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Brussels
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
Domestic accumulation, decluttering, and the stuff of kinship in anthropological perspective
We invite submissions of abstracts considering the following sorts of questions: What is the relationship between storage and the labor of kinship? What kinds of possessions are sources of obligation? Which are experienced as social or animate beings? What social practices and spatial processes surround waste, excess, and the riddance of objects from the home? How might local ethnographic concepts like hau orbrol inform the anthropological understanding of attachment to possessions, recycling, or the circulation of second-hand objects? When is accumulation a valued social practice, and when is it morally suspect? How is the space of storage constructed in relationship to the social space of the home, and how might this reflect on the local category of stored things? We invite authors to consider how practices such as storage, stockpiling, and purging of belongings can be approached anthropologically in order to provide both nuanced ethnographic depth and broader cross-cultural and historical perspective. Interdisciplinary perspectives are also welcome.
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Intersections between the system of production and the cultural system
FORMA has gone out with a new call for papers for an introductory issue in what will be a five year project exploring the intersection between the system of production and the cultural system. Accepting papers that investigate this subject from a wide array of perspectives, from biopolitics and bioethics, to technology, ecology, education, (geo)political conflicts, and more, this aims to be an interdisciplinary, comparative issue with a focus on the humanities understood broadly.
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Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
Special issue of the Journal of Festive Studies
In previous issues, the Journal of Festive Studies explored the emerging academic sub-field of festive studies (broadly defined) and the politics of carnival. For this issue, we follow Peter-Paul Verbeek’s advice and look at “the things themselves,” i.e. at the material culture in which carnivals and other festivities are rooted (Verbeek, 2005).
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Saint-Denis
Toys and material culture : Hybridisation, design and consumption
The predominant theme for the 8th ITRA conference is “Toys and material culture: Hybridisation, design and consumption”. Beyond toys, the conference will explore the place of tangible objects and novel forms of material culture in play. What are the similarities and the differences, the relationships, between toys and other material devices, such as board games, cards, digital games and media-connected objects? Are there, in play, or in the trans-mediated toys themselves, new forms of materiality?
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Angoulême
Cultural and Creative Industries of Childhood and Youth
VIIIth Interdisciplinary Conference on Child and Teen Consumption
The interdisciplinary conference « Child and Teen Consumption » aims to facilitate in-depth dialogue between researchers from various disciplines: management, psychology, sociology, information and communication, anthropology, history, educational sciences, law, etc. Whilst the 8th conference will aim to continue interdisciplinary research and dialogue on broad themes related to children and young people as consumers, the theme of the 2018 conference will be « Cultural and Creative Industries of Childhood and Youth » in order to reflect its location in Angoulême and the growing research and public policy interest in this topic. The conference aims to highlight research in this domaine and invites producers of cultural material to bring their views to the debate.
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The materiality and spatiality of death, burial and commemoration
Special issue in the Journal “Mortality”
The interdisciplinary journal Mortality calls for submissions from all disciplines to reflect on the materiality and spatiality of death, burial and commemoration: Death, dying and burial produce artefacts and occur in spatial contexts. The interplay between such materiality, spatiality and the bereaved who commemorate the dead yields interpretations and creates meanings that can change over time. In this special issue we want to publish papers that explore this interplay by going beyond the consideration of simple grave artefacts on the one hand and graveyards as a space on the other hand, to examine the specific interrelationships between materiality, spatiality, the living and the dead.
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Nantes
A socially and geographically situated bricolage
Treating oneself is a controversial practice: scorned in the name of the health risks it runs, self-treatment may also be praised in the name of the independence it expresses. The messages of public health authorities are at the heart of the controversy, emphasizing risk one moment and their potential for patient responsibility the next. Such contradictory injunctions also affect the practices of care providers. The conference has chosen to allow comparisons and confrontations between these various disciplinary approaches as well as distinct research field sites (North/South, North/North, South/South). These practices and their determinants have to be more finely mapped and analyzed to put these analyses – by definition always partial, and theoretically, historically, and geographically situated – in perspective.
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Écully
Conference, symposium - Sociology
Consumers and producers' perspectives
The eight edition of the International Research Symposium aims to share up-todate research on managing hunger and satiety both from the consumers and from the producer’s perspectives. This day will be devoted to address appetite and food intake mechanisms in relation to pleasure and health in a product context or a food service context. Normal and healthy eating will be discussed as well as some mentions of overeating and obesity or under eating and denutrition. A range of speakers from both academic and industrial sectors will share their knowledge and understanding of hunger and satiety and their relation to eating behaviors. The issue will thus be addressed on both physiological, psychological and social levels.
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Constanţa
Conference, symposium - Sociology
Dialogue as Global Action: Interacting Voices and Visions across Cultures
3rd ESTIDIA Conference
Ovidius University (Constanta, Romania), a modern and vibrant research university on the Black Sea coast, welcomes dialogue-oriented researchers and practitioners to be held on 25-26 September 2015 to the 3rd ESTIDIA Conference. The conference serves as a discussion forum for reserchers to showcase their dialogue-oriented work on current societal and community-related issues, and on methodological approaches to dialogue analysis. The aim is to bring together senior and junior schoolers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and professional orientation to critically explore, through dialogue, different perspectives on human thinking, communication strategies, interpersonal relations, socio-cultural traditions, political processes and business interactions by means of theory-based and practice-driven investigations.
