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• 30 Dec 2021

  Call for papers - Modern

  Vowel Harmony and Word Extensions in Chadic Languages

  The present book project aims to identify within the Movement Phonology Theory (Charette 1994, Harris John 1994, Charette and Goksel 1994, etc.) and other appropriate phonological approaches the type and characteristics of vowel harmony exhibited in different languages, to explain the reasons of alternations and potential opacity, to determine the level of spreading of the phonological features, to identify, in each language, the nucleus (governor) and the governees in order to describe the vowel system of the studied languages, indicate the role of vowel harmony in the sound melody of Chadic languages,show the role of vowel system in the construction and the interpretation of lexical and grammatical units, point the contribution of Chadic languagaes’ data to the development of generative phonology in general and the one of Movement Phonology in particular.

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• 03 Dec 2021

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  Interpreting technology

  Ricoeur on philosophy and ethics of technology

  This workshop will bring together a group of scholars who are interested in the philosophy of Paul Ricœur and its relation to philosophy and ethics of technology.

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• 31 Jan 2022

  Florence

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  European University Institute (EUI) funded PhD programme

  The call for applications for the European University Institute (EUI) funded PhD programme is opening on 1 November 2021. The EUI Department of History and Civilization offers exceptional opportunities to study global connections within early modern and modern European history in a unique international context.

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• 25 Nov 2021

  26 Nov 2021

  Prague

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Photo Albums’ Twisted Meanings

  Between nostalgia and trauma

  The workshop Photo Albums’ Twisted Meanings: Between nostalgia and trauma which will take place in Prague on 25-26 November 2021 is organised by the CVF - Photography Research Centre of the Institute of Art History, CAS, in collaboration with DOX - Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague.

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• 19 Nov 2021

  20 Nov 2021

  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 17^th 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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• 18 Nov 2021

  19 Nov 2021

  Fribourg

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  Aesthetics and Critique IV : Contemporaneity

  The forth edition of the Fribourg Workshop in Aesthetics & Critique will be dedicated to the question of contemporaneity in art and politics. The contributors are Juliane Rebentisch, Cecilia Sjöholm, Ludger Schwarte, Jacob Lund and Peter Osborne. The event will take place in Fribourg. There will be a video live stream. 

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• 14 Mar 2022	11 Apr 2022	16 May 2022
  13 Jun 2022	11 Jul 2022	...

  Seminar - Language

  Seminari di Linguistica Forense

  Società Italiana di Linguistica Forense

  Per l’anno 2022 la SILF (Società Italiana di Linguistica Forense), in partnership con il Centro di Ricerca “Lo Stilo di Fileta” - Polo didattico dell'Università eCampus, organizza un percorso formativo di otto incontri seminariali, che al loro volta saranno parte integrante del programma della Scuola di Linguistica forense.

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• 15 Dec 2021

  Call for papers - Representation

  On Hinterlands and Homelands

  “Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?” Yeats wonders rhetorically. The idea of the homeland is organically enmeshed in notions of territoriality and geography. The hinterland is most often seen as its configuration as well as figuration in literature. It is so because it represents an ideal sense of national identity, unity, and even “purity” in extreme nationalist ideologies. It is considered an ideal space insofar as it is imagined as a utopian place, a locus amoenus, where an unsullied form of national character is preserved in its local traditions, dialects, myths and legends. The city is often portrayed as a fallen space, a wound, a disease corrupting the national body. We seek to rethink all these rigid dichotomies. “On Hinterlands and Homelands” Conference invites multidisciplinary papers on these themes.

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• 15 Dec 2021

  Oxford

  Call for papers - History

  European History across Boundaries from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century

  2022 Mainz Oxford Graduate Workshop

  We invite applications for an international doctoral workshop on European history across boundaries from the 16^th to the 20^th century, including Europe’s relations with the world. We encourage PhD candidates working in this field to present their research projects and discuss the transcultural and transnational scopes of their work. Topics that aim to cross and reflect on boundaries and borders are of particular interest.

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• 15 Dec 2021

  Le Havre

  Call for papers - Political studies

  The Completion of Eurasia?

  Continental logistical convergence or regional diplomatic dissent?

  The present state in the construction of Eurasia is proving a challenge for analysts. Given the fast pace of this construction, from a Europe Asia Meeting (ASEM) since 1996 to a Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) since 2015 (a Eurasian Economic Community was formed in the 1990s) and now the more applied cross-continental Land New Silk Road since the same key period, 2013-2015 (Ukraine’s crisis and US/NATO announced withdrawal from Afghanistan), it seems that diplomatic decisions and interstate practical schemes exceed the capacity of observers to conceptualise quickly enough what is happening. Yet, all the while, Eurasia is experiencing a mix of centripetal evolutions at its peripheries, and a launch of its centrifugal potentials from the core of Eurasia : Russia and Central Asia.

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• 31 Jan 2022

  Call for papers - Europe

  Levantine Sociabilities in Europe in Giacomo Casanova’s time

  Spies, Impostors, Courtesans and Men of Culture

  In the eighteenth century, intrigue, libertinage and criminality changed the social norms of politeness and education thereby creating nonconformist social behaviours. An explicit, but certainly not unique, manifestation of these new trends is represented by the city of Venice and its adventurer par excellence, Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798). Ecclesiastic, writer, soldier, spy, alchemist, gambler and diplomat, he was engaged in a network of social relationships which are documented in his Histoire de ma vie (History of my Life), one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the eighteenth century. Like London, Paris and Vienna, Venice became a centre of social mobility, geographically located as the threshold of the Levant.

