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Heritages values of 20th century architecture: what recognition?
Critical review and international forward-looking vision
The heritage values of 20th century architecture, whether they be cultural, social or technical, remain relatively complex to assess, and thus to share, due to lack of perspective and knowledge. The architectural and urban production of the second half of the 20th century was particularly prolific, sometimes remarkable, even exceptional. The energy, ecological transition, the changing habits and lifestyles are leading to the gradual transformation of this built heritage reaching to the end of its life cycle. Since the 1990-2000’s, a movement for heritage making has developed, which leads to many questions relating to possible and desirable developments of these architectural achievements. This issue of In Situ seeks to take a European or international critical perspective on the architecture of the 20th century and to highlight doctrines and positions adopted, practices and examples of schemes, policies or projects.
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Marseille
Call for papers - Political studies
Asking questions of the African migratory policies
Ce colloque invite à un changement de regard, donnant aux acteurs africains une place prépondérante dans l’observation, par le monde scientifique, des constructions des politiques migratoires. En croisant diverses disciplines et échelles d’analyse, il cherche à questionner la manière dont les dynamiques « extérieures » en matière de migration rencontrent les « terrains » sociaux et politiques africains (Rottenburg, Behrends, Park 2014), mais aussi à repenser la frontière entre ce qui peut être considéré comme externe au continent et ce qui relève de l’« endogène » dans la construction de politiques migratoires.
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Recife
1956-1958: A revolutionary period that changed Africa (and the world)
The objective of this panel is to compare the various social mobilizations that took place in Africa during the years 1956-1958 and which arguably constitute a historical watershed. The main aim of the panel is not the making of an abstract comparative analysis, but the analysis, based on the testimonial material collected, of how the memory of these events has been structured over time. Moreover, we are interested in understanding what the impacts of these social movements were on the structuring of states and what continuities can be found between the mobilizations of that period and the ary social mobilizations that have shaken the continent in the last ten years, from the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011 onwards.
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Louvain-la-Neuve
Trust, transnationalisation and dispute resolution
L'objectif de ce colloque est de rassembler des académiques de divers champs scientifiques afin de cerner les enjeux contemporains de la confiance (et de son contraire, la méfiance) pour la régulation des rapports sociaux. De nouveaux problèmes de régulation, nés de la transnationalisation et de la réticularisation, témoignent de cette importance de la confiance. Ainsi en va-t-il des litiges familiaux (éloignement d’enfants, adoption), des litiges financiers et commerciaux, du recours au soft law, etc. – la pandémie actuelle en a tout récemment offert certains exemples. Nous voulons dès lors, à l’occasion de cette conférence, clarifier et conceptualiser le recours contemporain à la notion de confiance sur les plans sociologique, juridique et politique.
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Creating ruins or showing ruins in cinema
Ce thème nous est suggéré par l’action actuelle, à l’échelle mondiale, de la démolition et de l’abattement des statues, des stèles dans un geste de destruction volontaire des vestiges, symboles et icônes du passé liés à l’histoire coloniale et impériale, acte que l’on peut considérer comme une mise en ruines en tant que telle. Pouvait-on imaginer une liquidation des ruines-vestiges du passé pour signifier la ruine d’un passé ?
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Helsinki
Living under Empires: A View from Below
What have Mesopotamian Empires ever done for their people? Tracking the macro in the micro
In this workshop, we aim to take the view from below and investigate in what way imperial dynamics may have affected the lifeways of people in their territories. The basic questions of this workshop are: How did the empires of the Ancient Near East affect the lives of ordinary people in their realm? To which extent was rural life and life in smaller towns permeated by imperial agents and policies, hence by imperial dynamics?
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Quebec City
Indigenous Governance and Development
How Do Community Members Respond?
The journal Ethnologies invites submissions for a special thematic issue on "Indigenous Governance and Development: How Do Community Members Respond?" This special issue of Ethnologies aims at exploring how members of Indigenous communities worldwide have maintained and/or adjusted their social and cultural practices to tackle such developments in current times.
