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  • Call for papers - Middle Ages

    Individuality and Tradition in Medieval Book Culture. A Comparative Approach to Variation

    For this special issue of Vox medii aevi, dedicated to Variation in Medieval Book Culture, we invite original research addressing the subjects of the manuscript variation in different language cultures of the Middle Ages; variation and working strategies of medieval scribe; oral and written in the medieval book culture; place of the retelling in the medieval book culture; variation in specific contexts; and variation and methodology of its research in medieval studies.

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - Middle Ages

    Time in the Middle Ages

    16th annual symposium of the International Medieval Society – Paris

    For its 16th annual symposium, the International Medieval Society Paris invites scholarly papers on any aspect of time in the Middle Ages. Papers may deal with the experience or exploitation of time, its reckoning or measuring, its inscription, its theorization, or the question of how or why or whether we should demarcate the “Middle Ages.” Papers focusing on historical or cultural material from medieval France or post-Roman Gaul, or on texts written in medieval French or Occitan, are particularly encouraged, but compelling papers on other material will also be considered.

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  • Oxford

    Call for papers - Representation

    The British, American and French Photobook: Commitment, Memory, Materiality and the Art Market (1900-2019)

    The Maison Française conference committee invites proposals on the social history of the British, American or French photobook from 1900 to the present. Papers will address: commitment or explicit political engagement; memory, commemoration and the writing of history; materiality (whether real or virtual), and how material form affects circulation, handling, critical responses and the social life of the photobook. We invite contributors to analyse these topics with respect to the growth of the market for the photobook as a commodity and an object of bibliophilic attention. Proposals focusing on contemporary productions are particularly welcome.

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  • 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.

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  • Oxford

    Seminar - Representation

    Towards a Social History of Photoliterature and the Photobook

    (Séminaire, Maison Française d'Oxford, 2017-2018)

    This international seminar brings together researchers working on photography and the book with interdisciplinary approaches, connecting the aesthetic and material dimensions of the photobook with social, economic and political perspectives.

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  • Oxford

    Seminar - Representation

    Towards a social history of photoliterature and the photobook

    This international seminar brings together researchers working on photography and the book with interdisciplinary approaches, connecting the aesthetic and material dimensions of the photobook with social, economic and political perspectives.

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  • Call for papers - Europe

    First issue of new journal “Early Modern Low Countries”

    In the spring of 2017, Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) will publish its first issue. The new open access journal will appear in two installments every year, containing high-quality, original scholarship for an international readership on any aspect of the history and culture of the Low Countries between 1500 and 1800. The successor of two well-reputed Dutch-language journals (De Zeventiende Eeuw and De Achttiende Eeuw) EMLC aspires to publish papers by scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds working anywhere in the world.

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  • Florence

    Call for papers - History

    The author – Wanted, dead or alive

    New perspectives on the concept of authorship, 1700-1900

    The goal of this conference is to reassess, challenge, and enlarge the concept of authorship, by giving the author a post-mortem of sorts. To do this, we want to bring together fresh and critical historiographical perspectives on the concept of authorship, and challenge participants to think in comparative and transnational frameworks. Ideally, we seek to draw together work from a wide variety of sub-disciplines, creating a dialogue which connects often-separated fields such as book history and literary history.


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  • Ghent

    Conference, symposium - Representation

    Tracing types

    Comparative analyses of nineteenth-century sketches

    A new wave of scholarship has emerged in recent years, which examines nineteenth-century sketches (sometimes referred to as “panoramic literature”) from a transnational perspective. The present international conference seeks to continue this comparative reflection by placing the spotlight on the comparative analysis of texts and images of specific types and by tracing how these representations vary across sketches from different places, media and editorial contexts.

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  • Lisbon

    Call for papers - History

    Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Exchanges

    Censorship in the dynamics of cultural exchanges in early modern times

    This panel is about a technology in the early modern ideological and textual control. It debates upon the censorship corrective procedures. In the framework of reception studies and communication theories, censorship as a whole is both a medium and a source of noise and perturbation of the message. It is considered as an obstacle and a positive element to its development. The phenomena about negotiation between intellectual and material producers of knowledge (works of Raz-Krakotzkin, Jostock) lead to reflect on the interactions between the actors of politics of control. These often vary due to local, chronological, political and religious circumstances. But censorship studies tend to localize the fields of investigation.

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  • 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.

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  • Berlin

    Call for papers - Middle Ages

    Re-inventing traditions

    On the transmission of artistic patterns in illuminated manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages in terms of art history, restoration and palaeography

    Le colloque « Traditions réinventées » se déroulera à la Freie Universität Berlin en coopération avec la Gemäldegalerie de Berlin du 08 au 10 juin 2012 et sera dédié aux recherches sur la transmission des modèles artistique dans les manuscrits à peintures de la fin du Moyen Âge au regard de l’histoire de l’art, de la restauration et des aspects paléographiques. L’appel à contribution se dirige vers des jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses (doctorant(e)s et post-doctorant(e)s) de l’histoire de l’art et des disciplines apparentées.

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  • Belfast

    Call for papers - Representation

    States of Crime: The State in Crime Fiction

    L’université Queen’s de Belfast organise les 17 et 18 juin 2011 un colloque international et interdisciplinaire sur l’État et le roman policier. Les propositions de contribution venues de nombreux domaines des sciences sociales et des sciences humaines et s’intéressant à cette relation sont les bienvenues et peuvent être adressées jusqu’au 28 février 2011, sous forme d’un résumé d’environ 300 mots à statesofcrime2011@gmail.com. Les communications, d’une durée de vingt minutes, devront être en anglais.

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  • Brussels

    Conference, symposium - History

    Urban Networks and the Printing Trade in Early Modern Europe (15th-18th century)

    L’imprimerie, depuis son apparition au milieu du XVe siècle, a imprégné la culture occidentale d’Ancien Régime et conquis l’espace urbain. Le typographe est en effet le point de convergence d’une série de circuits intellectuels, industriels et commerciaux. Dans le prolongement des réflexions méthodologiques et historiographiques menées en histoire urbaine et dans le cadre de l’histoire du livre, ce colloque, organisé à la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique (Bruxelles) le 6 novembre 2009, a pour ambition de porter un regard nouveau sur l’identité urbaine du médiateur culturel qu’est l’imprimeur. Dans quel environnement évolue-t-il? Qu’en est-il de son assise spatiale et sociale? Existe-t-il des spécificités, des continuités, des processus régissant l’organisation des rapports entre l’imprimeur et les élites urbaines?

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  • 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.

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  • Toronto

    Call for papers - Representation

    Bohème sans frontière : production et internationalisation d’une posture

    Un colloque international se tiendra sur ce thème du 10 au 13 décembre 2008. Les chercheurs sont invités à adresser leurs propositions (un titre et un texte programmatique d’une dizaine de lignes, en français ou en anglais) avant le 1er septembre 2007 à Anthony Glinoer (anthony.glinoer@utoronto.ca) et à Pascal Brissette (pascal.brissette@mcgill.ca). Les communications seront prononcées en français ou en anglais et ne devront pas dépasser 25 minutes.

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  • London

    Conference, symposium - Information

    Books on the move : tracking copies through collections and the book trade

    2006 Annual Conference on Book Trade History

    This year's annual conference on book trade history will trace individual copies and their movement in and out of collections and across international frontiers, exploring aspects of the history of provenance and book ownership.

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