Colloques

Black Lives Matter: Political and artistic mobilization against systemic racism in the US and the UK

This two-day hybrid interdisciplinary conference focuses on recent pronoun-sharing practices, covering all forms of disclosing one’s pronouns including name badges, the pronoun round, putting pronouns in an email signature, Zoom profile, etc. What theories, methodologies and approaches can be mobilised to explain these new phenomena, as well as the backlash against them? What is the genealogy of these practices: how do they fit in with, or diverge from previous debates about pronouns?

Conference organized at Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, EMMA

This conference intends to focus on the specific relationship authors and/or narrators entertain with their readers in fictional works from the first novels written in English in the 18th century to 21st-century digital fictions.