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• 30 aoû 2007

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Thought

  Beyond Signification. The Return of Reality and the Crisis of Poststructuralism

  Graduate Conference Philosophy FU BERLIN

  Today a growing number of people in the Humanities suggest that the times of poststructuralism have come to an end. According to them we concentrated on symbols, signs and discourse for far too long. Did we not thereby forget the reality of things? How do we account for the materiality of media, experiments, and writing? What happened to reality, substantiality and presence? This conference aims at discussing contemporary criticism of poststructuralism, its historical conditions, its impact on the present, and its implications for the future. Does poststructuralism really fail to acknowledge reality? How do we evaluate the emerging new theories that challenge poststructuralism?

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• 18 mai 2007

  19 mai 2007

  Tartu

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  Anthropologie et sémiotique des camps et des déportations

  L´expérience et la narration

  Dans ce colloque on entend mettre l´accent sur des éléments centraux tels que : le rapport entre l’expérience (insaisissable en soi) et la narration (une forme de codification qui se dépose dans l’écrit, le visuel, le filmique, etc.), l’acte de parole individuelle et la représentation d’une collectivité, l’impersonnalité de la narration transparente et objective et la charge des émotions et de la souffrance, la communication des faits vécus et l’indicibilité du mal, la perte et la récupération de l’identité individuelle du narrateur-témoin, le rôle joué par le filtre de la mémoire, les lieux stratégiques des récits des camps (par ex. l’incipit et l’excipit) et la spécificité de la matière narrative, etc. La codification sémiotique des événements est évidemment importante afin de saisir le cours même de l’histoire. Du point de vue anthropologique, la question centrale est de réfléchir sur la manière dont les formes d’humanité (et de non-humanité) sont conçues, hiérarchisées, imposées, tolérées.

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• 30 jui 2007

  Tunis

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Regional Architecture and Identity in globalized World

  Regional Architecture and modernization

  It i s evident that under strong globalization trends, regional identities did not disappear. On the contrary, they have tenaciously continued to express themselves urbanisitically, architecturally, and behaviorally. The conference intends to use this proposition as a point of departure to explore and examine the various discourses regarding regionalism, globalization and their impact on the built environment. Questions to be asked and issues to be considered include: regional architecture and how it is being (re)defined, interaction(s) between the regional and the global, the intersection between colonial past and contemporary architectural productions, the regional dynamics of architectural/cultural flows, the trends of regionalism and how they coexist, compete or contradict with the process of globalization, the role of architecture in connecting people and cultures across geographical and chronological boundaries, the role of the state in promoting/ constructing various types of cultural identities, bridging the gab between Regionalism and Modernization, how regional architecture can surmount the limitations of constant forms of the past, to what level features of contemporary urban developments respond more to global (economic) conditions than to local or national ones, to what extent regionalism accept other regions traditions and incorporate and integrate new technological, and environmental inventions.

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• 12 jan 2007

  London

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Glances on tourist’s Identities, North and South

  Appel à communication du Panel "Glances on tourist's identities, North and South" organisé par Bertrand Réau et Xavier Zunigo dans le cadre du colloque "Thinking through Tourism" de l'ASA qui aura lieu du 10 au 13 avril 2007 à Londres.

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• 12 jan 2007

  City of London

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Tourism and Politics in transitional Societies

  Colloque de l'ASA

  Appel à communication du Panel "Tourism and Polictis in Transitional Societies" organisé par Saskia Cousin, Caroline Legrand et Pal Nyiri dans le cadre du colloque "Thinking through Tourism" de l'ASA. Les communications sont à renvoyer pour le 12 janvier.

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