Catégorie : Colloques

  Works of prose fiction include pieces of writing that are prone to provide both emotional and cognitive pleasure because they are made of “language at its most distilled and most powerful” (Rita Dove). Yet these passages too often escape an analysis that combines close reading with, on the one hand, the reading aloud of…

Sites of Feminist Memory: Remembering suffrage in Europe and the United States of America   Conference dates: 12-13 May 2020   Keynote speaker: Dr Sharon Crozier-de Rosa (University of Wollongong), co-author of Remembering Women’s Activism, Routledge, 2019.   On April 24th 2018, suffragist leader Millicent Garrett Fawcett became the first woman to be honoured with…

11e COLLOQUE DU CERLIS Traduction et genre dans le monde professionnel (4e colloque Naples-Valence) Université de Bergame, Bergame 25-27 juin 2020 Le CERLIS, Centre de Recherche sur les Langues de Spécialité de l’Université de Bergame, tiendra son prochain colloque sur la traduction dans le monde professionnel. Après le succès du troisième colloque Genre & Traduction,…

  Coordinator of the SIG: Sophie Herment, Aix Marseille Univ, Laboratoire Parole et Langage Call for Papers  The PALA 2020 conference (https://pala.sciencesconf.org/) invites special interest groups (SIGs) this year, among which a session on prosodic and phonetic features of speaking styles (SIG 8). This special interest group will gather specialists in the oral language. The…

  Organizing committee: Agnès Celle, Université de Paris & Maud Pélissier, University of Agder Call for Papers This workshop aims to bring together linguists working on non-canonical questions at the syntax-pragmatics-prosody interface. Studies that provide experimental evidence of emotions in non-canonical questions as well as typological approaches to the prosodic encoding of information structure are…

Call for papersWe will be running our next Decolonization Workshop here at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in Senate House, London, on Monday 16 March 2020. The day will run from 11.00am to 6.00pm.As on previous occasions, we aim to have a series panel discussions over the course of the day. Each panel will consist of three papers…

 If, as Michel Foucault suggests, we conceive of the modern world as a complex layering of heterogeneous spaces, or heterotopias, if, indeed, we “live inside a set of relations that delineates sites which are irreducible to one another and absolutely not superimposable on one another”, spaces that are undeniably other to one another, then the…

    The results of the June 2016 European referendum have presented the United Kingdom with a number of significant economic, political and legal conundrums which question both its Constitution and the integrity of the British Union. The process of leaving the European Union after over 40 years of integration involves a hitherto unique disengagement…

Transformations de genre à l’écran     Dans le cadre du projet RIN « Genre & Ecrans » financé par la Région Normandie, cette journée d’études s’intéressera au changement de genre et/ou de sexualité des personnages de fiction issus de productions aussi variées que les séries télévisées, les films ou les jeux vidéo. Nous proposons…

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS Born in 1934 in the village of Beauchamp, near Pontoise (France), Claude Pélieu was an influential figure in a number of contemporary transatlantic artistic and literary scenes from the 1960s until his death in 2002, yet he remains relatively unknown and absent from historical narratives of the period. In the…