{"id":2,"date":"2022-03-22T19:42:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T19:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/icls2023\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-09-05T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T23:26:40","slug":"call-appel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/icls2023\/call-appel\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers \/ Appel \u00e0 communications"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE \/ MISE \u00c0 JOUR : THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 18, 2022 \/ LA DATE LIMITE A \u00c9T\u00c9 \u00c9TENDUE AU 18 SEPTEMBRE 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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ENGLISH VERSION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Call for Papers: XVIIth<\/sup> Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Society (University of British Columbia, 24-28 July 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the International Courtly Literature Society approaches its half-century of existence, it feels appropriate for its next International Congress \u2013 which will take place at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) from July 24th<\/sup> to 28th<\/sup> 2023 \u2013 to have Redefining Courtliness<\/em><\/strong> as its theme.<\/p>\n

Courtliness has been one of the most fundamental concepts in the study of medieval literature for almost 150 years. When he described “courtly love” in 1883, Gaston Paris might not have imagined the perennial critical success that the term would have, as well as its lexical productivity, leading to cognate notions such as courtliness, courtly culture, courtly politics, grand chant courtois<\/em> and, of course, courtly literature, the expression that unites the ICLS.<\/p>\n

But what exactly is courtliness? Is it a social phenomenon? An aesthetic? An ideology? A way to regulate human relations within feudal courts? A narrative and poetic framework that organizes writing about adventures and love? A fantasy concocted by troubadours and trouv\u00e8res, but never realized as such or, on the contrary, an authentic way of life that dominated the occitanophone and francophone courts of the 12th<\/sup> century and well beyond?<\/p>\n

The critical landscape has changed considerably since the founding of the ICLS, and the new perspectives of recent decades have profoundly transformed the ways in which we might envisage courtliness. Gender studies and queer studies shed new light on courtly heteronormativity, while feminist approaches help us better understand the dialectics of emancipation and objectification that structure courtly writing. The global medieval perspective helps us better comprehend how courtliness anchors itself within a series of concentric geopolitical and geocultural circles that stretch from Al-Andalus to the Holy Land; material philology and new codicology shed light on the networks of production and reception, located at the intersection of courts and cities, that allow the dissemination of courtly phenomena.<\/p>\n

In the spirit of the new approaches that are energizing the field of medieval studies in the 21st<\/sup> century, we invite you to help us collectively redefine courtliness \u2013 the concept that brings us all together within our Society.<\/p>\n

Among the possible approaches to this theme, we invite you to consider (though this list is not exhaustive):<\/p>\n