The Memory Studies Association (MSA) welcomes proposals for its seventh annual conference, to be held in person from 3 to 7 July 2023 at Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.

The theme of the 2023 conference will be “Communities and Change”. This overall conference theme draws inspiration from Newcastle’s specific post-industrial material and social landscape. Newcastle-upon-Tyne is a city in the North East of England, a region with a long industrial history linked to shipbuilding and coal mining. The North East has a strong record of local activism and heritage driven by regional change and deindustrialisation. At the same time, the city’s roots go deeper and spread wider, with its location on Hadrian’s Wall – the northern-most frontier of the Roman Empire. It sits within impressive rural and coastal landscapes, in a rich cultural environment with heritage sites, castles, iconic bridges, museums, and a thriving artistic community. Newcastle is a city committed to social justice, from the Jarrow marchers who took the concerns of the unemployed to parliament to its status as a City of Sanctuary welcoming refugees. The vibrant city continues to be shaped by the changing communities that have made Newcastle their home and through an ongoing engagement with memory and reinvention.

The theme of “Communities and Change” also reflects the dynamism and diversity of Memory Studies as an expanding field. They are topics that both address loss and trauma but also new dynamic opportunities, calling for different ways of thinking about the past as well as the future.

Community is interpreted in diverse ways, operating on multiple levels, from the familial to individual interest groups to more formalised communities, and reaching across multiple locations and scales (in both the physical and digital sense). Within communities and through the generations, memories are constantly being shaped and reshaped. Recent decades have also seen waves of crisis and rising populism, and the forced movement of people as a result of ongoing and emerging conflicts. We live in a time where local and global communities and memories are shifting rapidly and being dramatically reconfigured.

The 2023 conference will therefore highlight approaches to heritage, the post-industrial, public memory, migration, social justice and human rights, offering a series of related keynote addresses, plenary sessions, roundtables and artistic interventions, exploring connections between local, national and transnational memories. It will also foster discussions around the coloniality of memory and the ongoing work of decolonisation, as well as interrogating the ways in which institutional communities and practice are changing. In order to embed the conference in the city of Newcastle, a Cultural Programme of events will run alongside the academic programme, where we will be cooperating closely with local memory activists, cultural partners and heritage sites.

We will be structuring the conference around 10 central interconnected thematic streams, identified as core areas of work within this broader conference theme of “Communities and Change”. The thematic strands may be interpreted widely and are intended to encompass as diverse an historical, geographical, social and cultural range as possible. We therefore invite submissions connected to the following streams:

Memory, Activism and Social Justice
The Coloniality and Decolonising of Memory
Creative Approaches to Memory
Deindustrialisation and Reinventions
Conflict, Violence and Memory
Memory and Diverse Belongings
Memoryscapes (digital, locational, imagined)
Beyond Disciplinary Communities
Movement, Migration and Refugees
Embodiment

Submission Guidelines

Proposals are invited for panels, roundtable discussions, creative workshops and individual papers from members who are committed to attending the conference in person. The MSA especially encourages complete sessions. Each panel should, in principle, consist of 4 presenters and a chair. Each roundtable should consist of around 4-5 participants with shorter statements and discussions. Each participant may appear as a presenter only once (in either a panel or a roundtable) but can act as chair in more than one panel.

We also welcome proposals for film screenings, performances, exhibitions, etc., to be part of the Cultural Programme. Anyone who wishes to submit a proposal for a creative session is asked to contact the organisers to discuss the proposal and any specific requirements prior to submission.

The submission portal is currently under development and is expected to go live in August. More detailed information – including submission rules and guidelines – will be posted in due course on the MSA website, so please check back regularly for updates.

The final deadline for submissions will be Monday 3 October 2022.

We aim to inform people of the outcome of their submission in mid-December. We aim to provide at the same time the necessary supporting documentation for those needing to apply for visas.

Unfortunately, we do not have the financial or physical capacity to run a hybrid conference, but we will be recording and livestreaming the keynote and plenary sessions to make these as accessible as possible. We realise that this will be very disappointing to many, but the costs of a hybrid conference are prohibitive and would place an insurmountable financial burden on the Association and its members.

Please keep an eye on this website for any updates, and send any enquiries to conference@memorystudiesassociation.org.

1.2 Call for Contributions – Journal Issue – Literature and Global Responsibility

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS – Journal Issue

*Literature and Global Responsibility: Narratives, Questions, and
Challenges*

Guest editor: Stefano Bellin
<https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/people/postdoc/stefanobellin/>
(University
of Warwick)

Deadline for abstract submissions: October 1, 2022
Notification of acceptance: December 10, 2022
Submission of full articles: October 1, 2023
Tentative publication date: late 2024

Many of the problems of today’s world are global in nature and scope, and thus need to be approached in a global fashion. Yet, as the reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic shows, we struggle to think and act in truly global terms. This special issue will explore how literature can help us to develop a theoretical framework that enhances our understanding of global responsibility. ‘Global’ stands here both for worldwide and comprehensive: it draws attention to our global relations of interdependence and to the complex networks of actions and inactions that create the conditions of possibility for oppression. Focusing on literary case studies that illuminate some of the most consequential forms of global violence and injustice (e.g., imperialism, the global border regime, racial discrimination, narcopolitics, exploitation, ecological degradation, etc.),
this special issue aims to foster a debate on the macro-structures that enable and perpetuate global injustice *as well as* on the role of coalitions of individuals in propping up or fighting those forms of injustice. The goal is threefold: to explore which forms of literary writing are better suited to cultivate a sense of global responsibility; to debate how and to what extent ordinary citizens are responsible for large-scale forms of violence and injustice that, although vast and global in their nature, involve us in very tangible and material ways; and to discuss how our imagination can be engaged critically in order to come to terms and resist our own complicity with systemic violence and oppression.

The key questions that this special issue seeks to address are:

· How can contemporary literature facilitate our critical and political engagement with forms of violence and injustice that are global in nature and scope?

· How can contemporary literature help us to clarify and bring into focus the notion of ‘global responsibility’?

· Which literary tools are more effective in developing our political imagination and sense of responsibility?

· How can literature address the representational challenges posed by forms of violence and injustice whose causes are dispersed, incremental, and relatively invisible?

· How much can we stretch the idea of responsibility – a concept that has its roots meaning in response, and a practice that involves political literacy, critical awareness, and situated thinking?

· How can we develop a notion of responsibility that accounts for complex causality without losing political traction?

This special issue welcomes scholars working in all languages, geographical areas, and theoretical frameworks, and encourages proposals that take an interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary approach.

Suggested topics include both theoretical and comparative approaches to contemporary literature and avenues of research related to:

· Literature and the questions of agency, accountability, and political responsibility (in the context of specific global issues)

· Literature and the challenge of envisioning alterity across hierarchies of power

· Literary tools, modes of textual engagement, and worldly ethics

· Structural injustice and literary imaginations

· Literature and systemic racism

· Literature and international migration

· Literature and decolonial thought/praxis

· Literature and the legacies of collective violence

· Literature and the Anthropocene/Capitalocene

· Epistemic (in)justice and resistant imaginations

· World literature and global justice

*Call for Papers*

I invite authors to submit abstract proposals for the “Literature and Global Responsibility: Narratives, Questions, and Challenges” special issue *before October 1, 2022*. The proposal should include a 500-word abstract, 5 keywords, and a biographical note (200 words) that includes the author’s name, institutional affiliation, key publications and research outputs / projects. Proposals and questions should be sent to
stefano.bellin@warwick.ac.uk.

The selected abstracts will be included in a volume proposal that will be submitted for consideration to an international, peer-reviewed, top-tier journal. Please note that the acceptance of your abstract does not guarantee the publication of your article. The full drafts will be reviewed by the guest editor and then submitted for blind peer review.

1.3 Women in French UK-Ireland 2023 Conference – Call for Papers – Deadline 1 September 2022

Women in French UK-Ireland

Biennial Conference 26-28 May 2023

35 years of WIF – 22 years of WIFIS – Launch of Women in French UK-Ireland

Hinsley Hall, Leeds, England

Women and/in crises – Femmes et/en crises

Visit our website at https://wifukireland.wordpress.com/ for more information

Women in French aims to promote scholarly exchange based on research in French and Francophone Studies by or about women, and to maintain a network of contacts among those teaching and/or researching in this field.

Over the years, Women in French and Women in French in Scotland ran parallel events and came ‘together’ for the 2013 conference. And in 2021, Women in French was held – albeit virtually – in Maynooth, Ireland.

To celebrate 35 years of WIF, 22 years of WIFIS and the coming together of UK and Irish scholars around Women in French, the group is formalising itself as WIF UK-Ireland and the 2023 conference will see the official launch of the newly formed association.

Women and/in crises

Recent years have been marked by a number of communal crises, such as Covid, climate change, #MeToo or the challenge to historical narratives, to name but a few; but crises can also be personal, in our response to shared social concerns, or to events in our individual lives. Sometimes the two overlap as seen with Vanessa Springora’s Le Consentement (2020) in response to the 2018 letter, signed by 100 French women, including actor Catherine Deneuve, published in Le Monde to denounce the Balance-ton-porc movement as “puritanical”. More private crises are explored for instance in Marie Darrieussecq’s Tom est mort (2007), Marie Ndiaye’s Trois Femmes Puissantes (2012), or Laetitia Colombani’s Les Victorieuses (2019), while Ruth Cruickshank addresses the aesthetics of crisis discourses in Angot, Echenoz, Houellebecq, and Redonnet in Fin de Millénaire French fiction (2009).

It is of course difficult to find a stable definition of what constitutes a crisis when, for example, popular discourse defines as a ‘crise de nerfs’ what may be perceived as legitimate rage in the face of social injustice (see for example Fanny Galot’s ‘La « crise de nerfs », de la souffrance à la résistance?’, 2009)

We may also wonder to what extent ‘the personal is political’ when so many of the crises explored in women’s artistic productions are precipitated by social norms or political discourses about gender, race, migration, etc.

The theme that we have selected for Women in French 2023 can be interpreted in many different ways and we encourage our participants to reflect on the different ways in which women in French and Francophone literature, culture, cinema and politics have illustrated both women’s involvement in activist movements, and their responses to crises both social and personal. Contributions may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Women and activism
New feminisms
Eco-feminism
Women and revolt
Women and health crisis
Women and age
Bodies and crises
Motherhood and crises
Narratives of trauma

We are pleased to confirm writers Samira Sedira and Lou Sarabadzic as invited speakers.

One Book, One WiF

In partnership with our colleagues in WiF North America, WiF UK-Ireland is furthering the ‘One Book, One WiF’ project that began in 2017. The aim of this initiative is to help promote critical interest in less known French and Francophone women writers and thus to increase the readership of their corpus. The author for the 2023 conference is Meryem Alaoui and the text is La Vérité sort de la bouche du cheval (2018). Proposals for papers or a panel on this book or the author in general are welcomed.

200-300-word abstracts are invited for 20-minute papers in English or in French by or about women in any area of French Studies. We welcome papers from postgraduate students, ECRs as well as established scholars from the U.K. and Ireland and beyond. Please note that membership of Women in French UK-Ireland will be required to present at the conference. To become a member, please visit our membership information page at https://wifukireland.wordpress.com/contact/

Please send abstracts and a brief bio, along with any queries, to the conference organisers by 1st September 2022: Véronique Desnain (veronique.desnain@ed.ac.uk) and Caroline Verdier (caroline.verdier@strath.ac.uk)

The conference is held in the pleasant, leafy surroundings of Hinsley Hall, approximately 3 km from the centre of Leeds, and includes a Saturday afternoon ‘break’ in nearby Ilkley with the possibility of a short walk on the moors.

Women in French UK-Ireland

Conférence bisannuelle 26-28 mai 2023,

35 ans de WIF – 22 ans de WIFIS – lancement de Women in French UK-Ireland

Hinsley Hall, Leeds, Angleterre

Femmes et/en crises – Women and/in crises

Plus d’informations sur notre site https://wifukireland.wordpress.com/

Women in French a pour objectif de promouvoir les échanges académiques basés sur la recherche en études françaises et francophones par ou sur les femmes, ainsi que de maintenir un réseau de contacts entre les personnes enseignantes et/ou chercheuses dans ce domaine.

Au fil des années, Women in French et Women in French in Scotland ont organisé des événements parallèles et se sont réunis pour la conférence de 2013. Et en 2021, Women in French s’est tenu – bien que virtuellement – à Maynooth, en Irlande.

Pour célébrer les 35 ans de WIF, les 22 ans de WIFIS et le rassemblement des universitaires britanniques et irlandais-e-s autour de Women in French, le groupe se formalise sous le nom de Women in French UK-Ireland et la conférence de 2023 verra le lancement officiel de la nouvelle association.

Femmes et/en Crises

Ces dernières années ont été marquées par un certain nombre de crises collectives, telles que Covid, le changement climatique, #MeToo ou encore la remise en cause des récits historiques, pour n’en citer que quelques-unes ; mais les crises peuvent aussi être personnelles, que ce soit dans notre réponse à des préoccupations sociales partagées, ou à des événements de notre vie privée. Parfois, les deux se chevauchent, comme on le voit avec Vanessa Springora et son ouvrage Le Consentement (2020) en réponse à la lettre de 2018, signée par 100 femmes françaises, dont l’actrice Catherine Deneuve, et publiée dans Le Monde pour dénoncer le mouvement Balance-ton-porc comme “puritain”. Des crises plus privées sont explorées par exemple dans Tom est mort (2007) de Marie Darrieussecq, Trois Femmes Puissantes (2012) de Marie Ndiaye, ou encore Les Victorieuses (2019) de Laetitia Colombani, tandis que Ruth Cruickshank aborde l’esthétique des discours de crise chez Angot, Echenoz, Houellebecq et Redonnet dans Fin de Millénaire French fiction (2009).

Il est bien sûr difficile de trouver une définition précise de ce qui constitue une crise quand, par exemple, le discours populaire définit comme une « crise de nerfs » ce qui peut être perçu comme une rage légitime face à l’injustice sociale (voir par exemple Fanny Galot ‘”La crise de nerfs “, de la souffrance à la résistance ?’, (2009).

On peut également se demander dans quelle mesure ” le personnel est politique ” quand tant de crises explorées dans les productions artistiques des femmes sont provoquées par des normes sociales ou des discours politiques sur le genre, la race, la migration, etc.

Le thème que nous avons choisi pour le Women in French 2023 peut être interprété de nombreuses façons et nous encourageons nos participants à réfléchir aux différentes manières dont les femmes ont illustré à la fois l’engagement dans les mouvements militants et la réponse des femmes aux crises sociales et personnelles dans les domaines de la littérature, de la culture, du cinéma et de la politique françaises et francophones. Les contributions sont notamment invitées sur les sujets suivants :

Femmes et activisme / militantisme
Nouveaux féminismes
Eco-féminisme
Femmes et révolte
Femmes et santé / crise sanitaire
Femmes et âge
Corps et crises
Maternité et crises
Récits de traumatismes

Nous avons le plaisir de confirmer les écrivaines Samira Sedira et Lou Sarabadzic comme invitées d’honneur.

Un Livre, Un WiF

Le programme ‘Un Livre, un WIF’, qui date de 2017, vise à encourager une collaboration internationale entre les membres de WIF Amérique du Nord et de WIF au Royaume-Uni et en Irlande lors de nos deux colloques respectifs. Nous espérons attirer l’attention critique sur le travail des écrivaines moins connues, en France ou dans le monde francophone. Pour ce colloque il s’agira de l’écrivaine Meryem Alaoui et son livre La Vérité sort de la bouche du cheval (2018). Les propositions de communications ou de séances qui traitent de cette écrivaine ou de son travail sont les bienvenues.

Nous invitons des propositions (résumés de 200-300 mots environ) pour des communications de 20 minutes, en anglais ou en français. Les communications de doctorant-e-s, de chercheur-euse-s en début de carrière ainsi que de chercheur-euses-s établis sont les bienvenues. Veuillez noter que l’affiliation à Women in French UK-Ireland sera nécessaire pour présenter à la conférence. Pour devenir membre, veuillez consulter notre page d’information à https://wifukireland.wordpress.com/contact/.

Veuillez envoyer les résumés et une brève biographie, ainsi que toute question aux organisatrices de la conférence avant le 1er septembre 2022 : Véronique Desnain (veronique.desnain@ed.ac.uk) et Caroline Verdier (caroline.verdier@strath.ac.uk).

Le colloque se déroule dans le cadre agréable et verdoyant de Hinsley Hall, à environ 3 km du centre de Leeds (Yorkshire) ; Une ‘pause’ est prévue le samedi après-midi dans la ville voisine de Ilkley, avec possibilité d’une brève promenade sur les ‘moors’.

1.4 Sept 15th: Call for Papers, 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone International Colloquium

CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE Sept 15, 2022

20^th and 21^st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium

https://colloque-2023.arizona.edu

Plenary Speakers:

Marie Darrieussecq

Abdellah Taïa

April 13-15, 2023

University of Arizona

Loews Ventana Canyon, Tucson, AZ

Organizing Committee: Denis M. Provencher and Alain-Philippe Durand

Disassembling and Reassembling Cultures in the Desert

“Desert: luminous, fossilized networks of an inhuman intelligence, of a radical indifference—the indifference not merely of the sky, but of the geological undulations, where the metaphysical passions of space and time alone crystallize. Here the terms of desire are turned upside down each day, and night annihilates them. But wait for the dawn to rise, with the awakening of fossil sounds, the animal silence.” Baudrillard, “Vanishing Point” in America.

In the 1980s, Baudrillard’s philosophical travel guide to America detailed the desert very much as an “astral” site and a contemplative place. For Baudrillard, the desert was a place stripped of culture or an “un-culture” where life was radically subsumed by the verticality of the sky and the geology of the land. With Tucson, Arizona being the site of the next 20^th and 21^st-Century French and Francophone Studies Colloquium and having been named in 2016 the first UNESCO city of gastronomy in the United States, it seems an appropriate time to re-evaluate the desert as a space supposedly apart from culture and to re-examine Baudrillard’s vision, among others.

How can we see the desert as a new site of culture, life, sustainability and sustenance? How does the desert engage historically with cultures, people, and power? Does the desert allow us the space and time to strip away old theoretical paradigms and to see the world’s cultures and future differently? How are these visions, horizons, and futures represented in literature, contemporary art, film, dance, music, and other contemporary cultural productions of French expression? How do these themes factor into postmodern and postcolonial theories, gender theories, cultural studies, and sexuality studies? Do new cultural phenomena and new technologies change our view of the desert and of life? Of these visions, horizons, and futures?

With our profession now two decades into the twenty-first century, it also seems timely to assess where we are headed in 20^thand 21^st-Century French and Francophone Studies. As we move further along into the 21^st century, how can the desert as a paradigm help us to disassemble the theories of the 20^th century and to reassemble them to find new visions for the future of our profession?

We invite paper proposals in the following fields: literatures of French expression, literary theory, cultural studies, anthropology, history, gender and postcolonial studies, sexuality studies, translation, and art, including music, dance, film and media studies, photography, and the graphic novel.

In addition to individual proposals, we encourage the submission of complete panel proposals. The organizing committee will welcome particularly, but not exclusively, proposals addressing the following themes:

– Time/space upheaval and reorganization

– Artificial trans-plants

– Oasis and desert

– Empire and desert

– Indigeneity and desert

– Artificial and authentic paradises

– Mirage and simulacra

– New emerging cultures

– New horizons and the living

– Humans, non-humans, cyborgs, mutants, and endangered species

– Solitude

– Migrations and trans-plants in the desert

– Pathways and self-inquiries

– Zoopoetics

– Anthropocene

– Ecology

– Adaptation, climate change, and survival

– Water and sustainability

– Baudrillard, Virilio, and the speed of the image

– Modernity and utopia

– Place and food

– Gastronomy

– Places and non-places

– Fertility, reproduction, and regeneration

– Queer futures and non-reproduction

– Two decades into the 21^st century

– The state of the field of 20^th/21^st century French and Francophone Studies

– Our place in the Academy and the evolving Humanities

– Global and local heritage sites (UNESCO, etc.)

