Lieu: Université de Rouen
Date: 21 novembre 2017
Date limite de soumission: 30 avril 2017

Les découvertes géographiques qui se multiplient depuis la fin du Moyen Âge obligent les Européens à une rencontre avec l’altérité qui exige une reconsidération de l’humanité. L’importance de ces phénomènes dans le développement de l’anthropologie à la Renaissance mérite d’être précisée. C’est à leur étude qu’invite le présent appel à communication, destiné à constituer un dossier pluridisciplinaire qui sera publié dans la revue numérique Clio@Themis. Considérant les enjeux en question, toutes contributions permettant d’éclairer l’apport de la philosophie, de la médecine, de la science du droit à la question de l’anthropologie de la période seront les bienvenues.

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Lieu: Université Paris-Dauphine
Date: 19-20 octobre 2017
Date limite de soumission: 1er juin 2017

External trade flows are the single macroeconomic data that early modern states have collected with the most care. The first attempts at measuring foreign trade can be dated from the early seventeenth century. Later on, several Italian states, such as the Republics of Genoa and Venice, began to systematically collect customs data to create balances of trade. England and Ireland followed and, from 1696 on, they collected a continuous series of data flows and released a yearly evaluation of the English balance of trade. Several of the continental states, such as France, followed suit, and by the end of the eighteenth-century most of them produced more or less comprehensive balances of trade. A number of recent scientific events and publications have discussed the availability of these trade data (two conferences in Lille in 2011 and in Paris in 2014)[1]. Last year, we organized a conference in Paris that explored the issue of classifying trade data in order to make them useful for economic analysis (Paris 2016). Our aim in this new conference is to take stock of these methodological and data-related efforts to provide a fresh view of the contribution of international trade to the growth and development of national economies before and at the time of the first Industrial Revolution.

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Lieu: Québec
Date: 18-19 mai 2017
Date limite de soumission: 15 mars 2017

The Colloquium is organised by the Interuniversity Center for Research on Early Modernity (CIREM). The theme of that colloquium will be Thinking, representing and living space (15th-18th century) and it will take place in Quebec City. Proposals for communication (title and abstract of 250 words, level of studies, institutional anchoring) must be sent to the organizing committee before Wednesday 15 March 2017 at the following address: cierl.jeunes.chercheurs [at] gmail.com 

To measure, to construct, to traverse, to describe, to trace, to inhabit, to share: so many approaches, usages and representations which, from the end of the fifteenth century to the French Revolution, bear witness to what might be called « spatial’s regimes », which shape everyday life, inform the modes of representation, of production or of exchange. It is precisely this complex and plural relationship in the knowledge that informs it and the forms that invest it that this new edition of the colloquium « Young researchers » of CIREM proposes to examine in its theories, to decline in its various practices, to apprehend in its various poetic and artistic devices.

From the exploration of unknown land to the cadastral plan of properties, from surveying territories to cartographic gestures, from mathematical propositions to physical theories, from the privacy of the private to the public exercise of a shared space, from a private mansion to the street, from the office to the cafe, from the cell to the boudoir, from the representation of the city to that of nature, to mention only a few examples, space invents, experiments, organizes, mobilizes knowledge, practices or actors, that we propose to explore.

Lieu : Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Senate House, Londres (Grande-Bretagne)

Date : 17 juin 2017

Date limite de réponse à l’appel : 1er mars 2017

The ‘turn to memory’, as Geoffrey Cubitt has described it, has been a major feature of recent historiography. This one-day conference will explore the memory of the major revolutions of the early modern period (England 1649 & 1688/9; North America 1776, France 1789 and Haiti 1791-1804). By addressing these events collectively, the conference will explore the interconnectedness of these revolutions in the contemporary mind. It will highlight the importance of invoking the memory of prior revolutions in order both to warn of the dangers of revolution and to legitimate radical political change. The conference will also unpick the different ways in which these events were presented and their memory utilised, uncovering the importance of geographical and temporal contexts to the processes of remembering and forgetting.

We welcome papers engaging with the role of revolutions in shaping national narratives and foundational myths; exploring the instrumentalisation of memory by powerful and marginal groups, in both national and transnational contexts; and discussing acts of collective and individual remembering and forgetting, both public and private. We encourage proposals that connect with key themes in memory studies, including but not limited to those which discuss the politics of memory, as exemplified in the classic work of Michel-Rolph Trouillot on the Haitian Revolution; Pierre Nora’s ‘sites of memory/lieux de mémoire’ – anniversaries, monuments and other forms of public commemoration; Tzvetan Todorov’s ‘blotting out of memory’ –  the deliberate expunction from memory of the events that preceded the establishing of a new regime; and Marianne Hersch’s concept of ‘postmemory’, that the trauma of revolution could also affect those who did not directly witness or experiences these events, but who were nonetheless powerfully influenced by the fractured remembrances of those who did. Examining both personal and collective remembrance, exploring private recollection and public commemoration, this conference seeks to uncover the rich and powerful memory of early modern revolutions.

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Lieu : MSH, Clermont-Ferrand

Date : 13 décembre 2017

Date limite de réponse à l’appel : 30 juin 2017

Cette journée d’étude organisée par la Société des études robespierristes se propose d’interroger les rapports entre acteurs de la Révolution française et de l’Empire et la construction de communautés utopiques, pendant ou après les événements des années 1789-1815. Elle se tiendra le 13 décembre 2017 à Clermont-Ferrand. (…)

La journée d’étude se propose d’étudier les sources philosophiques et littéraires dont se revendiquent les fondateurs de ces communautés, leur implication dans la Révolution ou l’Empire, la manière dont ils conçoivent leur organisation, leur recrutement et leur développement, les références qu’ils maintiennent (ou pas) aux événements français, les liens qui existent entre leurs aspirations et les installations collectives à l’étranger, notamment en Amérique du Nord, ou les colonies utopistes de la première moitié du XIX^e siècle (Owen, Fourier, Cabet).

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