This issue of Amerika will explore Southern Cone’s and Brazil’s horrific and terrific recent literature. In Latin America, violence is ubiquitous producing fear and anguish, and these emotions can be contagious. Fear and anguish are intrinsically related to terror, and they can take place both at a collective level and at an individual level. Many authors use terror to deal with subjects such as politics, family, violence, poverty, public security, social radicalization, the body and the feminine condition.
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In focus
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01/02/2023
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05/02/2023
The Seventh Meeting of African Studies in France (REAF) dealt, in particular, with questions of mobility. As a follow-up, we invite researchers in the humanities and social sciences to address the issue of African migration through the lens of objects as traces of border crossings.
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03/01/2023
As part of the exhibition organised around this theme, the Centre Historique Minier has launched a call for papers for an international conference Spotlight on the mine, when cinema and literature take hold of the subject. In the contemporary era, mining has formed the subject of numerous artistic performances, particularly in the fields of writing and literature (mine novel, testimony, poetry, comic strip …), on the one hand, as well as in the world of cinema and audiovisual arts (fiction, documentary, animated film …). These representations have served as a place of artistic innovation, as well as a medium for mass culture (which developed alongside the mining industry), to such an extent that veritable sub-genres (the mine novel, the mine film) have been created, each with their own archetypes.
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30/01/2023
According to the countless travelers who reported having seen their papers sunk into the abyss, the transport of manuscripts by sea was not an easy undertaking in early modern times. Still, since the emergence of the great European navies in the 17th century, considerable masses of documents of all kinds have filled European repositories and libraries from faraway places. Some are produced within an institutional framework linked to the maritime activity itself (newspapers, correspondence, maps...), others come from the initiative of actors who seek to extract information, knowledge or prestige from the manuscripts. It is also a question of apprehending, in a new light, documentary corpuses that are often reduced to their content, whereas they are often the result of a complex transaction between travelers, local intermediaries, patrons and powerful collectors.
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20/12/2022
Interactions between film and music in the MENA region are relatively understudied, partly because music often takes a subsidiary role in film analysis, while music specialists seldom turn their attention to film. Nevertheless, a growing body of work exists on music as a form of cultural resistance at times of political upheaval, such as during the Arab uprisings and protests in Iran when voices of past musical icons have reverberated with the revolutionary mood and musicians have become symbols against political oppression.
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05/12/2022
The last two decades have witnessed an uptick in the production of scholarly literature concerning enslaved, emancipated, and free women in slave societies in the Atlantic World. More recently, scholars have also begun to examine femininity and masculinity, nonbinary gender expression, nonnormative sexualities, and the family as lenses through which to understand the making and maintaining of those societies. In this special issue of Esclavages & Post-Esclavages / Slaveries & Post-Slaveries, the editors seek to build on and extend this work by focusing on gender, as an analytical frame and category, in slave and post-emancipation societies beyond and/or in comparison with the Atlantic basin. We aim to understand the influence of Atlantic world scholarship on global slave studies, while also attending to contextual distinctions outside of the Atlantic context.
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20/10/2022
Sporting events mark the center of interest in the social life for many countries in the world. However, if we focus on the Americas, this importance is even more obvious. Sport becomes a reason for encounter, community, and connection. It brings out levels of interest and reinforces local, regional or beyond that, the game that is often unparalleled. Few people escape the passion that surrounds a country in the face of success in global competitions. This phenomenon, based on collective pride, pushes boundaries and includes even the most critical viewers. Can we consider this contradiction one of the keys to success?
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13/10/2022
Plusieurs projets d’histoire du livre sont hébergés par Heurist, un logiciel open source qui permet l’élaboration de bases de données relationnelles, qui ne nécessite pas de connaissances préalables en programmation. Le Heurist Book History User group organise un workshop en ligne. Les participants y présenteront leur projet de recherche sur l’histoire du livre, en abordant leur utilisation de la base de données Heurist et des enjeux qui y sont associés. Ce workshop en ligne a pour objectif d’informer la communauté sur les possibilités qu’offre la plateforme, d’en orienter les développements futurs, mais aussi de promouvoir l’utilisation de Heurist pour l’histoire du livre auprès de nouveaux utilisateurs.
