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• 07 déc 2013

  Paris

  Study days - History

  Socio-political uses of the category of genocide

  La catégorie de génocide est une notion juridique et scientifique qui fait l’objet de nombreux débats et polémiques dans le monde contemporain. Forgé par le juriste Raphaël Lemkin en 1944, ce terme est aujourd’hui devenu très fréquent, au point que son usage est au cœur de discussions et de conflits, aussi bien dans l’espace public (tel événement du passé peut-il être qualifié de génocide ?), que dans l’espace savant de l’écriture de l’histoire. Utilisé à l’origine pour désigner le crime perpétré par les nazis à l’égard des juifs et des tsiganes, il est devenu central dans la dénomination d’événements historiques auparavant appelés « massacres », et dans l’acquisition d’une stature internationale pour ces événements. Un certain nombre de termes dérivés sont même apparus, comme ethnocide, ou génocide culturel, manifestant de nombreuses projections émotionnelles et morales collectives. Face à la multiplication des discours convoquant cette catégorie, on peut distinguer la question de la qualification génocidaire au niveau scientifique et juridique, de celle de ses usages dans l’espace social. 

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• 01 déc 2013

  New York

  Call for papers - History

  Questioning Spaces of Citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean

  Latin American History Graduate Student Conference

  Scholars often invoke citizenship as an analytic frame to understand the history of Latin America and the Caribbean. While the concept can encompass a broad range of topics, this conference will focus on the spaces where individuals and groups come into contact with the institutions and symbols of the state. These spaces may be physical places, institutional settings, discursive realms, or other fora. In this graduate student conference, we will ask how such spaces of citizenship are constructed, delimited, and at times rejected, and how the terms of interaction and negotiation in these spaces are defined and re-defined.

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• 30 jui 2013

  Call for papers - Geography

  Ethnic or national minorities. Between renewal and permanence

  Belgéo Review

  The coordinaters of this issue of he Belgéo review plan to reflect about the "ethnic or national minorities", two polysemous concepts here perceived in a way opened to interpretation even if they are inscribed in P. Poutignat and J. Streiff-Fénart’s definition, when they state that these groups “only exist thanks to the subjective belief their members share that they constitute a community.” The minority group is dialectically linked to the existence of a majority. It can be said “ethnic” because of racial parameters but above all because of the presence of linguistic, religious, cultural or other discriminating and specific markers. The will to be different expresses itself in various ways – instutional or not – and leads to very diverse situations, located between resistance and cooperation, forced integration and autonomy. The way to name places, individuals, but also their status – granted or claimed for – their visibility in the social and political space, are elements characterizing the notion of “otherness”.

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• 21 avr 2013

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Uses and stakes of politics in aesthetics expression and performing arts

  Cultures-Kairós Journal #2

  L'objectif de ce second numéro de Cultures-Kairós – Revue d’anthropologie des pratiques corporelles et des arts vivants, est de s'interroger sur les manières dont l'artistique et le politique se rencontrent, se superposent et interagissent dans les sociétés contemporaines, et de se demander ce que nous révèlent ces « liens » dans le cadre de mobilisations sociales ou de manifestations ne relevant pas du champ du politique. Des contributions sont attendues à partir des axes suivants : les marges, leurs productions artistiques et leur devenir citoyen ; mobilisations sociales contemporaines : quel art au service de quel politique ?  ; de la performativité : l’émancipation comme enjeu de la création.

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• 30 avr 2013

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Pré-guerra(s)

  Atualmente vivemos tempos incertos em que a única certeza é a de que não sabemos para onde caminhamos, nem quais as regras que nos guiam. Os perigos são múltiplos e cada um mais explosivo do que o outro: nacionalismos exacerbados, fanatismo religioso, crise económica, insegurança, demagogia, falta de confiança nos dirigentes políticos, dentre muitos outros aspetos; enfim, um quadro ameaçador dos valores em que se fundamenta a civilização ocidental. A Revista Comunicação e Cultura convida a refletir sobre os fatores estéticos, sociais, políticos e económicos que constituem o quadro conceptual no alvor do fenómeno bélico e sobre o seu impacto na tessitura cultural, na organização da subjetividade, na formação da esfera pública e na qualidade da cidadania veiculada pelos media.

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• 28 fév 2013

  Berne

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - America

  PhD Position in Human Geography / Political Ecology

  In the context of the research module on "Cultural Negotiations: Asymmetries in the Latin American TransArea" of the ProDoc Programme entitled "The Dynamics of Transcultural Management and Governance in Latin America", the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) of the University of Bern is offering a PhD position in Human Geography / Political Ecology.

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• 30 mar 2013

  Frankfurt (Oder) | Słubice

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Phantom Borders in the Political Behaviour and Electoral Geography in East Central Europe

  We understand phantom borders as political borders, which politically/legally do not exist anymore but seem to appear in different forms and modes of social action and practices today, as for example voting as one part of political behaviour. The conference deals with historical borders, made visible in discourses and maps concerning political behavior, as for instance in electoral maps. Our aim is to challenge the historical interrelation of current political behaviour, the involvement of geopolitical images, internal as external governance contexts and transnational networks for (re)constructing historical borders as phantom borders. We are interested in case studies especially about East Central Europe, but also in studies from all over the world combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, addressing the main questions of the conference. Case studies may address different levels and scales from local to transnational.

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