Panglossia: voix, conversation, et rumeur dans la France de la première modernité

The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

Annual Conference 2005
Exeter University
15th-17th September 2005

Call for Papers

Panglossia: Conversation, Gossip, and the Voice in Early Modern France
Panglossia: Voix, conversation, et rumeur dans la France de la première modernité

The Society invites proposals for papers on the subject of orality and the oral in early modern France, to be interpreted widely. Possible topics include: Molière and the dialogic stage, salons and the alcove, declamation, the singing voice, backchat and the esprit de l'escalier, talk in the Essais, foreign voices, talk of the pastoral, the voice as love object, the experience of hearing, voices gendered, Echo, pleasure and the voice, speech acts, epistolary voices, Tallemant des Réaux.

Please address electronic proposals for twenty-minute papers to the secretary:

Dr Nicholas Hammond
email:N.Hammond@cai.cam.ac.uk

Deadline: 11th March 2005

Details of the programme and arrangements for the conference, together with a booking form, will appear in due course on this website.

Papers accepted for the conference will be expected to be published in the Society's journal, Seventeenth-century French Studies.