We are delighted to inform you that registration is now open for this year’s SFPS annual conference, which will be held at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) on Friday 18th – Saturday 19th November. The provisional conference programme, and registration form, can be accessed here.
Please note that SFPS membership is compulsory for all attendees. SFPS have a limited number of bursaries available for contributors who find it difficult to afford to attend the conference. Please contact the conference organisers, Sara Mechkarini and Dega Rutherford, at sfpsconference2022@gmail.com if you are interested in applying for a bursary, or if you have any other queries regarding the conference.
Please return the registration form to the organisers at the above email address by Friday 28th October 2022.
We are pleased to acknowledge the generous support provided by Liverpool University Press for this year’s annual conference.
LUP publish a wide range of cutting-edge research in Francophone studies. The below titles are of particular interest to SFPS members:
New in Francophone Postcolonial Studies: French Decadence in a Global Context
Francophone Postcolonial Studies publishes research that will help to set new research agendas across the entire field.
French Decadence in a Global Context edited by Julia Hartley, Wanrug Suwanwattana, and Jennifer Yee is the latest book in the series. The heyday of French Decadence in the fin-de-siècle period is contemporary with the expansion of France’s modern colonial empire. This study surveys some of the many different and often contradictory intersections between the two phenomena, from exoticism to anxieties about cultural purity, from colonial discourse to anarchist anticolonialism.
New in French and Francophone Studies Journals
NEW FOR 2022
Edited by Denis Provencher (University of Arizona)
An exciting new companion journal which builds on the success of highly regarded Contemporary French Civilization. CFC Intersections aims to provide a new publishing outlet for scholarship related to intersectionality and the broader associated notion of intersections in French and Francophone studies. The journal’s interests will focus on intersectionality and how it has come to inform the lives of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour), the working class, LGBTQ communities, people with disabilities, and those in other marginalised and minoritised groups.
Contemporary French Civilization
Edited by Denis Provencher (University of Arizona)
A journal devoted to all aspects of civilization and cultural studies in France and the Francophone world.
Volume 47.2 is a special issue titled “Leaving Islam in France and North Africa”, guest edited by Adi Saleem Bharat and Joseph Ford. Articles explore the politics, representation, and lived experience of leaving Islam in the contemporary French-speaking world.
Edited by Rebekah Vince (Durham University)
Published In partnership with the Open Library of the Humanities, Francosphères is a fully Open Access journal that is essential reading for those working in and researching French language and culture, and the Francophone postcolonial presence. Volume 11.1 is a special issue exploring the worlds of Édouard Glissant, French writer, poet, philosopher, and literary critic from Martinique.
1.7. Call for papers, ECAS, « African Futures », Cologne, 31 mai-3 juin 2023.
1.8. The BUMIDOM in Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 22-23rd June 2023, University of Liverpool.
1.9. Special Issue of Esprit Créateur on the work of Linda Lê
2.1. Call for Applications: Assistant Professor of French, Texas Tech University
2.4. Assistant Professor of French, Washington University in St. Louis.
2.9. Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships, UCL
2.10. Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, University of Exeter.
2.11. Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship through Durham University
3.1. Temporary researcher’s position at the Maison française
3.2. Postgraduate editor for MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities
3.3. Institut des sciences humaines et sociales du CNRS, Soutien à la mobilité internationale
3.5. Graduate Program in French and Francophone Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3.6. MA in French & PhD in Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
3.7. Présentation de Noirs en France (2022) par Alain Mabanckou
3.8. Warwick Seminar for Interdisciplinary French Studies, 2022-3 programme
3.9. Caribbean Studies Seminar Series, School of Advanced Study, University of London
3.14. Collection « Autrement Mêmes »
3.15. Recording, annual workshop organised by AUPHF+.
3.2. Rappeur, écolo et élu, c’est Malcolm le Boudiouman – “Les Rebelles du Mi…
4.2. Alexandre Gefen, Pamela Krause (dir.), Refaire monde, éditions Septentrion, 2022.
1. Call for Paper/Contribution
1.1. 2015 — récits et fictions du terrorisme, Université Américaine de Paris – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, 15-17 novembre 2023.
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Appel à contributions
2015 — récits et fictions du terrorisme
Université Américaine de Paris – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
15-17 novembre 2023
(English version below)
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« L’écriture croise la justice, et parfois coïncide avec elle »
(Yannick Haenel, Notre solitude)
Si la réaction littéraire des USA aux attentats terroristes du 11 septembre a été amplement analysée, faisant des attaques un jalon fondamental dans l’histoire culturelle américaine contemporaine, il semble tout aussi essentiel de considérer la manière dont la société française a pu ressaisir, par des récits (témoignages ou œuvres de fiction), les attentats de 2015. De Mathieu Riboulet à Emmanuel Carrère, de Karine Tuil à Philippe Lançon, de Yasmina Khadra à Adrien Genoudet, de Yannick Haenel à Virginie Despentes, les attentats sont racontés, évoqués, transposés, métaphorisés, analysés de multiples manières. Du procès des attentats islamistes de 2015 au programme de recherche transdisciplinaire 13-Novembre, des centaines de témoignages sont aussi recueillis qui racontent l’expérience résolument individuelle de l’événement traumatique. Ces recueils de témoignages s’inscrivent dans une autre généalogie, celle qui a donné une place singulière à la mémoire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et de la Shoah en particulier, des archives Fortunoff(Yale) à la fondation Spielberg (University of South California) mais qui trouve aussi un modèle, entre histoire et littérature, dans Témoins de Norton Cru au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale. Dans tous les cas ces mots, ces discours, ces écrits participent à la construction d’une mémoire individuelle et d’une mémoire collective à la fois évolutives et en interaction.
Comment la culture, la cible même des attentats, a pu, par le prisme du récit – photographies, témoignages, documentaires, romans, bandes dessinées, films et séries -, servir à mettre en scène l’horreur, l’incompréhension, mais aussi l’après-coup et le désir de faire sens ? Dans quelle temporalité se sont écrit ces textes, se sont produites ces images ? Quelles catégories conceptuelles et critiques faut-il mobiliser pour les comprendre ? Quels moyens littéraires ou au contraire délibérément non littéraires sont-ils déployés ? Tout comme le 11 septembre aux États-Unis, les attentats de 2015 marquent-ils une scansion de l’histoire littéraire ? À quel moment et sous quelles conditions le recours à la fiction est-il devenu possible ? Que nous disent-ils du rapport de nos sociétés à la fiction et au témoignage ? Que fait donc le récit en effet dans le contrecoup, le sillage d’attentats aussi déchirants que le 7 janvier et le 13 novembre 2015, attaques terroristes dont nous avons suivi les procès historiques en France ? Comment se dit la mémoire des témoins, s’ajuste celle des survivants ? À quelles questions éthiques sont exposés les survivants prenant la parole ? Des réparations sont-elles à attendre de la mise-en-mots, de la mise-en-dessins ? Quels récits des survivants et des procès ont-ils été produits ? Dans quelle autre généalogie s’inscrivent l’écoute et le recueil de la parole du témoin, et comment ? Quelles mémoires les attentats de 2015 ont-ils ravivées ? Qu’en est-il, d’ailleurs, de l’évolution de ces modes mémoriels, en particulier lorsque certains attentats terroristes n’y trouvent pas la même place (ainsi de celui de Nice le 14 juillet 2016 dont s’ouvre le procès) ? Comment et pourquoi, pour un même attentat, les mémoires se concentrent sur un lieu au détriment des autres – ainsi du Bataclan le 13 novembre 2015, au point que, souvent, on parle des « attentats du Bataclan », oubliant le Stade-de-France et les terrasses ? Quelle place tiennent les procès dans la construction de la mémoire collective ?
Pays meurtris au XXIe siècle par des attentats terroristes, les États-Unis et la France présentent des parallèles, mais aussi des divergences dans leurs réactions au traumatisme de ce qu’on peut considérer comme des événements-monde : une comparaison peut-elle être engagée ? Comment s’explique, par exemple, le contraste si frappant entre l’absence de procès dans les suites du 11 septembre aux Etats-Unis et la centralité de la procédure policière et judiciaire dans la suite des attentats de 2015 en France, et quelles en sont les conséquences sur l’écriture littéraire, sur la place donnée à la parole du témoin et sur les réactions de la société ?
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Le colloque aura lieu les 15-17 novembre 2023 à Paris.
Des sessions hybrides pourront éventuellement être organisées. Nous souhaitons cependant que les intervenants fassent leur présentation et échangent en personne.
Colloque organisé par Alexandre Gefen (CNRS), Caroline D. Laurent (The American University of Paris), Denis Peschanski (CNRS, programme 13-novembre) et Anne-Marie Picard (AUP).
Comité Scientifique :
- Christine Armstrong (Denison University)
- Joanne Brueton (University of London Institute in Paris)
- Catherine Brun (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- Brian Schiff (The American University of Paris)
- Russell Williams (The American University of Paris)
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Propositions en français ou en anglais de 600-700 mots et notice bio-bibliographique de 150 mots à envoyer à :
recits_2015-colloque@ecomail.fr
Date limite de soumission : 1er mars 2023.
Date d’acceptation : début avril 2023.
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Call for papers
2015 – Narratives and Fictions of Terrorism
American University of Paris – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
November 15-17, 2023
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“Writing intersects with justice, and sometimes coincides with it”
(Yannick Haenel, Notre Solitude)
If the literary reaction to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 has been extensively examined in the United States, making the attacks a fundamental milestone in contemporary American cultural History, it seems equally essential to consider the way in which French society has been able to recapture, through narratives (testimonies or works of fiction), the attacks of 2015. From Mathieu Riboulet to Emmanuel Carrère, from Karine Tuil to Philippe Lançon, from Yasmina Khadra to Adrien Genoudet, from Yannick Haenel to Virginie Despentes, the attacks are recounted, conjured up, transposed, metaphorized, and analyzed in many ways. From the trial of the Islamist attacks of 2015 to the transdisciplinary research program 13-November, hundreds of testimonies are also collected that tell the traumatic event resolutely as an individual one. These collections of testimonies are part of another genealogy, the one that has given a singular place to the memory of the Second World War and the Shoah in particular, from the Fortunoff archives (Yale) to the Spielberg foundation (University of South California), but which also finds a model, between history and literature, in Norton Cru’s Témoins (Witnesses) in the aftermath of the First World War. In all cases, these words, speeches, and writings participate in the construction of a personal and a collective memory that both evolve and interact.
How has the very target of the attacks, culture, been able to stage the horror, the incomprehension, but also the aftermath and the desire to make sense through the prism of narrative – photographs, testimonies, documentaries, novels, comics, films, and series? In what temporality were these texts written and these images produced? What conceptual and critical categories must now be mobilized to understand them? What array of literary or purposely non-literary channels is deployed? Just as 9/11 did in America, will these events mark a shift in literary history? At what point and under what conditions did the use of fiction become possible? What do they tell us about our societies’ relationship to fiction and testimony? What does narrative do indeed in the aftermath, the wake of such heartbreaking attacks as January 7th and November 13th, 2015, terrorist attacks whose historical trials we have followed in France? How are witnesses’ memories articulated, that of survivors adjusted? To what ethical questions are the survivors exposed when they bear witness and speak out? Are reparations to be expected from the mise-en-mots, from the mise-en-dessins? What accounts of the survivors and of the trials have been produced? In what other genealogy are the act of listening and the collection of the witness’ words inscribed, and how? What memories have the attacks of 2015 revived? How do these memories evolve? How and why do certain terrorist attacks not occupy the same place in them – as in the case of the Nice attack on July 14, 2016, whose trial is about to start? How and why, for a single incident, does collective memory focus on a particular location to the detriment of others – such as the Bataclan on November 13, 2015, to the point that we often speak of the “Bataclan attacks,” forgetting the Stade-de-France and the cafés’ terraces? What role do trials play in the construction of collective memory?
We see parallels in the United States and France as countries injured in the 21st Century by terrorist attacks. However, there are also divergences in their reactions to the trauma of what can be considered as événements-monde, world-changing events: can a comparison be made? How, for example, can the contrast between the absence of trials in the aftermath of 9/11 in the United States and the centrality of the police and judicial processes in the aftershock of the 2015 attacks in France be explained, and what are the consequences for literary writing, for the place given to the word of the witness, and for society’s upshots?
The colloquium will take place on November 15-17, 2023, in Paris.
Hybrid sessions may be organized. However, we would like the speakers to make their presentation and exchange in person.
Conference organized by:
Alexandre Gefen (CNRS), Caroline D. Laurent (The American University of Paris), Denis Peschanski (CNRS, 13-11program), and Anne-Marie Picard (AUP).
Scientific Committee:
- Christine Armstrong (Denison University)
- Joanne Brueton (University of London Institute in Paris)
- Catherine Brun (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- Brian Schiff (The American University of Paris)
- Russell Williams (The American University of Paris)
Proposals in French or English of 600-700 words and a biobibliographical notice of 150 words to be sent to:
recits_2015-colloque@ecomail.fr
Deadline for submission: March 1, 2023.
Acceptance date: early April 2023.
1.2. Colloque 2023, Appel à propositions de communications, « Atelier 12, Au-delà de l’inclusion : pour une pédagogie critique, intersectionnelle et décolonisante », Université York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Campus Keele et Glendon, 27 au 30 mai.
Responsables d’atelier :
Hasheem Hakeem, University of Calgary, hasheem.hakeem@ucalgary.ca
Caroline Lebrec, University of British Columbia, caroline.lebrec@ubc.ca
Si pendant longtemps l’équité, la diversité, l’inclusion et la décolonisation n’ont pas été considérées comme des enjeux d’importance pour l’enseignement du français langue seconde (FLS), leur pertinence est aujourd’hui soulignée par la publication d’ouvrages – par exemple, pour le domaine de l’enseignement du FLS : Teaching Diversity and Inclusion: Examples from a French Speaking Classroom (2021), sous la direction de E. Nicole Meyer et Eliene Hoft-March, et Diversity and Decolonization in French Studies: New Approaches to Teaching (2022), dirigé par Siham Bouamer et Loïc Bourdeau – qui répondent à la nécessité pédagogique de rendre les curriculums de FLS plus inclusifs de la diversité. De quelle diversité parlons-nous ? La conception universelle de l’apprentissage plus connue sous le nom anglophone de Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (Meyer et Rose, 1984) a ouvert la voie à l’inclusion entendue comme une approche pédagogique permettant de penser et de planifier un cours en incluant toutes les personnes ayant un handicap. Plus récemment, le concept d’intersectionnalité (Collins et Bilge, 2020 ; Crenshaw, 1989) a élargi cette définition pour englober ceux de race, d’identité de genre, d’expression de genre, de sexualité et de classe sociale. Lorsqu’il s’applique à la salle de classe, le terme d’inclusion renvoie donc à plusieurs aspects de la question.
