L’objectif de cette seconde Table ronde internationale de la recherche sur l’imaginaire du Nord, de l’hiver et de l’Arctique est de permettre aux chercheurs (professeurs, étudiants des cycles supérieurs et postdoctorants) de présenter l’un de leurs projets liés au Nord, à l’Arctique et à l’hiver, dans le contexte d’une recherche culturelle entendue au sens large.

La table ronde aura lieu le lundi 5 octobre 2015 à l’Université du Québec à Montréal.
Pour participer, veuillez envoyer une proposition de communication d’ici le 14 septembre 2015.

Pour renseignements complets, consultez l’appel.

DFG Priority Programme 1630 “Harbours from the Roman Period to the Middle Ages”
Call for Papers for:
Harbours as objects of interdisciplinary research – Archaeology + History + Geosciences

The DFG Priority Programme 1630 “Harbours from the Roman Period to the Middle Ages” started in July 2012. Its aim is the interdisciplinary study of primarily civil harbours as highly complex systems in which ecological, logistical, economic, social, legal, military and religious subsystems overlap and influence one another. In order to evaluate the full extent and depth of the phenomenon ‘harbour’, these subsystems and their implications for the development of the settlements must be identified. The 15 interdisciplinary projects of the Programme are working on a comparative analysis allowing harbours to be understood as system-relevant components.

We are now at the half-time of the six-year grand period and therefore will hold an international conference at which we will bring forth early results as well as new perspectives. The conference is in close cooperation with the Johanna Mestorf Academy, the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology and the Institute of Geosciences of the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany. It is titled “Harbours as objects of interdisciplinary research – Archaeology + History + Geosciences” and will be held from the 30th of September to the 3rd of October at the Audimax of the University in Kiel. The conference language will be English.

We will begin with an opening Keynote-lecture and a welcome reception on the 30th of September. For our interdisciplinary research on harbours the conference will continue with plenum lectures and different parallel session for the next two days. The final day will be devoted to a field trip to Haithabu and Schloss Gottorf in Schleswig or alternatively a guided bus tour to the Hamburger Harbour.

The interdisciplinary sessions are the following:

• Geophysics and Field Research: Developing methods
o Both the localisation and the subsequent large-scale survey of former harbours constitutes a challenge for geophysics, since the often prevailing limnic environment and coastal shallow waters neither suit the conventional methods usually applied in terrestrial or in marine geophysics. This challenge gave impulses for the development of new approaches. The session will deal with the whole range of adapted geophysical methods such as geomagnetics, geoelectrics or GPR-Ground Penetrating Radar, seismic measurements, their possible interaction and their potential for harbour research.

• Geoarchaeology: Changing Harbour Environments
o Harbours are primarily established as shelter for shipping traffic and their link to both maritime and terrestrial traffic networks. However, these natural conditions are seldom
stable and can, due to e.g. changing water levels or silting, change. If a modification of the harbour facilities was not possible it often led to an abandonment of the site. Here, marine geosciences are capable to not only locate the former shoreline and give information on earlier water depths, but also to reconstruct the very processes that changed the prevailing condition on-site.

• Archaeological Features: Harbour Facilities and Infrastructure
o This session will focus on the study of harbour facilities and their progressive development. Harbour facilities served the changing demands at the port by means of providing a sufficient water depth for mooring and the necessities for stock exchange and, thus, secured the economic basis of each harbour town. Yet, a port worked not only by its harbour facilities alone, but just as well by its harbor-related logistic infrastructure in the settlement and on the sea route towards it.

• Written and Iconographic Sources: Complementing the Material Evidence
o The study of the material remains of harbours is obviously limited in its potential insights. Information on e.g. harbour legislation, administration, collection of duties or actual trading voyages of particular individuals remains in the dark. However, evidence of harbours from non-archaeological sources exits in a great variety in historical records from Imperial Roman times to the High Middle Ages. This session wants to encourage a revision of written sources, inscriptions, papyri and seals, along with pictorial records reflecting harbours as economic, legal, stately and cultic systems just as well as the daily harbour life.

