SFPS Monthly Mailing: August 2018

SFPS Monthly Mailing: August 2018

1. Calls for Papers

1.1 «L’Histoire et ses publics: faire les choses autrement»/”History and its Publics: Doing Things Differently” (Annual Meeting the Society for French Historical Studies

1.2 The Power of the Powerless: A 1968 Retrospective (Interdisciplinary Symposium)

1.3 Marges et pouvoir de la francophonie (Congrès du Conseil International d’Études Francophones)

1.4 Imagining the Body (Special Issue of L’Esprit Créateur, Summer 2020)

2. Job Opportunities

2.1 Teaching Associate in French Studies (University of Nottingham)

2.2 Associate Tutor in French (University of Surrey)

2.3 Lecturer in French – Education and Scholarship (University of Exeter)

2.4 Teaching Fellow in French (University of Leicester)

2.5 Lecturer – Teaching & Research – in French & Humanities (University of Dundee)

2.6 Call for Applications | Core Program 2019-2020 | Camargo Foundation

2.7 AHRC-ESRC-FCO Knowledge Exchange Fellowships 2019

3. Announcements

3.1 Performing Multilingualism in World Literatures: Aesthetics and Activism (Conference, 20-22 September 2018)

3.2 Call for Proposals for Francophone Postcolonial Studies book series

4. New Titles

4.1 A Place to Call Home Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona (Stanford University Press, 2018)

4.2 Pan-Africanism: A History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

4.3 Francophonie, postcolonialisme et mondialisation (Classiques Garnier, 2018)

1. Calls for Papers/Contributions

1.1 «L’Histoire et ses publics: faire les choses autrement»

65e congrès annuel de la Society for French Historical Studies (SFHS)

4-6 avril, 2019

Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Parmi les historiens de la France et du monde francophone existe une longue tradition de «faire de l’histoire autrement» dans un souci de toucher des publics plus larges.  Diverses activités témoignent de cette volonté: rédiger des éditoriaux, travailler avec des cinéastes pour raconter des histoires du passé, accorder des interviews à la télévision, publier des ouvrages, présenter des pièces de théâtre, écrire des romans, entretenir des blogs, ou organiser des festivals. L’objectif de ce congrès est d’examiner et de mettre en valeur les nombreuses façons dont nous innovons, expérimentons ou jouons avec l’histoire afin d’y associer un public non académique.

Pierre Singaravélou, professeur à l’université Panthéon-Sorbonne sera notre conférencier d’honneur.  Une session plénière accueillera Catherine Blondeau (directeur du théâtre «Le Grand T» à Nantes), Krystel Gualdé (chargée du développement scientifique, au Musée d’histoire de Nantes) en vue de communiquer sur la création du festival biannuel «Nous Autres» à Nantes.

Le comité accepte les propositions en anglais ou en français pour les séances thématiques ou les communications individuelles sur tous les aspects de l’histoire Française et francophones, du Moyen Âge à la période contemporaine.

Nous privilégions les séances, tables rondes et ateliers qui explorent le thème de cette année: Par quels moyens les historiens peuvent-ils assumer le rôle d’intellectuels publics?  Comment entrent-ils en contact avec le public autour de l’histoire? Quels modèles de collaborations facilitent les engagements des historiens avec le public?

Le congrès se tiendra sur le campus d’IUPUI. Le campus se trouve à la lisière du centre-ville d’Indianapolis, et jouxte le White River State Park. Le White River State Park abrite le Zoo d’Indianapolis, le siège de la NCAA (l’Association Nationale du Sport Universitaire), le Musée de l’État d’Indiana, et le Musée Eiteljorg des amérindiens et de l’art de l’Ouest américain.   Tous ces sites sont à proximité du campus et de l’hôtel de colloque (Sheraton Indianapolis City Centre).

Nous vous remercions de ne pas soumettre de proposition de communications déjà présentées ou publiées, ou encore soumises en vue d’une présentation dans un autre forum.  Les propositions (en français ou en anglais) qui n’excèderont pas une page et seront accompagnées par un bref résumé biographique; elles seront soumises au format numérique avant le 15 septembre 2018 à:sfhsconference2019@gmail.com. L’organisateur du congrès et président de la Société est Daniella Kostroun. Les questions peuvent lui être envoyées directement a l’adresse électronique mentionnée ci-dessus ou à dkostrou@iupui.edu.

