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9TH SYMPOSIUM " YOUNG RESEARCHERS " OF THE CIERL
CALL TO CONTRIBUTION
Deadline: February 20th, 2009
Laval university, Quebec, May 21-23, 2009
Ten years of research and of meetings, ten years of intellectual best regards in the confluence of America and of Europe, it is what CIERL gets ready to celebrate in 2009. At this occasion, the next symposium " Young researchers " will question one of the central dimensions of the Republic of Letters that yesterday as that today's one of its the most powerful springs, to know cosmopolitanism.
Cosmopolites, people of culture, of Renaissance in the Enlightenment, were it in several senses. It is first by fidelity to an inheritance, by membership in intellectual and spiritual Europe, that they tried to exceed political or linguistic borders which rose between them. They think, for example, of trips of Nicolas de Cuse and of D rer, in the peregrinatio academica who drove them in Italy; they also think of countless correspondence which the republicans of letters then maintained, all over of Europe. So, to the liking of trips and of exchanges, a true culture of mobility (Daniel Roche) was established who had to swarm necessarily, that is to say to go beyond the borders of Europe.
Indeed, the cosmopolitanism of the Enlightenment opens with the New World, with the East and with Africa, or even with mysterious Russia. At the time when Montesquieu makes travel Usbek and Rica, in the Persian Letters, "cosmopolitan" word becomes more and more common; he returns in an universalist sensitivity, following in it his etymology (of Greek kosmopolit s, citizen's of the world). But the cosmopolitanism, defined in this direction, raises difficulties. They remember Rousseau's injunction: Distrust these cosmopolites who are going to search in the distance in their books of duties that they despise to fill around them. Such philosopher likes Steak tartares to be exempted from loving his neighbours ( mile). Also, the Dictionary of the Academy of 1762 records a distinctly pejorative definition of "cosmopolite": The one who does not adopt his fatherland. A cosmopolite is not a good citizen . The Enlightenment, at the same time as they support cosmopolitanism, reports inconsistency: however thirsty for universal he is, the cosmopolite can hardly pretend to be all places at the same time, or either misread his responsibility towards his, his rooting in a culture. Les Lumi res, en m me temps qu elles soutiennent le cosmopolitisme, en d noncent les incons quences : si assoiff d universel qu il soit, le cosmopolite ne peut gu re pr tendre tre de tous les lieux la fois, ni non plus m conna tre sa responsabilit envers les siens, son enracinement dans une culture.
It is from this perspective that the symposium " Young researchers " of CIERL will envisage the plural demonstrations of cosmopolitanism, of Renaissance in the Enlightenment. It will be a question, certainly, of bringing to light the relations which weaved, in the course of time, between people of culture across Europe, as well as exchanges between these and the rest of the world; it will be a question, just as much, of surrounding networks of influence, fluxes and circulation which manufactured the Republic of Letters. But, it making, it will be necessary to take the measure of distance, to grab the weight of traditions, to grant to alt rit s. The cosmopolite, while betting on solidarities, feels the correctness of the word of Montaigne: Whatever truth these mountains delimit, which is lie in the world which is held beyond . The example of Campanella, in this respect, is instructive: to his arrival in France, in 1634, it must be necessary enough early that his " science of stars collides with a new regime of the truth, with a new scientific methodology. Authentic cosmopolitanism does not abolish borders, either game of difference, or conflict of temporalities; on the contrary, him probl matise what will make precisely the object of our symposium.
Three main working axles were kept by the committee:
- the first, "Influence", will become attached to the direct consequences of cosmopolitanism, that it is in the writings of the creators or in jobs of the scholars (parallel ways, pooled by inheritances, confrontations and debates, sociabilities, academies, artistic or erudite dialogues, exemplary faces, mentorat, taken back and rewritings, effects of mode, orientalism and anglomanie);
- the second axle, "Trips", will concern real or imaginary displacements, the most various stakes of the culture of mobility (stories of trip, descriptions of the Big Turn, material conditions of the circulation, world of cities, prerequisites, homes of free thought, geographies, diplomacy and policy, religious missions, imaginary, fantastical trips of elsewhere, Utopias, escapes and banishment, marginality, anthropology, problematic alt rit s);
- finally, the third axle, "Exchanges", will treat as the "media" dimension of reports between the republicans of letters (correspondence, newspapers, practices of the epistolary, translations, lingua philosophica, French Europe, linguistic exchanges, roles of the printing, underground presses, broadcasting of knowledges).
