Calls for contributions:
“Law and gender in France: a first assessment?”
Published on 3 March 2023
This call for papers is addressed to all those who devote their research activity to the question, broadly speaking, of the relationship between gender and law. It is addressed to researchers from all disciplines.
Queerize, they say? Questions on the contributions of queer perspectives in research and creation
February 27, 2023
This conference aims to report on queer practices, theories and micropolitics that circulate in and around the French-speaking academic world by bringing together contributions at the intersection of the arts, law, political science, human and social sciences and educational sciences. The conference will be held in Montreal from November 20 to 24, 2023.
Decolonial Visualities: Indigenizing Visual Culture Studies
February 24, 2023
The editors of Archive Papers Journal are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for Volume 3, Issue 2: “Decolonial Visualities: Indigenizing Visual Culture Studies”. This issue aims to contribute to ongoing discussions in decolonial thought and visual culture studies regarding the potentialities of […]
“Postcolonial Cultures Journal. Studies and Essays” – Varia
February 22, 2023
Call for papers on historical, social or political issues in Commonwealth societies for issue no.2 of Postcolonial Cultures Studies and Essays. The journal Postcolonial Cultures Studies and Essays is a peer-reviewed journal showcasing research on Commonwealth and postcolonial societies. […]
Conferences, symposia, events…
RACE, A BIOLOGICAL OR POLITICAL CONCEPT?
Published on 3 March 2023
The conference focuses on the long history of racialization processes in Western societies from the end of the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. They can be defined as the inscription of social positions and political identities in a natural order.
“OUR FUTURE(S). GENRE: UPHEAVALS, UTOPIAS, IMPATIENCES”
Published on 3 March 2023
It is hardly the role of the human and social sciences to be optimistic or pessimistic. However, since our debates on "gender and emancipation" at the Angers congress in August 2019 in the context of the #metoo movement and the many feminist and LGBTQI+ mobilizations, the context has become more difficult.
Degender Me – Degendering: Artistic, Intimate and Political Issues
Published on 3 March 2023
"Ready-made artist", collective artist, porous, fluid, self-indeterminate, so many edges that no longer contain the subject in the same categories. These troubling practices around gender ambiguity, trans movements, break the norms of sexual difference, upsetting artistic currents as much as other clinical, theoretical and political fields.
Gender and subjectivity: epistemological and didactic issues, March 7
February 25, 2023
How can the share of subjectivity necessarily involved in research in literature and human sciences constitute not an insurmountable limit, but a resource to be explored? What are the stakes of this question for the study and teaching of medieval literature from a gender perspective?
4th Flash Webinar on Inclusion Issues
February 25, 2023
The training action of the INCLUDE project, co-led by the French Institute of Education (Ifé – ENS Lyon), offers you in collaboration with the National Institute of Higher Education and Teaching (Inspé – Université Lyon1) a series of flash webinars devoted to inclusion issues.
Gender Thursdays: Around the publication of Now You See Her: How Lesbian Culture Won Over America
February 25, 2023
Room E411 of the Research Center – Mirail Campus, with Anne Crémieux.
Thinking and Representing Postmodernism
February 24, 2023
The network of researchers (Postmodernism: Arts and Letters – TAHTAWI) and the DLLF – Faculty of Letters – Helwan University have the honor to invite you to attend the Webinar “Thinking and Representing Postmodernism” which will take place on March 12-13, 2023 from 9:30 a.m. to 15:30 p.m. (Egypt time zone: UTC+2).
The indigenous gaze – Decolonizing visual cultures
February 23, 2023
This Webinar Series seeks to continue the ongoing discussions in decolonial thought and visual practices beyond Western-centered conceptualizations of the image. Throughout five sessions, scholars, artists, and curators, will critically approach the concept of the 'gaze' in visual culture, interrogating it from historical, cultural, and ontological perspectives, and addressing the Indigenization of the image as a means for decolonizing the fields of visual culture and contemporary art studies.
