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• 20 jui 2012

  Warsaw

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Regions of Memory

  A comparative perspective on Eastern Europe

  Vis-à-vis the lasting memory boom now emerging as a global trend, we are asking then about regionally specific memory processes and research upon them in different parts of the globe. We welcome papers that answer one or more of the following questions: What kind of memory of mass violence accounts for regional specificity? What are the genealogies of collective and individual memories and forgetting related to mass violence in various regions? How and why do these images, narratives, and practices change and evolve? How do they influence the contemporary identity of a given region? And finally, how do scholars describe and interpret them? Do their concepts, categories and approaches follow the established Western patterns of memory studies?

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• 31 mai 2012

  Kraków

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  The attractiveness of small and medium towns

  Criteria, issues and strategies

  The aim of the conference is to present researches dealing with the issue of attractiveness of small and medium-sized towns, by scholars and stakeholders from various backgrounds (geographers, historians, economists, sociologists, spatial planers, etc.). This conference should favour exchanges and cross-analysis between methodological and epistemological works. Furthermore, the comparison will focus on functional relationships between secondary towns and rural areas. Those surrounding areas are also changing, sometimes more depopulated, sometimes more dynamic than urban centres: what are the position of small and medium towns, as "centres", "poles", "outposts"? What remains on inherited relationships in times of mobility, in sometimes fragile contexts (due to the demographical and economic aspects)? What is their place in changing urban networks?

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• 10 fév 2012

  Toruń

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Intercultural transmission of intellectual traditions in the Middle Ages and the early modern period: a comparative study

  An international team consisting of ten young researchers seeks five new collaborators to for a project entitled « Intercultural transmission of intellectual traditions in the Middle Ages and the early modern period: a comparative study ». The participants are expected to take part in two working symposia in Poland as well as to write a scholarly article in English dealing with a chosen case of intercultural transmission to be published in the collection of texts that is going to be the main result of the project. The participants will receive remuneration in the amount of 3500 PLN (approx. 1000 USD) together with reimbursement of their travel and accommodation during the symposia. PhD students in all disciplines of humanities are invited to submit their applications by 10 February 2012.

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