Pour Gabrielle Richard (2019), la pédagogie inclusive (ou de la tolérance) « pose problème puisqu’elle implique un rapport de pouvoir entre les personnes qui « tolèrent » (et qui sont dès lors détentrices du pouvoir de le faire ou non) et celles qui « sont tolérées » (et dont la légitimité relève du bon vouloir des premières) » (p. 116). Bien que la pédagogie inclusive reconnaisse l’existence des normes sociales qui contribuent à l’exclusion de certaines personnes ou de certains groupes de personnes, elle ne permet pas suffisamment de défier ou de transformer ces normes. Du point de vue de la langue, bien que les spécialistes actuel.le.s (Viennot, Cerquiglini, Lessard, Zaccour, Manesse, Siouffi) approchent le débat en termes de pédagogie inclusive, une dimension critique réside dans la remise en question des idéologies véhiculées par des concepts normatifs, tels que « le masculin l’emporte sur le féminin », qui, s’il s’appliquait à l’origine au genre grammatical, est le produit d’une construction sociale mise en place dès le XVIIe siècle (Vaugelas, 1647).
Cette réflexion prend en considération la dimension du « conflit » portée par la pédagogie critique. En lien avec la sociologie de l’éducation de la fin des années 1960 (voir Apple 1996, 2004 ; Bourdieu et Passeron, 1970 ; Bowles et Gintis, 1976 ; Coleman 1988), la théorie du conflit repose sur la prémisse selon laquelle l’éducation n’est pas neutre ni objective, mais qu’elle est structurée en fonction des intérêts de groupes dominants (Kincheloe, 2008). Pensons notamment aux expériences, visions du monde et productions artistiques et culturelles des membres de populations francophones, racisées, autochtones et queer souvent marginalisées par les manuels de langue française. La pédagogie critique (que l’on peut appeler également une pédagogie du conflit) permet de repenser certaines pratiques pédagogiques traditionnellement adoptées dans la classe de FLS, particulièrement dans les cours de langue. Ainsi, tout comme la pédagogie inclusive, mais en allant au-delà, la pédagogie critique a pour but de s’attaquer aux normes et aux dynamiques de pouvoir, d’inégalités et d’exclusion qui servent à maintenir et à renforcer le statuquo (Freire, 2018 ; Giroux, 1981 ; Kincheloe, 2008 ; Richard, 2019).
Pour ces raisons, cet atelier propose de traiter le concept d’« inclusion » dans son sens large (handicap, identité de genre, expression de genre, race, sexualité, classe sociale) dans la classe de FLS pour refléter un milieu universitaire plus au service d’un véritable engagement en faveur de la transformation du statuquo et du développement de la pensée critique des étudiant.e.s sur ces concepts d’idéologie de la langue, de la norme, des corpus, des méthodes, voire de tout ce qui fait que l’on planifie un cours en termes de pédagogie critique, et d’approche centrée sur l’apprenant.e (le quoi, le comment et le pourquoi du processus de planification d’un cours critique). Nous nous intéressons aux multiples façons dont cette pédagogie peut être mobilisée concrètement dans la classe de FLS pour amener les étudiant.e.s à réfléchir de manière critique sur la construction sociale des normes, liées entre autres, à la sexualité, à l’identité et à l’expression de genre, à la race, à la capacité, à la langue et à la classe sociale. Nous sommes aussi intéressé.e.s aux réflexions théoriques sur les approches pédagogiques critiques ainsi qu’aux études empiriques mettant en œuvre ces approches dans la classe de FLS. Nous invitons donc des propositions qui portent sur la pédagogie critique d’un point de vue théorique ou pratique (de façon non exhaustive) :
- Réflexions théoriques qui articulent le passage de la pédagogie inclusive à la pédagogie critique (la langue et les idéologies qu’elle véhicule, la norme et ses variantes historiques et/ou francophones, etc.)
- Réflexions comparatives sur les significations des concepts d’inclusion et d’exclusion à travers les langues (par exemple, les disparités sémantiques entre le français et l’anglais lorsque l’on parle d’inclusion et d’exclusion)
- Réflexions théoriques sur la pédagogie critique (antioppressive, queer, antiraciste ou décoloniale)
- Exemples d’approches pédagogiques queer, antiracistes ou décoloniales dans la classe de FLS (aux niveaux débutant, intermédiaire et/ou avancé)
- Analyse de manuels, de ressources et/ou du curriculum de FLS (stratégies et limites)
- Indigénisation et/ou décolonisation du curriculum de FLS
- Études empiriques et recherche-action impliquant les futur.e.s enseignant.e.s de français (les étudiant.e.s de premier cycle, de maîtrise ou de doctorat) et/ou des enseignant.e.s de FLS
- Évaluation du FLS et pédagogie critique (réflexions et approches)
- Enseignement sur les populations sous-représentées (stratégies et défis, par exemple en ce qui concerne la gestion de sa position sociale dans la salle de classe critique)
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Date limite pour l’envoi des propositions (titre, résumé de 250-300 mots, adresse, affiliation et notice bio-bibliographique de 150 mots) à Hasheem Hakeem (hasheem.hakeem@ucalgary.ca) et à Caroline Lebrec (caroline.lebrec@ubc.ca) : le 15 décembre 2022.
Le colloque annuel 2023 de l’APFUCC sera en personne (à moins que la situation sanitaire ne le permette pas) avec, possiblement, quelques activités ou interventions en ligne (nous communiquerons à ce sujet plus tard). Il se tiendra dans le cadre du Congrès annuel de la Fédération des sciences humaines du Canada.
Les personnes ayant soumis une proposition de communication recevront un message des personnes responsables de l’atelier avant le 15 janvier 2023 les informant de leur décision. L’adhésion à l’APFUCC est requise pour participer au colloque. Il faut également régler les frais de participation au Congrès des Sciences humaines ainsi que les frais de conférence de l’APFUCC. De plus amples informations vous seront envoyées à ce sujet. Vous ne pouvez soumettre qu’une seule proposition de communication, présentée en français (la langue officielle de l’APFUCC), pour le colloque 2023.
1.3. Journée d’études, « Le Maghreb du 21e siècle : Les Nouvelles voix dans le contexte littéraire contemporain / Twenty-First Century Maghreb: New Literary Voices in the Current Literary Context », 17 février 2023 – En ligne (Zoom)
Cette Journée d’études est dédiée à l’exploration des nouvelles voix dans le Maghreb littéraire contemporain, plus spécifiquement les auteur(e)s (poètes, romancier(e)s, auteur(e)s de bandes dessinées, etc.) qui se sont démarqué(e)s sur la scène littéraire dans les dernières décennies comme des voix exemplaires dans le domaine de la francophonie postcoloniale.
Depuis de longues années, les écrivain(e)s maghrébin(e)s se sont lancé(e)s dans le champ littéraire francophone et postcolonial. Ils/Elles ont été étudié(e)s dans des contextes académiques et pas seulement, inclus(e)s dans les programmes scolaires des pays francophones et ont reçu de nombreux prix littéraires comme le Goncourt ou le Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française (par exemple Tahar Ben Jelloun, Boualem Sansal). Ils/Elles ont contribué à l’écriture de l’histoire moderne de l’Afrique du Nord et ils/elles ont bâti le chemin pour les nouvelles générations. Des auteur(e)s contemporain(e)s comme Boualem Sansal, Kamel Daoud, Mahi Binebine ou bien Kaouther Adimi, Zaïnab Fasiki et Nadia Khiari entre autres ne sont pas seulement connu(e)s et apprécié(e)s par le public maghrébin, mais ils/elles sont aussi très présent(e)s sur la scène française et francophone.
Cette rencontre internationale conçue dans l’espace virtuel cherche à établir des conversations et des échanges académiques (en français ou en anglais) sur les nouveautés dans la scène littéraire maghrébine, plus spécifiquement depuis le 21e siècle. Le but de cette rencontre est de présenter une vue d’ensemble sur la génération d’auteur(e)s contemporains au Maghreb, d’avoir une meilleure compréhension de leurs thèmes ou idées et de comprendre les défis qu’ils/elles traversent afin de rejoindre un public francophone plus large. L’idée principale c’est de pouvoir discuter d’une possible génération d’écrivain(e)s représentatifs d’une ère littéraire et de les regarder de plusieurs angles d’analyse : des études postcoloniales et néocoloniales aux études culturelles et autres.
Afin d’être considéré(e)s, prière d’envoyer un court résumé (200 mots) suivi d’une courte note biographique (y inclus votre affiliation académique) à ramona.mielusel@louisiana.edu avant le 6 décembre 2022 à minuit US Central Time. Vous aurez une réponse avant la fin de l’année.
Pour ceux et celles qui sont intéressé(e)s par une possible publication ultérieure, vous êtes invité(e)s à soumettre votre article pour le numéro spécial de la revue Literature (Pour plus de détails suivez le lien : https://www.mdpi.com/journal/literature/special_issues/WB3E3GJAWJ )
Possibles pistes de réflexions (non exhaustives) :
- Problématiques identitaires dans le Maghreb contemporain
- Activisme et implication sociale
- Points de vue sur le Printemps arabe (avant et après la révolution)
- Féminismes et luttes féminines
- Religion et politisation de l’Islam
- Relations entre le passé glorieux et les défis du présent
- Nationalisme, laïcité, démocratie
- Voix genrées et diversité
- Visions postcoloniales et transnationales
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Twenty-First Century Maghreb: New Literary Voices in the Current Literary Context
Journée d’études
February 17, 2023 – Online (Zoom)
This Journée d’études is dedicated to the new literary voices from the Maghreb, especially to the writers (poets, novelists, comic strip, etc.) who have demarcated themselves in the past two decades as exemplary voices in the Francophone postcolonial scene.
For several decades now, Maghrebi writers have been part of the Francophone and postcolonial literary field. They have been studied in academic and non-academic contexts, included in national and international curricula, and been awarded prestigious French literary prizes such as the Goncourt or Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française (e.g., Tahar Ben Jelloun, Boualem Sansal). The literary voices from the Maghreb have contributed to the writing of the modern history of North Africa and opened new roads for generations to come. Current acclaimed authors such as Boualem Sansal, Kamel Daoud, Mahi Binebine or Kaouther Adimi, Zaïnab Fasiki, Nadia Khiari, among many others, are not only known and appreciated by the Maghrebi public, but they are also very present in the French and Francophone literary scene nowadays.
This virtual international encounter seeks conversations and exchanges between scholars (in French and English) that make reference to the contemporary literary scene in the Maghreb, with a focus on the twenty-first century. The aim of this Journée d’études is to present an overview of the current literary generation of writers from the Maghreb, to have a deeper understanding of their themes, ideas, and struggles in reaching an (inter)national Francophone audience. It intends to gather diverse authors from the Maghreb that are the “shining stars” of the century and bring different analyses and theoretical approaches from postcolonial and neocolonial studies to critical theory and cultural studies.
Please submit a brief abstract (200 words) followed by a short biography (including your academic affiliation) to ramona.mielusel@louisiana.edu by December 6th 2022 at midnight US Central Time. You will receive a response by the end of the year.
For those interested in a possible publication at a later date, they are invited to send their article for review for a Special Issue of Literature (For more information, follow the link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/literature/special_issues/WB3E3GJAWJ )
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Identity issues in contemporary Maghreb;
- Activism and social involvement;
- Pre- and post-Arab Spring views;
- Feminisms and women’s struggles;
- Religion and politicization of Islam;
- Relation between glorious past and current issues;
- Nationalism, secularism, and democracy;
- Gendered voices and diversity;
- Postcolonial and transnational views.
1.4. Call for papers, ISFAR Symposium 2023, “New Perspectives in French-Australian Studies”, 13-14 April 2023.
The 2023 ISFAR Symposium will be held on Thursday 13 and Friday 14 April, with a possible extra day on Saturday. While the majority of the sessions will be online, we are keeping open the possibility of a hybrid keynote session to be held in Melbourne in conjunction with a conference dinner. Certain sessions will be timetabled to ensure that colleagues overseas can participate.
The theme of the Symposium, ‘New Perspectives in French-Australian Studies’, is intended to capture new fields of research, innovative theoretical and methodological approaches and the rapidly changing geopolitical landscape, but papers on all aspects of French-Australian relations are welcome. We encourage contributions from the wide range of disciplines within which these relations can be addressed. Subject to the usual review process, articles arising from the Symposium may be published in the French Australian Review.
Please send a 150-200 word abstract and a brief cv (>100 words) to the co-chairs of the ISFAR Research Committee by 15 January 2023.
Alexis Bergantz: alexis.bergantz@rmit.edu.au
Elizabeth Rechniewski: elizabeth.rechniewski@sydney.edu.au
The inaugural Colin Nettelbeck Award ($400), to finance travel for research or conference attendance, will be awarded to an Honours or Postgraduate student whose paper is accepted for the Symposium. Candidates for the award should send, together with their abstract and cv, a brief explanation of the purpose to which the funds will be put and details of any institutional support they may receive for that project. Criteria for the award include the quality of the abstract, the relevance of the paper to the themes of the Symposium and the degree of financial support already available to the candidate. The Research Committee’s decision, including the decision whether to make an award, will be final. The award will be announced by mid March 2023.
1.5. Appel à Communications, “ Représentations du corps ”, Colloque, l’université de Louisiane à Lafayette, Usa, 17-18 mars 2023.
