PLURIELLES / IUF conference

• March 30-31, 2023 , MSH Bordeaux, room 2

different periods which exert a form of fascination on writers and artists of all times, going as far as “Romanism” and “Medievalism”.

The conference will question the “making” of an imaginary Antiquity and Middle Ages, often idealized, sometimes demonized, to analyze the aesthetic and ideological issues of this reappropriation, and consider it from the angle of intermediality and transmediality. This questioning will focus precisely on space seen as movement associated with travel, with the call of adventure, but also as quest and conquest, recurring myths of the founding myths of Western thought. The quest always appears as a rite of passage for the hero. Ancient myths express a strong polarization of roles between male and female . “For men we reserve adventure, mobility, the infinite world; to women, the interior and the finite world", notes Lucie Azéma in her book Women Too Are Traveling. Emancipation through departure , Flammarion, 2021. This question of women's access to travel and adventure remains, surprisingly, an under-explored field of feminist studies that this conference will be able to fill.

Organized by: Florence Plet and Géraldine Puccini

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