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Montreal

Challenging migrant detention: Human rights, advocacy and mental health

Join researchers, advocates, lawyers, clinicians, decision-makers and migrants from around the world to explore global trends and avenues for change in immigration detention. Drawing on experiences of detention and resistance in multiple countries, we will discuss strategies to challenge migrant detention, including research, litigation and community mobilization.

Toronto

Call for papers - Sociology

International Family Migration and Normative Languages

International Sociological Association, Congress 2018. Panel Research Committee 25, Language and Society

Family reunification, mixed marriages and other forms of international family migration are highly politicized topics depicted as threats for national identity. In some countries, the conditions to access the family rights have been reformed complicating the processes of applications for visa, residence permit and nationality. In other countries, migrant and binational families encounter administrative and religious constraints to formalise their unions, to pass on nationality and rights to the children or simply to be socially accepted. This session explores the language employed to define family migration ‒ and the social-administrative processes that go with ‒ by politicians, media, bureaucrats, civil society actors and by family members too. The session welcomes papers from a broad empirical perspectives that explore the changing (or the persistence) of normative languages related to family migration over time.

Montreal

Summer School - Science studies

Planetary Futures

In the face of the current ecological crisis, how shall we rethink concepts and practices of environment, ecology, difference, and technology to envision and create a more just, sustainable, and diverse planet? The combined histories of colonialism, extraction industries, energy, as well as innovation in design, architecture, literature and technology offer a lens by which to examine how contemporary techno-scientific societies envision planetary futures. Site visits exploring resource extraction, colonialism in urban policy and planning, and speculative architectural design will be accompanied by an analysis of science fiction, science technology, speculative design and ethnography, as well as life and earth sciences.

Montreal

Call for papers - Political studies

Borders, walls and violence

Costs and Alternatives to Border Fencing

More border walls and border fences are being built every year all across the world. Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, and Tunisia are among the latest to announce yet another border fence. Twenty-five years ago it was believed that the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reconfiguration of international relations would open an age of globalization in which States would become obsolete, ushering in a world without borders. In the wake of 9/11, however, borders came back in light, new borders were created and new border walls erected. In the wake of the Arab Spring, came even more border barriers and walls, symbols that were thought to have disappeared with the collapse of the bipolar international system. Today, they reinforce borderlines the world over, transforming both soft and semi-permeable borders alike into sealed, exclusionary hard borders. Walls are symbols of identity reaffirmation, markers of State sovereignty, instruments of dissociation, locus of a growing violence.

Toronto

Call for papers - Thought

1st International Symposium: Hope, Betrayal and Trust

Part of the Research Program on: Lost Virtues, Found Vices

This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the complex and fluid relationships between hope and trust, and how might betrayal play a productive role in this bond. As concepts, ideas or simple notions, hope and trust seem to have simultaneously lost contemporary currency while being ever more necessary in our every day lives. We seem resigned to a kind of hopelessness, seem unwilling to trust others and are ready and willing to betray whomever we might need to in order to advance our own careers or personal agendas. Yet new technologies require us to place personal information online, to communicate with strangers, and to hold onto the promise of happiness. How are our maintenance of hope, our need to trust and our willingness to betray intertwined? How are these concepts evolving?

Toronto

Call for papers - Representation

Speed, Silence and Solitude

Part of the Research Program on: Space, Time and New Technologies of the Self

International Network for Alternative Academia – invites you to participate to the First International Symposium: Speed, Silence and Solitude. This trans-disciplinary project seeks to explore how new technologies are re-calibrating our notion of time, re-configuring our ideas of space and, as a result, how they are re-envisioning our understanding of the self and its relation to others.

Toronto

Call for papers - Political studies

Reinventing Citizenship

Part of the Research Program on: Protest, Justice and Deliberative Power

The International Network for Alternative Academia invites you to participate to the 7^th International Symposium: Reinventing Citizenship, to be held on Monday 12th to Wednesday 14th of May, 2014 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This trans-disciplinary project seeks to identify central problems of the experience of being a citizen today and evaluate to what degree is citizenship a good vehicle for democratic agency in contemporary societies and democracies the world over.

Toronto

Call for papers - Representation

Creating Characters, Inventing Lives: The Art of the Self I

IVth Conference of the International Network for Alternative Academia

International Network for Alternative Academia invites you to participate to the First International Symposium: Creating Characters, Inventing Lives: The Art of the Self, to be held on Tuesday 20^th to Thursday 22^nd of May, 2014, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the lessons we can derive from the creative process and identify how productive it is beyond the boundaries of the work and creation itself.

Montreal

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

The Transnationalization of Religion through Music

The transnationalization of religion refers to the relocalization of beliefs, rituals and religious practices beyond state lines, in real or symbolic spaces, with the help of new imaginaries and narrative identities. Although the analysis of religious transnationalization has revealed the various ways religion transcends borders, the role of music in this process is rarely addressed. Yet this role is essential in the transnationalization of universal religions like Islam and Christianity. Music also contributes to the migration of local religions, neotraditionalist movements, and cults associated with a particular area, such as Haitian Voodoo, Cuban Santería, or Brazilian Candomble. Such musical phenomena, far from being new, gave birth to early religious globalizations.

Montreal

Call for papers - Modern

Let the darkness be. The imagination of the end in modern literature and cinema and contemporary extreme

International Conference IAWIS

Qu'en est-il de l'imaginaire de la fin du monde dans la littérature et le cinéma d'aujourd'hui ? Quels sont les enjeux philosophiques, économiques, politiques, écologiques de ces représentations ? Le medium informe-t-il l'expression de cet imaginaire ? Dans quelle mesure révèle-t-il la psyché contemporaine ?

Montreal

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

The performing arts and the regard of the Other

A l’issue d’un cycle de séminaires, le Centre d’études des transformations des activités physiques et sportives (CETAPS) organise le 26 mars 2010 une journée d’études intitulée « Pratiques corporelles artistiques et regard de l’autre ». L’enjeu de cette journée sera de montrer en quoi les pratiques corporelles artistiques sont une manière de se voir et de se dire pour les sociétés comme lieux privilégiés de la réflexivité sociale. Il s’agira de susciter des échanges sur une base renouvelée de la thématique de l’exotisme et du regard de l’autre (sur l’autre, par l’autre) dans le spectacle vivant, mais aussi, plus généralement, en anthropologie.

Quebec City

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Play. Ethnology of games and sports

Dans ce numéro thématique de la revue Ethnologies, nous proposons de réfléchir au jeu identitaire et à l’identité jouée dans les jeux et dans les sports. Nous cherchons ainsi à mieux comprendre comment le joueur peut s’exprimer et s’affirmer dans une pratique ludique et/ou sportive et quelle est la cohérence de cette pratique pour le social. In this special issue of Ethnologies, we invite thoughts on identity games and on performed identity in games and sports. We seek a better understanding of how a player can express and assert himself/herself in leisure or sporting practices, and of the social coherence of these practices.

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