The journal « Genesis’ calls for papers for a special issue on the theme »women migrants (emigrant/immigrant) in the past and present. The Italian case?.During the last decades the theme of migration has registered in Italy rich and relevant contributions, while also providing a fertile ground for the convergence of different disciplinary approaches. The massive population shifts brought about in recent years by globalization has enriched this field of research with new problems and issues to be investigated, including those related to the phenomenon of women’s migration.In...

Consuming Passions engages a range of topics involving thetreatment of desire, obsession, and appetites as expressed intexts, images, and music in the early modern period. Allconference participants will focus on issues related to France,and many will choose to connect France in two or moreperiods (medieval through the eighteenth century) and/or tomake connections between France and other countries.Interdisciplinary in focus, the conference’s broad historicalsweep from the medieval period through thelong eighteenth century, fosters intriguing topics such as :? the passions of...

Journée d’étudeorganisée par le Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine, avec le concours de l’Institut Universitaire de France et du projet ANR CITERE,qui se tiendra à Nice le 13 septembre 2013, sous la responsabilité scientifique de David Rousseau et Marie Villion.Dès leur plus jeune âge, les héritiers de l’aristocratie et de ceux qui dans la haute bourgeoisie aspirent à y parvenir sont sensibilisés aux différentes formes artistiques, tant dans la sphère domestique que dans les institutions d’éducation. Cet engouement pour l’art a bouleversé sa...