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Paris Research Trip, 2015 (part 5): Versailles visit, Le Petit Trianon
I am fascinated by gardens. And because part of my thesis was on gardens in La nouvelle Héloïse, and in La Faute de l’abbé Mouret, I was pretty much compelled by circumstances to go. Also, a friend of ours who had been living in Paris for two years (and who was scheduled to move back…
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Northeastern MLA 2020 call for Session Proposals (deadline 29 April, 2019)
I thought I would post this here for NeMLA Boston. The deadline for session proposals is 29 April. Follow the link to submit, and good luck! http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/future/2020.html?fbclid=IwAR17dm7Ak2oZpS2ZMJ2wWJjIkFhclZNNHHw_FssmBzAH436dp1CwUYbb20A
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CFP The Pathological Body from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present
CALL FOR PAPERS The Pathological Body From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives A one-day symposium at the Institute of Modern Languages (IMLR), Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK Friday 20 September 2019 Keynote Speaker: Dr Steven Wilson (Queen’s University Belfast) *…
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Research Trip to Paris, 2015 (part 2)
At the BNF. I’ve always found the modern structures a little jarring, even though most of these modern buildings are situated around the edges of the city.
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Research Trip to Paris, 2015
2015 was a busy year. In the summer I got a small research grant to go to the BNF and the Archives Nationales. The archives are becoming more and more restricted, and so direct access to Zola’s dossiers préparatoires and similar materials are limited to scholars doing comparative editions. The day I arrived, however, I…
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The last of Scotland
So this is going to be a big conference year for me. I’ll be giving papers at the Nineteenth Century Studies Association’s annual conference in Kansas City in early March, at NeMLA in late March, and then at the Society of French Studies Annual Conference at the Royal Holloway in early July. Which is all…
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Akbar’s (Glasgow)
My second night in Glasgow I was acclimated enough to go out for dinner. On my way to and from the conference venue (which was the Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre—the Western Infirmary being where they had treated a few cases of Ebola earlier that spring), I had walked past this place called Akbar’s. They had…
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Call for Papers: Journée d’étude—Domestiquer l’odorat
[REPOSTED FROM FRANCOFIL] Here’s an interesting CFP that just came through earlier this morning that looks absolutely fascinating. I also corresponded this morning (to ask for permisison to repost their appel) with Érika Wicky, one of the conference organizers. If anyone finds this notice, here, I’m more than certain she would be happy to hear…
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More from Glasgow
Glasgow was incredibly photogenic. One spread probably can’t cover the whole of the small slice of the city I was able to see during my four days there. Here are a few more shots of the interior of Glasgow City Hall, where we were greeted by some of the members of the Merchant’s Guild (if…
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