Catégorie : Colloques

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…

International trans-disciplinary conference : « Federal Theatre Project (1935-39): context & issues » 17th-18th – 19th October 2019, Toulouse (France) History of Arts and Performance (HAR, EA 4414, Paris Nanterre), Anglo-saxon Cultures (CAS, EA 820, Toulouse Jean Jaurès)   Sponsors: *CPRS, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès *INU Champollion *Dickinson College, Toulouse *American Theatre and Drama Society *International Susan Glaspell Society…

Herstory Re-Imagined: Women’s Lives in Biographical Fiction and Film 16-17 December 2019 Centre for Life-Writing Research, King’s College London, UK Convenors: Julia Lajta-Novak (Vienna) and Caitríona Ní Dhúill (Durham) www.herstory-reimagined.net Call for Papers How do the lives of historical women become the raw material of novelists and filmmakers? This conference addresses the current boom in biographical…

CALL FOR PAPERS AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE      One of the last of John Ruskin’s books, a collection of articles written between 1834 and 1885, is entitled On the Old Road. From Calais, where the Ruskin family disembarked for the first time in 1833, at the start of their first contintental tour, the road leads…