We invite you to renew your SFPS membership for 2022 or to join us if you haven’t yet done so. We’re always keen to welcome new members to our friendly community! Some benefits of membership below:

Free copy of our annual, book-length hardback publication. Reduced rates on back copies also. Details of past publications here: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/…/series-12325/

Bi-annual, peer-reviewed electronic bulletin, containing book reviews, conference reports and short articles. Past issues here: http://sfps.org.uk/bulletin-of-francophone-postcolonial…/

Admission to the annual SFPS conference (and other SFPS-sponsored events) at reduced rates – details of past conferences & PG workshops at the below links: http://sfps.org.uk/annual-conferences-2009-2021/

http://sfps.org.uk/postgraduate-summer-workshops/

Electronic mailings on conferences, study days and publications of interest to SFPS members.

The opportunity to advertise research publications and events via the SFPS monthly mailings and social media. Events like this! http://sfps.org.uk/…/call-for-papers-caribbean-poetics…/

Access to SFPS grants for conference/colloquia organisation.

Colleagues based in LMIC countries/the Global South are eligible for free associate membership of SFPS (this does not include the annual hardback publication, but does include all other benefits of membership).

Interested? Details of how to join the Society or renew membership can be found here: http://sfps.org.uk/membership/

1. Call for Paper/Contributio n

1.1. CFP Edited Volume, Sea Change: Representations of Transformation in the Caribbean and Mediterranean.

sea change n (from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, I. ii. 403)

1: a profound or notable transformation

2: a substantial change in perspective, especially one which affects a group or society at large

3: archaic : a change brought about by the sea

The proposed volume, Sea Change: Representations of Transformation in the Caribbean and Mediterranean, will consider notable transformations in the context of the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas in the 20th and 21st centuries. We aim to bring together scholarly studies of cultural texts that depict changing human experiences examined through multiple lenses–corporal, psychological, environmental, (infra)structural, and others. Among the questions we encourage contributors to consider are

how environmental factors influence cultural changes and exchanges in these two regions;
to what extent cultural, physical, and ideological transformations of human experiences correlate with political and economic changes;
how human experiences of the Caribbean and Mediterranean continually shape individual, communal, and national identities;
what two-way exchanges result from contact, conflict, transit, and/or communication between shores and transatlantically between seas; and
how cultural productions contribute to a greater consideration of human rights and human dignity.

The juxtaposition of the Caribbean and Mediterranean in this volume offers new possibilities for understanding these regions by bringing to light their many parallels and connections. These seas–and the nations whose shores they touch–have witnessed centuries of migration, trade, and cultural contact, often accompanied by human conflict, suffering, and loss. During the late 20th and 21st centuries in particular, profound change has resulted from such interconnected factors as (post)colonial relations, immigration policies, xenophobia, economic exigencies, and tourism, as well as natural disasters and other environmental conditions.

We welcome analyses of cultural texts, including, but not limited to, fictional and nonfictional literature, film, television, theater/performance, and material and visual cultures. Papers should be written in English and may consider the portrayals of transformation in either region or through a transatlantic comparison, broadly defined. Abstracts of 250 words and a short bio of 100 words should be submitted to seachangevolume@gmail.com by May 1, 2022.

Timeline:

– May 1, 2022: Abstract submissions due

– June 1, 2022: Notification of acceptance

– December 1, 2022: Complete essays due (up to 6,000 words, including notes and references)

– February 1, 2023: Editors’ comments sent to contributors

– April 1, 2023: Final revised essays due

Please use the email address above to contact the editors:

Jessica Boll, Ph.D. (Carroll University)

Marilén Loyola, Ph.D. (Rockford University)

Sharon Meilahn Bartlett, Ph.D. (Beloit College)

1.2. Perspectives de langue(s) dans les littératures d’expression française, 3-4 novembre 2022 à Vilnius

UNIVERSITÉ DE VILNIUS

UNIVERSITÉ DE BIALYSTOK

III^ème Colloque International INSPIRATIONS

Perspectives de langue(s) dans les littératures d’expression française

3-4 novembre 2022 à Vilnius

Conférencière confirmée professeure Nathalie Edwards (Université d‘Adelaide)

INSPIRATIONS est le titre d’un cycle de colloques internationaux conçu pour initier un dialogue entre les spécialistes de différents domaines des sciences humaines et créer une plateforme d’échange d’idées et de regards sur un thème choisi.

Le prochain colloque INSPIRATIONS, coorganisé par l’Université de Vilnius et l’Université de Białystok, se déroulera au mois d’octobre 2022 à Vilnius. Nous vous invitons à réfléchir sur ce thème :

« Perspectives de langue(s) dans les littératures d’expression française »

Les débats académiques récents dans le domaine des littératures d’expression française se sont concentrés sur leur diversité et leur richesse géographique, culturelle et linguistique. La problématique de la langue ou plutôt des langues s’annonce comme un champ d’interrogation riche dans le domaine des recherches littéraires sur le plan diégétique et extradiégétique. Et l’étude des contacts entre le monde des francosphères et d’autres pays, d’autres cultures et d’autres langues ne feraient que les enrichir. Notre questionnement sur les littératures d’expression française peut concerner, entre autres, les axes thématiques suivants, sans que cette liste soit exhaustive :

Langue(s) d’écriture vs langue(s) parlées

écriture écophonique

translinguisme

bilinguisme

multilinguisme

hétérolinguisme

hétéroglossie

langue maternelle

hybridité linguistique

littérature-monde en français

représentations d’apprentissage des langues dans la littérature

traductions et auto-traductions

représentations du mutisme dans la littérature

dialectes régionaux et nationaux dans la littérature

créolisation

oralité dans la littérature

littérature comme rhizome …

Le Comité scientifique examinera également des propositions de sessions complètes portant soit sur les thèmes ci-dessus, soit sur les différents domaines des études de littératures d’expression française.

Comité d’organisation :

Liucija Černiuvienė (Université de Vilnius, Lituanie)
Genovaitė Dručkutė (Université de Vilnius, Lituanie)
Eglė Kačkutė (Université de Vilnius, Lituanie)
Małgorzata Kamecka (Université de Bialystok)
Edyta Sacharewicz (Université de Bialystok, Pologne)
Jonė Šulcaitė-Brollo (Université de Vilnius, Lituanie)

Comité scientifique :

Vytautas Bikulčius (Université de Vilnius, Lituanie)
Liucija Černiuvienė (Université de Vilnius, Lituanie)
Genovaitė Dručkutė (Université de Vilnius, Lituanie)
Geneviève Guetemme (Université d’Orléans, France)
Eglė Kačkutė (Université de Vilnius, Lituanie)
Józef Kwaterko (Université de Varsovie, Pologne)
Judyta Zbierska-Mościcka (Université de Varsovie, Pologne)
Magdalena Zdrada-Cok (Université de Silésie, Pologne)
Agnieszka Włoczewska (Université de Bialystok, Pologne)

MODALITÉS PRATIQUES

Langue du colloque et des publications : le français. Les communications se feront en français, elles n’excèderont pas 20 minutes et seront suivies de 10 minutes de discussions.

Calendrier du colloque :

31 mai 2022 – date limite de la réception des propositions de communication
1 juillet 2022 – notification aux auteurs
3-4 novembre 2022 – colloque à l’Université de Vilnius
2023 – publication des contributions retenues

Frais d’inscription : 100 Euros – à payer avant la fin octobre 2022

Les frais de participation couvriront en partie la production de documents relatifs au colloque, la publication des articles, les pauses café/thé.

La déclaration de la participation au colloque équivaut à l’acceptation du traitement, par l’organisateur, des données personnelles aux fins relatives à l’organisation du colloque (contact par e-mail ou par téléphone, publication du nom et du prénom, de l’affiliation et du statut dans le programme du colloque).

Fiche d’inscription (à envoyer par e-mail à perspectives@flf.vu.lt avant le 31 mai 2022) devra comporter :

Nom : …

Prénom : …

Affiliation : …

Statut (chercheur, doctorant, etc.) : …

Téléphone : …

Adresse électronique : …

Axe thématique : …

Titre de la communication : …

Résumé de la communication (développement en 300 mots max. présentant la problématique, le cadre méthodologique, le corpus analysé, les principaux résultats escomptés)

Biographie académique : en 100 mots max…

CONTACT : Eglė Kačkutė egle.kackute-hagan@flf.vu.lt et Jonė Šulcaitė-Brollo jone.sulcaite-brollo@flf.stud.vu.lt

1.3. MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities 17, On Forgetting.

With no effort, he had learned English, French, Portuguese and Latin. I suspect, however, that he was not very capable of thought. To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions. In the teeming world of Funes, there were only details, almost immediate in their presence.

― Borges, Funes el memorioso^[1]

The eponymous character of Borges’ Funes el memorioso [Funes the Memorious] has the Midas Touch in mnemonic form. His mind is an encyclopaedia involuntarily updated in real time, each experience another page in a tome with no page limit and no editor. Midas’ gift, as we know, was also his downfall, and Borges’ protagonist would also go on to be shackled by this extraordinary ability to retain knowledge. Weighed down by the volume of minutia, by the burden of recollection, Funes could not think.

Taking inspiration from Funes’ ‘problem’, this issue of the MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities explores not memory, but its loss — intentional, accidental, pathological, coercive, natural, endemic, etc. — across diverse forms of artistic media. Associated since the Greeks with the river Lethe, forgetfulness is often seen as a negative despite also possessing powerful creative potential. Elliptical narration provides a device for rendering crucial but traumatic moments implicit; literary omissions invite readers to complete the narrative themselves. Memory’s ‘blanks’, it turns out, need not lead to blanks on the page.

We invite papers in which the notion of forgetting is brought to the fore. Amongst the many possible areas contributors may wish to discuss are:

Historical & political amnesia
‘Forgotten’ inspirations: rewritings & plagiarisms
Memory lost-in-transmission: variations on postmemory, multidirectional memory, palimpsestic memory, prosthetic memory, etc.
Collective forgetting as a counterpart to collective memory
Memory loss & identity
Unreliable narrators & elliptical narration
Cultural history & memory
Oral literary/cultural/historical traditions (& the loss of such traditions)
Memory as book/act of writing as memory
‘Fake’ memoirs & self-conscious artificiality
Fragmented memory
Textual transmission: the loss & recovery of texts
Trauma & forgetting as release

Proposals may cover a range of periods (from the medieval and Early Modern to the twenty-first century) and different national contexts (including English-, French-, Germanic-, Hispanic-, Italian-, Portuguese-, and Slavonic-speaking cultures). We hope to attract scholars working in a variety of fields (Modern Languages, English Studies, Comparative Literature, Cultural History, Film and Media Studies and the Digital Humanities, Art History, Performance and Reception History). 

MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities is an electronic open-access journal intended to allow researchers to present initial findings or hypotheses. As such it will be of particular interest to postgraduate researchers, although established scholars are also invited to submit papers. We invite proposals for papers of up to 4000 words in MHRA style, with completed essays to be delivered to the editors by 2nd July 2022. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent, accompanied by a short biographical statement on the same page, to postgrads@mhra.org.uk by 15 March 2022. 

^[1] Jorge Luis Borges, ‘Funes the Memorious’, in Labyrinths, trans. by James E. Irby (London: Penguin Classics, 2000), pp. 87-95 (p. 94).

1.4. Call for paper, “The Algerian War 60 years on: Memories in Conflict/La Guerre d’Algérie 60 ans plus tard: Conflits de Mémoires”, 28-29 May 2022, Online

GIRES-Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship,

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Algerian War 60 years on: Memories in Conflict

La Guerre d’Algérie 60 ans plus tard : Conflits de Mémoires

28-29 May/mai 2022

International Conference

(Zoom sessions:2 days-Virtual platform:5 days)

Colloque International

(Sessions Zoom :2 jours-Plateforme virtuelle :5 jours)

INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION PROPOSALS

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Thematic Approach

GIRES, the Global Institute for Research, Education & Scholarship and the Center for Conflict, Peace and Justice Studies (CCPJS) invite you to explore the complex multiple memories of the Algerian War and the ongoing repercussions of that conflict in both France and Algeria.

The Algerian War (1954-1962) was a war of independence from France that created deep divisions in both the Algerian and French population. Within Algeria, members of the National Liberation Front (‘FLN’) launched attacks against French forces, while the ‘harkis’ were Algerians who chose to fight on the side of the French. Another significant group in Algeria were the ‘pieds noirs’, the French nationals born in Algeria who embarked on a mass exodus to France at the end of the war. Within France, opinion was similarly strongly divided between supporters of Algerian independence, and those in favour of maintaining a “French Algeria.” Significantly, it was only in 1999 that the prolonged conflict was officially recognised as a “war” by the French government. Up to that time, it was referred to in vague terms like “events” and “operations to maintain order”.

The memories of the Algerian War are still regarded as an unresolved source of conflict in contemporary French society. It is also a conflict that continues to make front page news even sixty years after the end of the war. Why does it continue to be so divisive? How does the memory of the Algerian War impact on notions of identity both for persons directly impacted by the conflict and for their descendants? In our conference, we invite contributions in either English or French that explore the different perspectives of stakeholders and scholars on these and other key issues relating to the Algerian War.

GIRES, dedicated to interdisciplinarity, invites scholars from diverse fields including but not limited to sociology, history, cultural and political studies, linguistics, literature, art and music to contribute to the discussion and to debate these issues.

Proposed Topics

– Identity

– Religion and Society

– Colonialism and decolonisation

– Charles de Gaulle and Algeria

– The ‘harkis’ in France and Algeria

– The ‘pieds noirs’ in France and Algeria

– The activities of the French OAS secret paramilitary association

– General Aussaresses and the admission of torture by the French

– Commemoration of the Algerian War in France under Presidents Hollande and Macron

– The 2021 report by French historian Benjamin Stora on the Algerian War

– Algerian reactions to the 2021 Stora Report

– Repercussions of the Algerian War in Algeria

– Immigration and integration in France

– Second and third generation Algerians in France

– Literature, art and music evoking the Algerian War and/or issues of post-war identity and integration

– The Algerian War in film

Proposed Formats (Lingua franca: English and French)

*Individually submitted papers (organized into panels by the GIRES committee)

* Panels (3-4 individual papers)

*Roundtable discussions (led by one of the presenters)

*Posters

Publication Opportunity

The Organizing Committee and GIRES Press will publish the most powerful and dynamic presentations of the conference and include them

in a collective volume in the form of short articles and/or long essays. For more information please contact us.

