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• 15 sep 2016

  Le Mans

  Call for papers - History

  Missions, museums and scientific collections: when missionaries spread the word of science

  With the organization of this international workshop, we hope to gather historians, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers and other researchers to come back on the ambiguous ties that might have brought missionaries and scientists together in the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

     

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• 15 oct 2016

  Le Mans

  Call for papers - Modern

  Conflicts of memory: arts, history, commemorations

  This conference will focus not only on historical events which fuel conflicting memories, but also on works of art – including those produced at the margins of institutions – which encourage or undermine the consensual interpretations of the past. Do artworks promoting a reinterpretation of the past help foster a new type of relationship between the present and the past? Do they open onto a different future? Some works spark off debates and suggest that memory is imbued with potentially irreconcilable sentiments. Historical materials and artworks convey this tension, articulating the gap between dominant and dominated memories. Does art help resolve conflicts or does it perpetuate them? Comparing different artists’ original takes on similar historical events may help us better understand the stakes behind conflicting memories.

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• 26 mai 2016

  27 mai 2016

  Le Mans

  Conference, symposium - History

  Philippe de Mézières and the concept of Europe in the Middle Ages

  Chevalier dévoreur d’espace, administrateur, conseiller de Charles V, mystique d’action, homme lettré, autant pénétré de la Bible que de Sénèque, ami de Pétrarque et premier lecteur français de Dante, Philippe de Mézières offre dans le Songe du Vieux Pèlerin, un tour du monde connu incluant Chypre et la Norvège, s’égarant jusque dans des contrées encore païennes comme la Lituanie. Ces interrogations se feront dans le cadre élargi d’une Europe pré-moderne, et porteront sur des auteurs et des textes différents. Le Songe n’est qu’un prétexte à une réflexion plus large sur le concept d’Europe au Moyen Âge. Les actes du colloque seront publiés chez Droz à Genève.

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