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• 17 nov 2016

  18 nov 2016

  Evora

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  Political communication and diplomacy in the Late Middle Ages

  This meeting wants to carry out a state of the art on the history of medieval diplomacy, a topic on methodological renewal process. For this, it will focus on aspects such as new historiographical tendencies the wide range of sources available (literature, archives, letters...), sociology of the protagonists (clergy, nobility, lawyers, merchants...) and the different political contexts of medieval diplomacy (papacy, kingdoms, cities...).

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• 01 jui 2013

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Arabic Chancellery Documents through the Prism of Historicity

  Writing, Vocabulary, Syntax, and Intertextuality from ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib (d. 750) to al-Qalqashandī (d. 1418)

  This conference will address the evolution of chancellery styles, their regional diversity, and the history of the rhymed prose (sajʿ), this language of authority that was supposed to obey rules definitively fixed by the Prophet or the first secretaries of the Islamic Empire. What were the technical modalities for innovation? On what semantic, lexical, syntactical, and/or graphic levels did it manifest? Rather than on norms, codes, and rules, studies will focus on writing styles, orthographic variants, atypical handwriting, deletion, the transgression of norms, semantic revitalization, neologisms, and the variety of styles for citing the Quran or referencing ḥadīth. We are seeking to renew study of a corpus considered not as a fixed and ossified text, technical and off-putting, but as a living, evolving, and diverse ensemble.

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• 29 nov 2012

  30 nov 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  Coopérants et coopération en Afrique : circulations et transferts culturels (de 1950 à nos jours)

  Aux lendemains des indépendances en Afrique, d’intenses circulations de personnels aux compétences variées perdurent entre anciennes métropoles et colonies et les coopérants en sont des figures majeures. Si la sociologie et les sciences politiques se sont déjà penchées sur le cadre institutionnel, les figures et les pratiques des coopérants, l'histoire permet d’examiner à nouveaux frais cette question, en mobilisant les outils de l'historiographie transnationale et de la sociologie de la circulation des idées et en insistant sur les interactions, les médiations et les hybridations culturelles coproduites par cette rencontre entre coopérants et partenaires ou sociétés des pays d’accueil. Ce colloque examinera le sens et les discours de légitimation des trajectoires en coopération, à travers des portraits de groupes ; il analysera, sur le terrain, les interactions et les transferts entre acteurs mais aussi les circulations et reformulations des pratiques et des savoirs. Enfin dans une perspective comparative, il envisagera la coopération venu de « l'Est ».

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