Nicolas Boileau était ce jour l’invité de l’émission France Culture “Entendez-vous l’éco ?” consacrée à l’autrice Doris Lessing. Les liens entre l’engagement politique de l’écrivaine, sa vie personnelle et son écriture intime sont exposés au cours de l’émission.
Sites and Agents of Feminist Memory: Business Meetings at the IMERA (22/11)

In the first meeting, Professor Sarah Richardson (Univeristy of Glasgow ) and Dr Tara Morton (University of Warwick), creators of the citizen-science digital mapping project Mapping Women’s Suffrage 1911 will share their advice on best practice relating to citizen-science projects.
In the second meeting, the progress that has been made to date on the SCIFEM project will be presented to its International Advisory Board for comment and strategic advice.
Our thanks to the IMERA for hosting the event and inviting Professor Richardson and Dr Morton to Marseilles!
Julie Agu – Intervention à l’Université de Sherbrooke (27/11/2023)
Actuellement à Montréal, la doctorante de notre équipe Julie Agu est l’heureuse lauréate d’un contrat doctoral de l’Institut des Amériques, un réseau scientifique français qui rassemble plus de 1000 chercheuses et chercheurs spécialistes de nombreux champs disciplinaires en sciences humaines et sociales sur les Amériques.
La nouvelle coordinatrice du Pôle Canada de l’Institut des Amériques est accueillie par le CÉRIUM au sein de la Faculté des arts et des sciences de l’Université de Montréal. Dans le cadre de son mandat, Julie sera chargée de proposer, concevoir et réaliser des projets de valorisation scientifique directement en lien avec ses thématiques de recherche, soit les études littéraires féministes et queer en Amérique du Nord. 🎥 Pour découvrir son projet de recherche doctorale en 180 secondes, c’est par ici : https://youtu.be/xfx41fenB7s?si=TX6WIJzdNm8bjpB7
Julie s’intéresse tout particulièrement à la question des métaphores lesbiennes dans les récits de soi queer du Canada et des États-Unis de la fin du 20e au début du 21e siècle, sous la direction de Nicolas Boileau et de Lianne Moyes, et a eu l’opportunité de présenter sa thèse à l’Université de Sherbrooke lors d’une journée d’études consacrée à la recherche littéraire queer au Québec 👇
Publication: Mental Health Symptoms in Literature since Modernism, Nicolas Boileau
We are very happy to announce that Nicolas Boileau’s book on Mental Health Symptoms in Literature Since Modernism has been released!
Mental Health Symptoms in Literature since Modernism looks at various ways of treating symptoms of psychological disorders in the literature of the long twentieth century. This book shows that literature can, in its questioning of commonly accepted views of this lived experience of psychic symptoms, help engender new theories about the functioning of subjective cases. Modernism emerged at about the same time as Freudian psychoanalysis did and the aim of this book is to also show that to a certain extent, Woolf preceded Freud in her exploration of the symptom and contributed to fashioning another approach that is now more common, especially in writers from the 1990s-onwards.
CIS-GENDER TROUBLES session (October 13th, Aix-en-Provence, salle de colloques 1)
Friday October 13th, Salle de colloques 1 Bâtiment Multimedia T1, Campus Schuman, 5pm-7pm
Session of the Cis-Gender Troubles seminar with
Isabelle Alfandary (Paris 3 University)
Xavier Lemoine (Gustave Eiffel University)
CRISIS-funded seminar co-convened by Nicolas Boileau (Nicolas.boileau@univ-amu.fr) and Fanny Chevalier (fanny.chevalier@univ-amu.fr)
Notre projet de science citoyenne lauréat de l’appel blanc 2022 de l’AMIDEX
Citizen Science Campaign: Six Weeks for Suffrage, 2023 edition
This International Women’s Day, the Women and the F-Word team at Aix-Marseille Université is launching its third “Six Weeks for Suffrage” citizen science campaign! Between the 8th of March and 12th of April, we are inviting anyone interested to come help us fill in our Map of Memorials to the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Thanks to your help, we’ve already managed to geolocate over eighty sites across the globe (double the number we had at the same time last year). There are many, many more – we hope you’ll help us find them!