Nous attirons votre attention sur le fait que tous les participants devront être membres en règle de la SFHS au moment du congrès. Les congressistes doivent payer les frais d’inscription au congrès et les frais d’adhésion au SFHS. Les frais d’adhésion sont à verser directement à la maison d’édition «Duke University Press» qui établit la liste officielle de membres de l’association SFHS: https://www.dukeupress.edu/Societies/french-historical-studies.

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“History and its Publics: Doing Things Differently”

65th Annual meeting for the Society for French Historical Studies (SFHS)

April 4-6, 2019

Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

There is a long tradition among historians of France and the Francophone world of doing history “differently” so that we can engage a wider public through our craft.  Among other things, we have published editorials in newspapers, worked with filmmakers to tell stories from the past, granted interviews on television, published trade books, staged plays, written novels, maintained blogs and hosted festivals.  This conference will explore and celebrate the many ways that we innovate, play, or otherwise experiment with history to engage a broader public.

Our keynote speaker will be Pierre Singaravélou (University Panthéon-Sorbonne). There will also be a plenary session with Catherine Blondeau (Director, Grand T Theater, Nantes) and Krystel Gualdé (Chief Curator, Museum of Nantes) to discuss their creation of the biannual festival “Nous Autres” in Nantes, France.

The program committee welcomes proposals in English or French for complete panels or individual papers on all aspects of French and Francophone studies, medieval to contemporary.  We particularly seek panels, roundtables, and workshops that explore this year’s theme of “History and Its Publics: Doing Things Differently.”  What are the ways that historians carve a role for themselves as public intellectuals?  How have they engaged the public with history? What types of collaborations facilitate these public engagements?

The conference will be held on the IUPUI campus in Indianapolis.  The campus borders along downtown Indianapolis and the White River State Park.  The White River State Park houses the Indianapolis Zoo, NCAA Headquarters, Indiana State Museum, and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art.  All of these sites are convenient to the campus and conference hotel (Sheraton Indianapolis City Center).

Please do not submit proposals for talks that have already been presented or published, or that have been submitted for presentation in another forum.  Paper proposals (in English or French) that are one page in length and accompanied by a brief CV must be submitted in digital format by September 15, 2018 to: sfhsconference2019@gmail.com.  Panel proposals typically contain three paper proposals plus a cover letter indicating who will serve as the chair and commentator for the panel.  Daniella Kostroun will serve as president of the society in 2019 and will organize the conference.  Questions can be directed to her at the above email address or at dkostrou@iupui.edu.

In addition to paying the conference fees, all participants must be members of the Society for French Historical Studies in good standing at the time of the conference.  Membership dues should be paid directly to Duke University Press: https://www.dukeupress.edu/Societies/french-historical-studies.

1.2 The Power of the Powerless: A 1968 Retrospective (Interdisciplinary Symposium)

An interdisciplinary symposium on the global events of 1968

Friday, November 2, 2018

The University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

Keynote Speaker 1:  Dr. David Danaher (University of Wisconsin-Madison), author of Reading Vaclav Havel.

Keynote Speaker 2:  Dr. Julian Bourg (Boston College), author of From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought.

Abstracts for 20-minute papers on any aspect of the global events of 1968 (such as literature, film, theatre, music, the visual arts, politics, history, sociology, etc.) are invited for the symposium. Comparative topics and interdisciplinary approaches are welcome and encouraged.

Supported by the University of Arizona’s College of Humanities, Dept. of French & Italian, and Dept. of Russian & Slavic Studies, the symposium “The Power of the Powerless:  A 1968 Retrospective” seeks to bring together scholars from multiple disciplines and perspectives on the 50^th anniversary of the important global events of 1968.  The one-day symposium is book-ended by keynote speakers and organized into three panels; each panel will be organized around a particular theme (i.e., “Roots,” “Media, Performance & the Arts,” “Legacies,” etc.) rather than by country, in order to better explore issues connected with 1968 that are common around the globe and across cultural lines.  For those in the Tucson area, three free, hosted film screenings will be held in the days preceding and following the symposium.

