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• 20 déc 2019

  Call for papers - Geography

  The great pilgrimages: history, territories and practices

  Le projet de ce numéro thématique de la Revue de Géographie Historique est conçu comme une proposition de croiser les différentes disciplines qui s’intéressent au champ du religieux afin de proposer une vision renouvelée et à jour de l’un des phénomènes humains à la fois les plus anciens et les plus répandus, à savoir les pèlerinages.

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• 27 mar 2019

  19 mai 2019

  09 oct 2019

  Paris | Saint-Germain-Laval

  Lecture series - Ethnology, anthropology

  The mythology of festivities, masks and mascarades

  Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences dont le thème est « Mythologie des fêtes, des masques et des mascarades », le Groupe Île-de-France de mythologie française organise trois rencontres publiques et gratuites au cours de l'année 2019 : Du masque de Childéric aux mascarades de la mi-carême » ; « Les énigmes du Chaudron de Gundestrup » et « Les masques de Cernunnos ».

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• 01 jui 2019

  Call for papers - Religion

  Conception, birth and childhood

  “New Comparative Mythology” Journal, 5

  New Comparative Mythology, a peer-reviewed journal of comparative mythology with an international editorial board, issues, for its  fifth volume, a call for papers on the topic “conception, birth and childhood”. In many mythologies, these three initial phases of the existence of divine, heroic, monstrous and other figures have given rise to many traditions. In addition, various beliefs and practices, which are lent legendary or mythical precedents, also rhythm this period which goes from the fertilization to the edge of the initiatory phase of the individuals. It is on the comparative study of this vast field of research that the articles submitted to our review will have to relate.

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• 31 jan 2019

  Épinal

  Call for papers - Asia

  Topologies of the Imaginal

  Transcultural perspectives and the anthropology of the Imagination

  Notre proposition est d'explorer diverses traditions et situations actuelles pour rendre compte de cette fascination pour l’Imaginal et son caractère opératoire que nous constatons dans les sociétés initiatiques d’hier et d’aujourd’hui dans les arts, les romans (cf. le gothique, la fantasy, le fantastique, l’utopie, diverses quêtes, les arts plastiques, l’Art total,les créations numériques, Il s’agira d’étudier les « images conteuses » (Bachelard) et autres « lieux conteurs », ces ponts suprêmes situés « entre un hic et nunc prosaïque et un illudtempus mythique » (Carmigiani), en fait, un véritable inter-monde. 

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• 15 jan 2019

  Call for papers - Religion

  Iconotrop

  Symbolic and Material Changes to Cult Images in the Classical and Medieval Ages

  Iconotropy is a Greek word which literally means “image turning.” William J. Hamblin (2007) defines the term as “the accidental or deliberate misinterpretation by one culture of the images or myths of another one, especially so as to bring them into accord with those of the first culture.” In fact, iconotropy is commonly the result of the way cultures have dealt with images from foreign or earlier cultures. Numerous accounts from classical antiquity and the Middle Ages detail how cult images were involved in such processes of misinterpretation, both symbolically and materially. Pagan cultures for example deliberately misrepresented ancient ritual icons and incorporated new meanings to the mythical substratum, thus modifying the myth’s original meanings and bringing about a profound change to existing religious paradigms. Iconotropy is a fundamental concept in religious history, particularly of contexts in which religious changes, often turbulent, took place. At the same time, the iconotropic process of appropriating cult images brought with it changes in the materiality of those images...The conference hopes to generate new research questions and creative synergies by initiating conversation and the exchange of ideas among scholars in the arts and humanities.

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