Author: Emmanuelle Paccaud

Vendredi 13, samedi 14, lundi 23 et vendredi 27 novembre 2020

Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Colloque international co-organisé par Fabula, la Société internationale de recherches sur la Fiction et la Fictionnalité (International Society for Fiction and Fictionality Studies) et la Formation doctorale interdisciplinaire de l’UNIL. Le colloque (UNIL, 2 et 3 juin 2020), reporté pour cause de pandémie, se tiendra à l’Université de Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle (13-14, 23 et 27 novembre 2020), en préparation d’un numéro de Fabula-LhT sous la direction d’Aurélien Maignant, Françoise Lavocat et Marc Escola.

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Festival of Women Writers and Journalists: A Centenary Celebration of Time and Tide 

Date: Wednesday 11 November 2020 (afternoon; precise timings tbc) 

This online event, part of an AHRC-funded research project marking the centenary of feminist magazine Time and Tide, will explore the status of women in the media and publishing landscape today in conversation with influential female journalists, editors, and publishers, including Polly Toynbee of the Guardian and Nicola Beauman of Persephone Books. 

• Panel 1 – “Women, Politics, and the Press” – will interrogate the status of women in spheres of print journalism from which they have historically been excluded (politics, economics, international affairs). Confirmed panellists: Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee, and Helen Lewis, staff writer for The Atlantic and former deputy editor of the New Statesman. Chaired by Dr Sarah Lonsdale, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, City University of London.   

• Panel 2 – “Women, Publishing, and the Literary Press” – will focus on literary and review journalism and publishing, in particular the persistent gender bias in favour of male reviewers and books authored by men. Confirmed panellists: Thea Lenarduzzi, Commissioning Editor at the Times Literary Supplement; Catherine Riley, writer and co-founder of the Primadonna Festival; Nicola Beauman, founder of Persephone Books. Chaired by Rebecca Harding, Chair of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists.  

These hour-long live-streamed panel discussions will be accompanied by pre-recorded illustrated talks about Time and Tide’s interwar history, all of which will be made available on the project website. 

For more about Time and Tide and this project please visit our website, here, where further details about the Festival will be published in due course. 

Any questions may be directed to Project Officer Dr Eleanor Reed (Eleanor.Reed@ntu.ac.uk).   

Colloque international à l’Université de Lausanne

Du jeudi 22 octobre 2020 – 9h00 au vendredi 23 octobre 2020 – 17h00

Generally associated with the theatrical practice and with the performance, the notion of staging played a central role throughout the whole 19th century. The reaction to the turmoil generated by the 1789 Revolution and the austerity engendered by the Terror regime gives evidence of this capacity of juggling the necessity of being seen and the act of disappearing. This aspect will increasingly develop during the 19th century, evidently supported by the growth of the industry of entertainment, the diversification of drama and performances and the mass production of visual culture.

Within this context, staging becomes a way for an individual or a group of individuals to integrate a community. It also represents a bridge between the understanding of the process of appearing and its materialization, a link between the artistic, visual and literary spaces. This symposium aims at discussing mechanisms and patterns surrounding this process by focusing on the multiple references which shaped the act of appearing and disappearing.

Programme and more information