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Santiago de Compostela

The Epoch of Space. State and new perspectives

The next 8th, 9th and 10th of April it will take place at the University of Santiago de Compostela the international conference "The Epoch of Space. State and New Perspectives", where researchers from around the world will meet to discuss the spatial turn of humanities. This interdisciplinary event will bring together geographers, philologists, historians, philosophers, and other interested disciplines to review the current state of spatial humanities, share different approaches, research methods and discuss their future.

Vanves

Call for papers - Geography

Waste Sciences, Knowledges and Practices

European, North and Latin American perspectives

Waste has emerged as a main environmental, economic and social issue in the last fifty years. The convergence of interests from various fields of reflection and action suggests a potential and fruitful “epistemological turn”. Yet this process is still on the verge of formalization. Research and decision on waste organizational and representational systems remain either fragmented or dependent on local context though some waste management recommendations arise from worries on the global consequences of discard. Hence this international symposium aims at opening transatlantic conversations between academic, technical and artistic areas in order to clarify how waste challenges our everyday sciences, knowledges and practices.

Salamanca

Call for papers - Modern

Social and tecnical Innovations for water management

8th congress CEISAL

De tout temps l’innovation tant technique que sociale, a fait partie de l’histoire de la maîtrise et de la gestion de l’eau : procédés d’irrigation développés par les grandes sociétés de la Mésopotamie Antique et de l’Espagne musulmane, organisation sociale du partage de l’eau dans les sociétés indiennes ou latino-américaines, transferts interbassins ou barrages, etc. Mais dans un contexte plus récent de dégradation quantitative et qualitative de cette ressource, de changements climatiques, de croissance urbaine accélérée des grandes métropoles, d’une agriculture irriguée largement sollicitée, d’un cadre institutionnel en évolution, l’innovation est de nouveau interrogée pour répondre aux besoins en eau.

Paris

Call for papers - Urban studies

Revisit Patrick Geddes

In the interdisciplinarity of his thought, its international dimensions and the timeliness of his ideas, but also given the misunderstanding of his work in France, Espaces et Sociétés devotes its next folder issue to Patrick Geddes, pioneer of modern urbanism and interdisciplinary methods, precursor of environmentalism. In effect, the environmental question has not emerged suddenly in urbanism, it goes back to the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th century with authors such as Geddes. The choice of Geddes reflects the interdisciplinarity of his thought, its international reach and the novelty of his ideas, but also by the lack of his work in France; it was necessary, in fact, to wait until 1994 for the first translation of his work Cities in Evolution (1915). Equally this number wishes to address this oversight by understanding and by calling for a critical rereading of his work.

Madrid

Miscellaneous information - Geography

The archaeology and anthropology of space

Irrigated agriculture and agrarian morphology of damp areas

L'archéogéographie est une géographie ou une géohistoire et comme toutes les géographies, elle réclame une analyse des formes, des espaces et des territoires produits par les sociétés, une connaissance des processus d'hybridation entre nature et sociétés. Dans un contexte toujours d’expansion de l’agriculture irriguée comme moteur de développement, l’atelier 2013 s’intéressera aux enjeux économiques et agronomiques de ce type de culture depuis périodes historiques jusqu’à l’époque actuelle.

Pessac

Conference, symposium - Representation

Stages, stopovers and relays in Latin America - five centuries of the history of halts

Marc Augé a défini les non-lieux à la fin du XX^e siècle, ces espaces anonymes et interchangeables, effaçant l’identité collective et individuelle, et excluant le dialogue, à l’instar des aéroports internationaux. A contrario la littérature avait mythifié l’auberge espagnole. Cet entre-deux, le temps du repos avant un nouveau départ, les hommes et les femmes qui se croisent sur le lieu de halte, la vie commune, l’histoire des émotions et des représentations du bivouac, tels sont les objets du présent colloque dédié au moment de l’escale. Comment les voyageurs hispano-américains ou européens, marchands, missionnaires ou soldats, femmes ou hommes, indiens ou créoles faisaient-ils étape sur le continent américain? Du « tambo » hérité des incas à l’hôtel de migrants, du relais de poste à la « estación de trenes », la topographie des lieux d’arrêts, l’économie qui leur a été associée, ont évolué avec la modernisation des moyens de transport, l’arrivée du chemin de fer et l’essor de la navigation à vapeur d’un côté et de l’autre du continent américain. Ces havres minimes, ces territoires du quotidien, à l’opposé de l’apparat des lieux de pouvoir, est-il possible de construire leur histoire parallèlement à l’histoire des moyens de transport et des voies de communication?

Épinal

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Geography

Mountain Thesard Prize 2013

The Vosges Chamber of Commerce and Industry is organising the 3rd Mountain Thesard Prize, which will award 5000 € to a PhD Thesis dealing with mountain topics. This competition is open to all students who have published a PhD thesis in a European or Maghrebi university after 2009.

Rennes

Call for papers - History

Changes in field systems

Comparatives Approaches: Pace, Contexts and Forms

The aim of this conference is to revisit the issue of the evolution of field systems on the long term in different regions and contexts. The discussion doesn’t concern how we can know field systems nor does it concern field systems themselves. The purpose of this conference is to study the impact of the contexts in which field systems evolve and to analyse how and at which pace the evolutions happen. The aim is to measure the impact of “crises” (of whatever nature: economic, political, environmental, etc.) on the evolution of field systems comparing the evolutions that can be observed in different regions and/or at different times. The main idea is to ask the question of how crises and political and economic incentives have an impact on the evolution of field systems in different historical contexts.

Paris

Call for papers - Sociology

The ruin

Sociétés journal devotes its next issue to the subject of “the ruin”. This issue aims to revisit and extend the notion of ruin considering its spatial, social, architectural, and urban imaginary. A Ruin is a representation and a pictorial resource of the landscape, is a metaphysical way of thought, a purpose and a primitive view. In this sense, memory, architecture and symbol, life and death, decay and rebirth, time and duration, rust and bones, the eternal communication, previous utopia and inner experience, the decomposition and recomposition, ecosophy and economics of conflict, obsolescence and "affordance", are some of the subjects that derive from ruin as status quo: an 'imaginal' foundation of the romanticism and a sensitivity of our contemporaneous world.

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