Conférences plénières (TBA)
Rencontre artistique (TBA)
Le Programme d’Études françaises et francophones de l’Université de Louisiane à Lafayette lance un appel à communications et propositions de séances (en français ou en anglais) pour son colloque annuel, lequel revient enfin en présentiel. Le thème de réflexion cette année portera sur les “Représentations du corps” (thème conçu d’une manière générale et inclusive, pour tous les genres littéraires, toutes les périodes et les aires de la francophonie). Chercheurs et chercheuses de tous les niveaux (professeurs, indépendants, étudiants de maîtrise et doctorat) sont invités à soumettre un bref résumé (200 mots) à nathan.rabalais@louisiana.edu et gaetan.brulotte@louisiana.edu avant le 24 novembre 2022. Les réponses seront acheminées au cours de décembre 2022. Si une réponse plus rapide est requise à des fins de financement, prière de nous le signaler. Une sélection des actes paraîtra dans la revue Études francophones.
Problématique
Le corps a une position particulière au sein du symbolisme général de la société. Il n’est pas qu’un phénomène naturel, il est aussi une donnée culturelle. Il est d’abord ce qu’une culture fait de lui. De sorte qu’on ne peut l’isoler, comme objet d’étude, d’un champ de significations plus vaste dont il fait partie. Si le corps dépasse sa simple réalité biologique et s’il parle sans cesse, de quoi parle-t-il? Après une entrée spectaculaire dans le questionnement des sciences sociales, il a intéressé massivement la nouvelle historiographie qui l’a scruté sous tous les angles pour connaître ce qu’il peut nous apprendre sur nous, avec l’histoire du corps et celle des émotions (6 volumes codirigés par Corbin, Courtine et Vigarello), celle des sens, de la pudeur, de la sexualité, du sentiment amoureux, de l’hygiène, du silence, de la beauté, de l’alimentation, de la mort, du visage, etc. Bref, tout un champ de réflexions s’est ouvert aujourd’hui autour de cette réalité humaine centrale et complexe. Au sein des diverses sciences humaines qui l’étudient, de la psychologie à la sociologie et à l’anthropologie, qu’est-ce que, de leurs côtés, les études littéraires, avec leur grande gamme d’études connexes interdisciplinaires (films, arts, etc), peuvent nous révéler à travers les multiples représentations du corps que la littérature véhicule? C’est cette contribution qu’on peut espérer que ce colloque pourra éclairer un peu plus.
Les propositions peuvent porter sur les aspects suivants (sans que ce soit restrictif):
Corps, sensorialité et perception du monde
Corps et expression des émotions; corps souffrant, soigné
Corps et espace intime, corps public, corps urbain, corps rural Corps et beauté; corps genré et sexualité; corps sacré, essentialisé Corps racial/racialisé, colonisé/décolonisé; corps et identité Corps et punition, corps censuré, dépersonnalisé, victimisé Corps interdit, corps et tabous, corps honteux
Corps et technique, corps virtuel, numérisé
Corps et interdisciplinarité; corps et vêtement;
| Cet évènement est gratuit et inclut tous les repas. Nous sommes malheureusement dans l’incapacité de fournir un soutien financier pour le transport et le logement. Lafayette est au cœur du pays cadien et créole (à une heure de Bâton-Rouge; environ deux de la Nouvelle Orléans) et à la croisée de plusieurs cultures francophones qui partagent les mêmes racines historiques et |
| linguistiques. Notre colloque est délibérément éloigné des célébrations du Mardi Gras (21 février 2023) pour faciliter l’hébergement et le transport https://www.lafayettetravel.com/groups/itineraries/mardi-gras-itinerary/; https://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/when-is-mardi-gras/ |
1.6. CALL FOR PAPERS, Caribbean Conjunctures: The Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) Journal, “Historical and Contemporary Conjunctures: Knowledge, Culture, Politics, Activism, Creativity”
The Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) is publishing an issue of its refereed journal Caribbean Conjunctures, with the broader overarching theme of “Historical and Contemporary Conjunctures.” A conjuncture or conjunctural moment occurs when unlikely incidents come together at a particular time to create another series of institutional and political changes that were only imagined before. These conjunctures have meaning as well, because of “the contradictory ground on which new interrelationships and interdependencies are being created across the boundaries of nationhood and region, with all the forms of trans-national globalization that have come to dominate the contemporary world” (Stuart Hall, Caribbean Reasonings, 284).
The combination of violence (of nature, of human beings, of social conditions); contradictory visual representations; consistent and sometimes deferred activism; and yet joy, creativity, resistance, and transformation have been consistent features of the Caribbean experience. Above all, the Caribbean is recognized as the producer of “emancipatory thought and practice,” still radiating outwards across the Americas and impacting global theoretical landscapes. Some of these contradictory tendencies have been themes of the last five conferences: “Culture and Knowledge Communities” (Nassau, 2017); “Education, Culture and Emancipatory Thought in the Caribbean (Cuba, 2018); “The Caribbean in the Times of Tempest” (Santa Marta, Colombia, 2019); “Identity Politics, Industry, Ecology and the Intelligent Economy in Caribbean Societies” (Georgetown, Guyana, 2020); “Reframing Caribbean Influences on Global Spaces: Critically Engaging Perspectives on Human Geography and Risks, Political Economy and Technology” (Kingston, Jamaica, 2022). These conjunctural moments help us rethink connections that were perhaps always there, but also imagine new connections and disconnections that identify the Caribbean, as we try to understand the nature of our continuously unfolding experience.
CSA invites papers that engage any aspect of these themes, as well as contributions that highlight issues emanating from the themes of the last conferences, inclusive of those presented in one of these fora or generated by those exchanges. CSA welcomes papers that establish new or hidden connections, that examine how connections are imagined or that explode accepted connections: e.g., the environment and issues of climate change, the nature of violence on black bodies, the ways that we produce knowledge, the ways that culture and economics intersect or diverge.
Submission Platform: https://journals.sta.uwi.edu/ojs3/index.php/csaj/about/submissions
Guest Editor for this CSA Journal’s Issue: Prof. tavis d. jules
Paper Submission Period: Please submit your papers between October 15 and 17 only.
For submission guidelines visit: https://journals.sta.uwi.edu/ojs3/index.php/csaj/about/submissions
For more information or questions contact: csajournal@caribbeanstudiesassociation.org
1.7. Call for papers, ECAS, « African Futures », Cologne, 31 mai-3 juin 2023.
https://ecasconference.org/2023/
1.8. The BUMIDOM in Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 22-23rd June 2023, University of Liverpool.
Confirmed invited speakers: Audrey Célestine, H Adlai Murdoch, Jessica Oublié
2023 marks 60 years since the BUMIDOM was officially established by the French government. The Bureau pour le développement des migrations dans les départements d’outre-mer was effectively a labour recruitment agency; it facilitated the emigration of French citizens from the overseas departments of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Réunion, and (to a lesser extent) French Guiana to mainland France to fill the labour gap during the economic boom of the trente glorieuses. In total, approximately 160,000 people migrated through the BUMIDOM between 1963 and 1982, and a similar number migrated outside this scheme, assisted by family or friends who had already settled in France. Participants were promised a better life: they would be given a plane ticket and would receive training to be able to work in the public service sector. While this was the case for some, for many, the reality of emigration was very different, and racial discrimination was almost a daily phenomenon.
The BUMIDOM is attracting increasing attention among historians and social scientists in Réunion, the Caribbean, and in continental France, while writers and cultural figures are employing innovative artistic methods to memorialize post-war migration. Bringing together these researchers and artists, this conference aims to reflect on the historical, demographic, and cultural impacts of the BUMIDOM from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Key questions that the conference seeks to address include: why was the BUMIDOM created, and how did participants experience this migration? How were they received in mainland France, and how have descendants of the BUMIDOM generation negotiated their French and Antillean/Reunionese identities? What are the impacts of this organised migration on the demographic make-up of the overseas departments? What is the cultural legacy of the BUMIDOM, and how should it be remembered and commemorated? In a period in which Black identity is increasingly entering the public debate in France, this conference raises urgent questions about what it means to be both Black and French today.
Possible topics for discussion and reflection include:
- Causes & consequences of the BUMIDOM
- Demographic impacts of Caribbean & Reunionese migration
- Cultural representations of the BUMIDOM
- Role of museums & exhibitions in commemorating the BUMIDOM
- Migration policies in France & the Overseas Departments
- Debates about French identity & citizenship
- Race & Republicanism
- Histories of labour migration in Francophone contexts
As part of the symposium there will be a workshop to discuss publication plans for a special issue of a journal.
Individual papers or full panels in French or English are welcome. Suggestions for round table proposals are also welcome. Please send abstracts of 200-250 words & 50-100 of biography in a Word document to Antonia Wimbush at BUMIDOM2023@gmail.com. Deadline for proposals: 1st December 2022.
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Le BUMIDOM selon une approche interdisciplinaire
22-23 juin 2023, L’Université de Liverpool
Conférenciers invités : Audrey Célestine, H Adlai Murdoch, Jessica Oublié
L’année 2023 marque le 60ème anniversaire de la création du BUMIDOM par le gouvernement français. Le Bureau pour le développement des migrations dans les départements d’outre-mer était effectivement une agence de recrutement qui a facilité l’émigration de ses citoyens antillais, réunionnais et guyanais (dans une moindre mesure) vers la métropole afin de combler les lacunes dans la main-d’œuvre pendant les Trente glorieuses. Il est estimé qu’à peu près 160 000 Antillais et Réunionnais sont venus en métropole par le biais du BUMIDOM, et qu’un nombre similaire était des migrants dits « spontanés », soutenus par des amis et de la famille déjà installée en métropole. On promettait aux participants une meilleure vie : on leur donnerait un billet d’avion et ils recevraient une formation afin de travailler dans la fonction publique. Pour certains, l’émigration était une expérience positive et émancipatrice, mais c’était loin du cas pour la plupart, qui étaient victimes de la discrimination raciale presque chaque jour.
De plus en plus d’historiens et de chercheurs des sciences sociales en Hexagone et en Outre-mer s’intéressent au BUMIDOM, alors que des écrivains et des personnalités culturelles emploient des méthodes artistiques innovatrices dans la commémoration de la migration d’après-guerre. En unissant ces chercheurs, écrivains et artistes, ce colloque a pour but d’analyser les conséquences historiques, démographiques, et culturelles du BUMIDOM selon des perspectifs et des approches multiples. Des questions importantes que l’on pourrait aborder sont les suivantes : pourquoi le BUMIDOM a-t-il été établi, et comment les participants ont-ils vécu cette expérience d’émigration ? Comment ont-ils été accueillis en métropole, et comment la deuxième et troisième génération ont-ils négocié leur identité française, antillaise et réunionnaise ? Quels sont les impacts de cette migration organisée sur la composition démographique des DOM ? Quel est l’héritage culturel du BUMIDOM, et comment doit-il être commémoré ? Dans une ère ou l’identité noire entre dans le débat public, il devient urgent de considérer ce que signifie être français et noir aujourd’hui.
Nous proposons les thèmes suivants comme pistes de réflexion mais d’autres seront les bienvenus :
- Causes et conséquences de l’établissement du BUMIDOM
- Impacts démographiques de l’émigration
- Représentations culturelles du BUMIDOM
- Rôle des musées et des expositions dans la commémoration du BUMIDOM
- Les politiques migratoires en France et en outre-mer
- Débats sur l’identité et la citoyenneté française
- Race et républicanisme
- Histoires de la migration de travail en contexte francophone
Lors du symposium il y aura un atelier pour parler des projets de publication (un numéro spécial d’une revue scientifique est planifié).
Envoyez votre proposition d’environ 200 à 250 mots et une biographie de 50 à 100 mots (fichier Word) à l’organisatrice Antonia Wimbush à l’adresse: BUMIDOM2023@gmail.com. Les propositions individuelles ou collectives seront acceptées en anglais ainsi qu’en français. Nous invitons aussi des propositions pour des tables rondes. Date butoir pour envoyer les propositions : 1er décembre 2022.
1.9. Special Issue of Esprit Créateur on the work of Linda Lê
Editors: Leslie Barnes (ANU), Tess Do (Melbourne), Jack Yeager (LSU)
Stunningly original and provocative, Linda Lê published more than 25 novels and essay collections before her untimely death in May of this year. Critics of her work have sought to illuminate the various aspects of this originality, including the intricacies of her narrative esthetics, her initial distancing of her origins only to interrogate them more explicitly later, and the major threads running through all her writing: dislocation and displacement, exile and loss, cultural and linguistic tension and conflict, belonging and loneliness, identity and doubling, haunting and madness, life and death. Many have noted that her writing on these themes can be by turns exhilarating, funny, provocative, and shocking.
Always in dialogue with the authors she read, Lê’s deft and subtle use of intertextuality – a hallmark of her literary production – raises questions of literary inspiration and of plagiarism, a textual theft akin to vampirism. And in repeatedly casting writers and readers as the protagonists of her work, she has left behind a sustained interrogation of the place, role, and meaning of the act of writing itself. Finally, in rejecting the various labels that have been ascribed to her work, for example, French, Vietnamese, diasporic, and francophone, Lê has challenged entire fields of literary studies.
Lê’s writing has been translated into Dutch, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, English and Vietnamese, and she received several accolades during her career, including the Prix Fénéon in 1997, the Prix Wepler in 2010, and the Prix Renaudot du livre de poche in 2011. In 2019, she was awarded the Prix Prince Pierre de Monaco for the entirety of her œuvre. In the communiqué released with the prize announcement, the jury highlighted the singularity of Lê’s style, which “associe une sorte de lucidité immédiate, une vérité rigoureuse et une élégance verbale. Dans chacun de ses romans se met en scène un combat, personnel ou imaginaire … où la sérénité de l’écriture contraste avec la brutalité de la situation.”
In this special issue, we envision a collection of articles that will stand as a memorial to Lê’s prolific career. In their re-readings of her multiple and varied contributions, these articles will also contribute to broader scholarly conversations concerning diaspora, migration, translation, reception, metafiction, and life-writing, among others. At the same time, we see this collection as tracing new directions in Lê studies, suggesting paths for future work.
Please send a 150-200-word abstract in English or French along with a 1-page CV to dot@unimelb.edu.au by November 1, 2022.
