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• 30 nov 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Sociology

  The humanities and social sciences and biographical proliferation

  Methodological approaches and diversity in approaches

  Dans une société de plus en plus caractérisée par l’individuation et plus d’un demi-siècle après le retour en force de l’intérêt pour le discours des acteurs.trices en sciences sociales, un débat sur l’usage des données biographiques semble nécessaire. Les journées d’études qui se dérouleront à Paris (EHESS) les 10 et 11 mars 2016 seront particulièrement attentives au dialogue interdisciplinaire et aux innovations méthodologiques, que ce soit à travers les modes de production ou le type de données, ainsi qu’à leur croisement et à leur analyse.

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• 28 avr 2015

  29 avr 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Psyche

  The Brains that pull the Triggers

  Paris Conference on Syndrome E

  The transformation of groups of previously nonviolent individuals into repetitive killers of defenseless members of society has been a recurring phenomenon throughout history. This apparent transition of large numbers of so called “psychologically intact”, “ordinary” individuals, to perpetrators of extreme atrocities is one of the most striking variants of human behavior, but often appear incomprehensible to victims and bystanders and in retrospect even to the perpetrators themselves and to society in general. This transition is characterized by a set of symptoms and signs for which a common syndrome has been proposed, Syndrome E (Fried, Lancet, 1997). The purpose of such designation is not to medicalize this form of human behavior, but to provide a framework for future discussion and multidisciplinary discourse and for potential insights that might lead to early detection and prevention. The Brains that Pull the Triggers, a special conference under the auspices of the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, will bring together scientists and scholars from the human, social and brain sciences along with guests from literature, politics, and law to bear upon this tragic invariant of the human condition.

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• 10 avr 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  TraumAnatomy

  Art between trauma, dream and reason

  La crise de nos sociétés contemporaines, qui s'accompagne de guerres, de migration, de persécution, d'exil, et de la montée des tendances et des régimes extrémistes pose des questions urgentes sur la création artistique et sa fonction dans la société. Quels sont les traumas, les rêves, les perspectives face à la destruction et aux terreurs visibles et invisibles ? Quelles sont les réponses face au « double exil » des femmes ? Comment transformer, métamorphoser et sublimer l'insupportable et l'inexprimable ? Comment, entre oubli et mémoire, construire et envisager un futur ? Les intervenants du colloque révéleront différentes expériences esthétiques capables de transformer, renommer et surmonter l'expérience traumatique initiale.

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• 15 avr 2015

  Genoa

  Call for papers - History

  At War with Words

  Letters, diaries and memoirs of soldiers, women and children in the First World War

  What were the feelings, the perceptions and the mental attitudes of soldiers and civilians, of women and children, during the war? What strategies of psychological resistance did they employ in response to such destabilising experience? It is possible to answer these questions by consulting the wide variety of writings produced by the combatants and by the civilian population "mobilised" during the conflict. These letters, diaries, and memoirs – some still hidden in old drawers, though many collected in 'folk writing' archives – are also of considerable narrative and historical interest, due to their linguistic peculiarities, and their efficacy as depth-probes and guides into the war. This conference will address the methodological debates that are still ongoing, while presenting texts of particular significance, as well as the results of European research in historical and linguistic fields.

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• 15 mar 2015

  Béjaïa

  Call for papers - Africa

  Frantz Fanon, the Algerian revolution and interdisciplinary

  L’objectif du colloque est de procéder à une relecture de la pensée et de l’œuvre fanonnienne, à la lumière des nouvelles données de ce début du XXI^e siècle : mondialisation, globalisation, communautarisme, islamisme politique, prédation des richesses du tiers-monde, retour des guerres coloniales (Afrique, Asie, etc.)

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