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Geneva

What emotions have to do in the History of Humanitarian Images?

Taking the title of Susan Sontag’s seminal work as a starting point, this workshop aims at re-opening an old debate about the potentialities of exhibiting other’s suffering in order to promote a culture of peace, prevent war and/or resolve conflict. In this workshop we would like to propose considering the importance of images (not only photographs, but also drawings as well as motion pictures) within the long-term history of humanitarianism, in order to explore the role of emotions in shaping and mobilising public opinion. More particularly, we encourage scholars to think about the ways through which humanitarian images affect us as material objects that have expressive effects related to the circuits, places or circumstances in which they are exhibited.

Geneva

Conference, symposium - Europe

Gendering Humanitarian Knowledge

Global Histories of Compassion from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present

The conference invites scholars to think about the notion of "humanitarian knowledge" in a multidisciplinary way, by combining perspectives such as gender history, the histories ofemotions and the body, literary and visual culture studies, global health history, as well as the history of institutions and their agents. All of them are useful to explore the transnational networks through which humanitarian practices and ideas have been promoted, disseminated and standardised.The conference brings together scholars interested in working on the history of humanitarian knowledge from a gender perspective. The interventions deal with stories of flesh and blood, which put women’s and men’s humanitarian experiences at their centre, in order to inscribe their local practices within a global history of compassion from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

Geneva

Call for papers - History

Divided memories, shared memories: Poland, Russia, Ukraine

History mirrored in literature and cinema

In Central and Eastern European countries, memorial questions appeared right after the demise of the communist regimes in 1989–1991, revealing long-denied processes. The phenomenon of the rise of repressed memories along with the rewriting of history, and the political uses of the past are noticeable in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine, three countries whose histories are as often shared as their memories are divided. The “memory wars” in which these three states have sometimes been engaged since the end of the 1980s have been the subject of an abundant historiography.

Geneva

Conference, symposium - History

Women in Educated Elites of Pre-Socialist and Early Socialist East Central European Societies

The opening up to modernity of East Central Europe since the late 19th century was marked – among other things – by a triple process generating structural transformations of established post-feudal societies and affecting often radically the status of women. Due to post-feudal conditions of competition for social standing, positions of influence and prestige, hitherto unknown forms of inequalities appeared in the very process of accumulation of political, economic, professional, cultural an educational assets henceforth necessary for the access to the elites. Female professionals, though they could rarely achieve advanced careers in the ruling elites in the old regime, so much so that they often encountered even various forms of public rejection and discrimination on intellectual markets, significantly participated in the framing of the way of life of the new middle class. This workshop will adopt a gender-focused perspective cocentrating on the place of women (training, education, professions) and bringing to light the differences and inequalities existing between male and female members of educated elites.

Geneva

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Early modern

Funded doctoral positions in Non-Western Modern Art, with a special focus on the Middle East

The project, "Other Modernities: Patrimony and Practices of Visual Expression Outside the West," is pleased to announce an open call for doctoral candidates interested in pursuing their work under the auspices of the Swiss National Fund Sinergia Program. The platform offers candidates three years of support towards a doctoral degree.

Geneva

Call for papers - History

Women in Educated Elites of Pre-Socialist and Early Socialist East Central European Societies

The two and a half day workshop will take place at the European Institute of Geneva University in October 2012. The exact dates will be announced in early July 2012. The official language of the workshop will be English. Interested scholars are asked to submit a paper proposal (not more than 750 words) to the organisers (Victor Karady : karadyv@gmail.com; Natalia Tikhonov Sigrist : nat.sigrist@gmail.com) by 10 June 2012.

Geneva

Conference, symposium - Modern

Flashbacks. Nostalgic media and mediated forms of nostalgia

Can media really be nostalgic? Which specific forms of nostalgia appear in contemporary society and why? Can people be nostalgic if they did not experience the past they pretend being nostalgic of? What kind of politics of nostalgia exist? What is the impact of nostalgia on the media market and its influence on economy? Finally, given the arbitrary (?) use of the past in all its imaginable variations and cultural systems, is it still possible to use the word nostalgia or should there be a neologism describing the transformation of the past in(to) the digital era? Could it even be possible to be simply nostalgic of nostalgia; finally describing the eternal research for (lost) identity? This international conference aims to explore nostalgia as a (mass) media phenomena and also seeks for contributions that treat any other mediated forms of nostalgia.

