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  • Paris

    Call for papers - History

    Flying Colours: Maritime Flags in Communication, Representation and Protection Strategies at Sea (15th-19th century)

    We welcome submissions from historians who engage with any approach related to the use of flags at sea. Applications from Ph.D. candidates, postdoctoral students, and early career researchers are warmly encouraged.

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  • Boulogne

    Conference, symposium - History

    Tax resistance in the Roman world

    L’impôt est aussi vieux que les sociétés et la résistance à l’impôt, aussi vieux que lui. Dans un empire comme celui de Rome, des centaines de peuples contribuent au financement de l’Etat ; des centaines de peuples riches de leur propre histoire, de leur propre culture, de leur propre manière de se représenter la fiscalité. Dans ce colloque, des spécialistes venus du monde entier examineront les causes, les temporalités, les modalités et les conséquences des diverses formes de refus de l’impôt romain, qu’il provienne des citoyens ou des provinciaux, dans un contexte économique, social, culturel, politique ou religieux. Les présentations permettront de questionner les rapports de consentement et de contrainte entre le pouvoir central et les divers sujets de Rome et de comprendre ce qui a permis l’exceptionnelle stabilité d’un empire si durable.

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  • Nice

    Call for papers - History

    La Méditerranée à l’épreuve de l’histoire environnementale (XVIe-XXIe siècle)

    En juin 2025, la France accueillera à Nice la troisième Conférence des Nations Unies sur l’Océan, avec quelque 120 chefs d’État et de gouvernement, mais surtout des centaines de spécialistes et d’acteurs institutionnels et non-institutionnels. Ce temps de débat et de partage autour de l’avenir des océans est l’occasion pour la discipline historique de s’emparer de ces questions. L’objet d’étude de ce colloque international est la Méditerranée, non seulement la mer mais le monde méditerranéen dans son ensemble. Les études méditerranéennes sont intrinsèquement liées à l’« environnement » depuis les travaux pionniers de Fernand Braudel. Aujourd’hui, l’histoire environnementale n’interroge plus seulement le milieu braudélien mais l’ensemble des interactions des acteurs humains et non-humains avec l’environnement. Le but de ce colloque est donc de porter un nouveau regard sur la Méditerranée grâce à l’histoire environnementale.

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  • Nice

    Call for papers - History

    The “civilisation du journal” in the Mediterranean from the Late Eighteenth Century to the World War I

    L’objectif de ce colloque international est d’approfondir la connaissance des formes prises par la « civilisation du journal » qui s’est développée à partir de la fin du XVIIIe siècle, et jusqu’à la première guerre mondiale, dans les espaces méditerranéens qui, sans avoir été précurseurs, ont aussi connu un grand développement journalistique. L’approche se veut sociale, culturelle et matérielle, dans la lignée d’un renouvellement historiographique récent des études sur la presse, afin de saisir la manière dont les journaux ont été produits et les entreprises de presse gérées, de saisir toutes les formes de circulations et pratiques journalistiques et d’interroger le rapport de ces journaux à l’image.

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  • Aix-en-Provence

    Call for papers - History

    A Transatlantic Mediterranean?

    Circulations, influences and civilian and military cooperation between the United States and Southern European and Turkish spaces (1945-1980's)

    The objective of this meeting is to contribute to a transnational and decompartmentalized history of the circulations between Mediterranean Europe and the United States between 1945 and the 1980s, which will make it possible to apprehend these relations from a global point of view and to analyze the way in which these links were able to generate circulations of influence between Mediterranean countries. The aim is to combine diplomatic approaches with the socio-history of these actors and with the analysis of the circulation of knowledge and modes of governmentality, by placing Atlantic military issues and policies in the wider context of intellectual mobility and cross-practices. The European and Turkish Mediterranean is understood here in a broad and political sense, from Portugal to the confines of the Anatolian peninsula. Similarly, the ambition is to see how these relations between Mediterranean Europe and the Atlantic space may have had effects on the Southern and Eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, whether during or after the period of colonial domination.

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  • Nice

    Study days - History

    Venice, a Mediterranean regional power

    Economic, maritime and political perspectives, 1669 – 1797

    The Mediterranean has always been at the heart of Venice’s interests during the Early Modern Period. A main source of its prosperity, the Inner Sea maintained its vital role even after the “northern invasions”, the battle of Lepanto and the “downturn” of the 17th century. This seminar aims to explore the relationship between Venice and the Mediterranean between the loss of Crete, the last major dominion of Venetian maritime empire in 1669, and the end of the Republic in 1797.

