The Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) is launching its own journal with the overarching theme “Caribbean Conjunctures” for its inaugural issue. 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 three 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). 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 three 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.

Editor of Special Launching Issue of the CSA Journal: Prof. Carole Boyce Davies

Paper Submission Deadline for First Issue: May 15, 2021

Please, submit papers to: csajournal@caribbeanstudiesassociation.org<mailto:csajournal@caribbeanstudiesassociation.org>

Specific guidelines of presentation will be posted on the CSA website.

1.2 Appel à communications: Les univers d’André et Simone Schwarz-Bart. Sources et traces dans les textes et les avant-textes

Journées d’étude

Les univers d’André et Simone Schwarz-Bart

Sources et traces dans les textes et les avant-textes

30 septembre – 1^er octobre 2021

Université de Lausanne

Appel à communications

Le Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Étude des Littératures (CIEL) et la Section de Français de l’Université de Lausanne accueillent les 30 septembre et 1^er octobre 2021 des Journées d’étude autour de l’œuvre du couple d’écrivains André et Simone Schwarz-Bart, organisées en partenariat avec le Département de langue et de littérature françaises modernes de l’université de Genève et l’équipe « Manuscrits francophones » de l’Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (ITEM) du CNRS. Ce dernier a créé en 2017 un groupe de travail Schwarz-Bart : http://www.item.ens.fr/groupe-schwarz-bart/

La recherche sur cette œuvre double a connu récemment des développements importants. Des travaux exploratoires menés en Guadeloupe ont permis d’amorcer la restructuration d’un fonds Schwarz-Bart progressivement déposé depuis à la Bibliothèque nationale de France. Ce préalable permet désormais aux chercheurs concernés d’accéder à une partie des archives du couple et constitue le socle d’analyses renouvelées de ce corpus littéraire riche et singulier.

Les journées lausannoises sont pensées comme un premier temps de réflexion collective, qui sera prolongé deux ans plus tard par d’autres journées à l’Université des Antilles. Il n’est pas anodin que ces rencontres puissent avoir lieu à Lausanne (où André et Simone Schwarz-Bart vécurent de 1963 à 1975) puis en Guadeloupe, suivant ainsi l’itinéraire géographique emprunté par le couple d’écrivains.

Dans ce premier temps lausannois, il s’agira de dessiner les contours des univers littéraires, mais aussi historiques, philosophiques, politiques, religieux et linguistiques qui ont constitué le terreau sur lequel se sont développées les œuvres d’André et de Simone Schwarz-Bart. Cette esquisse devrait se faire à l’aide de l’étude des sources qui pourront être des œuvres littéraires et artistiques, des essais et des textes scientifiques, des témoignages, des correspondances… Dans une approche où la critique génétique sera privilégiée, l’étude des sources devrait s’articuler à celle de leurs traces dans les textes et avant-textes (manuscrits, carnets, notes…) des Schwarz-Bart.

Afin de suivre les œuvres dans leur déploiement chronologique, les journées lausannoises s’attacheront en priorité à celle d’André Schwarz-Bart, depuis le Dernier des Justes jusqu’au projet « Kaddish », nouvelle œuvre juive dont L’Étoile du matin réutilise les ébauches. Il s’agira notamment de préciser les liens étroits entre les pans « juif » et « noir » des œuvres.

À cet égard, on pourra revenir, de préférence avec des outils méthodologiques renouvelés, sur ce qu’on nomme « coécriture » entre Simone et André Schwarz-Bart, qu’il importe d’analyser dans ses différentes modalités et dimensions.

L’approche génétique, fondée sur l’analyse des documents, sera centrale. Les journées s’ouvriront cependant aux autres disciplines littéraires, historiques, voire anthropologiques de manière à rendre compte des différentes dimensions d’une des œuvres les plus emblématiques du XX^èmesiècle.

Une publication des actes est envisagée.

Comité d’organisation

Eléonore Devevey (UNIGE), Jean-Pierre Orban (ITEM), Claire Riffard (ITEM), Anaïs Stampfli (UNIL).

Comité scientifique

Laura Carvigan-Cassin (Univ. des Antilles), Vincent Debaene (UNIGE), Eléonore Devevey (UNIGE), Odile Hamot (Univ. des Antilles), Francine Kaufmann (Univ. de Bar Ilan), Fleur Kuhn (Sorbonne Nouvelle–Paris 3), Christine Le Quellec Cottier (UNIL), Rudolf Mahrer (UNIL), Fanny Margras (Univ. des Antilles), Keren Mock (Paris 7–Diderot), Jean-Pierre Orban (ITEM), Claire Riffard (ITEM), Catherine Rovera (Paris-Dauphine), Anaïs Stampfli (UNIL).

Calendrier

Les journées d’étude à l’Université de Lausanne auront lieu les 30 septembre et 1^er octobre 2021.

Les propositions, d’environ 1500 signes ou 250 mots en français ou en anglais, accompagnés d’une brève notice bio-bibliographique, devront être envoyés avant le 31 janvier 2021 aux adresses suivantes : anais.stampfli@unil.ch et Eleonore.Devevey@unige.ch

Les auteurs et autrices seront informé.e.s des résultats à la fin du mois de mars 2021.

Bibliographie sélective

Toutes les œuvres d’André et de Simone Schwarz-Bart sont publiées aux Éditions du Seuil, sauf Hommage à la femme noire, Paris, Éditions consulaires, 1988-9.

Fonds André and Simone Schwarz-Bart à la Bibliothèque nationale de France : https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc103528g

Pierre-Marc de Biasi, Génétique des textes, Paris, CNRS Éditions, coll. « Biblis », 2011.

Pierre-Marc de Biasi, « Qu’est-ce qu’un brouillon ? Le cas Flaubert : Essai de typologie fonctionnelle des documents de genèse », in Pourquoi la critique génétique : méthodes, théories, Michel Contat et Daniel Ferrer (éds), Paris, CNRS Éditions.

Pierre-Marc de Biasi, « De l’intertexte à l’exogenèse », Genesis, n°51, à paraître en décembre 2020.

Francine Kaufmann, Pour relire Le Dernier des justes : réflexions sur la shoah, Paris, Klincksieck, 1986.

Francine Kaufmann, « La non-vocation d’André Schwarz-Bart », Continents manuscrits [En ligne], 10 | 2018. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/coma/1173 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/coma.1173

Malka Marcovich, La Dernière Rumeur du juste ? Le miracle éditorial du Dernier des Justes d’André Schwarz-Bart, Iggybook, 2020 (978-2-379-79136-9)

Jean-Pierre Orban, « Archives et manuscrits : La bibliothèque d’André Schwarz-Bart », En attendant Nadeau, 26 février 2019, https://www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2019/02/26/archives-manuscrits-schwarz-bart/

Jean-Pierre Orban, « Comme un voleur qui enrichirait la maison cambriolée : la bibliothèque d’André Schwarz-Bart », Genesis, n°51, à paraître en décembre 2020.

Kathleen Gyssels, Marrane et marronne : la co-écriture réversible d’André et de Simone Schwarz-Bart, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2014.

Nicole Lapierre, « Solitude en partage », dans Causes communes, p. 233-281, Paris, Stock, coll. « Un ordre d’idées », 2011.

Yann Plougastel et Simone Schwarz-Bart, Nous n’avons pas vu passer les jours, Paris, Grasset, 2019.

Simone Schwarz-Bart, « Épouser quelqu’un hors de sa culture, ça dessille votre regard », propos recueillis par Annick Cojean, Le Monde, 12 octobre 2020, p. 29.

Numéro spécial Schwarz-Bart, Continents manuscrits

(En ligne), http://journals.openedition.org/coma, à paraître en mars 2021.

Conference

The Worlds of André and Simone Schwarz-Bart

Sources and traces in their texts and “avant-textes”

September 30 – October 1, 2021

University of Lausanne

Call for papers

On September 30 and October 1, 2021, the Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Étude des Littératures (CIEL) and the French Section of the University of Lausanne are hosting a Conference around the work of the writers André and Simone Schwarz-Bart. This conference is organised in partnership with the Department of French Language and Modern Literature of the University of Geneva and the “French-speaking Manuscripts” team of the Institute of Modern Texts and Manuscripts (ITEM) of the CNRS, which created a Schwarz-Bart working group in 2017: http://www.item.ens.fr/groupe-schwarz-bart/

Research on this dual work has recently made important developments. Exploratory research was carried out in Guadeloupe, which made it possible to begin the restructuring of a Schwarz-Bart collection which has been gradually entrusted to the Bibliothèque nationale de France. This phase has enabled scholars to access part of the couple’s archives and constitutes the basis for the renewed analysis of this rich and unique literary corpus.

The Lausanne conference will be the first step in engaging a collective reflection, to be followed two years later by a further conference at the Université des Antilles. It is no coincidence that these meetings are taking place first in Lausanne (where André and Simone Schwarz-Bart lived from 1963 to 1975) then in Guadeloupe, thus following the geographical route taken by the literary couple.

In Lausanne, our aim is to outline the literary as well as the historical, philosophical, political, religious and linguistic worlds which underly the works of André and Simone Schwarz-Bart. This initial exploration will focus on the study of the sources, such as literary and artistic works, scientific essays and texts, testimonies, correspondence… The approach will privilege genetic criticism, and the study of the sources will no doubt be linked to that of their traces in the texts and “avant-textes” (“pre-texts”: manuscripts, notebooks, notes, etc.) of the Schwarz-Barts.

In order to follow the production in its chronological deployment, the Lausanne days will give priority to the work of André Schwarz-Bart, from The Last of the Just to the project of a new Jewish work, “Kaddish”, parts of which are included in The Morning Star. This will involve specifying the close links between the “Jewish” and “black” parts of the works.

In this regard, the “co-writing” of Simone and André Schwarz-Bart will be studied, preferably using renewed methodological tools. It is important to analyze this “co-writing” through the lens of its different modalities and dimensions.

The genetic-critical approach, based on the analysis of primary source material, will be central. The conference will however be open to other literary, historical and even anthropological disciplines in order to encompass all the dimensions of one of the most emblematic works of the 20th century.

A publication of the acts is envisaged.

Steering committee

Eléonore Devevey (UNIGE), Jean-Pierre Orban (ITEM), Claire Riffard (ITEM), Anaïs Stampfli (UNIL).

Scientific committee

Laura Carvigan-Cassin (Univ. Des Antilles), Vincent Debaene (UNIGE), Eléonore Devevey (UNIGE), Odile Hamot (Univ. Des Antilles), Francine Kaufmann (Univ. De Bar Ilan), Fleur Kuhn (Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 ), Christine Le Quellec Cottier (UNIL), Rudolf Mahrer (UNIL), Fanny Margras (Univ. Des Antilles), Keren Mock (Paris 7 – Diderot), Jean-Pierre Orban (ITEM), Claire Riffard (ITEM), Catherine Rovera (Paris-Dauphine), Anaïs Stampfli (UNIL).

Calendar

The conference at the University of Lausanne will take place on September 30 and October 1, 2021.

Proposed papers, of around 1,500 characters or 250 words in French or English, accompanied by a brief bio-bibliographic note, are to be submitted before January 31, 2021 to the following addresses: anais.stampfli@live.fr and Eleonore.Devevey@unige.ch

Authors will be informed of the results at the end of March 2021.

