Aquatic forms feature prominently in Francophone Postcolonial literature, film, and critical theory. These aqueous forms manifest as waterscapes, corporeal fluids, water-related natural disasters, and marine ecosystems and life forms. While bodies of water can be conceived as a metaphor for hybrid identities, as emphasized by Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), they also take on numerous other metaphorical meanings.

This session invites inquiries into aquatic tropes in Francophone Postcolonial cultural and literary works. It examines the representation of a broad range of aquatic forms that include but are not limited to maritime and inland waterways (oceans, seas, rivers, waterfalls), corporeal fluidity, and marine life forms to investigate how they inform and shape new readings of Francophone postcoloniality and broader questions related to hydro-criticism in the Francosphere.

Moving beyond the common metaphorical association of waterways as liquid expanses that are traversed and serve as bridges across physical, metaphorical, and historical transitions, this panel seeks to engage depictions of waterscapes and marine life forms that embody rupture, fear, destruction, death, and enigma. Manifestations of liquidity and fluidity, corporeal or otherwise, that redefine boundaries of time and space and facilitate forms of renewal and rebirth will also be considered.

Abstracts of 250 words in English or French should be submitted through the NeMLA website by 30 September, 2020.

For more information, please feel free to contact Shanaaz Mohammed (shmohammed@davidson.edu) and/or Alexis Finet (acf16@my.fsu.edu).

1.2 Marginalised Voices and Figures in French Festival Culture, 1500–1800

Music Department, King’s College London
24–25 October 2020

Keynote speakers:

Prof. Kate van Orden (Harvard University) Prof. Julia Prest (University of St Andrews)

The last few decades have seen a marked increase in early modern festival research. From royal coronations and ceremonial entries to court ballets and investitures of popes and cardinals, such events were important expressions of courtly, civic, and ecclesiastical hierarchy, community, and tradition. Between 1500 and 1800, France was one of the most prolific and influential centers of festival art in Europe. Indeed, French ‘inventions’ such as the court ballet (ballet de cour), the equestrian carousel, and the comédie-ballet were imitated and emulated across the continent.

However, research on French festival culture has typically focused on traditional centers of power like the royal court, and has either highlighted the contributions of well-known poets, painters, and dance masters or concentrated on the responses of elite spectators like foreign diplomats, princes, and nobles. Our conference instead seeks to shift the focus towards marginalised voices and figures, among them:

Lesser-knownmusicians, choreographers, poets, and artists who have been overlooked in conventional histories of music, literature, and the arts, namely because they do not conform to narratives of great composers/musicians, poets, and artists, despite being critical to the production and performance of French festivals.
Non-elitepeople, such as artisans and merchants, who were crucial to the production of festivals, or members from the urban population, who were regularly part of audiences for civic festivities in France, such as ceremonial entries and equestrian carousels.
‘Subaltern’ people, among them women, ethnic and confessional minorities, queer audiences, and colonial populations, who were often involved in the production and performance of French festivals or attended them in person.

Our conference is interested in both what French festival culture during the period 1500–1800 reveals about these figures, and what this investigation tells us about early modern society on a more global level. What insights does the non-elite or subaltern status of festival contributors offer into early modern perceptions of the arts? What do French festivals tell us about other groups who were generally excluded or oppressed in society? How should we understand the frequent tension between emphasising and erasing the foreign ‘other’ (like the participation of colonial subjects, the use of blackface for racial stereotyping, or the cultural appropriation of valuable colonial objects, etc.)?

Paper proposals

The organisers are keen to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to this subject matter, assembling a balance of musicologists, historians, and scholars in other fields to create a forum for productive exchange. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups in academia, such as women, BAME, and LGBTQ+ communities.

We would be interested in any papers that address the following topics:

Investigations of musicians, artists, choreographers, poets, and other festival contributors who have been marginalised in conventional histories of early modern arts.
Analysis of individual festivals, theatrical performances, or ceremonies that involved and/or represented marginalised voices and figures.
Diachronic studies on the involvement and/or representation of marginalised voices and figures.
Research on cultural and diplomatic exchanges between traditional centres of power and commonly marginalised communities, such as colonial populations and confessional minorities. This may include transnational and global approaches to French festival culture.

If you would like to propose a 20-minute paper, please send a brief abstract of about 250 words to marginalisedvoicesconf@gmail.com. When sending your abstract, please also provide a one-page CV with details of your academic experience, affiliation, and publications. The deadline for submitting proposals is Monday 31 August 2020. The committee will make their final decision on submitted abstracts by mid-September 2020. Further information about the programme, registration, travel and accommodation will be announced after that date. The organisers are thinking of inviting conference delegates to prepare a chapter for an edited volume of papers presented at this event.

Our twitter handle is @marginalisedvo1.

Organisers:
Marc W. S. Jaffré (University of Oxford), Bram van Leuveren (University of St Andrews), and Alexander Robinson (King’s College London).

This event is generously supported by the Royal Musical Association and The Society for the Study of French History.

Please note: depending on how the current Covid-19 situation unfolds, this conference may ultimately be scheduled online (e.g. via Microsoft Teams).

1.3 CfP: Memories from the Margins

Work was due to start in earnest this spring and summer on our project. These specific plans and the field trips that this research necessitates have been put on hold by the current Covid-19 pandemic but the memory work is still ongoing. In many ways, the current pandemic highlights the many violences of everyday life – with reports of rises in domestic violence across the world – but also the material and structural conditions left by conflicts, which make controlling any virus seem like an impossible task. Indeed, with the current uncertainty about making any plans for the future, a focus on past memories,from nostalgic to traumatic, seems necessary to retain a semblance of balance in a precarious world.

As a result, we would like to start work on the Memories from the Margins project in a different way by putting together a special issue for the Journal of the British Academy, which addresses the aims of our project with its focus on informal memories of violence and opens it up to case studies other than Lebanon and Syria.

We would like to invite expressions of interest for writing articles of 4000-6000 words which explore the following ideas:

– How bottom-up approaches to memorialization can be inclusive, address citizens’ lack of agency and contribute to sustainable peace in contexts marked by obstruction from formal institutions;

– The efficacy of personal archives in challenging amnesia or hegemonic narratives of conflict and advancing demands for justice;

– The sensory, aesthetic dimensions of the heritage produced by conflict;

– The link between the ways in which heritage of conflict is dealt with and the emergence of new violence;

– The transfer of unconventional practices and methods from one context to another.

We are particularly keen on expressions of interest from outside the UK. If you are interested, please contact Dr Daniele Rugo (daniele.rugo@brunel.ac.uk) and Prof NinaParish (n.l.parish@stir.ac.uk) with a short paragraph detailing the main arguments of your article by the end of June.

1.4 Appel à contributions – The Goose 18.2: méli-mélo (numéro très ouvert)

Appel à contributions : méli-mélo (numéro très ouvert)

La revue The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada accepte dès à présent les contributions pour son prochain numéro (18.2), qui sera publié en novembre 2020. Soumettez-nous vos bricolages intellectuels, vos fonds de tiroir, vos bibelots, vos babioles, vos compils, vos projets délaissés, vos réflexions à infusion lente et vos chefs-d’œuvre à moitié finis qui interrogent l’espace – notre environnement, dans toutes ses acceptions – tel que nous l’habitons. Afin de nous aider à penser en dehors du gouffre de l’actualité de la COVID-19 et de laisser de côté nos impératifs de productivité, nous souhaitons que ce numéro soit très ouvert : nous invitons tout particulièrement les travaux tentaculaires, à la croisée des genres, se jouant des conventions ou faisant appel à l’improvisation.

The Goose, la revue de l’ALECC (L’Association pour la Littérature, l’Environnement et la Culture au Canada / Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada), est publiée deux fois par an sur sa plateforme en ligne (http://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/). Cette revue en libre accès vise à promouvoir la distribution et l’étude de la littérature et des arts environnementaux, de l’écocritique, des théories et des études culturelles dans le domaine de l’environnement au Canada.

The Goose est à la recherche de contributions académiques ainsi que d’écrits de création, de fiction ou non romanesques, de poèmes, de photographies, d’essais littéraires et photographiques, d’arts visuels et multimédias, d’entretiens et de comptes-rendus. Notre intérêt premier porte sur le contenu canadien, mais nous acceptons les contributions examinant des productions internationales.

The Goose vous invite également à soumettre vos comptes-rendus. Pour ce faire, veuillez envoyer un courriel à l’attention du directeur du contenu francophone, Julien Defraeye, à l’adresse thegoosebookreviews@gmail.com avec vos suggestions avant le 5 juin 2020.

The Goose encourage vivement les contributions provenant des minorités visibles, de la communauté LGBTQ2S+, des personnes handicapées, des femmes, et des groupes sociopolitiques sous-représentés.

Date limite de soumission : The Goose accepte les contributions de manière continue. Cependant, la date limite de soumission pour le numéro en cours est le 15 juillet 2020.

Comment soumettre ?

Les contributions devront respecter les normes stylistiques de la revue The Goose (http://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/styleguide.html) et être soumises directement sur sa plateforme en ligne (http://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/).

1.5 CfP (10-minute Video Presentations): Health, Disease, and Contagion in the Francophone Postcolonial World

In order to maintain the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies’s academic discussion following the recent difficult but inevitable decision to cancel this year’s annual conference, we should like to invite proposals for 10-minute video presentations, on the theme of ‘Health, Disease and Contagion in the Francophone Postcolonial World’. These will then be considered by the SFPS Executive Committee and a selection of 4-5 ‘winning’ presentations will be hosted, and freely accessible, on the SFPS website from autumn 2020.

Please send proposals of 200-250 words to Chabha Ben Ali Amer (c.benaliamer@lancaster.ac.uk) and Abdelbaqi Ghorab (a.ghorab@lancaster.ac.uk), by the deadline of Friday 26 June.

We hope that this will allow as many of you as possible to continue to engage with the Society’s activities virtually in these testing times, and look forward to receiving your proposals.

1.6 CFP Deadline extended –Women in French Sessions at SAMLA 2020

2020 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference

Online Event/Virtual Conference

November 13-15, 2020

We are extending the submission deadline for proposals to the following Women in French sessions at the 2020 South Atlantic Modern Language Association annual conference, being held this year as an entirely online and virtual event, from November 13-15.

Please consider sending a proposal in French or English to one of the panel chairs listed below by July 15, 2020.

For more information on SAMLA and the annual conference, please visit the conference website: https://samla.memberclicks.net/

The theme of this year’s conference is “Scandal! Literature & Provocation: Breaking Rules, Making Texts.” Professor Gerald Prince will deliver the plenary address.

Presenters, for these panels below, must be current members of Women in French and the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

Thank you in advance for your consideration.

Women, Life Writing, and Scandals of Self-Revelation

As life writing exposes purported truths about personal experience and identity, self-revelations in these accounts position these texts as potential objects of controversy as authors test the limits of telling all. Many authors have turned to life-writing practices to speak about intimate loss, family secrets, stolen childhoods, and physical, psychological, or historical trauma. In this way, autobiography, autofiction, and memoir, remain potentially perilous terrains especially regarding the implications of others on which such self-accounts unavoidably depend. This panel seeks to explore the scandals behind or beyond such self-revelation. How has scandal served as impetus for textual creation? In what ways has the publication of “scandalous” texts implicated others whether in accusation, in solidarity, or by engaging in broader controversies or social discontent? How have such texts responded to scandal? What role do legal proceedings play in (self)censoring self-accounts? Proposals on examples of women engaged with or implicated in scandalous self-revelations in literature, film, theatre, and other modes of representation from all time periods and all areas of Francophone literature are welcome. Please send 250-word proposals in English or French along with presenter’s name, academic affiliation, and email to Adrienne Angelo (ama0002@auburn.edu) by July 15, 2020.

Chair: Adrienne Angelo, Auburn University, <ama0002@auburn.edu>

Scandalous Silence: Recovering the Rebellious Voices of Gisèle Pineau’s Oeuvre

For nearly three decades, Gisèle Pineau’s writing project has spanned genres, using children’s stories, hybrid visual and narrative texts, fiction, and autofiction to address longstanding questions about Antillean women’s subjectivity, memory, racism in contemporary France, and the protean ramifications of the history of slavery. Despite the sustained and valuable scholarly interest in Pineau’s work, many of her texts have received surprisingly little critical attention. Indeed, Pineau has penned more than a dozen full-length works since the publication of her famous 1996 auto-fictional L’Exil selon Julia; yet, these texts have not garnered the scholarship they warrant. This panel therefore seeks to foreground lesser-known works by Pineau in the aim of generating a more comprehensive understanding of the richness of her writing career and the breadth of her inquiry into enduring issues of gender, race, history, and Antillean identity.

Revised and expanded conference proceedings will be considered for a potential edited volume on Pineau.

Please send 250-300 word abstracts in English or French to Lisa Connell and Delphine Gras at lconnell@westga.edu and dgras@fgcu.edu by July 15, 2020.

Chairs: Lisa Connell, University of West Georgia <lconnell@westga.edu> and Delphine Gras, Florida Gulf Coast University <dgras@fgcu.edu>

French and Francophone Women Who Break the Rules and Change the World

This panel welcomes papers focused on explorations of rule-breaking in French and Francophone women’s writing, film, and other art forms. How do these women initiate and navigate change, shift social order, and contest inequities? Examinations of the liminal spaces between tradition and new order and the ways in which these texts challenge limitations of nationality, class, race, sex, and language are particularly welcome.

Papers may be in French or English and may not exceed 20 minutes. Please send a 250-word abstract, brief bio and A/V requests to Susan Crampton-Frenchik, scramptonfrenchik@washjeff.edu, by July 15, 2020.

Chair: Susan Crampton-Frenchik, Washington & Jefferson College, <scramptonfrenchik@washjeff.edu>

Making Art, Breaking Rules: Gender-Bending, “Genre-Bending,” by French and Francophone Women Writers

In French and Francophone societies, where men have historically dominated the arts, a woman daring to assert her own voice is already in itself an act of rebellion. On the one hand, by entering the literary and artistic landscape, women writers and artists transgress society’s expectations of their roles in the domestic sphere as only mothers, wives, and obedient daughters. On the other hand, by taking up the pen, women directly challenge artistic traditions dominated by men, or enter into forbidden territories. This panel will examine how French and Francophone women authors play with gender-bending and “genre-bending” in their works, in their lives, and in their critique of society and the artistic traditions they choose to write in or write back at. Among the questions one may ask are: How do women creators confront the “scandal” of their role as artists? How do they negotiate scandal and censorship? How do they bend or break the rules of the genres they take on? How do politics inform and influence their works and their identities as women authors? Proposals on French and Francophone literatures, films, and other art forms are welcome. Papers may be in English or French. Please send 250-word proposals in English or French to Cathy Leung (cleung34@gmail.com) by July 15, 2020 along with presenter’s academic affiliation, contact information, and A/V requirements.

Chair: Cathy Leung <cleung34@gmail.com>

1.7 CfP: Being Hospitable: Welcoming the Other across Languages (2021 MLA International Symposium, Glasgow)

The unifying theme for the 2021 MLA International Symposium is Being Hospitable: Welcoming the Other across Languages, to be understood in the broadest possible senses of both hospitable and language and as a defiant counter-gesture to the currently inhospitable, even hostile, nature of world politics.

The word and concept of hospitality will embrace a wide range of disciplinary interpretations, including

Ethics (philosophies of self/other, from existentialism to deconstruction)
Welcoming the radically other (tout autre)
Political theory (from identity politics to the “politics of alterity”)
Gender fluidity
Decolonial thinking (different modes of “writing back” to the Empire)
Ongoing refugee and migration crisis
International law and human rights
Adoption (particularly international)
Medical humanities (notably around the concepts of health, well-being and care, hospitals and hospitality)
Social anthropology (rituals of welcoming the other)
Security studies and conflict studies (hospitality and hostility)
Problematizing the notion of hospitality itself as a way of maintaining difference from the Other

Questions of language will cut across the multiple and diverse approaches to the theme of Being Hospitable. We invite proposals that explore the ideas of hospitality and otherness from any of the following suggested perspectives: multilingualism; linguistic and national ontologies; translation and untranslatability; and the performative and transformative nature of language, not only in literature and linguistics but also the languages of the arts, music, film, or technology.

Glasgow, as one of the most hospitable, welcoming, and multicultural of cities, is the ideal venue for a sustained reaffirmation of hospitality in all its forms in our times.

Proposals may address diverse historical periods, disciplines, texts, and practices that represent, interact with, and interrogate a wide range of models of thought.

We invite submissions of individual papers and panel and roundtable sessions.

The conference will include the following session formats:

Panel sessions composed of 3–5 individual presentations
Roundtable conversations including 4–6 participants

Sessions will be ninety minutes long, including time for discussion. The conference languages will be English, French, and Spanish. Submissions are due in early September 2020, and participants will be notified of the outcome of the selection process in December 2020.

1.8 AàC : “Voix subalternes et créa(c)tives. Explorer l’inventivité de la marge francophone”

Appel à communications dans le cadre du colloque international de l’APLAQA

à l’Université du Nouveau-Brunswick et à l’Université Saint-Thomas

Frédéricton, (Nouveau-Brunswick/Acadie) Canada, du 21 au 24 octobre 2021

Le 31e colloque de l’Association des professeurs-es des littératures acadienne et québécoise de l’Atlantique a pour objectif de réunir des chercheurs-es interpelés-es par la vitalité et la prégnance de productions littéraires et culturelles provenant d’aires francophones associées communément à la marge (en particulier les littératures acadienne, franco-ontarienne, de l’Ouest canadien, sans négliger les littératures du Québec, des Caraïbes, d’Afrique ou d’autres régions francophones). La notion de « marge » arrimée aux sujets engagés dans des démarches créatrices innovantes ou impliqués dans l’exploration de domaines de pensée en émergence, influe sur la mondialisation progressive des lettres francophones et sur la transversalité de réseaux poétiques « archipéliques ». Comment concevoir cette mouvance de décentralisation mondiale sans les notions de créolisation, de racines démultipliées, de l’Autre et du Divers qui sont à l’origine de ce que Glissant désigne comme la Relation, une Relation qui se dévoile aussi et surtout dans les littératures de la marge? La marge en littérature francophone évoque a priori le concept de littérature mineure forgé par Deleuze et Guattari (réélaboré par François Paré dans le contexte nord-américain), lequel renvoie à la littérature « qu’une minorité fait dans une langue majeure[1] ». Selon ces chercheurs, les réalisations de la marge sont assujetties à un coefficient de déterritorialisation, tant spatial que linguistique, au branchement de l’individuel sur le politique et à l’agencement collectif d’énonciation[2], circonstances inéluctablement génératrices de tensions, mais que des auteurs-es à l’instar d’Herménégilde Chiasson, de Catherine Mavrikakis, de Dany Laferrière, d’Émile Ollivier, de Nina Bouraoui, d’Amin Maalouf ou d’Abdourahman Waberi, et bien d’autres encore, abordent plutôt en termes d’accroissement de liberté, de ferment créateur.

La notion de marge conjuguée à la minorisation comme constellation parallèle ou excentrique est souvent caractérisée par ce que Glissant dénomme des stratégies de détour renvoyant à l’idée d’inventivité. Aux yeux de Pascale Casanova, le droit à la liberté créatrice dont se réclament les créateurs de la périphérie n’est pas une donnée accordée d’emblée : « ils ne l’ont conquise qu’au prix de luttes toujours déniées comme telles au nom de l’universalité littéraire et de l’égalité de tous devant la création, et de l’invention de stratégies complexes qui bouleversent totalement l’univers des possibles littéraires[3] ». Selon Lise Gauvin de telles stratégies vont « de la transgression affichée à la mise en place de systèmes astucieux de cohabitations de langues ou de niveaux de langues, qu’on désigne généralement sous le nom de plurilinguisme ou d’hétérolinguisme textuel[4] » auxquels pourraient s’ajouter le multiculturalisme syncrétique et la réécriture parodique ou ironique de grands modèles qui bouleversent les formes narratives standard[5]. Chez Glissant de telles stratégies de détour s’imposent aux écrivains-es francophones puisque leurs productions littéraires s’adressent souvent à deux publics, celui de la région ou du pays d’origine et celui du lieu adoptif, lesquels sont séparés par des acquis culturels divergents, les amenant à improviser pour atteindre un lectorat à la fois local et plus vaste[6] – on pense entre autres aux démarches de France Daigle en Acadie et d’Abla Farhoud au Québec.

Les littératures de la marge restent traversées par « une conscience de la fragilité qui se meut aussitôt en force, celle de l’intranquillité[7] », pour reprendre le titre d’un ouvrage de Fernando Pessoa. Ce paradoxe entourant le statut précaire et « toujours à renégocier[8] » des littératures mineures cristallisé par l’expression « voix subalternes et créa(c)tives[9] » autorise à les rapprocher d’une sphère d’idées élaborée par Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. S’appuyant d’une part sur Antonio Gramsci[10] qui s’est intéressé aux groupes sociaux inférieurs dont le témoignage fut exclu du discours historiographique officiel et, d’autre part, sur deux concepts retenus par Marx, à savoir Vertretung, terme allemand qui signifie parler au nom de quelqu’un en tant que représentant(e) ou mandataire, et Darstellung, notion qui renvoie à la représentation sémiotique ou esthétique, où il est question de parler de quelqu’un dans un récit ou un portrait, par exemple, Spivak cherche à cerner les défis entourant la mise en représentation de sujets privés de réceptivité, que nous adaptons dans le sens de petites littératures confrontées par les épreuves de la reconnaissance. La chercheure demeure sensible aux épistémès socioculturelles qui empêchent le sujet subalterne d’accéder aux compétences rhétoriques ou scripturales permettant d’encoder son histoire au niveau d’un discours hégémonique[11] et souligne que ce sujet s’avère « irrémédiablement hétérogène[12] », ses modalités signifiantes empruntant souvent des formes non canoniques de désignation, susceptibles de passer inaperçues[13].

D’après Spivak, la critique, dans son travail de décryptage touchant au sujet subalterne, a tout intérêt à s’attarder sur la transmutabilité de cette parole vers d’autres formes expressives, d’autres effets langagiers, qui, échappant aux codes universels de représentation demeurent hautement signifiants[14]. Le langage des subalternes se trouverait articulé différemment, à savoir dans des actes illocutoires singuliers ou au moyen d’occurrences visuelles, gestuelles ou acoustiques. De cette manière, la subalternité aurait des résonances avec une variabilité de discours qui constitueraient autant de modalités d’agentivité ou d’occasions de parole performante permettant d’encoder des voix inconnues ou encore inadéquatement explorées. Cette définition du sujet subalterne convoque la pensée de Judith Butler qui conçoit la notion d’agentivité dans le sens d’une identité performative transformationnelle, relativement au stéréotype, puisqu’en se présentant autrement dans la répétition, le sujet devient agent et crée la possibilité de déplacer la loi au lieu de la consolider[15].

En transposant la notion de sujet subalterne au prisme de la marge francophone, nous désirons explorer une vaste panoplie de manifestations à la fois créatives, illocutoires et imprégnées d’activisme en insistant sur leur inventivité, par lesquelles les sujets et les discours de la périphérie s’imposent et apportent des transformations sur le plan des normes, des limites, des possibilités ou de contraintes par rapport aux discours hégémoniques du centre ou du canon[16]. De plus, les récits et les productions de groupes au sein de la francophonie qui adoptent des formes hybrides ou intermédiales infiltrent et régénèrent les discours dominateurs. À cet égard, on peut évoquer, à titre d’exemple, des voix acadiennes, québécoises, franco-canadiennes et franco-européennes, des voix du sud francophone (l’Afrique, les Caraïbes, la Polynésie), des voix autochtones, celles épousant des revendications écologiques, celles assimilées aux problématiques féministes et celles issues des communautés queer.

