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• 15 oct 2019

  Paris

  Call for papers - America

  The creative power of margins: the rise of black, native, and mixed-race intellectuals in the Americas, 19th-20th centuries

  Journal IdeAs 16

  Issue 16 of IdeAs magazine. Ideas from the Americas, to be published in October 2020, will focus on “The creative power of margins: the rise of black, native, and mixed-race intellectuals in the Americas, 19th-20th centuries”. We want to focus on the Black and non-white intellectual Americas. We receive proposals for articles on all countries of the American continent, in French, English, Spanish or Portuguese. 

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• 30 avr 2019

  Call for papers - Thought

  Latin-American telenovelas - hermeneutic and intercultural approaches

  Volume 2

  La diffusion ou la consommation en Afrique en général et au Cameroun en particulier des séries télévisées constituent une pratique socioculturelle et économique (formelle et informelle) d’une grande envergure ces dernières décennies. Visant une audience diversifiée qui recrute parmi hommes, femmes et enfants de toutes catégories sociales, lesdites séries marquent le quotidien en opérant de nouvelles formes de sociabilité telles que la domestication des hommes et l’empouvoirement des femmes et des enfants, ceci au sein d’une société où le patriarcat est encore d’actualité.

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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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