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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series: Victor Hugo, Theopoet
When: Friday, 19 April, 2–3pm Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne Parkville Campus Dr Patrick Kennedy, The University of Melbourne “Victor Hugo, Theopoet: Re-reading the divine in Les Contemplations, Dieu, and La Fin de Satan“ Though well-known as a prolific nineteenth-century author and écrivain engagé, Victor Hugo is less remembered for his idiosyncratic view of the…
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AALITRA Translation Awards 2024 (French)
The Australian Association for Literary Translation (AALITRA) now invites entries for the 2024 AALITRA Translation Awards. The AALITRA Translation Awards aim to acknowledge the wealth of literary translation skills present in the Australian community. Prizes are awarded for a translation of a selected prose text and for a translation of a selected poem. The focus…
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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series: Céline Sciamma and the Queer Forest
When: Friday, 22 March, 2–3pm Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne Parkville Campus Louise Cain, The University of Melbourne “Where the Wild Kids Are: Céline Sciamma and the Queer Forest” Combining Martin Heidegger’s concept of Holzwege – the tangled forest paths that serve as metaphors for being, knowledge, and truth – with the…
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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series
The Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series invites scholars at any level to present their research for their colleagues in Melbourne. Researchers working in any area and time period of French and Francophone Studies are encouraged to give a 30–40 minute in-person seminar in English or in French on a current research project. Colleagues working in…
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President’s Welcome 2024
Dear Australian Society for French Studies members, As I write this annual welcome, I reflect on our Society’s many achievements over the past year. In December, our Sydney University colleagues hosted an excellent conference, ‘Body, Motion, Space’. It featured keynote addresses from French scholar David Le Breton and the Australian Journal of French Studies’ editor,…
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CFP: LCNAU Eighth Biennial Colloquium
Submissions for abstracts and panel proposals are now open for the 2024 LCNAU Eighth Biennial Colloquium. Hosted by the University of Sydney’s School of Languages and Cultures, the Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU) 2024 Colloquium will explore the theme ‘Trans/Formation: research and education in languages and cultures’. LCNAU invites scholars, practitioners, early career researchers…
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Call for Papers: Women in French Australia – Work in Progress Seminar Series on Nelly Arcan
Le (néo)libéralisme au prisme du genre dans l’œuvre de Nelly Arcan Organisée par Ons Othmani (Université de Carthage) En ligne – 4 avril 2024 Cette demi-journée d’étude propose d’analyser les imbrications entre le capitalisme et l’oppression des femmes dans l’œuvre de Nelly Arcan. En effet, les dynamiques de pouvoir entre les sexes constituent une problématique majeure dans les…
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Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Essay Prize
The Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies is inviting submissions for the newly established annual SFPS Essay Prize from PhD students and early-career academics (not in permanent employment). The author of the winning essay will receive a prize of £100. The winning essay and the runner-up will be published in the Autumn 2024 issue of the Society’s b-annual journal,…
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ASFS Postgraduate / ECR Writing and Peer Support Group
The postgraduate and early career researcher Writing and Peer Support Group is a writing group and discussion space for postgraduate and early career members of the ASFS. The group will be running quarterly throughout 2024. Each ‘cycle’ consists of one writing day (all day), a writing exchange (via email), and a feedback session (1-hour or…
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DRAFT Research Seminar: Music, Memory and Migration: Commemorating the BUMIDOM in Contemporary Music
ALL WELCOME! Join us on Friday 24 November, 2-3pm (Sydney time) for the next DRAFT seminar on research in progress in French and Francophone Studies in Australia! Zoom Link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83924176810?pwd=NWNzWjJkZHFId2RYMEJGdHp1QUtnUT09 Password: 841616 In person: Babel Building, room 407, The University of Melbourne Music, Memory and Migration: Commemorating the BUMIDOM in Contemporary Music In the past fifteen years, there has been a plethora of…
