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Author: Laurence Lux-Sterritt

Jean Viviès on the English Novel

Our colleague Prof. Jean Viviès has taken part in a four-part programme by France Culture, entitled Il était une fois le roman. Episode one, Made in England, retraces the origins and particularities of the English novel. The episode will soon be on air and you can access it by clicking...

Dr Chloë Reddaway on the VCS (Visual Commentary on Scripture)

The VCS: New Conversations between Art and Scripture In the paper I gave for the Lived Religion study day in December 2020, I introduced a project based at King’s College London, called the Visual Commentary on Scripture (VCS), and spoke briefly about how its ‘digital reality’ is engaging with people’s...

‘Houses of Worship: The architectural expression of religious beliefs in early America’.

On 4 December 2020, the Lived Religion study group organized a study day on Lived Religion and the Visual Arts, in collaboration with our institutional partner, the Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English. One of our speakers was Dr Carl Lounsbury, who is emeritus senior architectural historian...

Seminar: Nonconformist Everyday Religion

The Lived Religion study group of BRITAIX 17-18 is delighted to announce a session around Nonconformist everyday religion Monday 29 March 202116.30 -18.30 CET (15.30 – 17.30 GMT) Rob Daniel (Univ. of Warwick) ‘”A most precious medicine”: The Bedside Bible in the Early Modern Sickchamber’ Vera Camden (Kent State), She...

James Cook’s logs and journals: a seminar

The study group “Texts & Their Afterlives” will host a seminar primarily aimed at students preparing the Agrégation, around James Cook’s logs and journals. It will be held on Monday 1 March between 4.30 pm and 6.30 pm (European Standard Time). We will welcome our two guests: Sandhya Patel (IHRIM-Université-Clermont-Auvergne) The Lives...

Our next – and last – study day on Lived Religion in partnership with QMCRLE

On Friday 4 December 2020, the Lived Religion study group and their partners at QMCRLE will hold their fourth and last annual study day exploring the notion of lived religion. After ‘Documenting Lived Religion 1500 to the Present: Perspectives Across Borders’, ‘Lived Religion: Theory and Practice ‘ and ‘Lived Religion...

Progress and education: our first Zoom webinar.

We are delighted to announce that the session on Progress and education, which had been reported from March 2020 because of COVID-19 restrictions, was held with great success on Monday 12 October, (16.30 – 18.30) via videoconference.  Sandrine Parageau (Université Paris-Nanterre, junior IUF member), « Avancement du savoir et réforme...

Our three joint events LERMA / TELEMME/ GIS Institut du genre

Monday 9 December 2019, 16.30 – 18.30, Maison de la recherche, room 2.44 Preparatory session to our Study Day funded by the GIS Institut du Genre « Figures de la spiritualité féminine dans les espaces catholiques et protestants (Europe occidentale, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) : les systèmes religieux au prisme du genre » – Christine...

OUR NEW PROGRAMME 2019 -2020

Times: 16.30 -18.30,  room 2.44,  Maison de la Recherche, campus ALLSH 29 Av. Robert Schuman, 13621 Aix-en-Provence  The podcasts of our sessions are available here. 23 September 2019    Conference by John Mullan (University College London):  ‘Revolutionary Jane Austen : The Transformation of the Eighteenth Century Novel ?’   14 October 2019 Research programme on...

New publication

The seminar is pleased to announce the publication of ‘The World of Seventeenth-Century English Dissenter.  Piety, Theology, Heterodoxy’, in Etudes Episteme 35 (2019).  With an introduction and edited by Paula Barros, Anne Dunan-Page and Laurence Lux-Sterritt. See https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/4113

The Lived religion of English Catholics

  On Monday 8 April 2019, the Lived Religion group held a session on ‘The Lived Religion of English Catholics’.  Liesbeth Corens and Emilie Murphy spoke to faculty and postgraduate and doctoral students about the various ways of living one’s Catholic religion in the context of early modern England. Liesbeth...

Next Session: Progress & Literary Genres

Our next seminar session exploring the notion of progress is entitled  ‘Progress and Literary Genres : Redefinition and Evolution of the Novel.’ We are looking forward to welcoming you on Monday 25 March 2019, as usual from 5 – 7 pm, room 2.44 of the Maison de la Recherche, to...

New text online

  During our last seminar session, we heard Mireille Ozoux (AMU), on “Scientific progress and its impact on linguistic thought and literature: the problematics of figurative speech in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726)”. You can now read the entire text of this fantastic paper here.

seminar: ‘Progress and language’

seminar: ‘Progress and language’

We are delighted to invite you to our next session:  Monday 4 March 2019 17h00 -19h00, room 2.44, Maison de la Recherche Scientific progress and literary language Mireille Ozoux (AMU), “Scientific progress and its impact on linguistic thought and literature: the problematics of figurative speech in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726)” Claire Preston (Queen Mary...

Lived Religion and the mission

On Monday 11 February 2019, we received Gilles Vidal (IPT Montpellier), who spoke about “Missionnaires en Océanie (XIX-XXe s.) : une galerie de portraits à défaut de typologie” and Maud Michaud (Université du Mans) with a talk entitled “Dans l’intimité des familles missionnaires britanniques: la ‘religion vécue’, au prisme des archives manuscrites et...

Economic progress and langage

On Monday 26 November, please come and listen to Michel Van Der Yeught, (AMU), ‘Accounting for the evolution of specialised languages in times of intellectual progress : theoretical issues and suggestions’ and  Nathalie Vanfasse (AMU), ‘Adam Smith, economic growth, aesthetic theory, and Darwinian evolution?’  Discussant: Gérard Hugues Session 5 – 7 pm, room 2.44...

New publication in French

The early modern research programme is pleased to announce the publication of a French translation of Daniel Defoe’s The Storm: La Grande Tempête Daniel Defoe, La Grande Tempête. Traduction et édition critique par Nathalie Bernard et Emmanuelle Peraldo, Collection Littératures du Monde, sous la direction d’Alain Montandon et Françoise Lavocat, Classiques...

Seminar series, 2018 — 2019

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...