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Leipzig

Asymmetries of a Region: Decentring Comparative Perspectives on Eastern Europe

Annual Conference 2020 - Das Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO)

We invite the submission of papers by established as well as early career researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds that critically engage with Eastern Europe in comparative perspective from the medieval period to the present time.

Call for papers - Economy

Post-neo-classical perspectives on economic development: Emerging global cities and varieties of capitalism theorization

Topical Issue of "Open Economics" Journal

This topical issue of Open Economics invites submissions that explore both qualitatively and quantitatively how various cities have developed into global hubs of economic activity both historically and contemporaneously. The theoretical and methodological focus of this issue is the application of comparative methods for the purpose of analyzing economic systems in terms that go beyond neo-classical assumptions of economic theory found in conventional macro and micro economics. This also connects to the scholarly discourse on the varieties of capitalism or modernity as a perspective expected to be instructive for considering the preconditions for and effects of the rise of global financial and economic centers, such as London, New York and Hong Kong historically and Singapore, Tokyo and Shanghai more recently.

Berlin

Summer School - History

Visual History in the Twentieth Century: Bodies, Practices and Emotions

The spring school Visual History in the Twentieth Century: Bodies, Practices, and Emotions invites participants to engage in five days of intensive discussion on the relation between the history of the body, body politics, and film and television in the twentieth century. The spring school will take a transnational perspective and focus particular on developments in Germany, France and Great Britain.

Amsterdam

Conference, symposium - History

Government by Expertise: Technocrats and Technocracy in Western Europe, 1914-1973

Technocracy is the political swearword of our times. From the multiple crises of the European Union to the recent elections in the United States, the role of experts in public governance is often invoked as one of the main sources for the political ills of contemporary society, responsible for the exacerbation of social inequalities, the decline in the acceptance of political institutions, and the rise of populist movements. This conference will look at the genealogy of technocracy and the trajectories of various groups of “experts” in western Europe’s mid-20^th century.

Paris

Study days - Sociology

Competition and solidarity networks in contemporary South Asia's Labour Market

This workshop, organized by the AJEI (Association des jeunes études indiennes) and the CESSMA (Centre d'étude en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques), aims at investing the dynamics of competition and solidarity networks in contemporary South Asia's Labour Market.

Lisbon

Call for papers - Urban studies

The Paradigmatic City: Origins, Avatars, Frontiers

Ao longo da história da civilização, as cidades oferecem-nos paradigmas. Elas personificam formas ideais de vida social; surgem como capitais de impérios, mas também como centros de uma identidade nacional, cultural e religiosa; são focos de desenvolvimento económico e político. Todas estas formas se revestem de particular interesse para este congresso. Muitas cidades podem ser consideradas paradigmáticas: Atenas ou Roma, na Antiguidade Clássica; Veneza e Florença, como reflexo das dinâmicas transformações do Renascimento; Londres, Paris e Berlim, como capitais da Modernidade; Nova Iorque, Rio de Janeiro, Tóquio ou Xangai, como epítomes das novas metrópoles em franco crescimento.

Vienna

Call for papers - History

Financial development and economic growth in South-East Europe. A historical and comparative perspective

Xth Conference of the South-East European Monetary History Network (SEEMHN)

The purpose of the conference is to gather scholars working on financial development (e.g. banks, central banks, and financial markets) and economic development (e.g. growth and structural change) in Southeastern Europe to get new, challenging, and exciting insights into the interrelationships between the financial sector and the real economy. Quantitative and qualitative research as well as national case studies and cross-country comparative work can be presented at this conference.

Paris 05 Panthéon

Call for papers - History

Europe and the Arabian Peninsula (19th-21th centuries)

This international workshop will deal with the relations between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula in the Modern Era, from the beginnings of globalization until the most recent economic and strategic developments. In order to study both the evolution and the contents of such relations, two main topics will be given a more particular interest: Cultural and Scientific Relations in connection with the change of mutual understanding from the 19^th to the 21^th century; Evolution of Economic relations from the 19^th to the 21^th century.