To present a paper at the symposium, please submit a proposal by September 15, 2018. A complete proposal consists of:

1. Author’s contact information (name, affiliation, postal address, telephone, and email).
   2. Paper title
   3. 250-500 word abstract
   4. Equipment request (if necessary)

Please send proposals by email to: Benjamin Jens, bcjens@email.arizona.edu

Please include “1968 Symposium” in the subject line of your email. All submissions will be acknowledged and considered. All applicants will be informed of the status of their proposals no later than September 30.

1.3 Marges et pouvoir de la francophonie (Congrès du Conseil International d’Études Francophones)

Ottawa, 17 au 23 juin 2019

L’édition 2019 du congrès du Conseil International d’Études Francophones se tiendra à Ottawa, la capitale du Canada. Ce lieu de rencontre nous invite à placer la question du pouvoir au centre de nos préoccupations en lien avec l’existence de communautés marginalisées puisque le français, bien qu’une des deux langues officielles du pays, est une langue minoritaire partout au Canada, sauf au Québec. Raconter l’histoire des marges culturelles et des individus marginalisés permet précisément de questionner le pouvoir en déconstruisant les récits qui le fondent.

Il s’agira de réfléchir ensemble aux marges de la francophonie, aux rapports de pouvoir qui existent entre les langues certes, mais aussi entre les individus ou les groupes sociaux. Cette thématique invite particulièrement au dialogue entre les disciplines afin de comprendre les enjeux de la marginalité touchant à la langue, la culture, la littérature, le cinéma, la chanson, la politique, l’histoire, la géographie et la pédagogie, pour ne nommer que quelques-uns des domaines d’étude possibles. Plusieurs axes de recherche peuvent être envisagés, dans des perspectives variées (littéraire, artistique, sociologique, historique, sociopolitique ou autres) :

• Jeux et rapports de pouvoir
• Rapports de force entre les langues
• Rapports de force entre les groupes sociaux
• Thématiques du conflit
• Éthique du care
• Littérature du trauma
• Théâtre de l’exil
• Les pratiques culturelles marginales et leur réception
• Genres littéraires : littérature et paralittérature
• Le pouvoir de la pédagogie
• Politiques linguistiques et préservation de la langue française
• Présences des marginalités  dans la langue française (sociolectes, langue inclusive…)
• Plurilinguisme
• Espaces francophones et espaces multilingues
• Inter et transdisciplinarité
• Histoire et histoires des groupes marginaux
• Centre(s) et périphérie(s)
• Colonialisme et postcolonialisme
• Immigration, exil, migration
• Enjeux autochtones
• Histoire et représentations des classes sociales
• Urbanisme : ghettoïsation, banlieues, gentrification des quartiers
• Géopolitique et rapports de force

Afin d’encourager de manière interdisciplinaire le développement des études, de la recherche, des publications portant sur la littérature, la langue, la culture, les arts et les sciences sociales dans tout le monde francophone, le CIÉF accueille chaque année à son congrès un large éventail de sessions regroupées sous ces catégories. Nous acceptons aussi des propositions dans lesquelles la francophonie est un facteur principe et qui permettront de rassembler les intervenants autour de problématiques d’actualité, sous les grandes catégories de LANGUE-CULTURE-LITTÉRATURE-HISTOIRE-PÉDAGOGIE.

Vous souhaitez participer à notre congrès en 2019 ? Il y a deux façons de faire des propositions sur un thème lié aux études francophones :

1. Proposer une session complèteregroupant trois ou de préférence quatre communications autour d’un thème commun.

Nous vous encourageons à réunir des communications autour d’un thème avec des collaborateurs membres du CIÉF ou encore à lancer un appel à communications qui paraîtra dans le Bulletin d’automne. Pour ce faire, il faut être membre en règle du CIÉF, c’est‐à‐dire avoir payé votre adhésion  https://secure.cief.org/wp/formadhesion/login.php

Date limite pour lancer un appel à communications: 15 septembre 2018

Formulaire à remplir :

Date limite pour proposer une session complète : 15 octobre 2018

Formulaire à remplir :

Si vous souhaitez proposer une communication dans une session, veuillez contacter directement le/la président-e de session avant le 10 octobre 2018 Vous êtes priés de proposer votre communication dans UNE SEULE session.

