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Saint Petersburg
In 2018 the international conference “History and Its Images”, organized by the Department of Art History of the European University at St. Petersburg, was dedicated to Francis Haskell’s seminal book of the same title, which greatly influenced the study of the visualization of the past. In 2020 we will host a second conference on the representation of the past in the arts and visual culture. Among the questions to be discussed are: how the visuals art and visual culture produce images of the past, how these images were perceived by the different communities and how they were transformed by the national context of their production.
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Milan
The transformations of Literature and Art Criticism in periodicals between the 18th and the 21st century
Although unquestionably all-pervasive within the history of modern and contemporary press, the ‘review form’ has been to present an understudied practice. In fact, this multi-faceted, cross-disciplinary form that has persistently accompanied the different phases in the evolution of “print-capitalism” has hardly been analysed from a theoretical perspective. This dismissal by the academic world is certainly peculiar, if not manifestly contradictory; however, it significantly testifies of the difficulty of investigating such a slippery object of study critically.
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Tempe
Conference, symposium - Early modern
Gendered Species: Colette, Gender and Sexual Identities
Espèces genrées : Colette, le genre et les identités sexuées
Although French woman writer Colette was indifferent to and even critical of the feminist movement of the early 1900s, in the way she lived her life as in her fiction, she exemplified financial and social independence and shame-free sexuality, or what would be call today “gender fluidity”. This international conference will show how Colette represents a vibrant and radical expression of feminism in tune with the #MeToo spirit in today's society
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Pereira
Latin American History in Global perspective
The New Science magazine ISSN:2539-2662 (Italy—Colombia) invites interested scholars to submit proposals for articles to be published as part of a dossier on “Global perspectives of Latin-American History”.
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Beirut
Reading and analysing Ottoman manuscript sources
During the four-day programme we will introduce young researchers (mostly MA and PhD candidates, but postdocs may also apply) to reading, combining and analysing manuscript sources from various archives of the Ottoman era, produced at local, provincial and imperial levels. We concentrate mainly on materials from the 16th and 20th centuries, but welcome also explorations into earlier archives.
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Paris
The Ganden Phrodang Army and Buddhist
TibArmy symposium
A number of publications have addressed the question of the coexistence of Buddhism and violence, ultimately concluding that there is no paradox between the two. In various cultural and historical contexts in Asia, the presence of Buddhism as the state religion has often involved the recourse to violence and the maintenance of an army as a necessity of government. Likewise, the policies of Buddhist rulers have repeatedly invoked religious reasons to justify military activities aimed at defending the Dharma. We invite research contributions based on primary sources illustrating the role of the Tibetan Army vis-à-vis different aspects of the Buddhist religion during the historical period of the Ganden Phodrang.
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Copyright and the Circulation of Knowledge
Industry Practices and Public Interests in Great Britain from the 18th Century to the Present
New combinations of technology, culture, and business practice are transforming relationships among authors, publishers, and audiences in many fields of knowledge, including journalism, science research, and academia. Self-publishing, open-access, open source, creative commons, crowd sourcing and copy left: these are a few of the key words associated with recent changes in how knowledge is produced and circulated. While being celebrated for their potential to democratize knowledge, many of these changes have been accompanied by heated debates on such questions as the appropriate role of experts and ‘gatekeepers’; how to ensure that such projects are both trustworthy and economically viable; and how best to balance the interests of authors, publishers, and the general public. Copyright is often at the centre of these discussions.
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Berlin
Call for papers - Representation
All the Beauty of the World. The European Market for non-European Artefacts (18th-20th century)
In the wake of the Western expansion, a fast growing number of non-European artefacts entered the European market. They initially made their way into princely cabinets of curiosities. Enabled by the forced opening and exploitation of more and more parts of the world and pushed by social and technological changes of the time, the 18th century brought a boom of the market of non-European artefacts in Europe. This came along with the emergence of a broader collecting culture and the development of a rich museumscape. This market and its development in terms of methods and places of exchange and monetary and ideological value of the objects are in the focus of an international symposium that will take place in October 2016 in Berlin.
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Paris
Captives, recruited, migrants: Empires and labor mobilization
From XVIIth century to present days
This workshop starts from the hypothesis that warfare and labor are strongly connected in Empire building and their evolution, to begin with war captives in early modern Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas and to continue with the various forms of recruitment in land and maritime empires in all those areas. Captives as well as local peasants were soldiers, seamen, and colonists at the same time. Forms of forced recruitment were still important in the XIXth century (the press system in Britain and its variations in the Empire, recruitments in Russia) and continued in the XXth century, in Europe during the wars, outside of Europe during and after colonization and decolonization up through nowadays children soldiers.
