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Montpellier
5th International "Language and Territory" Colloquium
This multidisciplinary colloquium will discuss the different ways that languages and territories are linked, and will show the political, social and economic stakes that arise from the relationships between them. Above all, these terms refer to men and women with their social practices and representations, at the core of the logic of territoriality. New territories give rise to new language practices, which, in turn, create new spaces, discourse and meaning. The "boundaries" we draw between languages and territories are permeable in time and space, depending on factors such as population displacement, language policies, linguistic and social representations, education, mass media and socio-cultural values.
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Genoa
MemWar. Memory and forgetting of war and trauma in the 20th century
Le XXIe siècle nait de l’histoire tourmentée du XXe, avec ses deux guerres mondiales et les autres conflits de dimension européenne, comme la Guerre civile espagnole. Ce colloque, organisé par le groupe de recherche « MemWar. Mémoires et oublis des guerres et des traumatismes du XXe siècle » du Département de Langues et cultures modernes de l’Université de Gênes, vise à analyser les modalités de transmission mémorielle de ces conflits au XXIe siècle, les représentations de ces derniers, les points aveugles et/ou obscurs de ce processus mémoriel, y compris dans une optique critique (Ricoeur, 2003) et, enfin, comment se développent les rapports de force entre discours officiel et contre-discours.
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Venice
European ways of inciting and containing armed conflict, 1648-2020
The history of Europe is as much about violence and divisions – including religious wars, national clashes and ideological conflicts – as it is about shared cultural, social and economic accomplishments. If war has been such a constant presence in the history unfolding on the continent, the incessant efforts to limit its destructiveness are also an undeniable fact. It was such efforts that eventually led to the birth of Jus ad bellum and, ultimately, laid down the foundations of modern international law. From such a viewpoint, one might even find another definition of what European history might be. Some scholars have suggested that if war has structured a common European space, the containment of violence and the art of peacemaking have constituted ‘Europe’ in thought and practice.
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Lisbon
Breaking boundaries: academia, activism and the arts
The international conference Breaking Boundaries: Academia, Activism and the Arts proposes to bring into focus and critically question common grounds and boundaries between and within the Humanities, political activity and aesthetic production.At a time when boundaries are simultaneously questioned and reinforced – for example between geographical territories, political states, public and private spheres, gendered bodies, creative media, theory and practice, local and global, human, non-human and post-human – the question of what such frontiers stand for, and how and why they might be transgressed offers itself for and, indeed, urges discussion.
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Peterborough
Call for papers - Representation
Le prochain numéro de la revue GenObs portera sur le Témoignage et la résistance dans le cadre de violences extrêmes (génocides, crimes contre l'humanité, crimes de masse), sur les liens que ces deux activités peuvent partager, les modalités et les visages avec lesquels ils se manifestent avant, pendant, voire après les violences et comment ils sont perçus, lors de leur émergence, parfois avec un fort décalage temporel grâce, entre autres, aux archives. Comment la mémoire et le témoignage se donnent-ils lorsque l’on pose la question de la résistance ou comment la résistance se manifeste-t-elle dès lors qu’elle advient dans un cadre testimonial non seulement lors de commémorations, mais également lors de procès, de productions cinématographiques, d'œuvres d'art, etc.?
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Bragance
Politically incorrect - does the world belong to polyglots?
3rd international conference of foreign languages
Ce colloque interroge la tendance monolinguistique et uniformatrice contrariant l'idée d'un monde global de toutes les langues et de toutes les cultures. Cette idée sera la prémisse principale qui conduira les débats, idée qui entend également que l’apprentissage d’une variété de langues étrangères peut ouvrir la porte au dialogue, dépasser les frontières et enrichir les cultures. Dans le monde actuel qui affirme les frontières et réaffirme les identités pour dépasser la déconnexion et l’incommunicabilité, nous croyons au polyglottisme naturel des espaces frontaliers, au cosmopolisme culturel séculier et à leur porosité.
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Prague
Collective Identities and Post-War Violence in Europe 1944–1948
The conference will analyze the composition of nationalities (who belonged to the national community?), the legitimizing function of nationalism, and its relation to acts of violence at the end of war and to the reshaping of postwar societies. At the same time, we want to address the differences between countries. How did a specific occupation policy in a specific place, with its specific national and racist criteria, influence the “responses” of the occupied society? Is there any evidence of a biological understanding of nationhood? How did competing concepts shape a new understanding of the “nation”—particularly taking into consideration the different political and cultural developments in various nation-states after the war ended? We are interested in papers that touch upon violent acts occurring at the end of World War II and stemming from nationalism as reshaped by previous war experiences.
