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Building techniques in writings on architecture between Italy, France and the Low Countries

Les techniques constructives dans les écrits d’architecture entre Italie, France et anciens Pays-Bas

This conference focuses on the connection between architectural theory and construction techniques. The first part deals with the analysis of technical descriptions, their relationship with building practice, their rhetorical value, and their international circulation and adaptation. It comprises case studies from Italy, France, and the Low Countries. The second part approaches the same problem in a comparative perspective and takes the form of round-table discussions structured around three themes: the relationship between technical writings and construction practices, the literary aspects of technical digressions, and the translation and adaptation of Italian treatises.

Paris

Conference, symposium - History

The Vico Road

Giovanni Battista Vico (1668–1744) spent most of his professional life as Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Naples. He was trained in jurisprudence, but read widely in Classics, philology, and philosophy, all of which informed his highly original views on history, historiography, and culture. His thought is most fully expressed in his mature work, the Scienza Nuova or The New Science. In his own time, Vico was relatively not so known, but from the nineteenth century onwards his views found a wider audience and today his influence is widespread in the humanities and social sciences. While borrowing our title “The Vico Road” to James Joyce, the conference at the Paris Institute of Advanced Study will examine the current state of the study of the works of Giambattista Vico. We will try to encourage discussion of ideas that can be considered Vichian in nature and that have some affinity with modern and contemporary thought.

Paris

Call for papers - Europe

Contradictions: Envisioning European Futures

2015 International Conference of Europeanists in Paris

The Council for European Studies (CES) calls for proposals for its 22nd International Conference of Europeanists is organized around the theme "Contradictions: Envisioning European Futures". The CES invites proposals for panels, roundtables, book discussions, and individual papers that consider the many potential futures emerging from the European crisis. We encourage proposals in the widest range of disciplines, and, in particular, proposals that combine disciplines, nationalities, and generations.

Lausanne

Conference, symposium - Representation

Courts and Courtly Cultures in Early Modern Italy and Europe

Models and Languages

The conference will focus on the topic of court culture in Lombardy and North Italy, within the conceptual framework of the SNF Sinergia project: Constructing identity: visual, spatial, and literary cultures in Lombardy, 14^th to 16^th centuries. This interdisciplinary project, which includes five research unities in the Universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich, and EPFL at Lausanne, works on Visconti and Sforza ages, when Lombardy, one of the most important European regions, established itself as a distinct political and cultural entity. It has been an exemplary case of the construction of a cultural identity, whose repercussions still resonate in present-day Italy. As a part of a potent political project, it has been sustained by complex mechanisms of self-representation and the imposition of a prestige taste. The conference will conclude the research of the Sinergia project discussing its results in a wider historical, literary, architectural and artistic context and verifying its methodological approaches at the light of multiple points of view.

Call for papers - History

Captives and captivities in the Mediterranean in the modern period

Les Cahiers de la Méditerranée journal

Les Cahiers de la Méditerranée, revue à comité de lecture du Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine de l’Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, se proposent de publier un dossier thématique sur Captifs et captivité en Méditerranée à l’époque moderne.

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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Paris

Lecture series - History

Tombstones of the Jews of Padua, 1500-1850

Cycle de conférences de David Malkiel

The Jewish tombstones of pre-modern Europe are significant for European history, since individual burial, with individual tombstones, only became widespread among Christians in the modern era. The tombstones of Italy’s Jews are particularly valuable, because, whereas in other lands Jewish tombstones typically record the identity of the deceased and the date of death, in Italy they display creative architectural designs and graphic art, accompanied by rhymed and metered poetry. These artifacts invite integrated study of the society, art, poetry and thought of Italy’s Jews in the early modern era.

Reading

Conference, symposium - Modern

18th April 1948: Italy between Continuity and Rupture

Through a multidisciplinary approach that brings together history, politics, literature, legal studies and international relations, this conference re-examines the significance of 18 April 1948. It assesses in what ways the legacies of WWII, of the fascist regime and of Liberal Italy have influenced the foundation of the new Italian Republic and to what degree 1948 can be seen as a 'watershed in the history of Italy'.

London

Conference, symposium - Early modern

Culture scientifique dans la Rome moderne

SCIENTIFIC CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN ROME COLLOQUIUM Organised by the Ecole française de Rome and the Warburg Institute in association with the Centre Alexandre Koyré (CNRS-MNHN-EHESS) 10 - 11 October 2003 PROGRAMME FRIDAY

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