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Le Mans

Call for papers - History

Mémoires honteuses

Les chrétiens européens face à leurs passés embarrassants (du Moyen Âge à nos jours)

Les mémoires collectives semblent se focaliser avant tout sur des événements perçus de manière positive par les groupes porteurs de mémoire, en particulier dans le cadre des communautés chrétiennes. Témoignant de l’accomplissement d’un plan providentiel ou de la fidélité de croyants envers Dieu en dépit des difficultés, les faits mémorisés sont généralement honorables. Pour autant, certains actes commis par des chrétiens peuvent embarrasser leurs coreligionnaires des années ou des siècles plus tard. Cette journée d’étude, centrée sur le christianisme en Europe (et ses prolongements coloniaux), vise à explorer ces mémoires honteuses dans la longue durée, du Moyen Âge à nos jours.

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Call for papers - Early modern

Logics, stakes and limits of cultural heritage transmission in Eurasia

The thematic issue is about cultural heritage and patrimonialization. It aims at comparing the varying notions of “tradition” and “safeguarding of culture” within an empirical approach.We focus on conflicts about the creation of culture and how these globalised and specific contexts shape a changing self-perception of “ethnic identity” in Northern Asia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe.The articles may be on local as well as global expressions of cultural heritage: poetical genre, engraving or wood carving, architecture, ethno-parks or ecomuseums, cultural tourism, opposition to projects of valorization, etc. Analysis may also focus on the role of actors involved in local projects, on historical contexts or on international fashions.

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Call for papers - Representation

Trans Identities in the French media

Abstracts are welcome for an edited volume that will address the question of the representations of trans identities in the French media. This volume aims more specifically at observing how trans identities have been portrayed in the past decades (from the 1990s’ to the present time). Possible topics include (but are not limited to)(a) the evolution of the representation of trans identities in news coverage, (b) transgender characters in films and series, (c) pitfalls and biases regarding the way trans identities are portrayed in the French media, and/or (d) the analysis of a specific body of work.

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Brussels

Call for papers - Europe

Intersectional Challenges in Afroeuropean Communities

8th Biennial Afroeuropeans Network Conference

The conference aims to consider how Afroeuropean communities are shaped by the intersections of ‘race’ and ethnicity with other markers of identification such as gender, class, sexuality, ability, age, citizenship status, language… Informed by intersectional thinking and its rejection of unidimensional perspectives in activism, policy and research, the conference explores how diverse processes of privileging and discrimination interact, making for complex and dynamic experiences of what it means to be Afroeuropean. It acknowledges that the racial and ethnic alterity of Afroeuropeans intersects with other identities (e.g. male, female, queer, working class, religious, disabled, aged…) and specifically seeks to examine to what extent these intersections create new alignments and opportunities.

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Call for papers - America

Towards political modernity in Ibero-America

State training, international relations and representations of the nation, 1808-1848

Ce colloque est une invitation à réfléchir sur les réalités comparables et les structures communes de l'Ibéro-Amérique entre 1808 et 1848. La réflexion se déroulera autour de trois axes principaux : la formation de l'État, les relations internationales et les représentations de la nation.

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Versailles

Call for papers - History

The Myth of Versailles and European Courts, 18th and 19th centuries

This symposium is organised in conjunction with the research programme “Court identities and the myth of Versailles in Europe: perception, adherence and rejection (18th-19th centuries)” led by the Centre de recherche du château de Versailles. The aim is to analyse the modus operandi of the myth of Versailles in the monarchic Europe of the 18^th, 19^th and 20^th centuries, taking into account the two contradictory yet complementary elements that characterise the idea of myth: the real and the reconstruction of the real. The focus of this conference will therefore be twofold: understanding how the different aspects specific to the identity of Versailles have fuelled an illusion, but also discerning how this illusion gave rise to other accomplishments, whether architectural, ritual or political.