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Call for papers - Representation
Struggle for recognition: identity-formation and subjectivation
The theme of the conference is “Struggle for recognition: identity-formation and subjectivation”. The struggle of recognition has emerged, in the recent years, as a powerful paradigm. It is at the intersection of different areas of the human sciences: philosophy, gender studies, critical theory, discourse analysis, literature, etc. It is widely associated with the works of Axel Honneth, Nancy Fraser, Charles Taylor, Paul Ricoeur, to name just a few prominent figureheads. We aim to bring together scholars and graduates researching the intersections of linguistics, cultural and literary studies with a particular focus on identity discourses, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, diaspora and diasporic discourses, cultural images and imagology, and various ways of struggling for recognition and subjectivation.
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Mental health in Africa and among the diaspora - where are we?
Nouvelles dynamiques africaines (NDA) journal
Nouvelles Dynamiques Africaines (NDA) est une revue pluridisciplinaire axée sur l’expertise et disponible sur le site des éditions L'Harmattan. Nous sollicitons votre collaboration pour la parution du quatrième numéro de la revue, prévue en avril 2019. Consacré à la santé mentale en Afrique et dans la diaspora, il fera état des spécificités de la pratique récente et actualisée des disciplines de la santé mentale dans le contexte socio-anthropologique du continent africain et de sa diaspora. Le deuxième volet proposera des essais d'élaborations analytiques des répercussions du climat socio-politico-économique africain sur la santé mentale des populations.
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Sibiu
Instances of power and cultural discourse
Intercultural exchange in the age of globalization, second edition
In the context of today’s social, political and economic changes, power is one of the governing principles of culture. Power comes in many shapes and sizes and it manifests itself under various forms: it can be tyrannical or a combination of forces (Foucault); it can be charismatic, traditional and rational (Weber) or the opposite – manipulative; it can also appear as a system of diluted forces that spring from the “social field” (Bourdieu); it can remain in the unconscious or it can manifest itself in the speech act. However it may appear, it has become clear that power shapes the course of the creation, interpretation and analysis of literary texts and other cultural products.
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Geneva
Divided memories, shared memories: Poland, Russia, Ukraine
History mirrored in literature and cinema
In Central and Eastern European countries, memorial questions appeared right after the demise of the communist regimes in 1989–1991, revealing long-denied processes. The phenomenon of the rise of repressed memories along with the rewriting of history, and the political uses of the past are noticeable in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine, three countries whose histories are as often shared as their memories are divided. The “memory wars” in which these three states have sometimes been engaged since the end of the 1980s have been the subject of an abundant historiography.
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The French Empire and the Great War
Revue internationale des francophonies journal
La Revue internationale des francophonies souhaite évoquer les 600 000 ressortissants de l’ex-Empire français ayant combattu en 1914-1918. Nous espérons un tour d’horizon le plus large possible sur le rôle composite des colonies dans l’effort de guerre, avec l’espoir de tracer des lignes de fuite vers la francophonie actuelle. Nous nous concentrerons sur l’émergence d’une communauté de destin entre des peuples éloignés entre eux par la géographie, la culture ou la religion. Le deuxième axe se veut une mise en perspective francophone à la fois historique et mémorielle en jaugeant l’impact du conflit sur les sociétés d’origine. Enfin, on doit sonder les mutations considérables de l’entre-deux-guerres et la montée en puissance de l’anticolonialisme en relation avec l’expérience de la guerre.
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Geneva
Educative communities - training and practices in the context of diversity
Les communautés éducatives doivent faire face aujourd'hui à un contexte préoccupant de guerres, d'insécurités et de crises humanitaires. Ce contexte conduit à l’arrivée dans les écoles d’enfants de demandeurs d'asile et de mineurs non accompagnés souvent déscolarisés. Le projet de ces nouvelles rencontres du réseau international éducation et diversité (RIED) est de se focaliser sur ces thématiques qui intéressent ou préoccupent les acteurs éducatifs et qui appellent des pistes de réponse. Dès lors, les travaux du colloque s'articuleront autour de cinq axes thématiques identifiés comme porteurs de « questions vives » dans le paysage éducatif des contextes francophones concernés.
