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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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• 15 sep 2017

  Trois-Rivières

  Call for papers - Early modern

  The sensorial body in leisure and entertainment

  Le goût, l’odorat, le toucher, l’ouïe et la vue répondent à tout stimulus de manière variée et complexe. Difficile à saisir et à cerner, il est toutefois possible de brosser un portrait du corps sensoriel qui émerge au sein de la société de l’Ancien Régime. L’époque moderne, du 16e au début du 19e siècle, catalyse la genèse des pratiques culturelles liées aux loisirs et aux divertissements : théâtre, musée, exposition temporaire, promenade, jeu de cartes ou de table, café, taverne, foire, jardin, voyage. Ces activités placent l’individu dans un cadre spécifique, au cœur d’une action ; action qui incite et excite chacun des sens, à des degrés divers. Les cinq sens, toujours en veille, ne demandent qu’à s’émouvoir, s’épanouir et s’exprimer. Il ne reste plus qu’à cueillir les témoignages et à tenter de relever les caractéristiques, les limites et la substance de chacun des sens.

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