Ce colloque suscite de la sorte un riche faisceau d’interrogations. Quelles sont les préoccupations des productions de la marge francophone depuis les deux dernières décennies ou depuis le manifeste « Pour une littérature-monde en français », paru dans Le Monde du 16 mars 2007? Quelles sont les revendications éthiques et esthétiques des auteurs et des autrices de la marge? Quels sont les recoupements entre subalternité, marginalité et transversalité abordées sous l’angle des littératures ou des productions esthétiques francophones? Qui sont les auteurs/autrices ou les créateurs/créatrices en émergence œuvrant dans la marge francophone? Lesquelles sont les postures critiques de la marge? Quels sont les défis posés par la lecture et la circulation des productions extraterritoriales? Comment les divergences imaginaires de la francophonie composent-elles avec la langue ou les langues d’écriture? Quelles sortes de mixité générique infléchissent les productions de la marge? Quel est l’impact du cyberespace sur les productions de la marge (publications numériques, baladodiffusion, réseautage transcontinental, etc.)?

Le comité organisateur du colloque sollicite des propositions de communication articulées en fonction des axes suivants :

Formes inventives issues des marges francophones
La déterritorialisation de la langue ou l’inventivité linguistique de la marge
Postures critiques et marge : exiguïté, francophonie, postcolonialisme, néocolonialisme
La transversalité des institutions littéraires francophones
Les manifestes ou les discours axés sur les manifestes de la marge
Le sujet subalterne au sein des institutions francophones
L’agentivité allant du singulier au collectif
Les stratégies de détour liées aux auteurs et aux autrices de la marge
Les littératures de l’intranquillité
L’intermédialité, l’hybridité ou la mixité des genres
Littératures francophones et cyberespace
Traduire les textes francophones
Voix émergentes autochtones
Discours et narrations francophones axés sur l’écologie
Récits ou productions culturelles francophones et problématiques du genre (LGBTQ+)
Textes et productions audiovisuelles signés par les femmes œuvrant dans la francophonie
Échos et métamorphoses de la « littérature-monde en français »
Le dialogue nord-sud à travers des productions esthétiques : rencontres, tensions, ouvertures

Proposition de communication un résumé de 150 à 250 mots, accompagné d’une courte notice bio-bibliographique.

Date de tombée : le 15 novembre 2020.

L’adresse électronique pour l’envoi: voixsubalternes@gmail.com

Les jeunes chercheurs-es ainsi que les professeurs-es en début de carrière sont invités-es à soumettre le texte de leur communication au jury du Prix François-Paré. Ce prix récompense un étudiant ou une étudiante aux études supérieures (maîtrise, doctorat, recherches postdoctorales) ou un professeur ou une professeure pendant ses cinq premières années de carrière, ayant soumis la meilleure version écrite d’une communication présentée lors du colloque annuel de l’Association des professeurs-es des littératures acadienne et québécoise de l’Atlantique. Voir : https://www.unb.ca/fredericton/arts/departments/francais/aplaqa/prixfp.html

Selon les subventions reçues, les organisateurs du colloque seraient possiblement en mesure de couvrir une portion des dépenses de participation au colloque des étudiants-es inscrits-es aux études supérieures (maîtrise, doctorat, chercheurs-es au niveau postdoctoral).

Veuillez noter qu’à la suite du colloque, le comité organisateur a l’intention de publier un ouvrage collectif sur le thème du colloque.

Les membres du comité organisateur du colloque :

Co-présidence :

Robert Viau, Université du Nouveau-Brunswick

Cécilia W. Francis, Université Saint-Thomas

Membres :

Patrick Bergeron, Université du Nouveau-Brunswick

Julien Defraeye, Université Saint-Thomas

Daouda Diarra, Université de Moncton

Jo-Anne Elder, Transfiction Translation Services

Christian Mbarga, Université Saint-Thomas

Chantal Richard, Université du Nouveau-Brunswick

https://www.unb.ca/fredericton/arts/departments/francais/aplaqa/index.html

Bibliographie indicative :

Bertrand, Jean-Pierre et Lise Gauvin (dir.), Littératures mineures en langue majeure. Québec / Wallonie-Bruxelles, Bruxelles – Montréal, P.I.E. Peter Lang et Les Presses Universitaires de Montréal, 2003.

Bouraoui, Hédi, Transpoétique. Éloge du nomadisme, Montréal, Mémoire d’encrier, 2005.

Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, New York et Londres, Routledge, 1999 [1990].

Casanova, Pascale, La République mondiale des lettres, Paris, Seuil, 1999.

Deleuze, Gilles et Félix Guattari, Kafka. Pour une littérature mineure, Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1975.

Denis, Benoît et Rainier Grutman, « Centre et périphérie », Paul Aron, Denis Saint-Jacques et Alain Viala (dir.), Le dictionnaire du littéraire, Paris, PUF, 2002, p. 83.

Francis, Cécilia W. et Robert Viau, Trajectoires et dérives de la littérature-monde. Poétiques de la relation et du divers dans les espaces francophones, Amsterdam/New York, Rodopi, coll. « Francopolyphonies », 2013.

Gauvin, Lise, Romuald Fonkoua et Florian Alix (dir.), Penser le roman francophone contemporain, Montréal, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2020.

Godin, Jean-Léo (dir.), Nouvelles écritures francophones. Vers un nouveau baroque?, Montréal, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2001.

Gramsci, Antonio, Cahiers de prison, (5 tomes), textes présentés par Robert Paris, Paris, Gallimard,1983.

Le Bris, Michel et Jean Rouaud (dir.), Pour une littérature-monde, Paris, Gallimard, 2007.

—–, Je est un autre. Pour une identité-monde, Paris, Gallimard, 2010.

Lionnet, Françoise et Shu-mei Shih (dir.), Minor Transnationalism, Durham et Londres, Duke University Press, 2005.

McDonald, Christie et Susan Rubin Suleiman (dir.), French Global. A New Approach to Literary History, New York, Columbia University Press, 2011.

Moura, Jean-Marc, Littératures francophones et théorie postcoloniale, Paris, PUF, 2013.

Moura, Jean-Marc et Véronique Porra, L’Atlantique littéraire. Perspectives théoriques sur la constitution d’un espace translinguistique, Hildesheim, Olms Verlag, 2015.

Paré, François, Les littératures de l’exiguïté, Hearst, Le Nordir, 1994.

Porra, Véronique, « De la marginalité instituée à la marginalité déviante ou que faire des littératures africaines d’expression française contemporaines? », Revue de littérature comparée, n° 2, 2005, p. 207-226.

Rocca, Anna et Névine El Nossery, Frictions et devenirs dans les écritures migrantes au féminin, Sarrebruck, Éditions universitaires européennes, 2011.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, Les subalternes peuvent-elles parler?, traduit par Jérôme Vidal, Paris Éditions Amsterdam, 2009 [1988].

—–, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1999.

[1] Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari, Kafka. Pour une littérature mineure, Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1975, p. 29.

[2] Ibid., p. 33.

[3] Pascale Casanova, La République mondiale des lettres, Paris, Seuil, 1999, p. 243.

[4] Lise Gauvin, « Autour du concept de littérature mineure. Variations sur un thème majeur », Bertrand, Jean-Pierre et Lise Gauvin (dir.), Littératures mineures en langue majeure. Québec / Wallonie-Bruxelles, Bruxelles – Montréal, P.I.E. Peter Lang et Les Presses Universitaires de Montréal, 2003, p. 21.

[5] Benoît Denis et Rainier Grutman, « Centre et périphérie », Paul Aron, Denis Saint-Jacques et Alain Viala (dir.), Le dictionnaire du littéraire, Paris, PUF, 2002, p. 83.

[6] Lise Gauvin et Florian Alix, « Avant-propos », Lise Gauvin, Romuald Fonkoua et Florian Alix (dir.), Penser le roman francophone contemporain, Montréal, PUM, 2020, p. 8.

[7] Gauvin, « Autour du concept de littérature mineure. Variations sur un thème majeur », op.cit., p. 39.

[8] Ibid.

[9] Il s’agit d’un intitulé partiellement inspiré et adapté du colloque tenu à Exeter en juin 2016 ayant eu pour titre, « Femmes créa©tives : les vies et les œuvres des femmes francophones dans les arts et les médias ».

[10] Antonio Gramsci, Cahiers de prison, (5 tomes), textes présentés par Robert Paris, Paris, Gallimard,1983.

[11] Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1999, p. 308.

[12] Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Les subalternes peuvent-elles parler?, traduit par Jérôme Vidal, Paris Éditions Amsterdam, 2009 [1988], p. 45.

[13] Ibid., p. 51.

[14] Spivak, op.cit., p. 204.

[15] Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, New York et Londres, Routledge, 1999 [1990], p. 40.

[16] Benoît Denis et Rainier Grutman, op. cit., p. 83.

1.9 EASTAP journal Call for Proposals: Language and Performance: Moving across Discourses and Practices in a Globalised World

European Journal of Theatre and Performance

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

(proposal deadline: 20 July 2020)

Language and Performance: Moving across Discourses and Practices in a Globalised World

Guest Editors: Małgorzata Sugiera, Karel Vanhaesebrouck, and Timmy De Laet

Within a globalised world, language can act both as a barrier and facilitator for the circulation and visibility of peoplehoods, practices, knowledges, or traditions. The twentieth and twenty-first century have witnessed an arguably unprecedented diversification of local cultures due to the rapid development of digital technologies and online networks, the expansion of transnational migrations, and the commercialisation of relatively affordable travel. Paradoxically, however, the increased exposure to foreign influences has coincided with a peculiar kind of ‘cultural homogenisation’ (Appadurai 1996) that, at best, recognises indigenous hybridity while striving to promote internal cohesion between diverse populations and which, at worse, flips into nationalist leanings that aim to reinforce borders and protect ‘imagined communities’ (Anderson 1983). In these complex societal and political realities, language either serves to enhance communication between people or it is used as leverage to implement exclusionary ideologies.

It is against this backdrop of a deeply diversified and often divided global stage that this issue of the European Journal of Theatre and Performance wants to reconsider the fairly strenuous debate on the relationship between language and performance, which has surfaced repeatedly yet in various guises in the field of the performing arts. The editors more specifically invite contributions that critically inquire into how language either enables or impedes the creation and development of performance works, the dissemination of scholarly research, or the reconciliation of local traditions with international tendencies in both the arts and academia. The overarching aim of the issue is to shed new light on the intricate connections between language and performance by focusing on the various ways in which performance always operates on the microlevel of concrete practices as well as in dialogue with the macrolevel of larger socio-political and cultural contexts.

Prospective authors are welcome to submit proposals that explore the interplay of language and performance along one (or a combination of) the following four axes:

Aesthetic

Language is vital to many aspects of the performing arts, ranging from creation, production, and performing to spectating, reception, and scholarship. Even in a postdramatic era allegedly marked by the demise of the text’s primacy in theatre, neither writing nor language have disappeared altogether from theatrical practices (Borowski and Sugiera 2010; Boyle et al. 2019). Likewise, whereas dance conventionally foregrounds the moving body as its primary medium, leading to what Rudi Laermans describes as a ‘body humanism’ (2008), both written and spoken words are essential and widely used means for creating and transmitting choreography (Franko 2011). Common belief nonetheless holds that the actual experience of performing or watching a theatre, dance, or performance piece can never be fully captured within the limited means of linguistic expression. To the extent, however, that embodied, verbal, and sensory communication lies at the heart of the performing arts, language and discourse remain crucial to understand how performance engages the senses and generates meaning (Nellhaus 2010; Blair and Cook 2016). Moreover, to clarify the dynamics of what Mikhail Bakhtin aptly termed the ‘dialogic imagination’ (1975) seems all the more urgent in a world in which dialogue and mutual understanding are increasingly under pressure.

Possible topics along this line of inquiry may include (but are not limited to):

The mutual feedback between scholarly discourse and artistic vocabularies
The textuality of dance, theatre, and performance versus movement expressed through text
Writing for the theatre and/or other performative arts in a globalised world

Epistemological

As primarily embodied and time-based art forms, the performing arts have a fraught relationship with languages and discourses, becoming subject to the ‘epistemic violence’ with which Western regimes of thinking have traditionally relegated practical, corporeal, and often tacit knowledges to an inferior status (Conquergood 2002). The attempt to counter this tendency has often isolated bodily knowing from the interaction between embodiment and language as one of the foundations for the acquisition of techniques or skills in training and performing. Conversely, the steady growth of artistic research in especially the European contexts has been raising renewed interest in the question of whether and how the performing arts need discourse to become validated as knowledgeable practices in their own right or whether there might be other formats more suitable for the dissemination of artistic knowledges (e.g., Spatz 2015; Bal and Chaberski 2020; Blades et al. 2021).

Possible topics along this line of inquiry may include (but are not limited to):

The interaction between textual archives and embodied repertoires in acting, dancing, and performing
The role of language(s) in the acquisition of bodily knowledges, skills, and techniques
(Non-)linguistic formats for artistic creation and scholarly communication

Methodological

In various ways, the disciplinary development of the adjacent yet distinct fields of theatre, dance, and performance studies has exacerbated the dichotomous tension between language and performance. For each of these domains, language served as a splitting surface to claim its distinctiveness and to become identified as a specific field of research and practice: whereas theatre studies sought to distance itself from literary studies, performance studies gained its contours in opposition to theatre studies while also dance studies differentiated itself from the former two through its outspoken focus on movement and the dancing body (e.g., Pavis 2001; Bottoms 2003; O’Shea 2010). As such, the stance toward language became part of discursive operations that were shaped by an entangled myriad of intra- and interdisciplinary dynamics. While these legacies still impregnate current views on the role of language and discourse in performance scholarship and practices, they remain to be excavated, particularly with regard to how transnational influences steered local traditions, both artistically and intellectually.

Possible topics along this line of inquiry may include (but are not limited to):

Disciplinary genealogies, intellectual histories, and artistic traditions from a friction between local and global points of view
Tactics of differentiation and assimilation in performance practices and scholarship
Terminology and translatability in discourse and practice

Political

Recent scholarship in theatre, performance, and dance studies has directed attention to multilingualism and migration as two major cultural forces to be reckoned with in both research and practice, often with the aim to undermine the pernicious postcolonial, decolonial, and hegemonic legacies still permeating the arts and societies at large (e.g., Cox 2014; Meerzon and Pewny 2019; Damsholt and Hoppu 2020). In the midst of these concerns, the current field of the performing arts as well as academia appear to be governed by two contradictory movements: whereas globalisation has contributed to a larger international outreach of both practitioners and scholars, the dominant position of English as the main communal language runs the risk of either flattening out onto-epistemic and culturally diverse backgrounds or dividing the field into centres and peripheries. Various countries with a vivid artistic scene and proliferous scholarship experience difficulties in finding their way into a more global network of peers, raising the question to what extent the performing arts can resist reigning political, economic, and social power relations.

Possible topics along this line of inquiry may include (but are not limited to):

Multilingualism as a space of encounter and/or conflict
Travelling concepts and migrating discourses
Linguistic (de)colonisation and (counter)hegemony: peripheries and centres in globalised performance practices and research

PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS

Proposals should be written in UK English, in MS Word format and be between 600 and 700 words.
Please include a brief bio (max. 100 words) in your proposal submission and send it by email to the guest editors (see contacts below).
Proposals should specify in which language the article will be submitted. The journal is open to articles written in the language of the author’s preference, but please note that for all articles written in languages other than English contributors will be asked to secure professional proof-reading. Authors may also choose to publish their article in more than one language.
Proposals must be based on original, unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Submitted articles will undergo a double-blind peer-review process by two anonymous experts.
The maximum length of the final article should not exceed 9000 words (including abstract in English and in at least one additional language, references, author bio, etc.).
If your proposal is accepted, you will be invited to submit a first draft of your article by 1 October 2020.
Publication of accepted articles can only be ensured if authors meet the deadlines included in the schedule below.
For more information on the European Journal of Theatre and Performance, please visit: https://journal.eastap.com.

SCHEDULE

Deadline for proposals: 20 July 2020

First drafts of accepted proposals: 1 October 2020

Final drafts: 20 December 2020

Publication: January 2020

CONTACTS

Issue-related enquires and proposal submissions should be sent to the issue’s guest editors:

Timmy De Laet (University of Antwerp, Research Centre for Visual Poetics; CoDa | Cultures of Dance – Research Network for Dance Studies)

timmy.delaet@uantwerpen.be

Małgorzata Sugiera (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Performativity Studies Department)

malgorzata.sugiera@uj.edu.pl

Karel Vanhaesebrouck (Université Libre de Bruxelles, CiASp – Centre de Recherche en Cinéma et Arts du Spectacle)

karel.vanhaesebrouck@ulb.be

REFERENCES

Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso.

Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Bakhtin, Mikhail. [1975] 1981. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Edited by Michael Holquist. Translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin and London: University of Texas Press.

Bal, Ewa, and Mateusz Chaberski (eds.). 2020. Situated Knowing: Epistemic Perspectives on Performance. London and New York: Routledge.

Blades, Hetty, Scott deLahunta, and Lucía Piquero (eds.). 2021. ‘On (Un)Knowns.’ Performance Research 26, no. 2.

Blair, Rhonda, and Amy Cook (eds.). 2016. Theatre, Performance and Cognition: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

Borowski, Mateusz, and Małgorzata Sugiera (eds.). 2010. Worlds in Words: Storytelling in Contemporary Theatre and Playwriting. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Bottoms, Stephen J. 2003. ‘The Efficacy/Effeminacy Braid: Unpicking the Performance Studies/Theatre Studies Dichotomy.’ Theatre Topics 13, no. 2: 173-187.

Boyle, Michael Shane, Matt Cornish, and Brandon Woolf (eds.). 2019. Postdramatic Theatre and Form. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

Conquergood, Dwight. 2002. ‘Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research.’ The Drama Review 46, no. 2: 145-156.

Cox, Emma. 2014. Theatre and Migration. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Damsholt, Inger, and Petri Hoppu (eds.). 2020. Special Issue ‘In and Out of Norden: Dance and the Migratory Condition.’ Dance Research Journal 52, no. 1.

Franko, Mark. 2011. ‘Writing for the Body: Notation, Reconstruction, and Reinvention in Dance.’ Common Knowledge 17, no. 2: 321-334.

Laermans, Rudi. 2008. ‘“Dance in General” or Choreographing the Public, Making Assemblages.’ Performance Research 13, no. 1: 7-14.

Meerzon, Yana, and Katharina Pewny (eds.). 2019. Dramaturgy of Migration: Staging Multilingual Encounters in Contemporary Theatre. London and New York: Routledge.

Nellhaus, Tobin. 2010. Theatre, Communication, Critical Realism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

O’Shea, Janet. ‘The Roots/Routes of Dance Studies.’ In The Routledge Dance Studies Reader, edited by Alexandra Carter and Janet O’Shea, 2^nd edition, 1-15. London and New York: Routledge.

Pavis, Patrice. 2001. ‘Theatre Studies and Interdisciplinarity.’ Theatre Research International 26, no. 2: 153-163.

Spatz, Ben. 2015. What a Body Can Do: Technique as Knowledge, Practice as Research. London and New York: Routledge.

1.10 Call for manuscripts – Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion (Brill) “Jews and Muslims in Europe: Between Discourse and Experience”

Volume 13 (Forthcoming 2022) – Edited by Samuel Sami Everett, University of Cambridge and Ben Gidey, Birkbeck, University of London

The Jew and the Muslim are historically among the primary figures of alterity in Europe, the constitutive outsiders who have shaped what Europe is, notably around questions of conflict, migration and integration. However, on the ground contemporary Jewish and Muslim communities have often been at the forefront of critical engagement with these questions, for example with regard to the Mediterraneanmigration crisis and heightened societal security concerns.

Although the academic evidence indicates negative attitudes to Jews and to Muslims in Europe correlate with each other in wider society, in the current century public discourse has instead emphasized growing antagonism between them. Commentators have pointed to Muslims as perpetrators of antisemitism in France, Germany, and the UK; others have pointed to the growing alignment between organized Jewish community bodies and the rising populist tide. However, scholarship tends to concentrate on only one of these narratives, while ethnographic insight suggests that in urban neighbourhoods, relations are often complex but not necessarily conflictual.

This volume seeks to engage with meta-discourses of alterity and diversity and the complexity of everyday encounter and relation to add comparative perspective for the better understanding of historical and contemporary European discourses towards and the experiences of Jews and Muslims in Europe. To explore these questions we invite authors to contribute theoretical and historical perspectives and/or empirical analyses.

Listed below are a few additional areas authors might like to address:

Attempts to retrieve earlier (real or imagined) periods of conviviality
State and local state discourse and policy
Day to day commercial exchange and banal street contact
Cultural traffic within the music, museum, and arts scenes
Media and community media

Please send proposals (400 words) and a brief bio to Dr Sami Everett (se365@cam.ac.uk)

Deadline Submission of proposals: June 30, 2020

Deadline Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2020

Deadline completed manuscripts (7,000 words): April 30, 2021

1.11 H-France Critical Race Salon resources

H-France Salon is in the midst of publishing a series of Salons on issues of race, racism, and critical race theory within the study of France and the Francophone world. Guest Editors Emily Marker and Christy Pichichero have encouraged readers to submit “Letters to the Guest Editors” (hfrancesalononrace@gmail.com) in response to any of the issues raised in the Salons in an effort to engage members of the H-France community in further discussion. Instructions for doing so can be found in their introductory essays to both installments.

The first installment appeared in H-France Salon Vol 11-Issue 2 “Race, Racism, and the Study of France and the Francophone World” and the second installment appeared in H-France Salon Vol 12-Issue-1. The third installment in this series will appear later this year.

In addition, an early Salon, H-France Salon Vol 9-Issue19, records an Plenary Roundtable at the 2017 Western Society for French History on “Addressing Structural Racism in French History and French Historical Studies.”

Please consider submitting a letter to the guest editors to enrich and deepen this important conversation.

1.12 Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium (2021)

Dû à la pandémie de Covid-19, le Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium n’aura pas lieu en personne en 2021. Comme beaucoup d’entre vous le savez, le colloque qui devait avoir lieu en mars de cette année a également dû être annulé.

Cependant, le comité d’organisation, en concertation avec notre équipe partenaire de la revue Contemporary French & Francophone Studies / SITES, souhaite maintenir la cohésion et les échanges académiques qui vont déjà bon train dans nos domaines d’études et ce en dépit des circonstances difficiles que nous vivons en ce moment.

Nous sommes donc très heureux de vous proposer une conférence virtuelle au printemps 2021 au lieu de notre traditionnelle réunion annuelle. Nous espérons, grâce à cette conférence qui se tiendra exclusivement sur Zoom, parvenir à créer les conditions qui nous permettront de poursuivre nos discussions académiques.

L’édition 2021 de notre colloque portera sur le thème « (Vers) une nouvelle normalité ? ». Nous espérons accueillir des sessions sur une large variété de sujets, genres, auteurs, cinéastes, travaux, phénomènes culturels, etc., dans le contexte des études françaises et francophones des 20ème et 21ème siècles.

Nous vous proposons un éventail de formats qui seront adaptés à la visioconférence. Pour la réalisation de notre colloque international entièrement virtuel, nous invitons les collègues à former des sessions selon les formats suivants :

–   Tables rondes
–   Sessions de communications en 180 à 300 secondes (3 à 5 minutes)
–   Discussions type séminaire avec des communications pré-circulées
–   Discussions ou tables rondes autour de la publication dans le milieu académique (en présence ou non d’éditeurs)
–   Groupes de lecture sur un ouvrage littéraire (en présence ou non de l’écrivain.e)
–   Groupes de lecture sur un ouvrage académique (en présence ou non de l’auteur.trice).

Même si nous vous encourageons très fortement à opter pour un des formats proposés ci-dessus, nous accepterons également le format traditionnel de sessions composées de trois ou quatre présentations de 15 minutes chacune.

Les débats qui suivront ces sessions seront ouverts au public. Les membres de chaque session pourront choisir de se réunir une fois, ou plusieurs fois si ils.elles le souhaitent. Certains des formats proposés pourront rassembler 3 à 4 participant.e.s, tandis que d’autres pourront en compter davantage.

