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• 15 sep 2016

  Kalamazoo

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Walruses, Whales and Narwhals

  Maritime Ivories in Western Europe, 900-1500

  In the history of carved ivories, maritime mammals have often been eclipsed by the elephant, considered as a nobler ivory to which walrus or whale ivory would only be a poor man's substitute. But this historiographical view is not without its shortcomings, as not only did walrus hunting play a significant role in the first European explorations toward the west, but the trade for those ivories went as far as the Islamic world and even the Far East. This session at the 52^nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, sponsored by the National Museum of Scotland, aims to address the variety of questions posed by the maritime ivories: how the raw material was collected, how it was traded, the workshops that carved them and their specific symbolic value in medieval treasuries

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• 07 jan 2008

  Quebec City

  Call for papers - Modern

  Tendances et défis des politiques culturelles dans les pays occidentaux

  La Chaire Fernand-Dumont sur la culture de l’INRS et le Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine du Québec (MCCCF) organisent, dans le cadre du 76e Congrès de l’ACFAS, un colloque international sur les politiques culturelles nationales : tendances, enjeux et défis. Ce colloque a pour objet d’explorer la diversité des relations politique/culture et des enjeux et défis se présentant au sein de sociétés relativement comparables. Plus précisément, il se propose de réfléchir sur les fondements et l’avenir des politiques culturelles dans différents pays.

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• 01 jui 2002

  Charleston

  Call for papers - History

  The Military in Victorian England

  The Victorians Institute Conference will be held October 4-5, 2002 at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. Featured Speaker: John R. Reed, Distinguished Professor of English, Wayne State University.

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