2. Proposer une communication individuelle

Date limite pour proposer une communication individuelle : 15 octobre 2018

Formulaire à remplir :

Les membres sont priés de ne soumettre qu’UNE proposition ; le cas échéant, la proposition faisant partie d’une session complète aura automatiquement priorité. Les propositions individuelles multiples ne seront pas considérées. Si votre proposition peut s’insérer dans une des thématiques proposées ci-dessus, veuillez indiquer la thématique pertinente entre parenthèses à la fin de votre proposition.

Par ailleurs, les membres dont les propositions sont acceptées doivent s’attendre à remplir l’office de président ou de secrétaire de session. Pour faciliter la tâche des organisateurs, nous vous prions de consulter l’horaire provisoire sur le site Web dès le début du mois de février et prévenir la présidente (présidente@cief.org) uniquement dans le cas d’une impossibilité à accomplir cette tâche. Nous comptons sur votre collaboration et vous remercions d’avance.

Pour obtenir des renseignements sur le CIÉF et son congrès, prière de consulter notre site web ou de communiquer avec la présidente du CIÉF, M^me Lucie Hotte (presidente@cief.org). Pour en savoir davantage sur le CIÉF et sa revue Nouvelles Études Francophones (NEF), veuillez consulter notre site Web :

Le Prix Jeune Chercheur est décerné chaque année à la meilleure communication doctorante au Congrès.

1.4 Imagining the Body (Special Issue of L’Esprit Créateur, Summer 2020)

This special issue of L’Esprit Créateur (Summer 2020) will provide a holistic examination of the body in Francophone culture within and beyond the metropole, with a broad temporal, national, ethnic, racial, gendered and generic scope. We ask for each author to explore the ways in which the body can be deployed to challenge normative spaces and/or gazes, including fixed notions of identity, as well as heteronormative and patriarchal structures of representation and power. Articles (6000 words or fewer) will focus on how the body is understood and presented in the twentieth and twenty-first century across multiple medias including film, literature, and television. We invite papers from a variety of disciplines such as sociology or philosophy. We will aim for a far-reaching conceptualization of the body, inclusive of the queer, racialized, transnational, exiled and abject body. Further, the issue will problematize the concept of space by exploring migration and questioning the boundaries between the public and private.

Papers could address the following topics (other themes will also be taken into consideration)

• Queer identity
• The maternal body
• Disability studies
• The posthuman body

Abstracts in English or French of no more than 250 words, along with a short biography, should be submitted to Dr. Antonia Wimbush, Dr. Maria Tomlinson and Polly Galis at imaginingthebody@gmail.com by 15^th January 2019.

2. Job Opportunities

2.1 Teaching Associate in French Studies (University of Nottingham)

University of Nottingham – Modern Languages & Cultures

Salary: £29,799 to £38,833 per annum pro-rata depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Applications are invited for this post in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures. The School is a leading centre for the study of Modern Languages; Culture, Film and Media, and American and Canadian Studies. We offer first degrees (BA) and both taught and research postgraduate degrees (MA, MRes, MSc and PhD) and deliver internationally recognised research across our three departments.

The primary purpose of the role is to provide teaching relief for the Head of Department. The successful candidate will undertake teaching and teaching-related administration as directed by the Head of Section of French and Francophone Studies. The successful candidate will also act as convenor on one or more team-taught modules and be responsible for the provision of pastoral care to undergraduate students.

Candidates must have completed a PhD (or equivalent) in French Studies or be close to submission by the start date of the post and have native or near-native fluency in spoken and written French and English. A proven track record in undergraduate level teaching is essential, as is the ability to design and deliver course materials in the areas outlined in the role profile.

This is a fixed-term post until 30 June 2020, available immediately on a part-time basis (21.75 hours per week).

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor Paul Hegarty via email at paul.hegarty@nottingham.ac.uk. Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted.

The University of Nottingham is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

For more information, see https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BMD768/teaching-associate-in-french-studies.

2.2 Associate Tutor in French (University of Surrey)

University of Surrey – School of Literature & Languages

The School of Literature and Languages brings together the academic disciplines of English literature, creative writing, modern languages, linguistics, and translation studies. The School also offers evening language classes for the general public and an institution-wide language programme for University students.

We are seeking to appoint a part-time Associate Tutor to teach French language classes on the Evening Language Courses programme. The position is a fixed-term, renewable appointment. Classes will run from 7-8.30 pm.