Veuillez noter que nous n’accepterons pas de propositions de communication individuelles.

Nous avons créé un questionnaire Google pour ceux.celles qui souhaitent créer une session.

Les propositions de sessions envoyées via le questionnaire Google sont à soumettre au plus tard le 15 septembre 2020.

Une fois que nous aurons finalisé le programme du colloque, nous le publierons en ligne avec des précisions concernant les conditions de votre participation aux sessions. Notre colloque virtuel aura lieu du 11 au 13 mars prochain. Nous précisons toutefois que ces dates sont pour le moment indicatives puisqu’il est possible que le colloque se déroule sur plus de trois jours, dépendant du taux de participation et de la prise en considération des fuseaux horaires des participant.e.s. Les informations concernant le programme seront mises à jour à mesure que la situation évolue.

Tous.tes les participant.e.s auront la possibilité de soumettre leurs travaux pour considération en vue d’une publication dans la revue académique Contemporary French & Francophone Studies / SITES. Les deux numéros spéciaux de CF&FS / SITES maintiendront le format standard de publication d’articles de 3,000 à 3,500 mots. Tous les articles envoyés seront évalués par un comité de lecture.

Enfin, en lien avec ce colloque virtuel, nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que les éditeurs de Contemporary French & Francophone Studies / SITES proposeront un troisième numéro spécial visant à publier les travaux des doctorant.e.s (ABD) et des docteur.e.s récemment diplômé.e.s avec la participation de leurs mentors. Les propositions d’articles pourront être envoyées par les jeunes chercheurs.ses ou leurs mentors. Le numéro spécial aura pour thème : « Le monde qui vient ». Les personnes souhaitant soumettre un article seront invitées à envoyer une présentation du .de la jeune chercheur .se d’une à deux pages, rédigée par le mentor (500 mots), et un échantillon de travail du .de la jeune chercheur .se, consistant en un résumé de sa thèse ou un extrait de celle-ci (3000 mots). Veuillez consulter ici et ici les numéros spéciaux de CF&FS / SITES réalisés en 2006 pour le format. Les personnes intéressées par cette opportunité sont priées de s’inscrire en utilisant le questionnaire Google. Une table ronde sera organisée autour de la publication de ce numéro spécial pendant le colloque virtuel.

Soyez assuré.e.s que nous sommes résolus à reprendre le format traditionnel de notre colloque à compter de 2022 (et au-delà). Nous espérons que cet événement sera l’occasion d’échanges enrichissants et nous permettra de réfléchir aux manières dont notre domaine d’études réagit face à notre « nouvelle normalité ».

Pour toute question concernant le colloque virtuel, merci de contacter Andrew Sobanet, ajs43@georgetown.edu. Pour les questions en lien avec Contemporary French & Francophone Studies / SITES, merci de contacter Roger Celestin, roger.celestin@uconn.edu.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the in-person Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium will not be taking place in 2021. As many of you know, the 2020 colloquium also had to be canceled this past March.

However, the colloquium steering committee, in tandem with the colloquium’s established partner, the journal Contemporary French & Francophone Studies / SITES, remains committed to maintaining cohesion and on-going scholarly conversation in our field despite these challenging circumstances.

We are therefore happy to propose—in lieu of the in-person conference for the coming academic year—the creation of a virtual conference for spring 2021. Through this conference—which will take place exclusively via Zoom—we hope to create a context to allow us to continue our scholarly conversations.

The theme for this year’s conference will be “A New Normal?” We hope that we will see panels emerge on a whole host of topics, genres, authors, filmmakers, works, cultural phenomena, and so on, in 20th and 21st-century French and Francophone studies.

We are proposing specific modes of engagement that will be suitable for a videoconferencing environment. To that end, we are inviting colleagues to form panels in any of the following formats:

—Round tables

—Flash presentations (i.e., a panel comprised of papers lasting 3-5 minutes each)

—Discussion groups with papers having circulated in advance

—Discussions or round tables on scholarly publishing (with or without the participation of editors)

—Reading groups around a literary work (with or without the author present)

—Reading groups around an academic book (with or without the author present)

While we are strongly encouraging the use of the above formats for panels, we will still accept proposals for traditional panels consisting of 3-4 fifteen-minute presentations.

The deliberations of these panels would all be open to an audience. Panels could meet only once, or more than once if participants so choose. Some of these formats will be suited to 3-4 panelists; others would be able to accommodate more panelists.

Please also note that we are not accepting proposals for individual papers.

We have created a Google form for those of you interested in forming a panel.

We will accept proposals for panels through this Google form through September 15, 2020.

Once we have finalized a conference program, we will post it online with information on how to attend the panels. The virtual conference will be provisionally set for March 11-13, 2021. However, we may hold the colloquium over more than three days, depending on the level of participation and to account for differences in time zones. Information on the schedule will follow as the situation evolves.

All participants will have the opportunity to submit their work for consideration to be published in the peer-reviewed scholarly journal Contemporary French & Francophone Studies / SITES. These two special issues of CF&FS / SITES will retain their traditional format of articles ranging from 3,000 to 3,500 words. All proposed articles will undergo the customary peer review process.

Finally, linked to this virtual conference, we are delighted to announce that the editors of Contemporary French & Francophone Studies / SITES will be opening up a third special issue dedicated to work by ABDs or very recent PhDs, with the participation of their mentors. Here, the idea is, beyond the “New Normal,” to get another picture of our field from a different angle. Proposals can come from either these younger scholars or from their mentors. The theme of the special issue is: “The Shape of Things to Come.” The format is the following: a one or two-page presentation of the younger scholar by their mentor (about 500 words) and a piece authored by the younger scholar, either a synthesis of the dissertation or an excerpt (about 3000 words). Please see here and here for the 2006 special issues of CF&FS / SITES that followed this format. Interested parties should submit their information via the Google form. We will form a round table related to this special issue during the virtual conference.

It is our full intention to have the traditional colloquium resume in 2022 (and far beyond). We do hope that this event will prove enriching and will enable us to get a sense of how our field is responding to our new normal.

If you have questions about the virtual conference, please contact Andrew Sobanet at ajs43@georgetown.edu. For questions related to Contemporary French & Francophone Studies / SITES, please contact Roger Celestin at roger.celestin@uconn.edu.

1.13 Appel à contribution: La presse arabophone hors du monde arabe : effets de contexte sur une presse allophone (Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée)

Cet appel à contributions porte sur la presse arabophone publiée hors du monde arabe. Cette presse regroupe l’ensemble des publications (quotidiens et périodiques) éditées et publiées en langue arabe au sein de pays où cette langue n’est pas une langue dominante.

Si, pour les besoins de cet appel, l’usage de l’expression « la presse arabophone » est au singulier, cette dernière ne constitue pas pour autant une entité homogène. En effet, cette presse est bien plurielle au vu de l’hétérogénéité des temporalités et des contextes de sa naissance, de ses contenus, des trajectoires de ses instigateurs, Arabes ou arabisants, et leurs motivations mais aussi compte-tenu du statut évolutif de la langue arabe. Cette diversité est liée aussi aux différentes localisations de cette presse et aux rapports que ces contextes entretiennent avec l’espace arabe et avec les communautés arabes diasporiques. Les conséquences des interactions que cette presse allophone entretient avec les configurations sociales, politiques et culturelles dans lesquelles elle se déploie seront au centre de notre réflexion.

Cette presse constitue le parent pauvre de la littérature scientifique en France et ailleurs1. Elle n’a fait l’objet que d’un nombre limité de travaux de recherche qui, quand ils existent, s’apparentent davantage à des études de cas prenant pour objet un titre précis. Si de tels travaux ont le mérite d’étudier en profondeur la forme et le contenu d’un titre de presse, ils ne l’inscrivent pas pour autant dans la cartographie plus générale de ce type de publications. L’étude de cette presse dans l’aire « non arabophone » est pourtant cruciale pour la compréhension à la fois de l’histoire nationale et de l’histoire de la presse des pays où elle est née. Partant du rôle que joue l’imprimé dans la construction des imaginaires nationaux (Anderson, 1996), son étude permettrait d’interroger les processus de (ré)écriture des identifications et des cultures nationales de ces pays et/ou ceux d’origine de ses instigateurs. Par ailleurs, son analyse permettrait de saisir les enjeux diplomatiques et politiques que ces productions éditoriales donnent à voir.

Cette presse recèle des logiques temporelles et géographiques multiples : elle relève à la fois d’un phénomène ancien et d’actualité et est intimement liée aux cadres sociaux et historiques de sa parution. Ainsi, le présent appel à contributions couvre un champ temporel large traversé par des contextes politiques variés dans le monde arabe (Empire ottoman, colonisations, indépendances et constructions des Etats-Nations modernes) et dans les pays où ces titres de presse sont nés. Il porte sur les publications ayant vu le jour aux 19^ème et 20^ème siècles mais aussi sur celles qui sont plus récentes, celles ayant cessé de paraître ou continuant d’exister.

De même, cet appel ne se limite pas à l’Europe ou aux Etats-Unis. Historiquement, la France et le Royaume-Uni ont constitué deux zones clés d’épanouissement d’une presse arabe en quête de liberté et d’un climat d’édition favorable (Elias, 1993, p. 44). A Paris, de nombreux titres ont vu le jour comme, entre autres, « Al Urwa Al Wuthqa » né, en 1884, d’une collaboration entre Jamal Eddine Al-Afghani et Mohamed Abduh ou encore le titre satirique « Abou Naddara Zarqa » que Yaqub Sannu a continué à publier après son exil d’Egypte en 1878 et dans lequel il plaidait pour le nationalisme égyptien auprès des Européens (Fahmy, 2008). Faut-il rappeler toutefois l’ambiguïté du rôle de Paris dans l’existence de cette presse arabe ? Alors que la ville offrait un espace de libre expression aux journalistes et autres intellectuels qui y ont trouvé refuge, les autorités politiques françaises publiaient des titres en langue arabe à des fins de propagande en y réaffirmant les positions de la France vis-à-vis de l’Empire ottoman et en exposant ses désirs colonialistes. L’exemple phare de ce type de presse est le journal « Al Mustaqbal » ( L’Avenir) paru à Paris en 1916.

Outre-Manche, et dès la deuxième moitié du 19ème siècle, plusieurs titres hostiles à l’Empire ottoman ont vu le jour tels que « An-Nahla » ( L’abeille). Initialement parue à Beyrouth, cette publication a commencé à être publiée depuis Londres, à partir de 1876, après l’exil de son fondateur Louis Sabounji (Zolondek, 1978) (Visser, 2014). De même, des titres de propagande ont été édités et publiés par l’administration ottomane, depuis Londres, pour contrebalancer les idées qui lui étaient hostiles. Cette mission a été remplie entre autres par la publication « Al Ghayra » (Elias, 1993, p. 45).

Par ailleurs, les flux d’immigration syro-libanaise vers le Nouveau Monde ont permis la mise en place de plusieurs journaux arabes. Ces derniers ont mené une pluralité de rôles au sein de ces communautés dont un rôle éducatif et d’apprentissage et un autre d’intégration et de savoir-vivre. En 1910, il y avait plus d’une quinzaine de journaux arabes aux Etats-Unis (Cadinot, 2013). « Kawkab Amrika » ( Planète Amérique) paru en 1888 à New York en est un exemple (Abu Laban, 1981). Il est aussi important de souligner que cette presse, particulièrement en Amérique du Sud, fut un vecteur important d’idées nationalistes telles que le nationalisme pansyrien et le nationalisme libanais, et a joué un rôle important dans « les mobilisations politiques transnationales » (Logrono Narbona, 2014).

Au milieu des années 1970, et en raison de la guerre qui sévissait au Liban, de nombreux journalistes et titres de presse ont émigré à Paris et à Londres. C’est finalement cette dernière capitale qui devenait le centre de gravité de la presse arabe en Europe. Plusieurs journaux panarabes vont ainsi être créés grâce à des capitaux saoudiens (El Oifi, 2005). Les deux titres « Ach-charq Al Awsat » et « Al Hayat » fondés respectivement en 1978 et en 1989 en sont deux exemples phares. Plus récemment, le quotidien « Al Araby Al Jadeed » était publié à Londres, Doha et Istanbul, étendant dans la presse écrite la politique d’influence du Qatar dans le secteur télévisuel avec la chaîne satellitaire Al-Jazeera. Après 2011, les révolutions arabes vont susciter de profondes transformations dans les champs médiatiques arabes avec la floraison de titres de presse dans les pays mêmes (Tunisie) ou dans les espaces diasporiques créés par les déplacements forcés des populations résultant de la répression et/ou de la guerre (Syrie, Yémen, Egypte, Libye, Irak).

Ce numéro de la REMMM souhaite interroger les conditions de production de cette presse arabophone dans les divers contextes sociétaux, politiques et historiques dans lesquels elle s’est développée, à travers l’identification de ses acteurs et figures journalistiques, la détermination de son lectorat, de son aire de diffusion, de son contenu et de ses inflexions idéologiques. Il s’agira ainsi de questionner le rôle de cette presse dans la formation des identifications nationalistes et communautaires, dans les relations entre les territoires d’origine et les diasporas, dans les mobilisations politiques, dans la formulation et la diffusion des débats intellectuels, ainsi que dans la formation et la propagation de nouvelles formes d’expression linguistiques et culturelles.

Les propositions d’articles à soumettre pourront aborder, à titre d’exemple et de manière non exclusive, une ou plusieurs des problématiques suivantes :

Axe 1. Production et organisation

Les auteurs-éditeurs à l’initiative de ces expériences éditoriales présentent des profils variés qui ne peuvent être dissociés des contextes locaux dans lesquels ils ont déployé leurs activités et leurs entreprises de presse. Quels statuts ont-ils ? S’agit-il de productions éditoriales d’immigrés, de réfugiés, de militants politiques, de groupe d’intellectuels, d’une élite mondialisée, d’autorités politiques, de professionnels du journalisme ?

De même, nous pouvons nous intéresser plus spécifiquement aux types de ces productions éditoriales, à leurs identités matérielles (journal, brochure, bulletin, etc.), à leurs supports (papier, numérique), à leurs périodicités et à leurs modèles économiques. S’agit-il d’initiatives privées ou financées par les autorités des pays d’origine ou de parution de ces titres ? Les dispositifs législatifs en vigueur dans les pays de parution de ces titres favorisent-ils ou, au contraire, contraignent-ils la parution de ce type de presse ?

Axe 2. Contenus et enjeux

Il s’agira ici de s’intéresser aux thématiques exposées dans ces titres et à leurs lignes éditoriales. Que disent-elles des instigateurs de cette presse et des époques de leurs publications ? Qu’en est-il de la diversité linguistique de cette presse ? De quelles variantes de la langue arabe s’agit-il ? Quelle symbolique accompagne le choix de la langue ? La langue arabe est-elle la seule langue mobilisée au sein de ces titres ou se retrouve-t-on devant des productions éditoriales multilingues ? Est-elle d’ailleurs un thème à part entière faisant l’objet de débats ? On s’interrogera particulièrement sur la dimension nationaliste et communautaire des contenus pour déterminer les identifications que la presse promeut ainsi que les référents culturels et politiques qu’elle mobilise selon les différents titres et à différentes époques.

Les enjeux de cette presse sont multiples et varient en fonction des contextes et de l’état des relations entre les diasporas et leurs pays d’origine. On s’interrogera donc sur les évolutions de cette presse au cours de périodes données, et ce en relation avec des mobilisations identitaires, sociales, culturelles et politiques et de l’ancrage différencié de cette presse dans les pays d’accueil ou dans l’espace arabe.

Axe 3. Circulation et réception

La connaissance des modes de circulations de ces titres de presse est tributaire de plusieurs types d’interrogations. Cette circulation est-elle limitée uniquement aux territoires nationaux de leur parution ou les transcende-t-elle pour couvrir des zones davantage transnationales ? Qu’en est-il des circuits de diffusion et des modes de distribution de cette presse (vente au numéro, abonnements) ? Quid des acteurs qui participent à cette circulation (libraires, intellectuels, associations ou groupes politiques, etc.) ?

La question du lectorat, bien que souvent difficile à étudier, est une voie d’entrée privilégiée pour établir des relations entre le projet culturel/politique du titre de presse, son contenu et sa réception. Quels sont les lecteurs de ces titres de presse ? Quelle hétérogénéité se donne à voir au sein de ces publics ? Qu’en est-il des pratiques de lecture de cette presse ?

Les propositions d’articles voulant interroger les terminologies utilisées pour désigner ce type de presse sont aussi les bienvenues. Entre les pratiques d’auto-désignation et d’assignation identitaire, comment désigner cette presse ? Ces auteurs-éditeurs qualifient-ils leurs presses d’« arabe » ? Peut-on parler d’une presse communautaire ou d’une presse de « minorité » ? Comment la positionner dans le spectre plus large de la presse nationale des pays au sein desquels elle voit le jour ?

Cet appel est ouvert à plusieurs disciplines en Sciences Humaines et Sociales (Anthropologie, Sociologie, Sciences de l’information et de la communication, Sciences politiques, Histoire, etc.). Les chercheurs mobilisant des approches pluridisciplinaires sont fortement encouragés à soumettre des propositions d’articles. Les méthodologies aussi bien qualitatives que quantitatives sont les bienvenues. Ainsi, les travaux interrogeant les difficultés méthodologiques de repérage de ces titres de presse, de même que ceux proposant une lecture transversale de ces titres en fonction de leurs ancrages géographiques et historiques, s’inscrivent dans le sillage de cet appel.

Calendrier

1er décembre 2020 : Date limite de réception des propositions d’articles d’un maximum de 4000 signes avec le(s) nom(s) de l’auteur/ des auteurs, rattachement(s) institutionnel(s) et adresse(s) électronique(s) aux adresses suivantes : asmaa.azizi@univ-paris13.fr, franckmermier@yahoo.fr, diana.cooper-richet@uvsq.fr.

1er janvier 2021 : Notification de la décision du comité scientifique.

1er septembre 2021 : Date limite de réception des articles et mise en évaluation des textes.

Automne/Hiver 2022 : Publication du numéro spécial de la revue REMMM, vol 2022-2.

Plus d’informations concernant les règles de rédaction et le processus éditorial, voir ici.

The Arabic press published outside the Arab world: Context effects on an allophone press. Franck MERMIER, Asmaa AZIZI et Diana COOPER-RICHET

This call for papers concerns the Arabic press published outside the Arab world. It includes all periodical publications (daily newspapers and reviews) published in Arabic in countries where this language is not one of the dominant languages.

For the needs of this call for papers, we will use the expression « the Arabic press ». However, this press is not a homogeneous entity. It is, in fact, heterogenous and displays multiple contents arising in multiple temporalities and contexts, but also the result of the various paths followed by its instigators (Arabs or Arabists), their motivations, as well as the evolving status of the Arabic language. This diversity is also linked to the different locations of this press and the relationships that these contexts maintain with both the Arab area and the Arab diasporic communities. Thus, the central elements of our thinking reflect the interactions that this Allophone press maintains with the social, political and cultural configurations in which it operates.

Very little research has been devoted to this press in France and elsewhere. In general, the works that examine this research object are case studies that focus on one or another specific publication. Most of the in-depth work concerns the content of specific titles and fails to take into consideration the general mapping of this type of publication.

Yet the study of this press is crucial for understanding both the national history and the history of the press of the countries where it was or is still published. Just like the role that print plays in the construction of national imaginaries (Anderson, 1996), this work would probably lead to a new approach concerning national identifications and cultures, (re) writing process in the countries where these titles were or are published, as well as to a better grasp of the diplomatic and political issues that these editorial productions raise.

This press conceals numerous temporal and geographical logics. It is both an old and a topical phenomenon, closely linked to the social and historical context of its publication. This call for papers therefore covers a large period of time (the publications that emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries but also those more recent, that have ceased to exist or continue to exist), various political contexts in the Arab world (Ottoman Empire, colonisations, independence followed by the building of the modern Nation-State) and in the countries where these press titles were born.

This call is not limited either to Europe or the United States. Historically, France and the United Kingdom have been the two key areas for an Arabic press seeking freedom and a favourable environment (Elias, 1993, p. 44). A large number of titles were published in Paris, including “Al Urwa Al Wuthqa“, launched in 1884 by Jamal Eddine Al-Afghani and Mohamed Abduh, and the satirical title “Abu Naddara Zarqa“, which Yaqub Sannu continued to publish after his exile from Egypt in 1878 and in which he pleaded for Egyptian nationalism among Europeans (Fahmy, 2008). However, the ambiguity of Paris’ role in the existence of this Arabic press needs to be emphasized. While it offered a space for freedom of speech for journalists and other intellectuals who found refuge there, the French political authorities published titles in Arabic languages for propaganda purposes, thus reaffirming France’s positions vis-à-vis the Ottoman Empire and exposing its colonial ambitions. The main example of this type of press is “Al Mustaqbal” (The Future) published in Paris in 1916.

On the other side of the Channel, as early as the second half of the 19th century, several titles hostile to the Ottoman Empire were published, such as “An-Nahla” (The Bee). Originally published in Beirut, it moved to London in 1876, following the exile of its founder, Louis Sabounji (Zolondek, 1978) (Visser, 2014). In the same way, propaganda titles were published by the Ottoman administration in London to counter hostile ideas circulated in the British capital. This task was fulfilled among other titles by « Al Ghayra » (Elias, 1993, p. 45).

To further complicate matters, Syrian and Lebanese communities in the New World established their own multifunctional (educational, learning, integration and savoir-vivre) press in Arabic. In 1910, there were more than fifteen Arabic newspapers published in the United States (Cadinot, 2013). « Kawkab Amrika » (Planet America) founded in 1888 in New York is a good example of this type of periodical (Abu Laban, 1981). It should also be noted that this press, particularly in South America, was an important vehicle for nationalist ideas, such as Pan Syrian and Lebanese nationalism and played an important role in « transnational political mobilisations » (Logrono Narbona, 2014).

In the mid-1970s, as a result of the war in Lebanon, many journalists and periodicals emigrated to Paris and to London. London became the centre for the Arabic press in Europe. Several pan-Arab newspapers were launched thanks to Saudi capital (El Oifi, 2005), such as “Ach-charq Al Awsat” (1978-) and “Al Hayat” (1989-). More recently, the daily “Al Araby Al Jadeed” was published in London, Doha and Istanbul, thus extending, to the written press, Qatar’s policy of influence in the television sector, thanks to its satellite channel Al-Jazeera. After 2011, the Arab Spring brought about deep transformations in the Arab mediascape and the proliferation of press titles in both Arabic speaking countries (Tunisia) and the diasporic spaces created by forced displacements resulting from repression and/or war (Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Iraq).

This issue of REMMM aims to examine the conditions in which this Arabic press is produced as well as the social and historical contexts in which it developed. We will identify its editors and journalists, examine its readers, and geographical extent of circulation, examine its contents and explore ideological influences. This issue’s goal is to analyse the role of this press in the promotion and formation of nationalist and community identifications, in relations between host cultures and the countries from which immigrant communities arise, considering all aspects, from political mobilisations and the formulation and dissemination of intellectual debates to the articulation and dissemination of new forms of linguistic and cultural expression.

Article proposals may examine, for example, one or more of the following issues:

Area 1. Production and organisation

The authors and publishers behind these editorial experiences have varied profiles that cannot be dissociated from the local contexts in which they carried out their activities and their press enterprises. What is / was their status? Are they immigrants, refugees, political activists, intellectual groups, a globalized elite, political authorities, or professional journalists?

Research could also focus, more specifically, on the genera of these editorial productions, their material identities (newspaper, newsletter, leaflet, etc.), their media (paper, digital), their frequency and their business models. Are they private initiatives or were they financed by homeland and / or host authorities? Did / does the legislative framework in the countries where these titles are published facilitate or, on the contrary, hinder the publication of this type of press?

