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• 04 Sep 2023

  Medenine

  Call for papers - Language

  Frontières, marges et périphéries en langue, art et littérature

  The notions of frontiers, margins and peripheries are frequently tackled from different research perspectives. Closely interrelated, these concepts pave the way for understanding the idea of limits, and to explore spaces of transition or contact between diverse cultures, literary genres, styles, modes of expression, linguistic and artistic forms, etc. Researchers are invited to question the notions of frontiers, margins, and peripheries from multidisciplinary perspectives.

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• 01 Nov 2023

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  Practices and Theories of Diffusionism in the Study of Religion (1850–1950)

  This conference seeks to explore the many facets of diffusionism as it was practiced in the academic study of religion between 1850 and 1950. What were the main theoretical and methodological orientations of this analytical model? Where did they find their origins? What were their distinguishing features ? What did it mean to be a diffusionist historian of religions? What were the guiding principles, the underpinning worldviews, and the scientific values at stake for those who propounded diffusionist theories? 

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• 25 Jun 2023

  Fribourg

  Call for papers - History

  The Red Cross and the Red Star: Humanitarianism and Communism in the 20th century

  Throughout the 20^th century, humanitarianism and Communism developed complex relations made up of confrontations, challenges and (often frustrated) opportunities both at an ideological and practical level. This conference aims to explore the reciprocal interactions between the Red Cross Movement and Communist (or more generally of Marxist inspiration) regimes and organizations, between 1917 and 1991.

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• 15 Jun 2023

  Paris

  Study days - Sociology

  Studying Demands for State

  From Practical Tensions to Generalised Crises

  This study day intends to interrogate the notion of “demand for state” in different fields and from different social sciences disciplines such as sociology, history and political sciences. By “demand for State” we mean the process by which social groups come to invoke a certain ideal of the state through criticism, demands and reflexive practices. We will pay attention to the different levels at which these demands for State become manifest, in order to open up some major areas of discussion: how to overcome the 'civil society/State' opposition, the emergence of demands for a social State in different historical and national contexts, or the place of demands for State in generalised crises. 

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• 15 Jun 2023

  16 Jun 2023

  30 Jun 2023

  Lille

  Study days - Representation

  The Invention of Greek origins in the textual and visual cultures of pre-modern Europe (1100-1600)

  Ces journées d’études envisagent d’explorer les emplois, les fonctions et les finalités des discours sur les origines grecques et la polysémie de ce concept entre 1100 à 1600, dans les cultures textuelles, visuelles et matérielles européennes, autour des questions suivantes : comment la notion d’origine /d’origines est-elle alors pensée par les auteurs et les artistes ? Qu’est-ce qui à la fois l’unit et la distingue de l’héritage ? Pourquoi les Grecs ? Quelle(s) Grèce(s) sont pensées comme des origines ? De qui et de quoi sont ces origines ? Quelles modalités de représentation et quels processus d’appropriation apparaissent ? Dans quels buts et pour quels publics ?

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• 19 Oct 2023

  20 Oct 2023

  21 Oct 2023

  Tours

  Miscellaneous information - Epistemology and methodology

  Initiation in the XML-TEI Coding of Patrimonial Texts

  Trainee

  La TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) est une initiative universitaire pluridisciplinaire visant à uniformiser autant que possible le codage de documents en vue de leur échange, mais aussi de leur analyse. L’équipe « Bibliothèques virtuelles humanistes » du Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance organise une nouvelle session de la formation d’« initiation à l’encodage XML-TEI des documents patrimoniaux (imprimés et manuscrits) ».

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• 15 Jun 2023

  16 Jun 2023

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Early modern

  The landscape at its margins

  Classée hiérarchiquement après la peinture d’histoire, le portrait et la scène de genre par André Félibien dans la préface des Conférences de l’Académie, la peinture de paysage n’en demeure pas moins un art apprécié des collectionneurs et des amateurs. Discutée dans les traités, tels ceux de Roger de Piles, Jean-Baptiste Du Bos ou Charles Batteux, la peinture de paysage occupe une part croissante dans la critique d’art au XVIII^e siècle : dans son Salon de 1767, Diderot décrit longuement l’expérience totale qu’il vit en regardant les tableaux de paysage de Vernet. Ce colloque investiguera la notion de paysage aux XVII^e et XVIII^e siècles.

