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• 03 déc 2011

  Geneva

  Study days - History

  Uses of the world and photography. Crossed perspectives on the work of Fred Boissonnas

  Le département de géographie de l'Université de Genève organise une journée d'étude interdisciplinaire consacrée à l'œuvre du photographe Fred Boissonnas (1858-1946), l'un des acteurs majeurs de l’histoire de la photographie en Suisse. En croisant les approches, les savoirs, les points de vue, il s’agit de mettre en lumière la complexité et la richesse de la carrière de ce photographe-voyageur et éditeur, ses influences en Suisse et à l'étranger, et son héritage. L’étude de son œuvre permet de s'interroger sur le développement de l’usage de la photographie dans les sociétés européennes entre 1880 et 1930, comme art mais aussi comme moyen de communication pour appréhender l’ailleurs, le passé, et construire des identités tant locales que nationales.

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• 10 jui 2011

  Geneva

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  Six-month research internship, HEC Geneva

  We are offering a research internship for a master-level student in management or sociology for 6 month (September-February) at the university of Geneva, in the HEC department.We are currently conducting a study on corporate alumni networks; this research project is funded by the SNF (Swiss National Fund for research) and is led by Pr. Emmanuel Josserand, HEC, University of Geneva.

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• 06 sep 2011	07 sep 2011	08 sep 2011
  09 aoû 2011

  Geneva | Grenoble

  Conference, symposium - Geography

  The mobile borders

  Bien que leur mort, ainsi que celle des territoires, ait été annoncée au début des années 1990, les frontières constituent toujours une réalité prégnante. Elles sont marquées toutefois par les processus constants de déterritorialisation / reterritorialisation et d’ouverture / fermeture (« debordering / rebordering ») qui les sélectionnent, les re-hiérarchisent mais aussi qui les rendent plus diverses dans leurs formes et leurs matérialisations. Ainsi, l’inscription spatiale de la frontière est de plus en plus difficile à définir, ce qui constituera le cœur du questionnement de notre colloque. Différentes tendances sont en effet à l’œuvre, qui produisent des frontières plus mouvantes, plus ouvertes ou plus floues.

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• 15 aoû 2011

  Geneva

  Call for papers - Economy

  Informal economy, vulnerabilities and employment

  The central objective of this conference is to provide a state of the heart of academic research on the substantive performance of informal economic units in the construction of their territory. It means that it intends to (1) highlight the inner socioeconomic logics developed by informal economy units, (2) provide a better understanding of socioeconomic practices to manage risk across the life course and fight vulnerabilities at individual, family and collective levels, (3) analyze the interaction between public policies and informal practices and (4) analyze how securization practices within the informal economy participate to the construction of a given territory (of its markets, of potential social services, social protection mechanisms, and of its public sphere). It will provide a new knowledge of specific mechanisms of coordination, reproduction, surplus allocation and securization which are characterizing individual/family and collective/associative organizations from the informal economy.

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• 15 jui 2011

  Geneva

  Call for papers - History

  Antifascism as a Practice and as a Discourse

  Western Europe / Eastern Europe

  Le but de cette table ronde est de retravailler sur l'antifascisme en mettant en évidence les ruptures et les continuités entre l’antifascisme de la période 1920-1940, expression et pratique politique plurielle, impliquant des acteurs divers et les usages discursifs qui en ont été faits par les régimes communistes. L’antifascisme se diversifie dans le temps et sa définition varie en fonction des programmes politiques ou du répertoire d'action collective mobilisé.

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• 01 avr 2011

  02 avr 2011

  Geneva

  Conference, symposium - History

  Historical Development of National Systems of Elite Formation in Eastern and Central Europe

  This workshop is bringing together specialists from mostly Eastern Europe together with some West European partners, capable and liable of sharing their localised research expertise in the study of the birth and initial development of national systems of elite training in a number of (mostly but not exclusively) small East Central European societies. All of them have very concrete empirical research agendas and records in these fields, but separately, applied to their own national societies. The idea of the meeting is born from the need of and the interest in comparing – in many thematic issues term by term – research findings, insights and questions gained from studies of the training, career and activities of various East European elite groups during the decades up to the Soviet take-over.

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• 15 mar 2011

  Geneva | Grenoble

  Call for papers - Geography

  Mobile Borders

  XIth "Border Regions in Transition" (BRIT) Conference

  First call for papers and pannel sessions "Border regions in transition (BRIT) XI": "The Mobile Borders" with special sessions on African and Alpine borders. September 6-9, 2011 Geneva, Switzerland/ Grenoble, France. Co-hosted by the Geography Department, University of Geneva and the Alpine Geography Institute, University Joseph Fourier-Grenoble I / CNRS unit : UMR Pacte.

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