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Special issue of the Journal of Festive Studies

In previous issues, the Journal of Festive Studies explored the emerging academic sub-field of festive studies (broadly defined) and the politics of carnival. For this issue, we follow Peter-Paul Verbeek’s advice and look at “the things themselves,” i.e. at the material culture in which carnivals and other festivities are rooted (Verbeek, 2005).

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Violence and conflict in sports and games

“Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence” - Special Issue on Sport and Game Studies

The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence (PJCV) welcomes contributions concerning philosophical issues raised by sports and games. The selected articles will be published open access by Trivent Publishing in December 2018. Deadline for paper submission is May 1, 2018.

Evora

Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Heritage, Digital Humanities, Cultural Tourism

The CIDEHUS (Interdisciplinary Center of History, Cultures and Societies of University of Évora) is opening the call for 1 Post-Doctoral fellowship, within the framework of UID/HIS/00057/2013 Project, with financial support from FCT/MEC (through national funds, eventually co-financed by FEDER (PT2020 Partnership agreement).

Dunkirk

Call for papers - Sociology

Sports, genders and sexualities

Social, Ethical and Political Challenges

As expressions of cultural embodiment, sexualities, genders and sports can be analyzed as a mirror of societies’ transformations and developments. The analysis of sports, gender and sexuality can be a key to analyze changes and persistence's in social interactions and collective representations. This workshop seeks to create a discursive space for contributors to explore the social, ethical and political criticalities arising in the interaction between sports, gender and sexualities in contemporary societies. We invite papers aimed at both understanding the relationships between sports, genders and sexualities, and using them as a tool to analyse broader social, ethical and political transformations. As such, such, we hope to provide both critical evaluation of current theories and paradigms by which sport, gender and sexuality are understood and encourage the opening of new horizons for critical investigations.

Nancy

Call for papers - Modern

From « Traditional » Games to Digital Games

Since the early 2000’s, the importance of studying digital games has increased to take a significant place in the academic literature dedicated to entertaining phenomena, to such a point that many articles offering to make an inventory of current “game studies” primarily focus on work related to games on this media. In this context, we cannot ignore the fact that work aimed at conceiving and studying digital games is also regularly referred to as reflections on (non-digital) “traditional” games, whether to build their theoretical framework, or to conduct comparative and contrastive studies. According to us, this kind of mutual lighting encourages researchers to examine the peculiarities and complementarities of the two areas, as well as the theoretical interest of connecting or of confronting them. Therefore, in order to analyse the relations established between “traditional” games and digital games, this call is divided into five themes that give a broad overview of the different kinds of possible links. All types of research, fundamental or applied, as well as disciplinary approaches are welcome.

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.

Sion

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Regimes of Value in Tourism: Concepts, Politics, Practices

The conference aims to explore different concepts of value that emerge in the social field of tourism. At a general level, we can distinguish here between value as conceptualized by different academic disciplines and value as lived, expressed, and embodied by various actors within tourism as practice and social field. Tourism is often considered a profit generating industry where the utility value paid by tourists is larger than the exchange value of products (in classical terms, the cost of production using labor, capital and land). It is an important element of the conference to discuss conceptions of value in tourism that transcend a strictly economic definition. In this sense we are interested, on the one hand, in the differentiated emotional, moral and ethical cultures by means of which tourists experience attractions and assign value. On the other hand, we wish to explore how various local, regional, national, international, and transnational actors and instances capture, conceptualize and assemble economic, political, cultural, spatial value associated with touristic places.

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.

Moscow

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Foreign Bodies: Enhancing & Invading the Human Body

Second International Symposium of CORPUS International Group for the Cultural Studies of the Body

Fondé en 2009, CORPUS regroupe aujourd'hui plus de deux cent chercheurs travaillant dans une cinquantaine de pays. Né d'une série de séminaires organisés de 2001 à 2008 dans le cadre de la formation « Histoire et civilisations » de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales et de la faculté de psychologie de l'université Autonome de Madrid, CORPUS entend participer à la construction d'une anthropologie grande ouverte du corps en offrant des espaces pour des réflexions croisées et des dialogues disciplinaires autour de ce fascinant objet d'études. Organisé avec l'appui de l'Institut d'ethnologie et d'anthropologie de l'Académie des Sciences de Russie, le second symposium international de CORPUS aura pour thème « Corps étrangers : améliorer et envahir le corps humain ». Cette rencontre se déroulera à Moscou, les 17 et 18 mai 2010.

Quebec City

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Play. Ethnology of games and sports

Dans ce numéro thématique de la revue Ethnologies, nous proposons de réfléchir au jeu identitaire et à l’identité jouée dans les jeux et dans les sports. Nous cherchons ainsi à mieux comprendre comment le joueur peut s’exprimer et s’affirmer dans une pratique ludique et/ou sportive et quelle est la cohérence de cette pratique pour le social. In this special issue of Ethnologies, we invite thoughts on identity games and on performed identity in games and sports. We seek a better understanding of how a player can express and assert himself/herself in leisure or sporting practices, and of the social coherence of these practices.

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