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Food Security and the Contemporary World
In view of the interpretations suggested by all these studies, the special issue of Contemporanea aims to engage in a reflection on food security in the widest sense of the term, which includes the political and economic choices made by institutions, relations between states, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, the connection between the availability of food and international stability. We also intend to look at the circulation of cultures and practices within the transnational space that historically defines the relationship between food, health, individual and collective well-being.
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Lisbon
Conference, symposium - Sociology
Transnational Public Participation and Social Movement Activism
Ambiguities of global spread, professionalisation and standardization
The workshop is dedicated to questions linking transnational public participation research with transnational social movement activism research and pointing to dynamics of global spread, professionalization and standardization. It aims at discovering linkages, differences and ambiguities in both research fields and invites contributions from diverse disciplines.
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Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
User Behavior in Ubiquitous Online Environments
As ubiquitous online applications are increasingly used in various contexts, new models of user activity emerge. The behavior of users is changed in unprecedented ways that are yet to be explored, as our knowledge with respect to the ubiquitous user is still limited. There is an emerging need for researchers and practitioners to fully understand the potential of ubiquitous environments for successful commercial, educational, entertainment, or any other type of activity and the changes they impose to existing to user behavior. -
Rouen
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
The child’s room as a cultural microcosm
Space, Consumption and Pedagogy
Le colloque « La chambre d’enfant, un microcosme culturel » vise à dresser l’état des connaissances sur la culture matérielle de l’enfant dans l’espace domestique suivant trois axes principaux. Ils ont été retenus pour mieux saisir la chambre d'enfant aussi bien dans son histoire que dans le monde contemporain, dans sa matérialité que dans ses représentations. Le premier envisagera la chambre d’enfant sous l’angle de l’architecture, comme un espace délimité spécifiquement réservé à l'enfant au sein de l'habitat. Le deuxième axe s’attachera à la chambre comme lieu privilégié des biens de l’enfance et de la consommation enfantine. Enfin le dernier axe considérera la chambre comme un espace éducatif, dans lequel peuvent cohabiter perspectives scolaires et univers du divertissement, visées adultes et points de vue enfantins. -
Rio de Janeiro
Sustainable living: everyday consumption practices
O VI Encontro Nacional de Estudos do Consumo ocorrerá nos dias 12, 13 e 14 de setembro de 2012 em paralelo com o II Encontro Luso-Brasileiro de Estudos do Consumo. O ENEC se propõe a estimular o debate sobre o consumo como um fenômeno que já pode ser considerado um campo científico consolidado em diversos países. Juntos, os dois eventos têm por tema a reflexão sobre a “Vida sustentável: práticas cotidianas de consumo”. Os eventos decorrerão na Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, no Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). -
Écully
Study days - Ethnology, anthropology
Young adults and their eating habits
Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Paul Bocuse symposium
Each year, the Institut Paul Bocuse Research Centre welcomes researchers and professionals to exchange over a theme from various angles: biological, psychological, social or economic approaches.For its 2012 edition, the conference concerns the eating behavior of young adults. Indeed, youth is a critical phase that allows the transition from adolescence to adulthood, a period where individuals’ culinary and eating behaviors are constructed. The question can be raised of how far young adults are willing to go on with their family eating habits and how far they wish to break with transmitted values and build new schemes. -
Hong Kong
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
International Conference organized by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Department of Anthropology). In collaboration with the UNESCO Chair "Safeguarding and Promotion of Cultural Food Heritages" (University François-Rabelais of Tours, France).This conference aims to :1. look at the politics of foodways and heritage, 2. investigate how different kinds of food are produced, sustained and inherited, 3. investigate how they are preserved as intangible heritage for various reasons. -
Toulouse
First International Colloquium on the Sociology of Energy
L’objectif de ces journées est de rassembler des scientifiques d’horizons institutionnels différents (laboratoires de recherche, entreprises publiques et privées, bureaux d’études) intéressés par la place des problématiques sociologiques dans les questions d’énergie, de mutualiser les connaissances et les approches sociologiques, mais aussi de contribuer au rapprochement entre les sciences de l’ingénieur et la sociologie / The aim is to convene scientists from different backgrounds (public and private companies, research laboratories, engineering/consulting firms), develop an international network with a view to holding regular meetings, as well as pool knowledge and theoretical and methodological approaches. -
Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology
Diets and Food Patterns. Myths, Realities and Hopes
Le quatrième symposium international de CORPUS Groupe international d'études culturelles sur le corps aura pour thème : « régimes et modèles alimentaires. Mythes, réalités et espoirs ». Il réunira les 5 et 6 juillet 2011 des chercheurs venus d'une dizaine de pays à Tbilissi (Géorgie). -
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
Diets and Foods Patterns. Myths, Realities and Hopes
Fourth International Symposium of CORPUS
Le quatrième symposium international de CORPUS groupe international d'études culturelles sur le Corps aura pour thème : « Régimes et modèles alimentaires. Mythes, réalités et espoirs »,. Organisée avec l'université d'état d'Ilia (Géorgie) et l'université de Stockholm (Suède), cette rencontre scientifique aura lieu à Tbilissi, les 5 et 6 juillet 2011. -
Volume! The French journal of popular music studies
Listening to popular music: practices, experiences, representations
L’auditeur est une entrée féconde pour l’analyse sociale, culturelle, esthétique ou encore politique des musiques populaires, qui permet de démultiplier les échelles d’analyse et d’entrer dans les détails les plus intimes de la relation esthétique et des pratiques signifiantes…
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