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Coimbra
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology
Alice - Strange mirrors, unsuspected lessons
Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences
The Centre for Social Studies (CES) –Associate Laboratory– of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, has an open competition to two Post-Doctoral Grants within the scope of the project “ALICE - Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences” (alice.ces.uc.pt), funded by the European Research Council (269807), under the supervision of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, in social sciences. -
Lisbon
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. -
Saint-Denis
La guerre d’indépendance algérienne, en tant qu’événement fondateur majeur de l’après-seconde guerre mondiale, peut constituer, en termes de « générations », un espace-temps bien défini et homogène. Dès lors, il est légitime de mieux comprendre et d’interroger la nouveauté des paradigmes d’une génération de chercheurs inscrits dans un champ de recherche en construction. Peut-on déceler des ruptures ou des continuités dans les objets, les sujets, les méthodes, les approches macro et micro-historiques ? Quelle place les sources ont-elles dans ces travaux ? Existe-t-il des changements entre les travaux qui se veulent plus larges et exhaustifs et ceux qui se fondent sur des aspects plus localisés ? Quels sont les déplacements de paradigmes explicatifs que l’on peut observer ? Cette nouvelle génération évite-t-elle encore les présupposés idéologiques liés à une mémoire militante ? Au-delà des résultats et conclusions des travaux, le colloque devra aussi mettre en exergue les méthodes, les matériaux, les perspectives d’enquêtes engagés. Une attention particulière sera accordée aux propositions des doctorants et jeunes chercheurs. -
Paris
Conference, symposium - Sociology
The Arab World in the Age of Revolutions : a Global Assessment
Conférence internationale du 24 au 27 juin 2012, coorganisée par le CEDEJ, Sciences Po Paris, et Kuwait Program. Un an et demi après leur déclenchement, les révolutions arabes présentent un bilan hasardeux : en Tunisie, en Égypte et en Libye, où les anciens dirigeants ont été chassés du pouvoir par le soulèvement populaire, le paysage politique reste incertain. Au Yémen une transition inaccomplie s'est mise en place, au Bahrein le soulèvement a été étouffé, et la Syrie s'enfonce dans une guerre civile où l'opposition démocratique est prise entre la sanglante répression du pouvoir et la montée en puissance des éléments jihadistes. -
Medical research, development, and memory in colonial and postcolonial Nigeria
We are pleased to announce a second research training and proposal development seminar on the history of medical research in Nigeria, to be held at the Dean’s Seminar Room, Faculty of General Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka from 17th to 21st September 2012. This seminar is open to twelve doctoral postgraduate students and recent postdoctoral scholars (PhD awarded after 1st January 2008) from Nigerian universities. It will provide training in the theory and methodology of history of medicine, together with an opportunity to discuss and develop a research proposal for submission to a peer-reviewed competition for four grants of to cover a four-month period of field and archival research in early 2013. -
Transformative learning in Africa
This current issue is interested in programs that take the social, historical and cultural African contexts into consideration to propose innovative forms of education and training which impact positively on learner/practitioner outcomes. Such programs would naturally respond to questions such as: what contributes to transformational learning? Secondly, within the African context, what challenges do practitioners face when their aim is to introduce lasting changes? Third, what does transformational education really mean in an African context?Lastly, what ethical and cultural questions must be considered when planning and delivering transformative learning? -
Lisbon
Miscellaneous information - Ethnology, anthropology
AfrikPlay – Filmes à Conversa | Chat and a movie is a new project presenting films focused in contemporary Africa, organized by CRIA (Network Centre for Anthropology Research) | ISCTE-IUL and Center of African Studies (CEA-IUL) | ISCTE-IUL. Being a ‘work in progress’, aims to bring cinema to the university, opening space for debate and reflection around films that present a innovative look on Africa.The growth of cinematographic productions about Africa has highlighted a number of films that set themselves apart from classical documentary concepts, either in their subjects of interest and chosen aesthetic language, approaching other artistic fields and merging reality with fiction. Some questions arouse our interest: what is the relationship between ‘yesterday’s images and the ones these new generations choose to see in Africa? How these fresh revelations defy our understanding of such a vast and complex continent? -
Kigali
Rwanda: Genocide and Reconstruction
A journey through the Genocide of Tutsi
Organized in Rwanda by the Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center. The Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center based in Kigali, Rwanda continues their two/three-week US/Rwanda exchange program in order to deepen students’, researchers’, and artists’ knowledge of the Rwandan genocide. In the last years, the program started in 2004 has enabled teachers and students from Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Afghanistan, Singapore, Mexico, UK, France, Belgium, Spain, and the USA to develop narratives that engage questions of social justice, conflict resolution, and peace building. The program has involved theater artists, filmmakers, academicians, researches, and students from various disciplines and countries, whose practice engages questions of peace building. -
Amman
Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology
Demographic Transition in the Middle East and North Africa: Disciplines in Dialogue
International Conference organised by the British Institute in Amman, the Faculty of Science of the University of Jordan, theFrench Institute for the Near East ( IFPO) and the University of Bern, from January, 14th to January, 16th. -
Lisbon
Cooperation and Education: Africa and the World
II COOPEDU is organized by the Centro de Estudos Africanos do Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Center of African Studies, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon) and by the Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (School of Higher Education, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria). The overall theme of the congress is Cooperation and education: Africa and the World. The main goal is to extend and deepen the issues addressed in I COOPEDU (4-5 February 2010, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon), forging continuity in reflections on cooperation in educational issues between African countries and those in other regions and continents. -
Zurich
International Peacekeeping in Africa: Actors and Missions
The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland will hold a conference the 23-24 November 2012 on International Peacekeeping in Africa, with a particular focus on current actors and missions. Over the last decades, the African continent has witnessed a proliferation of peacekeeping missions. Simultaneously, an increasing number of actors have become involved in the effort to bring peace to Africa, and this in turn has led to new and diverse types of operations. This conference seeks to analyze these developments in their entirety and comparatively in order to identify the most significant challenges and trends in international peacekeeping in Africa. -
Jaji
Conference, symposium - Political studies
Managing National and International Security in a Globalized World
Annual conference of the SPSP in collaboration with IFRA-Nigeria
Du 7 au 9 mars 2012, l’IFRA Nigéria participera à la sixième conférence annuelle de la SPSP (Society for Peace Studies and Practice), organisée à Jaji (Kaduna State – Nigeria) en collaboration avec le Nigeria Army Peacekeeping Centre. Cet événement réunira chercheurs, doctorants, professeurs et membres des différents corps d’armée engagés dans les programmes de pacification et de résolution des conflits au Nigéria. / From March 7-9, 2012, IFRA-Nigeria will participate to the sixth Annual Conference and General Assembly of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP), organized at Jaji (Kaduna State, Nigeria) in collaboration with the Nigeria Army Peacekeeping Centre. Scholars, professors, PhD students and members of security agencies involved in conflict resolution in Nigeria will be part of this event. -
Ibadan
Study days - Political studies
The North Africa Arab Uprising : Implications and significance for the future?
