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• 01 nov 2017

  Utrecht

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Post-doctorate researcher in Coinage in Ancient Greece

  Anchoring Work Package 4

  The use of minted coins was one of the major innovations in the ancient world of the first millennium BCE. Invented in Lydia in the seventh century, coinage spread rapidly throughout the Greek world, first in the Greek cities in Asia Minor, next to Aegina and Athens and soon to the other cities across the Aegean and Mediterranean area. Before the introduction of minted coins, exchange was largely based on weights of precious metals, in smaller amounts weighed on scales, a practice to which striking fixed weights of metal seems just a small and logical step. Yet the swift success of coinage, evidenced by rapidly increasing number of Greek poleis adopting the new medium, shows that the potential of coins to surpass weighed bullion in practical use for all kinds of transactions was recognised early on.

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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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• 11 mai 2017

  12 mai 2017

  Florence

  Conference, symposium - Early modern

  Circulation of people, objects and knowledge across South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean (16th-19th Centuries)

  Through the prism of objects and material culture, the workshop intends to highlight broad patterns of transregional circulation of people and goods crossing the boarders of Ottoman, Venetian, Russian and Habsburg Empires. The papers will present and discuss a wide variety of unpublished textual and visual sources related to luxury consumption, fashion and dress codes; diplomatical and political exchanges; dowry contracts and travel journals.

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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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• 01 mar 2017

  Toulon | Marseille

  Call for papers - Representation

  Maritime voyages in the Mediterranean - from the Middle Ages to early Modernity

  Ce colloque souhaite aborder le thème de l'itinérance en l’appliquant de manière privilégiée à l’espace maritime de la Méditerranée dans toute son étendue et toutes ses cultures. L’objet du colloque sera de rendre compte des modalités et des enjeux des circulations et des déplacements de personnes (départs, traversées, escales) autour des ports du bassin méditerranéen, dans leur dimension historique comme imaginaire. Les communications pourront s’appuyer sur un corpus varié de textes (récits de voyage, témoignages, documents d’archive, traités…) et de langues (latin, arabe, hébreu, français, italien, espagnol, anglais...).

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• 08 nov 2016	15 nov 2016	22 nov 2016
  29 nov 2016	06 déc 2016	...

  Paris

  Seminar - History

  Thinking the Mediterranean in the modern and contemporary period (16th-20th century)

  Partant du constat que la Méditerranée est un objet historique et historiographique attractif mais souvent défini par défaut, et constatant le très petit nombre de lieux d’échange continu entre modernistes et contemporanéistes en histoire méditerranéenne, les organisateurs de ce séminaire proposent une approche des transformations de l’espace méditerranéen sur le long terme (du XVI^e au XX^e siècle).

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• 12 oct 2016	16 nov 2016	07 déc 2016
  18 jan 2017	22 fév 2017	...

  Paris

  Lecture series - Prehistory and Antiquity

  The archaeology of Greece - from digging to writing history

  Comment l'archéologie permet-elle d'écrire l'histoire ? En quoi les fouilles et l'étude des artefacts continuent-ils à renouveler la connaissance des historiens ? Après un cycle consacré à l'Égypte, la Bibliothèque nationale de France met à l'honneur la Grèce ancienne, à travers des présentations de recherches et de fouilles françaises en cours.

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