symposia
Workshop on Gender Issues and Development
This workshop will feature contributions in the fields of family economics, gender economics, and development economics. It aims to create a forum to discuss ongoing, cutting-edge theoretical and empirical research connecting these areas.
We welcome submissions in the following themes: gender and labor markets; marriage and divorce; household time allocation; economics of gender-based and domestic violence; gender gaps and income inequalities; household decisions (labor supply, consumption, savings, health, education, and fertility); gender, migration, and remittances; women's empowerment, women's entrepreneurship, and economic development; political role; demographic economics; social norms, laws, policies, and institutions; economic development and agricultural production.
Current research in gender and language
This study day aims to highlight the latest news in young research (master's, doctorate, postdoc) in gender and language, in a multidisciplinary approach: all areas of language sciences, but also other fields of research, are welcome. The aim is to show what is being done around activist discourses (axis 1), feminist and queer language practices (axis 2) and, at the methodological level, the ethical reflections and problems that such research can raise (axis 3). The day aims to promote dynamic young research, and is designed as an opportunity for young researchers to participate in a scientific event for the first time, in a caring and constructive setting.
Decolonial and universal: crossed perspectives (Bordeaux)
This seminar is a theoretical and critical reading seminar led by non-specialists. It is not about producing knowledge "from above", but rather about proposing reading paths in a horizontal manner. The person in charge of introducing the session presents the author, the key concepts and exciting paths for colleagues. She does not have any authority over the author. She therefore has the right to say "I don't know".
The idea is to think with the authors and not against them. It will not be a question of proceeding with readings pointing out this or that defect, but rather of trying to understand how this author can be useful to each of us, beyond our different disciplines and fields.
Calls for contributions
Medieval literature in the genre workshop. Epistemological, ethical and didactic issues
The first seminars of the LIMA.GE group (Literatures of the Middle Ages and Gender) initiated a theoretical reflection on the specificities of an approach to medieval literature, taking into account all its languages of expression, Latin or vernacular, through gender studies, and on what this literature can, in return, bring to these studies. The conference planned at Rennes 2 University in spring 2024 aims to develop this reflection, by inviting literary medievalists to explain the foundations of a study of medieval literature through the prism of the conceptual field of gender.
This call for papers aims to question the manifestations of the feeling of self in the postcolony as it can be structured through the global imaginaries of sexual and bodily staging in the contemporary context of Africa (Maghreb and sub-Saharan) and the Caribbean. Indeed, after a long period of silencing bodily affects (Achille Mbembe, Politics of Enmity), postcolonial societies seem determined to liquidate the old paradigms of self-representation erected by colonial biopower (Pascal Blanchard et alii, Sex, Race & Colony). For centuries, the latter has exercised a certain domination of black bodies, thus participating in fixing all the fantasies and taboos that have accompanied, in the Foucauldian sense, the symbolic and real governance of the subjugated Black within colonial empires.
Gender & Language Research News
The aim is to show what is being done around activist discourses (axis 1), feminist and queer language practices (axis 2) and, at the methodological level, the ethical reflections and problems that such research can raise (axis 3). The day aims to promote young, dynamic research, and is designed as an opportunity for master's students to participate in a scientific event for the first time, in a caring and constructive setting.
Legal discourses, gender and history
This international and multidisciplinary conference welcomes contributions linking legal discourses and gender studies, from legal disciplines as well as from all the human and social sciences. It is structured around three axes: (1) critical epistemologies of law in the light of gender and intersectionality; (2) methods of gendered and intersectional analyses, and heuristic tools developed for discourse analysis; (3) research results of gendered and intersectional analysis of legal texts, primary or secondary.
Middle Ages and feminisms (Perspectives médiévales journal)
Studying medieval culture allows us to challenge theories of gender that are entirely rooted in modern philosophy and society. A significant number of aspects specific to the Middle Ages, by their emergence, have destabilized even postmodern notions of the articulation between sex and gender. […] In the last fifteen years, medievalists have advanced feminism […] in the same way as contemporary theorists.
Is the reader a reader like any other?
