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• 30 oct 2020

  Fort-de-France

  Call for papers - Representation

  Statues, memories and representations during the decolonial era

  Nakan journal, no.1. A cultural studies journal

  Nakan aims to impulse innovation in the epistemological field of cultural margins. To this effect, the journal’s first issue will focus on the following theme: “Statuary, Memories, and Representations in the Decolonial Era”. The objective is to elucidate the recent events that saw the degradation of statues representing historical figures linked to slavery or colonialism in multiple parts of the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and the United States. This topical issue fits in a context-based reflection on margins spurred by such social movements as Black Lives Matter, among others. What could be the core motivations leading to such actions? The journal invites scholars to a scientific investigation on statuaries and colonial discourse, heritage, memory, myth, and coterminous questions.

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• 18 oct 2020

  Montpellier

  Call for papers - Language

  5th International "Language and Territory" Colloquium

  This multidisciplinary colloquium will discuss the different ways that languages and territories are linked, and will show the political, social and economic stakes that arise from the relationships between them. Above all, these terms refer to men and women with their social practices and representations, at the core of the logic of territoriality. New territories give rise to new language practices, which, in turn, create new spaces, discourse and meaning. The "boundaries" we draw between languages and territories are permeable in time and space, depending on factors such as population displacement, language policies, linguistic and social representations, education, mass media and socio-cultural values.

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• 30 avr 2020

  Guadalajara

  Miscellaneous information - Language

  Chican@s studies

  Contributions of articles for electronic journal Verbum et Lingua

  The electronic magazine Verbum et Lingua: Didáctica, lengua y cultura will dedicate its 16th edition (July-December 2020) to the topic of Chican@s studies. Grosso modo, for Ornelas, Ramírez and Padilla (1975), the Chican@s studies have made a great effort to integrate four main constructs: race, class, culture and gender/sexuality. These constructs are present in the work of different artists who express their ideology in order to politicize and lead their community(ies) to change. According to Macias (2018), the Chican@s field of study seeks to make research holistic and multidisciplinary, as well as inclusive, comparative, grounded, up-to-date and critical. At the same time, it seeks to apply the results to social justice, education, as well as to the change of the global Chican@ communities.

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• 25 fév 2016

  26 fév 2016

  Bayonne | Donostia

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  The arts of the Basque diaspora (19th-21st centuries)

  Ce colloque entend enrichir la réflexion sur la diaspora basque, sur l’art contemporain et sur les peuples minoritaires en exil, en s’intéressant aussi bien aux arts plastiques traditionnels tels que la peinture, la sculpture et l’architecture, mais aussi aux arts visuels modernes, comme la photographie et le cinéma, et ce, depuis la fin du XVIII^e siècle jusqu’à nos jours.

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• 31 déc 2015

  Call for papers - America

  All Fontanarrosa: The Work of a Complete Humourist

  When the Argentine Roberto Fontanarrosa passed away in 2007, a national day of mourning was declared and his funeral was attended by thousands. Although Fontanarrosa was much loved and both the man and his works have received public recognition time and again, there are very few published academic works on his œuvre to this day. This proposed anthology seeks to fill this gap by paying attention to Fontanarrosa’s work as a whole

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• 13 fév 2015

  14 fév 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  The Politics of Carnival

  Transnational, Transhistorical Perspectives

  This international conference on carnival will bring together historians, anthropologists, and sociologists to explore the links between carnival and politics as showcased by carnivals in Europe, North America, the Caribbean and Latin America. The purpose of the meeting will be twofold: (1) discuss the evolution of "carnival studies" since the publication of Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World fifty years ago; (2) use case studies covering a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods (from the Renaissance to the 21^st century) to produce a coherent synthesis of the relationship between carnival and politics.

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• 02 oct 2014

  03 oct 2014

  Pau

  Study days - Middle Ages

  Family archives

  Materialities and inventories: treasuries, arsenals and memorials

  La façon et les raisons pour lesquelles les archives de famille étaient inventoriées retiendront ici l’attention, tant pour la péninsule Ibérique que pour le piémont pyrénéen, entre Moyen Âge et modernité. Les inventaires anciens d’archives, plus nombreux qu’on ne le croit, instruments de travail ou registres de prestige, témoignent de l’organisation matérielle des fonds alors constitués, ordonnés d’une certaine manière (sacs, coffres, armoires, pièces et personnel dédiés…), et ce, pour gouverner, affirmer et défendre son pouvoir, construire une mémoire. Pour les familles, en particulier de haut rang, la réalisation d’inventaires n’est jamais innocente : divers contextes, modalités et enjeux ont entouré leur confection, et a fortiori leur révision - en parallèle à des reclassements – ou leur mise en collection au cours du temps ou avec d’autres types d’objets et d’inventaires signifiants pour la famille (meubles, objets précieux, bibliothèques…). L’expertise de ceux qui les ont dressés - visible dans la qualité des descriptions, les cotations et recotations successives - se met ainsi au service d’une famille, d’une politique, de droits, d’un patrimoine qu’il s’agit de faire fructifier, défendre ou quasi sacraliser par la mémoire, une certaine mémoire, des archives, condensée dans les inventaires.

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