L'Agenda des Médiévistes

Barcelona
20­-22 May 2015

All this was shewde by thre partes, that is to sey by bodyly syght, and by worde formyde in my vnderstondyng, and by goostcly syght.
(Juliana de Norwich, Shewings, Long Version, 9, 29­30).

The rose’s red hue, its intoxicating scent and its thorns show us the many faces of this flower’s truth. Senses are the ways through which humans interact with the world and develop their life learning.

For its connection to pleasure and joy, senses have been dually interpreted as sources of sin and immorality yet also as paths of knowledge, since through them we can reach a universe of perceptions which encourage experimentation ­and thus, relation­ with our surroundings and with our inner self. Julian of Norwich, an English theologian and mystic, expressed with simplicity in the words cited above how she had knowledge of the divine: three types of visions connected to different senses.

In this new researchers’ encounter we seek to open the door to the multiples insights and reflections about senses and sensuality in the Middle Ages, offering a wide range of aspects linked to the multiple narratives which this issue inspires: the ways of knowledge, sensory and spiritual pleasure, or artistic and literary forms which have captured the sensorial universe in the Middle Ages.

With a distinctly interdisciplinary intention, the congress aims to give voice to innovative researches on multiple and corresponding fields, such as History, Philosophy, History of Art or Philology, among others. Our main objective with this call is to help build new spaces of creation and of transmission of knowledge, thus confronting the specialization and compartmentalization of expertises usually attributed to the academic world. The accepted papers will define the final sections in which the congress will be divided.

Call for papers

Proposals will be accepted until October 31st 2014. You can send your texts in a word or OpenDocument text format, to the address arditcongress2015@gmail.com. You will receive an acceptance/refusal answer from the scientific committee before November 30th.

Abstracts extension: maximum 300 words.

Key words: maximum 5 concepts.

Languages accepted: The congress’ official languages are Catalan, Spanish and English. Likewise, we welcome proposals in French, Italian and Portuguese as well. Selected presentations in any Romanic language should include an English presentation (*ppt) or a handout in English including a summary of the content.

Personal details required:

• Name and surname.
• Institution.
• Title of the paper or poster.
• Contact details: email, phone number (optional).

Inscription price for participants: 25 euros (free of charge for ARDIT members).

Lecture timing:
Papers: 20 minutes
Posters: 5 minutes

Publication:

One of the main aims of our meeting is to spread the scientific results of the congress, publishing a selection of the best contributions. We will propose to ways of publication, as we did in the past edition of the congress:

Spaces of Knowledge: Four Dimensions of Medieval Thought (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, in press).
SVMMA. Revista de Cultures Medievals, N. 3, primavera 2014 (Institut de Recerca en Cultures Medievals ­ Universitat de Barcelona). [link to journal]

Organizing Committee
ARDIT Medieval Cultures Coordinator: Carme Muntaner

Contact details
arditcongress2015@gmail.com
http://arditculturesmedievals.weebly.com

Information related to the accommodation in Barcelona and other useful information coming soon on ArditCongress’ website: http://arditcongress.weebly.com

With the support of:
Institut de Recerca en Cultures Medievals (IRCVM)
Màster en Cultures Medievals de la Universitat de Barcelona Societat Catalana de Filosofia (filial of Institut d’Estudis Catalans)

Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society
29–30 January, 2015

Keynote speakers:
Lorraine Daston, Professor and Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin
Barbara H. Rosenwein, Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago

The Conference:
Society, religion and art have always been defined and governed by certain (un-)written rules. Yet there have always been those who willingly transgressed communal norms. Throughout history, from Antiquity, through the Middle Ages, up to the present day, these transgressors have met with either praise or disapproval. Some have been heralded as heroes, great thinkers or revolutionary artists, while others have been branded as exiles, sinners or outcasts. In Greek mythology, Prometheus was punished for defying the Gods and gifting humanity with fire; Christianity, Judaism and Islam condemn Adam and Eve’s transgression of divine command. The legacy of prominent rule-breakers, such as Socrates, Jeanne d’Arc, Pablo Picasso and Martin Luther King, can still be felt today.

