Catégorie : Appels/ séminaires/ colloques

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Appel à contribution — Historiography and Space

Call for Papers: Historiography and Space in Late Antiquity

The research group Late Antique historiography (http://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/home) at Ghent University is organising two workshops on historiography and space in Late Antiquity (300-800 AD), a first one on 24-25 October 2014 and a second one from 15 until 17 January 2015.

The aim is to explore how space was perceived, conceptualised and deployed in historiographical texts within the context of late ancient literature and society. The first workshop focuses on perceptions of space in genres related to historiography (hagiography, apocalyptic literature, geographical literature) and on historical memory in general. The second focuses more strictly on perceptions of space in historiography.

The workshop welcomes contributions on Greek and Latin authors, but also, and especially, those on texts in oriental languages such as Armenian, Georgian, Syriac, and Coptic. Historiography is understood in a wide sense, including narratives and chronicles, but also lists, excerpt collections, antiquarian writings, local histories, etc.

Confirmed speakers include:

Workshop I: M. Debié (Paris), D. Engels (Brussels), G. Kelly (Edinburgh), J.-C. Van Haelewyck (Louvain-la-Neuve).

Workshop II: P. Blaudeau (Angers), J.W. Drijvers (Groningen), S. Johnson (Washington), T. Greenwood (St. Andrews), M. Humphries (Swansea), H. Leppin (Frankfurt), M. Meier (Tübingen).

We welcome 500 word proposals for papers of 25 minutes, to be submitted before 1 July 2014 to Marianna Mazzola (marianna.mazzola@ugent.be).

Participants are asked to read the position paper posted on the website http://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/home > Conference and Events.

 

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Appel à article — the Medieval Global

Announcing The Medieval Globe. Connectivity~Communication~Exchange, a  new biannual academic journal. The Medieval Globe (TMG) is a peer-reviewed journal to be launched in 2014, published in both print and digital formats.  It is based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and sponsored by CARMEN, the Worldwide Medieval Network.  It is dedicated to exploring the modes of communication, materials of exchange, and myriad interconnections among regions, communities, and individuals in an era central to human history.

The Medieval Globe promotes scholarship in three related areas of study:

  • the direct and indirect means by which peoples, goods, and ideas came into contact,
  • the deep roots of global developments,
  • the ways in which perceptions of “the medieval” have been (and are) constructed around the world.

Contributions to a global understanding of the medieval period need not encompass the globe in any territorial sense. The Medieval Globe advances a new theory and praxis of medieval studies by bringing into view phenomena that have been rendered practically or conceptually invisible by anachronistic boundaries, categories, and expectations: these include networks, communities, bodies of knowledge, forms of movement, varieties of interaction, and identities. It invites submissions that analyze actual or potential connections, trace trajectories and currents, address topics of broad interest, or pioneer portable methodologies.

For more information, please visit:  http://www.arc-humanities.org/the-medieval-globe.html

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Appel à contribution — Against Gravity: Building Practices in the Pre-Industrial World

20-22 March 2015

University of Pennsylvania

Call for Papers

 

Following on the success of “Masons at Work”(held in spring 2012, and published as  http://www.sas.upenn.edu/ancient/publications.html), the symposium aims to assemble specialists to examine building practices in the pre-industrial world, with an emphasis on Greek, Roman, Byzantine, medieval, and pre-modern Islamic architecture. In addition to invited speakers, we are soliciting 20-minute papers that examine the problems which pre-modern masons commonly encountered – and the solutions they developed – in the process of design and construction.  Evidence may be drawn from a variety of sources, but we encourage studies based on the analysis of well-preserved buildings.

Those wishing to speak should submit by email a letter to the organizing committee, including name, title, institutional affiliation, paper title, plus a summary of 200 words or fewer.  Graduate students should include a note of support from their adviser. Deadline: 15 November 2014.  The final program will be announced immediately thereafter.  Submit proposals to ancient@sas.upenn.edu with “Against Gravity” in the subject line.

Organizing Committee: Lothar Haselberger, Renata Holod, Robert Ousterhout

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Journée d’étude — ENS Lyon Pouvoir et religion

Journée d’études
POUVOIRS ET RELIGION À BYZANCE
Vendredi 25 avril 2014
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, site Ferdinand Buisson
Institut Français de l’Éducation, salle de réunion n°3

Programme téléchargeable ici

09h40 Accueil des participants

10h00 Présentation de l’AEMB (Jeanne DEVOGE) et introduction (Jérôme BASTICK)

10h20 Isabelle BROUSSELLE (Lille III, UMR 8164 HALMA-IPEL) :
« Vue de Byzance, la légende noire des derniers Mérovingiens »

11h00 Corinne JOUANNO (Caen, UMR 6273 CRAHAM) :
« La christianisation de la figure d’Alexandre le Grand à Byzance »

11h40 Matthieu PARLIER (Lyon II, UMR 5648 CIHAM) :
« Constantinople dans les éloges impériaux : nouvelle Rome, nouvelle Jérusalem »

12h20 Déjeuner

14h00 Lucile HERMAY (Paris IV, UMR 8167 Orient & Méditerrannée) :
« Higoumènes de Patmos, réseaux et pouvoirs »

14h40 Marie-Myriam CARYTSIOTIS (Aix-Marseille, UMR 7298 LA3M) :
« La survie d’une île monastère : la diplomatie des moines de Patmos »

15h20 Pause

15h40 Jean SCHNEIDER (Lyon II, UMR 5189 HiSoMA) :
« Maxime Planude et Andronic II : leurs relations d’après les lettres de Planude »

16h20 Christophe GIROS (Lyon II, UMR 8167 Orient & Méditerrannée) :
« L’exercice de l’autorité au Mont Athos aux XIVe et XVe siècles »

17h00 Conclusions (Jérôme BASTICK et Jacques BEAUSEROY)

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