Calls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022

How the French 17th Century Invented (or Not)… What ideas, practices, forms, or genres can be ascribed to 17th-century France and what should be reconsidered in light of a different temporality or geographic origin? Send 300-word proposals to harrisod@grinnell.edu by…[Read more]

Calls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022

How the French 17th Century Invented (or Not)… What ideas, practices, forms, or genres can be ascribed to 17th-century France and what should be reconsidered in light of a different temporality or geographic origin? Send 300-word proposals to harrisod@grinnell.edu by…[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 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]

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]

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]

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]

(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]

Dear MLA members,

I have the honor of being on the ballot for this fall’s election to the 17th-Century French Forum’s Executive Committee.  I would like to thank Hélène Bilis, the outgoing member of the committee, for her service over the past five years.

Raised in Sweden and the United States, I studied French at Carleton College (BA), the Un…[Read more]