We also welcome proposals for papers and panels on the works of our plenary speakers Marie Darrieussecq and Abdellah Taïa (subject open).

Paper proposals (250 words maximum, in French or English, along with a brief bio-bibliography) and proposals for complete panels (strongly encouraged) should be sent by email to the following address 2023-colloque@email.arizona.edu before September 15, 2022. For complete panels, please submit contact information for all participants.

APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS

Colloque International des Etudes françaises et francophones du 20ème et 21èmes siècles

https://colloque-2023.arizona.edu

Conférenciers invités:

Marie Darrieussecq

Abdellah Taïa

13-15 avril 2023

University of Arizona

Loews Ventana Canyon, Tucson, AZ

Organisateurs: Denis M. Provencher et Alain-Philippe Durand

Défaire et refaire les cultures dans le désert

“Désert : réseau lumineux et fossile d’une intelligence inhumaine, d’une indifférence radicale—non seulement celle du ciel, mais celle des ondulations géologiques où seules cristallisent les passions métaphysiques de l’espace et du temps. Ici se renversent les termes du désir, chaque jour, et la nuit les anéantit. Mais attendez que le matin se lève, avec l’éveil des bruits fossiles, du silence animal.” Baudrillard, “Vanishing Point” dans Amérique.

Dans les années 80, le guide de voyage philosophique de Baudrillard, Amérique, décrivait le désert à la fois comme un site astral et comme un lieu contemplatif. Pour Baudrillard, le désert représentait un lieu dépouillé de la culture ou une « non-culture » où la verticalité du ciel et la géologie de la terre subsument la vie. La ville de Tucson, Arizona – site du prochain colloque des études françaises et francophones des vingtième et vingt-et-unième siècles – étant la première ville américaine inscrite en 2016 au patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO en tant que « capitale gastronomique », il nous semble donc opportun de réévaluer le désert en tant qu’espace soi-disant hors culture et de réexaminer la vision de Baudrillard, parmi d’autres.

Comment pouvons-nous voir le désert en tant que nouveau site de culture, de vie et de durabilité ? Comment est-ce que le désert interagit historiquement avec les cultures, les peuples, le pouvoir ? Le désert nous donne-t-il l’espace et le temps pour dépouiller de vieux paradigmes théoriques et envisager les cultures mondiales et l’avenir différemment ? Comment est-ce que ces visions, horizons et l’avenir sont représentés dans la littérature, l’art contemporain, le cinéma, la danse, la musique, et les autres productions culturelles d’expression française et francophone ? Comment ces thèmes prennent-ils en compte les théories postmodernes, postcoloniales, culturelles, d’études de genre et sexualité ? Les nouveaux phénomènes culturels et les nouvelles technologies changent-elles notre point de vue sur le désert et sur la vie ?

Après les deux premières décennies du vingt-et-unième siècle, il nous semble opportun de faire un bilan des études françaises et francophones des 20^ème et 21^ème siècles. Le paradigme du désert peut-il nous aider à nous débarrasser des théories du 20^ème siècle afin de proposer de nouvelles visions pour l’avenir de/dans notre profession ?

Nous invitons des propositions de communication dans les domaines suivants : littératures d’expression française, théorie littéraire, études culturelles et/ou postcoloniales, anthropologie, histoire, études de genre et sexualité, traduction, arts tels que la musique, la danse, le cinéma, les médias, la photographie, et la bande dessinée.

En plus de propositions individuelles, nous encourageons vivement les propositions de séances complètes. Le comité scientifique accueillera avec intérêt des propositions portant sur les thèmes suivants, sans que ceux-ci soient restrictifs :

– Bouleversement et réorganisation du temps et de l’espace

– Greffes artificielles

– Oasis et désert

– Empire et désert

– Indigénéité et désert

– Paradis artificiels et authentiques

– Mirage et simulacre

– Nouvelles cultures émergentes

– Nouveaux horizons et modes de vies

– Humains, non-humains, mutants, cyborgs et espèces menacées

– Solitude

– Migrations et transplantations dans le désert

– Cheminements et quête de soi

– Zoopoétique

– Anthropocène

– Ecologie

– Adaptation, changement climatique et survie

– Eau et durabilité

– Baudrillard, Virilio et la vitesse de l’image

– Modernité et utopie

– Gastronomie

– Lieux et non-lieux

– Fertilité, reproduction et régénération

– L’avenir queer et la non-reproduction

– Deux décennies du 21^e siècle

– Etat des lieux des études françaises et francophones des 20^ème/21^ème siècles

– Notre place dans le monde universitaire et l’évolution des Humanités

– Sites du patrimoine mondial et local (UNESCO, etc.)

Des propositions individuelles ou des sessions complètes portant sur les œuvres de nos conférencier(ères) en séance plénière Marie Darrieussecq et Abdellah Taïa (sujet ouvert) sont aussi les bienvenues.

Les propositions de communication (250 mots maximum, en français ou en anglais, accompagnées d’une brève notice bio-bibliographique) et de séances complètes (celles-ci vivement encouragées) sont à envoyer par e-mail à l’adresse

2023-colloque@email.arizona.edu avant le 15 septembre, 2022. Pour les sessions complètes, merci d’envoyer les coordonnées de tous les participants.

1.5 CFP – Joint meeting of the SFHS and WSFH

SFHS and WSFH annual meeting, March 16-19, 2023, Detroit, Michigan

Boundaries and Encounters

The Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History invite proposals for papers, panels, and other presentations for a joint conference in Detroit, MI. As a city built on a series of crossroads – both literal and figurative – Detroit offers a unique setting to explore this year’s theme: “Boundaries and Encounters.” Much of the history of France and the Francophone world incorporates the negotiation of boundaries between groups sharing spaces while ostensibly separated by class, ethnicity, race, gender, culture and other markers of identity. Detroit itself developed out of the interactions among French settlers, Indigenous peoples, and English military forces. This year’s conference will explore the ways that interactions, peaceful ones as well as those marked by violence, have shaped French and Francophone history. It also will interrogate how the meetings of varied cultures and groups shaped French culture in the metropole as well as in France’s global settlements.

We welcome papers and sessions that focus on any theme on France and Francophone history from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era. We especially welcome proposals that incorporate new voices and approaches to the study of France and the Francophone world. We invite proposals from colleagues in related disciplines and especially encourage the participation of graduate students and independent scholars. We also invite undergraduate students to submit posters for a poster session to be held during the conference.

The meeting this year is jointly sponsored by the Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History. Those participating will be invited to join both societies at a discounted rate for 2023. Sessions will take place in the Hollywood Greektown Casino Hotel in downtown Detroit between March 16 and March 19, 2023.

The program committee welcomes panels of different formats as well as individual papers. We encourage creative proposals that move beyond the traditional paper presentation including, but not limited to, roundtables, interactive workshops, pre-circulated papers, and teaching and curricular discussions.

Paper proposals should include a title, a one-paragraph abstract, an e-mail address for contact purposes, affiliation as you want it to appear on the program, and a one-page CV. Those submitting full panels should compile this material into a single document, with contact information for all participants on the first page. If you are proposing a different format, please include this information in the abstract. Please send proposals by October 21, 2022 to DetroitFrenchHistory2023@gmail.com.

We are currently planning for an in-person conference while monitoring the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, recognizing the inequities that the pandemic continues to exacerbate, the program committee is committed to offering a small number of hybrid panels. Both the SFHS and the WSFH also continue to offer free virtual events throughout the year.

We are committed to creating an accessible conference. If you might need accommodations in order to attend, please be in touch with us in advance about anything we can do to help.

1.6 Cultural Expressions of Climate Change across the French-speaking Islands in the South Pacific

Call For Papers

Cultural Expressions of Climate Change across the French-speaking Islands in the South Pacific

Symposium to be held at the University of Sydney on 15, 16 and 17 February 2023

We invite abstracts for a 3-day interdisciplinary symposium devoted to cultural expressions of climate change across Oceania. Crucially, our symposium will act as a platform for exchanging ideas, showcasing artistic voices, and facilitating new connections between French-speaking Oceania and other regions of the South Pacific. Through its geographical location, Sydney is at the crossroads for many current environmental concerns, made even more pressing by the urgent nature of climate change: the relentless rising of sea levels in South Pacific islands, and the recent bushfires and floods in Australia. Faced with these very concrete consequences on the environment, we seek to interrogate the part played by the arts and humanities in the global discourse on climate change and its consequences, and the part they might play in the future of this region.

This symposium will bring together scholars, writers, artists and filmmakers, curators and cultural actors from Australasia and French-speaking Oceania. Together, they will discuss ideas across languages and disciplines, present recent and new creative works, and initiate transnational and interdisciplinary collaborations around the pressing challenges caused by climate change in Oceania. It will address key and urgent questions for the region:

what can literature, film, music, and the arts do in the face of climate change?
How can writers, filmmakers and artists be part of the fight against climate change?
What role does culture play in retaining and recording what has been lost, and in shaping a common future for the South Pacific?
In troubled political times and pressing environmental challenges for the region, how can culture create and mend connections between people?

A key ambition of this event is also to challenge conceptions around climate change, especially the idea that environmental concerns belong to the realm of science and are separate from literature and the realm of imagination.

This event is organized by The Department of French and Francophone Studies in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney, in partnership with the Power Institute for Art and Visual Culture and the Sydney Environment Institute. It is also made possible thanks to a Pacific Funds grant from the French Embassy.

We are seeking proposals from academic scholars, artists, filmmaker, curators, and festival organisers across the region. The event will cater for presentation in French and English.

Other languages may be considered – please get in touch with the organisers if you would like to contribute in another language.

Please send abstracts, in either French or English (150-200 words), and a short bio-bibliography to the following address: michelle.royer@sydney.edu.au by 31 August 2022. Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 15 September 2022.

Organising committee:

A/P Michelle Royer : michelle.royer@sydney.edu.au

Dr. Nathalie Segeral: nathalie.segeral@sydney.edu.au

Dr Victoria Souliman : victoria.souliman@sydney.edu.au

Dr. Léa Vuong : lea.vuong@sydney.edu.au

Appel à Communications

Symposium : Expressions culturelles et artistiques de l’Océanie francophone face aux changements climatiques.

L’Université de Sydney organisera les 15, 16 et 17 février 2023 un symposium consacré aux expressions culturelles et artistiques de l’Océanie francophone face aux changements climatiques.

Sydney, par sa situation géographique, est au cœur des considérations environnementales qui touchent la région océanique, ainsi que des catastrophes récentes et répétées que connaissent l’Australie et ses îles voisines du Pacifique Sud : montée du niveau de la mer, mais aussi incendies et inondations. Notre symposium a pour but une mise en dialogue entre les arts (arts visuels, cinéma, littérature), les disciplines scientifiques environnementales, humaines et sociales, et les cultures riches et multiples du Pacifique francophone. Dans le cadre de ce symposium, nous invitons des propositions de communication qui abordent les rôles que peuvent jouer les arts et les sciences humaines face aux catastrophes climatiques. À travers cette rencontre entre artistes, écrivains, universitaires et acteurs de la vie culturelle venant et/ou travaillant sur les régions francophones et anglophones du Pacifique Sud, l’objectif est non seulement d’initier de nouvelles collaborations et connections, mais aussi d’interroger le rôle, présent et futur, des expressions artistiques et culturelles dans cette région du monde.

Ce symposium rassemblera des chercheurs, commissaires d’exposition, artistes, écrivains et réalisateurs dont le travail concerne l’Océanie francophone ainsi que des acteurs de la vie culturelle et des universitaires venant d’Australasie. Le symposium sera aussi l’occasion de présenter de nouvelles œuvres et projets artistiques, et de mettre en place de futures collaborations autour des problématiques urgentes pour la région :

Que peuvent les arts, la littérature, le cinéma face aux changements climatiques ?
Comment les artistes, les écrivains et réalisateurs en combattent-ils les effets ?
Comment faire reconnaître le rôle des arts et de la culture dans le combat contre les catastrophes climatiques ?
Comment la culture permet-elle d’indexer la mémoire de / de mémorialiser / conserver la mémoire? ce qui est détruit par le changement climatique, mais aussi de créer de nouveaux outils pour y faire face ?
Quel rôle joue la culture dans une région secouée par des troubles aussi bien politiques qu’environnementaux ?

En faisant de l’expression artistique et culturelle le centre du débat, notre symposium a pour ambition de mettre en lumière la position centrale qu’occupent les arts et la culture, notamment l’importance de la création artistique, face aux problèmes liés à l’environnement.

Nous invitons chercheurs universitaires, artistes, écrivains, réalisateurs, commissaires d’exposition, organisateurs de festival, etc. à nous faire parvenir leur proposition de communication en français ou en anglais (150-200 mots assortis d’une courte bio-bibliographie) pour le 31 août 2022 à l’adresse suivante : michelle.royer@sydney.edu.au. Les réponses seront communiquées par mail après le 15 Septembre 2022.

Les propositions dans des langues autres que le français et l’anglais seront aussi examinées – veuillez toutefois prendre contact préalablement avec les organisatrices du symposium.

Ce symposium est organisé avec le soutien de la School of Languages and Cultures, the Power Institute et le Sydney Environment Institute de l’Université de Sydney. Cet événement est également rendu possible grâce au soutien du Fonds Pacifique de l’Ambassade de France en Australie.

Comité organisateur :

A/P Michelle Royer : michelle.royer@sydney.edu.au

Dr. Nathalie Ségeral: nathalie.segeral@sydney.edu.au

Dr Victoria Souliman : victoria.souliman@sydney.edu.au

Dr. Léa Vuong : lea.vuong@sydney.edu.au

1.7 SFS 64th Annual Conference

64^th Annual Conference

Newcastle University

26^th-28^th June, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are pleased to invite proposals for papers (in English or French; duration: 20 minutes) for panel sessions on the following topics:

Urban Ecologies/Humanities
The Future of French Studies: perspectives, parameters, pedagogies
Visual and screen cultures
Translation(s) and circulation(s)
Diversity and decoloniality
Theory and practices of care
Affect and emotion
Popular culture and performance
Precarity
150th Anniversary of Colette’s birth
New directions in the history of thought
Literature and education
Book history and literary studies
Anthropological perspectives
Environmental Humanities/Anthropocene

The suggested topics may be interpreted widely and are intended to encompass as broad an historical range as may be applicable. Please provide a short abstract (250-300 words), outlining the argument of the proposed paper and indicating the topic you have chosen. Abstracts should be framed with a view to addressing an audience made up of both specialists and non-specialists, and should include the proposer’s contact details (email & regular mail).

The Society encourages proposals for complete panels (of 3 or 4 speakers) on either the suggested topics, or from any area of French studies, and it is hoped that approximately half of the parallel sessions at the conference will emerge from complete-panel proposals. These should include the names, e-mail and postal addresses of all speakers, and those of the proposed session chair, who should not be one of the speakers. As well as a 250-300-word abstract for each speaker, proposals should contain a brief outline of the rationale and motivation of the proposed panel (no more than one printed page). One individual involved should be clearly designated as the proposer with overall responsibility for the proposed session. The Society is also keen to encourage other formats than 3 to 4 traditional 20-minute papers for complete panels, which might include (but are not limited to): pre-circulated materials, performance or creative practices, project-based sessions, pedagogical workshops, non-academic partnerships.

Papers and panels are selected through peer review: you should know by mid-November 2022 whether it has been possible to include your paper/panel. We especially invite applications from postgraduate students. NB. In order to encourage as wide a participation as possible, we have revoked the rule that no individual may present a paper at two successive annual conferences. Please send abstracts (by e-mail) by 23^rd September 2022 to the Conference Officer, Dr Richard Mason, at the following address: sfsnewcastle2023@gmail.com. For further information on the conference, please see www.sfs.ac.uk.

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64^e Congrès annuel

Université de Newcastle

26–28 juin, 2023

APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS

Nous vous invitons à nous faire part de vos propositions de communication (en français ou en anglais; durée: 20 minutes) pour des sessions consacrées aux sujets suivants :

Sciences humaines de la ville/écologies urbaines
Le futur des études françaises : perspectives, paramètres, pédagogies
Cultures visuelles/cultures audiovisuelles
Traduction(s) et circulation(s)
Diversité et décolonialité
Théorie et pratiques du care
Affect et émotion
Culture populaire et performance
Précarité
150ème anniversaire de la naissance de Colette
Nouvelles pistes dans l’histoire de la pensée
Littérature et éducation
Histoire du livre et études littéraires
Perspectives anthropologiques
Humanités environnementales/Anthropocène

Ces sujets se prêtent aux approches disciplinaires et aux contextes historiques les plus divers. Veuillez fournir un court résumé (250-300 mots) de votre proposition de communication, indiquer la session dans laquelle il s’inscrit, ainsi que vos coordonnées (nom, institution, adresse électronique). Nous rappelons que les propositions de communication doivent s’adresser à un public de spécialistes comme de non-spécialistes.

Le Comité scientifique examinera également des propositions de sessions complètes portant soit sur les thèmes ci-dessus, soit sur les différents domaines des études françaises et francophones. Les organisateurs encouragent vivement ce type de propositions qui devraient constituer la moitié des sessions du congrès. Les propositions devront être accompagnées des noms et des coordonnées (institution, adresse électronique) de tous les intervenants (3 ou 4) et du président de la session ainsi que des résumés des interventions (250-300 mots par communication) et d’une page résumant les objectifs de la session proposée. Le président de séance ne figurera pas parmi les intervenants. Le nom de la personne responsable de la session doit être clairement indiqué. Le Comité scientifique prendra également en considération d’autres formats de session que le format traditionnel (3 ou 4 communications de 20 minutes) qui pourraient inclure (mais sans s’y limiter) : des matériaux pré-distribués; des performances/des pratiques créatives; des sessions liées à des projets particuliers; des ateliers pédagogiques; des partenariats non-académiques.

Toutes les propositions seront étudiées par le Comité scientifique et les décisions seront communiquées vers le milieu du mois de novembre 2022. Les doctorant·es sont vivement encouragé·es à participer. Veuillez noter qu’afin d’encourager une participation aussi large que possible, il est possible de donner une communication lors de deux congrès consécutifs. Les propositions de communication et de sessions sont à envoyer par courriel avant le 23 septembre 2022 à l’organisateur du congrès, Dr Richard Mason, au courriel suivant : sfsnewcastle23@gmail.com. Pour plus de renseignements sur le congrès, veuillez consulter www.sfs.ac.uk.

1.8 Rooted Futures: Visions of Peace and Justice (International Peace Research Association 29th biennial conference)

The International Peace Research Association (IPRA), the world’s largest body of peace researchers, professors, students and community-based practitioners, invites your proposals for its 29th biennial conference, to be held in Trinidad and Tobago, mid-May 2023. The conference, “Rooted Futures: Visions of Peace and Justice,” will bring communities of academics, activists and artists together to reflect on the past, present, and future of peace and justice praxis.

We invite participants to reflect on building futures rooted in the lessons of the past. As the Māori proverb, Hoki whakamuri kia anga whakamua, suggests, we must walk backwards into the future. Indeed, a socially just world requires us to contend with the historical roots of our modern-day crises: the precarity of our global systems, our long-standing anthropocentrism, and our ‘lingering colonialities.’ Yet, while the roots of contemporary crises are long, we recognize that so too are the roots of resistance and resilience. Ancient practices, indigenous knowledge, and histories of struggle offer wisdom that we cannot afford to ignore, forget, or mythologize. The 2023 IPRA general conference is therefore an invitation to come together to root our future-making practices in historical, local and indigenous wisdoms.

