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• 15 oct 2017

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Geography

  Post-soviet diaspora(s) in Western Europe (1991-2017)

  Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, millions of former soviet citizens crossed the national borders in search of better lives in new countries, in what was the biggest migration tide since the end of World War II. These Post-Soviet migrants were diverse in origins, strategies and expectations. They often represented a challenge to the orthodox views of migration processes, since in most cases these flows could not be easily described and analysed following commonly accepted theoretical frameworks. Everybody seemed to be on the move: labour migrants, political refugees, cross-border traders, “tourists” planning to forget their return... and in a short period, they spread all over Western Europe.

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• 15 aoû 2017

  Vienna

  Call for papers - Modern

  Border Textures: Interwoven Practices and Discursive Fabrics of Borders

  2nd World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies - Panel

  In view of the current political developments in Europe, the scientific study of borders has increasingly gained importance. Cultural Studies has reacted to these developments by generating complex and more and more detailed theories and tools for describing and analyzing border phenomena. Cultural border studies champion approaches which do not examine spatial, material, temporal or cultural aspects in isolation but investigate their intersectional and performative interactions. This panel provides a space for explorative investigation of potential approaches for cultural border studies, focusing on interactions between material and immaterial manifestations of the border.

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• 15 aoû 2017

  Vienna

  Call for papers - Geography

  What is Border Studies?

  2nd World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies - Panel

  The societal events of the last decade have challenged Border Studies more than ever before. This can be seen not only in the field’s growing institutionalisation but also in its developments in research: these include the relativization of geopolitical perspectives by cultural studies approaches, the spatialisation of the border concept (e.g. zone, third space, exter/internalisation etc.), the decentralisation of the border in favour of processes (e.g. b/ordering, othering etc.), the pluralisation of the border concept (e.g. walls, differences, (dis)continuities, demarcations) or the complexification of the border (e.g. scapes, textures). The panel is treating these developments and other turns as an opportunity for a long-overdue self-examination, which in the light of the resurgence of borders seems necessary from both a societal and scientific perspective.

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• 15 jui 2017

  Bucharest

  Call for papers - Language

  Terminology and translation: Terms of environment/environment of terms

  Langage(s), discours et traduction

  Le colloque « Terminologie(s) et traduction » se situe dans la tradition des manifestations « Langage(s) et traduction », (reformaté ces dernières années comme « Langage(s), discours et traduction »). Cette édition est ciblée sur la terminologie (comme science / discipline d’enseignement) et les diverses terminologies (à domaines référentiels disjoints) en tant que telles, dans leurs relations à la traductologie et à la glottodidactique d’abord, et à un certain domaine d’expérience, dont procèdera le thème spécifique abordé, ensuite.

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• 31 mar 2017

  Sofia

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Political corruption scandals and civil society in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe

  Medias, whistleblowers and civic organisations

  Les scandales de corruption marquent par leur fréquence la vie politique des nouvelles démocraties en Europe centrale et orientale et représentent une caractéristique importante des scènes médiatiques et politiques. La révélation et la dénonciation de très nombreuses « affaires » ou des « gates », comme le langage populaire et journalistique les dénomme souvent, déferlent régulièrement dans l’espace public et attisent les attitudes contestataires et protestataires vis-à-vis des institutions, des élites et des partis politiques. Cependant, la question se pose sur les spécificités des scandales de corruption dans les nouvelles démocraties, pendant ou après des processus de transitions démocratiques. Quel est le rôle des dénonciations dans ces contextes spécifiques ? Que révèlent ces phénomènes des évolutions des sociétés, des valeurs et des régimes politiques ?

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