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• 31 aoû 2020

  Brest

  Call for papers - Europe

  Herbs and humanity. For a material and cultural history

  The expansion and culture of herbs around the world - text and image

  From the peaks of the Himalaya to the Mediterranean Sea, from the outset of the Silk Road to the far reaches of the Eurasian continent, the economy and culture of herbs has expanded over the course of time. Whether used as common products of consumption or considered as rare and valuable commodities, sold in their raw form or transformed, these medicinal or aromatic herbs have become precious cultural ambassadors in encounters with more and more faraway horizons. This book project centers on the idea of herbs as vectors of encounters and cultural exchanges. Indeed, the expansion and use of herbs around the world have led to the emergence of interacting and expanding cultural practices. The focus will be on defining the specific fields pertaining to the knowledge of herbs, with a particular interest in their cultivation, harvesting, commercialisation and circulation.

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• 24 mai 2018

  Montpellier

  Study days - History

  Microcosms in the Mediterranean

  Micro-societies and the challenge of power and representations (16th-21st centuries)

  Cette journée d'étude a pour objectif de revisiter le dialogue entre les hommes et l'espace sous un angle nouveau. Il s’agit de réfléchir à la question du huis clos à partir d'un nombre réduit d'individus, rassemblés par une activité de production ou de loisir (des équipages de navires, des ateliers de peintres, des communautés de paysans-pêcheurs, des clients d’une auberge, etc...). Ces microsociétés sont structurées par des rapports de force. Elles permettent d’explorer les interconnaissances et les relations personnelles ayant pu s'installer entre des individus, dans le cadre de leur rapport à un territoire maritime restreint (la Méditerranée). La question des pouvoirs sera présente afin de saisir les rapports entre les individus, au sein de structures de production. Cette journée d'étude se focalisera sur des relations horizontales plus ou moins formalisées, afin de saisir les actions des individus dans leurs modalités effectives et leurs pratiques immédiates.

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• 31 mai 2013

  Viterbo

  Call for papers - Europe

  Mediterranean Europe in the EU: spaces, cultures, policies and players

  Officina della Storia Review

  Economic crisis has turned on lights on Mediterranean Europe’s countries and the role-played in the European integration process and as interface between the EU and countries, policies and cultures coming from Mediterranean Area. Moreover, events such the Arab Spring have brought back the idea of Mediterranean as a wide and complex meeting place where cultures, faiths, different political and social experiences meet, and sometimes clash, developing opportunities of dialogue and integration.

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