Bibliographical selection

All the works of André and Simone Schwarz-Bart were initially published by Le Seuil, Paris, except for Hommage à la femme noire, Paris, Éditions consulaires, 1988-9.

André and Simone Schwarz-Bart collection at the Bibliothèque nationale de France : https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc103528g

Jed Deppman, Daniel Ferrer, and Michael Groden (Eds), Genetic Criticism, Texts and Avant-textes, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Pierre-Marc de Biasi, Génétique des textes, Paris, CNRS Éditions, coll. « Biblis », 2011.

Pierre-Marc de Biasi, « De l’intertexte à l’exogenèse », Genesis, n°51, to be published in December 2020.

Francine Kaufmann, Pour relire Le Dernier des justes : réflexions sur la shoah, Paris, Klincksieck, 1986.

Francine Kaufmann, « La non-vocation d’André Schwarz-Bart », Continents manuscrits [On line], 10 | 2018. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/coma/1173 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/coma.1173

Malka Marcovich, La Dernière Rumeur du juste ? Le miracle éditorial du Dernier des Justes d’André Schwarz-Bart, Iggybook, 2020 (978-2-379-79136-9)

Jean-Pierre Orban, « Archives et manuscrits : La bibliothèque d’André Schwarz-Bart », En attendant Nadeau, 26 February 2019, https://www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2019/02/26/archives-manuscrits-schwarz-bart/

Jean-Pierre Orban, « Comme un voleur qui enrichirait la maison cambriolée : la bibliothèque d’André Schwarz-Bart », Genesis, n°51, to be published in December 2020.

Kathleen Gyssels, Marrane et marronne : la co-écriture réversible d’André et de Simone Schwarz-Bart, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2014.

Nicole Lapierre, « Solitude en partage », dans Causes communes, p. 233-281, Paris, Stock, coll. « Un ordre d’idées », 2011.

Yann Plougastel et Simone Schwarz-Bart, Nous n’avons pas vu passer les jours, Paris, Grasset, 2019.

Simone Schwarz-Bart, « Épouser quelqu’un hors de sa culture, ça dessille votre regard », propos recueillis par Annick Cojean, Le Monde, 12 October 2020, p. 29.

Schwarz-Bart Special Issue, Continents manuscrits

(On line), http://journals.openedition.org/coma, to be published in March 2021.

1.3 CFP for “Resistance and Resilience: Envisioning the Future” U-MD grad student conference

Resistance and Resilience: Envisioning the Future

Virtual Graduate Student Colloquium of the

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

University of Maryland, College Park

March 5-6, 2021 via Zoom

This interdisciplinary graduate conference seeks to investigate how literary, cinematic, and other mediums interrogate, shape, and embody strategies of resistance and resilience and imagine alternative futures in contemporary and historical contexts across the globe. In the midst of a deadly pandemic, among other social, political, economic, and environmental crises on local and global scales, envisioning the future can become an act of resilience and resistance. From travel narratives and utopias to autofiction and speculative fiction, resistance and resilience take many forms. As Donna Haraway argues, this work of envisioning the future requires “staying with the trouble”—reconfiguring and reimagining our relations to the world around us. Envisaging the future thus requires not only resilience—“bouncing back” or recovering from present or historical difficulties—but also resistance, refusing to accept the status quo, taking action to change one’s situation or the world more broadly. Emerging from positions of precarity, such as the isolation of quarantine or personal or collective trauma, stories of adaptation, translation, dissent, compromise, and solidarity can envision varied potential futures for the individual and for society at large.

The conference’s keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr. Nicole Seymour, author of Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age

Possible topics and approaches may include, but are in no way limited to:

World literatures and film
Transformation and Transcendence through the Arts
Migration, Immigration, Transnationalisms
Translation and adaptation
Utopias and dystopias
Models of sociability
Narratives of resilience
Speculative fiction and science fiction
Travel narratives and parodic/fake travel narratives
Graphic narratives and comics studies
Environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and medical humanities
Notions of identity
LGBTQ and Queer studies
Social and political movements
History / Historical revisionism
Linguistic changes or resistance to change
Gender studies and feminist studies
Postcolonial studies
The arts and artistic exploration
Digital humanities and digital studies

Submissions and presentations should be in English. Abstracts of 250-300 words describing the paper, media project, or artistic work should be emailed to umd.sllc.colloq@gmail.com no later than January 15, 2021. Creative submissions may include a 1-2 minute video excerpt to accompany the abstract, if desired. Submissions should include the presenter’s contact information and affiliation, as well as any accessibility needs.

The School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures is pleased to offer free registration for this conference.

Note that paper presentations of 15-20 minutes as well as collaborative presentations, creative submissions, digital posters of up to ten minutes, and multimedia projects are welcome.

More information and updates can be found on our website.

1.4 CFP: French Presse: New Books on French and Francophone History by the SFHS

The Society for French History Studies is organizing:

French Presse: New Books on French and Francophone History. Bring your own coffee!

This virtual series of hour-long book talks will feature an author with a relatively new publication in French and/or Francophone history (publication date of 2020 or 2021) and an interviewer familiar with the subject matter. A moderator will handle Zoom entry and take additional questions from the audience.

We seek proposals for pairs of authors-interviewers that would include the title and publication information of the book, short CVs, and a list of potential themes for discussion.

The series will commence with Tyler Stovall’s soon-to-be-released book White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea (Princeton University Press) in January 2021. Details TBD.

We are committed to creating a welcoming, antiracist, and diverse series that embodies our Society’s anti-discriminatory mission of inclusiveness, political education, and equitable empowerment.

Submission of proposals should be in Word or PDF to fhs.hofstra.2021@gmail.com by 14 January 2021.

Contact Sally Charnow and Jeff Horn, Co-Presidents, with questions at fhs.hofstra.2021@gmail.com.

1.5 Appel à communication colloque “Le canon théâtral à l’épreuve de l’histoire”

2-3-4 juin 2021

Sorbonne Université, Institut Universitaire de France, ENS-Ulm, Université Paris Nanterre, Université de Victoria (Canada), Théâtre de l’Odéon, Comédie-Française

Comité d’organisation

Anne-Françoise Benhamou, Charlotte Bouteille-Meister, Renaud Bret-Vitoz, Marion Chénetier-Alev, Agathe Giraud, Sara Harvey, Tiphaine Karsenti, Sophie Marchand, Florence Naugrette, Agathe Sanjuan, Virginie Yvernault

Comité scientifique

Marco Consolini, Georges Forestier, Pierre Frantz, Sylvaine Guyot, Gianni Iotti, Martine Jey, Hélène Merlin-Kajman, Jeffrey Ravel, Clare Siviter

L’histoire littéraire et l’histoire du théâtre, qui suivent des voies parfois parallèles, parfois divergentes, ont-elles constitué un « canon » du théâtre, que l’histoire culturelle invite à déconstruire ou à réévaluer ? Comment ce canon s’est-il constitué ? Sur quelles valeurs ? Via quelles instances de légitimation? En construisant quels mythes apparemment indéboulonnables, et à quel usage? Comment ce canon évolue-t-il au fil du temps? L’historiographie du théâtre comme art de la scène et pratique institutionnelle, enrichie des apports de l’histoire culturelle, est-elle incompatible avec les méthodes de l’histoire littéraire, ou celle-ci peut-elle s’enrichir des recherches permises par celles-là ? Convient-il d’établir une distinction entre canon et répertoire ? Comment les gens de théâtre intériorisent-ils le canon théâtral, se l’approprient-ils, s’en détachent-ils, composent-ils avec lui ? Dans quelle mesure contribuent-ils à le reformater ? Comment les artistes étrangers abordent-ils le canon français ? Comment la mise en scène elle-même peut-elle se canoniser ? Quelles constructions rétroactives les grandes mises en scène effectuent-elles sur le canon ? Que fait le spectacle de l’histoire littéraire ?

1ère journée, mercredi 2 juin 2021, Sorbonne, Maison de la Recherche, Amphi Molinié

Ce que l’histoire littéraire fait à l’histoire du théâtre

2e journée, jeudi 3 juin 2021, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, salle Vasari

Ce que l’histoire du théâtre fait à l’histoire littéraire

3e journée, vendredi 4 juin 2021, Théâtre de l’Odéon, salle Roger Blin

Ce que le spectacle vivant fait à sa propre histoire

Les frais de transport et d’hébergement pourront être pris en charge par les établissements organisateurs du colloque.

Les propositions de communications, d’une longueur comprise entre 1000 et 3000 signes, accompagnées d’un CV d’une demi-page maximum, sont à adresser avant le 15 janvier 2021 à virginie.yvernault.pro@gmail.com. Les réponses du comité scientifique parviendront fin janvier.

1.6 Online Workshop: Speculative Art and Spatial Justice, National University of Ireland, Galway, April 16 – 17, 2021 (deadline extended: January 30, 2021)

The greatest challenges of our time – from climate crisis, global migrations, income inequality to the recent COVID-19 pandemic – can be regarded as spatial issues. The geographies of globalization – the settlements, landscapes, infrastructures, networks, supply chains, markets, and factories which make up our world – are produced unevenly in a fashion which entrenches poverty and exacerbates planetary pollution (Harvey 2000). As a result of geopolitical interventions, a great number of people have been deprived of their rights to both public and private spaces, whereas increased mobility in the developed world has undermined the established concepts of dwelling and spatial rootedness.

Addressing the overlapping issues of social oppression and spatial injustice (Soja 2010) – such as exploitation of natural resources, unsustainable urbanisation, aggressive agriculture – demands a radical transformation of local, national and global spaces. Energy transitions, investments in public infrastructures and services, provisioning of safe and affordable housing, and restoration of green and blue spaces are just some of the changes we need to see. Emergency governmental responses to COVID-19 initiated rapid and radical societal changes that would have previously been unimaginable to many.

Taking the pandemic response as one of the examples of a possible paradigm shift in terms of the kind of political action that can be imagined, this workshop emphasises the vital role of speculative fiction, film and visual art in shaping the physical world. Amid the global pandemic, and at the doorstep of climate breakdown, how can imaginative practices address and rectify spatial injustice?

Speculative literature and art – understood broadly here as a category encompassing science fiction, fantasy, eco-fiction, utopia and dystopia – have long been concerned with imagining space differently. In depicting future or alternative worlds, artists can explore the spatial dynamics of oppression, exploitation and despoliation under today’s global capitalism. Yet, is it possible to go from cultural representation to societal transformation? Can our “reflection upon the virtual guide our understanding of the real (or actual)”, as Henri Lefebvre suggested in his seminal work The Production of Space (1974)? How can we see the spaces of speculative art as potential shapers of healthier and fairer environments? Conversely, how do these artworks deny visions and narratives which erase the spatial abuses of our past, present and future?

