Sort

By publication date

By relevance

• 15 Mar 2020

  London

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  The Classics in the Pulpit. Ancient Literature and Preaching in the Middle Ages

  The aim of the conference is to shed new light on this both striking and irritating practice. Papers (25 min) can deal with topics such as the reasons and occasions for the use of the classics in preaching, the hermeneutic and literary strategies applied in order to adapt pagan mythology to homiletic needs, the social and educational background of preachers and their audiences, the connections of classicizing sermons with other fields of literature such as vernacular poetry, or the discourse they provoked within the clerical milieu. Applications from all relevant disciplines (e.g. history, literature, theology, philosophy) are welcome.

  Read announcement

• 27 Mar 2020

  Lyon

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Around the Classics: Paratextual Frame of Latin Classics in the Middle Ages

  13th Celtic Conference in Classics

  In medieval manuscripts, a classical text is rarely copied alone. It is most often accompanied by paratextual elements that have been intentionally added to the text. Such elements come in a wide variety of formats: explanatory or complementary texts (accessus, prologues, vitae, commentaries, glosses, glossaries, etc.) images (illumination, diagrams, drawings, etc.), or elements structuring the manuscript, the text or the page (index, table of chapters, titles, division into books, chapters or paragraphs, sections, etc.). They can be transcribed at the beginning, the end, or next to the classical text, within its writing frame or in its margins. 

  Read announcement

• 02 Mar 2020

  15 May 2020

  Summer School - History

  The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)

  2020 ESEH Summer School

  The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) is pleased to announce the call for the 2020 ESEH Summer School .The Society aims to stimulate dialogue between humanistic scholarship, environmental science and other disciplines. It welcomes members from all disciplines and professions who share its interest in past relationships between human culture and the environment.

  Read announcement

• 15 May 2020

  Vienna

  Call for papers - History

  “Divided Together?” International Organizations and the Cold War

  This conference wishes to study the role of international organizations as actors and platforms of the Cold War and investigate how internationalist cultures developped and flourished during this periode. 

  Read announcement

• 24 Feb 2020

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  The aftermath of war: negotiating homecoming, memory, and trauma

  This panel will consider how the memories of war, and the reintegration of combatants, can expand our understanding of how people navigate the post-colonial spaces in Africa and Europe.

  Read announcement

• 21 Feb 2020

  Nanterre

  Study days - Ethnology, anthropology

  Transition, Displacement and Circulation of Objects: Visible and Unseen

  Transition, déplacement et circulation des objets : Visible et « invu »

  This colloquium aims to inquire into the meanings ascribed to, and produced by, the material objects in course of their travel, displacement, circulation, transition in time and space. We suggest to discuss the phenomenology of transitional objects and their performative power; to understand how the meanings of these objects are anchored in their materiality and visibility, how they are communicated by the historical references they evoke, and tightened with the identity of communities that see or ignore them

  Read announcement

• 20 Feb 2020

  Liège

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Dissenting Voices: The Making, Debating, and Shaping of Law

  While laws, reforms, and public policies are often assumed to be coherent (Holm Vohnsen 2017), dissenting opinions, contradicting trends in the jurisprudence, and variations in daily administrative practices suggest otherwise. Breaking away from the assumption that legal regimes speak with one, unanimous voice, this workshop will explore the place and the role of dissenting voices in the way legality is constructed.

  Read announcement

• 31 Mar 2020

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri: Art & Culture International Conference

  The Church of Santa Maria in Vallicella (Rome) was granted as the headquarters of the first Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri; it was completely renovated soon after, and consecrated in 1577. This church is an artistic masterpiece, having received contributions from some of the most renowned artists and architects from the 16th century onwards. Whilst the Oratorians apparently never developed their own brand of "artistic style" - as occurred with other religious institutions -, the fact remains that they sponsored a vast number of works of art, often of considerable significance, forming a corpus that is yet to be studied in due depth.

  Read announcement

• 30 Apr 2020

  London

  Call for papers - Modern

  Workshop on sexual violence in modern southern European history

  Southern European gender models and the implications of these on the study of sexual violence in the western world are relatively under-theorised within broader narratives of the western subject. This workshop seeks to address this lacuna through an exploration of the intersection of southern European culture – understood through the prism of “unity in diversity” – and sexual violence in the modern period. A thorough comparison of sexual violence within the diverse localities of the European south will allow similarities and differences to emerge, and will help to decentre current emphasis on the English-speaking world within the current historiography on sexual violence.

  Read announcement

• 01 Apr 2020

  Call for papers - Thought

  Violence in Plato’s philosophy

  Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence (Special Issue)

  The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence (PJCV) is seeking articles dealing with philosophical issues that arise in connection with the conception of conflict and violence within Plato’s philosophy. Conflict and violence are often regarded as two of Plato’s main interests in his political thought, especially when he discusses the dread and danger they bring to the city. However, is it possible to understand conflict and violence in Plato’s work only from this political and rather pejorative standpoint? It is possible to see conflict and violence in Plato’s philosophy as something else, rather than a threat to the harmony of the community?

