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• 01 déc 2013

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  The Transnationalization of Religion through Music

  The transnationalization of religion refers to the relocalization of beliefs, rituals and religious practices beyond state lines, in real or symbolic spaces, with the help of new imaginaries and narrative identities. Although the analysis of religious transnationalization has revealed the various ways religion transcends borders, the role of music in this process is rarely addressed. Yet this role is essential in the transnationalization of universal religions like Islam and Christianity. Music also contributes to the migration of local religions, neotraditionalist movements, and cults associated with a particular area, such as Haitian Voodoo, Cuban Santería, or Brazilian Candomble. Such musical phenomena, far from being new, gave birth to early religious globalizations.

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• 17 oct 2013

  18 oct 2013

  Montreal

  Conference, symposium - Geography

  Borders, Walls and Security

  Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question still remains “Do good fences still make good neighbours”? Since the Great Wall of China, construction of which began under the Qin dynasty, the Antonine Wall, built in Scotland to support Hadrian’s Wall, the Roman “Limes” or the Danevirk fence, the “wall” has been a constant in the protection of defined entities claiming sovereignty, East and West. But is the wall more than an historical relict for the management of borders? In recent years the wall has been given renewed vigour all around the world, whether in North America, in Europe (with the Greek border fence), in Asia (for instance in India) or in Middle East. But the success of these new walls in the development of friendly and orderly relations between nations (or indeed, within nations) remains unclear. What role does the wall play in the development of security and insecurity? Do walls contribute to a sense of insecurity as much as they assuage fears and create a sense of security for those ‘behind the line’? Exactly what kind of security is associated with border walls?

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• 30 sep 2013

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Social Transformation through Social Innovation

  IVth CRISES International Conference

  Au départ, le constat est partagé : nous traversons une période de mutations rapides sans précédent qui affectent à la fois notre rapport au temps, à l’espace et à la collectivité. Crise financière, crise des institutions, crise des grands récits, désaffection politique, croissance des inégalités et perte de sens se conjuguent pour créer un climat délétère associé à une perte de repères et au désenchantement. D’autres préfèrent y voir une période de transition, une possibilité de renouvellement. Cette crise, qui, pour certains, donne lieu à une seconde modernité, serait alors marquée par la reconstruction issue de dynamiques d’innovation et de transformation. Ainsi, les dérèglements présents, loin de pousser le corps social vers l’apathie, génèrent au contraire chez certains acteurs sociaux une volonté de transformation sociale visant à redéfinir la société sur des bases plus solidaires, plus équitables, voire plus éthiques, communautaires, écologiques et citoyennes.

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