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• 31 jan 2018

  Call for papers - America

  Creating the child audience: media and the invention of modern American childhood in the late XIXth and XIXth centuries

  "Transatlantica" special issue

  This Transatlantica issue sets out to examine how, in the process of creating new audiences for its products, child-centric media crafted a homogenizing vision of childhood especially compatible with media consumption. As a result, in the course of the late XIX^th and XX^th centuries, media has made itself the vehicle of adult norms and expectations about children’s tastes, behaviors and development – be it to pander to existing tastes and behaviors or shape them to ideal standards, some civic-minded (with emphasis on social adjustment, character building, or good citizenship), some commercial, and others both at once.

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• 01 jui 2017

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Victorians like us – Domesticity and worldliness

  Issue of “Open Cultural Studies”

  From novels to government reports, the Victorians attached unprecedented significance to domesticity. The household was a central institution, and their occupants played out their different roles according to custom and circumstance. Within its sphere, gender, class, economic and political conflicts were played out as the household provided the background for important social practices. These practices ranged from the kitchen to the parlour, from the street to the Houses of Parliament, from the colonial metropole to the British colonial outposts in Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific.

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• 15 jan 2017

  Antwerp

  Call for papers - Modern

  Food, glorious food

  Food at the heart of nineteenth-century art

  This symposium intends to study the various and complex relations between food, the experience of eating, and nineteenth-century art. For this conference, we welcome papers that discuss how the development of the food industry and the changing notion of “taste” and social mores are reflected in nineteenth-century art in the broadest sense. Papers may concern visual arts including graphic arts in the form of illustrated advertisements and culinary literature, as well as nouveautés (objects which were designed to reflect the evolution of eating and table manners).

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• 15 jan 2016

  Nantes

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Questioning self-medication

  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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• 30 avr 2012

  Hong Kong

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Foodways and Heritage

  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.

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• 05 jui 2011

  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).

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• 15 mar 2011

  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.

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