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Conference, symposium - History
Blasphemy and violence. Interdependencies since 1760
Liberas (Ghent, Belgium), in conjunction with the School of History, Religion and Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University (Oxford, United Kingdom) and the Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz, Germany), organises an international colloquium devoted to the interdependency between blasphemy and violence in modern history. Both young and established scholars will focus on specific incidents of blasphemy and sacrilege in Europe and the Arab world.The eve preceding the conference (4 March), internationally renowned expert Alain Cabantous will give a keynote lecture in French on blasphemy and sacrilege during the French Revolution.
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Ghent
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology
Revolution from Afar: Egyptian artists in Europe and Northern America after 2013 – PhD Position
The Department of Languages and Cultures (Section Middle East Studies) at Ghent University is looking for a PhD-student to conduct a research on Egyptian artists who left their country for living in Europe and Northern America after 2013. The general aim of the project is to understand how these artists positioned themselves in their new surroundings and towards the situation in Egypt, particularly concerning their art production.
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Ghent
Blasphemy and Violence. Interdependencies since 1760
Liberas (Ghent, Belgium) in conjunction with the School of History, Religion and Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University (Oxford, United Kingdom) and the Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz, Germany) announce a Call for Papers for a conference and subsequent edited volume on the subject of blasphemy and violence since 1760. Contributions are invited for a conference to be held at Liberas in Ghent. Papers delivered at this conference will be expected to be nearing completion with a view to subsequent publication in the second volume of ‘New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought’ in early 2021, a new peer-reviewed open access series published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
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Ghent
What does carceral geography bring to carceral studies?
19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology : convergent roads, bridges and new pathways in criminology
The term ‘carceral geography’ describes a vibrant field of geographical and space-centred research into practices and institutions of incarceration, ranging from prisons to migrant detention facilities and beyond. Although rapid, its development is far outpaced by the expansion, diversification and proliferation of those strategies of spatial control and coercion towards which it is attuned. The dictionary definition of carceral is ‘relating to, or of prison’, but as Routley notes ‘carceral geography is not just a fancier name for the geography of prisons’. Carceral geography is in close dialogue with longer-standing academic engagements with the carceral, most notably criminology and prison sociology. Dialogue initially comprised learning and borrowing from criminology, but within a more general criminological engagement with spaces and landscapes recent years have seen criminologists increasingly considering and adopting perspectives from carceral geography.
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Ghent
Conference, symposium - Modern
Male Bonds in Nineteenth-Century Art
The conference will probe, challenge and expand upon the academic narrative of male homosociality through the lens of art history. It aims to establish an overview of a variety of male bonds that underpinned nineteenth-century art, and to consider the theoretical and methodological implications of the study thereof. In so doing, it seeks to build a bridge between traditional art-historical scholarship and the fields of gender and gay and lesbian studies: an interdisciplinary exchange of which the full potential for scholarship on the nineteenth century remains to be exploited.
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Ghent
Call for papers - Representation
Male bonds in nineteenth-century art
Male Bonds is a two-day international conference that aims to explore the place of male bonds in nineteenth-century artistic practice and visual arts. The conference invites participants to reflect on the ways in which changing notions of masculinity and male sexuality impacted forms of sociability between men in the artistic scene of the long nineteenth century. In so doing, it seeks to build a bridge between traditional art-historical scholarship and the fields of gender and gay and lesbian studies.
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Ghent
Conference, symposium - Representation
A Nordic networks for comics research (NNCORE) conference
“Comics and memory” is an international Nordic networks for comics research (NNCORE) conference organized at the University of Ghent from April 19-21, 2017, in collaboration with the KU Leuven, UCLouvain (GRIT), and the ACME comics research group (University of Liège). This three-day conference examines the complex relationships between comics and memory through the prisms of personal, collective, and medial forms as well as practices of remembering.
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Ghent
Conference, symposium - Representation
Comparative analyses of nineteenth-century sketches
A new wave of scholarship has emerged in recent years, which examines nineteenth-century sketches (sometimes referred to as “panoramic literature”) from a transnational perspective. The present international conference seeks to continue this comparative reflection by placing the spotlight on the comparative analysis of texts and images of specific types and by tracing how these representations vary across sketches from different places, media and editorial contexts.
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Ghent
Episcopal authorities in France and Lotharingie (900-1050)
Cette conférence vise à faire le point sur l’état de la recherche consacrée aux évêques des Xe et XIe siècles en France et en Lotharingie et à explorer de nouvelles pistes pour la recherche future sur les autorités épiscopales dans le monde postcarolingien.
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Ghent
Collecting Cases: Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries Visions of Society
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries case studies focusing on deviant behaviour (such as crime, suicide or mental illness) and exceptional situations became an important part of both popular culture and the emerging human sciences. The goal of this workshop is to explore how these collections of cases, through their inclusions, exclusions and narrative and rhetorical strategies, comment on and convey an image of the society of their times or of the (recent) past. The long-term aim of this project is to publish an edited volume exploring these issues.
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Ghent
Call for papers - Science studies
Academic entrepreneurship in History
An international survey of current research
The Departments of History of Universiteit Gent, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Université Lille 3 and Università di Bologna are jointly organizing the international conference “Academic entrepreneurship in history” on 12-13 March 2015 at the STAM city museum in Ghent, Belgium. The aim of the meeting is to bring together an international group of scholars engaged in research on the notion and practice of academic entrepreneurship from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. The focus will be on the range of actions, behaviors and qualities of academic scientists and their employing institutions which can be seen as entrepreneurial in at least one of the many senses in which the entrepreneurship term has been used in the economics and business history literatures.