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Aubervilliers
Revue « Esclavages et post-esclavages / Slaveries and post-slaveries »
This issue of the journal Esclavages & Post~esclavages/Slaveries & Post~Slaveries is about reparation claims related to the slave trade and chattel slavery in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This issue aims to comprehend how contemporary social actors link the history of slavery to contemporary debates in order to address the reproduction of unequal geopolitical, social and racial relations.
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Saint-Denis
Call for papers - Political studies
Participatory budgeting in 2020: participation without democracy?
Since the 2010s, participatory budgeting processes have not been the subject of many updated empirical studies, despite their multiplication. The present call invites to highlight and put into perspective the specificities of the most recent participatory budgets; in particular since 2014 in France, and more generally since the years 2010. We aim to gather papers that will allow us to renew the understanding of case studies, and the related general questions about the objectives of the organizers, the effects on participants, on public policies and democracy.
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Libreville
The evaluation of regional prevention and crisis management mechanisms
La question de l’efficience de l’architecture de paix et de sécurité en Afrique, fondée sur des compromis régionaux co-construits, se pose avec acuité. Un regard critique croisé est donc nécessaire. Il s’agit, pour les spécialistes des sciences sociales et humaines de l’espace CAMES, de proposer un état des lieux global - ce que Pierre Bourdieu nomme, un « œil sociologique » - de ces mécanismes ; procéder au décryptage des différentes situations potentiellement conflictuelles ou conflictuelles en Afrique ; analyser le traitement de celles-ci par les mécanismes de prévention et de gestion des crises ; et, au regard des défis du monde actuel, dégager des pistes pour l’innovation du régime africain de paix et de sécurité, appropriables par les acteurs.
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Montreal
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
The decolonization of museology: museums, mixing and myths of origin
43rd Annual International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) Symposium
ICOFOM is proposing a symposium around two themes inspired by the process of renewing the definition of the museum and the major trends that contribute to transforming museums (Mairesse, 2015; 2016). These two central themes raise many questions about the primary mission of the museum. Decolonization is at the heart of the fundamental questioning of the social function of the museum. Consequently, these are the discourses, or even the myths of origin of the nations, that are contested.
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Poitiers
Normativity and legitimacy - first edition of the Themis and Sophia conferences
Première édition des rencontres de Thémis et Sophia
Ce colloque propose de croiser les apports des sciences juridiques et de la philosophie du droit pour répondre à cette question : comment penser les rapports multiples et complexes qui se sont tissé, dans l’époque contemporaine, entre normativité et légitimité ? Dans cette optique, traditions philosophique et juridique peuvent se rejoindre autour de trois étapes de la théorie et de la pratique juridiques : légitimer la norme en la pensant ; légitimer la norme en la justifiant ; légitimer la norme en l’ordonnant.
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Zurich
Mediating conflicts between groups with different worldviews
Approaches and methods
In recent decades, more and more violent conflicts have a religious or cultural dimension and take place between groups adhering to different religious or secular visions of the state and society. When groups with different worldviews are required to share the same (social, political, virtual, economic, or military) space, this can lead to tensions and give rise to violence—ranging from offensive language to physical attacks and open warfare.
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Call for papers - Political studies
Peace, times and territories in the age of contemporary dynamics
Adilaaku Journal, volume 2, issue 2 — Law, politics, and society in Africa
Les guerres d’intervention sous fond de démocratisation et de lutte contre le terrorisme, le génocide rwandais et bien d’autres conflits inscrivent la guerre comme fondement de notre modernité. Les sociétés africaines sont prises dans les rets de cette violence et la paix apparaît dans ce contexte comme la chose du monde la moins partagée alors qu’elle est, pour la plupart des États au monde, une condition sine qua non de la survie de l’humanité et de tout développement durable. Dans une Afrique tourmentée par des crises sociopolitiques, la quête de la paix à l’intérieur des pays et au-delà des frontières est permanente.