All 15 projects participating in the Priority Programme will present a Poster on their research.
Deadline for submission is the 15th of June 2015.

Please send your abstract of about 200-400 words as well as your interest in participating to:
Ilka Rau, M.A. Tel.: +49 4621-813 662
Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie ilka.rau@schloss-gottorf.de
Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen
Schloß Gottorf
24837 Schleswig

The abstract must include the title, the preferred session, author contact details with affiliated institution and email address. Papers are expected to be 20 minutes long followed by 10 minutes of questions and discussion. The papers will be evaluated by the Initiators of the SPP and replies regarding acceptance will be given by July 2015.

An admission fee of 30,- Euro is to be paid at the conference office with the registration. Additionally, another fee for a field trip will have to be paid. We are currently negotiating funds and will inform you on the admission fee for the field trip as soon as possible.

All further information on the registration form, accommodation, travel to Kiel, etc. will follow in the next circular. It will also be available on our homepage:
http://www.spp-haefen.de/de/home/
Please note that the proceedings will be published in an archaeological conference publication as well as in a journal of Geoscience.

Initiators of the Priority Programme :

Prof. Dr. Claus von Carnap-Bornheim
Archäologisches Landesmuseum und
Zentrum für Baltische und Skand. Archäologie
Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf
Schlossinsel
24837 Schleswig

Prof. Dr. Peter Ettel
Bereich für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
Friedrich-Schiller-UniversitätJena Löbdergraben 24a 07743 Jena

Prof. Dr. Falko Daim
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum
Ernst-Ludwig-Platz 2
55116 Mainz

Dr. Ursula Warnke
Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum
Hans-Scharoun-Platz

Le Centre Hans Christian Andersen accueillera prochainement deux séminaires :

• Le premier sur H.C. Andersen et Karen Blixen les 20 et 21 janvier 2016.
• Le second sur H.C Andersen et Franz Kafka les 16 et 17 novembre 2016.

Les présentations seront de 45 minutes, discussion comprise. Un résumé d’environ une demi-page est à transmettre avant le 1er octobre 2015 pour Andersen et Blixen et avant le 1er juillet 2016 pour Andersen et Kafka à Jacob Bøggild (jaboe@sdu.dk) ou à Anya Aarenstrup (anaa@sdu.dk).

Description des appels à contributions :

HCA og Blixen 

HCA og afka

New deadline : january 30th

International conference

Dates: June 11th–13th 2015
Location: FRIAS, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

CFP Geographies of the North 02

Comparative Philology was one of the fast developing branches of scientific and scholarly activities during the 19th and mid 20th centuries. Prosperous spin-offs from this field were Comparative Literature and Folklore as well as the different national philologies, including the studies of Germanic, Scandinavian, and Finno-Ugric cultures and languages, but even Germanic Antiquity and Lappology.

The study of the North and Nordic sources always held a prominent place in Comparative Philology. Scientific activities aimed at the generation of new historical knowledge, but, as we would propose, innovative geographical imaginations were produced as well. These imaginations were often intertwined with nationalist and/or colonial political projects.

The conference aims at analyzing imaginative geographies as the products of scholarly practices, anchored in specific institutional and political contexts and resulting from a certain geography of knowledge. In fact, in spite of its often objectivist claims, scientific knowledge is always localized and depends on venues such as libraries, classrooms, and office space, on regional needs and practices, on local milieus, and, of course, on circulation of people and media, as for example David Livingstone and Christian Jacob have shown in recent studies. Therefore, discussions of how to define supposedly Germanic peoples or the Vikings had different implications in London, Berlin, Paris, Rome, or Copenhagen.

At the same time, the growth and differentiation of the field made the knowledge about the North more and more complex and sometimes contradictory, as it participated in very different fields of knowledge. For example, the study of a Germanic past and the success of modern Scandinavian literature with authors such as Henrik Ibsen created tensions that philologists often only temporarily managed to bridge.