The conference gathering place – Trinidad & Tobago, a twin island republic in the Caribbean – provides a distinct opportunity to do this retrieval of historical memory. The Caribbean region has endured the triad of colonialism, slavery, and indentureship. It has also been the meeting ground for diverse peoples and cultures, including Indigenous, African, Indian, Chinese, Lebanese and Syrian descendent populations. It is a seedbed of resistance movements and a container of deep syncretic wisdom.

From the Māori of the Pacific indigenous to the West African Sankofa – looking back to look forward – we reflect on building autonomous encounters, like the decolonizing South American encuentros seeking “autonomy of the heart” as well as the Mayan and mestizo “Ch’ixinakax” mixing and opposites which can bring about new wholeness and hope. We call “Ashe” to the Trinidadian local yet internationalist spirits and legacies of George Padmore, CLR James and Kwame Ture, of Mama D’Leau and Claudia Jones, of the Merikins and Maroons, who have come before with lessons on building the future in the present. We intend to make our 2023 gathering a deeply Pan-African, Pan-American, truly global time together.

The conference aims, as does IPRA and the field of peace studies itself, to promote dialogue across disciplines. Diverse formats and activities are encouraged, and ongoing relationships will be nurtured. In so doing, it promises to be a site of critical dialogue, reflection, and action – a truly unique and urgently needed opportunity to advance progressive justice and peacebuilding strategies.

TOPICS FOR CONSIDERATION

The IPRA 2023 Conference welcomes papers/proposals which explore the following Major Thematic Areas, alongside other Sub-Themes within IPRA’s various Commissions. Applicants are encouraged to creatively link their proposals to one or more of the following themes and/or sub-themes:

Major Thematic Areas of “Rooted Futures: Visions of Peace and Justice”

Peace and Justice in Community Organizing
Living in Climate and Economic Crisis
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on islands in the Caribbean and in the Global South
Creative Economies for Peace and Justice
Building Peace Movements for Justice: Experiences, theory and methods
Rethinking Sustainability for Peace and Justice
Interculturality and Ethical Communities
Restorative Justice and Community Building
Community and Youth-led Movements

IPRA Commission Sub-themes:

Indigenous Peacebuilding Knowledges and Practices
Peace Theories and History
Peace and Ecology in the Anthropocene
Human Security and Society
Pathways towards Peace and Justice (PPJ)
Youth, Sports and Peace
Gender and Peace
Media, Conflicts and Journalism
Nonviolence and Peace Movements
Development, Political Economy and Sustainable Peace
Art, Music and the Culture of Peace
Memory, Museums and Peacemaking
Peace Education (PEC)

PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS

The IPRA 2023 conference will have diverse modalities for presentation and interaction, including:

Plenaries
Panels & Single papers
Poster sessions (e.g. academic, experiential & artistic)
Art exhibits/installations
Video presentations and discussions
Experiential workshops/Dialectical Conversations/Restorative Justice Circles
Youth workshops
Song/Dance/Movement Workshops/Performances

We aim to build spaces of encounter, where ideas and experiences can be shared and reflected upon collectively, where new ideas and relationships can be built, and where future actions and interactions can be seeded.

We offer two formats/hubs for your proposal:

(1) Ideas

Submissions to the idea hub will include single papers, posters, artwork, or activity proposals that will later be grouped thematically with others and in diverse formats (such as panels, roundtables, workshops, exhibits). Those who participate in this hub will connect with thought-partners and collaborators to share ideas and experiences. These collaborations may take form in diverse formats of interaction, designed to fortify connection and dialogue.

(2) Arrangements

Submissions to the arrangements hub will include proposals for panels, workshops, or exhibits that have a pre-established theme and methodology. The organizers of these events will submit a proposal that includes a description of the unifying theme, the presenters and their respective contributions, and the methodology that will be used. We ask that you consider ways for these events to be participatory and sustainable over time.

All Proposals Must be Submitted Online

» CLICK HERE to Submit a Proposal

For more information visit: https://www.ipra2023.org

1.9 CfP – On the Move & Moving On. (Re-)negotiations of Migration in Contemporary Literature and Film (deadline 30 Sept)

INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH

School of Advanced Study • University of London

On the Move & Moving On. (Re-)negotiations of Migration in Contemporary Literature and Film

A PGR and ECR conference to be held at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR), University of London, on 13 January 2023.
Organisers: Vivian Jochens (IMLR) and Franziska Wolf (University of Birmingham/Oxford)

Call for Contributions – deadline 30 September 2022

Conference: 13 January 2023

Migration is one of the most widely discussed cultural, socio-political, and economic questions of our time. Whether internal or across borders, voluntary or forced, migration movements are influenced by a variety of factors that are rooted in regional and national, local and global interrelations. In contemporary discussions of migration, Europe’s diverse migration history and its entanglement with colonialism, (forced) labour, war and conflict are sometimes overlooked.

The crossing of nation-state and linguistic borders challenges stable notions of individual and collective identity and opens up debates about notions of belonging beyond established markers like nationality, ethnicity, and language. While writers, thinkers, and film-makers alike have used the theme of migration to explore alternative, potentially fluid ways of identifications, the political reality confronts us with a surge of cultural conservatism, right-wing populism, and an increase in racist violence.

Focusing on the European context, this conference aims to explore how contemporary writers and film-makers contribute to the (re-)negotiation of migration as a cultural, socio-political, and economic matter, thereby addressing the following questions:

How are migration experiences remembered, represented, problematised or celebrated?
What role do class, gender, ethnicity, religion, language, and nationality play in these migrant experiences?
What concepts frame the experience and narration of migration – integration, assimilation, exile, belonging?

Contributions might address the issues above but are certainly not limited to these.
We are particularly interested in the artistic (re-)negotiation of migration:

How do writers, artists, and other actors involved in cultural production negotiate the paradigmatic shift associated with increasing societal diversity?
How do they contribute to this shift by moving away from established notions of belonging in their writing, film or theatre making?
What comparisons can be drawn between literary and cinematic production across languages and cultures?
How does contemporary artistic practice challenge established analytical approaches and categories?

And the academic discussion of these artistic practices:

Which terminologies are being used to describe and categorise artistic interventions and how do notions of diaspora, transnationality, interculturality, postmigration, and others relate to one another?
What are the implications of the different terminologies used when referring to migration and what concepts of European literature(s) and culture(s) are implied by these terms?

We warmly invite PGR students and ECRs from various academic disciplines to submit an abstract of no more than 300 words for a paper of 20 minutes’ length along with their contact details and a brief biographical note of no more than 50 words to vivian.jochens@postgrad.sas.ac.uk and fxw867@student.bham.ac.uk by 30 September 2022.

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/call-papers-move-moving-re-negotiations-migration-contemporary-literature-and-film

1.10 Appel à Contribution pour un numéro spécial dans Présence Francophone: “Littérature, critique, et politique: repenser les dynamiques sociopolitiques en Afrique sub-saharienne francophone

La littérature africaine est historiquement caractérisée par la mise en rapport de l’imaginaire fictif et des réalités sociales et politiques du continent. Ecrire sur et pour l’Afrique ne se situe ainsi pas dans l’expression d’une symbolique creuse mais dans un dialogue avec des lecteurs qui eux-mêmes vivent des expériences diverses qui s’inscrivent toutes dans le quotidien de l’homme et de la femme africains. La littérature africaine est donc une littérature qui pense sa place et son rôle tout en articulant une réflexion sur le devenir du continent. Elle conçoit l’art comme un moyen d’expression des doutes, des peurs, des joies, des douleurs, et des espérances qui ont façonné et qui continuent de mouler la vie sur le continent. Elle est un outil de combat contre l’injustice et contre les irrégularités sociales. Elle est un moyen d’interpellation qui allie à la fois l’esthétique et « le devoir d’indignation » au sens d’Ambroise Kom ; devoir qui implique une démarche intellectuelle visant à libérer l’Afrique.

Ce positionnement sociopolitique littéraire qui a sa genèse dans les prémisses de la littérature africaine ne s’est presque pas compromis au fil des temps ; d’ailleurs les nombreuses années qui se sont succédé n’ont fait que renforcer cette réflexion sur l’apport et le rôle de l’écrivain africain dans sa société. Dans les domaines de la littérature, de la critique, et des essais, des œuvres comme La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (2021) de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Les cigognes sont immortelles (2018)d’Alain Mabanckou, La couleur de l’écrivain (2014) de Sami Tchak, De quoi la littérature africaine est-elle la littérature ? (2022) d’Éric Essono Tsimi, Afrotopia (2016) de Felwine Sarr, Panser l’Afrique qui vient (2019) de Amidou Anne, L’impératif transgressif (2016) de Léonora Miano, et des collections d’articles comme, Penser et écrire l’Afrique aujourd’hui (2017), Ecrire l’Afrique-Monde (2017), Politique des temps : imaginer les devenirs africains (2019) participent à renforcer l’idée d’une écriture qui se veut à la fois un moment et un centre de réflexion sur les dynamiques sociopolitiques du continent.

Le numéro spécial examinera la place et le rôle de la littérature Africaine contemporaine à un moment où le continent cherche ses marques, partagé entre la ténacité de l’école coloniale et les défis du modernisme ; à un moment où grâce à la technologie, la parole sur le continent a acquis quelques libertés de plus ; et où de plus en plus des réflexions sur l’émergence du continent deviennent un impératif. Ce numéro explorera certaines des questions suivantes : A quoi sert la littérature africaine francophone dans ce millénaire ? Les visées de la littérature africaine ont-elles changé ? Comment la littérature africaine se pose-t-elle en pont entre réalités sociales et politiques quotidiennes ? Par quels mécanismes exploite-t-elle les champs des possibles, pour instaurer une culture de l’optimisme ? En ce siècle où la liberté de dire et de penser continuent d’être menacée en Afrique, quelle marge de manœuvre dispose la littérature africaine ? Quels sont les sujets et les perspectives mises en lumière par les fictions africaines et que disent-elles des sociétés du contient ? A quelle distance, idéologiquement parlant, se situe la littérature africaine d’aujourd’hui par rapport à celle d’hier, en d’autres termes, les préfixes « pré » et « post » adjoints au terme « colonial » ont-ils une incidence significative sur les thématiques que propose la littérature africaine ? Dans quelle posture, à partir de quel endroit, dans quelle (s) condition (s) dans quelle (s) circonstance (s) l’homme/la femme de lettres participent-il/elle au discours sur l’Afrique ? En somme, dans un continent où tout est à (re) faire, que fait la littérature, que peut faire la littérature ?

Cet argumentaire est la phase initiale d’un projet intitulé, Littérature, critique, et politique: repenser les dynamiques sociopolitiques en Afrique sub-saharienne francophone, à paraitre dans Présence Francophone. Il s’agit d’un numéro spécial qui invite les chercheurs à réfléchir sur les enjeux de la littérature dans le contexte (post) colonial africain. Nous vous encourageons à soumettre des propositions d’articles originales sur les questions sociopolitiques dans leur rapport avec la littérature. .

Proposition d’article (300 mots maximum)

Biographie (100 mots maximum)

Faites parvenir vos propositions d’articles et vos biographies tout au plus tard le 30 août 2022 aux éditeurs du numéro, à Patricia Siewe Seuchie (patricia.sieweseuchie@cnu.edu) et Patoimbasba Nikiema (pxn108@miami.edu).

Les articles devront être entre 6000 et 7000 mots maximum (références et bibliographie comprises).

Calendrier

– 10 septembre 2022 – notification d’acceptation

– 31 janvier 2023 – date limite pour la remise du texte intégral

– Printemps 2023 – évaluation par un comité scientifique

– Premier trimestre 2024 – publication de l’ouvrage

1.11 CFP: “Typologies of Western Islam in European Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Lexicons in the 18th and 19th Centuries”

International Conference
March 16-17, 2023 in Nancy

This international conference on the “Typologies of Western Islam in European Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries and Lexicons in the 18th and 19th Centuries”, is a continuation of the conference on “Islamic Resonances in the West”, organized at the University of La Réunion by Bénédicte Letellier and Guilhem Armand in March 2022.

The conference will revisit the encyclopaedias, dictionaries and lexicons produced in Europe throughout the 18th and 19th centuries in order to question the foundational and synergistic links between language and thought that create cultural identities. Since the 1970s, it has become clear that this corpus is not only reference works intended to synthesize classify and build up knowledge by dealing with the information and realities of the world (DUBOIS: 1971). But their educational intent is also manifested in their propensity to orient a gaze and to define a common vision of identities (COLOMBANI: 1997). Thus, this conference will explore the conceptual and methodological modalities adopted in these scholarly books to describe Islam according to types determined by the choice of certain criteria and symbols. A set of representations, mental perceptions, most often unconscious and collective, govern the definitions and entries. The information that abounds there constitutes a discourse in its own right, with its own specificities and strategies (GLATIGNY: 2003). Islam was perceived as a geopolitical space (Ottoman Empire), but also as a cultural and religious space (Muslim world). They thus retain the traces of a collective imagination that has produced these interwoven representations.

This reflection on the typologies of Western Islam will feature different points of view:

The authors: What is the social situation of the authors? What are their ideological and political affiliations, their methodologies, their sources, their expertise in Eastern languages? The aim here is to take a contextual and historical approach to clarify certain concerns or obsessions about the foreignness of Islam that have subsequently become enthusiastic clichés.
Articles/entries: text style, format, genre, borrowings, references. The study of these texts may be literary (narration, description, characters, caricatures, chronicles, etc.) or lexicographical (principles of classification of entries, transcription, lexicological equivalences, invention of concepts, etc.). To what extent does the style of these articles express a way of being and thinking, more typical of oneself than of the other? Particular attention can be paid to the typology of Islam or the Muslim, including the construction of physical, social, anthropological or cultural stereotypes.
Reception: to whom were these texts addressed (politicians, religious men, lay readers under the influence of the Church, neophyte public)? How were they received? What are the socio-psychological factors that have conveyed some understanding? Was there a work of rewriting, appropriation, alteration? These typologies were born in a cultural history of ideas governed by the political and military contexts that shook Europe at the time (the search for markets in the East, rivalry with the British).
Science: Which areas of classical Muslim culture have paid more attention to these authors? Which areas have been ignored or neglected? What are the recurring objects of study in these corpora that have prevented us from seeing other dimensions of Islam? How can we explain the focus on the theme of violence in the Koran? on the life of the prophet, the sira? or on certain particularities of Islamic law? What are the reasons for such interest? Are the underlying typologies of these dictionaries and encyclopaedias part of the history of science, respecting the evolution of the principles governing knowledge, its organisation, conception and dissemination? What is the role of these corpora in the construction of Western knowledge about Islam?
Literature: What is the role of fiction in relation to these reference works? What legitimacy does it give to these so-called ‘learned’ representations? How has it validated these typologies while creating a cultural and political identity norm in relation to them? How have these typologies of Muslim otherness shaped the models and fictions necessary for self-construction?
Contemporary interpretation: Can we judge the errors, exaggerations, prejudices, amplifications, limitations, manipulations, silences of these corpora? Should they be studied as a response to historical elements inherent to Europe at the time? How have these typologies determined stereotypes that are still present in contemporary relations between the West and the Muslim world? What is the strength of these typologies that, four centuries later and despite numerous scientific studies, prevent a real dialogue?

Methodological indications:

Corpus: Particular attention will be paid to proposals that examine dictionaries, encyclopedias and lexicons published in Europe that have dealt with themes relating to Islam and Orientalism. Here are a few indicative examples: the Dictionary of P. Bayle (1696), the Encyclopedia or Dictionary reasoned of sciences, arts and trades (1751-1772) under the direction of D. Diderot and, partially, of J Le Rond d’Alembert, the Littré Dictionary (1873-1877), the Encyclopedia of Islam, Dictionary of the French Academy, the Encyclopedia Britannica, An universal, historical, geographical, chronological and poetical dictionary (1703) , the Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon aller Wissenschafften und Künste published by Johann Heinrich Zedler (1731-1754), the Nuovo dizionario scientifico e curioso, sacroprofano published by Gianfrancesco Pivati (1746–1751), etc.

Historical framework: It is desirable to focus on the 18th and 19th centuries, marked by the emergence of colonialism, Enlightenment philosophy, exoticism and Orientalism. Proposals that study the constants of these bodies of work in the 20th and 21st centuries, which are marked by new issues such as independence, the birth of Arab states and the decline of Orientalism following the emergence of the humanities and of Islamology, will also be welcome.

Exposure:

An exhibition of old books will be organized at the Library of Letters which will illustrate the rise of Orientalism through the works of European lexicologists, philologists and thinkers of the 18th and 19th centuries.

How to apply:

To apply to the conference, please submit a 500-word abstract and 1-page CV to

nejmeddine.khalfallah@univ-lorraine.fr

benedicte.letellier@univ-reunion.fr

Calendar:

Proposals submission: October 15, 2022

Notification to authors: October 31, 2022

Conference date: March 16-17, 2023

Article submission: April 15, 2023

Registration fees:
30 euros to be paid on site. Lunches and coffee breaks will be offered by the University of Lorraine. Transport and accommodation remain the responsibility of the participants.

Steering committee:

Nejmeddine Khalfallah (Université de Lorraine, France)

Bénédicte Letellier (Université de la Réunion, France)

Fouad Mlih (Université de Lorraine, France)

Scientific committee:

Bénédicte Letellier (Université de la Réunion, France)

Fadi Jaber (Université de Lorraine)

Fouad Mlih (Université de Lorraine)

Laurence Denooz (Université de Lorraine, France)

Nejmeddine Khalfallah (Université de Lorraine, France)

Rima Labban, (Université de Montpellier)

Pascale Pellerin (CNRS. IHRIM)

Guilhem Armand (Université de la Réunion, France)

Ziad Elmarsafy (King’s College, Angleterre)

Bibliographic references:

Arkoun Mohammed, Histoire de l’islam et des musulmans en France : Du Moyen Âge à nos jours, Paris, Albin Michel, 2006.

Bisconti Valentina, Le sens en partage : Dictionnaires et théories du sens. XIXe–XXe siècles, Paris, ENS Éditions, 2018.

Cardini Franco, Europe et islam : Histoire d’un malentendu, Paris, Le Seuil, 2002.

Dakhlia Jocelyne, Bernard Vincent, Les musulmans dans l’histoire de l’Europe : Une intégration invisible, tome 1, Paris, Albin Michel, 2011.

Daniel Norman, Islam and the West: The Making of an Image, Edinburgh, EUP, 1960.

Dubois Jean et Claude, Introduction à la lexicographie : le dictionnaire, Paris, Larousse, 1971.

Djaït Hichem, L’Europe et l’islam, Paris, Le Seuil, 1978.

Elmarsafy Ziad, The Enlightenment Qur’an: The Politics of Translation and the Construction of Islam, Oxford, Oneworld Publications, 2009.

Foucault Michel, Les mots et les choses, Paris, Gallimard, 1966.

Giaufret Colombani Hélène, « Les ethnotypes dans quelques dictionnaires français du XVIIème siècle », ELA, n. 107, 1997.

GlatignyMichel, « L’article arabe dans un certain nombre de dictionnaires français de Nicot au Grand Robert », Cahiers de Lexicologie, n. 83, 2003.

Groult Martine, Les Encyclopédies : Construction et circulation du savoir de l’Antiquité à Wikipédia, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2011.

Alilouche Hayat, Représentations de l’islam dans les dictionnaires et les encyclopédies du 18^e siècle au 20^e siècle, thèse dirigée par François Gaudin, Normandie Université, 2021.

Hourani Albert, Islam in European Thought, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Irwin Robert, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies, London, Allen Lane, 2006.

