the humanities, social sciences, sciences or engineering will be considered.  The candidate’s dissertation must be complete by July 1, 2016  

These one- to two-year Postdoctoral Fellowships are not renewable.   Candidates should submit a letter of application that describes how the candidate’s scholarship fits into one or more integrative area, and describes the candidate’s interest in and plans for impacting the ethnic, gender, and/or racial diversity of the campus. Please also indicate clearly your desired departmental affiliation.  In addition, a curriculum vitae and three letters of reference are required.

 

Deadline for applications is February 10, 2016.

The appointment will be effective July 1, 2016.  

 

To apply go to Interfolio at the following link:

http://apply.interfolio.com/33351

Doctoral Study at Royal Holloway, University of London - Studentships
Posted: 14 Jan 2016 - 11:18

Funding for Doctoral Study at Royal Holloway

AHRC and College Postgraduate Studentships

School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway University of London.

French, German, Hispanic Studies and Italian and

Comparative Literature and Culture

 

The School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway is pleased to invite applications to its PhD programmes in French, German, Hispanic Studies and Italian and Comparative Literature and Culture. You can find out more about the research environment and range of expertise we offer on our research pages.

https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/mllc/research/home.aspx.

Royal Holloway is the lead member of the TECHNE London and South-East Doctoral Training Partnership, which offers Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) awards for those commencing postgraduate study in September 2016. TECHNE (http://www.techne.ac.uk) comprises seven universities and is one of the 11 AHRC Doctoral Training Partnerships. TECHNE's vision is to produce scholars who are highly motivated and prepared for academic, public or professional life. Its students will benefit from a diverse range of training workshops and opportunities to engage with partners in the arts and cultural sector.

Students may apply to TECHNE for a doctoral award by submitting a TECHNE application through Royal Holloway.  If you are interested in applying for a TECHNE award, the first step is to speak to a prospective supervisor or the Director of Graduate Studies (sarah.wright@rhul.ac.uk). It is not possible to submit an application directly to TECHNE: you must apply through one of the member universities. Overseas students are not eligible for AHRC awards (although they may be considered for other College awards), and EU students are eligible for fees only.

There are around 50 awards per annum for students who are applying to undertake PhD study. Students who apply for a TECHNE award will be considered automatically for a College Scholarship.

How to apply

Prospective doctoral students who are interested in applying for a studentship should contact the Director of Graduate Studies, Dr Sarah Wright. The deadline for applications is 7 February 2016 (note that all references must also be received by this deadline).

Students whose research falls within the remit of Freedom and Rights of the Individual in the Digital Age may be considered for an alternative stream of funding (deadline 20th January 2016).

 

Masters by Research Fee Waivers: We are pleased to announce that we are currently offeringfee waivers for Masters by Research, available in all areas of the School's research interests. Fee waivers are allocated on a competitive basis by the School. Eligibility conditions apply. Please note that only candidates who have been offered, and who have accepted, a place to study at Royal Holloway will be considered for any available funding opportunities. You should therefore apply for an MA program as soon as possible.  Deadline 29th February 2016.

 For more information on any of these awards, or for postgraduate study more generally at Royal Holloway, write to the Director of Graduate Studies, Dr Sarah Wright (sarah.wright@rhul.ac.uk).

 Dr Ruth Cruickshank

Director of Comparative Literature and Culture Senior Lecturer in French School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures Royal Holloway, University of London TW20 0EX

+44 (0)1784 44 3252 Room IN112 ruth.cruickshank@rhul.ac.uk

New Publications

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Quand l'esprit vient aux plantes Botanique sensible et subversion libertine (XVIe-XVIIe siècles) - Dominique Brancher
Posted: 6 Mar 2025 - 09:58

Dominique Brancher, Quand l'esprit vient aux plantes Botanique sensible et subversion libertine (XVIe-XVIIe siècles), Genève, Droz, 2025.

« L’arbre gémit, soupire, pleure d’une voix humaine », et Michelet ajoute : « On croit que c’est le vent, mais c’est souvent les rêves de l’âme végétale ». Aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, botanistes, romanciers et philosophes ont eux aussi rêvé et pensé la plante, en lui conférant un statut moral et ontologique équivoque. Car, sous leur plume, brouillant les frontières entre flore, faune et humanité, parfois l’esprit et le désir viennent aux plantes. Dès lors ce n’est plus seulement la mise en valeur de l’intelligence animale, mais aussi la promotion d’une pensée et d’une sensibilité végétales qui nourrissent la critique de l’anthropocentrisme dans l’Europe pré-moderne. Un tel trouble catégoriel, bien sûr, inquiète et stimule les efforts pour comprendre et distinguer les différentes sortes de vivants. Mais le problème, philosophique, est aussi religieux. La revalorisation de l’âme inférieure des plantes se situe du côté de la dissidence doctrinale, l’être végétal menaçant de destituer l’homme. Cet essai veut donc montrer que le monde de Flore a été utilisé pour subvertir le principe d’un étagement clair entre les règnes, au profit d’une conception plus poreuse des frontières du vivant.

