DFG Sub-Project: Illegitimate Violence in the French and Austrian Militaries during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1789–1815); Tanja Bührer and Gundula Gahlen (LMU München) (Web)

Time: 22.-24.02.2024
Venue: Paris Lodron Univ. Salzburg
Proposals by: 14.04.2023

The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815) had a more thorough impact on European history than any other military conflict between the Thirty Years War and the Great War. They raged for more than twenty years throughout almost the whole of Europe as well as parts of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. These global wars, in addition, marked a changing character of warfare that can be roughly characterized as people’s war („Volkskrieg“). The new mass armies were recruited from large strata of the population that was partly driven by patriotic motivation. The conference invites scholars to reflect on specific moments, spaces and agents of excessive military violence in these wars that were perceived in contemporary assessment as illegitimate. The organizers specifically would like to explore the changing yardsticks of legitimacy and illegitimacy of violence and the conditions for their transformation during these wars.
The conference focuses on both violent practices proceeding form members of a collective military agent, and on the associated interpretative discourses. The level of practice scrutinizes violence against regular armies, irregular combatants, civilians, prisoners of war, and internal violence against one ́s own soldiers. The level of discourse analyzes discourses on illegitimate violence led by military and political decision-makers of the war, legal experts and printed media. Read more … (PDF)

Kunstuniv. Graz, Michaela Krucsay (Web)

Zeit: 09.–11.11.2023
Ort: Kunstuniversität Graz, Palais Meran
Einreichfrist: 14.05.2023

Metapher oder realer Ort, wissenschaftliche Ressource oder Herrschaftsinstrument: Auch in der Musikwissenschaft erweisen sich unterschiedliche Definitionen des Begriffs „Archiv“ als von unmittelbarem Einfluss auf die jeweilige Methodenwahl und auf das eigene Fachverständnis. Das geplante Symposium versteht die inhärente Interdisziplinarität des gegenwärtigen Archivbegriffs als Aufruf, das dynamische Feld Archiv – Gender – Gedächtnis – Musikhistoriographie über enge Fachgrenzen hinweg in den Fokus des wissenschaftlichen Austauschs zu rücken.
Die Aktualität und Relevanz des Forschungsparadigmas „Archiv“ lässt sich an einer seit etwa der letzten Jahrtausendwende beschleunigt wachsenden Anzahl von Tagungen und Publikationen unterschiedlicher Disziplinen ablesen. An einer fächerübergreifenden, methodisch tiefgehenden Reflexion der verschiedenen Lesarten des Begriffs beteiligte sich die Musikwissenschaft bislang allerdings nur bedingt. Besonders in der Historischen Musikwissenschaft liegt das Interesse am „Archiv“ weiterhin primär auf der konkreten Forschung mit musikalischen Quellen; dennoch sind auch hier zunehmend Bestrebungen erkennbar, die Potentiale der Mehrdimensionalität des Archivbegriffs in die Musikhistoriographie zu implementieren. An dieser Stelle setzt das geplante Symposium an, um dem Austausch zu den unterschiedlichen definitorischen Annäherungen an das Archiv und den methodischen Herangehensweisen im Umgang damit ein Forum zu eröffnen. Dabei sind die Bildung und Anwendbarkeit einschlägiger Theorien (Foucault, Derrida, Assmann etc.) ebenso von Interesse wie die musikalische, wissenschaftliche bzw. archivarische Praxis. Nicht zuletzt unter Berücksichtigung des Medienwandels in einer digitalisierten Welt möchten die Veranstalter:innen interdisziplinär diskutieren, wer oder was auf welchem Weg einen Platz im Archiv und, in Folge, in den Musikgeschichtebüchern und auf den Konzertbühnen findet. Weiterlesen … (PDF)

Michel-Pierre Chelini and Muriel Perisse (Univ. of Artois, France), Christine Noël-Lemaître (Univ. of Aix-Marseille, France), and Ciprian Panzaru (Univ. of Timisoara, Romania) (Web)

Time: 05.-06.10.2023
Venue: Catholic University of Paris
Proposals by: 15.06.2023

Wages are important and form 40% of global GDP. In advanced countries, they represent 50% of GDP, two-thirds of companies‘ added value and about as much of gross primary household income. They are increasing with economic development and on the planet, the importance of employees is increasing and reflects the gradual institutionalization of the labour market. In the choice of a profession for young people, the salary represents one of the elements of the decision, even if the latter takes into account other components such as the regional training offer, the cultural habits of the family, and the conditions of work. etc. Salaries and wages, which concern 80 to 90% of working people in advanced countries and 30 to 40% of those in emerging countries, are very diversified and generally organized in established or implicit salary grids with numerous classifications according to qualification, seniority and responsibilities and it is generally accepted that engineers, for example, are paid more than unskilled workers. However, this dispersion is increasingly questioned: between the upper and lower deciles (D9/D1) or percentiles (C99/C10), between juniors and seniors, and especially between men and women (from 5% to 35% depending on the country).
Although a large part of the gaps can be explained by differences in diplomas, jobs or working hours, this diversity questions the intellectual world and the society since the 19th century and the industrial revolution (Ricardo, Marx) as well as the contemporary public in its relationship to equality. In fact, is it a statistical dispersion with classic and identifiable biases or real and factual inequalities? The treatment and evaluation of this subject are not neutral and can direct societies towards turbulent dissatisfaction in the event of worsening inequalities or prepare the ground for a certain social appeasement in the case of wage remediation policy. Read more and source … (Web)