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Helsinki
Living under Empires: A View from Below
What have Mesopotamian Empires ever done for their people? Tracking the macro in the micro
In this workshop, we aim to take the view from below and investigate in what way imperial dynamics may have affected the lifeways of people in their territories. The basic questions of this workshop are: How did the empires of the Ancient Near East affect the lives of ordinary people in their realm? To which extent was rural life and life in smaller towns permeated by imperial agents and policies, hence by imperial dynamics?
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Zurich
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology
Vacancy PhD position in Social Anthropology at the University of Zürich
We are looking for a doctoral student to be part of the research project “Visions of the Social: The Transformation of State Planning in Postcolonial India” which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The PhD student will examine local implications of financialized forms of social service provision in North India. We offer employment for four years with a competitive salary as well as a dynamic and innovative research setting in a lively department with a motivated faculty interested in collaboration and academic exchange.
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Marseille
What role does dessalination have in adapting to climatic change?
La Société hydrotechnique de France (SHF), l’Association française pour l’eau l’irrigation et le drainage (AFEID), l’Académie de l’eau poursuivent leurs travaux sur les questions liées aux futures tensions sur la gestion de l’eau, en lien avec le changement climatique et les évolutions sur l’usage de l’eau d’ici 2050. Ces travaux soulignent l’importance de considérer la palette complète des outils d’adaptation, organisationnels et techniques, tant pour l’usage économe de l’eau que pour la sécurisation de la ressource. Le dessalement fait partie de cette palette d’outils et fera l’objet de ce colloque.
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Paris
Competition and solidarity networks in contemporary South Asia's Labour Market
Hegemonic neo-liberal discourse assumes that free competition on all levels sparks a virtuous cycle of economic growth, which eventually trickles down to poor populations. Over the past three decades, the idea that restrictive labour laws hamper such competition has justified the deregulation of labour in the North and the un-regulation of labour in the South, notably in South Asia, where labour relations had already mainly been informal. Various sociologists have noted that intensified economic interactions and the rise of competition have made individuals more likely to activate their social networks to protect their individual interests. In this respect, to what extent do social networks shape relations in the diverse South Asian labour markets? How do new forms of social groupings reconfigure competition and solidarity relations? What forms of social interactions prevail, emerge and weaken in the market: chosen solidarity and inherited solidarity; inter-caste and intra-caste solidarity; class solidarity; corporate solidarity etc.?
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Marseille
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology
The political issues of the circulation of a collection object between Europe and Hong Kong
Dans le cadre de l’ANR VIPOMAR « La vie politique des marchandises » dirigée par Boris Pétric au Centre Norbert Élias à Marseille (EHESS / CNRS), il est proposé un contrat doctoral en anthropologie / sociologie de 36 mois portant sur les enjeux politiques de la circulation d’un objet de collection entre l’Europe et Hong Kong.
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Paris
Capitalism, state and economic development in comparative perspective
Cette série de conférences est présentée par Linda Marguerite Weiss, professor emeritus à l’université de Sydney, directrice d’étude invitée à l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
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La Plaine-Saint-Denis
Children's Products and Media: From Design to Circulation
This one-day conference focuses on the production of children's material and media cultures through the work of their creators. Three conferences given by international experts of creative industries and youth cultures (Marc Steinberg from Concordia University, Ning de Coninck-Smith from Aarhus University and Derek Johnson from Wisconsin-Madison University) will punctuate the event. Researchers from the CoCirPE project ("Design and Circulation of Cultural Products for Children") will also present their first results.
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Nogent-sur-Marne
The Political Economy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
An accurate assessment of the current economic and political situation in Iran today clearly implies examining the relations between the structure of political power, the dominant forms of ownership, and economic activity. Furthermore, the interweaving of the economic and political spheres in Iran today can be better understood through this lens. Finally, an analysis of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s political economy can also provide keys to understand the country's future political evolutions. An analysis in terms of political economy thus requires a multidisciplinary approach involving exchanges between economists, political scientists, sociologists, and historians.