Plus d'informations ici.

La Lecture complice Culture libertine et geste critique - Frédéric Tinguely
Posted: 6 Mar 2025 - 09:54

Frédéric Tinguely, La Lecture complice. Culture libertine et geste critique, Genève, Droz, 2025.

Par le régime de connivence qu’elle instaure avec son public, la littérature libertine du XVIIe siècle s’offre à un travail interprétatif où la conscience et la rigueur méthodologiques n’excluent nullement l’implication personnelle, la prise de risque. Au cœur de ce livre, le lecteur trouvera la défense et l’illustration d’une lecture complice, appliquée d’abord aux œuvres de fiction (la Première Journée de Théophile, le Francion de Sorel, Le Page disgracié de Tristan, Les Etats et Empires de la Lune de Cyrano), puis aux investigations orientales des voyageurs Bernier et Monconys. Il verra se mettre en place, et s’ajuster en fonction des études de cas, une relation critique de proximité et de disponibilité dont la spécificité apparaît aussi, par contraste, à travers la lecture rapprochée des fulminations du jésuite Garasse. Loin des commodités essayistes ou des réductions théoriques, Frédéric Tinguely fonde dans la résistance même des textes la légitimité du commentaire ; il peut dès lors revendiquer une lectio difficilior d’un nouveau genre, dans laquelle le geste critique libérerait toute sa puissance et trouverait, en définitive, sa raison d’être.

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Magie naturelle et libre pensée. Étude d'une relation ambivalente (XVIe-XVIIe siècles) - Adrien Mangili
Posted: 6 Mar 2025 - 09:51

Adrien Mangili, Magie naturelle et libre pensée. Étude d'une relation ambivalente (XVIe-XVIIe siècles), Genève, Droz, 2025.

La pensée magique aurait-elle fertilisé en profondeur l’athéisme moderne ? Adrien Mangili explore la façon dont les libres penseurs, tels Gabriel Naudé et Charles Sorel, ont utilisé la magie naturelle pour contester les dogmes religieux, mais aussi pour explorer les secrets les plus occultes du monde physique. En examinant cette relation complexe, l'ouvrage démontre que la rigueur scientifique et la subversion religieuse ont pu coexister avec une conception magique de la nature. La magie naturelle, loin d’être une simple superstition, devient un outil puissant pour remettre en question les certitudes établies. Cette plongée dans les textes et les idées de ces savants interroge plusieurs régimes de rationalité curieux et éclaire d’un jour nouveau les fondations de la pensée moderne.

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Littératures classiques, n° 115, Karine ABIVEN, Delphine AMSTUTZ, Alexandre GODERNIAUX et Adrienne PETIT (dir.), "Écriture des libelles et pratiques littéraire"
Posted: 6 Mar 2025 - 09:42

Littératures classiques, n° 115, Karine ABIVEN, Delphine AMSTUTZ, Alexandre GODERNIAUX et Adrienne PETIT (dir.), "Écriture des libelles et pratiques littéraire"

 

Quelles sont les relations entre l’écriture des libelles et les pratiques littéraires dans la France de la première modernité ?
Cette enquête collective explore différentes modalités de cette interaction entre littérature et communication politique du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle : propagande, performance, renouveau de la rhétorique délibérative, recours aux formes littéraires dans les débats publics. Prendre en compte la porosité entre les écritures d’intervention et les belles lettres permet de mieux étalonner le regard sur des œuvres devenues « classiques », de plonger dans un bain polémique certains textes canoniques, de restituer l’énergie rhétorique qui animait en leur temps des écrits désormais entrés au patrimoine. À l’inverse, la mise en évidence de l’inscription référentielle et de la visée polémique de certaines œuvres rapidement tombées dans l’oubli peut paradoxalement leur redonner un intérêt proprement littéraire. Il s’agit dès lors de désenclaver le territoire de la littérature moderne, pour baliser différemment ses frontières à partir de ce qui apparaît parfois trop simplement comme ses marges.

 

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Histoire d’une liberté dans la France moderne Protestants, politique et monarchie (vers 1598 – vers 1629) - Adrien Aracil
Posted: 6 Mar 2025 - 09:37

Adrien Aracil, Histoire d’une liberté dans la France moderne Protestants, politique et monarchie (vers 1598 – vers 1629), Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2025.

