The Fourth International MARGOT Conference

June, 2014
Barnard College, New York City

Women and Community in the Ancien Régime: Traditional and New Media

Scholarly Focus

This three-day conference will feature research and teaching approaches that explore how women participated in and contributed to different kinds of community in medieval and early modern Europe.  Conference sessions will feature presentations based on texts and images in traditional manuscript and print format, as well as work that employs new technology and media projects. The conference will be interdisciplinary, and will consider the function and importance of female communities in the natural and social sciences, religion, literature, history, music and fine arts.

Presentation topics may explore women in:

• Medical communities; midwifery
• Religious communities and non-orthodox or heretical groups
• Salons and académies
• Women and the Republic of Letters
• Epistolary communities
• Literary circles
• Artists’ and performing artists’ communities
• Guilds
• Oral communities; storytelling

Resources and approaches used may include:

• Print and Manuscript format
• Digital resources of all kinds
• Online publication of texts and images
• Database design and creation
• Material culture and artifacts
• Film

This conference is co-sponsored by the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. For information about the conference, including submissions, registration and accommodation, please go to MARGOT.

PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL:

We welcome three types of submissions:

1. Demonstrations/showcasing of existing projects which will include discussion of their creation and implementation for research and/or teaching
2. Abstracts for regular paper presentations
3. Proposals for entire sessions (including the names, titles, and abstracts of three/four presenters)

Regular papers will last for 20 minutes, and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Project demonstrations will last for 30 minutes followed by 15 minutes of discussion. We ask participants to include the following information in their proposal:

1. Paper or Session title
2. Session type – Regular or Project Demonstration
3. 250 word abstract
4. Contact information and bio paragraph  

The Committee will look at all the proposals and their compatibility with the sessions that are planned. As far as possible, we will try to avoid parallel sessions.
The language of the Colloquium will be English.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:
The deadline for submitting your proposal is May 1, 2012.

Please submit proposals by e-mail to the conference committee:
Prof. Laurie Postlewate: lpostlew@barnard.edu.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out in September 2012. Information about the conference, including registration, accommodation at negotiated favourable rates, will be provided early in 2013. We will periodically update the conference website.

We look forward to your participation,

The Conference Committee:
Christine McWebb (University of Waterloo)
Laurie Postlewate (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Catherine Dubeau (University of Waterloo)

 

Spring 2013 -- Colloque MARGOT:

June 2013: The Fourth International MARGOT Conference is to be held at Barnard College, Columbia University on the topic "Women and Community 700-1700 in Print and Online".

2010

Parcours/échanges et recoupements culturels

"Parcours/échanges et recoupements culturels," Université du Caire, Egypte, du 8-10 novembre 2010.

• Call for papers
• Conference Program

Colloque MARGOT:

The Digital Middle Ages: Teaching and Research. The Third International MARGOT Conference (Moyen Age et Renaissance Groupe de recherches – Ordinateurs et Textes) at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York from June 16 to June 17, 2010.

The Digital Middle Ages: Teaching and Research

Proposals for complete sessions and individual presentations are currently being accepted for the Third International MARGOT Conference (Moyen Age et Renaissance Groupe de recherches – Ordinateurs et Textes) held at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York from June 16 to June 17, 2010.

SCHOLARLY FOCUS

During this two day conference, we will explore the use of digital resources in teaching and research in the Middle Ages. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in digital studies, on teaching and curricula matters, and on recent new and expected future developments in the field. Topics may include but are not limited to:

This conference is co-sponsored by the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. For information about the conference, including submissions, registration and accommodation, please go to www.barnard.edu/digitalmiddleages2010.

Dix ans de recherche sur les femmes écrivains de l’Ancien Régime :
influences et confluences

Dates: 12, 13 et 14 mai 2005
Sous la présidence d’honneur de Hannah Fournier

Jean-Philippe Beaulieu
Université de Montréal
Evelyne Berriot-Salvadore
Université de Montpellier 3
Philip Ford
Clare College, Cambridge
Madeleine Jeay
McMaster University
Anne Larsen
Hope College
Earl Jeffrey Richards
Uni-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Fordham University

Christine McWebb
François Paré
Guy Poirier
Delbert Russell

En 1993, le groupe de recherche MARGOT (Groupe de recherche du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance - Informatique et textes) a organisé, à l’Université de Waterloo, le premier colloque international intitulé Femmes et Textes sous l’Ancien Régime. C’est dans une perspective de renouvellement que nous vous invitons, dix ans plus tard, à soumettre au comité d’organisation du colloque «MARGOT: Dix ans de recherche sur les femmes écrivains de l’Ancien Régime; influences et confluences», des propositions de communication portant sur l’une des problématiques suivantes:

Département d’études françaises, University of Waterloo
Dean of Arts Office, University of Waterloo
Projet MARGOT

7-9 mai 1993
7-9 May 1993
Department of French
University of Waterloo

Lieu d’échange et de discussion, le colloque Femmes et textes sous l’Ancien Régime engagera ses participant(e)s dans une réflexion sur la problématique de la femme française comme productrice de texte, depuis le Moyen Age jusqu’à la Révolution. On se penchera sur un certain nombre de textes féminins littéraires et paralittéraires, en touchant les questions de la réception, de l’interprétation et de l’édition de ces écrits, grâce, par exemple, aux outils modernes fournis par l’informatique.

Women and Texts in Pre-Revolutionary France: an enquiry into the subject of women as producers of texts from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. The conference will provide opportunities to participants to exchange ideas and address questions on the interpretation, reception, and the editing of texts, including modern electronic processing.

Ce colloque est organisé par le groupe MARGOT (Hannah Fournier, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu et Delbert Russell) grâce au généreux soutien financier du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada.

In addition, the organizers wish to thank the University of Waterloo for its support through financial contribution from: