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• 20 mai 2016

  Nantes

  Call for papers - Geography

  Surviving the End of the World as We Know It

  Historical and Geographical Perspectives

  Great natural disasters which have struck populations (floods, hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, massive droughts, etc.) are part of the intricate history of human communities and their relationship with their environment, contributing to social and cultural changes within these communities. This call for papers focuses on a multidisciplinary  approach and suggests that applicants: Study and investigate the various responses given to disasters in ancient and modern times; Analyze the evolution of public policies dealing with natural risks and their consequences on land planning; Study long term factors of adaptation to risk which reveal a territory’s resilience; Provide a specific interest in coastal regions.

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• 08 avr 2015

  Mons

  Call for papers - History

  Festivals in Hainaut at the time of Jacques du Broeucq

  The aim of the conference is to bring to widespread public notice a famed series of occasions when, as the hub of Renaissance Europe, the Low Countries commanded the continent’s attention, with Hainaut and its capital Mons featuring as the site of the most famous and influential events. These took place in 1549 when Charles V, Count of Hainaut and Holy Roman Emperor, attempted to determine the continent’s dynastic, political and economic future by nominating as his successor his son Philip of Spain. With this aim in mind, Charles’s sister Mary of Hungary commissioned a series of magnificent festivals, the most lavish of which took place in September of that year at her palaces close to Mons at Binche and Mariemont.

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• 23 oct 2014

  Paris

  Study days - Ethnology, anthropology

  Heritage and mined areas

  Cultural safeguard and armed conflicts

  L’objectif de cette journée d’études est de questionner les usages institutionnels et locaux du patrimoine et de la rhétorique de la sauvegarde culturelle en contexte de violence ou de post-conflit, sur le continent africain, qu’il s’agisse de guérilla, de rébellion, de guerre civile, voire de génocide. Le positionnement éthique et l’exercice réflexif se révèlent par ailleurs incontournables lorsque l’on s’intéresse aux conséquences des violences armées sur la sauvegarde du patrimoine matériel ou immatériel, culturel ou naturel des sociétés africaines, ou à la manière dont les conflits et les guerres font l’objet de commémorations ou de patrimonialisations après-coup, dans une optique de réconciliation nationale ou de réparation. Cette journée d’études rassemble les communications de chercheurs d’horizons géographiques et disciplinaires variés.

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