Invitation à envoyer vos propositions pour la MLA 2022.

La date limite est le 15 mars 2021.

Voir fichier joint pour plus d'informations : Masson GSA Appel à communications MLA 2022 (1).pdf

Frontiers, Borders and Gateways
23^rd International George Sand Colloquium  
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: 

• new frontiers in Sand Studies 
• travel and migration  
• identity (national, regional, class, …) 
• music and art  
• utopia and politics 
• role of wilderness 
• terroir (agriculture, farming, food) 
• space (personal/domestic/public) 
• human and non-human worlds 
• Sand as trailblazer 
• gender roles and the limits of gender 

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 

Decisions will be sent by 1 December 2021 

Frontières et Passerelles dans l’œuvre de George Sand
23^e Colloque international George Sand  
Université de Saint Louis, 13-15 juin 2022 

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 : 

• nouvelles frontières en études sandiennes 
• voyage et migration 
• identité(s) (nationale, régionale, classe sociale, … )  
• musique et art  
• utopie et politique 
• rôle du désert  
• terroir ( agriculture, élevage, nourriture)  
• espace (privé/domestique/public) 
• mondes humains et non-humains  
• Sand comme pionnière 
• genre et ses limites  

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

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

Access full call at the following adress: https://www.univ-brest.fr/crbc/menu/Projets_de_recherche/Les-pratiques-artistiques-environnementales-autochtones-comme-reponses-a-la-pollution

To be held in person and online at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale (Brest, France) on 4-5 November 2021

If your research field concerns Canada or Quebec, you are invited to submit a proposal for the ACSUS’s upcoming conference. Graduate student and early-career faculty proposals are especially welcome. Please do not hesitate to contact Julie-Françoise Tolliver (co-chairing the division on literature, cinema and the arts in French) with questions.

The deadline for proposal submissions is June 1^st; conference dates are 21-24 October, in Washington, DC.

ACSUS 2021 Call for Papers.pdf

ACSUS 2021 Appel à propositions.pdf

Call for Papers
Women in French Sessions
2021 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference
Atlanta, Georgia
November 4-6, 2021 

Please consider sending a proposal in French or English to one of the panel chairs listed below by May 15, 2021. 

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1. Francophone Womxn Creating Apart and Connecting Together 

The theme of this year’s SAMLA conference, “Social Networks, Social Distances,” invites us to reflect on the contradictory challenges that we have faced in these pandemic times. How do we connect with others in solitude? How might isolation foster a sense of connection or community? As a Women in French panel, this session will explore these questions in the context of French and Francophone womxn artists and writers. Proposals on examples of womxn who create apart and connect together in literature, film, theatre, and other modes of creation from all time periods and all areas of Francophone culture are welcome. Possible topics might include but are not limited to illness, disability, incarceration, injustice, difference, trauma, family, and exile. Please send 250-word proposals in English or French along with presenter’s name, academic affiliation, and email to Adrienne Angelo (ama0002@auburn.edu) by May 15, 2021. 

Chair: Adrienne Angelo, Auburn University, <ama0002@auburn.edu> 

2.Women/Mapping/Other: Womanist/Feminist Map-making and Cartographies of Change 

The aim of the session is to explore women’s and/or feminist map-making and its effects on social networks through various facets including, but not limited to, the geographic, literary, philosophical, political, artistic, pedagogical, architectural, and the every-day. Possible questions of interrogation could be the following: What do feminist or woman-made maps look like? In what spaces do they emerge? How do women’s or feminist perspectives in mapping “intersect, parallel, or diverge,” as cartographers Meghan Kelly and Britta Ricker hypothesize, from conventional cartographic practices? What risks do they entail? What is seen and what is not seen, and why? What are their effects on social networks, social distances, and society at large? Since this session is part of the Women in French panels, papers that focus on French-speaking peoples and spaces (i.e., cities, texts, artworks, classrooms, etc.) are invited; those from diverse approaches, perspectives and disciplines are especially welcome. Please send an abstract of approximately 150 words in either French or English and a brief bio to Jodie Barker (jodiebarker@unr.edu) by 15 May 2021. 

Chair: Jodie Barker, University of Nevada, Reno, <jodiebarker@unr.edu> 

3. Complicated French and Francophone Women 

This panel welcomes papers focused on the exploration of the ways in which French and Francophone women’s writing, film, and other art forms initiate, navigate, and complicate notions of distance and network.  How do these women create new understandings of social order and contest inequities?  Examinations of the liminal spaces between tradition and new order and the ways in which these texts challenge perceptions of identity, privilege, nationality, class, race, sex, gender, and language are particularly welcome. Papers may be in French or English and may not exceed 20 minutes.  Please send a 250-word abstract, brief bio and A/V requests to Susan Crampton-Frenchik, scramptonfrenchik@washjeff.edu, by May 15, 2021. 