This workshop invites papers from the fields of science fiction, utopian studies, ecocriticism, cultural geography, environmental humanities, environmental history, and any other related, new or interdisciplinary fields. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

-Spatial justice
-Gender and space
-Eco-fiction and nature writing
-Utopian and dystopian narratives
-Commodification and enclosures
-Architecture and the built environment
-Spatial dichotomies: urban-rural, centre-periphery, North-South, East-West
-Place-making, dwelling, belonging, and identity
-Corporeality and the human body in/as space
-Environmental destruction, pollution, and erasure
-Borders and migration
-Legacies of colonialism
-Global tourism and spatial fetishism

Please submit a proposal including the title and the short abstract (250 words) for your presentation (10-15min) to sasj2021@gmail.com not later than January 30, 2021 (extended). Panels of 3-4 presentations will be followed by 30-45-minute discussions where all participants are invited to join. The workshop will take place on April 16-17, 2021 in an online format. Participants will be notified of the acceptance of their proposals by January 30, 2021.

The workshop will feature an interview with philosopher Srećko Horvat and a keynote lecture by Professor Jennifer Wenzel.

Srećko Horvat is Croatian philosopher, author, and political activist. He is a co-founder along with Yanis Varoufakis of the pan-European political movement for democracy DiEM25. He has authored books in both English and Croatian, including the most recent Poetry from the Future, The Radicality of Love and What does Europe want? (co-authored with Slavoj Žižek).

Jennifer Wenzel is Professor of Comparative Literature and of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has recently authored Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond and The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature.

The event is organised by Ashley Cahillane (School of English and Creative Arts) and Maša Uzelac (School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures), under guidance of Dr Tina-Karen Pusse (Head of School, LLC) and hosted by the School of English and Creative Arts and the School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures.

Webpage: https://bcla.org/online-workshop-speculative-art-and-spatial-justice-national-university-of-ireland-galway-april-16-17-2021-deadline-december-30-2020/

1.7 Appel à contributions: Sexualités : violences subies et reprises de pouvoir (Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine)

En 2017, l’éclatement de l’affaire Weinstein a favorisé le rayonnement du mouvement #MeToo, chaîne de solidarité rassemblant les victimes d’agressions sexuelles initiée en 2007 par Tarana Burke, une militante et travailleuse sociale noire américaine. La médiatisation de cette campagne dix ans après l’appel initial de Burke a non seulement permis de révéler au grand public le système de prédation en vigueur au sein du milieu hollywoodien, mais aussi de faire apparaître plus largement l’omniprésence des formes et mécanismes de la violence sexuelle et sexiste au sein des différents espaces sociaux. Autour d’une devise qui fonde les possibilités de reconquérir un pouvoir dans l’empathie, le mouvement #MeToo s’est largement déployé pour impliquer et rallier progressivement des voix de femmes victimes de harcèlement et de violences sexuelles au sein de communautés diverses. Émergeant il y a trois ans comme une dynamique réflexive puissante et polymorphe, ce phénomène médiatique et politique trouve un appui solide sur une tradition de luttes féministes articulées, dans une perspective intersectionnelle (Crenshaw, 1989 ; McCall, 2005), à d’autres mouvements d’émancipation, luttes décoloniales et LGBTQIA+, notamment. Ces perspectives conjointes fournissent des outils épistémologiques puissants permettant à des actrices et acteurs sociaux de défier l’hégémonie d’un patriarcat autant prescriptif que restrictif. Une opération médiatique telle que celle menée en 2017 atteste d’une volonté de démocratiser l’accès aux luttes et de donner au plus grand nombre les moyens de secouer les normes imposées en matière de rapport de genre et de sexualités.

C’est à la question des sexualités que sera consacré ce dossier de Fixxion. Nous proposons d’aborder ici de front le problème des violences sexistes et sexuelles, mais aussi, face à elles, d’envisager les luttes et les reprises de pouvoir que la littérature amorce. Pour ce faire, il nous semble essentiel d’interroger à la fois les fonctions dévolues à la littérature dans des récits et romans francophones contemporains – porter au jour des thématiques « silenciées », minorisées ; réparer des destins brisés ; relier, créer du commun autour d’expériences similaires – et les formes par lesquelles ces fonctions dédiées sont rendues manifestes. On tâchera ainsi de repenser les enchevêtrements complexes entre sexualités, violence et reprise de pouvoir au regard de ce que la littérature en dit, mais aussi à la lumière de ce qu’elle leur fait, pour examiner in fine ce que l’on dit des sexualités au nom de la littérature.

Les productions littéraires contemporaines de l’espace francophone attestent d’une attention renouvelée aux violences sexuelles et sexistes. Elles esquissent pour beaucoup des pistes d’émancipation et de recouvrement d’une puissance d’agir, qui réside souvent en premier lieu dans le geste de prise de plume. Parmi elles, on pensera de prime abord aux témoignages de victimes d d’agressions qui délivrent une expérience vécue tout en infléchissant les modèles narratifs disponibles : depuis Le Consentement de Vanessa Springora jusqu’à Enjamber la flaque où se reflète l’enfer de Souab Labizze, l’écriture testimoniale désigne les lieux d’une oppression et de violences infligées, invite d’autres prises de parole et leur garantit une écoute compréhensive au sein de l’espace parallèle du texte.

Complexe, la problématique offre des prises multiples et des angles d’attaques variés, notamment celui du genre littéraire. Pour ce dossier de Fixxion, outre les formes d’écritures autobiographiques et autofictionnelles, on étudiera les genres et registres variés mobilisés pour traiter ces problématiques : l’immersion d’Emma Becker dans La Maison (Flammarion, 2019), une enquête sur la vie en maison close qui puise aux sources du journalisme et de l’enquête immersive pour composer une série de portraits tantôt tendres tantôt durs de travailleuses du sexe et de leurs clients ; la « fiction syndicale » dans Querelle de Kevin Lambert (Le nouvel Attila, 2019), récit halluciné d’une grève queer dans une sucrerie de Roberval, dont les ouvriers sont portés par la lutte des classes et l’exploration de leurs désirs ; ou encore le roman initiatique dans Celles qui attendent de Fatou Diome (Flammarion, 2010), qui relate les manœuvres entreprises par Arame, mariée de force à un vieillard, et Bougma, deuxième épouse d’un polygame, pour aider leurs fils à gagner l’Europe.

Des écritures factuelles aux récits fictionnels, on tâchera de compléter la cartographie de ce problème. Qu’on y fasse le récit de violences physiques (viol, agressions) ou de mécanismes plus insidieux (injonction à procréer, contraceptions forcées, harcèlement verbal), les mises en récits des logiques de domination mettent au jour sa répétition incessante d’un espace à l’autre. Les productions que nous étudierons s’efforcent de délimiter les lieux de ces violences. Elles montrent comment ces dernières prennent place au cœur d’espaces privés, de structures familiales (l’emprise d’un partenaire manipulateur dans L’Agrume de Valérie Mréjen ; le harcèlement d’un admirateur dans Les Yeux rouges de Myriam Leroy ; le retour des schémas patriarcaux au sein d’un couple a priori progressiste dans La Femme gelée d’Annie Ernaux ; l’inceste chez Christine Angot, Mathilde Brasilier ou Marie-Pier Lafontaine) ou dans des institutions fortement hiérarchisées (articulation entre violences sexuelles et violences policières dans Macronique d’Émilie Notéris ; abus d’un professeur d’université dans La Brèche de Marie-Sissi Labrèche ; une fausse agence à la recherche de jeunes talents dans Chavirer de Lola Lafon). Elles scrutent la responsabilité de structures et d’instances politiques ou religieuses en matière de coercition (le Liban conservateur et dévot dans Le Jour où Nina Simone a cessé de chanter de Darina Al-Joundi ; la secte des « enfants de Dieu » dans Purulence et Fille de chair d’Amoreena Winkler). Elles identifient plus largement le monde social à un Boys’Club (chez Virginie Despentes, mais aussi chez Annie Ernaux, qui, dans Mémoire de fille (2016), déconstruit la honte que son agresseur et ses comparses tentent de lui faire ressentir pour se dédouaner de leur propre culpabilité). Ces récits et romans comptent parmi les médiations qui permettent, d’une part, de faire émerger une parole pour dire et penser la violence, et, d’autre part, d’être mobilisés par le lectorat comme ressources, instruments ou adjuvants, dans une perspective qui ne serait pas uniquement parégorique, mais permettrait de favoriser les échanges et de cimenter des communautés.

Notre attention se tournera sur des récits francophones contemporains pour en donner à lire également la portée dénonciatrice, résistante et émancipatrice : récits de l’ostracisme touchant les minorités sexuelles et dans le même temps récit de la conquête d’un pouvoir (chez Hervé Guibert, Édouard Louis, Matthieu Riboulet ou Monique Wittig) ; revendications et reconfigurations de discours et d’imaginaires liés à la pornographie, la prostitution et au travail du sexe (chez Emma Becker, Chloé Delaume, Grisélidis Réal ou Nelly Arcan) ; dénonciations de la confiscation des droits des femmes et des discours normatifs imposés par les hommes (ainsi des récits relatifs à l’avortement, chez Annie Ernaux encore ou chez Colombe Schneck) ; appréhension des façons dont le roman et le récit mettent en scène ou favorisent des formes de négociation (Fassin, 2009), c’est-à-dire ne figent pas les orientations sexuelles, les identités de genre ou les dynamiques relationnelles, mais permettent une conception de l’identité dont le socle ne serait plus une vérité abstraite ou essentielle, mais reposerait sur des pratiques (on songe ici aux œuvres de Jakuta Alikavazovic, Emmanuelle Bamayack-Tam, Pauline Delabroy-Allard ou Léonora Miano) ; exploration des formes de résistance qui se manifestent à travers les motifs de la vengeance (dans Baise-moi de Virginie Despentes en 1994) et de l’organisation collective (dans Les Orageuses de Marcia Burnier ou Les Hérétiques d’Elyse Carré en 2020), lesquels peuvent supporter le déploiement de rassemblements empruntant une part de leur imaginaire à ces fictions. On s’appliquera ainsi à interroger la façon dont la littérature francophone contemporaine prend en charge les sexualités et travaille leurs représentations, contribue à rendre visible des formes de domination, tantôt en les entretenant, tantôt en explorant des propositions narratives ou formelles cherchant à les faire vaciller, fût-ce dans un seul cadre diégétique apparaissant comme ouvroir de possibles.

D’un point de vue théorique, le présent dossier revendique une dimension intersectionnelle, qui s’intéressera à des identités et à des expériences de subordination multiples et favorisera l’analyse de l’articulation des représentations littéraires de violences sexuelles et sexistes avec d’autres formes de domination et d’oppression (notamment de classe, de « race », de genre et d’orientation sexuelle). Que l’intersectionnalité soit conceptualisée comme un point de jonction (Crenshaw, 1991), comme « axes » de différence (Yuval-Davis, 2006) ou comme un processus dynamique (Staunæs, 2003), on s’attachera surtout à montrer comment la question de l’expérience individuelle des violences sexuelles et sexistes est articulée, au sein des récits étudiés, aux structures sociales et aux discours culturels qui les rendent possibles.

Dans cette perspective, un regard réflexif sur la discipline littéraire et sur les mécanismes littéraires permettant d’euphémiser, de dissimuler, voire de sublimer la violence sexiste et sexuelle (chez Tony Duvert ou Gabriel Matzneff, notamment, mais aussi dans des récits où la phallocratie s’avance masquée, sous le couvert de la galanterie, par exemple) sera bienvenu. Une approche sociologique de la littérature qui interrogera dans un mouvement dialectique les compositions internes des textes étudiés et leur contexte d’émergence (scène médiatique, procédés éditoriaux, réseaux d’écrivains, réception, etc.), bénéficiera d’une attention redoublée.

