Appel à communication : “Understanding Material Loss Across Time and Space” Conference

Hubert Robert, Ruines romaines avec le Colisée, 1798, 0,50 x 0,59 m, Paris, musée du Louvre
Hubert Robert, Ruines romaines avec le Colisée, 1798, 50 x 59 cm, Paris, musée du Louvre

Type : Appel à communication
Date du colloque : 17 et 18 février 2017
Date limite d’envoi des propositions : 14 octobre 2016
Lieu : Université de Birmingham, Royaume-Uni

Understanding Material Loss intends to examine the usefulness of ‘loss’ as an analytical framework across different disciplines and subfields, but principally within historical studies. Loss and absence are slowly being recognized as significant factors in historical processes, particularly in relation to the material world. Archaeologists, anthropologists, philosophers, literary scholars, sociologists and historians have increasingly come to understand the material world as an active and shaping force. Nevertheless, while significant, such studies have consistently privileged material presence as the basis for understanding how and why the material world has played an increasingly important role in the lives of humans. In contrast, Understanding Material Loss suggests that instances of absence, as much as presence, provide important means of understanding how and why the material world has shaped human life and historical processes.

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