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  • Call for papers - Early modern

    Construction Techniques and Writings on Architecture in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe

    Thematic issue of the journal Opus Incertum (Florence University Press)

    The 2020 issue of the open access journal Opus Incertum (Florence University Press) aims to examine, through selected case studies, the complex relationship between construction practices and architectural writings in Renaissance and early modern Europe. Situated at the crossroads of several disciplines (architectural history, history of science and technology, history of literature), the subject can be approached from different perspectives. To begin with, confrontations of texts on construction techniques with the material realities of extant buildings may reveal, for specific contexts, to what extent these texts operated as vehicles for the transmission of technical know-how, and how much weight they gave to topoi borrowed from ancient authors. 

     

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  • Helsinki

    Call for papers - History

    Urban spaces, mobility and "citadinité" in the Mediterranean cities (14th to 18th century)

    The panel focuses on mobility and insertion in the cities of the Mediterranean area, during the early modern age. Since the Ancient times, Mediterranean cities are centers for commercial and cultural exchanges, and crossroads of migratory streams. These "sedimented" cities have a long tradition of multi-cultural society and reception of foreigners while remaining, to this day pivotal centers for international circulation and migration, and gateways to Europe.

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  • Villetaneuse

    Study days - History

    1660-1688: A Landmark Period in the History of British Sociability

    1660-1688: un tournant dans l’histoire de la sociabilité britannique ?

    Dans le cadre du projet interdisciplinaire « History and Dictionary of Sociability in Britain (1660-1832) », la journée d’étude du 14 novembre 2014, organisée par PLEIADE (université Paris 13) et HCTI (UBO Brest) vise à étudier la période de la Restauration à la Glorieuse Révolution (1660-1688) comme une période charnière dans l’histoire de la sociabilité britannique, portant en elle les germes d’une sociabilité nouvelle. Il s’agira d’identifier les facteurs politiques, sociaux, économiques et culturels propices à l’essor de la sociabilité britannique et d’interroger le caractère novateur des formes, des pratiques et des vecteurs de cette sociabilité.

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  • Paris

    Conference, symposium - Urban studies

    Persistent Spaces

    Politics, aesthetics and topography in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century city

    This two-day conference brings together young researchers to explore the city and its ideologies from a fully interdisciplinary perspective. Persistent Spaces combines approaches from various fields in order to create a dialogue between disciplines and methodologies. This conference also seeks to establish a dialogue between the 18th and the 19th centuries, in turns highlighting the individual specificities of these two periods, and accounting for the echoes, continuities and breaks between them. 

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - History

    Persistent Spaces: politics, aesthetics and topography in the XVIIIth and XIXth-century City

    Our two-day postgraduate conference will explore the evolving configurations of the urban space from the Enlightenment to the late 19th-century. We will consider the accumulating and interpenetrating layers that make up the 18th- and 19th-century city. London and Paris will be our main focus, but this palimpsestic model may be extended elsewhere, and we will welcome abstracts centring on other cities. Interdisciplinarity will be key to our conference. We hope to attract researchers from various fields, including literature and the arts, sociology, philosophy, law, science and engineering, etc. Through this ‘decompartmentalized’ approach, we will attempt to shed light on the myriad facets of the 18th- and 19th-century city. 

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  • Prague

    Call for papers - History

    Gender and Luxury in the Urban Economy, 1700-1914: A European Perspective

    Appel à communication en vue de la onzième conférence internationale d'histoire urbaine (Prague, 29 août-1er septembre 2012) dont le thème est : villes et sociétés. Approches comparatives. Cet appel concerne la session M24 : Gender and Luxury in the Urban Economy (1700-1914): a European Perspective.

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  • Prague

    Call for papers - History

    Experts, Municipal Leaders and Power in the City, 1750-1950

    Appel à communications pour une session de la onzième conférence internationale d'histoire urbaine, Prague, du 29 août au 1er septembre 2012 : Experts, Municipal Leaders and Power in the City, 1750-1950. Cette session sera consacrée aux relations de pouvoir entre les experts techniques et les autorités municipales, de 1750 à 1950. Les communications pourront être données en français ou en anglais.

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  • Paris

    Conference, symposium - History

    Recycling Luxury and Waste: the Afterlife of Used Things in the 18th century in Britain and France

    International conference

    Conférence internationale 22 et 23 juin 2010 Université Paris-Diderot-LARCA. Two-day conference June 22nd and 23rd 2010 organized by Ariane Fennetaux, Amélie Junqua, and Sophie Vasset.

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  • Call for papers - Urban studies

    Plague, resource, outlet: visions and uses of urban rivers (18th-20th centuries)

    Theme issue of Geocarrefour (vol. 85, 2010)

    L’objet de ce numéro est d’introduire un croisement entre l’histoire et la géographie au sujet du rapport sociétés/environnement, qui permette de revisiter les profondes mutations des usages et des représentations des rivières urbaines, depuis l’aube de l’industrialisation jusqu'aux temps présents.

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  • Ghent

    Call for papers - History

    Migrant Communities and Urban Space in the Mediterranean ports, 17th-19th centuries

    Tenth International Conference on urban History, Ghent 1st-4th September 2010

    Recent research on migrant communities has witnessed a clear shift towards a more sophisticated understanding of the variety of bonds that link minority groups to the society they live in, as well as to their places of origins. Yet, when it comes to the understanding of past migrations, historical discourse still depends in many ways on traditional categories of analysis, that often poorly reflect the profound originality of the situations under study. This session is an attempt to challenge traditional and “ready-to-go” views on the organization of community life among migrants who lived in the Mediterranean port-cities during the late modern period (17th to 19th centuries).

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  • Berlin

    Seminar - Urban studies

    Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar 2008-2009

    Daily Life in Ottoman Towns

    What is the historical experience of cities in the former territories of the Ottoman Empire - in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East, and North Africa - in dealing with the impact of global changes and the transformation from Empire to nation States? How did people of different cultural, social and religious backgrounds live together? How are such examples of conviviality, conflict, migration, and urban regimes of governance and stratification conceptualized? And how have urban traditions been reinterpreted, and what bearing does this have on modern conceptions of civil society, multicultural societies, migration, or cosmopolitanism. These and other questions will be addressed in this year’s Seminar in Ottoman Urban Studies, with a specific focus on daily life issues. This seminar is supported by the research program ‘Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe’ EUME with funds of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.

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  • Lille

    Call for papers - Early modern

    L'armée et la ville du XVIe siècle à 1914

    L’armée et la ville dans l’Europe du Nord et du Nord-Ouest du XVIe siècle à 1914

    CENTRE DE RECHERCHE SUR L’HISTOIRE DE L’EUROPE DU NORD-OUEST (CRHEN-O) – Équipe « Espaces et Cultures de la ville » - Université Charles-de-Gaulle-Lille 3 / Université catholique de Louvain Appel à communication pour le colloque : L’armée et la vil

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