Chair: Susan Crampton-Frenchik, Washington & Jefferson College, <scramptonfrenchik@washjeff.edu> 

4.From Socially Marginalized Women to Thriving Writers: Overcoming Class- and Gender Barriers through Literary Networking-Success Stories from Nineteenth-Century French Actresses 

Zola’s novel Nana presents in typical naturalist manner a rather misogynist portrayal of a nineteenth-century variété theatre actress, who ascends from streetwalker to high-class courtesan, yet, remains destined to fail, because of hereditary and social determinants. The novel mirrors, to an extent, late nineteenth-century French society’s perception of actresses, whose amorous affairs were seen as a professional attribute that enabled these women to support their lifestyle, providing them with financial support and beneficial social relationships. Several contemporary actresses, who eventually embraced a journalistic or literary career, played with this cliché and used it for their own benefit, and that of other female stage performers, artists and writers. They parodied the existing gender-bias, frequently pursued a feminist agenda, all the while drawing on their seduction techniques acquired on and off stage. Roberts illustrated this convincingly in Disruptive Acts, her book about the former actress and future journalist Marguerite Durand, founder of the feminist newspaper La Fronde. Other examples might be Séverine or Marie Colombier; but they certainly were not the only ones. This panel seeks to look at (former) nineteenth-century actresses turned journalist/writers who were able to network successfully with female colleagues to strengthen each other’s careers, preventing a naturalist “fail.” Please send your 150-200 words paper proposal, contact information, and a 50-word biographical statement to Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch (emuelsch@angelo.edu)  by May 15, 2021. 

Chair: Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch, Angelo State University emuelsch@angelo.edu 

5. Revisioning Narrative (Identities) and Space 

The current pandemic offers us the possibility of (re)viewing identity, disidentification, and, most importantly, new ways of articulating becoming. As we physically distance and redefine ourselves as well as our relationships with others, we discover new angles. Social distancing risks dislocation. It may, however, bring intimacy within ourselves as well as connection to others in new ways. We seek to explore how this plays out. No limits apply. These questions resonate through narrative (literary, film, etc.) and in our classrooms. We welcome examining identity, disidentity, or other positionings within and through everyday life and narrative in the broadest sense. Like our experience of time during the pandemic, such concepts expand, contract, in a continual (de)centering of text and existence. Perhaps this means the current actuality of a Zoomified world that ruptures our contact with the physical object, such as book and paper, as we engage with the keyboard and bright light of the screen.  How is the contemporary moment represented in text or classroom, past or present? We look forward to adding your voice to the discussion. By May 15, 2021 please send an abstract of 200-250 words to both E. Nicole Meyer nimeyer@augusta.edu and Kiki Kosnick kikikosnick@augustana.edu. 

Co-Chairs: E. Nicole Meyer, Augusta University, <nimeyer@augusta.edu>, and Kiki Kosnick, Augustana College, <kikikosnick@augustana.edu>

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For more information on SAMLA and the annual conference, please visit the conference website:  https://samla.memberclicks.net/ 

In addition to registering as a member of SAMLA and also for the SAMLA conference, presenters must also be current on their membership in Women in French. You may visit (https://womeninfrench.org/join) to become a member or to renew your membership.  

We appreciate your support and thank you in advance for your consideration. 

 

Please find attached a Call for Papers for guaranteed session of the George Sand Association at the Annual Convention of Modern Language Association in Washington, D.C., January 6-9, 2022.

Masson GSA Appel à communications MLA 2022.pdf

SCMLA Annual Conference
The Whitehall Hotel, Houston, Texas, October 7-9, 2021 

The CFP for SCMLA 2021 is now open.

We are pleased to announce that after last year's postponement, SCMLA 2021 has been rescheduled and will take place in Houston, TX at the historic Whitehall Hotel (as previously planned) from October 7-9, 2021. We are planning for an in-person conference this fall, but we will provide a virtual platform for those who are unable to attend in person and still wish to participate. Details about the 2021 SCMLA conference and membership are listed on our website.

This year's theme is "Politics of Protest," but you may propose a paper on any topic related to the study of French and Francophone women authors, the study of women's place in French and Francophone cultures or literature, and/or feminist literary criticism. As an Allied/Regular Affiliation, SCMLA will allow us one guaranteed session. All submissions from the 2020 conference have been carried over, but If there is sufficient interest, SCMLA will allow us to have a split-session. 

