Deadline: February 21st 2022

Details in the link below:

https://sites.google.com/email.arizona.edu/3rdgraduateconferenceinfrench/home

The 29e Biennale de la langue française will be held this year in Berlin May 23-25 at Humboldt University.

The theme is "interculturalité" and we are welcoming a wide range of proposals covering literature, linguistics, cultural studies, and more.

This is an in-person conference only.

Deadline for submissions: March 2nd 2022

Details attached

September 22, 2022 at the MSH Paris Nord and September 23, 2022 at the BnF

Deadline February 14th 2022

This symposium is organized by Les Bréchoises, a study group about women in comics, connected to the association La Brèche. It is supported by Université Paris 8, the EUR ArTeC, the MSH Paris Nord, University Paris-Nanterre, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Archives du Féminisme, EFiGiES the LEGS/CNRS. Our international partners are the University of Lausanne, the University of Genoa and the University of Valencia.

Appel détaillé en pièce jointe / Detailed call attached

English CFP

Appel à communications FR

Appel à communications pour le colloque Création, représentation et sociabilité au féminin : entre scènes publiques et spectacles de société (1650-1914), qui aura lieu à l’Université de Lausanne et en ligne les 7 et 8 avril 2022.

Les communications en anglais sont acceptées. Les propositions doivent nous parvenir avant le 20 décembre.

Frontiers, Borders and Gateways
Saint Louis University, 13-15 June 2022 

We hope that the conference will take place on site.
However, due to the global pandemic, the conference may be online.  

Organizers: Arline Cravens (Saint Louis University), Annie Smart (Saint Louis University)
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri USA 

 

The conference theme, Frontiers, Borders and Gateways, is inspired by the event’s location and the unique history of St. Louis. St. Louis, Missouri – often called the “River City” or the “Gateway City” – sits along the west bank of the Mississippi River and served as the “Gateway to the West.”  St. Louis’s most distinctive monument, the Gateway Arch, commemorates the “great explorers, Lewis and Clark, and the hardy hunters, trappers, frontiersmen and pioneers who contributed to the territorial expansion and development of these United States,” in the words of the founding Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Association.  The Arch represents a portal, the gateway through which passed those travelling West in search of a new life and new frontiers – but it is also a reminder of those who suffered from the violence of migration in 19^th-century America.  St. Louis was also known as “Mound City,” due to the earthworks of the Mississippian civilization.  The “hardy pioneers” who settled in St. Louis destroyed the mounds, just as the native peoples were hunted down and displaced.  Cahokia Mounds, in nearby Cahokia, Illinois, bear witness to what was once a vibrant Native American culture.  As Sand states in La Mare au Diable, “Car, hélas! tout s’en va…”  

 

The 23^rd International George Sand Colloquium will explore the representation of new frontiers and borders in George Sand.  

 

We invite contributions on topics including but not limited to the following: 

 

Submissions for individual papers or sessions may be in French or English and should be in the form of an abstract (250-300 words). 

Deadline for submissions is 15 October 2021 

Conference website: https://www.gsc2022.com/

Decisions will be sent by 1 December 2021 

 

Frontières et Passerelles dans l’œuvre de George Sand 

Université de Saint Louis, 13-15 juin 2022 

Nous espérons que la conférence sera sur place. 
Mais, en raison de la crise sanitaire mondiale, la conférence pourrait être virtuelle. 

Organisation : Arline Cravens (Université de Saint Louis), Annie Smart (Université de Saint Louis)
Université de Saint Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, États-Unis. 

 

Le thème du colloque, Frontières et Passerelles, s’inspire du caractère unique de la ville de St. Louis qui lui vaut d’être associée aux notions de frontières et d’expansion, du fait de sa position géographique stratégique et de sa place unique dans l’histoire du territoire américain. Située sur le fleuve Mississippi, la ville de Saint Louis – souvent appelée « the River City » ou « the Gateway City » -- a servi de « porte à l’Ouest ».  Le monument le plus distinctif de Saint-Louis, la Gateway Arche commémore les « grands explorateurs, Lewis et Clark, les chasseurs, trappeurs, pionniers et pionnières qui ont contribué à l'expansion territoriale et au développement de ces États-Unis », pour reprendre les mots de l’association fondatrice : la Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Association.  L'Arche représente la porte d'entrée par laquelle passaient ceux qui voyageaient vers l'Ouest à la recherche d'une nouvelle vie et de nouvelles frontières, mais c'est aussi un rappel de ceux qui ont souffert de la violence des migrations dans l'Amérique du XIXe siècle.  Saint-Louis était également connu sous le nom de « Mound City », en raison des tertres ou tumulus en terre de la civilisation mississippienne.  Les « pionniers » qui s'installèrent à St. Louis détruisirent ces tertres, alors même que les peuples autochtones étaient pourchassés et déplacés.  Cahokia Mounds, dans la ville voisine de Cahokia en Illinois, témoigne de ce qui était autrefois une culture amérindienne bien vivante. Comme le dit Sand dans La Mare au Diable, « Car, hélas ! tout s'en va... »  

 

Le 23^e Colloque International George Sand aura pour but d’explorer la représentation de nouvelles frontières dans l’œuvre de George Sand. 