Applicants should hold a first degree, a teaching qualification, and have teaching experience.  A Master’s degree and a background in teaching in the Higher Education sector would be an advantage.

For informal enquiries please email Christa Saller (c.saller@surrey.ac.uk) or phone on 01483 682864.

For more information and to apply online, please download the further details and click on the ‘apply’ button above.

Interview Date: Thursday 20 September 2018

We acknowledge, understand and embrace diversity.

For more information, see https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BMI224/associate-tutor-in-french.

2.3 Lecturer in French – Education and Scholarship (University of Exeter)

University of Exeter – Modern Languages

The role

The fixed term post of Lecturer in French will be to support the delivery of the French programme. The post will include delivery of French language teaching and design, development and delivery of teaching and learning material for a range of French cultural modules, possibly including French Visual History; and Provoking Thoughts: French Literature and Philosophy. You will work with colleagues in French, Modern Languages and the Director of Education to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of teaching programmes in accord with the College’s education strategy. You will also contribute to the development and implementation of innovative teaching practices across the College. This fixed term, full time post is available from 1^st January 2019 to 30^th June 2019.

About you

For a Lecturer post you will:

• Possess sufficient breadth or depth of specialist and core knowledge in the discipline, demonstrated by a PhD (or nearing completion) or equivalent in French to develop teaching programmes, and teach and support learning;
• Use a range of delivery techniques to enthuse and engage students;
• Participate in and develop external networks, for example, to contribute to student recruitment, secure student placements, facilitate outreach work, generate income, obtain consultancy projects, or build relationships for future activities;
• Will have evidence of excellent teaching identified by peer review and have made an impact at discipline programme level beyond their own teaching;
• Be expected to work towards Fellow of the HEA status and to attend formal CPD relating to this.

What we can offer you

• Freedom (and the support) to pursue your intellectual interests and to work creatively across disciplines to produce internationally exciting research;
• Support teams that understand the University wide research and teaching goals and partner with our academics accordingly
• An Innovation, Impact and Business directorate that works closely with our academics providing specialist support for external engagement and development
• Our Exeter Academic initiative supporting high performing academics to achieve their potential and develop their career
• A multitude of staff benefits including sector leading benefits around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), Paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay), and a new Fertility Treatment Policy
• A beautiful campus set in the heart of stunning Devon

Applications should be made via our website. For more information and to apply online please go to www.exeter.ac.uk/jobs Please quote reference number P62806 in any correspondence.

The University of Exeter is an equal opportunity employer.  We are officially recognised as a Disability Confident employer, an Athena Swan accredited institution and a Stonewall Diversity Champion. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented in the workforce.

For more information, see https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BLI519/lecturer-in-french-education-and-scholarship.

2.4 Teaching Fellow in French (University of Leicester)

For more information, see https://jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/301/teaching-fellow-in-french.html.

2.5 Lecturer – Teaching & Research – in French & Humanities (University of Dundee)

University of Dundee – Languages

Job Details

The School of Humanities expands the understanding of the world’s culture and creativity through the critical study of history, literature, film, creative writing, comics and graphic novels, continental philosophy, modern languages, and practice-based archival education. It attracts over 1000 students across these disciplines, working closely with various Schools across the University, and notably Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. The School prides itself on its research-driven commitment to promoting the critical understanding of culture and society through interdisciplinary work. This is organised around our research centres, which come under the umbrella of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute (AHRI). The School draws upon the culture within the city of Dundee and has created strong links with the local community through its strong programme of public engagement.

The staff within the School are deeply committed to inspiring students to reach their potential. Be prepared to join a proactive team seeking to transform student lives so that they can then go on to transform and influence others within society.

We are recruiting for an exceptional individual to join us as a Lecturer (Teaching & Research) in French and Humanities commencing in 2019.

You will be involved in developing, teaching and assessing modules in Applied French and Culture, including at Honours level, as well as contributing to and supporting the Languages programme and School’s priorities in research and scholarship. You should have a relevant degree in French or equivalent, and significant teaching experience in French at Higher Education level. You will be expected to teach at various levels and in varied contexts including UG/PG, Lifelong Learning, Distance Learning and European Studies.

You should have excellent spoken and written communication in both French and English. A completed or in-progress PhD is expected.

