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• 27 nov 2013

  Paris

  Miscellaneous information - Law

  The revolution in texts: legal and institutional changes in the age of the Arab Spring

  IISMM-iReMMO round table

  Cette table ronde dressera un premier bilan des processus de transition post printemps arabes à travers le prisme des liens entre droit et politique, en étudiant de façon plus particulière les processus constitutionnels en cours en Tunisie et en Égypte.

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• 05 nov 2013	03 déc 2013	07 jan 2014
  04 fév 2014	04 mar 2014	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Africa

  The documentary State and the worlds of paper in Africa

  Materiality, technologies and affects

  À partir de lectures et de présentations de cas, ce nouveau séminaire aborde la question de la « gouvernementalité écrite  » en Afrique contemporaine. L’enjeu est de comprendre la façon dont des dispositifs d’écriture et leur traduction matérielle ont permis à la fois la prise sur des sociétés et des individus et l’émergence de nouvelles subjectivités. On s’intéresse particulièrement aux processus formels et informels de bureaucratisation et aux régimes documentaires de l’identité et de la citoyenneté. Il s’agit de faire dialoguer des travaux sur l’administration, la bureaucratie et la citoyenneté avec les études de la culture écrite et matérielle afin d’éclairer les reconfigurations de l’interface entre État et individus, familles, et autres collectifs, autour du rapport au document.

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• 05 avr 2013

  Perpignan

  Study days - History

  Books, every way they come

  L’histoire du livre touche le monde universitaire barcelonais et perpignanais. Des évènementsculturels autour des livres sont organisés et sont très appréciés du public. La journéed’étude intitulée « le livre dans tous ses états » vise à éclaircir leur situation, tant auprèsdes chercheurs que la société. Au programme, Lluis Agusti et Monica Baro, Professeurs àl’Université de Barcelone à la Facultat de Biblioteconomia i Documentació, expliquerontl’importance de la recherche dédiée aux livres en Catalogne et de la formation professionnelleà ses métiers proposée aux étudiants. Joana Serra Serra, libraire à Perpignan, exposerason avis sur la place du livre catalan à Perpignan et ses relations professionnelles avec laCatalogne. Mathieu Llexa, Doctorant en Histoire à l’Université de Perpignan Via Domitiaet chercheur au CRHISM EA 2984 (Centre de recherches historiques sur les sociétésméditerranéennes) présentera ses travaux de recherche dédiés aux échanges transfrontaliersde librairie nord et sud catalans au XIXe siècle.

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• 31 mar 2013

  Berne

  Call for papers - History

  Medical expertise in the 20th and 21st centuries

  Medical expertise in the 20th and 21st century / Medizinische Expertise im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert / L'expertise médicale aux XXe et XXIe siècles. Annual conference of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Sciences, September 5 – 7, 2013, Bern, Switzerland. The conference would like to address the issue from various perspectives and ask e.g. the following questions: To which levels of medical knowledge and activity (skill, professional knowledge, experience, relationship with patients) did and does the claim of expertise refer to? Which strategies, rhetorics and kinds of self-fashioning were and are used in order to achieve, retain or reject the status of expertise? Which was and is the relationship between expertise, profession(nalism), institutionalization and specialization? In what respect is there a difference between a physician's claim of expertise and that of other health professionals?

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• 18 fév 2013

  19 fév 2013

  Mexico City

  Conference, symposium - History

  Conservationists and counter-revolution in the Euro-American space (19th-21st centuries)

  The circulation of people

  Las transferencias, circulares e influencias, entre Europa y América Latina, en ambos sentidos, han sido abordadas habitualmente por la historiografía política con una marcada focalización hacia los fenómenos revolucionarios, progresistas o de izquierdas. Por contra, no conocemos suficientemente lo que ocurrió en el terreno de los conservadores o los contrarrevolucionarios - para el siglo XX podríamos utilizar el término derechas -. Este proyecto se propone explorar este rico, aunque poco visitado y transitado, campo de trabajo a partir de una auténtica interdisciplinareidad, que permita el intercambio entre historiadores y antropólogos, sociólogos, especialistas de la ciencia política, filólogos y economistas, y, asimismo, de un estudio de los vaivenes entre los dos continentes, sin sobrevalorar la línea Europa-América.

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• 17 jan 2013	18 jan 2013	19 jan 2013
  20 jan 2013

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  Black Portraiture(s)

  The Black Body in the West

  The city of Paris, as an international cultural hub and a Western metropolis wielding considerable influence over the notions of art and modernity, was deemed the perfect setting for Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West, the fifth in a series of conferences that have been hosted by Harvard University and NYU since 2004. Black Portraiture[s] aims to explore the various means of manufacturing and promoting self-representation, as well as the notion of exchange, from the 19th century to the present day in fashion, film, art, and archives.   How are these - positive and negative - images displayed, and how do they define, replicate, and transform representations of the Black body? How and why did the black body become a tradable commodity in the global marketplace and what gives it its legitimacy? And just as importantly, what are the responses given and their implications? Can the representation of the Black body be truly liberating both for those who are identified with its image and for its beholders? Could a deracialisation of the black body take place, thus promoting cultural reunification and fostering reappropriation as well as various forms of expression beyond the limits of race? The Black body, as imagined by the West, has always been fertile ground for observation and debate. Yet the representation and depiction of Black people has often been predicated upon prevailing attitudes on race and sexuality. The conference draws on the ideas and works of both leading and emerging writers, photographers, scholars, artists, curators and filmmakers of our time, and will address the broader issue of Africa in the popular imagination. It is also significant that this project has benefitted from the widest possible collaboration.  

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