  Read announcement

• 15 Mar 2020

  Padua

  Call for papers - History

  A Fragile State Monopoly? Policies and Practices of Gun Control and the Redefinition of State Prerogatives on the Global Stage, 1890s-1940s

  This conference seeks to reflect on the relationship existing between private gun ownership and the processes of imposition (or re-imposition) of State legitimacy in peacetime as much as during or in the aftermath of armed conflicts. It intends to do so specifically by addressing how the process of modernization and its ensuing tendency to codification and the world wars and their long shadows have had an impact on three aspects of these processes: institutional regulations on civilian possession of firearms from above; juridical debate on limits and rights of State control; practices and culture of gun ownership on the ground.

  Read announcement

• 18 Feb 2020

  Lyon

  Conference, symposium - Language

  Embodied interactions, Languaging and the Dynamic Medium (ELDM 2020)

  The Embodied interactions, Languaging and the Dynamic Medium Workshop (ELDM2020) is gathering interests and works in embodiment, languaging, diversity computing and human technologies. Recent developments in these communities are ripe for focused conversations, and this workshop will be a coming-together for cross-pollination and explorations of possible common futures.

  Read announcement

• 28 Feb 2020

  Addis Ababa

  Call for papers - Sociology

  The Field of the ‘Photographable’: From the Global North to the Global South and from the Global South to the Global North

  This 2 days-activities (a workshop, a forum, a conference) aim to offer a platform to discuss how photographers and researchers make use of photography to account for social realities they are not part of, which is often the case when it comes to photography in Africa. 

  Read announcement

• 09 Feb 2020

  Katowice

  Call for papers - Science studies

  The Popcultural Life of Science

  Stories of Wonder, Stories of Facts

  We invite scholars of various fields to present their take on the popcultural life of science: examples, consequences and side effects of popularisation of scientific knowledge through weird tales, strange fictions and stories of wonder.

  Read announcement

• 01 Apr 2020

  Lyon

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Welcome to higher education? New and potential students in England and France

  The conference will explore the notion of “welcome” at university in its broader sense, including practical and pedagogical support offered to first-year students and students on international mobility programmes. It will reflect on the role of higher education institutions and transnational organisations in defining and attending to the needs of students in France and the UK. A key question for the conference relates to the discursive process of inclusion/exclusion of students and would-be students, in the context of increasing internationalisation of education and growing managerialism and marketisation of universities – the current legislative draft of the French national research programme (Loi de programmation pluriannuelle de la recherche) seems to be an example of these processes.

  Read announcement

• 12 Feb 2020

  13 Feb 2020

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  Polish-German History

  A New Historiographical Field and its Contribution to the History of Europe

  German-Polish history is an innovative and stimulating field in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. We propose to reflect the historiographical and memorial challenges that governed the formation of this field as well as the concepts and methods on which it has since been built. They are now the basis for the dynamics of the field, due in particular to its ability to associate different scales of analysis from the local to the global level. Special attention will be paid to the contribution of Polish-German history and other »bi-national« historiographies like Franco-German history to the project of writing European history especially when it comes to the specific approaches forged or adopted by historians in these fields (transfer, shared history, histoire croisée, connected history, entangled history, Zwischenraum).

  Read announcement

• 15 Apr 2020

  Paris

  Call for papers - Language

  In praise of women in poetry: thinking rhetorical exaltation

  L’éloge se définit comme un discours épidictique né d’une vigoureuse admiration, impliquant une instance énonciative, productrice d’un discours évaluatif saturé d’amplification et de valorisation. L’éloquence de l’acte célébratif, éminemment rhétorique, établit ainsi la singularisation et l’élévation d’un objet, produisant un jugement mélioratif de l’objet visé. Omniprésent dans la poésie amoureuse et érotique (les odes et fragments saphiques, le cantique des cantiques biblique, la tradition du ghazal dans la poésie courtoise arabe et perse, les Amours et Odes ronsardiennes, L’union libre d’André Breton, l’hommage à la Femme noire de Léopold Sédar Senghor, The lesbian body de Monique Wittig se lisent comme autant de variantes encomiastiques), l’éloge a traditionnellement servi à chanter le féminin—geste qu’il s’agira d’interroger, tant sur le plan philosophique, énonciatif, rhétorique, genré qu'épistemologique.

  Read announcement

• 29 Feb 2020

  Neuchâtel

  Call for papers - Language

  Theoretical linguistics in the light of the interaction of qualitative and quantitative approaches

  TheorLing 2020

  The central interest of this conference is to identify the place of theoretical linguistics in a period – the last decade – when the use of quantitative methods in the humanities has grown exponentially. The international conference aims to bring together researchers working both on qualitative research and on quantitative analysis taking into account statistical calculations and methods.

  Read announcement

• 23 Mar 2020

  London

  Call for papers - Modern

  Revolutionary cosmopolitanism. Transnational migration and political activism, 1815-1848

  The period 1815-1848 not only was characterized by several waves of revolution in Europe, the Atlantic world and beyond, but also by large movements of migration. Although these migrations can often be associated with political uprisings, only few connections have been made between the study of migration history and history of political thought and practices. This one-day conference aims to bring together these different strands of research and to discuss how experiences of migration and cross-boundary mobility contributed to the formation of common revolutionary cultures in the period 1815-1848.

  Read announcement

• 29 Feb 2020

  Leipzig

  Call for papers - Europe

  Asymmetries of a Region: Decentring Comparative Perspectives on Eastern Europe

  Annual Conference 2020 - Das Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO)

  We invite the submission of papers by established as well as early career researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds that critically engage with Eastern Europe in comparative perspective from the medieval period to the present time.

  Read announcement