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• 01 déc 2009

  Ghent

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Neighbourhood and urban government in Western cities, from the Early Modern period to present

  Tenth International Conference on Urban History

  Les politiques urbaines ont aujourd’hui tendance à se centrer sur le quartier comme unité d’intervention ; celui-ci est ainsi souvent perçu comme le principe organisateur du développement social urbain. En cherchant à renforcer la présence des centres sociaux, des conseils de quartier, en développant la police de proximité et en encourageant les citadins à s’organiser autour de projets comme le « neighbourhood watch », les autorités locales entendent améliorer la qualité de vie urbaine et consolider la cohésion sociale. Ce faisant, les concepteurs des politiques publiques reprennent à leur compte la notion de quartier, telle qu’elle a été définie par les sciences sociales – unité socio-spatiale cohérente – et espèrent pouvoir à leur tour susciter le développement du lien social dans la ville. Ces politiques posent dès lors la question de la nature même du « quartier », entre concept administratif lié à un projet politique et unité urbaine mouvante, informelle et extrêmement personnelle telle qu’elle est vécue par les usagers.

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• 01 déc 2009

  Ghent

  Call for papers - History

  Migrant Communities and Urban Space in the Mediterranean ports, 17th-19th centuries

  Tenth International Conference on urban History, Ghent 1st-4th September 2010

  Recent research on migrant communities has witnessed a clear shift towards a more sophisticated understanding of the variety of bonds that link minority groups to the society they live in, as well as to their places of origins. Yet, when it comes to the understanding of past migrations, historical discourse still depends in many ways on traditional categories of analysis, that often poorly reflect the profound originality of the situations under study. This session is an attempt to challenge traditional and “ready-to-go” views on the organization of community life among migrants who lived in the Mediterranean port-cities during the late modern period (17th to 19th centuries).

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• 18 avr 2009

  Ghent

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Sensing Masculinity. Thinking about the Masculine Body

  CFP – Social science history conference – Ghent, 13-16 April 2010

  Thinking about representations of and discourses surrounding the male body usually entails thinking about the visible or tangible body. Studies concerning the history, sociology or anthropology of men’s bodies tend to focus on esthetical ideals (such as the muscular look), the ability to inflict or experience pain (most notably in times of war) or to give or experience pleasure (within or outside the hetero-normative bedroom). This CFP is an invitation to think about the masculine body once again, and to think beyond ‘seeing’ and ‘feeling’ as the only means to experience, analyse or represent bodies.

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• 01 mai 2009

  Ghent

  Call for papers - Religion

  Network Religion

  European Social Science History Conference 2010

  This is a call for papers for the Network Religion of the next European Social Science History Conference, which will take place at the beautiful Bijloke Site in Ghent, Belgium, from 13 to 16 April 2010. The aim of the ESSHC is bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions. The conference welcomes papers and sessions on any historical topic and any historical period. It is organized in 28 networks, which cover a certain topic, on of these being Religion.

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