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Rome

Study days - History

Archives from apostolic penitentiaries - their current condition and perspectives for the future

À l'occasion du cinquième anniversaire de l'ouverture aux chercheurs des séries consultables à l'Archivio della Penitenzieria Apostolica, une journée d'étude se tiendra le mardi 22 novembre 2016 au Palais de la Chancellerie, avec le patronage de l’École française de Rome et du Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom. Cette initiative a pour double objectif de dresser un bilan de ces cinq premières années et de suggérer des pistes de recherche pour l'avenir.

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Ravenna

Call for papers - History

Fourth Annual Conference of the International Federation for Public History

History is a public issue. Historical knowledge and practice is not limited to academic settings. History is also produced and shared in a wide range of settings by professional and non-professional historians alike. Museums and other exhibiting places, films and documentaries, historical novels, anniversaries and commemorations, re-enactments and living history, public policies, transitional justice commissions, television, radio, websites, and social media, are some of the venues in which history comes alive. All these settings stimulate interaction and collaboration with large audiences, turning historians into public historians.

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Rome

Call for papers - History

Meanings of rituals

Incense and religion in ancient societies

Although several studies have drawn attention to the role of incense as an ingredient in ritual and a means of communication between men and gods, there remains no comprehensive examination of the practical functions and cultural semantics of incense in the ancient world, whether as a purifying agent, a performative sign of a transcendent world, an olfactory signal to summon the deity, a placatory libation, or food for the gods. Moreover, recent archaeological research has provided evidence (alongside literary, epigraphic and iconographic evidence) that the physical origins and chemical constituents of incense are complex and diverse, as are their properties : resins, vegetable gums, spices, and a welter of aromatic products that could be exhibited and burned before ancient eyes and noses. These were components of a multi-sensory religious experience in which music, colourful costumes, lavish banquets and tactile encounters defined the ritualsensibilities of the community.

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Padua

Call for papers - Sociology

Overlapping perspectives on the history of “ancient forests”

In ecological, economic and social terms, “ancient forests” play numerous roles. Their definition varies not only from country to country but also according to disciplinary fields. Studying “ancient forests” can involve separating “old-growth forests” from “ancient woodland”, forests that have disappeared and, in the case of “current forests”, those that are not actually very old at all! This conference aims to exchange views and ideas on “ancient forests” including both retrospective and prospective issues. Better understanding their past highlights the key issues of their status, protection and promotion in our current societies and opens up new perspectives about the future of « ancient forests ». Foresters, planners, developers, ecologists, biologists, agriculturalists, geographers, historians, philosophers, ethnologists, cartographers, archaeologists, archaeobotanists, sociologists etc., from all backgrounds, are invited to join this debate about our various and varying concepts of “ancient forests”.

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Florence

Call for papers - Representation

Artist films and video in Tuscany 1960-1990

Memories of Contemporary

The call for proposals Artist Films and Video in Tuscany 1960-1990 welcomes proposals from early- and mid-career scholars of art history or related disciplines, inviting them to present an artist film or video, linked with the Tuscan experimental context (1960-1990), to be shown during the international conference Memories of Contemporary (Florence, November 22-23, 2016) promoted by Senzacornice | Research and Education Lab for Contemporary Art.

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Bologna

Call for papers - History

Actors and Vehicles of Architectural Criticism

“Mapping Architectural Criticism” Second International Workshop Bologna

This call for papers is for the second of three international workshops planned by the Mapping.Crit.Arch Project to foster scholarship on the history of architectural criticism and facilitate exchanges between scholars active in this field of research. Conceived as milestones of the research project, these workshops intend to go beyond somewhat widespread interpretations that invoke either the specificity of architectural criticism or its partial overlapping with other forms of writing. The workshops also want to challenge simplistic views that suggest the crisis of architectural criticism if not its entire demise. The second workshop will focus on the actors and “vehicles” of architectural criticism.

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Susa

Summer School - History

Economies of quality. People and things in medieval and modern markets

5th summer school of economic history

La V^e école d’été d’histoire économique, qui se réunira à Suse (Piémont, Italie), les 28, 29 et 30 août 2016, aura comme thème « Les économies de la qualité. Les personnes et les choses sur les marchés médiévaux et modernes ». Cette thématique permettra de poursuivre et d’approfondir celles qui ont été développées les années précédentes (la valeur des choses, la pauvreté, les biens communs, les moyens de paiement). La question de la qualité se situe à la croisée de l’histoire et de la sociologie économique, permettant d’aborder aussi bien l’étude de mécanismes productifs et marchands que celle de savoir-faire.

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Cagliari

Conference, symposium - History

Hagnos, Miasma and Katharsis

A journey between the categories of the pure and impure in the imagination of the ancient world

Le colloque international « Hagnos, Miasma, Katharsis. Voyage entre les catégories du pur et de l’impur dans l’imaginaire du monde ancien » (Cagliari, 4-6 mai 2016) propose une mise au point sur les études consacrées aux phénomènes du pur et de l’impur et à leur exégèse antique. La réflexion autour de ce thème privilégiera une approche interdisciplinaire, tenant compte des perspectives iconographique, littéraire, anthropologique et historico-religieuse, afin d’encourager une confrontation et un dialogue élargis entre les spécialistes de cette question cruciale pour comprendre les mentalités antiques.