Parler de liberté pour comprendre la politique d’Ancien Régime est inattendu. Comprise comme une capacité à l’action libre, la notion structure pourtant la façon dont les huguenots se sont glissés dans le cadre contraint où la monarchie française se réélabore après les guerres de Religion.

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Conferences and Colloquia

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La diffusion du théâtre espagnol en France au XVIIe siècle : bilan et perspectives - 27 et 28 septembre 2022
Posted: 14 Sep 2022 - 06:18

La diffusion du théâtre espagnol en France au XVIIe siècle : bilan et perspectives
La difusión del teatro español en Francia en el siglo XVII : balance y perspectivas

Études Romanes – CRIIA  (Centre de Recherches ibériques et  ibéro-américaines)
GREAC (Groupe de Recherche sur l’Espagne à l’Âge classique)

Responsable: Christophe Couderc (ccouderc@parisnanterre.fr)

27 et 28 septembre 2022
Université Paris Nanterre
Bâtiment Max Weber
Informations sur: https://criia.parisnanterre.fr/navigation/manifestations

 

Conférence CAHSA — Laurence Plazenet (23 juin 2022)
Posted: 16 Jun 2022 - 12:17

Le Collectif d’Anthropologie et d’Histoire du Spirituel et des Affects (CAHSA) a le plaisir d’annoncer une conférence par Laurence Plazenet, professeure à l’Université Clermont Auvergne. Cette conférence s’inscrit dans la continuité des e-conférences semestrielles du CAHSA, qui visent à faire dialoguer des spécialistes de différentes disciplines autour de la problématique du rapport entre le spirituel et l’affect, et plus largement le thème des cultures religieuses du monde francophone de la première modernité. La conférence (en français) durera 30-40 minutes, suivie par 20-30 minutes de discussion (en français et anglais).

 

Les E-conférences du CAHSA

 

présentent

 

Laurence Plazenet

Université Clermont Auvergne

 

23 juin 2022

18h, heure de Paris

(9h HNP / 10h HNR / 11h HNC / 12h HNE)

 

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« La chair et ses parures: les corps d’Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly »

 

Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d’Andilly (1624-1684) est la nièce de la mère Angélique Arnauld, la réformatrice de Port-Royal. Elle sera elle-même la dernière Arnauld abbesse du monastère. Unanimement célébrée pour son intelligence et sa culture, la religieuse est l’auteur d’une œuvre aussi abondante que diverse (poèmes, antiennes, Vies, Relation de captivité, lettres, conférences, traités, etc.). Elle contribua également aux travaux du groupe à l’origine de la traduction française de la Bible publiée à Port-Royal sous l’égide de Le Maistre de Sacy. Dans tous ses textes, le corps - désirant, souffrant, peccamineux, humilié et héroïque, paré ou décharné - tient une place considérable. Les notations ou les descriptions qu’Angélique de Saint-Jean lui consacre contribuent à la puissance évocatoire de ses écrits. Elles sont surtout l’enjeu d’un discours spirituel entre tradition, projection personnelle et réflexion propre à Port-Royal. Comment s’articule la pensée de cette moniale exigeante, doublée d’un écrivain de la première force?

 

Résumé biographique:

 

Membre honoraire de l’Institut Universitaire de France et lauréate de l’Académie CAP20-25 de l’i-Site Clermont, Laurence Plazenet est Professeur à l’Université Clermont Auvergne, directrice du Centre international Blaise Pascal (IHRIM) et Présidente de la Société des Amis de Port-Royal. Elle est directrice du Courrier Blaise Pascal et co-directrice de la collection « Univers Port-Royal » (Classiques Garnier). Spécialiste de la fiction entre 1550 et 1700, des relations entre littératures antiques et littératures modernes, des moralistes et de Port-Royal, elle a publié de nombreux ouvrages. Elle prépare une édition des œuvres complètes de Pascal (« Bouquins ») à paraître en 2023, ainsi que des œuvres narratives de Mme de Lafayette chez Honoré Champion.

 

 

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The Collectif d’Anthropologie et d’Histoire du Spirituel et des Affects (CAHSA) is pleased to present a talk by Laurence Plazenet, professor at the Université Clermont Auvergne. This talk is part of CAHSA’s biannual online lecture series, which aims to promote dialogue among specialists from different fields who are interested in the relationship between spirituality and affect, and more broadly the religious cultures of the early modern French-speaking world. The talk (in French) will last 30-40 minutes, followed by 20-30 minutes for discussion (in French and English).