You should also have an established research profile, with identifiable outcomes and achievements, and the ability to contribute to the upcoming Research Excellence Framework.

University

We are one of the UK’s leading universities – internationally recognised for our expertise across a range of disciplines and research breakthroughs in multiple areas, including Life Sciences and Design, amongst many others. Conveniently located on the banks of River Tay, our main city-centre campus is at the heart of Dundee – an up-and-coming, friendly, compact and affordable city with a rich heritage in design and technology. We also have campuses at Ninewells Hospital and in Kirkcaldy which are easily accessible via local transport links.

Further Information

For further information about this position please contact Carmen Garcia Del Rio (c.garciadelrio@dundee.ac.uk) or Aliki Varvogli (a.varvogli@dundee.ac.uk)

Diversity

The diversity of our staff and students helps to make the University of Dundee one of the top universities in the UK. Family friendly policies, staff support networks for BME and LGBT staff, membership of Athena Swan and Stonewall, as well a full range of disability services, create an enjoyable and inclusive place to work.

For more information, see https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BMH865/lecturer-teaching-and-research-in-french-and-humanities.

2.6 Camargo Foundation: Core Program 2019-2020

The Camargo Foundation

The Camargo Foundation, located in Cassis, France, and founded by artist and philanthropist Jerome Hill, is an international residential center offering programming in the humanities and the arts. It offers time and space in a contemplative environment to think, create, and connect. The Foundation encourages the visionary work of artists, scholars, and thinkers in the arts and humanities.

The Camargo Core Program

Launched in 1971, the Camargo Core Program is the historical and flagship program of the Foundation. Each year an international call is launched through which 18 fellows (9 artists and 9 scholars/thinkers) are selected:

• Scholars : applicants should be connected to the arts and humanities working on French, Francophone, or Mediterranean cultures.
• Thinkers : this category includes accomplished professionals and practitioners in cultural and creative fields (i.e. as curators, journalists, critics, urban planners, independent scholars, etc).
• Artists (all disciplines): applicants should be the primary creators of a new work/project.

Stipend

A stipend of 250 USD per week is available, as is funding for basic transportation to and from Cassis.

Residency Periods

The Camargo Core Program has two sessions:

• Fall 2019: 8 weeks from September 10 to November 5, 2019
• Spring 2020: 6 weeks from February 25 to April 7, 2020 / 8 weeks from February 25 to April 21, 2020 / 11 weeks from February 25 to May 12, 2020

Deadline

The deadline to apply is October 17, 2018.

Language Requirements

Candidates must be able to communicate well in English.

More Info/To Apply

http://camargofoundation.org/apply/current-calls/

2.7 AHRC-ESRC-FCO Knowledge Exchange Fellowships 2019

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which are both part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), together with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) are pleased to invite applications for the second intake of the AHRC-ESRC-FCO Knowledge Exchange (KE) Fellowship scheme.

The scheme provides the opportunity for arts and humanities and social science researchers to be seconded into the FCO (London office) to work alongside, advise and influence policymakers. It aims to support Fellows who will bring fresh thinking, depth and breadth of expert knowledge and apply their learning to policy challenges. This is not a scheme to support research projects about the FCO or its work, but rather to build new capacity in the FCO and across the UK research base.

Scope

The Fellowship scheme creates deeper engagement between academia and policy by building long-term, two-way relationships that will impact on diplomacy, and increase the professional reputation of participating scholars.

Fellows will be placed within a policy team that could be geographic, thematic or institutional in the scope of its work. Fellows will also be attached to a Research Group within the wider Research Analysts Cadre who form a specialist group of geographical and thematic experts.

The benefits of this placement will flow to the wider academic community through Fellows’ engagement with their home research organisation and wider research communities.

About the call

Applications are welcome from arts and humanities researchers and social scientists with a deep and detailed understanding of research relevant to FCO research analysts.

The scheme partners wish to strongly encourage applications from arts and humanities researchers, including historians, alongside applications from social scientists. Candidates with relevant experience and expertise will be considered from any disciplinary background within the arts and humanities and social sciences. For scholars from all disciplines, modern language skills are highly valued.

The partners envisage supporting two to four Fellows working between 0.6 to 0.8 FTE for 24 months. The scheme will cover the salary costs of the Fellow (at 80% fEC).

Eligibility

Potential applicants should ensure they meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the call document (available on the AHRC website).

