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• 01 nov 2006

  Los Angeles

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Collecting across Cultures in the Early Modern World

  The conference organizers invite proposals for papers examining aspects of collecting as a global and transcultural phenomenon in the period ca. 1450 to ca. 1850.

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• 08 sep 2006

  Call for papers - Europe

  Research Fellowships in European History

  Institute of European History

  The Institute of European History awards fellowships for a research stay in Mainz from January 2007. Applications for to the Institute’s research units (www.ieg-mainz.de/forschungsbereiche) receive extended funding.

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• 01 sep 2006

  Oxford

  Miscellaneous information - Science studies

  Contrats d'un an au Musée d'histoire des sciences d'Oxford

  The Museum of the History of Science, which houses a collection ofscientific instruments of international importance, has been awarded aDesignation Challenge Fund grant by the Museums, Libraries and ArchivesCouncil for a research project entitled ‘Small Worlds’. It is now invitingapplications for two posts of Researcher for the project, one of whom willconcentrate on cataloguing microscopes, the other microscopical specimens.The officers will be involved with mounting on-line presentations of thecollections and a special exhibition. The successful candidates willpossess relevant degrees and a proven interest in the technical andcultural history of early scientific instruments. The officer formicroscopical specimens is likely to have a relevant background in thebiological sciences.

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• 15 oct 2006

  Rouen

  Call for papers - Representation

  Identités du Nord/Northern Identities

  Comment les identités nordiques se construisent-elles ? Quelle est la place, dans la conscience nordique, de l'ethnicité, de la latitude, des conditions de vie et de la conscience du Sud ? Comment le Sud se représente-t-il le Nord ? Telles sont les questions que l'on se propose d'aborder. On tiendra compte de tous les paramètres qui peuvent entrer dans la constitution de ces identités, qu'ils soient intellectuels, artistiques, langagiers, religieux, sexuels, culinaires, etc. On s'intéressera aussi à l'évolution de ces identités à travers l'Histoire, à leur exploitation idéologique, au statut de l'identité dans la pensée ou l'action contemporaine et à cette question épistémologique : comment a-t-on pensé Nord et nordicité jusqu'à présent ?

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• 03 aoû 2006

  Duras

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  Boethius : the Man, the Philosopher, the Scientist, his Work and its Outreach

  Boethius (Rome, ca. 480 - Pavia, ca. 524) : the Man, the Philosopher, the Scientist, his Work and its OutreachIs the thème of the second annual international scinetific Symposium organized by the Musée Conservatorium of Parchement et Illumination of Duras (France, Lot-et-Garonne, 47120), under the scientifique direction of Dr. Illo Humphrey, Ph. D., and und the high Patronage of the City of Duras. This theme, implying a wide rang of interdisciplinary and integrated research, namely: the philosophy of numbers and proportions (arithmetic – mathematics, music, geometry, astronomy, the philosophy of moral ethics, the philosophy of image painting (Iconography), the philosophy of sense perception, the philosophy of the cognitive process, etc., has already given rise to great enthusiasm, not only on the part of the general public in Aquitania, but also on the part of specialized Institutions around the world doing research on subjects related to Boethius, among which : the IBS (International Boethius Society, USA), the CESR (Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance at the Université François Rabelais of Tours, l'IRHT-CNRS at Orléans-la-Source, the Faculty de Music de the Ionian University at Corfu in Greece, the SWIF (Sito Web Italiano per la Filosofia), etc. This event, destined for both a large Aquitanian and international audience sensitive to the protection of the tangible and intangible cultural, scientific-philosophical and educational heritage, is presented within the framework of the annual Medieval Festivities of the Valley of the Dropt and the Valley of the Bastides, as well as in close conjunction with the cultural activities of the City of Duras, and under the aupices of the Conseil général of Lot-et-Garonne, the Conseil Régional of Aquitania, the DRAC of Aquitania, the Communauté de Communes of Duras.

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• 15 jan 2006

  Dresden

  Call for papers - History

  Social Space and Religious Culture (1300-1800)

  Workshop II of the Academic Network ‘Social Sites – Öffentliche Räume – Lieux d’échanges’

  The workshop intends to investigate the relationship between religious culture and space over the period of 1300-1800. Apart from the question of the extent to which religious culture relies on a clearly defined space, it will focus on the development of church space as a characteristic of Christianity as well as on its design, use, representation and perception to gain insights into changes and continuities in the long-term relationship between space and religion.

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• 13 jan 2006

  Liverpool

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Authority in European Book Culture 1400-1600

  Conference at the University of Liverpool, UK June 29th-July 1st 2006

  This three-day interdisciplinary conference will bring together specialists in the history of the book to examine questions of authority in European book culture in late Medieval and Renaissance France.

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• 21 avr 2006

  Stockholm

  Call for papers - Representation

  Couleurs et lumières du Nord. Colours / Lights of the North. Färger och ljus i norr

  Colloque international en littérature, cinéma, arts plastiques et visuels

  À partir des propositions culturelles des géographes et de leurs concepts de « nordicité », d' « espace circumpolaire » et de « monde nordique », des réflexions ont émergé, au cours des dernières années, autour de la possibilité de concevoir le « Nord » comme une construction discursive, idéologique et esthétique dont certains des éléments seraient communs à l'ensemble des représentations historiques et contemporaines de ce territoire, représentations issues tant des cultures scandinaves (suédoise, danoise, norvégienne, islandaise), baltes, finlandaise, québécoise, canadienne-anglaise, russe, ainsi que de l'Alaska et du monde inuit (Nunavut, Nunavik, Groenland).

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