MLA Commons | LLC 18th-Century French | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century-french/ Activity feed for the group, LLC 18th-Century French. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:04:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 17d4c153e34b21ba170b19c3fe81eb25 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century-french/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-20/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:00:39 -0400 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]

]]> 0 d9a412244185f03a1e0af0a4639fe610 Masano Yamashita started the topic Appointment to Executive Committee LLC 18th-century French in the discussion LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century-french/forum/topic/appointment-to-executive-committee-llc-18th-century-french/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 14:31:38 -0500 Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for the opening seat on the LLC French 18th-century Forum Executive Committee. The MLA is shifting away from elections toward an appointment model. This means that nominations from the membership are more important than ever. Please email your suggestions to masano.yamashita@colorado.edu by…[Read more]

]]> 0 51cf73dd6e5826d997aa6013e1f8f208 Annelle Curulla started the topic Call for Papers: L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022)  in the discussion LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-papers-lesprit-createur-62-2-summer-2022-7/ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 21:12:19 -0400 <p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Replaying the Francophone Early Modern in the Twenty-First Century</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Editors: Annelle Curulla (Scripps College) and Michael Meere (Wesleyan Un…[Read more]

]]> 0 86691dd13f25466dc07ca75c827f0b88 Annelle Curulla started the topic Call for Papers: L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022)  in the discussion LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-papers-lesprit-createur-62-2-summer-2022/ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 21:08:28 -0400 <p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Replaying the Francophone Early Modern in the Twenty-First Century</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Editors: Annelle Curulla (Scripps College) and Michael Meere (Wesleyan Un…[Read more]

]]> 0 e11f04d5f8b804a7a38f97e5f0a3bef0 Annelle Curulla started the topic Publication Announcement: Special Issue of Early Modern French Studies in the discussion LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century-french/forum/topic/publication-announcement-special-issue-of-early-modern-french-studies/ Sat, 06 Mar 2021 20:54:03 -0500 ‘Staging Justice in Early Modern France’ Special Issue of Early Modern French Studies 42.2 (2020)

Guest edited by Valérie M. Dionne and Michael Meere

Dedicated to the memory of Christian Biet

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yemf20/42/2?nav=tocList

 

Contents:

In Memoriam—Christian Biet (1952-2020) Michael Meere

Introduction: Staging J…[Read more]

]]> 0 43d1eafcb14018cccfd7061d271645ac Faycal Falaky started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century-french/forum/topic/cfp-women-and-language-9/ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 18:48:22 -0400 Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]

]]> 0 f50643c97567b8b1e02b4183673020bd Toby Wikström started the topic 17th-Century French Forum CFPs for MLA Toronto 2021 in the discussion LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century-french/forum/topic/17th-century-french-forum-cfps-for-mla-toronto-2021-3/ Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:21:55 -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 t…[Read more]

]]> 0 3eac21b56dabedb2b4548711a1725a3a Masano Yamashita started the topic MLA French 18th-century Forum Dinner in the discussion LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century-french/forum/topic/mla-french-18th-century-forum-dinner/ Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:08:32 -0500 Dear Fellow Dix-Huitiémistes,

The MLA 18th-Century French Forum will be hosting a dinner in Seattle on Friday January 10, 2020 during the MLA convention. We would be delighted if you could join us!If you are interested in attending, please contact me with the subject heading—”MLA DINNER”—at masano.yamashita@colorado.edu.

I anticipate the cost…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e8e3d88a5c5d2f9a839ec119c39f000 Annelle Curulla started the topic CFP: Marivaux: Nature vs. Artifice (ASECS 2020) in the discussion LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century-french/forum/topic/cfp-asecs-2020/ Tue, 20 Aug 2019 21:49:02 -0400 ASECS 2020 CFP

Marivaux: Nature vs. Artifice  

In conjunction with a performance of Pierre de Marivaux’s Le Triomphe de l’amour at the 2020 meeting of ASECS, this panel will address the tension between nature and artifice in Marivaux’s work. We are particularly interested in proposals on Le Triomphe de l’amour, but also welcome proposals ref…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ea7e8b6d76f482ad46fbee630c59737 Melanie Conroy deposited Visualizing the French Enlightenment Network Using Palladio in the group LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635191/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:31:06 -0400 Visualization tools can allow academics to produce their own diagrams without necessarily hiring a designer. I will walk through some examples of diagrams produced in Palladio, a digital humanities package developed in the Humanities + Design Lab at Stanford University. Palladio lends itself to qualitative studies because the visualizations that…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8bdb142e89e6f6c751b3238d1780dea Annelle Curulla started the topic CFP: MLA Seattle 2020 | LLC 18th-Century French Forum in the discussion LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century-french/forum/topic/cfp-mla-seattle-2020-llc-18th-century-french-forum/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 23:03:24 -0500 Failure / Échec

This panel considers descriptions, discourses and aesthetics of failure in eighteenth-century France. Please submit title and 250-word abstract in French or English by March 15, 2019 to ffalaky@tulane.edu.