Trailer of the 4th scientific day “Racialization under debate”
February 22, 2023
Dialogue recorded on September 20, 2022 during the fourth scientific day of the Convergences Migrations Institute at the Condorcet Campus.
Others
Understanding the Transgender Explosion Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women
Published on 02 March 2023
"Men, as we know, think in herds; we will see that they go mad in herds, but they recover their senses only slowly, and one after the other," said the British writer and journalist Charles Mackay (1814-1889).
What is intersectionality?
Published on 2 March 2023
The motion notably encouraged the National Assembly in "gender-based analysis from an intersectional perspective in order to defend the rights of all women in Quebec." It is the notion of intersectionality, here, that would have cooled the CAQ.
Is feminism soluble in neoliberalism?
Published on 2 March 2023
“Chères Collaboratrices” by Sandrine Holin, analyzes the mutation of feminist discourse in the world of work and worries about its distortion by the company. Far from demanding equality or collective emancipation, feminism remixed by neoliberalism values, according to the author, the celebration of powerful women, whose role aims to maintain the rules of the market rather than reinvent them, destroying the very idea of social struggle.
How to “decolonize” the museum?: the Western cultural institution in question • FRANCE 24
Published on 2 March 2023
Françoise Vergès, historian and decolonial feminist activist, is today's guest.
Magali Bessone: “With regard to the descendants of slaves, it is better to repair the living than the dead”
Published on 2 March 2023
But for philosopher Magali Bessone, author of Faire justice de l'irréparable (Vrin, 2019), the issue must be approached from a different perspective than financial compensation. Making room for transitional justice would allow us to move towards a future free from the persistent structures of racial discrimination.
Culture in the sights of new censors
Published on 01 March 2023
From Roald Dahl to Ian Fleming to Jane Austen, the works of deceased authors are today retouched and watered down to suit the dictates of a new moral order.
“The concept of defector is a white concept”: joint interview Joseph Andras / Kaoutar Harchi Episode I
February 28, 2023
Joseph Andras and Kaoutar Harchi have this in common: they make literature a political instrument, each in their own way. They perpetuate a certain idea of the left, the one that carries the anxiety of its own failure, the one that tries not to bend under the feeling of uselessness, the one that draws its commitment from material realities and not from theoretical abstractions.
The ideology of intersectionality is in court!
February 28, 2023
The public debate on intersectional ideology must be held with reserve at this time until the Quebec Court of Appeal has rendered its judgment on the validity of Bill 21 (sub judice). Why?
Gender transgender identity
February 28, 2023
In recent years, the number of children and young people declaring themselves transgender, that is to say rejecting their original sexual identity, has been increasing exponentially. By Guillaume Roquette, the editorial director of Figaro Magazine.
Fighting 'Woke AI,' Musk Recruits Team to Develop OpenAI Rival
February 27, 2023
Elon Musk has approached artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to ChatGPT, the high-profile chatbot made by the startup OpenAI, according to two people with direct knowledge of the effort and a third person briefed on the conversations.
On trans identities, the need for a calm debate
February 27, 2023
While younger people question gender relations more than their elders, there is a lack of data to counter ideological discourses.
Florida revokes Disney's special status, firm deemed too progressive
February 27, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday removing Disney's special status in his state, the latest in his push against so-called "woke" culture.
Winter 2023 – Radio Workshop & Slavery Memory at Lycée Suger
February 27, 2023
As part of a partnership with the Suger high school in Saint-Denis and the Foundation for the Memory of Slavery, we hosted a series of “Memory and Journalism” workshops in January and February 2023. A series punctuated in particular by the performance of Mary Prince and a radio show dedicated to the role of women in the plural resistance to colonial slavery.
Politics of popular literature
February 27, 2023
The adventures of San Antonio, OSS117 and Coplan, detective novels, science fiction and horror novels: the catalogue of Fleuve noir, a major popular publisher of the Trente Glorieuses, seems dated and devoid of any value other than nostalgia. These books, sold in hundreds of thousands of copies, written in series and often by burned former collaborators, have nevertheless spread a certain "social discourse" to a public that is certainly not necessarily fooled by its tropes, but happy to find them again.
