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• 31 May 2020

  Genoa

  Call for papers - Modern

  MemWar. Memory and forgetting of war and trauma in the 20th century

  Le XXIe siècle nait de l’histoire tourmentée du XXe, avec ses deux guerres mondiales et les autres conflits de dimension européenne, comme la Guerre civile espagnole. Ce colloque, organisé par le groupe de recherche « MemWar. Mémoires et oublis des guerres et des traumatismes du XX^e siècle » du Département de Langues et cultures modernes de l’Université de Gênes, vise à analyser les modalités de transmission mémorielle de ces conflits au XXI^e siècle, les représentations de ces derniers, les points aveugles et/ou obscurs de ce processus mémoriel, y compris dans une optique critique (Ricoeur, 2003) et, enfin, comment se développent les rapports de force entre discours officiel et contre-discours.

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• 26 Apr 2020

  Paris

  Call for papers - Modern

  Aesthetic experience

  Société Française d'Esthétique and Séminaire Européen d'Esthétique 2020 congress

  La Société Française d’esthétique et le Séminaire Européen d’Esthétique ont décidé de coupler leurs congrès annuels respectifs. Ce congrès commun réunissant les membres des deux sociétés aura pour thème l’expérience esthétique, en s’intéressant plus particulièrement à ses reconfigurations contemporaines et à ses remises en cause.

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• 31 May 2020

  Genoa

  Call for papers - History

  Contending Representations: Questioning Republicanism in Early Modern Genoa (1559-1684)

  In the past thirty years, several studies have been devoted to the political and cultural flowering of the republic of Genoa during the so-called ‘siglo de los Genoveses’, between 1528 and 1630, when Genoa became the hub of European trade and an important epicenter of artistic and literary production. Yet little attention has been granted to the cultural and economic crisis that followed or to how Genoese republican state power was represented during the long seventeenth century, especially in relation to neighbouring polities. To address this gap, the conference will explore how the Genoese Republic shaped its political image between 1559 – the year of the publication of Oberto Foglietta’s Delle cose della repubblica di Genova – and 1684, when Genoa was bombed by the French. We intend to address questions such as how did Genoese politicians and men of letters represent their homeland? How was Genoa represented by the Genoese community in Spain or in the Low Countries? How was its political system conceived by other Italian and non-Italian political writers? And how did prevailing depictions of absolutism influence republican rhetoric?

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• 15 May 2020

  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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• 04 May 2020

  Bogotá

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Interdependencies in Process

  XVIII International Symposium on Civilizing Processes

  The National University of Colombia and the Department of Citizen Culture of the Secretary of Culture, Recreation and Sport of Bogota, Colombia have joined forces to organize the upcoming XVIII International Symposium on Civilizing Processes (SIPC). The SIPCs were born in 1996 on a Brazilian initiative and have been held every two years in Latin America to encourage the exchange of ideas and research results among scientists from various disciplines who find in Norbert Elias’ work a source of guidance in facing the challenges of today’s world and who share an interest in social sciences adjusted to reality.

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• 06 Apr 2020

  Paris

  Call for papers - Language

  "This thing of darkness": the night in anglophone arts and literature

  Night is often seen as the other side of the day, meaning darkness, and potential disorders. But these presumably negative connotations also bear witness to the metaphoric richness of the night, explored relentlessly in literature, the visual arts, and on film. The night is the locus of an ambiguity and indeterminacy, which should not be viewed merely as factors of disorder, but as possibilities for different lives and identities, which seem to radically elude the norms governing diurnal practices. Nonetheless, is it merely a form of transgression or does it inaugurate a mode of existence of its own? Furthermore, to what extent do technical, social, and cultural changes influence those perceptions by blurring the line between day and night? With the inexorable generalisation of lighting and the ubiquity of screens, is the night a thing of the past?

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• 10 Jun 2020

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  12 Jun 2020

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Revolutionary eloquence and rhetorical traditions (18th-19th centuries)

  Quel rapport une révolution politique, moment tout entier tendu vers le changement, et donc vers l'avenir, entretient-elle avec les modèles du passé ? Est-il possible de « se passer du passé » ? Le changement brutal, la « régénération » et la « table rase », leitmotive du discours de la Révolution française, ne sont-ils que de vains mots ? […] La question du rapport conflictuel et ambigu des révolutions politiques aux modèles du passé nous invite à réfléchir à la fois aux formes discursives, notamment rhétoriques, dont hérite la Révolution française, et à la manière dont cette dernière les récupère, les rejette ou les transforme, et à la fois à l'influence qu'exerce à son tour la Révolution française sur les discours des révolutions suivantes : là encore, s'agit-il d'une imitation (et, le cas échéant, de quel ordre ?), d'un refus, ou d'une métamorphose ?