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• 20 Aug 2023

  Yaoundé

  Call for papers - Africa

  Les femmes dans les processus de paix et de sécurité en Afrique

  From the Women’s Decade instituted by the UN between 1975 and 1985 to the Beijing Conference in 1995 to its evaluation in 2005 at the Beijing +10 meeting in New York, the gender issue has taken an increasingly important place in international meetings on human development. While gender equality is still a topical issue, the debate is shifting towards the role of women in pre- and post-conflict situations, particularly in conflict prevention, mediation, negotiation and resolution. This call for contributions aims to understand the reasons for the absence of women in the decision-making spheres of conflict prevention, mediation and resolution. Moreover, the final objective is to propose solutions for an increased representation of women in these mechanisms.

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• 30 Sep 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  From the Grand Tour to Orient-Express: curiosity, exploration, sociability

  In this colloquium, we propose to study how the travelers crossing the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean, between the “Grand Tour en Orient” and the Orient-Express, were able to apprehend these countries, their inhabitants, and their past. Our aim is to explore the social representations of travelers, as well as those of the populations they visited. Without limiting ourselves to reproducing the classic schemes for understanding these discourses, indebted to Edward Saïd, we shall historicize, contextualize and define these ambivalent perceptions according to the geopolitical considerations, ideological orientations, and personal affinities of those who produced these discourses.

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• 10 Jul 2023

  Amiens

  Call for papers - Representation

  Memory and identity in the English-speaking world since 1945 : transdisciplinary perspectives on the margins and the mainstream

  The aim of this Study day is to examine the dynamics, interactions and tensions between the polysemic notions of margin and mainstream in post-1945 English-speaking areas. More specifically, we will examine the modalities and dynamics of exchange and movement from one category to the other, as well as the way in which they take on their meaning in varied and variable political, media, sociological and cultural contexts. Proposals may thus highlight thematic issues in relation to the phenomena studied, such as marginalised or militant histories, critical or methodological thoughts about mediation mechanisms, conceptualisation issues or personal and collective positioning.

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• 15 Sep 2023

  Caen

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  La valeur des vivants dans l’Occident médiéval (Ve-XVe siècle)

  In the framework of a study day, we propose to reflect on the values accorded to living beings (humans and animals) in the medieval West from the 5th to the 15th century. They are characterised by their market, utilitarian and symbolic value. In addition to this, there are the considerations and knowledge that medieval people had of their fellow human beings and their environment (fauna and trees). Finally, the event proposes to look at these questions in the context of reflections on medievalism. As the issues are diverse, we are making the whole range of humanities and social sciences disciplines.

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• 15 Jun 2023

  Poitiers

  Call for papers - Modern

  Inertia: “plus ça change...”

  This conference will tackle the different facets of the concept of inertia through a transversal and pluridisciplinary approach. A cross-geographical and cross-cultural approach is encouraged. In a society that values change and innovation, inertia is still very present. Political and legal institutions either have to face it or use it actively and strategically. Social movements understand that well as they are using inertia to promote their demands. Inertia can also be a manifestation of a desire of stability, of deliberately not acting in an attempt to stop time. Museums might be an example of that; cultural spaces need to face these contradictions. A rhetoric of inertia can then develop, on a political, legal, social or cultural level. This discourse can be contested or used to promote change or permanence, in a a state of constant and dynamic tension.

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• 16 Jun 2023

  Catania

  Summer School - Religion

  Memory and Society

  Our identity depends significantly on our ability to store information in the form of memory. The summer school project aims to apply this reflection to the different facets involved: religion; material culture and archaeology; media and technology; crises, disasters, and resilience; politics; body and neuroscience; nature/culture relationship; law; literature.

