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• 31 jan 2020

  Huddersfield

  Study days - History

  Music and Political Democratisation in Late Twentieth Century

  This event aims to innovatively question how musical practices formed ways of imagining democracy in the democratic transitions that took place after Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ in 1974 – what Huntington (1991) called the ‘third wave’ of democratisation, which involves more than 60 countries throughout Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Rather than studying music’s diverse deployments within these political contexts (music ‘in’ transitions to democracy), these study days place the emphasis upon ways in which music embodies democratisation processes and participates in the wider social struggle to define freedom and equality for the post-authoritarian era (hence the ‘and’ in the title of the event).

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• 23 sep 2019

  Chicago

  Call for papers - Modern

  European and global responses to the concept of “literary engagement” between 1945 and 1968

  ACLA 2020 panel

  The question of “engagement” (or commitment) became one of the defining elements of post-WWII literature and was, for a long period, at the center of the discussions about the relationship between aesthetics and politics in several European countries. Commonly associated with the name of Jean-Paul Sartre, the success of the notion of “committed literature,” however, went well beyond the French national space. This panel focuses on the transnational circulation of the concept of “committed literature” and, more broadly, on the circulation of related notions, such as writers’ “responsibility,” as well as on any type of counter-discourse or counter-theory targeting “committed literature.”  We would like to explore the different degrees of transnational propagation and dissemination of these debates both in regions that absorbed the intellectual debates taking place in France and in the case of countries which remained more impermeable to them. 

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• 31 jan 2019

  Huddersfield

  Call for papers - Thought

  Music and Democracy: beyond Metaphors and Idealization

  This study day aims to interrogate the experimental and novel socialities, imagined communities and social and institutional conditions summoned into being by 'democratic' forms of music-making: What is the nature of a 'democratic ideal' in music (or art-making more widely)? What is achieved, politically, by rethinking the way in which music is made? When does such rethinking affect the wider domain of social relations, and when does it not? If democratic music-making can help with the wider democratisation of social life, how does it do so? When and how is ‘democratic' music more than just a metaphor?

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• 20 mar 2016

  Münster

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Four Visiting Fellowships for Postgraduates "Cultures of Decision-Making"

  The Integrated Graduate School of the Collaborative Research Centre/SFB 1150 “Cultures of Decision-making”, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the University of Muenster since July 1^st 2015, is offering  four visiting fellowships for postgraduates/doctoral candidates  in 2016 for a period of up to six months, starting in April 2016. The closing date for applications is March 20^th 2016.

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• 28 fév 2011

  Belfast

  Call for papers - Representation

  States of Crime: The State in Crime Fiction

  L’université Queen’s de Belfast organise les 17 et 18 juin 2011 un colloque international et interdisciplinaire sur l’État et le roman policier. Les propositions de contribution venues de nombreux domaines des sciences sociales et des sciences humaines et s’intéressant à cette relation sont les bienvenues et peuvent être adressées jusqu’au 28 février 2011, sous forme d’un résumé d’environ 300 mots à statesofcrime2011@gmail.com. Les communications, d’une durée de vingt minutes, devront être en anglais.

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