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Prague

Mapping the History of the Bohemian Lands and the First Czechoslovak Republic (1880-1938)

It seems that in contrast to the contemporary history of former Czechoslovakia, the research on the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries has remained static in the last couple of years. How can the recent historiography on the Bohemian lands be encouraged? Which approaches and research fields emphasizing the mutual relationships between local, national and transnational actors promise new perspectives and interpretations of multiethnic society? The workshop aims at critical discussions of the state of research and of ongoing research projects related to the Bohemian lands and the First Czechoslovak Republic, focusing on comparative or transnational questions in the given period.

Istanbul

Call for papers - Political studies

Beyond soft power: The stakes and configurations of the influence of contemporary Turkey in the world

This workshop will explore the theme of Turkish political and cultural influence in the world, exploring scientific debates on the topic of “soft power” and its applicability to contemporary Turkey. This workshop aims at raising several questions: To what extent is the concept of “soft power” adequate to characterize Turkey’s influence and its weaknesses both on the international stage and towards its neighboring countries? Reciprocally, how can the analysis of the different patterns of Turkey’s influence help us question the concept of “soft power”, and to come up with other notions?

Paris

Call for papers - Political studies

Après le post-communisme

Dépasser la dichotomie européanisation contre tournant autoritaire

Une part importante des pays anciennement communistes (hors URSS) fait l'objet de travaux en termes d'européanisation tandis que les ex-républiques soviétiques sont souvent abordées sous l'angle du nationalisme et des régimes autoritaires. Serait-ce là l'essentiel du post-communisme ? Une fatale alternative sans autre issue ? Organisée par les doctorants du programme Russie – CEI de Sciences Po, cette journée d'études vise à dépasser cette opposition. Les axes thématiques retenus sont les suivants : nationalisme, relations internationales, mémoire, personnel politique et mobilisation. La journée d’étude permettra également d'inscrire ces recherches dans les questionnements actuels de la science politique en les confrontant au regard de spécialistes d'autres aires géographiques.

Mohammedia

Call for papers - Sociology

Élites maghrébines et subsahariennes formées en URSS

Russie et dans les pays d'Europe de l'Est

Avec le mouvement de décolonisation en Afrique, l'URSS et les pays d'Europe de l'Est se sont ouverts à l'accueil massif des étudiants africains. Le colloque entend retracer les grandes lignes de cette histoire en accordant une attention particulière aux pays du grand Maghreb et aux parcours professionnels de ces étudiants, notamment les futurs inégnieurs. Il est organisé autour de quatre axes principaux : histoire des relations politiques et universitaires entre les pays du grand Maghreb et les pays de l’ex-bloc soviétique ; devenir professionnel et politique des diplômés maghrébins et sub-sahariens ; étudiants maghrébins et subsahariens : histoires, parcours et expériences spécifiques ? ; le groupe socio-professionnel des ingénieurs.

Mykolayiv

Call for papers - Political studies

Challenging the Social Order: Revolution, Reform and Transformation Under and After Socialism

International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine - Mykolaiv (Ukraine)

The 5th Annual International Social Science School, to be held in Mykolaiv, Southern Ukraine, on 2-9 July 2013, will have the theme of “Challenging the Social Order: Revolution, Reform and Transformation Under and After Socialism.” For an intensive week in early July, an international group of twenty doctoral students and up to a dozen faculties are converging to a different town in Ukraine to hear and discuss presentations on ongoing research on a critical theme. The Summer School is designed to be interdisciplinary and international and follows the format of a Workshop. The program also includes lectures and field trips, of historical and contemporary significance, within the region.

Paris

Call for papers - Political studies

A Forgotten October? Russia in 1993

From 21 September to 4 October 1993, Russia experienced a major political crisis. The political confrontation between President Boris Yeltsin and the Parliament ended with the storming of Parliament by the army on 4 October, and the arrests of the rebel deputies and their supporters : more than 150 were dead and 400 injured. October 1993 has been considered as a stage in the regime's derailment from democracy and as forming the matrix of political developments in the country leading to Vladmir Putin. Twenty years after October 1993, this Conference aims to propose a sociological analysis of this crucial but neglected political crisis. To this end, it seeks to question the official version of the event, and will restore the place of alternative accounts and memories. It will analyse the debates on different political models and economic reformes so as to understand the stakes of the conflict as identified by the actors.

