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• 12 déc 2013

  13 déc 2013

  Lyon

  Conference, symposium - Law

  The imagination of power: identity signs and representation

  Memories of origins and strategies of power legitimisation

  L’imaginaire du pouvoir, sa représentation ou sa mise en scène, voilà un thème qui rejoint la grande question de l’identitaire. Cet imaginaire a des initiateurs – l’élite, les clercs, maîtres de la culture et du sacré – et des vecteurs : le droit et les traditions, la littérature, officielle ou populaire, la mémoire.

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• 06 nov 2013

  07 nov 2013

  08 nov 2013

  Lausanne

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Courts and Courtly Cultures in Early Modern Italy and Europe

  Models and Languages

  The conference will focus on the topic of court culture in Lombardy and North Italy, within the conceptual framework of the SNF Sinergia project: Constructing identity: visual, spatial, and literary cultures in Lombardy, 14^th to 16^th centuries. This interdisciplinary project, which includes five research unities in the Universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich, and EPFL at Lausanne, works on Visconti and Sforza ages, when Lombardy, one of the most important European regions, established itself as a distinct political and cultural entity. It has been an exemplary case of the construction of a cultural identity, whose repercussions still resonate in present-day Italy. As a part of a potent political project, it has been sustained by complex mechanisms of self-representation and the imposition of a prestige taste. The conference will conclude the research of the Sinergia project discussing its results in a wider historical, literary, architectural and artistic context and verifying its methodological approaches at the light of multiple points of view.

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• 15 nov 2013

  Paris

  Study days - Middle Ages

  The commissioner culture

  The work and its mark

  Les processus artistiques antiques et médiévaux sont en partie déterminés par l’implication du commanditaire, orientant des choix formels et iconographiques. Avant que ne soient conservés les contrats écrits passés entre commanditaires et artistes, saisir l’identité du commanditaire et le processus de la commande est beaucoup plus complexe. Les thèmes de cette troisième journée d’étude, largement ouverte aux doctorants, seront abordés dans une chronologie longue, embrassant Antiquité et Moyen Âge, en Orient et en Occident. On tentera aussi de mettre en évidence les continuités, les interactions et les ruptures dans le contexte des cultures polythéistes antiques et du christianisme médiéval.

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• 30 nov 2013

  Telč

  Call for papers - Representation

  Circulation as a factor of cultural aggregation: relics, ideas and cities in the Middle Ages

  In addressing the issue of the circulation of objects and ideas in the Middle Ages related - above all - to saints and relics, the principal aim is to provide valuable information about the function of these objects in their new location or the identity of this location after receiving the items.

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• 20 sep 2013

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Empire of letters and Tigers of parchment

  International Medieval Congress

  Script is not a neutral communication medium. Scripts were particularly used throughout the Middle Ages to stage the idea of Empire, power and domination. The writing has the ability to connote authority and Empire and to inspire respect. On the other hand, the scriptural domain is a world in itself with its coherence and history. The idea of an ‘Empire of letters’ may have emerged within this world too. Both parts of this “empire of letters” are relevant for the palaeographical sessions on the specific thematic strand of ‘Empire’ organised at the International Medieval Congress 2014 in Leeds and sponsored by Apices and Cap Digital.

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• 01 sep 2013

  Brno

  Call for papers - Representation

  Objects of Memory, Memory of Objects

  The Artworks as a Vehicle of the Past in the Middle Ages

  This PhD student conference deals with the objects and their memory. Its principal aim is to reconsider the memorial objects in their context, as well as the memory of particual objects. In fact, some treasure pieces are said to have been owned or donated by a prestigious person (bishop, martyr or emperor) but these pieces or legends appear years after the death of this person. In this case, the object creates the memory, and the prestige of the institution which owns them. We will try to discuss, with these goals in mind, the ideas of memory and oblivion.

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