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  • Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

    Death and Migration: Perspectives from the Post-Soviet Space

    This dossier of Revue européenne des migrations internationales proposes to take up a research theme that has undergone a strong renewal of interest in recent years, that of death and migration. This dossier aims to shed light on an area which has been little studied from this angle (the post-Soviet space) and to develop an approach which focuses on the management of bodies 'dead in the distance' (deaths in migration, deaths due to migration). This dossier also focuses on the effects of a certain proximity to death on the practices of foresight and mutual aid (when they exist) in the migratory context, as well as their impacts on migration as a whole. Two thematic axes will guide the contributions: the first concerns the practical modalities of the management of dead bodies abroad; the second concerns mitigating and solidarity practices in relation to the proximity of death in migration.

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  • Call for papers - Early modern

    Logics, stakes and limits of cultural heritage transmission in Eurasia

    The thematic issue is about cultural heritage and patrimonialization. It aims at comparing the varying notions of “tradition” and “safeguarding of culture” within an empirical approach.We focus on conflicts about the creation of culture and how these globalised and specific contexts shape a changing self-perception of “ethnic identity” in Northern Asia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe.The articles may be on local as well as global expressions of cultural heritage: poetical genre, engraving or wood carving, architecture, ethno-parks or ecomuseums, cultural tourism, opposition to projects of valorization, etc. Analysis may also focus on the role of actors involved in local projects, on historical contexts or on international fashions.

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  • Grenoble

    Call for papers - Europe

    The Russian Empire, USSR and post-Soviet world in contact with other cultural places

    Methodological and epistemological stakes

    Le GDR « Empire russe, URSS, monde post-soviétique » est né début 2019. Il a vocation à mettre en réseau les chercheurs français en sciences humaines et sociales travaillant sur l’Empire russe, l’URSS et le monde post-soviétique, dispersés sur l’ensemble du territoire, et à soutenir les étudiants et les jeunes docteurs s’engageant dans des travaux sur cette aire. Il souhaite aussi donner de la visibilité aux travaux portant sur cet espace et renforcer le dialogue interdisciplinaire avec les chercheurs français travaillant sur d’autres espaces.

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - Europe

    Picturing the margins

    Peripheries, Minorities and Taboos in the films of Marcel Łoziński, Pál Schiffer and Želimir Žilnik

    The international conference bears a transdisciplinary outlook as it cross-references a variety of scientific fields (history of cinema, aesthetics, philosophy, history, political science, anthropology, sociology, etc.). A film retrospective of documentary films will be held at the Cinémathèque du documentaire (Centre Pompidou, Paris), as well as screenings followed by debates and panel discussions at Inalco in the presence of the filmmakers Marcel Łoziński and Želimir Žilnik.

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  • Toulouse

    Call for papers - Europe

    Culture of Power, Power of Culture

    Circulation of Knowledge in the Baltic Sea Region From the Middle Age to the early 20th century

    After a first edition around the theme "Education, pedagogy and training" held on March 5, 2020, we are pleased to announce that a second edition of the study day, "Circulation of knowledge around the Baltic Sea Region from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century" will be held. It will be held in Toulouse on Thursday 4 March 2021 and will be based on the theme : "Culture of power, power of culture. "This day is part of a desire to meet around a geographical area, the Baltic Sea Region (Northern Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden) in order to exchange between researchers and to highlight their work. It is aimed at both young Masters and more experienced researchers.

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - History

    Televising the socialist body

    Projections of health and welfare on the socialist and post-socialist screen

    Bodies and health on television have not been extensively researched, in particular in the socialist and transition to market-economy contexts.The conference seeks to analyse how television and its evolving formats –contemporary, similar and yet differing in national broadcast contexts– expressed and staged bodies and health from local, regional, national and international perspectives. The conference seeks to better understand the role that TV, as a modern visual mass media, has played in what may be cast as the transition from a national bio-political public health paradigm at the beginning of the twentieth century, to alternative societal forms of the late twentieth century when (supposedly) “better” and “healthier” lives were increasingly shaped by market forces.

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  • Lisbon

    Call for papers - Geography

    Post-soviet diaspora(s) in Western Europe (1991-2017)

    Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, millions of former soviet citizens crossed the national borders in search of better lives in new countries, in what was the biggest migration tide since the end of World War II. These Post-Soviet migrants were diverse in origins, strategies and expectations. They often represented a challenge to the orthodox views of migration processes, since in most cases these flows could not be easily described and analysed following commonly accepted theoretical frameworks. Everybody seemed to be on the move: labour migrants, political refugees, cross-border traders, “tourists” planning to forget their return... and in a short period, they spread all over Western Europe.

