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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...

BSECS forthcoming conference

The Early Modern Research Programme is proud to welcome The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ annual Postgraduate & Early Career Conference at Aix-Marseille Université on 3 and 4 September 2018, themed ‘Barbarism and Behaviour’. Registration is now open, until 6 July, and the programme and registration form can be found on...

The French Translations of Gulliver’s Travels

Considering the impact of translations upon the posterity of literary texts, with Amélie Derome; read her paper ‘The French translations of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1727-2017): “a faithful history of my travels”?’ here.

Digital humanities and translations of literary texts

How can the new technologies of digital humanities contribute to research on literary texts and translations? Amélie Derome shares her thoughts here, with « Décoder le texte : le développement d’un comparateur numérique des traductions d’oeuvres littéraires ».

Gouverneur Morris Digitized

Discover Emilie Mitran’s innovative project on the digitizing of Gouverneur Morris’s journal and much more; read   « Prolonger l’expérience parisienne et européenne de Gouverneur Morris grâce aux technologies numériques » here.

The Politics of Gouverneur Morris

If you read French, you can now read Emilie Mitran’s “Liberté, égalité, royauté ! De l’idiosyncrasie politique morrisienne” by clicking here.  An abstract in English is provided. follow us on Twitter @Britaix17_18

New publication

NEW PUBLICATION The early modern research programme is pleased to announce the publication of  Le Journal de Gouverneur Morris pendant la Révolution française, Tome premier (1789), edited and translated by Gérard HUGUES, with a preface by Patrice HIGONNET (Droz, 2018).  https://www.droz.org/france/fr/6602-9782600058377.html follow us on Twitter @Britaix17_18

New publication

We are delighted to annouce that our colleague and programme member Hélène Palma has published an annotated translation, with a preface, of Milady Craven’s letter: Voyage à Constantinople en passant par la Crimée, série de lettres de l’honorable Lady Elizabeth Craven à son altesse sérénissime le Margrave de Brandebourg, Anspach et Bayreuth,...

Philip Mazzei & Gouveneur Morris: a seminar session

Philip Mazzei & Gouveneur Morris: a seminar session

Our next meeting will take us across the Atlantic with two doctoral papers; all welcome. 16 April 2018 : 17h-19h , Maison de la Recherche, room 2.41 Francesca Genesio (AMU) : “Mazzei, the pragmatic propagandist.” Read the text here. Émilie Mitran (AMU)  : « Liberté, égalité, royauté ! De l’idiosyncrasie politique morrisienne ».  Read the text...