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• 20 Aug 2020

  Call for papers - Geography

  The politics and geopolitics of translation

  The multilingual circulation of knowledge and transnational histories of geography

  In the last fifty years, the field of the history of geography has moved from an approach dominated by National Schools to an attention to the circulation of knowledge in its multiple scales. The history of science and of geography have in the last decades incorporated concepts such as transit, networks, mobilities, the transnational, circulation, centre of calculation, spaces of knowledge, geographies of science, spatial mobility of knowledge, geographies of reading and geographies of the book. More recently, a turn has emerged towards considering the dynamics and necessities of decolonizing the history of geography. This work is turning the field of the history of geography into one of the most dynamic areas of the discipline. Yet we suggest that questions of language and translation have remained under-determined in this new field. Translation and writing have not received the same attention as, for instance, departmental histories, sites of museums, laboratories, botanic gardens, and scientific societies, for example. We suggest, therefore, that new perspectives opened up by translation studies can open new windows on the history of geography.

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• 23 Mar 2020

  Saint-Étienne

  Call for papers - Thought

  Critical discourse in art and design - practices and contemporary issues

  Pratiques et enjeux contemporains

  La critique fait aujourd’hui l’objet de nombreuses études, colloques et publications qui prennent pour objet ce discours particulier et qui participent d’un renouvellement de l’histoire de l’art. On s’intéresse également à ces espaces traditionnels de diffusion que sont les revues. En France, les Archives de la critique d’art sont un acteur important du développement de ce champ de recherche. On pourrait faire deux hypothèses pour expliquer cet intérêt en regard de la situation contemporaine de la critique. Tout d’abord, il serait inversement proportionnel à son affaiblissement. Ne serions-nous pas passés du geste critique à celui de la communication qui rend cette écriture totalement accessoire ?

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• 30 Jun 2020

  Call for papers - Education

  Teaching the enlightenment - didactic issues and the construction of knowledge from primary school to university

  Questions didactiques et construction des savoirs de l'école élémentaire à l'université

  En tant que courant de pensée européen, les « Lumières » constituent un objet d’étude commun à plusieurs disciplines scolaires et universitaires. Le présent volume se propose de nouer un dialogue entre les différents acteurs du monde enseignant qui sont amenés à approcher les Lumières dans le cadre de leur pratique professionnelle : les enseignants-chercheurs en études théâtrales, histoire, histoire de l’art, littérature française, littératures étrangères, musicologie ou philosophie ; les enseignants-praticiens des disciplines ou enseignements connexes dans les premier et second degrés ; les enseignants-chercheurs en sciences de l’éducation et les didacticiens de ces disciplines, intervenant dans la formation initiale des futurs enseignants ainsi que dans la formation continue.

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• 01 Apr 2021

  Santiago de Compostela

  Call for papers - History

  The Medieval Eschatology

  The intention of this International Conference is to provide a venue for reflecting on these as well as other eschatological issues that may be proposed. This can be done analytically or descriptively from both a practical and theoretical approach. Starting there, we can look at what their purpose was and at what meanings they have been given in different contexts and spaces. The Conference welcomes multidisciplinarity and encourages the participation of researchers from the fields of history, history of the art, literary studies, philosophy and political sciences. It is our aim to bring together different views in order to encourage a theoretical and practical reflection on eschatological concepts, their meaning and uses.

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• 01 Dec 2020

  Baia Mare

  Call for papers - Thought

  Political correctness, wooden language and newspeak

  Le présent appel s'inscrit dans une réflxion sur la valeur de l'information dans nos sociétés globalisées. Il s'agit de s'interroger, de comprendre et d'analyser la manière dont ces modes de communication de masse contribuent au vacarme général; de saisir comment et pourquoi ils se propagent ; de clarifier aussi de quoi ils parlent et à qui ils s'adressent. Se donner le temps de réfléchir ensemble critiquement afin de développer une littératie pour s'y orienter et que tout cela prenne un sens.

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• 18 Jun 2020

  19 Jun 2020

  Karlsruhe

  Study days - Thought

  The return of the Wigalois

  A handwriting of the 15th century in the focus of new research approaches

  On June 18th and 19th 2020 the Badische Landesbibliothek organizes the international and interdisciplinary congress “The return of the Wigalois - a handwriting of the 15th century in the focus of new research approaches”. The congress presents and discusses first results of the again possible scientific altercation with materiality of the handwriting, its production context and the book market at the upper Rhine, for which it was produced.

