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• 13 avr 2018

  Paris

  Study days - Language

  Christianity, language contact, language change

  The present workshop addresses questions of language contact and language change, as well as language standardization in the Christian context both in Europe and in the New World (Americas, Africa) through a study of diachronic and synchronic corpora. Special attention is paid, on the one hand, to the role of translation as a sight of language contact, and on the other hand, to register variation as an indicator of differential propagation of innovations appeared in Christian context.

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• 31 mai 2015

  Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - History

  Voicing Dissent in the Long Reformation

  The 8th Triennial Conference of the International John Bunyan Society

  The conference will concentrate on the expression and representation of Protestant Dissent, Nonconformity and Puritanism (1500–1800), with an emphasis on the relationship between written and oral cultures. Topics might include: preaching, singing and praying; public and private devotion; conferences and disputations; epistolary conversation; religion and politics; rumour and defamation; reading and publishing Dissent; the representation of emotions...

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• 31 jan 2014

  Lyon

  Call for papers - History

  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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• 30 jui 2012

  Mulhouse

  Conference, symposium - Early modern

  Radical Voices, Radical Ways: Articulating and Spreading Radical Ideas in the British Isles, 17th-18th centuries

  « Voix / voies radicales : dire et diffuser le radicalisme dans les îles britanniques (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) ». Colloque international interdisciplinaire, Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse (France) – 11-13 avril 2013, organisé avec le soutien d’ILLE (Institut de recherche en langues et littératures européennes, EA 4363).

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• 07 jan 2010

  Rennes

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Censorship and Discourse in English-Speaking Countries (XVIth-XXIst centuries)

  L’unité de recherche ACE (EA 1796, Rennes 2) organise un colloque international sur « Censure et discours dans les pays anglophones ». L’objectif est de générer des approches interdisciplinaires sur le thème de la censure, du XVIe au XXIe siècle. Les aires culturelles sont celles du Royaume-Uni et des pays du Commonwealth ainsi que de l’Amérique du Nord (Etats-Unis, Canada). Pour les besoins de la communication internationale, le colloque se déroulera intégralement en langue anglaise.

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