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Guelph

Prisons, Prisoners and Prison Records in Historical Perspective

The rise of the prison as an institution of mass incarceration for offenders has for long fascinated researchers. In part, this is due to the unusually detailed nature of most prison records. The wide availability of somewhat similar sources across diverse European and European-derived societies provides criminologists, social and economic historians, demographers and other social scientists with rich collections of personal information that have been analysed intensively since the 1970s. The increasing power of software and hardware and the accumulation of very large quantities of prison data, some of it linked to other sources, offers challenges and opportunities for researchers today. The workshop responds to the challenge of harnessing criminal justice records by bringing together scholars in different disciplines and countries to share information about their sources, methodologies of classification and analysis, and to reconceptualize research paradigms.

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.

New York

Conference, symposium - Law

Towards Dystopian Democracies in Europe and the USA?

From Prejudice in Immigration Policies to Mass Surveillance in Counterterrorism Operations

Developments of democracy in Europe and the USA have followed mutually influencing paths over the past two centuries. From the declarations of rights to the establishment of democratic institutions after WWII, these regions have built their governments on the foundation of human rights protection. These foundations have now been weakened by the responses to a number of challenges, in particular immigration and counter-terrorism.

Montreal

Call for papers - Law

Hégémonie ou résistance ? Sur le pouvoir ambigu de la communication - Law Section

Conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 2015

The Law Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the IAMCR 2015 conference to be held in Montreal, Canada, from 12th to 16th July 2015. The deadline for proposal submissions is 9 February 2015.

Ottawa

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Law

Gordon F. Henderson Post doctoral Fellowship

Le mandat du Centre de recherche et d’enseignement sur les droits de la personne (CREDP) de l’Université d’Ottawa repose sur la reconnaissance du besoin d’appréhender les questions des droits de la personne dans une perspective multidisciplinaire et interdisciplinaire afin d’en respecter et d’en explorer les exigences dans un monde complexe et interdépendant. À cette fin, le Centre porte une attention particulière aux enjeux de politiques publiques qui concernent notamment la paix, les migrations et l’immigration, la santé, l’environnement, le commerce et l’investissement international, la pauvreté et les groupes vulnérables.

Montreal

Conference, symposium - Political studies

Fences, Walls and Borders : State of Insecurity?

Colloque international – Montréal – 17 et 18 mai 2011. Vingt ans après la chute du mur de Berlin, la question de Robert Frost demeure entière : « les bonnes barrières font-elles les bons voisins ? ». Depuis la Grande muraille de Chine, amorcée au IIIe siècle avant J.-C. par la dynastie Qin, le mur d'Antonin érigé en Écosse par les Romains pour appuyer le mur d'Hadrien, le Limes romain, le « mur » est une des constantes – en Orient comme en Occident – qui ont marqué les frontières infra et inter-étatiques. C'est ce que ce colloque, rassemblant des chercheurs de quatre continents, des anthropologues, sociologues, juristes, politologues, artistes va explorer.

Vancouver

Call for papers - Sociology

An International Conference on Institutions and Work

Le développement de la notion de travail institutionnel constitue l'un des courants les plus prometteurs du néo institutionnalisme en théorie des organisations. Le but de cette conférence est de réunir un ensemble international de chercheurs venus d'horizons divers et désireux de contribuer à ce courant en s'intéressant aux relations entre institutions et travail et désireux d'échanger autour de ce thème.

New York

Call for papers - Law

The Discourse of Law and Justice in Medieval Europe

As an intellectual edifice and institutional form, law was practiced in courts and taught in law schools during the middle ages. But law was also discussed in marketplaces, carved on tympanums, and written into romances. Everyone--jurists and clerics,

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