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• 23 Jan 2025

  24 Jan 2025

  Paris

  Study days - Representation

  Precious Ornaments 3

  Diffusion and Appreciation of Precious Ornaments and Jewelry in Europe Between Baroque and Rococo (1650-1750)

  This is the third in a series of study days dedicated to the history of precious ornaments in Europe since the Middle Ages. Favoring an interdisciplinary approach inspired by Aby Warburgh, specialists, historians and art historians, philologists, philosophers and gemologists, will share their groundbreaking research on the history of precious arts, gemstones, craftsmanship and finery, between Baroque and Rococo periods.

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• 31 Jan 2025

  Innsbruck

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Transformations

  13th ALTER Conference

  The 2025 ALTER Conference theme of ‘Transformations’ is an invitation to analyse dynamics of change in disability rights and disability research. The underpinning question is whether changes in the social, cultural, economic, and political systems shaping the lives of persons with disabilities are reducing inequalities or lead to more pessimistic conclusions about increasing exclusion and precarity, including in the research arena.

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• 30 Jan 2025

  Rome

  Call for papers - History

  The Prism of Festivals in Theatre and Performance Studies

  Open Historiographic Issues

  The conference “The Prism of Festivals in Theatre and Performance Studies,” organised within the framework of the PRIN 2022 project Theatre Festivals between Local and Global: RethinkingTheatre and Performance in Italy from the 1950s to the 1970s, aims to provide a platform for indepth discussion on theatre festivals, their histories, and the methodologies used for their analysis.The conference will place particular focus on the Cold War period and emphasize the idea of festivals as an “intangible cultural heritage” of the communities that produced them. Additionally, it will address strategies for collecting, cataloguing, and connecting sources essential to the study of festivals, as well as to the reactivation of festival memories.

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• 31 May 2025

  Yogyakarta

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Past and future of archaeological collections. Field exploration, movements, preservation (19th-21st c.)

  The International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP) Commission on the History of Archaeology, in collaboration with the Commission “Southeast Asia: Human Evolution, Dispersals and Adaptations” is organising a symposium “Past and future of archaeological collections. Field exploration, movements, preservation (19th-21st c.)” to be held at the “Asian Prehistory Today Bridging Science, Heritage and Development” conference, from October, 27 to 6 November, 6, 2025.

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• 07 Mar 2025

  Call for papers - Language

  The Lives and Afterlives of Cookie Mueller: Tales, Kinships, Persistence

  Special issue of “ANGLES – new perspectives on the anglophone world” (april 2027)

  Cookie Mueller (1949-1989) is probably best known for her small parts in Waters’ early movies (Multiple Maniacs, 1970; Pink Flamingos, 1972; Female Trouble, 1974; Desperate Living, 1977) and for befriending many artists, including Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. She was, however, also a gifted writer, who wrote health columns for the East Village Eye, a memoir, a theater play, as well as a series of nonsensical portraits/short stories entitled How to Get Rid of Pimples (1984). Cookie Mueller was one of the many victims of the AIDS epidemic. We invite contributors to explore Cookie Mueller’s writing ; the networks, artistic and emotional, in which she was embedded ; the experiences of loss and mourning in the context of the AIDS crisis.

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• 10 Jan 2025

  Call for papers - Europe

  Choròi parálleloi. Pathways on Dance and Ancient Performance: Philology and Contemporary Visions

  The International Conference Choròi parálleloi. Pathways on Dance and Ancient Performance: Philology and Contemporary Visions will accept work proposals and outcomes reflecting the multiple research lines in the field of dance in the Classical and Late Antiquity as well as in the Middle Ages, taking into account recent philological acquisitions (literary and documentary sources, exegesis of Christian texts) and contemporary investigation methodologies. Our goal is to project historical-philological studies onto a terrain of dialogue encompassing performance and performance practice studies, both reconstructive and 'exegetical' through the incorporation of ancient myths.