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  • Vienna

    Call for papers - Modern

    Border Textures: Interwoven Practices and Discursive Fabrics of Borders

    2nd World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies - Panel

    In view of the current political developments in Europe, the scientific study of borders has increasingly gained importance. Cultural Studies has reacted to these developments by generating complex and more and more detailed theories and tools for describing and analyzing border phenomena. Cultural border studies champion approaches which do not examine spatial, material, temporal or cultural aspects in isolation but investigate their intersectional and performative interactions. This panel provides a space for explorative investigation of potential approaches for cultural border studies, focusing on interactions between material and immaterial manifestations of the border.

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  • Vienna

    Call for papers - Geography

    What is Border Studies?

    2nd World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies - Panel

    The societal events of the last decade have challenged Border Studies more than ever before. This can be seen not only in the field’s growing institutionalisation but also in its developments in research: these include the relativization of geopolitical perspectives by cultural studies approaches, the spatialisation of the border concept (e.g. zone, third space, exter/internalisation etc.), the decentralisation of the border in favour of processes (e.g. b/ordering, othering etc.), the pluralisation of the border concept (e.g. walls, differences, (dis)continuities, demarcations) or the complexification of the border (e.g. scapes, textures). The panel is treating these developments and other turns as an opportunity for a long-overdue self-examination, which in the light of the resurgence of borders seems necessary from both a societal and scientific perspective.

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  • Bucharest

    Call for papers - Europe

    Violence toward women in Central and Eastern European countries. Zero tolerance

    Dans un contexte mondial de crise économique et financière, mais aussi politique et idéologique, force est de constater le ralentissement des progrès en faveur de l’égalité femme-homme et des droits fondamentaux des femmes et des filles, et parfois même leur remise en cause. Des avancées importantes ont été réalisées et les filles de même que les femmes accèdent de plus en plus à l’éducation et à l’emploi, aux services de santé et aux espaces de décisions. Pourtant, la majorité des femmes continuent de subir des discriminations dans tous les domaines : économique, politique et social. En dépit de nombreuses avancées juridiques, leurs droits ne sont pas toujours respectés. Les violences faites aux femmes et aux filles sont un fléau intolérable qui continue de toucher une femme sur sept dans le monde.

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  • Sofia

    Call for papers - Political studies

    Political corruption scandals and civil society in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe

    Medias, whistleblowers and civic organisations

    Les scandales de corruption marquent par leur fréquence la vie politique des nouvelles démocraties en Europe centrale et orientale et représentent une caractéristique importante des scènes médiatiques et politiques. La révélation et la dénonciation de très nombreuses « affaires » ou des « gates », comme le langage populaire et journalistique les dénomme souvent, déferlent régulièrement dans l’espace public et attisent les attitudes contestataires et protestataires vis-à-vis des institutions, des élites et des partis politiques. Cependant, la question se pose sur les spécificités des scandales de corruption dans les nouvelles démocraties, pendant ou après des processus de transitions démocratiques. Quel est le rôle des dénonciations dans ces contextes spécifiques ? Que révèlent ces phénomènes des évolutions des sociétés, des valeurs et des régimes politiques ?

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  • Bucharest

    Call for papers - Europe

    Language(s), discourse and translation

    Quantification / approximation and nominal groups: trees and forests

    La journée se propose de réunir des linguistes intéressés par les différents aspects de la quantification et de l’approximation, si ce n’est par l’interface entre les deux problématiques, tant dans la sphère du groupe nominal (GN), que par l’intermédiaire de GN (intégrés à des syntagmes adverbiaux à portée émargeant éventuellement le domaine du GN : adverbiaux qui quantifient sur le temps ou sur les événements, approximateurs en tous genres, à portée y compris nominale). Nous employons à bon escient le terme de groupe nominal pour ce qu’il a de vague, en référence à l’analyse en constituants immédiats (syntagme déterminant (SD) à tête fonctionnelle D vs syntagme nominal SN à spécificateur SD).

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - Modern

    Socialist Masculinities

    Men in Eastern Europe – Ruptures, Transformations, and Continuities in the 20th Century

    Our main objectives are to reconsider the state of the art and discuss new ways for writing a history of masculinities under socialism. The central questions of the workshop are: Which role were men and fathers to play in the construction of a “new” socialist family? How where masculinities transformed in socialist movements and state-socialist countries? The workshop is interested, on the one hand, in the ideologies and the utopian reflexions of the place of men in a future communist society. On the other hand, it aims at questioning the everyday life of socialist men and fathers, as well as the everyday life of men and fathers living under socialism.

