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• 20 aoû 2020

  Call for papers - Geography

  The politics and geopolitics of translation

  The multilingual circulation of knowledge and transnational histories of geography

  In the last fifty years, the field of the history of geography has moved from an approach dominated by National Schools to an attention to the circulation of knowledge in its multiple scales. The history of science and of geography have in the last decades incorporated concepts such as transit, networks, mobilities, the transnational, circulation, centre of calculation, spaces of knowledge, geographies of science, spatial mobility of knowledge, geographies of reading and geographies of the book. More recently, a turn has emerged towards considering the dynamics and necessities of decolonizing the history of geography. This work is turning the field of the history of geography into one of the most dynamic areas of the discipline. Yet we suggest that questions of language and translation have remained under-determined in this new field. Translation and writing have not received the same attention as, for instance, departmental histories, sites of museums, laboratories, botanic gardens, and scientific societies, for example. We suggest, therefore, that new perspectives opened up by translation studies can open new windows on the history of geography.

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• 30 avr 2020

  Call for papers - Geography

  Mountains and New Ways of Building Knowledge

  Contemporary societies have to tackle “wicked” problems, characterized by their complexity, a diversity of views about these problems, as well as a context of uncertainty. Increasingly, the thinking goes that such problems cannot be properly understood by researchers from a single discipline or even by researchers alone. Therefore, the latter are encouraged to find collaborators across disciplinary and academic boundaries and to find and implement « new » ways of building and spreading knowledge.This call is seeking articles that will allow us to question – through and from the mountains – the forms, processes and effects of those “new” ways of building knowledge. It also aims to encourage the reflexivity of researchers who contribute to this evolution and question the how and the why of a fondness for/reliance on Alpine research.

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• 01 fév 2020

  Montreal

  Call for papers - History

  Interdiscursive migrations: thinking the circulation of ideas

  Au cours de cette journée d'étude, nous aimerions vous inviter à vous pencher sur ce phénomène largement répandu dans la pensée ancienne et moderne, et que l’on pourrait nommer migration interdiscursive. Il s'agira donc de réfléchir à la perméabilité des frontières qui séparent les différents domaines du savoir en pensant les champ de provenance et les champ d’appartenance d’une idée, en se demandant quand finit le transfert, quand s’achève le voyage. Par ailleurs, il faut comprendre ce qui permet et motive le transfert, puis analyser en retour comment cela affecte le discours d'accueil et comment cette migration est susceptible de transformer l’objet même de ce discours. Il s’agit en somme de penser la circulation des idées.

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