Area 2. Contents and stakes, notably the question of the language

Research could also focus on topics and editorial lines set out in these titles. What can be said about the instigators of this press and the periods during which it was published? What about the linguistic diversity of this press? What variant of the Arabic language is used in these titles? Which Arabic form(s) was / were used? The literary, vernacular or modern ones? What symbolic referents accompanied the choice of language? Is Arabic the only language used in these periodicals or are they multilingual editorial productions? Is the Arabic language an object of study in these titles? Particular attention will be paid to the nationalist and community dimensions of the content in order to identify those elements characteristic of the different periodicals at different times, as well as the cultural and political references they mobilize.

The stakes for such a press are multiple and vary according to the contexts and relations between diaspora communities and their countries of origin. We will therefore examine the evolution of this press during particular periods, in relation to identity, social, cultural and political mobilization and the differentiated anchoring of this press in host countries or in the larger Arabic space.

Area 3. Circulation and reception

The modes of circulation of this press are multiple and depend on whether its circulation is limited to the national territory in which it is published or if it covers transnational zones? What are the distribution channels and methods of distribution employed by this press (sale by issue, subscriptions)? What channel intermediaries are employed in this distribution model: booksellers, intellectuals, associations or political groups …?

The question of readership, although often difficult to ascertain is a privileged point of entry for understanding relations between the cultural/political project of this press, its content and readership. Who are its readers? Are they heterogeneous?

Proposals that question the terminology used to characterize this type of press are also welcome. Between self-attribution and identity assignment, how should this press be designated? Can it be considered a “community press” or as a “minority” press? How can it be positioned in the wider spectrum of the national press in the countries in which it was born?

This call is open to researchers in the Human and Social Sciences including Anthropology, Sociology, Information and Communication Sciences, Political Sciences, History … Researchers using multidisciplinary approaches are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. Qualitative and quantitative methodologies are welcome. Thus, articles proposing reviews tracking methodological difficulties concerning these periodicals are consistent with this call, as well as those proposing a transversal study of these titles according to their geographical and historical contexts.

Submission schedule

1 December 2020: Deadline for submission of proposals – not exceeding 4000 characters – with author(s) name(s), institutional affiliations(s) and e-mail address(es). Proposals should be sent to: asmaa.azizi@univ-paris13.fr, franckmermier@yahoo.fr and diana.cooper-richet@uvsq.fr.

1 January 2021: The scientific committee will notify authors as to the acceptance of their proposal.

1 September 2021: Final copy is due.

Autumn/Winter 2022: Publication of the special issue of the REMMM journal, vol 2022-2.

For more information concerning the style guide and the editorial process, click here.

Bibliographie

ABU LABAN Baha, La présence arabe au Canada, Le cercle du Livre de France et Division du multiculturalisme, Secrétariat d’Etat du Canada, collection Générations, histoire des peuples du Canada, Ottawa, 1981.

AKHOUN-SCHWARB Dominique, La presse arabe et la France : Inventaire des périodiques arabes imprimés, publiés entre 1875 et 1920, disponibles dans les bibliothèques de Paris, Lyon et Aix-en-Provence, Rapport de recherche bibliographique, DESS Réseaux d’information et document électronique, ENSSIB, 2003.

ABDULKARIM Amir, « La presse libanaise exilée à Paris », Hommes et Migrations, n° 1162-1163, Février-mars 1993, pp. 80-85.

ANDERSON Benedict, L’imaginaire national. Réflexions sur l’origine et l’essor du nationalisme. Paris. Ed. La découverte, 1996.

ASAL Houda, Se dire arabe au Canada. Un siècle d’histoire migratoire, Ed. Presses Universitaires de Montréal, 2016, 282 p.

AZIZI Asmaa, « Presse des immigrés marocains : entre construction identitaire et mobilisation politique », Communication & Langages, n° 187, mars 2016.

CADINOT, Dominique, « The reconfiguration of gender relations in Syrian Americain feminist discourse in the diasporic conditions of the late nineteenth century », CLIO. Women, gender, history, n° 37, 2013. Consultable en ligne https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh/413

CHELBI Mohamed-Fehri, Les journaux arabes de Paris (1859-1919) : étude sociohistorique et sociologique, thèse de doctorat, Université Paris II, 1986, 588p.

ELIAS Hanna Elias, La presse arabe, Paris : Editions Maisonneuve & Larose, 1993, 140 p.

EL OIFI Mohammed, « L’opinion publique arabe entre logiques étatiques et solidarités transnationales », Raisons politiques, 2005/3 (n° 19), p. 45-62. Consultable en ligne https://www.cairn.info/revue-raisons-politiques-2005-3-page-45.htm

ETTMULLER Eliane Ursula, The construct of Egypt’s national-self in James Sanua’s early satire and caricature, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2012, 328 p.

FAHMY, Ziad, « Francophone Egyptian Nationalists, Anti-British Discourse, and European public opinion, 1885-1910: The case of Mustafa Kamil and Ya’qub Sannu’« , in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2008, 28(1): 170-183.

Génériques, Presse et mémoire : France des étrangers, France des libertés, Paris : Mémoire-Génériques, Ed : Ed. ouvrières, 1990, 201 p.

LOGRONO NARBONA, Maria del Mar, « A Transnational Intellectual Sphere: Brazil and Its Middle eastern Populations », in Paul Amar (ed.), The Middle East and Brazil. Perspectives on the New Global South, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2014, pp. 199-214.

VISSER, Rogier, Identities in Early Arabic Journalism. The case of Louis Sabounji, University of Amsterdam, 2014.

ZOLONDEK, Léo, « Sabounji in England », Middle East Studies, n° 14, 1978, pp. 102-115

Notes

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1.14 Migrant literature panel–NeMLA 2021 (Philadelphia)

Call for papers:

The term “migrant literature” was originally coined by Québecois critics in the 1980s to describe works written by the increasing number of immigrants in the province. Recently, the term has been gaining theoretical momentum as an alternative to both “francophone” and “postcolonial” literature to describe any body of work written in French by or about migrants in French-speaking areas of the world.

The 2007 Pour une littérature-monde debate added to this discussion by questioning whether the growing importance of texts from various parts of the French-speaking world implied the end of francophonie as we know it. Migrant literature explores the politics of national boundaries, international law and mobility, language and identity, gender politics, cultural hegemonies and the development of “national” canonical texts. It also includes within its sphere of inquiry translingual authors from countries that have never known direct French colonial rule, as well as multilingual authors who move laterally within border zones, bypassing and negating colonial centers.

This panel proposes a critical evaluation of migrant literature both as literary theory and writing practice. We invite submissions on any aspect of contemporary migrant literature in French with a preference for analyses that will situate it within current literary debates.

Organizers: Ioanna Chatzidimitriou and Eileen McEwan

Submission deadline: September 30 (http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html)

1.15 CfP: Film, Television, and History in the French-Speaking World

Film and television intersect with history in French-speaking regions of the world in myriad ways. They represent the past in documentaries and fiction; act as documents of the periods in which they were produced and initially consumed; offer new ways to imagine and/or narrate the past; and function as objects of study that help us understand the emergence, marketing, and appropriation of what has been one of the most widely consumed cultural forms of the modern era.

Film and television intersect with history transnationally as well, through complex networks of production, consumption, and appropriation across the globe. Envisioning film and TV productions as, to quote Felwine Saar, “local imaginaries” dissenting from the formulaic audio-visual narratives of the former colonizer and/or a US-inflected global culture, we seek contributions that address how directors configure unique histories and narratives in the French-speaking world, as well as analyses of films or television programs from France about France.

This special issue of French Historical Studies invites papers from scholars of history, film, and television studies whose inquiries concern France and/or regions that have shared its history and have engaged with it politically, culturally, or intellectually. In so doing, we hope to assess and advance the conversation between historians and scholars of film and television around issues of representation. What can film and/or television tell us about France, most especially “France in the world” (to quote Boucheron et al.)? What can film and/or television tell us about the need for new historically inflected narratives of the post-colony?

Submissions on all periods are encouraged. Themes may include and are not limited to:

Film as a way of representing the past

+ Staging history on the screen, large or small

+ Adapting the historical text or fiction for the screen

+ Documentary about historical events/ moments/ personalities

+ Accentuated cinema in France

Film and the archive

+ The constitution and/or use of film archives

+ Film as compensation for the missing archive by giving voice to the voiceless

Film as cultural object

+ Documentary or essay film as a reflection on/of its era

+ How particular conditions of production, distribution, or appropriation illuminate their historical moment

+ The use of film to engage cultural, political, or linguistic struggle

+ Political histories of film and TV

Queries about submission and other matters should be addressed to both guest editors Laura Mason (lmason@jhu.edu) and Florence Martin (fmartin@goucher.edu). We would like to receive proposals for papers by October 2020.

To submit an article, visit www.editorialmanager.com/fhs/default.aspx. After registering, follow the submission instructions under “Instructions for Authors” on the website. Articles may be either in English or in French but must in either case conform to French Historical Studies style and must be accompanied by 150-word abstracts in both French and English. Manuscripts may be between 4,000 and 8,000 words. For illustrations, stills, or film clips, authors must obtain written permission for both print and online publication from the relevant persons or institutions.

Deadline for submission of papers to FHS is September 1, 2021

APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS: FILM, TELEVISION, ET HISTOIRE DANS LE MONDE FRANCOPHONE

Les éditrices de French Historical Studies lancent un appel à articles pour un numéro spécial sur le cinéma, la télévision et l’histoire, à paraître en 2022.

Le cinéma et la télévision croisent l’histoire dans les régions francophones de mille façons. Ils représentent le passé dans des documentaires ou des fictions; témoignent témoignages des périodes dans lesquelles ils sont produits et consommés pour la première fois; imaginent ou narrent le passé d’une façon nouvelle; constituent des objets d’étude qui nous renseignent sur l’émergence, le marketing et l’usage des formes culturelles les plus populaires du monde contemporain.

Le cinéma et la télévision croisent aussi l’histoire dans un contexte transnational, par l’intermédiaire de réseaux complexes de production, consommation, et appropriation à travers le monde. Concevant le cinéma et la télévision comme des “imaginaires locaux” (pour citer Felwine Saar) qui divergent des récits conventionnels de l’ex-colonisateur et/ou d’une culture mondiale dominée par les Etats-Unis, nous invitons des propositions de textes traitant des façons dont les réalisateurs du monde francophone configurent ou construisent des Histoires ou des récits uniques, ainsi que des analyses de films ou d’émissions de télévision en France sur la France.

Ce numéro spécial de FHS invite des propositions d’historiens et de spécialistes du cinéma et/ou de la télévision en France et/ou dans les régions qui ont partagé son histoire et interprété sa vie politique, sociale, ou culturelle. Nous espérons ainsi dresser un état des lieux et poursuivre une conversation active entre historiens et spécialistes de film et de télévision autour des questions de représentation. Que peuvent nous dire le cinéma et/ou la télévision de la France, surtout de “la France dans le monde” (pour reprendre l’expression de Boucheron et al.)? Que peut nous dire le cinéma et/ou la télévision sur le besoin de récits nouveaux autour de l’histoire dans la post-colonie?

Toutes les époques historiques entrent dans notre champ d’investigation. Parmi les thèmes possibles :

+ Le cinéma comme représentation du passé

+ Représenter l’histoire sur grand ou petit écran

+ Adapter la fiction ou le texte historique à l’écran

+ Documentaires sur des événements / personnages / périodes historiques

+ Le « Cinéma accentué » en France

+ Le film et l’archive

+ La constitution et/ou l’usage d’archives de film

+ Le film et l’absence d’archive ; donner voix aux personnes sans voix.

+ Le film comme objet culturel

+ Documentaire ou film-essai en tant que réflexion de/sur son époque.

+ Éclairage des conditions de production, distribution, ou consommation du film sur une époque historique donnée.

+ Le rôle du film dans les luttes culturelles, politiques et/ou linguistiques.

+ Histoires politiques du cinéma et/ou de la télévision.

Les propositions d’articles, ainsi que toutes vos questions, sont à adresser à nos deux directrices de ce numéro spécial : Laura Mason (lmason@jhu.edu) et Florence Martin (fmartin@goucher.edu).

La date limite pour une proposition d’abstract est fixée au 31 octobre 2020.

Pour soumettre un article, veuillez consulter www.editorialmanager.com/fhs/default.aspx. Après vous être enregistré(e), suivez les instructions de la section « Instructions for Authors ». Les articles peuvent être soumis en anglais ou en français, mais, dans les deux cas, ils doivent être conformes au style de FHS, et doivent être accompagnés d’un résumé ou abstract de 150 mots, dans les deux langues. Les manuscrits doivent comporter entre 4 000 et 8 000 mots. Concernant les illustrations, prises de vue, ou extraits de film, les auteurs doivent obtenir la permission écrite de les publier sous forme papier et digitale de la part des personnes dépositaires des droits sur ces images ou extraits audiovisuels, ou de la part des responsables des institutions d’où les images sont originaires.

La date limite pour soumettre les articles est fixée au 1 septembre 2021.

1.16 CFP: Expressions maghrébines 20.2 (2021): Gisèle Halimi, la littérature en défense (coord. Samia Kassab-Charfi)

Expressions maghrébines

Revue de la Coordination internationale des chercheurs sur les littératures du Maghreb

www.ub.edu/adhuc/em

Vol. 20, nº 2, hiver 2021 : Appel à articles

Gisèle Halimi, la littérature en défense

Dossier coordonné par Samia Kassab-Charfi

Date limite de soumission des articles : 31 janvier 2021

Parution : décembre 2021

Née à Tunis, Gisèle Halimi est une figure intellectuelle inspirante qui a marqué l’histoire de la défense des libertés individuelles au XX^ème siècle. Écrivaine, avocate aujourd’hui encore active et femme libre, ses convictions et le combat qui les a concrétisées ont, depuis les années de la Guerre d’Algérie (procès de Djamila Boupacha, entre autres), été portés par un enjeu éthique constant : défendre les indéfendables, ou du moins ceux qui n’avaient pas beaucoup de chances de trouver quelque défenseur pour porter leur voix et faire advenir leur cause. C’est sans doute en ce point de convergence, nourri par l’inaltérable respect de la dignité humaine, que le dynamisme créatif de l’écrivaine croise l’activisme de l’avocate, nous incitant à prendre la mesure des médiations reliant ces deux niveaux d’engagement qui, souvent, s’entr’éclairent.

Dans un tel contexte, il est important de revenir sur le parcours étonnant de cette inlassable militante qui a beaucoup écrit. Car l’œuvre de Gisèle Halimi est riche de biographies, autobiographies, récits, témoignages, essais et chroniques de vie politique : Le Procès de Burgos (1971), La Cause des femmes (1973), Avortement, une loi en procès (1973), Viol, le procès d’Aix : choisir la cause des femmes (1978), Le Lait de l’oranger (1988), Une embellie perdue (1995), La Nouvelle Cause des femmes (1997), Fritna (1999), Avocate irrespectueuse (2002), L’Etrange Monsieur K (2003), Le Procès de Bobigny : choisir la cause des femmes (2006, avec une préface de Simone de Beauvoir), La Kahina (2006), Ne vous résignez jamais (2009), Parcours d’avocat(e)s (recueil d’Entretiens ; 2010), Histoire d’une passion (2011). Là, dans la sincérité de l’écriture, que ce soit dans les textes où elle revient sur son enfance et sa jeunesse à Tunis ou dans ceux où elle relate les conflits qui l’ont opposée aux forces rétrogrades hostiles à la liberté des femmes, l’œuvre dévoile une personnalité forte qui récuse les clichés et va à l’encontre des idées reçues sur l’instinct maternel, renvoyant dos à dos la doxa patriarcale et les préjugés oppressifs qui structurent l’imaginaire de la maternité. Au fond, l’œuvre littéraire de cette femme à la pensée libre doit vraisemblablement d’avoir été déterminée par cet irrédentisme féministe qui la fait s’élancer vers tout être sans recours, qu’il soit exposé à la violence de l’Histoire ou aliéné par l’emprise inexorable de la norme socioculturelle, comme le fut sa propre mère dont le désamour est questionné dans le saisissant Fritna (1999).

Ce numéro qui consacre Gisèle Halimi lui est ainsi consacré. Il invite les contributeurs à réapprécier la tessiture si particulière de sa voix de femme originaire d’une minorité tunisienne, à réévaluer dans leurs spécificités historiques, politiques, éthiques, littéraires, psychanalytiques les enjeux de cet engagement volontariste conçu, toujours, comme un rendez-vous avec l’Autre. Aujourd’hui, de nombreuses aires géoculturelles sont encore largement concernées par les violences faites aux femmes et par les atteintes aux droits humains. Dans les sociétés en développement mais aussi en Europe, les tentations de moins en moins inhibées de régression, de révisionnisme des Droits de l’Homme gangrènent les débats publics, apparaissant comme des marqueurs d’une involution aux antipodes du courage de cette défenseure des militants du FLN au moment de la lutte anticolonialiste en Algérie. À cet égard, l’insoumission politique de Gisèle Halimi, dictée par une foi ardente en la souveraineté de la justice humaine et par un amour de la vérité qui ne s’est pas démenti, demeure exemplaire. Prolongé depuis les années 1950 jusqu’à nos jours dans la poursuite d’une mobilisation initiée très tôt (Manifeste des 343) contre les interdits socioreligieux qui ont balisé et balisent encore l’accès régulièrement menacé à l’autodétermination corporelle des femmes (Procès de Bobigny), son combat est plus que jamais d’actualité. C’est ainsi qu’en 2021 sera commémoré le 50^e anniversaire de la fondation du mouvement « Choisir la cause des femmes », célébrant le plein engagement de Gisèle Halimi pour l’humain, cet humain coopté dans sa part la plus exposée, la plus vulnérable dans les sociétés et les régimes répressifs.

Nous invitons des contributions qui explorent les intrications entre l’œuvre de l’écrivaine et les positions qu’elle défend dans la sphère sociale, entre son origine socioculturelle et ses choix professionnels, ou qui font valoir les intersections entre les mouvements féministes et de Droits de l’Homme avec lesquelles Gisèle Halimi engage un dialogue et les textes qu’elle a composés. Nous encourageons également les réflexions qui repensent l’itinéraire de cette figure emblématique de la vigilance humaine comme barrage à l’injustice et à l’oppression patriarcale.

Voici quelques-uns des axes qui pourraient fédérer les réflexions développées dans ce numéro :

Résistivité et insoumission : les figures inspirantes chez Gisèle Halimi (la Kahéna, etc.)
Graine(s) de révolte et floraison littéraire
Gisèle Halimi, précurseure d’une éthique du Care
Gisèle Halimi et les autres figures féminines intellectuelles du XX^ème siècle – S. de Beauvoir, H. Cixous, etc. : quelle(s) singularité(s) ?
La portée d’une posture irrévérencieuse à l’égard de la France au moment de la Guerre d’Algérie
Genre et Justice ; parité et vivre-ensemble
Le positionnement de G. Halimi relativement aux avocats masculins
Histoire familiale et militantisme
Minorités et fonction d’avocat : une tradition judéotunisienne ?
Reconception du rapport à la Mère et de l’instinct maternel
Posture de défense judiciaire et Témoignage
Contexte judéotunisien et déploiement de la vocation (histoire littéraire ; histoire des idées de la 1^ère moitié du XXe siècle tunisien : Smadja, Annie Goldmann, Paul Sebag…)
Relire Fritna aujourd’hui
Postérité(s) cinématographique(s) de l’action militante de Gisèle Halimi

Les articles ne devront pas dépasser 40.000 signes, espaces inclus (6.000 mots environ). La ponctuation, les notes et les références doivent être conformes aux normes appliquées par la revue : http://www.ub.edu/adhuc/em.

Les demandes de renseignements complémentaires et les articles complets doivent être adressés par courrier électronique à la présidente du comité scientifique : expressions.maghrebines@ub.edu

La section VARIA de la revue maintient toujours un appel à articles (sans date limite de soumission) concernant les cultures maghrébines : littérature, cinéma, arts…

Vol. 20, n. 2, Winter 2021: Call for Papers

Gisèle Halimi, la littérature en défense

Edited by Samia Kassab-Charfi

Final Papers Submission Deadline: 31 January 2021

Publication: December 2021

Born in Tunis, Gisèle Halimi is an inspiring intellectual figure who has marked the history of the defense of individual liberties in the 20th century. A writer, a lawyer still active today, and a free woman, her convictions and the struggle that gave expression to them have, since the years of the Algerian War (the trial of Djamila Boupacha, among others), been driven by a constant ethical challenge: to defend the ones who cannot be defended, or at least those who had little chance of finding some defender to raise their voice and make their cause come to fruition. It is undoubtedly at this point of convergence, nourished by an unalterable respect for human dignity, that the creative dynamism of the writer meets the activism of the lawyer, prompting us to take the measure of the mediations linking these two mutually illuminating levels of commitment.

In such a context, it is important to look back at the astonishing career of this tireless activist and accomplished writer. For Gisèle Halimi’s work is rich in biographies, autobiographies, accounts, testimonies, essays and chronicles of political life: Le Procès de Burgos (1971), La Cause des femmes (1973), Avortement, une loi en procès (1973), Viol, le procès d’Aix: choisir la cause des femmes (1978), Le Lait de l’oranger (1988), Une Embellie perdue (1995), La Nouvelle Cause des femmes (1997), Fritna (1999), Avocate irrespectueuse (2002), L’Etrange Monsieur K (2003), Le Procès de Bobigny: choisir la cause des femmes (2006, with a preface by Simone de Beauvoir), La Kahina (2006), Ne vous résignez jamais (2009), Parcours d’avocat(e)s (collection of interviews; 2010), Histoire d’une passion (2011).

Here, in the sincerity of writing, whether in the texts where she looks back on her childhood and youth in Tunis or in those where she relates the conflicts that opposed her to the retrograde forces hostile to women’s freedom, Halimi’s work reveals a strong personality that challenges clichés and goes against preconceived ideas about the maternal instinct, undermining both the patriarchal doxa and the oppressive prejudices that structure the imagination of motherhood. The literary work of this free-thinking woman stems from her feminist irredentism which has always spurred her to take up the cause of the disenfranchised, those exposed to the violence of history or alienated by the inexorable grip of socio-cultural norms, as was her own mother, whose lack of love is questioned in the gripping Fritna (1999).

This special issue proposes to consecrate Gisèle Halimi. Contributors are invited to reappreciate the very particular range of her voice as a woman from a Tunisian minority, to reassess in their historical, political, ethical, literary and psychoanalytical specificities the stakes of this voluntarist commitment always conceived in relation to the Other. Today numerous geocultural areas are still grappling with violence against women and human rights violations. In developing societies, but also in Europe, the increasingly uninhibited temptation of Human Rights revisionism is blighting public debate, marking an involution at the antipodes of the courage of this defender of FLN militants in the days of anti-colonialist struggle in Algeria.

In this respect, Gisèle Halimi’s political insubordination, dictated by an ardent faith in the sovereignty of human justice and by an undeniable love of truth, remains exemplary. From the 1950s to the present, her struggle has prolonged the mobilization initiated very early on (with the Manifeste des 343) against the socio-religious prohibitions that have regularly threatened women’s access to bodily self-determination (Procès de Bobigny). This struggle is more topical than ever today. In 2021, the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the movement “Choisir la cause des femmes” will be commemorated, celebrating Gisèle Halimi’s full commitment to the human, this human co-opted in its most exposed and vulnerable forms in repressive societies and regimes.

We invite contributions that explore the interrelationships between the writer’s work and the positions she defends in the social sphere, between her socio-cultural background and her professional choices, or that highlight the intersections between the feminist and human rights movements with which Gisèle Halimi engages in dialogue and the texts she has composed. We also encourage reflections that rethink the itinerary of this emblematic figure of human vigilance against injustice and patriarchal oppression.