Échéance : 1 juin 2021. Les propositions de contribution (environ 300 mots), portant sur les littératures françaises et francophones doivent être envoyées en français ou en anglais, à fixxion21@gmail.com (un rédacteur vous inscrira comme auteur et vous enverra le gabarit MSWord de la revue).
Après notification de la validation, le texte de l’article définitif (saisi dans le gabarit Word et respectant les styles et consignes du Protocole rédactionnel) est à envoyer à fixxion21@gmail.com avant le 15 décembre 2021 pour évaluation et relecture par les membres de la Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine.

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1.8 2021 CSA Conference Call for Papers – Now Open

Identity Politics, Industry, Ecology and the Intelligent Economy in Caribbean Societies

Políticas de Identidad, Industria, Ecología y la Economía Inteligente en las Sociedades del Caribe

Politiques identitaires, industrie, écologie et l’économie intelligente dans les sociétés caribéennes

CSA embraces proposals from all disciplinary perspectives, theoretical standpoints and methodological approaches and welcomes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary submissions. We accept individual paper proposals but strongly recommend proposals for fully constituted panels, fully constituted round tables and pre-organized workshops. We warmly encourage proposals for panels, round tables and workshops that are multi-lingual and multi-disciplinary. We welcome proposals from researchers, academics, policy makers, teachers, students, community activists, cultural managers, writers, artists, creatives and anyone with a keen interest in Caribbean Studies.

Deadline: 31 January, 2021

CLICK HERE for Details

1.9 Call for Papers: 44th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies, 6th to 10th July 2021, on-line

The Society for Caribbean Studies invites submissions of abstracts of no more than 250 words for research papers on the Hispanic, Francophone, Dutch and Anglophone Caribbean and their diasporas for this annual international conference. Papers from all disciplines of Caribbean Studies are welcomed, across the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Proposals can address any theme or topic focused on the Caribbean extended region, and should be submitted by 15th January 2021.

The SCS postgraduate conference will take place during the main conference this year. If you would like your paper to be considered as part of the postgraduate day, please indicate this when you submit it.

Submit your proposal here -> https://www.scs-gellius.net/paper_submit.php?course_run_id=3517

Our 2020 conference was unfortunately cancelled, due to the global pandemic. If you submitted a paper and received an email to say it was accepted, we will honour that acceptance at the 2021 conference. Therefore please email societyforcaribbeanstudies@gmail.com by 15^th January 2021 to confirm that the same paper will be presented by the same author. There will then be no need to resubmit the abstract. However, if the paper has changed you will need to submit a new proposal, by 15^th January 2021. The new proposal will be considered alongside other new proposals. If you are a postgraduate whose paper was accepted for the 2020 conference, please confirm whether you would like your paper to be presented as a postgraduate paper.

To honour our 2020 commitment to Cardiff, relevant papers from local scholars, and/or papers addressing the relationships between Wales and the Caribbean, will be particularly welcome. We also welcome proposals for complete panels, which should consist of a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 4
presenters (note that a separate abstract should be submitted for each paper).

Those selected for the conference will be invited to give a 15-minute presentation. Abstracts should be submitted along with a short bio of no more than 150 words by 15th of January 2021. Proposals received after the deadline will not be considered.

Researchers at all career stages, including postgraduates, will be welcomed. Postgraduates are reminded that the David Nicholls prize will be awarded for the best postgraduate paper.

Please circulate this information as widely as possible.

1.10 CALL FOR PAPERS: Podcasting Disruptive Voices: New Narratives of Race, Gender & Sexuality

Inspired by Marshall MacLuhan’s pivotal statement that “the medium is the message,” this volume seeks to explore how the emergence of new media has challenged public discourse and epistemological approaches on societal issues in France. While we welcome contributions on new platforms like webseries, online newsletters, YouTube channels, and blogs, the present study will mainly focus on podcasts, which, with their growing popularity, have become a cultural phenomenon in France. In the same way that increased accessibility of the video format supported the feminist and the gay and lesbian movements in the 1970s, by allowing these underrepresented subjects to show images of themselves and politicize their personal lives, podcasts are now considered the platform of choice to give a voice to invisible bodies and communities. Through this medium, minority groups challenge gender normativity, embrace intersectional feminism, and unveil France’s deep-rooted racism (whether systemic, casual, or stereotypical) and its biases. As the title of the section — recently dedicated to this media form in Les Inrocks (14/10/2020) — suggests, podcasts “f[ont] entendre des voix qui n’ont pas été entendues” (allow us to hear voices that have not yet been heard) (23-25).

Podcasting is relatively new in France — there are about 1,500 French language podcasts on Apple Podcasts. According to the Bello Collective, “86% of the podcast studios founded in France in the last three years are owned by women or have at least one female founder. 35% of the top 200 podcasts on France’s Apple Podcast charts are produced or hosted by women, compared to 10% in the United States.” These numbers speak volumes about the need for women to tell their stories without being diminished, mansplained, interrupted, or sexually harassed. Rather than defending themselves and placed in a position of reaction, they find with podcasting the possibility of fully taking action in the building of new forms of knowledge. By giving more space to subjective experiences, podcasts challenge the so-called neutrality of traditional media and academic research, which too often reflect the dominant viewpoint that is one of white, cisgender, and heterosexual men. The plurality of voices in podcasts offers a long-needed exploration of issues around race, gender, and sexuality that disrupts traditional and ideological assumptions about black, brown, cis, trans, and non-binary bodies.

These new forms of knowledge derive from a production model that participates in the democratization of audio content and ownership. With lower production costs, podcasters have had more flexibility to design and host original programs free from the constraints imposed by traditional radio. Independently produced or developed by studios such as Louie Media (2018), House of Podcasts (2018), Nouvelles Écoutes (2016) and Binge Audio (2016), these new kinds of podcasts, coined as native podcasts, disrupt conventional boundaries by creating a continuum between professional and amateur, formal and informal, theory and practice, informational and artistic. In doing so, podcasts renegotiate power dynamics between podcast hosts, guests, and the audience, while building a renewed sense of camaraderie, if not of community. Thanks to their unrestricted creative freedom, some of them further experiment with sound and storytelling techniques that provide an aesthetic, literary, and poetic dimension to the contents they elaborate.

We invite proposals for papers in English that approach French podcasting and new media (webseries, newsletters, youtube channels, blogs) from an intersectional perspective. Papers may reflect upon, but are not limited to:

The impact of intersectionality on the French podcasting industry
The deconstruction of white privilege through women-produced/hosted podcasts
Rethinking race and gender
Influence of American scholarship on postcolonialism, gender, and race
Influence of American social movements BLM/TimesUp/MeToo
Aesthetic innovation: Storytelling, sound, montage
Disruption of established “canons”
Reclaiming space through voice
Performance, voice and “visibility”
Destabilizing the status-quo / breaking hierarchies
Activism through podcasting
Language and performative power / “le pouvoir de la langue”
Personal/collective identity
Production of knowledge: new voices vs. traditional media
Deconstructing heteronormativity
Decolonization / Decoloniality
Minorities and issues of identity
Accessibility and democratization
Collaboration, comradeship, and sorority

Please send proposals for papers (500 words) with a title and short bibliography along with a short biographical statement (200 words) to Audrey Brunetaux (abruneta@colby.edu) and Thomas Muzart (tmuzart@colby.edu) by March 31, 2021.

1.11 Call for Papers: 2021 Works-in-Progress Seminar Series on Confinement, Connectivity and Care

Women in French Australia is delighted to announce their first seminar series beginning next year. We invite 10-minute papers on the theme of “Confinement, Connectivity and Care” for the first online seminar to be held on 26 February 2021. We particularly encourage works-in-progress so colleagues can receive constructive and collegial feedback on their research. Please submit your proposals of 200 words plus a short bio to wifaustralia@gmail.com by 1 February 2021.

Information about WiF Australia and their activities will now be available on a new website: https://womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/

2. Job and Scholarship Opportunities

2.1 Tenure Track Position: Assistant Professor of pre-19th century French studies – San Diego State University

Department: European Studies, San Diego State University

VPAA #2021/22-09

Position description:

The Department of European Studies at San Diego State University invites applications for a tenure track assistant professor position in French to start in August 2021. Research specialization in pre-19^th century French studies with preferred expertise in race/colonialism, women/gender, and/or sexuality/LGBTQ studies. We seek a dynamic colleague who can complement, strengthen, diversify, and expand the competencies of our program and department and contribute to fostering innovative collaborations with faculty in various units on campus.

Required qualifications/criteria:

PhD in hand by June 2021 in an appropriate field
Professional proficiency in French and in English
Strong research program with evidence of scholarly contributions commensurate with experience in the field
Ability and willingness to teach medieval to 18^th-century topics in French in undergraduate and graduate courses
Ability and willingness to engage actively in departmental and university service
Ability to work effectively with faculty, staff, and students from a variety of diverse backgrounds at a Hispanic-Serving Institution (see specific BIE criteria below)

Desirable qualifications/criteria:

Teaching experience in the U.S. university system
Ability and willingness to teach courses in French at all levels of the curriculum
Ability and willingness to serve as undergraduate advisor for French
Ability to contribute to undergraduate and graduate program revision and to develop innovative interdisciplinary courses

We are seeking applicants with demonstrated experience in and/or commitment to teaching and working effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds and members of underrepresented groups. Candidates must satisfy two or more of the eight Building on Inclusive Excellence (BIE) criteria. In addition to your application letter, please provide a 300-word Diversity Statement describing how you meet at least two or more of the following BIE criteria:

Is engaged in service with underrepresented populations in higher education
Demonstrates knowledge of barriers for underrepresented students and faculty in higher education
Has experience or demonstrated commitment to teaching and mentoring underrepresented students
Integrates understanding of underrepresented populations and communities into research
Extends knowledge of opportunities and challenges in achieving artistic/scholarly success to members of an underrepresented group
Is committed to research that engages underrepresented communities
Shows expertise in cross-cultural communication and collaboration
Has research interests that contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in higher education

Candidates should apply through Interfolio at https://apply.interfolio.com/81429 by January 15, 2021. Interested applicants should submit an application letter, CV, 300-word diversity statement, writing sample (e.g. article, book chapter, dissertation chapter), a sample syllabus, evidence of teaching effectiveness (e.g. class evaluations, supervisor’s report), and three letters of recommendation. To ensure full consideration, application materials must be submitted by the deadline. Position will remain open until filled. For further information, please contact Professor Anne Donadey at adonadey@sdsu.edu

The Department of European Studies offers Bachelors’ degrees in European Studies, French and Francophone Studies, German, and Russian; minors in these fields as well as in Italian; and a Masters’ degree in French and Francophone Studies. We also serve students majoring in International Business and in Interdisciplinary Studies, among others. The department collaborates with other units on campus, including the Language Acquisition Resource Center, whose director is a faculty member in our department. We are deeply committed to fostering a learning environment supportive of diversity and inclusivity, in which all our faculty, staff and students are respected and represented. See our website at http://esdepartment.sdsu.edu/ for more information.