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01/02/2023
Recent events in the United States remind us to what extent the South is both a place of distinctive identities and a space sharing a common heritage. According to the political scientist Michael Goldfield, “The South is a distinctive, atypical part of the United States; it is also, however, America writ large”. These specificities are inscribed in social, cultural, political and, according to the author, above all economic structures, in a configuration that makes any definition of the “South” problematic. On the occasion of the release of Michael Goldfield’s latest book, The Southern Key (2020) we want to address these issues during an international symposium in the presence of the author.
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16/11/2022
Major international surveys such as the ICCS survey of the IEA (International Association of the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) or that of the European network Eurydice have been devoted to citizenship learning at school from a comparative perspective, but they have shown little interest in non-school actors or in the relations of these actors with education. Moreover, they only marginally address the relationship between citizenship learning, moral education, religious education or teaching about religions. It is these relationships that the conference aims to shed light on by exploring the institutional, professional, epistemological and political issues at stake in public educational, not only in official texts, but at every level.
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30/10/2022
Over time, the formalization of knowledge and practices through standards, protocols, certifications, auditing systems, has become universal and standardization has become a big business. How did this process develop, what was the reasons, and which its effects? Historiography seems still lacking for the contemporary age (19th-20th centuries) with regard to the agri-food sectors, the manufacturing industry, or the intensive and science-based sectors, where a culture of standards early emerged as a priority task of technicians and specialists.
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06/01/2023
Soil features have been at the heart of archaeological questioning for several years, stimulated in particular by the work carried out in preventive archaeology. Their identification, particularly in the field, remains a source of new data and new approaches. Their interpretation is becoming an indispensable step in the archaeological research and can, for certain periods, play a central role. The symposium aims to promote the interdisciplinary reading of the soil component in field archaeology, relying in particular on the contribution of earth sciences in general.
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22/10/2022
The Zoomathia research network is organising an international Conference devoted to Zoological observation, experience and experimentation on animals in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This conference will study the ancient testimonies of a practical, programmed, instrumented or interactive investigation on and with animals, as well as the hints revealing experimental protocols.
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15/09/2022
The journal Textus & Musica seeks contributions for a conference and a special issue of the journal, which will address the performance of medieval monophonic or monodic song (liturgical, sacred, or secular). We welcome proposals that treat a wide variety of written and visual representations, from all of Europe and beyond, in the High and Late Middle Ages focussing less on the notated chant itself than on technical, pedagogical, poetic, literary, or artistic descriptions and/or representations of the practice and performance of song for one voice. Visual sources might be artistic, representational, or iconographic, but also architectural or archaeological. Written sources might include musical or textual sources in the official languages of the practiced religions or also in vernacular languages. The multiple disciplinary perspectives should each ground interpretation in concrete historical examples and case studies.
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15/09/2022
What is the legacy of the hegemonic pursuits of warlords that were drafted from among the Viking raiders, the German knights, the Scandinavian and Polish kings, and the Russian tsars and leaders on Baltic Sea Region and Scandinavia? In what ways was the region redesigned on the political, ideological, geographical, and cultural levels? Whether hegemony is defined in terms of political assertion or influence, especially by one country over other nations, masculinity, international leadership, regional hegemony, ideological hegemony, or hegemonic contestation, the term always connotes control, hierarchy, and dependency. What traces of their attempts have been left in culture, art, and public monuments throughout the course of time, and how are they considered in modern times ?
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01/12/2022
While the Paris Olympic and Paralympic games are set to begin in 2024, this international conference wishes to interrogate the history and practice of dance competitions, in connection to competitive sports events. If much has been written on competing, especially in an Olympic setting, dance has received less critical attention when it comes to its physical, artistic and social dimensions.
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15/10/2022
Telling stories is inherent to the human beings, they are homo narrans (Fisher, 1984), and thus the storytelling activity participates in the structuring of his imagination. The act of telling therefore makes the apprehension of the surrounding world and of the unknown phenomena possible. While the North often represents an idealized space, it is also a geographical, cultural and historical reality where various influences converge, articulated within narrative practices. The question we wish to address during this conference is that of the specific narrative characteristics of the Nordic space in the modern and contemporary periods, vectors of a multiplication of media supports and discourses. That is to say, the reciprocal influence of a narrative genre or a medium and the images of Nordic places.
