SdBS Featured Translation 2024 (any language to French)

Deadline: March 15, 2024 

Prize: Republication of the translated article, accessible to wider audiences

Consistent with its mission of promoting international and cross-cultural exchange, Simone de Beauvoir Studies selects annually one outstanding work that has already been published and translates it into either English or French to emphasize its significance to the field and increase its readership. The SdBS Featured Translation showcases writing of the highest quality, often authored by established scholars, full professors, or others who have produced exceptional work. 

Nomination Letter 

Nominations for the SdBS Featured Translation should take the form of a letter of approximately one page in length that includes the following information: 

1. The original publication details of the work (title, publisher, publication date, pages). 
2. The estimated word count of the work: 8,000 words maximum, including footnotes—all mentioned work should be referenced in footnotes (see Authors’ Guide).
3. A summary or abstract (100-200 words) of the work that emphasizes its central arguments and contributions. 
4. A short narrative that explains why the proposed work should be chosen for the SdBS Featured Translation and that references the selection criteria outlined below. (Please keep in mind that many exceptional works are nominated each year. Letters should speak to why a given work should be selected over other exceptional works.) 
5. A PDF copy of the original publication attached to the nomination letter. 

Nomination letters should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief at sdbs.journal@gmail.com by March 15, 2024. Multiple nomination letters for the same work, multi-authored nomination letters, and self-nominations are welcome. 

Criteria 

The SdBS Featured Translation is selected according to the following criteria: 

• the quality of the work in regard to research, scholarship, and writing 
• he originality of the work in regard to content, scholarship, and arguments 
• the significance of the work’s contribution to Beauvoir studies or to the advancement of themes in conversation with Beauvoir’s legacy such as gender studies, cultural studies, existentialism, feminism, autobiography, and so on. 
• the work’s potential to draw new and diverse audiences to Beauvoir studies in terms of field, discipline, social location, cultural location, geographical region, and so on 
• the status of the work as under-recognized in certain disciplines, fields, cultures, and/or geographical areas 

Eligibility 

Eligible works for the 2024 nomination cycle are any article or book chapter (ideally less than 10,000 words) that was published recently or long ago in any language other than French.

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There is still time to submit your articles for the 2022's edition of the Prix des amis de Colette. You can send it until 31th of December 2021 to:

Le Prix de la Société des amis de Colette, association reconnue d'utilité publique fondée en 1956, a été créé en 2015. Il vise à encourager et favoriser la recherche érudite sur la vie et l’œuvre de Colette en récompensant des travaux innovants portant sur tout ou partie de son œuvre. L’objectif de ce Prix étant de contribuer à renouveler l’approche de l’auteur par rapport aux nombreuses études déjà existantes. 

Le texte choisi par le jury, réunissant les meilleurs spécialistes de Colette, sera publié dans les Cahiers Colette, publication de référence depuis 1977, et l'auteur se verra récompensé d'un chèque de 1.500 euros. 

L’Édition 2022 

Le Prix sera remis au mois de mai 2022. Les travaux soumis au jury devront prendre en compte les éditions de référence des textes de Colette (Œuvres en 4 volumes de la Pléiade, Œuvres Complètes « du Centenaire ») et témoigner d’une bonne connaissance des principales études et biographies publiées à ce jour. 

Les textes des candidats sont à adresser par courriel à l’adresse contact@amisdecolette.fr  ou par courrier à Société des amis de Colette 8-10 rue Colette 89520 Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye avant le 31 décembre 2021. 

Extraits du règlement 

Les travaux soumis au jury (articles, originaux, ou extraits de mémoire - entre 30.000 et 50.000 signes) seront écrits en français ou traduits intégralement (la traduction accompagnera l’envoi du document original). Pour les travaux publiés, la date de publication ne doit pas excéder deux ans précédant la date de remise du prix ; pour les travaux universitaires, la date de soutenance ne doit pas excéder deux ans précédant la date de remise du prix. Les textes seront envoyés par voie électronique (au format .pdf) ou en deux exemplaires pour les ouvrages imprimés déjà publiés. Un ou plusieurs prix obtenus par ailleurs ne disqualifie pas un travail proposé au prix de la Société des amis de Colette mais les lauréats antérieurs ne pourront se présenter de nouveau. Le jury se réserve le droit, le cas échéant, de ne pas remettre de prix s’il juge que la qualité des textes proposés est insuffisante. 

Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez consulter le site www.amisdecolette.fr à la rubrique "Association", "Prix de la Société des amis de Colette", ou envoyez un courriel à l'adresse flaviefouchard@us.es.

Congratulations to Dawn M. Cornelio for the recent publication of her translation of Chloé Delaume’s recent feminist manifesto, Mes bien chères soeurs, under the title Sisters are you with me?

The title is currently available only in Canada on at the following link:

https://www.amazon.ca/Sisters-Are-You-Chlo%C3%A9-Delaume/dp/0228858887/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3US7R7M5TK78U&dchild=1&keywords=sisters+are+you+with+me&qid=1635856784&sprefix=sisters+are+you+with+me%2Caps%2C307&sr=8-1

Launch of a  new series with Edinburgh University Press, New Directions in Francophone Studies: Diversity, Decolonization, Queerness. We are currently accepting proposals for monographs and edited volumes. The series is grounded in and guided by decolonial, anti-racist, queer, feminist, intersectional, trans-affirming, and inclusive principles. Here is more information about our goals and interests:

We are currently welcoming in/formal inquiries and/or proposals. Feel free to email Dr. Loic Bourdeau (series editor) loic.bourdeau@louisiana.edu for more information or to share a project abstract.

Editorial Board

French Fairy Tales by Women

English version:

https://www.mla.org/Publications/Bookstore/MLA-Texts-and-Translations/Miracles-of-Love

French version:

https://www.mla.org/Publications/Bookstore/MLA-Texts-and-Translations/Prodiges-d-amour

This new book will interest Women in French, especially Medieval and Early Modern Wifien.ne.s.

Cait Stevenson has just published How to Slay a Dragon (Tiller Press, 2021),  a terrific, witty, and accessible history that includes such chapters as “How Not to Marry the Prince” and “The Princess Saves Herself”.  The book is race, religion, and LGBTQ+ inclusive, and features women who are well-known (think Jeanne d’Albret) and many who are less so (such as the tavern keeper, Agnes la Paganam).

This 1845 novel by Camille Lebrun, the penname of Pauline Guyot (1805-1886), meant for a young adult readership of her era is one of the few perspectives that we have by a mid-nineteenth-century French woman writer on the matters of slavery, abolition, race relations, and white supremacy in France’s former Louisiana colony. 

For more information see link attached below:

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Friendship-and-Devotion-or-Three-Months-in-Louisiana

For more information see link below

https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/72556

Pour plus d'informations : https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/livre-la_maison_de_la_tendresse_house_of_tenderness_evelyne_accad-9782343224152-69561.html