Conferences and workshops

In this edition of the Symposium Cumanum, we hope first to shine some retrospective light on the rich vein of scholarship that enhanced our understanding of these parallels. We seek to uncover further links between Vergil and texts written in Greek, including the position that the poet’s early relationship with Philodemus is fundamental to his work.

Following on from the ANR AgroCCol project and the 'Cultivation in Antiquity' study day organised at the École française de Rome on 9 January 2024, the study of Columella's work, the agronomic tradition and, more broadly, the Roman didactic tradition (encyclopaedic, veterinary, medical, etc.) will be continued.The approach will focus on the gender norms advocated in these treatises, offering a new perspective on these texts.

This conference will examine South Vietnam between 1945 and 1975 as a political laboratory, characterised by experiments, rivalries, alliances and competitions in the pursuit of power and the realisation of autonomist or independence projects. A historically dynamic region in economic, ethnic and cultural terms, South Vietnam is home to diverse populations and heritages, including the Cam,

Esoteric ritual or ceremonial discourse forms are widely encountered among the Indigenous peoples ofSouth and Central America, and often differ markedly from everyday speech in their delivery (e.g. chant orsong), discursive structure, lexicon, and grammar. These discursive variations have important implicationsfor our understanding of the South/Central American linguistic landscape and its cultural and historicalcontexts, as well as for a deeper appreciation of Indigenous approaches to verbal art. This workshopexplores these esoteric discourse forms and the dynamics of linguistic manipulation that they exhibit, withan eye to understanding the structure and sources of deviant forms, their aesthetic and enactive functions,their relevance to processes of contact and change, and other considerations.

This scientific event will focus on the notion of agentivity, understood as the "power to act". It will analyse individual choices in a constrained context, taking into account the influence of social structures on agency. A feminist approach will focus on women's forms of resistance in the face of multiple oppressions, and the spaces and modalities in which this resistance is exercised, both at the individual and collective level.

The workshop is to bring together established and young scholars from political philosophy and political theory on the question of how to respond to the contemporary challenges Western democracies are facing.

This research workshop is organised by Alberto Frigo (Università degli Studi di Milano), visiting researcher at the Collegium as part of his collaboration with IHRIM and Labex COMOD.

This workshop is co-organized by the Hub “Post-Western Sociology” and Research Field “Policies of Knowledge” of the Triangle laboratory.