As a part of our Freiburg-Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Studies project Building the North with Words. Geographies of Scientific Knowledge in European Philologies 1850–1950, we invite researchers to contribute to this topic with papers on specific constellations, figures, institutions or scholarly projects, including reflections on the comparative methods of philological research during the 19th and 20th centuries. Case studies may come from all European contexts; we invite especially, but not exclusively, works on chronically under-researched contexts such as those of Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe. The papers may concern work conducted by or within all scientific institutions such as universities, museums, scientific societies, research institutions, and libraries.

The conference is intended to stimulate discussion, so presentations should last 25 min with 20 min discussion. The publication of selected papers is planned. The conference language is English.

Deadline for abstracts: January 30th 2015

The length of abstracts should be 350–400 words, in addition to a short C.V. of the author.

Contact:

Joachim Grage, University of Freiburg  (joachim.grage@skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de)
Thomas Mohnike, University of Strasbourg (tmohnike@unistra.fr)

http://www.skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de/research/building-the-North-with-words
http://nord.unistra.fr/recherches-plus/building-the-north-with-words/

CALL FOR PAPERS: NACS-XI 2015

A Land Shaped by Water: Perspectives on Canada.
Turku, Finland, 12 – 15 August 2015

Submissions are invited for papers or posters for the eleventh Nordic international, cross-disciplinary Canadian Studies conference, to be held in Turku, Finland, in August 2015. The theme of the conference “A Land Shaped by Water: Perspectives on Canada” may be taken literally or metaphorically. We are looking especially, but not exclusively, for contributions in the following fields: literature / political science / the arts / history / international relations | aboriginal affairs / cultural studies / regional studies / cultural geography / social ecology.

Presentations will be allowed 20 minutes + time for discussion, and will be organized in thematic, cross-disciplinary workshops potentially focussed on some of the following topics: water, ice, snow & fog, the fur trade, trans-Atlantic & trans-Pacific contacts, the Northwest Passage and the Arctic, migration, patterns of trade, the Great Lakes Basin, transportation: seas, lakes, waterways, fisheries, fossil fuels and water resources, toponymy, impact of hydro projects, acid rain, settlement patterns.

An abstract of the proposal, maximum 150 words, with a brief CV of the author(s), maximum 40 words, should be submitted in MS Word format by 31 January 2015 to the Conference Committee at this email address: nacsturku@gmail.com

Poster proposals may also be submitted, maximum 50 words + CV max 40 words. The Committee will aim to reply to authors by the end of February.

Nordic Association for Canadian Studies (NACS)
Association nordique d’Etudes canadiennes (ANEC)

Appel à projet sur le site Canadian studies network

Second International Conference of the Helsinki Literature and the City Network (HLCN)
Åbo Akademi University, 20-21 August 2015

The conference “Literary Second Cities” invites papers on new approaches to the study of literary cities, smaller cities, and cities or portions of cities judged secondary or subordinate in any historical period or part of the world.

See following links for the  conference abstract and for details on the call for papers.

The deadline for the call for papers is 15 March 2015.
The language of the conference is English.
Please send proposals (length approximately 300 words) to secondcities@abo.fi .

Les Universités de Bâle et de Zurich lancent un appel à communications en préparation de la 16ème Saga Conference, ‘Sagas and Space’, qui se tiendra du 9 au 15 août 2015.

Plus d’informations dans le document suivant : Texte CFP 16th Saga conference 2015.
Propositions à adresser avant le 15 octobre 2014 à l’adresse suivante : sagaconference@unibas.ch

En prévision du colloque pluridisciplinaire qui se tiendra à Reykjavik du 26 au 28 février 2015, artistes et universitaires sont appelés à adresser leurs propositions de communications, d’installations, de performances en lien avec le thème du colloque jusqu’au 30 septembre 2014 à cette adresse: imaginairedunord@uqam.ca.

Texte de l’appel à propositions : Colloque “Les métamorphoses de la noirceur dans le Nord”