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Brussels

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Seminar HOME II

After a first series of seminars called Home: Heaven and Hell that explored the relations of a subject to his places of origin in contemporary narratives, a next series of HOME will dwell on the reconstruction of an imagined home. What characterizes this new home that follows the wandering, exile or migration? This time under the title of Home Away From Home, a second series of seminars wishes to examine present-day literary and artistic representations of adopted spaces as to understand how these representations emerge in interaction with a subject who is confronted with a territorial quest that is coming to an end.

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.

Saint-Denis

Call for papers - Sociology

Toys and material culture : Hybridisation, design and consumption

The predominant theme for the 8^th 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?

Berlin

Call for papers - Language

Pragmatic spaces, longitudinal studies and multilingualism

CLARe 3 – Corpora for language and aging research

The conference is dedicated to discussing major issues in language and aging research. The focus is on projects and research questions taking their point of departure in empirical approaches and the use of innovative methods to gather and analyze authentic material and samples of language data from older adults. Also, the subject of language in later life is deeply embedded in interdisciplinary contexts.

Paris

Call for papers - Sociology

Twelfth Conference of the European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce

INED, the French National Institute for Demographic Studies, hosts the twelfth Meeting of the European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce. The conference will take a broad approach to union dissolution, considering both divorce and separation for non-married partnerships. We particularly welcome papers on the antecedents of union dissolution with a particular attention to the changing determinants overtime. Furthermore, we invite papers on different aspects of the consequences of separation and divorce. Separation and divorce concerns different protagonists: women, men and children, in different aspects of their life. The conference will be held in Paris, France on 2-4 October 2014.

Lyon

Call for papers - Modern

The Seventh Age of Man: Constructs, Challenges and Catch-22s

From a Humanities Perspective

The Institute for Transcultural and Transtextual Studies (IETT) is organising a multi-disciplinary conference on old age, interpreted as a transitional period during which individuals have to face specific issues. The conference aims to explore three major themes. The first one will lead us to address a series of questions related to aesthetic norms and social models. The second theme will focus on forms of mental and physical degeneration and will encourage us to examine the consequences of age-related disability, segregation, and exclusion. The third issue is based on the related questions of memory and transmission. It will allow us to reflect upon the transmission of traditions and on relationships within the family, partly based on authority, and/or on inherited collective values.

Taipei

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Bodily Cultivation & Cultural Learning

8th International Symposium of CORPUS (International Group for the Cultural Study of the Body)

Almost all cultures recognize as a means of achieving religious or spiritual goals, cultivating moral and emotional virtue, or transforming ideas into bodily practices. Some of the most common examples include fasting, meditation, vegetarianism, and qigong or taichi. Rather than focus on these obvious examples, conference attendees will examine culturally driven bodily practices such as proper ways to walk, sit, and gesture—all of which are often endowed with rich cultural meaning, information about cultural learning, and knowledge about the cultivation of values and merit. Bodily cultivation can also be analyzed as a channel for learning, manifesting, developing, or shaping cultural concepts and ideals.

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.

Paris

Study days - Sociology

Paul Willis, Learning to labor. 35 years after

Retour sur l'enquête menée par le sociologue Paul Willis dans les années 1970 auprès de jeunes ouvriers anglais. Journée d'études en présence de l'auteur à l'occasion de la traduction de Learning to labor en français.

Geneva

Call for papers - Sociology

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.

Timişoara

Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

Parents' Bodies, Children's Bodies. From Conception to Education

7th International Symposium of CORPUS

Pour son septième symposium international, CORPUS, Groupe international d’études culturelles sur le corps, réunira à Timisoara des chercheurs venus d'une demi-douzaine de pays autour des problématiques particulières aux corps de parents et aux corps d'enfants: conception, éducation, apprentissage, maltraitance, etc.

Porto Alegre

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Psyche

Grants for Invited Scientists (BCC) - Centre of Psychology of Oporto University

Encontra‐se aberto concurso para a atribuição de 4 Bolsa(s) de Cientista Convidado no âmbito do instituição de I&D Centro de Psicologia da Universidade do Porto (Portugal).

Timişoara

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Parents' Bodies, Children's Bodies. From Conception to Education

7th International Symposium of CORPUS

« Corps de parents, corps d'enfants. De la conception à l'éducation » sera le thème du Septième symposium international de CORPUS Groupe international d'études culturelles sur le corps. Cette rencontre organisée avec l'Université de médecine et de pharmacie Victor Babeş de Timişoara aura lieu les 28 et 29 novembre 2011.

Call for papers - History

Expertise and juvenile violence, 19th-21st century

Collective work

Dans la construction historique du problème social que constitue la violence juvénile, que celle-ci soit exercée ou subie, le rôle de l’expertise est primordial. La violence, phénomène intime et social, étroitement associé avec l’état de jeunesse, oscille entre l’objectivité de ses manifestations et la subjectivité de sa perception. Elle se mesure à l’aune de son énoncé dans la sphère publique. L’expert, agissant au cœur ou à la lisière du système institutionnel de protection de la jeunesse, peut être celui qui recueille cette expression et celui qui la met en forme. Ainsi, l’expérience de la violence chez les jeunes est médiatisée par les formes de discours savants que produisent les experts.

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