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• 27 oct 2018

  Aosta

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  Feeding death - funerary rituals and alimentary practices in the Alpes and Himalayas

  Les pratiques et les gestes funéraires constituent une prérogative uniquement humaine depuis au moins 100.000, datation attribuée par les archéologues aux sépultures de Skhül (Mugharet es-Skhül), en Moyen Orient, les plus anciens exemples de sépulture volontaire de l’espèce des Homo Sapiens. Les récentes découvertes archéologiques des équipes dirigées par Aldenderfer et Eng (2016) dans le Upper Mustang (Népal) ont mis en évidence des aperçus inédits de l’histoire des populations himalayennes de haute altitude et de leurs rituels de la mort. Ce colloque permettra aussi d’aborder des aspects secondaires inhérents les rituels funéraires tels que certaines pratiques alimentaires spécifiques, appelées à jouer un rôle précis sur le plan social et symbolique.

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• 31 oct 2018

  Venice | Helsinki

  Call for papers - History

  A global history of free ports

  Capitalism, commerce and geopolotics (1600-1900)

  Exactly how free ports arose in early-modern Europe is still subject to debate. Livorno, Genoa and other Italian cities became famous as major examples of a particular way of attracting trade. Between the late eighteenth and the nineteenth century the existence of free ports – as specific fiscal, cultural, political and economic entities with different local functions and characteristics – developed from an Italian and European into a global phenomenon. While a general history of free ports – from their first emergence to the present-day special economic zones – has never been written, this research network aims to pave the way for such an enterprise. The history of free ports research network is organising a number of conferences in the next years, in order to work towards a standard publication and interactive research platform for the history of free ports from the XVI^th to the early XX^th century.

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• 05 sep 2018

  Rome

  Call for papers - History

  The Agreements of the Holy See with States (19th-21st Centuries)

  Models and Transformations, from Confessional States to Religious Freedom

  This conference will explore the international legal agreements signed between the Holy See and individual states, which often but not always took the form of concordats and similar conventions. Its central focus will be to examine these conventions in light of diplomatic practices, as well as in relation to the political and religious dynamics of the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries, notably the principles and requirements that comprised modernity. This entails assessing the historical evolution of the typology, method, content, scope, and spaces concerned.

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• 15 oct 2018

  Bergamo

  Call for papers - Language

  Discourse, power and mind: between reason and emotion

  Discourse can be addressed as a vehicle for power, a positioning practice which enlightens the role and the relationship among the speakers. Power is a way of defying and measure relationships and interactions between individuals. These relations and interactions lead one part to affirm its will against another part, no matter on what bases this will is grounded. Language and communication can be seen as tools to define and convey power dynamics, as well as to establish a status quo. Hence, discourse practice analysis is a tool to approach and understand the hierarchical relations and positions in different discourse fields. The relationship between discourse and power implies an interaction between the subjects and their selves. Power positions are often held by influencing the judgment of other people, which requires dealing with their minds.

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• 30 jui 2018

  Aosta

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Feeding death - funerary rituals and alimentary practices in the Alpes and Himalayas

  Le Centre d’études francoprovençales « René Willien » de Saint-Nicolas organise un colloque sur les intersections entre pratiques, rituels et imaginaires de la mort observés dans une approche d’anthropologie transalpine comparée, des aires catholiques et post-réformées des Alpes européennes aux religions indo-tibétaines du plus lointain Himalaya.

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• 15 sep 2018

  Morimondo

  Call for papers - History

  Languages and music within the vocal corpuses from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

  4th International French-Italian Symposium “Philology and Musicology”

  La quatrième rencontre « Philologie et musicologie » se fixe pour objectif d’étudier les rapports entre langues et musiques dans les corpus chantés du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance. Comment la langue influe-t-elle directement sur les modalités de composition ? Pour répondre à cette question, nous envisageons un double postulat : d’un côté la substance même d’une langue conditionnerait certains éléments de la composition musicale qui lui sont associés comme le rythme ou la courbe musicale et, d’un autre côté, des modalités de composition pourraient être communes à certaines traditions linguistiques comme, par exemple, les procédés de centonisation. Même si la littérature sur le sujet est abondante, elle est principalement monodisciplinaire ; les travaux transversaux mêlant des compétences égales en philologie et en musicologie sont rares. Si de nombreux musicologues ou philologues se sont intéressés au rapport existant entre musique et langue, nous souhaitons que nos études s’orientent à présent vers un véritable travail entre musicologues et spécialistes des textes.

