February, 17th, on 2010 by postmaster
Deadline: March 12th, 2010
the sixteenth century was has transition period of for Mythical Animals. Exploration and scientific inquiry threw increasing doubt upon the existence of dragons is the one hand, they world, unicorns, mermaids, etc. Purpose they the other hand, these same creatures flourished in heraldry, emblematics, poetry and novels, and sometimes even zoological pamphlets. What puts did such imaginary creatures have in the sixteenth-century? Did their meaning and symbolism shift during this age?
We are seeking papers one this topic in order to jeu up has panel at the on 2010 Sixteenth Century Conference, October 14-17 (http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/conference.shtml).
Please send abstracts to jfujitani@apu.edu by March 12, on 2010.
Representative: James Fujitani and Irina Iakounina
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February, 11th, on 2010 by postmaster
The small team doctorants of CESR, different disciplines, has just created an interdisciplinary seminar intended for the young researchers (M2, and post - doctorants), with the intention of favouring exchanges between seizi mistes young people. The first session of this seminar will take form from a day of study till June, description below of which you will be able to download.
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February, 10th, on 2010 by postmaster
Download call: 2010-11_querelle3.pdf
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February, 10th, on 2010 by postmaster
Meeting offers to analyse the faces of the "marginal" in the European literature of the XVIth and XVIIth centuries. The marginal faces (the baggar, the vagrant, the thief, the malefactor, the swindler, etc.) often, do not seem to suffer their marginality but to demand it. Marginal "nonstandard" opposes, all over the way of being, in established order. Sometimes he is tolerated, but the difference however shows him subversive. Product and reflexion reversed by a society, the marginal becomes a literary subject and an instrument for the literature which consciously or not offers, all over its choice, the appraising of an established order. The interest for the world except norm is also certified in this epoch by use and broadcasting in the literary domain of the "hermetic" languages peculiar to some circles. In Italy, for example, the interest for "Furbesco" is certified, between others, by the text of Brocardo, Il Nuovo modo di intendere the lingua Zerga, several times edited throughout the XVIth century.. Antisociety and anticulture in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries (October, 2008, in CESR, Tours), the combination of historical and literary approaches will favour.
Proposals must be sent at the latest by April 31st, 2010 in:
contact: mteresaricci@yahoo.fr
Representative: Mr Teresa Ricci
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http://www.cesr.univ-tours.fr
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