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Budapest
Resistance to Order and Authority (ROAR)
CEU/ELTE/Masaryk PhD Conference 2020
Religion has served to legitimize political power, but it has also been a basis for resistance against order and authority. Be it the Maccabean revolt, Gandhi's practice of non-violence resistance, contemporary neo-pagan religions, or the counter-system movements portrayed by Mark Juergensmeyer in his 2001 book Terror in the Mind of God, religious beliefs have motivated people to reject social order that they deem as unjust, and possibly rise against it. Even in today’s secularized societies, religion has served as the ground for social movements and manifestations addressing pressing socioeconomic threats such as climate change, social inequality, authoritarian governments and minority discrimination. These observations have encouraged new trends in scholarly debate, especially regarding the emergence of alternative religious ideas and rituals in modern societies. old and new religious convictions legitimized various resistance movements among different communities? Which causes have influenced violent mobilizations against established social order, non-violent struggle, or the establishment of alternative community frameworks? What can these movements and ideas tell us about the role that religion plays today both in secularized and non-secularized societies?
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Yaoundé
Extremism, wars, peace and development in Africa since the independences
L’Université Protestante d’Afrique Centrale (UPAC) au Cameroun, à travers son département Paix et développement (PD) invite les universitaires des sciences humaines et sociales, les représentants de la société civile, des organisations non gouvernementales, les religieux, et bien d’autres, à une réflexion profonde en vue de montrer que la fragilité qui caractérise les États africains soixante ans après les indépendances relève des extrémismes de toutes sortes qui y ont généré des guerres sans cesse, dissipé la paix et compromis les nombreux efforts de construction et de consolidation des États de droits, stables et prospères. Une réflexion qui pourrait aider à exorciser les démons de la guerre qui traumatisent les peuples africains depuis les indépendances.
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Lomé
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
Circulations in the global South: Ethnographic explorations of globalized exchanges
APAD Conference
After the Roskilde conference in 2018, devoted to mobility and migration, the Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development (APAD) proposes for its 2020 edition, co-organized with the Department of Anthropology and African Studies of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences (FSHS) of the University of Lomé (Togo), to focus on the multiple forms of large-scale circulation of goods, ideas, techniques, information and models that increasingly cross the global South and link it to the rest of the world. Panels or papers focusing on smaller-scale, regional or neighbouring countries' circulations, or showing the consequences of scale change in circulations, are also welcome.
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Lomé
Panel - APAD conference 2020
How do texts, practices and tools related to the “migration and development” debate circulate? This panel offers to analyse the processes of imposition, translation or hybridization, along with “travelling models”, and the appropriation or resistance experiences of the different categories of actors involved in migration/development governance. We examine the transnational circulation of texts and narratives that have become references for development practitioners in the Global South; the performativity of technical and managerial instruments, case models and “good practices”; the changes in the intermediaries and brokers categories.
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Lyon
Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity
Transgressing to better rule: shadows and lights of the power in Antiquity
Open to the whole of the ancient Mediterranean world, this conference is intended to be transdisciplinary. Several approaches can be considered: communications are expected to propose a reflection on forms of power or transgressive acts and to set out their characteristics, as well as their links with the society in which these powers and acts emerge. All types of transgressions can be addressed: social, political, philosophical, religious, literary, linguistic, etc.
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Paris | Aubervilliers
Conference, symposium - Representation
Images and imaginations in the Middle East and North Africa
Depuis les années 2000, et en particulier à partir des « révolutions arabes » de 2011, les régions du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient ont connu une explosion d’images. Réalisées dans des espace-temps situés souvent au cœur des luttes et reprises à foison, parfois hors contexte, diffusées sur les réseaux sociaux ou dans les médias traditionnels, ces images et les points de vue singuliers qu’elles véhiculent sont l’œuvre aussi bien de producteurs professionnels que d’amateurs aux prises avec les événements. Ainsi elles ont participé à médiatiser les conflits et les revendications et à créer une proximité émotionnelle avec les événements. Elles ont aussi servi à se réapproprier un vécu ou à résister à un imaginaire imposé.
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