When students debunk Godard, Koltès or Chekhov
February 26, 2023
Accused of sexism or postcolonialism, in art, cinema and theatre schools, yesterday's icons are today "deconstructed" and the word of teachers is called into question.
"The logic of the extreme right is not to protect children, but gender relations"
February 26, 2023
From Bordeaux to Lamballe, via Toulouse, the far right is trying to ban children's readings led by drag artists. The political scientist and co-director of the LGBTI + Observatory at the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, Flora Bolter, sees this as a moral panic imported from the United States. Interview.
"Consumer society digests everything, including wokeness"
February 24, 2023
Roald Dahl, JK Rowling, Tate Britain, Manchester Museum: Michel Guerrin, editor-in-chief of “Le Monde”, reviews four events in the United Kingdom, each of which questions the issue of identity in the cultural field.
These neo-feminists who legitimize the Islamist patriarchy
February 24, 2023
Fatiha Boudjahlat denounces the opportunism of these pseudo-feminists who defend the wearing of the veil for others and refuse it for themselves.
“Wakanda Forever”: When the West’s Self-Hatred Reaches New Heights, by Abnousse Shalmani
February 24, 2023
Hollywood happily takes up Wagner's story of Russian mercenaries to smear France in Mali. But anything goes as long as it targets the big bad West!
Should we empty museums? Broad ideas with Françoise Vergès
February 24, 2023
The scene takes place at the Musée du Quai Branly. On June 12, 2020, five activists denouncing the “dispossession of Africa of its wealth” tore a XNUMXth-century Bari funerary post from its base. “We have decided to come and take back what belongs to us,” they say, before being arrested by the police. In recent years, museums have increasingly been the subject of criticism, particularly from anti-racist movements.
Transgender treatment is improving, but there is still a long way to go
February 23, 2023
The Association of LGBTI Journalists (AJL) has published a study on the media coverage of transgender identity. After analyzing more than 400 articles, these journalists highlight progress, but also areas for improvement.
From transgender to whistleblower, Oli London's cry from the heart
February 22, 2023
British influencer Oli London, followed by over a million people on TikTok, gave an exclusive interview to VA+. Known for having undergone dozens of operations to look like a Korean and then a woman, he tells us about his transition, his detransition and his conversion to Christianity.
Transgender: the excesses of treatments to change sex
February 22, 2023
As the debate becomes more radical, doctors are struggling to find answers. Requests for support are exploding.
Paris City Sued Over Commemorative Plaque Using Inclusive Writing
February 21, 2023
The plaque in question notably uses midpoints and the inscription “Councillors of Paris”, provoking the ire of the Francophonie Avenir association.
Tuesday, I'm racking my brain with: Sorociné, the feminist podcast that dissects cinema
February 21, 2023
Heroines, we can say that cinema has many of them. From Thelma and Louise to Princess Leia, Hermione Granger and Elle Woods, the seventh art has its share of female characters with whom we can identify (or not). But how can we represent them on screen without questioning their place and that of minorities in a predominantly male industry?
Michel Pastoureau: Have colors become dangerous objects?
February 20, 2023
In Europe we have no idea what words " black " et " white " have become ideological and political words in the United States, impossible to use in a neutral or purely chromatic sense. This is consistent with what colleagues or friends teaching across the Atlantic often tell me. It is becoming very difficult to teach history there, because students no longer distinguish between the present and the past, even the distant past. They judge this past by the yardstick of the values and morals of the present and denounce the white man, who has always wanted to dominate the world…
Races. Do they exist or not? Shoah Memorial
No publication date
Today we know that races do not exist. Human beings are located on a continuous line, without it being possible to precisely delimit the groups between them. However, they are a social and not a natural construction. The effort to deconstruct races in our institutions and our imaginations remains unfinished. "Races" are in fact political categorizations that vary according to their context and are at the service of a society that creates them to maintain an unequal system and justify forms of social and cultural exclusion.
