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• 13 oct 2017

  14 oct 2017

  Washington

  Conference, symposium - History

  The Franciscans in Mexico

  Five Centuries of Cultural Influence

  Generations of scholars have studied the multi-faceted experiences of the Franciscans in Mexico and the ways in which the Franciscan order shaped New Spain and the early Mexican republic. This conference examines the range of Franciscan influence and analyzes new scholarship that focuses on the multiple discourses with which friars engaged native peoples, creole populations, the vice-regal authorities, and other actors throughout the Spanish empire.  The conference brings together junior and senior scholars to study the long Franciscan experience in Mexico on the eve of the commemoration of the quincentenary of the Spanish — and thus the Franciscan— presence in Mexico.

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• 10 sep 2017

  Schœlcher

  Call for papers - History

  Slavery and colours in the cities and urban societies of Africa, Americas and Europe, 15th-19th century

  Après de nombreux travaux consacrés aux sociétés esclavagistes ou à esclaves d’Europe, d’Afrique et des Amériques, ce colloque tentera d’apprécier en quoi les villes de ces espaces ont pu être, du XV^e au XIX^e siècle, les lieux d’une reconfiguration spécifique des rapports sociaux. On s’intéressera en particulier à la diversité des formes qu’ont pu prendre les sociétés urbaines et aux dynamiques qui les ont générées. De manière particulière, on tentera de savoir si la proximité ou l’éloignement du pouvoir politique ont été des facteurs d’accélération ou de ralentissement des processus d’exclusion, d’accommodements ou d’intégration des populations cosmopolites et inégales des villes étudiées.

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• 30 sep 2017

  Pittsburgh

  Call for papers - Early modern

  The Presence of Women Editors in the Press Industry (1850-1950)

  This panel is part of the 49^th annual Northeast modern language association (NeMLA) convention which will take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from the 12^th until the 15^th of April 2018. We wish to examine the active participation of women in the public dialogue through the prism of their periodical publications. By looking into their practices of textual transfer, their editorial strategies and the transnational networks that they established, this panel sheds light on the content, structure, and functions of the periodical press in the long 19^th century. Scholars are encouraged to explore the ways in which women’s journals shaped socio-cultural transitions by conducting comparative research across nations, cultures, and historical periods. 

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• 06 avr 2017

  07 avr 2017

  Montreal

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  From emergences to recognition. Paths of innovation

  Sous le thème des émergences et de la reconnaissance de l’innovation sociale, ce colloque se veut non seulement un rendez-vous sur l’apport des expériences socialement innovantes au renouvellement des valeurs, des conceptions du vivre ensemble et de l’organisation du travail et des échanges, mais également une invitation à créer du lien entre les différentes initiatives et à co-construire une approche fédératrice capables d’orienter la production de connaissances et l’action dans le sens d’une transition socio-écologique. 

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• 15 mar 2017

  Havana

  Call for papers - History

  The politics and poetics of museology

  40th annual ICOFOM symposium

  It has become rather banal to speak of the museum as a place of power. Whether one refers to it as media, as medium, or as device, we must understand that this institution, emblematic of occidental civilization, has always aroused the interests of local political régimes, whatever they may be. The creation of the British Museum and the birth of the Louvre illustrate the many different ways the public has of seeing the links between knowledge and collections. Furthermore the advent of each new political régime (from democracy in America to the Marxist-Leninist system in the Soviet Union, passing by fascist Italy and national-socialist Germany) marks museums with its imprint, as well as its system of communication, preservation and research.

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• 20 jan 2017

  Montreal

  Call for papers - History

  National identities and regional identities in the French-speaking space

  Europe and North America from the 1960s to the present day

  Après les premières vagues de revendications identitaires du tournant des XIX^e et XX^e siècles, puis de l’entre-deux-guerres, les années 1960 voient la renaissance et la multiplication des mouvements d’affirmation particulariste en Europe comme en Amérique du Nord. Nous nous limiterons ici aux espaces de la francophonie, qui offrent un vaste champ d’études cohérent, mais cela n’empêchera pas – elle sera bien au contraire encouragée – une mise en perspective grâce à l’étude succincte d’autres aires géographiques et civilisationnelles.

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