Calenda

The multilingual circulation of knowledge and transnational histories of geography

In the last fifty years, the field of the history of geography has moved from an approach dominated by National Schools to an attention to the circulation of knowledge in its multiple scales. The history of science and of geography have in the last decades incorporated concepts such as transit, networks, mobilities, the transnational, circulation, centre of calculation, spaces of knowledge, geographies of science, spatial mobility of knowledge, geographies of reading and geographies of the book. More recently, a turn has emerged towards considering the dynamics and necessities of decolonizing the history of geography. This work is turning the field of the history of geography into one of the most dynamic areas of the discipline. Yet we suggest that questions of language and translation have remained under-determined in this new field. Translation and writing have not received the same attention as, for instance, departmental histories, sites of museums, laboratories, botanic gardens, and scientific societies, for example. We suggest, therefore, that new perspectives opened up by translation studies can open new windows on the history of geography.

Leeds

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Text as object in the Middle Ages

The International Medieval Congress (IMC) is the largest medieval studies conference in the world. In line with the Special Thematic Strand in 2019 “Materialities” and the recent creation of the strand “Manuscript studies”, we organize sessions on “Text as object in the Middle Ages”. Texts, indeed, are at the same time an idea and a form. The latter is the result of a combination of inherited social uses and specific intentions by the various actors involved in transmitting the text as idea. This process begins with the authors, continues to the craftsmen (parchment and paper makers, copyists and chancery clerks, painters and illuminators, sculptors and weavers, booksellers…) and then on to possessors, readers, archives and libraries. All textual artefacts are concerned: manuscripts, charters, inscriptions, tapestries, seals, coins, etc.

Saint-Omer

Call for papers - History

The Literary Exchanges and Intellectual Encounters of Humanists in the Northern Provinces during the Renaissance

First Saint-Omer international colloquium

The first Saint-Omer international colloquium is co-organized by the Centre de Recherche et d’Études Histoire et Sociétés (EA 4027 CREHS - Université d’Artois), and the Cultural Services of St Omer country’s Urban district (CAPSO). It is part of the pluri-disciplinary research programme The Renaissance in the Northern Provinces, coordinated since 2015 by Pr. Charles Giry-Deloison and Dr. Laurence Baudoux, and is in the continuity of the conferences already held at the University of Artois. The Saint-Omer colloquium aims to address all expressions of the Renaissance in the field of Humanities (philosophy, literature, arts), in the former Southern Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It will focus in particular on the exchanges, encounters and bonds between the main actors of this cultural revival.

Florence

Call for papers - Early modern

(Re) thinking translations

Methodologies, objectives, perspectives

In the last four decades, scholars have begun to go beyond the traditional perspective of linguistic and literary studies, and to consider the translations as cultural practices and the result of various processes of cultural and intellectual “negotiation” between two different contexts. In recent years also historians have progressively started to take a close interest in translations as sources to investigate the ways in which knowledge and ideas were constructed, disseminated, re-elaborated and assimilated in new cultural, social and political contexts. The aims of this international conference is to encourage an interdisciplinary dialogue on these problems, bringing together scholars, graduate students and early career researchers from Translation Studies, History, History of Book, History of Science, Literary Studies and related disciplines who are interested in discussing methodologies, objectives and perspectives in the study of translations.

Oxford

Call for papers - Early modern

Printing and misprinting: Typographical mistakes and publishers’ corrections (1450-1600)

This one-day symposium – opening with a keynote lecture by Anthony Grafton (Princeton) – aims to explore the notions of typos and manuscript or stop-press emendations in early modern print shops. Building on Grafton’s seminal work, scholars are invited to present new evidence on what we can learn from misprints in relation to publishers’ practices, printing and pre-publication procedures, and editorial strategies between 1450 and 1600.

Call for papers - America

Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades

Revue Études Canadiennes / Canadian Studies, n°77, February 2015

The Revue Études Canadiennes / Canadian Studies seeks contributions in English dealing with Alice Munro’s short fiction writing (particularly Dance of the Happy Shades).

Leuven

Conference, symposium - Religion

Vernacular Bible and Religious Reforms

International Colloquium

Dans les développements religieux en Europe du nord-ouest, la Bible était souvent instrumentalisée, comme étalon, source de conflit ou tout simplement pour son intérêt propre. Ce fut le cas avec la Devotio Moderna, l’humanisme biblique, la Réformation et la Contre-Réforme catholique. La mise à disposition des Écritures Saintes en langue vernaculaire représente le trait d’union entre ces mouvements de réforme dans leurs rapports respectifs avec la Bible. Bien que la Bible ait influencé de plus en plus en profondeur tous les aspects de la culture et de la société en Europe du nord-ouest, son étude scientifique a mené à la désacralisation du livre dès les dernières décennies du seizième siècle, et s’est ensuite inscrite en Europe dans les tendances de sécularisation. Au moyen des pamphlets notamment, la discussion s’est disséminée sur une plus grande échelle. L'objet de ce colloque est de dégager la signification et l’influence mutuelle des traductions de la Bible en langue vernaculaire et des réformes religieuses.

Lausanne

Call for papers - History

Textual (id)entities in late medieval Europe (13th-15th c.)

Dans le cadre du projet de recherche OPVS ("Old Pious Vernacular Successes), financé par le conseil européen de la recherche de novembre 2010 à octobre 2015 (www.opus.fr), un colloque est organisé au sujet des identités textuelles au cours du Moyen Âge tardif. Celui-ci se tiendra à Lausanne en février 2013.

Tokyo

Conference, symposium - Asia

Keisai (1764-1824) et l'art du livre illustré

D'Edo à Paris

Symposium public en japonais sans traduction, à l'occasion de la publication des Dessins abrégés de Keisai (INHA, éd. Picquier, 2011).

Nancy

Call for papers - Sociology

Les vies du livre

Colloque international, Nancy-Université, 20-21 juin 2008

Le groupe de recherche I.D.E.A. (“Interdisciplinarité dans les Études Anglophones”, E.A. 2338) de Nancy-Université lance un appel à communications en vue d’un colloque sur « Les Vies du Livre » qui se déroulera à Nancy les 20 et 21 juin 2008. Dans le cadre de la réflexion sur l’interdisciplinarité menée au sein d’IDEA, le colloque envisage d’explorer, par le biais de perspectives diverses, les questions liées à la production, à la distribution et à la réception du livre. Sont particulièrement encouragées les communications ayant trait aux domaines et champs d’étude suivants: l’évolution historique du livre, le statut du livre dans la culture contemporaine, le livre et le texte. Parmi les autres champs d’étude envisageables on peut citer: les politiques de préservation du livre dans les archives et les collections publiques et privées, l’illustration et l’ornementation du livre, les rééditions et les nouvelles éditions, les études comparatives de différents marchés du livre.

Poznań

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Culture of Memory in East Central Europe in the Late Middle Ages

The University Library of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań will host the conference „Culture of memory in East Central Europe”. The conference will be held in the Research Center and Library of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Ciążeń, in the neighborhood of Poznań, with accommodations in the former Bishop’s Palace in Ciążeń.

Glasgow

Conference, symposium - Representation

Prix Goncourt 1903-2003

The programme for the upcoming (15-16 March) University of Glasgow (Crichton Campus) conference on the centenary of the prix Goncourt is now available.The highlight will be a keynote address by Edmonde Charles-Roux, President of the Academie Gonco

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