Live Sessions & Recording

All speakers are offered up to 30 minutes to present their work. All speakers have the option to have their presentations recorded (during live sessions) in HD quality.

The recordings will be uploaded to GIRES media for unlimited access and dissemination.

Asynchronous Options

All participants have the option to have their presentations (video/audio/text) uploaded to our Virtual Platform. All registered participants will have access to the material for 5 days.

Our proposed topics & formats are not restrictive and we invite additional germane ideas

Due to the restrictions of Corona Crisis our event (for the time being) will take place VIRTUALLY

Deadline for proposals/date limite pour les propositions

1 April/avril 2022

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Approche thématique

GIRES, l’Institut global de recherche, d’enseignement et de travaux d’érudition et le Centre d’études sur le conflit, la paix et la justice (CCPJS) vous invitent à explorer les mémoires multiples et complexes de la Guerre d’Algérie, ainsi que les répercussions de ce conflit qui continuent de se faire sentir en France et en Algérie.

La Guerre d’Algérie (1954-1962) est une guerre d’indépendance opposant la France, pays colonisateur, aux indépendantistes algériens. Elle a abouti à l’indépendance de l’Algérie il y a maintenant 60 ans, mais elle a créé de profondes divisions au sein de la population des deux pays. En Algérie, les membres du Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) ont lancé des attaques contre les forces françaises, tandis que d’autres Algériens, nommés « harkis », ont choisi de se battre aux côtés des Français. Un autre groupe significatif en Algérie était les « pieds noirs », des personnes nées en Algérie d’origine française, dont un grand nombre se sont « exilés » de leur pays natal pour se rétablir en France à la fin de la guerre. En France, les avis étaient aussi partagés entre ceux qui soutenaient l’indépendance algérienne, et ceux qui étaient en faveur de maintenir « l’Algérie française ». En fait, ce n’était qu’en 1999 que le conflit prolongé a été officiellement reconnu comme une « guerre » par la France. Jusqu’à cette date, la terminologie préférée des autorités françaises était bien plus vague, évoquant les « événements » ou les « opérations de maintien de l’ordre » en Algérie.

Les mémoires de la guerre d’Algérie continuent à être considérés comme une source de conflit non résolu dans la société française contemporaine. C’est aussi un conflit que l’on retrouve régulièrement à la une des journaux, même soixante ans après la fin de la guerre. Pourquoi cette guerre provoque-t-elle toujours autant d’émotion et de discorde? Quel est l’impact de la guerre d’Algérie sur les notions d’identité, tant pour les personnes directement touchées par le conflit que pour leurs descendants ? Dans le cadre de notre colloque, nous invitons des communications en français ou en anglais qui abordent les différentes perspectives de parties prenantes et de chercheurs sur ces questions ainsi que sur d’autres idées/thèmes clés sur la guerre d’Algérie.

GIRES, voué à l’interdisciplinarité, invite la participation de chercheurs travaillant dans divers domaines y compris mais non limité à la sociologie, l’histoire, les études culturelles et politiques, la linguistique, la littérature, l’art et la musique pour contribuer à cette réflexion.

Thèmes proposés

– Identité

– Religion et société

– Colonialisme et décolonisation

– Charles de Gaulle et l’Algérie

– Les ‘harkis’ en France et en Algérie

– Les ‘pieds noirs’ en France et en Algérie

– Les activités de l’OAS, association paramilitaire en France

– General Aussaresses et les aveux concernant l’utilisation de la torture par les Français

– Commémoration(s) de la Guerre d’Algérie en France sous les Présidents Hollande et Macron

– Le rapport sur la Guerre d’Algérie publié en 2021 par l’historien français Benjamin Stora

– Réactions algériennes au rapport de Stora

– Répercussions de la Guerre d’Algérie en Algérie

– Immigration et intégration en France

– Les Algériens de deuxième et troisième génération en France

– La Guerre d’Algérie et/ou des questions d’identité et d’intégration abordées en littérature, art et musique

– Films sur la Guerre d’Algérie

Formats proposés (Langues: anglais et français)

*Communications individuelles (regroupées par le comité de GIRES en fonction du sujet et de la langue choisie)

* Communications en groupe (3-4 communications individuelles)

*Table ronde (animée par un des participants)

*Affiches

La durée prévue des communications est jusqu’à 30 minutes.

Possibilité de publication

Le comité d’organisation et GIRES Press publieront les présentations les plus puissantes et dynamiques de la conférence et les incluront

dans un volume collectif sous forme de courts articles et/ou de longs essais. Pour plus d’informations, contactez-nous.

Sessions en direct et enregistrement

Tous les conférenciers ont jusqu’à 30 minutes pour leurs communications. Tous les intervenants ont la possibilité de faire enregistrer leurs communications (lors des sessions en direct) en qualité HD.

Les communications seront hébergées sur le média GIRES pour un accès et une diffusion illimités.

Options asynchrones

Tous les participants ont la possibilité de partager leurs communications (vidéo/audio/texte) téléchargées sur notre plateforme virtuelle. Tous les participants inscrits auront accès au matériel pendant 5 jours.

Nos sujets et formats proposés ne sont pas restrictifs et nous invitons d’autres idées pertinentes

En raison des restrictions liées à la pandémie de Covid-19, notre événement aura lieu VIRTUELLEMENT.

Acceptance notification/avis d’acceptation

1 April/avril 2022

Plus d’information

1.5. “The Limits of Reason”, International Conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1st June 2022.

The valorization of reason is and has been a central component of Western philosophy, both as that which distinguishes it from alternative Western forms of thinking and from non-Western discourses generally. In this context, reason is often implicitly tied to redemption, whether this is thought epistemologically, where it is associated with illumination in contrast to the confusion associated with darkness; morality, where it is associated with goodness over evil; and onto-politically, where it is associated with order over chaos. One of the recurrent features of twentieth-century Francophone thought is a mistrust of this narrative of redemption, critiquing the value of reason and bringing out its historical and conceptual limits.

This mistrust of reason has taken many forms: epistemologically, this has given rise to debates questioning the importance of formal logic and affirming the primacy of faith; metaphysically, it has manifested itself in the affirmation of non-rational foundations and the place of reason; morally, it has come to the fore in terms of an interrogation of the good/evil binary opposition as well as a questioning of the power of reason to guide our moral activities; and onto-politically, it has manifested itself in terms of a questioning of, amongst things, the nature and importance of order and, indeed, the exclusion inherent in reason’s historical affirmation of a universal, singular truth. Yet these critiques have often relied on reason itself, thus disrupting any binary opposition between the affirmation and rejection of reason and complicating the meaning, place and limits of reason.

This one-day online international conference inserts itself into this historical debate by inviting a reconsideration of reason from the perspective of its limits and limitations. We are particularly interested in contributions that engage with the heterogeneity of reason, as well as those that explore the boundary between reason and its other (whatever that might be). Given this, suitable topics might include, but are certainly not limited to:

Poststructuralist accounts of reason
Historical conceptions of reason
Psychoanalytic theory and Reason
Postcolonial thought and reason
The heterogeneity of reason
Limits of reason, including the relationship between reason and non-reason
Foundations and reason
Political theory and reason
Non-Western conceptions of reason/rationality
Ethics and reason, including the normativity of reason
Metaphysical conceptions of reason and their limits
The disrupting power of reason/non-reason
Reason and the subject
Feminist critiques of rationality
Rationality and the climate crisis

Format: The conference will be held virtually and hosted by Google Meetings (to be confirmed). Invited speakers will have 20 minutes to present their papers, followed by 10 minutes for questions. Those interested in participating should send a 400-word abstract, with a short biography that includes current academic status and affiliation, to thelimitsofreason@ucm.es by 20th March 2022. The conference will be in English and attendance is free.

Conference website: https://ucm.es/thelimitsofreason

Conference organizers: Gavin Rae and Cillian Ó Fathaigh.

Funding: This conference forms part of the activities for the research projects: (1) “Agency and Society: An Inquiry through Poststructuralism” (PR108/20-26); (2) “Differential Ontology and the Politics of Reason,” funded by the Government of the Region of Madrid, as part of line 3 of the multi-year agreement with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid: V PRICIT Excellence Program for University Professors (Fifth Regional Plan for Scientific Investigation and Technological Innovation); and (3) “The Politics of Reason” (PID2020-117386GA-I00), financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Government of Spain.

1.6. “Archipelagic Memory: Intersecting Geographies, Histories and Disciplines” in-person conference, Mauritius, 2-4 August 2022.

“Archipelagic Memory: Intersecting Geographies, Histories and Disciplines” in-person conference will take place in Mauritius from 2-4 August 2022. For updates, the call for papers (in English and French) that we have re-visited and more information, please check the conference website: https://archipelagicmemory.wordpress.com/.

1.7. « Writing the Indigenous Americas: Quebec, Florida, Amazonia, the Caribbean”, Winthrop-King Institute International Conference, 5-7 April 2023

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

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

-Natasha Kanapé Fontaine

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

-Rodney Saint-Éloi

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

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

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

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

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

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

We invite panel and paper proposals on any aspect of the Indigenous histories and cultures of Quebec, the Amazon, the Caribbean, and Florida, and the possible connections between these places, their traditions, and their contemporary realities.

We are planning a face-to face conference, with options for online participation where required.

Possible themes may include:

Children’s writing
Poetry
Fiction
Film
Oral cultures
Land/territory
Nature/the environment
Generations
Community
Family
The reservation
Colonialism/anti-colonialism
Languages
Gender Connections to other literary/cultural traditions
Memory
Education
Translation
Time
Please submit your proposal via the webpage by 30 November 2022: https://winthropking.fsu.edu/event/writing-indigenous-americas-quebec-florida-amazonia-caribbean/Event-Page

1.8. Appel à contributions pour un ouvrage collectif, « Littérature francophone féminine et cosmopolitisme linguistique. Modalités et enjeux culturels en Afrique contemporaine », date limite d’envoi 25 mars.

Appel à contributions pour un ouvrage collectif

Littérature francophone féminine et cosmopolitisme linguistique. Modalités et enjeux culturels en Afrique contemporaine

Résumé

Le présent ouvrage se propose d’examiner la fluctuation de la langue française et ses implications dans le discours féminin en provenance d’Afrique. Dans un contexte multilingue et multiculturel, les langues s’imbriquent et se renouvellent, brisant par ce processus l’étanchéité des cloisons culturelles. Aussi, ce projet a pour objectif de montrer que la cohabitation des langues impacte profondément le texte écrit et donne lieu à un enracinement et une ouverture à un univers linguistique nouveau. Par ailleurs, un intérêt est porté sur la valorisation du français et des langues locales en contact permanent chez les autrices et les personnages féminins.

Mots-clés : Langues subsahariennes, contacts des langues, représentations, cohabitation des langues, langues locales.

Argumentaire :

La littérature francophone féminine d’Afrique est un foyer étonnamment fécond au sein duquel la langue française se régénère et se réinvente tant au niveau du renouvellement de son tissu lexical que de la reconfiguration de sa grammaire à travers la dynamisation de ses systèmes phonologiques, morphosyntaxiques et sémantiques. Cette littérature est « esthétiquement tracée d’une plume profondément plongée dans la sociologie et l’anthropologie africaines [faisant que] la phrase française s’ouvre à des schémas difficiles, voire impossibles, à programmer. » (Dassi 2008). Les francographies africaines actuelles se caractérisent donc par leurs capacités à échapper aux canons formels pour dire « dans la langue française la vie des langues autres que le français et avec elles les cultures qu’elles véhiculent » (Fopa et Nankeu 2017 :11). Les ressources intarissables – expressions idiomatiques, calques, néologismes, sociolectes, parlers divers… – en donnant une coloration toujours renouvelée à la langue française appellent la réflexion sur les dynamiques contemporaines des interactions culturelles et des recompositions identitaires. Le discours en francophonie est donc marqué par un cosmopolitisme qui « se manifeste linguistiquement par le multilinguisme […] et plus particulièrement par la pratique du code-switching, ou alternance codique, c’est-à-dire par l’emploi de mots étrangers au sein d’une langue principale » (Loison-Charles 2017). Il est par ailleurs représentatif du concept d’hybridité dans son acception de croisement, de fusion des parlers divers. Ainsi, travailler « sous la pression contradictoire de langues vécues et de langues apprises [se présente comme] un atout pour la pulsion critique et créative » (Bhabha 2007 :10).

L’imbrication des langues donne ainsi lieu à des réaménagements continus du système linguistique et invite à un questionnement des mécanismes qui structurent le passage de l’oral à l’écrit en français, ainsi que la place et l’influence tant des langues maternelles que des systèmes langagiers nouveaux que sont : le camfranglais au Cameroun et le Nouchi en Côte d’Ivoire pour ne citer que ces deux exemples. À cet égard, il n’est pas superflu d’interroger les structures narratives, les problèmes sémantiques, les caractéristiques et les spécificités structurelles du français dans la littérature francophone subsaharienne ? Cet ouvrage a pour objectif de montrer que la cohabitation des langues donc des cultures en Afrique impacte profondément le texte écrit.

Axes de recherche :

Les propositions devront explorer les textes francophones féminins d’Afrique pour examiner puis analyser les particularismes linguistiques et les africanismes qui à la fois enracinent, et ouvrent l’Africain au monde. Les axes non exhaustifs à explorer sont les suivants :

– La phrase en francographie africaine, structure et mode d’énonciation,

– Problèmes de grammaire dans le texte francophone

– Le système onomastique,

– Le langage de la sexualité dans la fiction francophone

– Figures du grotesque et mots de la satire

– Néologismes et alternances de code dans le texte francophone subsaharien,

– Espaces et savoirs à l’œuvre dans le texte francophone

Modalités de soumission :

Les résumés d’articles (250 à 300 mots), suivi d’une brève biographie de l’auteur doivent être envoyés au plus tard le 25 mars 2022 à l’adresse suivante :

bouguiobouguio@gmail.com

Pour toutes autres informations, bien vouloir écrire à l’adresse susmentionnée.

Calendrier des activités

Date de publication de l’appel : 25 Janvier 2022

Date limite d’envoi des résumés : 25 mars 2022.

Notification aux contributeurs : 15 Avril 2022.

Réception des articles entièrement rédigés : 30 Juin 2022

Soumission du manuscrit : 25 septembre 2022.

Publication probable de l’ouvrage : Décembre 2022 aux Éditions La Doxa.

