FOR A MULTICULTURAL HISTORY OF FRANCE: REPRESENTATIONS OF DIVERSITY IN FRANCE FROM WWI TO TODAY

https://samla.memberclicks.net/samla-93-calls-for-papers

In A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, historian Ronald Takaki presents a new and inclusive view of American history that establishes new networks and reconsiders certain distances between groups: “[r]ace…has been a social construction that has historically set apart racial minorities from European immigrant groups” (10). In the spirit of this book, this session wishes to contribute to a multicultural history of France by accepting papers on the literary and cinematic representations of diversity in France (including beyond the Hexagon) about the multiple groups making up the French mosaic and participating in its history, from World War I to today: (post)colonial, European, Latin American, North American or other groups.

Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief bio in French or English to Martine Fernandes Wagner at martinef@usf.edu until June 15, 2021.

We are extending the submission deadline for proposals to the following Women in French sessions at the 2021 South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) annual conference which will be held this year in Atlanta, Georgia from November 4-6. At this time SAMLA is proceeding optimistically with its plan to return to its traditional in-person format but is prepared to transition to an online forum in the event of updated travel and/or social gathering restrictions.   

Please consider sending a proposal in French or English to one of the panel chairs listed below by June 30, 2021. 

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. 

2^nd Call for Papers for Women in French Open Panel
SCMLA Annual Conference
The Whitehall Hotel, Houston, Texas, October 7-9, 2021 (Hybrid Conference)

The CFP for SCMLA 2021 has been extended to May 14

We are pleased to announce that after last year's postponement, SCMLA 2021 has been rescheduled as a Hybrid Conference and will take place in Houston, TX at the historic Whitehall Hotel (as previously planned) from October 7-9, 2021. SCMLA 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 May 14, 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). 

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

Please see the attached file below for the "(Queer) Care – Decoloniality – Environmental Justice"conference panel at the September 2021 inaugural virtual conference "Contemporary French Civilization (CFC) Intersections".

CFP2021_Contemporary French Civilization Intersections.docx

Paper proposals due May 24^th (see timeline below). Submit via this link. Questions can be addressed to panel organizers, Dr. Abigail E. Celis (aecelis@psu.edu) and Dr. Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel (jmontlo@ncsu.edu)

November 4-7, 2021
2021 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

I am pleased to announce the Call for Papers for WIF at the 2021 MMLA Convention (November 4-7 in Milwaukee, WI). 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/

English version follows

La conférence sera tenue du 12-14 mai 2022.

Pour les détails complets, veuillez consulter le document suivant : 10e conférence internationale WIF.docx

Contributions :

Les propositions de communications ne doivent pas dépasser les 250 mots et doivent comprendre les coordonnées des intervenant.e.s ainsi qu’une notice bio-bibliographique (100 mots au maximum).

Les organisatrices encouragent la soumission de panels (3 intervant.e.s au minimum, 4 au maximum). Les propositions de panels doivent comprendre une explication de 250 mots ainsi que toutes les propositions individuelles.

 Soumission :

Les propositions individuelles ou de panels peuvent être soumises au plus tard le 1^er septembre 2021 via le site Internet de la conférence : http://www.wif2022.org.

Les présentations qui figuraient au programme de la conférence WIF 2020 seront automatiquement acceptées, à condition d’être resoumises à l’identique via le site de la conférence. Toute nouvelle contribution sera, en revanche, sujette à une évaluation par le comité scientifique. De même, les bourses WIF attribuées pour la conférence de 2020 seront automatiquement versées aux bénéficiaires, sous condition que leurs contributions soient identiques à celles sélectionnées pour l’édition de 2020. Toute nouvelle proposition de présentation devra faire l’objet d’une autre demande de bourse WIF.

The conference will be held from the 12th-14th of May 2022.

For complete details, you may refer to the following document: 10e conférence internationale WIF.docx

Proposals:

Individual abstracts should not exceed 250 words and should include the presenter’s contact information as well as a short biography (100 words maximum). Proposals for three- or four-paper panels are also encouraged. Panel proposals should include a 250-word rationale for the proposed topic as well as individual abstracts.

 

Submissions:

Individual abstracts or panel proposals must be submitted no later than September 1, 2021 via the conference website http://www.wif2022.org.

 

Postponement of the WIF 2020 conference:

Papers included in the WIF 2020 conference program will be automatically accepted, provided they are submitted identically through the conference website. Any new contribution will, however, be evaluated by the scientific committee. Likewise, the WIF grants awarded for the 2020 conference will be automatically paid to the beneficiaries, under the condition that their contributions are identical to those selected for the 2020 edition. Any new presentation proposal would require an new application for a WIF conference grant.

You are invited to submit a proposal for the "Feminism(s) in the Age of Covid-19" interdisciplinary conference to be held on Friday the 24th of September 2021

Click here to access the full CFP

To submit a proposal, interested scholars should email an abstract (up to 300 words) and a biographical note (up to 100 words) for a 20-minute presentation in English to the organisers. The deadline for submitting the abstract is Friday, 30 April 2021. 

A publication stemming from the conference is planned.

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