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Toulouse
The British Conception of Citizenship: History, Changes and Transfers
Depuis l'apparition du terme anglo-normand de « citizen » qui désigne le plus souvent l'habitant d'une ville possédant un certain nombre de droits et libertés, jusqu'aux débats les plus récents sur l'identité nationale ou supra-nationale (Britishness, citizenship tests...), en passant par la privation durable des dissenters, des catholiques et des juifs de droits civiques, bien au-delà du Toleration Act (1689), ce colloque se propose de revenir sur les mutations de la notion de citoyenneté au cours de l'histoire de l'Union. Les tentatives d'introduire de la démocratie participative, de réformer le système représentatif traditionnel et d’accroître la responsabilité politique des élus au cours de la période contemporaine témoignent d’un désir de renouveau et nous invitent à préciser les contours de cette notion dans le Royaume-Uni d'aujourd'hui.
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Retrospectives: A Postgraduate History Journal
Retrospectives: A Postgraduate History Journal is pleased to announce the call for papers for its 2014 edition. Retrospectives is an online graduate journal run and published by postgraduate history students at the University of Warwick. Retrospectives is dedicated to the publication of original, peer-reviewed refereed articles and book reviews by postgraduate students within any historical era. It specialises on early modern to contemporary history, with a focus on the ‘non-traditional’ aspects and other aspects reflected in the University of Warwick’s research community.
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Paris
The inaugural international conference of the French Society of Modernist Studies
The aim of this two-day conference is to foster discussion on communities in the modernist period. As discursive constructs and historical practices, communities constitute a privileged phenomenon from which to understand the political and ethical regime of modernist texts, as well as the actual forms of collective experience in which writers and readers were involved. More than a decade after Jessica Berman’s landmark work on "the politics of community" in modernist fiction, we seek to explore the various ways in which communities were configured across genres and artistic media, but also to acknowledge the grounds of their historical and cultural specificity. We hope that this will lead us to distinguish various versions of the communal, from the ideal to the empirical, from the utopian to the everyday, from consensus to dissensus.
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Paris
Labour and Empire in the Age of Decolonisation: the British Experience, 1919-1984
Alors qu’historiens de l’Empire et spécialistes d’histoire ouvrière se sont longtemps ignorés, le moment semble venu d’une « histoire sociale de l’Empire » et donc, pourquoi pas, d’une « histoire sociale de la décolonisation ». Dans l’historiographie de la décolonisation britannique, le monde du travail n’apparaît en effet souvent qu’à l’arrière-plan, les premiers rôles étant réservés aux « grands hommes » – hommes d’État métropolitains et élites indigènes en particulier. C’est ce relatif oubli des masses laborieuses (de leur vécu, de leurs initiatives, de leurs organisations) et du rôle des « sans voix » dans la dissolution de l’Empire britannique que notre journée d’études voudrait contribuer à réparer. La conférence se déroulera le vendredi 8 novembre 2013.
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Paris
The Health of One-Parent Families in the UK from Black Report (1980) to 2010 Marmot Review
La santé des familles monoparentales : du Black Report au rapport Marmot (1990-2010)
The life expectancy of the English population has increased but health inequalities have increased at the same time (Marmot Review, 2010). Lone mothers with dependent children suffering from depression have been the subject of publications (Bebbington et al., 2003; Atkins, 2010). Yet, other determinants of health in connection with lifestyle such as smoking, alcohol and drug consumption, tiredness, sleeping disorder, obesity, nutrition, diet, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancer, mortality, the lack of leisure and outdoor activities have seldom been mentioned, are not well-documented or passed over in silence. Still, the health of lone mothers with dependent children, whether they have experienced a divorce or a separation or are widows is frailer than the health of women who are married or living as a couple (Beatson-Hird et al., 1989). In 2011 in the UK, there were two million (1.96m) one-parent families. The country has 18 million families (17.9m) with dependent children (ONS, 2012). Almost 92% of single-parent families are headed by mothers and the rates have marginally changed since 2001. The conference will aim at uncovering these phenomena and exploring them in the light of quantitative and qualitative studies for instance.
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Nanterre
Mediasphere, Culture, Soft Power
In the wake of the London Olympics, which opened with a popular and populist ceremony depicting the Britain of yesteryear while celebrating the vibrancy of a modern multicultural society, it is timely to consider this deployment of soft power against the backdrop of contemporary Britain. More specifically, the aim of the conference is to explore and draw together common threads and themes – individual expression and freedom, an inherent consciousness of the past and a continuing national identity and iconoclasm – and to consider their influence in the context of broader political and social developments, including Britain’s faltering relationship with the EU, the response to the financial crisis and to Scottish devolution.
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Neuilly-sur-Marne
Electronic Games and Exclusions
This call for papers is for a multidisciplinary day conference on the subject of "Games and Exclusion" with a main focus on electronic and video games in social work approaches to socially excluded groups and populations. Papers can be submitted by researchers in all fields of the human and social sciences, professionals in social work as well as students in social work, masters and Phd programs. This day conference will take place on the 21st November 2013.
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Lire la littérature et les arts visuels du monde anglophone avec le Lacan de l’après-encore
Reading English-language Arts and Literature with the Later Lacan
Lacanian analysis of literature and the arts has not been in vogue in France for some time now. Following the publication of Écrits in 1966, there was a period of analytic fascination with the imaginary capture of the mirror phase and its intersection with the structures of the symbolic in both literary and film studies. Since the 1980s, academic engagement with Lacanian theory in the cultural field has been in a slump, and this for several reasons: the reputed difficulty of Lacan’s style as apprehended through Ecrits, the opposition of numerous feminist critics, and the general decline of theory in the field of literary studies. Today, in light of the growing force of scientistic conceptions of the human subject (at the level of intelligence, behaviour, reproduction, the limits of the body, mortality), Lacanian theory finds renewed relevance in its unwavering postulate of the subject as singular, unique and incalculable, insusceptible to scientific conclusiveness.
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Paris
The middle classes in the contemporary city
Depuis les deux dernières décennies, les classes moyennes font l’objet de nombreux débats scientifiques autour de leur définition, de leurs modes de vie, de leur positionnement politique et de leurs transformations, avec par exemple le débat sur le déclassement ou celui sur la contribution des classes moyennes à la solidarité collective. En termes plus académiques, l’analyse de ces groupes intermédiaires permet d’interroger les reconfigurations sociales et les évolutions des frontières entre groupes sociaux en cours dans les sociétés contemporaines. Ce colloque propose de prolonger ces débats en se centrant plus spécifiquement sur l’analyse des rapports au territoire des classes moyennes et de leur place dans la ville contemporaine.
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Besançon
Environment and post-human in Scotland
Representation and memory of land, nature and the living
Ce colloque international étudiera comment l'environnement — la terre et la nature — a été représenté et considéré à travers les âges et comment l'environnement a souvent assumé une place centrale dans l'expression artistique, politique, sociale et culturelle de l'Écosse. Nous examinerons comment ces éléments se situent par rapport à l'être humain, à son passé et son histoire, son existence présente et son devenir : ses dimensions humaines et posthumaines. L'environnement et la nature sont au cœur des préoccupations actuelles et des paradigmes scientifiques : les discours politiques, imprégnés d'écologie et de respect de l'habitat, ont souvent mis en avant un retour à la nature. L'histoire, la civilisation, la politique, l'art, la littérature et le cinéma écossais nous permettront d'explorer ces thèmes.
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