   

   

   

   

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• 06 Jan 2025

  Call for papers - History

  Faking It

  Forgery, Fraud, Deception and Dissimulation in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean

  Fake news, fake flags, fake papers... All were legion in the premodern Mediterranean. Whether or not this place of islands and enclaves, cultural archipelagos and fragmented sovereignties was especially conducive to dissimulation, it is an ideal place for studying different forms of forgery, fraud and self-fashioning.

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• 10 Jan 2025

  Granada

  Call for papers - Early modern

  The Culture of Suspicion: Creating Suspects in the Age of Revolutions

  The workshop will examine the impact of suspicion in the age of the Atlantic Revolutions (from around 1770 to 1830) in Europe and its colonial territories. We invite contributions that focus on the question of how individuals or groups of people became suspects of hostility towards the existing monarchical or revolutionary order, and thus potentially subversive. Contributions may deal with the narrative construction of suspicion as well as the practical surveillance measures and juridical proceedings that were used against the suspects.

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• 18 Dec 2024

  19 Dec 2024

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Renewing the Social Contract

  The Challenge of Inclusivity and Democratic Government in Social Contract Theory

  Social contract approaches seek to explain the origins of political obligations but are also recognized as tools of social change. In the face of classic social contract philosophers, who maintained that normative legitimacy may be grounded in hypothetical agreement, recent accusations of exclusivity and anthropocentrism have challenged contract theories’ relevance. And yet, in spite of these challenges, contract theories have experienced a resurgence. This conference seeks to engage with this second wave of theories and reflect on the challenges of inclusivity and democratic government within contract theory from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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• 31 Jan 2025

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Renaissance in Gold

  Knowledge, Symbolics and Uses of a Versatile Material in Europe (1450-1550)

  This call for papers targets a wide range of disciplinary fields (e.g. history, art history, heritage science, literature, philosophy). This peer-reviewed edited volume aims to understand the uses and meanings of Gold as it pervades all areas of European societies, on a methodologically restricted time-frame (1450-1550). It intends to move beyond traditional research, so as to map out the social and cultural dynamics of this precious and versatile material in Renaissance Europe.

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• 15 Feb 2025

  Jendouba

  Call for papers - Language

  Stories and Storytelling: a World of Stories

  "Higher Institute of Human Sciences of Jendouba" Conference

  Roland Barthes asserts that stories are universal and can be told in all media. From the earliest oral traditions to today's multimedia extravaganzas, the importance of storytelling remains paramount. As storytelling creatures, humans are shaped through their stories as “man is in his actions and practice, as well as in his fictions, essentially a story-telling animal” (MacIntyre). Storytelling is the art of conveying ideas, experiences and emotions through narratives. Through its evolution from an oral form to written, visual, and digital forms, storytelling has always been a fundamental method of communication for humans. Storytelling represents a nexus between culture studies, literature, and linguistics, as not only does it reflect cultural identities and values but also makes use of linguistic structures and literary techniques to convey complex narratives that shape our understanding of the world.

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• 12 Jan 2025

  Amman

  Call for papers - History

  Crises and Preaching

  Lexis, framing, timings, 19th‒21st century in the Middle East

  Is preaching consubstantial with crisis? Did the different religious traditions present in the Middle East come to grip with the notion of crisis during the contemporary period? This workshop examines the similarities and divergences between preaching endeavours by the different religious traditions and the transformations in religious discourse in the Middle East from the end of the 19th century onwards. Through a comparative and diachronic analysis, it aims to identify what "constitutes a crisis" for particular religious actors at a given moment in the contemporary history of the Middle East (e.g. military defeat, feelings of inferiority vis-à-vis Europe, demographic decline of a given religious group, secularisation of institutions, rise of atheism, etc.)