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  • Aix-en-Provence

    Seminar - Europe

    The representation of power in the medieval Mediterranean - Economy, society and culture seminar 2018-2019

    Séminaire « Économie, société et culture » 2018-2019

    Ce séminaire de recherche a pour vocation de rassembler autour de thèmes fédérateurs historiens, archéologues et historiens de l’art, spécialistes des mondes médiévaux méditerranéens. Interdisciplinaire et comparatiste, il propose une approche de l’économie et des sociétés du monde méditerranéen. Organisé en cycles de deux ans, il est l’occasion de dresser un tableau des dernières recherches autour de thèmes transversaux, communs aux espaces et disciplines concernées par la Méditerranée médiévale. Cette année sera abordée la question de la représentation du pouvoir en Méditerranée médiévale.

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  • Venice | Helsinki

    Call for papers - History

    A global history of free ports

    Capitalism, commerce and geopolotics (1600-1900)

    Exactly how free ports arose in early-modern Europe is still subject to debate. Livorno, Genoa and other Italian cities became famous as major examples of a particular way of attracting trade. Between the late eighteenth and the nineteenth century the existence of free ports – as specific fiscal, cultural, political and economic entities with different local functions and characteristics – developed from an Italian and European into a global phenomenon. While a general history of free ports – from their first emergence to the present-day special economic zones – has never been written, this research network aims to pave the way for such an enterprise. The history of free ports research network is organising a number of conferences in the next years, in order to work towards a standard publication and interactive research platform for the history of free ports from the XVIth to the early XXth century.

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  • Utrecht

    Scholarship, prize and job offer - Prehistory and Antiquity

    Post-doctorate researcher in Coinage in Ancient Greece

    Anchoring Work Package 4

    The use of minted coins was one of the major innovations in the ancient world of the first millennium BCE. Invented in Lydia in the seventh century, coinage spread rapidly throughout the Greek world, first in the Greek cities in Asia Minor, next to Aegina and Athens and soon to the other cities across the Aegean and Mediterranean area. Before the introduction of minted coins, exchange was largely based on weights of precious metals, in smaller amounts weighed on scales, a practice to which striking fixed weights of metal seems just a small and logical step. Yet the swift success of coinage, evidenced by rapidly increasing number of Greek poleis adopting the new medium, shows that the potential of coins to surpass weighed bullion in practical use for all kinds of transactions was recognised early on.

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  • Naples

    Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

    Credit. Trust, solidarity, citizenship (14th-19th century)

    IV seminar of doctoral studies history and economy in the Mediterranean countries

    The objective of the seminar will be to understand the importance of intense credit activities at all levels of society, both in urban and rural areas over the long term, from consumer microcredit to the specific problem of the foundation of the Monti di Pietà in the various regional typologies, and to the forms of solidarity credit that, over the centuries, gave rise to more modern forms of banks.

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  • Florence

    Conference, symposium - Early modern

    Circulation of people, objects and knowledge across South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean (16th-19th Centuries)

    Through the prism of objects and material culture, the workshop intends to highlight broad patterns of transregional circulation of people and goods crossing the boarders of Ottoman, Venetian, Russian and Habsburg Empires. The papers will present and discuss a wide variety of unpublished textual and visual sources related to luxury consumption, fashion and dress codes; diplomatical and political exchanges; dowry contracts and travel journals.

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  • Aix-en-Provence

    Conference, symposium - History

    Climate and Societies in the Mediterranean during the Last Two Millennia

    Current State Of Knowledge and Research Perspectives

    This two-day international conference aims to highlight recent and challenging interdisciplinary studies dealing with complex historical climate/society interactions in Mediterranean during the last two millennia. The study of these existing connections can help in better understanding the role played by past climatic events in the eruption of regional conflicts, in forced migration and displacement of people, in periodically appearing infectious disease outbreaks or in subsistence crises like food shortages and famines Similarly, it seems necessary to identify and analyze socio-economic and technological responses (e.g. water supply systems) together with mitigation and general adaptation strategies, insofar as they existed, to cope with climate change.

