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Économie politique et fiscalité dans l’Orient hellénistique et romain
Le projet de cette journée serait de faire dialoguer des historiens, philologues, papyrologues, épigraphistes et archéologues spécialistes d’économie et de fiscalité antiques afin de découvrir comment ces deux disciplines pourraient plus étroitement travailler ensemble et mettre en commun leurs savoir-faire techniques et théoriques.
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Cologne
Rethinking tobacco history: Commodities, empire and agency in global perspective, 1780–1960
Tobacco was one of the most important globally traded commodities from the 17th century through to the present day, and yet it has received relatively little attention in the historiography of modern empires in comparison to other commodities, such as sugar or cotton. As a result, recent approaches to rewriting the history of European imperialism from a more global perspective have hardly been problematized with regard to the peculiarities of tobacco history. Nowadays, studies no longer understand empire as a rigid relationship between metropole and colonies, but take the dynamics of actors within an empire as seriously as the networks and global processes that crossed imperial borders, or indeed lay beyond them. The conference starts from this assumption.
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Helsinki
Living under Empires: A View from Below
What have Mesopotamian Empires ever done for their people? Tracking the macro in the micro
In this workshop, we aim to take the view from below and investigate in what way imperial dynamics may have affected the lifeways of people in their territories. The basic questions of this workshop are: How did the empires of the Ancient Near East affect the lives of ordinary people in their realm? To which extent was rural life and life in smaller towns permeated by imperial agents and policies, hence by imperial dynamics?
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Montpellier
The Ancient and the New Silk Roads: Discourse and Knowledge
Les Routes de la Soie (et du Corridor) constituent un des plus importants réseaux de communication et de développement humain au monde. Ces routes ont depuis toujours participé à la connexion de plusieurs espaces, régions, pays, continents et à la construction d’anciennes et nouvelles civilisations et sociétés. S’étendant de l’Extrême-Orient, au Proche-Orient et au Moyen-Orient jusqu’en Afrique et en Europe, notamment méditerranéenne, ces routes continuent de fournir de considérables efforts pour rapprocher l’Orient et l’Occident, l’Est et l’Ouest et même le Nord et le Sud avec leurs multiples stratégies de développement et d’ouverture sur de nouveaux horizons, cultures, empires (chinois, romain, arabe, musulman, etc.) et espaces depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’à nos jours. Ce rapprochement a commencé par le commerce à courte puis à longue distance avec la circulation des matériaux, des biens et des marchandises de valeur (porcelaine, thé, épices, soie, etc.), tout en conduisant aussi à la circulation des idées, des savoirs et savoir-faire dans différents domaines (sciences, littérature, architecture, urbanisme, économie, etc.).
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The inter-regional Francophone world and "One belt, one road": new vectors of transversality?
Revue internationale des francophonies journal
Le projet chinois à long terme « Une ceinture, une route » reflète une mutation des alliances et un décentrement des dynamiques mondiales. Ses dimensions matérielles et immatérielles en font une nouvelle architecture mondiale, une plateforme en évolution constante au service d’interactions internationales multilatérales et bilatérales. Elles ambitionnent de restructurer la gouvernance mondiale multi-sectorielle dans un contexte de forte interdépendance qui exclut une confrontation directe. Quels sont ses sources, ses moyens et son rayonnement ? S’agit-il d’une déconstruction de l’héritage politique et économique occidental ? Quelles en sont les perceptions par les principaux partenaires de la Chine (ordre de substitution ou affrontement, complémentarité ou rivalité) ?
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Budapest
Visible and invisible borders between Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern World
It has traditionally been argued that with the rise of the modern nation state, borders increasingly became lines demarcating the spatial limits of state power. Recent efforts have been made to re-examine this territorial argument and pay close attention to the social, cultural, political, economic, and religious networks that created, reinforced, and also traversed borderlands. Though war, conquest, and diplomacy repeatedly redrew the dividing lines between empires and kingdoms, extensive interactions and exchanges left the borderlands with deeply entangled roots and routes. These patterns, mechanisms, and forces had a deep impact on all aspects of life and are still felt today. Arguably, no single element has been more dominant in shaping this complex relationship than the regional historiographies and historical memories that tried to write the empires out of their pasts entirely.
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Paris
The Chinese economy at the crossroads, inventory and probably future
Après une première session en 2018 axée sur la compréhension du mécanisme, des facteurs et du processus qui permettent à la Chine sa croissance depuis quatre décennies, la deuxième session du séminaire cherche à faire un état des lieux de l'économie chinoise, en analysant ses tendances, les défis qu'elle rencontre aujourd’hui et les rapports économiques de la Chine avec le monde extérieur.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - History
Maritime Knowledge for Asian Seas
An interdisciplinary dialogue between maritime historians and archaeologists
This conference will close a four-years French-Taiwanese research project (ANR/MOST) on Maritime Knowledge for Asian seas (seaFaring), which propose to reconsider, and possibly to review, our knowledge on China’s seafaring tradition through a new approach focusing on the practical know-how available to the craftsmen, seamen and merchants during the 16th-18th centuries, with special emphasis on sailing and trading knowledge and practices.
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Venice | Helsinki
A global history of free ports
Capitalism, commerce and geopolotics (1600-1900)
Exactly how free ports arose in early-modern Europe is still subject to debate. Livorno, Genoa and other Italian cities became famous as major examples of a particular way of attracting trade. Between the late eighteenth and the nineteenth century the existence of free ports – as specific fiscal, cultural, political and economic entities with different local functions and characteristics – developed from an Italian and European into a global phenomenon. While a general history of free ports – from their first emergence to the present-day special economic zones – has never been written, this research network aims to pave the way for such an enterprise. The history of free ports research network is organising a number of conferences in the next years, in order to work towards a standard publication and interactive research platform for the history of free ports from the XVIth to the early XXth century.
