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Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe
Bourses d'études pour doctorants à la Maison française d'Oxford
La Maison française d'Oxford propose des bourses d'un mois pour doctorants désireux de poursuivre un travail de recherche. Outre le montant de la bourse (250 livres sterling), l'établissement offre au doctorant l'accueil en chambre avec petit déjeuner, l'accès aux bibliothèques d'Oxford, des connexions informatiques. -
Manchester | Salford
Thinking the present with Max Weber
Weber study group of the British Sociological Association
The recent publication in English of Weber’s complete writings (and speeches) on universities has thrown new light on his involvement in university politics and his concern with the "type of scholar" that universities were producing: Weber imagines a university system in which researchers are becoming workers "separated from their means of production", and academics "people of the trade". Inspired by Weber’s observations, this seminar-workshop will reflect on the current state of the university and its attendant practices: what is the meaning of scholarly work when the scholar is faced by a series of sometimes contradictory conditions and imperatives? What is the meaning of the new regime under which universities are put to work, with its "quality" indicators and debt-incurring devices, in terms of the pedagogy practised, the kinds of reason relied on, as well as the type of human being presupposed by such regime and resulting from its implementation? What kind of scholar, what kind of student, what type of human being, is produced by these practices?
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London
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology
Salary: From £32,148 - £38,887 per annum inclusiveBoth appointments will be fixed term for one yearThe Department of Sociology is seeking two full time LSE Fellows to give lectures and conduct seminar teaching for its existing courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. -
Manchester
Conference, symposium - Religion
L'étude empirique et quantitative de la géographie religieuse est un sujet nouveau, auquel le développement constant d‘outils techniques et conceptuels promet de nombreuses opportunités. Depuis la prise en compte de la dimension spatiale dans l'étude du religieux, le « tournant spatial », nous avons beaucoup à apprendre des mécanismes spatiaux du changement religieux. Et, bien que des progrès notables aient été accomplis sur la question de la géographie religieuse, de vastes perspectives s’offrent encore à la recherche, notamment pour l'analyse spatiale de données religieuses avec les méthodes formelles : un champ nouveau et prometteur est ouvert. -
Cambridge
Conference, symposium - History
Cities and Alternatives in the 19th Century
Imagined Civities is an interdisciplinary conference examining the changes in the Victorian city. Stemming from The Guild, the 19th century seminar held at Cambridge University, the conference aims to explore any aspect of cultural and intellectual responses to urbanisation in the 19th century. The keynote address will be delivered by Prof. Peter Mandler.For more information and registration, please see http://theguild.posterous.com/ -
Oxford
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology
Besse doctorate scholarship and French lecteur position at the Exeter College, Oxford (2012-2013)
Ces bourses ont pour origine le legs en 1951 par Antonin Besse, homme d'affaires français, d'une partie de sa fortune à l'Université d'Oxford dans le but de permettre à des étudiants français de venir poursuivre leur recherche à Oxford. Il s'ensuit que seuls les étudiants de nationalité française peuvent prétendre bénéficier d'une bourse Besse. Pour l'année 2012-2013, Exeter College (www.exeter.ox.ac.uk) offrira la bourse avec un poste de lecteur français, dont la rémunération totale sera de £10,000. Ceci inclut une bourse de £3000 et la rémunération pour une charge d'enseignement de langue française de 6 heures par semaine. Le boursier sera logé dans le Collège à titre gratuit, et bénéficiera de quelques dîners à « High Table ». -
London
“Ri yo avan yo riw”: Rebellion and Compliance of Womanhood in African-Diasporic Milieu
As defined by Hirsh, postmemory: “describes the relationship of the second generation of powerful, often traumatic experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply as to seems to constitute memories in their own rights” (2008). Applied to the African Diaspora, one may suggest that slavery and colonialism constitute a postmemory directly determining the approach to self of all members of the African Diaspora. This postmemory is so ingrained in these societies that the post-conflict backlash generally affecting women from former colonised or occupied countries, has hit African-Diasporic women in an extremely unusual way. In fact, it has been witnessed in several middle Eastern or South American societies that after liberationist conflicts, some societies would create a fantasised notion of womanhood allegedly pre-colonial, rejecting the former dominant culture to glorify their own root culture (Al Ali, Pratt 2007; Pankhurst 2007). In African-Diasporic milieu and in the same post conflict context, women were fed with dreams of European respectability of which the European middle class woman was archetypal. This rather complex situation generated great uneasiness as far as identity and womanhood were concerned. Beyond the debate around Négritude, Créolité and even Modernity, black women are yet to fit the general notion of “whut a [black] woman oughta be and to do”.Indeed, One can wonder at the ability of the new generation to fulfil the dream of respectability of its mothers (Burton, 1997) while complying with the demands of an increasingly neo-liberal environment. Coupled with the Festival Image of Black Women, this conference will be the opportunity to discuss the discrepancy between the image, the representation and the realities of African-Diasporic women. The aim is to identify the postmemories responsible for the social expectations of womanhood in a given community and how these expectations protect or injure the same women. -
Manchester
Un appel à contribution est lancé pour un colloque international « Religions et territoire », organisé à l'occasion de la rencontre Eurel, réseau scientifique de juristes ou spécialistes des sciences sociales et humaines des religions, par l'UMR 7012 PRISME-SDRE et le Centre for Research. / Papers are invited for an international conference jointly organized by the Eurel network of sociologists and legal scholars of religion (www.eurel.info, led by the research centre PRISME-SDRE UMR 7012, University of Strasbourg), and CRESC (Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, University of Manchester). -
Leeds
Politics of home, identity and transnationalism in the Congolese diaspora
This panel seeks contributions exploring the intersection of diasporic identities and practiceswithin contemporary Congolese transnational social fields. Papers shall explore the links andnetworks between homeland (The Democratic Republic of Congo - DRC) and diasporiccommunities and how they relate to politics of ‘home’ and belongings in different contextsand configurations.
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