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Road to Vienna IV
In preparation for the Society for Emblem Studies XIIIth International Conference in Vienna, the Society kindly invites its members to the Road to Vienna IV session. Wednesday, 13th November 20246:30 PM (GMT) / 7:30 PM (Vienna).
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Nuccio Ordine
Knowledge is movement, infinite quest; Giordano Bruno’s idea that “every pleasure consists only in a definite transit, journey, and motion”, can be used as a motto to remember Nuccio Ordine’s achievements, his infinite passion and inexhaustible commitment, as scholar, pedagogue, editor. He gained international recognition for his contributions to thematic criticism, to the development of…
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Road to Vienna, Program and Links
Road to Vienna I, April 19, 2023, 6:30 PM (GMT), ZOOM link. Road to Vienna II, November 15, 2023, 6:30 PM (GMT), ZOOM link.
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Announcement: SES International Conference, Vienna, 2025
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the 13th Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies will be held at the University of Vienna from July 28th to August 2nd 2025. The members of the local organising team are all working at the Institute of Classical Philology, Medieval and Neo-Latin Studies at the University of Vienna: Elisabeth Klecker has designed the…
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Liber Amicorum: Emblems and Studies
Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce that our Liber Amicorum is launched! You can read it on the Internet Archive, free of charge: https://archive.org/details/2022-ses-liber-amicorum/mode/2up The book comprises over 50 emblems, submitted by members and friends of the Society, as well as 13 studies published in our Emblem of the Month section, on our website.…
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SES Conference Coimbra
Dear Colleague, We are pleased to inform you that the registration process for the 12th International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies-Muta Poesis, Pictura loquens is open. The Conference will be held in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra (Portugal), from 25 to 30 July 2022. We received proposals from 33 different countries, spread across the 5…
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Professor Margaret M. McGowan (1931-2022)
History will probably remember Margaret M. McGowan primarily as a historian of dance, and her interdisciplinary approach brought new rigour and depth to that area of study. Yet her research interests, while always founded in this same interdisciplinary approach, extended much more widely. She published, both as author and editor, on central areas of French…
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Prof. Dr. Christine McCall Probes
We are very sad to announce that Prof. Christine McCall Probes, born on April 16th 1943, passed away on November 14th 2021. In 1975 she joined the University of South Florida, and in 2008 she was promoted to full Professor of French Literature. Christine Probes was decorated Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the…
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Emblem of the Month, n. 11
Cramer’s Emblemata Sacra in Ørum, Denkmark Daniel Cramer’s Emblemata Sacra is the frequently most used emblem book in Protestant churches. His emblems are found in Brandenburg and North German churches. Emblemata Sacra was particularly extensively used in Denmark, as Carsten Bach Nielsen showed.[1] In the area around the town of Skive are, for example, 13 village…
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CfP: Emblem Studies at Kalamazoo 2022
2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 09 – 14, 2022) – ONLINE Hosted by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, the International Congress on Medieval Studies is an annual gathering of thousands of scholars interested in medieval studies. The Congress embraces the study of all aspects of Middle Ages, extending to into late antiquity…