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Nous signalons, grâce à Rose-May Pham Dinh que nous remercions, le prochain séminaire de la Société d'études modernistes aura lieu le vendredi 29 mars 2019 de 17h à 19h en salle 12 à l'Institut du Monde Anglophone, 5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, Paris 6e., avec Sascha Bru (University of Leuven).          En voici la présentation:The Formless Infant: The Avant-Garde, Children, Play.           Where or what was the child, really, in the avant-gardes?&#160;This is a question we have barely posed so far in modernism and avant-garde studies. Our understanding of how the classic avant-gardes viewed childhood and infancy is partial and superficial at best. The relationship between the avant-gardes and children has not been studied from up close in a systematic fashion. After all, for a formation that set out to transform the world through art, surely children might have been prime receptors, if not the potential instigators of the aesthetic revolution envisioned. In the seminar I aim to bring out certain apparitions and variants of the ‘phantom of liberty’, the formless infant, as I will eventually call it, in the classic avant-gardes. I by no means aim to be exhaustive—the more I invest in my search for infants and children in the avant-gardes, the more I discover. Instead, I would like to sketch the contours of at least some of my findings so far.&#160;           Sascha Bru teaches in the Literary Studies and Art History programmes at the University of Leuven, where he is also head of the Department of Theory and Cultural Studies and a director of the MDRN research lab (www.mdrn.be). He has produced over a dozen books on European modernisms and avant-gardes, including&#160;Democracy, Law and the Modernist Avant-Gardes&#160;(2009),&#160;The European Avant-Gardes, 1905-1935&#160;(2018) and the co-edited&#160;Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Europe 1880-1940&#160;(2013).            Réponse de&#160;William Marx (Paris Nanterre).&#160;          