Seminar series, 2018 — 2019
Our programme has taken good shape and we are now able to publicize the following events:
Sessions on Mondays, 17.00 to 19.00, room 2.44, Maison de la Recherche
(unless stated otherwise)
Friday 12 October 2018
14h – 16h
“Lived Religion”
A conference by Sébastien Fath (CNRS), “Billy Graham, artisan d’une ‘religion civile’ évangélique aux États-Unis.”
Discussant: Gilles Teulié
Monday 5 November 2018
“Texts and their Afterlives”: a session on travel literature
Gabor Gelleri (Aberystwyth University) : ” ‘Cette chose ordinaire et inutile qu’on appelle un Tour en Angleterre’ – discours, pratiques et usages”. Read the abstract here.
Sandhya Patel (Université de Clermont Auvergne), ‘Translation and Transcription. Enabling the archeology of exploration narratives’. Read the abstract here.
Discussants : Nathalie Bernard and Nathalie Vanfasse
Monday 26 November 2018
Programme Seminar on the notion of “Progress and Language”
A session on Economic Progress and Language
Michel Van Der Yeught (AMU), ‘Accounting for the evolution of specialised languages in times of intellectual progress : theoretical issues and suggestions’. Read the abstract here.
Nathalie Vanfasse (AMU), ‘Adam Smith, economic growth, aesthetic theory, and Darwinian evolution?’ Read the abstract here.
Discussant : Gérard Hugues
Tuesday 4 December 2018
“Lived Religion”: the Stakes and Limitations of Heritage
A conference by Jodi Cohen (Bridgewater State university), in collaboration with the LERMA research group working on ‘Remanence’
Friday 7 December 2018
“Lived Religion”: A closed session on Lived Religion and Sociology
14h- 17h : Virtual study day (video-conferencing room)
Lived Religion and Sociology
In collaboration with QMCRLE
Monday 11 February 2019
“Lived Religion”: a session on Lived Religion and Missionaries in the 18th Century
Maud Michaud (Université du Mans) “Dans l’intimité des familles missionnaires britanniques: la ‘religion vécue’, au prisme des archives manuscrites et photographiques de la Church Missionary Society en Ouganda (1876-1914)”
Gilles Vidal (IPT Montpellier) “Missionnaires en Océanie (XIX-XXe s.) : une galerie de portraits à défaut de typologie”;read the abstract here.
Discussant : Gilles Teulié
Monday 4 March 2019
Programme Seminar on the notion of “Progress and Language”
A session on Scientific Progress and Literary Language
Mireille Ozoux (AMU), “Progrès et l’évolution de la langue et de la littérature, impact de la langue scientifique dans la littérature.”
Clare Preston (Queen Mary university of London) ‘Thomas Browne’s Rhetorical Reclamations’. Read the abstract here .
Discussant : Anne Page
Monday 25 March 2019
Programme Seminar on the notion of “Progress and Language”
A session on Progress and Literary Genres : Redefinition and Evolution of the Novel
Baudouin Millet (Université de Lyon 2), ‘Progress and stasis: the poetics of digression in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719-1720)’.
Anne Widmayer (University of Wisconsin), ‘Self-Conscious Literary Change: Engaging the Audience in the Emerging Novel.’ Read the abstract here.
Discussante : Nathalie Bernard
Monday 8 April 2019
“Lived Religion”: a session on The Lived Religion of English Catholics
Liesbeth Corens (Queen Mary University of London), ‘Confessional mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe.’ Read the abstract here.
Emilie Murphy (University of York), ‘Making memories in post-Reformation English Catholic musical miscellanies’. Read the abstract here.
Discussant : Laurence Lux-Sterritt
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