Some possible axes of inquiry include:

Resistance and insubordination: inspiring figures in Gisèle Halimi (the Kahéna, etc.)
Seed(s) of revolt and literary blossoming
Gisèle Halimi, precursor of an ethic of care
Gisèle Halimi and other intellectual female figures of the 20th century – S. de Beauvoir, H. Cixous, etc. : which singularities?
The impact of her irreverent posture towards France at the time of the Algerian War
Gender and Justice; equality and living together
Gisèle Halimi’s positioning in relation to male lawyers
Family history and militancy
Minorities and the profession of lawyer: a Judeo-Tunisian tradition?
The reconception of the relationship with the Mother and the maternal instinct
Judicial defense and testimony
The Jewish-Tunisian context and the deployment of a vocation (literary history; history of ideas in the first half of the Tunisian 20th century: Smadja, Annie Goldmann, Paul Sebag…)
Rereading Fritna today
Filmic legacy(ies) of Gisèle Halimi’s militant action

Articles should not exceed 40,000 characters, spaces included (approximately 6,000 words). Punctuation, footnotes, and references must conform with the journal’s norms: http://www.ub.edu/adhuc/em.

Articles or requests for further information should be sent to the Chair of the Editorial Board at: expressions.maghrebines@ub.edu

The journal’s VARIA section maintains an open call for articles concerning Maghrebi cultures: literature, cinema, arts…

1.17 CFP: CCWW PGR online seminar series: Class, Confinement and Criminality in Contemporary Women’s Writing

Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing

INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH

School of Advanced Study • University of London

CCWW PGR online seminar series

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22680

The Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW) is pleased to announce the launch of a new online Seminar Series organised by Postgraduate and Early Career researchers. The seminars will offer opportunities to showcase and debate a wide range of projects across cultures. They will be curated by the community whose work they highlight, and will be made available as podcasts on the CCWW web site. We invite expressions of interest for one-off events or for short thematic strands of events in any subject relating to contemporary women’s writing. Please send these to Jessica Rushton, Jemima Jobling and Shirley Jordan.

The series begins with a seminar strand addressing the broad themes of class, confinement and criminality in contemporary women’s writing. Please see below for the call for papers for this strand.

Call for Papers

Class, Confinement and Criminality

Deadline for proposals: 13 July 2020

Organisers: Jessica Rushton (PGR Durham) and Jemima Jobling (PGR Newcastle)

Description

We invite PGRs and ECRs to contribute to seminars in this series. Submissions are invited for 15-minute papers from a range of literatures and languages across a range of topics covered under ideas of Class, Confinement and Criminality. Some suggestions of themes and questions are:

How do contemporary women writers represent class?
How does class intersect with other categories of identity (such as race, age, gender, sex, etc) ?
What are some of the class-related struggles which women face in contemporary women’s writing?
Confinement: restriction, control and imprisonment
Societal pressures, boundaries and their transgressions
How does contemporary women’s writing represent the theme of women’s confinement?
How are women confined in the twenty-first century? Does this have echoes with other periods of history?
Are confinement, class and criminality intertwined?
Criminality as a gendered act
Revolt and rebellion
Responses to lockdown/COVID-19 by women writers

Short abstracts (250 words max) for 15 minute papers should be sent to Jemima Jobling and Jessica Rushton, along with a short biographical note, to arrive by 13 July 2020.

1.18 CfP: Languages of Disease in the Contemporary Francophone World

Call for Participation

Languages of Disease in the Contemporary Francophone World

Online Workshop, Friday 19 February 2021

The social, cultural and intensely personal consequences of Covid-19 have reminded us that the humanities have an important role to play in making sense of disease. Building on recent studies into the language used to represent disease in modern metropolitan France, this project extends the scope of enquiry into the geographical zones, cultural and political contexts of the broader francosphère, where many of the world’s recent pandemics, including Ebola, HIV/AIDS and cholera, have had devastating effects.

Taking account of current restrictions, this project will be formed of two connecting elements: structured online interviews conducted by the organisers with chosen experts in the field, followed by extended engagement and networking via an online workshop. Key questions to be addressed include:

How do literature, the visual arts, documentary and other texts incorporate the medical to generate culture-specific languages of disease across the francophone world?
In what ways do francophone languages of disease draw from the political, the theological, the visual?
How do the gender politics of francophone countries inflect the language of disease?
How do patients use language to give expression to their lived corporeal and psychological experience of disease across the francosphère?
Where does translation stand varyingly as a barrier or bridge in medical practice?
What are the afterlives of experiencing disease, and how are these articulated in visual and textual forms across the francophone world?
What is the role of testimony in recording diverse experiences of disease?

We welcome contributions in French or English that engage with a wide variety of texts and accounts, including literature, film, testimonies, documentaries and interviews. We are especially keen to draw on the expertise of health practitioners and third sector participants, to outline where current challenges lie in terms of linguistic and cultural understanding in health interventions.

Proposals of c.250 words for 15-minute discussion papers or presentations should be emailed to the organisers, Dr Hannah Grayson (hannah.grayson@stir.ac.uk) and Dr Steven Wilson (steven.wilson@qub.ac.uk), by Monday 28 September 2020.

This event is supported by the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) Regional Conference Grant Scheme.

1.19 H-France Salon, Call for Guest Editors

The editors of H-France Salon welcome expressions of interest in guest editing Salons on an any topic of French Studies. Given the new constraints on academic meetings in the wake of Covid-19, H-France Salon’s unique blend of text and video articles offers a platform for recorded video talks, webinars, and other forms of publishing scholarly exchange. We encourage potential contributors to think creatively about how best to use H-France Salon to promote dialogue in French Studies.

H-France Salon – Guest Editor Guidelines

One or more guest editors liaise with the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors to propose a Salon with broad interest to scholars working on any topic in French Studies – history, literature, cultural studies, art history, visual studies, professional issues, or pedagogical conversations.

3-10 contributors

Contributions should be between 2 and 15 pages, Word document, double spaced, with footnotes. We accept publications in English or French.

Potential guest editors should email the Editor-in-Chief (p.bray@ucl.ac.uk) a brief proposal (500 words max), abstracts of individual contributions (200 words), and contributor bios (150 words).

1.20 Call for papers “les discours du tourisme “/discourses of tourism for Argumentation et Analyse du discours no. 27

Le numéro 27 de la revue Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, dont la publication est prévue pour avril 2021, est placé sous la direction de Galia Yanoshevsky, Université Bar-Ilan (Israel)

Ce numéro spécial se propose d’étudier le tourisme à partir de ses discours : nous chercherons à parcourir la production verbale, écrite ou orale, qui a pour objet la pratique du voyage touristique et les activités qui le concernent (les moyens de transport, les déplacements, les visites/guidées ou non, les conseils pour touristes, les supports de transmission d’information tels que les guides touristiques et les livres de voyages, les affiches et prospectus de promotion/publicitaires) – bref, toute activité et tout moyen qui contribuent à la création d’une destination de voyage, à sa promotion et à sa consommation, pour des touristes.

Le tourisme est défini comme « le fait de voyager, de parcourir pour son plaisir un lieu autre que celui où l’on vit habituellement », ou comme « l’ensemble des activités liées aux déplacements des touristes » [1]. Il désigne l’acte et le processus consistant à passer du temps loin de chez soi à la recherche de « loisirs », de « détente », de culture et/ou de plaisir, tout en utilisant la prestation commerciale de services. En tant que tel, le tourisme est le produit de configurations sociales modernes qui ont débuté en Europe occidentale au 17e siècle, bien qu’il ait des antécédents dans l’Antiquité. Il se distingue de l’exploration en ce sens que les touristes suivent des « sentiers battus », bénéficient de systèmes de prestation établis et, comme il convient aux amateurs de plaisir, sont généralement à l’abri des difficultés, du danger et de l’embarras (Walton, Britannica).

Malgré cela, le tourisme et les pratiques discursives associées sont issus de pratiques qui n’étaient pas initialement liées au loisir (l’exploration et la découverte de terres ou de populations nouvelles, le pèlerinage, ou le prosélytisme, le commerce, le colonialisme, etc.). Le tourisme tel qu’on l’entend aujourd’hui ne se restreint pas non plus aux loisirs ; il présente des intersections avec d’autres activités et centres d’intérêts. Cela donne lieu à des catégories telles que « tourisme d’affaires », « tourisme sportif » et « tourisme médical » (Walton), « tourisme sexuel » (França 2015). On peut aussi compter parmi les pratiques touristiques des déplacements qui ont des objectifs politiques, sociétaux, patrimoniaux et éthiques, tels que l’écotourisme (Stamou & Paraskevopoulos 2004), le tourisme volontaire (Baillet & Berge 2009; Wearing & McGehee 2013), le tourisme mémoriel (Crahay 2014), le tourisme postcolonial (Boukhris 2017).

Les discours du tourisme, quant à eux, appartiennent à des genres divers. Ils circulent entre des genres routiniers (Maingueneau 2007) comme les guides touristiques (Cohen, Toulier & Vajda 2011) et les affiches publicitaires (Cohen-Hattab & Kohn 2015), des genres interactionnels comme les échanges avec le guide ou les performances liées à l’acte du tourisme comme la signature du livre des visiteurs (Noy 2008) et les genres dits auctoriaux qui partent des expériences vécues du touriste et les expriment dans des récits de voyages (Noy 2007) ou des travelogues (Chiemi 2001). D’un point de vue rhétorique, on peut distinguer entre des discours touristiques délibératifs, qui visent à conseiller les voyageurs, comme les sites patrimoniaux (Cousin 2008) et des discours qui appartiennent majoritairement à l’épidictique et qui font l’éloge, voire la promotion et la publicité d’un lieu de visite (Bonhomme 2014) ou d’une activité de loisirs. Plus récemment, les conséquences de la pandémie font apparaître un discours de blâme nouveau, qui vise les dirigeants. Aussi les discours du tourisme adoptent-ils des formes plus ou moins codifiées en fonction de leurs rôles : l’information, par exemple les panneaux d’aéroport (Thurlow & Jaworski 2010), la promotion d’une destination touristique… Les discours touristiques peuvent aussi être examinés à la lumière de leurs sources d’énonciation – une agence privée ou étatique, à orientation commerciale, culturelle, religieuse, politique etc. – ainsi que de leurs auditoires : les touristes de luxe (Thurlow & Jaworski 2014), les bénévoles, les touristes médicaux.

Les discours du tourisme sont des discours médiateurs, entre le producteur – que cela soit un agent privé ou étatique – et le consommateur de l’expérience touristique. Ils ont des enjeux économiques ; ils participent aussi à la nation branding (Dinnie 2016) ainsi qu’à la fabrication des imaginaires touristiques (Salazar& Graburn 2014 ; Gravari-Barbas & Graburn 2012) qui médiatisent l’expérience de la culture visitée pour la culture visiteuse. Ils croisent ainsi les discours patrimoniaux en articulant le passé d’un lieu et d’un paysage et les enjeux touristiques (Amit-Cohen 2004). Enfin, les discours touristiques reflètent les préoccupations de leur temps : des crises financières (Vergopoulus 2017), politiques (telles la transformation de l’Afrique du Sud en “Rainbow Nation” à partir de 1994) ou économiques.

Nous proposons d’organiser le numéro autour des thématiques suivantes :

Les genres touristiques :
- Les genres routiniers – les guides touristiques, les prospectus et les brochures, les cartes postales, les sites de voyages
- Les genres auctoriaux – les récits de voyage, les travelogues.
- Les genres interactionnels – les performances touristiques : la visite guidée, les interactions avec les guides, les parcours dans les musées
Les imaginaires touristiques : discours touristiques et narrations nationales, patrimoniales, mémorielles ; les discours officiels, des agences du patrimoine, des gouvernements (les campagnes publicitaires des ministères du tourisme, nation branding…),
Tourisme de conseil et assistance linguistique – Les panneaux à l’usage des touristes dans les aéroports (et autres espace touristiques), le lexique de voyage, etc.
Tourisme contre-hégémonique : le discours touristique postcolonial, le discours écotouristique…
Les discours de crise et de transformation, d’éloge et de blâme.

D’autres propositions qui lient discours et la pratique du tourisme sont bienvenues.

Les contributeurs sont invités à étudier les différentes thématiques dans une perspective d’analyse du discours, de rhétorique et d’argumentation – les discours persuasifs des campagnes de tourisme, les discours écotouristiques ou contre-hégémoniques, les arguments avancés par les voyagistes en temps de crise économique ou en temps de pandémie, les structures argumentatives qui sous-tendent les discours du tourisme… Les participants sont également encouragés à étudier les genres de discours particuliers au tourisme : les genres routiniers comme les guides touristiques et les prospectus et les genres auctoriaux comme les travelogues ou les récits de voyage; les genres interactionnels plus ou moins codifiés de la visite; l’altérité et l’auto-perception – la construction de sa propre image de touriste à travers le regard posé sur l’autre…, l’étude des formules touristiques, l’exploration du langage du tourisme dans les espaces où circulent les touristes.

Modalités de soumission :

Les propositions doivent être soumises avant le 1er septembre 2020 sous la forme de résumés ou d’avant-projets de 1000 mots (au maximum) dont l’acceptation vaudra encouragement mais non pas engagement de publication. Elles doivent être envoyées à la responsable du numéro, Galia Yanoshevsky, avec une copie à Ruth Amossy
Les auteurs des propositions seront informés des décisions jusqu’au 30 septembre 2020.
Les propositions retenues devront être envoyées sous forme d’article (50 000 signes maximum, notes et bibliographies comprises) : 1^ermars 2020.
Les manuscrits seront lus, avec intérêt, par le comité éditorial de la revue, puis envoyés anonymement à deux spécialistes pour une évaluation finale.
Les articles acceptés pour publication devront être renvoyés, après corrections (le cas échéant) jusqu’à la fin mai 2021.
La publication du numéro est prévue en octobre 2021.

Les auteurs sont priés de prendre connaissance du protocole rédactionnel de la revue Argumentation et Analyse du Discours (disponible sur https://journals.openedition.org/aad/

Coordonnées de la responsable du numéro : Galia Yanoshevsky galia.yanoshevsky@biu.ac.il

Coordonnées de la rédactrice en chef : Ruth Amossy amossy@bezeqint.net

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Baillet, Caroline & Orélien Berge. 2009. « Comprendre l’expérience de l’éco-volontariat : une approche par la valeur de consommation ». Deuxième Colloque International sur les Tendances du Tourisme, avril 2009, Sidi Dhrif, Tunisie.

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1.21 CFP: Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum

A Two-day Virtual Conference (Zoom)

Date: November 13-14, 2020

Organizers:

Siham Bouamer (Sam Houston State University) and Loic Bourdeau (University of Louisiana-Lafayette)

In 2017 and 2019, the “Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum” (DDGC) collective brought together scholars in German studies “to discuss pedagogical approaches, course design, and instructional materials […] to make […] classrooms more inclusive and reflective of the diversity of […] students.” Following those conversations, Regine Criser and Ervin Malakaj, the two co-founders of the collective, gathered and published essays which seek “(1) to examine German Studies curricular models against the backdrop of diversity and decolonization discourses and (2) to offer curricular models, which help facilitate criticality in the spirit of diversity and decolonization discourses by connecting German Studies with critical race, gender, sexuality, migration, Indigenous, and disability studies” (p. 17). More recently, the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) organized a conference on “Decolonizing Modern Languages” (postponed due to COVID-19), with similar goals.

During this two-day virtual conference, the goal of the “Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum” (DDFC) is to provide, as a newly founded collective, a space for scholars, instructors, and practitioners to continue similar conversations in French and Francophone studies; to investigate and share strategies and ideas to diversify and decolonize the curriculum. Following the event, we plan to follow the DDGS example and put together a volume of essays.

We invite proposals for 15-minute presentations, panels, or workshops from scholars, instructors, or practitioners in French studies. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Accessibility/Disability studies
Beyond/Reassessing the Literary Canon
Black and ethnic studies in the French curriculum
Decolonizing the French curriculum
Dealing with the “fallen” artists (e.g., Céline, Polanski, etc.)
Diversifying the French curriculum
Feminism and Intersectionality
Language épicènein the French classroom and curriculum
Social and economic justice
The place of the colonial past in the curriculum
Trigger warning, microaggressions and the French classroom
Queering French studies: teaching, research, service

Abstract of 250 words (+ short biography) in French or English should be sent to Siham Bouamer (sbouamer@shsu.edu) and Loic Bourdeau (loic.bourdeau@louisiana.edu) by June 30, 2020.

Selected contributors will be notified within two weeks of the deadline.

Questions/inquiries are most welcome.

https://www.fabula.org/actualites/cfp-diversity-decolonization-and-the-french-curriculum-virtual-conference_96020.php

1.22 CFP: Re-choreographing Epistemologies of the Body in the Middle East and North Africa: Mobilising Resistance Through the Mobility of Dance

Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Call for Papers

Editors: Dr Rachid Belghiti and Dr Tarik Sabry.

There is a wealth of literature in the Middle East on the body. This wealth unfolds not only in fiction, poetry, theatre, series, and films, but also at the level of everyday life, where dance is a key component. Dance is pivotal to significant elements of popular culture in the Middle East and North Africa, such as hospitality customs, social gatherings, marriage, births, and circumcision celebrations. It is ‘intertwined with rituals, festivals, storytelling, and other spheres through which cultural heritage is expanded and extended’ (Dallen 2018). Yet, this centrality is dimly matched with the systematic and critical exercise in theorising the dancing body beyond the analysis of Orientalist discourses of power, desire and knowledge (Said 1978) which this body eludes as it dances (Karayanni 2008). Recent ethnographic accounts of the dancing body in MENA also explore how contemporary dance movement reflects the irresolution of Maghrebi contemporaneity (Guellouz 2013) and cultural identity (Borni 2017). Although such ethnographic analysis conceives of the dancing body as an agent that is enacting the crisis in Maghrebi identity politics in movement, it still allegorises this body by interpreting its movement through what it represents; the Maghreb, just as Said interprets Kuchuk’s body, as the Orient.

Departing from the assumption that dance is under-theorised as a component of Arab/Middle Eastern Cultural Studies, this issue explores the ways in which dance in Middle Eastern and Maghrebi cultures can, in the words of the dance theorist André Lepecki, emerge as ‘a mode of theorisation that theory itself would need in order to address the social and the political problematic brought by issues close to dance such as mobilization, embodiment, subjectivity, participation, representation, desire, discipline, control, etc.’ (2012). Although Lepecki’s statement occurs in the context of Western dance genres, it still invites us to infer how Middle Eastern and Maghrebi dance is still largely brushed off as a substantial constituent of today’s discourses of mobilisation in contemporary Middle Eastern studies of representation. This state of affairs therefore urges us to ask the following questions:

To what extent can dance as a spectacle, a visual space of corporeality, communicate a discourse of resistance in Middle Eastern and Maghrebi cultures through the body that dances, be it male or female?
What is it in Middle Eastern dance that offers our thinking a more provocative mode of theorisation about current debates around the social, political, and cultural challenges in today’s Middle Eastern and Maghrebi cultures?
How can dance, as a site of mobility, revitalise modes of knowing that are broader than the frontiers of the ‘allowed’ and the ‘forbidden’, with which Middle Eastern cultures are still struggling?
In what way can dance stand out as a watershed in the field of Arab and Middle Eastern Cultural Studies, whereby intricate questions complicate, rather than conclude, the body of the dancer as ‘exotic’ ‘elusive’ or ‘irresolute’?

This issue of MEJCC welcomes papers across disciplines in the humanities and invites articles that consider themes along, but by no means limited to, the following lines:

Dance, popular culture and Arab Cultural Studies
The body and sexuality in the contemporary Arab fiction and Popular Culture
Choreography, Politics, and the Body
Dance and Political Mobilisation in the Arab World
Dance cultures in the Middle East and the Maghreb
Nativism and Body Politics in the Arab World
(un)Theorising the Body: Tensions between Discourse and Materiality.
Dance, the body and postcolonial theory: Tensions yet to come
Queerness, Dance, and Discipline
Dance, Islam, and the Body
Secularity and Dance in Middle Eastern Cultures.
Male Dance and Sexual Politics in the Middle East.

Deadline for abstracts

Please submit a 300-word abstract and a short biography to Dr Rachid Belghiti
rachid.belghiti@cstjean.qc.ca and Dr Tarik Sabry sabryt@westminster.ac.uk

by:

Thursday 15^th October, 2020.

Deadline for the completed articles is:

25^th October, 2021.

*All of the articles submitted will be peer-reviewed.

2. Job and Scholarship Opportunities

2.1 MPhil Scholarships – School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC) of the University of Glasgow is proud to offer a one-year Masters by research in the field of French Studies and two one-year Masters by research in Modern Languages and Cultures in the areas of Comparative Literature, French, German, Hispanic Studies, Italian, Slavonic Languages and Cultures, Text/Image Studies, Translation Studies, and Modern Languages (Sociolinguistics).

The deadline for applications is 26 June 2020. Further information and the application form can be found here:

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/study/postgraduatestudy/postgraduatescholarships/

SMLC is engaged in research in European literature, culture, intellectual history and film (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Czech), with several areas that have a more global reach (Chinese, Latin American, Francophone African and Caribbean).  Our research is increasingly collaborative and interdisciplinary in focus, with existing and emerging strengths in Text/Image studies, Gender History, Postcolonial Studies, Comparative Literature, Translation Studies, Medical Humanities and Multilingualism.

More information on the School can be found here:

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/resschol/

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/staff/#

2.2 Three-year lectureship in French Studies, University of New England

The University of New England is seeking to hire a full-time Lecturer (Level B) in French Studies for a three year fixed term. For more details and to apply visit: https://une.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/320886/0000013588-Final-PD-Lecturer-in-French-Level-B.pdf

2.3 Margaret Wooloff PhD Scholarship competition 2020 (deadline 1 July)

Aberystwyth University is inviting proposals for the Margaret Wooloff PhD Scholarship, to commence in September 2020.

Three fully funded PhD scholarships (covering fees, maintenance allowance, and access to a travel and conference fund) are open to Home/EU applicants, and will be allocated on a competitive basis by each faculty. Candidates in Modern Languages are invited to propose a research project broadly related to the topic of ‘Narratives of Displacement in French and Francophone Culture’.

The doctoral researcher will be part of the Modern Languages Department and the Research Centre for the Movement of People (CMOP) at Aberystwyth. We would also welcome proposals examining sources in French alongside ones in German or Spanish.

Details on the scholarship and application process can be found here: https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/postgrad/fees-finance/uk-eu/research/margaret-wooloff-phd/

2.4 Teaching Assistant in French at the University of Limerick, Ireland

University of Limerick

School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics

Teaching Assistant in French (10 month Temporary Contract Non-Renewable)

Salary: c. EUR €30,705- €33,496 (per annum, pro rata).

Teaching duties: Twelve hours per week undergraduate teaching in French language, culture, politics and literature. Associated administrative duties also form part of the role.

Profile: Applicants should hold – or be close to completing – a PhD qualification in an area of French studies. As teaching is done through the target language, native or near-native fluency in French is required.

Employment will commence at the beginning of September, 2020.

Applications should consist of a full CV, including details of two referees. Please email applications to Dr Liam Murray, Head of the French Section (email: Liam.Murray@ul.ie).

Closing date for applications is Monday 13 July at 17:00, Irish time.

2.5 Job announcement: Teaching Fellow in French and Francophone Studies at UCL

TEACHING FELLOW IN FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES (Part-Time, Fixed Term)

UCL – School of European Languages, Cultures and Society (SELCS)

The appointment will be on UCL Grade 7. The salary range will be £40,062 – £43,470 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

The post holder will teach approximately 200 contact hours per academic year, mostly at undergraduate level, in the French Department and across SELCS. They will prepare and deliver seminars in French and Francophone Studies and French language, as allocated by the Head of French Studies and the Director of SELCS. This is a part time role, with the total hours of work required equating to 0.5 full time equivalent per year.

