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• 20 mar 2020

  Split

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Images and Borderlands: Mediterranean basin between Christendom and Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Age

  Following in the footsteps of Fernand Braudel, an increasing number of recent studies show that the Mediterranean basin might be considered as a “borderland”, “borderscape”  or “Frontier” suggesting that this area is not strictly a border between Christian and Muslim civilization, but a basin in which the two traditions and cultures meet and overlap, with an extraordinary variety of reactions to the hegemonic practices (acceptance, conflict, refusal, dissent). The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars who will discuss, from different perspectives and with a multidisciplinary approach, the variety of themes (topics) which revolve around the common issue of reflecting the problem of borderlands as a consequence of the encounter between Christendom and Ottoman Empire in the Early modern Mediterranean. The starting point of examination will be images, i.e. the usage of images (pictures, mental images, literary images and other visual representations …) as historical evidence.

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• 18 sep 2017

  Call for papers - Thought

  What the Mediterranean means to us?

  Tête-à-tête journal n°9 (Fall 2018)

  Dire de la Méditerranée qu’elle est un creuset est un poncif ; dire qu’elle est un carrefour une évidence. Et pourtant, depuis que son nom même convoque dans la conscience collective les bateaux échoués ou la paupérisation croissante de pays déchirés par la guerre ou ravagés par la crise, elle semble avoir changé de visage. En quoi la Méditerranée résonne-t-elle en nous ? Comment pouvons-nous incorporer son legs pour construire une relation au monde actuel. Plutôt que d’en faire un concept ou une marque, que la langue en fasse un verbe.

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• 01 mar 2014

  Florence

  Call for papers - Thought

  VIth Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics

  Facts and Values in Aesthetics: Contemporary Stakes and Approaches

  In a text entitled The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays (2004), Hilary Putnam argues convincingly against a classic opposition which does not serve philosophical reflection positively. Putnam’s analysis mostly focuses on the theory and practice of knowledge, but one can legitimately extend it to other fields, starting with that of aesthetics, which sooner or later is confronted with the question of whether one defends or rejects the dichotomy. Keeping or rejecting it implies reasons to do so, but often these reasons remain implicit, most especially in aesthetics.

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