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Call for papers - Early modern
Approaches to trans-local / trans-cultural / trans-civilizational dimension of Modernist movements
The trans-cultural and trans-civilizational potential of Modernism lies at the roots of our present globalized condition; on the other hand, internal contradictions of Modernism mark the limitations of our present consciousness. This is the reason why it is important to reinterpret Modernism from a planetary perspective. Our aim in this issue of "Planeta Literatur" is to foster the debate on how to approach Modernism understood not only as a transnational, but also a trans-cultural and a trans-civilizational movement.
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Lyon
British Philanthropies 1750-1914
Reforming and Redeeming the World and the Metropolis
This one-day conference wishes to explore those concurring and complementing aspects and the evolutions that philanthropy underwent between 1750 and 1914 in the British Empire and the metropolis. PhD and postgrad students whose researches focus on philanthropic endeavours and societies, missionary organizations and/or philanthropic literature from the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century are more than welcome to speak on this occasion. Speakers are also invited to reflect on the historiographical perspectives of those issues and discuss their representations and treatment in school curricula, commemoration events and ceremonies, such as the 2007 Bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in the UK.
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Oxford
Conference, symposium - History
Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture
Scientific Communication and its History – III
This conference is the third in a series devoted to historical and contemporary perspectives on the communication of science and technology. Climate and weather provide a particularly rich and challenging case study to complete the conference series. As with other disciplines studied during the previous conferences, the climate sciences are characterised by complexity: in their professional networks; their conceptual models; and the logistics of their large-scale data and computing needs. Yet few modern scientific disciplines attract the same level of public engagement, in both everyday life and passionate debate on the future of the planet. Moreover, their status at the intersection of policy, scientific controversy and the public sphere is not a recent development: the same issues and fault lines ran through meteorology from the 18th-century onwards. Shifting interests within the history of science and the development of environmental history have greatly expanded the field in recent years. The conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on these historiographical developments via a specific focus on the communication of weather and climate from the 18th to the 21st centuries. The conference will address three themes in particular: Commodification of meteorological knowledge, Media, and Historicizing climate history. -
Geneva
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Early modern
Funded doctoral positions in Non-Western Modern Art, with a special focus on the Middle East
The project, "Other Modernities: Patrimony and Practices of Visual Expression Outside the West," is pleased to announce an open call for doctoral candidates interested in pursuing their work under the auspices of the Swiss National Fund Sinergia Program. The platform offers candidates three years of support towards a doctoral degree. -
Oxford
Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture
Scientific Communication and its History – III
Climate and weather provide a particularly rich and challenging case study to complete the conference series. The climate sciences are characterised by complexity: in their professional networks; their conceptual models; and the logistics of their large-scale data and computing needs. Yet few modern scientific disciplines attract the same level of public engagement, in both everyday life and passionate debate on the future of the planet. Moreover, their status at the intersection of policy, scientific controversy and the public sphere is not a recent development: the same issues and fault lines ran through meteorology from the 18th-century onwards. -
Nice
Colloque international et interdisciplinaire organisé par le CIRCPLES, en collaboration avec le Research Group in Urban Culture (University of Northumbria et University of Newcastle). Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Faculté des Lettres, Arts et Sciences Humaines, 26 - 28 avril 2012. -
Prague
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. -
Paris
Conference, symposium - Language
Shakespeare et les arts de la table
Congrès 2011 de la Société française Shakespeare
Congrès international sur « Shakespeare et les arts de la table », réunissant des spécialistes de trois continents. -
Paris
Call for papers - Representation
Echoes of the Georgian and Victorian societies in contemporary British arts
Conference organised by the association One Piece at a Time (GEIAB) and the université Paris-Diderot (English studies)
La deuxième journée d'étude de l'association One Piece at A Time sur les arts britanniques est réalisée en partenariat avec l'université Paris-Diderot et aura lieu le 5 juin 2010. Elle sera consacrée aux échos des sociétés géorgiennes et victoriennes dans les arts contemporains britanniques. Comment se manifestent ses résurgences et que disent-elles du moment postmoderne dans lequel elles s'inscrivent ? Comment les différentes disciplines, d'histoire de l'art, de littérature et de civilisations anglophones ou encore d'esthétique ou d'histoire répondent ces cette problématique commune ? -
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. -
Brussels
Propagandes : objectifs et pratiques au XVIe et au XXe siècles
Pouvons-nous établir des parallèles entre les objectifs de la propagande au seizième siècle et ceux de la communication de masse contemporaine ? Comment les historiens de la première modernité utilisent-ils le terme de propagande ? Quels glissements sémantiques peut-on observer par rapport à son utilisation par les historiens de la société de masse ?Pour répondre à ces questions, cet atelier de recherche propose une approche diachronique, allant de pair avec un changement de perspective : plutôt que sur les contenus, qui sont toujours spécifiques à leur époque, l’attention se portera sur les outils et les pratiques de la propagande dans la longue durée.
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