We are talking
There is nothing optimistic about the future of Jews in Belgium, by Yana Grinshpun
February 27, 2023
The academic, a member of the Research Network against Racism and Anti-Semitism, denounces the fate of Belgian Jews, caught between Islamism, Rexism and the silence of institutions.
Florence Bergeaud-Blackler: "Islamism is a political form that wants to take power and negotiates with a State"
February 25, 2023
The author of "Le frérisme et ses réseaux", Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, addresses the subject of the Muslim Brotherhood: "Islamism is a political form that wants to take power and negotiates with a State."
Should we be afraid of wokeness?
February 25, 2023
Debate around the question of wokism, the subject of lively discussions in the political and intellectual sphere: with Albert Ogien and Jean-François Braunstein.
"Islamic leaders in France must stop playing hide-and-seek and adapt it to the secular Republic"
February 21, 2023
It is urgent that the leaders of Islam in France profess that this religion must evolve, to get in tune with the secular State, rather than remaining at the point of thinking about the integration of French Muslims in terms of religious principles. This is the analysis of Guylain Chevrier, member of the board of the Comité Laïcité République, trainer and university teacher, former member of the secularism mission of the High Council for Integration, in light of the recent comments of the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, Chems-Eddine Hafiz.
When the fight against Islamophobia serves the Muslim Brotherhood
February 21, 2023
OPINION. For CNRS anthropologist Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, the fight against Islamophobia first and foremost responds to the expectations of Muslim Brotherhood activists.
THE FABRICATION OF CONTEMPORARY PROPAGANDIST DISCOURSES How and why does it work?
No publication date
Why is propaganda more sophisticated in a democratic society than in a totalitarian society? How can we define the propaganda phenomenon? What is its difference with ideology?
We're in the news
Complaint for “defamation”: Sciences Po student unions denounce “an attack on freedoms”
Published on March 1, 2023
Klaus Kinzler, a German professor at Sciences Po Grenoble, filed a complaint for “defamation” in June 2021, after the publication of a press release signed by several student associations at the Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) following the collage affair.
Is biology biasing us?
February 23, 2023
In La religion woke, a sulphurous pamphlet calling for taking up arms against a world gone mad, retired philosophy professor Jean-François Braunstein goes on a crusade. He particularly attacks Thierry Hoquet, guilty of having relayed feminist critiques of biology. The latter responds.
Controversies
Rewriting Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming: 'We need to produce works that reflect the complexity of the world rather than gloss over the past'
Published on 2 March 2023
According to Ian Fleming Publications, Ian Fleming's spy novels featuring James Bond will be purged of passages deemed racist. An announcement that comes a few days after the rewriting of Roald Dahl's children's books, which sparked controversy in the United Kingdom and in the literary community. Jean-Marie Théodat, professor at the Sorbonne and author, reacts.
James Bond novels rewritten in line with woke culture
February 28, 2023
Ian Fleming Publications has announced that a new edition of the novels will be released, with terms deemed offensive to certain ethnic groups and women removed.
Complaint against Dora Moutot: “Will transgenderism kill freedom of expression?”
February 27, 2023
In a collective forum, several personalities – journalists, historians, doctors, etc. – protest against the complaint filed against journalist Dora Moutot, after the latter described Marie Cau, the first transgender woman elected mayor of France, as a “transfeminine man”. A “transphobic” remark according to several associations and activists. A threat to freedom of expression, according to the signatories of this forum.
Mathieu Bock-Côté: “The unredacted book, a market of the future”
February 24, 2023
CHRONICLE – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, History of France by Jacques Bainville or even Ten Little Niggers by Agatha Christie, the greatest classics of literature are hunted by wokism.
Ordinary propaganda
Concert "Oete"
Published on 3 March 2023
The UA and Chabada invite you to attend the Oete concert as part of Gender Month.
Civic Eccentricity
Published on March 1, 2023
With Cabaret Patac', Julien Fanthou reinvents the cabaret by offering a contemporary, “eco-queer”, committed and engaging reading.
