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• 20 déc 2016

  Padua

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Into the woods

  Overlapping perspectives on the history of “ancient forests”

  In ecological, economic and social terms, “ancient forests” play numerous roles. Their definition varies not only from country to country but also according to disciplinary fields. Studying “ancient forests” can involve separating “old-growth forests” from “ancient woodland”, forests that have disappeared and, in the case of “current forests”, those that are not actually very old at all! This conference aims to exchange views and ideas on “ancient forests” including both retrospective and prospective issues. Better understanding their past highlights the key issues of their status, protection and promotion in our current societies and opens up new perspectives about the future of « ancient forests ». Foresters, planners, developers, ecologists, biologists, agriculturalists, geographers, historians, philosophers, ethnologists, cartographers, archaeologists, archaeobotanists, sociologists etc., from all backgrounds, are invited to join this debate about our various and varying concepts of “ancient forests”.

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• 23 jui 2016

  24 jui 2016

  Rome

  Conference, symposium - Geography

  The atlas in modern and contemporary scientific and artistic cultures

  Cette septième et dernière rencontre du groupe de recherche ACSAM (« Les atlas dans les cultures scientifiques et artistiques modernes et contemporaines : représenter, organiser, conserver les connaissances et les objets ») a pour objectif de revenir de manière réflexive et, si cela est possible, synthétique, sur les travaux, contributions et propositions développées au cours des rencontres précédentes. Il s’agit d’interroger, dans une perspective à la fois historique et épistémologique, l’atlas en tant que forme de conservation, de production, d’écriture des savoirs et des objets, dans les cultures artistiques et scientifiques modernes et contemporaines.

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• 24 mai 2016

  25 mai 2016

  26 mai 2016

  Rende

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  Images and representations of the Self and Other

  Confronting scholarly and popular cultures to contribute to the stabilisation of Congo

  Le colloque propose une confrontation interdisciplinaire sur les représentations du Soi et de l’Autre, réservant une attention particulière à la confrontation des cultures savantes et populaires en République démocratique du Congo. Inspiré par l’expérience du projet « Mémoire de Lubumbashi », ce colloque international vise à renouveler le débat autour du rapport entre culture savante et culture populaire par des contributions à caractère historique et/ou ethnographique sur le passé colonial et postcolonial, et sur les recompositions sociales contemporaines (appartenances régionale / ethnique, rapports entre générations, mutations/redéfinition des rapports de genre).

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• 30 mai 2016

  Trento

  Call for papers - Modern

  Contemporary art as mediation of ecological crisis

  6th STS (Science and Technology Studies) Italia Conference

  In this session of the 6^th STS Italia Conference on Sociotechnical Environments, we will consider how contemporary art addresses new questions to environmental issues; how it questions our relation with nature and technique; and how artistic creation may indicate new kinds of answers to contemporary ecological issues. This call is open to various disciplinary fields: contribution proposals could aim to describe kinds of knowledge that contemporary art contribute to produce in the field of ecology, as to trace a history of the dialogue between environmental issues and artistic creations, and, more generally, on case studies questioning the notions of art, technique and environmental issues.

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• 06 mar 2016

  Rome

  Call for papers - Geography

  Il progetto del territorio nelle fonti d’archivio

  X Seminario di studi storico-cartografici « Dalla mappa al GIS »

  Il tema al centro dell’incontro è Il progetto del territorio nelle fonti d’archivio, ossia la riflessione sull’importanza delle ricerche e delle fonti custodite negli archivi e nelle conservatorie in genere per lo studio e la comprensione delle dinamiche territoriali, nel lungo periodo, soprattutto in prospettiva dell’individuazione, dell’analisi e della soluzione dei problemi odierni.

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• 03 avr 2016

  Catania

  Summer School - Sociology

  From risk to resilience, from past to present: critical perspectives and comparative approaches

  2016 Summer School of the Cluster of Excellence Territorial and Spatial Dynamics (LabEx DynamiTe)

  This Summer School will give precedence to exploratory work that does not take the concept of resilience for granted but rather examines the social and historical conditions of its use by the scientific community. Thus, a constant dialogue between past and present case studies shall be offered, involving geographers, sociologists, historians and archeologists. By comparing sites distant in both time and space, common mechanisms that lead to system resilience or on the contrary to major qualitative system reorganizations can be identified.

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