How are female readers of fiction represented in contemporary literature? If female readers have long been associated, on the one hand, with a form of vulnerability, linked to the topos of the dangers of reading, and on the other hand with an eroticized vision of reading, it is clear that the contemporary period is working to modify these images. The rise of feminist thought, of reflection on gender, and the pragmatic inflection of reception theories are all new critical legacies that inflect the literary representation of women and, a fortiori, of female readers. Such figures then allow, in a privileged way, to think of reading practices through the prism of gender, and this is what the next issue of Relief seeks to accomplish.
Middle Ages and feminisms
After Madeline Caviness' fundamental article, what conclusions can we draw from these fruitful links between the Middle Ages and feminisms? In its wake, the next issue of Perspectives médiévales invites us to shift our gaze, in order to grasp anew the reciprocal contributions between medievalism and feminisms, in an epistemological and historical reflection on the Middle Ages as much as on the present time. The ambition of the issue is to engage in a grasp of contemporary feminisms enlightened by the immersion in the Middle Ages and its representations. In other words, in what way is the Middle Ages an object of investigation as much for feminist thought as by feminist thought?
Describing and teaching languages through the prism of gender
This international conference entitled Describing and teaching languages through the prism of gender: scientific and political issues will be organized on May 23 and 24, 2024 in Nancy (France) by Collectif Giflex (University of Lorraine – ATILF Laboratory – Language Teaching and Sociolinguistics Axis and Jean Monnet University – ECLLA Laboratory)
Collectif Giflex is a research group that focuses on the teaching of foreign languages and cultures from a feminist perspective. Its aim is to propose strategies and formulate recommendations to combat all forms of exclusion related to gender and sexuality. It is interested in (I) languages (as objects and contents of teaching) and their grammatical system of meaning of a social gender (II) the imaginaries on gender and language relations among teachers and learners, and (III) equitable teaching practices in terms of gender.
Living in care
This conference aims to establish a dialogue between theories of care, the sociology of housing, the anthropology of habitat and gender studies. What are the ethical, epistemological, methodological and theoretical implications of such a disciplinary intersection? How does care allow us to question the binarity of spaces and activities usually thought of as belonging to two distinct spheres: the public and the private? Does the analysis of housing from the perspective of care necessarily imply “doing fieldwork as a feminist” (Clair, 2016)? To what extent does the application of the conceptual framework of care to the field of housing studies allow us to grasp the socio-spatial and transcalar springs of the articulation between productive work and reproductive work? What is the heuristic scope of thinking about the practices and modes of production and management of housing and its surroundings through the prism of the processes of social, sexual and racial division of domestic work?
Our Future(s). Gender: upheavals, utopias, impatience – 3rd Gender and Gender Studies Congress.
The Gender Institute is organizing its 4rd International Congress on Gender Studies from July 7 to 2023, 3, in partnership with the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès. This highlight is an opportunity to bring together researchers from around the world to offer a moment of reflection on the place and shape of the future(s) and their gendered dimension in our societies, present and past, Western and non-Western.
Thesis
Contemporary literary approaches to challenge the gendered and discriminatory construction of the French language, by Alice Verdier
I examine the numerous movements and attempts that have been made as well as the linguistic approaches to gender throughout Anne Garréta's Sphinx, Monique Wittig's Les Guérillères, and Adel Tincelin's On n'a que deux vies. Garréta remains within the gendered confines of the French language, yet she never indicates the gender of the two main characters. Wittig utilizes a form of inclusive writing through eliminating the masculine pronoun “il(s)” and substituting it with the feminine pronoun “elle(s)”. Tincelin tells of their transitionary experience with nonbinary language and specifically the nonbinary relationship with words. These contemporary texts all serve as a response to the recent controversies regarding French as a gender-based language. By analyzing these literary works, I demonstrate the literary transformations of discriminatory linguistic structures towards gender inclusivity in French language.
exhibitions
The Silent Languages of Modernity – on the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale
The 18th Venice Architecture Biennale is an opportunity for a shift in perspective proposed by the Ghanaian-Scottish architect and novelist Lesley Lokko. In search of a new globalized, connected, but also decarbonized and decolonialized modernity, the curator places Africa at the heart of her “laboratory of the future” with, as a backdrop, a whole reflection on language. But isn’t the old world too apathetic to hear her?
