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• 05 sep 2016

  Brussels

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

  PhD Grant in Urban Anthropology of Youth in Laos

  EASt provides a PhD grant for a research titled: “Negotiating Identities in Public Spaces Among Old and New Groups of Young City Dwellers in Vientiane, Laos”. The research will explore how young migrants experience, use and appropriate public spaces, including cyberspace, in the Lao fast-developing capital, Vientiane. How are their social maps structured and negotiated in relation to public spaces? How do they interact and perceive their relationship with the local youth born and bred in Vientiane? How do they coexist and socialise in urban public spaces?

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• 25 aoû 2016

  Brussels

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

  PhD position in Chinese studies and cultural studies

  This project will explore how young Chinese cosplayers engage with the public at large to express new identities in spaces that are heavily regulated by social and political censoring mechanisms. On the one hand, this doctoral research will explore the structural organisation of Chinese cosplay (associations, conventions); on the other hand, it will look into specific bodily performances in public spaces.

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• 01 mai 2016

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  The political martyr (11th-16th centuries)

  Le Moyen Âge occidental connaît, en particulier dans le dernier tiers de la période, un déplacement des logiques martyriales vers des sphères laïques – celles des autorités politiques, mais aussi des sujets et fidèles qui participent à la fabrique de ces « martyrs politiques » médiévaux. Oubliant l'utilisation politique du martyre chrétien, c'est la piste des martyrs « hors la foi » que nous nous proposons d'explorer, à travers quatre thématiques principales : les sources – leur nature, leur diffusion, les échos qu'elles ont suscités ; les figures – le potentiel d'identification qu'elles possèdent ; la mort – le message qu'elle véhicule, ses éventuelles récupérations ; les contextes favorables au développement de ce phénomène.

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• 01 mar 2016

  Liège

  Call for papers - Geography

  Sustainability of Rural Systems

  Balancing Heritage and Innovation

  Belgium is a highly populated country with a long history of land exploitation. The landscape is modified through human impact, shaped by diverse agricultural practices, early urbanization and industrialization, the exploitation of quarries and mines and the dense development of canals, railways and motorway networks. Nevertheless, rural areas are important because farming activities, increasingly mechanized and technologically based, contribute to economic activity, especially to Belgian exports. Agriculture plays an important role in maintaining open space and offering many services, which may be called agroservices, to the new residents of the countryside and people seeking recreation. Due to this long history and sophisticated technological responses to different issues, Belgium is a suitable place to reflect on sustainability and how to balance cultural and natural heritage and innovation with special reference to the ecological and social dimensions.

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