Sort

By publication date

By relevance

• 27 sep 2018	29 nov 2018	17 jan 2019
  31 jan 2019	25 avr 2019	...

  Marseille

  Lecture series - Religion

  Islam and the challenge of the modern age

  Ce cycle de six conférences données par Yadh Ben Achour, juriste, spécialiste de droit public et des théories politiques en islam, a pour but d'ouvrir un espace à la pensée critique dans l’islam contemporain. Parmi les défis majeurs auxquels l’islam doit faire face, il faut considérer prioritairement la question de la norme démocratique et des droits de l’homme.

  Read announcement

• 15 oct 2018

  Paris

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Women of the Americas

  The recognition of women’s place in American societies has become a crucial social, cultural, political and economic issue, as evidenced by worldwide protest movements such as Ni Una Menos that started in Argentina – a feminist movement fighting against feminicides and gender-based violence – or the Women’s March against President Donald Trump in the United States. Whether these protests have to do with the struggle for women’s right to vote, the sexual revolution that started in the 1960s, or social movements denouncing gender-based violence in urban and rural environments, they highlight a continuity between yesterday’s feminist fights and their re-adaptation in the public space. 

  Read announcement

• 31 mai 2018

  Paris

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Slavery treaties and cultural memory

  Ce numéro d'Ethnologie française a pour thème l’institution commémorative du passé de l’esclavage dans plusieurs sites, ports et comptoirs négriers européens, africains et américains. Il se propose d’interroger l’édification – ou éventuellement son absence – d’une « mémoire culturelle » [Assman], officielle et normative, des traites esclavagistes, les mouvements d’adhésion et de dissensions ainsi que les oublis créateurs ou les silences, parfois chargés de significations tacites, qu’une telle mémoire suscite ou interpelle.  À partir d’une réflexion générale sur les mémoriaux comme espaces producteurs de passés simultanément perpétuels et en sursis, nous envisageons de produire une analyse fine des sites et des récits contemporains véhiculant une mémoire culturelle des traites esclavagistes.

  Read announcement

• 15 avr 2018

  Nanterre

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Techno-Realities and Affective Creatures: the Love Simulation Devices

  Modern-day embodiments of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises, the techno-realities are seen as a threat to human relationships in “real” life, in particular when they relate to love. Such human-shaped products however multiply: domotic spouse, tactile screen’s boyfriend, holographic companion, bride for Virtual Reality glasses, interactive downloadable partner, otomegames and bishōjogamescharacters… pending the development of Hololens friends. The explosion of these technologies (forecast to reach 181 billion euros in 2021 for VR only) generates anxiety and rejection. People engaged in Love Simulation Games have to face attacks: emotional relationships with non-existent beings are frowned upon. The tendency to get involved with a digital creature is being stigmatized, as opposed to founding a family (i.e. a reproductive unit). In spite of the stigma, a growing number of men and women, worldwide, are however using love devices: how can we explain that?

  Read announcement

• 15 jan 2018

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Marx, Semiotics and Political Praxis

  This special issue of Open Cultural Studies will return to the work of Karl Marx to reflect on and engage with his coherent articulation of words and their use, of words and actions, and of the intellectual and the political. The coherence of his discourse and praxis offers tools to think through, if not seek to transform, the alienated semiotic landscape of our times as described by the Frankfurt school philosopheers, Jean Baudrillard, Frederic Jameson, Sloterdijk and Slavoj Žižek. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth, in this special issue we want to honour his 11th Thesis on Feuerbach: "philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."

  Read announcement

• 28 fév 2018

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Contemporary African and Black Diasporic Spaces in Europe

  "Open Cultural Studies" journal

  This special issue of Open Cultural Studies explores the social and cultural spaces in which identifications with African and black diaspora(s) become articulated, (re)negotiated and established as a field of collective agency with transformative power in European societies. It will argue that  African diaspora communities and cultures in Europe are constructed not only by individuals’ engagements with Africa and its global diaspora, or mediatized and commercialized notions of Africanness/blackness, but also through collective agency aiming at promoting change in European societies shadowed by the normative whiteness, nationalist discourses and policies, human rights violations and overt racism.

  Read announcement