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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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• 01 sep 2019

  Budapest

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Violence and film

  The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence is seeking articles dealing with philosophical issues that arise in connection with the depiction of violence in film and television. Violence, real or threatened, drives the plots of many, if not most, of the narratives we watch on the screen. Detectives solve grisly murders, victims seek revenge, teenagers flee slashers, gangsters spray bullets, Kungfu fighters trade punches, and armies clash on the battlefield (or in outer space). While almost everyone claims to wants to reduce the levels of violence in society, movie audiences regularly get an enormous kick out of watching on the screen what we abhor in real life. But not all cinematic violence is meant to titillate. Often the aim is to bring audiences closer to the sickening reality of the mistreatment and abuse suffered by those whose plights might otherwise remain invisible to us. While many worry that exposure to cinematic violence may desensitize us, perhaps it can also serve to awaken our empathy.

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• 31 mai 2019

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Thought

  Fields of collaboration in contemporary art practices

  Can all art be considered collaborative? What has motivated so many artists, in recent decades, to organize in collectives and participate in collaborative projects? Does collaboration in the arts play a major role in redefining the art world and in the production of new subjectivities? How do collaborative art practices challenge the myths of creative genius and artistic individuality?

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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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• 28 jui 2018

  29 jui 2018

  30 jui 2018

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  Truth and fiction

  15th annual conference of the International Medieval Society

  The 15^th annual conference of the International Medieval Society (IMS-Paris) is organised in collaboration with the Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LAMOP) and the Centre d’Étude et de Recherches Antiques et Médiévales (CERAM). This year on the theme of “Truth and Fiction.”

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• 16 fév 2017

  Huddersfield

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Finding Democracy in Music

  For a century and more musicians have sought to relate their practices to the values of democracy. But political theory teaches that democracy is a highly contested category. This symposium aims to interrogate claims for the “democratic” nature of music.

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• 20 fév 2017

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Intangibility Matters

  International Conference on the values of tangible heritage

  Tangible heritage is the support of some of the most relevant and perennial values of Mankind. It connects us with History, projects us to past environments and to lost cultural contexts, includes landmarks of our identity and constitutes a relevant economic asset. Therefore tangible heritage has intangible aspects inextricably associated to it and when tangible heritage is addressed, intangibility matters. Conservation of tangible heritage is a cultural act with the value approach as a leading concept. The protection statutes, the arguments used to sustain the protection policies, the management options and definition of priorities, the allocation of resources and the uses of heritage assets are intimately connected and dependent on values, bringing to focus the intangible side of their nature.

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• 23 avr 2016

  London

  Study days - Thought

  Protest in French and Francophone Arts and Culture

  Society for French Studies Postgraduate Conference 2016

  Protest is an intrinsic part of human culture, which enables subjects to express their dissatisfaction with existing social structures and hegemonic hierarchies of power. Protests have occurred across time periods and contexts, and have taken numerous different forms, ranging from personal expressions of discontent to united movements for revolutionary change. Protests can be individual or collective, personal or political, spontaneous or carefully planned, but they are generally orientated towards destabilising the status quo and establishing new modes of existence. Over the ages, political, social and cultural protests have successfully toppled authoritarian regimes, exposed and confronted dominant imbalances of power, and ameliorated conditions for disenfranchised members of society.

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• 21 mai 2014

  Paris

  Seminar - Asia

  When Books and Art Hurt

  Censorship, Emotions and Cultural Regulation in South Asia

  This workshop aims at exploring issues of literary and artistic censorship in South Asia (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) by focusing on the way anticipated "hurt" often justifies the policing and regulation of the artistic sphere (cinema, visual arts, literature). Our point of departure is, in the words of Arjun Appadurai, the observation that culture is today the field "where fantasies of purity, authenticity, borders and security can be enacted" and that the same censors patrol the boundaries of politics and aesthetics (Coetzee). In the Indian subcontinent "hurt feelings" are often reactivated or cultivated, staged and mass-mediatised to claim recognition and legitimacy in the public sphere, to require compensation or "redressal". Many artists, writers and academics point to a politics of ultra-sensitivity and a thriving "marketplace of outrage". Our objective in this workshop is to question the vocabulary, topicality and tangibility of "hurt" in the public sphere on these issues of artistic regulation in South Asia, and to understand what it means to say that words or images wound.

