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On behalf of Giuseppe Marcocci and Ilaria Pavan, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
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elena mazzini
> Gentili colleghi,
> vi preghiamo di prendere in considerazione l'ipotesi di partecipare. Vi saremo inoltre grati se potrete diffondere il seguente avviso ad altri studiosi che ritenete possano essere interessati.
> Cordiali saluti,
> Giuseppe Marcocci
> Ilaria Pavan
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> * Call for papers: Space and Conversion: Institutions, Urban Stages and Interiority (16th-20th Centuries)
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> * International workshop at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy (deadline: 31/03/2011)
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> Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy) is inviting scholars to submit papers for a three-session international workshop titled Space and Conversion: Institutions, Urban Stages and Interiority (16th–20th Centuries), which will take place at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, on 6–7 December 2011.
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> The workshop is devoted to the topic of conversion. In particular, our aim is to shed light on aspects of the conversion process that have been neglected by recent historiography: its physical and spatial dimensions, the connections between the interiority of the neophyte and the external space in which the conversion path takes place. The workshop encourages a global comparative approach. There are no restrictions regarding geography or religions. The chronological scope is from the 16th to the 20th century. The language of the workshop is English.
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> We are interested in the following key questions: 1. Is a specific institutional space devoted to following the conversion process linked to a specific vision of the latter? 2. Could an urban environment or a landscape influence and promote a conversion path? 3. Is there a spatial dimension to the interior conversion process?
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> We particularly invite contributions related to one or more of the following areas:
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> a) Institutions: institutional spaces devoted to promoting and following conversions, their statutes and regulations, their internal life, the architecture of the buildings housing them, their needs and characteristics.
> b) Urban stages: cities, sanctuaries and convents, the urbanization of conversion and of proselytism, the re-semantization of urban spaces after religious changeovers, evocative landscapes and their artistic representations.
> c) Interiority: the connection between the interiority of a given individual and the physical environment in which the conversion process takes place; the representation and description of inner religious transformations in spatial terms.
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> Please send your proposals, 500 words maximum, and a brief CV with your contact information to Giuseppe Marcocci ([log in to unmask]) and Ilaria Pavan ([log in to unmask]).
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> The deadline for proposals is 31 March 2011. Responses will be sent by e-mail in April 2011.
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> While we are not able to offer support to cover travel expenses, the Scuola Normale Superiore will provide two nights’ accommodation for the conference and will cover all meals.
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> Organizing Institution: Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, I
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> Scientific Committee: Aliocha Maldavsky (Université Paris X Nanterre - École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France), David Sorkin (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Giuseppe Marcocci (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy), Ilaria Pavan (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)
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> Giuseppe Marcocci
> Ricercatore a tempo determinato in Storia moderna
> Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
> Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7
> I-56127 Pisa
> studio 103
> tel. (0039) 050 509073
> fax (0039) 050563513
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