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• 07 déc 2017

  08 déc 2017

  Zurich

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  Augustine, Augustinians and Augustinianisms in the Italian Trecento

  Se l’importanza di Agostino per alcuni autori trecenteschi italiani è fatto auto-evidente, basti pensare a Francesco Petrarca che lo scelse come suo inquisitore e guida spirituale nel Secretum, la lunga durata di questa influenza nel corso del secolo è ancora in gran parte da esplorare, a partire dal caso più contestato, quello di Dante Alighieri. Parallelamente questo convegno s’interesserà al modo in cui l’attività dei membri dell’OESA ha plasmato la vita culturale peninsulare nel corso del secolo e contribuirà a rimettere in questione le categorie storiografiche di agostinismo e anti-agostinismo.

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• 29 nov 2017

  30 nov 2017

  01 déc 2017

  Zurich

  Conference, symposium - History

  “Num’rous Uses, Motions, Charms, and Arts”. Fans as Images, Accessories, and Instruments of Gesture in the 17th and 18th Centuries

  This interdisciplinary conference discusses the cultural role of European folding fans in art, fashion, and material culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The conference aims to take a closer look at the pictorial and intermedial interplay of or- namental patterns, figurative elements, and artistic subject matters against the background of European fan manufacture, artistic net- works and international trade. Furthermore, it seeks to closer examine fans as gender-specific instruments of gesture and communication.

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• 01 oct 2017

  Zurich

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Assistant Professor Tenure Track in Early Modern History including Swiss History

  University of Zürich

  The University of Zurich invites applications for the position of an assistant professor tenure track in Early Modern History including Swiss History. The position is in Early Modern History (ca. 1500–1850). It is desirable that the successful candidate participates in the establishment of a lab for Digital History.

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• 07 avr 2017

  Zurich

  Miscellaneous information - Education

  Teaching Gender. Theory and society in the classroom

  Now more than ever, gender as an analytical concept is being heavily contested from diverse quarters inside as well as outside academia. The panel discussion addresses key questions of how to teach gender as  critical theory in the light of current societal and political tensions on the one hand and institutional constraints inside the university on the other hand. How can we teach “critique”? What does teaching gender mean in terms of methods and topics? And how can we engage in critical research and teaching while responding to societal expectations as to relevant output and knowledge transfer?

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• 07 avr 2017

  08 avr 2017

  Zurich

  Study days - Sociology

  Concepts that Matter! Terminologies of women and gender in transnational perspective

  The Department of Gender Studies and Islamic Studies of the University of Zurich is organizing the first workshop of the Gender in University and Society (GENiUS) network on “Concepts that Matter! Terminologies of Women and Gender in Transnational Perspective”. GENiUS is an informal Swiss-Arab Network of academics specialized in the field of Gender Studies in and on the Arab region that aims at fostering scientific exchange on the levels of research, teaching and institution building.

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• 12 fév 2017

  Zurich

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Art collectives and collective art

  Artistic creation - between individual interest and common good

  Les collectifs d’artistes et les différentes formes d’art collectif mettent en question le « régime de singularité » qui caractérise l’art depuis la fin du XIX^e siècle, fondé sur « l’individualité », « l’originalité » ou encore « l’unicité » d’un artiste. Si ce mythe n’est aujourd’hui plus à briser, s’intéresser aux formes collectives de création, c’est pouvoir plus directement interroger ce qui demeure, le plus souvent, une boîte noire de l’analyse sociologique : la production des esthétiques et des œuvres elles-mêmes, qui met en jeu des moments individuels et collectifs, avec des critères tout à la fois autonomes (artistiques) et hétéronomes (sociaux, gestionnaires, économiques, publics). Le Comité de recherche sociologie des arts et de la culture de la Société suisse de sociologie invite des propositions qui aborderaient cette thématique sur un plan théorique, méthodologique ou empirique mais, de préférence, à partir de terrains d’enquête.

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