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• 07 jui 2013

  08 jui 2013

  Strasbourg

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Changing the Tune: Popular Music and Politics in the XXIst century

  From the fall of communism to the Arab spring

  Popular Music scholars have devoted considerable attention to the relationship between music and power. The symbolic practices through which subcultures state and reinforce identities have been widely documented (mainly in the field of Cultural, Gender and Postcolonial Studies), as has the increasingly political and revolutionary dimensions of popular music. Most studies have focused on the genres and movements that developed with and in the aftermath of the 1960’s counterculture. Yet little has been written about how the politics of popular music has reflected the social, geopolitical and technological changes of the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries, after the fall of Communism. Still, the music of the Arab Spring or of the Occupy and Indignados movements have been scarcely commented upon while they attest to significant changes in the way music is used by activists and revolutionaries today.

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• 22 avr 2013

  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.

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• 15 jui 2012

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Marie Curie Fellowships of the Gerda Henkel Foundation

  M4HUMAN : Mobility for experienced researchers in historical humanities and Islamic studies

  The Gerda Henkel Foundation and European Commission launch the second round of their M4HUMAN programme. Scholars planning a longer research stay abroad have until 15 June 2012 to apply to the Gerda Henkel Foundation for a Marie Curie Fellowship. In the context of its M4HUMAN programme (“Mobility for experienced researchers in historical humanities and Islamic studies”), the Foundation’s Office welcomes applications detailing research plans in the field of the historical humanities or on a topic within the special research programme “Islam, the modern nation state and transnational movements” supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.

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• 18 avr 2012

  Barcelona

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  New lines of research in the Humanities

  First International Congress of Young Researchers in Humanities

  La revue Forma, l'Institut Universitari de Cultura et le Département de sciences humaines de l'Universitat Pompeu Fabra sont heureux d'acueillir le premier congrès international de chercheurs en scienes humaines, qui aura lieu du 18 à 20 d'avril 2012 sur le Campus de la Ciutadella de la UPF (Barcelone). Cet évènement a comme objectif de proposer un espace où les étudiants, qui commencent des investigations dans le domaine des sciences humaines, peuvent confronter leurs propres conclusions, sujets et méthodologies.

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• 02 sep 2011	03 sep 2011	29 aoû 2011
  04 sep 2011	30 aoû 2011	...

  Porto Alegre

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Borders, Displacement and Creation. Questioning the Contemporary

  International Conference & International Summer University

  In September 2011, Porto will be the stage for an International Conference & International Summer University under the theme Borders, Displacement and Creation. Questioning the Contemporary. It will be focusing on the encounter between Contemporary Political Philosophy and Aesthetics, with the contribution of several scientific fields within the Social Sciences and the Humanities. The Conference will be held on the 29th, 30th, 31st August, 3rd and 4th September at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, and on the 1st and 2nd September at Serralves Auditorium. Museum of Contemporary Art.

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• 01 jui 2009

  Brussels

  Call for papers - History

  Propagandes : objectifs et pratiques au XVIe et au XXe siècles

  Pouvons-nous établir des parallèles entre les objectifs de la propagande au seizième siècle et ceux de la communication de masse contemporaine ? Comment les historiens de la première modernité utilisent-ils le terme de propagande ? Quels glissements sémantiques peut-on observer par rapport à son utilisation par les historiens de la société de masse ?Pour répondre à ces questions, cet atelier de recherche propose une approche diachronique, allant de pair avec un changement de perspective : plutôt que sur les contenus, qui sont toujours spécifiques à leur époque, l’attention se portera sur les outils et les pratiques de la propagande dans la longue durée.

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• 14 mai 2009

  15 mai 2009

  16 mai 2009

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Musique d’État et dictature

  Ce colloque est consacré à l'étude de cas issus de contextes historiques différents, comme l’Allemagne nazie et l’Italie fasciste, l’URSS et les autres pays du Bloc de l’Est, les régimes de Franco en Espagne et de Salazar au Portugal, la France de Vichy ou les dictatures latino-américaines des années soixante-dix, entre autres. Mais aussi, aux questions théoriques que soulèvent ces répertoires, longtemps perçus comme de simples outils de propagande peu dignes d’un intérêt musicologique ou historique.

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• 04 déc 2008

  Southampton

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Music and Migration

  This conference will explore the relationship between music and migration by providing new insights into the creative practices and life-stories of migrant artists across the globe. A core theme of the conference will be the motivations and experiences of migrant musicians who leave, return, stay or move beyond their localities. Through the focus on such specific groups of migrants the conference aims to throw light on their identifications in their artistic and every-day lives. Past and on-going research shows that patterns of migration are clearly linked to transnational networks. By focusing on the role of migrant musicians within such networks, this conference seeks to analyse and understand the extent to which musicians’ networks may or may not be special cases within migration studies.

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