2019 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Rethinking political representation in the light of dramatic art under the French Revolution
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19K00473
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
アヴォカ エリック 大阪大学, 文学研究科, 特任准教授 (20612261)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | Theater studies / French Literature / Political Philosophy / Political Science |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
My participation to the 15th ISECS Congress (International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies), held in Edinburgh University in July 2019, was very fruitful. I took a great benefit from this opportunity to strengthen my ties with prominent researchers in the field of theater studies, Enlightenment and French Revolution studies.
A new project stemmed from that meeting, and was implemented not later than November 2019: joining an initiative by a colleague from Meiji University in Tokyo, Oku Kaori, I invited Prof. Pierre Frantz and Renaud Bret-Vitoz (Sorbonne University, Paris) to deliver a lecture at a conference that I organized at Osaka University, hosted by the Department of French Literature (Graduate School of Letters): "Questions d'esthetique du theatre au 18e siecle en France" (Questions on theatrical aesthetics in 18th Century France), November, 10, 2019.
I also contributed to the symposium organized by Oku Kaori at Meiji University the following week on the occasion of their coming to Japan.
Besides, I wrote a couple of research papers which are intended to be part of the HDR dissertation (thesis for the habilitation to conduct researches) I am currently working on as my main academic project, related to my Kakenhi topic.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The prospect to achieve my research dissertation within the Kakenhi period (ie before the end of 2022) is quite sustainable, given the material I have already collected, the theoretical frame I have built up, and the efficient relation I have established with my advisor (Prof R. Bret-Vitoz, Sorbonne University, Paris).
However, there is still a long run ahead of me, in order to meet the thorough standards of such a work. The full-time commitment to my tasks as an Associate Professor of Osaka University is also slowing the pace of my progresses.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The COVID-19 crisis has caused a delay in some projects: a very important symposium on the Oratory and Eloquence during the French Revolution, which was scheduled in Paris in June 2020, will hopefully take place in November this year.
Aside from that, I mostly plan to focus on reading, searching, and writing: I am planning a 3 weeks trip to France in February-March 2021, and perhaps some brief trips to Tokyo, in order to investigate the collection of documents related to the French Revolution hosted by Senshu University (the Michel Bernstein collection).
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| Causes of Carryover |
2 trips to France:
- international symposium in Paris (Nov. 3-5, 2020)
- personal researches at the French National Library (BNF) + meetings with colleagues and advisor (3 weeks, Feb.-March, 2021)
Trips to Tokyo: Research at Senshu University (Michel Bernstein Collection). Documentation: books
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