 

CAHSA Online Speaker Series

 

Presents

 

Laurence Plazenet

Université Clermont Auvergne

 

23 June 2022

18h Paris time (CET)

(9h PT / 10h MT / 11h CT / 12h ET)

 

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« The Flesh and Its Adornments: The Bodies of Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnaud d’Andilly”

 

Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d’Andilly (1624-1684) was the niece of Mère Angélique Arnaud, the reformer of Port-Royal. She herself would become the last abbess of the monastery. Unanimously celebrated for her intelligence and her culture, the nun is the author of an oeuvre as abundant as it is diverse (poems, antiphonies, Lives, accounts of captivity, letters, lectures, treatises, etc.). She also contributed to the work of the group at the origin of the French translation of the Bible published by Port-Royal under the aegis of Le Maistre de Sacy. In all these texts, the body – desiring, suffering, sinful, humiliated and heroic, decorated and emaciated – holds a considerable place. The notes and descriptions that Angélique de Saint-Jean dedicates to the body contribute to the evocative power of her writings. At stake in these descriptions are a spiritual discourse at the interface between tradition, personal expression, and reflection proper to Port-Royal. How is the thought of this demanding nun articulated, and underscored by her stature as an outstanding writer?

 

 

Author Bio:

 

Honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France and winner of the Académie CAP20-25 award from i-Site Clermont, Laurence Plazenet is a professor at the Université Clermont Auvergne, director of the Centre international Blaise Pascal (IHRIM), and president of the Société des Amis de Port-Royal. She is director of the Courrier Blaise Pascal and co-director of the collection « Univers Port-Royal » (Classiques Garnier). Plazenet specializes in fiction from 1550 to 1700, the relationship between ancient and modern literatures, and the moralists of Port-Royal. She has published numerous works and is currently in the process of preparing an edition of the complete works of Pascal (« Bouquins »), which will appear in 2023, as well as the narrative works of Madame de Lafayette, with Honoré Champion.

 

 

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Bien cordialement,

Le Conseil d’Administration du CAHSA

 

Joy Palacios, présidente

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Arnaud Wydler, trésorier

Anne Régent-Susini, administratrice

Enseigner la danse (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) - 9-10 juin 2022
Posted: 15 Jun 2022 - 04:38

Journées de recherche et d’expérimentation
Jeudi 9 et vendredi 10 juin
Enseigner la danse (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)

Université de Lille
Campus Pont-de-Bois
Maison de la recherche

Projet EnDansant – Pour une histoire des enseignant∙es en danse, financé par l’ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) de 2021 à 2025 et piloté par Emmanuelle Delattre-Destemberg (coordinatrice), Marie Glon et Guillaume Sintès.

Programme :

JEUDI 9 JUIN

9H15 Accueil

9H45 Introduction

Session 1 : Retrouver les maîtres et maîtresses de danse

10H – Yseult Martinez (université de Lille), « À la recherche des maîtres∙ses de danse aux Archives nationales »

10H25 – Ludivine Panzani (université de Strasbourg), « À la recherche des maîtres∙ses de danse en province à partir des archives de quatre villes du Nord-Est de la France (Metz, Nancy, Strasbourg, Dijon) – XVIIe-XVIIIe s. »

10H50 – Étienne Couriol (LARHRA, Lyon – CPGE Lycée Fauriel, Saint-Étienne), « Quand les professeurs de danse passent une annonce : l’enseignement de la danse dans la presse périodique lyonnaise et bordelaise des années 1760 et 1770 »

11H15 Discussion et pause

12H – Monique Duquesne et Robin Joly (Compagnie Outre Mesure), « Transmettre aujourd’hui les danses de côté d’un Bal Renaissance » (atelier – présentation ci-dessous)

13H-14H Repas

Session 2 : À partir des publications des maîtres et maîtresses de danse

Modératrice : Françoise Dartois-Lapeyre (centre Roland Mousnier, Sorbonne Université)

14H – Marie-Joëlle Louison-Lassablière (université Jean-Monnet, Saint-Étienne), «Antonius Arena, premier maître à danser de la Renaissance française »

14H25 – Christine Bayle (Compagnie Belles Dances), « Pratiques dansées anciennes décrites, méthodes d’enseignement pour aujourd’hui ? »

14H50 – Johanna Daniel (INHA) et Pauline Chevalier (université de Bourgogne – Franche-Comté / INHA), « ‘Répertoire des bals’ : un projet de base de données des danses gravées, publiées à l’unité entre 1762 et 1789 »

15H15 Discussion et pause

16H15 Conclusion de la journée par Dinah Ribard (EHESS) et discussion

17H15 Fin de la journée

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VENDREDI 10 JUIN

Session 3 : Figures de maîtres en contextes

Modératrice : Marina Nordera (université Côte d’Azur)

9H Accueil

9H15 – Marie Demeilliez (université Grenoble Alpes), « Enseigner la danse dans les collèges »

9H40 – Guillaume Jablonka (Compagnie Divertimenty), « Jean Pech, dit Brives, maître de danse et musicien à Toulouse de 1779 à 1789 »

