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• 21 fév 2016

  Prag

  Beitragsaufruf - Europa

  Talking about “Arabs”. Echoes from different Europes

  The immigration emergency, the Cologne attacks and other reports on the Arab populations in Europe generate commentaries across the continent. The concentration of unwelcoming attitudes towards Middle Eastern newcomers in Central and Eastern Europe is seen by some as the evidence of “a split of mentalities” between the “old Europe” and its ex-communist states. There is a need, however, to complexify these dichotomies by looking into how concretely knowledge on the Middle East is produced in different European countries. The Oriental Institute in Prague is organizing a workshop on this issue, seeking to investigate the nexus between three different fields of knowledge production and diffusion in today’s Europe: media, academic and policy-making.

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• 15 fév 2016

  Prag

  Beitragsaufruf - Soziologie

  Information Literacy in the Inclusive Society

  European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL)

  Information Literacy in the Inclusive Society being the main theme,  European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) aims to bring together researchers, information professionals, media specialists, educators, policy makers, employers and all other related parties from around the world to exchange knowledge and experience and discuss current issues, recent developments, challenges, theories, and good practices.

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• 29 fév 2016

  Prag

  Beitragsaufruf - Politikwissenschaften

  Private actors in politics and policy-making

  Trespassers producing norms?

  At a time when a growing literature documents a rising involvement of private actors such as business associations, professional associations, multinational corporations or law firms in the creation of public policy, it seems crucial to study the practices of this involvement, as well as to study the meaning of such developments for the very distinction that social sciences have been making between the private and the public spheres, the private and the public actors. In other words, how do the concrete modalities of this involvement reshape the definition of roles and statuses of private and public actors in politics and policy? 

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