Conference; The Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies at the Martin Luther
University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)
Organised by Elisabeth Décultot and Daniel Weidner
22-24 March 2023
In 1780 the “belles lettres” class of the Royal Prussian Academy of the Sciences published its
prize question: Est-il utile au Peuple d’être trompé? Whether the people drew benefit from being
deceived –a question that sparked a vigorous debate, in which the political implications of the
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Workshop at the University of Exeter
June 2nd-3rd 2023
The concept of emancipation has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years.
The Legal History and Rare Books (LH&RB) Section of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), in cooperation with Gale, a Cengage company, announces the Thirteenth Annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. The competition is named in honor of Morris L. Cohen, late Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School.
Together with the German Society of Pennsylvania, the German Historical Institute will sponsor two to four fellowships of up to four weeks for research at the Joseph Horner Memorial Library in Philadelphia between June 1 and July 15, 2023.
The Society for Lascasian Studies, invites submission of papers for a special volume of Estudios Filosóficos, "Revaluating the School of Salamanca in Transatlantic and Global Perspective." As Iberia’s overseas jurisdictions and economic activities expanded, the intellectual equilibrium forged through many centuries of reconquista required radical reinvention.
Call for papers for the next Global Jonathan Edwards Congress to be hosted by the affiliated Jonathan Edwards Center at Evangelische Theologische Faculteit Leuven, BELGIUM. Theme: Rationality and Spirituality: Retrieving Edwards for Understanding Religion and Spirituality in Human Experience Today. Note: Non-Edwards scholars are also welcome to address the main theme.
Paper proposal deadline: March 20, 2023
Hearing occupies a prominent place within the medieval hierarchy of senses. The New Testament pericopes "In the beginning was the Word" (John 1.1) and "Faith comes from hearing" (Romans 10.17) had an immense impact in late antiquity and in the Middle Ages. For example, based on this, the ideas of the conceptio per aurem, according to which Mary conceived by hearing, develop.
We are looking for an external examiner with knowledge of visual studies theory to act as the external examiner for an undergraduate module looking at Visual Culture, Knowledge and Power. Studnets on the course look at visual phenomena including art, advertising (both print and other forms), television and film.
The module descriptor reads:
This module studies what we see in the news, on billboards, social media, museums, and public spaces, and explores what these images and artefacts tells us about society, how we perceive it, and how we identify with it.
The International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions (IC) is recognized as an Affiliated Society with the American Historical Association. Its scholars have participated in AHA annual meetings since 2020. The International Commission was founded in Lausanne in 1936 and has been continuously active throughout the world since 1945. The International Commission publishes the Journal of Parliaments, Estates and Representation three times a year.
This MLA panel invites critical and ethical interrogations that underpin the urgency to look
beyond the single-issue strategies of reading and creating South Asia in critical discourse.
Incidentally, the scholarly trajectory of issues on South Asia has flattened the diversity of the geopolitically, culturally rich discursive space and its experiences to increasingly refer to India-
centric discussions. Given our objective of reexamining the definitive restrictions of the trajectory of South Asian Literature and Studies, we seek papers that recover and reinterrogate