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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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• 19 sep 2016

  Lille | Brussels

  Call for papers - Law

  Democratic and Electronic Changes in Local Public Action in Europe: REvolution or E-volution?

  The OLA network (Observatory on Local Autonomy), the CEMR (Council of European Municipalities and Regions), and Lille University, will organise a three-day conference on September 2017, in Lille (France) and Brussels (Belgium). The topic of the symposium is “Democratic and Electronic Changes in Local Public Action in Europe: REvolution or E-volution?”.

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• 03 jui 2016

  Brussels

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Urban studies

  PhD fellowship for a research project on “Reinventions of modernist rural landscapes”

  Focus: Rural planning in Morocco – 20th century

  MODSCAPES deals with rural landscapes produced by large-scale agricultural development and colonization schemes planned in the 20th century throughout Europe and beyond. Conceived in different political and ideological contexts, such schemes were pivotal to nation-building and state-building policies, and to the modernization of the countryside. They provided a testing ground for the ideas and tools of environmental and social scientists, architects, engineers, planners, landscape architects and artists, which converged around a shared challenge. 

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• 15 jui 2016

  Charleroi | Liège

  Call for papers - Economy

  Social and solidarity economy in the territories

  Initiatives, challenges and prospects

  La XV^e conférence annuelle internationale du réseau international d’intelligence territoriale (INTI) aura lieu les 23, 24 et 25 novembre 2016 à Charleroi et Liège en Belgique. Elle portera sur l'économie sociale et solidaire dans les territoires, les initiatives, enjeux et perspectives.

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• 01 jui 2016

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - Sociology

  From the living to the social - seed issues

  Le présent colloque prend le parti de questionner l’enjeu de la biodiversité cultivée plutôt que celui du productivisme agricole sans nier la nécessité de travaux scientifiques au sujet de la production agricole et de la qualité des semences. Il vise à interroger, du point de vue des sciences humaines, la production de connaissances profanes et scientifiques et leur rencontre, ainsi que les modes de gestion face au verrouillage du régime.

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• 15 jui 2016

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Summer School - Religion

  Islamism and contemporary worlds - an interdisciplinary approach to complex issues

  Le Centre interdisciplinaire d’études de l’islam dans le monde contemporain (CISMOC) de l’université catholique de Louvain organise du 22 au 27 août 2016 une école d'été « Islams et mondes contemporains : une approche interdisciplinaire d’enjeux complexes ». Cette Summer School offre une introduction interdisciplinaire aux multiples facettes des islams contemporains par le biais des sciences politiques, sociologie, anthropologie, histoire et islamologie. Elle vise à comprendre la complexité des enjeux, aussi bien au niveau de la pensée que des pratiques, auxquels se confrontent les musulmans et les sociétés d’ici et d’ailleurs. Elle est avant tout soucieuse d’un ancrage en relation aux réalités européennes (et belges) de l’islam et des musulmans  tout en soulignant les liens qui s’établissent avec d’autres régions du monde musulman dans le paysage global de l’islam.

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• 01 avr 2016

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Sociology

  What is the commitment of play?

  Ce premier colloque du Laboratoire jeux et mondes virtuels (LABJMV) entend réunir les chercheurs et les professionnels travaillant sur le jeu autour de la problématique de l’engagement du joueur. Afin de croiser les points de vue, le colloque comprendra à la fois des communications issues de recherches scientifiques et d’expertises professionnelles.

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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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• 05 fév 2016

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - Sociology

  The production of subjectivity under neo-liberal governance

  Neoliberal governance and its structures, and dispositifs, are at the core of contemporary debates in the human sciences. David Harvey (2006) considers neoliberalism a theory that places individual freedom as the final goal of all civilisations. Private property rights, free markets and liberal democracy are the means through which individual freedom is best protected and society flourishes, according to neo-liberal views. The primary role of the state is to enforce property rights, while market forces govern the economy. Neo-liberal ideas have shaped global and national policy for over three decades, introducing the primacy of private property and market rationality in all range of public life from education to healthcare, from land governance to environmental protection. Workers' rights in the global North as well as in the South are devalued in favour of individual responsibility.

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