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• 15 jui 2014

  Saint-Denis

  Call for papers - History

  The war of the others: The colonies of the First World War

  Footsteps, narratives and memories

  This symposium is aimed at taking stock of the different researches carried out on the colonial participation in The First World War, as much from the point of view of history as of representations, in order to understand better the transformations occurring during this conflict.  Indeed, it hopes to consider as large a geographical space as possible: to be not only a reflexion about French colonies, but to be open to the European and international dimension. This symposium will concentrate on understanding what the Great War was to those who were involved in it without necessarily having decided to do so: pain, refusal, but also discoveries... 

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• 30 jui 2013

  Beirut

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Light in the Religions of the Book: A Multidisciplinary Approach

  If light is a valuable tool for the development of buildings, it also meets the requirements of practical and functional needs.  Beyond its purely aesthetic role, it is indeed a way to delineate the space and to organize its occupation by defining spatialities and temporalities adapted to the functions of the building. In order to assess the significance of spatial and temporal dimensions of light, a cross-reading of architectural, archaeological, textual and iconographic sources might be particularly fruitful. The theme of light which, somewhat complex, constitutes a privileged entry point not only to the study of man's relationship to space and the sacred, but also to the development – within or between monotheisms – of influences, exchanges, ruptures, continuities and legacies. The goal of the conference is to explore the theme of light in the East and in the West, during the Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, in a transdisciplinary perspective and within five thematic panels.

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• 14 déc 2012

  15 déc 2012

  16 déc 2012

  Algiers

  Study days - History

  Charles-Robert Ageron, historien de l'Algérie contemporaine : héritages et perspectives

  Le Centre d'études diocésain d'Alger, en partenariat avec l’Institut d'histoire du temps présent (IHTP) et le Centre d’histoire Sociale du XXe siècle (CHS), organise à Alger les 14, 15 et 16 décembre 2012 trois journées d’étude autour de l’héritage historiographique de Charles-Robert Ageron, figure incontournable et l'un des pionniers de l’histoire de l'Algérie coloniale et des décolonisations pour des générations d'historiens. De jeunes chercheurs, doctorants et post-doctorants, présenteront leurs travaux.

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