WOMEN IN FRENCH

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CALL FOR ARTICLES FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF WOMEN IN FRENCH STUDIES

Co-Editors: Julia Simms Holderness and Laurence M. Porter

Dept. of French, Classics, & Italian – Michigan State University

“RIVALRY, COOPERATION, CONSPIRACY, AND PATRONAGE: STUDIES IN THE DYNAMICS OF WOMEN’S INTERACTION IN FRENCH LITERATURE AND CULTURE”

How do women collaborate, and how do they compete? These questions have profound implications for our understanding of society; and yet, literary and cultural studies have tended to seek answers in only two spheres—the familial and the erotic. We invite reflections on historical or fictional collaborations and competition among women in other areas such as education, the workplace, professional life, politics, salons, courts, or convents. Analyses of “underground” collaboration (or competition) are of particular interest to us. Contributors may focus on any period of French or Francophone literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present. Critical perspectives from extra-literary fields such as sociology, anthropology, and social psychology are welcome. Publication is planned for 2010.

            Two hard copies of your completed article in either French or English, from approximately 4,000 to 6,500 words, accompanied by a précis (a summary in the form of one complete sentence per paragraph in your text) and by an electronic copy on PC-compatible diskette, should reach Laurence M. Porter, 723 Collingwood Drive, East Lansing, MI, 48823-3416, by September 30, 2008. You must have already joined Women in French for your article to be considered. Both editors will evaluate all submissions.

Preliminary inquiries are welcome: address them simultaneously to dameraison@yahoo.com and to porter@msu.edu

Format: Follow the MLA Style Manual, except for modifications required in French texts (quotation marks, spacing, ellipses). Number all pages consecutively. All NOTES must be endnotes, beginning on a separate page. Avoid “ibid” and “op. cit.” notes. Finally, list WORKS CITED on a final, separate page. On each page after the first, provide a HEADER with your last name and a short title for your essay. All materials must be double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font.

A few examples of possible avenues of inquiry:

Ø      Artistic patronage at the courts of Aliénor d’Aquitaine, Marie de Champagne, Marguerite de Navarre.

Ø      Political activism (e.g., Assia Djebar’s “L’Amour, la fantasia” or Ousmane Sembene’s “Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu”)

Ø      The salon (e.g., The Hôtel de Rambouillet, Mme de Staël, Natalie Barney, Paulette Nardal)

Ø      Gynotopias (e.g. Christine de Pizan’s “Cité des dames,” Monique Wittig’s “Les Guérillères”)

Ø      Underground communities (e.g. the anonymous Évangiles des Quenouilles, Marguerite Yourcenar’s retelling of Médée, 1996)

Cris lenguas

Multilingual Electronic Journal

Department of Foreign Languages in the Humanities
University of Puerto Rico , in Río Piedras

CALL FOR PAPERS: Invitation to submit previously unpublished manuscripts on any topic related to foreign languages (French, German, Italian, and Portuguese) and classical languages (Latin and Greek) for vol.1:2 of Crisolenguas, the new multilingual electronic journal of the Department of Foreign Languages in the Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico , Recinto Río Piedras. All submissions are peer reviewed by outside readers.

 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: March 31, 2008

Fields of interest: Literature, comparative literature, culture, linguistics, films, translation, teaching of foreign and classical languages, second language acquisition.

Publication philosophy

Crisolenguas provides a forum for scholars who work on literature, culture, language, linguistics, translation, and film topics in French, German, Italian, and Portuguese, including topics in Classical Languages Latin and Greek. Crisolenguas is designed to disseminate and share the research of scholars with other scholars in the Caribbean and beyond. Articles should be written so that they are accessible to a broad audience of educators in departments of foreign languages.

Crisolenguas accepts papers written in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, or English.

Publication requirements:

Articles should be previously unpublished and no longer than 20 pages, notes and bibliography included, double-spaced, Times New Roman, font 12, MLA style. Submit three paper copies of your manuscript with your name, affiliation, and title of manuscript on a separate page. Include a SASE for return of manuscripts, should that be necessary. Or, send an electronic copy of your manuscript in Word. Please address all inquiries and send all submissions to Françoise Ghillebaert, general editor, Crisolenguas, Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras, Apartado 23309, San Juan , Puerto Rico 00931-3309. E-mail: ghillebaert@yahoo.com.

Tel: (787) 764-0000 ext. 1-2533

Website: http://humanidades.uprrp.edu/lenguas/crisolenguas/crisolenguasespagnol.html

  General Editor of the multilingual electronic journal Crisolenguas, UPR (Río Piedras):

Dr. Françoise Ghillebaert, Ph.D, UT AUstin, ghillebaert@yahoo.com

Editorial board:

Dr. Víctor R. Castro Gómez, Dr. phil. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Dr. Giovanni D’Agostino, Ph.D, University of Toronto
Dra. Françoise Ghillebaert, Ph.D, UT Austin
Dr. Patrick-André Mather, Ph.D, University of Pittsburg , Chair of the Linguistics Program, UPR (Río Piedras)
Dr. Adriano Moz (ex-officio), Ph.D, UNC, Chapel Hill , Department chair Foreign Languages
Dra. Marilú Pérez, Ph.D, IU-Bloomington

Appel de Contributions pour Conférences

The 2008 International Conference on Romanticism will be held Oct. 16-19 at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

Submit 250 word abstracts electronically by April 15, 2008 to:

r2anders@oakland.edu

Proposals for special sessions should be submitted by March 1, 2008.

For more information, contact Chris Clason: clason@oakland.edu

or Rob Anderson: r2anders@oakland.edu

Conference website:

http://www2.oakland.edu/romanticism/index.cfm

Colloque
Rhétoriques du masque : les femmes écrivains et le travestissement textuel (1500-1940)
Université de Montréal, 15-16 mai 2009

Responsables : Jean-Philippe Beaulieu et Andrea Oberhuber,

Département des littératures de langue française, Université de Montréal

Les divers masques qu’ont portés les femmes d’ expression française désireuses d’accéder à la parole publique et, surtout, à la pratique scripturaire, pendant la période d’émergence de l’écriture au féminin se situant entre le début de la Renaissance et la fin de l’entre-deux-guerres, nous invitent à une réflexion approfondie sur les manifestations textuelles de ces « mascarades ». Dans une perspective strictement littéraire, la rencontre qui se tiendra à l’Université de Montréal vise à cerner les postures rhétoriques ayant permis aux auteures d’investir des formes littéraires convenues, d’y moduler leur voix, au féminin ou au masculin (voire au neutre), d’imaginer des identités autres et parfois plurielles. On sait en effet que, historiquement, l’accès à l’écriture engage le sujet d’énonciation féminin à se positionner face aux enjeux identitaires, discursifs et scripturaires de son temps. Ce positionnement s’exprime à travers un jeu complexe de renvois (auto)référentiels qui masquent le visage du locuteur autant qu’ils le révèlent. Chaque époque semble avoir privilégié des artifices de mise en scène bien particuliers (évoquons, à titre d’exemples, la pseudonymie et la ventriloquie) permettant à certaines femmes auteures de se représenter en écrivain. L’objectif du colloque est de mettre en lumière le façonnement des voix et des visages, des corps et des identités, de façon à poser les fondements d’une histoire du travestissement textuel au féminin, de la naissance de la modernité jusqu’au modernisme.

Propositions de communication (300 mots) à soumettre au plus tard le lundi 30 juin 2008. Contact : Jean-Philippe Beaulieu:

jean-philippe.beaulieu@umontreal.ca

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