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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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• 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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• 06 mar 2012	13 mar 2012	20 mar 2012
  27 mar 2012	03 avr 2012	...

  Geneva

  Lecture series - History

  City, Architecture, Visdual Arts: Construction of a Modernity in the Arab Near East, XIXth-XXth centuries

  Un exceptionnel module de master en histoire de l'art et en arabe sur les arts, l'architecture et l'urbanisme dans le Proche-Orient arabe à l'université de Genève grâce à l'invitation par la Maison de l'histoire de la professeur Mercedes Volait (INHA) au semestre de printemps 2012. Le cycle de conférences public se tient dans les locaux de l'Institut national genevois.

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• 03 fév 2012

  Geneva

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Harmonie et disharmonie au Moyen Âge

  La deuxième journée d’études internationale des Jeunes chercheurs médiévistes (JCM) de l'Université de Genève, consacrée à l'harmonie et la disharmonie au Moyen Âge, sera l'occasion de faire dialoguer des spécialistes sur ces deux notions extrêmement présentes dans les études médiévales (musique, histoire, histoire de l'art, littérature, anthropologie...).

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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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