The successful candidate will be expected to take up the position on 1 September 2020, or as soon as possible thereafter. This post is for 18 months from 1 September and covers the teaching of a colleague who is on research leave.

The post holder will have a PhD or equivalent within a relevant area of French or Francophone Studies and complete fluency in French and English. They will have relevant teaching experience at university level and in development of French/Francophone literature and language and assessment materials along with strong skills in, and enthusiasm for, delivering teaching across a variety of media, including both virtually and face to face.

The deadline for applications is Monday 6 July.

Further details and the full job description can be find on jobs.ac.uk and the UCL HR website.

2.6 Funded PhD on Gender, Series and Sexual Health

La Cité du Genre : offre de contrat doctoral « Genre, séries et santé sexuelle » (Santé publique-LSH)

Date limite de candidature : 28 août 2020

La Cité du Genre lance une offre de contrat doctoral

SUJET DE LA THESE : GENRE, SERIES ET SANTE SEXUELLE.

Il s’agira d’étudier si et comment, dans la France d’aujourd’hui, les séries télévisées sont des outils efficaces, fiables et valides pour la promotion de la santé sexuelle sur un public cible composé a priori par les 10-24 ans, filles, garçons et personnes transidentaires.

Rattachement de la.du doctorant.e : FACULTE SANTE DE UNIVERSITE DE PARIS

DIRECTRICE DE THESE : CORINNE ALBERTI

SIGLE ET NOM DU LABORATOIRE : INSERM UMR1123 – ECEVE

NOM DE L’EQUIPE : EPIDEMIOLOGIE CLINIQUE ET EVALUATION ECONOMIQUE APPLIQUEES AUX POPULATIONS VULNERABLES

ADRESSE : 10 AVENUE DE VERDUN – 75010 PARIS

ECOLE DOCTORALE PIERRE LOUIS DE SANTE PUBLIQUE A PARIS-EPIDEMIOLOGIE ET SCIENCES DE L’INFORMATION BIOMEDICALE (ED 393)

LA THESE S’EFFECTUE EN CO-DIRECTION : FACULTE SOCIETES ET HUMANITES DE UNIVERSITE DE PARIS

CO-DIRECTRICE : ARIANE HUDELET

EQUIPE DE LA CO-DIRECTRICE : CITE DU GENRE (INSTITUT IDEX UNIVERSITE DE PARIS)

LABORATOIRE : LARCA (UMR 8225)

LIEUX DE TRAVAIL : ECEVE ET CITÉ DU GENRE (UNIVERSITÉ DE PARIS)

TYPE DE CONTRAT : CDD DOCTORANT.E / CONTRAT DOCTORAL

– DUREE DU CONTRAT : 36 MOIS

– DATE DE DEBUT DE LA THESE : 1ER OCTOBRE 2020

– QUOTITE DE TRAVAIL : TEMPS COMPLET

FINANCEMENT : CITE DU GENRE (ANR-18-IDEX-0001)

REMUNERATION : ENVIRON 1455 €/MOIS NET

PREREQUIS :

FORMATION : SANTE PUBLIQUE ; SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES ; PREVENTION/PROMOTION DE LA SANTE

DIPLOME : ETRE EN POSSESSION D’UN M2.

LANGUES DE TRAVAIL : FRANÇAIS ET ANGLAIS (COURANT : NIVEAU C1 MINIMUM). LA.LE CANDIDAT.E DEVRA TRAVAILLER DANS CES DEUX LANGUES ET POURRA ECRIRE SA THESE EN FRANÇAIS OU EN ANGLAIS.

DOSSIER DE CANDIDATURE : 1 CV DETAILLE + 1 PROJET DE 4PAGES + BIBLIOGRAPHIE

DATE LIMITE DE CANDIDATURE : 28 AOUT 2020

A ADRESSER A : CORINNE ALBERTI ET ARIANE HUDELET

CORINNE.ALBERTI@INSERM.FR ET ARIANE.HUDELET@U-PARIS.FR

PRESENTATION DU SUJET DE THESE

La Cité du Genre, Institut interdisciplinaire de recherche et de formation en études de genre (IdEx), désireuse de développer ses partenariats avec le secteur de la Santé, finance un contrat doctoral à Université de Paris qui sera co-dirigé par Corinne Alberti (PU-PH, laboratoire ECEVE, Faculté Santé) et Ariane Hudelet (MCF-HDR, laboratoire LARCA, Faculté Sociétés et Humanités). Ce contrat doctoral sera inscrit à l’ED 393 et relèvera donc de la Faculté Santé. L’accent est mis sur l’outil d’analyse genre, promoteur de l’interdisciplinarité entre la santé publique et les LSH. La santé sexuelle des adolescent.e.s et des jeunes est une préoccupation majeure de santé publique en France comme ailleurs. Ainsi, en France entre 3 et 24% des femmes déclarent que leur première expérience sexuelle a eu lieu sous la contrainte (3) et 20% des jeunes femmes déclarent avoir eu leur premier rapport sexuel alors qu’elles « ne le voulaient pas vraiment » (6)(7). L’incidence des IST augmente chez les jeunes (+ 10 % chez les 15-24 ans entre 2012 et 2014) (4) et un tiers des grossesses restent non planifiées et donnent lieu à des avortements dans 60 % des cas (5). La promotion de la santé sexuelle est essentielle pour réduire la morbidité et la mortalité associées aux comportements sexuels à risque, mais aussi pour comprendre la sexualité de manière holistique et positive (8). Il est important d’intervenir auprès des jeunes en leur fournissant des informations fiables censées établir ou modifier des comportements, tout en tenant compte du bien-être général (9), et ce en complément de stratégies éducatives.

Dans ce cadre, la stratégie nationale de santé sexuelle prévoit dans son premier axe « d’investir dans la promotion de la santé sexuelle, en particulier en direction des jeunes, dans une approche globale et positive » et « d’améliorer l’information en santé sexuelle en utilisant les nouveaux outils de communication », particulièrement en soutenant les nouveaux outils éducatifs, notamment numériques (11). En effet, Internet et les médias sociaux en ligne sont largement plébiscités par les adolescent.e.s et les jeunes, spécialement pour la recherche d’informations en santé (12)(13). De plus, les séries disponibles sur les plateformes en ligne, telles que Netflix ou Amazon Prime, présentent des formats attractifs et sont largement consommées par les 10-24. Aujourd’hui, les programmateurs de séries s’emparent de nombreux sujets de société, et peuvent intégrer des messages de prévention en matière de santé sexuelle (14). Ces messages peuvent être reçus par un grand nombre de jeunes sans pour autant être perçus comme des messages moralisateurs. Cette « culture jeunes » pourrait alors être davantage comprise par les acteurs et actrices de la prévention, notamment pour concevoir et évaluer des actions attractives auprès des publics cibles. Pour autant, il existe encore peu d’études expérimentales mobilisant ces médias pour la promotion de la santé sexuelle. Afin d’envisager de telles études, des travaux doivent examiner quand et pour qui les messages sur la santé sexuelle sont les plus utiles et les plus importants (14). Saisir et comprendre la « culture des jeunes » permettrait d’être au plus près des utilisateurs et utilisatrices en ligne et d’adapter les actions de promotion de la santé. Sur ces bases, le marketing social permet de développer des programmes éducatifs efficaces, mobilisant des connaissances scientifiques et une bonne communication (15).

ATTENDUS DE LA THESE

L’hypothèse de recherche est que les séries pourraient se révéler des outils efficaces, fiables et valides pour la promotion de la santé sexuelle des adolescent.e.s et des jeunes — les 10-24 ans (16) — favorisant l’empowerment et les comportements favorables de santé. Ces nouveaux outils de communication peuvent néanmoins comporter des risques et des limites en matière de santé sexuelle et plus généralement de santé à prendre en compte (effet inverse ou non perception des messages intégrés, risques liés à la surconsommation par ex).

L’objectif principal de la thèse sera d’étudier l’intérêt des séries comme outils de promotion de la santé sexuelle chez les 10-24 ans et les conditions de leur utilisation afin de proposer des préconisations en termes d’usages de ces séries à ces fins. Le projet de thèse devra nécessairement s’articuler autour de :

a) une réflexion sur le public cible (sexe/genre, âge, orientation sexuelle, milieu social, niveau éducatif…)
b) le corpus de séries sélectionnées : lequel et pourquoi ?
c) les questionnements induits par le sujet, notamment sur l’efficacité des messages de prévention en santé sexuelle diffusés par le corpus en tenant compte des logiques propres à cette source spécifique qu’est la série
d) la constitution des données (données extraites des séries, données de questionnaires/entretiens…)
e) les méthodes d’analyse des données recueillies
f) les résultats attendus comprenant des exemples d’initiatives (pédagogiques, scientifiques, ludiques…) que la thèse pourrait favoriser (en santé publique, mais aussi dans le milieu éducatif, associatif…), et notamment en mobilisant les ressources numériques
g) un calendrier indicatif
h) une bibliographie comportant entre 30 et 40 titres (santé et sciences humaines et sociales).

Références de la présentation du sujet de thèse

Dehne K., Riedner G., Sexually Transmitted Infections among adolescents. The need for adequate health services. Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development (CAH) World Health Organization; 2005 p. 90.
Grossesse chez les adolescentes [Internet]. [cité 8 janv 2019]. Disponible sur: https://www.who.int/fr/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/adolescent-pregnancy
La violence chez les jeunes [Internet]. [cité 21 févr 2019]. Disponible sur: https://www.who.int/fr/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/youth-violence
Conseil national du sida et des hépatites virales. Avis suivi de recommandations sur la prévention et la prise en charge des IST chez les adolescents et les jeunes adultes. 2017 p. 81.
Deng Y, Xu H, Zeng X. Induced abortion and breast cancer. Medicine (Baltimore) [Internet]. 19 janv 2018 [cité 31 juill 2019];97(3). Disponible sur: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5779758/
Bajos N., Bohet A., Le Guen M., Moreau C., Equipe FECOND. La contraception en France : nouveau contexte, nouvelles pratiques ? Population et Sociétés. sept 2012;(492):4.
Santé Publique France. Santé sexuelle, éducation sexuelle, éducation à la sexualité dans les établissements scolaires. sept 2018;4.
INPES. Une approche positive et respectueuse de la sexualité. [Internet]. 2012. Disponible sur: http://inpes.santepubliquefrance.fr/10000/themes/information_sexuelle/index.asp
OMS. Charte d’Ottawa pour la promotion de la santé. 1986.
Lewin K. Group Decision and Social Change. 1947;197-211.
Ministère des affaires sociales et de la santé. Stratégie nationale de santé sexuelle – Agenda 2017 – 2030 [Internet]. 2017 [cité 6 déc 2017]. Disponible sur: http://solidaritessante.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/strategie_nationale_sante_sexuelle.pdf
Higgins O., Sixsmith J., Barry M, Domegan C. A literature review on health information-seeking behaviour on the web : a health consumer and health professional perspective. 2011.
Amsellem-Mainguy Y., Vuattoux A. Les jeunes, la sexualité et internet. Paris. François Bourin. 2020.
Falconer T. Using Television to Enhance Sexual Health. J Multidiscip Res Trent. 2019;2(1):118-34.
Craig Lefebvre R., Flora JA. Social Marketing and Public Health Intervention. Health Educ Q. 1 sept 1988;15(3):299-315.
Sawyer S., Azzopardi P., Wickremarathne D., Patton G., « The age of adolescence », The Lancet. Child and Adolescent Health,. 2018; Vol. 2, Issue 3: 223-228

3. Announcements

3.1 Showcasing ML Postgraduate Research across the UK

The IMLR is inviting any postgraduate research students in Modern Languages who would like to present their research, to contact us. We have created an online space where students can discuss their research, either by writing a post for our blog, Living Languages, or recording a short podcast with us.

There is no word limit for our blog posts but 500 words can be a guide if needed and it is useful to include some images.

If you would like to record a short podcast of about 5-10 minutes with us, we can set this up via zoom. It’s a very simple process and we make sure you’re happy with the set up before we start recording. The recording will be hosted on the School of Advanced Study’s website.

Please pass on this invitation to anyone who may be interested.

3.2 Workshop Digital Challenges in French and Francophone Studies, 8 July

Since the beginning of lockdown, Universities have rapidly adapted to various forms of online teaching and remote assessment. This virtual half-day workshop, organised by the Association of University Professors and Heads of French (AUPHF), seeks to support colleagues in Modern Languages Departments in the shift to hybrid or blended learning in 2020/21. Through a series of practice-based papers, with ample time for discussion and exchange, the workshop will offer ideas about how to approach blended learning, as well as addressing the challenges and showcasing new opportunities for the year abroad, postgraduate research and student wellbeing.

Programme

2.00 Welcome

2.05-2.40 Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin (University of Edinburgh), ‘Blended, online and hybrid approaches in European languages: towards a greater teaching plasticity’

2.45-3.20 Adam Watt (University of Exeter), ‘Year Abroad 2020-21: Challenges and Opportunities’

3.30-4.05 Margaret Topping (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘From Connected Learners to Connected Researchers: New Opportunities for the Digital Transformation of PhD Culture’

4.10-4.45 Fabienne Vailes (University of Bristol), ‘How to foster student wellbeing in the “new normal”’

4.45-5:00 General Discussion

This is a free event and all are welcome, but an Eventbrite registration with a professional email address is required (the joining link to access the workshop will be sent to this address). Please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-challenges-in-french-and-francophone-studies-half-day-workshop-tickets-108831423718.

3.3 Leila Slimani’s and Marie Darrieussecq’s Lockdown Journals and the Changing Role of the Writer in French Society (30 June 2020 – online seminar)

INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH

School of Advanced Study • University of London

30 June 2020

14:00-15:30 UK time

ONLINE EVENT

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22630

Speaker: Timo Obergöker (Chester)

Immediately after French President Emmanuel Macron declared the “confinement”, French writers moved to their holiday homes and started to write their lockdown journals. The reaction by the public and on social media however was extremely hostile and violent, criticising their privilege and Parisian elitism. Looking at how the two writers mobilised all the features of the myth of the “writer on holiday” as analysed by Roland Barthes, this paper argues that the role of the writer in French society has changed profoundly. Using Jérôme Meizoz’s theory of the “posture”, this seminar will explore the reasons why this is the case.

Timo Obergöker holds a joint PhD from the Université de Nancy 2 and the Universität Potsdam as well as a Habilitation à diriger des recherches from the Université de Clermont-Ferrand 2. He teaches French literature, language and culture at the University of Chester. His research focuses on contemporary literature from France, Québec and Belgium and on the French chanson.

This free event will be held online, at 14:00 UK time. Please note that it is essential that you register in advance to join the event: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22630

Download guidance on participating in an online event at the IMLR (pdf)

3.4 ONLINE WORKSHOP: Researching Multilingually: Possibilities and Complexities, 10 July 2020

Institute of Modern Languages Research

University of London

Friday 10 July 2020

11am – 4pm

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22379

Sara Ganassin and Judith Reynolds (workshop co-ordinators)

▪ Am I allowed to include literature in Turkish?

▪ What if I conduct my interviews in Mandarin but have to write all my thesis

in English?

▪ If I include data in Hindi, how will this affect my word count? How will the

thesis be examined?

▪ Do I transcribe first then translate, or the other way round?

If you encounter one or more of these questions in your research then this workshop

is for you!

In this online event, we will draw on the experiences and reflections of researchers involved with the AHRC-funded projects: http://researchingmultilingually.com/ (AH/J005037/1) and http://researching-multilingually-at-borders.com (AH/L006936/1), and associated research, to explore the possibilities for and complexities of what we term “researching multilingually”—how researchers draw on their own linguistic resources, and those of others, when undertaking research involving more than one language. Through a combination of preparatory activities and ‘live’ workshop-style discussions, we will be inviting you, our workshop participants, to explore and apply these insights to your own research projects. Our aim is to support your developing researcher awareness with regard to your practices of researching multilingually. In this way, with you, we will be working towards a more clearly articulated ‘researching multilingually’ methodology.

The overall objectives of the workshop are to:

introduce participants to the possibilities for and complexities of researching multilingually
invite participants to consider ethical and other issues where research involving more than one language is concerned
support participants as they develop their confidence and competence when researching multilingually
offer participants the space to reflect on their own ‘researching multilingually’ practice

Preparatory activities (2-3 hrs)

To be completed in the participant’s own time in advance of the live workshop. Materials will be made available to participants one week in advance of the event.

Two pre-readings:Holmes, Fay, Andrews and Attia, 2016; Ganassin and Holmes, 2019.
Introductory lecture:An introduction to “researching multilingually”. What are the possibilities for and complexities of researching multilingually? This session is an introduction to the concept of “researching multilingually” and its underpinning research. To be viewed online.
Case study reading and reflection:Reading of one allocated case study of researcher experiences with researching multilingually, and individual reflection on the case study through responding to some prompt questions. These will form the basis of discussion in the live workshop.

Live workshop (10th July, 11am – 4pm, including breaks)

Interactive Session A 11.00am – 1.00pm

Welcome and introductions
Aims and goals for the workshop
Facilitated group discussions of the Case Studies – developing researching

multilingually awareness, and encouraging reflection on applying researching

multilingually processes and practices

15 mins break

Live case study presentation from Judith, plus discussion and Q&A
Explanation of the independent task “Researching multilingually in your own

project” (to be completed during the break, before Interactive Session B)

Further Q&A time, and closing of Session A

BREAK (2hrs)

Interactive Session B 3.00pm – 4.00pm

Welcome back and introduction to Session B
Facilitated discussion of and reflection on the independent task “Researching

multilingually in your own project”

Summary and signposting to further resources
Further Q&A time, and closing of Session B

Numbers are limited so do register in advance to secure a place.

3.5 French Screen Studies: new research bursaries

French Screen Studies (formerly Studies in French Cinema)

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsfc21/current

Small research and travel bursaries

As a journal dedicated to disseminating research in the field of French and Francophone cinema and audio-visual media, French Screen Studies is offering small bursaries to help postgraduate students and early career researchers who wish to pursue research in the field, in terms of travel to archives or conferences, although other costs related to research may be considered, such as registration fees, translation or help with acquiring illustrations for academic publications.

Eligibility

Applications will be accepted from postgraduate students and ECRs (within 5 years of receiving their PhD) attached to UK and Ireland higher education institutions.

Level of grant and eligible costs

Grants will normally range from £200 to £500 within available resources. The main criterion for an award will be the perceived academic value of the research for which funding is sought. Applicants will be expected to have planned their project well in advance and normally to have obtained primary funding from their university institution or other sources, which must be stated on the application.

Deadlines

There will be two deadlines for applications to this funding: 1^st May and 1^st December. Decisions will be made within one month of the deadline.

Application procedure

There is no application form. Please send an email to the Chief General Editors of the journal, Dr Mary Harrod (M.G.M.Harrod@warwick.ac.uk) and Prof Ginette Vincendeau (ginette.vincendeau@kcl.ac.uk), indicating the following:

Name and institutional affiliation;
A brief statement of career and/or short abstract or summary of PhD project (maximum 250 words);
Details of the project to be undertaken for which support is sought (maximum 250 words);
Anticipated publications, outputs and other outcomes;
A draft budget, clearly detailing the amount requested, and the purpose to which it will be put;
Details, where relevant, of current or recent funding relating to the research in question and/or of any other financial support for which the applicant has applied/will apply in support of the project;
An undertaking to abide by the conditions of the award, if successful;
For postgraduate students, a letter of support from their supervisor.

Conditions of the award

Reimbursement will be made upon presentation of scanned receipts.

Successful applicants must acknowledge the financial support of French Screen Studies in any event participation or resulting publications that benefitted from the award.

3.6 The Music of North Africa with Drs. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz & Samuel Torjman Thomas

The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience presents:

The Music of North Africa

Modern and Contemporary Judeo-Arabic Song and Performance

By ASF Broom & Allen Fellows Dr. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz & Dr. Samuel Torjman Thomas

Wednesday, 1 July at 10AM EDT

Sign-up Now!
(Pay via PayPal by Credit or Debit Card)

3.7 The Free Black University Fundraiser

We are in the process of establishing a new organisation. As you may well know, calls for
the decolonisation of education have been echoing around the world for many years. Still, the structural and systemic problems within higher education remain, knowledge production is still overwhelmingly white and continues to incur a great deal of harm upon our communities. Students are often still dissatisfied with their education, there is an epidemic across universities with regards to Black students’ mental health, and the attainment gap shows no signs of closing.

The Free Black University is a hub for radical and transformative knowledge production. We exist to re-distribute knowledge and act as a space of incubation for the creation of transformative knowledge in the Black community. We are a coalition of Black students at various levels of higher
education, and recent alumni. This project is Black, queer, trans, anti-colonial, and revolutionary from its very heart. We have worked across the higher education system, as well as experience in charities, public policy, and the private sector.

The long-term vision for this work is to:

1) Provide Black radical books to Black people who would otherwise not have access to them – this includes those incarcerated

2) Deliver a range of open access and accessible online lectures primarily aimed at Black audiences, exploring radical and transformational topics

3) Create a space of community and care for Black students to address the mental health crisis amongst Black students that universities are failing to sufficiently address

4) Build an open access, free, and expansive online library of radical readings and writings– we will no longer stand for the gatekeeping of knowledge

5) Build a publication – our journal, and later our Press, will centre radical and transformational thought that may not be respected under the current frame of knowledge

6) A member’s space for emerging Black academics that need support and community during and beyond their academic journey

7) A podcast that will explore complex and transformational ideas in accessible and simplified ways – this podcast will speak to Black thinkers, organisers, academics, spiritualists, creatives, etc.

8) We will build a physical space – a hub for our work and a space for all Black people to access, created intentionally and in the interest of anti-colonial and healing work. This space will include; teaching rooms, a book shop, restaurant, and healing areas.

9) An annual conference that brings together Black radical thinkers (that are not only academics) to collectively produce knowledge and vision for Black liberation.

10) FREE AND ACCESSIBLE EDUCATION CENTRED ON THE FREEDOM OF BLACK PEOPLE WHICH NECESSARILY SUCCEEDS THE FREEDOM OF ALL PEOPLE

Education is at the heart of growth and transformation in our society. Today we stand at a critical juncture in our collective history. It is imperative we focus on what the production of knowledge looks like after this point. We firmly believe education should centre Black people healing and it should be free, anti-colonial, and accessible to all – so we will provide it.

We ask if you are willing to donate to our fundraiser and share it amongst your network to help us bring our vision into fruition.

3.8 2021 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Science Fiction Studies

Peter Lang Oxford is delighted to announce the 2021 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Science Fiction Studies.

Proposals are invited from early career scholars in Science Fiction Studies for academic monographs to be evaluated by a distinguished editorial board. At least two winners will be selected, one for the Ralahine Utopian Studies series and one for the World Science Fiction Studies series, each of whom will receive a contract to publish their book with Peter Lang.

Proposals should be submitted to Laurel Plapp (L.PLAPP@peterlang.com) by 30 November 2020 and include an abstract (including chapter synopses), a sample chapter (5,000 to 10,000 words in length), and a CV in separate Microsoft Word documents.

Proposals are welcome from scholars working on any aspect of Science Fiction Studies and must be written in English. We welcome scholars working on world science fiction, utopian science fiction, science fiction film, and/or interdisciplinary studies. Proposals under review elsewhere should not be submitted.

The winner will be offered a contract for a fully funded book to be published within six months of receipt of the complete and approved manuscript. Planned manuscripts should be 60,000 to 100,000 words in length. Authors will be expected to copy-edit the manuscript in accordance with the style guidelines provided.

Applicants should be early career scholars who have been awarded a PhD between 2015 and 2020 or expect to be awarded a PhD in 2021.

Decisions will be made by 31 January 2021 and the winner will be notified shortly thereafter.

For general information about the competition, please contact Laurel Plapp, Senior Commissioning Editor, Peter Lang Ltd, 52 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU. E-mail: L.PLAPP@peterlang.com.

