Calls for Papers/Contributions

CfP: Splendid Encounters VI: Correspondence and Information Exchange in Diplomacy (1300–1750)

Nova University of Lisbon 28th—30th September 2017

Proposals due by 15 march 2017

Splendid Encounters 6 is one of a series of international and interdisciplinary conferences which aim to bring together scholars from the broadest range of perspectives to consider diplomacy and diplomatic activities in the late medieval and early modern period. After successful meetings in Warsaw, Bath, Florence, Budapest, and Prague, we wish to invite you to join us for another event, hosted by Nova University of Lisbon.

CfP: The Myth of the 'Enemy': Mutable faces of the Other and the construction of European identities

Bologna, 8th and 9th June 2017

Proposals due by March 6, 2017

Department of the Arts, Aula Magna di S. Cristina (piazzetta G. Morandi, 2).

THE MYTH OF THE ‘ENEMY’: The mutable faces of the Other and the construction of European identities.

The conference is organised by: Irene Graziani, Maria Vittoria Spissu.

The scientific committee is formed by: Lilla Maria Crisafulli, Keir Douglas Elam, Vera Fortunati, Irene Graziani, Renato Mazzolini, Giuseppe Olmi, Fulvio Pezzarossa, Giovanni Ricci, Alessandra Russo, Maria Vittoria Spissu.

CFP: Early Modern Nasty Women: Shrews, Scolds, and Whores

Baltimore, 16-19 nov. 2017;  proposals by 10 January 2017.

Members of the National Women’s Studies Association Early Modern Women Interest Group seek paper proposals for a panel on “Early Modern Nasty Women: Shrews, Scolds, and Whores” for the NWSA annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland, Nov 16-19 2017.The Early Modern Women Interest group aims to propose a sponsored panel under the conference subtheme of “engaging, questioning, and transcending the state.”We seek papers that address:

Appel à communications (panel): La réception du théâtre antique dans les travaux savants de l’Europe de la première modernité

10ème “Celtic Conference in Classics” (COLLOQUE BILINGUE)

Montréal, 19-22 juillet 2017

Propositions: avant le 31 janvier 2017

Panel :« La réception du théâtre antique dans les travaux savants de l’Europe de la première modernité »

Organisatrices : Malika Bastin-Hammou (Université Grenoble Alpes) et Pascale Paré-Rey (Université de Lyon, Lyon 3-Jean Moulin)

CFP: De l’Antiquité à la modernité politique : quelles médiations ? La réappropriation de l'Antiquité politique à l'époque moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)

Appel à communications du Laboratoire Junior REPHAM (Représentations et

Exercice du Pouvoir : l’Héritage Antique à l’époque Moderne)

"De l’Antiquité à la modernité politique : quelles médiations ? La

réappropriation de l'Antiquité politique à l'époque moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe

siècles)"

 

ENS de Lyon

23-24 octobre 2017

Propositions: 15 février 2017

 

Appel à contributions: L’itinérance curiale, du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle

L’itinérance curiale, du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle

Argumentaire

L’itinérance curiale est un sujet peu étudié en France, contrairement à ce qui s’observe dans d’autres pays européens où ce phénomène a bénéficié d’un intérêt marqué de la part de la recherche.

CFP: Telling Tales Out of School. Latin Education and European Literary Tradition

Ghent University (Belgium), 14-16 September 2017

Proposals by 1 February 2017

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Anders Cullhed (University of Stockholm), Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania), Erik Gunderson (University of Toronto)

CFP: Mobility and Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Oxford, 23 June 2017

DEADLINE: February 1st, 2017

The application of spatial paradigms to the study of late medieval and early modern societies is now well underway. In contrast, the so-called ‘mobility turn’ has struggled to find its way from the social sciences to the humanities and, in particular, to history. This conference proposes to bring the two together by exploring how everyday mobility contributed to the shaping of late medieval and early modern spaces, and how spatial frameworks affected the movement of people in pre-modern Europe.

CFP: Transience, Garbage, Excess, Loss: The Ephemeral, 1500–1800

The Early Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara is pleased to announce our Spring 2017 conference on The Ephemeral in early modernity. We invite presenters to interpret our theme widely so as to provoke as many exciting discussions as possible. Please see the details below, and don't hesitate to contact us off-list with any questions or comments!

Transience, Garbage, Excess, Loss: The Ephemeral, 1500–1800
University of California, Santa Barbara
Conference Date: April 21–22, 2017
Abstracts Due: December 15, 2016

Appel à publicatiions : L'étiquette à la cour

Pour son programme triennal 2014-2016, le Centre de recherche du château de Versailles a lancé un axe de recherche sur « L’étiquette à la cour : textes normatif et usages » et souhaite publier des articles relatifs à cette thématique sur le Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles.

CFP: New Frontiers of the Self and Society in the Early Modern French Atlantic

18-19 May 2017

Proposals due 20 December 2016 

Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies /Maison des sciences de l’homme Ange Guépin (Nantes) 

Colloquium organized by Daniella Kostroun (Indiana University--Purdue University, Indianapolis / Nantes- IAS) and Yann Lignereux (University of Nantes)  

CFP: ‘Modernity and its Discontents’, « Malaise(s) dans la modernité »

British Society for Early Modern French Studies

40th Annual Conference, 11-13th September 2017

The Society for Early Modern French Studieswill hold its annual conference in the magnificent setting of Durham Castle, at the heart of the World Heritage Site, on 11-13 September 2017.  The theme is ‘Modernity and its Discontents’. Papers are invited on any aspect of this theme. Subjects may include (but are not limited to) the following: