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• 24 mai 2012

  25 mai 2012

  Trento

  Conference, symposium - History

  Narrating War

  Words and images of war from street singers to the internet

  One of the most significant aspects of recent historiographical work on war has been the attention paid to the cultural representations of conflict: the visual representation of war and its memory, language and rhetoric. This historiographical approach towards the subject of war has brought new attention to ways of representing war and the languages used to recount it. The First World War is usually seen as marking a new era; the unusual nature of the violence of this conflict, with the “disappearance of battle” and the mechanization of death, signalling the end of war as a place for generating men’s honour. But other moments in the history of western culture have seen the paradigm of war change in the accounts and narratives of contemporaries. Among these, the period of the Italian Wars of the sixteenth century, when the image of war transformed from a theatre of conflict between chivalric heroes to the anonymous encounters of armies.

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• 13 jan 2012

  Trento

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Fellowship « Transitions » at the Italian-German Historical Institute of Trient (Isig), Italy

  Italienisch-Deutsches Historisches Institut, (Isig) Trient / Fondazione Bruno. Kessler, Trient, 01.09.2012-30.09.2014. Bewerbungsschluss: 13.01.2012. Das Stipendium kann für 1 bis 3 Jahre beantragt werden. Es wird erwartet, dass sich die Bewerber mit ihrem Projekt thematisch in das übergreifende Projekt "Transizioni" des Istituto storico italo-germanico(ISIG), Trient, einfügen (siehe Webseite des Instituts ). Istituto storico italo-germanico di Trento (Isig) / Fondazione Bruno. Kessler, Trento, Italy, 01.09.2012-30.09.2014. Deadline: 13.01.2012 from 1 to 3 years (look at the website: isig.fbk.eu/ ) Only projects within the research area of Isig will be considered for evaluation: « Transition as a historiographical issue. The phases of the critical development of 'modernity' 1494–1973 ».

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