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Palermo

Study days - Language

Genetic criticism: history, method and corpus

Critica Genetica: storia, metodi e corpus

Ces journées d'études qui sont organisées dans le cadre du projet Textual Genetics and chaotic system. A new approach to the writing process financé par le Ministère Italien de l'instruction, de l'université et de la recherche, ont pour objectif d’instaurer un dialogue entre les jeunes chercheurs en critique génétique venant d’Italie et de l’étranger et de leur offrir un moment d’approfondissement méthodologique et d’échange scientifique. Ainsi, après les communications de spécialistes qui approcheront l’histoire, les méthodes et les développements interdisciplinaires de la critique génétique, les journées d’études feront place aux contributions des chercheurs qui pourront présenter leurs travaux en cours.

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Ariano Irpino

Conference, symposium - Early modern

The historiography of the Norman worlds (17th-21st centuries)

Construction, influence, evolution

The gathering organised at Ariano Irpino will examine in particular the historiographical constructions developed since the 17th century by looking at the place of the "Normans" in the "national story" of each country. It will also evaluate their influence on our knowledge of the history of the Norman worlds. What axioms have influenced the historiographical debates? Beyond their identification and classification, it is also important to understand their genealogy, their implications, their pervasiveness, their rejection and their deconstruction. The colloquium will also look to explore the orientation of a history of the Norman worlds developed from questions that go beyond national boundaries, schools and academic traditions.

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Palermo

Call for papers - Language

Study days in genetic criticism

History, methods and corpus

Ces journées d'études qui sont organisées dans le cadre du projet Textual Genetics and chaotic system. A new approach to the writing process financé par le Ministère Italien de l'instruction, de l'université et de la recherche (http://sir.miur.it), ont-elles pour objectif d’instaurer un dialogue entre les jeunes chercheurs en critique génétique venant d’Italie et de l’étranger et de leur offrir un moment d’approfondissement méthodologique et d’échange scientifique. Ainsi, après les communications de spécialistes qui approcheront l’histoire, les méthodes et les développements interdisciplinaires de la critique génétique, les journées d’études feront place à une dizaine de contributions des jeunes chercheurs qui pourront présenter leurs travaux en cours.

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Rome

Call for papers - Geography

Il progetto del territorio nelle fonti d’archivio

X Seminario di studi storico-cartografici « Dalla mappa al GIS »

Il tema al centro dell’incontro è Il progetto del territorio nelle fonti d’archivio, ossia la riflessione sull’importanza delle ricerche e delle fonti custodite negli archivi e nelle conservatorie in genere per lo studio e la comprensione delle dinamiche territoriali, nel lungo periodo, soprattutto in prospettiva dell’individuazione, dell’analisi e della soluzione dei problemi odierni.

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Milan

Call for papers - Modern

The Self-Management of Chronic Disease: critical perspectives

Panel038 - EASA2016 Conference (European Association of Social Anthropologists)

This panel will bring a critical reflection on self-management of chronic disease from a variety of theoretical, methodological and epistemological lenses. Both empowerment and autonomy as medical concepts and chronic disease as form of living will be theoretically and empirically addressed.

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Rome

Study days - History

Italian consular services and the long Risorgimento (late 18th-20th century)

Cette manifestation se propose de rassembler des contributions portant sur le rôle des consuls des différents États italiens pré-unitaires dans la diffusion, la réception et l’élaboration de modèles de l’appartenance collective au sein d’un monde italien qu’on considérera dans sa pleine acception, c’est-à-dire dans une péninsule italienne dont les limites sont floues, et au-delà dans tous ses prolongements diasporiques.

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Cagliari

Call for papers - Religion

Hagnos, Miasma, Katharsis. The journey between the categories of purity and impurity in the imagination of the ancient world

Dans le monde ancien, l’exigence d’accomplir des actes de purification, liés au besoin d’expier une faute ou d’accompagner un changement de statut, est perçue comme capitale dans beaucoup de circonstances. Les mots miasma et catharsis utilisés pour désigner respectivement la souillure et la purification, englobent de fait une dimension beaucoup plus articulée, qui se situe entre les sphères de compétence du pur et de l’impur. Les occasions qui prescrivaient le recours à des rites de purification étaient en rapport avec des phases liminaires de la vie, telle la naissance, la mort, mais aussi le mariage, ou encore avec les festivités religieuses. La mort était par exemple considérée l’une des principales sources de souillure. Le miasma qui l’accompagnait pouvait contaminer les dieux et les hommes, les vivants et les morts. Tous devaient alors indifféremment se soumettre aux rituels de purification. Les divinités elles-mêmes n’hésitaient pas à prendre les distances des individus contaminés, comme Artémis, lorsqu’elle abandonne son favori, Hippolyte, à son destin.

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Epistemology and methodology
Italian Republic