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(http://www.bsecs.org.uk/isecs/). Dans ce cadre, nous avons le plaisir de vous transmettre un appel à communications sur la problématique suivante: Establishing historical identities This panel will explore the construction of identities in the discourse of history (broadly construed) in the long eighteenth century. The development of history and historiography into an empiricist and empirical discipline complicated…

  Appel à communication   Depuis la naissance de l’évaluation et du testing en tant que disciplines scientifiques dans les années ‘50, les courants dominants en didactique des langues-cultures se sont toujours reflétés sur les formes que le tests en langues ont assumé : le ‘discrete-point testing’ (Lado, 1961) a été inspiré par le courant…

  5–7 July 2019 An international conference organised by the  Katherine Mansfield Society   Hosted by the Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow   Supported by Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia Trnava University, Slovakia The New Zealand Embassy, Warsaw and the University of Northampton, UK   KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Kirsty Gunn University of Dundee, UK…

From the 17th century lady to the 21st woman, the borders of femininity and womanhood in the English – speaking world have evolved and have been reconfigured. In the last forty years, scholarly work on issues of gender has become more and more widespread, in a wide variety of disciplines (history, literature, linguistics, psychology…). The…

Journée d’étude pluridisciplinaire    Langage et argumentation. La mauvaise foi : un dispositif discursif ? La mauvaise foi n’est pas un concept argumentatif aux contours clairement délimités dans la théorie linguistique. Et pour cause : la mauvaise foi ne relève pas directement de la grammaire. Pourtant, c’est une réalité intuitive de la pratique langagière qui touche des problématiques fondées…

 This conference is part of the “Translation and Polyglossia in England” project (https://tape1617.hypotheses.org/, funded by Institut Universitaire de France). The aim will be to study how literary polyglossia, i.e. the co-presence of several languages within one printed text, whether those languages are set in parallel or intertwined, is linked to a feeling of community in…

Maison de la recherche en Sciences Humaines Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Patricia Duncker Reflecting on the art of writing neo-Victorian fiction, Patricia Duncker draws a whole list of “authors ripe for imitation, adaptation, or reinvention, […] [such as] Wilkie Collins, all the Brontës, the 1860s fashion for sensation fiction, Henry James and the Victorian ghostly writers,…

CALL FOR PAPERS CBDA-6 The sixth edition of the international Colloque Bisannuel sur la Diachronie de l’Anglais (Biennial Conference on the Diachrony of English, CBDA-6) will take place in Amiens from July 1st to July 3rd 2019, hosted by the Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens) and organised in collaboration with the Université François Rabelais…

In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies at the Universitat de Barcelona invites proposals for panels and papers on any aspect of gender and the graphic novel or comics. This one-day symposium is both an academic and a outreach event, intended for researchers, secondary school students,…

  Salle Athéna, Maison de la Recherche, 4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris This conference seeks to invite participants to engage with the idea of “in-betweenness” in the English-speaking world. “In-betweenness” can be understood as a liminal space or state that implies dynamics of continuity, separation, transition, overlapping, and mobility. It involves issues related to…