Colloque international Ecrits ordinaires

International conference "Ordinary writings"

writing and reading practices in domestic and public spaces

12-14 Nov 2025 Créteil (France)

FR EN

Call for papers

Living in a ‘written society’ means not only that social relations and the organisation of personal life are structured by the written word, but also that the written word is omnipresent in our environment and that we live in spaces saturated by a multiplicity of written documents, the production and reception of which shape our everyday activities. We plan our journeys, for example, by consulting public transport timetables on notice boards or mapping out itineraries using GPS applications; we write shopping lists to guide us along our routes in shops with signs displaying packaged and labelled products; we record our actions or thoughts in a diary; we admire, deplore or create graffiti on the walls of our city.

This congress will therefore focus on ordinary writing and reading practices that are part of everyday actions and activities, in order to examine the relationship between these writings and the actions and activities in which they are embedded. These routine practices (Garfinkel, 1964) will be considered in two areas of the individual's daily life: domestic space and public space, particularly urban space.

The complete call for papes is available here.

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