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• 15 avr 2016

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Problems of security in the modern age

  La « sécurité » est l’une des catégories centrales des représentations de l’ordre social et politique ainsi que de l’action des pouvoirs publics, au demeurant une catégorie aussi fluctuante que controversée à travers les siècles. La formulation et le traitement de problèmes sociaux estampillés « sécuritaires » ne sont en rien la marque de nos sociétés contemporaines, on peut observer et analyser ces phénomènes dans de nombreux contextes de l’époque moderne. Les pratiques et discours sociaux visant la production de sécurité peuvent, d’une part, être utilisés comme des sondes des menaces pesant sur la société et des efforts de résolution politique de ces problèmes. Le colloque souhaite étudier de plus près les ambivalences de la politique de sécurité à l’époque moderne (et plus particulièrement au XVI^e siècle), dans les champs où des problèmes sécuritaires se faisaient manifestement jour. 

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• 05 fév 2016

  06 fév 2016

  Melun

  Conference, symposium - History

  Order in War. Gendarmeries and Police facing WWI

  During the First World War, as peacetime economies were transformed into war-focused production systems, European law- enforcement agencies had to adapt to new conditions. The wartime reorganizations of police forces need to be understood comparatively. The First World War set a series of similar requirements in all European countries at war and, to some extent, in some neutral countries also. This conference aims to open new perspectives rather than bringing full and final responses. This is a particularly broad, complex and new historiographic field: the history of law enforcement institutions in Europe in a specific context - specifically total war, the kind of conflict that significantly fostered forms of disorder. We will focus particularly on the diversity of forces, from military to civil police, posted or not on the front line, in belligerent or neutral countries, in metropoles or empires.

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• 20 jan 2016

  21 jan 2016

  Nantes

  Conference, symposium - Law

  Theological Foundations of Modern Constitutional Theory: 16th-17th Centuries

  Fondements théologiques de la théorie constitutionnelle moderne : XVIe-XVIIe siècles

  This conference aims to assemble different studies laying bridges between modern constitutional theories and theology from the perspective of intellectual history. Though modernity of law and politics has been usually accounted in the context of Reformation, the paper-givers’ approaches to the question will not be restricted in any confessional perspective, Protestant or Catholic. For, whatever the word ‘theology’ may have connoted in the time of religious confrontations, theoretical attempts to legitimize human rights and political authority at those days can be regarded as part of the general current of philosophical investigations, in a new manner and with different foci than ever, into the concept of justice with reference to that of God.

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