Comité scientifique :

Pr Cheryl Toman, Université de l’Alabama ;

Pr Gilbert Doho, The Case Western Reserve University;

Pr Jacques Evouna, Université de Maroua ;

Pr Martial Lozzi Meutem Kamtchueng, Université de Maroua ;

Pr Marie Clémence Adom, Université Felix Houphouet Boigny ;

Pr Bakary Sarr, Université Cheick Anta Diop ;

Pr Roger Fopa Kuete, Université de Maroua ;

Dr Kengni Simplice, Université de Yaoundé I.

Coordination

Bouguio, The University of Alabama (USA)

Pr. Cheryl Toman, The University of Alabama (USA)

Bibliographie

Bhabha Homi K. Les lieux de la culture. Une théorie postcoloniale. Payot et Rivages, Paris, 2007.

Julie Loison-Charles, « Le cosmopolitisme linguistique de Vladimir Nabokov », L’Ordinaire des Amériques [Online], 223 | 2017, Online since 13 December 2017, connection on 12 December 2021. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/orda/3747 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/orda.3747

Fopa Kuete, Roger et Nankeu, Bienvenu Bernard. Francographies africaines contemporaines. Identités et globalisation. Peter Lang, Bruxelles, 2017.

Dassi, M. Phrase française et francographie africaine. De l’influence de la socioculture. Dans Lincom European, coll. “Studies in French Linguistics” No 06, 2008

Mbassi, Bernard. « Phénolangue et génolangue dans la littérature africaine écrite en français : l’illusion de langue française dans le discours des personnages » dans Nouvelles études francophones. Vol-21, No 2 d’Automne 2006 pp180-120.

Aggarwal, Kusum. « Africanisme français et littératures africaines », Cahiers d’études africaines [En ligne], 198-199-200 | 2010, consulté le 11déembre 2021. URL : http:// journals.openedition.org/etudesafricaines/16554

1.9. Call for papers, “Utopia and Ecotone: Contemporary Stakes”, Ecotones #8, Ghent University, Belgium, 29 September – 1 October 2022

In partnership with

EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), DIRE (Université de La Réunion) & Maison Française d’Oxford

https://emma.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/valorisation-partenariats/programmes-européens-et-internationaux/ecotones

[French version below]

Conference venue: Ghent University, Belgium
Dates: 29 September – 1 October 2022
Languages: English, French
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2022
Notification of acceptance: 31 May 2022

After a series of conferences held at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Université de Poitiers and Université de La Réunion (France, 2015, 2016, 2018), at the Centre for the Study of Social Sciences in Calcutta (CSSSC, India, 2018), Manhattanville College (USA, 2019), Concordia Universitý (Canada, 2019) and University of Cape Town (South Africa, 2021), this international conference at Ghent University will be the 8^th opus of the “Ecotones : encounters, crossings, communities” (2015-2022) conference cycle. This interdisciplinary programme aims to open up the term “ecotone”, a concept hitherto used in geography and ecology, to the humanities, political and social sciences. The “Utopia and Ecotone” Conference will focus specifically on utopias that emerge from or relate to ecotones.

An “ecotone” initially designates an ecological transitional area between two (or more) distinct ecosystems, the passage between two habitat types (forest/grassland) or the flow between two natural environments (freshwater/sea water). In explaining how this transition zone can be studied from a sociological as well as a biological perspective, Misrahi-Barak and Lacroix (2019; see also Arnold et al. 2020) have broadened the definition: an ecotone can thus also refer to a cultural space where communities meet, at times creolizing or germinating into a new community. As a place (oikos) of identity tensions (tonos) at work, the ecotone represents a shared alternative space, enabling connection, transformation, and potentially reinvention. This 8^th conference intends to continue the discussions led in previous editions on the “complex chemistry” of creolizing worlds (Cohen 2009), the “contact zones” between cultures (Pratt 1992) in contexts such as migrations, diasporas, refugee movements, postcolonial displacements, human movements linked to climate change and other major historical events of the contemporary period (1980 to the present) through the prism of “utopia”.

The definition of the ecotone, as given above, echoes that of utopia in the contemporary era: through the power of the imagination, utopia would be the revealing place of a knot of tensions (Benjamin 1997) that must be observed, questioned and reinvented. The hypothesis of this conference is the following: an ecotone is a fertile space for the reawakening of utopia, a hypothesis that will be specifically posed in the face of contemporary issues. For the past twenty years, utopian proposals have been emerging, not in the traditional, largely pejorative sense, evoking a future so bright that it seems unreal, which led to political practices oscillating between impotence and dictatorship; but in the sense that they would go against the current of dominant social relations in a resolutely active approach (Balibar 2020). Utopia would therefore not be the anticipation of the future, but, in the present, the exercise of a concrete thought, which invents counter-narratives and experiments with alternative modes of relation. This pragmatic aspect of utopia reactivates Ernst Bloch’s Principle of Hope (1976), according to which real utopia would not be an “image of consolation”, a fictional recourse in the face of “disenchantment”, or even a chimerical abstraction, but rather an overcoming, a figure of the imaginary to be inscribed in the materialitý of the world (Wright 2010). As an anticipatory consciousness, experimental thinking, far from the totalitarian temptation, utopia would rather be an open floor to possibilities, to feasible projects of transformation, here and now. For example, the idea of “Refugia” coined by Robin Cohen (2015), which the sociologist and expert in migration studies, is exploring in greater depth alongside Nicholas Van Hear (2020): Refugia is the proposal to create a deterritorialised, transnational entity between different sites developed and self-governed built on initiatives essentially led by people in a migratory situation. This pragmatic utopianism draws on both the ecotone as a socially shared space and the archipelago as a space for relation(Glissant 1997) to challenge the model of the nation-state in terms of its ability to offer hospitality to displaced people. In the current context of the asylum crisis – otherwise known as the “migration crisis” – utopia could be more than a principle of hope, it could also be an attempt at resistance that summons a principle of responsibility (Delmas-Marty 2011).

“See how we graft Utopia onto all these plants of the Creole vegetation”, said the poet, writer and philosopher Édouard Glissant in his novel Tout-monde (1993). In the same heuristic impulse, the objective of this conference is to push back the epistemological limits of utopia by observing it from the ecotone. In what way is an ecotone a circulation zone where utopias emerge, whether for economic, social, industrial and financial, or artistic and creative purposes? How does utopia help us question the ecotone, for example, concerning its borders, its margins or its flows, and vice versa? How does utopian thinking integrate the diversities generated by the ecotone? Is there an ideal, inclusive and egalitarian model of the ecotone, whether real or imagined? What new modes of relationship does the ecotone allow for in postcolonial contexts? Metaphorical or concrete, how does the ecotone renew modes of representation? How does utopia apprehend the evolution of transitional zones, especially those generated by ecological changes? And what about the mesh that is being woven between human beings and the whole of the living world? What role can utopia play in the future and in contemporary social, economic, urban and ecological achievements in the face of the migratory challenge in a globalised world when climate change occurs? What about model cities, or città ideale? How is utopianism, often perceived as an essentially Western construction, renewed by the countries in the Global South and their diasporas?

The “Utopia and Ecotone” Conference will convene, revise and extend through the lens of utopia the notions of “place” (oïkos) and “non-place” (outopos) (Agier 2013), of “heterotopia” (Foucault 1994), of “deterritorialisation” and “lines of flight” (Deleuze and Guattari 1980), of maroonage (Bona 2016) and “the inextricable entanglement of lianas” (Bona 2021). The transnational dimension of the ecotone will also be examined using concepts such as “cosmopolitanism” (Beck 2006, Vertovec 2002), “afropolitanism” (Mbembe 2005, 2019; Diop 2016; Gehrmann 2016; Balakrishnan 2018) or “afropeanism” (Miano 2020). The circulation of worlds allows for the emergence of new conceptualisations, both pragmatic and programmatic, of “emancipatory utopias” (Vergès 2017), such as “afrotopias” (Sarr 2016), which we invite to observe, both in the Anglophone and Francophone worlds. As an analogy from environmental thinking, the ecotone highlights the notion of “interconnectedness” (Morton 2008), whereby components are intrinsically linked to the whole of life, but are also continually and repeatedly reconfigured and reconnected. In conjunction with the political and social sciences, special attention will be given to literary and artistic representations of these multiple contemporary formations of utopias dealing with issues of flow and mobility in ecotonal spaces.

Information

The “Utopia and Ecotone” conference will take place on 29 September – 1 October in Ghent (Belgium). The languages of work will be English and French. Each presentation will last 20 minutes (followed by a discussion). A peer-reviewed publication of the proceedings is envisaged.

The conference will be an in-person event. Travel and accommodation costs will have to be covered by the participants. Registration fees will be requested.

How to submit

Paper proposals, in English or French, in .doc or .docx format, should include a title, a 300-word abstract that clearly specifies the corpus studied, a short critical bibliography, and a 5-line bio-bibliographic note (including name, institutional affiliation and email address).

Proposals must be sent by email to Justine Feyereisen: justine.feyereisen@ugent.be by 30 April 2022. The scientific committee’s decision will be delivered by 31 May.

References

Agier M.: 2013, La Condition cosmopolite. L’Anthropologie à l’épreuve du piège identitaire, La Découverte.

Arnold M., Duboin C., Misrahi-Barak J. eds.: 2020, Borders and Ecotones in the Indian Ocean, Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée.

Balakrishnan S.: 2018, “The Afropolitan Idea: New Perspectives on Cosmopolitanism in African Studies”, Delanty G. (ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies (2^nd ed.), Routledge, 575-585.

Balibar É.: 2020, Histoire interminable, La Découverte.

Beck U.: 2006, Qu’est-ce que le cosmopolitisme ?, Aubier.

Bloch E.: 1976, Le Principe Espérance I [1954-1959], Gallimard.

Bona D.T. : 2016, Fugitif, où cours-tu ?, Presses universitaires de France

___: 2021, La Sagesse des lianes. Cosmopoétique du refuge, Post-éditions.

Cohen R.: 2009, The Creolization Reader. Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures, Routledge.

___: 2015, « Refugia: the limits and possibilities of Buzi’s Refugee Nation”, https://nandosigona.

wordpress.com/2015/07/30/refugia-the-limits-and-possibilities-of-buzis-refugee-nation.

___, Van Hear N.: 2020, Refugia. Radical Solutions to Mass Displacement, Routledge.

Deleuze G., Guattari F.: 1980, Mille plateaux. Capitalisme et schizophrénie, Minuit.

Delmas-Marty M.: 2011, Les Forces imaginantes du droit IV. Vers une communauté de valeurs, Seuil.

Diop P.S.: 2016, « Des mots et concepts nouveaux en circulation dans l’espace francophone : l’“Afropolitanisme” en question », Nouvelles études francophones, 31.2, 14-28.

Duverger T.: 2021, Utopies locales, les solutions écologiques et solidaires de demain, Les Petits Matins.

Fassin D (dir): 2021, La Société qui vient, Seuil.

Foucault M.: 1994, Dits et écrits, Gallimard.

Gehrmann S.: 2016, “Cosmopolitanism with African roots. Afropolitan’s ambivalent mobilities”, Journal of African Cultural Studies, 28.1: 61-72.

Glissant E.: 1993, Tout-monde, Gallimard; 2020, Treatise on the Whole-World, translated by Celia Britton, Liverpool University Press.

___ : 1997, Traité du Tout-monde, Gallimard.

Mangeon A.: 2022, L’Afrique au futur. Le renversement des mondes. Herman.

Mbembe A.: 2005 (25 December), « Afropolitanisme », Africultures, http://africultures.com/afropolitanisme-4248.

___, Sarr F. (dir): 2019, Politique des temps. Imaginer les devenirs africains, P. Rey & Jimsaan.

Miano L.: 2020, Afropea. Utopie post-occidentale et post-raciste, Grasset.

Misrahi-Barak J., Lacroix T.: 2019, “Ecotones: Encounters, crossings, and communities, 2015-2020”, Programme outlines, https://emma.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/valorisation-partenariats/programmes-européens-et-internationaux/ecotones.

Morton T.: 2008, The Ecological Thought, Harvard University Press.

Pratt M. L.: 1992, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, Routledge.

Sarr F.: 2016, Afrotopia, P. Rey.

Vergès F.: 2017, « Utopies émancipatrices », Mbembe A., Sarr F. (eds.), Écrire l’Afrique-Monde, P. Rey & Jimsaan, 243-260.

Vertovec S., Cohen R.: 2002, Conceiving Cosmopolitanism, Oxford University Press.

Wright E.O.: 2010, Envisioning Real Utopias, Verso.

Organising Committee

Justine Feyereisen, Universiteit Gent

Pierre Schoentjes, Universiteit Gent

Scientific Committee

Corinne Duboin, Université de La Réunion

Justine Feyereisen, Universiteit Gent

Thomas Lacroix, CNRS, Sciences Po- CERI, Maison Française d’Oxford

Judith Misrahi-Barak, EMMA, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3

Pierre Schoentjes, Universiteit Gent

Ecotone Programme Coordinators

Thomas Lacroix, CNRS, Sciences Po- CERI, Maison Française d’Oxford

Judith Misrahi-Barak, EMMA, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3

Maggi Morehouse, Coastal Carolina University

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Utopie et écotone : Enjeux contemporains

Ecotones 8

Université de Gand, Belgique

29 septembre – 1 octobre 2022

En partenariat avec

EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), DIRE (Université de La Réunion) & Maison Française d’Oxford

https://emma.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/valorisation-partenariats/programmes-européens-et- internationaux/ecotones

Lieu : Université de Gand, Belgique

Dates : 29 septembre – 1 octobre 2022

Langues : français, anglais

Envoi des propositions : 30 avril 2022

Date de notification : 31 mai 2022

Ce colloque international à l’Université de Gand sera le 8^e opus du cycle de conférences « Écotones » dans la lignée des colloques tenus à l’Université́ Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, à l’Université́ de Poitiers et à l’Université́ de La Réunion (France, 2015, 2016, 2018), au Centre pour l’Étude des Sciences Sociales de Calcutta (CSSSC, Inde, 2018), Manhattanville College (États-Unis, 2019), à l’Université́ Concordia (Canada, 2019) et à l’Université du Cap (Afrique du Sud, 2021). Le programme « Ecotones : encounters, crossings, communities » (2015-2022) est un cycle de colloques visant à reprendre ce terme traditionnellement utilisé en géographie et en écologie, et à élargir le concept en l’appliquant aux disciplines des sciences humaines, politiques et sociales. Ce colloque interdisciplinaire portera plus spécifiquement sur les utopies qui émergent ou portent sur des écotones.

