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• 20 sep 2013

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Empire of letters and Tigers of parchment

  International Medieval Congress

  Script is not a neutral communication medium. Scripts were particularly used throughout the Middle Ages to stage the idea of Empire, power and domination. The writing has the ability to connote authority and Empire and to inspire respect. On the other hand, the scriptural domain is a world in itself with its coherence and history. The idea of an ‘Empire of letters’ may have emerged within this world too. Both parts of this “empire of letters” are relevant for the palaeographical sessions on the specific thematic strand of ‘Empire’ organised at the International Medieval Congress 2014 in Leeds and sponsored by Apices and Cap Digital.

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• 30 nov 2012

  Dijon

  Call for papers - History

  Time Heals All Wounds

  Resisting the Authority of History in the Concepts of Nation and Nationalism

  The journée d’étude (research day), “Time Heals Time Heals All Wounds: Resisting the Authorityof History in the Concepts of Nation and Nationalism” will be held on May 31, 2013 at the University of Burgundy (Dijon). Papers will explore Benedict Anderson’s concept of the “reassurance of fratricide” in order to study how internal national conflicts are rewritten in the fields of history, literature and education to create an apparently harmonious national narrative.

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