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  • Rennes

    Call for papers - America

    The imagination of limit

    Telling and narrating closed Latino-American spaces in a global world

    Après une première journée d'étude sur les imaginaires des limites, le Centre d'études des langues et littératures anciennes et modernes (CELLAM) et la revue Amerika (université de Rennes 2) accueilleront une deuxième manifestation sur ces thèmes. Y seront abordés les rapports aux frontières, aux espaces clos et aux dynamiques de ségrégation et de fédération au sein des imaginaires des Amériques.

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  • 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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  • Paris

    Call for papers - Representation

    Rethinking the digital transition - Beauviatech international conference

    Colloque international Beauviatech

    Ce colloque ambitionne d’interroger, à nouveaux frais, la relation argentique/numérique en cherchant à la replacer dans un contexte bien plus large d’histoire des techniques et des formes. Si le programme BEAUVIATECH, s’intéresse plus particulièrement pour sa part à ces questions techniques sous l’angle d’une étude approfondie de la société française de fabrication de matériel audiovisuel Aaton et de ses relations avec les techniciens et cinéastes des années 1970 à nos jours, ce colloque souhaite élargir la réflexion en se focalisant sur un moment particulier de cette histoire technique du cinéma, correspondant à une importante crise de l’argentique au profit du support numérique.

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - Modern

    The representations of ethnoracial minorities in the French audiovisual world

    From TV stations to digital platforms

    Cette journée d'étude propose d’étudier comment les modes de représentation des minorités ethnoraciales (Safi, 2013 ; Cervulle, 2013) ont évolué en France au sein d’une offre de contenus audiovisuels alimentée de façon croissante par des médias issus du web, souvent étrangers, et échappant donc à toute régulation ou politique volontariste hexagonale en la matière. Elle s'appuie sur un double cadrage interdisciplinaire : un premier d'ordre socio-économique et un second d'ordre socio-technique.

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  • Aix-en-Provence

    Call for papers - Political studies

    Artistic, Digital, and Political Creation in English-Speaking African Countries

    Africa 2020

    French President Emmanuel Macron announced on 3rd July 2018 in Lagos that a Special Season would be organized in France, from June to December 2020, to mark a renewed partnership with Africa, a “varied, strong and diverse continent that will play a part in our shared future”. Even if this cultural focus cannot be abstracted from a broader geopolitical agenda marred by controversial presidential declarations, it nevertheless has the potential to offer a somewhat different coverage of the continent. One can only hope that it avoids the temptation to officially “curate into being” “exceptional” artists (Dovey), tapping into the all-too-familiar image of Africa as “the supreme receptacle of the West’s obsession with, and circular discourse about, the facts of ‘absence,’ ‘lack,’ and ‘non-being,’ of identity and difference” (Mbembe).

     

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  • Aix-en-Provence

    Call for papers - Political studies

    Africa 2020: Artistic, digital, and political creation in english-speaking African countries

    French President Emmanuel Macron announced on 3rd July 2018 in Lagos that a Special Season would be organized in France, from June to December 2020, to mark a renewed partnership with Africa, a “varied, strong and diverse continent that will play a part in our shared future”. The peer-reviewed journal of Aix-Marseille Université research centre on Anglophone Studies (LERMA), E-rea, has decided to seize the opportunity of Africa 2020 to dedicate a special issue to contemporary artistic, digital, and political creation in English-speaking African countries. Heeding Kenyan political analyst Nanjala Nyabola’s advice to eschew the too reductive ‘Africa rising’ and ‘Africa failing’ narratives in favour of ‘Africa being’ stories, this special issue wishes to focus on “stories reflecting the ambivalence, complexity, challenges and opportunities of African societ[ies] in an increasingly connected world”.

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

    Desired Identities

    New technology-based metamorphosis in Japan

    In Japan, the kyara-ka phenomenon, ‘transforming into a character’ (Aihara Hiroyuki, 2007) is now giving birth to what Nozawa Shunsuke (2013) calls ‘an emerging art of self–fashioning.’ Based on elaborate disguise techniques, the kyara-ka phenomenon covers a variety of communication strategies and practices: cosplay, kigurumi, Vtubing, utaloid voice banks, use of voice-image filters to upload videos where humans look like characters… Exploring all the aspects of this ‘thingification of humans’, the conference will reflect on how and why a growing number of people market themselves as characters. The conference goal is to address the complexity of issues raised by these voluntary and, perhaps, ironical acts of obliteration. What is the profile of men and women who transform themselves into computer-graphic creatures? How do they deal with being loved only through their digital alter-ego? What little or grand narratives are being produced alongside? Can we still deal with the phenomenon in terms of authenticity (original) versus artificiality (copy)? What negotiations or refusals underly the use of characters as social masks?

