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• 15 déc 2012

  Taipei

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Bodily Cultivation & Cultural Learning

  8th International Symposium of CORPUS (International Group for the Cultural Study of the Body)

  Almost all cultures recognize as a means of achieving religious or spiritual goals, cultivating moral and emotional virtue, or transforming ideas into bodily practices. Some of the most common examples include fasting, meditation, vegetarianism, and qigong or taichi. Rather than focus on these obvious examples, conference attendees will examine culturally driven bodily practices such as proper ways to walk, sit, and gesture—all of which are often endowed with rich cultural meaning, information about cultural learning, and knowledge about the cultivation of values and merit. Bodily cultivation can also be analyzed as a channel for learning, manifesting, developing, or shaping cultural concepts and ideals.

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• 15 nov 2012

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Africa

  Sport and leisure in Africa: practices and identities

  This special number of the Cadernos de Estudos Africanos aims to gather a number of research works that will stimulate critical reflexions and debates on the suject of sport and leisure in Africa.

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• 20 avr 2012

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  I Congress of History and Sport

  The year 2012 marks the XXX Summer Olympic Games in London. 2012 also commemorates the centenary of Portugal’s first participation in the Olympic Games (in Stockholm in 1912). To mark these two events the I Congress of History and Sport will be dedicated to the Olympic movement and its different perspectives, including sport, social, economic, political, religious, media, culture and others.

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• 15 mar 2012

  Sion

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Regimes of Value in Tourism: Concepts, Politics, Practices

  The conference aims to explore different concepts of value that emerge in the social field of tourism. At a general level, we can distinguish here between value as conceptualized by different academic disciplines and value as lived, expressed, and embodied by various actors within tourism as practice and social field. Tourism is often considered a profit generating industry where the utility value paid by tourists is larger than the exchange value of products (in classical terms, the cost of production using labor, capital and land). It is an important element of the conference to discuss conceptions of value in tourism that transcend a strictly economic definition. In this sense we are interested, on the one hand, in the differentiated emotional, moral and ethical cultures by means of which tourists experience attractions and assign value. On the other hand, we wish to explore how various local, regional, national, international, and transnational actors and instances capture, conceptualize and assemble economic, political, cultural, spatial value associated with touristic places.

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