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• 16 oct 2019

  17 oct 2019

  18 oct 2019

  Limoges

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  From manipulation to incentive

  Inflexion of behaviors and public policies

  When it comes to public policy, good ideas and strong projects abound. Yet, the ability to sustainably influence behaviors, to understand how and why they appear or disappear, why they persist or change lacks. Information is available and often even widely distributed, but seemingly non-rational behavior persists. Thus, it is commonly held that the transition between available information and decision-making is influenced by cognitive, social and cultural biases. Research in economics and management offer a viable solution: the “nudges”, i.e. strategic devices that encourage people to take best decisions. At the end of the seventies, the semiotics of action was endowed with a “theory of manipulation”.The issue of nudges is therefore a theoretical and methodological opportunity to revive a collective and international research and advance the theory of manipulation, as well as recollect the most recent achievements and contributions and identify and circumscribe alternative solutions. 

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• 31 mar 2019

  Limoges

  Call for papers - Modern

  36th Annual Conference of the Sport Literature Association

  Submissions should address treatments of sport in texts or textual media (print, film, performance, digital or other media). We invite essays on sport literature (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, or film) or on the rhetoric of sport.

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• 31 jan 2019

  Limoges

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Fringe Heroes

  Le système médiatique est en effet devenu le moule de production des héros. Sa consécration relève de ce que Max Weber qualifie de « polythéisme des valeurs ». En revanche, peut-il aussi passer de la célébrité à l’oubli ? Il s’ensuit une série d’autres questions : existe-t-il des critères de marginalité d’un héros ? Dans un monde où la communication est essentielle pour exister et dominer, le silence joue-t-il un rôle dans sa marginalisation ? Pourquoi certaines figures héroïques ont-elles aussi peu de valeur dans la société ? La marginalisation qui les frappe résulte-t-elle de l’attitude délibérée d’une instance supérieure ? Quels en sont les acteurs ?

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