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  • Istanbul

    Call for papers - Modern

    The making of cultural policies

    Trans-Acting Matters: Areas and Eras of a (Post-)Ottoman Globalization

    This workshop takes place in the framework of the research project “Trans-Acting Matters: Areas and Eras of a (Post-)Ottoman Globalization”. It aims to analyse the making of cultural policies and actions in Turkey and the post-ottoman spaces. We wish to question the ways in which the circulations participate in the construction of cultural policies today as well as to rethink the earlier cultural policies and actions from the late Ottoman Empire onwards. The workshop attempts to question the co-production of cultural policies, of their spaces and territories, as well as the plurality of the conceptions of culture carried by cultural policies. The workshop will focus on the phenomena of hybridity, of connections, and associations of various actors which co-produce original forms of cultural policies.

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  • Lyon

    Call for papers - Political studies

    The Ukranian political space

    Conflicts and recompositions

    Le colloque international « L'espace politique ukrainien : Conflits et recompositions » vise à étudier les conflits et les recompositions qui ont lieu en Ukraine contemporaine dans leur complexité. Une perspective interdisciplinaire adoptée permet de faire dialoguer les approches politique, historique, économique, linguistique, sociologique et communicationnelle autour des concepts d’identité, d’espace public et d’équilibre géopolitique régional.

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  • Frankfurt (Oder) | Słubice

    Call for papers - Political studies

    Phantom Borders in the Political Behaviour and Electoral Geography in East Central Europe

    We understand phantom borders as political borders, which politically/legally do not exist anymore but seem to appear in different forms and modes of social action and practices today, as for example voting as one part of political behaviour. The conference deals with historical borders, made visible in discourses and maps concerning political behavior, as for instance in electoral maps. Our aim is to challenge the historical interrelation of current political behaviour, the involvement of geopolitical images, internal as external governance contexts and transnational networks for (re)constructing historical borders as phantom borders. We are interested in case studies especially about East Central Europe, but also in studies from all over the world combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, addressing the main questions of the conference. Case studies may address different levels and scales from local to transnational.

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  • Guyancourt

    Call for papers - Modern

    Globalisation and Minor Cultural Groups

    The role of so-called minority people in rethinking the future of modern societies

    Minority groups, whose way of life has historically suffered from globalization, are often cited as victims of global processes, but they are rarely studied for the techniques or technologies of accommodation and resistance they have implemented as a response to global processes— the most devastating of these processes being colonization in its various aspects. Indeed, globalist literature does not yet offer a conceptualization or theorizing of the social, cultural, political and territorial continuity of “minorized” cultures, let alone does it afford enough analytical space to these so-called cultural minorities in the process of questioning the values and practices of globalization. Therefore, this conference will participate in building more connections between different experiences  in order to think up the best alternatives to the global economic and political system in place and to the way of life brought about by global phenomena which do not work anymore. 

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  • Bucharest

    Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

    Everyday life under communism. History, memory, oblivion.

    Le Musée du Paysan Roumain est à la recherche de contributions pour son prochain numéro de la revue Martor 17/2012. Le thème du numéro est « La vie quotidienne pendant le communisme. Histoire, mémoire, oubli ». Martor est une revue académique fondée en 1996, qui s’intéresse à l’anthropologie sociale et à la muséologie. Pour plus d’informations, vous pouvez consulter le site web de la revue : http://martor.memoria.ro/?location=archive&action=details&id=6

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  • Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

    Summer school at the Franco-Russian Studies Centre in Moscow

    Cette année, le Centre d’études franco-russe de Moscou organise son école d’été avec nos collègues de l’Université orientale d’économie, de droit et de sciences humaines (VEGU, Oufa) et de l’Institut des sciences du social de Bachkirie (BIST, Oufa), du 16 au 19 juillet 2011. Les candidatures doivent être adressées par email avant le 15 mai ; tous les détails dans le document ci-joint.

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  • Call for papers - Sociology

    Police Brutality & Police Reform in Russia and the Post-Soviet Republics

    Call for Contributors – Pipss.org

    Having in 2005 published a first issue on transformations in the police in post-communist Europe (http://pipss.revues.org/index271.html), Pipss would now like to return to the subject of the police in Russia and other ex-USSR republics, by presenting recent research from a sociological, anthropological and historical point of view on problems the institution is currently facing, with emphasis on corruption and police violence, sociology of police staff and an analysis of current reforms.

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