Un « écotone » désigne initialement une zone de transition écologique entre deux (ou plusieurs) écosystèmes distincts, le passage entre deux types d’habitat (forêt / prairie) ou le flux entre deux environnements naturels (eau douce / eau de mer). En expliquant comment cette zone de transition peut être étudiée sous un angle sociologique autant que biologique, Misrahi-Barak et Lacroix (2019 ; voir aussi Arnold et al. 2020) en ont élargi la définition : un écotone peut donc aussi désigner un espace culturel où des communautés se rencontrent, parfois se mélangent ou créent une nouvelle communauté. Lieu (oikos) de tensions (tonos) identitaires à l’œuvre, l’écotone représente un espace alternatif partagé, propice à la connexion, à la transformation, et potentiellement à la réinvention. Ce 8^e opus entend poursuivre la réflexion entamée lors des précédentes éditions sur la « chimie complexe » des mondes créoles (Cohen 2009), les « zones de contact » entre les cultures (Pratt 1992) dans des contextes tels que les migrations, les diasporas, les mouvements de réfugiés et autres déplacements postcoloniaux, les déplacements liés au changement climatique et autres événements historiques majeurs de la période contemporaine (1980 à nos jours) par le prisme de l’« utopie ».

La définition de l’écotone, ainsi que nous venons de la livrer, fait écho à celle de l’utopie telle qu’appréhendée à l’époque contemporaine : à travers le pouvoir de l’imagination, l’utopie serait le lieu révélateur d’un nœud de tensions (Benjamin 1997) qu’il s’agit de comprendre, de critiquer et de réinventer. L’hypothèse que pose ce colloque est que l’écotone est propice au réveil de l’utopie, hypothèse qui sera spécifiquement posée face aux enjeux contemporains. Depuis une vingtaine d’années émergent des propositions utopiques, non pas dans le sens traditionnel, largement péjoratif, évoquant un avenir si brillant qu’il semble irréel, ce qui conduit à des pratiques politiques oscillant entre impuissance et dictature ; mais en ce sens qu’elles iraient à contre-courant des rapports sociaux dominants dans une démarche résolument active (Balibar 2020). L’essentiel ne serait donc pas l’anticipation de l’avenir, mais, au présent, l’exercice d’une pensée concrète, qui invente des contre-récits et expérimente des modes de relation alternatifs. Cet aspect pragmatique de l’utopie réactive Le Principe espérance d’Ernst Bloch (1976), selon lequel la véritable utopie ne serait pas une « image de consolation », un recours fictionnel face au « désenchantement », ou encore une abstraction chimérique, mais plutôt un dépassement, une figure de l’imaginaire à inscrire dans la matérialité́ du monde (Wright 2010). Conscience anticipante, expérience de pensée, loin de la tentation totalitaire, elle serait plutôt une porte ouverte sur des possibles, sur des projets de transformation réalisables, ici et maintenant. Par exemple, l’idée de « Refugia » émanant de Robin Cohen (2015), que le sociologue spécialiste des études migratoires approfondit aux côtés de Nicholas Van Hear (2020) : Refugia est la proposition de créer une entité déterritorialisée, transnationale, entre différents sites développés et auto-gouvernés à partir d’initiatives essentiellement menées par des personnes en situation migratoire. Cet utopianisme pragmatique s’inspire à la fois de l’écotone en tant qu’espace socialement partagé et de l’archipel en tant qu’espace de mise en relation (Glissant 1997) pour remettre en question le modèle de l’État-nation face à sa capacité à offrir l’hospitalité aux individus migrants. Dans le contexte actuel de la crise de l’asile – autrement appelée « crise migratoire » –, plus qu’un principe espérance, l’utopie pourrait aussi être une tentative de résistance convoquant un principe de responsabilité (Delmas-Marty 2011).

« Voyons comment nous greffons l’Utopie sur ces plants rassemblés de la végétation créole », disait le poète, écrivain et philosophe Édouard Glissant dans son roman Tout-monde (1993). Dans un même élan heuristique, l’objectif de ce colloque est de repousser les limites épistémologiques de l’utopie en l’observant depuis l’écotone. En quoi un écotone est-il une zone de circulation propice à l’émergence d’utopies, que ce soit à des fins économiques, sociales, industrielles et financières, ou artistiques et créatives ? En quoi l’utopie permet-elle de questionner l’écotone, par exemple du côté de ses frontières, de ses marges ou de ses flux, et inversement ? Comment la pensée utopique intègre-t-elle les diversités engendrées par l’écotone ? Existe-t-il un modèle d’écotone idéal, inclusif et égalitaire, qu’il soit réel ou imaginaire ? Quels nouveaux modes de relation l’écotone permet-il d’inventer dans des contextes postcoloniaux ? Métaphorique ou concret, comment l’écotone renouvelle-t-il les modes de représentation ? Comment l’utopie appréhende-t-elle l’évolution des zones de transition, notamment engendrées par les changements écologiques ? Et que dire du maillage qui se tisse entre les êtres humains et la totalité du vivant ? Quels rôles peut jouer l’utopie dans le devenir et dans les réalisations sociales, économiques, urbaines, écologiques contemporaines face au défi migratoire dans un monde globalisé, et au changement climatique ? Et les villes modèles, ou città idéale ? Comment l’utopianisme, souvent perçu comme une construction essentiellement occidentale, est-il renouvelé par les pays du Sud et leurs diasporas ?

Le colloque « Utopie et écotone » convoquera, révisera et prolongera au prisme de l’utopie les notions de « lieu » (oïkos) et de « non-lieu » (outopos) (Agier 2013), d’« hétérotopie » (Foucault 1994), de « déterritorialisation » et de « lignes de fuite » (Deleuze et Guattari 1980), de marronnage (Bona 2016) et de « l’enchevêtrement inextricable des lianes » (Bona 2021). La dimension transnationale de l’écotone sera également interrogée à partir des concepts tels que de « cosmopolitisme » (Beck 2006, Vertovec 2002), d’« afropolitanisme » (Mbembe 2005, 2019; Diop 2016; Gehrmann 2016; Balakrishnan 2018) ou d’« afropéanisme » (Miano 2020). La circulation des mondes permet en effet l’émergence de nouvelles conceptualisations, pragmatique et programmatique, d’« utopies émancipatrices » (Vergès 2017), telles que les « afrotopies » (Sarr 2016), que nous invitons à observer, tant dans le monde anglophone que francophone. En tant qu’analogie issue d’une pensée de l’environnement, l’écotone met en évidence la notion d’« interconnectivité » (Morton 2008), selon laquelle les composants sont intrinsèquement liés à l’ensemble du vivant, mais aussi qu’ils sont continuellement et répétitivement reconfigurés et reconnectés. Conjointement avec les sciences politiques et sociales, une place de choix sera accordée aux représentations littéraires et artistiques de ces multiples formations contemporaines d’utopies portant sur les questions de flux et de mobilité dans les espaces écotonaux.

Informations pratiques

Le colloque « Utopie et écotone » se tiendra du 29 septembre au 1^er octobre 2022 à Gand (Belgique). Les langues d’expression seront le français et l’anglais. Chaque présentation durera 20 minutes (suivie d’un temps de discussion). Une sélection d’articles sera considérée pour publication.

Le colloque aura lieu en présentiel uniquement. Les frais de déplacement et de séjour devront être pris en charge par les participant·es. Des frais d’inscription serait demandés

Modalités de soumission

Les propositions de communication, en anglais ou français, en format .doc ou .docx devront comporter un titre, un résumé de 300 mots qui précise clairement le corpus étudié, une courte bibliographie critique, une notice bio-bibliographique de 5 lignes (comprenant le nom, l’appartenance institutionnelle et l’adresse électronique de l’auteur·rice).

Elles sont à envoyer par courriel à Justine Feyereisen : justine.feyereisen@ugent.be d’ici le 30 avril. La décision du comité scientifique sera communiquée le 31 mai.

Références

Agier M.: 2013, La Condition cosmopolite. L’Anthropologie à l’épreuve du piège identitaire, La Découverte.

Arnold M., Duboin C., Misrahi-Barak J. eds.: 2020, Borders and Ecotones in the Indian Ocean, Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée.

Balibar É.: 2020, Histoire interminable, La Découverte.

Beck U.: 2006, Qu’est-ce que le cosmopolitisme ?, Aubier.

Bloch E.: 1976, Le Principe Espérance I [1954-1959], Gallimard.

Bona D.T. : 2016, Fugitif, où cours-tu ?, Presses universitaires de France

___: 2021, La Sagesse des lianes. Cosmopoétique du refuge, Post-éditions.

Cohen R.: 2009, The Creolization Reader. Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures, Routledge.

___: 2015, « Refugia: the limits and possibilities of Buzi’s Refugee Nation”, https://nandosigona.

wordpress.com/2015/07/30/refugia-the-limits-and-possibilities-of-buzis-refugee-nation.

___, Van Hear N.: 2020, Refugia. Radical Solutions to Mass Displacement, Routledge.

Deleuze G., Guattari F.: 1980, Mille plateaux. Capitalisme et schizophrénie, Minuit.

Delmas-Marty M.: 2011, Les Forces imaginantes du droit IV. Vers une communauté de valeurs, Seuil.

Diop P.S.: 2016, « Des mots et concepts nouveaux en circulation dans l’espace francophone : l’“Afropolitanisme” en question », Nouvelles études francophones, 31.2, 14-28.

Duverger T.: 2021, Utopies locales, les solutions écologiques et solidaires de demain, Les Petits Matins.

Fassin D (dir): 2021, La Société qui vient, Seuil.

Foucault M.: 1994, Dits et écrits, Gallimard.

Gehrmann S.: 2016, “Cosmopolitanism with African roots. Afropolitan’s ambivalent mobilities”, Journal of African Cultural Studies, 28.1: 61-72.

Glissant E.: 1993, Tout-monde, Gallimard.

___ : 1997, Traité du Tout-monde, Gallimard.

Mangeon A.: 2022, L’Afrique au futur. Le renversement des mondes. Herman.

Mbembe A.: 2005 (25 December), « Afropolitanisme », Africultures, http://africultures.com/afropolitanisme-4248.

___, Sarr F. (dir): 2019, Politique des temps. Imaginer les devenirs africains, P. Rey & Jimsaan.

Miano L.: 2020, Afropea. Utopie post-occidentale et post-raciste, Grasset.

Morton T.: 2008, The Ecological Thought, Harvard University Press.

Pratt M. L.: 1992, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, Routledge.

Sarr F.: 2016, Afrotopia, P. Rey.

Vergès F.: 2017, « Utopies émancipatrices », Mbembe A., Sarr F. (eds.), Écrire l’Afrique-Monde, P. Rey & Jimsaan, 243-260.

Vertovec S., Cohen R.: 2002, Conceiving Cosmopolitanism, Oxford University Press.

Wright E.O.: 2010, Envisioning Real Utopias, Verso.

Comité organisateur

Justine Feyereisen, Universiteit Gent

Pierre Schoentjes, Universiteit Gent

Comité scientifique

Corinne Duboin, Université de La Réunion

Justine Feyereisen, Universiteit Gent

Thomas Lacroix, CNRS, Sciences Po-CERI, Maison Française d’Oxford

Judith Misrahi-Barak, EMMA, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3

Pierre Schoentjes, Universiteit Gent

Coordinatrices et coordinateur du programme Ecotones

Thomas Lacroix, CNRS, Sciences Po-CERI, Maison Française d’Oxford

Judith Misrahi-Barak, EMMA, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3

Maggi Morehouse, Coastal Carolina University

1.10. “Decentring French Studies”, early career researchers and PhD students, AUPHF+ , Wednesday 4th May 2022, online.

Event: Wednesday 4^th May 2022

CfP deadline: Friday 18^th March

On-line event organised by AUPHF+

This year’s annual workshop organised by AUPHF+ is the third in a series that has discussed the future of French and Francophone Studies in the twenty first century. In 2019, we focused on new approaches to pedagogy, from primary schools to higher education via other forms of adult education from a range of settings. In 2020, the theme was Decolonising French Studies where a series of speakers reflected on the ways in which the discipline can be expanded and transformed through processes of decolonisation. This year we would like to consider the broader theme of how our teaching and research is and can be transformed through a process of decentring. What has constituted or continues to constitute the centre in French Studies and how has this come to be the case? What are the benefits of exploring the peripheries and where do these lie? How do we reorientate the discipline to include cultures, voices and regions deemed to be at the margins? What are the ethical implications for researchers and teachers when exploring these margins?

We invite reflections on these and other related themes from early career researchers and PhD students in the field of French and Francophone Studies. Presentations should:

last between 5 and 10 minutes;
be in English or in French;
draw upon your past or current research;
demonstrate how your work responds specifically to the topic of decentring French Studies.

Proposals should take the form of a 250-word abstract which should be emailed to m.j.hurcombe@bristol.ac.uk no later Friday 18 March 2022.

The programme for the event will be announced in early April 2022. The event will also include three keynote presentations and a roundtable discussion to which presenters will be invited to contribute.

FURTHER NEWS

Our Undergraduate Group Project Outreach Fund is open for applications until 28 February 2022.

Further information on all funds and events here: http://www.auphf.ac.uk/news-events

1.11. Call for Papers, “Relation(s)”, Princeton University Department of French & Italian, 6^th Annual Graduate Conference, April 29, 2022 (online)

[See below for French]

Call for Papers
Princeton University Department of French & Italian
6^th Annual Graduate Conference
April 29, 2022 (online)

Keynote speakers: Romuald Fonkoua (Sorbonne Univ.); Guillaume Robillard (film director)

This year, the Department of French and Italian at Princeton had the great honor of listening to Patrick Chamoiseau in conversation with faculty and students. Among the themes discussed, the need to (re)think a world in relation particularly drew the attention of graduate students.

The news of the last few years has revealed an increasing tendency toward isolation and self-absorption in a world that has never been more connected and interdependent. Rhetorics of roots and origins have spread through intensifying debates on cultural, economic, and diplomatic isolation culminating in a will to halt circulation and close borders. These visions conceive of a world fragmented into opposed and irreconcilable entities. The thought of relation, however, reflects on such complex configurations and considers the material and conceptual limits that undergird the possibility and highlight the necessity of relationality.