10H Discussion et pause

Session 4 : À l’échelle de l’Europe, circulations et organisations nationales

Modératrice : Isabelle Launay (université Paris 8)

11H – Marie-Thérèse Mourey (Sorbonne Université, Lettres), « ‘Le parfait maître à danser’ ? Enseigner la danse en Allemagne au début du XVIIIe siècle : utopies et réalités »

11H25 – Jennifer Thorp (New College, Oxford), « Humble and Obedient Servants? Teaching dance and working as a dancing-master in England during the 17th and 18th centuries »

11H50 Discussion

12H30-13H30 Repas

13H30 – Lynn Matluck Brooks (Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster), « Dancing masters in three contexts: the Spanish academy (17th c.), the Dutch university (18th c.), and the socio-politics of U.S. formation (18th-early 19th cc.) »

14H15 Discussion

14H45 – Monique Duquesne et Robin Joly (Compagnie Outre Mesure), « Observer la déclinaison d’un ‘tube’ dans les dançoirs sous l’Ancien-Régime » (atelier – présentation au dos)
16H15 Discussion et pot d’au revoir

17H Fin de la journée

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Ateliers animés par la Compagnie Outre Mesure :

Transmettre aujourd’hui les danses de côté d’un Bal Renaissance

L’un des objectifs est de découvrir ce que recouvrent les trois familles de branles (branles communs et réguliers ; branles coupés ; branles morgués) présentes dans les bals Renaissance, tant d’un point de vue symbolique que rhétorique, tout en les pratiquant. L’autre est de partager les problématiques liées à l’animation d’un bal : gestion de l’espace dansant, gestion du déroulement de la danse, gestion de « l’être ensemble » et du « faire groupe ».

Chaussez-vous bien…

Jeudi 9 juin, 12H, studio-théâtre (A1.560)

Observer la déclinaison d’un « tube » dans les dançoirs sous l’Ancien-Régime

Cette séance se focalisera sur « La Matelotte », air du troisième acte de la tragédie Alcione de Marin Marais (1706), décliné en « Marche pour les matelots » juste après l’air, et que l’on trouve également la même année dans le Recueil de contredanses de Raoul Auger Feuillet. Nous le considérerons en « fantaisie ménétrière » : en branles commun, coupé et morgué (à partir du travail de la veille), en allemande, en contredanse, et en danse de bal pour un homme et une femme.

Femmes en correspondances (XVIIe - XVIIIe siècles) : 9 – 10 juin 2022 (Université de Montréal ou sur Zoom)
Posted: 5 Jun 2022 - 14:33

COLLOQUE : FEMMES EN CORRESPONDANCES (XVIIE -XVIIIE SIÈCLES)

9-10 JUIN 2022

B-0245 Pavillon 3200 Jean Brillant Université de Montréal ou sur Zoom (lien ici ; Code de la réunion : 821 9520 9160 Code secret : 665090)

Organisé par Nathalie Freidel, Emma Gauthier-Mamaril et Judith Sribnai

           

PROGRAMME


jeudi 9 juin 2022

Salle B-025 du Pavillon 3200 Jean Brillant

8:30 - 9:00 Accueil

9:00 - 10:00 Présentation de la base Épistolières17

Nathalie Freidel, Emma Gauthier-Mamaril, Olivier Lapointe

10:00 - 10:30 Pause

10:30 - 12:00 Agentivité féminine et religion

Présidence: Nathalie Freidel

Marie-Christine Pioffet, «Marie de l’Incarnation ou la liberté entravée»
Bastian Felter Vaucanson, «La conversation éternelle: Jeanne Guyon dans ses lettres à Fénelon (1688-1690)»
Nora Baker, «La correspondance comme lieu de résistance spirituelle: le cas de la huguenote Blanche Gamond»
12:00 - 14:00 Dîner

14:00 - 16:00 Réseaux aristocratiques et politiques

Présidence: Kim Gladu

Fanny Boutinet, «Des lettres aux oeuvres? Les échanges épistolaires de Françoise de Motteville et Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans»
Julie Özcan, «L’exploitation d’une lettre unique: Une lettre inédite de Madame de Montespan à la Grande Mademoiselle»
Juliette Eyméoud, «Sortir de l'ombre: l'inscription de femmes célibataires dans les réseaux épistolaires de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle»
Colin Jones, «Au carrefour des genres: la correspondance de la duchesse d’Elbeuf, 1788-1794»

