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• 04 déc 2014

  05 déc 2014

  06 déc 2014

  Basel

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Dynamis of the Image. An Archaeology of Potentialities (II)

  The project Dynamis of the image aims at exploring the power of images in the contemporary globalized world by focusing not on the image’s referential functions, but on its performative forces. By asking by what means images generate affects, produce events or sometimes even provoke wars, the project critically reflects on the traditionally dominant Western paradigm of image thinking which has customarily reduced images to mere signifiers or inanimate objects. On the other hand, the project points toward a more encompassing perspective on images by including non-Western, premodern oder anthropological frameworks where the image has been reflected upon not in terms of its ontology, but in terms of its efficacy.

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• 15 nov 2014

  Basel

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Early modern

  Three thesis grants at the Basel Graduate School of History (BGSH)

  La Basel Graduate School of History (BGSH) met au concours trois bourses de début de thèse d’une durée d’une année. Le montant de chacune s’élève à 25'000.- CHF (environ 20'000 euros, en deux tranches avec évaluation). Les bourses doivent servir à soutenir les doctorants et doctorantes durant la phase de début de thèse, durant laquelle les boursiers et boursières doivent élaborer un projet de recherche et le déposer sous forme de requête auprès du Fonds national suisse ou d’une autre institution d’encouragement.

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• 31 jan 2014

  Basel

  Call for papers - Modern

  Revisiting the Historical Connections between Agriculture, Nutrition, and Development

  The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a Global Context

  The workshop posits that after 1945, the interconnectedness of questions of nutrition, agriculture and poverty became a central aspect of international governance, and that issues of food and agriculture posed particular challenges to national sovereignty. We thus approach the history of FAO as a history of the ideas and practices of economic and social ‘development’ embedded in local, regional, national, and global contexts and with implications on all these levels. We propose to examine the process by which the FAO facilitated the institutionalisation and globalisation of debates on agricultural production and food security, how it integrated previous international and transnational networks, and how it navigated the tension between agrarian commercialisation and rural welfare during the Cold War and Decolonisation.

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