The etymology of the word “relation” bears out significant polysemy. The Latin relatio designates the fact of reporting, relating, or narrating a matter, as well as the links or relations amongst two or more elements. Over the course of history, it has taken on many other nuances from social, to amorous, epistolary, economic, international, sexual, etc. In philosophy, the notion is evoked by Aristotle (Categories) and Kant (Critique of Pure Reason) in the field of ontology, logic, and metaphysics. In the literary field, following the distinction made by Deleuze and Guattari (Mille Plateaux) between the root and the rhizome, Edouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation remains one of the most novel explorations of the subject. He teases out the ethical dimensions of relationality in light of history, time, space, landscape — from the book to all books, from language (langue) to speech (parole). In an interview, he affirmed that he “dreams of a new approach, a new appreciation of literature, of literature as discovery of the world, as discovery of the Whole-World. I think that all peoples today have an important presence to fulfill in the non-system of relations in the Whole-World, and a people that does not have the means to reflect on this function is effectively an oppressed people, a people held in a state of infirmity” (Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity). Such a statement leads one to wonder what a focus on relation allows us to reconsider about identity, culture, and world, and in turn, to rethink literatures and cultural productions.

We welcome proposals bearing on the theme of relation in any period of French and francophone literature and culture. Possible subjects include but are not limited to the following :

– Colonial and postcolonial relations

– Human and non-human relations (ecopoetics, zoopoetics, posthumanism, transhumanism)

– Relations and identity

– Relations between genres

– Archetypical figures of relations (go-betweens, messengers, interpreters, translators)

– Sexuality, norms and relation (Gender Studies, Queer Studies)

– Virtuality of relations (relation v. connection)

– Public relations, international and diplomatic relations

– Relatability

– Secrets, silence, and the unspoken in relation

Graduate students are invited to submit proposals for presentations not exceeding 15 minutes. Proposals should include a title, an abstract (200-250 words), a biography (100 words), institutional affiliation, and contact information. Presentations may be in French or English.

Please send your proposals to relationsconference2022@gmail.com before March 15th, 2022.

1.12. Appels à communications pour les 7e Rencontres des études africaines en France, 28 juin au 01 juillet. les 6e JCEA, 27 et 29 juin.

Appels à communications pour les 7e Rencontres des études africaines en France (28 juin au 01 juillet) et pour les 6e JCEA (27 et 29 juin) sont désormais ouverts et ce jusqu’au 18 mars 2022. L’ensemble des informations sont disponibles sur les sites dédiés :

https://reaf2022.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/10
https://jcea2022.sciencesconf.org/

2. Job and scholarship Opportunities

2.1. New King’s PhD Scholarships for 2022/23, University of Aberdeen.

The School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen is offering up to three New King’s PhD Scholarships for 2022/23. New King’s Scholarships cover a fee waiver and annual stipend of £6000 for three years of full-time study. Any applicants are eligible to apply regardless of their nationality, but they should commence their PhD project in the academic year 2022-23 (between September 2022 and August 2023). The successful applicants are expected to conduct their research on campus. Selection will be based on the strength of the proposed project, its fit with the research specialisms of the school, and the academic track record of the applicant.

French and Francophone Studies at Aberdeen welcomes enquiries from prospective students interested in applying for a New King’s Scholarship for 2022/23. We have wide-ranging research expertise, including:

Literature and culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Visual culture, film and photography from the early twentieth century to the present

Urban space and the cultural history of French modernity

The politics and culture of identity and migration in contemporary Francophone culture

History and memory of World War II

Post-war critical theory, philosophy and thought

Contemporary fiction, prose and poetry

Literary translation, including bilingual writing and self-translation

Details of individual staff research interests can be found here:

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sll/disciplines/research-interests-1350.php

We also offer co-supervision in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural projects in areas including film, photography and visual culture; comparative literature and culture; early modern literature and thought; and critical theory. Many of these projects are located within our Research Centres, including the Centre for Early Modern Studies (CEMS), the Centre for Modern Languages Research (CMLR), the Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture (GWW), the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and the Rule of Law (CISRUL) and the Grierson Centre for Textual Criticism and Comparative Literary History. Informal enquiries about projects can be made in the first instance to Edward Welch, Carnegie Professor of French (edward.welch@abdn.ac.uk).

In order to be considered for a New King’s Scholarship, you must apply to the University of Aberdeen by Friday 13 May 2022 and complete a New King’s Scholarship Online Application by Friday 3 June 2022. Full details of the scheme and application process can be found here:

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sll/scholarships/new-kings-studentship-1242.php

2.2. Assistant Professor in Aesthetics with a focus on Critical Race/Decolonial Theory and Film , University of Amsterdam

Job opening at the University of Amsterdam

Vacancy number: 8259

Closing date: March 31, 2022

What are you going to do?

You will provide education in a dynamic context with ample opportunities for the development of innovative teaching methods. Your research will be part of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), one of the five research schools of the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research. ASCA is home to more than 100 researchers and more than 140 PhD candidates, and conducts world-leading research in Cultural Analysis. ASCA members share a commitment to studying culture in all its forms and expressions within an interdisciplinary framework, and to maintaining a close connection with contemporary cultural and political debates. All ASCA research fits into at least one, but usually more than one of five thematic constellations: 1) Mediality; 2) Arts & Aesthetics; 3) Globalization & Migration; 4) Identities; and 5) Cultural & Social Critique. Across these constellations, ASCA is seeking to build expertise on Global South cultures and critical race and decolonial theory.

The position will be embedded within the department of Philosophy in the capacity group ‘Critical Cultural Theory’ (CCT). This capacity group investigates art, cultural production/analysis, and aesthetics as forms of critique, specific experiences of modernity and “ways of worldmaking.” The position will be shared with the Media Studies department of the Faculty of Humanities, which offers both depth and diversity in its approaches to the study of media, with a wide range of academic offerings and research interests. It is the largest department of Media Studies in the Netherlands and is consistently highly ranked in international rankings. Our fields of expertise include Film studies, Cross-media culture, New Media and Digital Culture, Information studies, Digital humanities, Journalism, Archival Studies, Globalisation Studies, and Digital Heritage.

Tasks and responsibilities:

Designing and conducting independent research on aesthetics, critical race/decolonial theory and, ideally, film-philosophy, resulting in academic publications in peer-reviewed international journals and/or books;
actively pursuing external funding for research, notably funding from research councils, national as well as European;
actively contributing to and developing national and international research networks and other forms of cooperation;
actively contributing to the interdisciplinary research activities of ASCA;
developing, coordinating and teaching courses in both Dutch and English, in the Bachelor and Master programmes;
supervising Bachelor and Master theses and tutoring students; co-supervising PhD theses;
actively contributing to the development and improvement of the broader teaching programmes in the department;
taking part in committees and working groups, and carrying out departmental administrative tasks as directed.

What do you have to offer?

Your research will be in contemporary aesthetics. We are looking for a dynamic teacher/scholar who couples an engagement with media, arts, and cultures in different traditions with competencies in critical philosophy of race and post- or decolonial theory. The candidate should be interested in teaching students of philosophy as well as students in film and media studies. The position will be a joint appointment in the departments of philosophy and media studies.

You are able to develop and teach modules on aesthetics, critical race/decolonial theory, and film-philosophy. Important is proven flexibility in teaching on topics beyond your own research focus, a willingness to work in interdisciplinary teams of teachers and the ability to offer inspiring lectures and tutorials in the BA, MA and minor programmes that aspire to a wide range of students.

Your experience and profile:

holds a PhD in Philosophy, Cultural Theory, or a related field, with a research focus in Aesthetics and Critical Race or Decolonial Theory and an interest in Film-Philosophy. A strong background in 20^thand 21^st Century Philosophy is expected.
holds an international academic network in the research area concerned;
provides research output commensurate with the level of the position;
active and ambitious researcher with a strong publication record;
demonstrable ability and ambition to obtain external research grants;
broad and relevant teaching experience at BA and MA level;
excellent command of both Dutch and English. If Dutch is not the mother tongue, an active and passive command must be acquired within two years of the employment contract and the state examination for Dutch as a Second Language programme II must be passed;
experience with digital and audiovisual teaching facilities and affinity with IT in university teaching;
experienced in valorisation and practice-based education and/or research;
good team player and versatile at all levels, capable of multidisciplinary co-operation;
excellent organisational experience and skills;
acquired the Dutch Basic Teaching Qualification, or is willing to acquire this within the first two years.

Qualifications in one or more areas of Africana, Asian, Latinx/Latin American, Afro-European, or African American philosophy, Feminist Philosophy/Gender Theory, and Environmental Aesthetics are desirable. Expertise in Critical Phenomenology or Critical Theory is highly desirable. An orientation toward African or Latin-American cinemas will be an advantage.

What can we offer you?

We offer permanent employment upon a satisfactory evaluation following a temporary employment contract of a maximum of 18 months with a probationary period of two months. If you already have an employment contract with the UvA, we offer permanent employment upon a satisfactory evaluation following a temporary employment contract of a maximum of 12 months. The employment contract is for 38 hours a week. Preferred starting date is 01 August 2022.

The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week, ranges between € 3,821 (scale 11) to € 5,943 (scale 12) dependent on relevant experience.

This sum does not include the 8% holiday allowance and the 8,3% year-end allowance. A favourable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities is applicable.

About us

The University of Amsterdam is the Netherlands’ largest university, offering the widest range of academic programmes. At the UvA, 30,000 students, 6,000 staff members and 3,000 PhD candidates study and work in a diverse range of fields, connected by a culture of curiosity.

The Faculty of Humanities provides education and conducts research with a strong international profile in a large number of disciplines in de field of language and culture. Located in the heart of Amsterdam, the faculty maintains close ties with many cultural institutes in the capital city. Research and teaching staff focus on interdisciplinary collaboration and are active in several teaching programmes.

Want to know more about our organisation? Read more about working at the University of Amsterdam.

Any questions?

Do you have any questions or do you require additional information? Please contact (during office hours):

Monique Roelofs, Professor of Philosophy of Art and Culture, m.roelofs@uva.nl

Patricia Pisters, Professor of Film Studies, p.p.r.w.pisters@uva.nl

Job Application

If you feel the profile fits you, and you are interested in the job, we look forward to receiving your application. You can apply online via the link below. The deadline for applying for this vacancy is 31 March 2022.

Applications , including a letter of motivation, a detailed CV, a list of publications and the names and email addresses of two references who can provide letters of recommendation, should be submitted in one .pdf.

Only complete applications received within the response period via the link below will be considered.

The interviews will be held in the course of April – May 2022. A trial lecture may be part of the application procedure.

https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assistant-Professor-in-Aesthetics-with-focus-on-Critical-RaceDecolonial-Theory-and-Film/741839602/#apply

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

No agencies please.

2.3. Two Permanent Assistant Professors in Translation and Transcultural Studies – University of Warwick

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick invites applications for two outstanding Assistant Professors in Translation and Transcultural Studies. These are permanent, full time posts (start date: 1^st September 2022). We especially welcome applications from candidates with a proven record of, or clear potential for, addressing cultural, theoretical, or practical dimensions of audiovisual translation and/or translation and technology.

The successful candidates will play a full part in all School research, teaching, and administration activities, as well as those within the Translation and Transcultural Studies section, with a remit to develop and help to deliver UG and PG degree-level quality provision in translation and transcultural studies. They will be expected to contribute actively to our UG modules, to our MA in Translation and Cultures and to our PhD in Translation and Transcultural Studies.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 13 March 2022, and all details are available here. For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Mila Milani, Head of Translation and Transcultural Studies, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, m.milani@warwick.ac.uk and Professor Katherine Astbury, Head of School, katherine.astbury@warwick.ac.uk

2.4. Lecteur/Lectrice In French, St Catherine’s College and Wadham College – closing date 7 April

St Catherine’s College and Wadham College propose to jointly appoint a Lecteur / Lectrice from October 2022 to June 2023. The Lecteur/Lectrice role supports language teaching across both the colleges, and during term they will therefore be expected to spend a portion of their working time at each college. St Catherine’s is the lead college for the academic year 2022-23.

Please see the following link for further details: https://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/lecteur-lectrice-in-french-closing-date-7-april/

2.5. Lecturer or senior lecturer, specialising in social, political or cultural history, University of Bristol

The University of Bristol seeks to appoint a lecturer or senior lecturer, specialising in social, political or cultural history in the broad field of French studies with a preference for the modern and/or contemporary period. Application deadline is 30^th March; the appointment start date is 1^st August or as soon as possible thereafter. For full details please go to:

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=267605&jobTitle=Lecturer%2FSenior%20Lecturer%20in%20French

We are looking above all for a colleague who has intellectual breadth and agility and an aptitude for interdisciplinary dialogue.

We look forward to receiving applications and welcoming a new member to join our forward-looking team.

2.6. Lecturer in Environmental Humanities and Modern Languages, 2 years fixed term, School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

The Institute of Modern Languages Research<https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/>, at the School of Advanced Study, is seeking a Lecturer in Environmental Humanities and Modern Languages, who will make an important contribution to establishing Environmental Humanities as a key research strand within the IMLR and, more broadly, the School of Advanced Study. The successful applicant will contribute actively to the academic objectives of the IMLR and to the Institute’s and the School’s programme of academic and research training events such as conferences, seminars, and postgraduate programmes. They will produce and disseminate research in Modern Languages (understood as a disciplinary field encompassing the integrated study of languages, cultures, and societies) and Environmental Humanities.

Given the current configuration of the IMLR, a specialisation in Latin American/Caribbean Studies may be an advantage. Experience of academic research in Environmental Humanities and the integrated study of languages, cultures, and societies is essential.

Closing date: 20 March 2022, with interviews scheduled to be held online in the week commencing 25 April 2022

Salary: from £36,999 per annum

Full details, including job description and method of application, can be found here: https://www.jobs.london.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=2032

2.7. Visiting appointment in Caribbean Studies: Gettysburg College, USA

https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/435851/africana-studies-program-visiting-assistant-professor/

2.8. 4 full-time Lecturers of French, Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies at UBC

The Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies at UBC invites applications for 4 full-time Lecturers of French to commence July 1, 2022.

The successful candidates will be expected to teach undergraduate language courses in French at all levels, and engage in innovative curriculum development. Other responsibilities may include: student advising, recruitment and placement, TA training and supervision, course coordination, and service on administrative committees as assigned by the Head. The full-time teaching load for a Lecturer in Arts is 24 credits per year (typically expressed as eight 3-credit courses across the 12-month period of appointment) and service assignments.