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Ghent
This conference follows up the Future of Historical Network Research (HNR) Conference 2013 and aims to bring together scholars from all historical disciplines, sociologists, other social scientists, geographers and computer scientists to discuss the emerging field of historical Social Network Analysis. The concepts and methods of social network analysis in historical research are no longer merely used as metaphors but are increasingly applied in practice. With the increasing availability of both structured and unstructured digital data, we should be able to analyze complex phenomena. Historical SNA can help us to cope with the organization of this information and the reduction of complexity.
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Ghent
Intellectuals and the Great War
L’Université de Gand annonce une conférence sur la première guerre mondiale, qui aura lieu du 17 au 19 décembre 2014. Cette rencontre scientifique internationale se concentrera sur le rôle de l’intellectuel pendant la première guerre mondiale. Elle vise à explorer les façons dont les intellectuels, actifs dans différents domaines et contextes, ont fait face au stress, au choc et aux conséquences de la Grande Guerre. Nous sollicitons des communications qui explorent la position de l’université pendant la guerre, les manières dont les universitaires et le « monde international des esprits » ont traité la question de l’action et de l’engagement, et les répercussions sur les penseurs confrontés aux aspects physiques de la guerre.
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Ghent
Doing Empirical Research on Sexual Diversities: Methodological and Ethical Challenges
CFP INSEP2013 - Special Session
This session is part of the INSEP2013 Conference – The Value(s) of Sexual Diversity. The conference focuses on the legal, political and ethical boundaries of diverse sexualities, “troubling” current assumptions, dispositions and claims for the boundaries between legitimacy and illegitimacy in diverse sexual identities, sub‐cultures and practices in both national and international contexts. We welcome paper proposals reflecting on the ethical and methodological criticalities associated with doing empirical research on sexual diversities and (in) sexual (sub)cultures.
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Ghent
Conference, symposium - Religion
Ancient christianity and cults around pagan mysteries in the work of Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and in research history
Ce colloque, qui aura lieu du 13 au 15 septembre à Gand, est centré sur la manière dont l'historien des religions belge Franz Cumont et ses contemporains ont conçu la relation entre le christianisme ancien et les cultes à mystères païens. Il s’agira d’une étude large du thème historiographique, incluant aussi ses prédécesseurs et les recherches récentes. Le colloque s’adresse aux spécialistes d’historiographie des religions antiques des XIXe et XXe siècles. Il sera l’occasion de discuter amplement des idées avancées par les diverses traditions historiographiques, méthodologiquement et géographiquement déterminées.
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Ghent
Call for papers - Science studies
Early Christianity and the pagan mystery cults in the work of Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and in the history of scholarship
Cumont was a pioneer of the scientific study of the oriental religions. Many of his publications (e.g. The Mysteries of Mithras, 1900) fuelled the early 20th century debates about Christianity’s dependence on the pagan cults through the similarities they suggested between these religious traditions. Cumont expressed his opinion only indirectly and ambiguously, but other scholars have been more explicit in demonstrating or denying such influences.The theme of this international conference, hosted by Franz Cumont’s alma mater Ghent University, is the way Cumont and his contemporaries conceived the relationship of Early Christianity to the pagan mystery cults. We will also include predecessors and more recent scholarship on this topic.
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Ghent
Scholarship, prize and job offer - History
Doctoral grant in medieval history
God's Peace as an instrument of social competition: towards a non-homeostatic interpretation of political relations in the Middle Ages (late 10th-12 centuries)
L’Institut Henri Pirenne pour la recherche en histoire médiévale (Université de Gand) recrute un chercheur prédoctoral m/f (bourse de doctorat, mandat à temps plein). Titre du projet : La Paix de Dieu comme instrument de compétition sociale : vers une interprétation non-homéostatique des relations politiques au haut Moyen Âge (fin Xe-début XIIe siècle) -
Ghent
Call for papers - Political studies
The Majority Decides? Blending Representative, Participatory and Direct Democracy at the Local Level
Depuis plusieurs dizaines d’années dans plusieurs pays européens les collectivités territoriales ont expérimenté l’émergence de formes variées de démocraties participative et directe comme complément à leurs soutiens représentatifs traditionnels. Une moindre attention a été accordée aux effets de leurs usages réels sur ceux qui sont gouvernés (les habitants), ceux qui gouvernent (les élus et les administrateurs) et aux politiques résultants de l’action de ces derniers. En particulier, au niveau local, la question de la compatibilité et de l’articulation entre les dispositifs participatifs, directs et ceux qui sont représentatifs se pose et constituera la question centrale de ce colloque. -
Ghent
Academic Culture of Remembrance
The combination of university history, jubilees and academic heritage
The aim of this two-day conference is to discuss the triangular relationship between scientific research, the opening up of academic heritage and the creation of a culture of remembrance. Two series of questions are at the centre of this symposium. (1) Firstly, we would like to examine, from a historiographical perspective, the relationship between university history, the culture of remembrance in general and university jubilees in particular. (2) Secondly, the place of academic heritage in the creation and communication of (historical) knowledge of universities and scientific practices will be considered. Through a combination of both central themes, the conference aspires to offer some innovative perspectives for writing contemporary university history. -
Ghent
Dialogue and concertations between philosophies, religions and public authorities in Europe
Challenges and limits of new forms of governance
Comment les organisations internationales ou les États européens prennent-ils en compte ou mobilisent-ils des ressources produites par diverses formes de plateformes multiconvictionnelles? Mais aussi à l’inverse, comment les acteurs de ces interactions vivent-ils les attentes ou le regard porté sur leur action religieuse par des autorités publiques ? Quatre jours de débats universitaires pour une approche comparative et interdisciplinaire.
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