At the Berlinale 2023, the body at work
February 24, 2023
Between the epic of the feminine, transidentity and aging, the 73rd edition of the festival, which ends on Sunday February 26, was marked by body films.
The pop philosophy of TV series with Sandra Laugier
February 24, 2023
In "Our Lives in Series, Laboratories of Political Awakening", Sandra Laugier offers a reflection on our society by analyzing series: racism, violence against women, feminism, or nuclear risk, series contribute to the moral, philosophical and even political education of the public.
Lexie's Transgender Glossary
February 23, 2023
“Orlando, My Political Biography”: Woolf in Queer Binding
February 22, 2023
The body as a political field is intensely occupying this Berlinale, with the world premiere of the rereading of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece by the philosopher Paul B. Preciado.
She grew up in a suburban city, Rose Ameziane now campaigns for inclusion
February 22, 2023
In her autobiographical book, Rose Ameziane reveals what it means to be from an immigrant background and to feel completely French. The story of a committed and sincere woman.
How to recompose a political “we”?
February 21, 2023
In France, who are we talking about when we say “we”? Houria Bouteldja, activist and essayist gives us her point of view.
“Intersectionality is not a hindrance or a threat to feminism”
February 21, 2023
All feminists have multiple affiliations that modulate their identities, their worldviews and consequently their feminisms. Whether we come from majority or minority groups, we are all concerned by the tense debates on these affiliations that often go beyond the question of women's rights.
Faces at the heart of our new identity
No publication date
People of all profiles and backgrounds find their place at Sorbonne Paris Nord University. Our community, open to the world, shapes the face of the institution based on a shared vision of transmission, inclusion and universality. This is why we wanted to put staff, teachers and students at the heart of our communication.
“Colonialism, the dark idea of the Republic”: episode 2, decolonialism
No publication date
The time of colonies is over But is the time of colonialism really over? The memory and judgment that we have of this period and especially of this idea is not yet very clear.
The Grand Festival 2023
No publication date
The Grand Festival against racism and anti-Semitism returns for its 7th edition. Shows, meetings, debates and screenings: artists speak out and take a stand against discrimination through a program open to all!
Publications articles
Emmanuel Beaubatie, Gender Transfuges. Crossing the Boundaries of Gender La Découverte, Paris, 2021, 192 p.
Published on 2 March 2023
Emmanuel Beaubatie's work, taken from his doctoral thesis defended in 2017, marks a new generation of work on trans identities in France.
Dealing with heteronormativity in a police context
February 25, 2023
Based on in-depth interviews conducted between 2015 and 2019 with lesbian, gay, and straight police officers, the article analyzes informal hierarchies based on sexuality in the police occupational culture.
Asylum, Racism, and the Structural Production of Sexual Violence against Racialized Women in Exile in Paris
February 10, 2023
The recent arrival of refugees from Ukraine has thrown into sharp focus the racialized colonial underpinnings of the French asylum and refugee system, as the open-door welcome afforded to Ukrainians, supposedly “closer” to the French population, highlights the rejection and marginalization of “ others” who seek refuge in the country.
The words “feminism” and “feminist” in the presidential campaign: a lexical triumph or a semantic struggle?
February 8, 2023
This article focuses on the distribution and semantics of the terms "feminism" and "feminist" in the speeches of the 2022 presidential election. Using the tools of occurrence and co-occurrence statistics, the paper shows the lexical breakthrough of these words in the electoral field and the triumph of the two signifiers at the same time as the continuation of dissensus, between the left and the far right of the political spectrum, in the prescription of the meaning of the attached signifieds.
Chapters
Behind the Scenes of Spontaneous Desire: Heterosexual Sexuality, Women's Work, and the Gender Order
February 14, 2023
Sociology's interest in emotions dates back to the founding of the discipline (Cuin, 2001; Roux, 2016). Since the 1980s, however, the individual expression of emotions has been considered in a more intimate way, with in particular a growing attention to the links between emotions and gender.
