We would like to examine the way in which the arts (theatre, cinema, literature, painting, sculpture, music) draw, trace and unfold the canvases and scores of individual, familiar and collective memory, from traces, cracks, flaws, interstices, lapses, oblivion, loss of memory, repression, from "the memory of what is forgotten", shadowy areas, crypts, confiscated images and words, prevented, manipulated or
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Philipp Lottholz (2022): Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia - Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. Through its analysis, the book highlights the problem with assumptions about liberal democracy, modern statehood and capitalist development as the standard template for post-conflict countries.
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
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.