MLA Commons | LLC 17th-Century French | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-french/ Activity feed for the group, LLC 17th-Century French. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:10:27 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 b2c7fd3b46457277f6fff52faadf5089 Ellen Welch started the topic On behalf of LLC 16th-century in the discussion LLC 17th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-french/forum/topic/on-behalf-of-llc-16th-century/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:56:46 -0500 With apologies for cross-posting, please see information about the LLC 16th-century French forum’s sessions at this weekend’s conference below:

·       From the LLC French Sixteenth-Century Forum at the MLA:Please join us via the MLA Confex portal (if you are registered) for most sessions; and for free worldwide on Zoom for our Saturday sessio…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6bb166734764dfbeab1003f05e8bcb1 Ellen Welch started the topic Update on 17th-c French sessions and call for executive committee nominations in the discussion LLC 17th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-french/forum/topic/update-on-17th-c-french-sessions-and-call-for-executive-committee-nominations/ Mon, 03 Jan 2022 20:19:41 -0500 Hello friends,

A quick update in preparation for the MLA convention starting on Thursday. At this point, all of the sessions organized by the LLC 17th-French Forum have gone online or been postponed to next year:

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]]> 0 05d578c6924a3016f05bf45178979ac5 Ellen Welch started the topic MLA sessions and other gatherings in DC this January in the discussion LLC 17th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-french/forum/topic/mla-sessions-and-other-gatherings-in-dc-this-january/ Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:34:19 -0500 Hope to see some of you at MLA in Washington, DC on January 6-9, 2022, with some sessions held online (indicated by the “V”). Please take note of these sessions featuring (or of interest to) members of our dix-septiémiste community:

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]]> 0 d4d3a8e264d6f973d8b6ae465309f748 Ashley Williard replied to the topic Forum Executive Committee Candidates in the discussion LLC 17th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-french/forum/topic/forum-executive-committee-candidates/#post-1028360 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 19:29:36 -0400 Thanks, Joy, for setting up the topic and getting the conversation going!

I’m Ashley Williard, assistant professor in the Francophone Studies Program (Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) at the University of South Carolina. I completed my PhD in French at the City University of New York Graduate Center. My research examines d…[Read more]

]]> 0 197ae76b559fd2549d70345997120d46 Joy Palacios started the topic Forum Executive Committee Candidates in the discussion LLC 17th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-french/forum/topic/forum-executive-committee-candidates/ Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:24:51 -0400 The MLA Forum Executive Committee Elections are around the corner! Voting will begin in early November and close on December 10th. I am creating this topic so that candidates for the LLC 17th-Century French Forum’s executive committee can post a notice about their interests and goals.

My name is Joy Palacios and I am an assistant professor of R…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fb40f702a2083be188df4dec35450ef Ellen Welch started the topic 17th-c French Sessions at MLA 2022 - Early Registration deadline October 7 in the discussion LLC 17th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-french/forum/topic/17th-c-french-sessions-at-mla-2022-early-registration-deadline-october-7/ Wed, 29 Sep 2021 14:42:19 -0400 The early registration deadline for this year’s MLA convention is coming soon, on October 7. The convention will take place in Washington, DC on January 6-9, 2022, with some sessions held online.   Please take note of these sessions featuring (or of interest to) members of our dix-septiémiste community:

  • Friday, 7 January 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM.

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]]> 0 1c0493af72da3446f1db3f00be9787bc Toby Wikström started the topic Calls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022  in the discussion LLC 17th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-french/forum/topic/calls-for-papers-from-17th-century-french-forum-for-mla-washington-dc-2022/ Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:13:17 -0500 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]

]]> 0 efdcfd421f3ddb0f8fd185707e2d47b4 Ellen Welch started the topic Early Modern French Sessions at the MLA virtual convention in the discussion LLC 17th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-french/forum/topic/early-modern-french-sessions-at-the-mla-virtual-convention/ Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:52:22 -0500 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]

]]> 0 1e764ece9a6d0d918ecdede65d53f873 Toby Wikström started the topic 17th-Century French Forum CFPs for MLA Toronto 2021 in the discussion LLC 17th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-french/forum/topic/17th-century-french-forum-cfps-for-mla-toronto-2021/ Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:21:16 -0500 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]

]]> 0 a60af6ea7e65b48c9b5c7b6273c304c8 Toby Wikström started the topic Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA in the discussion LLC 17th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-french/forum/topic/panels-organized-by-the-sixteenth-and-seventeenth-century-french-forums-at-mla-4/ Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:27:14 -0500 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]

]]> 0 005423db063007773c9ba42767253034 Domna C. Stanton replied to the topic CFPs - 17th Century French Forum - MLA Seattle 2020 in the discussion LLC 17th-Century French via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-french/forum/topic/cfps-17th-century-french-forum-mla-seattle-2020/#post-1020240 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 15:23:20 -0500 Thanks Toby: plan to send in an abstract for the theory session. h ope all is well! best domna
Domna C. Stanton
Distinguished Professor of French
Graduate Center CUNY

]]> 0 ee2f8422769381c35fc19a42aec42f15 Toby Wikström started the topic CFPs - 17th Century French Forum - MLA Seattle 2020 in the discussion LLC 17th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-french/forum/topic/cfps-17th-century-french-forum-mla-seattle-2020/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 14:46:08 -0500 (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]

]]> 0 2b51dc313630bdf316e0f749d1da9235 May Spangler deposited Paris in Architecture, Literature, and Art in the group LLC 17th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1627143/ Sat, 22 Dec 2018 16:25:58 -0500 “Notre-Dame in Jean Fouquet’s Hours of Etienne Chevalier, ca. 1452-52” is a book excerpt of May Spangler’s “Paris in Architecture, Literature and Art,” recently published at Peter Lang. Designed for an interdisciplinary course in Cultural Studies, the book capitalizes on the little exposure liberal arts students have to architecture, and the wid…[Read more]

]]> 0 2bdec8437ae0d6f4de664cf181dda602 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Seventeenth-Century French Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-french/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-13/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:30:49 -0400 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]

]]> 0 08ca312140eed6f1682aebc3e15d4dbd Toby Wikström started the topic MLA Ballot 2016: Forum Committee Candidate Statement (Wikström) in the discussion Seventeenth-Century French Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-french/forum/topic/mla-ballot-2016-forum-committee-candidate-statement-wikstrom/ Tue, 25 Oct 2016 15:58:34 -0400 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]

]]> 0 fb9f27e2b75ca374fb4d36045eec736c Hall Bjornstad started the topic MLA Ballot 2016: Forum Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion Seventeenth-Century French Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-french/forum/topic/mla-ballot-2016-forum-committee-candidate-statement/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:22:23 -0400 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]

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