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• 30 nov 2018

  Genoa

  Call for papers - Europe

  Storia e psichiatria

  Metodologia, temi, fonti

  A cent’anni dalla fine del Primo conflitto mondiale e a quarant’anni dall’approvazione della cosiddetta Legge Basaglia, si rinnova l’attenzione della storiografia sui processi di alienazione mentale, sulla loro comprensione e sul loro trattamento. A fronte di un crescente interesse, soprattutto da parte della storiografia internazionale, verso questo genere di tematiche, in Italia persiste un atteggiamento di sospetto e diffidenza, in parte dovuto alla ridotta conoscenza delle possibilità offerte da un dialogo tanto affascinante quanto rischioso. Quali sono i rapporti tra storiografia e psichiatria? Quali strumenti deve padroneggiare lo storico per una adeguata problematizzazione dell’argomento? Quale uso fare delle fonti psichiatriche? Quali risultati sono stati raggiunti in questi anni dagli storici italiani che hanno affrontato il tema? Questi sono soltanto alcuni degli interrogativi che il confronto tra le due discipline solleva.

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• 20 aoû 2018

  Milan

  Call for papers - Language

  First Biennial International Conference on Eugenio Montale

  First Biennial International Conference on Eugenio Montale

  Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975, Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) spent thirty-three years of his life in Milan (more than a third of his entire existence), from 1948, when at the age of fifty-two he was taken on by “Corriere della Sera”, until his death in a Milanese hospital at the age of eighty-five. During this protracted residency in Milan, Montale published all his major poetic collections except Ossi di seppia and Le occasioni.

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• 10 sep 2018

  Rome

  Call for papers - Modern

  Armed groups, organized violence and the Euro-Mediterranean spaces (1870-1914)

  Cette manifestation scientifique vise à créer un dialogue original, à la fois comparatif et transnational, autour d’un objet d’étude relativement neuf pour la période 1870-1914 : les groupes armés. Cet objet sera envisagé en lien avec la violence politique et dans le cadre d’une géographie relativement souple : celle des espaces euro-méditerranéens entendus au sens large. Autour des groupes armés, à travers leurs formes d’organisations, de légitimations et d’actions, l’étude de la violence politique permet d’approfondir empiriquement notre connaissance de ce que l’on nomme le « monopole de la violence légale ».

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• 15 jui 2018

  Rome

  Call for papers - History

  The European Left and the Jewish question

  Zionism, anti-semitism and the Arab-Israeli conflict (1789-1989)

  The seminar on contemporary history of the Department of social and economic sciences of Sapienza University of Rome will organize a conference that will take place from 13 to 14 December 2018 in Rome titled: “The European Left and the Jewish question: Zionism, anti-Semitism and the Arab-Israeli conflict”. The goal is to explore the relationship between the Left and Jews in the two hundred years’ history of the political left, considering three major themes: the Jewish question as seen by left-wing authors; Anti-Semitism and its representations in left-wing culture; The Arab-Israeli conflict as a node of comparison between the Left and the Jewish question.

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• 27 mai 2018

  Milan

  Call for papers - Geography

  Living the mountain

  Ce colloque a pour ambition d’interroger et de préciser la notion d’ « habiter la montagne » à partir d’apports théoriques et pratiques relevant de territoires alpins et/ou de montagne. Il propose d’examiner les réponses développées par les habitants permanents ou temporaires et les initiatives juridiques, économiques, sociales, environnementale et culturelles déployées de manière individuelle ou collective face à ces contraintes. L’appel est ouvert à la géographie, à l’aménagement, à l’urbanisme, à la sociologie, à l’histoire, à l’anthropologie, à l’économie, au droit…

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• 04 jui 2018

  05 jui 2018

  Genoa

  Conference, symposium - Urban studies

  La città multietnica nel mondo mediterraneo

  Storia, cultura, patrimonio

  This meeting aims to foster a discussion about the continuities and disruptions which have conditioned the multi-ethnic dimension of our cities. We would like to focus on the specificities of places and time in our millennial history that have produced both tangible and intangible cultural heritage (a heritage which today seems strongly under attack). We aim for a historical perspective –  by drawing attention on well-documented case-studies offering comparative insights – without however forgetting to ask ourselves the meaning of our research in the troubled world we live in; without anachronisms, but also without hiding behind the pretext of specialisms, while in front of our eyes the Mediterranean world is more than ever a theatre of death, exclusion, suffering. 

