RAUX Sophie, Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture in the Low Countries, 15th-17th Centuries, Leiden, Brill, 2018, 400 p. Présentation de l'éditeur : Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture examines the lotteries as devices for distributing images and art objects, and constructing their valu...

The 17th century, the century of galantry in France, sees a fun culture of conversation in the courtyard and in the fairs, in the context of precious values. It is extended in prose or worthwhile fun literature that continues the mondaine conversation in minor genres, often gathered in collective co...

The image of the Second Empire was disgraced for a long time in our national culture. Indeed the French defeat at Sedan, Victor Hugo’s diatribes and the Coup combined to firmly corroborate the dark vision of the period. Yet some historical studies have partly restored it by showing the reality of th...

Alice followed the rabbit down the rabbit-hole, without thinking about how she was going to get out… Alice and her Wonderland falls in our audiovisual culture and nobody is thinking that she was going to get out. Alice’s adventures in words and images seem to be a never ending story. Lewis Carroll’s...

This dissertation aims to understand the processes of resilience in the technical field in Cuba. I postulate that a specific technical culture has been forged. This culture was fostered by the superstructural elements linked to revolutionary ideology, but it is also dependent on a history of various...

IRISH ASSOCIATION OF RUSSIAN, CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES Annual Conference School of History and Archives and Centre for War Studies University College Dublin 9 - 10 May 2014 Call for Papers The War on the Eastern Front is less developed in the English-language historiography and has impinged...

Social constructionism can be seen as a source of the postmodern movement, and has been influential in the field of cultural studies. The article is devoted to the analysis of the influence of social constructionism in modern Anglophone historiography and historical epistemology (2000-2015). The res...

The Modern Day Fairy Tale in Film and Television (Deadlline May 14th) SAMLA November 9-11th, 2012 contact email: shane.trayers@maconstate.edu The Modern Day Fairy Tale in Film and Television (Popular Culture Panel) SAMLA November 9-11, 2012 Durham, North Carolina Fairy tales never seem to go out of...

the Welsh Bagaudes have been the subject of multiple contradictory and clear-cut interpretations since the 50s: peasant revolts according to Marxist analyses, introduced into the ‘democratisation of culture’ model by Santo Mazzarino, militias of autonomist landowners according to Anglo-Saxon histori...

Dealing with the colonial history of Hawai‘i and California from 1778, this dissertation focuses on the transformation of the Hawaiian custom he‘e nalu into a global surf system. This analysis asks if there a break or a continuity of Hawaiian surfing in the 19th century, and what are the terms and c...

, which is different from other contemporary forms of domesticity, elitarian domesticity, serving particularly wealthy families, is a privileged place to study the effects of gender diversity in the context of social confrontation in permanent domestic work. It requires employees to be acculturated...

Hugh Dempsey has for decades been one of Alberta’s most prolific and influential public historians. Author of more than twenty books, he has also been “in on the ground floor” of the development of many key Alberta institutions, including the Indian Association of Alberta, the Historical Society of...

This article looks at the writer Ferenc Herczeg (1863-1954), one of the first representatives of Hungarian midllebrow culture, who fell into almost complete oversight, partly because he was in the vast grey area separating elite and mass culture in the first half of the 20th century. After giving a...

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through the reconstruction of the history and memory of the social uses of the San Pedro del Tingo Municipal Balneario, located in the Chillos Valley in the vicinity of the consolidated urban area of Quito, the work analyses the tensions and fluctuating relations between local government, social gro...

International audience Museums are places for education, but they can also offer opportunities for cross-cultural discovery. With a focus on enhancing the impact of our own research, this paper describes the experience of mounting an exhibition at the Musée d’Ethnographie de Bordeaux on the theme Vo...

Nancy Bentley is a distinguished scholar of American literary and cultural studies. She received her PhD from Harvard University where she specialized in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture. Her work, including the monographs Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and M...

Research Framework: In the priority neighbourhoods of the City Policy in France, physical activities, whether carried out in the context of travel or leisure, are still lagging behind French territory as a whole. While many pieces of work analyse physical and sporting activities among young people a...

National audience The unprecedented engagement for sport is increasingly being invested, both financially and politically and symbolic. A major media celebration of globalisation, the latest football World Cup in South Africa once again revealed the dual reality of sport: on the one hand, the actual...

Bonjour, Please find below the programme of a colloquium organised next week at the University of Bristol in the UK. Thank you very much! Cordially, Claire Ducournau Paper, airwaves, screen: from text to hearing in African popular culture/Paper, waves, screens: public text in African popular culture...

Call for proposals for an interdisciplinary study day focusing on “gender” (male/female) “gender and metamorphosis in children’s and youth culture” on 24 May 2013 and a colloquium, Métamorphoses and culture of childhood and youth, in May 2014 University Lyon 1 — IUFM — PRALIJE and GEM groups — origi...

During the 1920s in Latin America, at a time when early movements and new technologies (radio, cinema) were gradually changing the design of everyday life, the chronic change of literary and social function. Unlike modernists (Martí, Gutiérrez Nájera, Darío), the chronists of this time (such as Robe...

We're glad to share the general call for papers for the issue 23 of [Inter]sections journal on American Studies. The journal looks for academic articles, reviews, and interviews relevant to the field of American studies. Its scope includes research in the fields of North American literature, history...

Este artigo tem por objetivo refletir acerca de questões sobre educação e cultura na Amazônia, sob o viés antropológico e interdisciplinar. Trata-se de um estudo de cunho bibliográfico. Neste sentido, a proposta é pensar a educação e a cultura como dimensões do processo social, considerando a emergê...

The Pleasures of Crime. Reading Modern French Crime Fiction. Platten, David Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2011, 269 pp. Pb: 978-90-420-3429-7 € 54 / US$ 73 For 150 years the French public and literati have enjoyed a love affair with crime fiction. This book investigates the nature of this relationship and...