San Diego State University is a large, public, diverse, urban university and Hispanic-Serving Institution located on Kumeyaay lands with a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our student population is over 36,000 and we have approximately 5,850 faculty and staff. SDSU is currently designated as a Doctoral / Research-Intensive University by the Carnegie Foundation. Established in 1897, SDSU offers bachelor’s degrees in 96 areas, masters in 86 and doctorates in 24. See http://www.sdsu.edu for more information. Salary and benefits are competitive and are commensurate with experience and academic preparation. Our campus community is diverse in many ways, including race and ethnicity, religion, color, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, pregnancy, medical condition, and covered veteran status. We strive to build and sustain a welcoming environment for all.

The person holding this position is considered a “mandated reporter” under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order 1083 as a condition of employment.

A background check (including a criminal records check) must be completed before any candidate can be offered a position with the CSU. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the application status of applicants or continued employment of current CSU employees who apply for the position.

SDSU is a Title IX, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, marital status, age, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, or covered veteran status.

2.2 Opportunité de doctorat chez Ulster University | Government in linguistically diverse societies

Avec prière de diffusion chez vos étudiants. La connaissance du français est un atout.

Funded PhD Opportunity at Ulster University |

Government in linguistically diverse societies

Submission deadline. Friday 26 February 2021

2.3 Official (Tutorial) Fellowship in French and Associate Professorship or Professorship of Francophone Post-Colonial Literatures and Cultures

Closing date:

15 January, 2021

Salary: £48,114 to £64,605 p.a. plus allowances

Start date: 1st October 2021 or as soon as possible thereafter

Oriel College and the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages invite applications from suitably qualified candidates for an Official (Tutorial) Fellowship in French and Associate Professorship or Professorship of French. The person appointed will be expected to engage in advanced study and research in French and to give high-quality tutorials, classes, lectures and supervision at both undergraduate and graduate level.

Applications are sought from applicants working on any aspects of Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures in the 20th or 21st Century.

Francophone Post-Colonial Studies is without doubt the largest growth area with the discipline of French Studies, which is increasingly recognizing itself as being in dialogue with ‘World Literature’ and ‘Global Culture’s’ and as encompassing the many Francophone literatures that have grown out of Frances’s colonial history.

The appointment will be made in association with a tutorial fellowship at Oriel College. The Fellow is expected to take part in the administration and governance of the College by participation in the Governing Body and other committees. The Official Fellow will be entitled to lunch and dinner at the Common Table free of cost. Accommodation may be available in college on a single occupancy basis, alternatively a taxable and pensionable housing allowance (currently £9,098 per annum) will be paid and an office/teaching room provided in College. In addition, Fellows research costs (including travel and books) may be reclaimed up to a current maximum of £1,705 per annum. There is a modest entertainment budget. The post carries an entitlement to join, or to remain a member of, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). The Fellow will be entitled to apply for sabbatical leave from College duties, without deduction of stipend, at the rate of one term’s leave for every six terms of teaching.

The successful candidate should have a research and teaching specialisation in Francophone Post-Colonial Literatures and Cultures. Candidates should have received a doctoral degree by the advertised closing date for this position or, in exceptional circumstances, have submitted a completed doctoral dissertation for examination by this date. Applications should be able to demonstrate a record of original, important and rigorous published research in the field of Francophone Post-Colonial Literatures and Cultures commensurate with the candidate’s career stage. Evidence of excellence or the potential for excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching is essential. Evidence of the potential to attract external funding for research. Native or near-native standard competence in both English and French, such that the candidate can publish research in both languages, teach tutorials in English, give lectures in either English or French (as she or he chooses) and teach high-level language classes operating between both languages.

The person appointed will be required to engage in advanced research in Francophone Post-Colonial Literatures and Cultures and to give high quality tutorials, classes, lectures and supervision at both undergraduate and graduate level. In making this appointment, the College and the University share the goal of developing and strengthening the teaching and research capacities and capabilities of both the College and the Faculty of medieval and Modern Languages as well as helping to maintain the University more generally as a leading centre for teaching and research.

For further information and details of how to apply please read the Further Particulars available by clicking the link below.

The closing date for the receipt of applications is 5pm on Friday 15th January 2021.

Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates who are under represented in academic posts in Oxford.

Oriel College, Oriel Square, Oxford. OX1 4EW and the University of Oxford Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, 41 & 47 Wellington Square, Oxford. OX1 2JF are both employers for this position.

FURTHER PARTICULARS

Download the further particulars here

2.4 2021-22 Visiting Fellowship at the St Andrews Centre for French History & Culture

The Centre for French History and Culture at the University of St Andrews (Scotland, UK) invites applications for its biannual visiting fellowship. This is a sabbatical fellowship, usually lasting 2-3 months, and often particularly suited to academics in the later stages of writing up a substantial piece of research.

The Fellowship is open to any academic across the world in a permanent or tenure-track faculty post with research interests in any area of the Francophone world during any period of history. Previous holders of the fellowship include Professor Jan Dumolyn (Ghent University, Belgium), Professor Norman Ingram (Concordia University, Canada), Professor Eric Jennings (University of Toronto, Canada), Professor Junko Takeda (Syracuse University, USA), Professor Dominique Kalifa (Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne, France), Professor Nélia Dias (ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal), and Professor Andrew Orr (Kansas State University, USA).

The Fellowship carries with it no teaching duties, though the Fellow is expected to present a research paper and to take part in the normal seminar life of the Centre and the School of History during his or her stay in St Andrews. The Fellowship provides a stipend of £3000, intended to defray costs such as transportation to and from St Andrews from the holder’s normal place of work and accommodation costs while resident in St Andrews. The Fellow has full borrowing and e-access rights in the University Library.

Further details of the fellowship and application process can be found at this link: https://cfhc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/projects/visiting-fellowships/. The application deadline is 19 February 2021, 1 pm BST. The result of the competition will be communicated to applicants by late March.

2.5 Job Advertisement: Professorship in History

The School of History and Philosophy at NUI Galway, Ireland, invites applications for the post of Established Professor in History – this is an open call in terms of research area (medieval to modern) and thematic approach, with a deadline of 28th January, 2021.

For further information, please see http://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/jobs/#

2.6 Position: Asst. Prof in History of Europe and the French Empire

The History Department at Kenyon College, a highly selective, nationally-ranked liberal arts college in central Ohio, invites applications for a tenure-track position in the history of France and the Francophone world, beginning 1 July 2021. We seek applicants who are able to engage in both regional and global aspects of French history from 1600-1870. Area of specialization is open. Candidates whose research and teaching expertise include both Europe and a strong global focus are especially welcome. Candidates should be prepared to teach survey courses on the early modern period in continental Europe and on French history, and they must be interested in developing intermediate and upper-level seminars in their area of interest. The History Department maintains a strong honors program and there are opportunities to mentor students in these related fields.

The History Department seeks a creative colleague who can build on our current global curriculum. The department is comprised of a dozen historians with diverse thematic and geographic specializations and it values both excellence in undergraduate education and high-quality research. Candidates should have a record of excellent teaching and a Ph.D. in hand or be near completion by the beginning of the appointment (July 2021).

Applications should include 1) a letter of application, 2) a curriculum vitae and 3) list of names and contact information of three (3) references. Cover letter should discuss teaching experience, with specific examples of innovative assignments and approaches; information on ways that issues and practices related to diversity, inclusion, and equity have been or will be included in teaching and advising, and the candidate’s research agenda, including current and future projects. More materials – letters of recommendation, writing sample, unofficial transcript, and teaching philosophy – will be requested of candidates who advance to the interview stage.

To apply, candidates should visit the online application site found at http://careers.kenyon.edu. Review of applications will begin on January 21, 2021 and continue until the position is filled.

Kenyon College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and applications from members of all underrepresented groups are encouraged. It is the College’s policy to evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, physical and/or mental disability, age, religion, medical condition, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by institutional policy or state, local, or federal law. Kenyon College has a strong commitment to supporting diversity, equity and inclusion. Please visit our Diversity at Kenyon website. www.kenyon.edu If you have any question, please email Nurten Kilic-Schubel, Chair of the Search Committee, at kilicn@kenyon.edu

3. Announcements

3.1 Dix-neuf at a Distance 2021: New Virtual Seminar Series

Virtual seminars of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes and Dix-Neuf, the journal

The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes and the journal Dix-Neuf are delighted to announce a new seminar series featuring new research by early-career scholars. Each seminar focuses on a specific theme, with two early-career researchers presenting an aspect of their work, followed by general discussion with a moderator. We very much hope you will join us!

The seminar will meet once a month on Fridays

17h UK time/ 12h EST / 18h French time.

Zoom links will be sent ahead of each seminar.

Series organisers: the Editors of Dix-Neuf: Masha Belenky (The George Washington U), Larry Duffy (U of Kent), Andrew Watts (U of Birmingham); and the President of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, Jennifer Yee (Oxford).

For questions, please contact us at dixneufjournal@gmail.com

PROGRAMME:

8 January

The Doctor-Patient Encounter / The Primal Scene of Medical Humanities

Beatrice Fagan, University of Kent: ‘“L’École professionnelle de la mère”: Dames-Visiteuses and the Medical Encounter in Nineteenth-Century Crèches’.

Sarah Jones, University of Oxford: ‘Paternal Doctors and Rebellious Patients: The Dynamics of the Stendhalian Doctor-Patient Relationship’.

Moderator: Steven Wilson, Queen’s University Belfast

5 February

Popular Culture and the Body

Hannah Frydman, Brown University: ‘From the Front to the Back Page: Queer Reading in Theory and Practice’

Kasia Stempniak, Hamilton College “Prismatic Bodies: Dress and Technology in Loïe Fuller’s Performances”

Moderator: Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University

11 March *Please note Thursday not Friday slot

Orientalism and Pseudo Science

Sarah Arens, University of St Andrews: ‘Cats, Capitalism, and Colonialism: Re-visiting Pseudo Sciences in Emile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin (1868)’

Julia Hartley, University of Warwick: ‘“Ta race est 89”: The “Aryan’”Myth and the Rhetoric of Scientific Objectivity in Gobineau, Renan, and Michelet’

Moderator: Jennifer Yee, University of Oxford

9 April

The Ugly Truth: Pain at the Limits of Representation in Nineteenth-Century France

Maria Beliaeva Solomon, University of Maryland: ‘Au lisier du réalisme: les contes bruns de Balzac’

Michelle Lee, Wellesley College: ‘The Ugly Truth: Representing Race in Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin’

Moderator: Andrew Watts, University of Birmingham

7 May

‘Normality’

Kim Hajek, LSE/Universiteit Leiden: ‘The “Normal state” in French personality psychology.’

Aina Marti, University of Kent: ‘Domestic Architecture and the Incorporation of Medical Discourses of Normality.’

Moderator: Aude Fauvel, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Vaud, Lausanne

11 June

Literature and the Press

Helen Craske, University of Oxford: ‘Publishing Vitriol: Rachilde, Léon Bloy, and the Mercure de France.’

Alexandre Burin, University of Durham: ‘Nouvelles en trois lignes: Thinking through Microfiction, from Félix Fénéon to Twitter.’

Moderator: Edmund Birch, University of Cambridge

Further dates to be announced!