Paris

Call for papers - History

Global diplomacy and natural resources

Stakes, practices and influences of non-state actors (18th-21st centuries)

Since the end of the Cold war, the activity of non-State actors has attracted considerable attention as part of an increasingly globalised governance and diplomacy. As Richard Langhorne has remarked, the 1961 Congress of Vienna ‘marked both the culmination and the beginning of the end of classical diplomacy’, in which ‘the State ha[d] been, since the seventeenth century, the principal and sometimes the only, effective actor’. As Langhorne and Hamilton have convincingly argued in The Practice of Diplomacy, today’s diplomacy is characterised by a ‘blurring [of] the distinctions between what is diplomatic activity and what is not, and who, therefore are diplomats and who are not’.Quite revealing of this change on the international diplomatic stage is the proliferation and the increased importance of multifarious non-State actors (NSA). The waning of classical State diplomacy has thus been paralleled by the advent of transnational organisations, which, whether public or private, now play a key role in the conduct of diplomacy.

João Pessoa

Call for papers - Law

Economic development and human rights

Prim@ Facie Law Journal, 24th edition, volume 13

Prim@ Facie Law Journal invites authors to submit papers for its 24th edition, volume 13. Works that make connections between law and development such as studies relative to economic and environmental sustainability are welcome. Prim@ Facie is an outstanding editorial project in Brazil operated by the Graduate Program in Law at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba taking part in the electronic platform supported by the university.

Maastricht

Conference, symposium - History

Crisis, Idea and Policy Transformation

Experts and Expertise in European International Organizations, 1973-1987

Crisis and crisis experience were central to Western European history between the first oil crisis of 1973 and the creation of the Single European Act. European international organizations (IOs) such as the OECD or the EC played a crucial role in debating and addressing manifold dimensions of crisis, shifting discourses and transforming policies at national and European level. These IOs drew heavily on experts and their expertise in debating and managing crisis and seeking solutions for structural problems. Organized jointly by the University of Portsmouth and Maastricht University on 30-31 January 2014, the workshop will investigate who were the experts active within IOs and what type or form of expertise they had and draw upon in agenda-setting, policy deliberation and decision-making. It will also discuss the role of experts in policy-making in the respective IOs and their influence on the development of the policy area concerned.

Basel

Call for papers - Modern

Revisiting the Historical Connections between Agriculture, Nutrition, and Development

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a Global Context

The workshop posits that after 1945, the interconnectedness of questions of nutrition, agriculture and poverty became a central aspect of international governance, and that issues of food and agriculture posed particular challenges to national sovereignty. We thus approach the history of FAO as a history of the ideas and practices of economic and social ‘development’ embedded in local, regional, national, and global contexts and with implications on all these levels. We propose to examine the process by which the FAO facilitated the institutionalisation and globalisation of debates on agricultural production and food security, how it integrated previous international and transnational networks, and how it navigated the tension between agrarian commercialisation and rural welfare during the Cold War and Decolonisation.

Neuchâtel

Call for papers - History

Global Luxury

Organizational change and emerging markets in the luxury industry since the 1970s

The objective of this conference is to bring a better understanding of the transformation of the luxury industry into a global business since the 1970s. This industry experienced in the last four decades a major mutation which the three main trends can be stressed as follows: shift from independent small businesses to multinational enterprises, globalization of brands, democratization of consumption. This conference will tackle topics and cases from various industries, countries and disciplines (business history, marketing, applied economics, etc.). In particular, the following issues are welcomed.

Athens

Miscellaneous information - Urban studies

Econeighborhoods - Green neighborhoods: where are we in Greece?

