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• 22 déc 2017

  Summer School - Thought

  Scaling. What happens when we scale things up or down?

  Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies 2018

  The 2018 session will be devoted to the investigation of scale and scaling as operative concepts for the analysis of media. What happens when we scale? Does anything really change? Can scaling ever impact the inner blueprint of an object? Are there laws of scaling? Or does scaling resist any attempt at calculability, such that, to investigate it, we can only ever look at individual events of scaling? As a media practice, scaling is widely used. But, in contrast to the ubiquity of operations, scaling is hardly ever viewed on its own terms as a basic concept of media analysis. The Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies 2018 will attempt to map out approaches to scaling as a basic media-analytical tool.

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• 15 déc 2017

  Caen

  Call for papers - Representation

  Garden and melancholy in Europe between the XVIIIth century and the contemporary era

  The research group ERLIS (EA 4254, University of Caen) is preparing a collective work on the theme "Garden and melancholy in Europe between the eighteenth century and the contemporary era". The publication will take the form of a special issue of the electronic journal Cultural History of Europe, scheduled for autumn 2018.

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• 10 déc 2017

  Nantes

  Call for papers - Europe

  Staging Europe – Europe on stage

  Conference in the frame of "Creation & Crisis" project / EUROPA Alliance

  Through what kinds of narrations, symbols and images do the performing arts represent Europe today? How do the different conceptions of Europe coexist on stage? Does the artistic confrontation with Europe and its boundaries contribute to a redefinition of this “territory” or “space”? Is the mediation of European issues via the theatre able to reinforce political consciousness? Can it become the starting point for a new form of social cohesion? What kind of linguistic policy can best respond to the needs of the performing arts? How can we approach the special challenge of multilingual theatre? What are the resemblances and what are the differences between the scientific and the artistic approaches to the broad field that is “Europe”? What could be the modes of cooperation between artists and academics in terms of research, of teaching  and transmission at a European level? What are the perspectives for such methodological dialogue?

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• 01 jui 2017

  02 jui 2017

  Strasbourg

  Study days - History

  Rehabilitating transnational cultural assets in Europe - Strasbourg municipal baths (1908/10)

  Perspectives for documentation and future exploitation

  Les bains municipaux de Strasbourg (1908/10) sont un parimoine culturel transnational d'un genre unique au monde. Fleuron de la politique sociale très progressiste de la municipalité alsacienne au temps du Reichsland allemand, ils comprennent deux bassins, des bains-douches, des bains romains, ainsi qu'une aile médicale. Restés quasiment intacts durant leur service ininterrompu depuis plus de cent ans, ils doivent subir une rénovation importante afin de pouvoir continuer à fonctionner. Au moment où la Ville de Strasbourg discute de la meilleure façon pour préparer ce patrimoine pour l'avenir, une perspective franco-allemande a pour objectif d'esquisser des perspectives d'action sur le fonds de rénovations qui ont déjà eu lieu en Allemagne.

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• 30 mai 2017

  Paris | Champs-sur-Marne

  Call for papers - History

  Ecclesiastical spaces and secular fiefdoms

  Definitions, models and conflicts in interface zones (9th-13th centuries)

  La distinction claire entre monde laïque et monde ecclésiastique et le concept d’espace de domination, compris comme une zone connue, délimitée et donc cartographiable, semblent aujourd’hui être des notions évidentes. Elles ne l’étaient pourtant absolument pas dans un monde médiéval où, d’une part, la réforme grégorienne a entamé, à la fin du XI^e siècle, un processus de séparation des pouvoirs aristocratiques laïques et ecclésiastiques et où, d’autre part, la conception de l’espace de domination aristocratique connut une évolution très importante, du X^e au XIII^e siècle, avec un phénomène de spatialisation, puis de territorialisation, du pouvoir, ce qui permet progressivement de passer d’une cartographie faite de points à l’émergence de zones de domination plus ou moins identifiables et donc représentables graphiquement.

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