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• 15 oct 2018

  Paris

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Women of the Americas

  The recognition of women’s place in American societies has become a crucial social, cultural, political and economic issue, as evidenced by worldwide protest movements such as Ni Una Menos that started in Argentina – a feminist movement fighting against feminicides and gender-based violence – or the Women’s March against President Donald Trump in the United States. Whether these protests have to do with the struggle for women’s right to vote, the sexual revolution that started in the 1960s, or social movements denouncing gender-based violence in urban and rural environments, they highlight a continuity between yesterday’s feminist fights and their re-adaptation in the public space. 

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• 09 aoû 2014

  Paris

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Urban night-life

  Thinking, feeling and telling nightlife

  The quality of nightlife in European cities has become a real political challenge in recent years. The turning point in the decision of regulating urban temporalities was The General States of the Night in Paris (2010) and in Geneva (2011). New lifestyles, the desynchronisation of social time with individual rhythms, the disruption oftraditional couplework/leisureinself-realizationand competitiveness between governors about urban marketing, explain this new point of view about urban life. Nowadays, how is nocturnal urban space occupied in central areas of large cities, but also in fringes? What does this gradual conquest of urban night-life mean ? How do we speak of everyday acceptanceand massive expansion in access to these nights? How can nightlife be appeased ?

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• 22 avr 2014	23 avr 2014	24 avr 2014
  25 avr 2014

  Lima

  Conference, symposium - History

  Thinking prisons in Latin America

  Du 22 au 25 avril se tiendra le colloque « Penser les prisons d'Amérique latine » dans la ville de Lima. Pour la première fois dans la région, l'événement réunira des spécialistes du monde académique autour de la thématique pénitentiaire. Le but de la rencontre est de diffuser et de partager des connaissances sur l'univers carcéral du continent latino-américain. Avec la participation d'invités et d'intervenants du Mexique, du Salvador, de Colombie, du Venezuela, d'Equateur, du Pérou, du Brésil, d'Argentine, du Chili, de France et d'Italie, le programme s'articule autour de cinq axes thématiques : histoire de l'enfermement punitif, prison politique, marchés de l'enfermement, relations scoiales en milieu carcéral et genre et sexualités.

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