Applicants who applied to the 2017 round of the scheme are not eligible to apply to the 2018 deadline.

How to apply

This call will be managed by the AHRC on behalf of the two participating research councils and the FCO.

Applications must be submitted through the Je-S system by 16:00 on 31 October 2018. Applications received after this time will not be considered.

For full details, visit the AHRC website.

Key dates

• Call opens – August 2018
• Application form available in Je-S – 3 September 2018
• Application deadline – 16:00 on 31 October 2018
• Assessment and peer review – October/November 2018
• Shortlisting meeting – mid December 2018
• Invitation to interview – w/c 17 December 2018
• Interviews – 21-22 January 2019
• Notification of outcomes – February 2019
• Fellowships start – September 2019

For more information, see https://esrc.ukri.org/funding/funding-opportunities/ahrc-esrc-fco-knowledge-exchange-fellowships-2019/.

3. Announcements

3.1  Performing Multilingualism in World Literatures: Aesthetics and Activism (Conference, 20-22 September 2018)

20-22 September 2018

University of Oxford (Exeter College)

Organisers: Prof Jane Hiddleston, Prof Wen-chin Ouyang, Dr Laura Lonsdale, Dr Nora Parr

Strand 5: Creativity and World Literature: Languages in Dialogue

‘Performing multilingualism’ is construed as a challenge to linguistic hierarchies and as a testimony to the importance of linguistic diversity and malleability for freedom of expression and democracy. Papers at the conference investigate the potential of literary and cultural works as sites or forums of dramatic experimentation and creative multilingualism, where languages can work as active and dynamic forces that combine, collide, intersect, and conflict.

The multilingual aesthetics emerging in these stagings of linguistic juxtaposition and interplay may at the same time serve to probe and develop theoretical conceptions of the relationship between multilingualism and monolingualism, and to expose the ways in which language users of all kinds are able to activate languages in such a way as challenge ideological assumptions around linguistic categories. The performance of multilingualism is further explored as a form of activism in contexts where the institutionalisation of monolingualism takes place at the expense of diverse and plural linguistic forms, dialects, and idiolects.

The conference in Oxford (20–22 September 2018) will build on work from our January 2018 conference Multilingualisms in World Literature.

Join the discussion on Twitter with #MultilingualLit.

Register here for free tickets to the conference (panellists do not need to register). Full conference programme below:

Thursday 20 September, 2018

10–10:30 Registration

10:30–10:45 Welcome

10:45–12:00 Panel 1: Activist Multilingualism

Karin Nykvist: Multilingual political activism in the works of Caroline Bergvall

Fransiska Louwagie: The art of provocation

12:00–1:00 Lunch (only provided for Panellists and Chairs)

1:00–2:30 Panel 2: Between Existence and Erasure

Brigitte Rath: Erasure as performance: Un/covering non-monolingual texts

H-Dirksen Bauman: Defending the Right to Exist:  Embodied Poetics in Sign Language Performance

Lida Amiri: How foreign is too cryptic? The performance of linguistic hybridity in the translingual writing of Khaled Hosseini and Atiq Rahimi

2:30–4:00 Panel 3: Multilingual Imperative

Andrea Ciribuco: Translingual Authorship and Creativity in the context of the Refugee Crisis

Nora Parr: T-r-a-u-m-a vs trauma: disarticulating discourse through the multilingual, and a performance

Dominique Jullien: Multilingual maelstrom: Primo Levi’s “Canto of Ulysses”

4:00–4:15 Coffee

4:15–5:30 Panel 4: Politics of Plurilingualism

Juliette Taylor-Batty: Transition, the ‘Revolution of the Word’ and the politics of multilingual modernism

Birgit Mara Kaiser: Living in Tongues. Hélène Cixous’s Multilingual Poetics

Reservations will be made at a nearby pub for informal gathering

Friday 21 September, 2018

10–11:15  Panel 5: Making noise

Tosin Gboi: Re/Negotiating the Nation: Multilingualism & Identity in Nigerian Hip Hop

Dobrochna Futro: Pickled gherkins, father throats and a nose, as a site of resistance in the Slavic and Turkic languages

