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• 27 mai 2018

  Milan

  Call for papers - Geography

  Living the mountain

  Ce colloque a pour ambition d’interroger et de préciser la notion d’ « habiter la montagne » à partir d’apports théoriques et pratiques relevant de territoires alpins et/ou de montagne. Il propose d’examiner les réponses développées par les habitants permanents ou temporaires et les initiatives juridiques, économiques, sociales, environnementale et culturelles déployées de manière individuelle ou collective face à ces contraintes. L’appel est ouvert à la géographie, à l’aménagement, à l’urbanisme, à la sociologie, à l’histoire, à l’anthropologie, à l’économie, au droit…

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• 31 mar 2018

  Milan

  Call for papers - Modern

  Interarts - mimetic hypertextuality between rewritings and allographic continuity

  The last decades have seen an increase in the number of publications concerned with the theme of trans-textuality, meaning the conscious reuse of themes and subjects. A widespread practice during the seventeenth and eighteenth century, trans-textuality was interrupted during the Romantic age only to be relentlessly resumed until  becoming, today, a real trend in literature and other arts, overlapping genres and artistic expressions.

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• 27 avr 2017

  Milan

  Call for papers - Economy

  Turnarounds, turnarounds everywhere!

  Public management in times of political changeovers and volatile public opinions

  The Seminar is an area of francophone scientific debate within the annual congress of the major European academic society of public management and administration (European Group for Public Administration EGPA-GEAP). It questions this year the impact on francophone public management of the unexpected events and radical ideas that gather impetus in our societies. What changes can these accelerated trigger? What should we learn for citizens' trust, good governance, and public service delivery? How will public administrations and their managers react? How will this affect their relationship with public service users? Overall, what new issues and solutions confront the francophone and the Napoleonic models of public management? Should we review our research data and models, look for new inflexion points and reinterpretations?

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• 15 fév 2016

  Milan

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  The Predatory Museum

  39th annual International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) symposium

  Have visitors ever wondered how museums acquire the wonderful things they present to the enquiring public? It is certain that some do, but how many would see the museum as a predator?  Would they ever recognize the museum activity of acquiring the valued collections that are put on display as the result of a predatory undertaking? It is true that museums are discerning but eager recipients of gifts offered by individuals who cross their threshold and who are willing to donate or bequeath their treasured possessions to their local museum. These ongoing acts of charity aside, museums have other avenues of collection-building which they explore and have done so since their inception.

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