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• 15 Mar 2020

  Târgu Mureş

  Call for papers - History

  ReThinking Europe in Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea Region

  The 11th annual international conference on Nordic and Baltic Studies

  Brexit has just happened and its consequences are not yet fully comprehended. Would the outcome be a return to a status quo ante the Brentry of 1 January 1973 in British-EU relations? Would Britain become a sort of bigger Norway tightly connected to the EU, but yet not fully a member of the united organization? Would Britain really continue to exist as such? Would Scotland, not to mention other territories, emulate London and decide on their own Brexit, this time from the United Kingdom, in order to rejoin the EU? Would actually Brexit become a pathway for other skeptical EU nations? Would Brexit rocket exclusive forms of nationalisms? Would the whole of united Europe collapse, on the long run, as a result of Brexit as the League of Nations had become toothless after the US Senate had vetoed the Pact of League of Nations? But what effect is going to have Brexit on Scandinavian countries which historically have been closely connected to Britain? How is it reflected in Scandinavian intellectual milieus, in mass-media, in public discourses? What about the Baltic states which received a strong support from Britain in key moments of their history, for instance when Royal Navy came at the rescue of Estonian and Latvian independence following World War I or in the process of re-enactment of Baltic sovereignty after the collapse of the Soviet Union? […]

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• 30 Apr 2020

  Florence

  Summer School - History

  Summer School in Global and Transnational History: Debating the Past in an Age of Global Disruption

  The Department of History and Civilization (HEC) at the European University Institute (EUI) is happy to announce its sixteenth Summer School in Global and Transnational History, which will take place in September 2020 in the historic Villa Salviati, looking out over the hills of Florence. The Summer School will combine discussion of methodological issues in global, transnational and comparative history with case studies by leading specialists from the European University Institute and other major universities.

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• 15 Apr 2020

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  An ethnology of dialogue and sharing : Camille Lacoste-Dujardin

  Cahiers de Littérature Orale n°90

  The aim of this thematic issue is to pay tribute to Camille Lacoste-Dujardin (1921-2016), an eminent figure of French ethnology who dedicated her fifty-eight years scientific career to the study of the complexities of the Kabyle society and, beyond, to those of any human society. Indeed, even though her ethnological researches seem to have been “restricted to a people of mountain dwellers, its language and culture”, actually “they have never been limited neither in space, nor in time”, and “not even strictly confined to some single object of observation”; they have rather always involved “references to larger [sociocultural] wholes”.

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• 29 Feb 2020

  Naumburg

  Call for papers - Thought

  Between Life and Existence. Nietzsche and French Existentialism

  Our symposium therefore aims to close this research gap by including all relevant disciplines (philosophy, literary studies, history of ideas ...). Contributions can deal with biographical aspects of the subject (to what extent did the French existentialists really read Nietzsche?), comparisons of the respective philosophies, or with questions pertaining to the topicality of the theses and matters discussed. We endeavor to cover the travel and accommodation costs for the speakers, but cannot guarantee them at the present time.

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• 07 Mar 2020

  Biskra

  Call for papers - Language

  The Poetic Parenthesis conference no.1

  Initiation in cantology. Call for papers

  La chanson a toujours animé la société depuis les temps les plus anciens. Au-delà de la distraction et du divertissement, cet art a depuis des millénaires accompagné les hommes au gré de circonstances diverses, rythmant leurs joies, leurs péripéties et leurs peines ; officialisant ici une conquête, déplorant là-bas un deuil ; les solennités infinies qui en découlent ne manquent guère d’intérêt et confirment à elles seules l’attention grandissante que les chercheurs lui portent. Paradoxalement et malgré son importance capitale, les travaux universitaires algériens s’y rapportant se font rares. Cette journée d’étude vise à exploiter la chanson sur tous les plans, que l’on use de la linguistique, de la sémiologie, de la rhétorique, de la poétique ou de la didactique pour l’appréhender, ces disciplines peuvent aider à la comprendre, à s’en servir pour l’enseignement, ou encore, à y inclure des modalités d’analyse nouvelles au profit de la recherche scientifique.

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• 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.

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• 31 Mar 2020

  Orford Lake

  Call for papers - History

  The event

  73rd congress of the Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française (IHAF)

  Pour son 73^e congrès, qui aura lieu à Orford en Estrie les 15, 16 et 17 octobre 2020, l'Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française sollicite des communications qui mobilisent la notion d’événement, mais également qui la mettent à l’épreuve et la questionnent, des communications qui cherchent à révéler des aspects méconnus d’événements bien enracinés dans les récits historiques, mais également qui mettent ou remettent en scène des événements oubliés de l’historiographie ou de la mémoire collective, des communications qui réfléchissent à la manière dont l’événement est fabriqué, historicisé. Au final, nous n’avons pas à choisir entre l’événement et la longue durée, mais il y a certainement une nécessité de réfléchir à la place de l’événement dans la longue durée.

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