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Toulouse

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Prehistory and Antiquity

Postdoc position ERC "Mapping Ancient Polytheisms"

The ERC Advanced Grant Project 741182 MAP (Mapping Ancient Polytheisms. Cult Epithets as an Inteface between Religious Systems and Human Agency), led by Corinne Bonnet, is now accepting applications for a postdoctoral position (100%) from the 01/10/2020 at the Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès. The research may require scientific missions in France and/or abroad.

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Warsaw

Call for papers - Sociology

Decolonizing Museum Cultures and Collections: Mapping Theory and Practice in East-Central Europe

International conference for heritage scholars and practitioners

This conference brings together curators, artists, scholars, and other intellectuals and cultural activists working on East-Central European heritage, to reflect on how the main trends of decolonial debate are intersecting in practical and theoretical terms with the heritage sector, with a particular focus on museums in the region. The conference will place special emphasis on mapping both the range of colonial histories embedded in, as well as decolonial approaches to, museum collections and practices in East-Central Europe.

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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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Cerisy-la-Salle

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Poetry and Politics in the Viking and Norman Diasporas (Ninth-Thirteenth Centuries)

The conference will address the relationships between poetry and power in the medieval world, fostering exchanges between historians and scholars in the fields of Latin and vernacular literatures. The poems under scrutiny will be those composed in the Viking and Norman diasporas between the ninth and the thirteenth century, covering a wide geographical expanse, from Iceland to Southern Italy, through Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia, Kievan Rus’ and part of the Latin East. The main questions which will be studied are: (1) the specific context for the composition of political poetry (e.g. encomiastic or satiric); (2) poetry as a means for the representation of power or the transmission of moral or religious conceptions (e.g. mirrors for princes, didactic or gnomic poetry); (3) the reasons for preferring poetry over prose in order to convey political ideas.

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Nancy

Call for papers - Science studies

Science and literature: reciprocal inspirations

Central and eastern Europe (19th-21st centuries)

Charles Percy Snow (1905-1980), chimiste et romancier britannique, a consacré sa célèbre conférence The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (Deux cultures et la révolution scientifique, 1959) à l’incompréhension grandissante entre la culture littéraire et la culture scientifique tout en montrant les dangers de cette scission pour le progrès de la civilisation.

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Palermo

Call for papers - History

Soldiers, prisoners and converts between permeable borders in the Mare Nostrum (16th-18th centuries)

The COST Action “Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750)” [CA 18129] is launching a call for a conference “Soldiers, prisoners and converts between permeable borders in the Mare Nostrum (16th-18th centuries)”. The event that we are disseminating is being organised within this project, which as the purpose to provide a transnational and interdisciplinary approach capable of overcoming the segmentation that currently characterizes the study of relations between Christianity and Islam in late medieval and early modern Europe and the Mediterranean. We aim to create a network that will help to provide a comprehensive understanding of past relations between Christianity and Islam in the European context through the addressing of three main research problems: otherness, migration and borders.

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Rennes | Aix-en-Provence

Call for papers - Representation

Female identities at work

Studies of representations in the European space

Cet appel à communications est dédié à deux journées d'études qui se dérouleront à l'université Rennes 2 le 5 mars 2020 et à l'université d'Aix-Marseille le 29 mai 2020. Les deux journées d’études se proposent d’explorer les représentations artistiques (littérature, théâtre, dance, cinéma, musique, arts plastiques et graphiques) qui, à partir de 1980, ont essayé de raconter le rôle des femmes au travail dans l’espace européen et combien le travail façonne la condition et l’identité des femmes.

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Beirut

Call for papers - Representation

Narrative forms and co-production in Arab cinemas

Norms, constraints, and margins of freedom

Film industry in the Arab world remains generally underdeveloped. Arab countries still depend on international film support funds, mainly European. This puts Arab producers, scriptwriters and filmmakers in a subaltern position in relation to European producers and funders, whose expectations in terms of content as well as narrative and aesthetic forms end up strongly impacting the film creation process. On the other hand, margins of freedom and resistance can be created within this system. This edition of Regards aims at addressing the complex relation between Arab cinemas and international film support funds.

