Calls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022

How the French 17th Century Invented (or Not)… What ideas, practices, forms, or genres can be ascribed to 17th-century France and what should be reconsidered in light of a different temporality or geographic origin? Send 300-word proposals to harrisod@grinnell.edu by…[Read more]

With the MLA 2021 Convention just about a month away, please note the nine exciting sessions related to early modern French studies (listed below — all times EST). Convention information and registration are available here:

38 – Telling Trauma and Disability – Thursday, 7 January 2021, 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM-…[Read more]

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 themselves w…[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 Netwo…[Read more]

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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]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

Dear MLA members,

I have the honor of being on the ballot for this fall’s election to the 17th-Century French Forum’s Executive Committee.  I would like to thank Hélène Bilis, the outgoing member of the committee, for her service over the past five years.

Raised in Sweden and the United States, I studied French at Carleton College (BA), the Un…[Read more]

The MLA has suggested that candidates for forum executive committees submit a post about their interests and goals to that forum’s Commons group. My name is Hall Bjørnstad and I have been nominated for the 17th-Century French Forum’s Executive Committee. Originally from Oslo, Norway, I have been at Indiana University, Bloomington since 2009, a…[Read more]