Event archives

  • Imaging Utopia: New Perspectives on Northern Renaissance Art

  • XXth symposium for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (University of Leuven), Belgium, 11-13 January 2017 International conference The twentieth symposium for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting will be held in Leuven in the context of the major exhibition In Search of Utopia. In 1516, Thomas More (1478- 1535),[...]
  • The idea of a life, 1500-1700

  • ‘I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am’ Othello, Act 5, Scene 2 What was a life in early modern England and Europe? What patterns and templates were used to sort, sift, organise and represent experience? How were models for a life produced and reworked? How was a life evaluated, in terms of various sorts of good — moral, spiritual, [...]
  • Renaissance Religions II: Modes and Meanings in History

  • 9-10 June 2016 This call for papers follows the highly successful conference held at Villa i Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) and the Monash University Prato Centre in June 2015. The second iteration of the conference will be held in Bologna at the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII. At this gathering we will seek to extend further the range of[...]
  • « L’image miraculeuse dans le monde chrétien » (Rennes, 3-5 novembre 2016)

  • Consacré aux images miraculeuses et à leur culte dans le christianisme occidental (XIVe-XVIIe siècles), le colloque a pour but d’envisager tous les aspects d’un phénomène majeur, qui a eu des répercussions dans la plupart des domaines de la vie religieuse, depuis la réflexion théologique jusqu’aux pratiques des pèlerins en passant par les dévotions privées ou encore l’aménagement des lieux de [...]
  • Modes of Spectatorship from the Middle Ages to 1700: A Symposium in Honour of Prof. John J. McGavin

  • 11 May 2016, University of Southampton Keynote Speaker: Professor Greg Walker (Edinburgh) Since John McGavin joined the University of Southampton in 1975, his research has ranged widely across medieval and early modern drama, performance, and theatricality in both Scotland and England.  A long standing board-member and contributor to the Records of Early English Drama project, John’s work in t[...]
  • MATERNITÉS, PATERNITÉS - Représentations, Pratiques, Nouvelles perspectives

  • Journée d’étude organisée le jeudi 9 juin 2016 à l’Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 Les représentations sociales, politiques, culturelles, religieuses, philosophiques de la parentalité sont en constant mouvement, faisant écho aux évolutions des sociétés dans lesquelles ces représentations s’inscrivent. « Être père » ou « être mère » renvoie alors à une multitude de pratiques, d’enjeux, de [...]
  • Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference University of Sheffield, 5–8 July 2016

  • We welcome proposals for individual papers of 20 mins, “lightning talks” of 10 mins, round tables, workshops, and posters. We particularly encourage proposals for themed sessions of 3 or 4 papers. We are delighted to announce that we will have a ‘conference consort’, 4D/O Beta, available for any delegates to use in delivering their papers. The consort will comprise singer-musicologists experience[...]
  • Les minorités religieuses dans la Rome de la première modernité

  • Call for Papers: Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome, for SCSC 2016 (Bruges) This panel invites papers on the lives and stories of non-Catholics in Rome between the 16th and 18th centuries. Its purpose is both to address recent calls for new approaches to early modern Catholicism, and to build growing interest in public and urban spaces in the early modern world. A vast edifice of 19th- and[...]
  • Agrippa d'Aubigné - Traitté des douceurs de l'affliction. A Madame dans Œuvres, tome III

  • Agrippa d'Aubigné, Traitté des douceurs d'affliction. A Madame - tome III - , Paris, éd. de Gilbert Schrenck, Classiques Garnier, coll. "Textes de la Renaissance", 2014, 281 p., 32 € Cet ouvrage pose un regard inédit sur l’évolution de l’écriture d’Agrippa d’Aubigné. Il traduit l’affrontement idéologique des années 1600. L’actualité religieuse et l’engagement personnel de l’écrivain huguenot se [...]