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  • Siena

    Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

    Classicamente. Dialoghi Senesi sul Mondo Antico

    The junior researchers and PhD students from the Anthropology of the ancient world curriculum of the PhD course in Classics and Archeology are promoting the fourth edition of the seminar cycle Classicamente. Dialoghi Senesi sul Mondo Antico. This year's edition will focus on the varied methodologies and hermeneutical perspectives which represent the scientific guidelines followed by scholars in anthropology of the ancient world ever since its development. It will also focus on those approaches that today contribute to a constant enrichment and renovation of this field of study. Our goal is to offer to all those who take part the chance to present their work, be it the result of long research or elements of a work in progress, in an enviroment open to discussion between different perspectives (anthropological, philological, historical, archeological, semiotic etc.). 

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  • Padua

    Call for papers - History

    Crisis and infrastructures: responses to change between materiality and immateriality

    A dialogue between Anthropology, Geography and History

    The purpose of the conference is to explore the interactions between crised and infrastructures starting from a pivotal question: is it possibile to consider transitional processes as moments of "a transformazion that includes some essential elements of the previous phase?" (Pombeni 2013: 12) Or are they to be intended just as a dramatic interruptions and breaks? PhD Students, Post-Docs and Research Fellows of historical, geographical and anthropological training are invited to partecipate in the construction of a moment of dialogue and excange. The aim is to stimulate an interdisciplinary discussion that will encompass all historiographical epochs, from antiquity to the present day, and question not only the role of infrastructure in the resolution of crises, but also the various implications of critical moments and of their conception.

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  • Ferrare

    Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity

    Meeting at the borders: Mediterranean hybrids in pre-Roman Italy

    Le colloque « Se rencontrer aux frontières : hybridations méditerranéennes dans l’Italie pré-romaine » entend promouvoir une réflexion sur le thème des frontières et des modalités de rencontre et d’hybridation entre populations d’origine différente dans l’Italie préromaine dans un cadre analytique pluridisciplinaire, associant l’étude des données archéologiques à une vision historique et anthropologique des relations ethno-politiques et sociales.

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  • Turin

    Call for papers - Thought

    Aristotle in Quotation: An example of the reappropriation in philosophy of the discourses of past knowledge

    Quatrième colloque dans le cadre du Programme Le problème de la réappropriation par la philosophie des discours de savoir antérieurs (Colloque 1 : « La poésie archaïque comme discours de savoir », 28-29 novembre 2014 ; Colloque 2 : « La poésie dramatique comme discours de savoir », 21-22 mai 2015; Colloque 3:  « Platon citateur : un exemple de réappropriation par la philosophie des discours de savoir antérieurs », 29-31 mars 2017). Faisant fond sur les résultats obtenus lors des trois colloques précédents (en cours de publication chez les Classiques Garnier), nous aurons à examiner les citations (directes ou indirectes) de Aristote non seulement aux poètes archaïques et classiques, mais également aux autres discours de savoir non philosophiques.

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  • Florence

    Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

    Constructing Kurgans

    Burial mounds and funerary customs in the Caucasus, Northwestern Iran and Eastern Anatolia during the Bronze and Iron Age

    The tradition of burying the dead in burial mounds (kurgans), usually consisting of a funerary chamber limited by stone or brickslabs and covered by dirt and gravel, started in the fourth millennium BCE in the northern Caucasus and then spread south to the rest of the Caucasus regions, eastern Anatolia and northwestern Iran during the Bronze Age and Iron Age. The spread of the kurgan tradition, as well as the territorial, political, social, and cultural values embedded in their construction and their symbolic relation to the surrounding landscape are under debate. The workshop aims to examine chronological issues, cultural dynamics at inter-regional scale, rituals and burial patterns related to these funerary structures. The beliefs and ideologies that possibly connected the "kurgan people" over such a wide geographical area, as well as past and present theoretical frameworks, will also be discussed.