 

For the WIF open panel, please send a 250-300 word abstract in French or English on any topic by April 10, 2021 to me, the Chair: Theresa Kennedy, Baylor University, (Theresa_Kennedy@baylor.edu) and to the Secretary, South Central Regional Representative: Siham Bouamer, Sam Houston State University (sbouamer@shsu.edu). 

WIF members may also propose a special session. More information may be found on the website (see link below). The deadline for special sessions is also April 10, 2021. Please let me know if you have an idea for a special session. 

 

If your proposal for the WIF open panel is accepted, you will be notified before April 30, 2020. Presenters must become SCMLA members by the time of the conference. More info may be found on the conference website:

https://www.southcentralmla.org/conference/

MLA 2022: Women in French Session. January 6-9th, 2022, Washington DC

“When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade?” Youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman, 2021

While written for the January 2021 inauguration of a US president, the incipit to Amanda Gorman’s poem speaks to a larger global moment and ethos.  Her lyrical call demands a cooperative and coalitional vision of humanity that looks to the past for reparative force and perspective; that acknowledges the challenges of the present without shuddering at their expansiveness; and that eyes, without naiveté of the difficulties of achieving, a more just and inclusive future.  At a time when violent and extremist, white-supremacist social movements, epidemiological crises, and fragile neoliberal economies challenge our individual and global understandings of our present and future, Gorman empowers us to focus on her voice.

 This WIF Call for papers centers the power of voice (understood broadly), indeed, the potential and impact of diverse and/or multilingual perspectives to (re)think our pasts, (re)contextualize our presents, and (re)imagine our futures.  We invite papers that celebrate memorial, remembrance, and testimony through the presentation and amplification of lost, erased, forgotten, or silenced (broadly conceived) voices throughout the Francophone world.  We are especially interested in proposals that complicate and/or dialogue notions of empowerment, aesthetics, memory, identity, bodies, language(s) and multilingualism, space, and borders.  

Please submit abstracts of 200-350 words to both co-organizers, CJ Gomolka, cjgomolka@depauw.edu and E. Nicole Meyer, nimeyer@augusta.edu by March 1, 2021.

Deadline extended to February 20, 2021. Please see below for details. 

 

The 2021 South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) conference, health and safety permitting, will convene at the Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia from Thursday, November 4 through Saturday, November 6, 2021.  

 

If you are interested in proposing a Women in French panel for the 2021 SAMLA conference, and for organizational purposes, I ask that you please send me your call for papers by February 20, 2021 (ama0002@auburn.edu). Please provide the following information: 1) title of session; 2) contact information of panel chair; 3) a 150-200-word description of the panel; 4) details for panel applicants, such as requested abstract length, submission deadline (May 15, 2021 suggested), any other special requests for submissions (i.e. brief bios, CVs, academic affiliation, etc.). 

   

The theme of the 2021 SAMLA conference is “Social Networks, Social Distances.” Feel free to interpret that theme as broadly as possible, and you are also invited to propose a panel on another topic, too.

Call for Papers for Women in French

2021 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

November 4-7, 2021

Since the 2020 MMLA Convention was cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic, the organizers have retained the 2020 theme for 2021: “Cultures of Collectivity.”

“At heart, the conference theme seeks to address a set of questions about how meaning is forged in connection with collective acts. How, for example, are cultures created by the gathering together of human subjects? What modes of collectivity, be they formal or informal, arise from culture, or have arisen historically? How might we meet and answer the salient political and social challenges of our time through collective response and collaboration—as artists, as academics, as teachers and students, and as laborers? We seek proposals that wrestle with these (or related) transhistorical questions about what it means to work, think, and join together under the auspices of language, literature, and culture.”

 Perhaps of interest are the nascent Cultures of Collectivity that have formed in the virtual sphere over the past year.

Please send a 250-word abstract in French or English along with your academic affiliation, brief bio, and A/V requirements to Jennifer Howell, Illinois State University, jthowel@ilstu.edu by May 1, 2021. Proposals for complete panels and/or roundtables are also welcome.

 Notifications will be sent by May 15, 2021. All presenters must be current members of both the Midwest Modern Language Association and Women in French by July 1, 2021 in order to participate. If your submission for 2020 was accepted, you need not resubmit. I will be in contact with those individuals in May to confirm their participation.Additional information can be found on the conference website:

 https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/

All those interested in Women in French are encouraged to attend. I will also organize a dinner out for all WIF panelists and WIF members who would like to join us. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you in Milwaukee!