To find out more on how to take part, please follow this link: how do I take part?
We will be updating the map weekly: follow our progress on Twitter and/or Instagram.
Please spread the word widely!
Conference on Women’s Suffrage (February 11th, Aix-en-Provence, salle de colloques 1)
The Women and the F-Word team is hosting a conference organized by Claire Sorin on women’s suffrage in the United States (agrégation program).
Hélène Quanquin (Lille University) and Claire Delahaye (Gustave Eiffel University, present via Zoom) are invited to discuss women’s suffrage in the United States, 1776-1965.
Cis-Gender Troubles
Friday 17 February 2023
Salle Colloque 1 – Bâtiment Multimedia T1, Campus Schuman
First session of a 12-month seminar starting with
Prof. Laurence Hérault (AMU, IMEDEC) on Cis-gender and Trans-gender
CRISIS-funded seminar co-convened by Nicolas Boileau (Nicolas.boileau@univ-amu.fr) and Fanny Chevalier (fanny.chevalier@univ-amu.fr)
Feminism and TV Series (October 20th-21st 2022, Aix-en-Provence)
The Women and the F-Word team is hosting a conference on feminism(s) and TV series centered on the different feminist methodologies and practices that have shaped the serial form and industry.
BAT2-Programme web Les féminismes dans les séries TV Affiche web-Les féminismes dans les séries TV
We welcome two keynote speakers: Kim Akass (Rowan University) and Anne Crémieux (Montpellier 3 University) who are going to discuss motherhood and queer figures in TV series respectively.
The conference is organized by Laura Benoit (AMU), Sophie Chadelle and Cristelle Maury (Toulouse Jean Jaurès University) and is a collaboration between Women and the F-Word, the LERMA team (AMU) and the CAS team (Toulouse Jean Jaurès University).
” Les femmes anti-féministes, galvanisées sous Trump ?” – Intervention de Claire Sorin, France Culture
Claire Sorin est intervenue dans l’émission de France Culture du 3 octobre 2022 consacrée aux Etats-Unis et au “réveil féministe à l’épreuve du conservatisme”, pour parler des réseaux et des activités des anti-féministes, et notamment des femmes anti-féministes.
“Mrs. Maisel, femme fabuleuse” : la verticale du rire – Intervention de Laura Benoit, France Culture
Laura Benoit est intervenue sur France Culture pour parler de la série télévisée d’Amy Sherman-Palladino Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (PrimeVideo, 2017-2023) et du pouvoir de l’humour et de la parole publique au travers du personnage de Midge, femme au foyer américaine qui inaugure sa carrière dans le stand-up.
Digital humanities, citizen science and feminist history: the promise and limits of digital mapping (30/06/2022)
The Women and the F-word team are capping off the academic year with a roundtable discussion about digital mapping between Lucy Delap (University of Cambridge), Sarah Richardson (University of Warwick) and Marc Calvini-Lefebvre (AMU). Lucy, Sarah and Marc are respectively involved with the following projects mapping feminist history:
To hear about their projects and listen to their exchange, please join us in room 2.44 of the Maison de la Recherche on Aix-Marseille University’s Schuman Campus between 4:30 and 6:30 PM (Paris time) on Thursday 30 June 2022.
The forum can also be followed on zoom. Please email feministmemory@gmail.com to receive the link.
Six Weeks for suffrage: thank you to all contributors
Conference: Womanhood(s) in the United States
Many thanks to the Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone‘s support for this exciting conference co-organised by our colleague Anne Légier and in which Claire Sorin and Laura Benoit shall be taking part.
Please click here for the conference website and programme.