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• 15 avr 2010

  Dnipropetrovs'k

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Approaches to post-Soviet transformations

  Summer school in Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine)

  Two decades after the collapse of the USSR, evolutionary paths travelled by post-Soviet societies are spectacularly diverse - posing analytical challenges for social scientists. In the first post-Soviet years, these societies were expected to “Westernize” and so social transformations were supposedly transitional. Later, it became obvious that genuine evolution observed in the former USSR needed genuine analytical tools. Dramatic change exhibiting a strange (at times conflict-ridden) coexistence of transformation and continuity neither elicits comparison to “normal” social evolution, nor can it be explained as a chaotic or un-analysable specificity. The aim of the summer school is to discuss different approaches / concepts used to analyse post-Soviet transformations and to question their heuristic effectiveness. The Summer School is designed to be interdisciplinary and international.

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• 22 avr 2010

  Arles

  Conference, symposium - Urban studies

  Urban heritage in the Mediterranean

  Economic and social development

  L’Alliance de villes européennes de culture (AVEC), l’Union internationale des associations et organismes techniques (UATI, ONG de l’UNESCO), la ville d’Arles, l’Institut d’urbanisme et d’aménagement de l’université Paris IV-Sorbonne et le Pôle industries culturelles et patrimoines, avec le concours d’ICOMOS et le patronage de la commission nationale française pour l’UNESCO, organisent un atelier international intitulé : « Patrimoine urbain en Méditerranée : développement économique et social », le 22 et le 23 avril 2010, dans la salle des fêtes de la Ville d’Arles.

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