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Luxembourg City

Multi.Pluri.Trans. Emerging Fields in Educational Ethnography

The conference picks up recent tendencies in ethnographic research that respond to the diversifying social conditions of educational practice by addressing issues such as the translocality and pluricentricity, the multilingual, intercultural as well as multimodal nature of educational realities and the complex relations between local practices and national / global transformations and policies in the fields of education and social work. In different formats of contributions we will present and discuss theoretical and methodological conceptualizations, empirical research findings, as well as questions of research practice and methods.

Brno

Study days - Middle Ages

The Face of the Dead and the Early Christian World

The theme chosen for this meeting is the study of funerary images in the transition between late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The central question will a reflection on the function of the funerary images in a broad sense, but also their impact on the early christian world. The choice of the chronological time also shows the second intention of the colloquium: this is an attempt to explain why the ancient funerary tradition of the image will eventually disappear, replaced by other figures of the representative functions. Through various media - from the mosaic and painting, through sculpture and ending with gilded glasses - there will be presented one of the nodal representation of the self: the human face on the border between life and death.

Taipei

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Bodily Cultivation & Cultural Learning

8th International Symposium of CORPUS (International Group for the Cultural Study of the Body)

Almost all cultures recognize as a means of achieving religious or spiritual goals, cultivating moral and emotional virtue, or transforming ideas into bodily practices. Some of the most common examples include fasting, meditation, vegetarianism, and qigong or taichi. Rather than focus on these obvious examples, conference attendees will examine culturally driven bodily practices such as proper ways to walk, sit, and gesture—all of which are often endowed with rich cultural meaning, information about cultural learning, and knowledge about the cultivation of values and merit. Bodily cultivation can also be analyzed as a channel for learning, manifesting, developing, or shaping cultural concepts and ideals.

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Anthropology, ethnography, and artistic praxis

Journal of Art and Anthropology / Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia

The upcoming special issue of Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia (Journal of Art and Anthropology, CadernosAA) – “Anthropology, ethnography and artistic praxis” – aims to make a contribution to the ongoing reflection on the relations between art, ethnography and anthropology, drawing on the work of social scientists and artists alike, within their respective fields of knowledge and expression.

Rouen

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

The child’s room as a cultural microcosm

Space, Consumption and Pedagogy

Le colloque « La chambre d’enfant, un microcosme culturel » vise à dresser l’état des connaissances sur la culture matérielle de l’enfant dans l’espace domestique suivant trois axes principaux. Ils ont été retenus pour mieux saisir la chambre d'enfant aussi bien dans son histoire que dans le monde contemporain, dans sa matérialité que dans ses représentations. Le premier envisagera la chambre d’enfant sous l’angle de l’architecture, comme un espace délimité spécifiquement réservé à l'enfant au sein de l'habitat. Le deuxième axe s’attachera à la chambre comme lieu privilégié des biens de l’enfance et de la consommation enfantine. Enfin le dernier axe considérera la chambre comme un espace éducatif, dans lequel peuvent cohabiter perspectives scolaires et univers du divertissement, visées adultes et points de vue enfantins.

Lisbon

Call for papers - Representation

Report from the Pop Line: on the life and afterlife of popular

At the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, popular culture finds itself at a crossroads: has the concept been drained of its meaning because of its overwhelming popularity? After the euphoria around the popular, what afterlife can be expected from it? Should we still be discussing the popular as opposed to high and folk culture? And where and how do pop art forms intersect with the current notion of the popular? This conference wishes to address the complexities surrounding the debate around the notions of both pop and the popular and discuss the possibilities of their afterlife.

Paris

Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

Psychotic Experiences, Religion, and Spirituality

This conference is centered on reported or observed psychotic experiences and discusses the ways in which religious and spiritual idioms are mobilized by patients, as well as by medical and psychological practitioners and religious healers in their therapeutic relations. Overall, the conference covers a significant variety of social, institutional and cultural contexts. As an expected result, we should be able to better understand the ways in which culture and social institutions contribute to the shaping of individual psychotic experience, and how they create dynamics of integration and exclusion. In addition, by inviting social scientists and medical practitioners to confront their perspectives, we would like to question what appears to be the underlying constructivist stance on many recent perspectives on religious experience and spirituality linked to psychotic states.

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Linköping

Conference, symposium - Religion

Historiography of Religion

How, under which conditions and with which consequences are religions historicized? The conference aims at furthering the study of religion as of historiography by analysing how religious groups employ historical narratives in the construction of their identities or how such groups are invented by later historiography .

Guimarães

Conference, symposium - Modern

Structures of the XXth Century: architectural heritage and patrimonialization

The evolution of the architectural languages of the XX century, from modernist to post-modernist, has often stressed the importance of structures in expressing and fostering innovation. However, in the patrimonialization processes identities, memories and languages, prevail on structures and materials, due to new uses, new norms and standards adaptation.

Gothenburg

Call for papers - Religion

Elective affinities. Critical approach of religious heritage-making in the Mediterranean

Workshop of the inaugural conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies

This workshop of the inaugural conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (Gothenburg, 5 June 2012) focuses on the relationships between religion and heritage in the Mediterranean. It aims to study the entwining of these two phenomena and reveal the eventual particularities of religious heritage-making, as well as to discuss the conceptions of heritage embedded in the monotheistic religions, and re-examine the cultural matrix that religion and heritage share, redefine or negotiate through memory practices.

Lausanne

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Shaping Heritage-Scapes

Processes of Patrimonialization in a globalised World

The purpose of this multidisciplinary and international symposium is to give scholars from various backgrounds and geographical areas working on the topic of heritage and museums an opportunity to meet. We propose to regard them both as part of one and the same process referred to as patrimonialization that transform places, people, « traditions », and artefacts into heritage to be protected, exhibited, and highlighted. We welcome contributions that address this multifaceted process and focus on one of its aspects : objects, arenas, sites and paradigms.

Nanterre

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS)

Third annual meeting (thematic panels & skills lab)

Founded in 2009, MAYS connects more than 250 BA students, MA students, PhD candidates and postdocs in Medical Anthropology, from European universities and research institutions. MAYS 3rd annual meeting (conference + skills lab) will take place in Nanterre in July 2012.

Gap

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Bows and Arrows

Improving knowledge and preservation of the ethnographic collections of extra-European archery

Le Musée Muséum départemental des Hautes-Alpes organise trois journées d’étude, de rencontre et d’échange, sur le thème des arcs et flèches des collections ethnographiques extra-européennes. Les sujets de discussion porteront sur l’identification, la valorisation et la conservation de ce type de collection. A cette occasion le musée sortira de ses réserves sa collection ethnographique constituée de pièces provenant d’Océanie, Afrique, Asie et Amérique. Ce séminaire s’adresse aux chercheurs, anthropologues, médiateurs, professionnels de la conservation et de l’univers muséal.

Clermont-Ferrand

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Cultural resistance and forms of ethno-spatial resilience : the example of isolated minorities in Northern America

Le CELIS - Centre de recherches sur les littératures et la sociopoétique (EA 1002), le CERAMAC - Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées au Massif Central (EA 997) et la Maison des sciences de l'homme de Clermont-Ferrand (UMS 3108) lancent un appel à contributions pour des journées d'études « résistances culturelles et formes de résiliences ethno-spatiales : le cas des minorités isolées en Amérique du Nord » les 7 et 8 juin 2012 à la MSH de Clermont-Ferrand.

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