La vitesse de la conception et la mise en place des écoquartiers est aujourd’hui sans précédant ! Le développement durable trouve enfin son application opérationnelle idéale sur l’espace. Les thématiques et les options sont variées et extrêmement intéressantes : modes de déplacement alternatifs, circulation bien limitée des voitures privées, bâtiments basse consommation, ou bâtiments à énergie zéro ou positive, utilisation des eaux pluviales, matériaux écologiques, mixité sociale et urbaine, combinaison avec le logement social, promotion de modes de vie durables en général... Les écoquartiers sont partout de projets urbains exemplaires, promus par leurs communautés en tant que « vitrines» de savoir-faire technique et d’action durable, mais aussi en tant qu'outils de communication tant au niveau national que international.

Paris

Inequality, Crisis and Taxation

Le 7 mars 2012, Patrice Duran et Facundo Alvaredo organisent une journée d'études portant sur le thème « Inequality, Crisis and Taxation » à l'institut d'études avancées de Paris, de 9h30 à 16h.

Nairobi

Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

The heritage value of biodiversity and the governance of natural resources in light of environmental stress

Seminar on natural resources managment in configurations of environmental risk

Le séminaire « Patrimonialisation de la biodiversité et gouvernance des ressources naturelles à la lumière du stress environnemental et sociétal est organisé à l'IFRA de Nairobi en relation avec un ensemble de recherches croisant les thèmes du patrimoine de la biodiversité, la création des aires protégées et les questions de gouvernances des ressources naturelles.Organisé autour de « cas d’école », ce séminaire pose la question de la gouvernance des ressources naturelles dans des configurations qui témoignent d’une interdépendance croissante entre les changements climatiques, l’accessibilité aux ressources naturelles et l'évolution des normes internationales en matière de protection de la nature. Il porte plus spécifiquement sur la capacité de sociétés vulnérables à intervenir, voir à gérer des situations de stress qu’elles soient environnementales et/ou sociétales.

Chaves

Call for papers - History

From villes thermales to sustainable health and wellness destinations

O prazo de envio de resumos para a Conferência Internacional "De vilas termais para destinos de saúde e bem-estar sustentáveis” foi prolongado.Data limite de submissão de resumos (em português, espanhol e inglês): Domingo, 26 de Junho de 2011.

Call for papers - Law

Social Rights and Development. Relations and antagonisms

La revue Prima Facie est une revue internationale publiée deux fois par an par le programme de post-graduation en droit de la « Universidade Federal da Paraíba » (UFPB, Brésil). La revue recherche des articles jusqu'à la fin du mois d’août 2011, concernant le sujet « droits sociaux et développement : relations et antagonismes », dans une perspective double : au prisme des relations de proximité et / ou des relations d'antagonisme. Le numéro spécial est dirigé par le professeur Maria Aurea Cecato.

Geneva

Call for papers - Economy

Informal economy, vulnerabilities and employment

The central objective of this conference is to provide a state of the heart of academic research on the substantive performance of informal economic units in the construction of their territory. It means that it intends to (1) highlight the inner socioeconomic logics developed by informal economy units, (2) provide a better understanding of socioeconomic practices to manage risk across the life course and fight vulnerabilities at individual, family and collective levels, (3) analyze the interaction between public policies and informal practices and (4) analyze how securization practices within the informal economy participate to the construction of a given territory (of its markets, of potential social services, social protection mechanisms, and of its public sphere). It will provide a new knowledge of specific mechanisms of coordination, reproduction, surplus allocation and securization which are characterizing individual/family and collective/associative organizations from the informal economy.

Le Creusot

Call for papers - History

The Transformation of the World Steel Industry from the Twentieth Century to the Present

Les changements dans la sidérurgie mondiale ont été plus rapides à la fin du XXe siècle que dans toutes les périodes antérieures. Le colloque « les mutations de la sidérurgie mondiale du XXe siècle à nos jours » vise à faire le point scientifique des mutations intervenues dans tous les domaines de cette industrie. Son ancrage dans la période contemporaine permettra une réflexion pluridisciplinaire et comparative sur les origines et les formes du changement.La démarche comparative est essentiellement historique, mais également ouverte à d'autres disciplines comme la géographie, l'économie, la gestion d'entreprises, la sociologie, les sciences de l’ingénieur, etc.

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