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31/12/2022
The overarching conference theme, Toys Matter: The Power of Playthings, is designed to span the role toys play in our individual and collective identities, the various ways they reflect and shape our worlds (both positively or negatively), and the impact of technology, environmental concerns and societal/cultural crises on toy design, manufacture and use. Sessions will provide toy scholars and industry professionals opportunities to reflect on extant toy research while looking forward to expand our understanding of what counts as a toy, the power of playthings, and the many ways they matter -- for both children and adults. We invite work that examines the power of playthings both historically and in our ever-changing worlds, especially as we navigate these precarious and even perilous times. All play objects (i.e., physical, digital or hybrid) are included in the scope of toys to be discussed including games and indoor and outdoor play spaces.
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17/09/2022
The idea of heading off to the countryside is associated nowadays with a wish to get away from a stressful, noisy, and at times oppressive and foul-smelling urban environment, to rest in peace and quiet, in healthy surroundings, in close contact with the bounties of the natural world and animals in their “natural” habitat. Far from any anachronistic intent, applying this expression to court studies is a call to scholars to adopt interdisciplinary approaches to examine the many ways in which aristocratic circles related to and interacted with their rural environment.
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15/09/2022
All over the world, the fight against global warming, the management of resource scarcity, and the preservation of biodiversity increasingly determine the design and construction of buildings and urbanized spaces. This symposium aims to wonder about the possible retroaction effects: if ecology undoubtedly changes architecture, to what extent does architecture also change ecology?
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30/01/2023 - Guadalajara
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07/11/2022 - Coimbra
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31/12/2023
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12/12/2022 - Paris
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01/12/2022 - Boulogne
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13/01/2023 - Paris | Saint-Omer
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05/12/2022 - Aubervilliers
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12/12/2022 - Paris
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05/01/2023 - Paris
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16/12/2022 - Paris
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09/12/2022 - Aubervilliers
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29/11/2022 - Paris
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15/12/2022 - Clermont-Ferrand
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31/01/2023 - Paris
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14/11/2022
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30/06/2023 - Pisa
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15/01/2023 - Geneva
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01/10/2022
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17/03/2023
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17/03/2023
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10/01/2023 - Paris
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14/12/2022 - Lyon
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07/12/2022 - Paris
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15/12/2022 - Paris
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05/12/2022 - Montreal
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24/11/2022 - Paris
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30/11/2022 - Paris
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30/01/2023 - Guadalajara
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07/11/2022 - Coimbra
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01/02/2023 - Rennes
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31/12/2022 - Pau
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01/03/2023 - Fribourg | Rome | Paris
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16/01/2023 - Dijon
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01/01/2023 - The Hague
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14/02/2023
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31/01/2023 - Évry
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15/05/2023 - Beijing
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27/12/2022 - Reims
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05/01/2023 - Paris
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20/01/2023 - Liverpool
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13/12/2022
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09/12/2022 - Brussels
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06/02/2023 - Lyon
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06/01/2023 - Paris
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01/03/2023
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20/01/2023
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30/11/2022 - Taipei
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01/12/2022 - Paris
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Magnats, entremetteurs et contrebandiers : les distributeurs de films et leurs réseaux au XXe siècle16/12/2022 - Saint-Denis
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06/01/2023 - Avignon
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03/01/2023 - Paris
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30/01/2023 - Florence
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16/12/2022 - Éveux
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26/11/2022 - Fribourg
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05/01/2023 - Lyon | Paris
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01/02/2023 - Zadar
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25/11/2022 - L’Aquila
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15/01/2023 - Paris
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01/01/2023
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30/11/2022
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15/12/2022
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10/02/2023 - Castelo de Vide
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30/04/2023
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19/11/2022 - Paris
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15/01/2023 - Strasbourg
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24/03/2023 - Paris
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17/03/2023
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20/11/2022
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15/12/2022 - El Kef
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05/02/2023
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02/12/2022 - Paris
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17/02/2023 - Budapest
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15/12/2022 - Montpellier
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15/12/2022 - Lille
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01/12/2022
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09/12/2022 - Potsdam
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18/11/2022 - Lyon
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22/11/2022 - Aubervilliers
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28/02/2023
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20/12/2022 - Montreal
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15/12/2022 - Rethymno
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20/11/2022
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20/12/2022 - Paris
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03/01/2023 - Lewarde
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22/01/2023 - Brno
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