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• 22 avr 2014	23 avr 2014	24 avr 2014
  25 avr 2014

  Lima

  Conference, symposium - History

  Thinking prisons in Latin America

  Du 22 au 25 avril se tiendra le colloque « Penser les prisons d'Amérique latine » dans la ville de Lima. Pour la première fois dans la région, l'événement réunira des spécialistes du monde académique autour de la thématique pénitentiaire. Le but de la rencontre est de diffuser et de partager des connaissances sur l'univers carcéral du continent latino-américain. Avec la participation d'invités et d'intervenants du Mexique, du Salvador, de Colombie, du Venezuela, d'Equateur, du Pérou, du Brésil, d'Argentine, du Chili, de France et d'Italie, le programme s'articule autour de cinq axes thématiques : histoire de l'enfermement punitif, prison politique, marchés de l'enfermement, relations scoiales en milieu carcéral et genre et sexualités.

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• 26 fév 2014	27 fév 2014	28 fév 2014
  01 mar 2014

  Madrid

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  IV International Congress "Sport, Doping and Society"

  Looking to the future

  The IV International Congress Sport, Doping and Society is organized by the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) and the Spanish Agency for Health Protection in Sport (AEPSAD). Under the theme “Looking to the future”, it will be presented the results of scientific researches and new methodologies in the field of doping in sport.From the specific perspective of Social and Human Sciences, we believe that this initiative will contribute to identify the factors that influence the use of doping substances and methods. From this knowledge we hope to foster future prevention and doping control and to promote ethical behavior in sport.

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• 01 mai 2014

  Call for papers - Geography

  Luxury in all its States: Foundations, Dynamic and Plurality

  This issue of “Revues Etudes Caribéennes” aims to reflect upon the concept of luxury, to invest the luxury in all its states. It comes to question the foundations of luxury, from the theory to the materiality, from the manufacture to the consumption, between provocative distinction and aesthetization in all walk of life. Within the context of this thematic issue, luxury is envisaged a multidisciplinary approach, ranging from philosophy to sociology, from the economy to the development of the territory... Imputs may approach luxury a specific angle (economics of luxury, the luxury throughout history). They can treat a particular dimension of luxury, through an emblematic product or construction of luxury territories. Special attention will be paid to the luxury industry with its brands and its logic of creation and production. Finally, luxury exist through the construction of its legends which are formed from many distinctive indicators that stimulate both the casual and the exclusive consumers.

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• 01 jui 2014

  Call for papers - Geography

  Mass tourism versus Alternative tourism

  The objective of this thematic issue is to call for various and renewed approaches which develop analysis in terms of the economy, regional planning, sociology, geography etc. Articles may propose a theoretical reflection or focus on case studies, dealing with the relations of mass tourism, alternative tourism, or to illustrate one of these two aspects. Priorities fields will not exclusively be Caribbean and American but can come from any part of the world and can illustrate post and/or present situations.

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• 30 avr 2014

  Seville

  Call for papers - Modern

  Higher Education: the challenge of employability

  13th International Congress of Theory of Education: (XIII ICTE) (ICTE2014)

  The Department of Theory and History of Education and Social Pedagogy of the University of Seville (Spain) and the academic network Interuniversity Seminar of Theory of Education (SITE) are pleased to invite you to the 13th International Congress of theory of Education: "Higher Education: the challenge of employability" to be held at the University of Seville on the 26-28 November 2014. The 13th Congress, which is international and clearly interdisciplinary, is presented as a space for debate, reflection and the exchange of experience and good practice in the fields of Higher Education and Employability. The Congress will be attended by over one hundred specialists, academics, researchers and professionals for an in-depth analysis of the triad of education, training and professional skills together with the binome of higher education and work settings from the perspective of lifelong learning. We wish to welcome all our participants: studnets, postgraduates, researchers, academics, educators, teaching staff for university and non-university higher education and agents and institutions for teaching and training in employability and professional skills.

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