1.10. Appel à contributions pour un colloque international, Vingt-cinq ans de théorie littéraire avec Fabula. Un abécédaire, Paris, les 2 et 3 juin 2023.
une initiative de l’équipe Fabula, soutenue par
Sorbonne Université (Cellf), la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Thalim)
et l’Université de Lausanne (Ciel)
sous l’égide du Fonds national pour la science ouverte (Fnso-Cnrs)
Depuis 1999, le site Fabula.org accompagne le développement de la théorie littéraire francophone, qu’on a trop souvent vouée à perpétuer le souvenir de la french theory et des théoricien.ne.s des années 1970, là même où elle œuvrait régulièrement à un renouveau. À l’aube de son 25e anniversaire, Fabula voudrait inviter tou.te.s les chercheur.se.s à élaborer collectivement un abécédaire des notions forgées au cours de ce premier quart de siècle et de toutes celles qui méritent de l’être pour les années qui viennent.
Fidèle aux principes qui ont permis le développement de son Atelier de théorie littéraire, et à l’instar d’autres initiatives plus récentes – Fragments d’un discours théorique réunis par Emmanuel Bouju, qui entendaient proposer collectivement « des pistes inédites de réflexion en matière de théorie de la littérature, à partir du choix d’un élément de vocabulaire, éprouvé ou inventé[1] », ou Glossaire de narratologie développé par le Réseau des NarratologuesFrancophones à l’initiative de Raphaël Baroni[2] –, Fabula a en effet régulièrement incité la communauté des chercheur.se.s à penser la théorie littéraire comme un répertoire plutôt que comme un système, et comme un thesaurus de notions plutôt que comme un arsenal de concepts. Réitérer le choix d’un abécédaire de notions, c’est tout à la fois assumer l’ambition, ou peut-être même la finalité, pédagogique de toute entreprise théorique, et afficher le privilège à accorder à une connaissance intuitive et toujours révisable de ses objets. Jean-Paul Sartre, qui avait ses raisons de forger des concepts, ne cachait pas sa préférence pour les notions : à la différence du concept, la notion « introduit le temps en elle[3] ». Le projet de constituer un tel abécédaire devra ainsi assumer son inscription historique et son caractère instantané : à quelles notions faisons-nous actuellement appel, en 2023, pour appréhender et décrire, c’est-à-dire penser, la littérature, et plus largement les phénomènes littéraires ?
C’est dire aussi qu’un tel colloque entend répondre à un triple objectif de recension, de problématisation et d’invention :
1) À la différence de L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze, l’idée n’est pas de proposer en amont une série de termes à commenter, mais d’appeler au réexamen de notions centrales comme à l’émergence de notions nouvelles, tant il est vrai que la théorie est faite pour inviter chacun.e « à devenir théoricien à son tour[4] ». L’abécédaire qui ressortira des propositions de communications et des échanges permis par la rencontre parisienne cherchera à proposer une cartographie des intérêts actuels de la théorie littéraire.
2) Cette ambition de recension ne doit pas être dissociée d’une envie de problématisation : au lieu de proposer un état de l’art de notions déjà entérinées, qui aurait l’avantage de la synthèse mais l’inconvénient de la redite, le colloque voudrait être l’occasion de révéler les problèmes posés par certaines notions, ainsi que les solutions trouvées pour contourner les difficultés suscitées par leur usage.
3) En cela, le colloque se veut aussi (et surtout) un lieu d’invention. Il invite les chercheur.se.s à présenter de nouveaux outils théoriques élaborés au cours de leurs recherches personnelles. Fidèle à la vocation constante du site Fabula.org, qui cherche à mettre en relation des savoirs différents sur les faits littéraires, ce colloque espère susciter aussi, par un dialogue vivant entre différent.e.s chercheur.se.s sur des notions parfois voisines, la création de nouveaux outils pour penser la littérature aujourd’hui et dans les années à venir.
L’appel est donc lancé, à la fois auprès des chercheur.se.s confirmé.e.s invité.e.s à faire « retour » sur une notion forgée par elles et eux, mais aussi à destination des jeunes chercheur.se.s, doctorant.e.s et post-doctorant.e.s, pour exposer la manière dont ils et elles entendent renouveler la théorie littéraire dans leurs propres travaux, en présentant une notion forgée ou en cours d’élaboration pour les besoins de leur thèse, une notion aux contours encore flous mais dont ils et elles ressentent le besoin, ou encore la discussion critique d’une catégorie reçue.
Les un.e.s comme les autres sont invité.e.s à exploiter à cette occasion les immenses ressources du site, rendues désormais mieux accessibles à la faveur de la nouvelle structuration de ses archives permise par un financement du Fonds national pour la science ouverte. Le site offre désormais, outre la possibilité d’une recherche avancée, des outils d’exploration des tendances globales du site, qui permettront de mesurer l’émergence et la résonance des notions de théorie comme d’histoire littéraires.
Les contributions issues du colloque viendront logiquement nourrir l’Atelier littéraire du site Fabula, appelé dans le même temps à une complète refonte.
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Les propositions peuvent être formulées à titre individuel, ou soumises collectivement par plusieurs chercheur.se.s. Elles sont à adresser sous la forme d’un texte de 5000 signes assorti d’un titre et précédé d’un résumé de trois phrases, accompagné d’une courte biobibliographie du.de la ou de ses auteur.e.s à colloquefabula2023@gmail.comavant le 23 décembre 2022.
Les communications retenues seront annoncées mi-janvier 2023.
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Comité d’organisation
Romain Bionda (Université de Lausanne)
Perrine Coudurier (Sorbonne Université)
Esther Demoulin (Sorbonne Université)
Marc Escola (Université de Lausanne)
Alexandre Gefen (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Cnrs)
Jean-Louis Jeannelle (Sorbonne Université)
Matthieu Vernet (Sorbonne Université)
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[1] Emmanuel Bouju (dir.), Fragments d’un discours théorique. Nouveaux éléments de lexique littéraire, Nantes, Cécile Defaut, 2015. Seconde édition à paraître sous forme numérique aux éditions Codicille (Québec).
[2] Développé depuis l’Université de Lausanne à l’adresse https://wp.unil.ch/narratologie/glossaire/, ce Glossaireentend favoriser le dialogue, et le transfert de notions, entre les différentes narratologies qui ont cours dans des aires linguistiques distinctes, notamment de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique. Ses entrées sont indexées dans l’Atelier de théorie littéraire de Fabula.
[3] Jean-Paul Sartre, « Sur L’Idiot de la famille », dans Situations, X, Paris, Gallimard, 1976, p. 95.
[4] Florian Pennanech et Sophie Rabau, Exercices de théorie littéraire, Paris, Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2016.
1.11. Colloque international Autour de Tierno Monénembo, écrivain ACFAS, Université de Montréal, du 8 au 12 mai 2023, Josias Semujanga (Université de Montréal) Adama Togola (Université McGill)
Romancier, Tierno Monénembo a une idée de la littérature et du monde caractérisée par une écriture en constante évolution depuis son premier roman Les Crapauds-brousse, en 1979. Venu à l’écriture après les indépendances africaines, il s’éloigne très tôt des formes narratives du roman anticolonial pour adopter les nouveaux thèmes et proposer une esthétique différente. Il construit sur ces bases une œuvre d’une rare revendication formelle et d’une originalité remarquable, qui témoigne des exigences avec lesquelles il entreprend de penser l’Afrique et le monde, à travers la littérature. Ce colloque tente de revisiter son œuvre, en la replaçant dans son contexte historique, social et littéraire.
Docteur en biochimie, professeur en Algérie, au Maroc et aux États-Unis, et lauréat de nombreux prix littéraires (prix Renaudot, Grand prix littéraire d’Afrique noire, Grand prix de la francophonie, prix Erckmann-Chatrian, Grand prix du roman métis, Grand prix palatine et prix Ahmadou Kourouma), Tierno Monénembo est l’un des écrivains majeurs de la littérature africaine francophone contemporaine, qui font partie des romanciers de la « deuxième génération » (Dabla, 1986), et dont les textes déconstruisent les principes de la négritude, considérant la modernité culturelle africaine sous l’angle de l’ethnomodernité (Semujanga, 2015). Caractérisée avant tout par la diversité, la transculturalité, la polyphonie des voix narratives, les relations entre divers genres et autres formes artistiques (cinéma, musique, peinture), l’œuvre du romancier guinéen aborde également d’importantes questions socio-politiques de son temps[1].
Dès son premier roman qui s’inscrit dans la lignée des romans africains du désenchantement politique des années 70 et 80, Tierno Monénembo se réfère constamment à des expériences personnelles et collectives pour aborder les problèmes africains.
De la mémoire transculturelle, la narration impersonnelle, la polyphonie discursive sur l’histoire coloniale et postcoloniale, la déconstruction des discours dominants, l’ambivalence axiologique et générique qui caractérisent Le Roi de Kahel (2008), aux aventures dans le labyrinthe du bidonville de Leydi-Bondi dans Les Écailles du ciel (1986) en passant par le métadiscours sur la mort énigmatique d’Elgass dans Un Attiéké pour Elgass (1993), les textes de Monénembo témoignent d’une forte tension entre l’écrit et l’oral dans les dialogues entre les personnages.
Dans d’autres récits, comme Pelourinho (1995), digressions, analepses, prolepses sont autant de moments forts d’une narration complexe d’un roman oscillant entre un récit d’enquête où le lecteur doit compléter les indices épars pour construire un sens cohérent sur la mémoire de la traite des esclaves au Brésil. Dans la même veine, Cinéma (1997) reconfigure le rapport entre littérature et cinéma, entre l’écrit et l’image alors que L’Aîné des orphelins (2000) aborde des aspects inhérents à l’écriture des horreurs africaines postcoloniales (le génocide des Tutsi), où les mécanismes de fiction doivent laisser une place importante aux formes du témoignage. Il en est de même des dialogues entre le Cubain Ignacio Rodriguez Aponte et le Guinéen El Palenque dans Les Cops cubains chantent à minuit (2015), dialogues qui prolongent une histoire singulière de la Guinée – la patrie de l’auteur – et récurrente dans Le Roi de Kahel (2008), Le Terroriste Noir (2012) et dans Peuls (2004). Ces récits interrogent, sur le plan esthétique, les moyens de la littérature pour raconter les fresques et les débris du passé colonial et esclavagiste traumatisant. Car, du récit mémoriel au récit autobiographique en passant par le récit colonial (Kahel, Terroriste), le mélange de genres et de cultures (Pelourinho, Les Coqs cubains chantent à minuit), l’œuvre de Tierno Monénembo traverse les méandres de l’histoire de sa Guinée natale, celle de l’Afrique contemporaine, convoque l’Amérique latine, l’Europe et le Maghreb. Monénembo décrit le sens de la vie et des êtres, fouille les archives historiques et les souvenirs qui le rattachent à ses racines culturelles peules. Ainsi, il s’interroge constamment, comme tout écrivain, sur le « rôle du roman dans la modernité africaine » (Semujanga, 2020 : 20). Les notions d’« autofiction déguisée » (Gbanou, 2003 : 42), de « contre-écriture » (Uwe, 2020 : 133), de « techniques d’écriture diversifiées (Coulibaly, 2010 : 19), d’« imaginaire transculturel » (Semujanga, 2020 : 34 ) et de « technique de dissémination » (Paravy, 2010 : 42), 3 notions que convoquent les études sur les romans de l’écrivain, et qui convergent vers une même observation : l’œuvre de Tierno Monénembo se caractérise par la subversion, la désorientation et l’éclatement des frontières géographiques et littéraires.
Quarante-trois ans après la parution de son premier roman, quel bilan peut-on faire de la production romanesque de Tierno Monénembo ? Quelles pistes nouvelles peut-on emprunter ? Ce sont les questions nodales auxquelles ce colloque aimerait répondre pour rendre hommage à ce romancier de renommée internationale. Cet évènement se tiendra dans le cadre de l’ACFAS (Association canadienne francophone pour l’avancement des sciences), du 8 au 12 mai 2023 à l’Université de Montréal.
Sans être exhaustifs, voici quelques axes où pourront s’inscrire les propositions de communication :
– Diversité des formes de l’œuvre de Tierno Monénembo
– Réception critique de son œuvre
– Sa place dans l’histoire littéraire francophone
– Exil et altérité
– Tierno Monénembo et la politique
– Cosmopolitisme
– Figures de l’écrivain et de l’artiste
– Imaginaires culturels et traversée géographique
– Écriture de la déterritorialisation
Les propositions de communications (25 lignes maximum) accompagnées d’une brève notice bio- bibliographique seront envoyées à josias.semujanga@umontreal.ca et adama.togola@mail.mcgill.ca, au plus tard le 15 janvier 2023.
Bibliographie indicative
Albert, Christiane, 2005, L’Immigration dans le roman francophone contemporain, Paris, Karthala.
Attikpoé, Kodjo et Josias Semujanga (dir.), 2018, Présence Francophone, « Les figures de l’écrivain et de l’écrit dans le roman africain », no 91.
Arend, Elisabeth, Dagmar Reichardt et Elke Richter (dir.), 2008, Histoires inventées. La représentation du passé et de l’histoire dans les littératures française et francophones, Francfort, Peter Lang.
Auzas, Noémie, 2004, Tierno Monénembo, une écriture de l’instable, Paris, L’Harmattan.
Bhabha, Homi K., 2006, Les Lieux de la culture. Une théorie postcoloniale, Paris, Payot.
Bah, Thierno Mamadou, 1998, Histoire du Fouta-Djalon : des origines au xx e siècle, Conakry, SAEC.
Barthes, Roland, 1964, « Écrivains et écrivants », dans Essais critiques, Paris, Seuil, p. 147-154.
Bisanswa, Justin Kalulu (dir.), 2013, Entre inscriptions et prescriptions. V.Y. Mudimbe et l’engendrement de la parole, Paris, Honoré Champion, coll. « Colloques, congrès et conférences. Littérature comparée ».
Basabose, Philippe et Josias Semujanga (dir.), 2020, Le roman francophone et l’archive coloniale, Paris, L’Harmattan.
Boehmer, Elleke, 2005, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. Migrant metaphors, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Camara, Djibril Kassomba, 2003, La Diaspora guinéenne, Paris, L’Harmattan.
Chevrier, Jacques, 1995, William Sassine, écrivain de la marginalité, Toronto, Éditions du Gref.
