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  • Dresden

    Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

    The geometry of medieval images

    On le sait (le sait-on ?), une image, au Moyen-Âge, n’est pas composée selon les règles de la perspective. C’est à la compréhension d’un autre modèle géométrique, sur lequel s’appuyèrent les images médiévales, et qui disparut au cours du XVIe siècle, que ce colloque sera consacré. Pour quelles raisons ? Les images médiévales ont-elles quelque rapport avec la géométrie ? N’est-ce pas la plus mauvaise manière de parler d’elles, qui s’entêtent à ne pas respecter des règles simples de proportion, qui sont parfois incapables de tracer deux lignes parallèles, et qui souvent n’essaient même pas d’esquisser un paysage un tant soi peu cohérent ? Plutôt que de penser les termes « géométrie » et « espace » d’une manière toujours défaillante par rapport aux images médiévales, nous voudrions les maintenir, quitte à redéfinir ce qu’on appelle, au Moyen Age, une géométrie, un espace ; et une image ?

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  • Heidelberg

    Conference, symposium - History

    Order into Action

    How large-scale concepts of world-order determine practices in the premodern world?

    The conference “Order into Action” asks if political, geographical or religious large-scale concepts constituted the basic elements of systems of world order and how those concepts were translated into concrete actions or practices. In order to include a comparative view on regions and cultures, the confereince combines the perspectives of scholars in European, Arabic and Islamic and Asian Studies, as well as outlooks on premodern societies in (sub-saharan) Africa, the Americas and Australia.

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  • Berlin

    Conference, symposium - Europe

    History and drama: The pan-European tradition

    DramaNet Conference V

    Rereading Aristotle, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Demetrius through the lens of contemporary narratology provides scholarship with a potentially fruitful perspective for investigating the relationship between historical narrative and other forms of literature. In particular, the reflections of Dionysius and Demetrius on narrative style at the micro-level, as well as those of Aristotle on history and tragedy as ways of representing knowledge at the macro-level, might enable historians and comparatists to focus on the question of how pan-European historical narratives are related to the drama of their times.

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  • Rauischholzhausen

    Call for papers - History

    Reading History in Antiquity

    Audience-Oriented Perspectives on Classical Historiography

    The 21st century could justifiably be deemed an era highly fertile for the examination of ancient readership of classical historiography. This is because the last decades have contributed to the liberation of modern scholarship from the nineteenth-century positivism’s persistence in scrutinizing the “objectivity” of ancient historians and seeing them mostly as the celebrated exemplars of critical acumen and scientific conscientiousness. On the contrary, if we try to summarize the prevailing modern perspectives on classical historiography, we may refer to the analysis of the ancient historians’ view of the nature of the historical development, their goals in preserving the past by writing history, the literary qualities of ancient historical accounts, and the techniques the ancient historians used in order to disseminate certain ideological and interpretive messages and to create specific emotions in their readers.

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  • Halle

    Scholarship, prize and job offer - Early modern

    Wiedemann Fellowships for Enlightenment Studies

    Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

    Chaque année, le centre offre deux bourses Wiedemann pour des projets de recherche dédiés à l’étude des Lumières européennes. Afin de permettre à des chercheurs allemands et étrangers d’effectuer un séjour à Halle, une bourse pour doctorants ainsi qu’une bourse pour chercheurs plus expérimentés sont offertes annuellement. Ces bourses sont généreusement financées par la Fondation Dr. phil. Fritz Wiedemann. 

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  • Hamburg

    Conference, symposium - History

    Discursos conservadores en el mundo ibérico, siglos XIX y XX

    El coloquio sobre “Discursos conservadores en el mundo ibérico, siglos XIX y XX” reúne a reconocidos especialistas internacionales en la historia de las ideas y de los movimientos conservadores, para fomentar la discusión sobre similitudes y diferencias de los diversos discursos conservadores en América Latina, España y Portugal. El evento enfocará cuatro aspectos: la formación y el desarrollo de los discursos conservadores, su relación con el catolicismo, su carácter, a menudo, elitista y su orientación anticomunista.

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  • Bremen

    Call for papers - Modern

    Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology in Soviet Film and Culture

    By maintaining the tension between artists’ imaginative approaches to technology in the Soviet Union (Meyerhold’s Biomechanics), film directors’ use of science such as physiology (Eisenstein’s Expressive Movement), and scientists’ own theorization of art history (Lev Vygotsky’s The Psychology of Art), this workshop aims at unpacking the historical and political forces behind Soviet film theory, film practice, and art history in relation to science and technology. While examining the juncture between art, science, and technology in post-Revolutionary Russia, with a focus on the avant-garde period until the death of Joseph Stalin, cinema is thus considered as a device beyond its medium of film (Francois Albera, Maria Tortajada: Cinema Beyond Film) and the medium-specificity of the arts is called into question.

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  • Berlin

    Conference, symposium - Modern

    Form und Leben. Morphologie als Paradigma zwischen Philosophie und Wissenschaft

    Tagung des DFG-Netzwerks “Morphologie als Paradigma” in Zusammenarbeit mit dem ZfL Berlin

    Die Tagung eröffnet die Forschung zum Begriff der Morphologie im Rahmen des DFG-Netzwerks »Morphologie als Paradigma«. Im Horizont der namensgebenden These werden hier zur ersten Orientierung kultur- und naturphilosophische sowie poetologische und lebenswissenschaftliche Verwendungen von morphologischen Modellen ins Gespräch gebracht. Dabei soll zum einen der Modellfunktion der Morphologie bei Ernst Cassirer, zum anderen der Frage nach Parallelen bis in die moderne funktionsbiologische Disziplin Raum gegeben werden. Letztlich steht damit in kritischer Auseinandersetzung auch zur Debatte, ob hier möglicherweise ein Ansatzpunkt zur Redefinition der Aufgaben und Methoden der Kulturphilosophie liegt.

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  • Münster

    Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

    Four Visiting Fellowships for Postgraduates "Cultures of Decision-Making"

    The Integrated Graduate School of the Collaborative Research Centre/SFB 1150 “Cultures of Decision-making”, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the University of Muenster since July 1st 2015, is offering  four visiting fellowships for postgraduates/doctoral candidates  in 2016 for a period of up to six months, starting in April 2016. The closing date for applications is March 20th 2016.

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  • Halle

    Scholarship, prize and job offer - Early modern

    Research visit grants at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into the Enlightenment in Europe

    Martin-Luther Halle-Wittenberg University

    Chaque année, le  Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les Lumières en Europe lance un appel à candidatures pour des séjours de recherche dédiés à l’étude des Lumières européennes. Ces bourses ont pour but de permettre à de jeunes universitaires ainsi qu’à des chercheurs plus expérimentés de travailler durant deux à trois mois sur un thème relatif aux Lumières (au sens large du terme). 

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  • Augsburg

    Call for papers - History

    The Bonds That Unite?

    Historical Perspectives on European Solidarity

    The concept of “solidarity” is in many respects fundamental to the European project. While pro-European intellectuals had long applied it as a more or less abstract reference, the concept evolved into a solid cornerstone of European unity after the Second World War. The notion of a European solidarity union was essential to validating the integration process and had always been a component of redistribution policies on the supra-national level. Nevertheless it remained context-sensitive and open to interpretation and consequently was always the outcome of complex negotiation processes. The conference will examine various manifestations and interpretations of the solidarity concept in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. 

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