Laurens Henry, Aux sources de l’orientalisme, la « Bibliothèque orientale » de Barthélémi d’Herbelot, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, 1978.

Laurens Henry, Tolan John, Veinstein Gilles, L’Europe et l’Islam : quinze siècles d’histoire, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2009.

Reig Daniel, Homo orientaliste, La langue arabe en France depuis le XIXe siècle, Paris, Maisonneuve & Larose, 1995.

Rey Alain, Dictionnaire amoureux des dictionnaires, Paris, Plon, 2011.

Tolan John, Mahomet l’Européen : Histoire des représentations du Prophète en Occident, Paris, Albin Michel, 2018.

Valensi Lucette, Ces étrangers familiers : musulmans en Europe (XVIe – XVIIIe siècle), Paris, Histoire Payot, 2012.

1.12 “Hétérogénéités” (Revue Algérienne des Lettres, RAL)

Appel à contributions pour un numéro spécial

Coordonné par Souad BABA-SACI

Hétérogénéité(s)

En introduisant le concept de l’hétérogénéité énonciative dans sa forme constitutive et ses formes marquées, Jacqueline Authier-Revuz (1982) a pu forger un concept sur l’un des phénomènes les plus importants caractérisant le langage humain, mais elle a également mis au point un arsenal théorique pour le décrire procédant, par la même occasion, au décloisonnement de la linguistique et des sciences du langage sur les autres disciplines susceptibles de rendre compte et d’expliquer la présence de l’Autre dans le discours de soi.

Pour J. Authier-Revuz, l’hétérogénéité peut s’observer à travers le fait que « Tout discours s’avère constitutivement traversé par “les autres discours” et “le discours de l’Autre”. L’autre n’est pas un objet (extérieur ; dont on parle) mais une condition (constitutive ; pour qu’on parle) du discours d’un sujet parlant qui n’est pas la source première de ce discours » (1982 :141).

En effet, par cette conception de l’hétérogénéité, la linguiste rejoint et alimente par sa réflexion aussi bien celle de Bakhtine que celles de Lacan, Saussure et Freud à propos de l’hétérogénéité des discours, de l’altérité du sujet et sa division telles que représentées dans le discours.

D’un côté, pour M. Bakhtine tout discours est « […] entortillé, pénétré par les idées générales, les vues, les appréciations, les définitions d’autrui » ([1975, 1978, 1987] 2006 : 100) ; les discours naissent de l’interdiscours et finissent par le rejoindre. La linguiste française va apporter tout un appareillage théorique et des concepts opératoires permettant de mettre en lumière le fonctionnement du principe dialogique dans les différents genres de discours.

D’un autre côté, le sujet tant conçu comme « ego » (Benveniste, [1966] 1996 : 259 ) de toute énonciation et source de tout énoncé, perdra cette « unicité du sujet parlant » (Ducrot, 1984 : 171) qui rend le discours de celui-ci homogène et parfaitement maitrisé. Pour Saussure (Starobinsky, 1971) tout comme pour Lacan, le sujet est celui « […] qui est parlé par l’Autre » (Leguil, 2019 : SP). Cela explique les césures dans le discours, les lapsus (Authier-Revuz, 1984 : 108) qui ne sont autres que des manifestations ponctuelles d’un Autre qui traverse par son discours le discours de soi. C’est ainsi que l’hétérogénéité énonciative, discursive, linguistique, dialectale, sociolectale, séquentielle, générique… est, à la fois, la condition de la construction de tout discours et ce qui le caractérise le plus, puisque tout discours est constitutivement dialogique et que seul le « mythique Adam » peut prétendre à un discours monologique (Bakhtine, 1984 : 102).

Sur un autre plan, cette hétérogénéité énonciative va impliquer, de facto, une hétérogénéité des approches permettant de rendre compte de ce phénomène et c’est là le second mérite de la linguiste : décloisonner la linguistique et les sciences du langage sur l’inter et la transdisciplinarité dans le domaine des sciences humaines et sociales. D’ailleurs, sur la question du sujet et de son/ses approche(s), elle va critiquer les tentatives de recourir implicitement aux autres disciplines que la linguistique sans pour autant le reconnaitre ouvertement puisque, à l’époque, « […] toute référence à des théories non subjectives du sujet et de la parole, nécessairement explicite en ce que celles-ci vont — ” provocations théoriques” — contre les évidences narcissiques des sujets parlants, se verra aisément soupçonnée de noyer ou de détruire l’objet linguistique dans du non-linguistique » (Authier-Revuz, 1984 : 99). Par cette nécessaire interdisciplinarité pour l’approche du sujet multiple et de sa parole hétérogène, est confirmé le caractère inter et transdisciplinaire des sciences du langage, notamment la linguistique aussi bien dans son approche de la langue que celle du discours.

Cette tendance à l’interdisciplinarité est déjà visible dans les années 1980 chez O. Ducrot et ses travaux sur la stratification des sources énonciatives dans le cadre de la polyphonie, chez D. Maingueneau et ses travaux sur les discours rapportés et l’hétérogénéité énonciative dans l’analyse du texte ensuite du discours littéraire, chez A. Rabatel (2008), dans son approche énonciative et interactionnelle du récit. Sur ce même dernier sujet, la notion de feuilletage énonciatif s’avère capitale, pour J. Bres, dans la distinction entre dialogisme et polyphonie (Bres in Détrie, Siblot, Verine et al., 2002 : 83-86). Ce concept s’avère prolifique pour toute une génération de chercheurs fédératrice de théories et de recherches qui s’inscrivent dans différentes disciplines, aussi bien des sciences du langage que de la littérature.

Quarante années après la parution de « Hétérogénéité montrée et hétérogénéité constitutive :éléments pour une approche de l ‘autre dans le discours » (1982) et un peu moins pour « Hétérogénéité(s) énonciatives(s) » (1984) et surtout Ces mots qui ne vont pas de soi (1995), nous nous interrogeons sur ce qu’est advenu de ce concept, aujourd’hui, à la lumière de l’émergence de toutes ces disciplines et sous-disciplines qui traitent de l’hétérogénéité sous toutes ses formes, raison pour laquelle nous lançons cet appel à contributions par lequel nous espérons engager une réflexion aussi bien sur les différentes formes que peut prendre le phénomène de l’hétérogénéité (énonciative, discursive, linguistique, textuelle, dialectale, sociolectale, toutes les formes de la modalisation autonymique ou autre) que sur les approches qui la prennent en charge dans différents corpus issus de types et genres de discours aussi variés que possible.

Nous attendons donc des contributions qui traitent de l’hétérogénéité sous toutes ses formes, dans les domaines des sciences du langage, de la littérature ou alors de la didactique par le biais d’approches didactisant cette hétérogénéité.

Dates importantes

Date limite de soumission des articles : 15 décembre 2022

Mise en ligne du numéro : fin février 2023

Email de contact: benslim2012.abdelkrim@gmail.com

Pour soumettre un article cliquer sur ce lien : https://www.asjp.cerist.dz/en/submission/523

Lien de téléchargement du Template : https://www.asjp.cerist.dz/en/PresentationRevue/523

Adresse de la revue : revue.ral@gmail.com

Site officiel de la revue : http://ral.univ-temouchent.edu.dz

Page de la revue sur la plate-forme ASJP : https://www.asjp.cerist.dz/en/PresentationRevue/523

Références bibliographiques

AUTHIER-REVUZ J., « Hétérogénéité montrée et hétérogénéité constitutive. Éléments pour une approche de l’autre dans le discours », Documentation et recherche en linguistique allemande contemporaine, n° 26, 1982, p. 91-151.

AUTHIER-REVUZ J., Approche de l’énonciation en linguistique française, Paris, Hachette, 1981.

AUTHIER-REVUZ J., « Hétérogénéité(s) énonciative(s) », Langages, n° 73, 1984, p. 98-111.

AUTHIER-REVUZ J., Ces mots qui ne vont pas de soi, Paris, Larousse, 1995.

BAKHTINE M., Esthétique et théorie du roman [1975, 1984], trad. Daria Olivier, Paris, Gallimard, coll. “Tel”, 2006.

BENVENISTE É., Problèmes de linguistique générale [1965], Alger, ENAG Éditions, 1996.

DETRIE C, SIBLOT P, VERINE B., Termes et concepts pour l’analyse du discours une approche praxématique, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2006.

DUCROT O., Le dit et le dire, Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1984.

LEGUIL C., « Le sujet lacanien, un “ Je ” sans identité », Astérion [Online], 2019. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/asterion /4368 ; DOI : https://doi.org /10.4000 /asterion .4368. SP. Consulté le 01/05/2022.

MAINGUENEAU D., Linguistique pour le texte littéraire [1986, 2005], Paris, Armand Colin, 2007.

RABATEL A., Homo narrans, Pour une analyse énonciative et interactionnelle du récit, Limoges, Lambert-Lucas, 2008.

STAROBINSKI J., Les Mots sous les mots. Les Anagrammes de Ferdinand de Saussure, Paris, Gallimard, 1971.

1.13 CFP: Australian Association for Caribbean Studies 2023 Conference

Call for Papers
Australian Association of Caribbean Studies Conference
“Crossing Paths”- 2-3 February 2023
CFP due Friday 28th October, 2022
In many ways, the Caribbean sits at the epicentre of the world. For much of its colonial history, it was a key site of imperial conquest, strategy, and war, and it remains a region where cultures collide and mutually reshape each other. There have been varied experiences of crossing paths in the Caribbean, from explosive clashes during colonisation, which led to the genocides of indigenous peoples and the trauma of enslavement, to complex and revealing encounters brought about by modern tourism, intra-regional travel, and other cosmopolitan exchanges. Often friendly, sometimes violent, frequently curious — the crossing of paths in the Caribbean has always had profound results. This theme explores the causes, occurrences and consequences of paths being crossed in this unique place.
The Australian Association of Caribbean Studies would like to invite you to submit a 250-word abstract for our February 2023 conference, to be held at NUSpace in Newcastle, NSW. Caribbean scholars from all disciplines are encouraged to submit. This conference will be a mixture of face-to-face and online, with the Keynote being held on Zoom.
Please email your abstracts to aacs2023@outlook.com<mailto:aacs2023@outlook.com>. We look forward to hearing from you!

2. Job and Scholarship Opportunities

2.1 Camargo Fellowship: Open Call for Residencies in 2023-2024

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Since 1971, the Camargo Foundation has awarded residencies to nearly 1 500 individuals as part of its mission to support advanced research, experimentation, and interdisciplinary approaches in the Arts and Humanities. Since its creation, the program has gathered an esteemed panel of scholars and arts professionals annually, to select fellowships from a large pool of applicants from around the world. The selected applicants are awarded residencies in a stunning, contemplative environment where they have the space, time, and freedom to think, create, and connect. With each cohort of Fellows, the Foundation strives to foster connections between research and creation.

The Camargo Fellowship not only provides time and space for the residents, but also initiates exchanges within the group and develops a collective spirit, which is one of the program’s distinctive features. The interactions developed among the program’s fellows are a vital element of this program.

The deadline to apply is October 1, 2022, for residencies in Fall 2023 and Spring 2024. The Camargo Foundation welcomes applications from artists, scholars, and thinkers (such as curators, journalists, critics, urban planners, independent scholars, etc.) from all countries and nationalities.

Depuis 1971, la Fondation Camargo a accordé des résidences à près de 1 500 personnes dans le cadre de sa mission de soutien à la recherche avancée, à l’expérimentation et aux approches interdisciplinaires dans le domaine des arts et des sciences humaines. Depuis sa création, le programme réunit chaque année un groupe de chercheur.x.euse.s et de professionnel.x.le.s des arts, qui sélectionne les lauréat.x.e.s parmi un grand nombre de candidats du monde entier. Les candidats sélectionné.x.e.s se voient attribuer des résidences dans un environnement étonnant et contemplatif où ils ont l’espace, le temps et la liberté de penser, de créer et de se connecter. À chaque session, la Fondation s’efforce de favoriser les liens entre la recherche et la création.

Camargo Fellowship ne se contente pas de fournir du temps et de l’espace aux résident.x.e.s, elle initie également des échanges au sein du groupe et développe un esprit collectif, ce qui est l’une des caractéristiques distinctives du programme. Les interactions développées entre les boursier.x.e.s sont un élément essentiel de ce programme.

La date limite de candidature est le 1er octobre 2022, pour des résidences à l’automne 2023 et au printemps 2024. La Fondation Camargo accueille les candidatures d’artistes, d’universitaires et de penseur.x.euse.s (tels que des conservateur.x.rice.s, des journalistes, des critiques, des urbanistes, des chercheur.x.euse.s indépendant.e.s, etc.) de tous les pays et nationalités.

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2.2 Call for Applications: SFHS Executive Director

On behalf of the search committee, please find below the call for applications for the next Executive Director of the Society for French Historical Studies.

With best regards,

Judith DeGroat

The Society for French Historical Studies seeks applications for the position of Executive Director of the Society beginning 18 March 2023.

The Executive Director is the Society’s chief executive officer and gives continuity to the organizational life of the Society between meetings of the Executive Committee.

The Executive Director is appointed by the Executive Committee for a three-year term and may be reappointed.

The Executive Director is ex officio a member of the Executive Committee and remains a member for two years following retirement from office.

Duties

The Executive Director will lead the development of a mission statement that outlines the Society’s commitment to and goals for achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion within the Society and in its collaboration with other organizations.

The Executive Director works with the Society’s Treasurer and the Board to assure the financial stability of the Society.

The Executive Director prepares an agenda, circulating it among the governing board, in advance of each meeting of the Executive Committee.
The Executive Director chairs the awards luncheon/business session at the annual meeting.
The Executive Director works to identify sites for future conferences and future conference presidents as well as colleagues to join the Board and to staff committees.
Where appropriate, in routine matters requiring decisions between meetings of the Executive Committee, the Executive Director may poll committee members by mail, e-mail, or telephone.
The Executive Director conducts correspondence on Society affairs with all interested parties: members, officers of other organizations, and others.
The Executive Director is the Society’s designated representative to the American Historical Association and the American Council of Learned Societies and serves as liaison with the Western Society for French History, the French Colonial History Society, the Coordinating Council for Women in History.

Qualifications

Required:

Ph.D in History, or related discipline in French and Francophone Studies.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
A strong commitment to diversity, inclusivity, and transparency in organizational culture.
Demonstrated commitment to SFHS’s mission and desire to serve the Society.

Recommended/desired:

Service on the board of SFHS, the WSFHS, FCHS, or another North American scholarly organization.

Previous experience in academic leadership positions.

Workload

This position averages out to five hours of work per week, although there are times when the workload is higher (particularly around the SFHS’s annual conference).

This position is uncompensated.

To Apply

To apply, please send a statement of interest (maximum two pages) that includes the name of one-two referees to the search committee chair, Judith DeGroat jdegroat@stlawu.edu by 1 October 2022. Please address any questions about the position or process to Dr. DeGroat.

2.3 Part-time Research Assistant position at Oxford

The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages is seeking to appoint a part-time (0.2) Research Assistant from 1 September 2022 (or soon thereafter) to 31 July 2023.

The postholder will support the development of the knowledge-exchange project “Finding Our Way: Space, Reclamation, and the Afro-Caribbean Experience in Oxford”, a collaboration between scholars of the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University, which has been funded through The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)-Brookes Creative Industries Knowledge Exchange award scheme. The principal investigators in the project are Dr María del Pilar Blanco (Medieval & Modern Languages, Oxford) and Dr Hanna Klien-Thomas (Creative Industries, Oxford Brookes); they are working in collaboration with Euton Daley, MBE, director of the Unlock the Chains Theatre Collective. The successful applicant will work alongside the PIs and with local institutions and community organizations.

Additional information and details about how to apply are included in the further particulars, which are available here<https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=159667>.

https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies

The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Wednesday 24 August 2022.

We plan to hold interviews via Teams during week commencing 29 August 2022.

2.4 Vacancy: Postgraduate Representative, ASMCF

CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

The Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF) invites expressions of interest from PhD students undertaking research within the field of modern and contemporary French Studies for the position of Postgraduate Representative of the Association. The position is tenable for two years and would be suited to a PhD student normally finishing the first year of their studies.

The Postgraduate Representatives are members of the Association’s Executive Committee and are normally based in an institution in the UK. As with all positions on the Executive Committee, the post is voluntary and not remunerated. Working with the existing Postgraduate Representative (currently in the second year of her role), the main duties include organising the annual Postgraduate Study Day (in conjunction with the Society for the Study of French History) and the Postgraduate Essay Prize at the Annual Conference, as well as attending four Committee Meetings during the course of the year. It is anticipated that the new Representative will take up the role from October 2022. Candidates should be members of the Association or join it on taking up office.

Informal inquiries can be made to the current ASMCF Postgraduate Representative, Pallavi Joshi <pallavi.joshi@warwick.ac.uk>.

Interested applicants should send an expression of interest in the form of a CV and letter explaining why the position is of interest to them and outlining their suitability for the post to ASMCF Hon. Secretary, Dr Fiona Barclay <fiona.barclay@stir.ac.uk> by 1 September 2022.

2.5 Lecturer in French Studies continuing position at the University of Melbourne

An exciting opportunity is now available for a Lecturer in French Studies (Level B, full-time, continuing) with a specialisation in Global French Studies to join the French Program in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne.

Job no: 0056732
Location: Parkville
Role type: Full time; Continuing
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Department/School: School of Languages and Linguistics
Salary: Level B – $AUD 110,236 – $AUD 130,900 p.a. plus 17% super

About the Role

The Lecturer in French Studies will contribute to overall teaching and research excellence within the French Program, with a particular focus on the decentring of traditional notions of French Studies and an engagement with postcolonial Francophone cultures and identities in France and around the world. The appointee will be active in teaching and coordinating French language and culture subjects at all levels, supervising Honours and graduate research, and assuming leadership and service roles in the School of Languages and Linguistics. The Lecturer will also undertake research resulting in publications with leading publishers in the field, apply for competitive external research funding, and foster engagement links with external networks and partners.

Applications close: 07 Sep 2022 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time

For further details, please visit: https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/909670/lecturer-in-french-studies

2.6 NEW POST: Distinguished Fellowships, Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies of the University of Erfurt

The Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies of the University of Erfurt announces Distinguished Fellowships for the academic year 2023/24. Application deadline: 31 August 2022.

The call is open to excellent interdisciplinary research projects within the framework of their Weberian research programme “Comparative Cultural Analysis of World Relations” (see website) from the following or related disciplines: sociology, religious studies, history, economics, law, philosophy and theology. Interdisciplinary cooperation with scholars from different regions and cultures as well as generations are encouraged. Fellowships can be awarded for 3-12 months (from October 2023 or April 2024 until September 2024). The financial agreement is based on the principle of “no gain, no loss”. The terms of the contract depends on the fellows’ situation.

More information here.

2.7 Up to ten Individual Residential Fellowships for 3-12 months each at the University of Ghana (for the academic year 2023/2024)

Extended application deadline: 30 September 2022, 11:59pm UTC=red>

The Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) is dedicated to research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, with ‘Sustainable Governance’ as its central topic. Our main thematic corridors are conflict and sustainable peace, democracy and environmental transformation. We are also interested in a wide range of intersectional sub-topics, such as landownership and acquisition, migration and mobility, restitution of cultural objects, African cities, human rights and other related themes. MIASA is committed to reduce global asymmetries in knowledge production, to promote female scholarship and to bridge cultural divides. The institute offers time and space for supporting innovative academic projects of top international quality. MIASA serves as a hub for exchange, networking and collaboration amongst leading researchers from Germany, Ghana, Africa, Europe and elsewhere in the world. The institute is located on the beautiful campus of the University of Ghana (UG) at Legon (Accra), and has been implemented in collaboration with four German partners – the University of Freiburg, the Goethe University of Frankfurt, the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and the German Historical Institute Paris (GHIP). It is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research with co-funding of the University of Ghana.