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• 15 jui 2018

  Padua

  Call for papers - Modern

  The essential of mediation

  En effet, le concept et le terme de médiation apparaissent dans diverses sciences humaines et sociales (ex. droit, philosophie, psychologie, sciences du langage, sciences de l’information et de la communication, sciences de l’éducation…). Au vu de plusieurs conceptualisations dans ces disciplines, il devient urgent de discerner l’essentiel de la médiation et d’en mettre en lumière les traits conceptuels les plus significatifs au sein de chaque discipline ainsi que de façon transversale à ces dernières. Faisant suite au colloque international « L’essentiel de la médiation. Vers un consensus sur le concept dans les sciences humaines et sociales » (Padoue, 1-2 mars 2018), un appel à publication pour ouvrage est lancé et ouvert à tous les auteurs qui souhaitent participer à un ouvrage pluridisciplinaire et interdisciplinaire de référence sur « l’essentiel de la médiation ». 

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• 30 mai 2018

  Bologna

  Call for papers - Africa

  PluralAfrica – Afrique Plurielle. Politics, knowledge and social dynamics in time and space

  Association pour les Etudes Africaines en Italie (ASAI), 5th biennial conference

  Faisant suite à la sélection des panels, l’Association pour les Etudes Africaines en Italie (ASAI) ouvre un appel à communications pour sa cinquième conférence biennale « PluralAfrica – Afrique Plurielle. Politique, savoirs et dynamiques sociales dans le temps et dans l’espace ».

   

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• 21 mai 2018

  22 mai 2018

  Catania

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Mythanalysis and insularity

  Le colloque est centré sur le thème de l’insularité. Il se propose de dresser un état des recherches et des travaux récents, de questionner l'insularité entre mythe et imaginaire et dégager des nouvelles perspectives d'études autour d'une mythanalyse de l'île.

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• 19 avr 2018

  20 avr 2018

  Palermo

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  The logics of persuasion. Between anthropology and rhetoric

  In this conference, we will study the logics of persuasion according to anthropological and rhetorical perspectives, exchanging insights and viewpoints. The question is: how do social sciences make use of rhetorical procedures to be more effective?

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• 31 mai 2018

  Florence

  Call for papers - Early modern

  (Re) thinking translations

  Methodologies, objectives, perspectives

  In the last four decades, scholars have begun to go beyond the traditional perspective of linguistic and literary studies, and to consider the translations as cultural practices and the result of various processes of cultural and intellectual “negotiation” between two different contexts. In recent years also historians have progressively started to take a close interest in translations as sources to investigate the ways in which knowledge and ideas were constructed, disseminated, re-elaborated and assimilated in new cultural, social and political contexts. The aims of this international conference is to encourage an interdisciplinary dialogue on these problems, bringing together scholars, graduate students and early career researchers from Translation Studies, History, History of Book, History of Science, Literary Studies and related disciplines who are interested in discussing methodologies, objectives and perspectives in the study of translations.

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• 30 avr 2018

  Florence

  Summer School - History

  Summer School in Comparative and Transnational History: Theories, Methodology and Case Studies

  The Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute is happy to announce its fourteenth Summer School in Transnational and Comparative History in the historic Villa Salviati, looking out over the hills of Florence, Italy. This annual Summer School has established itself as an exciting and stimulating experience for postgraduate students. Whether you are interested in political, social, cultural, intellectual or economic history, it will give you a unique opportunity to broaden your research interests and methodological reflection.

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• 12 avr 2018

  Venice

  Summer School - History

  Venice in the 20th century - seminar of Venetian art history

  Séminaire d'histoire de l'art vénitien

  Le programme intègre des conférences de spécialistes internationaux et des visites conduites par les responsables scientifiques des collections : il combine histoire sociale et économique de l’art, histoire des formes, histoire religieuse, historiographie, histoire matérielle des œuvres.... Le séminaire s’adresse aux étudiants en histoire de l’art de second et troisième cycles des institutions françaises et étrangères.

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• 31 mar 2018

  Naples

  Summer School - History

  Work and women that work at sea

  Summer school of the Italian Society of the History of Work

  La première école d’été de la Société italienne de l’histoire du travail (SISLav) en collaboration avec l'Istitut d'études sur les sociétés de la Mediterranée (CNR), se propose d’étudier une série de questionnements fondamentaux, mais n’ayant fait l’objet que de très peu d’études, dans le champ de l’histoire du travail, à travers l’exemple d’un groupe spécifique et bien identifié, celui des travailleurs de la mer. Cette thématique nouvelle permettra de tester de nouvelles approches méthodologiques et des problématiques de recherche telles que les questions de la production et du commerce, du recrutement et de la mobilité, de la transmission du savoir et de la formation, de l’organisation et des conflits.

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