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Appel à contribution – Göttingen SPIRIT Summer School

CALL FOR PAPERS

Göttingen SPIRIT Summer School
Ideology, Power and Religious Change in Antiquity, 3000 BC – AD 600
Göttingen, Germany, 20–24 July 2015

This international summer school focuses on ideological messages
communicated by leaders in the ancient world (Ancient Near East, Greece and Rome, c. 3000 BC – AD 600) during periods of religious change. The latter can be understood as periods in which new religions, specific religious factions, sects or cults rose, expanded or gained a position of dominance, thereby causing changes in or threatening existing social, religious and/or power structures. Which messages were communicated by central and local authorities as well as specific religious authorities in these epochs? What do these messages tell us about the nature of power exercised by leaders? The summer school is specifically targeted at doctoral candidates and early

postdocs. Each day will commence with a keynote lecture delivered by
renowned scholars and ample opportunities for discussion afterwards. Keynote speakers are Paola Ceccarelli (Cambridge), Eckart Frahm (Yale), Olivier Hekster (Nijmegen), Carlos Noreña (Berkeley), and Piotr Steinkeller (Harvard). The afternoons will be dedicated to short presentations by participants based on papers circulated in advance. Selected papers will be published.

Anyone interested in participating is kindly requested to apply with a CV,
list of publications (if available), and an abstract of 500 words at maximum
until 15 March 2015. Please use our portal to upload your application
(https://s-lotus.gwdg.de/uni/uxgw/gsgg_ss_2015.nsf/application.

Accommodation is free for all participants. Reimbursement for travel costs
is predictably available for a limited number of applicants. In case of
further questions, do not hesitate to contact the organizers, Gösta Gabriel
and Erika Manders, via iprca2015@uni-goettingen.de.

For more information, see also http://www.uni-goettingen.de/iprca2015.
Gösta Gabriel and Erika Manders
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Graduate School of Humanities
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

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Rencontres 2015 – Appel à contribution

VIIIe édition des Rencontres internationales des doctorants en études byzantines

Pour la huitième année consécutive, les Rencontres internationales des doctorants en études byzantines se dérouleront à l’Institut national d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA) les 2 et 3 octobre 2015. Ces rencontres, inscrites depuis 2010 dans le cadre de l’Association des Étudiants du Monde Byzantin (AEMB), connaissent un grand succès et témoignent ainsi de l’importance des études byzantines aux yeux de la communauté scientifique. En effet, outre l’INHA qui accueille gracieusement les Rencontres byzantines depuis sept ans, cet événement ne pourrait avoir lieu sans l’aide financière des universités (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris-Sorbonne, Caen Basse-Normandie), des grandes écoles (École pratique des hautes études, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, École des Chartes), du Campus Condorcet, de l’UMR Orient et Méditerranée et du Comité français des études byzantines.

Organisées sur deux jours, les Rencontres byzantines ont pour objectif de rassembler des doctorants de toutes nationalités consacrant leurs recherches à la civilisation byzantine, quels que soient leurs domaines de spécialisation (art, archéologie, histoire, lettres…). Afin de mettre en valeur la diversité des disciplines, aucune thématique n’est imposée. Chaque intervenant présente son sujet de recherche ou développe une problématique liée à son sujet pendant vingt minutes.

Les échanges méthodologiques sont encouragés par les discussions entre les intervenants et les auditeurs après chaque communication, soulevant des questions sur les outils de recherche et permettant à tous de partager des connaissances ainsi que de donner et recevoir des conseils par des doctorants plus expérimentés ou des professeurs.

Ces Rencontres sont aussi l’occasion pour les jeunes chercheurs de s’entraîner à l’oral afin de présenter leur travail de façon claire et construite, voire de parler, pour certains, dans une autre langue. Ils auront également la possibilité de publier l’intégralité de leur communication dans la revue en ligne Porphyra (http://www.porphyra.it) si le texte est accepté par le comité scientifique de la revue.

Les échanges dynamiques et pluridisciplinaires constituent le fondement de la réussite des Rencontres internationales des doctorants en études byzantines : venez nombreux !