These are full-time positions for an initial term of three years, including a probationary first year. Lecturer positions are appointments without review (i.e. non-tenure track), renewable for successive terms, subject to availability of funds and demonstration of excellence in teaching and service, in accordance with the Collective Agreement between UBC and the UBC Faculty Association.

Requirements: Ph.D. degree in French Studies, Second Language Acquisition, French as a Foreign Language or a relevant field. Candidates with an M.A. degree combined with significant teaching experience will also be considered. Candidates must have exceptional written and verbal communication skills in French, as well as an excellent command of English, and must be able to demonstrate established competence in foreign language pedagogy, technology-assisted instruction, and knowledge of current issues and methods in teaching French as a second language. A good understanding of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and how it relates to language courses in a Canadian Higher Education context is an asset (CEFR-informed teaching and assessment practices).

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

Applications are to be submitted before Thursday, March 24, 2022.

The full posting can be found on the FHIS website and contains the link to the application form: https://fhis.air.arts.ubc.ca/4-lecturer-positions-in-french/

2.9. three full-time, two-year renewable, benefits-eligible Assistant Instructional Professor positions in French, University of Chicago

The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and the Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago are accepting applications for up to three full-time, two-year renewable, benefits-eligible Assistant Instructional Professor positions in French. Responsibilities will include teaching seven French language courses per academic year across three quarters according to the needs of the program, and assisting with program administration and coordination.

Required are a Superior level of proficiency in French as defined by ACTFL and Advanced-level (or equivalent) proficiency in English; language proficiency must be demonstrated via certification or in the interview process. Candidates must have completed an MA or equivalent in French or a related field (e.g., French and Francophone Studies, linguistics, applied linguistics, translation, second-language teaching or acquisition) by the start date of the positions. A PhD or equivalent in French and/or an advanced degree in second language pedagogy/acquisition is desirable. Particular consideration will be given to candidates who have expertise in French as spoken in its global contexts. Candidates must have a minimum of one year of experience teaching French at the college or post-secondary level and should be able to teach multiple levels of French language courses, including advanced. Experience in the development of instructional materials is expected. The ability to teach heritage language courses, sociolinguistics, and/or French language in more specialized contexts is highly desirable. All instructors are expected to engage in regular professional development.

These appointments will start on September 1, 2022.

These positions are contingent upon final budgetary approval.

To apply for these positions, candidates must submit their application through the University of Chicago’s Interfolio jobs board at apply.interfolio.com/102723 .

Applicants must upload a current curriculum vitae; two cover letters, written in English and French, that address professional and teaching experience, and the candidate’s approach to language pedagogy; a 15-20 minute teaching video of a remote or in-person class (mock-class acceptable) and accompanying lesson plan; and the names and contact information of three references whose recommendation letters may be solicited. Course evaluations (if available) may be uploaded. Short-listed candidates may be asked to provide examples of teaching materials including additional teaching video recordings.

Application deadline is March 20, 2022. Only completed applications will be considered. For further questions about these positions, please contact Guillaume Beaudin, Humanities Collegiate Division, gbeaudin@uchicago.edu

These positions will be part of the Service Employees International Union.

We seek a diverse pool of applicants who wish to join an academic community that places the highest value on rigorous inquiry and encourages diverse perspectives, experiences, groups of individuals, and ideas to inform and stimulate intellectual challenge, engagement, and exchange. The University’s Statements on Diversity are at https://provost.uchicago.edu/statements-diversity.

The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Disabled/Veterans Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University’s Notice of Nondiscrimination.

Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-702-1032 or email equalopportunity@uchicago.edu with their request.

2.10. Senior Instructional Professor and Deputy Director of the French Language Program, University of Chicago

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Humanities Collegiate Division

at the University of Chicago are accepting applications for a Senior Instructional Professor and

Deputy Director of the French Language Program. This is a full-time position, benefits-eligible,

with a minimum three-year renewable term to start on September 1, 2022.

The French language program at the University of Chicago has approximately 700 annual

student enrollments and close to 70 sections of nearly 20 different courses taught annually,

including a newly added Haitian Creole track. It is the second-largest language program at the

University, and many students go on to major or minor in French and Francophone Studies or

Romance Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. The Senior Instructional Professor in French will

serve as Deputy Director of the language program. We are looking for a colleague who will help

to provide leadership and vision for this dynamic program, participate in the development of a

curriculum for heritage speakers and other new curricula, promote French language and culture

in the rich heterogeneity of its global contexts, and work closely with the French Language

Program Director to sustain a language program that provides rigorous language instruction

meeting the needs of the 21st-century learner. We seek a colleague with excellent teaching,

communication, and leadership skills who will work collaboratively and effectively with a

diverse set of students and colleagues both within and beyond the Department of Romance

Languages & Literatures to ensure the ongoing vibrancy and success of our programs.

As Senior Instructional Professor, the successful candidate will teach six courses each year,

typically in the French Language Program, and in some years will teach the departmental foreign

language pedagogy course for graduate students. While serving as Deputy Director of the French

Language Program, their course load will be reduced to four courses per year. As Deputy

Director, the successful candidate will help manage all pedagogical, (co)curricular,

administrative, and financial aspects of the French Language Program under the leadership of the

Director. This is a year-round position: the successful candidate will remain engaged with the

program during all four academic quarters, including through UChicago’s Summer Language

Institute, Study Abroad at UChicago’s Paris Center, and the Chicago Language Center.

Required are a Superior-level proficiency in French as defined by ACTFL, an advanced degree

in French or a related discipline, and at least five years of language teaching experience at the

college or post-secondary level. Experience in language course development and curricular

implementation is required; additional experience coordinating instructors/instruction is

preferred. Applicants must demonstrate the ability to design and articulate curricula across

multiple sections and levels, and to work effectively with faculty members. Specialized training

in second language acquisition and second language pedagogy is highly desirable. The Senior

Instructional Professor will be the supervisor of Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-

unionized instructional professors and other part-time lecturers, with responsibility for directing

and evaluating their work, and, if necessary, for corrective action. The Deputy Director also will

oversee graduate student language teachers as well as exchange lecturers and exchange language

assistants. In addition to the SEIU-mandated evaluation of instructional professors in the French

Language Program, the Senior Instructional Professor may be called upon to perform evaluation

duties for instructional professors in other departments.

To apply for this position candidates must provide the following:

A current CV;
A cover letter that addresses professional and teaching experience, and conveys the

candidate’s vision for a flourishing French language program;

A teaching portfolio that includes a 15-20 minute video of their classroom teaching—

remote or in-person (mock class acceptable) and accompanying lesson plan; sample

syllabi (one each at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels); description of

curricular implementation at the course or course-sequence level; sample teaching

evaluations (5 pages maximum); a statement of teaching philosophy (1 page maximum);

and a diversity and inclusion statement (1 page maximum).

The names and contact information for three references whose letters of recommendation

may be solicited.

Upon request, applicants should be prepared to provide any of the following: additional syllabi

or examples of other teaching materials including further recordings.

Candidates must submit their application through the University of Chicago’s Interfolio jobs

board at apply.interfolio.com/102019.

Application deadline is March 6, 2022. Only complete applications will be considered.

Please contact Guillaume Beaudin (gbeaudin@uchicago.edu) with any questions.

This position is contingent upon budgetary approval.

We seek a diverse pool of applicants who wish to join an academic community that places the

highest value on rigorous inquiry and encourages diverse perspectives, experiences, groups of

individuals, and ideas to inform and stimulate intellectual challenge, engagement, and

exchange. The University’s Statements on Diversity are

at https://provost.uchicago.edu/statements-diversity.

The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Disabled/Veterans

Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation,

gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, protected

veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional

information please see the University’s Notice of Nondiscrimination.

Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should

call 773-702-1032 or email equalopportunity@uchicago.edu with their request.

2.11. Assistant Teaching Professor (renewable, non-tenure track), Villanova University

The French and Francophone Studies Program at Villanova University invites applications for a renewable, non-tenure track position with the rank of Assistant Teaching Professor beginning August 2022. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated commitment to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and multicultural competence in an educational and work environment and must be willing to contribute to the College’s strategic plan of inclusion. The teaching load is 4 courses per semester at the Introductory and Intermediate levels. The area of specialization is open with preference for Pedagogy or Linguistics. Ph.D. and native or near-native fluency in French and English are required.

Villanova is a Catholic university sponsored by the Augustinian order. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion have been and will continue to be an integral component of Villanova University’s mission. The University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and seeks candidates who understand, respect and can contribute to the University’s mission and values.

Candidates should have demonstrated excellence in teaching French at the undergraduate level. In addition to teaching, the successful candidate’s responsibilities will include departmental service, organizing extracurricular activities, and student mentoring.

Applicants should submit the following materials online at https://jobs.villanova.edu: cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, contribution to the mission statement (including a statement of experience with, and commitment to, teaching a diverse student body), two complete sets of student evaluations, sample syllabi (uploaded as the required “Other Document”), and contact information for 3 references who will be contacted via email to submit confidential letters of recommendation when the application is submitted.

Applications should be addressed to Dr. Etienne Achille, Director, French and Francophone Studies, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster, Villanova, PA 19085.

Review of application begins on March 7, 2022 and continues until the position is filled. Preliminary interviews will take place via Skype.

2.12. Ohio State University, full-time lecturers (non-tenure track) in French

The Department of French and Italian at The Ohio State University is conducting a search for three new full-time lecturers (non-tenure track) in French and one in Italian starting in Autumn 2022. Specializations open. Please see the links below for more detailed information and please share as appropriate.

French:

https://osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/job/Columbus-Campus/Lecturer-in-French_R38716-2

2.13. NUAcT PhD Studentship: Diasporic Memory Practices

The School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University invites applications for a fully funded doctoral studentship in the area of cultural memory studies, diaspora and remembrance. Supervised by Dr Catherine Gilbert, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to design their own research project, which coheres with Dr Gilbert’s broad interest in Memory Studies and resonates with her current project on ‘Genocide Commemoration and Education in the Rwandan diaspora’.

The successful candidate should have experience working in the field of cultural memory studies, with a disciplinary background in e.g. anthropology, modern languages, history, education or a related area. The person appointed will develop their own programme of research in relation to the broad themes of diaspora, commemoration, education and cultural responses to conflict and violence.

The award will cover 100% of home (UK) tuition fees and an annual stipend (living expenses) of £15,609. International fees may be awarded in exceptional cases.

The deadline for applications is Friday 29 April 2022.

Full details of the position and how to apply are available here: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-funding/search-funding/?code=H0000016

Please send any enquiries to catherine.gilbert@newcastle.ac.uk

2.14. Early Career Fellowships: Inclusion, Participation and Engagement, the School of Advanced Study, University of London

The Institutes of Classical Studies, English Studies, and Modern Languages Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London are offering three five-month funded fellowships in languages, literatures and cultures. These are intended to support projects that address or wish to address inclusive and participatory methods of engagement as part of their research.

The School of Advanced Study has been awarded short-term funding to scope a programme of activities embedding inclusion, participation and engagement in research in the Humanities. As a result, the Institutes of Classical Studies, English Studies and Modern Languages Research are able to offer three Early Career Fellowships in the field of languages, literatures, and cultures. Fellows are expected to pursue their own research during the five months of the Fellowship and to contribute to the School’s scoping mission.

The Fellows will be based in the Institutes of Classical Studies, English Studies and Modern Languages Research, as appropriate. We invite applications from individuals, pairs or triads of early career scholars who have active research interests in these areas.

Applicants are invited to submit a research proposal on a topic of their choice, either individually or as part of a group. This should specify as an objective a defined outcome for the research carried out during the period of the Fellowship, such as a grant proposal, an article, chapter in a book and/or detailed proposal for a book.

In addition to pursuing their research programme, Fellows will be expected to contribute to the scoping of a programme of activities to promote inclusion, participation and engagement in research in the School of Advanced Study. These might include making recommendations for training the School should develop for postgraduate research students and early career researchers, and other activities that will help advance, promote and support research in the humanities nationally. These recommendations will be communicated in a report, to be submitted by the end of the Fellowship period.

The Fellowships will last five months. Because of the nature of the funding, successful applicants must be available to take up the Fellowship as soon as possible, and in any case by the end of May 2022. Fellows will receive a stipend of £2,000 per month; this may be used as a contribution towards travel and/or accommodation costs during the Fellowship, though residence in London is not a requirement of these posts. Payment will be made in two instalments during the course of the Fellowship, at commencement and in month 3. The overall payment is £10,000 or pro rata if the fellowship is terminated early. Some additional funding will be available to support events and activities.

The Fellowships are intended to support early career researchers without a permanent academic post. In order to be eligible for the scheme, early career scholars (i.e. scholars within eight years of PhD award, not including any period of career break) must have been awarded their PhD by the start of the Fellowship. Independent researchers without a PhD would not normally be eligible.

The closing date for receipt of applications and references is 11 March 2022.

Please read the full details of the fellowship scheme (pdf): https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/Fellowships/Early%20Career%20Fellowships%20-%20Inclusion%2C%20Participation%2C%20Engagement.pdf

Method of application: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/research-fellowships/visiting-fellowships-and-scholarships/early-career-fellowships-inclusion

3. Announcements

3.1. “Giving Shape to the World with Leïla Slimani”, 24 March 2022, Institut français du Royaume-Uni, London.

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25856

24 March 2022

6.30pm – 8.00pm (GMT, UK time)

In person event held at Institut français du Royaume-Uni, London.

First Franco-Moroccan woman to win the prestigious Prix Goncourt for her novel Lullaby, Leïla Slimani was appointed personal representative of President Macron to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. She will discuss how literature and art shape our world with Dr Adina Stroia (Newcastle University).

Leïla Slimani is a Franco-Moroccan writer and author of the Goncourt prize-winning Chanson douce (2016) and other award-winning works such as Dans le jardin de l’ogre (2014), Sexe et Mensonges: La Vie Sexuelle au Maroc (2017) and Le pays des autres (2020), which has recently been translated and published in English as The Country of Others (2021). Slimani’s latest book, Regardez-nous danser: Le pays des autres, 2 is out with Editions Gallimard in February 2022. In 2017, she took up the position of personal representative to the ‘Organisation internationale de la Francophonie’ on behalf of the French President, Emmanuel Macron.