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vendredi 10 juin 2022

Salle B-025 du Pavillon 3200 Jean Brillant

10:00 - 12:00 Dynamique des genres

Présidence: Marie-Christine Pioffet

Julie Garel, «Le rabutinage, une traduction rhétorique du duel»
Martina Ognibene, «Le factum: l’usage de l’acculturation judiciaire au service d’un nouvel idéal féminin (XVIIe- XVIIIe siècle)»
Karine Rance, «Dire l'intime au féminin. Agentivité et réseaux dans la correspondance de la marquise de Rouvray»
Nicole Pellegrin, «Intercéder à la Cour de France. Une étude de cas: la correspondance d’une maîtresse de ministre en 1743-1744»
12:00 - 13:30 Dîner

13:30 - 15:00 Rayonnement intellectuel

Présidence: Judith Sribnai

Louise Gérard, «L'apprentissage du monde dans la Correspondance de Mme de Sévigné: écriture normative, écriture moraliste»
Lucille Raynal, «La correspondance comme espace intellectuel: le cas d'Émilie Du Châtelet»
Kim Gladu, «"Payer son contingent à la société": la question de la traduction dans la correspondance de la présidente Durey de Meinières et d’Elizabeth Montagu»
15:00 - 15:30 Pause

15:30 - 17:00 Atelier de formation à l’utilisation de la base Épistolières17

 

En Ligne : https://umontreal.zoom.us/j/82195209160?pwd=M1RIQU4yeHBvdWxNWmJHdE4vWUZLZz09
Adresse : Université de Montréal

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Comité organisateur

Nathalie Freidel (Professeur agrégée, Université Wilfrid Laurier, Ontario)
Emma Gauthier-Mamaril (Doctorante, Université de Montréal, Québec)
Judith Sribnai (Professeure associée, Université de Montréal, Québec)

Comité scientifique

Laure Depretto
Geneviève Haroche-Bouzinac
Benoît Melançon
Karin Schwerdtner
Deborah Steinberger
Luc Vaillancourt

Colloque — Femmes en correspondances (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) - 9-10 juin
Posted: 5 Jun 2022 - 12:30

À l’occasion du lancement de la base de données Épistolières17, un colloque se tiendra à l’Université de Montréal pour faire le point sur l’état de la recherche sur la production épistolaire des femmes sous l’Ancien régime. Nous invitons des contributions portant sur des travaux récents ou en cours, à l’intersection des études féminines et de l’épistolaire. Un atelier sera proposé en demi-journée le deuxième jour afin de présenter les fonctionnalités de la base de données Épistolières17 et former les futur.e.s collaborateur.rices à son utilisation.

En dépit de l’apport récent de grandes entreprises éditoriales, comme celle consacrée à la correspondance de Françoise de Maintenon, la contribution des femmes demeure difficile à évaluer dans le domaine de l’épistolaire, où elles ont pourtant été remarquablement prolifiques. L’accès limité aux sources explique en partie la polarisation de la critique sur quelques grandes figures d’épistolières, au détriment de la contribution des travailleuses de l’ombre. C’est à ce déficit de visibilité que compte remédier la base de données Épistolières17, dont l’objectif principal est de fournir un répertoire de la production épistolaire des femmes au XVIIe siècle et de permettre la visualisation des réseaux.

Nous espérons que cette entreprise de réévaluation de l’apport des épistolières encouragera une réflexion théorique à la croisée des études sur le genre et des travaux sur l’épistolaire. Alors que chacun de ces champs suscite, depuis plus de vingt ans, des travaux et des avancées importantes, rares sont les ouvrages collectifs à s’être intéressés à leur articulation. À la suite d’un colloque inaugural tenu à Montréal, Les Femmes de lettres. Écriture féminine ou spécificité générique? (Melançon et Popovic, 1994), L’Épistolaire, un genre féminin? (Planté, 1998) entreprenait de déconstruire le mythe de la supériorité féminine dans le genre épistolaire, tandis que L’épistolaire au féminin. Correspondances de femmes. XVIIIe- XXe siècle (Diaz et Siess, 2006) proposait de s’intéresser aux épistolières elles-mêmes et à leurs pratiques, dans une perspective axée davantage sur la modernité que sur le legs des pionnières. Nous nous proposons de rouvrir ce dossier depuis ses origines – des temps où la lettre constituait une des rares formes admissibles pour les candidates à l’écriture. Quels furent l’influence véritable et le rayonnement des épistolières, minimisés par la suite par les éditeurs de leurs œuvres? Comment les scriptrices parvenaient-elles à acquérir les compétences requises par l’exercice épistolaire? Selon quelles stratégies ont-elles investi un domaine longtemps monopolisé par les doctes? En quoi leur usage de la lettre différait-il de la pratique masculine? Quel a été le rôle des réseaux dans l’inclusion et le recrutement de partenaires féminins? Autant de questions qui permettent d’aborder les correspondances des femmes en se fondant sur la réalité des pratiques et la variété des registres convoqués, sans les renvoyer à un hypothétique critère féminin ou encore à un discours topique (amoureux ou sentimental).

