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• 15 déc 2016

  Paris

  Study days - Asia

  The processes of politico-religious assignation in the Syrian conflict

  Cette journée d'étude sera consacrée à la violence des processus d’assignation politico-religieux dans le conflit syrien. L’État syrien, ainsi que différentes factions du camp de l’opposition ont dès le début de la révolte en 2011 entrepris de mobiliser les individus sur la base de leurs identités confessionnelles et/ou ethniques. Observable chez les « minoritaires » alaouites, druzes et chrétiens sommés de soutenir le régime de Bashar al-Assad, cette politique a également des conséquences délétères au sein de la « majorité » sunnite. Ne se cantonnant pas au domaine de la mobilisation politico-militaire, elle s’accompagne de la tentative d’imposer par la contrainte une réforme morale de chaque individu, ainsi qu’une homogénéisation des croyances, des pratiques et des manières d’être « citoyen », « musulman », « alaouite »,  etc.

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• 31 oct 2016

  Barcelona

  Call for papers - Modern

  The Transatlantic Embrace: Spanish Civil War in America’s Intimate Distance

  "Forma" Revista d'estudis comparatius. Art, literatura, pensament

  Spanish Civil War has been studied under its multiple angles. This can also be said about the literature concerning this topic: novels, poems, and all literary forms generated by this armed conflict (both by Spanish and foreign intellectuals) have been commented by academic criticism from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. However, fewer approaches have set the axis of their critical focus on the importance of the Spanish conflict in America and its decisive relevance as a part of a phenomenon that is also American. This special number of the FORMA journal sets out to give a voice to all types of contributions able to shed a new light on this fundamental aspect of the war, whose causes and consequences are clearly rooted in Spain, but whose horizon overflows the peninsular and continental borders and requires an inevitably transatlantic point of view.

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• 10 jui 2016

  Berlin

  Call for papers - History

  The Berlin Airlift

  A Realm of Memory of the Cold War

  Whether or not “the entire world” was looking at Berlin, as Reuter asserted, is one of the central questions to be addressed at our conference. Starting from the “frontline city” of Berlin, we will cast our glance to West Germany and its neighboring countries in order not only to frame the Berlin Airlift as a transnational memorial of the Cold War, but also to address, from outside, the question of whether Berlin was really the international focus of the East-West conflict back then, as the press and academia so often portray it.

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• 08 mar 2016

  Cergy

  Study days - Geography

  Geomatics and aiding refugees

  Le master Géomatique organise une journée d'étude « La géomatique au service des réfugiés » le mardi 8 mars 2016 à l'université de Cergy-Pontoise en articulant des interventions d'ONG, d'universitaires, de professionnels et d'enseignants-chercheurs. Cette journée est notamment destinée à discuter des besoins et usages des ONG en cartographie, les usages et besoins des réfugiés en applications cartographiques et de navigation, mais aussi des façon d'éviter que ces outils puissent être détournés en instruments de surveillance, voire d'aggression, des plus vulnérables.

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• 08 jan 2016

  Reims

  Call for papers - Geography

  Contemporary crisis and changes

  Geoeconomical and geopolitical approaches

  For several years, the world seems to have entered a period of high instability. Economically, the "subprime mortgage crisis" appeared in 2007 in the USA, then spread planet wide in all areas of activity. In 2015, economic difficulties persist (growth stagnation in developed countries and lower growth in emerging markets, explosion of unemployment, deindustrialisation and offshoring, market tensions in China, the euro zone, etc.). In geopolitical terms, tension spots have also multiplied (Saharian and Sahelian Africa, Middle East, Far East and Eastern Europe) leading to strong migratory waves while power poles seem to be redeploying between the USA, China and other regional powers.The aim of the conference "Contemporary Crisis and changes" is to question these contemporary upheavals through both a geo-economic and a geopolitical reading. The conference will provide elements of analysis and compare them especially with contemporary representations of globalisation emphasizing in particular the logic of closure that seems to characterize this phenomenon.

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