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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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• 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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