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Montreal
Music and post-war aftermaths, 19th-21st centuries - Music and Nation III
Musique et nation III
Ce colloque envisage le rôle et la place de la musique dans les périodes de « sorties de guerres », pendant lesquelles les traces des conflictualités peuvent être envisagées sous quatre angles : la réouverture des frontières et du retour des soldats, des prisonniers et des exilés ; la recomposition de l’image de l’ennemi ; la mémoire des conflits et la « démobilisation culturelle ». Le transfert des problématiques associées à la notion de « sortie de guerre » dans le champ musical fait émerger un champ d’investigation situé à l’intersection de quatre domaines : celui des relations entre musique et culture de guerre ; celui de la dimension commémorative de la musique ; celui des migrations et de l’exil ; celui enfin des liens entre musique, diplomatie culturelle et propagande. Toutes les sorties de conflits, froids ou chauds, qui ont scandé l’actualité pourront être abordés, ainsi que tout type de musique.
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Algiers
"The Balfour Declaration" : What centenary
In order to address this notorious Declaration, we propose a debate on the historical, political and geostrategic circumstances that led to the Balfour Declaration, and how practical politics influences the making of Britain’s foreign policy. The Balfour Declaration and its ramifications at the local and global levels could be tackled with reference to a myriad of theoretical frameworks such as the postcolonial/political theory, new historicism, ethnography, to name but a few.
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Metz
Art and research relating to the visible and invisible traces of conflicts - interdisciplinary and inter-artistic approaches to war heritag
This symposium is part of the research project “landscape(s) of the strange. On visible and invisible traces of a regional heritage in transformation. Artistic and theoretical (re)-constructions of a cross-border history marked by major conflicts” started in 2016. To begin with, the project approached the notion of “trace” or “mark” in its material (heritage, architecture, vegetation) and immaterial (memory, culture) dimensions, especially those related to the concrete landscape of Lorraine which bears the mark of a conflictual history opposing Frenchmen and Germans, especially during the two World Wars.
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Call for papers - Representation
Resistance - an emancipatory force for existence?
La revue Influxus lance un appel à contributions relatif à la notion de « résistance » dans le domaine de l'art, de l'histoire, de la littérature, de la musique, de la sociologie et de la philosophie, en s'interrogeant plus spécifiquement sur la relation entre résistance et émancipation.
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Berlin
A Realm of Memory of the Cold War
Whether or not “the entire world” was looking at Berlin, as Reuter asserted, is one of the central questions to be addressed at our conference. Starting from the “frontline city” of Berlin, we will cast our glance to West Germany and its neighboring countries in order not only to frame the Berlin Airlift as a transnational memorial of the Cold War, but also to address, from outside, the question of whether Berlin was really the international focus of the East-West conflict back then, as the press and academia so often portray it.
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The fictions of terrorism in the French-speaking space
Alternative francophone journal vol. 2, no.1
Il n’y a pas d’inventeurs du terrorisme ; l’invention est dans le terrorisme. Le terrorisme cherche le spectaculaire. Il veut, littéralement, parler aux yeux et frapper l’imagination. De l’antiquité à l’époque moderne, la réalisation d’actes imprévisibles et spectaculaires visant à instaurer des transformations importantes a précédé l’appellation terrorisme : tyrannicides, assassinats systématiques des ennemis politiques lors de la révolte des Zélotes en 66-73 apr. J.-C., Haschischins dans la Syrie des XIe-XIIIe siècles, conspirationnistes du XIXe, anarchistes du début du XXe siècle... Mais dès qu’il s’est agi d’élargir l’impact de l’acte commis par sa communication, les mises en scènes de l’acte de terreur ont redoublé d’imagination.
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Valenciennes | Kortrijk
To reconcile and to reincorporate
Discourse, ceremonies and practices in and beyond the Iberic Monarchies
In recent years historiography has been slowly acknowledging the potential of civil societies to restore concord after profound divisions. It also has uncovered the pacification strategies of authorities to reconcile and reincorporate individuals and social groups after periods of contestation and revolt. These complex processes are crucial to better understand the history of the Iberic monarchies, which have been able to develop a long-term government despite many crises of different origin and outlook. Hence, this conference will be focused on the themes of reconciliation and reincorporation from following four perspectives: Words, discourses and emotions (semantics and sentiments), Negotiating reconciliation (promotors and strategies), Making reconciliation work (agents and mediators, processes and forms), In the margin of reconciliations (the undecided and excluded)
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