Coulibaly, Adama, 2010, Des techniques aux stratégies d’écriture dans l’œuvre romanesque de Tierno Monénembo, Paris, L’harmattan.
Dabla, Sewanou, 1986, Nouvelles écritures africaines : romanciers de la seconde génération, Paris, L’Harmattan.
De Meyer, Bernard et Papa Samba Diop (dir.), 2014, Tierno Monénembo et le roman : histoire, exil, écriture, Munster, Lit Verlag.
Diallo, Elsa, 2012, Tierno Monénembo, une écriture migrante, Paris, Karthala.
Diouf, Mbaye et Françoise Naudillon (dir.), 2018, Spatialités littéraires et filmiques francophones : nouvelles perspectives, Montréal, Mémoire d’encrier.
Diop Samba, 2002, Fictions africaines et postcolonialisme, Paris, L’Harmattan.
Fonkoua Romuald, 2004, « Diasporas littéraires : quel statut ? Écrire après les dictatures », Notre Librairie n° 155-156, juillet-décembre, p. 19-26.
Gauvin, Lise, Romuald Fonkoua et Florian Alix (dir.), 2020, Penser le roman francophone contemporain, Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal.
Gbanou S.K., 2003, « Tierno Monénembo et ses doubles », Pont n° 3, p. 45-83.
Girard, René, 2003, Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque, Paris, Hachette.
Ivantcheva-Merjanska, Irene, et Vialet, Michèle, 2013, « Entretien avec Julia Kristeva : Penser en nomade et dans l’autre langue le monde, la vie psychique et la littérature », Cincinnati Romance Review 35, pp. 158-189.
Kaba, Ousmane, 2006, Le Bestiaire dans le roman guinéen, Paris, L’Harmattan.
Kanaté, Dahouda et Selom K. Gbanou (dir.), 2008, Mémoires et identités dans les littératures francophones, Paris, L’Harmattan.
Keita, Mohamed Salifou, 2005, La littérature guinéenne, Paris/Conakry, Éditions Tabala.
Le Quellec Cottier, Christine, 2019, Le Terroriste noir de Tierno Monénembo, Gollion, Éditions Infolio/Acel.
Maingueneau, Dominique, 1993, Le contexte de l’œuvre littéraire : énonciation, écrivain et société, Paris, Dunod.
Mounier, Jacques (dir.), 1986, Exil et littérature, Grenoble, Ellug.
Mouralis, Bernard, 2005, « Du roman à l’histoire : Tierno Monénembo, Peuls », Études littéraires africaines n°19, p. 43-49.
Ngal, Georges, 1994, Création et rupture en littérature africaine, Paris, L’Harmattan.
Ngandu Nkashama, Pius, 1999, Mémoire et écriture de l’histoire dans Les Écailles du Ciel de Tierno Monénembo, Paris, L’Harmattan.
Nyela, Désiré, 2015, La Filière noire. Dynamiques du polar « made in Africa », Paris, Honoré Champion.
Paravy, Florence, 1999, L’Espace dans le roman africain francophone contemporain (1970-1990), Paris, L’Harmattan.
Rancière, Jacques, 2012, Figures de l’histoire, Paris, PUF.
Ribard, Dinah, 2019, 1969 : Michel Foucault et la question de l’auteur. « Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur ? ». Texte, présentation et commentaire, Paris, H. Champion, coll. Textes critiques français.
Semujanga, Josias, 1999, Dynamique des genres dans le roman africain : éléments de poétique transculturelle, Paris, L’Harmattan.
Semujanga, Josias (dir.), 2019, Études françaises, « L’œuvre de Boubacar Boris Diop », vol. 55 no 3.
Spivak Gayatri, Chakravorty, 1999, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a history of the vanishing present, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Uwe, Christian, 2020 : « Subversion du récit colonial chez Chamoiseau et Monénembo », dans Philippe Basabose et Josias Semujanga (dir.), Le roman francophone et l’archive coloniale, Paris, L’Harmattan, p.127-145.
Van Den Avenne (dir.), Cécile, 2020, Études littéraires africaines, « Tierno Monénembo : écrire par « excès d’exil », numéro 49
2. Job and scholarship Opportunities
2.1. Call for Applications: Assistant Professor of French, Texas Tech University
The Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Texas Tech University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor of French to begin in Fall 2023. We are seeking a dynamic teacher-scholar with a research specialization in contemporary (20th-21st c.) French literature and culture. In order to complement existing departmental strengths, we hope to recruit a colleague whose work has a primarily European focus, but engagement with and knowledge of other Francophone cultures is welcome. Substantive research and/or teaching interests in other periods or in particular critical methodologies are likewise desirable, but not required. The successful candidate will show evidence of strong scholarly achievement or potential as demonstrated by top-tier, innovative publications and/or works in progress; a capacity for excellent teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels as both a specialist and a generalist; and a demonstrated and ongoing commitment to serving diverse student populations. The candidate must have the Ph.D. in hand by the time of appointment. Native or near-native fluency in French is required.
Responsibilities of the position include an ongoing program of research, commitment to excellent undergraduate and graduate teaching at a range of levels and on diverse subjects, collegial collaboration with other members of the French section and CMLL, and service to the department, college, and university, including program-building, recruitment initiatives and active commitment to extra-curricular activities. Candidates with strong records of scholarship supported by extramural funding and with the proven capacity or clear potential to bring externally sponsored research to Texas Tech University are encouraged to apply.
Apply online at www.texastech.edu/careers/faculty-positions.php, job ID 30239BR. Submit online a letter of application, a CV detailing relevant experience, and a dossier including a short sample of published scholarly work (30 pp. maximum), a teaching statement, and two (2) sample syllabi. Send three (3) confidential letters of recommendation either by email to misty.rangel@ttu.edu or by post to Misty Rangel, Attn: French Search Committee, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, Texas Tech University, P.O. Box 42071, Lubbock, TX 79409-2071. Review of applications will begin immediately, and screening will continue until the position is filled. Applications must be received by Friday, 4 November 2022 to ensure full consideration. Initial interviews with selected candidates will be conducted by video conference in late November or early December.
As an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, Texas Tech University is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse faculty committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment. We actively encourage applications from all those who can contribute, through their research, teaching and/or service, to the diversity and excellence of the university’s academic community. TTU does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, disability, or military veteran status. Texas Tech University is a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI).
Direct link to application: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partnerid=25898&siteid=5637#jobDetails=746750_5637
2.2. Associé.e.s de recherche/postdoctorant.e.s, ‘AFRIUNI – Creative Lives of African Universities’, Bristol.
Nous recherchons trois associé.e.s de recherche/postdoctorant.e.s pour se joindre à l’équipe d’un projet ERC (« European Research Council ») intitulé ‘AFRIUNI – Creative Lives of African Universities’. Le projet prend pour objet les représentations culturelles de l’université et l’expérience vécue des étudiant.e.s dans quatre villes multilingues : Abidjan, Abomey-Calavi, Dakar et Yaoundé.
Tous les détails, ainsi que le lien pour soumettre le dossier se trouvent ici:
Bénin Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
Côte d’Ivoire Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
Cameroun Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
La date limite pour déposer les dossiers (documents en français ou en anglais) est le 30 octobre 2022. Merci de partager avec des candidat.e.s potentiel.le.s!
2.3. Tenure-track Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies with a specialization in Black France, Ohio State University.
The Department of French and Italian in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies with a specialization in Black France. The anticipated start date is August 15, 2023. We understand “Black France” broadly as a multi-centered network including all former and current territories of France. While research specialization may be focused on a single geographic area and period, comparative and transhistorical expertise is highly desirable. We seek a scholar whose work ideally furthers a re-thinking of the discipline of French and Francophone studies, bringing a Global Black Studies perspective to examining the Francophone world, and the flow of ideas, representations (literary, visual, etc.), languages, and peoples among Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Preference will be given to candidates with proven interdisciplinary interests in fields such as African studies, Afro-European studies, Caribbean studies, comparative colonial or postcolonial studies, diaspora studies, environmental studies, screen media/popular culture studies, gender and sexuality studies, the digital humanities, disability studies, or performance studies.
We seek a colleague who will: develop General Education courses in English (especially for the required Race, Gender and Ethnic Diversity Foundation category) that appeal to a diverse student body; contribute to interdisciplinary initiatives across campus relating to their research and teaching areas; and contribute to our PhD programs. Teaching duties include literary and cultural studies courses at the graduate and undergraduate level in French and English, including the opportunity to run a summer study abroad program.
Qualifications:
Native or near-native proficiency in French and English; PhD in French and Francophone studies or a related field required at time of appointment (August 15, 2023). The Department values diversity is committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community, and strongly encourages applications from historically underrepresented minorities. Appointment is contingent on the university’s verification of credentials and other information required by law and/or university policies, including but not limited to a criminal background check.
About Columbus:
The Ohio State University campus is located in Columbus, the capital city of Ohio. Columbus is the Midwest’s fastest-growing city and the nation’s 14th largest city. Columbus offers a diverse array of welcoming neighborhoods and a vibrant arts and culture scene. Additional information about all that the Columbus area has to offer is available at https://visit.osu.edu/experience.
Application Instructions:
Apply to Academic Jobs Online: https://osujoblinks.com/vi1t
A complete application consists of a cover letter, curriculum vitae, writing sample in English or French, research, teaching, and diversity statements, and three letters of reference. The diversity statement should articulate your demonstrated commitments and capacities to contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion through research, teaching, mentoring, and/or outreach and engagement. Review of applications will begin on October 24, 2022, and will continue until the position is filled. Inquiries may be directed to Margaret C. Flinn, flinn.62@osu.edu.
The Ohio State University is committed to enhancing academic excellence. Recruiting, supporting, and retaining faculty of the highest caliber is a core component of this commitment. In support of this, The Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) has created the Office of Dual Careers and Faculty Relocation (DCFR) to focus on supporting new and prospective faculty. This support includes dual careers services, consultation and resources related to relocation, as well as identifying opportunities to engage on campus and the surrounding community. While employment opportunities are not guaranteed, resources and consultation are available to support the partners of new and prospective faculty as they are considering The Ohio State University and throughout their transition.
The Ohio State University is committed to establishing a culturally and intellectually diverse environment, encouraging all members of our learning community to reach their full potential. Over the next few years, The Ohio State University is committed to welcoming 350 new faculty hires, many of which will contribute to growing our role as a premier research university equipped to answer and interrogate the critical domestic and global societal challenges that deter equality and inclusion. We are responsive to dual-career families and strongly promote work-life balance to support our community members through a suite of institutionalized policies. The Ohio State University is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status, or protected veteran status.
2.4. Assistant Professor of French, Washington University in St. Louis.
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The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures (RLL) at Washington University in St. Louis invites applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Francophone Caribbean literatures and cultures to begin in the fall semester of 2023. We seek an exceptional scholar whose research and teaching focus on the Francophone Caribbean of any period. We welcome applicants working in areas including but not limited to transatlantic, diasporic, or black studies; a secondary specialization in another area of Francophone studies is welcome but not required. Responsibilities include conducting and publishing scholarly research; developing and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses; advising and mentoring a diverse student body; and other duties assigned by the University. The teaching load is two courses per semester. Candidates should have completed a PhD with a research focus on the Francophone Caribbean no later than 30 June 2023. We expect the successful candidate to teach and conduct scholarship in both French and English.
RLL comprises a vibrant community of scholars whose research and teaching are at the forefront of advancing the humanities at the University. RLL colleagues collaborate with interdisciplinary programs such as Latin American Studies, Global Studies, Comparative Literature, and Film and Media Studies, as well as other departments and research centers across the University, to carry out innovative research and teaching projects. Our department houses the French Connexions cultural center and has created a dynamic new French curriculum with an enhanced focus on Medical and Digital Humanities in which students approach questions of current cultural relevance from a geographically and historically informed perspective. This new tenure-track position aligns with Washington University’s commitment to build a world-class research program on race and ethnicity. Moreover, the new colleague will be eligible for substantive research support from the Center for the Humanities and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity.
Diversity and inclusion are core values at Washington University, and we seek to create inclusive classrooms and environments in which a diverse array of students can learn and thrive.
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1. Cover letter
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. Writing Sample (not to exceed 30 pages)
4. Three letters of recommendation
5. Research Statement (not to exceed 2 pages)
6. Teaching Statement (not to exceed 2 pages)
Please note that we will be holding first-round screening interviews virtually in early January 2023.
Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer Statement
Washington University in St. Louis is committed to the principles and practices of equal employment opportunity and especially encourages applications by those underrepresented in their academic fields. It is the University’s policy to recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or genetic information.
2.5. Assistant Professor of Instruction in French, Northwestern University’s department of French and Italian
Northwestern University’s department of French and Italian invites applications for a continuing, full-time, benefits-eligible, non-tenure eligible teaching-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor of Instruction in French, to begin September 1, 2023. The initial term of the appointment will be three years. The successful candidate will teach language and culture courses at all levels. Responsibilities include teaching six undergraduate courses distributed over three quarters, strong commitment to curricular and professional development, and course coordination. Native or near native proficiency in French and in English and prior experience teaching French as FL/L2 are required. PhD in French, Second-Language Acquisition, or a related field is required and must be in hand by August 31, 2023.
Applicants should submit by Friday November 11 a cover letter, CV, a statement of teaching philosophy including approaches to diversity and inclusion, course evaluations and three names of references who will write letters of recommendation (at least one of which must address excellence in teaching). More detail and submission portal at: https://frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu/about/faculty-hiring/index.html
For questions, please contact Elizabeth Murray (elizabeth.murray@northwestern.edu).
Northwestern requires all staff and faculty to be vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to limited exceptions. For more information, please visit our COVID-19 and Campus Updates website. Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer of all protected classes, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply.
2.6. Assistant Professor specializing in nineteenth century French and Francophone literatures and cultures, Tenure Track, Northwestern University’s department of French and Italian
Northwestern University’s department of French and Italian invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor specializing in nineteenth century French and Francophone literatures and cultures, beginning September 1, 2023. Successful candidate will teach four courses per year at the graduate and undergraduate levels distributed over three quarters. We are especially interested in strong interdisciplinary approaches that bring19th century literature and cultural expressions into conversation with fields such as feminist theory, gender and sexuality studies, colonial/decolonial studies, and environmental humanities.
