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• 15 aoû 2017

  Metz

  Call for papers - Europe

  Landscapes of the strange

  Art and research relating to the visible and invisible traces of conflicts - interdisciplinary and inter-artistic approaches to war heritag

  This symposium is part of the research project “landscape(s) of the strange. On visible and invisible traces of a regional heritage in transformation. Artistic and theoretical (re)-constructions of a cross-border history marked by major conflicts” started in 2016. To begin with, the project approached the notion of “trace” or “mark” in its material (heritage, architecture, vegetation) and immaterial (memory, culture) dimensions, especially those related to the concrete landscape of Lorraine which bears the mark of a conflictual history opposing Frenchmen and Germans, especially during the two World Wars.

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• 21 jui 2013

  Gravelotte

  Call for papers - History

  From One War to the Next: What Was Left of 1870-1871 in 1914?

  International Relations, Armies and Societies

  In Yesterday’s World: a European Memory, Stefan Zweig considered he could speak of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before 1914 as a “golden age of security” when “nobody believed in wars”, which were widely thought to belong to “bygones eras”. Indeed, one of the first questions that comes to mind on the eve of the commemorative events of 2014 is what did Europeans make out of the war and what did it mean to them: what memories and forms of knowledge fed their understanding of the new reality that faced them in the summer of 1914?

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