Plutôt que de relancer des débats anciens sur la littérarité des lettres, nous souhaitons nous interroger sur les usages stratégiques de la lettre par les femmes, aussi bien pour se faire une place dans un champ littéraire qui les exclut que pour servir des carrières diverses. En quoi l’activité épistolaire a-t-elle pu constituer un lieu privilégié d’affirmation des agentivités féminines, dans des domaines aussi variés que l’économie, le politique ou le religieux? Il s’agira de montrer que la lettre fournit à celles qui en font usage, et parfois un usage intensif, un lieu stratégique d’ « inscription légitimante » (Dufour-Maître, 2008, 300), en autorisant une publicité qui ne heurte pas les convenances. Des correspondances ne présentant pas, à première vue, d’intérêt littéraire, peuvent ainsi apporter un éclairage décisif sur la zone frontière entre écritures du quotidien, projets d’écriture et carrières d’écrivaines. Pour cette raison, les propositions venues non seulement des études littéraires, mais également des sciences sociales, historiques, ou d’autres horizons disciplinaires seront les bienvenues.

Pour suivre la conférence à distance :

https://umontreal.zoom.us/j/82195209160?pwd=M1RIQU4yeHBvdWxNWmJHdE4vWUZLZz09

Code de la réunion : 821 9520 9160, Code secret : 665090

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Programme

Jeudi 9 juin 2022

Salle B-025 du Pavillon 3200 Jean Brillant

8:30 - 9:00 Accueil

9:00 - 10:00 Présentation de la base Épistolières17

Nathalie Freidel, Emma Gauthier-Mamaril, Olivier Lapointe

10:00 - 10:30 Pause

10:30 - 12:00 Agentivité féminine et religion

Présidence: Nathalie Freidel

Marie-Christine Pioffet, «Marie de l’Incarnation ou la liberté entravée»
Bastian Felter Vaucanson, «La conversation éternelle: Jeanne Guyon dans ses lettres à Fénelon (1688-1690)»
Nora Baker, «La correspondance comme lieu de résistance spirituelle: le cas de la huguenote Blanche Gamond»
12:00 - 14:00 Dîner

14:00 - 16:00 Réseaux aristocratiques et politiques

Présidence: Kim Gladu

Fanny Boutinet, «Des lettres aux oeuvres? Les échanges épistolaires de Françoise de Motteville et Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans»
Julie Özcan, «L’exploitation d’une lettre unique: Une lettre inédite de Madame de Montespan à la Grande Mademoiselle»
Juliette Eyméoud, «Sortir de l'ombre: l'inscription de femmes célibataires dans les réseaux épistolaires de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle»
Colin Jones, «Au carrefour des genres: la correspondance de la duchesse d’Elbeuf, 1788-1794»

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Vendredi 10 juin 2022

Salle B-025 du Pavillon 3200 Jean Brillant

10:00 - 12:00 Dynamique des genres

Présidence: Marie-Christine Pioffet

Julie Garel, «Le rabutinage, une traduction rhétorique du duel»
Martina Ognibene, «Le factum: l’usage de l’acculturation judiciaire au service d’un nouvel idéal féminin (XVIIe- XVIIIe siècle)»
Karine Rance, «Dire l'intime au féminin. Agentivité et réseaux dans la correspondance de la marquise de Rouvray»
Nicole Pellegrin, «Intercéder à la Cour de France. Une étude de cas: la correspondance d’une maîtresse de ministre en 1743-1744»
12:00 - 13:30 Dîner

13:30 - 15:00 Rayonnement intellectuel

Présidence: Judith Sribnai

Louise Gérard, «L'apprentissage du monde dans la Correspondance de Mme de Sévigné: écriture normative, écriture moraliste»
Lucille Raynal, «La correspondance comme espace intellectuel: le cas d'Émilie Du Châtelet»
Kim Gladu, «"Payer son contingent à la société": la question de la traduction dans la correspondance de la présidente Durey de Meinières et d’Elizabeth Montagu»
15:00 - 15:30 Pause

15:30 - 17:00 Atelier de formation à l’utilisation de la base Épistolières17

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Comité organisateur

Nathalie Freidel (Professeur agrégée, Université Wilfrid Laurier, Ontario)
Emma Gauthier-Mamaril (Doctorante, Université de Montréal, Québec)
Judith Sribnai (Professeure associée, Université de Montréal, Québec)

Comité scientifique

Laure Depretto
Geneviève Haroche-Bouzinac
Benoît Melançon
Karin Schwerdtner
Deborah Steinberger
Luc Vaillancourt

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Bibliographie sélective

CARRIBON, Carole et collab. (dir.), Réseaux de femmes, femmes en réseaux (XVIe-XXIe siècles), Bordeaux, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, « Histoire hors collection », 2018, 377 p.