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  • Monopoli

    Summer School - Language

    Pathos. Forms and fortunes of literary emotions

    The goal of this summer school is to explore the role of emotions in literature, namely with respect to the excess of pathos in different forms and times. Pathos has been a fundamental aspect of literature in every epoch. Great poetry has always foregrounded its ability to represent feelings, evoke intense and vivid moods, and elicit readers’ emotions and empathy. On the other hand, the novel – the genre dominating literary modernity – has been o!en accused of indulging in sentimental excess, giving too much space to melodramatic expression. Indeed, in Western cultures, there is a widespread suspicion towards pathos, which has o!en been identified as a shortcoming of literature. Great books – according to a common implicit assumption – can prompt reflection and laughter, but not tears: pathos only concerns lowbrow production. The summer school is an opportunity to engage in a reflection on issues related to pathos in literature in the last few centuries. Different perspectives will be taken into account: specific literary works, reader response theory, cognitive narratology, transmedia adaptation, and publishing history.

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  • The Hague

    Conference, symposium - Modern

    Frictions and friendships

    Cultural encounters in the nineteenth century

    The exhibition The Dutch in Paris, which was on show in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam and in the Petit Palais, Paris during the fall of 2017 and spring of 2018 respectively, aimed to visualize the artistic exchange between Dutch and French artists between 1789 and 1914. As part of a larger research project, set up by the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, the exhibition generated so much response that ESNA, in collaboration with the RKD and NWO, decided to organize an international conference on the subject, focusing specifically on international as well as national and local points of encounter and how they facilitated artistic exchange.

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  • Bacău

    Call for papers - Language

    The construction of reality in the post-truth age

    We invite papers for the 25th issue of the intersdiciplinary academic journal Interstudia, based at the Faculty of Letters, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania. The proposed topic for this issue is "The construction of reality in the post-truth age". We will accept articles written in English, French, Italian and Spanish whose main points of interest will be related to ideas deriving from these following themes for reflection: the role of language in the construction of post-truth, the manipulation of emotion in the media, ethics and post-truth, the role of humanities in the preservation of human values, truth versus opinion in the post-truth society, the relation among data, information and knowledge, ICT and post-truth, the role of numerical devices in the propagation of post-truth attitudes. These are only suggested topics, and should not be considered exhaustive. authors should be free in choosing their topic of research within the frame offered by the general title. 

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  • Luxembourg City

    Call for papers - Language

    The materialities of reported speech

    8th international, multidiscipilinary conference Ci-dit / Luxembourg

    Souvent ignoré, le support qui matérialise le discours est volontiers considéré comme accessoire, ou en tout cas comme moins intéressant que le discours qu’il véhicule. Pourtant, cette partie matérielle du discours constitue un élément structurant porteur de sens, et leur interdépendance reste à questionner. En quoi le choix de support, en relation avec un choix de format et le choix d’un média ou transmédia comme circuit de diffusion, influence-t-il la pratique de la citation et du discours rapporté au sens large, abordée tant du point de vue des conditions de production que de réception, en relation avec des valeurs singulières et collectives (par exemple, l’impact sociétal) et des formes de vie (celle dont témoigne, par exemple, la pratique aujourd’hui banalisée du tatouage) ? 

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

    The audiovisual body: what approaches? What uses?

    Ce colloque se propose de traiter des questions – à la fois techniques, scientifiques et pratiques – relatives à la constitution de corpus audiovisuels (vidéos, images, sons, …), à la description de tels corpus, à leur gestion et préservation et, plus particulièrement, aux usages de ces corpus dans le cadre notamment (mais pas exclusivement) de l’enseignement des langues et des cultures. Il prend appui sur plusieurs projets de recherche nationaux récemment terminés ou actuellement en cours.

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  • Charenton-le-Pont

    Study days - Science studies

    What role for communities in heritage management ?