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• 15 Nov 2021

  Rome

  Call for papers - Early modern

  The Inquisition(s) and the Christian East, 1500-1800

  The conference is the first of its kind to examine in a comparative way how Catholic ecclesiastical tribunals (Roman Inquisition, Spanish Inquisition, Portuguese Inquisition, episcopal courts, etc.) dealt with Eastern Christianity in early modern times. By bringing together historians of the Inquisition and specialists in the relationship between the Catholic World and the Eastern Churches, this colloquium aims to find out the far-reaching consequences of the attempt by Catholic authorities to frame and discipline a Christian tradition different from their own. Scholars are invited to focus both on the judicial level (Inquisition trials) and on the doctrinal one (book censorship, dubia circa sacramenta, liturgical issues), keeping a comparative perspective and linking discussions on the Christian East to other controversies formulated by theologians and missionaries in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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• 10 Dec 2021

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Doing family Online

  (In)formal knowledge circulation, information seeking practices and support communities

  Individuals and families are increasingly reliant on information and communication technologies for their daily needs, activities, and socialization. Apart from rapid push to Internet-based communication brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, all levels of government have been ‘dematerializing’ administrative procedures for some time. Couples, parents, children, and other family members use the Internet to navigate certain formalities and get access to practical information regarding, for example, heath care, schooling, or marriage. This multidisciplinary special issue of Family Relations examines the role of the Web as a human and bureaucratic-legal support tool for “doing family” and providing services for families around the world.

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• 10 Nov 2021

  11 Nov 2021

  Siena

  Seminar - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Classicamente. Dialoghi senesi sul mondo antico

  Diritto e Ritualità

  The full online seminar “Diritto e Ritualità” 10-11 November 2021 will focus on questions of Greek law and ritual forms in the ancient world, investigated through the lens of anthropology. We will explore the relationship between rhetoric and law, the evidence of judicial practices in literary sources and some issues related to the analysis of specific epigraphic sources (defixiones and prayers for justice). In the second day, we will try to put some ritual forms of the ancient world into context. In particular, we will investigate the function of knucklebones in Greek sanctuaries and the relationship between the ludic dimension and the ritual one. Late antique adoratio will also be discussed in light of the most recent theories developed by Anthropology and Ritual Studies.

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• 03 Dec 2021

  04 Dec 2021

  Brussels

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  Ancient mosques in their spatial context

  Mosques are one of the physical representations of Islam and of Muslim communities in the archaeological record. The workshop will present a number of archaeological case studies in the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, Africa, and Spain between the seventh and the thirteenth centuries. Mosques will be introduced in relation to water systems and burials, to earlier and later structures, and to specific types of settlements. In particular, the workshop will treat the question of Islamization, the definitions of the term, and its validity. The event will also include launching a database for excavated mosques until the 9^th century in OpenContext.org and discuss methods and approaches for open data in archaeology.

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• 23 Nov 2021

  24 Nov 2021

  Conference, symposium - Religion

  History, Philology and Archaeology of Zoroastrianism

  The purpose of this workshop will be to provide a multidisciplinary approach by combining historical studies, archaeology and philology, in order to contribute to the study of the ancient zoroastrian religion, ideally outside of modern Iran and India. Nevertheless, this purpose cannot be achieved without taking into consideration and a side-by-side comparison of the data from the long-standing tradition of the mentioned disciplines, collected from Iran, India and other related regions.

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• 15 Jan 2022

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Aging, life span and societal challenges

  This special issue of Forum Sociológico focuses on analyzing the challenges resulting from a longer life, as one of the greatest social problems in contemporary societies. We welcome and encourage the authors to submit original articles of an empirical nature or theoretical essays, nationally and internationally.

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• 25 Dec 2021

  Tunis

  Call for papers - Thought

  Other Times, Other Spaces

  The conference “Other times, Other Spaces” explores history (time and space) as something in constant transition, something in the making here and now. The world has witnessed wars, pandemics, and natural and man-made disasters. Today, we are more than ever threatened by climate change, depletion of resources, devastating pandemics, and disparities between the rich and the poor, North and South and West and East. The fears of the past are haunting the present, our here and now. Radical transformations are taking place across the world. Human relations are atomized, fragmented, alienated, and yet, paradoxically, consolidated by disasters and calamities such as the current Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, our perceptions of the world and humanity are being rethought and reshaped every day.

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• 10 Jan 2022

  Bucharest

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe

  Postdoctoral fellowships - New Europe College

  New Europe College-Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest (Romania) announces its annual competition for the 2022/2023 Fellowships. Romanian and international scholars in all fields of the humanities and social sciences (including law and economics) are invited to apply.

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• 01 Dec 2021

  Call for papers - Language

  Exploring Transnational Dimensions of Activism in Contemporary Book Culture

  Mémoires du livre/Studies in Book Culture, vol. 26-2, Fall 2022

  “A is for Activist” is the title of a best‑selling children’s board book, published in 2013 by Innosanto Nagara. This small book amplifies a large message: books can catalyze change. Publishing has both supported and hampered progressive political and social change, in a variety of international contexts. Activism in publishing is also transnational because national contexts and identities matter, but they exist within a transnational network with unequal power dynamics and “literary capital” (Casanova 2004). Building on ideas of “print activism” in the long twentieth century (Schreiber 2013), this special issue is dedicated to furthering our understanding of activism in the contemporary publishing industry – and in the research thereof.

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