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• 02 mai 2018	23 mai 2018	30 mai 2018
  06 jui 2018	13 jui 2018

  Oxford

  Seminar - Representation

  Towards a Social History of Photoliterature and the Photobook

  Seminar at the Maison Française d’Oxford 2017-2018 (Trinity Term)

  This international seminar brings together researchers working on photography and the book with interdisciplinary approaches, connecting the aesthetic and material dimensions of the photobook with social, economic and political perspectives.

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• 12 jui 2017

  13 jui 2017

  Bristol

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  Paper, airwaves, screen: from text to audience in African popular culture

  This conference aims to reflect on the critical spaces of reading and listening that occur in and around popular cultural texts in Africa – from songs, magazines, romance fiction, and hip-hop lyrics, to blogs, facebook posts, and urban inscriptions. Drawing on the methods of cultural studies, material print cultures, and the sociology of reception, we seek to engage with the critical vocabulary generated by those spaces of reception at a time of transition for the book object and the reading practices which accompany it. How can this material be researched (archives, interviews, ethnographic observation, digitisation, databases)? How is/might it be integrated into teaching across disciplines? 

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• 15 fév 2017

  Bristol

  Call for papers - Language

  Paper, waves and screens - from text to public in African popular culture

  Les textes propres à une culture populaire africaine forment un abondant corpus composé de matériaux textuels, sonores, et visuels : depuis les chansons, les magazines, la littérature sentimentale, les paroles de hip-hop, jusqu’aux blogs et messages sur Facebook, en passant par les inscriptions urbaines ou les tro-tros à Accra. La culture populaire englobe aussi les nombreuses manières par lesquelles ces objets culturels sont reçus et interprétés, à une échelle locale, nationale, et/ou internationale . Ce domaine de recherche mobilise des méthodes propres aux études culturelles, à l’histoire matérielle de l’imprimé, ainsi qu’à la sociologie de la réception . Le matériau en question reste cependant relativement peu étudié et enseigné, du fait de difficultés d’accès et de débats méthodologiques persistants.

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• 30 jan 2015

  Belfast

  Call for papers - History

  San-Antonio international: representations, circulation, translations, exchanges

  The subject of this two-day conference is the exchange processes between French and International cultures at play in and around the work of Crime Fiction author Frédéric Dard. Having started his literary career in 1938 and published more than 250 books until his death in 2000, the author is not only one of the most prolific and successful in the history of European literature, he is a very public figure too, having enjoyed intense media and critical attention in the last decades of his career. Identified mainly with the almost 200 San-Antonio novels he wrote between 1949 and 2000, the most popular and longest series of Crime novels written by a single French author, his image has been distorted by the bulk, preponderance and largely domestic nature of San-Antonio’s success.

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• 15 mai 2014

  Oxford

  Call for papers - Education

  Working group on Serious Gaming

  "Video games culture project" international conference, Oxford 17-19 July 2014

  Session de travail sur le Serious gaming autour de deux axes principaux : jeux commercieux utilisés à des fins de serious gaming ; expériences de level design à des fins de serious gaming.

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• 30 sep 2013

  London

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Ideas in movement: the role of conflict and commerce in the history of navigation

  Following successful meetings in 2010 and 2012, Royal Museums Greenwich and the Royal Institute of Navigation are planning a third symposium to bring together current research in the history of navigation. 2014 sees the centenary of the beginning of the First World War. While this conflict provided a powerful stimulus for research and development in navigation, technological developments have also sprung from users and from commercial imperatives.

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