Call for papers - History

Communications and media in the USSR and Eastern Europe

Technologies, politics, cultures, social practices

In the social sciences, communications are considered fundamental to the constitution of any society. The technologies and infrastructures for communications are also social institutions in their own right, with their own specific historical trajectories. With this in mind, we can assume that political regimes that abuse their control of communications engender social atomization, the rupture or weakening of social ties, in that attempts to maintain these ties via communications media may be met with repression. At the same time, however, it is social relations — “useful” connections – that allow individuals to engage in mutual assistance and to exchange goods and services in the economies of shortage typical of many authoritarian regimes.

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.

Ixelles-Elsene

Call for papers - Europe

Encounters, cohabitation and the confrontation of Slavic and Germanic worlds

Slavica Bruxellensia journal

La rédaction de « Slavica Bruxellensia » vous invite à contribuer à la constitution du dixième numéro qui sera consacré au thème : « Rencontres, cohabitations et confrontations des mondes slave et germanique » au travers des siècles et des genres littéraires et artistiques. En effet, depuis le XIIIe siècle, suite à la rapide croissance démographique dans la partie occidentale de l’Europe, l’arrivée des colons germaniques en Europe centrale et orientale contribue à un dialogue fructueux, quoique complexe et non exempt de tensions multiples, entre les mondes slave et germanique. De nombreux travaux proposant un regard neuf furent effectués surtout dès les années 1990 (à la fois par les historiens et les chercheurs en littérature) sur les aspects littéraires et historiques de la fin de cette cohabitation, qui a culminé après la seconde guerre mondiale et l’expulsion des populations germanophones des parties orientales de l’Europe. Les questions résultant de ces bouleversements géopolitiques, largement tabouisées par les régimes autoritaires, resurgissent avec force à partir des années 1990 dans les travaux scientifiques et les œuvres artistiques.

Lille

Call for papers - Representation

Transnational representations of the flight and expulsions of Germans after the Second World War

Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Depuis une quinzaine d’années, les événements de la fuite et de l’expulsion des Allemands des territoires de l’Est à la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale occupent l’espace public en Allemagne. Le colloque souhaite s'interroger sur les représentations littéraires, artistiques, médiatiques et muséographiques de ces événements dans une perspective transnationale, en incluant la réception de ces événements dans les principaux pays voisins concernés : Pologne – République tchèque et Slovaquie. Il s'inscrit ainsi dans une tendance à lire ces événements dans une perspective européenne des migrations et déplacements de population.

Guyancourt

Call for papers - Modern

Globalisation and Minor Cultural Groups

The role of so-called minority people in rethinking the future of modern societies

Minority groups, whose way of life has historically suffered from globalization, are often cited as victims of global processes, but they are rarely studied for the techniques or technologies of accommodation and resistance they have implemented as a response to global processes— the most devastating of these processes being colonization in its various aspects. Indeed, globalist literature does not yet offer a conceptualization or theorizing of the social, cultural, political and territorial continuity of “minorized” cultures, let alone does it afford enough analytical space to these so-called cultural minorities in the process of questioning the values and practices of globalization. Therefore, this conference will participate in building more connections between different experiences in order to think up the best alternatives to the global economic and political system in place and to the way of life brought about by global phenomena which do not work anymore.

Victoria

Call for papers - Europe

Annual Association canadienne des slavistes conference

La conférence annuelle de l’Association canadienne des slavistes se déroulera à Victoria, en Colombie-Britannique du 1er au 3 juin 2013 dans le cadre du congrès de la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines. Le thème de ce congrès 2013 est « @ la fine pointe ». Nous vous invitons à soumettre des propositions de communication individuelles, de panels et de tables rondes. Nous préférons les panels complets. Veuillez suivre les instructions ci-dessous pour la rédaction de votre résumé de communication. Nous encourageons particulièrement les étudiants des cycles supérieurs, ainsi que les jeunes chercheurs, à participer à cette conférence. Nous souhaitons également encourager une plus grande participation des étudiants et spécialistes francophones du Canada et d'ailleurs.

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