Ralahine Utopian Studies

Edited by Raffaella Baccolini, Antonis Balasopoulos, Joachim Fischer, Michael J. Griffin, Naomi Jacobs, Michael G. Kelly, Tom Moylan and Phillip E. Wegner

https://www.peterlang.com/view/serial/RUS

Ralahine Utopian Studies is the publishing project of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies at the University of Limerick in association with the University of Bologna, the University of Cyprus, the University of Florida and the University of Maine.

The series publishes high-quality scholarship that addresses the theory and practice of utopianism (including Anglophone, continental European and indigenous and postcolonial traditions, and contemporary and historical periods). Publications (in English and other European languages) include original monographs and essay collections (including theoretical, textual and ethnographic/institutional research), English-language translations of utopian scholarship in other national languages, reissues of classic scholarly works that are out of print and annotated editions of original utopian literary and other texts (including translations).

While the series editors seek work that engages with the current scholarship and debates in the field of utopian studies, they will not privilege any particular critical or theoretical orientation. They welcome submissions by established or emerging scholars working within or outside the academy. Given the multilingual and interdisciplinary remit of the series, the editors especially welcome comparative studies in any disciplinary or transdisciplinary framework.

World Science Fiction Studies

Edited by Sonja Fritzsche and Gerry Canavan

https://www.peterlang.com/view/serial/WSFS

World Science Fiction Studies understands science fiction to be an inherently global phenomenon. Proposals are invited for monographs and edited collections that celebrate the tremendous reach of a genre that continues to be interpreted and transformed by a variety of cultures and linguistic communities around the world. The series embraces this global vision of the genre but also supports the articulation of each community’s unique approach to the challenges of science, technology and society. The series encourages the use of contemporary theoretical approaches (e.g. postcolonialism, posthumanism, feminisms, ecocriticism) as well as engagement with positionalities understood through critical race and ethnicity studies, gender studies, queer theory, disability studies, class analysis, and beyond. Interdisciplinary work and research on any media (e.g. print, film, television, visual arts, video games, new media) is welcome. The language of the series is English.

Advisory Board: Elizabeth Ginway (University of Florida), Iva Polak (University of Zagreb), and Alfredo Luiz Suppia (University of Campinas)

3.9 Free CLIL training

Thanks to the support of the College of Business and Social Sciences at Aston University, Learning Through Languages UK and the Centre for Language Research at Aston (CLaRA) are delighted to announce a repeat of the FREE course in Content and Language Integrated Learning (e.g. teaching geography in French, biology in Spanish, PE in German) first delivered in late May.

The new version of the 10-hour course ‘CLIL Essentials: An online introduction’ will take place between 6th and 10th July from 4 to 6p.m. It will be delivered online by internationally renowned CLIL trainers Dr Peeter Mehisto (UCL) and Tuula Asikainen (CLILedu, Summer University of Lapland).

To register for the new course, please fill in the very short questionnaire accessed through https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/J68DP9Y. This invitation is initially open to the UK residents who registered their interest in the previous iteration of the course, but did not receive a place. After a day, the course will be opened to other potential participants. Participants will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis.

As the course is also part of an action research project funded by the College of Business and Social Sciences of Aston University, feedback from the participants will be used for research purposes. Prospective participants will thus be requested to sign a research consent form prior to joining the training.

For more details, contact the course coordinator, Dr Emmanuelle Labeau (e.labeau@aston.ac.uk)

3.10 ASMCF annual conference 10-11 September 2020

Exile, home and belonging – an online conference

The 2020 annual conference of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF) will take place as an online event in September 2020.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Johanna Siméant-Germanos (École Normale Supérieure)
Max Silverman (University of Leeds)
Bill Marshall (University of Stirling)

About the conference:

This online conference event is being hosted by the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds.

The conference organisers are Sarah Waters, David Platten, Elizabeth Marcus. For any queries, please email Sarah Waters at s.a.waters@leeds.ac.uk

The conference includes 40 papers and 14 panels presented over two days. The full programme is now available on the conference website: https ://bit.ly /2PeuqhL

Details about conference registration will follow very soon.

3.11 Fanon at 95: A Twenty-Day Online Celebration, July 1-20, 2020

A Caribbean perspective on life affirms that our dead are not dead. As we remember and constantly engage with his intellectual and political offerings to the world, we also confirm that the Afro-Martinican decolonial thinker, Frantz Fanon, is alive. That he cannot die.

This July 20^th, Fanon will be ninety-five years old. As a collective, we wish to celebrate both Fanon’s life and mission. The force of Fanon’s offering is relevant now more than ever and must be mobilized at a time when pathogenic plagues, whether through biological forms or treacherous thoughts, attempt to devastate humankind or suffocate Black lives.

The Caribbean Philosophical Association presents “Fanon at 95”, a twenty-day online symposium during which experts on Fanon’s thoughts from around the world will engage in discussions highlighting the relevance of his work for today’s world.

We will celebrate both Fanon’s life as well as the lives of those for whom he combatted, the damned of the earth.

The panels will be composed of scholars from all regions of the world who will present in their original languages. We want to demonstrate respect for all languages and cultures, the broad scope and outreach of our intellectual undertaking and ensure that interested audiences have an opportunity to engage in discussions in their native languages.

Details soon to follow on the CPA website: http://www.caribbeanphilosophicalassociation.org/

3.12 Seminar 22 July – CCWW PGR online seminar series: Class, Confinement and Criminality in Contemporary Women’s Writing

Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing

INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH

School of Advanced Study • University of London

CCWW PGR online seminar series

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22680

The series begins with a seminar strand addressing the broad themes of class, confinement and criminality in contemporary women’s writing. Please see below for details of the first event.

Class, Confinement and Criminality

First seminar

22 July, 10:00-11:30 BST

Online

All are invited to attend the Centre’s first PGR online seminar entitled ‘Class, Confinement and Criminality’. This triad of themes is intentionally broad, opening out to consideration of women’s struggles at this critical moment in time, as well as tracing their evolution. The seminar series arises out of the need to create alternative spaces for academic discussion, engagement and motivation during these difficult times as we all continue to come to terms with COVID-19 and its impact.

Our first event ties together the themes of Class, Confinement and Criminality with two 15-minute papers followed by a Q&A:

Jemima Jobling (Newcastle): “Navigating Space and Class in Annie Ernaux’s Mémoire de fille (2016) – an exploration of class-based anxiety as told through the text’s intimate bedroom spaces”

Jessica Rushton (Durham): “Destablising the Nineteenth-Century Maidservant Revolt Narrative: Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douce (2016) – an investigation into how Slimani’s nanny figure echoes a nineteenth-century discourse around the rebellious maidservant”

The seminar will be held in English.

This free event will be held online, at 10:00 am BST. Please note that it is essential that you register in advance to join the event:

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22680

3.13 Association of Print Scholars Publication Grant (deadline 8/31/2020)

The Association of Print Scholars invites submissions for the 2020 APS Publication Grant, supported by C.G. Boerner and Harris Schrank.

The APS Publication Grant supports the publication of innovative scholarly research about printmaking across all time periods and geographic regions. The grant carries a maximum award of $2,000 and is funded through the Association of Print Scholars and the generosity of C.G. Boerner and Harris Schrank.

Proposed projects should be feature-length articles, online publications or essays, exhibition catalogues, or books, which are nearing completion and publication. Examples of possible uses for an APS Publication Grant include, but are not limited to, the following:

-Travel expenses for research essential to the completion of a manuscript;

-Studio time or courses in printmaking that will contribute significantly to a scholar’s understanding of their subject matter, or collaboration between printmakers and scholars;

-Funding assistance for photography and image permissions;

-Honoraria for contributors to edited volumes or other collaborative publications.

Applications are due August 31. Successful applicants will be notified by November 1 and the grant must be applied to publication costs within one year of notification.

Successful proposals must address all of the following criteria, which must be consolidated into a single PDF document (12 pt. font, black text):

Proposal narrative describing scholarly project. Projects will be evaluated based on the clarity of the proposal and the originality and innovation of the applicant’s research (500-1000 words).

Budget and budget narrative (250 words or less) detailing how grant funding would be spent. Please list any other grants for which the applicant has applied, amounts, and the results (if known).

A detailed publishing plan, which should ideally include documentation of progress towards publication or the project’s likelihood of publication. This documentation could take the form of a letter from an editor, press, or publisher, or an outline of possible publishers and contact made thus far. Please note that applications with a publisher’s support will receive highest consideration for the grant.

CV for all participant(s), no longer than 3 pages for each participant.

Applicants should send the above materials in a single PDF by August 31, 2020 to the APS Grants Committee at grants@printscholars.org.

For additional information, please visit: https://printscholars.org/awards/aps-publication-grant/

3.14 Society for Caribbean Studies Live Q&A event: ‘Climate Change and the Caribbean’, 2nd July 2020, 17.00-18.00 UK time

The Society for Caribbean Studies would like to invite you to the SCS Live Q&A/discussion event, entitled ‘Climate Change and the Caribbean’. The event will take place on 2nd July 2020, 17.00-18.00 UK time.

Dr Edil Sepulveda is a NASA scientist, licensed attorney, climate change expert, and Puerto Rican Diaspora organizer. Society for Caribbean Studies is happy to publicise his recorded keynote talk, and to host a live event in which he responds to audience questions. Before the question and answer session, please view his talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf4swRlke_w&feature=youtu.be

Please register on Eventbrite (this link goes straight through to the registration): <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/x/climate-change-and-the-caribbean-society-for-caribbean-studies-2020-qa-tickets-110595608442> https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-change-and-the-caribbean-society-for-caribbean-studies-2020-qa-tickets-110595608442?ref=estw Note that tickets are limited. For those who have registered, a Zoom link will be sent to you the day before the event.

Please note: due to the pandemic, SCS is not able to run our annual conference in 2020, but we look forward to seeing you at this question and answer event, and at our annual conference in 2021!

3.15 Jewish-Muslim Research Network July 2 & 16 Reading Group Sessions

Dear colleagues, please see below for registration details for our upcoming reading group sessions in July:

Session 3 – July 2, 2020, 4-5pm (GMT+1) – please register here: https://forms.gle/1xqfzgHwj5iXyYow8

Facilitator: Zoë Roth, Durham University

Readings: Derrick A. Bell’s “Who’s Afraid of Critical Race Theory?” (1995), Kimberlé Crenshaw’s “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics” (1989), and W. J. T. Mitchell’s “The Moment of Theory: Race as Myth and Medium in Seeing Through Race” (2012)

Zoom link and password will be sent to registered participants on the day.

Session 4 – July 16, 2020, 4-5pm (GMT+1) – please register here: https://forms.gle/ucGtDSjUaS4LYcUU9

Facilitator: Flora Hastings, SOAS

Readings: Chapter 3 of Mikaela H. Rogozen-Soltar’s Spain Unmoored (2017) and Erica Lehrer’s “Virtual, Virtuous, Vicarious, Vacuous? Towards a Vigilant Use of Labels” (2014)

Zoom link and password will be sent to registered participants on the day.

The readings are available to download on our website: https://jmrn.co.uk/online-reading-group/

3.16 Joint 66th Society for French Historical Studies Conference and 22nd George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation

The programme for the joint George Rudé and Society for French Historical Studies online-meeting during the month of July has now been finalised. All information can be found at:

https://h-france.net/h-france-salon-volume-12-2020/rude-sfhs-virtual-conference/

3.17 Michael Rothberg in conversation with Wayne Modest – July 22

Please join us online for a talk between Michael Rothberg and Wayne Modest, Head of the Research Center for Material Culture at the National Museum of World Cultures (Netherlands):

July 22 at 19 hours (CET, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris); 18 hours (UK); 13 hours (NYC); (9 am, California)

In this conversation, as part of the RCMC Thinking With series, Michael Rothberg will discuss his work notably in The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators (Stanford University Press, 2019). We invite Rothberg to think with us for he insists on theorizing non-competitive memory as an ethics of the multidirectional. In our ethnographic museums, we often are interested in thinking through concepts such as multivocality. We are especially provoked by Rothberg’s most recent deliberation on the implicated subject, which offers a perspective to think differently about notions of victim and perpetrator, so that we may imagine “connections to injustices past and present” (Rothberg). We are encouraged by Rothberg’s notion of plurality to implicate each of us in carving out better ways of accountability for our pasts and our presents.

**Check in a couple of days prior to the event for instructions as to how to livestream the event.

Bio

Michael Rothberg is the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work has been published in such journals as American Literary History, Critical Inquiry, Cultural Critique, History and Memory, New German Critique, and PMLA, and has been translated into French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. His latest book is The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators, published by Stanford University Press in their “Cultural Memory in the Present” series. He is also the author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (2009) and Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000). He has co-edited The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (2003; with Neil Levi) as well as special issues in the journals Criticism, Interventions, Occasion, and Yale French Studies. With Yasemin Yildiz, he is currently completing Inheritance Trouble: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance, which is under contract with Fordham University Press.

Excerpts The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators

Thinking With

RCMC’s Thinking With makes a commitment to a certain kind of collaborative criticality. This project complements several of our existing initiatives, as well as our commitment to the notion of “togetherness.” Thinking With arises out of the NMVW’s mission to contribute to world citizenship. For us, this ambition involves reflecting on how we might live with and among others in the world in more just and equitable ways, but also in ways that acknowledge that we do so ‘from’ drastically different subjectivities and vantage points. Thinking With then offers a form of joined-up problem solving that imagines a future that we can only fashion together. As such, Thinking With is a series that includes book talks, conversations with authors and makers, and specialists in the many fields that inform museum practice.

We draw on Mireille Rosello’s notion that companionship between and among societal actors, especially those who have different positions within our society, can only but be disorienting. Yet this companionship may, as Ariella Aïsha Azoulay suggests, provide us with methodologies to “unlearn imperialism.” For this reason, we actively seek out companions who challenge us, as an attempt not to reproduce ourselves, but to push ourselves and each other to create more equitable and just futures. This involves practices of de-centring, of provincializing ourselves, as we practice forms of worlding that take each other seriously. Ultimately then, the Thinking With series takes companionship as an assemblage of people, objects, and texts, so that we courageously ask ourselves to think all of our social actors—animate and inanimate—as part of the entangled unequal world we grapple with. In so doing, the project explores the notion of companionship and disorientation, not to deepen hierarchies, but rather as a way of fostering a more humane and equitable world.

https://www.materialculture.nl/en/events/thinking-michael-rothberg-implicated-subject

3.18 Announcing “Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces”

A new project is being launched called “Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces”. This is a project of the Centre for Popular Culture in the Humanities at the Education University of Hong Kong, led by Dr Bidisha Banerjee (Principal Investigator), by Dr Thomas Lacroix and Dr Judith Misrahi-Barak (Co-Investigators), in collaboration with EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) and the Maison Française of Oxford.

Here is a brief summary of the project:

Shocking images of migrant bodies washed ashore, epitomized in Ai Wei Wei’s re-enactment of the Syrian infant Alan Kurdi’s lifeless body on a beach in Lesbos, have almost become a macabre shorthand for migrant deaths on foreign shores as more and more refugees undertake perilous sea crossings and other hazardous inland journeys, in search of a better life. We may wonder what happens to these bodies, what happens to these bones; are they repatriated back to the homeland? If not, are they in a cruel twist of fate, simply buried in mass graves on the foreign shores they tragically failed to reach while alive? How are the victims memorialized, if at all? This also raises related questions about the immigrant’s desire for a home burial. How is the longing for home manifested as a longing to die in the homeland? What about those who are criminalized and refused a burial? How is the right to die linked to citizenship and human rights in the context of migration and diaspora?

“Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces” seeks to explore these questions as they are articulated in literary and visual culture, and across disciplines.

Please visit the project website for a full presentation and further details: http://www.cpch.hk/thanatic-ethics-the-circulation-of-bodies-in-migratory-spaces/ <http://www.cpch.hk/thanatic-ethics-the-circulation-of-bodies-in-migratory-spaces/>

3.19 Black Lives Matter: SFPS Statement of Support

The Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies (SFPS) is committed to equality, inclusion and racial justice. We support the fundamental, democratic right to protest and stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. We condemn all forms of racism, whether overt, insidious or structural, and we encourage our members to do the same. We mourn the black lives that have been cut short by police brutality, including George Floyd and Breonna Taylor (in the US), Sheku Bayoh and Christopher Alder (in the UK), Amadou Koume and Adama Traoré (in France), and countless others in these countries and across the globe. We extend our sympathy to the families, friends, and communities affected.

Racism and anti-black brutality are not recent problems. They do not solely occur ‘elsewhere’. Nor can they be dismissed as exceptional or one-off aberrations. Recent protests, in the US, the UK, France and elsewhere, have shone a light on the widespread nature of police brutality and have reopened an urgent debate about systemic anti-black racism, its forms, causes and consequences – including the disproportionate impact that Covid-19 has had upon black and other minority ethnic groups.

SFPS is committed to racial equality and racial justice. We recognise that it is almost impossible to approach the problem of racism without learning about the histories of colonial empire and slavery from which it flows, and without engaging with their modern-day, post-colonial legacies. In aligning the Society’s academic aims with our support of Black Lives Matter, SFPS seeks to raise awareness of non-Anglophone histories of slavery, colonial empire and racism, and to foreground the complex, multi-lingual and transnational dimensions of contemporary anti-racism movements.

SFPS – and ASCALF, the organisation from which it emerged – was established to study the importance of Francophone postcolonial voices, histories and cultures in pedagogy and practice. We seek to draw attention to the contribution these can make in the ongoing fight against racism and social injustice. As an organisation, we are committed to serving as a bridge between debates and struggles in Francophone and Anglophone worlds. SFPS acknowledges that the anti-racist and decolonial approaches it has always sought to encourage are now more urgent than ever.

We recognise that there are no easy solutions to the entrenched problems of racism and racialised injustice that the Black Lives Matter protests highlight. While a commitment to anti-racism has always been at the heart of what SFPS does and what it stands for, we recognise that we need to make that commitment more explicit.

SFPS pledge to engage with our members and broader audiences, to ensure that our activities work to combat all forms and practices of racism, to be actively anti-racist, and to do everything we can to bring about positive change.

So, what are we doing?

SFPS pledges to:

Review and update the Society’s aims, constitution, activities and materials, to ensure greater anti-racist and diversity emphases.

Ensure greater representation of students and colleagues of colour in our membership, governance, events and publications.

Working in partnership with relevant campaigning and subject associations, compile and curate on our website an online, open access ‘library’ of French-language, anti-racist resources, reading lists, teaching and outreach materials, association links and videos – and promote these to wide, academic and non-academic, audiences.

Be vocal in our support of anti-racist, diversity and inclusion debates in academia: including, the representation of students and colleagues of colour; the diversity of school and university curricula; addressing the attainment gap.

Encourage our black members, both colleagues and students, to express the challenges that they face without judgement or fear of repercussion.

Encourage our membership to support greater understanding and awareness of racist and/or discriminatory practice; to create a culture of challenging those behaviours; and to campaign against racism in all its forms.

Encourage members to get in touch with further suggestions and feedback.

3.20 ASMCF Call for Ideas

The ASMCF wants to support you! We want to reach out to colleagues to find the best ways to support you in the current climate. What do you want to see from the ASMCF? How can we help you? Please complete our online form:

https://asmcf.org/contact-people/

3.21 ASMCF Prizes – Deadline reminder

A friendly reminder that the deadline for several of the ASMCF’s prizes is approaching: for undergraduate essays, the Brian Darling Memorial Prize and the Douglas Johnson Memorial Essay Prize, and for Early Career Academics, the Early Career Researcher Travel Prize.

The deadline for all of these prizes is, memorably and rather appropriately, 14 July.

For full details, please consult the prizes section of the ASMCF website:

https://asmcf.org/funding-prizes/

3.22 The Virtual Year Abroad: looking for French resources

You may be aware that UCML has launched a SIG that focuses on tackling the challenges of the year abroad in the COVID19 context.

Emmanuelle Labeau (Aston) and Steve Wharton (Bath) are compiling resources for French, but would welcome contributions from colleagues.

The aim is to share resources at the forthcoming UCML AGM on 10th July ,so we would be grateful if your input was sent by Friday 3rd July. Please send your suggestions to e.labeau@aston.ac.uk. All participating institutions will be acknowledged in the document.

For more info on the project, see:

https://university-council-modern-languages.org/year-abroad/

4. New Publications

4.1 Horizons/Théâtre, 13 (2019). Les arts du spectacle dans l’Afrique subsaharienne: Des formes cultuelles aux manifestations spectaculaires

Ce treizième numéro d’Horizons/Théâtre, consacré aux arts du spectacle en Afrique subsaharienne, est le fruit des travaux qui ont eu lieu lors d’un colloque international organisé dans le cadre de la 23e édition du Festival international du Théâtre universitaire d’Agadir au Maroc en 2018. Cette manifestation a connu la participation de vingt-six chercheur·e·s et artistes venu·e·s des quatre coins de l’Afrique. Les organisateurs de cet événement ont tenu à ce qu’une grande partie, pour ne pas dire la majorité, des participants soit composée d’acteurs locaux, évoluant en Afrique. Il était primordial de mettre en lumière et de recueillir une parole africaine authentique émanant directement d’acteur·rice·s africain·e·s, sans filtre et sans passer par les « fameux intermédiaires » qui, en faisant des « théâtres africains » une chasse gardée, les privent de parole et s’expriment en leur nom. Dieudonné Niangouna ne s’insurgea-t-il pas contre le choix des programmateurs de la 71e édition du festival d’Avignon (2017) qui ont, dans le cadre du « focus Afrique », privilégié les spectacles de danse et de chant au détriment des créations d’auteurs dramatiques ! « Inviter un continent sans sa parole est inviter un mort » leur lança le jeune metteur en scène congolais.

Available online via: https://journals.openedition.org/ht/912

4.2 Jean-Pierre Peyroulou, Histoire de l’Algérie depuis 1988 (Paris: La Découverte, 2020)

Après 1988, l’Algérie a connu plus de dix ans d’une terrible guerre à la suite de l’interruption par l’armée de la première expérience démocratique du monde arabe qui a brièvement profité au Front islamique du salut (FIS). Dans les années 2000, l’Algérie d’Abdelaziz Bouteflika a lentement retrouvé la paix grâce à la rente des hydrocarbures, mais au prix d’une absence de justice et du mensonge. À l’armée, principale détentrice du pouvoir, se sont alors agrégés de plus en plus les milieux d’affaires qui ont profité de la libéralisation économique. La corruption a explosé.

