https://calenda.org Lodel 1.0 https://calenda.org/1286683 https://calenda.org/1286683 Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200 What does it mean to write “Cistercian history”? What are the structural and thematic features that reveal how authors gave expression to the Order’s concerns and priorities? And are these features always present? Call for papers Leeds https://calenda.org/1278962 https://calenda.org/1278962 Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This interdisciplinary conference invites papers with a focus on the interaction between the material and the immaterial aspects of the craft of weaving, approached from various angles, in the early modern period. The aim is to explore aspects of the interactions between textile manufacturing and its products and the individual or collective imagination, intellectual life as well as the ‘world picture’ and mental representations in the early modern period. Conference, symposium Mulhouse (68100) https://calenda.org/1235277 https://calenda.org/1235277 Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100 The third Saikaku-Bakin symposium will be held on 20-22 March 2025 at Collège de France and Paris Cité University in Paris. Its goal is to foster conversation among scholars working on Early Modern Japanese narrative across the entire Edo period. Conference, symposium Paris (75013) https://calenda.org/1205288 https://calenda.org/1205288 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100 Aussi conventionnelle qu’oxymorique, l'expression de « non-dit » remet en question la binarité supposée entre parole et silence. L’expression thématise à la fois une absence, un manque (de mots), et porte néanmoins en elle la trace manifeste d’une présence. Du moins pour qui sait la déchiffrer. Car le silence du non-dit est, en réalité, une invitation : à comprendre, à deviner, à faire accoucher un sens qui ne veut, ou ne peut pas se dire. Le non-dit porte en lui la trace d’un effacement, mais aussi d'une résistance obstinée. Le non-dit est un silence qui dit quelque chose. Comment repérer les signes d'un silence qui n'en est pas un ? Comment reconstruire avec certitude un discours absent ? Ce projet prolonge la réflexion lancée à l'occasion du colloque « Consentir, refuser, céder : Spectres de la conquête à la Restauration (1660-1714) ». Il a pour vocation de constituer un groupe informel d'étude interdisciplinaire sur la Restauration. Call for papers Paris (75013) https://calenda.org/1202728 https://calenda.org/1202728 Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100 We invite article submissions for a special issue of Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction (TTR) journal on rethinking self-translation. This thematic issue seeks to address such blind spots by rethinking assumptions and paradigms related to scholarship on self-translation, where the notion is defined according to its most common definition: translation by the self. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1176492 https://calenda.org/1176492 Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200 The research centres TIL (Université de Bourgogne) and EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) are organizing a bilingual (French-English) international interdisciplinary conference on the role of women in the development of botany as part of visual, manuscript and print cultures, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period. We propose to foster discussions at the intersections of the history of natural sciences, print culture, book history, illustration studies, gender studies, plant studies and ecocriticism. Call for papers Dijon (21) https://calenda.org/1157040 https://calenda.org/1157040 Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200 The printed book, for centuries the most powerful medium for the circulation of ideas, is particularly central to this discourse, and it is no surprise that readers of all times as well as specialists are constantly challenged by the wealth of literary forgeries, fake imprints, fake authors, and material counterfeits. We are far, however, from an established definition of these notions, especially in their differences and overlaps. This two-day symposium aims to explore the topic at three different levels. Texts addresses textual forgeries and manipulations of authorship; editions concentrates on false imprints, ‘refreshed’ title-pages, and editorial piracy, including that of written and illustrated paratext; copies looks into the alteration of individual specimens of an edition. Conference, symposium Oxford (OX1 3DR) https://calenda.org/1159655 https://calenda.org/1159655 Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200 The Canada Research Chair on Digital Textualities (University of Montreal), the Groupe de Recherche sur les Éditions Critiques en Contexte Numérique and the Centre de Recherche Interuniversitaire sur les Humanités Numériques offer doctoral contracts worth $35,000 CAD per year for 4 years, in order to expand their teams. The research will begin on September 1, 2024 or January 1, 2025, and will be carried out as part of a doctorate with a digital humanities option at the University of Montreal. Scholarship, prize and job offer Montreal (H3T 1N8) https://calenda.org/1141022 https://calenda.org/1141022 Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0100 From May 8 to 9 2025, the second international conference “The Long Life of Ephemeral Literature” will take place in Geneva. Geneva, an important city for the history of European printing, holds several collections of French and English printed sheets, Spanish pliegos de cordel and Brazilian prints. The aim of this conference is to make known the richness of these collections, to discuss the research currently being carried out in Western Europe and to consider this production from a transnational perspective with a broad chronological scale. Call for papers Geneva https://calenda.org/1113496 https://calenda.org/1113496 Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0100 From canonical masterpieces to the latest bestseller, the history of US literature is punctuated with books that have been banned from classrooms, libraries, and bookshops because they are considered harmful or inappropriate by a reactionary minority. By exposing the most profound fears of the US hegemonic powers and the way these have evolved or persisted, unchanged, over time, banned books mirror, and therefore provide insights into, other politically motivated acts of censorship throughout US history. This special issue of “RSAJournal” invites contributions that examine the ongoing nationwide “Ed Scare” in US public education in the context and as part of a wider, conservative political agenda aimed at maintaining the status quo by restricting and policing (among other things) the promotion and exercise of critical thinking, especially among young people. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1106393 https://calenda.org/1106393 Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0100 For this special issue we invite proposals for essays that reconsider the relationship between art and knowledge. This issue of Periskop thus hopes to widen our understanding of artistic practices and education, and to open inquiry into broader questions regarding relationships between the history of knowledge and artistic practice—in the past and in the present. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1101894 https://calenda.org/1101894 Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200 This conference proposes to approach the diverse field of 20th-century periodicals through the prism of two interrelated concepts - networks and seriality - that describe and capture relationships, connections, and dialogues amidst the vibrant diversity of mass-market print culture. This conference is a closing event for the ARTPRESSE project and will be organized alongside a large exhibition on the film-photo-novel in KU Leuven Central Library. Call for papers Brussels https://calenda.org/1014520 https://calenda.org/1014520 Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200 In the past decades, Simon Burrows has been one of the most productive and influential researchers on the world of pamphleteers, illegal prints, and trade in French books in eighteenth-century Europe. This workshop invites to a discussion of Burrows' theses. Conference, symposium Trier https://calenda.org/954429 https://calenda.org/954429 Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0100 The aim of this conference is to explore the literary translation sector and literary translator careers from a socioeconomic angle. Call for papers https://calenda.org/916974 https://calenda.org/916974 Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200 The workshop will feature discussions on and around paratexts in South Asian manuscripts, as well as presentations on collections and collectors of manuscripts. Conference, symposium Aubervilliers (93) https://calenda.org/881389 https://calenda.org/881389 Wed, 26 May 2021 00:00:00 +0200 The conference is dedicated to 15-19th century printed books and manuscripts.We invite scholars from various disciplines to reflect on and share their new research, methods and applications, including the application of digital humanities and open data in research of the book: the 15-19th century book as an archival phenomenon (accumulation of knowledge and books) in Lithuania and Europe; the role of knowledge accumulators and book collectors, systematizers and sorters in forming a personal or institutional archive; the materiality of the book and its various elements (book marks, structure, parts, details, a title page, covers, inscriptions, typography, illustrations, vignettes, decorative elements, etc.) as a means of generating ideas, tool for creating a narrative or result of historical circumstances; book economics: market and business strategies (prices, book fairs, catalogs, advertising, and reviews); applying digital technology and interactive, unique tools for data storage and use. Call for papers Vilnius https://calenda.org/870209 https://calenda.org/870209 Mon, 03 May 2021 00:00:00 +0200 In a historical and cultural moment, in which poetry could present itself as “phono-, ideo-, typo-, icono, photographical; mono-, stereo-, quadro-, ambiophonic; phonographic, bioscopic, kinetic; kinesic, eatable, odorous, tangible” (H. Damen, 1972), the international and countercultural experiences of Italian and Belgian visual poets drew a cutting-edge roadmap within the wider and multifaceted context of neo-avant-garde experimental poetry of the 1960s and 1970s by creating a unique model of interdisciplinary cooperation where verbivocovisual research, media discourses, and social criticism strongly converged. Combining insights from the fields of art history, literary criticism, and media studies, Engaged Visuality investigates the impact of new media, political imagery, and technologies on poesia visiva phenomenon by focusing on a bilateral case study rarely analyzed from a comparative and transcultural perspective: the foundation of the international poetry magazine Lotta Poetica (first series: 1971-75) by Sarenco and Paul De Vree, i.e., the aim of Italian and Belgian interartistic exchanges, co-authored initiatives, and cross-disciplinary inquiries. Call for papers Rome https://calenda.org/839672 https://calenda.org/839672 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0100 Online series on key issues facing Western European collections and public services will encourage debate and surface new ideas. The sessions will focus on three areas: new models for collaborative collection development and services; the growing range of content and format types and their significance for libraries and researchers; and the evolving role of libraries and librarians in the research process. The multiple effects of the pandemic on libraries and academic institutions clearly demonstrate that the topics chosen for the forum—cooperation and sharing of collections, services, and technology among libraries, scholars, and members of the book and publishing communities—are particularly pertinent in today’s library environment. Seminar https://calenda.org/782356 https://calenda.org/782356 Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200 For this special issue of Vox medii aevi, dedicated to Variation in Medieval Book Culture, we invite original research addressing the subjects of the manuscript variation in different language cultures of the Middle Ages; variation and working strategies of medieval scribe; oral and written in the medieval book culture; place of the retelling in the medieval book culture; variation in specific contexts; and variation and methodology of its research in medieval studies. Call for papers https://calenda.org/761051 https://calenda.org/761051 Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0100 In the last fifty years, the field of the history of geography has moved from an approach dominated by National Schools to an attention to the circulation of knowledge in its multiple scales. The history of science and of geography have in the last decades incorporated concepts such as transit, networks, mobilities, the transnational, circulation, centre of calculation, spaces of knowledge, geographies of science, spatial mobility of knowledge, geographies of reading and geographies of the book. More recently, a turn has emerged towards considering the dynamics and necessities of decolonizing the history of geography. This work is turning the field of the history of geography into one of the most dynamic areas of the