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• 15 nov 2012

  Geneva

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Early modern

  Funded doctoral positions in Non-Western Modern Art, with a special focus on the Middle East

  The project, "Other Modernities: Patrimony and Practices of Visual Expression Outside the West," is pleased to announce an open call for doctoral candidates interested in pursuing their work under the auspices of the Swiss National Fund Sinergia Program. The platform offers candidates three years of support towards a doctoral degree.

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• 10 jui 2012

  Geneva

  Call for papers - History

  Women in Educated Elites of Pre-Socialist and Early Socialist East Central European Societies

  The two and a half day workshop will take place at the European Institute of Geneva University in October 2012. The exact dates will be announced in early July 2012. The official language of the workshop will be English. Interested scholars are asked to submit a paper proposal (not more than 750 words) to the organisers (Victor Karady : karadyv@gmail.com; Natalia Tikhonov Sigrist : nat.sigrist@gmail.com) by 10 June 2012.

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• 06 mai 2012

  Geneva

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Flashbacks. Nostalgic media and mediated forms of nostalgia

  Can media really be nostalgic? Which specific forms of nostalgia appear in contemporary society and why? Can people be nostalgic if they did not experience the past they pretend being nostalgic of? What kind of politics of nostalgia exist? What is the impact of nostalgia on the media market and its influence on economy? Finally, given the arbitrary (?) use of the past in all its imaginable variations and cultural systems, is it still possible to use the word nostalgia or should there be a neologism describing the transformation of the past in(to) the digital era? Could it even be possible to be simply nostalgic of nostalgia; finally describing the eternal research for (lost) identity? This international conference aims to explore nostalgia as a (mass) media phenomena and also seeks for contributions that treat any other mediated forms of nostalgia.

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• 15 fév 2012

  Geneva

  Call for papers - Sociology

  What is coalition? Reflections on the conditions of alliance formation with Judith Butler’s work

  This one-day conference aims to reflect – historically, sociologically, philosophically – on the conditions of possibility, on the objects, means and purposes of alliance formation – between minorities, with the State, political parties, and other public actors, or between disciplines, or even across species (e.g. animal-human), etc. –, of political transformation, and thus of a collective agency, in both domestic and international contexts, through the concrete and generic question of “What is coalition?” – with special interest for the ways in which critical perspectives inspired from feminist and queer theory can be made into productive tools to theorize the political at various levels, at different times and locations, but also to intervene and do better democratic work.

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