Interested candidates should submit a CV, cover letter, a writing sample no more than 25 pages in English or French, an equity and diversity statement relating to research and/or pedagogy, and three letters of reference by Friday November 4th. Candidates should have PhD in hand by August 31, 2023. Further details and submission portal at: https://frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu/about/faculty-hiring/index.html
For questions, please contact Elizabeth Murray (elizabeth.murray@northwestern.edu)
Northwestern requires all staff and faculty to be vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to limited exceptions. For more information, please visit our COVID-19 and Campus Updates website. Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer of all protected classes, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply.
2.7. Stipendiary Lectureship in French, Nineteenth and/or Twentieth Century Literature, Exeter College, University of Oxford.
Exeter College, University of Oxford, is looking to appoint an 8-hour Stipendiary Lectureship in French, Nineteenth and/or Twentieth Century Literature
Fixed Term Contract 1st January 2023-30th June 2023
Please follow this link for more information: https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/stipendiary-lecturer-in-french/
2.8. Applications for Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship & Postdoctoral Fellowship Funding Schemes
The call for the 2023 Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programmes and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programmes is currently open. The closing date for submissions is 20 October 2022 at 16:00.
Prospective candidates are warmly invited to apply through French and Francophone Studies in the UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
(https://www.ucd.ie/slcl/disciplines/french/).
French and Francophone Studies at UCD has an established research profile in the following general areas:
French literature (17th-century to contemporary)
Women’s writing and feminism (early modern to contemporary)
20th/21st-century writing in French from outside France
Intellectual history and history of political ideas (17th-century to contemporary)
Poetry and poetics
Literary and cultural theory
Philosophy and literature
The city and literature
Text and image studies
Memory studies
For a comprehensive list of areas with links to individual staff profiles, see
https://www.ucd.ie/slcl/disciplines/french/french staff profiles/
Interested candidates should send a brief research proposal of approximately 1500 words, as well as a short CV of maximum 2 pages, to the relevant staff member and to the Head of French, Dr Derval Conroy (derval.conroy@ucd.ie)
2.9. Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships, UCL
The French section of the UCL School of Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS) welcomes applications for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-fellowships. Please feel free to contact Prof. Jane Gilbert, Director of French Studies, to discuss a possible application.
UCL is an especially strong centre for comparative and interdisciplinary studies. French at UCL has strong connections with a wide range of other languages and other disciplines, including comparative literature, film studies, gender studies, translation studies, studies of race, ethnicity and postcolonial studies, health humanities, and medieval and early modern studies. Further wide connections and research centres are available through the Institute of Advanced Studies, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/institute-advanced-studies-ias
Details on how to apply with UCL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-languages-culture/research/postdoctoral-research-fellowships. As UCL operates an internal selection procedure first, the deadline for submitting a completed Leverhulme application form, with research proposal and CV, is 12noon on 30 October 2022. We are able to give considerable further specialist help in preparing applications to candidates who are successful in the internal competition.
Information on SELCS as a research environment: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-languages-culture/research-0. For a list of academic staff to contact as possible mentors, see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-languages-culture/people
2.10. Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, University of Exeter.
French/ Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies at the University of Exeter welcomes expressions of interest in the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship competition 2023: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-fellowships
Please see further details of the scheme and instruction of how to apply here: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ourfaculties/hass/hassfunding/
We request expressions of interest by 18 November 2022 and candidates are asked to submit to me H.G.A.Roberts@exeter.ac.uk copying to HSSClusters@exeter.ac.uk
Candidates are very welcome to contact me with any queries.
Thanks and all the best,
Hugh
Hugh Roberts
Professor of French Renaissance Literature
Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
University of Exeter
http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/modernlanguages/staff/roberts/
2.11. Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship through Durham University
The School of Modern Languages & Cultures invites expressions of interest from outstanding candidates who wish to apply for a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship through Durham University.
We welcome enquiries from eligible candidates particularly those related to the research themes in the department (https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/modern-languages-cultures/research/) or to relevant University Research Centres and Institutes (https://www.dur.ac.uk/arts.humanities/research/research_centres//). Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in the University.
Candidates are required to have sought the support of a prospective academic mentor in the School and have supplied them with an up-to-date CV and 2-page (max) draft research proposal prior to submitting a full draft application. Working in conjunction with their mentor, candidates should check their eligibility to apply. Candidates must request and complete Durham’s internal application form, available by contacting the Arts and Humanities ResearchTeam (artsandhumanities.researchteam@durham.ac.uk). The deadline for submitting internal applications to Durham is 12 noon, Friday October 21, 2022.
Further information on the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, including details of eligibility criteria, can be found at: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/grant-schemes/early-career-fellowships. Candidates are also strongly advised to review the Leverhulme Trust’s policy on grant making: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/our-approach-grant-making.
For more information or informal enquiries, please contact Dr Maeve Blackman at artsandhumanities.researchteam@durham.ac.uk.
2.12. Tenure-track position, Assistant Professor, French cultural studies or French intellectual history, Department of French and Francophone Studies.
Scripps College, a women’s liberal arts college with a strong interdisciplinary tradition, invites applications for a tenure-track position in the department of French and Francophone Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in Fall 2023.
We are seeking candidates with primary research and teaching interests in French cultural studies or French intellectual history who work at the intersection of history, sociology, anthropology, or politics. A concentration on popular culture (in the French sense of culture populaire) or on material culture is desirable as is an interest in gender and sexuality studies or critical race theory. While we will consider any historical era, preference will be given to the medieval and early modern periods.
The successful candidate will be a dynamic teacher-scholar with a demonstrated record of excellence in teaching all levels of French language as well as courses on French history from a global perspective. The teaching load at Scripps is four courses per academic year and advising on senior theses is expected. Participation in the Scripps Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities is expected. Native or near-native fluency in French and English is required. Ph.D. required.
Scripps College is one of the seven members of The Claremont Colleges cluster located 35 miles east of Los Angeles. In keeping with its ongoing commitment to build and support a diverse and equitable academic community, Scripps College actively encourages applications from women and members of historically underrepresented groups. Preference will be given to applicants committed to improving higher education for underrepresented students.
Review of applications will begin October 3rd, 2022 and applications must be received by November 7th, 2022 to be considered.
Applicants should submit the following materials online at http://apply.interfolio.com/111002: a letter of application, a C.V., a statement addressing how the candidate intends to contribute to the College’s goal of improving diversity, equity, and inclusion on campus, a teaching philosophy statement, a writing sample, and three current letters of reference.
Please no email submissions. For questions, please contact: Professor Nathalie Rachlin Chair, Search Committee, FrenchSearch@scrippscollege.edu
2.13. Tenure-track position in Francophone Sub-Saharan African literature and culture, Assistant Professor
The Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee flagship campus in Knoxville is seeking applications for a tenure-track position in Francophone Sub-Saharan African literature and culture at the rank of assistant professor, to begin fall 2023.
Qualifications
The ability to contribute to interdisciplinary research in fields such as gender studies, Africana and diaspora studies, transatlantic studies, etc. is highly desirable. PhD in French or related field is required. Native or near-native proficiency in French and English is essential. Candidates must be able to demonstrate excellence in teaching and in scholarly research. The University of Tennessee is seeking candidates with the ability to contribute in meaningful ways to the diversity and intercultural goals of the University.
Application Instructions
Review of applicants will begin November 1, 2022 and will continue until the position is filled. Please submit a cover letter, a CV, a writing sample, and three letters of reference to http://apply.interfolio.com/111448 Additional materials may be requested from finalists.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment and admission without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, and parental status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law. In accordance with the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the University of Tennessee affirmatively states that it does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, or disability in its education programs and activities, and this policy extends to employment by the university. Inquiries and charges of violation of Title VI (race, color, and national origin), Title IX (sex), Section 504 (disability), the ADA (disability), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (age), sexual orientation, or veteran status should be directed to the Office of Equity and Diversity, 1840 Melrose Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37996-3560, telephone 865-974-2498. Requests for accommodation of a disability should be directed to the ADA Coordinator at the Office of Equity and Diversity.
2.14. Tenure-track Assistant Professor in French or Francophone Film and Media, The University of California, Irvine, Department of European Languages and Studies.
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in French and Francophone Film and Media (JPF07879) – UCI – Recruit
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in French and Francophone Film and Media
APPLICATION WINDOW
Open October 8, 2022 through Tuesday, Nov 8, 2022 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
If you apply to this recruitment by November 8, 2022, you will have until November 11, 2022 to complete your application.
POSITION DESCRIPTION
The UCI Department of European Languages and Studies (ELS) seeks an assistant professor of French and Francophone Film and Media, with a secondary specialty in a field of European Studies (literature, culture, history). The faculty member will be expected to teach and conduct research in French and Francophone film/media theory and history, and to teach a variety of other upper-division courses contributing to the French and European Studies majors/minors. The position will also involve contributing to the MA Program in European Studies and crosslisting courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs in Film and Media Studies (FMS).
All the aforementioned programs have an interdisciplinary orientation. The faculty of ELS/FMS therefore hope to attract candidates interested in historical, theoretical, cultural, and/or philosophical questions while maintaining a focus on the field of French and Francophone film and media studies.
All applicants must have native or near-native fluency in French and have a Ph.D. in French, in Film Studies, or in a related field. [Applicants nearing completion of the doctorate (ABD) may be considered. Ph.D. must be completed by the date of appointment (7/1/2023).]
Candidates should submit a letter of application describing their research; a statement of teaching experience and interests; a statement addressing past and potential contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion; an article-length writing sample not to exceed 30 pages; a current CV; a list of three references with contact information; and Authorization to Release Information Form.
To ensure full consideration, applications should be submitted by November 8, 2022. Additional materials, such as letters of recommendation and sample syllabi, may be requested at a later date.
Please direct questions about the electronic submission procedure to Suzanne Bolding, smboldin@uci.edu.
To learn more about the Department of European Languages and Studies, please visit https://www.humanities.uci.edu/els.]
UC Irvine is a designated Hispanic Serving Institution and a Minority-Serving Institution. For more information, see https://inclusion.uci.edu/hsi/ and https://inclusion.uci.edu/msi/
As a recipient of an NSF ADVANCE award for gender equity, UCI is responsive to the needs of dual-career couples, supports work-life balance through an array of family-friendly policies, and is dedicated to broadening participation in higher education.
Institutional Reference Check: The University of California is committed to creating and maintaining a community dedicated to the advancement, application, and transmission of knowledge and creative endeavors through academic excellence; where all individuals who participate in University programs and activities can work and learn together in a safe and secure environment, free of violence, harassment, discrimination, exploitation, or intimidation. In support of this commitment, and as a means to address all forms of academic misconduct, UC Irvine will conduct an institutional reference check on recruitment finalists of Senate Ladder-Rank Professor and Professor of Teaching series, at all ranks (i.e. assistant, associate, full), prior to extending a formal offer of appointment. Applications submitted via AP Recruit must include a signed copy of the Authorization to Release Information Form for consideration.
Department: https://www.humanities.uci.edu/els
QUALIFICATIONS
Basic qualifications (required at time of application)
Ph.D. in French, in Film Studies, or in a related field. Applicants nearing completion of the doctorate (ABD) may be considered. Ph.D. must be completed by the date of appointment (7/1/2023).
Native or near-native fluency in French.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Document requirements
- Curriculum Vitae – Your most recently updated C.V.
- Cover Letter
- Statement of Research (Optional)
- Teaching Statement – See our guidance for writing a reflective teaching statement.
- Inclusive Excellence Activities Statement – Statement addressing how past and/or potential contributions to inclusive excellence will advance UCI’s Commitment to Inclusive Excellence. See our guidance for writing an inclusive excellence activities statement.
- Authorization to Release Information Form – A reference check will be completed only if you are made a tentative offer to a Professor or Professor of Teaching series, at any rank. Download, complete, sign, and upload the form: https://ap.uci.edu/wp-content/uploads/AuthReleaseForm.pdf
- Writing Sample – An article-length writing sample not to exceed 30 pages.
Reference requirements
- 3 required (contact information only)
Apply link: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF07879
CAMPUS INFORMATION
The University of California, Irvine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy.
JOB LOCATION
Irvine, CA
2.15. Full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in French, Hunter College, the City University of New York.
The Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in French beginning Fall 2023. The area of specialization is open, although we are especially interested in candidates with scholarly expertise in Francophone literature, particularly as it relates to the Caribbean, the Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, Quebec, and the Indian Ocean, and with research and teaching interests related to literary and political theory, Marxism, and aesthetics.
Located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Hunter College is the largest school in the network of public institutions that comprise the City University of New York. It maintains a strong commitment to providing a rigorous and affordable education in the liberal arts and sciences to a diverse student body.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The candidate will be expected to teach three courses per semester, pursue original scholarly research in their field, and participate in the administrative life of the department and the college. They should be prepared to advise majors, minors, and undergraduates in French courses as well as MA students. This position can also entail opportunities for collaboration with Hunter’s Honors Colleges, its Public Humanities initiative, and the CUNY Graduate Center.
QUALIFICATIONS:
The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in French or Comparative Literature (with a specialization in French/Francophone studies) in hand by Summer 2023. They will be well-versed in teaching all levels of an undergraduate and graduate French curriculum, dedicated to working with students from a wide variety of socio-cultural backgrounds, experienced and interested in language pedagogy, and able to demonstrate native or near-native proficiency in French and English.
VACCINE REQUIREMENT:
Candidates will be required to provide proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 upon commencing employment. Exemption (medical or religious) requests to this requirement will be considered in accordance with applicable law. Being fully vaccinated is defined for this purpose as being at least two weeks past their final dose of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine regimen. Final candidates must be fully vaccinated as of their first day of employment.
COMPENSATION:
CUNY offers faculty a competitive compensation and benefits package covering health insurance, pension and retirement benefits, paid parental leave, and savings programs. We also provide mentoring and support for research, scholarship, and publication as part of our commitment to ongoing faculty professional development.