3.2 Larry Neal Prize for Excellence in EU Scholarship

The EU Center at the University of Illinois is pleased to let you know about the revival of a prize that we offered in the past to recognize excellence in EU scholarship, broadly defined as addressing current issues faced by the European Union or in transatlantic relations. The call for paper submissions can be found by clicking on the following link: Larry Neal Prize for Excellence in EU scholarship. Submissions are encouraged from all disciplinary fields.

Because of the importance for the European Commission’s Jean Monnet Program in the development of EU Studies in the US (for more information see https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/esc/events/JMintheUS and https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus/actions/jean-monnet), as noted in the above call we welcome nominations of scholars affiliated with a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence in the United States or Canada. Institutions in the US with current eligible centers are the following:

American University
Florida International University
George Washington University
Georgia Tech
Graduate Center of the City University of New York University of California, Berkeley University of Colorado University of Florida University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign) University of Maryland University of Miami University of North Carolina University of Pittsburgh University of Washington University of Wisconsin Virginia Tech

Please see the link above for the call for more details and circulate as you think might be of interest.

We welcome all nominations, per the instructions in the attached call, by Friday, January 1st.

3.3 Appel à projets autour de 4 axes – UchicagoParis

Pour renforcer ses liens avec les institutions universitaires françaises, favoriser les échanges internationaux entre chercheurs, offrir un cadre à la recherche et une visibilité au public, le Centre à Paris de l’Université de Chicago lance un nouvel appel à manifestations scientifiques.

Les projets lauréats bénéficieront du soutien de l’Université de Chicago qui se chargera de la communication de l’événement et de la gestion des inscriptions, assurera l’accueil des participants et accompagnera le bon déroulement de la rencontre. Un soutien financier est possible jusqu’à 1000€.

Critères d’éligibilité :

– L’événement doit avoir lieu dans nos locaux

– Il doit entrer dans l’un des 4 thèmes de notre programmation

– Ce doit être une manifestation à caractère scientifique : une conférence, un colloque, un symposium, un workshop…

– L’événement doit être ouvert au public

Dossier :

(à envoyer à msahakian@uchicago.edu)

– Format de la manifestation

– Titre

– Noms des coordinateurs et affiliations

– Intervenants et communications (pré-programme)

– Date souhaitée

– Texte de présentation

– Montant sollicité (budget détaillé)

Calendrier :

Axe Principal	Environnement – Ecologie	Race – Racialisation	Histoire du temps présent	Genre – Sexualité
Date limite d’envoi du dossier	1^er mars 2021	1^er juin 2021	1^er septembre 2021	1^er décembre 2021
Période déroulement événement	1^er juillet – 30 septembre 2021	1^er octobre – 31 décembre 2021	1^er janvier – 31 mars 2022	1^er avril – 30 juin 2022

3.4 Call for the Elsa Goveia Book Prize

The Association of Caribbean Historians is pleased to invite nominations for the 2021 Elsa Goveia Book Prize. Previously awarded every three years, the ACH book prize has been awarded every two years since 1995, and recognizes excellence in the field of Caribbean history.

Eligibility Criteria:

Any scholarly history or general work acceptable as an historical work published in 2019 or 2020 is eligible for this year’s competition.
Any press or place of publication will be considered.
Publication may be in English, Spanish, French or Dutch.
Work should be marked by felicity of prose style and clarity of expression.
Only first editions of original works will be considered.
Multi-authored collections, anthologies, and other such edited works are not eligible.

Call for Submissions:

Authors, publishers, managing or marketing editors, and others must submit nominations to the prize chair and adjudicating committee by December 31, 2020. The winner will be announced at the 2021 ACH Annual Conference in Guadeloupe. It is important that one copy of the book nominated be sent directly by courier or airmail to each member of the committee. Please ensure that all charges connected with mail or courier services are pre-paid.

Due to COVID-19 social distancing protocols at academic institutions, please send an email to each of the Prize Committee members to obtain their current addresses. Alternatively, you can contact the ACH Secretary-Treasurer for mailing addresses achsecretary@gmail.com.

Randy Browne (Chair)

History Department, Xavier University, USA

Email: browner@xavier.edu

Dannelle Gutarra Cordero

African American Studies & Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton University

Email: dgutarra@princeton.edu

Chelsea Schields

Department of History

University of California, Irvine

Email: cschield@uci.edu

3.5 New streaming platform for films from African and Caribbean content creators

YardVibes is Caribbean Creativity’s new streaming platform for films from African and Caribbean makers. The platform currently offers 30+ titles for sale or rent, from feature films and web series to documentaries and short films, with more titles to be added each month. To celebrate the launch, 4 titles can be rented for free during the first week (11-19 December): the Haitian-Bahamian documentary My Father’s Land (2015), the award-winning Dutch-Gambian migrant drama Gifts from Babylon (2018), the new Jamaican mockumentary web series Crazy Jamaican Bwoy (2020) and the restored Jamaican feature film No Place Like Home: Redux (2019), the highly anticipated sequel to The Harder They Come (1972, only available in the Netherlands).

For more information and an overview of all the films on the YardVibes streaming platform: www.caribbeancreativity.nl/yardvibes/

If you are or know a filmmaker who might be interested in joining the platform with his/her content, please send an email to info@caribbeancreativity.nl

3.6 Decolonising the Academy: online event 21st Jan 4pm UK time

Decolonising the Academy

Education Power and Social Change

Online event January 21^st 4.00-5.30pm

Featuring Professor Kehinde Andrews, Birmingham City University and Dr Nadine El-Enany, Birkbeck, University of London

2020 was a momentous year, where anti-racist and decolonial activism came to the fore in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. However even as Colston’s statue was toppled and Donald Trump defeated, a senior Government minister has attacked Critical Race Theory and universities UK report states that UK higher education institutions are guilty of institutionalised racism. So how are higher education institutions going to move beyond mere paper pushing exercises and performative gestures to really address the legacies of empire and the contemporary practices that continue to have an adverse impact on global black and brown majority communities? What is the role of the role of education in bringing about academic and societal transformation in relation to the vexed issue of racial justice? And can the academic space be a site for change?

To answer these questions and to kick off Birkbeck’s decolonising the academy’s collective series we have invited two brilliant activist intellectuals who are the cutting edge of decolonial thought to get us started. Kehinde Andrews is Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University and author of the forthcoming The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World. (February 2021) he will be joined by Nadine El-Enany Reader in Law and author of (B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire.

The decolonising the Academy Collective at Birkbeck is a new initiative emanating from the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, it builds on the earlier work of the Decolonising the Curriculum Working Group at Birkbeck. Our aim is to develop creative, innovative and transformative learning spaces tasked with liberating the academy from the legacies of colonialism and empire.

Dr William Ackah Chair and Hub Leader Research

Elizabeth Charles Hub Leader Resources

Dr Jan Etienne Hub Leader Student Experience

Dr Kerry Harman Hub Leader Teaching and Learning

3.7 Cambridge Collaborative A-level Resources for Languages

As you will know, schools in the UK have had to rely on online teaching for much of this school year and it looks like this is not going to stop for yet a few more months. We are aware from liaising with schools in the UK that there is a strong appetite for resources designed by academics in higher education to complement those used in secondary schools. For this reason, we would like to create a platform that will provide videos in French targeting set A-level texts (see list below), answering a crucial need in these difficult times. These videos will be useful for students studying remotely and independently or as a classroom activity. We are aiming to have 8-10 videos ready to be watched and/or downloaded by the end of February 2021.

Although the University of Cambridge will contribute to this resource by covering any administration costs and by providing and maintaining the platform, this is not intended as a Cambridge-centred venture. Rather, the project should be envisaged as part of every university’s collective contribution to Widening Participation and support for schools during COVID-19. The platform will be called CCARL: Cambridge Collaborative A-level Resources for Languages.

Please have a look at the list of set texts below. Would you be able to produce a short video (20 minutes) in French, which could be used as a supplementary teaching tool or by students to revise for this text? If yes, please get back to Christophe Gagne at cg238@cam.ac.uk with an expression of interest by Friday, 8^th of January, who can then provide you with more detailed information including advice on the format, inclusivity and copyright. Our aim is to include as many national and international institutions in the production of these resources as possible. Your name and that of your institution will be visibly credited. Although we will not be able to pay for these videos, we would like to include colleagues who might not be on permanent contracts and might find it difficult to afford the extra time necessary for this project. If you would like to be part of this project and are in this category, please do get back to me as we have small funds to this effect.

All videos will be free to access. We will promote these resources via all of the usual channels and will encourage you to do the same.

Thank you!

Literary texts

Boule de Suif et autres contes de guerre(Boule de Suif, Un Duel, Deux Amis, La Mère Sauvage), Guy de Maupassant, 1880
La Place, Annie Ernaux, 1983
Le Blé en Herbe, Colette, 1923
Le Château de ma Mère, Marcel Pagnol, 1957
Le Gone du Chaâba, Azouz Begag, 2005
Les Mains Sales, Jean-Paul Sartre, 1948
Les Petits Enfants du siècle, Christiane Rochefort, 1961
Le Tartuffe, Molière, 1669
L’Étranger, Albert Camus, 1942
No et Moi, Delphine de Vigan, 2007
Thérèse Desqueyroux, François Mauriac, 1927
Une si longue lettre, Mariama Bâ, 1981
Un Sac de Billes, Joseph Joffo, 1973
Candide, Voltaire, 1759
Bonjour tristesse, Françoise Sagan
Elise ou la vraie vie, Claire Etcherelli
Un sac de billes, Joseph Joffo
Kiffe kiffe demain, Faïza Guène
Un secret, Philippe Grimbert
No et moi, Delphine de Vigan

Films

Au Revoir les Enfants, dir. Louis Malle (1987)
Chocolat, dir. Claire Denis (1988)
Cléo de 5 à 7, dir. Agnès Varda (1962)
Deux Jours, une Nuit, dirs. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne (2014)
Entre les murs, dir. Laurent Cantet (2008)
Intouchables, dirs. Oliver Nakache, Eric Toledano (2011)
La Haine, dir. Mathieu Kassovitz (1995)
La Vie en Rose, dir. Olivier Dahan (2007)
Le Dernier Métro, dir. François Truffaut (1980)
Les Choristes, dir. Christophe Barratier (2004)
Les 400 Coups, dir. François Truffaut (1959)
Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles, dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2004)
L’auberge espagnole, dir. Cédric Klapisch (2002)

Contribution on the following themes would also be welcome: Aspects of French speaking society: current trends, Aspects of French-speaking society: current issues, Artistic culture in the French-speaking world, Aspects of political life in the French-speaking world, Language policy and linguistic trends.

Comme vous le savez, les écoles du Royaume-Uni ont dû recourir à l’enseignement en ligne pendant une grande partie de l’année scolaire en cours et il semble que cela va continuer pendant quelques mois encore. Or, nous savons grâce à nos contacts avec les écoles du Royaume-Uni qu’il existe une forte demande dans les écoles secondaires pour des ressources conçues par des universitaires de l’enseignement supérieur. C’est pourquoi nous proposons de créer une plateforme qui fournira des vidéos en français qui cibleront les textes étudiés dans le cadre du A-level (voir liste ci-dessous) et qui viendront répondre à un besoin crucial en ces temps difficiles. Ces vidéos seront utiles pour les étudiants qui étudient à distance et de manière indépendante, elles pourront également être utilisées en classe. Notre objectif et d’avoir 8 à 10 vidéos prêtes à être visionnées et/ou téléchargées d’ici la fin février 2021.