11:15–12:45 Panel 6: Sounding poetry

Christopher Monier: Words-that-tell: Creole, French, and Proverbs as Poetics

James Thomas: Victor Gelu and the Multilingualism of Chanson in 19th-century Marseille

yasser elhariry: Tongues Tonguing Tarkos

12:45–1:45 Lunch (only provided for Panellists and Chairs)

1:45–3:00 Panel 7: Staging Dialogues

Helen Davies, Lisa Lewis: Multilingual practice in “Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues”: strategies for the performance of minority languages

Agata Kroh: Between Hebrew and Yiddish: Dramatizing 19th Century Eastern European Jewish Diglossia in the Fiction of Shalom Yaakov Abramovitch

3:00–3:15 Coffee

3:15–4:30 Panel 8: Dramatising Identity

Rachel Gilmour: Incoming: Performing Scots in Raman Mundair’s ‘Stories fae da Shoormal’

Manuela Perteghella: Translation as Performance: Between poetics and cultural activism

5:00–6:00 Performance with Rinkoo Barpaga + Q&A

7:00 Drinks reception at college

7:30 Conference Dinner for Panellists and Chairs

Saturday 22 September, 2018

10:30–12:00 Panel 9: Representing languages

Shuangyi Li: (In)visible Images, (Un)speaking Sounds: the Multilingual and the Multimodal in Franco-Chinese Literature and Visual Arts

Hannah Felce: Picturebooks in a Minority Language Setting: Intra-Cultural Transformations

Delphine Grass: Jean Hans Arp’s translations without objects

12:00–1:30 Panel 10: Re-casting symbols

Elisabeth Friis: Performing dictation – Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE as creative matrix

Keya Anjaria: Clowning Around: The Profound and the Silly in the Turkish/English novel The Clown and His Daughter/Sinekli Bakkal

Rebekah Vince: Multilingualism and Metamorphosis in Apulée: revue de littérature et de réflexion

1:30–2:30 Lunch (only provided for Panellists and Chairs)

2:30–3:30 Final Roundtable

4:00 PEN event (time and location TBC)

For more information and to register for free, visit https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/about/events/performing-multilingualism-world-literatures-aesthetics-and-activism.

3.2 Call for Proposals for Francophone Postcolonial Studies book series

4. New Titles

4.1 A Place to Call Home Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona (Stanford University Press, 2018)

By Ernesto Castañeda

As immigrants settle in new places, they are faced with endless uncertainties that prevent them from feeling that they belong. From language barriers, to differing social norms, to legal boundaries separating them from established residents, they are constantly navigating shifting and contradictory expectations both to assimilate to their new culture and to honor their native one. In A Place to Call Home, Ernesto Castañeda offers a uniquely comparative portrait of immigrant expectations and experiences. Drawing on fourteen years of ethnographic observation and hundreds of interviews with documented and undocumented immigrants and their children, Castañeda sets out to determine how different locations can aid or disrupt the process of immigrant integration. Focusing on New York City, Paris, and Barcelona—immigration hubs in their respective countries—he compares the experiences of both Latino and North African migrants, and finds that subjective understandings, local contexts, national and regional history, and religious institutions are all factors that profoundly impact the personal journey to belonging.

For more information, see https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23440

4.2 Pan-Africanism: A History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

By Hakim Adi

The first survey of the Pan-African movement this century, this book provides a history of the individuals and organisations that have sought the unity of all those of African origin as the basis for advancement and liberation. Initially an idea and movement that took root among the African Diaspora, in more recent times Pan-Africanism has been embodied in the African Union, the organisation of African states which includes the entire African Diaspora as its ‘sixth region’.

Hakim Adi covers many of the key political figures of the 20th century, including Du Bois, Garvey, Malcolm X, Nkrumah and Gaddafi, as well as Pan-African culture expression from Négritude to the wearing of the Afro hair style and the music of Bob Marley.

For more information, see https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pan-africanism-9781474254274/.

4.3 Francophonie, postcolonialisme et mondialisation (Classiques Garnier, 2018)

Par Yves Clavaron

L’ouvrage examine la place des littératures d’expression française dans le cadre de la mondialisation tout en incluant des phénomènes non spécifiquement francophones. Il relie les cultures de la décolonisation, de l’immigration et de la mondialisation dans une planétarité où s’entend encore le français.

En savoir plus: https://classiques-garnier.com/francophonie-postcolonialisme-et-mondialisation.html.