Assistant Professor – $51,242 – $97,580
HOW TO APPLY:
Applications must be submitted online by accessing the CUNY Portal on City University of New York job website: www.cuny.edu/employment
To search for this vacancy, click on SEARCH ALL POSTINGS and in the SEARCH JOBS field, enter the Job Opening ID number 25053
Click on the “APPLY NOW” button and follow the application instructions. Current users of the site should access their established accounts; new users should follow the instructions to set up an account.
Please have your documents available to attach into the application before you begin. Note, the required material must be uploaded as ONE document under CV/ Resume (do not upload individual files for a cover letter, references, etc.). The document must be in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .rtf, or text format– and the name of the file should not exceed ten (10) characters – also DO NOT USE SYMBOLS (such as accents (é, è, (â, î or ô), ñ, ü, ï , –, _ or ç)). Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Please include:
– A cover letter that briefly addresses the candidate’s research agenda and teaching philosophy
– A CV
– A transcript of Graduate coursework
– A sample of written scholarship in French or English (no longer than 25 pages)
Upload all documents as ONE single file– PDF format preferred.
– In addition, please have three confidential letters of reference e-mailed by the recommenders to: Frenchsearch@hunter.cuny.edu
One of these letters should address the candidate’s teaching experience.
CLOSING DATE:
The search will remain open until the position is filled. The committee will begin reviewing complete applications on December 1st. Applications submitted after the deadline will only be considered if the position/s remain open after the initial round.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:
CUNY encourages people with disabilities, minorities, veterans and women to apply. At CUNY, Italian Americans are also included among our protected groups. Applicants and employees will not be discriminated against on the basis of any legally protected category, including sexual orientation or gender identity. EEO/AA/Vet/Disability Employer.
JOB LISTING:
For reference, the complete job listing is available on the CUNY Employment website:
2.16. Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Black French Studies, Rice University’s Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures.
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 (July 1, 2023). For more and to apply, click here: https://apply.interfolio.com/111897
Review of applications begins October 1, 2022.
3. Announcements
3.1. Temporary researcher’s position at the Maison française
Maison française d’Oxford – The annual application campaign for a temporary researcher’s position at the Maison française aimed at professors or assistant professors in a French university is now open.
Applications have to be submitted via the Galaxie website (more information: L’accueil en délégation pour les enseignants-chercheurs | Carrières CNRS) by 18 October 4pm (Paris time).
CNRS researchers can apply too. The application process for them is different. It is explained in the following document:
https://www.mfo.ac.uk/files/2023appelcandidatureschercheursmfo3pdf
For more information about joining the Maison Française d’Oxford, please visit https://www.mfo.ac.uk/information-for-academics#collapse1792281
3.2. Postgraduate editor for MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities
The MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) is looking for a second postgraduate editor for its online journal, MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities (http://www.mhra.org.uk/journals/WPH). Working Papers was launched in 2006 and is aimed at early career researchers and postgraduates.
The successful applicant will serve as a second postgraduate representative to the MHRA Executive Committee, attending three committee meetings per year in London or online, and advising on postgraduate matters. For further information about the work of the MHRA see www.mhra.org.uk.
This position starts formally in December 2022, following a one-month shadowing period, and ends in November 2024. Whilst unpaid, it offers invaluable experience in the world of academic publishing, as well as representing a chance to work constructively for the future of the Humanities more broadly. Applications are welcome from postgraduates in their first or second year of doctoral study working in any of the ‘modern humanities’, defined as relating to the modern and medieval European languages (including English and the Slavonic languages), their literatures and cultures both within Europe and worldwide.
Applicants should send a CV and cover letter (in a single Word file, please), together with a letter of support from their supervisor, as email attachments to Dr Barbara Burns (Barbara.burns@mhra.org.uk), by 20 October 2022. Informal enquiries are welcome and may be addressed to the current representatives at postgrads@mhra.org.uk.
3.3. Institut des sciences humaines et sociales du CNRS, Soutien à la mobilité internationale
To foster international mobility and the development of scientific projects with an international appeal, the InSHS (“Institut des sciences humaines et sociales du CNRS”) offers support for research activities abroad in 2023 to researchers and professors in research centres which are co-directed by the InSHS.
Details of the call for proposals and the application form are available on the InSHS website: https://www.inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/soutien-la-mobilite-internationale-2023.
3.4. PhD program in French and Francophone Studies or Italian Studies, Department of French and Italian, Ohio State University.
The doctoral program in the Department of French and Italian at The Ohio State University is welcoming applications for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Research Areas
Our program draws on the broad strengths of this flagship state university. We seek students whose interests match our array of interdisciplinary research clusters:
· Screen and Performance Studies
· Popular and Material Cultures Across Times and Spaces
· Migration Studies—Historic and Current
· Boundary Crossings in Medieval & Renaissance France –Provence—Italy
· French in the Americas
· French & Francophone Writing Now
· Second Language Acquisition
· Sexuality and Gender
Financial Support
Admitted PhD students receive 4-5 years of financial support in the form of teaching assistantships, carrying a stipend of approximately $2,100 per month. Highly qualified entering students may also be nominated for competitive university fellowships. Students may apply for summer research and travel funding awards, and additional dissertation funding if needed.
Teaching Preparation
We offer exceptional teaching preparation with ongoing support and mentoring. Second Language Acquisition Research and Intercultural Competency are at the core of our training program, as well as workshops and mentoring to prepare for the academic job market.
Contact and Application
If interested, please contact Academic Program Coordinator Rachel Sanabria (Sanabria.3@osu.edu) or Director of Graduate Studies Prof. Benjamin Hoffmann (Hoffmann.312@osu.edu). The application deadline to be considered for a teaching assistantship is January 15.
To apply: https://frit.osu.edu/graduate/admissions
The Ohio State University
OSU is one of the largest universities in the United States. Founded in 1870, we now have around 60,000 students and an endowment of $6.8 billion. The library system is one of the best in the world, offering access to billions of volumes and records in connection with the OhioLink consortium. Special collections include the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library housing the largest collection of comics in the world, the Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection, and the Historic Costume and Textiles Collection. OSU’s Wexner Center for the Arts has an international reputation for interdisciplinary modern art, dance, and film. The Urban Arts Space also hosts many exhibitions and performances. Since 2020, the Department of French and Italian has been recognized by the French Embassy in the United States as a Center of Excellence. Among other projects, the Center of Excellence at Ohio State organizes a writing residency open to French-speaking authors, the Jules Verne Writing Residency.
Columbus, OH
Columbus is the capital of Ohio and its largest city. With a population of 900,000, and over 2 million in the metro area, it is the 14th largest city in the U.S. It boasts a diverse economy, vibrant cultural life, beautiful 4-season climate with moderate temperatures, historical districts, a great food scene, and affordable cost of living (at least 10% less than the national average).
3.5. Graduate Program in French and Francophone Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Graduate Program in French and Francophone Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill trains scholars and teachers in the analysis of the literature and culture of the Francophone world. Faculty members offer graduate seminars tied to their own research interests on topics ranging from poetry, theater, and the novel to film and cultural theory, from the early modern era to the present. Courses involve a variety of approaches by which graduate students receive a well-rounded, globally oriented education through the doctoral level.
The program offers robust professional preparation and exposure to diverse career paths. When students begin the program, they receive pedagogical training in tandem with classroom experience. As advanced students complete their dissertation under faculty supervision, they are also mentored in job seeking skills. Graduates have found tenure-track and fixed-term positions at a variety of colleges and universities, and others have pursued careers outside the academic profession.
All students admitted to the program receive full financial support. In most cases, this comes in the form of a Graduate Teaching Fellowship, which entails teaching undergraduate classes for a stipend of at least $17,000/year along with the payment of all tuition, fees, and health insurance. Moreover, the program and the UNC Graduate School offer a number of competitive summer awards ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 dollars; most students in the program receive at least one of these during the course of their studies. Further support is available for studentsstudents to travel to academic conferences and to research and write their dissertations.
The transdisciplinary and transcultural orientation of the Program in French and Francophone Studies is reflected in the course offerings as well as its close ties with other units on the UNC campus, such as the Center for European Studies, the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, the Program in Comparative Literature, and the Program in Sexuality Studies. PhD students are encouraged to take classes in these and other areas as a complement to their coursework in French and Francophone Studies. Enhancing the graduate experience at UNC is nearby Duke University; the two institutions have long had a policy allowing graduate students at each to take courses at the other. In addition, UNC graduate students have opportunities to work and study in a Francophone environment through year-long, salaried exchange programs in Montpellier and Paris.
The application deadline for fall 2023 admission is December 10, 2022. To apply, please click here.
For more information, please contact Prof. Hassan Melehy, Graduate Advisor in French.
3.6. MA in French & PhD in Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Priority deadlines: October 15 (for spring 2023) and February 15 (for fall 2023)
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette offers one of few graduate programs in the United States specifically in Francophone Studies by providing students the opportunity to study all the regions of la francophonie individually and as a whole.
The university itself is located in the heart of Cajun and Creole Louisiana, a cultural crossroads joining many areas of the contemporary Francophone world that share historical and linguistic roots. The natural beauty of the landscape provides a fitting setting for the culture’s unique heritage and multicultural diversity.
The breadth and reach of the courses and approaches offered in the Master’s and PhD programs reflect this diversity and richness and make the experience at UL Lafayette unique. Our dynamic, innovative, and interdisciplinary program regularly provides courses on the literatures, cinema, and cultures of France, Belgium, Quebec, Acadia, Louisiana, the Antilles and Haïti, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Maghreb. The graduate program in Francophone Studies was the first in the United States to design courses on Louisiana Cajun and Creole languages, as well as courses on Belgian Francophone literature.
Students from all over the (Francophone) world come together at UL Lafayette to explore the rich variety, hybridity, and créolisation of the global Francophonie using a variety of approaches. The faculty’s theoretical interests cover women’s and gender studies, migration, transgression, medieval studies, postcolonial studies, visual studies, etc. Special attention to the professionalization is also a major component to this program, with workshops to help students be successful on the job market (in and outside of academia).
Financial support is available for graduate students primarily through the university graduate assistantships and fellowships, which are available to foreign nationals and U.S. citizens. Selected students can apply for a tuition-waiver along with a monthly stipend. Annual scholarships, summer research awards, and travel grants are also available. Courses and assistantship duties require Louisiana residency. The degree cannot be completed online/remotely.
Former MA students received competitive PhD packages from the University of Pittsburgh and UC Davis. PhD graduates work in academia (William and Mary, Tulane, CUNY, etc.), in French immersion schools in Louisiana, or in the publishing industry (Paris), etc.
To request further information for these positions, please consult our website and/or contact the Graduate Coordinator, Nathan Rabalais at nathan.rabalais@louisiana.edu in French or English.
To Apply: http://gradschool.louisiana.edu/prospective-students
French and Francophone Studies Program Information: http://languages.louisiana.edu/French/index.html
3.7. Présentation de Noirs en France (2022) par Alain Mabanckou
Le Centre d’Excellence de l’Université Ohio State a le plaisir de vous inviter à un événement exceptionnel : une présentation de Noirs en France (2022) par Alain Mabanckou, auteur couronné de nombreux prix et professeur à l’Université de Californie à Los Angeles.
Cet événement aura lieu le jeudi 27 octobre à 16h00 (Columbus)/22h00 (Paris)/13h00 (Los Angeles) sur Zoom.
Alain Mabanckou présentera son documentaire et répondra aux questions du public. Cette présentation sera suivie d’une projection de Noirs en France.
L’événement débutera par une présentation et un échange avec notre invité (45 minutes, en français). Il sera suivi par la projection de Noirs en France (1h45, en français, sous-titré en anglais).
Cet événement est gratuit mais une pré-inscription est nécessaire. Pour vous inscrire, veuillez suivre ce lien :
Cet événement est organisé par le Centre d’Excellence de l’Université Ohio State, le Département de Français et d’Italien de l’Université Ohio State, la Villa Albertine – Chicago et les Services culturels de l’Ambassade de France aux États-Unis.
À propos d’Alain Mabanckou :
Alain Mabanckou est romancier, journaliste, poète et universitaire. Citoyen français né en République du Congo, il enseigne actuellement la littérature et la création littéraire au Département d’études françaises et francophones et au Centre d’études africaines de l’Université de Californie à Los Angeles. Célèbre pour ses romans et ses écrits illustrant l’expérience de l’Afrique contemporaine et de la diaspora africaine en France, Alain Mabanckou est l’un des écrivains franco-africains les plus reconnus en France dans la littérature contemporaine.
3.8. Warwick Seminar for Interdisciplinary French Studies, 2022-3 programme
All seminars will take place on Microsoft Teams, 4-5.30pm UK time. Please join us – all are welcome. For abstracts, biographies and Teams links please visit this page.
Autumn Term
Wednesday 19th October: Shirley Jordan (Newcastle), ‘Le Temps de vieillir: Martine Franck’s forgotten photobook’
Wednesday 2nd November: Sophie Fuggle (NTU), ‘Toxic island ecologies: the multiple lives of an island called “Mother”’
Wednesday 23rd November: Helena Duffy (Wrocław/Fernandes Fellow, Warwick), ‘We Are Not out of the Woods Yet: The Forest as Embodiment of Polish Holocaust Memory in Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida’
Spring Term
Wednesday 25th January: Lydie Moudileno (University of Southern California), ‘Finding Dahomey: African Royalty in the Diasporic Imagination’, followed by a Response from Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
Wednesday 8th February: Jussi Palmusaari (Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston), ‘Althusser’s Place’
Wednesday 1st March: Valérie Hayaert (Warwick, Law), ‘Éléments pour une typologie des images de justice en Europe (1450-1800)’
Summer Term
Wednesday 3rd May: Elizabeth Benjamin (Coventry), ‘Lieux oubliés et pas perdus: mapping the monuments of Paris that never were’
Wednesday 17th May: Jeremy Lane (Nottingham), ‘From Bourdieu to Piketty: tracing the emergence of a “nouveau capitalisme patrimonial”’
Wednesday 31st May: Stuart Elden (Warwick, PAIS), ‘Indo-European Thought in Post-War France’
3.9. Caribbean Studies Seminar Series, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study • University of London
Caribbean Studies Seminar Series
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/search-events/centre_or_project/8056/series/8153?online=1
16:00 – 15:30
Online
CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Series<https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-latin-american-caribbean-studies/clacs-events/seminar-series/caribbean> actively promote intellectual engagement and knowledge exchange by providing scholars – including postgraduate students and early career researchers – with the opportunity to present their interdisciplinary, comparative and integrated research on the Caribbean.
