Seeing, Watching, Looking in Sixteenth Century France (1480-1630) Beyond eyewitness testimony, how do writers and characters see, watch, look at things and beings in the 16th century? With what implications regarding representation, cognition, relationality, or agency? Genre differences? 250-word abstract and short CV by 15 March 2020.  (Contact:…[Read more]

The LLC 16TH CENTURY FRENCH Forum is seeking self-nominations to fill the next open seat on the Executive Committee, for convention years 2026-2030.

This appointment implies a 5-year commitment. The Executive Committee mostly works remotely. MLA Convention attendance in at least 3 of the 5 years served is expected. You would effectively start in…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

Here is an updated list of our 16c French sessions for MLA, which is now essentially online (all times are Eastern):

• Putting Sensory Worlds into Words in Sixteenth-Century France on 6 January 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM [online]
• Joachim Du Bellay at Five Hundred Years on 6 January 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM [online]
• French Drama in Context…

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Beginning this year, the MLA Program Committee has updated the way Forum Executive Committees are created. In the past, the executive committee and the forum membership nominated potential candidates, who were then narrowed to two in the spring, and voted between in the fall election cycle. Now, to streamline the process and to avert the…[Read more]

1. Current Work in Sixteenth-Century French Literary and Cultural Studies The Executive Committee for the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature invites proposals for 18-minute papers on any aspect of sixteenth-century French literature and culture to be delivered at the MLA in Washington, D.C., 6–9 January 2022. We will consider s…[Read more]

1. Current Work in Sixteenth-Century French Literary and Cultural Studies

The Executive Committee for the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature invites proposals for 18-minute papers on any aspect of sixteenth-century French literature and culture to be delivered at the MLA in Washington, D.C., 6–9 January 2022. We will consider s…[Read more]

Please see the attached prospectus from Garnier Frères (forwarded to our Forum by Ned Duval)

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

Dear all,

If you missed your chance but would like to still submit an abstract for 16th-century French panels in Toronto 2021, please send it to me by Monday March 30th. Send to: eblack@odu.edu

Let me know if you have any questions or need a reminder of topics.

All very best,

Liz

MLA Toronto, 2021

CFP deadline reminder: Tuesday 10 March, 2020

Executive Committees for the Forum on Medieval French Literature and the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature, Joint Call for Proposals:

French Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Urban Space and Urbanism Round Table
How were towns and cities built, inhabited, imagined,…[Read more]

MLA Toronto, 2021
Calls for Papers
Deadline reminder: Friday 6 March, 2020

See attached calls for papers for 16th-century French panels, and please get in touch if you have any questions!

Liz Black (eblack@odu.edu)

Dear all,

Please find below the 17th-century French Forum´s calls for papers for MLA Toronto 2021.
Best wishes,
Toby Wikström

Beyond Paris

Decentering Paris in seventeenth-century studies. How are cities and regions throughout early modern France written, pictured, performed, or practiced? How do these locations imagine or position t…[Read more]

Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA Seattle 2020

THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 5:15–6:30pm, WSCC – Chelan 5

THE DISCOURSES OF LUXURY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE

Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University

Claire B. Goldstein, University of California, Davis, “Luxury Accessories and Body Net…[Read more]

(GUARANTEED SESSIONS)

Theory’s Seventeenth Century
Reassessing seventeenth-century French texts’ and contexts’ role in twentieth-century theory. How can current dix-septiémiste work shed new light on the theory canon? 300-word abstracts to Ellen Welch (erwelch@email.unc.edu) by 15 March 2019.

The Discourses of Luxury in 17th-century France…[Read more]