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• 10 fév 2018

  Porto

  Summer School - Modern

  What difference do DIY cultures make?

  KISMIF Conference 2018 will be preceded by a Summer School entitled ‘What difference do DIY cultures make?’ (KISMIF Summer School 2018) on 3 July 2018 in Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. The summer school will offer an opportunity for all interested persons, including those participating in the conference, to attend workshops led by specialists in these fields. Specifically, the Summer School offers thematic workshops expressly focused on the hands-on, music making, and place making of contemporary DIY cultures. Its approach will be methodological and focused on research for action.

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• 10 fév 2018

  Porto

  Call for papers - Modern

  “Keep It Simple, Make It Fast!” Gender, differences, identities and DIY cultures

  KISMIF conference 2018

  We are pleased to announce the fourth “Keep It Simple, Make It Fast!” (KISMIF) Conference which will take place in Porto, Portugal, between 3 July and 7 July 2018. This initiative follows the great success of the three past editions and brings together an international community of researchers focusing on underground music scenes and do-it-yourself culture. The 4^th edition of KISMIF will focus on “Gender, differences, identities and DIY cultures”, directing its attention on gender issues relating to underground scenes and do it yourself (DIY) cultures, and their manifestation at local, translocal and virtual levels.

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• 30 jui 2017

  Porto

  Call for papers - Modern

  Cadernos de literatura comparada #37

  Issue 37 of Cadernos de Literatura Comparada, edited by Maria Clara Paulino, Maria Hermínia Laurel, and Teresa Oliveira, welcomes articles proposing historic, theoretical, or critical aspects of interdisciplinarity, or reflect on interdisciplinary practice. 

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• 15 mar 2017

  Porto

  Call for papers - History

  José Capela and the history of Mozambique

  45 years after “O vinho para o preto”

  In the wake of José Capela's commited knowledge, the organizers aim to pay him a tribute and thus have a new approach to Mozambique with a multidisciplinary perspective, like the one he promoted.

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• 15 sep 2014

  Porto

  Call for papers - History

  Ports and War

  The aim of this conference is to promote the share of knowledge and of ongoing investigations and promote a multidisciplinary debate on the problematic of "Ports and War", considering the diversity and complexity of emerging international and domestic contexts in war situations, taking in consideration the multiple relationships and interdependencies between spaces and the key role played by port activity and the way in which it influenced the profile of ongoing conflicts.

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• 14 jui 2014

  15 jui 2014

  16 jui 2014

  Porto

  Seminar - Modern

  Another Music in a Different Room

  Resulting from a series of developed works in the last decade within the framework of social sciences (namely Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Arts, Sociology of Youth, Urban Sociology and Sociology of Music), in this advanced seminar we will have the opportunity of deepening the understanding around the importance, functioning, process, the agents, characteristics, genres and subgenres of the current urban music scenes. The ANOTHER MUSIC IN A DIFFERENT ROOM will be a fruitful space for ideas, discussions and, therefore, for a great developments on scientific knowledge. So, it’s our intention to share all this scientific dynamic with the world in order to contribute to a larger debate on music, youth, lifestyles, culture, cultural scenes, music scenes. In this context, the ideas and discussions held in the Advanced Seminar, both by lecturers and participants, will be published in a Collaborative e-book.

   

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• 15 fév 2014

  Porto

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Keep It Simple, Make It Fast!

  Underground music scenes and DIY cultures

  The Conference Organizing Committee hereby announces its “Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! Underground music scenes and DIY cultures Conference” which will take place in Porto from 9 July to 11 July 2014. The organisation of the KISMIF Conference will be undertaken by the Research Project Keep It Simple, Make It Fast!. The Call for Papers of this Conference is open for presentations to all core areas of sociology, social sciences and also design, illustration, visual arts and performing arts. The KISMIF Conference Organizing Committee invites experienced and young scholars from various disciplines to participate in the conference. The KISMIF Conference Organizing Committee would like the participants to know that the selected papers from the conference will be published in an edited collection by an international publisher.

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