The present call is for up to ten (10) individual residential fellowships for 3-12 months each for the academic year 2023/2024. The starting date of a fellowship is generally handled flexibly, however, we strongly encourage to set the starting date on either 1st of June 2023, 1st of August 2023 or 1st of January 2024. The latest possible date for the end of a fellowship is the 31st of July 2024.

The call is open to scholars (both on junior and senior levels) who have been awarded their doctoral degree at least three months before the start of the fellowship.

Individual residential fellowships will allow researchers to conduct a project of their own choice, connected to MIASA’s thematic research areas. Projects can be at conceptional stage, mid-term phase or final stage (analyzing data, writing up findings). Fellowships are residential with only shorter absences possible and with only limited funds to support activities such as field work trips. The selection is made by MIASA’s distinguished international Academic Advisory Board. In a strictly merit-based selection process, the individual fellowships are awarded to researchers of top academic quality with an innovative and high-quality research topic. The all-important selection criteria are the academic excellence of the applicant and the fellowship proposal. MIASA is committed to inclusion, gender equality, and family friendliness. The MIASA fellowship program thus aims for gender parity and promotes affirmative action policies.

MIASA supports academic exchange across existing boundaries: between disciplines, between different cultures and countries, between established and early-career researchers. Furthermore, MIASA engages in activities opening the research community to society, politics, and the arts. Individual fellows are part of this community, and profit from the lively research environment of the University of Ghana. Applications for individual fellowships should indicate how the research project contributes to the activities at MIASA and, more broadly, to the academic life on Legon campus.

Fellowship

The successful applicants become MIASA fellows with all the corresponding rights and obligations for the requested funding period. For fellows affiliated with a home institution the fellows’ salary or teaching substitution costs are met by MIASA for every full fellowship month on the principle of “no loss, no gain,” and paid directly to his/her home institution. In cases where this is not possible an individual grant based on the candidate’s salary at his/her home institution can be offered. Fellows may be eligible for a post adjustment to compensate for the difference in the cost of living based on a case-by-case justification. Fellows without employment receive an individual monthly grant. For fellows from outside Accra, MIASA provides accommodation (or an equivalent accommodation allowance of up to 1500€/month) and reimburses travel costs. In addition, a contribution to support research undertaken at MIASA can be granted to all MIASA fellows upon application to MIASA directors (max. 250€ per fellow per month). MIASA fellows who come with family members to Accra can receive a family allowance. Fellowships are funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research via the University of Freiburg/FRIAS.

The Institute provides its fellows with office space on the University of Ghana campus. Fellows have full access to all library services at the University of Ghana and, electronically, at the University of Freiburg, Germany. For fellows from francophone and lusophone Africa MIASA can offer funding for courses in advanced academic English during the fellowship at the University of Ghana. A full-time presence of fellows at MIASA for the entire fellowship period is required. Periods of leave need to be negotiated with the MIASA directors prior to the signing of the fellowship agreement, and must not exceed a total of more than 1/6 of the fellowship duration.

Application

Applications will be accepted in English and French. The completed application form together with the information indicated below have to be uploaded on the application webpage (https://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/miasa-individual-fellowship). After submission of the documents, applicants receive an acknowledgement of receipt providing contact details and including a copy of their submission. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.

Please respect formal requirements:

Formatting: font Arial, 11 pt, line spacing 1.5, all margins 2.5 cm.
Page limits may not be exceeded.

Applications must include the following information:

Front page with general information on the applicant (1 page):

Title, name (last, first), e-mail address, link to webpage.
Date of doctorate.
Current position/affiliation, institution and business address (name of institution/city/country). Please indicate if you are affiliated with a German research institution/university at the moment of application.
Research field.
Title of fellowship project.
Abstract of the fellowship project (max. 150 words).
Dates for the fellowship at MIASA for which you apply according to MIASA’s calendar.
The two most important reasons why you apply for a residential fellowship at MIASA.

Project proposal (max. 5 pages):

Project title (max. 50 characters).
Abstract of the fellowship project (150 words).
Aims, theoretical framework and methodology of the project.
Work and time plan (note: the fellowships only offer a max. of 250€/month research costs, following the guidelines of the funding institution, and it requires being present at MIASA).
Innovative potential, originality and relevance of the project.
Added value of conducting research at MIASA and the University of Ghana.
Bibliographical references (max. 1 page in addition to the 5 pages of the proposal).

CV in tabular form (max. 2 pages).
Publication list highlighting the most important publications (max. 2 pages).

Please note: no cover letter is required but a front page.

Extended application deadline: 30 September 2022, 11:59pm UTC:

https://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/miasa-individual-fellowship

Successful candidates will be informed by December 2022.

Proviso: Fellowships for the month July 2024 are offered with the proviso that the Federal German Ministry of Research (BMBF) will grant funding for the second part of MIASA’s main phase from July 2024 until June 2026.

For further information, please contact: miasa@frias.uni-freiburg.de

2.8 Waseda Institute for Advanced Study Visiting Scholars/Researchers

The Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS) is recruiting senior level researchers for its Visiting Researcher Program and young researchers for its Visiting Scholar Program. Both programs support researchers who wish to pursue their own research in residence at WIAS during holidays or other leave from their home institutions. Application deadline: 21 September 2022.

The period of appointment is 31 days or more up to a maximum of 60 days. In principle, the Visiting Scholar is appointed between 1 April 2023 and 31 March 2024.

Further information on all opportunities at the WIAS

2.8 11 Residential Fellowships, Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University

For the year 2023-24, the Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University (IMERA) is opening 11 resident fellowships ranging between 5 or 10 months, targeting scientists and/or artists. The fellowships are distributed over four programmes (Arts & Sciences: Indisciplined Knowledge; Interdisciplinary Explorations; Mediterranean; Necessary Utopias). Application deadline: 17 October 2022 at 13:00 CET.

More information on the four programmes

2.9 USIAS Fellowships, Université de Strasbourg Institut d’Études Avancées

The University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study offers around 15 fellowship positions for a period of 3 months to 2 years for researchers from all countries and disciplinary backgrounds. Application deadline: 5 September 2022 (13:00 CET)

Fellowships are available to researchers from outside Strasbourg, wishing to carry out research in interaction with researchers at the University of Strasbourg and/or to use a specific Strasbourg research facility. Eligible candidates should be at the level of at least assistant professor (tenure track) or equivalent. Applications from emeritus professors can be considered. Applicants holding a non-permanent position, e.g. postdoctorate, are not eligible to apply. Joint Fellowships can be submitted, with a maximum of three applicants for any one project.

More information here

2.10 Assistant Professor ‘Social inequality and diversity’, University of Amsterdam

Faculteit/Dienst: Faculteit der Maatschappij- & Gedragswetenschappen

Opleidingsniveau: Gepromoveerd

Functie type: Wetenschappelijk Personeel

Sluitingsdatum: 15 September 2022

Vacaturenummer: 10058

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences will use the national government’s funds from the sectoral plan for the Social Sciences and Humanities to make additional investments in the interdisciplinary theme ‘Social Inequality and Diversity’. Therefore, the Department of Sociology is looking for an Assistant Professor.

Do you have expertise in the area of Social Inequality and Diversity? Are you a passionate teacher and researcher? Can you inspire students and initiate relevant new research?

The department of sociology is one of the largest and among the leading sociology departments in Europe. It harbors a long tradition of theoretically informed, conceptually innovative and empirically driven research. Moreover, research at the department can be characterized by its critical and publicly engaged approach to urgent societal problems and questions. The department is thematically broad and pluralistic both when it comes to theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. It seeks to transmit these academic values to students as well, by offering a Bachelor program (with both English and Dutch as languages of instruction), a one year Master program, and, together with the faculty’s other social sciences, an interdisciplinary, two year research Master program (both Master programs have English as the language of instruction.

Research at the department is organized in three program groups – Cultural Sociology; Political Sociology; Institutions, Inequalities and Life courses – and is embedded in the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR). In different ways, using different theoretical framings and based on different methodologies, research on the themes of Social Inequality and Diversity is conducted by staff members of all three program groups. The current position will be embedded in one of these three research groups depending on the thematic, theoretical and methodological affinities of the selected candidate.

Current research of staff members focuses among others on racial, gender, and class-based inequalities and issues of diversity emerging in life courses, in (health) care settings, on the labor market, in educational systems, in migration settings or as part of the wider stratification of society. In doing so, both political, cultural as well as institutional dimensions of inequality and diversity are thematized. While some have focused on these issues on the level of cities or nation states, others have taken a cross-comparative, or global approach. Many of these themes also return in the curriculum of the various teaching programs in which the department is involved.

What are you going to do?

In this position you will:

build your own line of research within the theme Social Inequality and Diversity;
develop and provide education in the Bachelor and Master programs;
present and publish your research to an international scientific audience;
engage in the valorization activities;
be active in the acquisition of research grants;
supervise PhD students;
seek (knowledge) exchange and (research) cooperation with professionals on your research area;
make a positive contribution to the organization and cooperation within the program group and the department.

What do you have to offer?

You have:

a completed PhD in sociology or in another, adjacent social science discipline relevant for this position;
excellent research skills, as demonstrated by publications in international journals or with international publishers, in particular on the theme of Social Inequality and Diversity;
original ideas for new, relevant research on the theme Social Inequality and Diversity;

a proven record of high-quality teaching; you are passionate about teaching and committed to teaching general and specialist courses in the BSc and MSc programs in Sociology and in the interdisciplinary Research Master Social Sciences;

a clear philosophy about diversity in doing research and in teaching; affinity with an international classroom;
good communication, social and organizational skills
adequate knowledge of Dutch, or the willingness to develop a working proficiency in Dutch language within two years.
the Dutch Basic Teaching Qualification or Senior Teaching Qualification (or foreign equivalents), or willingness to acquire such a qualification in the short term;
the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.

In addition, you are an enthusiastic colleague who likes to share knowledge, embraces open science, is curious, critical and eager to learn. Considering the current composition of our staff, and our commitment to diversity, we prioritize hiring people from groups presently underrepresented within our department.

Our offer

We offer a temporary employment contract for 32 – 38 hours per week, for the duration of 18 months (12 months if you are already employed by the UvA). Contingent upon positive evaluation and satisfactory performance, you will be offered a permanent contract.

The gross monthly salary based on full-time employment (38 hours per week) ranges from a minimum of € 3,974 up to a maximum of € 6,181 (salary scale 11-12). This is exclusive 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% end-of-year bonus. The starting salary will be based on your qualifications and relevant work experience. The profile “Assistant professor” is applicable in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities.

In addition, we offer an extensive package of secondary employment conditions, including a generous vacation scheme, and we believe it is important that you continue to develop and professionalize yourself. To this end, we offer excellent study and development opportunities.

The starting date of the position will be no later than 1 November 2022. Due to funding requirements, a starting date in 2023 is not negotiable for this position.

What else can we offer you?

A challenging workplace with varied tasks and plenty of room for personal initiative and development in an inspiring organization.

Working at the UvA means working in a critical, independent, innovative and international climate, characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with multiple stake-holders in Amsterdam and across the world. The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences is committed to diversity and inclusion within its community and especially welcomes applications from members of underrepresented groups.

About us

The University of Amsterdam is the largest university in the Netherlands, with the broadest range of courses. An intellectual hub with 39,000 students, 6,000 staff and 3,000 PhD students. Connected by a culture of curiosity.

The Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences plays a leading role in addressing the major societal challenges facing the world, the Netherlands and Amsterdam, now and in the future.

Curious about our organization and attractive fringe benefits such as a generous vacation plan and development opportunities? Read more about working at the University of Amsterdam here.

Questions
For questions about the position or the department please contact:
Prof. dr. Olav Velthuis (chair of the department from 1 September onwards)

Email: o.j.m.velthuis@uva.nl

Job application

If you recognize yourself in the profile and are interested in the position, we look forward to receiving your application. You can apply online via the link below.

Applications should include the following material bundled in a single .pdf (not zipped):

a motivation letter of max. 2 pages;
a cv, including a list of publications;
a teaching statement of max. 1 page;
a research statement of max. 1 page;
a diversity statement or a diversity section in the motivation letter;
names and contact details of two references.

The application period closes on 15 September 2022. Applications received after the deadline, which are not sent via the link or are incomplete, will unfortunately not be considered.

The UvA is an equal-opportunity employer. We prioritise diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone. We value a spirit of enquiry and perseverance, provide the space to keep asking questions, and promote a culture of curiosity and creativity.

No agencies please

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2.11 Postdoc ‘Social inequality and diversity’, University of Amsterdam

Faculteit/Dienst: Faculteit der Maatschappij- & Gedragswetenschappen

Opleidingsniveau: Gepromoveerd

Functie type: Wetenschappelijk Personeel

Sluitingsdatum: 15 September 2022

Vacaturenummer: 10078

Do you have expertise in the area of Social Inequality and Diversity? Are you a passionate researcher and do you like to initiate relevant new research?

The department of sociology is one of the largest and among the leading sociology departments in Europe. It harbors a long tradition of theoretically informed, conceptually innovative and empirically driven research. Moreover, research at the department can be characterised by its critical and publicly engaged approach to urgent societal problems and questions. The department is thematically broad and pluralistic, both when it comes to theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. It seeks to transmit these academic values to students as well, by offering a Bachelor program (with both English and Dutch as languages of instruction), a one year Master program, and, together with the faculty’s other social sciences, an interdisciplinary, two year research Master program (both Master programs have English as the language of instruction.

Research at the department is organized in three program groups – Cultural Sociology; Political Sociology; Institutions, Inequalities and Life courses – and is embedded in the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR). In different ways, using different theoretical framings and based on different methodologies, research on the theme of Social Inequality and Diversity is conducted by staff members of all three program groups. The current position will be embedded in one of these three research groups depending on the thematic, theoretical and methodological affinities of the selected candidate.

Current research of staff members focuses among others on racial, gender, and class-based inequalities and issues of diversity emerging in life courses, in (health) care settings, on the labor market, in educational systems, in migration settings or in the wider stratification of society. In doing so, both political, cultural as well as institutional dimensions of inequality and diversity are thematized. While some have focused on these issues on the level of cities or nation states, others have taken a cross-comparative, or global approach. Many of these themes also return in the curriculum of the various teaching programs in which the department is involved.

What are you going to do?

In this position you will:

do your research within the theme Social Inequality and Diversity;
present and publish your research to an international scientific audience;
be active in the acquisition of research grants;
seek (knowledge) exchange and (research) cooperation with professionals on your research area;
contribute to teaching in Social Inequality and Diversity;
make a positive contribution to the organization and cooperation within the program group and the department.

What do you have to offer?

You have:

a completed PhD in Sociology or in another, adjacent social science discipline relevant for this position;
demonstrable experience in research on the theme of Social Inequality and Diversity
excellent research skills, as demonstrated by publications in international journals or with international publishers;
original ideas for new, relevant research on the theme of Social Inequality and Diversity;
ambition to conduct both academic research and research that may directly contributes to social change;
excellent command of English and, preferably, Dutch, in word and writing;
the ability to work independently as well as part of a team;
some experience in teaching;
good communication, social and organizational skills.

Our offer

The position concerns a temporary employment contract for 32 – 38 hours per week, for the duration of 24 months with a probationary period of two months. Depending on education and relevant work experience, the salary amounts to a minimum of €3,974 and a maximum of €5,439 gross per month (salary scale 11) based on full-time working hours (38 hours per week). This is exclusive 8% vacation allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus. The Cao Dutch Universities is applicable. In addition, we offer an extensive package of secondary employment conditions, including a generous vacation scheme, and we believe it is important that you continue to develop and professionalize yourself. To this end, we offer excellent study and development opportunities.

The starting date of the position is November 1st or before. Due to funding requirements, a starting date in 2023 is not negotiable for this position.

What else can we offer you?

A challenging workplace with varied tasks and plenty of room for personal initiative and development in an inspiring organization.

About us

The Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences plays a leading role in addressing the major societal challenges facing the world, the Netherlands and Amsterdam, now and in the future.

Curious about our organization and attractive fringe benefits such as a generous vacation plan and development opportunities? Read more about working at the University of Amsterdam here.

Questions

For questions about the position or the department please contact:

Prof. dr. Olav Velthuis (chair of the department from 1 September onwards)

Email: o.j.m.velthuis@uva.nl

Job application

If you recognize yourself in the profile and are interested in the position, we look forward to receiving your application. You can apply online via the link below. We would like to receive all together in one PDF:

a motivation letter of max. 2 pages;
a cv, including a list of publications;
a statement of research plans of max. 1 page;
names and contact details of 2 references.

The application period closes on 15 September. Applications received after the deadline, which are not sent via the link or are incomplete, will unfortunately not be considered.

No agencies please

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2.12 Lecturer in French Language (0.375 FTE, teaching only) Queen Mary University of London

Location:	London
Salary:	£16 413- £17 331 p/a
Hours:	Part Time (17.5h/week over 39 weeks, 10h teaching over 22 teaching weeks)
Contract Type:	Permanent
Placed On:	18th August 2022
Closes:	1st September 2022
Job Ref:	QMUL29695

About the Role

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures within the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film is looking to appoint a suitably qualified Lecturer in French Language (T&S) to teach the French language modules.

About You

You will be expected to deliver high-quality teaching, assessment, and supervision of undergraduate students, and to contribute to the life of the Department and the School by participating in groups / seminars, departmental meetings, and by undertaking administrative and advisory duties. In addition, you will be required to carry out student assessment and marking, cooperating with relevant colleagues, and contributing to the long-term development of the modules to ensure that they meet QA standards.

You will hold a PhD in French Languages or a related field and / or relevant professional qualification and / or equivalent professional experience, with the ability to deliver teaching and assessment at undergraduate level. You should have proven ability to foster and maintain relationships and ability to communicate new and complex information effectively.

About the School

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures within the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film comprises a range of rigorous teaching and expertise across various language areas that fall into sections: French, Iberian and Latin American Studies (covering Peninsular Spanish, Latin American, Portuguese and Catalan Studies), German, and Russian. Further information about the School can be found at www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata), a season ticket loan scheme, staff networks and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is a part-time permanent post (term-time only) from 5^th September 2022, based at the Mile End Campus, London.

Starting salary is Grade 5, ranging £44,361 – £46,843 per annum (pro-rata), inclusive of London Allowance.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

To apply for the role, please click the ‘apply’ button below.

Any queries should be addressed to Dr. Elsa Petit at e.petit@qmul.ac.uk

Interviews will be held shortly after the closing date.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/items/7425.html

2.13 French Language Assistant/Lectrice – 0.75FTE, Queen Mary University of London

Location:	London
Salary:	£29 861 -£31 515 p/a
Hours:	Full Time
Contract Type:	Fixed-Term/Contract (9 months)
Placed On:	19th August 2022
Closes:	2nd September 2022
Job Ref:	QMUL29690

About the Role

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures within the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film is looking to appoint a suitably qualified French Language Assistant to teach and support the French language modules.

About You

You will be expected to prepare and undertake teaching, marking and assessment, whilst also providing informal guidance to undergraduate students within the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film in French language and language-related skills, as directed by the Language Studies Coordinator

You will be educated to honors degree (BA) or equivalent and have a high level of proficiency in French language. Good Organisational skills and ability to work constructively and flexibly with colleagues are essential. A recognised language teaching qualification in French and experience of teaching French in a higher education environment, are desirable as well as experience of teaching at undergraduate level and delivering e-learning effectively. You will be expected to teach an average of 15 teaching hours per week.

