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• 15 déc 2018

  Montreal

  Call for papers - History

  Medieval studies in the digital age - pedagogical issues and training through research

  Call for contributions for the next Ménestrel network conference

  La rencontre se focalisera sur le numérique et les études médiévales qui intègrent des compétences et des traditions disciplinaires variées : histoire, philologie, littérature, philosophie, philologie, histoire de l’art, histoire du droit et musique. La phase initiale de bouillonnement et de foisonnement liée au développement des Humanités numériques ayant déjà quelques années, le colloque visera à faire le point en s'appuyant en particulier sur des pratiques déjà mises en œuvre dans des structures d'enseignement scolaire et universitaire.

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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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• 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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• 01 sep 2013

  Montreal

  Call for papers - History

  War and Peace in French history

  Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies (SFHS)

  The SFHS conference’s theme will be “War and Peace in French history”, with special reference to the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Scheduled guest-speakers will be twentieth century specialists Professors John Horne (Trinity College, Dublin) and Martha Hanna (University of Colorado, Boulder), both noted scholars of France and the Great War; and Philippe Contamine, Emeritus Professor of medieval history and Membre de l’Institut, who will lecture on the theme of the Hundred Years War in comparison with World War I.

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