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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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• 21 fév 2012	20 mar 2012	22 mai 2012
  19 jui 2012

  Geneva

  Lecture series - Sociology

  Haute école de travail social, HETS (2012) conferences

  Le Centre de recherche sociale (CERES) de la Haute école de travail social de Genève en Suisse organise un cycle de conférences. Les conférences ont lieu une fois par mois à midi et sont l'occasion d'entendre des chercheurs de renom autour des thématiques actuelles susceptibles d'intéresser aussi bien les chercheurs que les professionnels.

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• 30 avr 2012

  Geneva

  Call for papers - History

  Cesare Beccaria: reception and inheritance

  From Enlightenment to the present.

  Après les colloques milanais et genevois consacrés au projet pénal de Beccaria dans le contexte de la culture juridique des Lumières, nous vous proposons de penser la réception critique de Dei delitti e delle pene. Entre histoire des idées et des pratiques pénales, mais aussi tout autour de l’imaginaire de la peine juste, ce colloque associera des historiens, des juristes, des philosophes et des sociologues pour penser l’œuvre de Beccaria dans la durée de son héritage intellectuel sur les plans théoriques et pratiques. Il s’agira notamment de mesurer les adhésions et le scepticisme envers le réformateur milanais, précurseur du droit pénal moderne. On évaluera ainsi l’impact du projet beccarien dans la genèse (théorie, pratique) de la modernité pénale depuis la fin de l’Ancien Régime, jusqu’à aujourd’hui.

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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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