{"id":1255,"date":"2013-09-27T10:24:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T08:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2017-12-27T01:37:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T23:37:46","slug":"international-conference-of-the-french-society-of-modernist-studies-paris-3-25-26-avril-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/?p=1255","title":{"rendered":"Universit\u00e9 Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 \u2013 25-26 avril 2014 \u2013 Inaugural International Conference of the French Society for Modernist Studies (Call for Papers)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MODERNIST COMMUNITIES<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The inaugural international conference of the French Society for Modernist Studies<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

25-26 April 2014, University of the Sorbonne Nouvelle \u2013 Paris 3, Paris, France<\/strong><\/p>\n

Organiser<\/strong>: Caroline Pollentier<\/p>\n

Click here<\/u><\/a> for further information, including the conference programme and abstracts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Call for papers<\/strong><\/p>\n

The aim of this two-day conference is to foster discussion on communities in the modernist period. As discursive constructs and historical practices, communities constitute a privileged phenomenon from which to understand the political and ethical regime of modernist texts, as well as the actual forms of collective experience in which writers and readers were involved. More than a decade after Jessica Berman\u2019s landmark work on \u00ab\u00a0the politics of community\u00a0\u00bb in modernist fiction, we seek to explore the various ways in which communities were configured across genres and artistic media, but also to acknowledge the grounds of their historical and cultural specificity. We hope that this will lead us to distinguish various versions of the communal, from the ideal to the empirical, from the utopian to the everyday, from consensus to dissensus.<\/p>\n

Communities can be recorded at a symbolic as well as a material level, both inside and outside modernist texts themselves. We therefore encourage a variety of critical approaches, ranging from historicist and sociological, to aesthetic and philosophical. Through this critical diversity, we are particularly interested in investigating the historicity of modernist communities: how can we identify the historical singularity of modernist communal forms? How can we account for the changing scales, spaces and media of communal thinking\u00a0in the modernist period? This emphasis on a historical being-in-common\u2014what Jean-Luc Nancy defined as the community of the contemporary\u2014can fruitfully be coupled with a critical reading of various later theories of community, from Benedict Anderson\u2019s \u00ab\u00a0imagined communities\u00a0\u00bb to Jacques Ranci\u00e8re\u2019s aesthetic conception of \u00ab\u00a0the common\u00a0\u00bb. To what extent do modernist texts lead us to understand or challenge such theories? By taking a far-ranging approach to the concepts, forms, and historical practices of community, we hope to map out the plurality of this phenomenon, while recording its persisting elusiveness.<\/p>\n

As the conference will inaugurate the creation of the French Society for Modernist Studies\u2014Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019Etudes Modernistes<\/em>\u2014, we seek to bring together scholars from all countries and hope to strengthen collaborations between French and international researchers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The aim of this two-day conference is to foster discussion on communities in the modernist period. […] More than a decade after Jessica Berman\u2019s landmark work on \u00ab the politics of community \u00bb in modernist fiction, we seek to explore the various ways in which communities were configured across genres and artistic media, but also to acknowledge the grounds of their historical and cultural specificity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cfp","category-evenements-modernisme"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}