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• 30 sep 2013

  Call for papers - History

  The progress of perfected industry

  Workshops and manufactures in the years between the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire (France 1789 – 1815)

  Up until now the revolutionary period has mainly been considered as a period of disruption, especially in the field of luxury industries, which were considered to be at odds with the values of the new emerging social system. It is now possible to show that contrary to this general assumption, continuity can be found in this pivotal period between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The quick re-awakening of the production of luxury goods followed the establishment of the Directoire and its flowering during the Napoleonic years is proof of great flexibility and adjustment to social change and the new paradigms of labor. A number of questions emerge from these observations: what events and changes confronted former royal and later national manufacturers, famous workshops and regional producers in the years between the Ancien Régime and the Bourbon Restoration? In what ways were artists and artisans able to adapt or resign themselves to the new challenges?  But also – to what extent did these events stimulate new modes of creativity and production which would have an impact on the development of industrialization in France?

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• 30 sep 2013

  Paris

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Modern

  Napoleon Foundation study and research grants

  Thesis into the history of the two Napoleonic empires - law, economy, society and art

  Afin d'encourager la recherche universitaire sur les deux Empires, la Fondation Napoléon accorde, chaque année, six bourses d'études à des étudiants de troisième cycle préparant une thèse sur des sujets concernant le Premier ou le Second Empire.

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• 07 mai 2013	14 mai 2013	18 mai 2013
  21 mai 2013	28 mai 2013

  Neuchâtel

  Lecture series - History

  Manufacturers and merchants : making and exporting clocks and other luxury goods in the 18th century

  Roger Smith is an independent historian who was educated at the University of London. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2006. He is chiefly interested in the organisation of the manufacture and sale of clocks, watches and related luxury articles in the eighteenth century, including international aspects like the migration of craftsmen. He has done much research into the Anglo-Swiss watchmaking firm of Vulliamy of London, and is currently working on a major study of James Cox and his competitors in the trade in clocks and watches from Western Europe to Asia. As well as publishing extensively on such topics, he has acted as historical adviser to museums and auction houses, including the loan exhibition SingSong, Treasures from the Forbidden City at the Museum Speelklok, Utrecht in 2010-11.

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• 15 mai 2013

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Valeurs et réalités du blanc : une facette de l’aventure textile

  AFET (Association française pour l'étude du textile)

  Les prochaines journées d’étude organisées par l’AFET (Association française pour l'étude du textile) abordent pour la première fois le thème de la couleur. C’est par le blanc que, paradoxalement, nous avons choisi de commencer. Tout d’abord, on tentera de répondre aux questions : qu’est-ce qu’un textile blanc ? Puis, comment l’obtenir, comment le maintenir et l’entretenir ? Ceci nous conduira ensuite à envisager les différents usages du blanc dans les vêtements et les textiles.

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