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  • Urbino

    Call for papers - Sociology

    Metamorphosis: the landslide of identity

    Dans le cadre du projet « À partir d'Ovide », l'association culturelle Rodopis organise un colloque titré Metamorfosi: identità in smottamento (Metamorphosis: the Landslide of Identity), qui aura lieu à Urbino (Italie) le 30 novembre et 1 décembre 2017. Le colloque se propose d'analyser dans une perspective multidiscliplinaire (la participation de sociologues, anthropologues, historiens, philosophes, experts de littératures anciennes et modernes est souhaitée) les problèmes posés par les notions d'indentité, alterité, transformation, soit à partir de l'examen de cas d'études, soit à partir d'une perspective epistémologique.

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  • Rome

    Call for papers - History

    Meanings of rituals

    Incense and religion in ancient societies

    Although several studies have drawn attention to the role of incense as an ingredient in ritual and a means of communication between men and gods, there remains no comprehensive examination of the practical functions and cultural semantics of incense in the ancient world, whether as a purifying agent, a performative sign of a transcendent world, an olfactory signal to summon the deity, a placatory libation, or food for the gods. Moreover, recent archaeological research has provided evidence (alongside literary, epigraphic and iconographic evidence) that the physical origins and chemical constituents of incense are complex and diverse, as are their properties : resins, vegetable gums, spices, and a welter of aromatic products that could be exhibited and burned before ancient eyes and noses. These were components of a multi-sensory religious experience in which music, colourful costumes, lavish banquets and tactile encounters defined the ritualsensibilities of the community.

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  • Cagliari

    Conference, symposium - History

    Hagnos, Miasma and Katharsis

    A journey between the categories of the pure and impure in the imagination of the ancient world

    Le colloque international « Hagnos, Miasma, Katharsis. Voyage entre les catégories du pur et de l’impur dans l’imaginaire du monde ancien » (Cagliari, 4-6 mai 2016) propose une mise au point sur les études consacrées aux phénomènes du pur et de l’impur et à leur exégèse antique. La réflexion autour de ce thème privilégiera une approche interdisciplinaire, tenant compte des perspectives iconographique, littéraire, anthropologique et historico-religieuse, afin d’encourager une confrontation et un dialogue élargis entre les spécialistes de cette question cruciale pour comprendre les mentalités antiques.

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  • Cagliari

    Call for papers - Religion

    Hagnos, Miasma, Katharsis. The journey between the categories of purity and impurity in the imagination of the ancient world

    Dans le monde ancien, l’exigence d’accomplir des actes de purification, liés au besoin d’expier une faute ou d’accompagner un changement de statut, est perçue comme capitale dans beaucoup de circonstances. Les mots miasma et catharsis utilisés pour désigner respectivement la souillure et la purification, englobent de fait une dimension beaucoup plus articulée, qui se situe entre les sphères de compétence du pur et de l’impur. Les occasions qui prescrivaient le recours à des rites de purification étaient en rapport avec des phases liminaires de la vie, telle la naissance, la mort, mais aussi le mariage, ou encore avec les festivités religieuses. La mort était par exemple considérée l’une des principales sources de souillure. Le miasma qui l’accompagnait pouvait contaminer les dieux et les hommes, les vivants et les morts. Tous devaient alors indifféremment se soumettre aux rituels de purification. Les divinités elles-mêmes n’hésitaient pas à prendre les distances des individus contaminés, comme Artémis, lorsqu’elle abandonne son favori, Hippolyte, à son destin.

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  • Rome

    Study days - Prehistory and Antiquity

    The right to a tomb - recruitment and funerals under Antiquity

    Le recrutement des ensembles funéraires antiques

    Grâce aux efforts conjoints d’archéologues, d’anthropologues, d’historiens et d’épigraphistes, les avancées récentes de la recherche en archéologie funéraire permettent aujourd’hui une bien meilleure connaissance du recrutement des ensembles funéraires antiques, c’est-à-dire de leur composition en termes de sexe et d’âge, mais aussi de statut social et juridique des individus.A partir de différentes études de cas, l’objectif de cette journée d’étude est de proposer quelques pistes de réflexion sur les critères et les motivations de la sélection des individus dans les ensembles funéraires de la Méditerranée antique, à la fois d’un point de vueméthodologique et interprétatif.

