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• 31 déc 2014

  Istanbul

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Crossed Perspectives on European Borders: Mobility, security and borders

  XIIth European Days of Galatasaray

  Since 2002, the European Days of Galatasaray constitute an annual opportunity to bring together researchers interested in interdisciplinary topics related to Europe. The theme of the 12th European Days, is entitled: “Crossed Perspectives on European Borders: Mobility, security and borders”.The goal of the conference is to tackle issues such as borders, new forms of mobility, migration policies and securitization in a changing context strongly marked by the financial and economic crisis in the region.

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• 23 jui 2014

  Nablus

  Call for papers - Modern

  Living, Consuming and Action in Glocal Palestine

  More often than not, Palestine, characterised by conflict, is analysed through the sole lenses of its political or cultural idiosyncrasy. Yet, new ways of living, consuming and acting that are embedded in the global reality, have emerged in the previous years and remained understudied. This global dimension may be understood as an imposed and inescapable reality, yet it is also adopted, integrated, amended and applied to a local dimension, so as to create a purely Palestinian form of it.This event will gather mostly researchers and PhD students in social sciences specialised in Palestine but will also pursue a comparative approach by resorting to other cases in the Middle East, North Africa or Europe. The conference also aims at confronting various approaches at the crossroads between art and science, research and action; it will create the frame for a dialogue between social sciences and the works of artists, architects as well as the new actions and philosophy of citizen and activist societies.

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• 10 mar 2014

  Arbil Governorate

  Call for papers - Modern

  The evolving relations between nation-states and Kurdish areas

  What impact on the modes of local governance?

  The departments of contemporary studies of IFEA (Istanbul) and IFPO organize a workshop in Erbil, the 29th of May 2014. This workshop aims at analysing the evolving dynamics of the Kurdish populated areas in Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran. More precisely, it will focus on the changing interactions between the nation-states and the Kurdish political actors, and on the impacts of these transformations on the modes of local governance. 

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• 18 fév 2014

  19 fév 2014

  Ramallah

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Contestations, Emotions! Social and artistic expressions in the Public Space

  A theoretical and practical perspective from the ground

  During the recent movements of contestation in Mediterranean countries different kind of aesthetic gestures using the streets and the public spaces as places for a public manifestation of some social, ordinary -or radical- critic. They proceed from an ordinary culture that is transformed, adapted then spread out upon a new form in artistic tracks taking place in public spaces. These actions have both a critical and aesthetic dimension. They rely on the environment, mobilize cognitive, memorial and cultural or ordinary patterns. They also mobilize a common culture . This is the case of rap, new uses of old music, villages against occupation, graphic art in Palestine, in Egypt or in Syria. The conference will present and analyse some forms of experimentations, and public and critical commitments. What kind of “public spaces” is in use nowadays? How it configures new spaces of critic and public space and a new environment ? The panel will adopt a trans-disciplinary perspective by bringing together social scientists and practicers or activists.

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• 25 jan 2014

  Taipei

  Study days - Asia

  The Geopolitics of Film and Entertainment Industries Across the Taiwan Strait

  Franco-Taiwanese Workshop

  The Taipei office of the HK-based French Center for the Study of Contemporary China (CEFC, http://www.cefc.com.hk/rubrique.php?id=73) is inviting you to join a limited number of researchers in freely exchanging ideas about Cross-Taiwan Strait cinema and entertainment industries in a geopolitical perspective.

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• 20 mar 2014

  Ningbo

  Call for papers - Geography

  Tourist practices, discourses and representations around the contemporary recreative uses of the countryside

  Les universités d’Angers (France) et de Ningbo (Chine) proposent une manifestation scientifique autour des phénomènes de tourisme et de loisirs dans les espaces ruraux, afin de saisir les rapports entre ces deux objets considérés comme sources privilégiées de réflexions et d’échanges. Le tourisme dit rural a déjà fait l’attention de nombreux chercheurs et depuis longtemps, Michel Bonneau proposant dès 1984 un « bilan de trente année de recherches géographiques » sur la question. Il n’est donc pas tant question de proposer ici un nouveau colloque sur les manifestations contemporaines de ce phénomène, que de réfléchir aux discours et représentations autour des usages recréatifs de la ruralité. Trois axes d'analyse sont privilégiés : les représentations et discours sur la campagne ; les logiques entrepreneuriales et les stratégies de mise en tourisme des espaces ruraux ; ce que le tourisme dans les espaces ruraux veut dire aujourd'hui.

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