Conserving nature in Mozambique. Relaying imaginations and practices since the colonial era
February 6, 2023
The history of nature conservation is as global as it is situated. In the South, the conservationist model gradually spread within and between colonial empires.
Congress communication
Language ideologies in inclusive language debates in France (2000-2022)
Published on 2 March 2023
This presentation examines attitudes to gender-inclusive language in French, ranging from feminine job titles, to the introduction of the pronoun iel and the use of the middot.
Against anti-racism, feminism and May 68: neo-reactionary writers
February 9, 2023
The shift to the right in the public space is largely due to the rise in the circulation of far-right ideas which have moved from the margins of this space to a semi-central position, one might say, given the current configuration of the political field.
Various publications
SECULARISM AND YOUNG PEOPLE: THE EXAMPLE OF THE “COEXIST” ASSOCIATION
February 27, 2023
As part of the 2022-2023 cycle of conferences of the DU “Secularism and Republic” organized by the Social Careers department of the IUT Nord Franche-Comté, two members of the association “Coexister” will present their approach to secularism and its results.
Presentation of the Master's in Gender Studies
February 27, 2023
Presentation of the Master's in Gender Studies by Nahema Hanafi, historian at the Temos laboratory and director of this Master's at the University of Angers, co-accredited with the Universities of Western Brittany, Maine, Nantes and Rennes 2.
Decolonizing the museum
February 25, 2023
For decades, African nations have fought for the restitution of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era to be displayed in Western museums.
In France, racism feeds on panic about Islam
February 20, 2023
French-Senegalese actor Omar Sy recently criticized France's double standards, which welcome Ukrainians while rejecting or stigmatizing migrants and refugees from elsewhere. Academic Foued Nasri, whose research focuses on mobilizations and racism in France, gives us his perspective on the causes of this situation.
GenderedNews: A computational approach to gender representation gaps in the French press
February 20, 2023
In this article, we present GenderedNews (https://gendered-news.imag.fr), an online dashboard for measuring gender representation gaps in the French online press.
LOCAL GIRLS
February 17, 2023
Every month, the podcast Genre, etc. meets a researcher in the social humanities who specializes in issues of gender, inequality, and discrimination. In this episode, sociologist Yaëlle Amsellem-Mainguy recounts her meetings with these young women from working-class backgrounds who told her about their daily lives, their friendly, family, and romantic relationships.
Items
Françoise Vergès, Absolute Disorder Program. Decolonizing the Museum
Published on 3 March 2023
The Western museum is a battlefield – ideological, political and economic. If almost everyone today wants to “rethink the museum”, few have the audacity to question the very presuppositions of the universal museum, a product of the Enlightenment and colonialism, of a Europe that presents itself as the guardian of the heritage of all humanity.
Pauline L. Boulba, CritiQueer dance
February 21, 2023
How can we report and share relationships that we can have with works and/or with artists that we have not known? Is a dance critique possible? What can the critical practices of a lesbian and feminist performer-writer look like? This book attempts to answer these questions by following the research-creation of Pauline L. Boulba, a dance researcher and choreographic artist.
The Gender of Borders: Embodied Narratives of Migration, Violence and Agency
February 14, 2023
This book brings an intersectional perspective to border studies, drawing on case studies from across the world to consider the ways in which notably gender and race dynamics change the ways in which people cross international borders, and how diffuse and virtual borders impact on migrants' experiences .
journals
Varia n°13
Published February 16st, 2023
This issue 13 and Varia of the journal GLAD! returns to the classic themes of the journal through contributions on the feminization of names and the deconstruction of stereotypes, but it also opens up avenues on new themes and approaches such as the contribution on trans and feminist voices in music, on chronic pain as a feminist issue or the translation of an article on anti-trans discourses in medicine.
Theses
Game studies and the video game industry: a mixture of worlds
February 22, 2023
Starting from the case of Game Studies or video game studies, this thesis explores the socializations, relationships and social relations between researchers and video game professionals.
