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  • Montreal

    Conference, symposium - Political studies

    Borders, Walls and Violence

    Costs and Alternatives to Border Fencing

    Chaque semaine amène l’annonce de la construction d’un nouveau mur frontalier : Kenya / Somalie, Tunisie / Libye, Hongrie / Serbie, Turquie / Syrie… De nouveaux remparts sont érigés, dans la foulée du 11 septembre, du Printemps arabe et du conflit syrien, pour prévenir, enrayer, selon les discours officiels, l’immigration illégale, la contagion terroriste, le trafic. Désormais, les frontières ne sont plus des lignes, ni même des interfaces. Elles ne sont plus souples et poreuses, elles sont dures et agressives. À la frontière, la nouvelle norme est celle d’une violence latente.

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  • Reims

    Conference, symposium - Geography

    Crises and change today

    Geo-economic and geo-political approaches

    The aim of the conference "Contemporary Crisis and changes" is to question these contemporary upheavals through both a geo-economic and a geopolitical reading. The conference will provide elements of analysis and compare them especially with contemporary representations of globalisation emphasizing in particular the logic of closure that seems to characterize this phenomenon.

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  • Paris

    Conference, symposium - History

    The (re)appropriation of knowledge. Actors, territories, processes and issues

    Malgré des situations asymétriques et de domination parfois très fortes, sur de vastes échelles, le processus de mondialisation ne conduit pas forcément à une uniformisation des savoirs et des savoir-faire : comme l’analyse A. Appadurai, c’est précisément cette tension entre homogénéité et hétérogénéité qui définit la complexité des situations globalisées. Nous nous proposons de réfléchir de manière critique, à partir de situations précises, aux processus d’appropriation ou de réappropriation de savoirs et de savoir-faire, en centrant les analyses sur le point de vue des acteurs, leur pouvoir d’initiative et les stratégies qu’ils déploient dans la production et l’usage des savoirs, leurs enjeux, ainsi qu’aux multiples processus de transformations en œuvre.

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  • Reims

    Call for papers - Geography

    Contemporary crisis and changes

    Geoeconomical and geopolitical approaches

    For several years, the world seems to have entered a period of high instability. Economically, the "subprime mortgage crisis" appeared in 2007 in the USA, then spread planet wide in all areas of activity. In 2015, economic difficulties persist (growth stagnation in developed countries and lower growth in emerging markets, explosion of unemployment, deindustrialisation and offshoring, market tensions in China, the euro zone, etc.). In geopolitical terms, tension spots have also multiplied (Saharian and Sahelian Africa, Middle East, Far East and Eastern Europe) leading to strong migratory waves while power poles seem to be redeploying between the USA, China and other regional powers.The aim of the conference "Contemporary Crisis and changes" is to question these contemporary upheavals through both a geo-economic and a geopolitical reading. The conference will provide elements of analysis and compare them especially with contemporary representations of globalisation emphasizing in particular the logic of closure that seems to characterize this phenomenon.

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