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• 17 oct 2014

  Paris

  Study days - History

  Temporalities and the regimes of historicity in the history of sciences and techniques

  Quel usage peut faire l’historien des sciences de la notion de « régime d’historicité » et comment peut-il tenir compte, dans son approche, du jeu d’aller-retour temporel créé par son étude portant sur des objets des sciences et des techniques ? Comment, en se plaçant cette fois plus près des acteurs et de leurs actions, développer une analyse sur la dimension temporelle des phénomènes étudiés. Comment intégrer la multiplicité des temps et temporalités dans lesquels ils s’inscrivent et en tenir compte pour réfléchir à leurs contributions aux sciences et techniques, même (et peut-être surtout) si certaines de ces contributions peuvent sembler intemporelles ?

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• 01 oct 2014

  Call for papers - Africa

  On administrative and legal documents in Africa

  Historians, anthropologists, linguists and specialists from other relevant disciplines are invited to submit proposals for articles in French or English devoted to the production, transmission and conservation of administrative and legal documents in Africa to the exclusion of texts from Western colonial administrations. The purpose is to establish a state-of-the-art account of African practices related to administrative and legal documents. Attention should be paid to documents that, often said to be “performative” and/or normative, are intended to have an effect, for instance: grants of donation, contracts, charters, funeral inscriptions, correspondence, inventories or any other “archived” documents. This special issue seeks to update the study of administrative and legal texts in Africa thanks to the advances made in research on “literacy” since the 1970s.

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• 15 jui 2014

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Louis XIV's medals and their book

  Since 1694, the "Petite Académie" devoted themselves to royal numismatics. They offered to the king in 1702 the luxurious volume of the Médailles sur les principaux événements du règne de Louis le Grand (2^nd completed edition in 1723). The medals will be studied in all their various aspects. The book plays its part in royal propaganda, using its images. It ranks among the albums of the monarchy and among the books of numismatics. The writing of history shows there its own characteristics. The medals as well as the book will exert an influence. History, literary history, art history, book history are invited to study this monument of the "Grand Siècle" which has not drawn all the attention that it deserves.

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