Sort

By publication date

By relevance

• 05 oct 2015

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Borders, walls and violence

  Costs and Alternatives to Border Fencing

  More border walls and border fences are being built every year all across the world. Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, and Tunisia are among the latest to announce yet another border fence. Twenty-five years ago it was believed that the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reconfiguration of international relations would open an age of globalization in which States would become obsolete, ushering in a world without borders. In the wake of 9/11, however, borders came back in light, new borders were created and new border walls erected. In the wake of the Arab Spring, came even more border barriers and walls, symbols that were thought to have disappeared with the collapse of the bipolar international system. Today, they reinforce borderlines the world over, transforming both soft and semi-permeable borders alike into sealed, exclusionary hard borders. Walls are symbols of identity reaffirmation, markers of State sovereignty, instruments of dissociation, locus of a growing violence.

  Read announcement

• 30 jui 2015

  Noumea

  Call for papers - Education

  Le système éducatif calédonien à l'heure du destin commun

  Dans la seconde moitié du XX^e siècle, la Nouvelle-Calédonie s’est engagée dans la voie de l’élaboration de son propre système éducatif. Il est l’une des conséquences du processus d’émancipation initié par les Accords de Matignon puis l’Accord de Nouméa. Bien qu’inachevé, ce processus a, au fil du temps, franchi des étapes importantes, avec notamment les transferts par l’État de la compétence de l’enseignement du premier degré en 2000 et de celle d’une partie du second degré en 2012. Cette évolution donne aujourd’hui aux institutions calédoniennes, en particulier au Gouvernement, au Congrès et au Sénat coutumier de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, aux Provinces et aux communes, des leviers d’action et d’intervention très importants.

  Read announcement

• 26 mar 2015

  27 mar 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  Experts and expertise in the mandates and of the society of nations

  Figures, fields and tools

  Our vantage point is to consider the growing in importance of expertise during the twentieth century within the management of the colonial world and hence to study the emergence of the international sphere as a level of decision making. The purpose of this conference is to investigate the influence of early international agendas, advanced across the colonial world by experts operating in the orbit of international organizations. The investigation should also focus on the procedures and framework of international recognition of expertise at the intersection of the colonial and the international spheres. A first line of enquiry tackles the relations between the epistemologies that underpinned scientific knowledge in the colony and the metropolis. Another one looks into the sites of production of Mandatory expertise. Finally, we want to investigate the explicitly evolutionary conceptual framework for the mandates and its influence on the work of experts. We invite contributions dealing with the figure of the expert, whether official or not, and the various fields and tools of Mandatory expertise. Part and parcel of our reflexion is also a study of the limits and scope of expertise.

  Read announcement

• 28 fév 2015

  Neuendettelsau

  Call for papers - History

  Collapse and Resilience of German Missions 1914-1939

  World War I had a devastating impact upon German Missions (Roman Catholic and Protestant). A general description of German mission fields A.D. 1914 will be the starting point of the Conference. Case studies are welcome on particular territories such as Togo, Cameroon, East Africa, South-West Africa, South East Asia, Pacific area, China, India, Middle East. Attention will be paid to the predicament of local "orphaned" Christian churches and communities, and to the relationships between the local leadership with the new foreign missions authorized by the Allies instead of German personnel.

  Read announcement

• 10 fév 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Changer de regard sur les outre-mer

  Ce séminaire propose un dialogue ouvert à l’administration et aux chercheurs. Il sera ouvert par Daniel Lenoir, directeur général de la CNAF et clos par Franck Von Lennep, directeur de la DREES. Deux sessions traiteront, l’une de la démographie et de l’état de santé de la population, l’autre de la lutte contre la pauvreté et de l’accès à l’emploi Elles seront animées par Mathieu Lefebvre, adjoint au sous-directeur en charge des politiques publiques à la direction générale des outre-mer (DGOM).

  Read announcement