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The multilingual circulation of knowledge and transnational histories of geography

In the last fifty years, the field of the history of geography has moved from an approach dominated by National Schools to an attention to the circulation of knowledge in its multiple scales. The history of science and of geography have in the last decades incorporated concepts such as transit, networks, mobilities, the transnational, circulation, centre of calculation, spaces of knowledge, geographies of science, spatial mobility of knowledge, geographies of reading and geographies of the book. More recently, a turn has emerged towards considering the dynamics and necessities of decolonizing the history of geography. This work is turning the field of the history of geography into one of the most dynamic areas of the discipline. Yet we suggest that questions of language and translation have remained under-determined in this new field. Translation and writing have not received the same attention as, for instance, departmental histories, sites of museums, laboratories, botanic gardens, and scientific societies, for example. We suggest, therefore, that new perspectives opened up by translation studies can open new windows on the history of geography.

Tervuren

Study days - Geography

Mapping Africa

The Brussels Map Circle invites you to a whole day of conferences on the cartography of Africa from the 16th to the 19th century. Three renowned speakers, Prof. Em. Elri Liebenberg, Prof. Dr. Imre Demhardt and Wulf Bodenstein will share their knowledge in the prestigious frame of the completely renovated AfricaMuseum in Tervuren (close to Brussels).

Berlin Mitte

Scholarship, prize and job offer - America

Full-time Research Assistant (digital scholarly editions, project coordinator) at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

For the launch of an international digitization and digital edition project, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) invites applications for the position of a Research Assistant (male/female/divers) in the field of Digital Scholarly Editions and Project Coordination. 100% full-time position for an initial duration of 36 months. The position should ideally begin as soon as possible.

Villetaneuse

Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

Reinventing the Sea: precarity, epistemology, narratives

The oceans cover 71 percent of the Earth's surface and contain 97 percent of the Earth's water. One way to reinvent the ocean, as Philip E. Steinberg points out, is not to consider it as a space outside the human beings who settle inside, i.e., on the land, but to look upon it as a mobile and dynamic space that is central to the flows of modern society.

Munich

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Language

LMU Munich Doctoral Fellowship Program in Globalization and Literature

The DFG-Research Training Group "Globalization and Literature" at LMU Munich invites applications for 7 Doctoral Fellowships starting in October, 2013, for up to 3 years.

Greenwich

Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

Student research intern programme: History of science and technology

National Maritime Museum UK 2013-2014

The Museum created this intern programme to further develop its research activity in the vital fields of time, navigation, astronomy, cartography and nautical technology. Our collections in this area are world-class and we need to ensure they are well researched so that the Museum can make them accessible to a wide range of audiences.

New York

Call for papers - Geography

Governance and economic integration in urban border regions

Paper session: "Governance and economic integration in urban border regions", Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting 2012, New York City, USA, 24-28 February 2012.

Cologne

Call for papers - Geography

Ecosystem services: their epistemology and relation to geography

32nd congress of the Union Géographique Internationale - special session

Dans le cadre du congrès international de l'Union géographique internationale, nous proposons une session spéciale qui analysera la place que la géographie a tenu, tient ou pourrait tenir dans l’approfondissement de la notion de services écosystémiques, sa mise en œuvre ou au contraire sa critique radicale.

Fribourg

Call for papers - Geography

Re-conceptualizing the social

First Jean Brunhes Conference

The first Jean Brunhes conference will focus on current re-conceptions of the social. To what extent do new perspectives in Human Heography focusing on concepts such as practice, performance, assemblage, network or system represent an epistemological shift? Do they add to, redefine or replace more traditional concepts within human geography such as space, place, territory or region? What kind of knowledge do these perspectives produce and how do they transform the relationship between knowledge and action? What are the political consequences of these perspectives? And what’s next?

Call for papers - Geography

Géohistoire et données anciennes

Appel à contributions pour Géocarrefour, vol. 84 (hiver 2009)

L’approche de type géohistorique irrigue les courants les plus divers de la géographie, son originalité tenant au fait qu’elle cherche à replacer la dynamique et la structuration des milieux ou des territoires dans le temps long. Plus qu'une histoire spatialisée elle vise donc une compréhension des phénomènes spatiaux et du sens de leurs enchaînements au cours du temps. Elle peut prétendre de ce fait à un certain renouvellement du genre monographique qui devient l’exercice préalable à l’identification de trajectoires d’évolution ou de recompositions.Ce numéro de Géocarrefour, espéré pour la fin de l'année 2009, abordera plusieurs pistes dans ce sens.

Limoges

Call for papers - Geography

Les « fronts écologiques » entre terr(itoir)es, paysage et réseaux

Land(scape), Territories and Networks of Eco-frontiers

Discuter et progresser sur la compréhension, la théorisation et l’application de la notion de “front écologique”. La notion de « front écologique » ou d’éco-front (traduction française d’eco-frontier) renvoie à un type d’espace, réel ou imaginaire, dont la valeur écologique et esthétique est très forte. Ces ressources écologiques sont convoitées, appropriées voire conquises par des acteurs extérieurs à l’espace considéré. Différentes appropriations écologiques conduisent donc à différentes formes de fronts écologiques centrés sur la quête de la « wilderness » (difficilement traduisible par « nature sauvage » et renvoie à la conservation de la nature), le paysage (patrimonialisation et mise en tourisme) ou le sacré (quête du spirituel dans la nature).

Delft

Call for papers - Urban studies

Repenser la théorie, l'espace et la production : Henri Lefebvre aujourd'hui

Rethinking theory, space and production: Henri Lefebvre today

La conférence « Repenser la théorie, l'espace et la production: Henri Lefebvre aujourd'hui » se concentrera sur les mobilisations de la théorie de la production de l'espace dans la recherche urbaine et le design d'architecture. La conférence est organisée par les chaires de la théorie d'architecture TU Delft et ETH Zurich, le poste d'enseignant de sociologie ETH Zurich et de l'Académie Jan van Eyck, Maastricht.

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