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• 31 oct 2020

  Versailles

  Call for papers - History

  The Myth of Versailles and European Courts, 18th and 19th centuries

  This symposium is organised in conjunction with the research programme “Court identities and the myth of Versailles in Europe: perception, adherence and rejection (18th-19th centuries)” led by the Centre de recherche du château de Versailles. The aim is to analyse the modus operandi of the myth of Versailles in the monarchic Europe of the 18^th, 19^th and 20^th centuries, taking into account the two contradictory yet complementary elements that characterise the idea of myth: the real and the reconstruction of the real. The focus of this conference will therefore be twofold: understanding how the different aspects specific to the identity of Versailles have fuelled an illusion, but also discerning how this illusion gave rise to other accomplishments, whether architectural, ritual or political.

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• 30 sep 2018

  Versailles

  Call for papers - History

  Court identities and the myth of Versailles in Europe

  Perception, adherence and rejection (18th-19th centuries)

  The “modern” courts in Europe included the institutional, social, societal and cultural aspects concomitant with the political affirmation of personalities emerging, by agreement or through conflict, from communities exercising power together in order to seize authority for their own personal benefit and to develop a range of encomiastic processes for their own person. In the 15^th, 16^th and 17^th centuries, the princely courts in Europe did not confine themselves to one single paradigm. There were as many courts as there were princely houses, as many “national” types, even if some, like the Burgundian court in the 15^th century and the courts in northern and central Italy in the 15^th and 16^th centuries, proposed models and exercised influence from one end of Europe to the other, while accommodating indigenous influences.

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• 31 oct 2017

  Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

  Call for papers - Modern

  Fidelio - a performative opera;

  Beethoven's opera in celebrations and commemorations (19th-21st centuries)

  Fidelio est au cœur des célébrations marquant les jubilés de la naissance ou de la mort du compositeur, mais l'opéra est aussi l’objet de diverses appropriations, voire récupérations, idéologiques et politiques au XX^e siècle, notamment sous l’effet des différents régimes autoritaires. Sur la base des idéaux que l’opéra incarne musicalement et scéniquement, il convient de questionner les multiples usages dont l’opéra de Beethoven a fait l’objet, du XIX^e siècle à nos jours, en Europe et dans le monde.

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