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Paris

Displaying the social history of migrants: content, scenography, public engagement

Donner à voir l’histoire sociale des migrations: contenus, scénographies, médiations

We seek proposals from post-doctoral scholars, recent PhDs, as well as those in the final stages of their dissertations with a background in related fields, in particular migration studies and social history, especially as they intersect with museum studies and/or public history. Participants will discuss, from a theoretical and a practical point of view, the best ways to display, in an exhibition context, the daily experience of past migrations in all their social dimensions.

Paris

Call for papers - Europe

Home as a place for anti-Jewish persecution in European cities, 1933-1945

Crossing urban social history and history of the Holocaust

This conference will focus on urban housing as a place for anti-Jewish persecution. We hope to gather social scientists from various fields to confront various methods investigation and cases, in Reich cities but also in Western and Eastern European occupied cities.

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Transmortality International

Materiality and Spatiality of Death, Burial and Commemoration

The conference « Transmortality International: Materiality and Spatiality of Death, Burial and Commemoration »conference seeks to explore the interplay of artefacts, spatial practices and social actors.We invite papers from all disciplines, from academics and professionals alike, to reflect on the materiality and spatiality of death, burial and commemoration – for example, concerning cemeteries and other spaces of remembrance.

Champs-sur-Marne

Conference, symposium - Sociology

Sites of sport in history

17th International Society of History of Sport and Physical Education (ISHPES) congress

The International Society of History of Sport and Physical Education (ISHPES) is the umbrella organisation for sports historians all over the world. The aim of the 17th ISHPES Congress is to provide a forum for the latest research, findings and experiences from the vast field of sport history. Researchers are invited to submit papers related to "Sites of sport in history" – these words being taken in their widest sense.

Helsinki

Call for papers - History

The Noses and Eyes of the City

Reinterpreting Early Modern Politics and Administrative Practices of Hygiene

The Specialist Session welcomes contributions that deal with questions of medical and administrative debates and with techniques of controlling and monitoring of the urban space by city authorities and the urban population. The aim is to create a basis for understanding contemporary hygienic assumptions concerning life in urban spaces. The papers may be focused on questions of practice, concerning the contemporary considerations to improve city space, political agenda, procedures to implement them and the “instruments” – that is most importantly: the use of senses – to control the implementation. The Contributions of this session will therefore challenge the “modern”, deprecated view on early modern hygienic questions and replace it with a view that is based on contemporary theories and contemporary instruments: the noses and eyes of the city.

Sao Paolo

Call for papers - Early modern

Intermediate Groups in the Portuguese Dominions, 16th-18th century

Revista de História (Universidade de São Paulo)

The Revista de História of the University of São Paulo (Brazil) invites interested scholars to submit proposals for articles to be published as part of a ‘dossier’ concerning intermediate groups in the Portuguese dominions on the Early Modern Age. Throughout that period, ‘middle people’ strove to assert themselves in rural areas and helped to shape old and new urban centers in the Portuguese World, corresponding to an increased demand for specialized services and ensuring the necessary extensions of royal representation functions and Church activities. Even though almost non-existent in juridical or normative terms, those groups were recognized both by nationals and foreigners as a complex and vibrant intermediate social layer. Time has come to try and distinguish its specificities, trends of formation and effective roles in social dynamics.

Brussels

Call for papers - History

Policing Empires. Social Control, Political Transition, (Post-)Colonial Legacies

Call for Papers International Conference

The 2-day International Conference "Policing Empires: Social Control, Political Transition, (Post-)Colonial Legacies", to be held in Brussels in December 2013, will be the last in a series of events convened by the GERN Working Group on (Post-)Colonial Policing. Building on previous explorations of policing, surveillance and security experiences in colonial contexts, the aim of this final conference is to promote a multi-sited and comparative approach to colonial policing practices and their legacies in the postcolonial world.

Call for papers - Urban studies

Black Paris: Place, Circulation and the Mapping of Black Experiences

The Editors of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (Routledge) announce the call for papers on: Black Paris: Place, Circulation and the Mapping of Black Experiences.

London

Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

PhD Opportunity at Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions: Emotions and the Home in Modern Britain

Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions, University of London

The Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions invites applications for one fully funded PhD studentship starting in September 2011 : Emotions and the Home in Modern Britain.

Montreal

Conference, symposium - America

Canadians in the United States: American Dreamers in their Social and Economic Context

Les organisateurs invitent chercheurs, auteurs et étudiants de toutes les disciplines à un colloque sur le thème de l'expérience étatsunienne des Canadiens - et à soumettre des textes pour publication. Le colloque aura lieu à l’Université de Montréal les 12 et 13 mai 2010, dans le cadre du 78e congrès annuel de l’Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS).Le colloque sera suivi de la publication d'un dossier spécial dans la Revue internationale d'études canadiennes.

Ghent

Call for papers - Urban studies

Neighbourhood and urban government in Western cities, from the Early Modern period to present

Tenth International Conference on Urban History

Les politiques urbaines ont aujourd’hui tendance à se centrer sur le quartier comme unité d’intervention ; celui-ci est ainsi souvent perçu comme le principe organisateur du développement social urbain. En cherchant à renforcer la présence des centres sociaux, des conseils de quartier, en développant la police de proximité et en encourageant les citadins à s’organiser autour de projets comme le « neighbourhood watch », les autorités locales entendent améliorer la qualité de vie urbaine et consolider la cohésion sociale. Ce faisant, les concepteurs des politiques publiques reprennent à leur compte la notion de quartier, telle qu’elle a été définie par les sciences sociales – unité socio-spatiale cohérente – et espèrent pouvoir à leur tour susciter le développement du lien social dans la ville. Ces politiques posent dès lors la question de la nature même du « quartier », entre concept administratif lié à un projet politique et unité urbaine mouvante, informelle et extrêmement personnelle telle qu’elle est vécue par les usagers.

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26 jan 2009	09 fév 2009	...

Berlin

Seminar - Urban studies

Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar 2008-2009

Daily Life in Ottoman Towns

What is the historical experience of cities in the former territories of the Ottoman Empire - in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East, and North Africa - in dealing with the impact of global changes and the transformation from Empire to nation States? How did people of different cultural, social and religious backgrounds live together? How are such examples of conviviality, conflict, migration, and urban regimes of governance and stratification conceptualized? And how have urban traditions been reinterpreted, and what bearing does this have on modern conceptions of civil society, multicultural societies, migration, or cosmopolitanism. These and other questions will be addressed in this year’s Seminar in Ottoman Urban Studies, with a specific focus on daily life issues. This seminar is supported by the research program ‘Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe’ EUME with funds of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.

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