Organisers: Eve Hayes de Kalaf (ICwS) and Jack Webb (Manchester)
The Caribbean Studies Seminar Series is organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies<https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-latin-american-caribbean-studies-clacs> (CLACS) in collaboration with Race, Roots and Resistance(Opens in new window)<https://www.racerootsresist.com/> (University of Manchester)
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1 November 2022
The Future of Black Community Organisations in 21st Century Britain: An Engaged Ethnography
Speaker: Shey Fyffe (Birmingham City University)
In the context of collective community responses to racially unjust societal conditions and treatment predominantly by the Afro-Caribbean community, and upon reflection of the surge of international attention and engagement with Black radical political thought and social action since the 2010s, this research explores the challenges facing Black community organisations with Black radical objectives in the political, economic and socio-cultural conditions of contemporary Britain. The key findings of an engaged ethnography conducted in a present-day ‘Bricks and mortar’ Black radical community organisation are presented, exploring the facets of disunity within the space. The obstacles that arise inform theorisation of the conflictions existing between the neo-liberal capitalist ideals that govern present Britain, and Black radical, anti-capitalist, revolutionary political ideals upon which the organisation was founded. In explicating the obstacles faced, this research seeks to highlight the necessity for the establishment, and preservation of Black community organisations as counter-publican institutions of Black radical unity, integral to the dismantling of oppressive systems at a grassroots level, and the bringing of Black radical visions of liberation to fruition.
Book here: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/caribbean-studies-seminar-series-3
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6 December 2022
A Crisis of Legitimacy: Assessing the Decivilizing Process of the State of Trinidad and Tobago
Speaker: Melissa Mendez (Cardiff)
This paper assesses the legitimacy of the young, post-colonial nation-state of Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago has a history of slavery, independence, oil, and austerity. It is against the backdrop of the country’s post-independence successes and failures that this paper discusses the rise of a radical Islamist group – the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen (the JAM) – which attempted a coup d’état in 1990. The attempt failed, but this proved a turning point for safety, security, and legitimacy within the twin-island Republic. This paper argues that the impunity enjoyed by the JAM in the aftermath of the attempted coup d’état strengthened the group’s power, both within the criminal underworld and with successive governments. Since 1990, there has been an increase in the number of gangs within the country, an increase in the number of serious crimes committed, and a decrease in the support for state institutions, in particular, the police. This paper argues that the rise of the JAM was the catalyst for the delegitimation of the State in a Weberian and Eliasian context.
3.10. Séminaire « Décolonial et universel : perspectives croisées », Michel Cahen (LAM, CNRS) et Elara Bertho (LAM, CNRS)
Ce séminaire de lectures de textes théoriques est collégial. Il sera centré sur les pensées contemporaines du décolonial, entendu comme processus continué de déprise de la colonialité du pouvoir. Quels univers, quels récits, quelles épistémologies se mettent en place pour renouveler la question de l’universel, du rapport trop facilement binaire centre/ périphérie, d’un dehors possible de la colonialité ?
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Walter Mignolo, Leila Gonzalez seront par exemple lus collégialement et présentés par l’un d’entre nous. Il s’agira à chaque fois de lire ensemble, d’interroger nos incompréhensions, nos désaccords ou au contraire nos enthousiasmes.
Jeudi, 10h-12h30, salle Jean Borde, MSH Bordeaux
– 10 novembre : Elara Bertho, lecture de Souleymane Bachir Diagne (l’universel latéral). Exceptionnellement dans l’amphithéâtre Papy de la MSH
– 1er décembre : Michel Cahen et Mélanie Denef, Lecture de Walter Mignolo (le décolonial de “A Manifesto” et sa réception universitaire)
– 15 décembre : Sylvère Mbondobari, lecture d’Antoine Litli (Hériter des lumières après Achille Mbembe)
2023 :
– 19 janvier : Ruth Guichard, Lecture de Leila Gonzales et Maria Lugones, pratiques militantes et décolonial
– 23 février : Natalia Guerellus, Lecture de Yuk Hui, un philosophe de la technique et sa réception au Brésil
– 23 mars : Sophie Chave Dartoen, Lecture de Amiria Salmond, ontologie maori et décolonial
Le séminaire est ouvert à tous et validable dans le cadre des formations doctorales.
S’inscrire en amont pour recevoir les textes lus ensemble à chaque séance.
3.11. Appel à candidatures, Résidence d’écriture francophone Afriques-Haïti, Bordeaux/La Rochelle, Institut des Afriques.
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3.12. Journée d’étude, « Femmes du désert dans la littérature viatique (XIX-XXème siècles) », 13 octobre 2022, Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.
3.13. André Benhaïm (Princeton), “Albert Camus, In the Name of the Guest,” Wednesday, October 26, at 3 pm EDT.
Zoom talk by André Benhaïm (Princeton), “Albert Camus, In the Name of the Guest,” for the Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center’s France and the World Seminar, taking place on Wednesday, October 26, at 3 pm EDT.
Benhaïm’s lecture will be on his latest book, Après Ulysse: Vers une poétique de l’hospitalité en Méditerranée (Hermann 2021), which examines the Mediterranean as a space of passages and transformations, from Homer to the present, and explores hospitality in its manifestation in Mediterranean imaginaries, attending to the way hospitality joins together ethics and aesthetics.
To join, please register online at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtc–oqj8pHN1mbk9dTMJLLgiHCBMXCy9p.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at annabel_kim@fas.harvard.edu.
3.14. Collection « Autrement Mêmes »
Lancée en 2001, la collection « Autrement Mêmes » vient de publier son 200e titre. Pour son 20e anniversaire, elle a eu les honneurs d’un éditorial de Martin Mégevand dans la revue Littérature (205, mars 2022, p.5-7) et d’un entretien mené par Loïc Céry dans le cadre de l’Institut du Tout-Monde : https://soundcloud.com/institutdutoutmonde/entretien-avec-roger-little/s-FPkSKW5wwa1. Je vous invite cordialement à explorer son catalogue : https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=collection&no=239 et de contribuer à la survie de la collection en recommandant des achats à votre BU.
Il va sans dire que la collection poursuit son chemin, trois nouveaux titres étant déjà sous presse, et serais heureux de considérer, envoyées à mon adresse mail personnelle (rlittle@tcd.ie), de nouvelles propositions.
3.15. Recording, annual workshop organised by AUPHF+.
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
3.16. Serigne Seye de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, « Le rap écologique du Dakar ‘profond’: de la métaphore à l’action écologique »
Le séminaire “Qu’est-ce qu’un écosystème littéraire?” reprend son cours dans les nouveaux locaux du campus Nation (salle A524) avec une présentation de Serigne Seye de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar intitulée “Le rap écologique du Dakar ‘profond’: de la métaphore à l’action écologique”
Thème : Le rap écologique du Dakar des “profonds” : de la métaphore à l’action écologique
Résumé :
Cette conférence sera d’abord l’occasion de réfléchir sur le concept polysémique d’underground qui inclut une certaine idée du profond. En effet, l’imaginaire du profond traverse les productions artistiques des MC’s sénégalais qui l’assimilent à plusieurs mots et réalités. La célébration du « lieu profond » dans leurs œuvres se mue en défense de l’inviolabilité du territoire contre toute forme d’agression. C’est ce qui autorise certains rappeurs à opérer une transition vers la défense des espaces naturels dont le terme « underground » est l’une des métaphores.
Ensuite, une étude de projets musicaux et de quelques textes évoquant des préoccupations écologiques dessinera les caractéristiques d’une écopoétique du rap sénégalais, la forme de celui-ci étant fortement influencée par le thème évoqué. Nous nous demanderons même s’il n’est pas possible de parler d’un genre écologique dans le rap sénégalais.
Enfin, cette communication fera un focus sur des cas précis d’activisme écologique de rappeurs sénégalais issus de ces zones dites du profond. De Malcolm le Boudiouman à Bidew Bou bess, en passant par Ibson et G. Hip-Hop, plusieurs rappeurs ont entrepris des actions citoyennes en faveur de l’environnement pour mette l’art du profond au service de l’environnement. C’est cet activisme écologique qui sera mis en lumière pour illustrer l’engagement multiforme de ces artistes, souvent issus de zones dites underground.
Les liens suivant mènent à des vidéos qui sont en rapport avec le thème de la conférence :
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Rappeur, écolo et élu, c’est Malcolm le Boudiouman – “Les Rebelles du Micro” EP1 – Xuman au Sénégal
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Pour celles et ceux qui habitent loin et ne peuvent se déplacer, vous trouverez le lien de connexion pour participer à distance sur le site de ZoneZadir à la page suivante: https://zonezadir.hypotheses.org/le-rap-ecologique-du-dakar-des-profonds-de-la-metaphore-a-laction-ecologique
4. New Titles
4.1. Martin Munro, Listening to the Caribbean, Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2022.
Liverpool Studies in International Slavery LUP
Description
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&#
4.2. Alexandre Gefen, Pamela Krause (dir.), Refaire monde, éditions Septentrion, 2022.
“Refaire monde” est dédié au concept de monde en littérature/ philosophie. Accueillante et commune, l’idée de monde implique en effet bien des débats : elle semble faire violence au pluriel (nous y interrogeons l’universalisme, la colonisation), à la diversité des espèces naturelles (par l’asservissement technique et mondialisée de la terre) ; sa diversité pose problème à toute tentative de totalisation conceptuelle. Polémique, le monde est aussi d’une grande richesse, relançant notre désir d’habitation poétique au monde.
L’ouvrage, paru aux éditions Septentrion, est co-dirigé par Alexandre Gefen (CNRS) et par Pamela Krause (Sorbonne université);il est disponible en ligne:
https://www.septentrion.com/fr/livre/?GCOI=27574100652310
Table des matières:
PRATIQUES
Refaire monde (préface) Alexandre Gefen, Pamela Krause
Le monde comme horizon des horizons dans la phénoménologie et la poésie moderne, Michel Collot
De la destruction à la création : le monde dans le poème en versets,Stéphanie Hage
Notes sur le bleu du ciel par temps de confinement,Christian Doumet
Le monde du romantisme allemand à la lumière d’Empédocle et de Chrysippe, Guillaume Dreidemie
Temps universel et idée du monde dans trois romans-monde français, Laude Ngadi Maïssa
Obligé du monde, obligé de Gaïa,Jean-Claude Pinson
La Nostalgie du Monde ou l’anthropologie théâtrale de Jerzy Grotowski en quête de l’Origine, Samuel Lhuillery
QUESTIONNEMENTS
Les généalogies du « Monde »,Jason Hong
Le Tout-monde d’Édouard Glissant : une chaosthétique romanesque,Aliocha Wald Lasowski
Entre « littérature-monde en français » et « tout-monde »,Jean-Marc Moura
« Le monde ne suft pas ». Rencontres littéraires avec la planète évanescente, Chiara Mengozzi
Faire des mondes : Leibniz, entre axiomatique et poïétique,Dominique Chateau
Les mondes sans objets de Francis Wolf et de Jorge Luis Borges, Jim Gabaret
Altérités : pluralité ou im-possibilité des mondes – entre ontologies et déconstructions (Sur un bon mot de Donna Haraway), Tomas Clément Mercier
4.3. Cliona Hensey, Barry Nevin, Aoife Connolly (guest editors) Algeria Returns and Revisitation, Contemporary French Civilization, Volume 47.3, Special Issue, 2022.
Volume 47.3 explores the development of postcolonial memory within and across Algeria and France 60 years after the Algerian War of Independence armistice.
To recommend a subscription to Contemporary French Civilization to your library, please use our email template to contact your librarian.
Table of contents
INTRODUCTION: FROM THE ALGERIAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE TO THE POSTCOLONIAL MISE EN SCÈNE OF MEMORY
CLÍONA HENSEY | BARRY NEVIN
RESEARCH ARTICLES
LA FRANCE SE DÉVOILE: REVEALING REMNANTS FROM THE AGE OF EMPIRE
AOIFE CONNOLLY
CLÍONA HENSEY
LEWIS JONATHAN
BARRY NEVIN
JOCELYN FRELIER | JENNIFER HOWELL
4.4. Dafne Accoroni, Francophone Migrations, French Islam and Wellbeing: The Soninké Foyer in Paris, Berghahn Books, 2022.
Berghahn Books are pleased to announce the publication in hardback and ebook of Francophone Migrations, French Islam and Wellbeing: The Soninké Foyer in Paris by Dafne Accoroni. The introduction can be read here.
Addressing several issues of significance in the fields of Anthropology of Migration, Politics of Healthcare, Religious and Francophone Studies, this book pursues an unprecedented line of research by bringing to the fore the geopolitical dimension of francophonie, understood as a political construct, as much as a cultural, artistic and a linguistic space, with French as common language. The book is based on participant observation carried out in Paris in a foyer among Soninké migrants, the principal ethnographic focus, and at the secondary field-site based at the Mouride Islamic Centre of Taverny, which serves to show an important facet of the so-called Francophone Islam.
If you are interested in reviewing this book for a relevant journal an electronic review copy can be requested here. To recommend this book to your library, use this form.
4.5. Jacques Rabemananjara, Oeuvre poétique, Présentée et annotée par Dominique Ranaivoson, Editions Sépia, 2022.
Jacques Rabemananjara (1913-2005), poète malgache francophone engagé
dans le mouvement de la négritude, est aussi un responsable politique à
Madagascar. Ce volume, qui reprend dans l’ordre de leur publication
l’ensemble de ses recueils et de ses poèmes publiés en revues, permet de
suivre une trajectoire intellectuelle et esthétique hors norme entre les
langues et les cultures. Un appareil critique la resitue dans son
contexte socio-politique et culturel.
[1] Bernard de Meyer et Papa Samba Diop écrivent, dans l’introduction à leur ouvrage Tierno Monénembo et le roman : histoire, exil, écriture, que le lecteur du romancier franco-guinéen est « frappé par la grande diversité des formes et de contenu » (2014 : 2) de son œuvre.
