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Palermo

Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

Memoria scientiae 2015: Feeding animals/Eating animals

Theories, attitudes and cultural representations of nutrition in ancient and medieval world

According to ancient biological theories, nutrition is, along with reproduction, one of the functions of the soul shared by men, animals and plants. At the same time, however, eating habits are among the starting points on which differences between humans, animals and plants are culturally built. This means that a transversal biological praxis can be used as an anthropological device, in order to to fix and identify specific boundaries and thresholds, either symbolic or theoretical, between both animality and vegetality on the one hand, and zoosphere and anthroposphere on the other hand.

Bologna

Call for papers - Europe

The politics of French literature in Italy in the 20th century

Notre colloque propose de s’intéresser aux développements de la présence du livre français en Italie et à l’identité littéraire de la France en Italie, au XX^e siècle. Il s’agira de s’intéresser prioritairement à la place des auteurs français et de la littérature française, classique et contemporaine : dans les politiques d’acquisition des bibliothèques italiennes et au sein des organismes de contrôle des publications ; chez les éditeurs italiens, y compris scolaires, dans les revues littéraires et la presse nationale italienne ; dans les pratiques de lectures des Italiens, enfin ; dans les bibliothèques des centres culturels français d’Italie et au sein de la diplomatie française en Italie.

Liège

Call for papers - History

Essere uomini di “lettere”: segretari e politica culturale nel Cinquecento

As part of two research projects lead at the University of Liège – EpistolART and Artists, men of letters and secretaries of the Duke in the court of Cosimo I de’ Medici – a conference dedicated to the figure of the secretary in the sixteenth century will be held on the 26th and 27th of February in Liège. The primary aim of this meeting is to question the secretary’s role as linking between the arts and letters to political institutions.

Bologna

Call for papers - Urban studies

Architecture and liturgy: design autonomy and standards

The second International Seminar offers a new stage of critical reflection on the relationship between the liturgical and ecclesiastical guidelines offered by the Second Vatican Council and church architecture, and propose a reflection on what the terms of dialogue and the interdependence between architecture and liturgy are. The dogmatic constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium is a fundamentally important document in the Church's struggle for renewal with immediate and obvious repercussions on the architectural questions concerning the construction and organization of the celebratory space. Therefore, this Seminar is intended as an occasion to compare and propose various ways of seeing and experiencing the relationship between autonomy and the standard applied to the architectural design, in reference to conciliar liturgical instances.

Saint-Martin-d'Hères

Call for papers - History

France and Italy (1956-1967)

Ce colloque international se situe dans la continuité des travaux interdisciplinaires menés entre 1981 et 1990 par le comité d’historiens franco-italiens alors présidé par Jean-Baptiste Duroselle et Enrico Serra. Il s’agira de reprendre l’étude des médiations et des rapports franco-italiens sur les plans diplomatique, culturel et économique de 1956 à la veille de 1968.

Venice

Call for papers - Modern

Living war. Thinking peace (1914-1921)

Women’s experiences, feminist thought and international relations

The themes of the conference will bring together women’s experiences of war, feminist thought on the war/peace dichotomy, and the actions and behaviours that actualised the female vision of the issues and suffering brought about by the war.

Brussels

Call for papers - History

Renovatio, inventio, absentia imperii

From the Roman Empire to Contemporary Imperialism

At the heart of the present conference will be the ‘reception’, ‘Nachleben’ or ‘permanence’ of the Roman Empire, of an idea and a historical paradigm which since Classical Antiquity has supported the most widespread claims to obtain and consolidate power. The focus will be on ‘culture’, this latter concept intended in a broad sense, i.e. including not only the arts, architecture, literature etc., but also philosophy, religion and, most importantly, discourse. As such, a wide array of themes will be subjected to academic scrutiny. Whereas the main focus will be on Europe and North America, this conference will also reach out towards non-Western contexts, whether or not directly related to the Roman example.

Lyon

Call for papers - Economy

Economics and politics according to Ferdinando Galiani

Ferdinando Galiani n’a pas bénéficié de colloque totalement consacré à ses écrits économiques et politiques. Ses écrits littéraires et sa correspondance, ont été à plusieurs reprises, examinés, largement traités et publiés. Ce colloque a en vue de mobiliser des compétences différentes, soit économiques, soit historiques, dans la perspective d'une collaboration interdisciplinaire. Il s’agit d'un côté de tenter une reconstruction aussi complète que possible de l’analyse économique de Ferdinando Galiani, à travers ses deux ouvrages principaux : Della Moneta et Dialogues sur le commerce des blés. La question posée et peu traitée est celle de la relation entre ces deux ouvrages. Il s’agit aussi de mobiliser dans les archives, ses rapports sur les questions de commerce et de manufacture, de droits de douanes et de taxes, tous les textes que Galiani a pu produire en qualité de secrétaire d’ambassade ou en qualité d’expert et de membre du conseil du commerce du royaume de Naples. Ceci dans un contexte où l’agriculture représentait une question centrale pour le développement économique et où la concurrence internationale extrêmement agressive représentait un vrai problème pour l’État.

Grenoble

Call for papers - Europe

Heritage and digital humanities

This interdisciplinary and international conference aims at gathering and confronting two notions that are currently quite fashionable: heritage and digital humanities. Heritage, to be understood as goods shared by a community and founding its cultural identity, is to be taken in its widest meaning. Digital humanities offer methods, practices and numerical tools serving traditional research objects, but also new ones and leading to new theoretical and analytical approaches.We shall question the specific contribution of digital humanities to the development and dissemination of a given heritage. What can be the advantage of digital technologies with regards to more traditional approaches, whether it is museographical, ethnologic, literary, linguistic, etc.?

Florence

Call for papers - Thought

VIth Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics

Facts and Values in Aesthetics: Contemporary Stakes and Approaches

In a text entitled The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays (2004), Hilary Putnam argues convincingly against a classic opposition which does not serve philosophical reflection positively. Putnam’s analysis mostly focuses on the theory and practice of knowledge, but one can legitimately extend it to other fields, starting with that of aesthetics, which sooner or later is confronted with the question of whether one defends or rejects the dichotomy. Keeping or rejecting it implies reasons to do so, but often these reasons remain implicit, most especially in aesthetics.

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