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Palermo

Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

Memoria scientiae 2015: Feeding animals/Eating animals

Theories, attitudes and cultural representations of nutrition in ancient and medieval world

According to ancient biological theories, nutrition is, along with reproduction, one of the functions of the soul shared by men, animals and plants. At the same time, however, eating habits are among the starting points on which differences between humans, animals and plants are culturally built. This means that a transversal biological praxis can be used as an anthropological device, in order to to fix and identify specific boundaries and thresholds, either symbolic or theoretical, between both animality and vegetality on the one hand, and zoosphere and anthroposphere on the other hand.

Venice

Conference, symposium - Thought

Etty Hillesum. One hundred years later (1914-2014)

International Conference

Esther (Etty) Hillesum writings are a crucial historical document, as they report on the extreme evil of racial persecutions and life in lagers. They are a reflection on the value and the meaning of life, love and death. The International Conference “Etty Hillesum. Cento anni dopo (1914-2014)” (December 9-10, 2014, at Ca' Foscari University in Venice, Italy) aims to assess the works of this important witness from the 20th century.

Rome

Il Laterizio nei cantieri imperiali — Roma ed il Mediterraneo

Questo workshop intende promuovere il dibattito, su scala mediterranea, intorno al materiale di costruzione emblematico dell’architettura antica. Si tratterà in particolare di osservare come il laterizio abbia servito il potere imperiale, come abbia partecipato all’innovazione e alla trasmissione del sapere tecnico romano, come abbia influenzato e determinato l’organizzazione dei cantieri imperiali, com’è stato prodotto e diffuso attraverso l’Impero ed infine, come si è integrato nei processi di romanizzazione.

Palermo

Conference, symposium - Thought

Spaces in action, actions in space

De quelle manière peut-on définir l'espace ? De quelle manière peut-on définir l'action ? Plutôt que de les envisager séparément, nous voudrions, lors de ce colloque, considérer l'espace et l'action de manière conjointe à partir des limites et des apports que l'un parait offrir à l'autre. L'idée est d'associer les réflexions qui dérivent du spatial turn avec celles des spécialistes qui travaillent plus spécifiquement sur la définition d'agency. Les participants sont toutefois invités à laisser librement interagir ces différentes dimensions avec les perspectives et les instruments qu'ils pensent être les plus adéquats à leur propos. En plus de l'anthropologie (de l'espace, du quotidien, du langage, etc.), nous comptons recevoir des propositions qui s’appuient sur les modèles d'analyse provenant de la linguistique, de la géographie, des études culturelles, de la sémiotique textuelle et de la sémiotique culturelle. Sont encouragées aussi bien des études à caractère théorique que des études de cas.

Rome

Call for papers - Africa

From Arab springs to the questionning of States

Civil societies faced with the resurgeance of segmentary logics

Ce colloque vise à analyser les processus de remise en cause de l’autorité et/ou de la légitimité de l’État dans cinq pays arabes touchés par ce phénomène : Irak, Syrie, Liban, Libye, Yémen. Il s’agira de comparer les différents processus en cours en les rattachant à un temps plus long et d'identifier dans les racines historiques des processus de construction nationale arabes les causes possibles du délitement des institutions étatiques auquel nous assistons dans les pays considérés, face à la tenue, réelle ou apparente, d’autres pays de la région, où l’Etat s’appuie sur des identités plus anciennes, y compris coloniales, et/ou sur des appareils sécuritaires omniprésents. La démarche s’appuie sur une dimension internationale et interdisciplinaire et s'adresse à l'ensemble des sciences sociales (anthropologie, histoire, sciences politiques et sociologie notamment).

