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Saint-Denis

Conference, symposium - Language

Translation(s), Migration(s), Identities

Dans un monde soumis à la dynamique de la globalisation et marqué par des mouvements migratoires massifs, les figures et oppositions figées du centre et de la périphérie, de l’identité et de l’altérité, du soi et de l’autre se dissolvent tandis que l’expérience du déracinement, de l’exil, du passage produit une superposition de plusieurs cultures qui s’hybrident dans un territoire radicalement nouveau par rapport aux migrations d’antan. La situation du sujet moderne, décrite par Salman Rushdie dans Imaginary Homelands comme celle de l’homme traduit (the translated man), tend à se généraliser. Homi Bhabha a élaboré une théorie de la culture qui est proche d’une théorie du langage, recourant à la notion de traduction comme motif ou trope. Il s’agira, dans un premier temps, d’approfondir la réflexion sur la « traduction culturelle » et d’envisager dans quelle mesure ce motif peut (et doit) être lié à une réflexion renouvelée sur le rôle et les modalités de la traduction au sens propre.

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Puducherry

Conference, symposium - History

Tamil and Tamil Akam at the Crossroads

The objective of the conference is to examine Tamil Nadu as an example of a geographical space where multiple cultures met, exchanged, and absorbed from outside, while Tamil maintained until recent times its unique ancient traditions. To bring together an international cadre of scholars who work in diverse disciplines that focus on a single region is to create new knowledge as is the way of any innovative conference. The fourteen scholars participating in the event bring a range of disciplinary perspectives to the idea of Tamil and Tamil Akam as a crossroads of cultures and a locus of international exchange in both the arts and sciences.

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Brussels

Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

"African Churches" in Europe. Mediating Imaginations

"African Churches" have been present in Europe for some decades now, but their developments have taken a new dimension with the intensification of African migrations to Europe in the 80s and 90s. Beyond their doctrinal and institutional diversity and divergences, these churches have in common to be carried by African populations who all too often remain stigmatized and marginalized at the social, political and juridical levels. From the diverse issues of identity, networks and circulations of religious actors, relations to the public sphere, and gender, contributions to the conference will seek to show how African Christian worlds of Europe are now situated at the very heart of dynamics of reconfiguration of African imaginations of Europe, but also of European imaginations of Africa.

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Paris

Conference, symposium - Sociology

Gender and Post-Colonial Perspectives

Le colloque international « Genre et perspectives post-coloniales » est organisé par le CEDREF et le RING.

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Paris

Study days - Asia

L'Asie orientale dans les traditions cartographiques asiatiques et occidentales : différences, interrelations, interactions

Journée d’étude organisée par le Centre de recherches sur le Japon (EHESS / UMR 8173 Chine, Corée, Japon) dans le cadre du projet « L'Asie orientale dans les traditions cartographiques asiatiques et occidentales : différences, interrelations, interactions » et à l’occasion de la visite du professeur Ekaterina Simonova-Gudzenko, directrice du Département du Japon de l’Institut des études asiatiques et africaines (université de Moscou) .

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Amman

Call for papers - Sociology

Workshop on Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan

A Lasting Temporariness: Population, Space and Social Practices, 1990-2010

This one day workshop will focus on the social and spatial organization of the camps, the social practices of their inhabitants, and the influences, interpretations and effects of what we call a lasting temporariness on the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Due to their significance and status, the camps represent key social spaces for exploring patterns of interaction between different religious groups and national minorities, for examining governance, for studying development and planning issues (infrastructure and services), for mapping the constitution of territories and identities, and for analyzing the development of an intricate network of economic and political connections inside and outside of their spaces.

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Montreal

Call for papers - Geography

Fences, Walls and Borders: States of Insecurity or Insecurities of State?