Bien que l’Université de Cambridge assure la prise en charge administrative et la gestion de la plateforme, il ne s’agit pas d’un projet visant à faire la promotion de cette université. Nous envisageons ce projet comme s’inscrivant dans la contribution collective des universités à l’accroissement de l’accès à l’université et au soutien qu’elles peuvent apporter au secteur secondaire pendant l’épidémie de Covid. La plateforme s’appellera CCARL : Cambridge Collaborative A-level Resources for Languages.

Merci de consulter la liste des textes ci-dessous. Pensez-vous que vous seriez en mesure de produire une courte vidéo (20 minutes) en français qui pourrait être utilisée comme outil pédagogique ? Si oui, veuillez contacter Christophe Gagne par courriel (cg238@cam.ac.uk) avant le vendredi 8 janvier. Il pourra alors vous fournir des informations plus détaillées, y compris des conseils sur le format, l’inclusion et les droits d’auteur. Notre objectif est d’inclure le plus grand nombre possible d’institutions nationales et internationales dans la production de ces ressources. Votre nom et celui de votre institution seront visiblement crédités. Bien que nous ne puissions rémunérer les auteurs de ces vidéos, nous aimerions inclure des collègues qui ne sont pas sous contrat permanent et qui pourraient avoir des difficultés à trouver le temps supplémentaire nécessaire pour ce projet. Si vous souhaitez participer à ce projet et que vous appartenez à cette catégorie, veuillez le contacter, nous disposons de quelques fonds qui devraient nous permettre de vous dédommager.

Toutes les vidéos seront accessibles gratuitement et uniquement à des fins éducatives et non-commerciales. Nous en ferons la promotion via les canaux habituels et vous encouragerons à en faire de même.

Merci !

Textes litéraires

Boule de Suif et autres contes de guerre(Boule de Suif, Un Duel, Deux Amis, La Mère Sauvage), Guy de Maupassant, 1880
La Place, Annie Ernaux, 1983
Le Blé en Herbe, Colette, 1923
Le Château de ma Mère, Marcel Pagnol, 1957
Le Gone du Chaâba, Azouz Begag, 2005
Les Mains Sales, Jean-Paul Sartre, 1948
Les Petits Enfants du siècle, Christiane Rochefort, 1961
Le Tartuffe, Molière, 1669
L’Étranger, Albert Camus, 1942
No et Moi, Delphine de Vigan, 2007
Thérèse Desqueyroux, François Mauriac, 1927
Une si longue lettre, Mariama Bâ, 1981
Un Sac de Billes, Joseph Joffo, 1973
Candide, Voltaire, 1759
Bonjour tristesse, Françoise Sagan
Elise ou la vraie vie, Claire Etcherelli
Un sac de billes, Joseph Joffo
Kiffe kiffe demain, Faïza Guène
Un secret, Philippe Grimbert
No et moi, Delphine de Vigan

Films

Au Revoir les Enfants, dir. Louis Malle (1987)
Chocolat, dir. Claire Denis (1988)
Cléo de 5 à 7, dir. Agnès Varda (1962)
Deux Jours, une Nuit, dirs. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne (2014)
Entre les murs, dir. Laurent Cantet (2008)
Intouchables, dirs. Oliver Nakache, Eric Toledano (2011)
La Haine, dir. Mathieu Kassovitz (1995)
La Vie en Rose, dir. Olivier Dahan (2007)
Le Dernier Métro, dir. François Truffaut (1980)
Les Choristes, dir. Christophe Barratier (2004)
Les 400 Coups, dir. Françöis Truffaut (1959)
Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles, dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2004)
L’auberge espagnole, dir. Cédric Klapisch (2002)

Des contributions sur les thèmes suivants seraient également les bienvenues : questions de société dans le monde francophone ; questions d’actualité dans l’espace francophone ; culture artistique dans le monde francophone ; aspects de la vie politique dans l’espace francophone ; politiques linguistiques et tendances linguistiques.

4. New Publications

4.1 Patricia Mohammed, Writing Gender Into the Caribbean: Selected Essays, 1988-2020 (Hertford: Hansib Publications, 2020)

The revolutionary act of imprinting gender into Caribbean thought is celebrated by Patricia Mohammed as she brings together decades worth of her critical essays that have influenced directions in feminism and in social thinking. A primary player in an ever-evolving Caribbean gender discourse for over four decades, Mohammed has produced an interdisciplinary manifesto that establishes founding moments and ongoing debates in gender and feminist theory; she marks out thematic shifts in academia and activism, including the area of masculinity, that inform feminist political strategy in the region.

Juxtaposing theoretical ideas with empirical flows of data, her strategic arrangement of this collection allows the reader to see the past and future as synonymous happenings, as temporal movements that rely on each other. Demonstrating a disciplinary promiscuity that is the cornerstone of her gender scholarship, the essays move between historical, biographical, popular culture and visual lens, revealing an intersectional analysis that is central to understanding of this region and to the current global condition.

Writing Gender into the Caribbean: Selected Essays from 1988-2020, establishes a chronology that is faithful to the evolving theoretical concepts and ideas in the field of gender and development studies, while demonstrating that collaborative affinities across shared yet different histories remain the backbone of the ongoing feminist project of reconstructing knowledge. In the face of narratives that cast shadows on the value of evolutionary progress, Mohammed encourages us to take pause and recognise how far gender scholars and feminists have come in leaving the world more gender equitable than we found it.

“Spanning four decades this collection takes us on a journey of exploration whose compass is feminist thought, and whose goal is a better understanding of the centrality of gender roles and relations in Caribbean society. Interdisciplinary perspectives, from history to sociology to art criticism, intersect in these essays, and diverse sources of inspiration, from song to film to oral traditions, inspire Mohammed’s analyses of gender politics and the imaginaries that represent them. This assemblage offers us an important and exciting intellectual history by one of the region’s foremost scholar-activists.”

Aisha Khan, Professor of Anthropology, New York University

“Mohammed has produced a powerful analysis of Anglo-Caribbean feminist thinking drawing on four decades of feminist activism and scholarship. Selecting from her published and unpublished essays over the years, this book highlights the importance of revisiting past scholarship, demonstrating how rethinking past work is important for all of us who struggle with new and old thoughts as we continue contributing to future gender scholarship, debate and policy-making.”

Jane Parpart, Professor, Global Governance and Human Security, University of Massachusetts, Boston

228 x 152 mm
720 pages
Paperback

PATRICIA MOHAMMED is Emerita Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, a key thinker in Caribbean feminist theory, founding member (1978) of the Concerned Women for Progress, the first second wave feminist organisation in Trinidad and served as Coordinator of the First Rape Crisis Centre in this society from 1985. She is the primary architect of four National Gender Policies on Gender Equality and Equity and one of the pioneers in the development of gender studies at tertiary level in the Anglophone Caribbean.

Mohammed served as first Head of the Mona Campus Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), UWI, Jamaica, before returning to UWI, Augustine, Trinidad, ending her academic career there as this university’s first appointed Director of Graduate Studies and Research.

Her international exposure includes Visiting Professor at State University of New York at Albany in 2007, and short fellowships or teaching stints at the University of Namibia, Windhoek; Emory University, Atlanta; the University of California, Berkeley; Rutgers University, New Jersey; and Warwick University, United Kingdom.

Among her publications, Gender in Caribbean Development (Ed), 1988, Rethinking Caribbean Difference (Ed), Feminist Review, Routledge Journals, 1998, and Gender Negotiations among Indians in Trinidad, 1917 – 1947, Palgrave UK and The Hague, 2001, remain core contributions in gender. Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation, Macmillan UK, 2009 and a series of documentary films, including the award-winning Coolie Pink and Green (2009) and City on a Hill (2015) added a cultural studies lens of filmmaking and visual iconography to her competencies.

4.2 Mimi Sheller, Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene (Harrogate: Combined Academic Publishers, 2020)

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In Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate catastrophe. Drawing on fieldwork on postearthquake reconstruction in Haiti, flooding on the Haitian-Dominican border, and recent hurricanes, Sheller shows how ecological vulnerability and the quest for a “just recovery” in the Caribbean emerge from specific transnational political, economic, and cultural dynamics. Because foreigners are largely ignorant of Haiti’s political, cultural, and economic contexts, especially the historical role of the United States, their efforts to help often exacerbate inequities. Caribbean survival under ever-worsening environmental and political conditions, Sheller contends, demands radical alternatives to the pervasive neocolonialism, racial capitalism, and US military domination that have perpetuated what she calls the “coloniality of climate.” Sheller insists that alternative projects for Haitian reconstruction, social justice, and climate resilience—and the sustainability of the entire region—must be grounded in radical Caribbean intellectual traditions that call for deeper transformations of transnational economies, ecologies, and human relations writ large.

https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478011187/island-futures/

4.3 Amy L. Hubbell, Hoarding Memory: Covering the Wounds of the Algerian War (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020)

Hoarding Memory looks at the ways the stories of the Algerian War (1954–62) have proliferated among the former French citizens of Algeria. By engaging hoarding as a model, Amy L. Hubbell demonstrates the simultaneously productive and destructive nature of clinging to memory. These memories present massive amounts of material, akin to the stored objects in a hoarder’s house. Through analysis of fiction, autobiography, art, and history that extensively use collecting, layering, and repetition to address painful war memories, Hubbell shows trauma can be hidden within its own representation.

Hoarding Memory dedicates chapters to specific authors and artists who use this hoarding technique: Marie Cardinal, Leïla Sebbar, and Benjamin Stora in writing and Nicole Guiraud and Patrick Altes in art. All were born in Algeria during colonial French rule but in vastly different contexts; each suffered personal or inherited trauma from racism, physical or psychological abuse, terrorist or other violent acts of war, and exile in France. Zineb Sedira’s artwork is also included as an example of traumatic memory inherited from her parents.

Ultimately this book shows how traumatic experience can be conveyed in a seemingly open account that is compounded and compacted by the volume of words, images, and other memorial debris that testify to the pain.

https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496214027/

4.4 New Issue of H-France Forum

We are pleased to announce the publication of the newest issue of H-France Forum, which presents reviews of recently published books and a response essay to those reviews by the book’s author. The present issue of H-France Forum is edited by Venita Datta, Wellesley College, with Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast, Emeritus.

The book under consideration for this issue is Robin Mitchell, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2020. xix + 183 pp. Notes, figures, bibliography, index. $99.95 (hb). ISBN 9-780-8203-5432-3. $34.95 (pb). ISBN -780-8203-5431-6.