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Brussels

Conference, symposium - Political studies

How "European values" unite and divide. Rule of law, identity and morality politics in the European Union

Final Conference of the ValEUR research project

The conference addresses the role, effects and meanings of values at the crossroads of politics, culture, market and law. It documents the circulation and shaping of values between the different spheres of the European multi-level governance (local, national, supranational, transnational). It investigates the EU as a container of values politics as well as its interactions with external entities (Council of Europe, UN, rest of the world). A secondary purpose is to map the research using values as an exploratory framework of wider transformations of politics, policies and polities in Europe. Leaders of scientific projects having developed such agendas in recent years figure among the contributors.

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Athens

Call for papers - History

The multiple Antiquities of Greek modernity (19th-21st centuries)

Dans un XIX^e siècle où la discussion sur les origines nationales bat son plein dans toute l’Europe, les Grecs auraient-ils pu se dispenser d’une instance de légitimation aussi flatteuse et aussi prometteuse que l’Antiquité ? De fait, la Grèce ancienne devient d’emblée, un élément déterminant dans l’élaboration difficultueuse d’une identité néo-hellénique et d’une l’idéologie étatique. Nous voudrions explorer ce retour du passé dans le présent en questionnant la diversité et l’hétérogénéité des « Antiquités » créées et véhiculées aux XIX^e et XX^e siècles, le contexte (national, culturel, politique) dans lequel les diverses, et souvent contradictoires, représentations de l’Antiquité ont été formulées en interférant les unes avec les autres, les manières dont le contexte dominant de l’histoire nationale a été consolidé ou sapé par d’autres cadres de pensée projetant sur l’Antiquité des demandes alternatives.

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Cluj-Napoca

Call for papers - Europe

The imagination of identity - auto images and representations of the self

Auto-images et représentations de soi

En complémentarité avec la thématique du troisième congrès international du Centre de recherches internationales sur l’imaginaire (CRI2i), tenu en 2018 à Hammamet, en Tunisie, dédié aux imaginaires de l’altérité, le quatrième congrès se propose d’investiguer les imaginaires de l’identité, c’est-à-dire les auto-images que les peuples, les groupes et les individus se forment d’eux-mêmes.

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Tempe

Conference, symposium - Early modern

Gendered Species: Colette, Gender and Sexual Identities

Espèces genrées : Colette, le genre et les identités sexuées

Although French woman writer Colette was indifferent to and even critical of the feminist movement of the early 1900s, in the way she lived her life as in her fiction, she exemplified financial and social independence and shame-free sexuality, or what would be call today “gender fluidity”. This international conference will show how Colette represents a vibrant and radical expression of feminism in tune with the #MeToo spirit in today's society

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Amiens

Call for papers - History

“Our Time Has Come”

Towards Transatlantic and Transdisciplinary Approaches to BlackCounter-Representations, from 1945 until Today

The central goal of this conference lies thus in the investigation of the multiplicity of visual representations produced by the Black population and diaspora between France and the United States in the second half of the 20^th century. In particular, we invite researchers to focus on productions which have challenged—directly or indirectly—the traditional canon for Black representations. Of particular interest in this conference are examples demonstrating a visual/ideologic rupture with depreciative models that permeated the public imagination in the West, whether they be positive counter-models or new visual representations aiming to critically subvert formerly pejorative representational frames.

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Paris

Seminar - History

Memory and history in Latin America, Spain and Portugal. From the contemporary to the present day

Du contemporain au temps présent

La tension entre mémoire(s) et histoire(s), que certains d’entre nous ont abordé aussi bien dans leurs travaux qu’au cours de précédents séminaires, ne peut être dissociée de récents usages publics et politiques du passé. La mémoire, marqueur des sociétés démocratiques, est devenue un terme galvaudé. Reconsidérant les principaux concepts à l’œuvre afin d’appréhender le contemporain ainsi qu’un temps présent hanté par un passé tragique, épistémologiquement dépendant d’un témoignage érigé par ailleurs en exigence morale et sociale, ce séminaire à plusieurs voix s’intéressera à l’écriture de ce passé proche.

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