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Paris
Economic Elites in Developing Countries
Academic debates on economic elites in “developed” countries are abundant. These theoretical or empirical works study, amongst others, the surge of a transnational capitalist class or the relevance of local dynamics in understanding elite behavior and selection. For their part, studies assessing elites in developing countries tend to uphold the notion that a dominant class exists and that it is able to consolidate its domination by colluding with political strongmen allied to the State and that often, this domination is maintained through a monopoly of the relations with the international economy. However, the political upheavals that recently affected countries in the Arab world as well as those that took place in Latin America in the 1990s, as well as in Eastern Europe and in South-East Asia, call such one-dimensional analyses into question. As this proposal brings to sight, more than a decade ago the combined accumulation of old and new processes led to the emergence, circulation or transformation of existing reproduction modalities in developing countries. Unsurprisingly, these changes caused socio-political disruptions that in turn triggered the renewal of career paths to elite positions, alongside new modalities of international education and State/business collusion mechanisms. We invite applicants to join us in studying these structural yet paradoxical dynamics in order to contribute to a critical understanding of economic elites in different contexts. This workshop is mainly open to empirical research dealing with the analysis of economic elites in developing countries, their resistance to transformations of the international order and, of course, their adaptation to the disruptions of the last twenty years.
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Paris
Miscellaneous information - Asia
Japan is not exempt from the immigration debate
Avec moins de 2% de migrants dans l’ensemble de la population, l’immigration pourrait être considérée comme un enjeu marginal au Japon. Pourtant depuis les années 1980, la société japonaise n’échappe pas aux débats polémiques sur l’ouverture ou non des frontières et sur l’identité nationale.
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Grenoble
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology
Employment offer for development sociologist
Dans le cadre de ses activités, SKM France recrute un(e) sociologue du développement pour un poste de chef de projet. Filiale du groupe SKM, SKM France est un bureau d’étude réalisant des études d’impact social et environnemental dans le secteur des industries extractives, en Afrique, en Asie et au Moyen-Orient.
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Carouge
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Economy
Assistant HES (Doctoral student) at Geneva School of Business Administration
The Geneva School of Business Administration (HEG-Geneva) offers a Research Assistant (Doctoral student) position for three years starting from 1st September 2013.The doctoral student will participate to the project « Organizing, Communicating, and Costing in Risk Governance: Learning Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic », financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He or she will be in charge of the research components dedicated to costing around H1N1. This comparative study will involve qualitative fieldwork in three countries, namely Switzerland, the United States and Japan. He or she will collaborate with a post-doctoral fellow focusing on issues related to organization and communication. He or she will have to write a PhD thesis on H1N1 costing issues and will be supervised by Prof. Nathalie Brender. The project is funded for three years.
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Paris
Miscellaneous information - Urban studies
Speculative Urbanism and the making of the next World City
Spaces, stakeholders and scales in Bangalore and beyond
L'équipe « Politiques socio-économiques et recompositions territoriales » du CEIAS (UMR 8564, EHESS-CNRS) accueille Michael Goldman (University of Minnesota, sociologue) et Aurélie Varrel (CEIAS, géographie) qui présenteront leurs travaux sur Bangalore. -
Paris
Entrepreneurial Societies and the English-speaking World: cultures, contexts, perspectives
Le colloque international « Entrepreneurial Societies and the English-speaking World: Cultures, Contexts, Perspectives», se tiendra les 16, 17, 18 septembre 2010 en Sorbonne. Organisé par le CERVEPAS, (Centre de Recherche sur la Vie Economique des Pays-Anglo-Saxons), Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III , cette rencontre rassemblera chercheurs et praticiens afin d'examiner l'extension et la transnationalisation des processus entrepreneuriaux et le rôle des variables contextuelles (culturelles, institutionnelles, économiques, etc.) qui favorisent l'activité entrepreneuriale mais aussi une forme émergente de lien socio-économique. Les meilleurs articles seront publiés dans un ouvrage collectif à paraître aux Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle et dans des revues anglo-américaines dédiées. -
Nogent-sur-Marne
Conference, symposium - Sociology
From debt to over-indebtedness in southern countries: Processes, practices and meanings
International Workshop, Paris-IEDES, 7-8 december 09
Organized by UMR 201, RUME India, Mexico, Madagascar, CIESAS (Mexico) (www.rume-rural-microfinance.org). The main purpose of this interdisciplinary workshop will be a theoretical and empirical examination of over-indebtedness from the perspective of southern countries, with the following underlying hypothesis: to define and analyze the process of indebtedness requires first an understanding of the complexity and diversity of debt relationships. The following questions might be addressed: 1) The social meaning of debt, creditworthiness and over-indebtedness. 2) Financial ‘markets’ and financial providers. 3) Financial culture. 4) Impoverishment and accumulation. 5) Over-indebtedness.
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