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• 05 fév 2019

  Call for papers - Africa

  Innovation, Invention and Memory in Africa

  IV Cham international conference, Lisbon, July 2019

  The Portuguese Centre for Humanities (CHAM) is an inter-University research unit of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and of the Universidade dos Açores, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. CHAM’s team includes researchers from different disciplinary fields (Archaeology, Art History, Heritage, Literature, Philosophy and History of ideas), different domains of History (Economic, Cultural, Political, Social, Religious, History of Science and History of books and reading practices) and specialists from various geographic spaces. From 2015 to 2020, CHAM’s strategic project will focus on “frontiers”. This multi-disciplinary project considers frontiers as limits that distinguished, throughout history, a plurality of societies and cultures, but also as social and cultural constructs that promoted communication and interaction.

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• 19 fév 2016

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Witchcraft, spiritual worldviews and the co-production of development knowledges, practices and rationalities

  Special issue of Third World Thematics, a new sister journal of Third World Quarterly

  What roles do spiritual, witchcraft and magical worldviews play in 21st Century development agendas? Responding to this central query, this special issue seeks to engage interdisciplinary scholarship on the variegated means through which these practices, worldviews and/or ontologies intersect, impact and (re)shape contemporary development concerns, particularly in the co-production of knowledges and practices of development at a range of scales. In this special issue we seek to explore the rapidly changing contexts in which contemporary development knowledges evolve, and in doing so, disrupt conceptions about where valid knowledge resides and how development challenges are framed.

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• 06 avr 2015

  Barcelona

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Love, Lust and Longing: Rethinking Intimacy

  5th International Symposium of the International Network for Alternative Academia

  While discussion of sex become ever more common, opportunities to explore the nature of love are still rare. When the topic is raised, most often the focus is on dramatic experiences or hard cases. The “epic” and the “mundane” are probably more intertwined in our experiences of love than cultural speech and literature admit. Yet, an imbalance continues to exist: we reflect little on the smallness of events that sustain love bonds. What goes unexamined as such are the ways in which love is spoken of and enacted in everyday life. This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the lived experience of love considering the ways in which it is described and how it is practiced, identifying how love differs from and overlaps with concern, care, friendship and lust and raising questions about the ontology, expression and politics of love.

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• 25 avr 2014

  Toronto

  Call for papers - Representation

  Speed, Silence and Solitude

  Part of the Research Program on: Space, Time and New Technologies of the Self

  International Network for Alternative Academia – invites you to participate to the First International Symposium: Speed, Silence and Solitude. This trans-disciplinary project seeks to explore how new technologies are re-calibrating our notion of time, re-configuring our ideas of space and, as a result, how they are re-envisioning our understanding of the self and its relation to others.

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• 30 jui 2013

  Call for papers - Geography

  Ethnic or national minorities. Between renewal and permanence

  Belgéo Review

  The coordinaters of this issue of he Belgéo review plan to reflect about the "ethnic or national minorities", two polysemous concepts here perceived in a way opened to interpretation even if they are inscribed in P. Poutignat and J. Streiff-Fénart’s definition, when they state that these groups “only exist thanks to the subjective belief their members share that they constitute a community.” The minority group is dialectically linked to the existence of a majority. It can be said “ethnic” because of racial parameters but above all because of the presence of linguistic, religious, cultural or other discriminating and specific markers. The will to be different expresses itself in various ways – instutional or not – and leads to very diverse situations, located between resistance and cooperation, forced integration and autonomy. The way to name places, individuals, but also their status – granted or claimed for – their visibility in the social and political space, are elements characterizing the notion of “otherness”.

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• 30 sep 2012

  Coimbra

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Ecological Crisis and the New Challenges

  Special issue of the Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais

  Esta chamada de artigos propõe-se reunir contribuições que, pela compreensão da crise ambiental contemporânea, utilizem criticamente os instrumentos de análise provenientes das seguintes áreas de investigação: justiça ambiental, saúde coletiva, democracia/cidadania ecológica, economia ecológica, ecologia política, ecocriticismo, sociologia ambiental e história ambiental.

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• 15 mar 2011

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Beyond the Heritage Consensus. Forms of Resistance and Dissident Uses of Heritage

  Appel à contributions pour la revue Civilisations sur le thème : « Au-delà du consensus patrimonial. Résistances et usages contestataires du patrimoine ».

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• 30 sep 2009

  Paris

  Call for papers - Asia

  Tamil communities and the sri lankan conflict

  Cette conférence sur « les communautés tamoules et le conflit sri lankais » sera l'occasion de réunir, sous l'égide du laboratoire ENeC (UMR 8185 - Université Paris-Sorbonne et Université de Saint Denis), des chercheurs de disciplines et nationalités différentes afin d'approfondir la réflexion sur des sujets d'une grande actualité scientifique tels que les migrations, le transnationalisme, l'analyse et la résolution de conflit... à travers l'exemple de Sri Lanka et sa diaspora.

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