MLA Toronto, 2021

CFP deadline reminder: Tuesday 10 March, 2020

Executive Committees for the Forum on Medieval French Literature and the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature, Joint Call for Proposals:

French Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Urban Space and Urbanism Round Table
How were towns and cities built, inhabited, imagined,…[Read more]

MLA Toronto, 2021
Calls for Papers
Deadline reminder: Friday 6 March, 2020

See attached calls for papers for 16th-century French panels, and please get in touch if you have any questions!

Liz Black (eblack@odu.edu)

Dear all,

Please find below the 17th-century French Forum´s calls for papers for MLA Toronto 2021.
Best wishes,
Toby Wikström

Beyond Paris

Decentering Paris in seventeenth-century studies. How are cities and regions throughout early modern France written, pictured, performed, or practiced? How do these locations imagine or position t…[Read more]

Dear all,

Please find below the 17th-century French Forum´s calls for papers for MLA Toronto 2021.
Best wishes,
Toby Wikström

Beyond Paris

Decentering Paris in seventeenth-century studies. How are cities and regions throughout early modern France written, pictured, performed, or practiced? How do these locations imagine or position t…[Read more]

Dear all,

Please find below the 17th-century French Forum´s calls for papers for MLA Toronto 2021.
Best wishes,
Toby Wikström

Beyond Paris

Decentering Paris in seventeenth-century studies. How are cities and regions throughout early modern France written, pictured, performed, or practiced? How do these locations imagine or position themselves w…[Read more]

Bonne année!

If you are attending this week’s MLA Convention in Seattle, please feel free to join forum delegates and other 19th-century colleagues at the Friday night cash bar co-hosted by Women in French, which has organized a number of 19th-century sessions.

Jan 10, 2020, 7:15 PM–8:30 PM (Sheraton – Metropolitan B)

1. Cash Bar Arranged by th…

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Dear Fellow Dix-Huitiémistes,

The MLA 18th-Century French Forum will be hosting a dinner in Seattle on Friday January 10, 2020 during the MLA convention. We would be delighted if you could join us!If you are interested in attending, please contact me with the subject heading—”MLA DINNER”—at masano.yamashita@colorado.edu.

I anticipate the cost…[Read more]

Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA Seattle 2020

THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 5:15–6:30pm, WSCC – Chelan 5

THE DISCOURSES OF LUXURY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University

Claire B. Goldstein, University of California, Davis, “Luxury Accessories and Body Netwo…[Read more]

Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA Seattle 2020

THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 5:15–6:30pm, WSCC – Chelan 5

THE DISCOURSES OF LUXURY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE

Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University

Claire B. Goldstein, University of California, Davis, “Luxury Accessories and Body Net…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[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]

(GUARANTEED SESSIONS)

Theory’s Seventeenth Century
Reassessing seventeenth-century French texts’ and contexts’ role in twentieth-century theory. How can current dix-septiémiste work shed new light on the theory canon? 300-word abstracts to Ellen Welch (erwelch@email.unc.edu) by 15 March 2019.

The Discourses of Luxury in 17th-century France…[Read more]

(GUARANTEED SESSIONS)

Theory’s Seventeenth Century
Reassessing seventeenth-century French texts’ and contexts’ role in twentieth-century theory. How can current dix-septiémiste work shed new light on the theory canon? 300-word abstracts to Ellen Welch (erwelch@email.unc.edu) by 15 March 2019.

The Discourses of Luxury in 17th-century France…[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]

Dear Colleagues, Please find below the 19th-Century French LLC Forum calls for papers for the 2020 MLA Convention in Seattle (9-12 January). Abstracts are due to the organizers below by 15 March. We encourage you to submit and look forward to a lively 19th-century French presence in Seattle!

“‘All is True’: Truth from Balzac to Zola”We welcome…[Read more]