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• 15 mai 2018

  Ottawa

  Call for papers - Representation

  Machines and the Musical Imagination (1900-1950)

  Drawing on historical, aesthetic, theoretical and sociocultural perspectives, this study day seeks to reconsider the place of machines in the musical imagination during the first half of the twentieth century, a period marked by the proliferation of mass technology.

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• 18 avr 2014

  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? 

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• 14 avr 2014

  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.

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• 01 nov 2010

  Toronto

  Call for papers - History

  The Relationship and Continuity between the First and Second French Colonial Empires

  French Colonial Historical Society annual meeting

  Le 37ème congrès de la Société d’histoire coloniale française se tiendra à Toronto du 2 au 4 juin 2011. Il aura lieu sur le campus central de l’Université de Toronto. Le thème principal portera sur « Liens et continuités entre les premier et second empires coloniaux français », mais comme toujours, des propositions de communication sur d’autres aspects de l’histoire coloniale française peuvent aussi nous être adressées. La Société encourage des chercheurs de toute discipline à soumettre des propositions. Les interventions ne doivent pas être déjà publiées, ni présentées ou programmées à un autre colloque. Chaque intervenant disposera de 20 minutes de présentation.

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• 01 sep 2007

  Toronto

  Call for papers - Representation

  Bohème sans frontière : production et internationalisation d’une posture

  Un colloque international se tiendra sur ce thème du 10 au 13 décembre 2008. Les chercheurs sont invités à adresser leurs propositions (un titre et un texte programmatique d’une dizaine de lignes, en français ou en anglais) avant le 1er septembre 2007 à Anthony Glinoer (anthony.glinoer@utoronto.ca) et à Pascal Brissette (pascal.brissette@mcgill.ca). Les communications seront prononcées en français ou en anglais et ne devront pas dépasser 25 minutes.

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