 

Nous invitons des contributions sur les thèmes suivants, ces suggestions n’étant cependant pas limitatives : 

 

Les propositions de communication (résumés de 250 à 300 mots en français ou en anglais) sont à rendre avant le 15 octobre 2021. 

Site web : https://www.gsc2022.com/

Le comité scientifique donnera ses réponses avant le 1^er décembre 2021.

Attached, please find the CFP for Christopher Newport University's Global Conference on Women and Gender to be held in March, 2022.

Community, Care and Crisis.pdf

Abstracts are due October 1st, 2021

Seeking panelists for “Emmelie Prophète, citadine port-au-princienne” panel chaired by Jocelyn Sutton Franklin and Nathan Dize.

To be held during the 20th & 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium at the University of Pittsburgh on March 24-26, 2022. 

The panel will focus on the writings of the Haitian writer Emmelie Prophète and her engagement with the city of Port-au-Prince as a critical point of departure. 

Depending on the level of interest in the topic, the chairs are open to shifting the panel to a “lightning talk” roundtable, where participants will address the topic of the panel in shorter 5-7 minute presentations. The aim of the panel is to draw attention to Prophète’s many works and to generate interest in the reading, teaching and study of her novels and poetry. 

If you are interested in contributing, please submit 1) a preliminary title for your presentation AND 2) a 50-100 word abstract of the works/angle you wish to explore.

Click here for the panel description.

If you are interested please send us an email to (nathan.dize@oberlin.edu) and/or (franklinja1@wofford.edu).

Click here for French CFP

Click here for English CFP

Deadline extended to Friday, October 1st.

https://www.frenchanditalian.pitt.edu/20th-21st-century-french-and-francophone-studies-international-colloquium

Roundtable: Professional Issues around Women, Work and Care
Sponsored by Women in French
NeMLA 2022
Baltimore, MD March 10-13

Chair: Anne Brancky

The pandemic has been especially catastrophic for working women and for those in precarious employment positions, including contingent faculty, the underemployed, low-wage workers and freelancers. This roundtable invites participants to explore professional issues that have been exacerbated or illuminated by the pandemic related to working conditions, dependent care, racial equity, pay, pedagogy, accessibility and accountability. How have we been called on to care for others? Where have we been stretched too thin? How can we establish mutual support? What can we learn from each other’s successes in making change at individual institutions? What might the future of the profession look like? What can we do to influence and shape this future? 

Topics may include: racial equity, caretaking, job precarity, online teaching, resources, parental and sick leave, sabbaticals, research, tenure, the review process, retirement, graduate school, stipends, funding, etc.

Please upload your proposed abstract (~250 words) to the NeMLA portal by September 30, 2021.

Contact Anne Brancky (anbrancky@vassar.edu) with any questions you might have.

Panel: Women and the Invisible Labor of CareWomen in French Panel
NeMLA 2022Baltimore, MD March 10-13

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: September 30, 2021

Chair: Anne Brancky

Session Description:

So much of the caretaking that makes the world turn falls into the category of “invisible labor” or “invisible work.” It is underpaid, ignored, maligned and marginalized. Yet many writers, thinkers and filmmakers have focused their attention on this essential but unseen labor of care. In her recent work, Françoise Vergès has emphasized capitalism’s fundamental reliance on the invisible cleaning and care work undertaken largely by women of color. “The cleaners’ invisibility,” she writes, “is required and naturalized.” This invisibility is duplicated in cultural representation. Feminist theorists like Janelle Hobson and bell hooks critique the absence and erasure of Black women in film and offer oppositional ways of looking that create new forms of agency. In her work, Assia Djebar has explored and exposed the invisible worlds of women in domestic spaces and of Europe’s obsession with visually penetrating those worlds. 

This panel seeks to direct our gaze to the unseen, invisible work of care undertaken by women in literature, film and other cultural artefacts. Who cares for whom? What kind of care is unseen? How do writers, artists and filmmakers draw our attention to these otherwise invisible responsibilities, charges, nourishments? What happens when light is shone on this work of care? How does it open to new perspectives, new approaches, new epistemologies? 

Please upload your proposed abstract (~250 words) to the NeMLA portal by September 30, 2021.

Contact Anne Brancky (anbrancky@vassar.edu) with any questions you might have.