Rome

Conference, symposium - History

Between home, family and business

Unpaid family and work obligations for the market from the end of the Middle Ages to the contemporary era

Ce colloque constitue une occasion de bilan des débats et d’approfondissement des nouvelles pistes thématiques ouvertes lors des rencontres précédentes du programme « Travail en famille, travail non rémunéré. Formes et acteurs du travail domestique productif en Europe (XV^e-XXI^e siècle) ». Le colloque portera, en premier lieu, sur les obligations légales, familiales et plus largement sociales liées aux activités marchandes effectuées par les membres de la famille dans la sphère domestique. En deuxième lieu, il a pour but de donner des aperçus qualitatifs et quantitatifs sur les retombées matérielles et immatérielles des multiples formes du travail en famille non rémunéré pour le marché. La dimension domestique ou extra-domestique des activités exercées par les différents membres de la famille sera analysée en fonction de leur caractère marchand et des différentes formes de leur (éventuelle) rémunération. La frontière entre prestations dues et travail impliquant une rétribution est cependant loin d’être nette et définie, ce que les débats autour du concept même de travail et de salaire, pour les époques anciennes comme pour celles contemporaines, montrent efficacement.

Padua

Call for papers - History

Peoples and borders. Seventy years of movement of persons in Europe, to Europe, from Europe (1945-2015)

Movement of persons has been a key feature in the whole history of European integration, and the time has come for historians, along with political scientists, jurists, economists, sociologists and demographers, to discuss and draw some conclusions on its evolving conceptions and practical applications, placing both of them in the wider context of the social and demographic transformation of Europe and the political and economic narrative of continental integration.

Cosenza

Call for papers - History

Symbols and Models of the Mediterranean

The Mediterranean Sea is a milieu in which it is possible to observe, through an interdisciplinary lens, the undertaking of elements defining an idea which conflicts with its immediate sensitive aspect; an idea that arises from life situations and the imaginary world of every man. Nevertheless, it remains a context in which is possible to observe the presence and the constant use of historical symbols, patterns and models of those people inhabiting its shores, as embedded in both the artistic and material production, as well as in the literary one.

Rome

Conference, symposium - History

Magno e Latio Totaque Ausonia

Etnografia virgiliana e Italia augustea

Ausonia, in senso aggettivale originario, è prima di tutto la meta del viaggio di Enea: in accezione minima, quindi, il Lazio; ma nella prospettiva virgiliana orientata su Roma, Ausonia è nell’Eneide sinonimo di Italia nella sua valenza massima, estesa a tutta la penisola. Allo stesso modo, se Ausonii saranno gli Italici nel loro complesso (e nelle Georgiche l’aggettivo qualifica già gli stessi Romani), nell’Eneide è ausonio dapprima il mondo italico ostile ai Troiani. C’è senza dubbio artificio nel sistema etnografico del poema virgiliano, ma esso appare funzionale e finalizzato: in Virgilio la rievocazione del passato italico mira all’emergere dell’Urbs come risultante dell’interazione di elementi etnici eterogenei e alla raffigurazione dell’Italia di Augusto come superamento di tali elementi nel consensus universorum attorno alla figura del princeps. Proprio in virtù della sua natura ‘alchemica’, alla rappresentazione virgiliana del popolamento italico è stato spesso riconosciuto problematico valore in sede di indagine etnografica; ad analisi minuziosa la testimonianza dell’Eneide si rivela però fondata su base documentaria tutt’altro che disprezzabile (né è possibile escludere che talvolta il testo virgiliano rifletta situazioni arcaiche altrimenti non note): recuperarne le chiavi di lettura è obiettivo del presente convegno.

Florence

Call for papers - Thought

VIth Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics

Facts and Values in Aesthetics: Contemporary Stakes and Approaches

In a text entitled The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays (2004), Hilary Putnam argues convincingly against a classic opposition which does not serve philosophical reflection positively. Putnam’s analysis mostly focuses on the theory and practice of knowledge, but one can legitimately extend it to other fields, starting with that of aesthetics, which sooner or later is confronted with the question of whether one defends or rejects the dichotomy. Keeping or rejecting it implies reasons to do so, but often these reasons remain implicit, most especially in aesthetics.

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