Plus de vingt ans après la chute du Mur, ce colloque international permettra de poser la question du retour du mur/barrière en relations internationales et, le cas échéant, d'analyser les facteurs qui ont conduit à cette résurgence, sinon dans les faits, du moins dans les discours. L'événement, organisé par la Chaire Raoul-Dandurand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques en collaboration avec l’Association for Borderlands Studies, aura lieu à l'université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada les 19 et 20 mai 2011.Twenty 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 in North America, particularly along the U.S.-Mexico border, and in Israel, where the old Green line has been transformed into a wall separating Arab from Israeli. 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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Clermont-Ferrand

Study days - Geography

Governing Rural–Urban Relationships and Periurban Areas in France and Australia

Different Land Use Cultures, Same Issues?

The governance of rural–urban relationships has become a very challenging issue in many countries around the world over the two last decades. Many competing interests are embedded in it: agriculture, metropolitan development, biodiversity conservation, water resources use, etc. Many conflicts take place in periurban areas, for instance. These conflicts are signs of a more general evolution of rural – urban relationships in a context of global change – eg. global warming, loss of biodiversity, the global food challenge, the petrol crisis. This seminar aims to compare how these challenges are tackled in France and in Australia. Considering the differences between the political and institutional contexts of various countries, it will be a great opportunity to think about the role of land use culture in different governance systems. This seminar is organised in partnership with AgroParisTech Clermont-Ferrand, INRA-SAD and UMR METAFORT.

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Clermont-Ferrand

Study days - Geography

Regional Water Management and Adaptive Management

How to deal with multi-scalar issues?

This seminar aims to discuss the interactions between regionalisation of water management and adaptive management. Regionalisation embeds many scales of time and space, which have to be combined to improve and change stakeholder practices. The seminar will bring together international specialists to analyse how adaptive management can deal with institutional, technical and political multi-scalar issues in order to foster change of practises. This seminar is organised in partnership with AgroParisTech Clermont-Ferrand, INRA-SAD and UMR METAFORT.

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Geneva

Call for papers - Urban studies

Gated Communities - Between Innovation and Urban Fortifications

Appel à contribution pour le colloque « Les communautés fermées entre innovation et fortification urbaines » organisé conjointement par Fondation Braillard Architectes, Genève, l'Institut de géographie de l'université de Lausanne et la chaire « Urbanisme et gouvernance » de l'Institut des sciences de l’environnement de l'université de Genève. Le colloque se déroulera le 8 avril 2011 à Genève. Les propositions de contributions sont attendues d'ici au 18 octobre 2010.

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Poitiers

Call for papers - Political studies

International conference: The Territorial Politics of the Nation-State

Decentralisation, devolution, autonomy, (con)federation...

International ConferenceUniversité de Poitiers (France), MSHS, MIMMOC, October 14-16, 2010

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Lisbon

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Sound, Space and Memory: Ways of Emotionalizing and instrumentalizing Sound

Panel of the 10th SIEF congress Lisbon 2011 - People Make Places - ways of feeling the world

This is a call for papers for a Panel inclued in the SIEF Congress 2011 in Lisbon. Globalization and mobility have remodeled the relations between sound and space through emotionalization and instrumentalization. The panel aims to highlight the new connections between sound and space, taking into account the dynamics of detaching and repositioning sound and place today.

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Paris

Miscellaneous information - Urban studies

Speculative Urbanism and the making of the next World City

Spaces, stakeholders and scales in Bangalore and beyond

L'équipe « Politiques socio-économiques et recompositions territoriales » du CEIAS (UMR 8564, EHESS-CNRS) accueille Michael Goldman (University of Minnesota, sociologue) et Aurélie Varrel (CEIAS, géographie) qui présenteront leurs travaux sur Bangalore.

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Paris

Study days - Geography

Mapping Desire: Where are the Critical Geographies of Sexualities?

15 ans après la publication de l'ouvrage fondateur Mapping Desire qui a initié le champ des géographies des sexualités, ce workshop vise à rassembler et à faire dialoguer des auteurs de l'ouvrage, géographes internationalement reconnus, avec de jeunes chercheurs issus de différentes disciplines (science politique, sociologie, anthropologie) dont les travaux sur les sexualités comportent une dimension spatiale et géographique importante. Son objectif est de dresser un panorama des études produites depuis la parution de Mapping Desire et d'ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives.