This multi-disciplinary conference focuses on the wide range of cultural reflections on the violation of laws, traditions and conventions in the political, religious and aesthetic domains. Central questions, applicable to all three domains, include: Who breaks the rules? What are the aims of the offender: identification, protest or innovation? How can the authority of rules be undermined? How has transgression been perceived through the ages? Is the rule breaker punished or praised? To what extent is an act of rule breaking a confirmation of the existence of certain rules? What role does gender play in rule breaking? How do various cultures define transgression?

Papers in the political domain may focus on artistic perspectives on social taboos, the ethics of rule breaking, revolt, emancipation, disobedience, identity through rule breaking, the absence of rules (anarchy, freedom), protest through art or any other topic related to this domain. Papers in the religious domain may deal with cultural perspectives on the various aspects of religious rule breaking, such as sin, confession, penance, damnation, redemption, heresy and inquisition, as well as iconoclasm and idolatry. Other topics include, but are not limited to, sin as a political instrument, religious taboos and forbidden pleasures. Papers in the aesthetic domain may focus on boundaries of what is considered to be art, changing perceptions of beauty/ugliness in art, deviations from stylistic conventions and artistic traditions, plagiarism, the tension between resisting convention and embracing innovation or any other topic related to this domain. Creative and engaging ideas which fall outside the three domains described above will also be considered.

The LUCAS Graduate Conference aims to reflect the institute’s interdisciplinary and international character. As such, this two-day conference will provide a platform for PhD students in the humanities, from Leiden as well as other universities in the Netherlands and abroad, to present and exchange their ideas in an international and interdisciplinary environment. The organising committee invited two internationally renowned senior academics from different disciplines to act as keynote speakers, participate in the discussions and provide feedback to the papers presented at the conference.

Proposals

The LUCAS Graduate Conference welcomes papers from all disciplines within the humanities. The topic of your proposal may address the concept of rule breaking/transgression from a cultural, historical, classical, artistic, literary, cinematic, political, economic, religious or social viewpoint. Possible themes for papers may revolve around, but are not limited to, the following concepts:

• Heresy, Agnosticism, Sin, Adultery, Immorality, Redemption
• Rebellion, Revolt, Revolution, Conflict, Anarchy, Emancipation
• Corruption, Criminality, Outlawry, Oath Breaking
• Innovation, the Sublime, Supernaturalism, Ugliness, Obscenity
• Illegal Migration, Crossing Borders, Exile, Nomadism, Exclusion
• Cultural or Sexual Hybridity, Creolization
• Exoticism, Orientalism Barbarism, Savagism

Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) to present a 20-minute paper along with a brief bio (150 words) before 15 October, 2014 to lucasconference2015@gmail.com. You will be notified whether or not your paper has been selected by 1 November, 2014.

A selection of papers will be published as conference proceedings in the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucas/jlgc/. For those who attend the conference, there will be a registration fee of €50 to cover the costs of lunches, coffee breaks, excursions and other conference materials. Unfortunately we cannot offer financial support for travel or accommodation expenses.

If you have any questions regarding the conference and/or the proposals, please do not hesitate to contact the organizing committee at:lucasconference2015@gmail.com.

The Organizing Committee
Nouzha Baba
Cui Chen
Katarzyna Durys
Wieneke Jansen
Thijs Porck

Source de l’information : Universiteit Leiden

Journées de la Société Française d’Histoire Urbaine
15 et 16 janvier 2015

Ecole nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort (7 avenue du général de Gaulle, 94700 Maisons-Alfort)
Animaux dans la ville, de l’Antiquité à l’époque contemporaine

