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• 30 sep 2018

  Guelph

  Call for papers - History

  Prisons, Prisoners and Prison Records in Historical Perspective

  The rise of the prison as an institution of mass incarceration for offenders has for long fascinated researchers. In part, this is due to the unusually detailed nature of most prison records. The wide availability of somewhat similar sources across diverse European and European-derived societies provides criminologists, social and economic historians, demographers and other social scientists with rich collections of personal information that have been analysed intensively since the 1970s. The increasing power of software and hardware and the accumulation of very large quantities of prison data, some of it linked to other sources, offers challenges and opportunities for researchers today. The workshop responds to the challenge of harnessing criminal justice records by bringing together scholars in different disciplines and countries to share information about their sources, methodologies of classification and analysis, and to reconceptualize research paradigms.

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• 15 jan 2018

  Montreal East

  Call for papers - Sociology

  50 years ago, May 1968

  Ce colloque souhaite cultiver la mémoire de ces événements, avec tout ce qu'ils comportent de densité, d'ambiguïtés et de paradoxes. Le cadre retenu ne se confine pas à l'épicentre des barricades du quartier latin à Paris, mais cherche au contraire à considérer ce printemps de la jeunesse dans un plus vaste ensemble, incluant ses avatars européens (Prague), américains (Mexico, San Francisco, Boston, Montréal) et asiatiques (Tokyo). Une approche pluridisciplinaire, conviant l'ensemble des sciences sociales, préside à cette rencontre de chercheurs académiques, ou dilettantes (témoins des événements), animés par la volonté d'éclaircir l'héritage de ces mouvements sociaux.

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