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31 Gen 2023 00:00

CALL FOR PAPERS | The Water Cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean, 1500-1900

Call for papers: The Water Cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean, 1500-1900 
Three-Day International Conference 
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 
13-15 September 2023 
Deadline: 31 January 2023 

What would a history of society and culture look like with water placed at its core? This three-day international conference aims to shed light on the forms of human interactions with water over time in Europe and the Mediterranean. 
We invite individual paper and panel proposals from a wide range of disciplines interested in the study of human-water interactions in the European and Mediterranean past—including social and cultural history, urban history, economic history, gender history, engineering history, architectural history, art history, literary history, environmental history, archaeology and the history of science and medicine—using a wide range of source materials (archival, print, literary, artistic) and approaches and methodologies. 

Proposed Themes: 
1. Springs and Sources: Sacred Waters, Thermal Waters and Bottled Waters 
2. The Changing Science, Medicine and Health of Water 
3. Supplying the Urban and the Periurban: Large-Scale Hydrological Infrastructure and Water Management 
4. The Hydraulic Landscape: Rural Water Capture, Management and Uses, Irrigation and Land Reclamation 
5. The Occupations of Water: Architects, Engineers, Fountaineers, Water-Sellers, Washerwomen, Millers (etc) 
6. Responses to Water Scarcity and Surplus 
7. Hydropolitics: Water-related Conflicts, Jurisdictions, Institutions and Inequalities 
8. Symbolic Uses and Popular Beliefs 
9. The Aesthetics of Water: Leisure, Ornament and Display 
10. Past Knowledge, Expertise and Technologies Applied to Present and Future Problems 

Conference keynote speakers: Petra van Dam (Professor of History of Water- and Environmental History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam); Christopher Hamlin (Professor emeritus of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Notre Dame); Felipe Fernández-Armesto (William P. Reynolds Professor of History, University of Notre Dame) 

The conference is organised and funded as part of ‘The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900’, PI Prof David Gentilcore, an advanced grant funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement number 833834)
 
Interested participants are asked to send a paper title, paper abstract (max 300 words) and short CV (max one page). We also invite panel proposals; these should include a panel title and panel topic summary (max 200 words), as well as titles, abstracts and short CVs for each of the panel participants (ideally three per session, plus chair), and should not exceed 1,000 words in all.

The deadline for all proposals is 31 January 2023. The organisers hope to make their decisions by the beginning of March 2023. 

Address for all correspondence, including proposals: watercultures.conf@unive.it  We look forward to hearing from you!

Please find the complete text of the call for papers and full information are in the attached file.

European Research Council advanced grant The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900 PI Professor David Gentilcore Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (grant agreement no 833834)
 

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European Research Council advanced grant The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900

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