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• 18 oct 2017

  19 oct 2017

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  Uchronia - when the Greeks and Romans imagine their alternative histories

  L’uchronie, cette réécriture  du passé à partir de la modification fictive d’un événement, devient aujourd’hui une méthode très utilisée dans le domaine des sciences humaines.  Mais, si l’uchronie est maintenant familière aux historiens des époques récentes, elle est restée presque totalement absente des études sur l’Antiquité classique, alors même que les problématiques sur la mémoire, l’identité et le recours au passé dans les sociétés anciennes sont au cœur des préoccupations actuelles sur cette période. Il est donc nécessaire de consacrer une manifestation scientifique à caractère pluridisciplinaire, regroupant historiens, philologues et philosophes, à cette forme de rapport au passé dans l’Antiquité.

   

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• 19 oct 2017	16 nov 2017	14 déc 2017
  18 jan 2018	08 fév 2018	...

  Paris

  Lecture series - Early modern

  Let's talk the Renaissance

  Sous le titre général « La Renaissance, parlons-en », nous proposons aux étudiants et aux collègues intéressés un cycle interdisciplinaire de conférences autour de la Renaissance, de l'Humanisme et de la Réforme, accueilli à la BIS : huit rendez-vous, trois en 2017, cinq en 2018, les jeudis de 17 à 19 heures, autour de sujets appartenant à des disciplines variées et avec l'ambition d'illustrer des aspects centraux de cette période foisonnante.

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• 19 oct 2017

  20 oct 2017

  Saint-Denis

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  The Lenin of philosophers

  Les interventions de Lénine dans le champ philosophique ont été jugées diversement, de circonstance, insignifiantes, ou au contraire surchargées d’enjeux idéologiques et politiques. Elles ne donnent pourtant pas la mesure des interprétations et usages qui ont été fait de la pensée de Lénine au fil du siècle. Ce colloque y sera consacré.

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• 17 oct 2017	21 nov 2017	19 déc 2017
  13 fév 2018	13 mar 2018	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Modern

  General seminar of genetic criticism at the Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (ITEM)

  Créé il y a plus d’une trentaine d’années à l’Ecole normale supérieure, le séminaire général de critique génétique anime la réflexion théorique collective menée au sein de l’Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (ITEM) et au-delà, sur les processus de création en lettres, arts et sciences dans la période moderne et contemporaine. Conçu comme un moment d’échanges et de dialogue entre chercheurs, étudiants et collègues invités venant de France ou de l’étranger, le séminaire présente les résultats marquants obtenus dans ce domaine, les travaux en cours sur les manuscrits et les dossiers de genèse des œuvres, ainsi que les enjeux actuels de la recherche en critique génétique.

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• 31 oct 2017

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Modern

  Ausschreibung Paolo Prodi Preis 2017

  La Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), in collaborazione con la Provincia autonoma di Trento, l’Università degli Studi di Trento e il Centro Studi Paolo Prodi di Bologna, bandisce un premio in onore di Paolo Prodi, fondatore dell’Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico / Italienisch-Deutsches Historisches Institut (ISIG) e suo primo Direttore dal 1973 al 1997.

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• 01 déc 2017

  Florence

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  Constructing Kurgans

  Burial mounds and funerary customs in the Caucasus, Northwestern Iran and Eastern Anatolia during the Bronze and Iron Age

  The tradition of burying the dead in burial mounds (kurgans), usually consisting of a funerary chamber limited by stone or brickslabs and covered by dirt and gravel, started in the fourth millennium BCE in the northern Caucasus and then spread south to the rest of the Caucasus regions, eastern Anatolia and northwestern Iran during the Bronze Age and Iron Age. The spread of the kurgan tradition, as well as the territorial, political, social, and cultural values embedded in their construction and their symbolic relation to the surrounding landscape are under debate. The workshop aims to examine chronological issues, cultural dynamics at inter-regional scale, rituals and burial patterns related to these funerary structures. The beliefs and ideologies that possibly connected the "kurgan people" over such a wide geographical area, as well as past and present theoretical frameworks, will also be discussed.

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• 10 nov 2017

  Paris

  Call for papers - Representation

  The Aesthetic Potential of the Virtual: Device, Form, Idea

  Le concept de virtuel est une notion très riche et polysémique, qui s'étend de l'esthétique aux domaines scientifiques. Sa plasticité conceptuelle rend donc nécessaire de tracer une cartographie méthodologique de ses problématiques philosophiques pour mieux s’orienter dans l'histoire des théories esthétiques, des technologies et des arts contemporains. Les propositions pourront entre autres être axées sur : la question de l’origine philosophique du virtuel; la définition d'une esthétique cinématographique du virtuel; les enjeux aussi bien esthétiques, éthiques que politiques d’une nouvelle économie virtuelle.

