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• 27 mar 2014

  28 mar 2014

  Strasbourg

  Study days - History

  The sounds of others' power

  Third edition of SoPHiA

  Les rencontres « SoPHiA » portent sur les premiers contacts entre les peuples et les perceptions de l’autre qui ont contribué à créer le contexte culturel et politique dans lequel les relations diplomatiques ont pu être menées. Dans cette troisième rencontre, le thème des pratiques diplomatiques et des premiers contacts se focalise sur la perception des manifestations sonores du pouvoir. Chaque société est en effet caractérisée par une dimension acoustique, qui, comme la bande-son d’un film, donne leur rythme aux images et en exprime l’esprit, autrement dit elle contribue à la construction de son identité. Il s’agit d’un domaine de recherche qui n’a commencé que récemment à être exploré et qui demande une approche à la fois historique et anthropologique.

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• 25 jui 2014

  Edinburgh

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Colonial geopolitics and local cultures in the Hellenistic and Roman East (IIIrd Century B.C. – IIIrd Century A.D.)

  Géopolitique coloniale et cultures locales dans l'Orient hellénistique et romain (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. – IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.)

  It seems clear that, in the Greek-speaking regions of the Roman Empire, Hellenistic models (civic, military or institutional) exercised considerable influence over “Italic” colonial projects. Within this field, relations between military colonists and indigenous peoples demand special attention, considering the degree of social, cultural, economic, political and geopolitical transformation brought about by the installation of certain groups upon those lands as a result of the will of the great power(s) that ruled over them. As for the Roman colonization, modern scholars have often described Roman colonies as vectors of Romanization inserted in alien lands, writing that these communities must have functioned as images of a “small Rome.” While the existence of Latin-speaking colonists ruled by a favorable juridical system such as the Ius Italicum cannot be denied, such a reductionist model can no longer be accepted without qualification, especially in the context of the Greek-speaking provinces of the Roman East. The regions of the Eastern Mediterranean world saw the coming of a number of groups of Roman colonists and thus their cultural climate, their agrarian structures and their geopolitical environment changed. The aim of this panel is to explore new research paths based on broader studies in time and space.

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