En 2019, une mobilisation populaire pacifique, inédite par son ampleur et sa durée, le hirak, a demandé que ce régime « dégage ». Après le départ de Bouteflika, l’armée a engagé une transition factice pour reconduire un régime à bout de souffle, ouvrant une nouvelle période à l’issue incertaine. Aucune alternative politique claire ne semblait se faire jour, alors que les perspectives économiques s’assombrissaient. C’est cette évolution de trois décennies d’une Algérie contemporaine très contradictoire que cet ouvrage retrace de manière chronologique.

https://editionsladecouverte.fr/catalogue/index-Histoire_de_l_Alg__rie_depuis_1988-9782707183644.html

4.3 Albert James Arnold, Aimé Césaire. Genèse et Transformations d’une poétique (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2020)

Cet essai examine en détail la trajectoire de la poétique d’Aimé Césaire. À l’origine du projet de négritude, les premiers textes de Césaire révèlent un drame spirituel en relation avec la montée du fascisme. Sa réponse à ce désarroi s’exprime dans la composition du premier « Cahier d’un retour au pays natal ». Le cercle herméneutique propre au texte de 1939 décèle le sacrifice tragique du vieux nègre, auquel doit succéder un nègre nouveau. Le lecteur découvrira dans ces pages une facette gommée du parcours de Césaire : le contexte propre aux premiers recueils poétiques et à l’édition américaine du Cahier publiée par Brentano’s à New York. À partir de 1956, Césaire a sacrifié l’originalité de sa poétique antérieure, visant un nouvel horizon d’attente axé sur la décolonisation de l’Afrique. Ce tournant a favorisé la thèse de Césaire écrivain marxiste. Le présent essai couronne un demi-siècle de travaux sur la poésie d’Aimé Césaire par un professeur chevronné. Il prend sa place à côté de ceux d’Ernstpeter Ruhe et de Lilian Pestre de Almeida, édités dans la même collection, pour sortir Césaire du réduit de la « francophonie » et le placer parmi les meilleurs poètes de langue française.

https://www.verlag-koenigshausen-neumann.de/product_info.php/info/p9509_Aim—C–saire–Gen–se-et-Transformation-d—une-po–tique–ca–200-Seiten–ca–34-80—-.html

4.4 Christiane Chaulet Achour, Les Mille et une nuits aujourd’hui (Arcidosso: C&P Adver Effigi, 2020)

Cantonnées au monde arabe où elles se diffusaient par les voies de l’oralité, Les Mille et une nuits ont envahi le monde depuis la traduction d’Antoine Galland, au début du XVIIIe siècle, relayée par d’autres traductions, et les différentes éditions en langue arabe. Cet ouvrage qui leur est consacré veut apporter sa contribution à une meilleure connaissance des effets de cet espace de création au XXe siècle et en ce début du XXIe siècle. Car Les Nuits poursuivent leur voyage et les écrivains se nourrissent de leur apport. Dans l’immense bibliothèque de l’humanité, elles tiennent une place enviable. Des Shahrazade(s) contemporaines aux Bagdad(s) nostalgiques, des Sindbad(s), dont les voyages suggèrent la découverte du monde, aux écritures dont les narrations empruntent les détours et retours de la sultane, on ne compte plus les emprunts aux Nuits.
Face à la richesse du texte lui-même et des réécritures qu’il a suscitées, cet ouvrage a fait des choix pour mettre en valeur les dialogues et affrontements entre l’Orient et l’Occident, l’apport du Sud et la fascination qu’il exerce sur d’autres imaginaires.

http://www.cpadver-effigi.com/blog/les-mille-et-une-nuits-aujourd-hui/

4.5 Interculturel Francophonies, 37 (2020), ed. by Hassan Chafik. Driss Chraïbi : une écriture libertaire.

Driss Chraïbi est un écrivain hors chapelle. C’est ainsi qu’il se définit lui-même dans Le Monde à côté. Ce sens de la désaffiliation est l’expression d’un esprit libertaire qui ne s’accommode pas des mythes communs et leur oppose une révolte intransigeante au nom de la liberté.

À ces mythes il oppose celui de l’artiste souverain qui se joue du monde et des récits historiques pour qu’enfin rayonne dans toute sa splendeur un moi authentique, souvent en conflit avec les réalités historiques. L’anarchisme de Driss Chraïbi, tout en niant les pouvoirs oppressifs nés de l’idéologie moderne et des religions, reconnaît l’homme dans sa diversité et son universalité. Et c’est cet amour de la diversité qui fonde son œuvre. L’œuvre chraïbienne n’oppose pas le ressentiment à la désillusion historique. Elle l’affronte par toutes les ressources dont dispose l’artiste pour se désolidariser avec un monde prosaïque qui a perdu le sens du rêve et se complaît dans l’admiration de régimes politiques liberticides. Chraïbi rêve d’un monde libre, peuplé d’une humanité souveraine. Car la liberté est ce qui fonde la révolte chez Chraïbi.

https://sites.google.com/view/alliancefrlecce/publications/interculturel-francophonies

4.6 Xavier Luffin (ed.), Un autre regard sur l’histoire congolaise. Les documents arabes et swahilis dans les archives belges (1880-1899) (Brussels: Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences, 2020)

4.7 Aurélien Mondon & Aaron Winter, Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (London: Verso, 2020)

Democracy must be anti-racist. Any less is cowardly. Any less is reactionary

Democracy is not necessarily progressive, and will only be if we make it so. What Mondon and Winter call “reactionary democracy” is the use of the concept of democracy and its associated understanding of the power to the people (demos cratos) for reactionary ends. The resurgence of racism, populism and the far right is not the result of popular demands, it is the logical conclusion of manipulation by the elite of the working class to push reactionary ideas. These narratives portray racism as a popular demand, rather than as something encouraged and perpetuated by elites, exonerating those with the means to influence and control public discourse through the media in particular. This has legitimised the far right, strengthened its hand and compounded inequalities.

These actions divert us away from real concerns and radical alternatives to the current system. Through a careful and thorough deconstruction of the hegemonic discourse currently preventing us from thinking beyond the liberal vs populist dichotomy, this book develops a better understanding of the systemic forces underpinning our current model and its exploitative and discriminatory basis. The book shows us that the far right would not have been able to achieve such success, either electorally or ideologically, were it not for the help of elite actors like the media, politicians and academics. While the far right is a real threat and should not be left off the hook, the authors argue that we need to shift the responsibility of the situation towards those who too often claim to be objective bystanders despite their powerful standpoint and clear capacity to influence the agenda, public discourse, and narratives, particularly when they platform and legitimise racist and far right ideas and actors.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3173-reactionary-democracy

4.8 Revue Mouvements: Hirak, Algérie en révolution(s) (Forthcoming in July)

Depuis l’hiver 2019, l’Algérie connaît une situation révolutionnaire inédite par son ampleur, son enracinement national, son étendue intergénérationnelle et ses expressions politiques. Le dossier réinscrit ce mouvement populaire dans le temps long des transformations sociales et des luttes postcoloniales du pays, en apportant un éclairage soucieux de prendre en compte l’articulation des expériences passées et présentes ainsi que leurs écarts.

Table des matières

Hirak, Algérie en révolution(s)
Éditorial : Hirak, Algérie en révolution(s)
Intermède
Tahremni men houria (Tu me prives de liberté), par Saadia Gacem
I/ Les mots pour le dire
Le Hirak algérien ou l’émergence d’une rhétorique de rupture : le cas d’Oran, par Karim Ouaras
Rhétorique de l’ingérence et lutte pour la légitimité, par Farida Souiah
Hirak, paroles et musiques. Petite histoire sélective des chants contestataires algériens de la colonisation à aujourd’hui, par Hajer Ben Boubaker
Intermède
J’ai raté la révolution du 22 février, par Abdallah Benadouda
II/ Militer en manifestant
Hirak : l’an I ?, entretien avec Belkacem Benzenine et Chérif Dris par Amin Allal et Farida Souiah
(Dés)engagements militants et pratiques de la contestation (2011-2019), par Layla Baamara
Femmes et Hirak : pratiques de « desserrement » collectif et d’occupation citoyenne de l’espace public, par Ghaliya N. Djelloul
Youcef Krache et Fethi Sahraoui, deux photographes algériens témoins et acteurs de la contestation, par Atlal Brahimi
Intermède
Raviver la « Guerre de libération nationale » et la dépasser : L’Algérie attend le premier novembre, par Salah Badis
III/ Mémoires vives
Mise en perspective du Hirak. Retour sur le « printemps berbère » d’avril 1980, par Ahmed Dahmani
Aux origines de la surprise des médias français dominants face à l’irruption du Hirak algérien, par François Gèze
Consigner le Hirak : de l’expérience à l’archive, par Lalia Chenoufi et Karima Dirèche
« Ça passe ou ça ne passe pas ? » Dessiner malgré la censure, entretien avec Slim et Nime par Farida Souiah
Intermède
Soulèvement et création –Fièvres ou faire théâtre « avec du Hirak», par Mustapha Benfodil
IV/ Mécanismes du pouvoir
Quand l’armée algérienne occupe le devant de la scène politique. Retour sur des phases de transition depuis 1962, par Saphia Arezki
L’économie politique du soulèvement algérien : quelles perspectives pour la transition économique ?, par El Mouhoub Mouhoud
Les mécanismes constitutionnels de l’autoritarisme algérien face au Hirak, par Massensen Cherbi
Itinéraire
Une poétique féministe de l’Algérie en lutte, entretien avec Habiba Djahnine par Giulia Fabbiano et Nacira Guénif

https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/catalogue/index-Hirak__Alg__rie_en_r__volution_s_-9782348060274.html

4.9 Chelsea Stieber, Haiti’s Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954 (New York: NYU Press, 2020) (Forthcoming in August)

Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation

Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. What transpired was a war of swords and of pens, waged in newspapers and periodicals, in literature, broadsheets, and fliers. In her analysis of Haitian writing that followed independence, Stieber composes a new literary history of Haiti, that challenges our interpretations of both freedom struggles and the postcolonial. By examining internal dissent during the revolution, Stieber reveals that the very concept of freedom was itself hotly contested in the public sphere, and it was this inherent tension that became the central battleground for the guerre de plume—the paper war—that vied to shape public sentiment and the very idea of Haiti.

Stieber’s reading of post-independence Haitian writing reveals key insights into the nature of literature, its relation to freedom and politics, and how fraught and politically loaded the concepts of “literature” and “civilization” really are. The competing ideas of liberté, writing, and civilization at work within postcolonial Haiti have consequences for the way we think about Haiti’s role—as an idea and a discursive interlocutor—in the elaboration of black radicalism and black Atlantic, anticolonial, and decolonial thought. In so doing, Stieber reorders our previously homogeneous view of Haiti, teasing out warring conceptions of the new nation that continued to play out deep into the twentieth century.

https://nyupress.org/9781479802159/haitis-paper-war/

4.10 L’Esprit créateur, 60, 2 (2020). Challenging Normative Spaces and Gazes: The Body in 20th- and 21st-Century Francophone Culture

Table of Contents

Introduction (Polly Galis, Maria Tomlinson, Antonia Wimbush) – pp. 1-12

Penser l’autonomie du corps dans les récits d’amours transgressifs (Anna Krykun) – pp. 13-25

Blood Isn’t Always Thicker Than Water: Delineating the Grotesque Gaze and Locating the ‘Flesh’ in Victor Séjour’s “Le mulâtre” (1837) (Marshall L. Smith) – pp. 26-40

Disrupting Homogeneous Nation-space: Black Male Bodies and the Immigrant Woman Writer’s Gaze (Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy) – pp. 41-54

Out of Place: The Medical Body in Exile from Dorothée Chellier to Malika Mokeddem (Elizabeth H. Jones) – pp. 55-68

Living and Literary Bodies in Maïssa Bey’s Hizya (Siobhán McIlvanney) – pp. 69-82

Héla Ammar’s À fleur de peau / Body Talks: From Anonymous to Familiar Bodies (Anna Rocca) – pp. 83-98

Exoticism or Empowerment? The Representation of Non-normative Women and Prostitution in Nabil Ayouch’s Much Loved (Kaya Davies Hayon) – pp. 99-112

Brigitte Bardot as Object of Desire and Subject of Contempt (Sophie Belot) – pp. 113-125

Recasting the Gaze: Self-perception and Body De(con)struction in Nelly Arcan’s “La honte” (Marzia Caporale) – pp. 126-138

Corps à cœur à l’écran: Les attractions contraires de Fiorenza Menini (Claire Lozier) – pp. 139-151

Screening Youth, Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema ed. by Romain Chareyron and Gilles Viennot (review) (Peadar Kearney) – p. 152

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/42484

4.11 Parlement[s], Revue d’histoire politique, 30 (2019). L’invention politique des banlieues à la fin du XXe siècle

https://www.cairn.info/revue-parlements-2019-3.htm

Présentation

Le mot « banlieues » désigne depuis le milieu des années 1980 les quartiers populaires périphériques d’habitat collectif. Le personnel politique s’en empare progressivement pour nommer des territoires ou s’adresser à une partie de l’électorat ; les candidats ajoutent cette étape à leurs tours de France, tandis que certains habitants se saisissent du label pour en faire un élément identitaire. Ce dossier réunit des chercheurs de plusieurs disciplines pour évaluer si les discours, qu’ils soient politiques, militants, scientifiques, médiatiques ou associatifs, ont eu un effet performatif, inventant une réalité politique malgré l’hétérogénéité sociale et urbaine de ces quartiers. Qu’on la considère comme un corps étranger, un électorat à conquérir, une communauté ou un territoire à représenter, un groupe social à mobiliser, envisage-t-on durablement la « banlieue » comme un objet ou un acteur politique ?

Sommaire de ce numéro

Page 11 à 21: Introduction. Quand les « banlieues » sont redevenues un objet politique (Alexandre Borrell)

Recherche

Page 23 à 46: Ces quartiers dont on préfère ne plus parler : les métamorphoses de la politique de la ville (1977-2018) (Renaud Epstein, Thomas Kirszbaum)

Page 47 à 80: Quartiers, banlieues, cités : sens commun, sens unique et variation des usages dans le lexique présidentiel sous la Ve République (Alexandre Borrell)

Page 81 à 100: Le vote des banlieues. Réflexions sur soixante ans de recherche (David Gouard)

Page 101 à 122: Quand les « banlieues » se définissent elles-mêmes. De Résistance des banlieues au Forum social des quartiers populaires (1989-2012) (Karim Taharount)

Sources

Page 123 à 136: « Le président hip-hop ». Naissance d’un archétype visuel, de François Mitterrand au jeune de banlieue (Plantu, Le Monde, 1990) (Alexandre Borrell)

Page 138 à 154: « Justice en banlieue » : une affiche de campagne du Mouvement de l’Immigration et des Banlieues (1997) (Karim Taharount)

Varia

Page 155 à 170: Une mauvaise lecture politique et religieuse : Gaspard de Coligny et le colloque de Poissy (Nicolas Breton)

Page 171 à 186: Robert Buron : parcours d’un chrétien de gauche (1962-1973) (Roberto Colozza)

Lectures

Page 189 à 213: Lectures

4.12 Benjamin Stora, Une mémoire algérienne (Paris: Bouquins, 2020)

L’oeuvre de Benjamin Stora se confond pour partie avec la mémoire et l’histoire de la guerre d’Algérie. Un de ses grands thèmes de recherche, intimement lié à son parcours individuel tel qu’il le relate dans trois de ses ouvrages. Dans Les Clés retrouvées, il évoque son enfance juive à Constantine et le souvenir d’un monde qu’il a vu s’effondrer ; dans La Dernière Génération d’Octobre, son militantisme marqué très à gauche avec son cortège de désillusions. Les Guerres sans fin témoignent d’un engagement mémoriel qui se fonde sur une blessure collective et personnelle que seules la recherche et la connaissance historiques peuvent aider à panser.

Benjamin Stora a étudié en ce sens le rôle spécifique joué par les grands acteurs de ce conflit singulier. Dans Le Mystère de Gaulle, il analyse l’attitude de ce dernier lors de sa prise du pouvoir en 1958 et sa décision d’ouvrir des négociations avec les indépendantistes en vue d’une solution de compromis associant de manière originale la France et l’Algérie. Dans François Mitterrand et la guerre d’Algérie, écrit avec François Malye, il montre les contradictions de celui qui, avant de devenir un adversaire de la peine de mort, la fit appliquer sans hésiter en 1957 en tant que ministre de la Justice au détriment des Algériens. C’est enfin de la longue histoire des juifs en terre algérienne qu’il est question dans Les Trois Exils.

Cet ensemble, qui porte la marque d’un historien majeur, permet de mieux comprendre la genèse, le déroulement et l’issue d’une tragédie où se mêlent un conflit colonial livré par la France, un affrontement nationaliste mené par les indépendantistes algériens et une guerre civile entre deux communautés résidant sur un même territoire. Ce sujet, resté sensible pour nombre de nos compatriotes, continue d’alimenter des deux côtés de la Méditerranée des débats passionnés.

4.13 French Cultural Studies, 31, 3 (2020)

Table of Contents

The legend of Saint Alan: Larnaudie and Stiegler in the Oversight Committee Room (Calum Watt) – pp. 173-184

‘Entre journalisme et littérature sur 7 500 signes’: Lance Armstrong and suiveur reporting in Libération, 1999–2013 (Hugh Dauncey, Ruadhán Cooke) – pp. 185-198

History as neurosis: Psychoanalysis and Marxism in Édouard Glissant’s Le Discours antillais (Celia Britton) – pp. 199-209

Victor Segalen’s 1914 archaeological mission in Sichuan: The untold story (Yunfei Bai) – pp. 210-229

L’analyse du discours des journaux de presse français à propos de la crise de migrants en France, en 2016 (Sonja Špadijer) – pp. 230-245

(Auto)-portrait de l’artiste : Trois chansons de Serge Gainsbourg (Roy Chandler Caldwell) – pp. 246-256

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/frca/31/3

4.14 Mehdi Charef, Vivants (Paris: Hors d’atteinte, 2020) (Forthcoming in August)

J’apprends à mon père à écrire son nom. Il tient bien le stylo entre ses trois doigts, il ne tremble pas. Est-il épaté ou troublé d’écrire pour la première fois de sa vie, à trente-six ans ?

Mon père est de cette génération qu’on a fait venir en France après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, pour reconstruire ce que les Américains et les Allemands avaient bombardé. Que de temps perdu, depuis les années qu’il est là. On aurait pu proposer aux ouvriers algériens des cours du soir, leur montrer ainsi un peu d’estime. Ils devraient tous savoir lire et écrire.

Mon père sourit, ses yeux brillent. Il est là, surpris, ému, parce qu’il voit bien que ce n’est pas si difficile que ça de se servir d’un stylo. À côté de lui, j’entends sa respiration, son souffle.

À quoi pense-t-il ce soir dans notre baraque ? Se dit-il qu’analphabète, il est une proie facile pour ses employeurs, un animal en captivité ?

La colère monte en moi.

Vivants est le sixième roman de Mehdi Charef, qui a notamment publié Le Thé au harem d’Archi Ahmed (1983) et réalisé onze films. Entre souvenirs d’une Algérie qui s’éloigne et expériences d’une France pas toujours accueillante, dans une cité de transit où le provisoire s’éternise, des enfants, des femmes et des hommes fêtent des naissances et des mariages, s’équipent en télévisions et en machines à laver, découvrent la contraception et les ambulances, rient, pleurent, s’organisent, s’entraident… et vivent.

SFPS Mailing: June 2020

1. Calls for Papers/Contributions

1.1 CFP – NeMLA 2021 – Aquatic Tropes in Francophone Postcolonial Cultures (Panel)

1.2 Marginalised Voices and Figures in French Festival Culture, 1500–1800

1.3 CfP: Memories from the Margins

1.4 Appel à contributions – The Goose 18.2: méli-mélo (numéro très ouvert)

1.5 CfP (10-minute Video Presentations): Health, Disease, and Contagion in the Francophone Postcolonial World

1.6 CFP Deadline extended –Women in French Sessions at SAMLA 2020

1.7 CfP: Being Hospitable: Welcoming the Other across Languages (2021 MLA International Symposium, Glasgow)

1.8 AàC : “Voix subalternes et créa(c)tives. Explorer l’inventivité de la marge francophone”

1.9 EASTAP journal Call for Proposals: Language and Performance: Moving across Discourses and Practices in a Globalised World

1.10 Call for manuscripts – Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion (Brill) “Jews and Muslims in Europe: Between Discourse and Experience”

1.11 H-France Critical Race Salon resources

1.12 Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium (2021)

1.13 Appel à contribution: La presse arabophone hors du monde arabe : effets de contexte sur une presse allophone (Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée)

1.14 Migrant literature panel–NeMLA 2021 (Philadelphia)

1.15 CfP: Film, Television, and History in the French-Speaking World

1.16 CFP: Expressions maghrébines 20.2 (2021): Gisèle Halimi, la littérature en défense (coord. Samia Kassab-Charfi)

1.17 CFP: CCWW PGR online seminar series: Class, Confinement and Criminality in Contemporary Women’s Writing

1.18 CfP: Languages of Disease in the Contemporary Francophone World

1.19 H-France Salon, Call for Guest Editors

1.20 Call for papers “les discours du tourisme “/discourses of tourism for Argumentation et Analyse du discours no. 27

1.21 CFP: Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum

1.22 CFP: Re-choreographing Epistemologies of the Body in the Middle East and North Africa: Mobilising Resistance Through the Mobility of Dance

2. Job and Scholarship Opportunities

2.1 MPhil Scholarships – School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow

2.2 Three-year lectureship in French Studies, University of New England

2.3 Margaret Wooloff PhD Scholarship competition 2020 (deadline 1 July)

2.4 Teaching Assistant in French at the University of Limerick, Ireland

2.5 Job announcement: Teaching Fellow in French and Francophone Studies at UCL

2.6 Funded PhD on Gender, Series and Sexual Health

3. Announcements

3.1 Showcasing ML Postgraduate Research across the UK

3.2 Workshop Digital Challenges in French and Francophone Studies, 8 July

3.3 Leila Slimani’s and Marie Darrieussecq’s Lockdown Journals and the Changing Role of the Writer in French Society (30 June 2020 – online seminar)

3.4 ONLINE WORKSHOP: Researching Multilingually: Possibilities and Complexities, 10 July 2020

3.5 French Screen Studies: new research bursaries

3.6 The Music of North Africa with Drs. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz & Samuel Torjman Thomas

3.7 The Free Black University Fundraiser

3.8 2021 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Science Fiction Studies

3.9 Free CLIL training

3.10 ASMCF annual conference 10-11 September 2020

3.11 Fanon at 95: A Twenty-Day Online Celebration, July 1-20, 2020

3.12 Seminar 22 July – CCWW PGR online seminar series: Class, Confinement and Criminality in Contemporary Women’s Writing

3.13 Association of Print Scholars Publication Grant (deadline 8/31/2020)

3.14 Society for Caribbean Studies Live Q&A event: ‘Climate Change and the Caribbean’, 2nd July 2020, 17.00-18.00 UK time

3.15 Jewish-Muslim Research Network July 2 & 16 Reading Group Sessions

3.16 Joint 66th Society for French Historical Studies Conference and 22nd George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation

3.17 Michael Rothberg in conversation with Wayne Modest – July 22

3.18 Announcing “Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces”

3.19 Black Lives Matter: SFPS Statement of Support

3.20 ASMCF Call for Ideas

3.21 ASMCF Prizes – Deadline reminder

3.22 The Virtual Year Abroad: looking for French resources

4. New Publications

4.1 Horizons/Théâtre, 13 (2019). Les arts du spectacle dans l’Afrique subsaharienne: Des formes cultuelles aux manifestations spectaculaires

4.2 Jean-Pierre Peyroulou, Histoire de l’Algérie depuis 1988 (Paris: La Découverte, 2020)

4.3 Albert James Arnold, Aimé Césaire. Genèse et Transformations d’une poétique (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2020)

4.4 Christiane Chaulet Achour, Les Mille et une nuits aujourd’hui (Arcidosso: C&P Adver Effigi, 2020)

4.5 Interculturel Francophonies, 37 (2020), ed. by Hassan Chafik. Driss Chraïbi : une écriture libertaire.

4.6 Xavier Luffin (ed.), Un autre regard sur l’histoire congolaise. Les documents arabes et swahilis dans les archives belges (1880-1899) (Brussels: Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences, 2020)

4.7 Aurélien Mondon & Aaron Winter, Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (London: Verso, 2020)

4.8 Revue Mouvements: Hirak, Algérie en révolution(s) (Forthcoming in July)

4.9 Chelsea Stieber, Haiti’s Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954 (New York: NYU Press, 2020) (Forthcoming in August)

4.10 L’Esprit créateur, 60, 2 (2020). Challenging Normative Spaces and Gazes: The Body in 20th- and 21st-Century Francophone Culture

4.11 Parlement[s], Revue d’histoire politique, 30 (2019). L’invention politique des banlieues à la fin du XXe siècle

4.12 Benjamin Stora, Une mémoire algérienne (Paris: Bouquins, 2020)

4.13 French Cultural Studies, 31, 3 (2020)

4.14 Mehdi Charef, Vivants (Paris: Hors d’atteinte, 2020) (Forthcoming in August)

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