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• 01 nov 2017

  Leiden

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Psyche

  Post-doctorate researcher – The psychology of the ancient world: cognition, social psychology, emotions

  Anchoring Work Package B

  The concept that is central in “Anchoring Innovation” is “anchoring”, connecting what is perceived as new to what is deemed already familiar. “Anchoring” has a substantial social-psychological component. It may depend on the way in which relevant social groups categorize conceptually and linguistically what they perceive as new; it relates to the way in which new input (of whichever nature) is processed cognitively, including what emotional reactions such input elicits; and to the way in which “the new” fits into the value systems of such groups (this includes the ways in which they relate to the past).

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• 01 nov 2017

  Utrecht

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Post-doctorate researcher in Coinage in Ancient Greece

  Anchoring Work Package 4

  The use of minted coins was one of the major innovations in the ancient world of the first millennium BCE. Invented in Lydia in the seventh century, coinage spread rapidly throughout the Greek world, first in the Greek cities in Asia Minor, next to Aegina and Athens and soon to the other cities across the Aegean and Mediterranean area. Before the introduction of minted coins, exchange was largely based on weights of precious metals, in smaller amounts weighed on scales, a practice to which striking fixed weights of metal seems just a small and logical step. Yet the swift success of coinage, evidenced by rapidly increasing number of Greek poleis adopting the new medium, shows that the potential of coins to surpass weighed bullion in practical use for all kinds of transactions was recognised early on.

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• 01 nov 2017

  Nijmegen

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Post-doctorate researcher in Anchoring in/of Greek lyric poetry

  Anchoring work package 2

  The Hellenistic scholars canonized a group of nine lyric poets who composed their poetry in the archaic and early classical period (Alcaeus, Alcman, Anacreon, Bachylides, Ibycus, Pindar, Sappho, Simonides, Stesichorus). At least by this period, but probably earlier, they became the standard of Greek lyric compositions or themes in Greek literature, such as love (Sappho), drinking (Anacreon) or praise (Pindar). The aim of this post-doc project is to investigate how these poets relate to earlier or later traditions of Greek literature.

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• 01 nov 2017

  Amsterdam

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Post-doctorate researcher in "Roman women: legal changes and finances"

  Anchoring Work Package 4

  The transition from republican to imperial rule is one of the main turning points in the history of the ancient world, which had profound consequences for the lives of Roman men and women. As the first emperor, Augustus anchored his multiple political innovations by presenting them as the restoration of the Roman Republic. As part of this restoration programme he posed as the restorer of traditional Roman moral values, issuing legislation to stimulate marriages within the elite and to curb adultery (the Leges Juliae de maritandis ordinibus and de adulteriis coercendis). The ius trium liberorum, which was part of this legislation, gave women sui iuris with three or more children full legal capacity over their property, thus paving the way for women’s civic engagement and public visibility, for instance as benefactresses in numerous cities of Italy and the provinces.

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• 01 nov 2017

  Nijmegen

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Language

  Post-doctorate researcher in Anchoring Devices in Ancient Rhetoric

  Anchoring Work Package 1

  Ancient rhetoric offers a number of devices to anchor what is new, unfamiliar, dangerously attractive or perhaps even threatening in what is old, tried and tested, and familiar. Two concepts immediately spring to mind and they will determine the approach of this project. In the first place, loci communes in the sense of clichés, i.e., universal sayings or timeless expressions of moral beliefs commonly shared by people belonging to the same cultural community or society. These can form a background against which a particular new or controversial event or person can be framed in a positive or negative way. The second concept is oratio figurata, the umbrella term for theories and methods for phrasing particular new or controversial messages in acceptable terms, for purposes of safety, decency, or amusement.

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• 25 oct 2017	08 nov 2017	22 nov 2017
  31 jan 2018	07 fév 2018	...

  Oxford

  Seminar - Representation

  Towards a social history of photoliterature and the photobook

  This international seminar brings together researchers working on photography and the book with interdisciplinary approaches, connecting the aesthetic and material dimensions of the photobook with social, economic and political perspectives.

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• 25 oct 2017

  Sasso Marconi

  Call for papers - Africa

  Africa narrates itself: media, opinions, influential figures

  These days communication and information are characterized by immediacy, speed, and interactivity. Facebook and Instagram accounts, YouTube channels, and blogs transmit a perpetual flow of information, shared videos, pictures, and other content which creates networks and incentivizes sharing in a constantly evolving language. Contemporary mass media therefore ensures that, today more than ever, people in African countries are at the same time autonomous producers and users of a debate, through partly traditional, partly innovative channels, about life in Africa and African communities’ identity, with a tale that travels across the borders of individual countries and the continent itself.

