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• 01 mai 2020

  Leuven

  Call for papers - History

  Christian-Muslim Missionary Encounters, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

  Mission and Modernity Research Academy (MiMoRA#3)

  The study of missionary work occupies a central place in the interdisciplinary body of scholarship on relations and exchanges between Christianity and Islam in pre-modern as well as modern times. Most notably from the nineteenth century onwards, missions became an essential aspect of the globalization and modernization of these two ‘world religions’. Scholars from various disciplines have discovered the missionary encounter as a ‘space’ par excellence to observe and analyze Christian-Muslim interactions, which range from rejection and conflict to dialogue and mutual exchange. This research requires the breaching of the boundaries between disciplines, languages, scripts, archival heuristics, geographical and chronological specialisms; and the creation of an interdisciplinary scholarly dialogue. The aim of this international and multidisciplinary week-long research academy is to stimulate further critical study of the multilateral research on Christian-Muslim contacts and relationships in missionary contexts.

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• 01 jan 2020

  Leuven

  Call for papers - Modern

  Crisis

  7th biennial conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM 2020)

  Notions of crisis have long charged the study of the European avant-garde and modernism. Throughout their history, avant-gardists and modernists have faced crises, be they economic or political, scientific or technological, aesthetic or philosophical, collective or individual, local or global, short or perennial. Modernists and avant-gardists have in turn continually stood accused of instigating crises, whether artistic or cultural, sensorial or conceptual, incidental or intentional, far-reaching or negligible, representational or other. The very concepts of ‘avant-garde’ and ‘modernism’ are time and again subject—or subjected—to conceptual crises, leaving modernism and avant-garde studies as a field on the perpetual brink of a self-effacing theoretical crisis. The 7th biennial conference of the EAM intends to tackle the ways in which the avant-garde and modernism in Europe relate to crisi/es.

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• 01 jan 2020

  01 fév 2020

  Leuven

  Call for papers - Modern

  7th biennial conference of the Réseau européen de recherche sur l'avant-garde et le modernisme

  Dans la recherche sur l’avant-garde et le modernisme une des notions clés est celle de crise. Tout au long de leur époque, les avant-gardistes et les modernistes ont été confrontés à des crises, qu’elles soient économiques ou politiques, scientifiques ou technologiques, esthétiques ou philosophiques, collectives ou individuelles, locales ou mondiales, à court ou à long terme. À leur tour, les modernistes et avant-gardistes ont été continuellement accusés d’avoir provoqué des crises, qu’elles soient artistiques ou culturelles, sensorielles ou conceptuelles, accidentelles ou intentionnelles, ayant une grande portée ou une plus négligeable, provocant des crises de représentations ou autres. Les notions mêmes « d’avant-garde » et de « modernisme » sont sans cesse le sujet de et soumises à des crises conceptuelles, laissant la recherche sur l’avant-garde et le modernisme au bord d'une crise théorique aussi perpétuelle qu'autodestructrice.

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