About the Department

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Benefits

The is a full- time, 9 month fixed-term post from 05 September 2022 to 04 June 2023 working term-time only (39 weeks), based at the Mile End Campus, London.

Starting salary will be Grade 5, £39,815 – £42,021 per annum (pro-rata), inclusive of London Allowance.

To apply for the role, please click the ‘apply’ button.

Any queries should be addressed to Dr Elsa Petit at e.petit@qmul.ac.uk

The closing date is 2 September 2022.

Interviews are expected to be held shortly after the closing date.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/items/7429.html

2.14 Assistant Professor in Black French Studies, Rice University

Location

Houston, Texas

Open Date

Aug 20, 2022

Description

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Black French Studies. Rice University’s Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures, in collaboration with the Center for African and African American Studies, seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Black French Studies. The successful candidate will have a research specialization in at least one of the following areas: post-1900 Francophone Africa; the Francophone Caribbean; cultures of migration in the Francophone Atlantic world; colonialism and democracy in French-speaking Africa and/or the Caribbean. Candidates with additional expertise in at least one of the following areas are strongly preferred: gender studies; postcolonial theory; history of slavery; visual culture and media studies. Candidates should have a strong teaching interest in Blackness in Francophone Africa.

Candidates must have a Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies, Black French Studies, or related field by July 1, 2023. Native or near-native proficiency in French is essential. Rice University has a semester-based teaching schedule with a 2-2 teaching load. The successful candidate will divide their teaching responsibilities equally between the department’s French Studies program and the Center for African and African American Studies and they will be required to teach the Center’s core courses on a rotating basis. Opportunities for interdisciplinary research projects and innovative teaching within and beyond Rice’s School of Humanities are plentiful and a high priority, and the successful candidate will continue research in their area(s) of expertise.

Rice University is located in Houston, Texas. The vibrant city stands out as the most diverse in the country, with a significant African diasporic population and a rich history of empowering Black and Latinx politics and activism. Rice is a comprehensive and highly selective private research university consistently ranked among the top 20 universities and the top 10 in undergraduate teaching in the U.S. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees across eight schools and has a student body of approximately 4,000 undergraduate and 3,000 graduate students; its endowment ranks among the top 20 of US universities. The university is strongly committed to a culturally and intellectually diverse community. The Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures is a research-oriented community of scholars and students that includes six programs: Classical Studies, European Studies, French Studies, German Studies, Latin American and Latinx Studies, and Spanish and Portuguese. The department has close working relationships with other departments in the School of Humanities and is also involved in a range of interdisciplinary programs, such as African and African American Studies; Politics, Law & Social Thought; Jewish Studies; Environmental Studies; and the Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality. General information about the department and the center can be found at https://cultures.rice.edu and https://caaas.rice.edu. Questions about the position may be addressed to Professor Jacqueline Couti at couti@rice.edu.

Review of applications begins October 1, 2022 and will continue until the position is filled. Application materials must include a letter of application, CV, teaching statement, three letters of recommendation, and two writing samples of approximately twenty pages each. Applications must be submitted online via Interfolio.

https://apply.interfolio.com/111897

2.15 3 year postdoctoral positions – critical ocean studies, Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, Oldenburg, NW Germany. Deadline 31st August

We are advertising postdoctoral positions here with us at the The Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity in Oldenburg, NW Germany, on our website. They are not on some of the usual job listing sites, so may have been missed. The deadline is Wednesday 31st August. We welcome applications from critical geographers, political ecologists, planners and related fields.

We offer these postdoctoral positions every year in a commitment to expanding post-PhD job opportunities, appreciating, however, that any temporary posts are far from ideal. We have made them 3 year, research-only posts, akin to fellowships to allow candidates some time and opportunity to develop and consolidate ideas. Candidates can pursue a project of their own, linked to our fields of interest.

Indeed, you will see here a number of post titles, but candidates define their own research agendas under these areas/themes. They will be supported by a supervisor/team here in our institute. As such, they aim to offer a freedom for scholars of the ocean or environment particularly, in pursuing their own goals.

The titles/ topics for 2022 include the politics of ocean knowledge; borders, boundaries and spatial tropes in management; and critical approaches to understanding measurements of planetary change: https://hifmb.de/news/jobs/

The HIFMB is a friendly, interdisciplinary marine biodiversity institute, linked to the University of Oldenburg and Alfred Wegener Institute for marine and polar research. Our staff come from a variety of disciplinary backdrops from ecology, biology, geochemistry, art, political science, anthropology, geography, planning and more. We are based in a small but vibrant city, with close ties to surrounding larger cities such Bremen and Hamburg. More information on us is here: https://hifmb.de/

2.16 Recruitment for various research positions at Asia Research Institute

The Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, is currently recruiting Postdoctoral Fellows, Research and Senior Research Fellows. The closing date for all applications is 30 September 2022 and successful applicants are invited to start their positions in Jun/Jul 2023 or Dec 2023/Jan 2024.

Please refer to the various links for more information:

https://ari.nus.edu.sg/opportunities-home/appointments/

And the respective links to each of the positions:

Postdoctoral Fellowships https://ari.nus.edu.sg/opportunities/postdoctoral-fellowships-in-asia-research-institute-ari-job-opportunities-fy2023-24/

Research Fellowships https://ari.nus.edu.sg/opportunities/research-fellowships-in-asia-research-institute-ari-job-opportunities-fy2023-24/

Senior Research Fellowships https://ari.nus.edu.sg/opportunities/senior-research-fellowships-in-asia-research-institute-ari-job-opportunities-fy2023-24/

Best wishes!

https://ari.nus.edu.sg/ (Please refer to this link for more information about the institute)

2.17 Language Teachers (French) (x2 posts), University of Bristol

Location:	Bristol
Salary:	£31,411 to £35,333
Hours:	Full Time, Part Time
Contract Type:	Permanent, Fixed-Term/Contract
Placed On:	22nd August 2022
Closes:	4th October 2022

The role

The University of Bristol seeks to appoint two Language Teachers in French from 19^th September 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter.

One post is fractional and open-ended at 0.83 full-time equivalent (working full-time from 1 September to 30 June).

The other is a fixed-term full-time contract until 30 June 2023.

What will you be doing?

French Studies is an integral part of a dynamic and forward-looking School of Modern Languages in the Faculty of Arts. French language is studied by highly qualified and well-motivated undergraduates either as a mandatory part of a Single Honours degree, as part of a Joint Honours degree with another modern language, or as part of a Joint Honours degree with another subject. French language is also taught to non-specialists as well as specialists as an option to students from all Faculties of the University.

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute flexibly across the full range of language teaching at undergraduate level. They will also support the language team in Modern Languages in applying up-to-date teaching methods and will make an administrative contribution to language-related activities.

You should apply if

The successful candidate will have native or near native competence in French and English and both a relevant postgraduate qualification in teaching, ideally with experience in Higher Education.

Additional information

For informal queries please contact Mrs Stephanie Demont, s.demont@bristol.ac.uk

This advert will close at 23:59 GMT on Sunday 4 September 2022. The selection process will include a presentation and an interview panel in the week commencing 12 September 2022.

We seek to attract, develop, and retain individuals from the widest possible talent pool and the broadest possible range of backgrounds. We are committed to building an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential. We particularly welcome applications from Black African, Black Caribbean and other minority ethnic groups, as they are currently under-represented across our university.

Click here to apply online

https://emea3.recruitmentplatform.com/syndicated/private/syd_apply.cfm?ID=Q66FK026203F3VBQBV7V77VIS&nPostingTargetId=285716&nPostingId=132254

2.18 Assistant Professor of Teaching, French (UBC – Vancouver, Canada)

The Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) invites applications for a tenure-track teaching and educational leadership position in French at the rank of Assistant Professor of Teaching. The anticipated start date is July 1, 2023.

The successful candidate will be expected to teach language courses in French at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum. The position also involves a significant educational leadership role that includes, among other things, academic planning, curriculum and program development, and innovation. Other responsibilities may include: student advising, recruitment and placement, TA training and supervision, course coordination, and service on administrative committees as assigned by the Head. The position entails a teaching load of 6 courses per year (18 credits).

Requirements: Ph.D. degree in French, Applied Linguistics, Linguistics (or a relevant field) and post-secondary teaching experience. Candidates must have native or near-native fluency in French, as well as an excellent command of English. In addition to an advanced expertise in French grammar, the successful candidate must be able to demonstrate established competence in foreign language pedagogy, technology-assisted instruction, and knowledge of current issues and methods in teaching and learning French as an additional language. The successful candidate will have a strong commitment to teaching and curriculum development, and show promise of pedagogical innovation and educational leadership. They will be expected to participate in departmental events and initiatives, to maintain an excellent record of teaching and service, and to play an active role in the growth of the Centre de la francophonie de UBC.

This is a tenure-track position and the successful candidate will be reviewed for reappointment, tenure, and promotion in subsequent years, in accordance with the Collective Agreement. For a description of the rank of Assistant Professor of Teaching and criteria for reappointment and promotion, visit: http://www.hr.ubc.ca/faculty-relations/collective-agreements/appointment-faculty/.

Additional information about the UBC Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies may be found at https://fhis.ubc.ca.

Applications are to be submitted before October 1, 2022, via this online form: https://fhis.air.arts.ubc.ca/application-assistant-professor-of-teaching-in-french-tenure-track-2023/

Applicants should be prepared to upload in the following order and in a single PDF (max size 15MB): a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy and potential contributions to educational leadership, and evidence of teaching effectiveness at the post-secondary level (student evaluations, peer assessments, two sample course syllabi of your own creation). Applicants should also provide a one-page statement about their experience working with a diverse student body and their contributions or potential contributions to creating/advancing a culture of equity and inclusion. Only completed applications will be considered by the search committee.

In addition, applicants should arrange to have three confidential letters of reference sent directly by their referees, by the application deadline, via email to fhis.search@ubc.ca with the subject line “Assistant Professor of Teaching in French”. Applicants should ensure that referees are aware that this is a position in the Educational Leadership stream and should accordingly provide evidence with a focus on teaching and educational leadership. Enquiries may be made to the Head of the Department of FHIS at fhis.search@ubc.ca.

Review of applications will begin soon after October 1, 2022, and will continue until the position is filled.

This position is subject to final budgetary approval. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

UBC hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity. We encourage all qualified persons to apply. Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.

Given the uncertainty caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, applicants must be prepared to conduct interviews remotely if circumstances require. A successful applicant may be asked to consider an offer containing a deadline without having been able to make an in-person visit to campus if travel and other restrictions are still in place.

2.19 Assistant Professor of French – Quebec Literature (UBC – Vancouver, Canada)

The Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in French with a specialization in Quebec Literature. The anticipated start date is July 1, 2023.

The ideal candidate will actively engage in the intellectual life of the department, enhance our course offerings, propose new perspectives on Quebec literature and culture, and contribute to the Faculty of Arts’ commitment to foster international engagement and cultivate intercultural understanding among our students. The position entails a teaching load of 4 courses per year (12 credits).

A completed PhD in French (or relevant field) is required at the start date of the appointment (July 1, 2023). Candidates must have native or near-native fluency in French, as well as an excellent command of English, and must be able to demonstrate strong evidence of an ongoing commitment to academic and teaching excellence. The successful candidate will be expected to develop and maintain an active program of research leading to peer-reviewed publications and the securing of external research funding, and to contribute to the education and training of undergraduate as well as graduate students.

Additional information about the UBC Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies may be found at https://fhis.ubc.ca.

Applications are to be submitted before October 1, 2022, via this online form:
https://fhis.air.arts.ubc.ca/application-assistant-professor-of-french-quebec-literature-2023/

Applicants should be prepared to upload in the following order and in a single PDF (max size 15MB): a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a description of current and future research and teaching interests, one writing sample (20-30 pages), and a teaching portfolio (statement of teaching philosophy, student evaluations, peer assessments, one graduate course syllabus and one undergraduate course syllabus). Applicants should also provide a one-page statement about their experience working with a diverse student body and their contributions or potential contributions to creating/advancing a culture of equity and inclusion. Only completed applications will be considered by the search committee.

In addition, applicants should arrange to have three confidential letters of reference sent directly by their referees, by the application deadline, via email to fhis.search@ubc.ca with the subject line “Assistant Professor of French – Quebec Literature.” Enquiries may be made to the Head of the Department of FHIS at fhis.search@ubc.ca.

Review of applications will begin soon after October 1, 2022, and will continue until the position is filled.

This position is subject to final budgetary approval. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

2.20 JOB VACANCY: temp tutor in French language, Univ of Dundee (begin Oct 2022)

The University of Dundee invites notes of interest for a tutor in advanced French language for the current autumn term, Oct 2022 — Jan 2023.

Details:

The University of Dundee seeks a motivated, experienced teacher of higher-level French language to join our small and collegial team, providing temporary teaching cover for the current autumn term, Oct 2022 — Jan 2023.

Specific classes taught will be chiefly in third and fourth year, to be selected from among such topic areas as translation, essay writing workshop (résumé), bilateral interpreting, and structured oral presentations. Core grammar classes in second year may also be included.

The in-class time commitment will be about six hours per week. Depending on the topic, classes are conducted either in a mix of French and English, or entirely in French. Syllabi, with full materials, are already available.

Qualifications:

Tutors will be required to have (a) native or near-native French fluency, (b) native or near native English fluency, and (c) demonstrated experience of teaching French language at all university levels, preferably in the UK and / or Irish systems. Teaching will be in person at our main city centre campus in Dundee.

Procedure:

For further information, or to submit a note of interest, please contact: Dr. Jason Hartford, Head of French, University of Dundee. < j.hartford@dundee.ac.uk > Dr. Hartford will be the co-teacher for these modules. Notes of interest received before 7 Sept 2022 will be given priority.

2.21 Job Opening: Assistant Professor of French at Baylor University (USA)

The Department of Modern Languages & Cultures at Baylor University seeks a dynamic colleague who will conduct research, teach French language and literature as needed by the French & Italian Division, and seek external funding to support research and/or teaching. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a research and teaching agenda appropriate for an R-1 institution and will be encouraged to seek external funding (which could include fellowships, grants, and other forms). Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications.

The full-length job posting can be viewed online at https://apply.interfolio.com/108619. Should any acquaintances be interested in this position, please encourage them to apply. To ensure full consideration, complete applications must be submitted via Interfolio (https://apply.interfolio.com/108619) by October 15, 2022. If you have any questions regarding this position, please contact Cristian_Bratu@baylor.edu.

2.22 Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies – University of Notre Dame

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in any period or field of French and Francophone literature and culture to begin August 2023. The successful candidate will demonstrate scholarly excellence as evidenced by a strong publication record, and a commitment to both graduate and undergraduate teaching. Research and teaching in the program in French and Francophone Studies at Notre Dame range from the Middle Ages to the present and colleagues are expected to contribute across the curriculum.

Notre Dame offers highly competitive salary and benefits, generous research support, and excellent opportunities for professional development. Please submit the following documents: a letter of application, CV, representative publication or writing sample (approximately 20 pages), teaching dossier and/or teaching evaluations, and three letters of recommendation by October 14, 2022 to this link: http://apply.interfolio.com/111585

3. Announcements

3.1 Official Launch of Women in French UK-Ireland

We are delighted to announce the official launch of Women in French UK-Ireland.

Women in French UK-Ireland is a scholarly association. Our aims are to foster and promote research and teaching into women’s situation, representation and cultural production in the field of French and Francophone studies, including:

The study of Francophone women’s history, politics, social and political situation and cultural production (including writing, visual cultures, performance, etc)
The study of cultural representations of women and women’s lives within the Francophone world
The sharing of information and debates about the position of women in Higher Education in the UK and Ireland
A supportive and collaborative network of/for female scholars
Relevant publications (such as proceedings of the biennial conference)

Membership is open educators, students, independent scholars, and writers in the fields of French and Francophone language, literatures, cultures and history.

For more information on WIF UK-Ireland, please visit our website:

https://wifukireland.wordpress.com/

To join the association, please visit our membership page:

https://wifukireland.wordpress.com/contact/

3.2 Société d’histoire littéraire de la France

We are putting together an annual report for the Société d’Histoire littéraire de la France on recent and forthcoming developments in Britain in the area of French-language literatures. We would be delighted to receive information about:

Forthcoming conferences

PhDs awarded in 2022

Publications (monographs and edited volumes) from 2021 and 2022

Journal special issues from 2021 and 2022

Please reply by 15 September 2022.

With best wishes,

Bruno Tribout (b.tribout@abdn.ac.uk)

Michael Moriarty (mm10005@cam.ac.uk)

3.3 New Books in French Studies-Interview with Christy Pichichero

I write to let you know about the latest New Books in French Studies interview with Christy Pichichero about The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon (Cornell University Press, 2018; paperback ed. 2020).

You can tune in here.

New Books in French Studies features discussions with scholars of France and the Francophone world about their recent books. It is a channel on the New Books Network, a consortium of podcasts featuring publications across a wide range of fields. The podcast can be accessed free of charge via iTunes, as well as a number of other podcast aggregator sites/apps where subscription options are available.

Thanks so much for listening.
rp

Roxanne Panchasi, PhD

3.4 Carceral Policy, Policing and Race – Inaugural Conference 7-8 Sep

I’m delighted to announce SOAS’ inaugural conference of “Carceral Policy, Policing and Race” on the 7-8 September. The 2-day conference explores the varying realities – and meanings – of carcerality around the world, and asks how these realities have been shaped by histories of colonialism and slavery. Recalibrating a discussion that has been dominated by perspectives from the Global North, we aim to adopt a truly comparative framework to connect the carceral experiences of those across the traditional African, Asian and Middle Eastern remit of SOAS to those in Europe, the Americas and Oceania. Rooted in this understanding, we want to bring together researchers, policymakers and activists, united in a desire to answer the following question: what does it mean to decolonise systems of criminal justice around the world?

You can register, and find more information about the conference programme, here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carceral-policy-policing-and-race-inaugural-conference-soas-tickets-386963687807?aff=erelexpmlt

We would love to see as many of you there as possible.

3.5 ASMCF Initiative Fund – Deadline 31st August 2022: Second Call!

Please find below details of the ASMCF Initiative Fund. The deadline for applications is 31st August 2022. For more details about awards/prizes, please visit the ASMCF website: https://asmcf.org/funding-prizes/

The Association’s Initiative Fund provides small grants to individuals who are members of the Association to help defray the costs of research events intended to benefit a wide public, such as conferences, study days, workshops and support for postgraduate activities that engage with themes related to the field of French Studies. The Association is particularly keen to encourage and support regionally-based collaborative initiatives on the part of its members; again, these should be intended to benefit a wide public. The Initiative Fund does not support costs associated with individual travel, participation and registration for events or conferences.

More details about the prize can be found on the ASMCF website: https://asmcf.org/funds-prizes-awards/initiative-fund/

3.6 Translating Caribbean Ecologies

All are welcome to the online symposium Translating Caribbean Ecologies on 2nd September 1pm-5.30pm (GMT+1).