Of interdisciplinary nature, the symposium of CIERL will welcome the young researchers working in the different fields of human sciences, of literature in the philosophy, by way of history (of art, music, sciences or of languages). The proposals of communication (title and summary of a half page, level of studies, institutional anchoring) will have to be sent to the committee before February 20th, 2009 at following address: jeunes.chercheurs@lit.ulaval.ca
Members of the committee: M lanie B rub , Annie Cloutier, Michel German, Xavier Lechasseur, Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot, Stephanie Mass , Esther Ouellet, Dany Roberge.
Representative: The students of the CIERL
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Between violence and seduction: Judith and other biblical heroines in Europe of XIVTH - XVIIITH centuries (Paris, December 8-10, 2008), organised by the university Paris III - New Sorbonne in collaboration with the Universita di Padova.
That they use violence, seduction or sacrifice, the biblical heroines are the support of a reflexion in the numerous facets (religious, political, moral, social, definite) widely broadcast in Europe in
court of the centuries, from the comments of the fathers de l' Eglise. Numerous declensions over the period of XIVTH - XVIIITH centuries will be examined.
These polyvalent faces appear unstable in their outlines; their clean existence, far from being always autonomous, often defines itself in comparison with others, to the point where they are sometimes merged between them and to the point where some are often considered of prefiguration of the Virgin. They will investigate therefore the links of complementarity or of opposition, on the dialectical reports, on the phenomena of pollution, condensation, superimposings which are established between these women, according to places, instants, specific contexts.
Around these emblematic faces crystallise intense interferences and circulation between various forms of expression: literature, religious theatres and layman, music, figurative arts. These biblical faces will also allow to lead a reflexion on types, especially those who are situated in the points of confluence between what is read, seen and heard.
Finally, they wait a lot, in the bet opposite inter and multidisciplinary of these common topics with various cultures, of the examination of the phenomena of simulation, of transformation, of r invention whom procreate broadcasting and circulation of the men and writings in close geographical aeries, but from whom historical, political and religious situations very differ, as it is the case of France and of Italy.
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Dear colleagues and friends,
In accordance with the will which expressed itself during debates of our last General meeting, our THIS wanted to get involved with me to warn government and opinion against the perverse effects of the reform of the competitive entrance examinations the plan of which, in its still vague current form, seems to hit in germ of serious threats for the future of our disciplines.
That is why I participated on November 8th, as president de la SFDES and spokesperson of our Coordination Competition Letters (which gathers, as you know it, the Societies of m di vistes, XVIISTES, XVIIistes, XVIIIISTES and XIXistes), in a meeting organised by Let us save the University and intended to gather well beyond this association and to federate oppositions to this hurried reform, or at least to the way she seems to be imposed on us. A called text Call of November 8th was discussed and amended to gather the signatures of the biggest possible number of organisations, of senates and learnt societies. You find it in reached file. He was already signed by more than quarantine institutions, associations, societies, notably by professors' many associations of the second degree, but also by the Society of the Holders of the agr gation, the Societies of the anglicists, of hispanistes, specialists in comparative linguistics, several Societies of historians, of philosophers, of musicologists, etc. as well as in individual title by many personalities of the university world.
Considering emergency, I subjected this text to approval of the THIS on November 9th; his members were predominantly pronounced by e-mail in favour of the signature of the text by SFDES (11 voices for, from November 11th, 0 votes against; other favourable polls were then added). I could therefore sign call in the name of SFDES, as made it our FRIENDS XVIIIISTES and XIXistes shortly afterwards.
I invite you to broadcast this Call of November 8th , and to sign it: He is online as petition since November 15th at following address: http://www.appeldu8novembre.fr. It is possible that this text does not correspond word for word to what each of us would write. Our political and philosophical sensitivity is various and I am delighted with it. But I think that it is time to accept necessary compromises so that expresses itself a collective resistance and a transdisciplinaire in the deterioration which threatens us. To choose not to sign this text in the state would mean to stay outside a movement of largeness which seems to me salutary, and emergency of which makes no doubt.
As spokesperson of our Coordination Competition Letters, I got from other part on November 24th an audience to Mrs Campion, additional Head of the Офис of Mrs P cresse, to recall with her the future of our masters. I will go there together with Catriona Seth, with the Society of XVIIIISTES. We will announce him our concerns and complaints touching the evolution of the situation of masters linked in "Mast risation" by competitions.
I am listening to all your questions and possible suggestions on this file as on others.
With my devoted feelings.
Jean Vignes
President of the SFDES
On November 15th, 2008
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