discipline. Yet we suggest that questions of language and translation have remained under-determined in this new field. Translation and writing have not received the same attention as, for instance, departmental histories, sites of museums, laboratories, botanic gardens, and scientific societies, for example. We suggest, therefore, that new perspectives opened up by translation studies can open new windows on the history of geography. Call for papers https://calenda.org/646663 https://calenda.org/646663 Mon, 24 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0200 The goal of this summer school is to explore the role of emotions in literature, namely with respect to the excess of pathos in different forms and times. Pathos has been a fundamental aspect of literature in every epoch. Great poetry has always foregrounded its ability to represent feelings, evoke intense and vivid moods, and elicit readers’ emotions and empathy. On the other hand, the novel – the genre dominating literary modernity – has been o!en accused of indulging in sentimental excess, giving too much space to melodramatic expression. Indeed, in Western cultures, there is a widespread suspicion towards pathos, which has o!en been identified as a shortcoming of literature. Great books – according to a common implicit assumption – can prompt reflection and laughter, but not tears: pathos only concerns lowbrow production. The summer school is an opportunity to engage in a reflection on issues related to pathos in literature in the last few centuries. Different perspectives will be taken into account: specific literary works, reader response theory, cognitive narratology, transmedia adaptation, and publishing history. Summer School Monopoli https://calenda.org/638232 https://calenda.org/638232 Fri, 21 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0200 The New Shape of Sharing: Networks, Expertise, Information continues conversations begun at the New Directions Symposium held in Frankfurt in 2017. This multi-day forum of panel presentations, a poster session, and interactive breakout sessions on key issues facing Western European collections and public services will encourage both structured and unstructured debate. We will advance our understanding of the challenges and initiate action in three areas: design new models for collaborative collection development and services; explore a growing range of content and format types and what they mean for libraries and researchers, and highlight the evolving role of libraries and librarians in the research process. Call for papers Fiesole (50014) https://calenda.org/625391 https://calenda.org/625391 Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00:00 +0200 On behalf of independent academic publisher De Gruyter, the open access journal Open Information Science we are announcing a Call for Papers for Topical Issue: Information Management and Digital Information. Call for papers https://calenda.org/603455 https://calenda.org/603455 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Since its inception, the digital humanities has considered the question “what is it to be human in relation to machines in the digital age?” This issue of Open Information Science asks for papers that consider how we can understand “digital wellness” as part of the ongoing inquiry into what acts, representations, and understandings exist around human-ness in the digital era. Particularly, this volume seeks to explore the possibilities of digital wellness provided through a range of disciplines and forms. We invite papers which consider architectures, platforms, and diverse disciplinary engagements with the opportunities and challenges surrounding digital wellness. Call for papers https://calenda.org/597937 https://calenda.org/597937 Tue, 16 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0200 The journal Open Information Science is seeking papers for a special issue on Information Management and Digital Information to be published in December 2019. Call for papers https://calenda.org/595070 https://calenda.org/595070 Thu, 04 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0200 On behalf of independent academic publisher De Gruyter, the open access journal Open Information Science we are announcing a call for papers for topical issue: Information studies, race and racism. Call for papers https://calenda.org/513622 https://calenda.org/513622 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0100 SAAM invites submissions for the 2019 Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize. The prize recognizes excellent scholarship by a non-U.S. citizen in the field of historical American art (pre-1980). Scholarship, prize and job offer Washington (20001) https://calenda.org/497986 https://calenda.org/497986 Wed, 31 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0100 For its 16th annual symposium, the International Medieval Society Paris invites scholarly papers on any aspect of time in the Middle Ages. Papers may deal with the experience or exploitation of time, its reckoning or measuring, its inscription, its theorization, or the question of how or why or whether we should demarcate the “Middle Ages.” Papers focusing on historical or cultural material from medieval France or post-Roman Gaul, or on texts written in medieval French or Occitan, are particularly encouraged, but compelling papers on other material will also be considered. Call for papers Paris (75) https://calenda.org/498139 https://calenda.org/498139 Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0200 This Africa e Mediterraneo dossier proposes to examine the real situation of the African publishing industry in the context of globalization and its impact on the diversity of the local and global editorial offer in the era of globalization. Being this edition at a crossroads of several disciplines, the dossier will be enriched by contributions from different fields of study: history of the book, anthropology, linguistics, economics, sciences of communication or sociology of culture. Call for papers https://calenda.org/487314 https://calenda.org/487314 Tue, 16 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0200 The Maison Française conference committee invites proposals on the social history of the British, American or French photobook from 1900 to the present. Papers will address: commitment or explicit political engagement; memory, commemoration and the writing of history; materiality (whether real or virtual), and how material form affects circulation, handling, critical responses and the social life of the photobook. We invite contributors to analyse these topics with respect to the growth of the market for the photobook as a commodity and an object of bibliophilic attention. Proposals focusing on contemporary productions are particularly welcome. Call for papers Oxford (OX2 6SE)