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Nice

Frontier(s) and Frontier-zone(s) in the English-speaking world

Call for papers

It may be argued that any frontier is the expression of what is discontinuous, of the existence of an ‘inside’ and of an ‘outside’, in short, that a frontier is an attempt to keep the ‘other’ at bay, whatever the meaning of the term – a given geographical territory, or a specific political entity, or a different culture, or else all of these put together. These considerations are in tune with the etymological origin of the word ‘frontier’ itself, i.e. anything that helps a group of people ‘develop a united front’. Examples abound, from the so-called ‘natural’ frontier of this or that country to Brexit, to the wall that President Trump has set out to build between his own country and Mexico.

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Medieval Conceptions and Practices of Space

Revue « Études Médiévales Anglaises »

Though space is by no means a medieval concept (in 14th century use, the word referred primarily to time, or to an interval between two objects, rather than to the abstract idea of an extended area that can be filled or crossed), the concept in its complexity has over the last decades gained considerable critical importance in medieval studies. Medievalists have always paid attention to spatial questions, namely in the shape of inquiries into the location of national or religious communities, into medieval practices of pilgrimages, processions and travels, or into the symbolic associations of various places (the forest, the garden, the castle…).

Call for papers - Europe

Feeling British

How can one assess the adhesion of individuals and social groups to the multi-ethnic and multicultural British nation of our times? Where should their identity be inscribed on the canvas of composite identities, some of which might either be regarded as tokens of tolerance and inclusion, or be considered (by others) as potential threats for the cohesion of the nation? To penetrate the deepest strata of British identity, we propose to combine the methods of research in civilization with a multi-disciplinary approach...

Rennes | La Richardais | Saint-Père | La Vicomté-sur-Rance

Conference, symposium - Europe

Energy from tides past, present and future

Pourquoi un pays sujet aux marées devrait-il choisir entre énergie potentielle et cinétique ? La présence des deux au sein d'un mix énergétique ne serait-elle pas préférable ? Aménagements particuliers, traitement de l'interface terre-mer à travers des enjeux liés à l'architecture, au paysage, à l'aménagement ou aux usages sur les littoraux, approches historiques, archéologiques, patrimoniales, géographiques, environnementales, juridiques, prospectives ou encore technologiques seront les axes développés au sein du colloque.

Besançon

Call for papers - History

Women in the public space, 1800-1939

Great Britain, Ireland, Empire and Commonwealth

“The Angel in the House” is the image most commonly retained of British women in the nineteenth century. This reductive and repressive ideal, emerging from values propagated by the literary, religious, medical political discourses of the time, still persists today in the collective unconscious. Although this model has increasingly been questioned by researchers in the humanities, the focus has tended to be on the beginning of the 20th century. This one-day conference aims to pursue this still neglected area, bringing the Victorian and Edwardian woman further out of her “cloister” or “sphere”, and exploring the destinies of those women who occupied the public space in Great Britain, Ireland and, by extension, the Empire: activists, explorers, artists, writers and sportswomen to name but a few.

Rennes

Industrial Heritage in the UK

Mutations, Conversions and Representations

The chosen perspective for this one-day conference is an inter- and pluri-disciplinary one and it is therefore articulated around a variety of approaches such as cultural geography, cultural history, art history, media studies, urban studies, heritage studies, architecture, etc.

Paris

Call for papers - Urban studies

Changing the world - urban experimentation in the United Kingdom (19th-21st centuries)

Le Royaume-Uni offre depuis longtemps un terreau fertile pour les utopies et expérimentations urbaines. De Utopia de Thomas More en 1516 aux New Towns des années 1950 et 1960 en passant par News from Nowhere de William Morris en 1890, la société britannique a fourni l’inspiration à nombre de visionnaires critiques de la société contemporaine afin de formuler des projets sociétaux autres. Cette journée d'études s’intéressera aux projets mis en œuvre en milieu urbain depuis le XIX^e siècle pour transformer celui-ci et parfois, au-delà, la société britannique dans son ensemble.

Rennes

Call for papers - History

Art and the Environment in Britain 1700-today

Whether one thinks of environment as context, setting, climate change, green spaces or sounds, today’s epistemology invites us to rethink man’s relation to the external world to the extent that the “inside” and “outside” coalesce, nature and culture merge, man and animal are reconfigured. How have British artists responded to these shifting perceptions of the world around them, of this great swirling circle of life and non life in which they found – or imagined – themselves diversely positioned, for a long time at the centre, then in a more undefined place – at the margin even? How has art itself positioned itself in this newly defined environment?

Nantes

Conference, symposium - Economy

Issues and perspectives for the Scottish referendum in the United Kingdom and Europe

On 18 September 2014, precisely seventeen years after agreeing by a very considerable majority (74.3%) to the British Government’s proposal to set up in Edinburgh a Parliament with legislative powers in areas such as education and health care, Scottish voters said "No" by a majority of 55,3% to the question posed by the Scottish Government, namely “Should Scotland be an independent country?”

Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

Call for papers - Geography

Inhabiting land, from the house to the commune

FIG 2014 International festival of Geography, 25 edition

Rencontre annuelle régulière le Festival international de géographie se veut un évènement à la fois scientifiquement très rigoureux et accessible au plus large public possible. Au cours de ses trois journées, plus de 10.000 personnes assistent aux conférences, tables-rondes, expositions, démonstrations, etc. Les contributions émanant de tous les champs des sciences sociales sont les bienvenues. Elles peuvent traiter soit du thème de l'année (Habiter la terre) soit du pays invité (les Îles britanniques) et prendre diverses formes : conférence personnelle, présentation d'un ouvrage, d'un film documentaire, de posters scientifiques, d'un programme informatique, d'une dégustation commentée au salon de la gastronomie. Le FIG se déroulera du 3 au 5 octobre 2014.

Call for papers - Representation

Landscapes

Le terme « paysage » fait l’objet de nombreux débats conceptuels. En effet, la perception du temps et de l’espace varie précisément selon les époques et les lieux, chacun se représentant et inventant un paysage nouveau (Westphal, La Géocritique, 2007). L’enjeu est de dépasser le clivage entre acteur et spectateur du paysage, pays et paysan, paysage et environnement et d’éviter d’abstraire le lien entre les paysages et leur territoire. Les paysages concernent autant le spectateur et son point de vue subjectif et parfois esthétique, que l’expérience concrète du promeneur.

Villetaneuse

Proscrits politiques entre France et Grande-Bretagne, 1830-1880

Séminaire du CRIDAF- Réseaux et transfert

Le séminaire du CRIDAF, dont le programme porte sur "réseaux et transferts entre aires anglophones et francophones", entendra le 1er février à 10h deux communications sur les proscrits politiques entre France et Grande-Bretagne, 1830-1880.

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