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Call for papers - Urban studies

The Relationship Between City and Port and the Regeneration of Urban Waterfronts

Portus Plus Journal

Portus plus is the new ‘online-magazine’ edited by RETE (Association for the collaboration between ports and cities) will be dedicated to developing the themes in the relationship between city and port and the regeneration of urban waterfronts. In particular, exploiting the advantages of communicating on the Internet, Portus plus will become an opportunity to present original works, theoretical studies or the results of practical experiences. Portus plus will be edited twice yearly and may be consulted on the website of Rete, www.reteonline.org, in the ‘Portus Plus’ section. Anyone can participate in the selection of articles, by responding to the ‘call for papers’ in accordance with the procedures indicated in the forms. The papers submitted will be evaluated by a “Review Committee”, composed of prestigious international experts in the field, and, if they are considered worthy, will be published in the Portus plus digital magazine.

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Call for papers - Geography

Networks, Communication and Territories

NETCOM journal

Appel à contributions pour la revue NETCOM : Labours et jachères numériques dans les territoires ruraux, (ICTs in rural areas). Guest-Editors : Laurence Barthe (Assist. Prof., Dynamiques rurales, Univ. Toulouse le Mirail) & Philippe Vidal (Assist. Prof., CIRTAI, Univ. Le Havre).

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Warsaw

Call for papers - Modern

Polish Jews in France and Israel: Trajectories, representations, tools of memory

Call for papers Workshop 21-23 October 2010 in Warsaw

Ce workshop s’inscrit dans un projet de recherche qui a pour objectif de mieux cerner les contours de deux diasporas juives polonaises importantes en France et en Israël. Deux communautés certes très différentes mais que plusieurs points de comparaison permettent de rapprocher.

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Montreal

Conference, symposium - America

Canadians in the United States: American Dreamers in their Social and Economic Context

Les organisateurs invitent chercheurs, auteurs et étudiants de toutes les disciplines à un colloque sur le thème de l'expérience étatsunienne des Canadiens - et à soumettre des textes pour publication. Le colloque aura lieu à l’Université de Montréal les 12 et 13 mai 2010, dans le cadre du 78e congrès annuel de l’Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS).Le colloque sera suivi de la publication d'un dossier spécial dans la Revue internationale d'études canadiennes.

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Call for papers - Geography

Roma Migrants in the City : Practices and Policies

Call for papers for Géocarrefour (issue n°86, 2011)

Ces dernières années, les villes d’Europe occidentale ont été marquées par l’arrivée de nouvelles populations, originaires de l’Europe centrale ou des Balkans et appartenant aux minorités Rom. Ces personnes et ces groupes, souvent désignés comme « Roms migrants », ont une très forte visibilité dans l’espace public urbain. Ce numéro thématique de la revue Géocarrefour vise à explorer les différentes formes d’interaction entre les pratiques de ces migrants et les politiques liées à l’encadrement des déplacements et/ou à l’accueil des Roms migrants dans les villes européennes.

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Lisbon

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Reverse-Exoticism: Writing Practices, Alternative Voices and Heritagization

This is a call for papers for a Special Interest Panel inclued in the Tourism and Seductions of Difference Conference (Lisbon, Portugal, 10-12 Sept 2010) directed by Cyril Isnart (Cidehus-Universidade de Évora) and Ema Pires (Cria-Iscte and Univ. de Évora). While academics have studied ‘heritage’ mainly in terms of a national or elite construction, this panel is interested in the increasingly loud claims to ‘heritage’ emanating from minorities and small social groups. Evoking Michel De Certeau (1988), our emphasis here is on analysing ‘scriptural practices’, both as cultural apparatus and means of production and objectification of minorities’ alternative voices.

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