Modalités d’inscription

Les doctorants souhaitant intervenir lors des Rencontres internationales byzantines les 2 et 3 octobre 2015 à l’INHA devront envoyer avant le 26 février 2015 à l’adresse suivante (lesbyzantines@gmail.com) un résumé d’une vingtaine de lignes (maximum 2000 caractères, espaces compris) avec un titre, en précisant :

– le type d’intervention (présentation du sujet de thèse ou sujet libre)
– la langue souhaitée pour intervenir (français ou anglais)
– le nom du directeur de recherche, l’institution de rattachement et le sujet de recherche.

Un accusé de réception sera envoyé systématiquement dès réception du résumé.

Le programme définitif des Rencontres sera établi le 6 avril 2015 puis envoyé aux intervenants.

PDF de l’appel à contribution ici.

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Appel à contribution – Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World

Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World
Series Editor: John Steele

Series description

Scientific texts provide our main source for understanding the history of science in the ancient and medieval world. The aim of this series is to provide clear and accurate English translations of key scientific texts accompanied by up-to-date commentaries dealing with both textual and scientific aspects of the works and accessible contextual introductions setting the works within the broader history of ancient science. In doing so, the series will make these works accessible to scholars and students in a variety of disciplines including history of science, the sciences, and history (including Classics, Assyriology, East Asian Studies, Near Eastern Studies and Indology). Thus, the series will be of use both in the teaching of history and the history of science and for researchers on ancient science. In addition, the series will provide a venue for the publication of original research on early scientific texts, in particular through the commentaries.

Texts will be included from all branches of early science including astronomy, mathematics, medicine, biology, and physics, and which are written in a range of ancient languages including Akkadian, Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit. Priority will be given to the publication of texts which have either not previously been translated into English or where the existing translation and/or commentary has been rendered significantly out of date by more recent research.

Each volume will be devoted to a particular text and will contain the following elements:

1. An extensive introduction (ca. 20,000 words) to the text, its author, and its place in the history of science. This introduction will also include discussion of the sources in which the text is preserved. The introduction should be accessible to readers from outside the discipline.

2. An edition of the text. (To be omitted if there already exists a standard edition on which the translation is based.)

3. English translation of the text.

4. Commentary. The commentary will include both textual and scientific aspects.

Please email John Steele (Professor and Chair, Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University) at john_steele@brown.edu if you would like any further information about the series or if you are interested in contributing.

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Colloque – Ημερίδα επιστημονικού διαλόγου για τη Βυζαντινή Λογοτεχνία

Β´ ΠΑΡΕΚΒΟΛΩΝ ΗΜΕΡΑ
Ημερίδα επιστημονικού διαλόγου για τη
Βυζαντινή Λογοτεχνία
Παρασκευή 28 Νοεμβρίου 2014, Αμφιθέατρο
«Στέφανος Δραγούμης», Μουσείο Βυζαντινού
Πολιτισμού Θεσσαλονίκης
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Appel à contribution – Managing Emotion: Passion, Emotions, Affects, and Imaginings in Byzantium
	


	
	

		




Managing Emotion: Passion, Emotions, Affects, and Imaginings in Byzantium

December 12–13, 2014 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium


Byzantinists were early into the field of the study of emotion with Henry Maguire’s groundbreaking article on sorrow, published in 1977. But since then classicists and western medievalists have developed new ways of understanding how emotional communities work and where the ancients’ concepts of emotion differ from our own. It is time perhaps to celebrate Maguire’s work, but also to look at what is distinctive about Byzantine emotion. We encourage speakers to focus on a single emotion and to use it as a vantage point to investigate central aspects of the Byzantine worldview. We want to look at emotions as both cognitive and relational processes. Our focus is not only the construction of emotions with respect to perception and cognition; we are also interested in how emotions were communicated and exchanged across broad (multi)linguistic, political and social boundaries. We expect to receive comment from classics, western medieval studies, philosophy, and psychology. The comparative stance will help us disclose what is peculiar to the Byzantine “emotional constellation.” Priorities are twofold: to arrive at an understanding of what the Byzantines thought of as emotions and to comprehend how theory shaped their appraisal of reality.


Registration Form here. For the program and abstracts see http://www.doaks.org/research/byzantine/events/managing-emotion-passion-emotions-affects-and-imaginings-in-byzantium