Call for Papers | Improvisation and Citation in the Arts of 18th-C. France
For next year’s MLA conference, which takes ‘Visibility’ as its presidential theme:
Improvisation and Citation: Experimentation and Creativity in the Arts
18th-Century French Forum at the Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans, 9–12 January 2025
Proposals due by 18 March 2024
This panel, covering topics of or related to eighteenth-century French or Francophone culture, invites submissions that explore the role of improvisation and citation as techniques in aesthetic creation, focusing on their adaptation from music to other art forms such as literature, theatre, and visual arts. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary topics, including but not limited to: portrayals of musical performances in literary and theatrical works, and the use of improvisational and citational methods in literary forms. Additionally, we seek analyses of art criticism that employ the improvisational vocabulary of music. Another area of interest is also the representation of improvisation in various arts: we aim to examine which type of artists are portrayed as possessing the innate ability to improvise, and how literary works reinterpret and repurpose the motifs associated with the improvisational prowess of artists. Please send abstract submissions to scott.m.sanders@dartmouth.edu by Monday, 18 March 2024.
Conference | Traveling Objects: Material Cultures of the Atlantic Routes
Hosted by the INHA, as noted at ArtHist.net:
Travelling Objects: The Material Culture of the Atlantic Routes — Encounters of Cultures and Things
Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 21 February 2024
Organized by Maddalena Bellavitis and José Manuel Santos Pérez
9.30 Welcome and Opening
Maddalena Bellavitis (EPHE) and José Manuel Santos Pérez (Centro de Estudios Brasileños, Universidad de Salamanca)
9.45 Morning Session
1 Alicia Sempere Marín and Ignacio José García Zapata (Universidad de Murcia), Jesuits’ Travel Journal from New Spain to Europe: Routes, Stops, and Acquisitions of Devotional Objects in 1757
2 Genevieve Warwick (University of Edinburgh), Jewelled Currency: Glass Conterie in the First Age of Circumnavigation
3 Charikleia (Haris) Makedonopoulou (NTU Athens / ETH Zurich), Tracing the Multiple Journeys of the Palm Tree between the East and the West
4 Rebecca Legrand, Fanny Bulté (Université de Lille), The Taste of Others: Between Fear and Fascination
5 Patrícia Gomes da Silveira (Colégio Pedro II/Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro), William John Burchell and the Representation of Brazilian Landscape in His Expedition, online
13.30 Lunch Break
14.30 Afternoon Session
6 Carmen Espejo-Cala (Universidad de Sevilla) and Paul Firbas (Stony Brook University, New York), Conexiones entre las imprentas de lima y Sevilla (siglos XVI y XVII): agentes y actores-red
7 Eduardo Corona Pérez (Universidad de Sevilla), En los albores de la fundación y de la fiebre del oro: los hombres y mujeres que hicieron Vila Rica de Ouro Preto
8 Lauren Beck (Mount Allison University), Viewing Spain from the Americas: Indigenous Perspectives, Experiences, and Sources
9 Britt Dams (Ghent University / Université Paul Valéry), « I am a better Christian than you are », The Remarkable Epistolary Exchange between Two Potiguara Leaders, Pedro Poti and Felipe Camarão
10 Eduardo Cesar Valuche Oliveira Brito (Universidade Federal Fluminense, UFF-Brasil), As ‘Missões de Marinheiros’ no Atlântico anglo-americano: a cultura material protestante na virada dos séculos XVIII e XIX
11 Ana-Marianela Rochas-Porraz (ÉNSA Versailles), Images d’expatriation de la France au Mexique: le fonds photographique de l’architecte Fernand Marcon (1877–1962)
17.30 Discussion and Conclusions
The description of the project from the Call for Papers is available here»
Contact Information
Maddalena Bellavitis
Laboratoire Saprat
École pratique des hautes études
Campus Condorcet – Bâtiment Recherche Nord
14, Cours des Humanités
93322 Aubervilliers Cedex
France
maddalena.bellavitis@gmail.com
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