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• 07 Jun 2023

  08 Jun 2023

  09 Jun 2023

  Brussels

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  Bildung. The Untimely Actuality of a Modern Idea

  Dans le cadre du projet ERC Consolidator Grant BildungLearning (n° 101043433), le colloque intitulé « Bildung. L’actualité intempestive d’une idée moderne » se consacrera à un double travail de reconstruction historico-systématique de la philosophie moderne de la Bildung et de mise à l’épreuve de sa pertinence actuelle, grâce à la participation de spécialistes de la philosophie classique allemande qui chercheront à mettre en évidence non seulement la fonction systématique du concept de Bildung, mais aussi sa réception critique, sa postérité indirecte et ses ressources encore inexploitées pour la pensée contemporaine.

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• 30 Jun 2023

  Paris | Aubervilliers

  Call for papers - Africa

  In the notebooks of a scholar travelling in Ethiopia

  Transcribing and editing the notebooks of Antoine d’Abbadie (mid-19th century)

  During the decade of 1840, a French scientist, Antoine d'Abbadie, traveled to the Horn of Africa. Self-funded, he made numerous scientific observations that he recorded in some twenty notebooks. The MSS-Abbadie project, part of the BnF's four-year research program (2020-23), has been working to make this profusion of notes accessible by digitizing the originals, depositing them on Gallica, describing the manuscripts, and offering them for collaborative transcription on the Transcrire platform. This call for participation invites the contributors who took part in this crowdsourcing adventure to return some of the knowledge acquired during this transcription work, as well as to testify about it and the working methods that were experienced. It remains wide open to researchers from outside the project who can provide a fresh look at both the historical context and the new approaches currently being applied to this type of corpus and situations.

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• 01 Jun 2023

  Paris

  Study days - Sociology

  Contestation sociale et ses futurs

  Social protest and its futures

  What are the future temporalities of contemporary mobilizations ? In social protests, the hopeful future and the conviction that a better future is within reach have long marked revolutionary rhetoric and progressive political fervor. However, is this enthusiastic “jusqu’auboutisme” a temporality that still belongs to contemporary imaginaries of struggle ?

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• 23 May 2023	24 May 2023	25 May 2023
  26 May 2023

  Rome

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  Ethiopians abroad in the Middle Ages

  Ce colloque est organisé dans le cadre du projet ERC COG HornEast* (Horn & Crescent. Connections, Mobility and Exchange between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East in the Middle Ages). Le projet ERC HornEast a pour objectif de documenter les relations entre les sociétés chrétiennes de la Corne de l’Afrique (Éthiopie, Nubie) et leur environnement islamique aux échelles locale et régionale (Égypte, Palestine, péninsule Arabique), afin de mieux comprendre les modalités du processus d’islamisation à l’œuvre dans la région au cours du millénaire médiéval (VII^e - XV^e siècle).

   

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• 30 Jun 2023

  Call for papers - Representation

  Dreams of the Future

  As the research training group “European Dream Cultures” at Saarland University enters its ninth and final year, we would like our concluding conference to look not only back but also ahead, in focussing on future content of dreaming in literature, art, theatre, film, and music. Key questions include: What types of futures do artistic dreams of the future envision? Are they utopian or dystopian? Are they marked as dreams experienced during sleep, or are they imaginings of the future that are dreamlike in nature but anchored in the waking world? How do they connect to the present or the past, and to which version of these temporalities? What function do they assume within different works? To what extent do religious, political, or epistemological discourses influence these artistic dreams of the future?

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• 01 Jul 2023

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Migration in Belgium: Epistemological issues, History, Public action and Mobilisations

  This study day aims to bring together researchers from different social science disciplines (anthropology, law, economics, geography, history, philosophy, psychology, political science, sociology, etc.) working on migration issues in Belgium. In a context where migration phenomena are regularly at the forefront of political and media news (“reception crisis”, border management and control, citizen mobilisations, etc.), the aim of this study day is, on the one hand, to review the progress of research in the various social science disciplines in this field, and, on the other hand, to refine academic analyses through a multidisciplinary dialogue. This meeting thus intends to contribute to a better understanding of the migration phenomenon in Belgium. 

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• 15 Jul 2023

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Representation

  The Image on the Page

  A Study Day Around Illustrated Print Culture

  This study day aims to gather researchers around the subject of the printed image since the 1880s. With particular attention to material bibliography and production techniques, we seek to better understand how illustrations contribute to the formation of meaning and discourses within different contexts from illustrated newspapers to etiquette manuals, from scientific journals to children’s books.

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