BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ERIBIA - Équipe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la Grande-Bretagne, l'Irlande et l'Amérique du Nord - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:ERIBIA - Équipe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la Grande-Bretagne, l'Irlande et l'Amérique du Nord X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://eribia.unicaen.fr X-WR-CALDESC:Évènements pour ERIBIA - Équipe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la Grande-Bretagne, l'Irlande et l'Amérique du Nord REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260924T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260925T170000 DTSTAMP:20260620T220403 CREATED:20260616T134648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260616T134733Z UID:89588-1790238600-1790355600@eribia.unicaen.fr SUMMARY:Histoires de Pouvoir: Comment le pouvoir se raconte / Stories and Histories of Power DESCRIPTION:Based on the premise that any account is the result of a re-ordered selection in facts which is the mark of the power of the author and/or the institution or cultural group they stand for\, this conference will examine factual and fictional narratives of power in the English-speaking world. \n\n\n\nRegarding literature in general\, Salman Rushdie aptly observes: « language is an enormous power that writers have to tell us the story of us\, and particularly to tell the future the story of the present. In the present\, all sorts of people have power. Writers have relatively little. But in the future\, what remains of us is stories and that’s in our hands to write » (Take 4 Books\, BBC Radio 4\, 14 Dec 2025). More particularly\, biographies\, biofictions and biopics tell a rise or an attitude to power (a higher position of control and exertion of power politically of culturally) and historical fiction feeds and orientates the memory of power. The theme of power is rooted in authority\, but also in everyday life. In many novels and short stories\, it lends itself to specific representations\, such as political figures\, religious leaders or heads of families. These authority figures are often allegories on the paradigmatic axis. All representations of power in literature can be discussed here. We will also consider the shift in authors and subjects of stories and histories of power\, the focus both on the process and the result of marginalisation and invisibilisation of non-dominant groups/minorities. How is this shift operated in fiction and how is the reader/viewer led to sympathise with it? \n\n\n\nIn a historical or cultural studies perspective\, we are invited to interrogate the ways power is constructed\, legitimized\, or contested. Power tries to engage historians in producing such discourses as will bolster authority. Dominant powers seek to marginalize and exclude dissident voices\, though counter-narratives will emerge to challenge established social and political orders. Through narrative practices such as public speeches and their scenography\, biographies and autobiographies\, power constructs and projects itself. Political actors will use language in the broad sense to bring closer to the people the abstract institutions that rule their lives within given social structures\, whether they seek to strengthen or overthrow such institutions. Polities rest upon foundational myths transmitted\, revisited or reappropriated through public festivals\, media narratives and cultural accounts. Studying these various aspects will be an investigation of how authority is (re)configured\, (re)modelled or resisted. \n\n\n\nScientific committee/Comité scientifique \n\n\n\nBertrand Cardin (bertrand.cardin@unicaen.fr) \n\n\n\nAnne-Catherine de Bouvier \n\n\n\nTaoufik Djebali  \n\n\n\nArmelle Parey (armelle.parey@unicaen.fr) URL:https://eribia.unicaen.fr/evenement/histoires-de-pouvoir-comment-le-pouvoir-se-raconte-stories-and-histories-of-power/ LOCATION:Caen · Campus 1 · Maison de la recherche en sciences humaines (MRSH) · Salle SH-027\, Campus 1\, Maison de la recherche en sciences humaines (MRSH)\, 1 Esplanade de la Paix\, Caen\, 14000\, France CATEGORIES:Congrès - Colloque END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR