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• 31 déc 2017

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Meetings, Conflicts, Exchanges: Mediterranean Space in the Middle Ages

  Fernand Braudel writes in his The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II: “The Mediterrenean has no unity but that created by the movements of men, the relationships they imply, and the routes they follow” [1972: 276]. The position of the Mediterranean, at the intersection of three continents, has made it a vital location in these movements of men, women and children. These movements continue, sometimes with tragic consequences, to this day. In the Middle Ages, the meeting of peoples and cultures enabled the exchange of ideas, traditions, texts, languages, and things.

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• 20 jui 2015

  Toronto

  Call for papers - Thought

  Two key categories in Dante's work: struttura/poesia and figura

  750 ans désormais… mais de qui ou bien de quoi ? Les nombreuses initiatives par lesquelles, en cette année 2015, on célèbre Dante autour du monde constituent un lumineux paradoxe. Nous fêtons aujourd’hui un anniversaire que Dante lui-même, tout en se complaisant de citer la constellation des jumeaux qui lui avait fait don de son « ingegno », n’aurait jamais célébré, car les anniversaires de naissance, à la différence des anniversaires de morts et des saints patrons, sont une pratique culturelle établie au bas Moyen Âge et à l’époque moderne seulement.

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• 01 mar 2014

  Vancouver

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Troubadour Poetry : "Lieux de mémoire"

  In keeping with the 2015 Presidential theme for the 130th MLA Annual Convention (Vancouver, BC; 8-11 January, 2015) the MLA Provençal Discussion group seeks proposals for its session devoted to troubadour poetry and 'lieux de mémoire,' or sites of memory.

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