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  • Palermo

    Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity

    Feeding animals/Eating animals. Theories, Attitudes and Cultural Representations of Nutrition in Ancient and Medieval World

    Memoria scientiae 2015

    According to ancient biological theories, nutrition is, along with reproduction, one of the functions of the soul shared by men, animals and plants. At the same time, however, eating habits are among the starting points on which differences between humans, animals and plants are culturally built. This means that a transversal biological praxis can be used as an anthropological device, in order to to fix and identify specific boundaries and thresholds, either symbolic or theoretical, between both animality and vegetality on the one hand, and zoosphere and  anthroposphere on the other hand.

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  • Palermo

    Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

    Memoria scientiae 2015: Feeding animals/Eating animals

    Theories, attitudes and cultural representations of nutrition in ancient and medieval world

    According to ancient biological theories, nutrition is, along with reproduction, one of the functions of the soul shared by men, animals and plants. At the same time, however, eating habits are among the starting points on which differences between humans, animals and plants are culturally built. This means that a transversal biological praxis can be used as an anthropological device, in order to to fix and identify specific boundaries and thresholds, either symbolic or theoretical, between both animality and vegetality on the one hand, and zoosphere and  anthroposphere on the other hand.

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  • Rome

    Conference, symposium - History

    Magno e Latio Totaque Ausonia

    Etnografia virgiliana e Italia augustea

    Ausonia, in senso aggettivale originario, è prima di tutto la meta del viaggio di Enea: in accezione minima, quindi, il Lazio; ma nella prospettiva virgiliana orientata su Roma, Ausonia è nell’Eneide sinonimo di Italia nella sua valenza massima, estesa a tutta la penisola. Allo stesso modo, se Ausonii saranno gli Italici nel loro complesso (e nelle Georgiche l’aggettivo qualifica già gli stessi Romani), nell’Eneide è ausonio dapprima il mondo italico ostile ai Troiani. C’è senza dubbio artificio nel sistema etnografico del poema virgiliano, ma esso appare funzionale e finalizzato: in Virgilio la rievocazione del passato italico mira all’emergere dell’Urbs come risultante dell’interazione di elementi etnici eterogenei e alla raffigurazione dell’Italia di Augusto come superamento di tali elementi nel consensus universorum attorno alla figura del princeps. Proprio in virtù della sua natura ‘alchemica’, alla rappresentazione virgiliana del popolamento italico è stato spesso riconosciuto problematico valore in sede di indagine etnografica; ad analisi minuziosa la testimonianza dell’Eneide si rivela però fondata su base documentaria tutt’altro che disprezzabile (né è possibile escludere che talvolta il testo virgiliano rifletta situazioni arcaiche altrimenti non note): recuperarne le chiavi di lettura è obiettivo del presente convegno.

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  • Rome

    Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

    Choice pieces. The destruction and manipulation of goods in the Later Bronze Age: from reuse to sacrifice

    Durant la fin de l’âge du bronze et au début de l’âge du fer (c.1300-700 av JC), des objets en bronze ont été enfouis en grand nombre, parfois après avoir été intentionnellement brûlés, tordus, déchirés ou encore réduits à l’état de fragment. Découverts dans des tombes, ceux-ci sont reliés aux rituels funéraires, le plus souvent par le biais d’une assimilation au défunt. En revanche, ces objets détruits, manipulés – qu’ils soient biens de prestige ou d’usage plus commun – posent encore de nombreuses questions quand on les retrouve à l’intérieur des habitats, dans les sanctuaires ou dans les dépôts.

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