<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Replaying the Francophone Early Modern in the Twenty-First Century</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Editors: Annelle Curulla (Scripps College) and Michael Meere (Wesleyan Un…[Read more]

<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Replaying the Francophone Early Modern in the Twenty-First Century</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Editors: Annelle Curulla (Scripps College) and Michael Meere (Wesleyan Un…[Read more]

‘Staging Justice in Early Modern France’ Special Issue of Early Modern French Studies 42.2 (2020)

Guest edited by Valérie M. Dionne and Michael Meere

Dedicated to the memory of Christian Biet

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yemf20/42/2?nav=tocList

Contents:

In Memoriam—Christian Biet (1952-2020) Michael Meere

Introduction: Staging J…[Read more]

ASECS 2020 CFP

Marivaux: Nature vs. Artifice  

In conjunction with a performance of Pierre de Marivaux’s Le Triomphe de l’amour at the 2020 meeting of ASECS, this panel will address the tension between nature and artifice in Marivaux’s work. We are particularly interested in proposals on Le Triomphe de l’amour, but also welcome proposals ref…[Read more]

Failure / Échec

This panel considers descriptions, discourses and aesthetics of failure in eighteenth-century France. Please submit title and 250-word abstract in French or English by March 15, 2019 to ffalaky@tulane.edu.

Distances/ Eloignements

This panel explores understandings of distance (moral, epistemological, aesthetic, historical,…[Read more]

Please do not forget to vote for the next delegate (executive committee member) for the LLC 18th-Century French forum.

Our two candidates this year are Yann ROBERT and Tracy RUTLER. The deadline is very close: December 10. Here is the link: https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections

The Executive Committee is seeking nomination proposals…[Read more]

SEFCS Panel 1 : Proposal for SECFS/ASECS 2019: 

Diversities, Differences, and Dilemmas

Historically, writers, social critics, artists, poets and philosophers are often on the margins of society working from the position of observer.  Although their methods and vocabulary often seem to push opposing agendas, one thing that modern day ph…[Read more]

SECFS Panel 2:

Analogy/Analogie

Universal, discursive, or instrumental, “analogy” took many forms during the Enlightenment. While defending the use of analogical reasoning, Dumarsais deplored the lack of rigor in many of its applications. In some instances, the trope seduces, or expands the cognitive abilities of the understanding; in others, it…[Read more]