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  • Toulon | Marseille

    Call for papers - Representation

    Maritime voyages in the Mediterranean - from the Middle Ages to early Modernity

    Ce colloque souhaite aborder le thème de l'itinérance en l’appliquant de manière privilégiée à l’espace maritime de la Méditerranée dans toute son étendue et toutes ses cultures. L’objet du colloque sera de rendre compte des modalités et des enjeux des circulations et des déplacements de personnes (départs, traversées, escales) autour des ports du bassin méditerranéen, dans leur dimension historique comme imaginaire. Les communications pourront s’appuyer sur un corpus varié de textes (récits de voyage, témoignages, documents d’archive, traités…) et de langues (latin, arabe, hébreu, français, italien, espagnol, anglais...).

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  • Paris

    Seminar - History

    Thinking the Mediterranean in the modern and contemporary period (16th-20th century)

    Partant du constat que la Méditerranée est un objet historique et historiographique attractif mais souvent défini par défaut, et constatant le très petit nombre de lieux d’échange continu entre modernistes et contemporanéistes en histoire méditerranéenne, les organisateurs de ce séminaire proposent une approche des transformations de l’espace méditerranéen sur le long terme (du XVIe au XXe siècle).

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  • Paris

    Lecture series - Prehistory and Antiquity

    The archaeology of Greece - from digging to writing history

    Comment l'archéologie permet-elle d'écrire l'histoire ? En quoi les fouilles et l'étude des artefacts continuent-ils à renouveler la connaissance des historiens ? Après un cycle consacré à l'Égypte, la Bibliothèque nationale de France met à l'honneur la Grèce ancienne, à travers des présentations de recherches et de fouilles françaises en cours.

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  • Aix-en-Provence

    Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

    Precious metals in the medieval Mediterranean

    Mining, processing and circulations

    Silver on one side, gold on the other? The medieval Mediterranean was an area in which precious metals were produced and circulated, intertwining three worlds, both friends and foes: Roman Christianity to the West, byzantine Christianity to the East, and Islam to the South. Precious metals (gold, silver, copper and lead), at the origin of numerous objects of the material culture and currencies used by the economies, filled the societies. They were mined, processed, commercialised, controlled and hoarded by a wide variety of stakeholders and institutions, from simple peasants to emperors.

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  • Aix-en-Provence

    Conference, symposium - History

    Water in all its forms

    5th HYDRΩMED international symposium

    Dans le cadre du réseau HYDRΩMED, nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à participer au Ve colloque sur la gestion de l’eau en Méditerranée antique, qui aura lieu à Aix-en-Provence, du 30 mai au 1er juin 2016. Le colloque fera le point sur les recherches menées depuis 2015 par le réseau et propose aux intervenants quatre pistes de travail, qui correspondent aux quatre axes du programme : l’étude paléoenvironnementale, les aménagements hydrauliques antiques et l’exploitation des ressources naturelles, de l’histoire des sciences et des techniques à l’histoire politique et économique et les cultes et cultures de l’eau et des eaux.

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  • Lyon

    Conference, symposium - History

    Multidisciplinary Approaches to Food and Foodways in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean

    Within the rapidly expanding area of research on food and foodways, the medieval eastern Mediterranean is still very much an unexplored area. The aim of the POMEDOR project (People, Pottery and Food in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean) was to explore this new field in a multidisciplinary way and to stimulate further research.

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  • Aix-en-Provence

    Study days - History

    Dairy produce in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages and Modern period: production, sales and consumption

    Contrairement aux périodes préhistoriques pour lesquelles la question des débuts de la consommation des produits laitiers animaux est fondamentale et suscite de nombreuses recherches, rares sont celles consacrées à la production et à la consommation de ces produits aux périodes médiévales et modernes. Pourtant, les produits laitiers, et particulièrement les fromages, sont des composants clefs de l’alimentation méditerranéenne. Produits issus des terroirs dont les spécificités en font le goût, ils sont commercialisés tant à l’échelle locale et régionale qu’internationale.

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  • Aix-en-Provence

    Call for papers - Middle Ages

    Dairy products in Medieval and post-medieval Mediterranean countries: production, trade, consumption

    Contrasting with the Prehistory for which the question of the beginning of the consumption of dairy products is of critical importance, few studies are devoted to the production and consumption of these products during medieval and post-medieval periods. However, dairy products, especially cheese, are key components of the Mediterranean diet. Sometimes disregarded, sometimes recommended by dieticians, the latter are traded both at local and international scale. Therefore it seems necessary to organize a workshop on "Dairy products in Medieval and post-medieval Mediterranean countries: production, trade, consumption".

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