Please find Zoom joining details below. Attendees are kindly asked to register at this link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87058282829?pwd=TVpUNzN3Y05HeE1YZnBnalk0cUVsZz09

Meeting ID: 870 5828 2829

Passcode: m5FUht

Translating Caribbean Ecologies

1.00-1.15pm Opening remarks Sara-Louise Cooper

1.15-2.45pm Listening Translators and Translating Listeners

Vahni Anthony Capildeo and Gemma Robinson, ‘Listening to the Land’: Eco-conversing through the work of Martin Carter

Margaret Cunningham, ‘Talking Volcanoes: Landscape and/as female memory in French Caribbean Disaster Narratives’

Isabel Bradley, ‘Meetings of Skin and Starch: The Counter-Plantation Poetics of Manioc and its Cultivators’

2.45-3.00pm Break

3.00-4.30pm Kinships across species and cultures

Théophilo Jarbath, ‘Traditional games and toys, contemporary playful practices as praxis for reflecting on the linguistic and ecological environments of the French-speaking Caribbean’

Joseph Hankinson, ‘Between the Caribbean and the Amazon: Translation, Equivocation, and Ecology in Wilson Harris’s Fiction’

Bethany Miller, ‘Deconstructing the human/nature dichotomy: a postcolonial ecocritical approach to Patrick Chamoiseau’s Chroniques des sept misères (1986), Les neuf consciences du Malfini (2009), and “Le diamant: la beauté comme conscience” (2011)’

4.30-5.30pm Sharae Deckard, ‘Maroon Ecology, Climate Emergency and Revolt in Caribbean Literature’

3.7 New York French History Group — call for proposals

The New York French History Group anticipates that in 2022-23, we will have six meetings and that half of them will be in person (yes, we’re optimists!) The CUNY Graduate Center rules (as of now) lead us to believe that we will be able to have meetings there without too much hassle.

We hope to solicit proposals for 2022-23 and we especially encourage graduate students and contingent faculty to submit a brief proposal. We seek works in progress that will be distributed beforehand to encourage conversation. We will get a commentator to begin the discussion. Please let us know your preferences for timing and mode of delivery as well.

If you have a proposal or questions, please contact us.

With every good wish,

Jeff Horn (jeff.horn@manhattan.edu)

David Troyansky (troyansky@brooklyn.cuny.edu)

Co-Moderators

3.8 AUPHF+ Recordings on Decentring French Studies

This year’s annual workshop organised by AUPHF+ was the third in a series that has discussed the future of French and Francophone Studies in the twenty-first century. The 2022 event considered the broader theme of how our teaching and research is and can be transformed through a process of decentring.

In our sessions, we explored the following questions:

What has constituted or continues to constitute the centre in French Studies and how has this come to be the case? What are the benefits of exploring the peripheries and where do these lie? How do we reorientate the discipline to include cultures, voices and regions deemed to be at the margins? What are the ethical implications for researchers and teachers when exploring these margins?

The event began with a keynote by Michaël Ferrier which can be listened to here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc2HN8b2yqo

Then, the event comprised two panels of flash presentations by early career researchers who shared their thoughts on the topic and a discussion led by Dr Emmanuelle Labeau (Aston), AHRC Research Fellow for the Future of Language Research where all participants were able to feed into discussions that will feature in her forthcoming work for the AHRC.

These papers and workshop can be viewed here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT7pNcUpNr8

You can visit our site for more news and information: http://www.auphf.ac.uk

3.9 Podcasts with Karen Offen, Carolyn Eichner, & Itay Lotem

These three recent interviews from New Books in History may interest SFPS members:

Karen Offen

Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2018

While it is an overused cliché, France is indeed a land of contrasts, famous for its paradoxes. In French political history, the most startling may be the progressive policies of the Third Republic (1870-1940) on just about everything except for gender. Despite its embrace of the spirit of 1789, universal manhood suffrage, and secularism, the republic deemed French women second class citizens. Indeed, French women did not get the vote until the Fourth Republic in 1944, a full generation after almost every nation-state in the global north. Karen Offen has written an encyclopedic history of French debates about the soi-dissant “Woman Question”. While Dr. Offen’s Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920(Cambridge University Press, 2018), was the focus of our discussion, we also touched on its companion book, The Woman Question in France, 1400-1870 (Cambridge UP, 2017).

Karen Offen earned her Ph.D. at Stanford University. She is currently a historian and independent scholar, affiliated as a Senior Scholar with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University. Dr. Offen publishes on the history of Modern Europe, especially France and its global influence; Western thought and politics with reference to family, gender, and the relative status of women; historiography; women’s history; national, regional and global histories of feminism; comparative history, and the politics of knowledge. She has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for study and research, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Carolyn J. Eichner

Feminism’s Empire

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS 2022

Feminism’s Empire (Cornell UP, 2022) investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and demonstrates the challenge of conceptualizing “pro-imperialist” and “anti-imperialist” as binary positions. By intellectually and spatially tracing the era’s first French feminists’ engagement with empire, Carolyn J. Eichner explores how feminists opposed—yet employed—approaches to empire in writing, speaking, and publishing. In differing ways, they ultimately tied forms of imperialism to gender liberation. Among the era’s first anti-imperialists, French feminists were enmeshed in the hierarchies and epistemologies of empire. They likened their gender-based marginalization to imperialist oppressions. Imperialism and colonialism’s gendered and sexualized racial hierarchies established categories of inclusion and exclusion that rested in both universalism and ideas of “nature” that presented colonized people with theoretical, yet impossible, paths to integration. Feminists faced similar barriers to full incorporation due to the gendered contradictions inherent in universalism. The system presumed citizenship to be male and thus positioned women as outsiders. Feminism’s Empire connects this critical struggle to hierarchical power shifts in racial and national status that created uneasy linkages between French feminists and imperial authorities.

Dr. Carolyn J. Eichner about is a Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Feminism’s Empire is her third book. Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune came out in 2004 and The Paris Commune: A Brief History came out in 2022. Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune was published in French as Franchir les barricades: les femmes dans la Commune de Paris (Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020). Translated by Bastien Craipain, it was a finalist for the Prix Augustin Thierry in 2021, an award from the city of Paris for a historical study concerning the period between Antiquity and the late 19th century. In 2022-2023 she will be a Fulbright Research scholar in France and will be in residence at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis.

Itay Lotem

The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France: The Sins of Silence

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 2021

In The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France: The Sins of Silence (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), Itay Lotem explores the remembering of empire in Britain and France. By comparing these two former colonial powers, the author tells two distinct stories about coming to terms with the legacies of colonialism, the role of silence and the breaking thereof. Focusing on memory as an ongoing, politicized public debate, the book examines the afterlife of colonial history as an element of political and social discourse that depends on actors’ goals and priorities.

Itay Lotem earned his Ph.D at the University of London, Queen Mary and is currently a senior lecturer in French Studies at the University of Westminster.

Michael G. Vann is a professor of world history at California State University, Sacramento. A specialist in imperialism and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, he is the author of The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empires, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Oxford University Press, 2018). When he’s not reading or talking about new books with smart people, Mike can be found surfing in Santa Cruz, California.

3.10 RSA Research Funding, Awards & Membership Offer

The Regional Studies Association<http://www.regionalstudies.org/> (RSA) provides its members with a range of research funding opportunities to suit different career stages and we are pleased to share with you details on forthcoming application deadlines.

We encourage non-members to apply for a grant and join the RSA at the same time.

Please note our free book offer<https://www.regionalstudies.org/news/free-book-offer-2022/> for new members when joining by 21st August 2022.

Grants and awards’ details:

2022

Small Grant on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry<https://www.regionalstudies.org/funding/small-grant-scheme/>

This scheme aims to support a discrete piece of regional studies and/or regional science research on the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on regions, cities and industry. Topics could address specific countries, regions or cities, providing that wider implications for global audiences are addressed. This award is open to single applicants or a team of researchers.

Value: up to £4,000 (c. $5,300; c. €4,700)

Application deadline: 5th September 2022

Research Network Grant Scheme<https://www.regionalstudies.org/funding/research-network-grant-scheme/>

RSA Research Networks are formed by RSA members interested in meeting to examine an issue that responds to the aims and goals of the Association and is of interest and concern to members of the Association as well as non-members. The issue needs not necessarily to have a direct policy focus, but the examination would normally lead to policy-related conclusions.

Value: up to £10,000 (c. $12,000; c. €11800)

Application deadline: 29th November 2022

2023

Early Career Research Grant Scheme<https://www.regionalstudies.org/funding/early-career-grant-scheme/>

This award is open to single applicants in their early career (a maximum of five years between the date shown on the PhD certificate and the application deadline). This funding is provided to support a discrete piece of regional studies and/or regional science research. The grant has a maximum time span of 18 months and reporting conditions apply.

Value: up to £10,000 (c. $13,300; c. €11,800)

Application deadlines (Expression of Interest): 10th May 2023

Membership Research Grant Scheme (MeRSA)<https://www.regionalstudies.org/funding/membership-research-grant-scheme-mersa/>

The RSA Membership Research Grant supports a discrete piece of regional studies and/or regional science research. This research funding scheme is intended primarily to provide opportunities for mid-career scholars who have already published in the field of regional studies and science, and who are Individual Members of the RSA. The award has a maximum time span of 18 months and reporting conditions apply.

Value: up to £5,000 (c. $6,600; c. €5,900)

Application deadline (Expression of Interest): 10th May 2023

Fellowship Research Grant Scheme (FeRSA)<https://www.regionalstudies.org/funding/fellowship-research-grant-scheme/>

This award is open to Fellows of the RSA only. RSA Fellows are members who have been continuous members for a minimum of 5 years and who have also been defined as “active members”. This means that they have contributed to the life of the Association through serving on the Board or committees, have spoken at conferences, have applied for funding etc.

Value: up to £7,500 (c. $10,000; c. €8,900)

Application deadline (Expression of Interest): 10th May 2023

Travel Grants<https://www.regionalstudies.org/funding/travel-grant/>

The RSA offers its members up to £500 towards travel costs when attending a non-RSA event. Recipients of the Travel Grant must be members of the Association at the time of the application, at the time of travel and the claim.

Value: up to £500 (c. $600; c. €570)

2023 Application deadlines: 23rd February, 25th May, 28th September and 23rd November 2023

RSA Awards 2023<https://www.regionalstudies.org/funding/awards-2023/>

Nominations (both self-nominations and third-party nominations) of current members are being sought for the following awards in regional studies and related fields:

· Nathaniel Lichfield recent Master’s Award – for recent Master’s graduate who have graduated within the previous year;

· Paul Benneworth PhD Student Award – for registered PhD students who have not yet received their certificate;

· Routledge Early Career Award – for early career researchers defined as being within five years of the date on their PhD certificate or equivalent.

Value: £500 (c. $600; c. €570) and a certificate

Application deadline: 20th April 2023

RSA Membership Offer – Join the RSA and get a free book in addition to the membership benefits <https://www.regionalstudies.org/news/free-book-offer-2022/>

Sign up for an RSA membership before midnight on the 21st August 2022 and you can participate in our Free Book Offer. See www.regionalstudies.org/news/free-book-offer-2022<http://www.regionalstudies.org/news/free-book-offer-2022> for more details and a full list of the books available.

The full list of membership benefits ranging from publications, research funding, discounts, professional development resources, excellence awards, career development and networking opportunities and the different membership categories the RSA offers can be found at www.regionalstudies.org/about/memberships/<http://www.regionalstudies.org/about/memberships/>.

3.11 Winthrop-King events, 2022-23

The Broken Mirror:
Christine and the Queens and Global Frenchness

October 21, 2022

ZOOM EVENT

https://winthropking.fsu.edu/event/broken-mirror-christine-and-queens-and-global-frenchness

Co-organizers:
Martin Munro (Florida State), Denis Provencher (University of Arizona), Barbara Lebrun (University of Manchester), Chris Tinker (Heriot-Watt)

Born in Nantes in 1988, Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier, known as Christine and the Queens or simply Chris is a star for our times: singer, songwriter, producer, dancer, and choreographer, she flits between roles, just as she does between identities, names, genders, genres, places, and languages. Describing her identity as a “broken mirror,” she exists in fragments, splinters, shards, broken parts that yet constitute a distinctive whole.

At once quintessentially French and unremittingly global, she is hugely popular in France and across the world. What is it that drives this success and this global appeal? In what does her originality consist? What does she take from the past and from her influences to create the newness that courses through her work? How do she and her work relate to contemporary ideas of identity and culture? To what extent does she reinvent “Frenchness”?

This conference (in-person and online) seeks to address these questions, and many others provoked by this singular yet plural figure.

Global Africas: Senegal: Past and/as Present [Sénégal passé/present]

Friday, 4 November 2022

https://winthropking.fsu.edu/events/3rd-Global-Africas-Senegal-Past-and/as-Present

Invited speakers:
Dr. Ibrahima Thiaw (Université de Cheikh Anta Diop), Dr. Adama Pam (UNESCO), Ibrahima Thiam (artist), and Karine Silla (author, director, actrice)

Organizers: Michelle Bumatay and Vincent Joos

The 3rd annual Global Africas symposium – “Senegal Past and/as Present” – tackles the pressing and ever-urgent question of the past’s influence on the present, in particular colonialism’s many legacies, in light of recent developments in Senegal and around the world.

In November of 2018, Senegalese author and academic Felwine Sarr and French art historian Bénédicte Savoy published the Rapport sur la restitution du patrimoine culturel africain. Vers une nouvelle éthique relationnelle (The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics) at the behest of French President Macron in response to a speech he made in the Burkinabé capital of Ougadougou a year prior. The report, colloquially known as the Sarr-Savoy Report, though focused specifically on the restitution of African cultural objects from French institutions, operates as an indictment of the many forms of European colonial violence beyond looting including, in particular, damaging curatorial and exhibition practices. That same year saw both the publication of David Diop’s historical novel Frère d’âme (translated into English as At Night All Blood is Black) about a tirailleur sénégalais in World War I and, in December just two weeks after the publication of the report, the opening of the national Musée des civilisations noires (Museum of Black Civilizations) in Dakar. While the novel mobilizes a first-person account to shed light on ongoing debates in Senegal and France about the fraught legacy of the tirailleurs sénégalais and how to commemorate their contributions not just as valiant defenders of France in the two world wars, but also as enforcers of French colonial expansion, the new national museum constitutes a large-scale declaration of Africa’s cultural and scientific contributions to humanity throughout time.

In 2021, Senegalese author Mahomed Mbougar Sarr became the second black author (and the first from sub-Saharan Africa) to win France’s most prestigious literary prize – le Prix Goncourt – for his novel La plus secrète mémoire des hommes. Published one century after René Maran’s Batouala (for which Maran became the first black author awarded the Prix Goncourt), La plus secrète mémoire des hommes, dedicated to Malian author Yambo Ouologuem, is a multifaceted and richly constructed tapestry about all literature through the lens of African francophone literature and the French literary scene throughout the twentieth century up to today. As with the Sarr-Savoy Report, Diop’s novel, and the relatively newly minted Senegalese museum, Sarr’s novel invites readers to rethink how we understand the past and why that matters today.

This one-day interdisciplinary and multimedia symposium simultaneously explores how the past is produced in Senegal and the stakes and impact of such production.

Women’s Words: Caribbean Worlds

March 3rd, 2023

https://winthropking.fsu.edu/events/womens-words-caribbean-worlds

Maryse Condé writes in “Order, Disorder, Freedom, and the West Indian Writer” that “whenever women speak out, they displease, shock, or disturb.” Caribbean women creators, to use a broader term, explore topics that seek to challenge norms and to question what is acceptable. This event brings together two renowned Caribbean women whose work explores various “taboo” aspects of identity, including, but not limited to: gender, sexuality, spirituality, and migration. In an attempt to capture a broader range of gendered Caribbean experience(s), the Winthrop King has invited Guadeloupean author Gisèle Pineau, and Haitian artist Tessa Mars. Each creator will be able to talk about their own work and contexts of creation, but they will also have the opportunity to discuss their work with one another to talk about how their experiences converge and diverge. Ultimately, “Women’s Words: Caribbean Words” aims to conclude with a more complex understanding of Caribbeanness and how these identities are represented in different media.

Conference organized by graduate students in French.

WRITING THE INDIGENOUS AMERICAS:

QUEBEC, FLORIDA, AMAZONIA, THE CARIBBEAN

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

5-7 April 2023

Face-to face conference, with options for online participation where required.

Organizers:
Martin Munro (FSU), Andrew Frank (FSU), Juan-Carlos Galeano (FSU) Rodney Saint-Éloi (Mémoire d’encrier), Eliana Vāgālāu (Loyola University Chicago)

Keynote Speakers, others TBA
Jorge Marcone (Rutgers University), Jeremy Narby (Author), Miguel Rocha (Universidad Javeriana)

HTTPS://WINTHROPKING.FSU.EDU/EVENT/WRITING-INDIGENOUS-AMERICAS-QUEBEC-FLORIDA-AMAZONIA-CARIBBEAN/EVENT-PAGE

“I speak French because I had no choice. However, French will be my weapon of mass destruction against colonialism, that outrageous attitude encountered every day. This weapon will refine my memory, it will emancipate my opinions and my speech.”

-Natasha Kanapé Fontaine

“I am naturally a warrior fighting against racism. What is human, is not the color of our skin, it is our sense of human intelligence, it is our capacity to be together. […] What interests me as writer and publisher, is the question of memory. Who will write the stories of these dispossessed peoples? The first dispossession, the most serious one, was not when the lands were stolen, it was when they stole the spirit, the soul of the people. The most complete genocide comes with the destruction of the symbols and signs that allow people to exist. And these people exist because they bear witness to humanity, because they write their stories. Can we live without the indigenous culture of Canada? A great people needs to be connected to other imaginaries.”

-Rodney Saint-Éloi

Following the words of the poet-publisher Rodney Saint-Éloi,this conference brings together the people and cultures of the First Nations of Canada with those of Florida, Amazonia, and the Caribbean. Conceived in a spirit of solidarity, the conference will welcome scholars, artists, authors, and activists from the four regions, in order to explore their particularities as well as the connections between them. What can the art and literature of these regions tell us about ecology, history, language, memory, and justice? What can Indigenous presence and survival tell us about the long history of colonialism and efforts to erase their histories and cultures?

The Winthrop-King Institute at Florida State University is dedicated to advancing knowledge of France and the French-speaking world in the United States as well as to promote interdisciplinary work that encourages new understandings of France and its relationship to the world. “Writing the Indigenous Americas” furthers its comparative and global mission by examining the ongoing presence and hemispheric importance of Indigenous communities and cultures throughout the western hemisphere. The conference stems from a desire to amplify and learn directly from and about Indigenous voices, whether they are expressed in their Native languages, French, Spanish, or English. In doing so, it reaffirms the survivance of Indigenous people.

While the study of Native American and Anglophone Canadian First-Nations literature is well established and flourishing, there has been relatively little scholarly attention paid to the work of indigenous authors from Quebec writing in French, and it barely features in discussions of Francophone postcolonial writing more broadly. And yet, since the early 1970s, a body of such work in French has developed, through texts that typically address issues of culture, history, and politics in attempts to raise awareness among and beyond the indigenous communities. During the 1980s and 1990s, the writing expanded beyond the preservation of old tales, and became increasingly creative in its use of genres such as the novel, poetry, and drama, and in its engagement with diverse social, cultural, and historical issues. As the literature develops, so does its audience, and awareness of this neglected but important literary tradition is slowly growing. One of the aims of this conference is to expand awareness, understanding, and appreciation of this important corpus of writing in French. Also, we will explore issues of publication and dissemination. As such, we will welcome the publisher/poet Rodney Saint-Éloi, whose Mémoire d’encrier in Montreal publishes many of the most important contemporary authors, a number of whom will also be special guests at the conference. We will also screen the film Kuessipan, based on Naomi Fontaine’s novel, and host readings and workshops with the invited guests.

Importantly, we will also host sessions that bring together our guests from the north with Indigenous artists, filmmakers, and scholars from Florida, the Amazon, and the Caribbean (including French Guyane) in a celebration of the cultures of the Indigenous peoples of the broader Americas.

The rich biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest and the lives of its culturally diverse inhabitants have had an important presence in the media and discourse on critical global issues such as destruction of the Amazonian biome and climate change. Whereas it is true that the Amazon rainforest still provides an ecological service to the world, no less important are the medicinal plants, cultural practices, epistemologies, and ecological spirituality native to the basin and its people. Cultural production, through the oral narratives of the Indigenous and Amazonian literature written in Spanish by non-Indigenous authors, have allowed Amazonian voices and perspectives to contribute to discourse examining the effects of globalization and the  environmental crisis. Authors and researchers such as Marcos Colón, Jorge Marcone, Jeremy Narby, Miguel Rocha and the Amazonian Indigenous philosopher Rafael Chanchari Pizuri from the Shawi nation will speak and discuss these issues and other related themes at the conference.

