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Montreal
Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology
Conceiving the existant - non-human subjectivities in the arts, humanities and social sciences
Les subjectivités autres qu'humaines en arts et sciences humaines et sociales
Ce colloque international transdisciplinaire a pour objectif de réfléchir sur les modalités de présence des existants autres qu'humains (animaux, végétaux, esprits, défunts, êtres de fiction, robots, etc.), tels que tout un champ de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales, de même que dans la pratique artistique, cherche aujourd'hui à les instaurer. Il s’agit, tout en reconnaissant leur autonomie, d’observer leur statut au sein des différentes cosmologies, la manière dont la rationalité dite moderne s'hybride au contact des autres ontologies, mais surtout de s’interroger sur la possibilité de concevoir, sur un plan épistémologique, une subjectivité propre à ces formes d’altérité, tout en restituant, sur un plan expérientiel, leur possible mode d’existence.
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Montreal
Conference, symposium - America
Debates and issues
The aim is to create an interdisciplinary and multitheoretical space for researchers of any academic level interested in sharing their work on any aspect ofthe links between Islamism and violence. This intellectual exploration seeks to understand better thetransmission chain(s) that link(s) (or not) the intellectual producers of Islamist ideologies and those radicalized persons who have carried out violent acts in support ofsuch ideologies.
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Oracle
Call for papers - Science studies
Biocosmos - Our sense of place, our sense of life in the universe
Planet scientists and exoplanet astronomers are re-shaping our understanding of the universe, presenting a fascinating cosmos filled with places and destinations, not an empty void. At the same time, Earth physicists and biologists design models of self-sustainable ecosystems such as Biosphere 2 and the Mars/Lunar Greenhouse, with the goal of engineering bio-regenerative mini-worlds that can function on their own. As these scientific revolutions unfold, with distant spaces and global life systems as objects of “field work”, what counts as the “human environment”? How do we, as individuals and societies, relate to spaces, things, and processes we do not or cannot experience directly and which we see as “extreme” or “beyond” human?
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New York
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African and Gypsy categorizations in France
The process of ethnicization in ordinary discourse
In France, Bulgarian and Romanian migrants identified as “Roma” and usually living in slums are regularly the targets of categorizations, of rejection and of xenophobic violence. Even though other immigrated populations, such as Africans, have been subject to this type of ostracism for some time, the spectre of racism and xenophobia has spread under the effect of the diffusion of a number of political and media discourses. Whether coming from the right or the left of the political spectrum, these differentialist discourses stem from the highest level of the State, and have been regularly relayed by the media, thus legitimizing their presence within the French public space.
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Chicago
Tourism Gentrification in the Metropolis
American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, 21-25 April 2015, Chicago
This session intends to explain the multiple and complex relationships between tourism and gentrification in the contemporary metropolis. Several questions arise. How does tourism gentrification manifest itself and how does it affect the urban landscapes? What are the impacts for urban design and planning? Who are the actors, the beneficiaries and the victims of tourism gentrification? How do local (tourism) actors cope with tourism gentrification phenomena? What is the impact on local economies, urban functions and services? What are the outcomes for intra-metropolitan territories? What does it mean in terms of metropolitan governance?
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Toronto
1st International Symposium: Hope, Betrayal and Trust
Part of the Research Program on: Lost Virtues, Found Vices
This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the complex and fluid relationships between hope and trust, and how might betrayal play a productive role in this bond. As concepts, ideas or simple notions, hope and trust seem to have simultaneously lost contemporary currency while being ever more necessary in our every day lives. We seem resigned to a kind of hopelessness, seem unwilling to trust others and are ready and willing to betray whomever we might need to in order to advance our own careers or personal agendas. Yet new technologies require us to place personal information online, to communicate with strangers, and to hold onto the promise of happiness. How are our maintenance of hope, our need to trust and our willingness to betray intertwined? How are these concepts evolving?
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Toronto
Call for papers - Political studies
Part of the Research Program on: Protest, Justice and Deliberative Power
The International Network for Alternative Academia invites you to participate to the 7th International Symposium: Reinventing Citizenship, to be held on Monday 12th to Wednesday 14th of May, 2014 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This trans-disciplinary project seeks to identify central problems of the experience of being a citizen today and evaluate to what degree is citizenship a good vehicle for democratic agency in contemporary societies and democracies the world over.
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Montreal
Call for papers - Representation
Serial television. From popular fascination to critical observation
Premier grand colloque québécois dédié aux séries télévisées contemporaines, Télé en séries souhaite poser les fondements d’une réflexion actuelle sur les fictions épisodiques de toute provenance géographique en privilégiant une variété d’approches théoriques.
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Sherbrooke
Written and Visual Culture in Contemporary Societies
The imagination, representations and identity constructions
Le colloque « La culture écrite et visuelle dans les sociétés contemporaines » propose une réflexion sur les médias et la culture comme piliers de la construction et de la déconstruction des identités, voire un outils de transformation identitaire par lesquelles la nation ou les groupes se définissent et s’actualisent auprès de leurs membres. Ce colloque sera l'occasion d'analyser l’évolution de la production culturelle des XXe et XXIe siècles dans les différentes collectivités et de se questionner sur la façon dont les nouveaux médias, que ce soit la télévision, les bandes dessinées ou l’internet, influencent la sphère culturelle et la vision du passé, du présent et du futur dans nos sociétés contemporaines. Nous pourrons aussi nous interroger sur la place de l'individu dans la sphère culturelle, ainsi que l'évolution des rapports entre individus et société par l'entremise des nouveaux médias. -
Quebec City
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
Capitales et patrimoine au XXIe siècle
Ce colloque se donne pour cadre et pour objet les capitales, lieux d’enquêtes et complexes objets de réflexion. Les capitales ne se pensent pas simplement pour elles-mêmes mais aussi dans leurs relations avec un ou des territoires (régions, provinces, États-nations, confédérations, unions, le monde) – relations de domination, de soumission ou de concurrence dont la diversité, voire la superposition, amène à considérer la capitale autrement que comme une simple caricature de la réalité urbaine contemporaine. Dans ce contexte, la question du patrimoine, de sa sélection, de sa conservation, de son instrumentalisation, du capital symbolique qu’il représente, revêt un relief singulier, encourageant aussi bien la comparaison à l’échelle des cinq continents que la multidisciplinarité.
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