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• 05 oct 2015

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Borders, walls and violence

  Costs and Alternatives to Border Fencing

  More border walls and border fences are being built every year all across the world. Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, and Tunisia are among the latest to announce yet another border fence. Twenty-five years ago it was believed that the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reconfiguration of international relations would open an age of globalization in which States would become obsolete, ushering in a world without borders. In the wake of 9/11, however, borders came back in light, new borders were created and new border walls erected. In the wake of the Arab Spring, came even more border barriers and walls, symbols that were thought to have disappeared with the collapse of the bipolar international system. Today, they reinforce borderlines the world over, transforming both soft and semi-permeable borders alike into sealed, exclusionary hard borders. Walls are symbols of identity reaffirmation, markers of State sovereignty, instruments of dissociation, locus of a growing violence.

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• 09 fév 2015

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Hégémonie ou résistance ? Sur le pouvoir ambigu de la communication – Crisis Communication Working Group

  Conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 2015

  The Crisis Communication Working Group aims to provide a forum for scholars researching the mediation of political and economic crisis, wars and terrorism, disasters, catastrophes and risks, combining global and local perspectives. We adopt a broad understanding of crisis communication with theoretical contributions from different perspectives and disciplines and hope to stimulate fruitful discussions about threat-image constructions and the consequences for democracy and civil rights.

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• 15 sep 2015

  Moncton

  Call for papers - Modern

  Représentations du génocide des Arméniens et des crimes de masse

  À l’occasion du centième anniversaire du génocide des Arméniens, un colloque international et interdisciplinaire intitulé « représentations du génocide des Arméniens et des crimes de masse » est organisé à l’université de Moncton, au Nouveau Brunswick, Canada, du 1^er au 3 octobre 2015. L’objectif principal de ce colloque consiste à faire le point sur l’avancée des connaissances scientifiques sur ce génocide et plus largement sur les crimes de masse aux XIX^e et XX^e siècles. Bien que le colloque soit centré sur le génocide des Arméniens, les communications pourront comporter une dimension comparée.

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