The conference will also consider the ways in which Seminoles and other Indigenous Floridians have used the written and spoken word to defy acts of colonialism, acts that sought to erase their presence on the peninsula and deny their legitimacy as a people. Prior to and during the 19th-century war, Seminoles insisted that Florida was their ancestral homelands and rejected notions that they were newcomers. Instead they pointed to their primordial connections to their Florida homelands and tied their political authority to their connection to the territory’s peculiar ecology. As nineteenth-century headman Miconopy expressed, “Here our navel strings were first cut and blood from them sunk into the earth, and made the country dear to us.—We have heard that the Spaniards sold this Country to the Americans. This they had no right to do,—the land was not theirs, it belonged to the Seminole.” More recently the Indigenous elder and activist Bobby Billie explained “In the earlier days, before you called it Florida, when there were not too many newcomers in the one you call Florida, we lived our way of life, we hunted and fished and camped and lived through out the one you call Florida and beyond just as our Ancestors did.” Their testimonies then and now reveal how Seminoles defined their indigeneity through kinship, their cosmology, and the ecology.

3.12 SDN ECR Grant

The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes is delighted to announce that early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to members of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes to assist with a research project related to nineteenth-century French studies.

The scheme is open to postgraduate students and post-doctoral researchers within 7 years of their PhD/DPhil viva, who have not yet been appointed to a permanent full-time academic post.

For an indicative list of items eligible for funding and further conditions please consult our website (link below).

https://uksdn.wordpress.com/ecr-grant/

Application forms (available on the website) should be returned by 1 September to the Secretary of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, Vladimir Kapor, vladimir.kapor@manchester.ac.uk.

3.13 5 Spaces Left Workshop on Decolonial Economic Methods

I hope this letter finds you well. I am writing to share that we at El Cambalache are excited to share our call for applications for our 5th cohort of our ONLINE workshop on decolonial economic methods- Make your own non-capitalist economy. We hope you will join us. We can think, feel, share, practice and debate together while working towards creating and researching the non-capitalist, sometimes non-hierarchical economies that create well-being and healing for all of us that are as diverse as we are throughout the majority world.

We will bring together thinkers, scholars, activists, ambitious dreamers and practitioners to talk, act, strategize and dream through the supporting, reviving, and investigating decolonial economies and their networks.

This workshop is in English and in Spanish with simultaneous translation.

Here is the info:
*Make Your Own Non-Capitalist Economy: Bootcamp workshop on decolonial methods for developing and researching social, solidarity and non-hierarchical economies.*
** ONLINE with El Cambalache**
Dates: From September 6 – October 26th, 2022
Deadliine for Applications: Until full

For a complete workshop description: https://cambalache.noblogs.org/post/2022/07/20/workshop-online-sep-2022-taller-en-linea-sept-2022/

*To begin your application:*
1. Please fill out the application form here: https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/q8SYfC2yCAiALzgw
2. Please send your CV and a 1,000-word letter of motivation to the El Cambalache Collective at cambalacheras@cambalache.casa explaining why you would like to participate in the workshop and what types of economic projects you could develop with us or where you live and work.

*This course focuses on forming local non-capitalist economic projects and resisting their co-optation within and beyond research. *
**We need other economies** In the last few months, we have experienced a significant global change in our lives around the development of COVID-19 and the government responses to curb the virus. People living precariously on a daily basis, suffering economic, social and legal marginalization, have been put even more at risk from disease, hunger, lack of remuneration and violence. In many parts of the majority world, people have been imprisoned and/or experienced violence for taking to the streets to seek improvements in their wellbeing, freedom from domestic violence, and other reasons that bring them into public spaces. Now, more than ever it is necessary to make non-capitalist economies and to recognize that our Americas are rich in the practices and knowledge of other contemporary and age-old economies. Now is the time! Let’s get to work and decolonize our economies!

**This course will cover**
-Methods and analyses for creating decolonial economic projects.
-El Cambalache as a contemporary example of an anti-capitalist and non-hierarchical project.
-Investigating the economic history(s) of the Americas. These history(s) that have been attacked and made invisible by the coloniality of capitalist power. We will focus on how to apply a decolonial perspective and practice to this investigation.
-Practicing consumption from a decolonial perspective.

**For whom?**
The practice, research and theories of non-capitalist economies included in this course were developed by and for all of us in order to bring about social change. For this reason, it is designed for people interested in creating, practicing and collectively researching non-capitalist economic projects to be carried out in their places of residence or research. Everyone is invited to participate – women, people of color, indigenous people and LBGTIQ++ are especially invited.

**Course presentation**
Decolonial economic geography begins with participatory action research in non-Western, non-hierarchical economic practices.

When studying decoloniality we sometimes find it difficult to move from theory to practice. Have you thought about starting a non-capitalist economic project, but don’t know where to begin? Have you asked yourself how to use participatory action research to start a social and/or solidarity economy project? Are you interested in “commoning” and “communality”? Do you want to do decolonial economic research but don’t know how to engage in local, indigenous and/or non-Western economic practices in the context of an economic project?

During the last 500 years through the present, indigenous and non-European peoples, slaves and descendants of slaves have been historically denied equal access to participation in the capitalist economy through mechanisms of coloniality.

The capitalist economic system values neither nature nor most of our knowledge and skills. Over the last five centuries people around the world have not accepted that their way of being is to be poor, they have not sat down to simply lament their situation. In terrible circumstances of slavery and oppression, where many people were dispossessed of their property, they were denied access to money and some forms of property by colonial and post-colonial governments, yet these people created diverse and creative networks of exchange and coexistence, which have enabled their survival throughout history and across the world.

These economies have been largel;y ignored because they were and still are mostly women’s economies. Silvia Federici has shown that while capitalism developed, women in Europe and the Americas were systematically denied access to the money economy for centuries. As we know from the diverse economies literature, there is much more to the economy than just capitalism. By understanding and practicing these types of non-capitalist activities we can decrease our dependence on money and increase our autonomy by resisting the capitalist economic system.

To participate in this workshop, we ask the participants to share current and future projects to discuss and develop during our activities. There will be collective talks about the frameworks and possible steps to design and carry out methodologies for a project of feminist, solidarity and decolonial economies. Expect readings before and during the workshop, as well as writing activities.
This workshop covers literature on hybrid economies, decolonial territorialization, decolonial feminism, decolonial economics, the Community Economies Research Network, and communality.

Topics:
Diverse Economies in the majority world of the Americas
Decolonial economy in the majority world of the Americas
Feminisms in the majority world of the Americas
Autonomous movements and their practices
Collective participatory methodology
Research methods that resist hierarchy
Creating practices

**Program description

*Methods in Theory and Practice for Creating Decolonial Economies
Facilitated by Erin Araujo.
We will talk about the great diversity of economies in the Americas that exist at the same time as capitalism. Much of the majority world in the Americas has little access to money. This low access to money also reduces people’s participation in the capitalist economic system, which in response has generated a wide range of alternative, non-capitalist, economic networks – these include mutual support, autonomous governance, exchange, barter, tequio, minga, gifting, group savings, and many other ways to live well and overcome the precarity imposed by the capitalist system, even if there is little access to money.

*Sharing Seeds of Practice from El Cambalache: The thought and praxis of El Cambalache
Facilitated by the El Cambalache collective; Chepis, Erin, Belkis, Lupita, Maira and Elena
El Cambalache is a moneyless economy project, generated by and for women and their communities in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. We are going to share our experiences, challenges, and learnings throughout the process of forming the project. Chat with us about our non-hierarchical project and let’s build tools that will allow us to dismantle capitalism.

*Decolonial consumption.
Facilitated by Elena Morúa, Maira Pino and Guadalupe Díaz Hernández.
Do you know what you consume? How it is produced?: Experiences in the food and textile field, in communities and in urban areas.
We will share the experiences of the Koltamba Collective, an organization made up of 20 families of Tzeltal origin, who are coffee producers from the highlands of the state of Chiapas. We will share information about their agro-ecological work, their organization, and their vision of a network of mutual support. Examples of collectives and self-management networks of family and local solidarity economy.

Decolonial Diverse Economies in the Americas
Facilitated by Erin Araujo.
We will talk about the great diversity of economies in the Americas that exist at the same time as capitalism. Much of the majority world in the Americas has low access to money. This low access to money also reduces people’s participation in the capitalist economic system, which in response has generated a wide range of alternative, non-capitalist, economic networks – these include mutual support, autonomous governance, exchange, barter, tequio, minga, gifting, group savings, and many other ways to live well and overcome precarity.

3.16 Informal online research seminar c.1750-1830- new members welcome

Dear all,

A quick reminder that I moderate a monthly online seminar, vaguely centred on the French Revolution but interested in any topics in French or Francophone histories c.1750-1830, and will be glad to welcome new attendees and/or presenters for the 2022/23 season.

We meet at 1700 London time, and this year will be alternating Wednesdays and Thursdays to widen potential attendance.

Our first paper this year will be on September 14 – Sybille Fourcaud, doctoral student at the Centre for History of Sciences Po (Paris), will present on the evolution of the criteria entitling Saint-Domingue colonists who had fled the island to French state assistance, from 1793 to 1831.

Since starting this seminar under lockdown, it has been my hono[u]r to keep it as a space of safety, where discussion is friendly first, and usefully critical second, and nobody gets to be mean. We welcome scholars at every stage of their career, and work at all stages of development, with or without a precirculated element, and we have held several themed events with multiple contributors over the last couple of years. There are currently over 70 scholars on the mailing-list, with around 15-20 at any one session.

If you would like to be added to the list – and even more if you would like to offer a paper – please contact me directly at the email address below. Once again, all are welcome, and will be welcomed.

Best wishes,

Dave Andress

Professor of Modern History

Leverhulme Research Fellow
SASHPL, Univ. of PMilldam, Portsmouth, PO1 3AS, UK
Tel. 02392 842204
david.andress@port.ac.ukortsmouth

4. New Publications

4.1 Christina B. Carroll, The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850-1900 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022)

https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501763083/the-politics-of-imperial-memory-in-france-18501900/

Available in print and digital formats

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By highlighting the connections between domestic political struggles and overseas imperial structures, The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850–1900 explains how and why French Republicans embraced colonial conquest as a central part of their political platform. Christina B. Carroll explores the meaning and value of empire in late-nineteenth-century France, arguing that ongoing disputes about the French state’s political organization intersected with racialized beliefs about European superiority over colonial others in French imperial thought.

For much of this period, French writers and politicians did not always differentiate between continental and colonial empire. By employing a range of sources—from newspapers and pamphlets to textbooks and novels—Carroll demonstrates that the memory of older continental imperial models shaped French understandings of, and justifications for, their new colonial empire. She shows that the slow identification of the two types of empire emerged due to a politicized campaign led by colonial advocates who sought to defend overseas expansion against their opponents. This new model of colonial empire was shaped by a complicated set of influences, including political conflict, the legacy of both Napoleons, international competition, racial science, and French experiences in the colonies.

The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850–1900 skillfully weaves together knowledge from its wide-ranging source base to articulate how the meaning and history of empire became deeply intertwined with the meaning and history of the French nation.

Christina B. Carroll is Assistant Professor of History at Kalamazoo College. She has published articles in French Historical Studies, French Politics, Culture, and Society, and the Journal of the Western Society for French History.

4.2 Rachel Chin, War of Words: Britain, France and Discourses of Empire during the Second World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)

War of Words argues that the conflicts that erupted over French colonial territory between 1940 and 1945 are central to understanding British, Vichy and Free French policy-making throughout the war. By analysing the rhetoric that surrounded these clashes, Rachel Chin demonstrates that imperial holdings were valued as more than material and strategic resources. They were formidable symbols of power, prestige and national legitimacy. She shows that having and holding imperial territory was at the core of competing Vichy and Free French claims to represent the true French nation and that opposing images of Franco-British cooperation and rivalry were at the heart of these arguments. The selected case studies show how British-Vichy-Free French relations evolved throughout the war and demonstrate that the French colonial empire played a decisive role in these shifts.

Gives readers a transnational and comparative perspective of the Second World War
Links policy making with the public sphere, showing how rhetoric can be used to bridge this gap
Will attract an interdisciplinary audience including scholars in modern British and French history, international relations, foreign policy, the history of empire and the history of the Second World War

Reviews & endorsements

‘War of Words innovatively analyzes the powerful role played by rhetoric in the strained relations between Britain and France during World War II. As the Free French, Britain, and Vichy clashed over questions of empire, each mounted a public defense of their actions that in turn constrained their policy making.’ Alice L. Conklin, Ohio State University

‘This book is an elegantly written and remarkably well-informed tour de force. Chin subtly and lucidly revisits French dark years through the prism of the rhetoric that underpinned Franco-British imperial rivalry. She also provides a salutary entry into post-war intersecting tumultuous decolonization processes against the backdrop of rising US influence. A must-read.’ Guillaume Piketty, Science Po Paris

‘Based on extensive research, Chin offers a nuanced and fascinating new examination of Franco-British relations during the Second World War. War of Words presents a compelling analysis of how empire lay at the heart of a symbolic contestation in which political rhetoric shaped the course of Franco-British rivalry and cooperation.’ Karine Varley, University of Strathclyde

4.3 Martin Munro, Listening to the Caribbean: Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022)

The primary aim of Listening to the Caribbean: Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race is quite ambitious: to open up the Caribbean to a “sound studies” approach, and to thereby effect a shift in Caribbean studies away from the predominantly visual biases of most scholarly works and towards a fuller understanding of early Caribbean societies through listening in to the past. Paying close attention to auditory elements in written accounts of slavery and revolts allows us to unlock the sounds that are registered and recorded there, so that not only does one gain a more sensorially full understanding of the society, but also to a considerable extent, the voices and subjectivities of the enslaved are brought out of the silence to which they have been largely consigned. Reading texts in this way, listening to the sounds of language, work, festivity, music, laughter, mourning, and warfare, for example, allows one to know better the lives of the enslaved people, and how, counter to the largely visual power of the planters, the people developed a highly sophisticated auditory culture that in large part ensured their survival and indeed their final victories over the institution of slavery.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/listening-to-the-caribbean-9781802070224?cc=us&lang=en&#

4.4 Buata B. Malela and Cynthia V. Parfait (eds.), Écrire le sujet du XXIe siècle. Le regard des littératures francophones (Paris: Hermann, 2022)

Le questionnement du sujet, dans le contexte propre à la société où les liens se sont distendus au profit du règne des individus, demeure une problématique subjective et intersubjective. Cet enjeu social préoccupe aussi le discours social et littéraire en particulier. C’est pourquoi quelques fictions romanesques francophones – Afrique, Antilles et océan Indien – de l’extrême contemporain ont investi le thème du sujet-objet dans le monde social, dans sa relation à soi et à l’autre. De plus, en édifiant leur propre idée du sujet du XXI^e siècle, ces récits francophones proposent un regard esthétique sur le monde contemporain. Partant de ce constat, cet essai examine ces textes en essayant de déceler leur manière de traiter du sujet notamment face au temps, aux souffrances humaines et à l’énigme de l’autre.

https://www.editions-hermann.fr/livre/ecrire-le-sujet-du-xxie-siecle-buata-b-malela

SFPS Mailing: August 2022

1. Calls for Papers/Contributions

1.1 Seventh Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association (MSA) – “Communities and Change” (Newcastle, United Kingdom, 3 to 7 July 2023)

1.2 Call for Contributions – Journal Issue – Literature and Global Responsibility

1.3 Women in French UK-Ireland 2023 Conference – Call for Papers – Deadline 1 September 2022

1.4 Sept 15th: Call for Papers, 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone International Colloquium

1.5 CFP – Joint meeting of the SFHS and WSFH

1.6 Cultural Expressions of Climate Change across the French-speaking Islands in the South Pacific

1.7 SFS 64th Annual Conference

1.8 Rooted Futures: Visions of Peace and Justice (International Peace Research Association 29th biennial conference)

1.9 CfP – On the Move & Moving On. (Re-)negotiations of Migration in Contemporary Literature and Film (deadline 30 Sept)

1.10 Appel à Contribution pour un numéro spécial dans Présence Francophone: “Littérature, critique, et politique: repenser les dynamiques sociopolitiques en Afrique sub-saharienne francophone

1.11 CFP: “Typologies of Western Islam in European Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Lexicons in the 18th and 19th Centuries”

1.12 “Hétérogénéités” (Revue Algérienne des Lettres, RAL)

1.13 CFP: Australian Association for Caribbean Studies 2023 Conference

2. Job and Scholarship Opportunities

2.1 Camargo Fellowship: Open Call for Residencies in 2023-2024

2.2 Call for Applications: SFHS Executive Director

2.3 Part-time Research Assistant position at Oxford

2.4 Vacancy: Postgraduate Representative, ASMCF

2.5 Lecturer in French Studies continuing position at the University of Melbourne

2.6 NEW POST: Distinguished Fellowships, Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies of the University of Erfurt

2.7 Up to ten Individual Residential Fellowships for 3-12 months each at the University of Ghana (for the academic year 2023/2024)

2.8 11 Residential Fellowships, Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University

2.9 USIAS Fellowships, Université de Strasbourg Institut d’Études Avancées

2.10 Assistant Professor ‘Social inequality and diversity’, University of Amsterdam

2.11 Postdoc ‘Social inequality and diversity’, University of Amsterdam

2.12 Lecturer in French Language (0.375 FTE, teaching only) Queen Mary University of London

2.13 French Language Assistant/Lectrice – 0.75FTE, Queen Mary University of London

2.14 Assistant Professor in Black French Studies, Rice University

2.15 3 year postdoctoral positions – critical ocean studies, Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, Oldenburg, NW Germany. Deadline 31st August

2.16 Recruitment for various research positions at Asia Research Institute

2.17 Language Teachers (French) (x2 posts), University of Bristol

2.18 Assistant Professor of Teaching, French (UBC – Vancouver, Canada)

2.19 Assistant Professor of French – Quebec Literature (UBC – Vancouver, Canada)

2.20 JOB VACANCY: temp tutor in French language, Univ of Dundee (begin Oct 2022)

2.21 Job Opening: Assistant Professor of French at Baylor University (USA)

2.22 Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies – University of Notre Dame

3. Announcements

3.1 Official Launch of Women in French UK-Ireland

3.2 Société d’histoire littéraire de la France

3.3 New Books in French Studies-Interview with Christy Pichichero

3.4 Carceral Policy, Policing and Race – Inaugural Conference 7-8 Sep

3.5 ASMCF Initiative Fund – Deadline 31st August 2022: Second Call!

3.6 Translating Caribbean Ecologies

3.7 New York French History Group — call for proposals

3.8 AUPHF+ Recordings on Decentring French Studies

3.9 Podcasts with Karen Offen, Carolyn Eichner, & Itay Lotem

3.10 RSA Research Funding, Awards & Membership Offer

3.11 Winthrop-King events, 2022-23

3.12 SDN ECR Grant

3.13 5 Spaces Left Workshop on Decolonial Economic Methods

3.16 Informal online research seminar c.1750-1830- new members welcome

4. New Publications

4.1 Christina B. Carroll, The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850-1900 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022)

4.2 Rachel Chin, War of Words: Britain, France and Discourses of Empire during the Second World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)

4.3 Martin Munro, Listening to the Caribbean: Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022)

4.4 Buata B. Malela and Cynthia V. Parfait (eds.), Écrire le sujet du XXIe siècle. Le regard des littératures francophones (Paris: Hermann, 2022)

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