Geneva

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

Six-month research internship, HEC Geneva

We are offering a research internship for a master-level student in management or sociology for 6 month (September-February) at the university of Geneva, in the HEC department.We are currently conducting a study on corporate alumni networks; this research project is funded by the SNF (Swiss National Fund for research) and is led by Pr. Emmanuel Josserand, HEC, University of Geneva.

Geneva

Conference, symposium - History

Historical Development of National Systems of Elite Formation in Eastern and Central Europe

This workshop is bringing together specialists from mostly Eastern Europe together with some West European partners, capable and liable of sharing their localised research expertise in the study of the birth and initial development of national systems of elite training in a number of (mostly but not exclusively) small East Central European societies. All of them have very concrete empirical research agendas and records in these fields, but separately, applied to their own national societies. The idea of the meeting is born from the need of and the interest in comparing – in many thematic issues term by term – research findings, insights and questions gained from studies of the training, career and activities of various East European elite groups during the decades up to the Soviet take-over.

Geneva

Conference, symposium - Representation

The Restoration of Artworks in Europe from 1789 to 1815

Practices, Transfers, Issues

Ce colloque souhaite faire le point sur une période charnière de l’histoire de la restauration des œuvres d’art en Europe, qui s’étend de la Révolution française à la chute de l’Empire napoléonien. Les communications mettent l’accent sur les échanges, les transferts et la circulation des œuvres, des praticiens et des savoirs à cette période. Sont réunis à l’échelle internationale des professionnels de la conservation-restauration, des historiens de l’art et des experts du monde des musées, tout comme de jeunes chercheurs, valorisant ainsi la diversité des approches et des compétences.

Geneva | Lausanne

Conference, symposium - Representation

Sir Joshua Reynolds: What's New ?

Ce colloque est le premier événement scientifique organisé en Suisse autour de la carrière, de l’oeuvre et de l’univers de Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792). Il est aussi l’un des premiers, depuis la dernière grande exposition rétrospective consacré au premier Président de la RoyalAcademy, à Londres et à Paris (1986), à faire le point des recherches et des travaux les plus récents sur le peintre et son temps. Dans le cadre d’un lieu de rencontres et d’échanges entreles chercheurs et le grand public, il s’agira de permettre aux spécialistes confirmés ainsi qu’aux jeunes chercheurs de se rencontrer, de comparer leurs analyses et de croiser leurs réflexions autour d’un peintre autour duquel de nombreuses questions restent en suspens ou discutées.

Geneva

Call for papers - Information

Celebrity news, an oxymoron?

In recent years, celebrity news has spread throughout Western media, and particularly in media aimed at the general public. The aim of the Conference is to study and discuss the spreading of celebrity news across the media and to consider the various issues at stake.

Geneva

Conference, symposium - Thought

Analytic Renewals in Philosophy of Religion - Problems and Issues

Colloque international consacré aux différents aspects de la philosophie analytique de la religion, aux questions qu'elles suscite et aux problèmes qu'elle pose. En présence, notamment, de Richard Swinburne et Nicholas Wolterstorff.

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Geneva

Seminar - History

Groupe d'histoire des organisations internationales (2009-2010)

Créé en 2008, le Groupe d'histoire des organisations internationales rassemble des spécialistes en sciences sociales et des archivistes travaillant dans des organisations internationales. En ce sens, il constitue un forum unique au monde de rencontres et de discussions sur l'histoire de ces organismes internationaux et sur la question des sources d'archives en leur possession. Pour l'année académique 2009-2010, le Groupe d'histoire des organisations internationales organise une série de conférences où seront traitées différentes thématiques en lien avec l'histoire et les activités des organisations internationales. Ces conférences sont ouvertes à toute personne intéressée.

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