To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the journal, French Studies is delighted to announce an essay competition, on the theme of ‘The Future of French Studies’. We invite submissions in French or English, of no more than 3,000 words; the winning submission, as selected by the journal’s editors, will be published in the journal and made freely available on the journal’s website, and will form the subject of a round-table discussion at the 2022 conference of the Society of French Studies. Across the 75 years of its existence, French Studies has seen the discipline it serves become an increasingly plural field: in addition to the linguistics and literature, in the broad sense of lettres humaines, that formed its initial core, the discipline now embraces such different areas as film and visual culture, politics, translation studies and cultural history, among many others. Crucially, and precisely during the lifetime of the journal, this multiplication of objects of study has proceeded in parallel with increased attention to a plurality of voices, notably in terms of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and geopolitical context. In celebrating this anniversary, the journal is seeking both to affirm this history of disciplinary plurality, and to recognize that its current context is posing extreme challenges and sharp questions to the discipline as such. With Arts and Humanities degree programmes under considerable political and institutional pressure, in various locations the existence of the discipline itself has come under threat, at times fatally. More positively, but no less urgently, the growing importance of decoloniality and decolonial thinking has opened the question of the national-colonial roots of the discipline as originally defined, inviting its reconceptualization along global and transnational lines. There can be no doubt that the 75th year of French Studies comes at a critical moment.

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2021 年冬季新闻

为庆祝该杂志创刊 75 周年， 法国研究 很高兴地宣布举办一场以“法国研究的未来”为主题的征文比赛。我们邀请法语或英语提交，不超过 3,000 字；由期刊编辑选出的获奖论文将在期刊上发表并在期刊网站上免费提供，并将成为 2022 年法国研究学会会议圆桌讨论的主题。在其存在的 75 年中， 法国研究 已经看到它所服务的学科成为一个日益多元化的领域：除了语言学和文学，广义上的人类文学 ，作为其最初的核心，该学科现在涵盖了电影和视觉文化、政治、翻译研究和文化历史等不同领域。至关重要的是，正是在该杂志的生命周期中，这种研究对象的多样化与对多元化声音的日益关注同时进行，特别是在性别和性、种族和民族以及地缘政治背景方面。在庆祝这一周年纪念日时，该杂志既要确认学科多元化的历史，又要认识到其当前的背景对学科本身构成了极端的挑战和尖锐的问题。由于艺术和人文学位课程承受着相当大的政治和制度压力，在不同的地方，学科本身的存在受到了威胁，有时是致命的。更积极但同样紧迫的是，非殖民化和非殖民化思维日益增长的重要性开启了该学科最初定义的民族-殖民根源的问题，促使其沿着全球和跨国界线重新概念化。毫无疑问，第 75 年 法语研究 正值关键时刻。