La présence animale en ville a longtemps été négligée par les études urbaines en dehors des travaux portant sur des activités spécifiques liées à « l’agglomération des hommes » comme les transports, l’alimentation, les sacrifices ou l’exhibition et les jeux. Pour autant elle est bien attestée et il serait aberrant d’opposer la ville d’autrefois peuplée d’animaux à la ville humanisée d’aujourd’hui dont ils auraient été exclus. Les nombreux animaux familiers qui vivent avec les habitants des villes comme les animaux « non désirés ne fais[ant] pas partie de l’ordre urbain »1 suffisent à le prouver. Si la disparition progressive de certaines catégories d’animaux fournisseurs de viande et de lait ou d’énergie dans les villes occidentales, à coup de règlements de police destinés à éviter la « divagation » des troupeaux dans les rues ou à assainir leurs produits, est évidente, son remplacement par d’autres l’est tout autant. C’est cette forme de substitution – limitée dans cet exemple puisqu’elle ne concerne que les animaux domestiques ou familiers – qui pose question aujourd’hui au chercheur : ne suggère-t-elle pas un changement profond des rapports entre les hommes et les animaux en ville ? Et qu’en est-il de ceux que la réglementation ne parvient pas à évacuer comme les blattes, les rats ou les moustiques ? Ou encore des animaux tolérés mais volontiers contrôlés comme les pigeons ? Les travaux récents en histoire du vivant et de l’environnement urbain permettent de faire évoluer l’observation des rapports entre l’homme et l’animal dans une dimension élargie aux relations nature/ville.

Plusieurs entrées sont possibles dont ne sont évoquées ici que quelques unes :

• Les inventaires archéozoologiques d’un lieu donné et les questions qu’ils soulèvent (comment évaluer la part des animaux domestiques et des animaux sauvages ? ces animaux vivent-ils en ville ou n’y entrent-ils qu’incidemment ou n’y arrivent-ils que morts pour être consommés ou utilisés ? …)
• Les politiques publiques en ce qui concerne la « nature » en ville comme l’interdiction faite aux animaux de boire aux fontaines publiques à Rome, l’autorisation au cochon de saint Antoine de circuler librement en ville à la fin du Moyen Âge, l’introduction des abeilles dans les parcs publics aujourd’hui ou la réflexion contemporaine sur les corridors écologiques ;
• Les pratiques sociales ou culturelles comme l’élevage des porcs sur les terrains vagues et dans les cours des maisons au Moyen Âge ou à l’Epoque moderne ou les visites aux zoos du XIXe siècle. etc.

C’est pour tenir compte des acquis de cette historiographie récente appuyée sur une approche essentiellement pluridisciplinaire et ouverte à toutes les périodes historiques, que la SFHU, l’UPEC (CRHEC et Laburba), l’ENVA lancent cet appel à communications pour un colloque qui se tiendra les 15 et 16 janvier prochain à L’UPEC et à l’Ecole nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort, Les animaux dans la ville de l’Antiquité à l’époque contemporaine. Les interventions dureront 20 mn.

Les propositions de communication peuvent être envoyées en français ou en anglais.

Elles comporteront un titre et un résumé d’environ 1500 signes, les coordonnées de l’intervenant (nom, prénom, fonction et rattachement institutionnel, courriel, adresse postale)

Les propositions de communication devront être adressées avant le 15 octobre à bourillon@u-pec.fr et à cdegueurce@vet-alfort.fr

Comité scientifique : Denis Menjot, Laurence Buchholzer, Natacha Coquery, Laurent Coudroy de Lille, Thibault Tellier, Vincent Lemire, Mélanie Traversier, Jean-Pierre Guilhembet, Florence Bourillon, Youri Carbonnier, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Catherine Denys, Stéphane Frioux, Philippe Guignet, Laurence Jean-Marie, Gilles-Antoine Langlois, Frédéric Moret, Dominique Poulot, Charlotte Vorms, Christophe Degueurce, Jérôme Bazin, Virginie Mathé, Jean Estebanez.

Comité d’organisation : Jérôme Bazin, Florence Bourillon, Laurent Coudroy de Lille, Christophe Degueurce, Jean Estebanez, Stéphane Frioux, Virginie Mathé, Denis Menjot.

Source de l’information : Le Ruche