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Lomé
China in Africa - what agricultural cooperation for what food security?
L'université de Lomé, en partenariat avec l'ambassade de Chine au Togo, organise, du 3 au 5 octobre à l'université de Lomé, un colloque international sur le thème : « La Chine en Afrique : quelle coopération agricole pour quelle sécurité alimentaire ? ». Il sera question de questionner le partenariat actuel dit gagnant-gagnant entre les pays africains et la Chine dans le domaine agricole pour en tirer les leçons qui s'imposent.
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Paris
Operative knowledges of matter, from Renaissance to industrialization
Following the renewal of the history of Technology and of the history of chemistry, this Research Seminar intends to explore operative knowledge in chemistry in connection with several fields including economics, political management, consumption and production processes. It seeks to shed a light, since the Early modern period, on various configurations where experimentation, exploration, transformation of Matter were held, through a wide range of technical devices.
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Abu Dhabi
Conference, symposium - History
This conference is an international symposium that proposes to study the entire range of exchanges and relations established between these two areas during the Early Modern Times (1500-1820). Its main objective is to think about diplomatic, economic, religious and cultural links between Europe and the Middle East by calling upon over twenty researchers with specializations in the Arab, Persian and Muslim world. In addition, this conference will provide a comprehensive overview to date of the Arabian Gulf at a time of major political change, including the successive arrival of the European “trading empires”. It will focus on some of the methodological challenges raised by a global, connected and cross-cultural thinking approach to the History of the Middle East and Europe”.
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Saint Petersburg
The Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg owns the world's largest collection of works by Carl Fabergé, including nine of the famous imperial easter eggs, and aims to become the main international platform for the study of the art and life of the famous jeweler. In this year marking the 170th anniversary of Carl Fabergé, the museum dedicated its annual academic conference to Carl Fabergé, his firm's activities in Russia and abroad, its place within Russian culture as well as to Fabergé's influence on modern and contemporary jeweler’s art.
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Cambridge
Practices, Politics, and Policy in Premodern Societies (6th-17th Centuries)
Money is at once elusive and concrete. As a mode of economic exchange it exists within a relatively fixed playing field, with clearly delineated boundaries of benefits and costs. However, poor handling, bad advice, or even a bad turn at a game of chance can swallow money up in one fell swoop. The workshop will investigate this wide array of pre-capitalist, western and non-western contexts from the English Isles, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, and China between the Middle Ages and Early Modern times.
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Lyon
Conference, symposium - History
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Food and Foodways in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean
Within the rapidly expanding area of research on food and foodways, the medieval eastern Mediterranean is still very much an unexplored area. The aim of the POMEDOR project (People, Pottery and Food in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean) was to explore this new field in a multidisciplinary way and to stimulate further research.
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Nogent-sur-Marne
The Political Economy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
An accurate assessment of the current economic and political situation in Iran today clearly implies examining the relations between the structure of political power, the dominant forms of ownership, and economic activity. Furthermore, the interweaving of the economic and political spheres in Iran today can be better understood through this lens. Finally, an analysis of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s political economy can also provide keys to understand the country's future political evolutions. An analysis in terms of political economy thus requires a multidisciplinary approach involving exchanges between economists, political scientists, sociologists, and historians.
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Lausanne
The Smaller European Powers and China in the Cold War, 1949-1989
This international conference aims to examine the policies of the smaller European powers towards China – and vice versa – during the Cold War. Thereby it focuses, on the European side, on both Western and Eastern Europe – regardless of whether a country was part of the NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Meanwhile, on the Chinese side, the conference proposes to include both Chinas, namely the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (RoC). While this should allow for the analysis of different relational constellations, the chronological framework – that ranges from the Communist victory in China in 1949 to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989 – should enable us to identify policy shifts and patterns.
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Transnationalizing the Arabian Peninsula: local, regional and global dynamics
Arabian Humanities No 7
The seventh issue of Arabian Humanities explores regionalisation and globalisation processes in the Arabian Peninsula from a transnational perspective: it focuses on practices, institutions, networks and spaces as powerful factors that structure the sub-region’s social, cultural, economic and political dynamics and evolution.
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Porto
Circulation internationale des produits textiles (XIVe-XVIe siècle)
Aucune forme de manufacture n’a eu dans l’économie et dans la société européennes un impact semblable à celui de l’industrie textile. Dans de nombreuses régions d’Europe, le secteur occupa le plus grand nombre de travailleurs et enregistra les indices les plus élevés de production. Les tissus furent la marchandise prédominante du commerce régional et international, approvisionnant des marchés de l’Asie et de l’Afrique du Nord. De son côté, le commerce international de matières-premières et de tissus eût un rôle important dans le développement du secteur financier, dans le cas des lettres de change et d’autres instruments de crédit. Pour toutes ces raisons, il semble opportun de promouvoir une réflexion particulière sur cette branche très spécifique du commerce internationale des XIVe-XVIe siècles. Des recherches récentes sur les livres de comptabilité de compagnies commerciales toscanes permettent de connaître un peu mieux les complexes réseaux de ce commerce et de comprendre le schéma d’intégration des espaces économiques européens et extra-européens.
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The Role of Women in Work and Society
French historians are concerned by women’s history since thirty years, but studies are manly dealing with the Occident. For the ancient Near East, there is now a great deal of limited studies on women and gender history, but few syntheses. Furthermore, economic history is well represented in Assyriology, thanks to the good preservation of dozen of thousands of clay tablets recording administrative operations, contracts and acts dealing with family law. Despite these voluminous sources, the topic of work has not been much addressed. The thirty participants of this conference will examine the various economic occupations involving women, in a gender perspective, over the three millennia of Near Eastern history.
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