The forum begins with four reviews of the book by:

Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University
H. Adlai Murdoch, Tufts University
Sarah Fila-Bakabadio, CY Cergy Paris Université
Rebecca Rogers, Cerlis, CNRS, Université de Paris

The forum concludes with a Response Essay by Robin Mitchell, California State University, Channel Islands

4.5 Geneviève Guétemme & Sylvie Pomiès Maréchal, Écrire la mobilité. Représentations littéraires et artistiques (Orléans: Éditions paradigme, 2020)

L’écriture, prise au sens large, accorde une large place au mouvement et à l’errance en figurant aussi bien les anciennes mobilités que les migrations les plus récentes. Cette écriture à la fois visuelle et verbale présente des expériences autobiographiques, maritimes, journalistiques, poétiques de la mobilité. Elle définit notamment les espaces traversés (la mer, le désert, l’Extrême-Orient), rappelle des guerres (l’exode de 1940, la guerre des Balkans ou celle du Vietnam) ou le quotidien urbain des exclus, mi-grants ou non. Mais cette écriture s’appuie sur un langage, lui aussi en mobilité, fondé sur une auctorialité portée par des décentrements (historiques, géographiques, culturels), des ouver-tures intimes, familiales, des apprentissages linguistiques et une reconnaissance des différences autant nationales que sociales. Cette écriture montre enfin que la langue participe profondément d’une recherche pour transposer le franchissement des frontières, la dé-territorialisation et le sentiment d’appartenance. Elle révèle une langue nomade qui survole les territoires et met en avant la diversité, l’exploration et l’hybridation.

Ce recueil d’articles s’inscrit dans le champ fortement inter-disciplinaire et interculturel des études des mobilités choisies ou forcées, géographiques, familiales, sociales, culturelles. Il permet de découvrir des formes d’écritures toujours en mouvement où la mobilité apparaît dans ce qu’elle a de plus vaste et de plus essentiel : comme une recherche sur le réel, le rêve et le vivre-ensemble dans un contexte de globalisation culturelle, ainsi que de renforcement des frontières.

Table des matières

Geneviève Guetemme

Introduction

Fanny Martin Quatremare

Le voyage comme dérive identitaire à travers la correspondance d’Alexandra David-Néel avec son mari

Clíona Hensey

“Au désert j’ai dû me rendre”. The desert as hybrid space of mobility and immobility in Zahia Rahmani’s “Musulman”: Roman

Olfa Rihani

L’errance géopoétique bekrienne : une citoyenneté du monde

Soukaina Elmoudden : Exil, voyage et errance dans les récits d’Amin Maalouf : un itinéraire initiatique vers l’ouverture sur l’autre et la reconnaissance de soi
Elisabetta Sobelio : Velibor Čolić ou « l’exil, mode d’emploi »
Geneviève Guetemme : Ne les oublions pas de Christiane Deville et Armand Vial
Sylvie Pomiès Maréchal : The 1940 Exodus and the Dialectic of Home and Otherness in Christine Morrow’s Abominable Epoch
Béatrice Vernier : Récit de filiation et immigration. Le Silence de mon père de Doan Bui
Rebecca Rosenberg : Exilic identity in Désorientale (2016) by Négar Djavadi
Andrès Merchan Gonzalez : Écrire, dire, jouer la mobilité
Eglė Kackute : Migrant Maternal Subjectivities in Catherine Cusset’s Un brillant avenir

http://www.editions-paradigme.com/product/Ecrire-la-mobilitE-representations-litteraires-et-artistiques

4.6 Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques (Vol. 46, Issue 3)

The new issue of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques has published!

Please visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal: www.berghahnjournals.com/historical-reflections

Volume 46, Issue 3

Forum: France’s Great War from the Edge
Introduction: France’s Great War from the Edge
Susan B. Whitney
http://bit.ly/2IRSacn

The Battle of El Herri in Morocco: Narratives of Colonial Conquest during World War I
Caroline Campbell
https://bit.ly/37jxAec

Debating the “Jewish Question” in Tunisia: War, Colonialism, and Zionism at a Mediterranean Crossroads, 1914–1920
Chris Rominger
https://bit.ly/2WjjqUg

“Before the War, Life Was Much Brighter and Happier than Today”: Letters from French War Orphans, 1915–1922
Bethany S. Keenan
https://bit.ly/37ZgZLK

General Articles
Republican Socialism and Gendered Portrayals of Catholic Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century France
Randolph Miller
http://bit.ly/3qVXjRM

Competing Visions: The Visual Culture of the Congo Free State and Fin de Siècle Europe
Matthew G. Stanard
http://bit.ly/3alwb8K

4.7 Junko Thérèse Takeda, Iran and a French empire of trade, 1700-1808: The Other Persian Letters (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020)

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Iran and a French Empire of Trade examines the understudied topic of Franco-Persian relations in the long eighteenth century to highlight how rising tensions among Eurasian empires and revolutions in the Atlantic world were profoundly intertwined. Conflicts between Persia, Turkey, India and Russia, and European weapons-dealing with these empires occurred against a backdrop of climate change and food insecurities that destabilized markets. Takeda shows how the French state relied on “entrepreneurial imperialism” to extend commercial activities eastwards beyond the Mediterranean during this time, from Louis XIV’s reign to Napoleon Bonaparte’s First Empire. Organized as a collection of microhistories, her study showcases a colourful set of characters—rogue merchants from Marseille, a gambling house madam, a naturalized Greek-French drogman, and a bi-cultural Genevan-Persian consul, among others—to demonstrate how individuals on the fringes of French society spearheaded projects to foster ties between France and Persia.

Considering the Enlightenment as a product of a connected world, Takeda investigates how trans-imperial adventurers, merchants, consuls, and informants negotiated treaties, traded commodities and arms, transferred knowledge, and introduced industrial practices from Asia to Europe. And she shows the surprising ways in which Enlightenment debates about regime changes from the Safavid to Qajar dynasties and Persia’s borderland wars shaped French ideas about revolution and policies related to empire-building.

Author Information

Junko Takeda is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on early modern globalization, statecraft and migration. She is the author of ‘Between Crown and Commerce: Marseille and the Early Modern Mediterranean’. She is currently writing a global microhistory about Avedik, an Armenian patriarch of Constantinople imprisoned in France during the reign of Louis XIV.

https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/53155/

4.8 Linda Rasoamanana, Pratiques et imaginaires des mangroves de Mayotte dans les littératures francophones contemporaines. Approche géocritique (Paris: Editions Petra, 2020)

Forêt marécageuse dont l’arbre emblématique est le palétuvier, la mangrove symbolise, dans la littérature antillaise, l’identité créole ouverte sur l’altérité et l’itinérance. Il en va autrement des textes et de l’imaginaire à Mayotte. Une île de l’archipel des Comores qui n’échappe pas à la problématique mondiale de sauvegarde des zones humides.
À partir d’un corpus ancien de recueils de croyances, proverbes et contes, mais aussi (et majoritairement) de textes contemporains d’auteurs ayant vécu, travaillé ou séjourné à Mayotte, cet essai analyse l’évolution des représentations sociales des mangroves de l’île. Le choix d’une approche géocritique se justifie par son postulat (l’existence d’interactions entre les lieux référentiels et leurs représentations dans les discours littéraires, inclus dans un réel élargi) et par sa pertinence multifocale (croiser textes et regards endo-, allo- et exogènes pour mettre en débat ces lieux, en faire évoluer les représentations et l’expérience qu’on peut en avoir). Locus horribilis, mirabilis ou encore duplex : telles sont les trois facettes des mangroves mahoraises. Permettant des expériences polysensorielles, ces lieux problématisent aussi des questionnements philosophiques, politiques, économiques ou socioculturels. Des tensions qui informent l’esthétique même des textes littéraires, avec des enjeux génériques.
Cet essai se lit comme l’on fait un voyage dans un monde littéraire mangrovien, méconnu mais fascinant, où les textes d’une vingtaine d’auteurs (Turgis, Herry, Shendra, Attoumani, Jaomanoro, Appanah…) dialoguent au gré des connexions improbables (enfants, migrants, esprits, offrandes et déchets…).

https://www.editionspetra.fr/livres/pratiques-et-imaginaires-des-mangroves-de-mayotte-dans-les-litteratures-francophones

4.9 Ali Chibani, Assia Dib, and Ana Isabel Labra Cenitagoya (eds.), Thélème. Revista Complutense de Estudios Franceses, 35 (2): Le divers dans l’œuvre de Mohammed Dib

Le comité de rédaction de Thélème. Revista Complutense de Estudios Franceses a le plaisir d’annoncer la parution du dernier numéro de la revue, le vol. 35, nº 2 (2020).

La publication comprend un dossier monographique : « Le divers dans l’œuvre de Mohammed Dib », coordonné par Ali Chibani, Assia Dib et Ana Isabel Labra Cenitagoya. Le numéro inclut également neuf articles sur des domaines divers des Études françaises dans la rubrique « Varia » et cinq comptes-rendus sur des ouvrages récents.

Nous vous invitons à lire l’intégralité du numéro accessible depuis la page d’accueil de notre site Internet :

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/THEL

Thélème. Revista Complutense de Estudios Franceses, publiée deux fois par an et indexée dans les principales bases de données scientifiques, accueille des articles de recherche originaux et inédits analysant des aspects de la langue et de la littérature d’expression française ou de celles-ci dans leur rapport à d’autres champs artistiques et littéraires. Elle publie également des comptes-rendus d’ouvrages non-littéraires appartenant au même domaine. Le système de soumission est ouvert tout le long de l’année.

La revue accueille par ailleurs des dossiers monographiques, traités avec les mêmes critères de sélection (double expertise anonyme), et portant sur des sujets appartenant au domaine des Études françaises. Pour des propositions de numéros monographiques, veuillez contacter la direction de la revue : isabelle.marc@filol.ucm.es

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/THEL/about

4.10 Christina Kullberg, Lire l’Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre. Exotisme et établissement français aux Îles (1625-1671) (Leiden: Brill, 2020)

Cette étude propose d’examiner les ramifications historiques de l’exotisme à partir d’une lecture critique de l’Histoire générale des Antilles (1654/1667-71) écrite par le missionnaire dominicain, Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre. En procédant d’une analyse littéraire, notre étude suggère une reconfiguration de l’exotisme basée à la fois sur la théorisation contemporaine et sur le contexte historique et l’esthétique de l’époque. Notre travail se veut donc à la fois théorique en offrant une analyse critique des différentes orientations de l’exotisme ; et historique, en présentant une lecture approfondie d’une œuvre dont l’importance est considérable aussi bien pour l’histoire de la littérature française et antillaise que pour l’histoire de l’anthropologie. À cet égard, cette étude fournira aussi une exploration de la toute première colonisation française des îles et de la manière dont elle a été représentée.

This book examines the historical ramifications of the concept of exoticism through a literary analysis of Histoire générale des Antilles (1654/1667-71) written by Dominican missionary Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre. The study gives a thorough account of the early French colonization of the islands and the ways in which this violent process of cultural encounters was represented. It argues for the necessity to reconfigure the notion of exoticism, both by revisiting contemporary theorization and by contextualizing it in regard to the history and aesthetics of the times. The study is thus both theoretical, in proceeding by a critical reading of different orientations of exoticism, and historical in offering an in-depth study of an author and a period that have received little attention despite their impact on French Caribbean literature and on the history of anthropology.

https://brill.com/view/title/57062

SFPS Mailing: December 2020

1. Calls for Papers/Contributions

1.1 CALL FOR PAPERS: CSA Journal – Caribbean Conjunctures: Knowledge, Culture, Politics, Activism, Creativity