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• 20 Jan 2025

  Geneva

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Cooperative Ensembles

  For a workshop on cooperative ensembles (1770–1890), taking place on 12/13 September 2025 at the Université de Genève, we are calling for short presentations followed by open discussions covering topics such as governance, administration, financial management, inclusion/exclusion of members, their social position, rehearsal practices, artistic leadership, or stage plans. Participants are invited to present source material such as minutes of meetings, statutes, reports on cooperative decision-making processes, annotated sheet music, or images of ensembles, which will form the basis for discussions.

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• 13 Dec 2024

  14 Dec 2024

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Vogue's View: On Education. Diachronic and Transnational Perspectives on Vogue Magazine, from the Archive to the Classroom

  An international conference “'Vogue's View: On Education.' Diachronic and Transnational Perspectives on Vogue Magazine, from the Archive to the Classroom,” to take place on Friday, December 13th and Saturday, December 14th, 2024 at ESMOD in Paris.

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• 03 Jan 2025

  Chambéry

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  Social interaction and everyday life in offline and online realities

  This conference is part of the “Centenary of the Birth of Michel de Certeau” commemoration. Born in Chambéry, Michel de Certeau remains a globally influential interdisciplinary thinker whose work, particularly The Practice of Everyday Life, has impacted fields such as anthropology, media, and cultural studies. This conference seeks proposals that apply and expand on de Certeau's ideas in contemporary contexts. We encourage contributions that connect his work with evolving fields such as phenomenology of artificial intelligence, post-human and queer phenomenology, offering new perspectives on the complex and shifting dynamics of our societies.

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• 30 Dec 2024

  Call for papers - Thought

  Art and ethics

  This new issue aims at exploring the relationship between Art and Ethics. One of the reasons is that Ethics has been the great absentee in the discussion about climate change. Why is it important to be involved? What are the ethical considerations behind getting involved? How about environmental justice? Many topics that are connected to Ethics. But we want to explore Ethics from an artistic point-of-view: How do artists/artworks contribute to the ethical debate? Is there an ethical way to create art? Can ethics be the main inspiration of art practices? Can art be a ferment for ethics? Can art show the way to society?

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• 31 Mar 2025

  Call for papers - History

  “Hamsa: Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies” - varia

  # 11 (2025)

  The editors of Hamsa: Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies are very pleased to announce that the journal is now accepting proposals for its 11th volume. For this volume, we welcome proposals offering original analysis on the broad subject of Judaic and Islamic studies and their intersections. 

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• 03 Mar 2025

  Créteil

  Call for papers - Language

  Ordinary writings: writing and reading practices in domestic and public spaces

  Living in a ‘written society’ means not only that social relations and the organisation of personal life are structured by the written word, but also that the written word is omnipresent in our environment and that we live in spaces saturated by a multiplicity of written documents, the production and reception of which shape our everyday activities. The aim of this congress is to examine the way in which ordinary written documents help to build and maintain a shared society.

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• 15 Feb 2025

  Saint-Étienne | Lyon

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  International Conference on Arts & Crafts and Design - CIMAD

  Tomorrow, a distant horizon, is a mixture of uncertainties and promises of change; today is a time for experimentation, transition, improvement and creation; yesterday is an infinite memory of experience and achievements. The papers in this symposium put modern and diverse craft practices into perspective as they evolve (Braunstein-Kriegel and Petiot, 2019), drawing their wisdom from past experiences handed down over generations.

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• 15 Jan 2025

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe

  Cultural heritage outreach in romance languages (CHORAL) PDH

  Coordinated by the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, CHORAL (Cultural Heritage Outreach in RomAnce Languages) is a Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska Curie programme co-funded by the European Union. It is tied to the Cultural Heritage Hub, an international research network within the Unita Alliance, which structures its research ecosystem facing cultural related challenges. CHORAL aims to train high-quality international researchers and to encourage the development of interdisciplinary, international and inter-sectoral research that addresses any aspect of Cultural Heritage. The successful candidates will enrol in PhD programs under joint supervision that will require an international mobility. Choral students will benefit from dedicated events and a tailored doctoral training programme.

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