    Cette journée a pour thème « Quel rôle pour les communautés dans la gestion du patrimoine ?».  Il s’agira, à travers trois sessions, d’examiner comment ces communautés assurent la participation des citoyens à la gestion du patrimoine culturel à travers la construction et le partage des savoirs. Cette journée a pour objectifs de faire mieux connaître les recherches européennes financées par la JPI-CH, de faciliter les synergies avec des projets français.

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  • Lille

    Call for papers - Thought

    A critique of Posthumanism and Transhumanism

    Towards a change in the paradigm of the Posthuman?

    Ce colloque est une occasion unique en France pour les chercheurs francophones travaillant, depuis leurs disciplines respectives, sur les enjeux des trans/post-humanismes et leurs alternatives, de rencontrer et échanger avec une large communauté de chercheurs à l'international travaillant sur les mêmes questions sur les différents continents. 

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  • Le Mans

    Study days - Representation

    The status of French-speaking journals around the world (1880-1980)

    Cette journée d’études est organisée dans le cadre du projet PERFROM (PERiodiques FRancophones Outre-Mer - XIXe-XXIesiècles) et vise à étudier plus particulièrement le statut des périodiques francophones publiés entre 1880 et 1980 dans le monde (hors territoire métropolitain français). Désormais loin d’être considérés comme de simples vecteurs d’actualité ou de divertissement, ces périodiques peuvent être envisagés comme un outil d’analyse pour comprendre les enjeux culturels, littéraires, sociaux ou politiques d’un pays : on cherchera à définir plus précisément leur place, dans les études littéraires en général, mais surtout dans la culture littéraire d’un pays - et dans ses rapports avec la métropole lorsqu’il s’agit d’une colonie.

     

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  • Montpellier

    Call for papers - Sociology

    Gender, religions and media: emerging themes and perspectives

    ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies - Volume 12, no. 2(24)/ 2019

    Le présent numéro d’Essachess - Journal for Communication Studies tente de combler cette lacune en explorant les thèmes et les perspectives émergents qui se situent à la triple intersection du genre, de la religion et des médias. Les propositions d’articles se focaliseront sur des approches théoriques et des études de cas axées sur les problèmes des femmes...

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  • Paris 05 Panthéon

    Lecture series - Sociology

    Robotics, empathy and ethics

    Avec le mot affectio, nous mobilisons un ensemble de notions toujours pas stabilisé du fait de leur richesse sémantique et épaisseur théorique (sensation, perception, sentiment, émotion, passion, stimmung, empathie, affect), qui sont engagées dans la relation entre l’homme et le robot. Les séances seront organisées autour (1) de la problématique de la communication corporelle/affective/émotive du sentir, (2) des modifications de la relation intersubjective, (3) du sentiment qui élabore des imaginaires (individuels et sociaux), (4) de la structure de signification politique, culturelle et identitaire, qui organise la réalité sociale (5) de l’éthique robotique.

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  • Copenhagen

    Conference, symposium - Representation

    Archives that matter

    Digital infrastructures for sharing unshared histories in the colonial archives

    2017 marks the centennial for Denmark’s sale of the colony “The Danish West Indies” to the United States, today the US Virgin Islands. For this occasion, archives in Denmark are undertaking a mass-digitisation of their archival records from St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John, Ghana and the transatlantic enslavement trade. The symposium brings artists and researchers together across geographies to collaboratively innovate and develop “critical fabulations”, transgressive decolonial methodologies and artistic research approaches to open up the digital archives.

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  • Dublin

    Call for papers - Middle Ages

    The Waldensians in the Medieval and Early Modern context

    The Waldensians in the Medieval and Early Modern European context is an interdisciplinary conference to be held in Trinity College Dublin on February 9-10, 2018, and hosted by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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  • Paris

    Seminar - Science studies

    Séminaire de l'Institut des sciences de la communication (ISCC) (2016-2017)

    Lancé en 2010, le séminaire de l’ISCC est axé sur les sciences de la communication, les industries et l’ingénierie des connaissances, le développement des controverses et le rôle de l’expertise scientifique, l’épistémologie comparée et, plus largement, les rapports entre sciences, techniques et société. Cette rencontre est ouverte aux chercheurs, enseignants, étudiants, journalistes et professionnels que motivent les enjeux de la communication et vise à affûter les problématiques, à susciter le débat et à développer les échanges interdisciplinaires entre personnalités de formations et d’horizons différents.

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