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• 31 oct 2017

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Contextualizing bankruptcy

  Publicity, space and time (Europe, 17th to 19th c.)

  Although bankruptcy is a rather exceptional situation in the life of a merchant, it has explanatory power for routines of economic stakeholders. Considering the long, non-uniform and unsteady transition from merchant capitalism to industrial and financial capitalism, we suggest to start a dialog between modernistes and contemporanéistes. The workshop focuses on the various forms of contextualizing business failure and puts forward three major research axes: Covering and uncovering/secrecy and publicity; economic space and area of jurisdiction; temporal narratives of (in)solvency.

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• 01 sep 2017

  Naples

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Credit. Trust, solidarity, citizenship (14th-19th century)

  IV seminar of doctoral studies history and economy in the Mediterranean countries

  The objective of the seminar will be to understand the importance of intense credit activities at all levels of society, both in urban and rural areas over the long term, from consumer microcredit to the specific problem of the foundation of the Monti di Pietà in the various regional typologies, and to the forms of solidarity credit that, over the centuries, gave rise to more modern forms of banks.

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• 19 jui 2017

  20 jui 2017

  Pierrefitte-sur-Seine

  Study days - History

  Turgot: globalisation, science and economy in the Enlightenment

  Questionner les dichotomies traditionnelles entre « théories » et « pratiques » économiques, et, plus généralement, entre « histoire des sciences économiques » et « histoire économique » : tel est l’enjeu des journées d’étude Turgot : mondialisation, science et économie au siècle des Lumières. Le renouvellement du sujet est rendu possible par la mise à disposition récente d’un fonds d’une richesse exceptionnelle : les archives de la famille de l’économiste, intendant et ministre Turgot (1727-1781), récemment acquises par l’État grâce au mécénat de la Banque de France et conservées aux Archives nationales. Ces papiers permettent de réinscrire ce questionnement dans les pratiques sociales, administratives et culturelles de l’activité scientifique au XVIIIe siècle.

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• 31 mai 2017

  Paris

  Study days - Representation

  Architecture and the decorative arts in the age of Percier and Fontaine

  Organisée à l'occasion de l’exposition « Charles Percier » (Bard Graduate Center / Château de Fontainebleau, commissariat : J.-P. Garric), cette journée d'études permettra de s'interroger sur différentes thématiques en rapport avec la production architecturale et décorative au temps de Percier et Fontaine.

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• 13 avr 2017	10 nov 2016	08 déc 2016
  12 jan 2017	09 fév 2017	...

  Paris

  Seminar - History

  Operative knowledges of matter, from Renaissance to industrialization

  Following the renewal of the history of Technology and of the history of chemistry, this Research Seminar intends to explore operative knowledge in chemistry in connection with several fields including economics, political management, consumption and production processes. It seeks to shed a light, since the Early modern period, on various configurations where experimentation, exploration, transformation of Matter were held, through a wide range of technical devices.

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• 08 mar 2017

  09 mar 2017

  Aix-en-Provence

  Conference, symposium - History

  Climate and Societies in the Mediterranean during the Last Two Millennia

  Current State Of Knowledge and Research Perspectives

  This two-day international conference aims to highlight recent and challenging interdisciplinary studies dealing with complex historical climate/society interactions in Mediterranean during the last two millennia. The study of these existing connections can help in better understanding the role played by past climatic events in the eruption of regional conflicts, in forced migration and displacement of people, in periodically appearing infectious disease outbreaks or in subsistence crises like food shortages and famines Similarly, it seems necessary to identify and analyze socio-economic and technological responses (e.g. water supply systems) together with mitigation and general adaptation strategies, insofar as they existed, to cope with climate change.

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• 28 fév 2017

  Call for papers - History

  Moving Beyond Paris and London: Influences, Circulation, and Rivalries in Fashion and Textiles between France and England, 1700-1914

  By looking closely at the relationship—at times friendly, at times not—between France and England through fashion and textiles between 1700 and 1914, this conference will touch on a number of topics, including: the circulation (lawful or illicit) of knowledge, individuals, and objects; the diffusion – and cross-fertilization – of design models between the two countries via press, engravings, or fashion dolls; the importation of textiles and clothing; the phenomena of copying, espionage, and counterfeits; the pursuit of protectionist policies which aimed to limit imports from the rival nation.

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