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Leeds

Illness as Metaphor in the Latin Middle Ages

Leeds International Medieval Congress 2021

The session seeks to provide a forum for scholars to reflect on the variation and functions of metaphors of illness in the Latin writing of the Middle Ages. We encourage papers that investigate how the imagery of morbus, pestilentia, gangraena etc. structured individual experience and how it shaped self-knowledge and practices of communities. We invite original contributions that critically examine the role that Latin metaphors of illness played in medieval discourse as a tool of explaining reality and as a rhetorical device used to impose specific world views.

Paris

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation

"All Alone" in East-Central Europe: Reinventing the Orphan from the Fascist to the Socialist Era

International PhD Contract 2020-2023

Full-time, 36-month-long international PhD contract at Sorbonne University (PhD program IV) within the research centre Eur'ORBEM and in partnership with the French Research Centre in Social Sciences (CEFRES) in Prague, from 1 October 2020, under the supervision of Clara Royer. The PhD thesis may be written in French or in English. PhD propositions should focus on the discourses and practices surrounding the orphan condition in literature and/or visual arts (cinema, photography, graphic arts and so forth) in the wake of the violence and demographic upheavals that characterized 20^th century East-Central Europe. Because of its interdisciplinary scope, applicants with a background in social history, literary studies and/or visual arts specialized in one or several countries of East-Central Europe may apply.

Batalha

Call for papers - History

Materialities and devotion (5th-15th centuries)

V Medieval Europe in motion

The last decades have witnessed the development of studies on material culture, favouring an inter- and multidisciplinary approach. This has enabled a more cohesive reading of the way in which the medieval Man related to his material environment, manipulating, adapting and transforming it, of the uses given to the objects he produced, the meanings attributed, how he interacted with them in cognitive and affective terms.

Madrid

Conference, symposium - History

Letters between women, exchanges and epistolary mediations

Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, 8th-15th century

Première rencontre de MISSIVA (Lettres de femmes dans l’Europe médiévale, Espagne, France, Italie, Portugal, VIII^e-XV^e s.) dans le cadre des programmes pluriannuels de l’École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques, ce colloque international propose une réflexion sur l’intérêt de l’épistolaire pour appréhender l’histoire des femmes. Il est consacré en particulier à la correspondance entre femmes et à l’émergence de ce que l’on pourrait considérer comme de véritables chaînes de médiation, ainsi qu’aux enjeux de ce type de sources. Dans quels contextes les femmes s’écrivent-elles et à quel propos ? Ces documents ont-ils une spécificité formelle et discursive ? Que révèlent les lettres de femmes des liens qu’elles entretiennent avec leurs correspondants ? Que nous apprennent-elles du champ d’action et d’influence de ces femmes ? Telles sont les questions qui seront abordées au cours de la manifestation scientifique.

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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31 jan 2018	07 mar 2018	07 fév 2018
21 jan 2018

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.

Poitiers

The sacred and speech - vows in the Middle Ages

The aim of this meeting is to work about sacrament and oath in the Middle Age. This event will allow to researchers of different relevances (litterature, philosophy, history, philology) to cross their studies.

Call for papers - Early modern

Scotland: migrations and borders

Revue « Études écossaises » n°19, 2016

The 2016 edition of the journal Etudes écossaises will focus on Scottish culture, history and politics through the prism of migrations and borders. Papers in English or French will be welcomed from specialists in all fields of Scottish studies including arts and literature, civilization studies, history, political science, culture and the media.

Call for papers - History

Purity and Impurity

Hamsa. Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies, nº 2

“Purity” and “Impurity” establish themselves as structural categories in both Islam and Judaism, embracing dimensions as diverse as the body, food, clothing and even space itself. The 2^nd issue of the journal Hamsa will be devoted to this wide-ranging theme, seeking to obtain diachronic historical perspectives. To this effect, we aim to promote the analysis of interfaith relationships, in those instances where purity and impurity are projected in contacts with the Other. Those dimensions concern not only the minorities, but also affect Christianitas itself, through interiorization of these concepts and their application to minority communities (as is the case, for example, with limpeza de sangue - “cleanliness of blood”).

Le Havre

Conference, symposium - History

Writing about slavery

Ce colloque proposera à la fois une réflexion théorique et la présentation d’études de cas sur le récit d’esclave dans les mondes anglophone, francophone et hispanophone. Les interventions examineront notamment le contexte et le rôle politique des récits : genre et périodisation, publication, circulation et réception, réécritures contemporaines du récit d’esclave. Faisant suite à cette présentation théorique et à ces études de cas, la dernière partie du colloque, qui ouvre également l’exposition Paul et Virginie, un exotisme enchanteur, organisée du 22 novembre 2013 au 18 mai 2014 à l’hôtel Dubocage de Bléville, est consacrée à l’étude des écrits de l’esclavage dans le monde indianocéanique entre l’époque de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre et le premier XIX^e siècle.

Catania

Call for papers - History

Living together in a multi-cultural society

Dans le cadre de l’EMUNI, l’Université de Catane organise une « école d’été » sur les sociétés multiculturelles. La première semaine est consacrée au dialogue interculturel dans le bassin méditerranéen et aux relations politiques et économiques des pays de la Méditerranée. La deuxième semaine comprend deux séminaires de littérature, l’un sur l’histoire du genre et la littérature féminine, l’autre sur l’observation du territoire à partir de la mer.

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