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  • Kalamazoo

    Call for papers - Middle Ages

    Walruses, Whales and Narwhals

    Maritime Ivories in Western Europe, 900-1500

    In the history of carved ivories, maritime mammals have often been eclipsed by the elephant, considered as a nobler ivory to which walrus or whale ivory would only be a poor man's substitute. But this historiographical view is not without its shortcomings, as not only did walrus hunting play a significant role in the first European explorations toward the west, but the trade for those ivories went as far as the Islamic world and even the Far East. This session at the 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, sponsored by the National Museum of Scotland, aims to address the variety of questions posed by the maritime ivories: how the raw material was collected, how it was traded, the workshops that carved them and their specific symbolic value in medieval treasuries

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - History

    The North in the work of Xavier Marmier

    Nombre de chercheurs issus de disciplines différentes se réfèrent encore aujourd’hui aux travaux de Xavier Marmier, pionnier des études germaniques et nordiques. Il représente donc un objet d’étude idéal dans le cadre d’un colloque interdisciplinaire réunissant des travaux de chercheurs de tous bords : histoire, géographie, littérature, philologie, culture, etc. Ce sera l’occasion d’étudier l’image que Marmier donne du Nord et de la confronter aux travaux de chercheurs contemporains. Les organisateurs font appel à des communications portant sur les territoires du Nord parcourus par Marmier, parmi lesquels l’Allemagne, les Pays-Bas, le Danemark, la Suède, la Norvège, l’Islande, et le Groenland.

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  • Cerisy-la-Salle

    Call for papers - History

    Aquatic Animals and Monsters of the Northern Seas Imagination, knowledge, exploitation, from Antiquity to 1600

    The Colloquium is devoted to the history of fish, aquatic monsters and mammals in the northern seas (the English Channel, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Norwegian Sea, the North Atlantic), from antiquity to 1600. The colloquium is based on three themes: knowledge and the transmission of knowledge (medical knowledge, zoological knowledge, descriptions, identifications); savoir-faire and exploitation (aquatic farming, fishing, cooking, medicine); explorations – real and imaginary.

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  • Paris

    Seminar - History

    Issues of land, territory and space in south east Europe (2015-2016 - 2nd part)

    Dans le prolongement des deux années précédentes, dans une approche résolument large, le séminaire portera sur les différents enjeux – sociaux, politiques, économiques – qu'ont représenté la terre, le territoire et l'espace dans le Sud-Est européen. De la question agraire, aux évolutions des représentations et pratiques spatiales, en passant par la construction des maillages territoriaux, on tentera de cerner les diverses facettes de ces enjeux depuis le début du XIXe siècle jusqu'à nos jours.

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