DIAZ, Béatrice et SIESS, Jürgen (dir.), L’épistolaire au féminin : correspondances de femmes XVIIIe-XXe siècle, Caen, Presses universitaires de Caen, 2006, 260 p.

DUFOUR-MAÎTRE, Myriam, Les Précieuses : naissance des femmes de lettres en France au XVIIe siècle, Paris, Honoré Champion, coll. « Champion classiques – Essais », 2008, 816 p.

GOLDSMITH, Elizabeth C. et WINN, Colette H. (dir.), Lettres de femmes. Textes inédits et oubliés du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Honoré Champion, coll. « Textes de la Renaissance », 2005, 496 p.

MELANÇON, Benoît et POPOVIC, Pierre (dir.), Les Femmes de lettres. Écriture féminine ou spécificité générique ? Actes du colloque tenu à l’Université de Montréal le 15 avril 1994, Montréal, Université de Montréal, Faculté des arts et des sciences, Département d’études françaises, Centre universitaire de lecture sociopoétique de l’épistolaire et des correspondances (CULSEC), 1994, 162 p.

PLANTÉ, Christine (dir.), L’épistolaire, un genre féminin ?, Paris, Honoré Champion, coll. « Champion Varia », 1998, 308 p.

SIESS, Jürgen, Vers un nouveau mode de relations entre les sexes. Six correspondances de femmes des Lumières,Paris, Garnier, 2017, 176 p.

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Université de la Réunion

Félicitations à Tristan Alonge pour la parution de son nouveau livre, Racine et Euripe : La révolution trahie (Genève : Droz, 2017). Veuillez trouver ci-dessous un précis :

Helléniste remarquable, Jean Racine se distingue de tous ses contemporains, et de Corneille en particulier, par le retour incessant à la tragédie grecque. C'est en traduisant Aristote, en annotant les pièces athéniennes et en adaptant Euripide sur scène, qu'il retrouve le secret du « héros tragique », ni tout à fait coupable ni tout à fait innocent. En bousculant les codes dramaturgiques de l'époque, Racine fera de sa découverte le symbole d'une « révolution » dans l'art de fabriquer des tragédies. L'ouvrage se propose de reconstruire l'évolution de cette « révolution racinienne », en explorant son origine grecque et ses manifestations les plus explicites, à savoir les quatre pièces inspirées d'Euripide : La Thébaïde, Andromaque, Iphigénie et Phèdre. La lecture croisée de l'ensemble des sources permet de décoder le palimpseste racinien en laissant émerger le rôle crucial joué par le texte euripidéen sous-jacent. Pourtant, en véritable caméléon, Jean Racine n'hésitera pas à sacrifier son souffleur athénien et sa propre révolution sur l'autel du succès. http://www.droz.org/france/fr/6509-9782600057974.html
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Katherine Ibbett - new book
Trinity College

Congratuations to Katherine Ibbett, whose book Compassion's Edge has just appeared with The University of Pennsylvania UP. Please find further details below.

Compassion's Edge: Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France (Pennsylvania, 2017) Katherine Ibbett

Compassion's Edge examines the language of fellow-feeling—pity, compassion, and charitable care—that flourished in France in the period from the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which established some degree of religious toleration, to the official breakdown of that toleration with the Revocation of the Edict in 1685. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division. Early modern fellow-feeling drew distinctions, policed its borders, and far from reaching out to others, kept the other at arm's length. This book ranges widely over genres, contexts, and geographies, taking up major figures such as D'Aubigné, Montaigne, Lafayette, Corneille, and Racine, as well as less familiar Jesuit theologians, Huguenot ministers, and nuns from a Montreal hospital. Investigating the affective undertow of religious toleration, Compassion's Edge provides a robust corrective to today's hope that fellow-feeling draws us inexorably and usefully together.

Full Description, Table of Contents, and More: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15747.html

 

304 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus.  Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4970-5 | $79.95s | £66.00  Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9456-9 | $79.95s | £52.00  A volume in the Haney Foundation Series: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/HFS.html

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Article de Francis Assaf
The University of Georgia (Emeritus)

Congratulations to Francis Assaf, whose article "Le Page disgracié: l’Histoire ou une histoire?" has been published in the most recent volume of Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (XLIV, 86 (2017): 7-18).

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Sophie Maríñez's new book
BMCC/CUNY

Congratulations to Sophie Maríñez, for the publication of her book, Mademoiselle de Montpensier: Writings, Châteaux, and Female Self-Construction in Early Modern France (Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2017). This book was the recipient of a 2012 NEH Summer Stipend Award.

Further details are available through the following website: brill.com/products/book/mademoiselle-de-montpensier

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