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• 16 déc 2013

  17 déc 2013

  Brussels

  Conference, symposium - Information

  Media and identities

  Actors or instruments of the construction of a sense of community, ethnic and national belonging?

  The International Conference offers to facilitate a discussion about the role of media in the construction of political identities. Media have always played the role of actors, sometimes of instruments, in the process of shaping community, ethnic and national identities as well as in shaping "imagined communities" usually induced by political actors in particular historical developments. Media discourse on the community, the ethnic group or the nation is never autonomous. It can be considered a collective production pertaining to one or another network of actors. In order to understand this process, it is important to place the content of the media in  its production context. What is the role of the journalists and the media in the creation, renewal and maintenance of community, ethnic or national identities?

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• 15 nov 2013

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Geography

  Combining scientific Expertise with Participation: the Challenge of the European Landscape Convention

  The adoption of the European Landscape Convention (ELC) in 2000 represents a major event in taking landscape into account at the European level. As of June 2013, 38 Council of Europe member states have ratified the Convention. By specifying that landscape is an essential component of the quality of life of Europeans, the Convention is, first and foremost, in line with a territorial dimension. Moreover, a strong foundation of the ELC lies in its specific definition of landscape, notably based on the notion of perception by populations. One of the scientists’ major concerns is therefore how to reconcile objective scientific approaches with the subjective aspect of citizens’ perception. After more than a decade of practice, the Conference will be an opportunity for scientists who have been working in line with the ELC to present the tools developed and to reflect on their tangible, measurable and observable effects.

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• 25 avr 2013

  26 avr 2013

  Liège

  Conference, symposium - History

  Espaces frontaliers : zones de contact / zones de conflit ?

  IIIe journées interuniversitaires « frontières »

  Les journées d’études interuniversitaires « frontières » organisées à l’université de Liège se proposent d’établir un bilan annuel de l’avancement de la recherche sur la notion de frontière et de limite dans une perspective diachronique et pluridisciplinaire. Après s’être interrogés sur le concept de frontière (Frontières fixes et mouvantes, espaces, temps, imaginaires – avril 2011) et sur le contexte et les circonstances de leur tracé à travers l’histoire (Penser la frontière entre Meuse et Rhin – mai 2012), les jeunes chercheurs à l’initiative de ce projet se proposent d’accorder leur attention aux hommes et aux femmes qui ont vécu ou vivent aux confins d’un territoire, à ceux qui ont gardé, transgressé, passé les limites quelles qu’elles soient, à la manière dont ils ont perçu et / ou subi l’évolution des tracés ou encore à la manière dont on leur a présenté ces changements. La définition et la perception de la frontière envisagée tantôt comme une zone de rencontres, d’échanges (matériels et culturels), de regroupements (politiques et sociaux), tantôt comme une zone de confrontation ou de fracture politique, économique, militaire, culturelle (…) seront donc au cœur de la réflexion qui sera menée durant ces deux jours.

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• 02 avr 2013

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Transport chains and professions: the changes of a visible world

  Calls for contributions to the Travail, emploi, formation journal theme issue

  Les métiers du transport de marchandises font l’objet d’importantes transformations. Innovations technologiques, logiques d’intensification du travail (standardisation, accélération), nouveaux modes d’organisation du travail (flux tendus), nouvelles organisations du secteur d’activité (mises en réseaux, concentration d’opérateurs), nouvelles techniques d’intensification du contrôle et transformations des cadres légaux et institutionnels constituent autant d’éléments permettant de rendre intelligible, c’est-à-dire de relier, ces transformations. L’ensemble de ces transformations sont parfois décrites, contre l’image d’épinal postfordiste, sous l’angle d’une « néo taylorisation » des métiers du transport (Desfontaines 2007), à l’image de processus discutés dans le secteur plus vaste des services autant que dans l’industrie (Durand 2004, Linhart 1994).

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• 30 jan 2013

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Informality, International Trade and Customs

  The objective of this conference is two-fold: to promote applied research on the relationships between States, customs administrations and local importers of the so-called developing and emerging countries and to deepen the analysis of informality as a reality in international trade in a multi / inter disciplinary perspective (social anthropology, law, economics, history, political science, and sociology). Professor Keith Hart will deliver a keynote address.

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• 26 avr 2013

  27 avr 2013

  Brussels

  Call for papers - History

  Food and Hospitals

  An Historical Perspective

  While contemporary grumblings about hospital food have become the quintessential hospital complaint, it is undeniable that a clean, warm bed, rest and the provision of food and drink, rather than medicines and therapies have always greatly increased hospital patients’ chances of recovery. Indeed diet has from the time of Galen been a central part of medical therapy. However, even if central to the day-to-day routine of hospitals, workhouses and asylums, food and drink continue to be overlooked in historical accounts of hospitalisation. This conference aims to foreground the role of food and drink in health care institutions in the past.

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