Sort

By publication date

By relevance

• 20 nov 2019

  21 nov 2019

  Münster

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  Innovation and medieval communities in North-West Europe (1200-1500)

  Le lien bien établi entre innovation et modernisation suscite de nombreuses interrogations aujourd'hui. Toutefois ce phénomène est loin d’être propre aux sociétés modernes et contemporaines et la fin du Moyen Âge, qui n’a encore jamais fait l’objet d’une étude systématique sur ce sujet, se révèle essentielle pour comprendre les mécanismes humains d’adaptation, mais aussi les enjeux culturels qui facilitent ou bloquent les transitions. Débarrassés de toute perspective téléologique sur l’innovation, la période (XIII^e- début XVI^e siècle) et l’espace (Europe du Nord-Ouest) que nous souhaitons placer au cœur de cette rencontre pourront servir de laboratoire d’analyse, afin d’estimer les conditions de réception de l’innovation et les réactions suscitées par l’irruption de la nouveauté.

  Read announcement

• 17 oct 2019

  18 oct 2019

  Nanterre | Saint-Denis

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  Historian activity and urban belonging in Europe and in the Islamic worlds, from the 13th-18th centuries

  Ce colloque vise à appréhender toute la gamme des socialisations possibles de l’activité d’écrire sur le passé dans les villes des sociétés médiévales et modernes, tant en Europe que dans les mondes islamiques. On entend ici, en effet, l’activité historienne au sens large : chroniques, histoires de villes, de sanctuaires, de monuments, notations dans des registres de villes ou de communautés, livres de famille italiens ou allemands, journaux individuels, généalogies, mémoires, inscriptions sur des monuments pérennes ou éphémères, en somme tout écrit fixant un récit du passé, à partir du moment où s’y trouve engagé un rapport à la ville.

  Read announcement

• 05 nov 2019

  Bordeaux

  Call for papers - History

  Prison spaces in the Middle Ages: an interdisciplinary approach to the territories and materialities of medieval incarceration

  While recent work has renewed our knowledge of medieval execution sites and of the internal layout of detention facilities, much remains to be done to understand the distribution of prison spaces and territories, in particular to shed light on the socio-spatial dynamics and logic of their establishment. These prison spaces evolved between the beginning and the extreme end of the Middle Ages, with prisons only multiplying from the 13th century onwards. These evolutions must be understood in close coordination with the evolutions of medieval justice and its spatial practices. Studies can be carried out at the scale of a building, a neighborhood, a city, a city, one or more regions.

  Read announcement

• 31 aoû 2019

  Liège

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Margins (XIth-XVIIth Century)

  5th International Postgraduate Symposium of Transitions

  From History to Philology, to Art History, to Codicology, and Linguistics, the notion of margin is omnipresent. This meaningful concept, both in its literal and figurative acceptions, has remained at the heart of critical thought for a long time, as scholars have sought to reflect on its particular potentialities whilst attempting to renew approaches to their own subjects of study. Participants, starting from their specific subjects and disciplines, are invited to reflect on the notion of margin, on the similar notions of limit and border, and on the place they hold in their own research.

  Read announcement

• 03 jui 2019

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Urban studies

  Thesis grant at the Société française d’histoire urbaine 2019

  La Société française d’histoire urbaine (SFHU) ouvre, pour sa IX^e session, un concours de thèses qui s'adresse aux jeunes docteur.es en histoire urbaine, ayant soutenu leur thèse durant l’année civile 2018. Par cette initiative, la SFHU vise à encourager de jeunes chercheurs·ses et à favoriser la plus large diffusion possible de leurs travaux (voir les archives du prix de thèse sur le site). Sont recevables toutes les thèses qui abordent le fait urbain dans son historicité, quels que soient la période, l’espace et la discipline académique (histoire, droit, urbanisme, architecture, histoire de l'art…) concernés.

  Read announcement

• 01 fév 2019

  Rome

  Call for papers - History

  Rebuilding / Restoring Rome

  The Renewal of Buildings and Spaces as Urban Policy, from Antiquity to the Present

  Everywhere in Rome, monuments are covered with ancient or modern inscriptions that not only contain the name of the original builder but also commemorate their restoration. Popes from the Quattrocento and Cinquecento who acted as urban planners, such as Sixtus IV, presented themselves as ‘restorers’, even when they were actually modernising the City. This phenomenon is not restricted to the Renaissance period: many Roman emperors already claimed to be rebuilders, such as Augustus who repaired all the damaged temples of Rome according to the Res Gestae, or Septimius Severus who was called Restitutor Vrbis on his coinage. Rome thus seems to be a city that constantly needs to be restored, rebuilt, born again. This conference aims to investigate how the notions of restoration and rebuilding were a driving force of Rome’s urban transformation throughout its history, from Antiquity to the 21^st century, as well as a political program put forward by the authorities and an ideal more or less shared by the different key actors of the city.

  Read announcement