A19 seminars LARCA Université Paris Cité/ VALE Sorbonne Université

AFEA NEWS: A19 seminars LARCA Université Paris Cité/ VALE Sorbonne Université

Dear colleagues,
We are happy to announce that A19 is now affiliated to both Université Paris Cité and Sorbonne Université.

The first seminar of the 2022-2023 year will be a joint event with C19 Americanists Abroad organized by J. Michelle Coghlan. It will be a virtual book launch event in honor of Hannah Murray’s Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction and Thomas Constantinesco’s Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States. It will take place on Friday, 23 September 12-1 pm (BST). See details below and on the A19 website.

Please also save the dates for the next two seminars :

Friday, September 30th, 2pm (Université Paris Cité, Halle aux Farines, room HF 064E/ zoom): J. Samaine Lockwood (George Mason University) “Colonial Past, White Feminist Future: Mary Wilkins Freeman’s Giles Corey, Yeoman.” This talk is part of the conference “Reading Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Anew: Race and Queer Ecologies,”Université Paris Cité, Friday, Sept. 30th- Saturday, Oct. 1st. Contact : cecile.roudeau.

Friday, October 7th, 2pm-7pm, room TBA/zoom: “What does Literature Feel Like?” – with papers by Edouard Marsoin (U Paris Cité), Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau (Sorbonne U), Thomas Constantinesco (Sorbonne U), and Erica Fretwell (University of Albany).

We hope to see you there!

Thomas Constantinesco and Cécile Roudeau
A19 https://a19.hypotheses.org/
VALE Sorbonne Université / LARCA UMR 8225, Université Paris Cité

Friday, September 23 C19 Americanists Abroad :

Here is the link to the Dropbox folder with copies of Hannah and Thomas’s introductions:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/wtxr4vzwqxvq5ptjoznai/h?dl=0&rlkey=g5mp9pmj4i22pwmdmiouzqagl
For the zoom link, see A19 website.

Source: Cécile Roudeau