L’Institut français de recherche en Afrique (IFRA-Nigéria), en collaboration avec l’Institut d’études africaines et le département d’arabe et d’études islamiques de l’université d’Ibadan, présente une conférence d’une journée sur le thème : « Les printemps arabes en Afrique du Nord : sens et implications ? » -
Cairo
Call for papers - Urban studies
Revolts and transitions in the Arab world: towards a new urban agenda?
Ce colloque international, organisé par le CEDEJ, se tiendra à Institut français d’Égypte (Le Caire) les 7, 8, 9 novembre 2012. Il vise à débattre de la dimension urbaine des grands changements qui touchent actuellement le monde arabe, depuis les origines des épisodes révolutionnaires de 2011 jusqu’aux expériences actuelles de démocratisation, en passant par les phases de transition politique et de crise économique et sociale plus ou moins longues dans lesquelles les États sont encore pris. -
Captives and captivities in the Mediterranean in the modern period
Les Cahiers de la Méditerranée journal
Les Cahiers de la Méditerranée, revue à comité de lecture du Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine de l’Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, se proposent de publier un dossier thématique sur Captifs et captivité en Méditerranée à l’époque moderne. -
Lisbon
Journal Cadernos de Estudos Africanos thematic Issues
The journal Cadernos de Estudos Africanos seeks contributions for a thematic issue on the African presence in contemporary Portuguese society. We start from a broad understanding of this sizeable populace, comprising not only people born in Africa or those who have lived there but also their descendants who identify themselves as Africans, Afro-Portuguese or retornados, irrespective of their nationality. Our aim is thus to portray a large and heterogeneous population (regarding the countries they come from, and the diversity of life courses, ethnic loyalties and cultural references) that nonetheless shares Africa as a common geographical reference. These groups include, but are certainly not limited to, the so-called second generation of African immigrants and those who have returned from the former colonies. In the Portugal of today, a person’s African heritage, or a prolonged residence in Africa, tend to be significant biographical elements, in addition to being key markers of a social and cultural alterity that is often racialized. -
Mozambique: accumulation and transformation in a context of international crisis
O IESE anuncia a realização da sua III conferência académica internacional, subordinada ao tema Moçambique: acumulação e transformação num contexto de crise internacional, a ter lugar em Maputo, nos dias 4 e 5 de Setembro de 2012. A conferência deverá, entre outros assuntos, debruçar-se sobre a análise das tendências políticas, económicas e sociais actuais e sobre as dinâmicas e desafios de mudança, num contexto de crise internacional. -
Saint-Denis
Frontières research group seminar EA 1569
Programme du séminaire frontières, du groupe Politique étrangère et migrations, pays anglophones, sous-équipe de l'EA 1569. Le « groupe Frontières » a pour vocation d’étudier la politique étrangère des pays anglophones et les migrations à travers ces frontières ainsi que leur impact sur ces nations. Il y a une réunion par mois. -
Paris
Conference, symposium - History
The Nation and its "Repatriates"
Pieds Noirs and German Expellees in a Comparative Perspective
L’Allemagne et la France ont intégré des millions d’émigrés après la seconde guerre mondiale et la décolonisation, que ce soient les expulsés des territoires de l’Est ou les rapatriés européens d’Algérie. En dépit de parallèles notables, les deux processus ont généralement été étudiés isolément. Le colloque international propose de les mettre systématiquement en perspective et se concentre sur les questions suivantes : quelle signification les territoires perdus avaient-ils pour la France et l’Allemagne ? Quel a été l’impact de l’intégration des expulsés et des pieds-noirs dans les deux sociétés ? Comment a-t-on commémoré l’exode, l’exil et l’expulsion, à quels conflits et controverses ont-ils donné lieu à l’échelle nationale et internationale ? -
Madrid
VIII congresso ibérico de estudos africanos
Entre os dias 14 e 16 de Junho, o Grupo de estudos africanos organiza em Madrid (Espanha), Sob a árvore da palavra, o 8º Congresso ibérico de estudos africanos, com 50 diferentes painéis. O Call for Papers estará aberto de 15 de Novembro a 31 de Janeiro de 2012.
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