Adina Stroia is Lecturer in French/Francophone Studies at Newcastle University. Her research interests lie in the areas of life-writing, visual culture, ageing, mourning, queer theory and vulnerability studies. She has most recently published ‘The Traumatic Structure of the récit de mort: Camille Laurens’s Philippe’ in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies and a chapter entitled ‘Visualizing Mourning: The Legacy of Roland Barthes’s La Chambre claire’ is forthcoming in Dwelling on Grief: Narratives of Mourning Across Time and Forms (Oxford: Legenda, 2022). She has interviewed several high-profile contemporary authors, including Annie Ernaux, Camille Laurens, and Marie Nimier.

This event is organised as part of a series of seminars taking place in 2022 and supported by the UK Association for Modern and Contemporary France’s Visiting Scholars’ Seminar Series fund, the Cassal Endowment Fund and the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London.

Giving Shape to the World: Contemporary Writing in French Today is a series of conversations bringing together several new voices in French and Francophone writing, visual arts and poetry with academic centres of research in the UK interested in the broad question of the relationship between writing, the visual arts, translation and world-making. By focusing on a series of forms, from the realist to the experimental novel, from experimental poetry to the visual form of the bande dessinée or graphic novel, from texts tackling issues ranging from social violence to colonial history, to the role of the translator in rendering literary and visual form across languages, the series sheds light on the increasing predominance of narratives and forms of world-making in French and Francophone literature and visual arts.

The series is co-convened by Dr Sarah Arens (University of Liverpool), Dr Jeff Barda (University of Manchester), Dr Joseph Ford (Institute of Modern Languages Research) and Professor Jean-Michel Gouvard (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne).

This event will be held in person at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT. To register, please go to: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25856

3.2. 2022 CSA Conference, Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award

The Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) is pleased to announce the 2022 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Award. The award consists of a Diploma and USD$500, and it will be presented on June 2nd, 2022, at the 46th Annual CSA Virtual Conference.

We will be entertaining submissions in any of the CSA approved languages: English, Spanish and French.

Among the criteria that will be weighed by the panel of judges are:

1. The theoretical contribution to our understanding of historical and/or contemporary issues within a discipline of the broader field of Caribbean Studies.
2. The methodological rigor of the work, e.g., the use of primary source or archival/historical data, methodological innovativeness, and suggestions for new avenues of research and thinking about the Caribbean.Publishers and authors must send two copies of their book, according to the subject (Humanities or Social Sciences) to two members of the corresponding jury, according to the language in which the book is written.

Chair of the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award: Dr. Tavis Jules (tjules@luc.edu<mailto:tjules@luc.edu>)

All submissions (for the humanities and social science in all languages) should be sent to Dr. Tavis D Jules<mailto:tjules@luc.edu> electronically on or before March 20, 2020.

Committee Members are:

* Dr. Tavis D. Jules, Loyola University Chicago (Chair)
* Dr. Aliyah Khan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
* Dr. Anthony Maingot, Florida International University
* Dr. Georges Félix, Coventry University
* Dr. Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
* Dr. Karen Naidoo, York University
* Dr. Margarita Vargas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
* Dr. Yolanda Wood, The University of Havana
* Ms. Molly Hamm-Rodríguez, University of Colorado Boulder

» CLICK HERE<https://www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/gksl-award-winners/> to view the past Award Winners

3.3. Applying for a PhD and Navigating the Job Market in French Studies: Workshops for Early Career Researchers, Friday 18th March 2022, 9.30am-1.30pm, Online. Organised by AUPHF+

AUPHF+ (formerly Association of University Professors and Heads of French) exists to promote French Studies in the UK and Ireland. In recent years, we have broadened both our remit and our membership to represent a fuller range of career stages and experiences. To this end we are offering early career researchers in French Studies the opportunity to join us for four short workshops designed to help navigate different stages of the academic job market. Each workshop features a short discussion between those who are or who have been recently involved in applications for PhD students, lectureships, teaching and research fellowships. Each discussion will be followed by a Q&A. You are welcome to attend all workshops or just those that are of immediate interest to you.

Programme

9.30-10.15am: Applying for a lectureship: Dominique Carlini-Versini (Durham) and Shuangyi Li (Bristol)

10.30-11.15: Applying for a postdoctoral fellowship: Federico Testa (Bristol) and Martin Hurcombe (Bristol)

11.30-12.15: Applying for a PhD and postgraduate funding: Pallavi Joshi (Warwick) and Emmanuelle Labeau (Aston).

12.30-1.15: Applying for a teaching fellowship: Ashley Harris (Surrey) and Steven Wilson (Queen’s, Belfast).

To register for this free event, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/applying-for-a-phd-and-navigating-the-job-market-in-french-studies-tickets-

3.4. IMLR Conference Grant Scheme

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/imlr-conference-grant-scheme

The IMLR Conference Grant Scheme aims to support the study of modern languages and/or Latin American studies outside London, to promote inter-institutional collaborations, and bring together scholars from the wider area as participants or attendees.

Applicants can apply for a maximum of £2,000.

The call for applications is now open, for events to be held between 1 September 2022 and 30 June 2023. The deadline for applications is 11 April 2022.

Further details / how to apply (PDF)

3.5. Workshop, “Trans/Interculturality & Languages”, Embodied Interculturality in the Language Class, 22 March 2022.

Embodied Interculturality in the Language Class

Donata Puntil, King’s College, London

Tuesday, 22 March 2022, 1-2.30pm

Online workshop on Zoom

The workshop is free but registration using this form is essential. Deadline for registration: Thursday, 17 March 2022.

Abstract:

Languages are learned, acquired, but above all, they are ‘lived’ (Pennycook, 2017). In Second Language Acquisition theory and practice, it is more and more recognized that language learning is not only linked to cognitive, social, and linguistic skills, but that it is an activity very much grounded in our daily practices, in our bodies, places and in objects surrounding us, as well as in our relationship to cultural practices. Our language learning trajectory is made up of linguistic and non-linguistic repertoires that we carry with us and that enable us to interact in linguistic and embodied cultural interchanges. This workshop will focus on how to make sense of our linguistic and cultural identities and on how to support our students in navigating through their language learning journey.

Information on the Language Teaching Forum, as well as video recordings, PowerPoints, and handouts from previous workshops are available on the LTF webpage. Please forward this to anyone you think might be interested. If you have any questions please contact: language-teaching-forum@york.ac.uk. Many thanks.

3.6. Women in French Australia’s 2022 Seminar Series

Women in French Australia (WiF OZ) is pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative inviting WiF members from far and wide to curate online seminars over the coming year.

The seminars will offer opportunities to showcase and debate a wide range of projects, as well as give Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers the chance to gain experience in event organisation under the guidance of the WiF OZ committee.

The topics can range from any of those that fall under the purview of WiF, from women’s writing and cultural production to questions of gender and identity in French & Francophone contexts.

We invite expressions of interest for one-off events or for short thematic strands of events and would be especially pleased to hear from Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers.

To get involved, the committee would like to receive a 300- to 500-word description of your event idea by 18 March 2022. If you have any questions, you are welcome to write to us to discuss your idea before submitting the formal application. WiF Oz is pleased to provide advice and guidance to all those who are interested through the process. Questions or applications should be sent to wifaustralia@gmail.com.

For further information on WiF OZ’s past events and 2021 Works-in-Progress seminar series please see our website.

3.7. Seminar, Modern Languages and Inclusivity: Sharing Ideas and Practices, 25 March.

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25364

25 March 2022

11:45 – 16:15

Online, via zoom

All times are in GMT

The annual AMLUK (Alliance of Modern Languages, Area Studies and Linguistics Subject Associations UK) symposium is the chance to share experiences and approaches regarding issues which are of deep concern to all those within the disciplinary field. In this year’s symposium, presentations will discuss how associations, schools, and university departments are approaching questions regarding inclusivity.

The symposium is organised into three sessions, each an hour long and involving short presentations (of around 10 minutes) followed by discussion. The first session is centred around the work that subject associations are doing. The question of how universities and schools can work more closely together within the subject area is a matter of great importance and the second session focuses on initiatives that are being pursued in secondary education. The final session of the day discusses how Schools of MLs in universities are approaching the issue of inclusivity.

11:45-12:45
Session One: Subject areas and associations
(Chair: Connor Doak, Bristol University)
Michael Tsang (Birkbeck, University of London): ‘The Challenge of the “Decolonising” Initiative in East Asian Studies
Zhu Hua (UCL): ‘Developing the BAAL Statement on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Applied Linguistics’
Claire Ross (University of Reading) and Paul Leworthy (University of Edinburgh): ‘German Studies and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’

Break: 12.45-1.30

13:30-14:30
Session Two: Schools
(Chair: Joe Dale (Independent modern foreign languages & technology consultant))
Lisa Panford (St Mary’s University) and Melina Irvine (University of Bristol): ‘ALL SIG: Working Together to Mobilise Advancements in Decolonising the Secondary MFL Curriculum’
Charlotte Ryland (Oxford University): ‘Creative Translation for Inclusion: Stephen Spender Trust & Translation Exchange Programmes in Secondary Schools’
Lucy Jenkins (Cardiff University): ‘International Languages in Secondary Schools in Wales: Why Don’t Learners Choose Languages and How Can Mentoring Provoke Change?’

Break: 14:30-14:45

14:45–15:45
Session Three: Universities
(Chair: Ruselle Meade, Cardiff University)
Emanuelle Santos and Alice Corr (University of Birmingham): ‘Linguistics, Area Studies and Languages: Towards an Alliance for a New Thinking’
Hansun Hsiung (Durham University): ‘Decolonising MLAC at Durham: Bottom-Up Approaches and Coalitional Politics’

15:45–16:15 Conclusion

All are welcome to attend this free symposium, which will be held online via zoom. You will need to register in advance to receive the online joining link: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25364

3.8. “Qu’est-ce qu’un écosystème littéraire?”, vendredi 11 mars à 16h.

Maëline Le Lay interviendra à propos de l’Afrique des Grands Lacs dans la prochaine séance du séminaire “Qu’est-ce qu’un écosystème littéraire?” qui aura lieu le vendredi 11 mars à 16h.

Pour celles et ceux qui voudraient participer en visio, vous nous retrouverez en prenant ce chemin : https://meet.google.com/tka-zsjm-uqv?authuser=0

Voici la présentation de la séance:

Peut-on parler d’un écosystème littéraire des Grands Lacs? Depuis les rivages du lac Kivu : Muripuko ou l’« Éruption de mots »

En Afrique des Grands Lacs, et singulièrement en RD Congo, la littérature résonne des bruissements de la ville, s’incorporant dans le maillage associatif et institutionnel du tissu urbain. À ce titre, la notion d’écosystème littéraire permettrait de désigner la manière non seulement dont la littérature s’organise dans l’espace urbain, mais aussi dont les écrivains participent activement d’un écosystème complexe de milieux interdépendants : le milieu artistique et la société civile.

Mais au-delà d’un usage proprement organisationnel et métaphorique du concept d’écosystème, je pose l’hypothèse selon laquelle cette interdépendance des milieux a pu constituer le socle d’une énonciation d’un souci de l’environnement, du moins d’une prise de conscience de la paradoxale vulnérabilité d’un écosystème fait d’éléments aussi puissants (en termes d’énergie comme en termes de beauté) qu’un vaste lac abritant plusieurs gaz et un volcan en activité. Il aura fallu, au Kivu, un ébranlement mémorable – une éruption volcanique accompagnée d’importants tremblements sismiques – pour que des voix s’élèvent, rimant, chantant, slamant non seulement l’attachement au lieu dévasté mais aussi la nécessité d’en préserver l’écosystème.

Un exemplier sera bientôt mis à dispostion sur le site du collectif ZoneZadir:

https://zonezadir.hypotheses.org/maeline-le-lay-peut-on-parler-decosysteme-litteraire-dans-lafrique-des-grands-lacs-11-03-2022

3.9. A Conversation with Prof. Goldstein Sepinwall, Slave Revolt on Screen, March 11, 2022 – 1pm (US Central)

The Graduate Program in French and Francophone studies at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette presents the final event in our Spring Speaker Series. On Friday, March 11, 2022 at 1pm (US Central Time), we will be in conversation with Prof. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall (CSUSM) to discuss her book Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games. This event is sponsored by the graduate school and is open to all. Registration: https://ullafayette.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErd-yrrTooH9RpBSbWjYYBrgNDAiwZwWnW

Prof. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall earned a B.A. in intellectual history and political philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Stanford University. Before coming to CSUSM, she was Lucius N. Littauer Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2000, Prof. Sepinwall was one of thirty early-career scholars selected to participate in the International Seminar on the Atlantic World at Harvard University. Her research specialties include the French and Haitian Revolutions, modern Haitian history, Slavery and Film, French colonialism, French-Jewish history, history and video games, and the history of gender.

In Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games author Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall analyzes how films and video games from around the world have depicted slave revolt, focusing on the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). This event, the first successful revolution by enslaved people in modern history, sent shock waves throughout the Atlantic World. Regardless of its historical significance however, this revolution has become less well-known–and appears less often on screen–than most other revolutions; its story, involving enslaved Africans liberating themselves through violence, does not match the suffering-slaves-waiting-for-a-white-hero genre that pervades Hollywood treatments of Black history.

3.10. Séances du séminaire sur le théâtre décolonial: Désécrire et décoloniser les imaginaires sur la scène contemporaine.

Les trois prochaines (et dernières) séances du séminaire sur le théâtre décolonial : Désécrire et décoloniser les imaginaires sur la scène contemporaine.

Les deux prochaines séances ont lieu en partenariat avec Les Rendez-vous des francophonies Montpellier via Domitia.

– mardi 22 mars au Théâtre de La Vignette à 18h : Restitution du deuxième atelier de lecture théâtrale Scènes francophones d’Afrique organisé par le CCU et encadré par la comédienne Élodie Buisson sur le théâtre de deux auteurs congolais. Extraits des pièces Qu’ils le disent, qu’elles le beuglent de Sony Labou Tansi et Le socle des vertiges de Dieudonné Niangouna. Chroniques L’émission #3 : rencontre avec l’auteur Kossi Efoui et l’autrice Gaël Octavia, animée par Pénélope Dechaufour (émission disponible par la suite en ligne)

– mardi 29 mars à La Baignoire à 17h : Corps et voix dans les théâtres d’Afrique anglophone : quels enjeux politiques ? avec Christiane Fioupou (Univ. De Toulouse) et Inès Bigot (Sorbonne Nouvelle) autour de Wole Soyinka suivi d’une rencontre avec Florence March (UPVM3) et Marianne Drugeon (UPVM3), traductrices des Filles de Chibok de Wolé Oguntokun

Pour en savoir plus sur le séminaire, n’hésitez pas à lire l’entretien réalisé par Caroline Masini pour le magazine Chroniques : ici .