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• 14 oct 2017	02 déc 2017	03 fév 2018
  07 avr 2018

  Paris

  Seminar - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Antique historiography seminar

  Le but du séminaire Historiographies antiques est d'explorer les différences entre la pratique antique et la pratique moderne de l'écriture de l'histoire, en partant de la première pour la comprendre en elle-même, selon ses propres critères, et non en effectuant des comparaisons avec la seconde : une telle mise en relation peut en effet se révéler fertile, mais elle empêche trop souvent de saisir pleinement la pensée antique, car les caractéristiques modernes sont toujours le point de départ de la comparaison. Les séances sont organisées selon un principe de décloisonnement disciplinaire et d'espace de discussion entre jeunes chercheurs et chercheurs aguerris.

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• 30 nov 2017

  Call for papers - History

  Accountancy pratices in ecclesiastical environments in the Middle Ages

  Comptabilités journal issue 11, call for papers

  Dans le cadre de l’appel à communications du numéro 11 de la Revue Comptabilités, nous souhaitons développer les thématiques abordées dans les numéros précédents, notamment diplomatique et écriture comptables, normes, vocabulaires, ainsi que les hommes, en privilégiant l’étude d’un type de comptabilités peu étudiées, celles des milieux ecclésiastiques qu’ils soient réguliers ou séculiers, ainsi que la comptabilité pontificale. Tous les espaces où sont produits des écrits comptables au sein ou aux marges de la chrétienté sont retenus.

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• 12 oct 2017	23 nov 2017	21 déc 2017
  25 jan 2018	15 fév 2018	...

  Paris 16 Passy | Paris 05 Panthéon

  Seminar - Asia

  The world as seen from Asia - history and cartographical practices in the Asian world

  L’émergence spectaculaire de l’Asie sur la scène internationale et son rôle moteur dans la mondialisation actuelle sont à l’origine de nouvelles réflexions sur cette région et sur ses interactions avec le reste du monde. Le séminaire « Le Monde vu d’Asie : histoire et pratiques cartographiques dans les mondes asiatiques » s’inscrit dans cette perspective et plus précisément dans l’entreprise de décentrement de l’histoire du monde. Il entend participer pleinement à l’écriture collective d’une nouvelle histoire de l’Asie et du monde et promouvoir la recherche historique et épistémologique sur les pratiques cartographiques et les savoirs géographiques, qui contribuent à la construction des discours locaux, nationaux, régionaux ou mondiaux en Asie.

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• 03 fév 2017	11 mai 2017	19 oct 2017
  23 avr 2018

  Nice

  Seminar - Education

  School and teaching methods in Italy and France from the late 19th century to WWII - confrontations

  L’idée de confronter et de comparer le développement des système scolaires et éducatifs ainsi que les débats pédagogiques en Italie et en France, depuis la fin du XIX^e siècle jusqu’à la seconde guerre mondiale, naît avant tout du constat selon lequel un travail approfondi de ce type n’a jamais été effectué jusqu’ici. Il s’agit donc de combler une lacune pour le moins étonnante, en particulier au regard des importantes affinités et des liens substantiels qui unissent les deux pays d’un point de vue historique et culturel – et ceci de façon encore plus marquée dans la période considérée.

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• 26 oct 2017

  27 oct 2017

  28 oct 2017

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  Dance and Nations: identities, otherness, boundaries, in Europe

  (17th -19th centuries)

  The international and interdisciplinary symposium "Dance and Nations: identities, alterities, boundaries" is a scientific meeting organized within the framework of the of the HdD (Hermeneutics of Dance research program, directed by Arianna Fabbricatore),. Il brings together a team of scholars to question how theatrical dance evolves in the European social and cultural space. Its purpose is to discuss the different aspects related to the circulation of dance in Europe and to open up research on the semiotic, political and social issues of dance as a sign, expression or representation of the permeable bounderies between cultural identities.

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• 15 oct 2017

  Call for papers - Religion

  Religious pluralism and social diversity: religions in the European public space

  “Identity”, wrote historian Tony Judt, “is a dangerous word”. Indeed identity politics today, often based on essentialized, ahistorical notions of religion and nation, call into question the bases of pluralistic, multi-ethnic and multireligious societies in Europe and beyond. This conference will explore some of the ways in which cultural and religious pluralism has always been a central element of European society and how it continues to be so today. We will look at how various European states have accommodated religion in general and diverse religious organizations, paying particular attention to questions of group identity and individual freedoms and of the distinctions between public and private space. We will remain attentive to the networks of exchange and the relations between societies and states in constant flux. We will bear in mind the constant question of the difficult definition of “Europe”, of which European states and societies we are discussing. Today’s Europe, often simplistically identified with a specific political project, the European Union, and with its relations with its Mediterranean and eastern neighbors, is not the same Europe as that of 1914, much less that of the Middle Ages or the 16th century.

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