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• 17 mai 2017

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  19 mai 2017

  Montreal

  Conference, symposium - Economy

  The flow of debt - understanding debt and its processes

  7th congresss of French-speaking political science associations – Workshop B3

  Le crédit est de ces choses qui circulent sans entraves dans les espaces ouverts de l’économie mondialisée. Quand le pouvoir financier ne se passe pas tout simplement des frontières, il n’hésite pas à les redessiner selon ses besoins. Or, les dernières années nous ont appris que la raison d’être de tant de transactions n’est pas à rapporter à la fonction que tout économiste prête d’abord au crédit, à savoir de permettre à des initiatives de se matérialiser. La profusion actuelle des capitaux ne se présente pas sous forme d’investissements productifs, mais en tant qu’expansion formidable de l’offre d’endettement.

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• 15 mar 2017

  Havana

  Call for papers - History

  The politics and poetics of museology

  40th annual ICOFOM symposium

  It has become rather banal to speak of the museum as a place of power. Whether one refers to it as media, as medium, or as device, we must understand that this institution, emblematic of occidental civilization, has always aroused the interests of local political régimes, whatever they may be. The creation of the British Museum and the birth of the Louvre illustrate the many different ways the public has of seeing the links between knowledge and collections. Furthermore the advent of each new political régime (from democracy in America to the Marxist-Leninist system in the Soviet Union, passing by fascist Italy and national-socialist Germany) marks museums with its imprint, as well as its system of communication, preservation and research.

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