4. New Titles

4.1. numéro 201 de la revue Présence africaine : Revue culturelle du monde noir, « Pensées et philosophies d’Afrique : pour demain : voir, comprendre et penser l’Afrique d’aujourd’hui »

co-dirigé par le Professeur Hanétha Vété-Congolo (Bowdoin College, USA), les Dr. Hady Ba (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Sénégal) et Oumar Dia (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Sénégal) et préfacé par le Professeur Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia University, USA).

SOMMAIRE

Introduction. Pour demain : penser l’Afrique d’aujourd’hui……… 9

Hanétha Vété-Congolo

Préface. Philosophie africana au pays de la Teranga………………… 13

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Philosopher en langue africaine :

l’exemple du mooré au Burkina Faso…………………………………………. 17

Mahamadé Savadogo

Demain l’Afrique : par les femmes et avec les femmes…………….. 35

Gertrude Mianda

De la bibliothèque coloniale à la bibliothèque africaine :

nouvelles considérations………………………………………………………………. 59

Antoine Tshitungu Kongolo

Pour l’épistémologie de la complexité

et la réécriture de la géopolitique des savoirs en Afrique…………. 89

Emmanuel Banywesize Mukambilwa

Pluralité des rationalités et place de l’Afrique

dans l’histoire générale de l’humanité :

l’histoire hégélienne de la raison invalidée……………………………….. 115

Oumar Dia

Faire/Refaire monde…………………………………………………………………… 135

Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun

Populisme, démocratie et renouveau politique en Afrique…….. 157

Babacar Diop

Souleymane Bachir Diagne :

du sens de l’urgence à une poétique de l’expérience………………. 187

Jean-Godefroy Bidima

Sociétés essentiellement orales et cognition :

une critique de la thèse de Mamoussé Diagne………………………… 215

Mouhamadou El Hady Ba

Fondements philosophiques d’une solidarité panafricaine……. 233

Delphine Abadie

4.2. Mireille Rebeiz, Gendering Civil War. Francophone Women’s Writing in Lebanon, Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

The book is now available for pre order on EUP’s website with the discount code NEW30 for 30% off: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-gendering-civil-war.html

Synopsis:

Writers in contemporary Lebanon stand at the crossroads of challenging and often violent dynamics in a multi-ethnic postcolonial society where competing cultural and political forces present specific and pressing problems for women. This book examines French-language narratives published between the 1970s and the present day by Lebanese women writers focusing on the civil war of 1975-1991. Drawing on a corpus of writings by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Etel Adnan, Evelyne Accad, Andrée Chedid, Hyam Yared, and Georgia Makhlouf, some of which has previously received little or no scholarly attention, the book examines in innovative ways the use of distinctive narrative forms to address inter-linked questions of violence, war trauma, and gender relations.

4.3. Patricia Caillé et Raluca Calin (dir.), À l’œuvre au cinéma! Professionnelles en Afrique et au Moyen Orient, Eds L’Harmattan (Images plurielles: Scènes et écrans), 2022, 380 p.

http://www.groupe-hescale.com/category/publications/

Que ce soit en Algérie, en Tunisie, en Éthiopie, au Ghana, au Cameroun, au Sénégal, en Turquie, au Liban, aux Émirats arabes unis, au Qatar, etc., mais aussi depuis la France, des professionnelles du cinéma se sont engagées avec une énergie hors du commun, non seulement pour faire des films, mais aussi pour contribuer au développement plus global des secteurs dans lesquels elles œuvrent. Cet ouvrage s’attache à des parcours singuliers, des trajectoires pionnières de réalisatrices ou techniciennes, offre des états des lieux nationaux et rend compte de la contestation du statu quo par les nouvelles générations qui créent ainsi de nouvelles opportunités, s’arrogent des postes et imposent des pratiques plus inclusives.

To order the book:

https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/livre-a_l_oeuvre_au_cinema_professionnelles_en_afrique_et_au_moyen_orient_patricia_caille_raluca_calin-9782343253978-72508.html

Table of contents:

INTRODUCTION
Patricia Caillé

PARTIE I – PARCOURS SINGULIERS

Andrée Davanture, monteuse. Un œil à l’écoute !
Claude Forest

Marie-Josée Sanselme, plume francophone du cinéaste franco-israélien Amos Gitaï
Marie-Pierre Ulloa

Heiny Srour, un engagement aux marges du cinéma libanais
Patricia Caillé

Kahena Attia, une cinéaste qui transcende les limites du métier de monteuse
Ons Kamoun

PARTIE II – PARCOURS PIONNIERS

Third Cinema Inheritances and Contemporary Politico-Commercial Women’s Films and Filmmaking in Ghana
Dennis-Brook Prince Lotsu

The Female Gaze in South African Film: Katinka Heyns and Contemporary Women Filmmakers
Anna-Marie Jansen Van Vuuren

Nujoom Alghanem: Filming in the United Arab Emirates
Alejandra Val Cubero

PARTIE III – ÉTATS DES LIEUX

Courage, persévérance et solidarité : Les femmes cinéastes face aux obstacles d’une industrie à domination masculine en Turquie
Hülya Uğur Tanrıöver and Gülsenem Gün

Présence des femmes dans l’activité cinématographique au Cameroun
Lambert Ndzana

Réalisatrices ouest africaines francophones. Portraits croisés Burkina Faso et Sénégal
Mame Rokhaya Ndoye

PARTIE IV – NOUVELLES GÉNÉRATIONS DE LA CONTESTATION

(R)Évolutions tacites : Trajectoires cinématographiques éthiopiennes
Raluca Calin

Contesting the Status Quo: The Rise of Women Filmmakers in Ghana
Dennis-Brook Prince Lotsu

Les femmes dans le cinéma algérien contemporain
Salima Tenfiche

Femmes réalisatrices en Tunisie : Une tradition révolutionnaire ?
Emna Mrabet

Réalisatrices qataries, vitrine d’un cinéma en devenir ?
Stéphanie Pourquier-Jacquin

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
NOTICES BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES

4.4. Anthony Mangeon, L’Afrique au futur, Hermann, 2022.

Pour obtenir plus d’informations sur le livre, découvrez sa présentation sur notre site internet dans le lien ci-après : https://www.editions-hermann.fr/livre/l-afrique-au-futur-anthony-mangeon

4.5. Susanne Gehrmann, Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong (eds.): Crossings and
Comparisons in African Literary and Cultural Studies. WVT, Trier, LuKA
15, 2002, 272 p.

This book constructs a platform for the critical exploration of Africa
literatures written in a variety of African and European languages and
goes beyond the mainstream in African literary and cultural studies by
engaging multiple hermeneutic approaches to narratives, performance, and
visual arts.

Putting emphasis on comparing cultural productions in at least two
linguistic expressions, the book foregrounds the analytical strategies
employed by the contributors to delve into the epistemologies of African
social, cultural and political life, as critical assessments of the
novel, short stories, music, drama, film, poetry, social media,
festivals, and academic institutions become paramount. The contributions
underscore the necessity to respond to trends and transformations that
African literary genres and media have seen across time and space with
interest in how these changes have been enriched by the different
languages of expression.

Going beyond regional and linguistic boxes, in which African
literatures, music, and film have often been encapsulated, the chapters
in this book present a critical assessment of the ideological,
aesthetic, thematic, and linguistic models that illustrate similarities,
but also differences, that can be made visible through comparative
approaches, and which underscore the innovative potential to put African
narratives, lyrics, and discourses conveyed in more than one language in
conversation with one another.

ISBN 978-3-86821-934-0 € 35,00

L’ouvrage contient les contributions de Abdalla Uba Adamu, Anne M.
Carovani, Gbandé Daré, Bernadette Desorbay, Susanne Gehrmann, Cullen
Goldblatt, Ricarda de Haas, Miriam Maranga-Musonye, Pepetual Mforbe
Chiangong, Oladipupo Oyeleye, Charlott Schönwetter, Isabel Schröder,
Clarissa Vierke et Lucia Weiß sur, entre autres, la poésie, le rap et
l’épopée en swahili, hausa et bambara, le théâtre de Victor Epie ‘Ngome
et Charles Soh et la prose narrative de Mia Couto, Calixthe Beyala,
Bakary Diallo, Boubacar Boris Diop, Emmanuel Dongala, Petina Gappah et
Richard Rive.

4.6. Actes colloque transdisciplinaire Ecocritique(s) et catastrophes naturelles / Ecocriticism(s) and Natural Catastrophes

Le colloque transdisciplinaire Ecocritique(s) et catastrophes naturelles / Ecocriticism(s) and Natural Catastrophes, programme à l’adresse suivante :

https://www.fabula.org/colloques/sommaire7756.php

SFPS Mailing February 2022

1. Call for Paper/Contribution

1.1. CFP Edited Volume, Sea Change: Representations of Transformation in the Caribbean and Mediterranean.

1.2. Perspectives de langue(s) dans les littératures d’expression française, 3-4 novembre 2022 à Vilnius

1.3. MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities 17, On Forgetting.

1.4. Call for paper, “The Algerian War 60 years on: Memories in Conflict/La Guerre d’Algérie 60 ans plus tard: Conflits de Mémoires”, 28-29 May 2022, Online

1.5. “The Limits of Reason”, International Conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1st June 2022.

1.6. “Archipelagic Memory: Intersecting Geographies, Histories and Disciplines” in-person conference, Mauritius, 2-4 August 2022.

1.7. « Writing the Indigenous Americas: Quebec, Florida, Amazonia, the Caribbean”, Winthrop-King Institute International Conference, 5-7 April 2023

1.8. Appel à contributions pour un ouvrage collectif, « Littérature francophone féminine et cosmopolitisme linguistique. Modalités et enjeux culturels en Afrique contemporaine », date limite d’envoi 25 mars.

1.9. Call for papers, “Utopia and Ecotone: Contemporary Stakes”, Ecotones #8, Ghent University, Belgium, 29 September – 1 October 2022

1.10. “Decentring French Studies”, early career researchers and PhD students, AUPHF+ , Wednesday 4th May 2022, online.

1.11. Call for Papers, “Relation(s)”, Princeton University Department of French & Italian, 6th Annual Graduate Conference, April 29, 2022 (online)

1.12. Appels à communications pour les 7e Rencontres des études africaines en France, 28 juin au 01 juillet. les 6e JCEA, 27 et 29 juin.

2. Job and scholarship Opportunities

2.1. New King’s PhD Scholarships for 2022/23, University of Aberdeen.

2.2. Assistant Professor in Aesthetics with a focus on Critical Race/Decolonial Theory and Film , University of Amsterdam

2.3. Two Permanent Assistant Professors in Translation and Transcultural Studies – University of Warwick

2.4. Lecteur/Lectrice In French, St Catherine’s College and Wadham College – closing date 7 April

2.5. Lecturer or senior lecturer, specialising in social, political or cultural history, University of Bristol

2.6. Lecturer in Environmental Humanities and Modern Languages, 2 years fixed term, School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

2.7. Visiting appointment in Caribbean Studies: Gettysburg College, USA

2.8. 4 full-time Lecturers of French, Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies at UBC

2.9. three full-time, two-year renewable, benefits-eligible Assistant Instructional Professor positions in French, University of Chicago

2.10. Senior Instructional Professor and Deputy Director of the French Language Program, University of Chicago

2.11. Assistant Teaching Professor (renewable, non-tenure track), Villanova University

2.12. Ohio State University, full-time lecturers (non-tenure track) in French

2.13. NUAcT PhD Studentship: Diasporic Memory Practices

2.14. Early Career Fellowships: Inclusion, Participation and Engagement, the School of Advanced Study, University of London

3. Announcements

3.1. “Giving Shape to the World with Leïla Slimani”, 24 March 2022, Institut français du Royaume-Uni, London.

3.2. 2022 CSA Conference, Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award

3.3. Applying for a PhD and Navigating the Job Market in French Studies: Workshops for Early Career Researchers, Friday 18th March 2022, 9.30am-1.30pm, Online. Organised by AUPHF+

3.4. IMLR Conference Grant Scheme

3.5. Workshop, “Trans/Interculturality & Languages”, Embodied Interculturality in the Language Class, 22 March 2022.

3.6. Women in French Australia’s 2022 Seminar Series

3.7. Seminar, Modern Languages and Inclusivity: Sharing Ideas and Practices, 25 March.

3.8. “Qu’est-ce qu’un écosystème littéraire?”, vendredi 11 mars à 16h.

3.9. A Conversation with Prof. Goldstein Sepinwall, Slave Revolt on Screen, March 11, 2022 – 1pm (US Central)

3.10. Séances du séminaire sur le théâtre décolonial: Désécrire et décoloniser les imaginaires sur la scène contemporaine.

4. New Titles

4.1. numéro 201 de la revue Présence africaine : Revue culturelle du monde noir, « Pensées et philosophies d’Afrique : pour demain : voir, comprendre et penser l’Afrique d’aujourd’hui »

4.2. Mireille Rebeiz, Gendering Civil War. Francophone Women’s Writing in Lebanon, Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

4.3. Patricia Caillé et Raluca Calin (dir.), À l’œuvre au cinéma! Professionnelles en Afrique et au Moyen Orient, Eds L’Harmattan (Images plurielles: Scènes et écrans), 2022, 380 p.

4.4. Anthony Mangeon, L’Afrique au futur, Hermann, 2022.

4.5. Susanne Gehrmann, Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong (eds.): Crossings and Comparisons in African Literary and Cultural Studies. WVT, Trier, LuKA 15, 2002, 272 p.

4.6. Actes colloque transdisciplinaire Ecocritique(s) et catastrophes naturelles / Ecocriticism(s) and Natural Catastrophes

Orane Onyekpe-Touzet

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1.11. Call for Papers, “Relation(s)”, Princeton University Department of French & Italian, 6^th Annual Graduate Conference, April 29, 2022 (online)

4.5. Susanne Gehrmann, Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong (eds.): Crossings and
Comparisons in African Literary and Cultural Studies. WVT, Trier, LuKA
15, 2002, 272 p.