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Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
Ethnographies from Global Margins. Questioning Current Makings of Knowledge in Anthropology
The Global as Method: Ethnographic Scales in the 21st century
This panel addresses the old question of power relationships in knowledge production in a time of increased academic competition, which leads to a greater uniformity of anthropological thinking. It thus aims to be a forum to exchange on the possibilities to develop different ethnographies from “global margins” – such as indigenous methodologies, subaltern voices, feminist epistemologies as well as precarious non-tenured scholars – and in a way that would matter for anthropology in a whole.
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Geneva
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology
The project “Gangs, Gangsters, and Ganglands: Towards a Global Comparative Ethnography” (GANGS) aims to develop a systematic comparative investigation of global gang dynamics, to better understand why they emerge, how they evolve over time, whether they are associated with particular urban configurations, how and why individuals join gangs, and what impact this has on their potential futures. It draws on ethnographic research carried out in Nicaragua, South Africa, and France, adopting an explicitly tripartite focus on “Gangs”, “Gangsters”, and “Ganglands” in order to better explore the interplay between group, individual, and contextual factors. The first will consider the organisational dynamics of gangs, the second will focus on individual gang members and their trajectories before, during, and after their involvement in a gang, while the third will reflect on the contexts within which gangs emerge and evolve.
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Geneva
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.
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Geneva
Learning and professional development
9th international conference of the EARLI SIG 14
EARLI SIG 14 focuses on professional and vocational education and training and has a particular set of interests associated with learning at and for work. The conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, who are interested in investigating learning and instructional processes in connection with professional practices. It encourages research and reflection developing interdisciplinarity, methodological diversity, inter-professional collaboration and explores the relations between learning and development in educational and professional contexts.
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Geneva
Conference, symposium - Representation
A Workshop on the historical Performativity of Emotions
The idea that the body is the site in which emotions are expressed is an old one in Western Culture. However, shall we alternatively consider emotions as historical agents that have given meaning to systems of symbolic relations which we understand here as “bodies”? This three-day workshop seeks to explore the conception of emotions as cultural practices that do things and have the power of creating emotional bodies throughout history. With this aim in mind, we will examine the production of physical, social, political, artistic and literary bodies in connection with the changing meaning of social norms, cultural codes and institutions, and especially as the result of the work of emotions.
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Geneva
Learning through and for professional practice
Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice 2014
The conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, especially language and communication research, and professional specialities (e.g., healthcare, social care, therapy, law, mediation, management, business, journalism, education). It encourages research and reflection developing interdisciplinarity, methodological diversity, inter-professional collaboration and explores the relations between language use and social practices taking place in institutional and organisational contexts. A special emphasis will be on cross-boundary collaboration and translation of research findings to ensure impact. For this 2014 ALAPP conference, a special attention will be dedicated to the topic of Learning through and for professional practice.
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Carouge
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Economy
Assistant HES (Doctoral student) at Geneva School of Business Administration
The Geneva School of Business Administration (HEG-Geneva) offers a Research Assistant (Doctoral student) position for three years starting from 1st September 2013.The doctoral student will participate to the project « Organizing, Communicating, and Costing in Risk Governance: Learning Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic », financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He or she will be in charge of the research components dedicated to costing around H1N1. This comparative study will involve qualitative fieldwork in three countries, namely Switzerland, the United States and Japan. He or she will collaborate with a post-doctoral fellow focusing on issues related to organization and communication. He or she will have to write a PhD thesis on H1N1 costing issues and will be supervised by Prof. Nathalie Brender. The project is funded for three years.
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Geneva
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology
A three year post-doc position in the Department of Sociology, University of Geneva (80%)
Le/la post-doc que nous recrutons sur un poste à 80% participera durant 3 ans au projet financé par le fonds national Suisse de la recherche scientifique (dirigé par la prof. Mathilde Bourrier): « Organizing, Communicating, and Costing in Risk Governance: Learning Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic ». Il/Elle travaillera plus particulièrement sur les deux composantes du projet portant sur les facteurs organisationnels et communicationnels de la gestion de la pandémie, en Suisse, aux États-Unis et au Japon. La personne recherchée a obtenu son doctorat en sociologie ou en anthropologie depuis moins de 3 ans, d'excellentes capacités à mener des terrains de recherche dans plusieurs pays, et d'un intérêt marqué pour les questions de santé globale (global health).
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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.
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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
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
Uses of the world and photography. Crossed perspectives on the work of Fred Boissonnas
Le département de géographie de l'Université de Genève organise une journée d'étude interdisciplinaire consacrée à l'œuvre du photographe Fred Boissonnas (1858-1946), l'un des acteurs majeurs de l’histoire de la photographie en Suisse. En croisant les approches, les savoirs, les points de vue, il s’agit de mettre en lumière la complexité et la richesse de la carrière de ce photographe-voyageur et éditeur, ses influences en Suisse et à l'étranger, et son héritage. L’étude de son œuvre permet de s'interroger sur le développement de l’usage de la photographie dans les sociétés européennes entre 1880 et 1930, comme art mais aussi comme moyen de communication pour appréhender l’ailleurs, le passé, et construire des identités tant locales que nationales. -
Geneva
What is coalition? Reflections on the conditions of alliance formation with Judith Butler’s work
This one-day conference aims to reflect – historically, sociologically, philosophically – on the conditions of possibility, on the objects, means and purposes of alliance formation – between minorities, with the State, political parties, and other public actors, or between disciplines, or even across species (e.g. animal-human), etc. –, of political transformation, and thus of a collective agency, in both domestic and international contexts, through the concrete and generic question of “What is coalition?” – with special interest for the ways in which critical perspectives inspired from feminist and queer theory can be made into productive tools to theorize the political at various levels, at different times and locations, but also to intervene and do better democratic work. -
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 | Grenoble
XIth "Border Regions in Transition" (BRIT) Conference
First call for papers and pannel sessions "Border regions in transition (BRIT) XI": "The Mobile Borders" with special sessions on African and Alpine borders. September 6-9, 2011 Geneva, Switzerland/ Grenoble, France. Co-hosted by the Geography Department, University of Geneva and the Alpine Geography Institute, University Joseph Fourier-Grenoble I / CNRS unit : UMR Pacte. -
Geneva
Conference, symposium - Information
An Oxymoron?
International Conference, University of Geneva: http://www.unige.ch/ses/socio/recherche-people/Colloque_en.html. With an opening lecture opened to the public by Prof. P. David Marshall (Deakin University, AUS): Persona Studies: Mapping the Proliferation of the Public Self (15.09.10, 18:30, UniMail Building, room MR060) -
Geneva
Call for papers - Urban studies
Gated Communities - Between Innovation and Urban Fortifications
Appel à contribution pour le colloque « Les communautés fermées entre innovation et fortification urbaines » organisé conjointement par Fondation Braillard Architectes, Genève, l'Institut de géographie de l'université de Lausanne et la chaire « Urbanisme et gouvernance » de l'Institut des sciences de l’environnement de l'université de Genève. Le colloque se déroulera le 8 avril 2011 à Genève. Les propositions de contributions sont attendues d'ici au 18 octobre 2010. -
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.
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