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• 03 jui 2016

  Brussels

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Urban studies

  PhD fellowship for a research project on “Reinventions of modernist rural landscapes”

  Focus: Rural planning in Morocco – 20th century

  MODSCAPES deals with rural landscapes produced by large-scale agricultural development and colonization schemes planned in the 20th century throughout Europe and beyond. Conceived in different political and ideological contexts, such schemes were pivotal to nation-building and state-building policies, and to the modernization of the countryside. They provided a testing ground for the ideas and tools of environmental and social scientists, architects, engineers, planners, landscape architects and artists, which converged around a shared challenge. 

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• 06 mai 2016

  07 mai 2016

  Ixelles-Elsene

  Conference, symposium - Law

  People of the robe and people of war. Public order and social order

  International day conferences by the Société d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons

  La Société d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons, fondée à Lille en 1929, tient des journées internationales, organisées par une ou des institutions partenaires en France, en Belgique ou aux Pays-Bas. Après l'Université d'Utrecht en 2014 ou le château de Compiègne en 2015, la conférence aura lieu cette année dans le cadre prestigieux de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, autour du thème « Gens de robe - gens de guerre : ordre public et ordre social ». L'organisation de cette année repose sur l'École Militaire et le Comité d'histoire du droit auprès de l'Académie Royale Flamande de Belgique (KVAB), soutenus par la Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, Contextual Research in Law), l'université libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Centre d'histoire du droit et d'anthropologie juridique) et l'université Saint-Louis (Centre de recherches en histoire du droit et des institutions). La Société tiendra son banquet et son assemblée générale.

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• 01 mar 2016

  Liège

  Call for papers - Geography

  Sustainability of Rural Systems

  Balancing Heritage and Innovation

  Belgium is a highly populated country with a long history of land exploitation. The landscape is modified through human impact, shaped by diverse agricultural practices, early urbanization and industrialization, the exploitation of quarries and mines and the dense development of canals, railways and motorway networks. Nevertheless, rural areas are important because farming activities, increasingly mechanized and technologically based, contribute to economic activity, especially to Belgian exports. Agriculture plays an important role in maintaining open space and offering many services, which may be called agroservices, to the new residents of the countryside and people seeking recreation. Due to this long history and sophisticated technological responses to different issues, Belgium is a suitable place to reflect on sustainability and how to balance cultural and natural heritage and innovation with special reference to the ecological and social dimensions.

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