{"id":2467,"date":"2014-03-31T16:19:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T16:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2015-08-14T15:32:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:32:34","slug":"call-for-papers-marie-nimier-absence-and-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/03\/31\/call-for-papers-marie-nimier-absence-and-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for papers: \u2018Marie Nimier: Absence and Loss\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ana de Mederios, from the Department of French, invites abstracts for a conference on the topic of absence and loss in the writing of prolific French author Marie Nimier. The conference is to be held at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/maps\/paris\/paris-campus\">University of Kent at Paris<\/a>, on 7-8 July 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Marie Nimier\u2019s literary oeuvre to date comprises more than twenty volumes. It includes experiments in fiction, auto-fiction, children\u2019s literature and theatre, and has garnered several prestigious prizes, including the\u00a0<em>prix M\u00e9dicis <\/em>for<em> La Reine du silence\u00a0<\/em>(2004). Her most recent work, <em>Je suis un\u00a0homme <\/em>(2013)\u00a0has been extremely well received and widely reviewed. It has generated a particularly lively debate concerning its exploration of gender and sexuality. However, it also continues the author\u2019s lifelong reflection on the overlapping themes of absence and loss.<\/p>\n<p>Abstracts are invited of around 250 words, in English or French, on the topic of absence and loss in Nimier\u2019s writing. This topics can be connected with a wide variety of motifs and themes, for instance: sexuality; childhood; gender; genre; liminality; the figure of the author and\/or the act of writing; pain and suffering; psychoanalysis; humans in relation to animals; colour and\/or synaesthesia; trauma.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped that the papers from the conference will be published.<\/p>\n<p>Abstracts should be sent to <a href=\"mailto:marienimierabsence@gmail.com\">marienimierabsence@gmail.com<\/a> by 30 April 2014.<\/p>\n<p>A blog has been set up for the conference here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/nimier-conference\/\">http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/nimier-conference\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ana de Mederios, from the Department of French, invites abstracts for a conference on the topic of absence and loss in the writing of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/03\/31\/call-for-papers-marie-nimier-absence-and-loss\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":2468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4763,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/4763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}