 

Distances/ Eloignements

This panel explores understandings of distance (moral, epistemological, aesthetic, historical,…[Read more]

]]> 0 a13a02652527b34afe23607b58f530f5 Annelle Curulla started the topic Voting for Forum Executive Committee and Nomination Process (LLC 18th-C. French) in the discussion LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century-french/forum/topic/voting-for-forum-executive-committee-and-nomination-process-llc-18th-c-french/ Thu, 06 Dec 2018 04:51:37 -0500 Please do not forget to vote for the next delegate (executive committee member) for the LLC 18th-Century French forum.

Our two candidates this year are Yann ROBERT and Tracy RUTLER. The deadline is very close: December 10. Here is the link: https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections

The Executive Committee is seeking nomination proposals…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b96d8534c4509e6f1863d7210a989aa Masano Yamashita started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century-french/forum/topic/cfp-women-and-language-2/ Mon, 19 Nov 2018 23:21:27 -0500 Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]

]]> 0 401e42968dabc37ce577fbbca0cc4b97 Annelle Curulla started the topic CFP: SEFCS Panel 1 : Diversities, Differences, in the discussion Eighteenth-Century French Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century-french/forum/topic/cfp-secfs-panel-2-analogy-analogie-2/ Thu, 06 Sep 2018 13:39:34 -0400 SEFCS Panel 1 : Proposal for SECFS/ASECS 2019: 

Diversities, Differences, and Dilemmas

Historically, writers, social critics, artists, poets and philosophers are often on the margins of society working from the position of observer.  Although their methods and vocabulary often seem to push opposing agendas, one thing that modern day ph…[Read more]

]]> 0 ba4ea73c34a4d1d0b048e5f0b4a35ea0 Annelle Curulla started the topic CFP: SECFS Panel 2: Analogy/Analogie in the discussion Eighteenth-Century French Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century-french/forum/topic/cfp-secfs-panel-2-analogy-analogie-2/ Thu, 06 Sep 2018 13:39:34 -0400 SECFS Panel 2:

Analogy/Analogie

Universal, discursive, or instrumental, “analogy” took many forms during the Enlightenment. While defending the use of analogical reasoning, Dumarsais deplored the lack of rigor in many of its applications. In some instances, the trope seduces, or expands the cognitive abilities of the understanding; in others, it…[Read more]

]]> 0 6b9f2566d0b95456d14928abc8e453f6 Glenn Roe deposited A Sheep in Wolff's Clothing: Émilie du Châtelet and the Encyclopédie in the group LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615227/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 17:16:52 -0400 This article explores the use of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Institutions de physique as both an acknowledged and unacknowledged source for the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert, and argues for Du Châtelet’s inclusion as a full participant in the philosophical conversations the Encyclopédie enacts. Widely considered a minor voice who entered the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1cbe4954c941dccb8eca5d43a4dc184 Pauline Kra deposited The Manuscript of Claude Dupin's Commentary on Montesquieu's 'Esprit des lois' in the group LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/548421/ Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:55:47 -0400 Claude Dupin published two versions of his critique of the Esprit des lois: Réflexions sur quelques parties d’un livre intitulé ‘De l’esprit des loix,’ in 2 volumes, which appeared in 1749 and was suppressed by the author; and Observations sur un livre intitulé de l’Esprit des loix, in three volumes, published before 1755 and also suppressed.…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ae18240f532bbda607b836f1abe01d9 Pauline Kra deposited The Role of China in Montesquieu's "Esprit des lois" in the group LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545824/ Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:30:39 -0400 Montesquieu’s ideas on China have been the subject of much study and controversy. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that, as discussed in twenty-two books of the Esprit des lois, China serves to illustrate Montesquieu’s fundamental principles and to elucidate his method. References to the empire appear frequently in the concluding chapters…[Read more]

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