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• 30 oct 2020

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Utopias and collective dystopias in rural worlds: Contestation, experimentation, evasion

  "Civilisations", volume 70

  The investment in the rural world by anti-establishment communities is not new. The strategy of withdrawal and distancing from places where power is centralised has already been observed by sociologists, anthropologists and historians at different times and places around the world. People who decide to organise their daily lives and modes of production collectively are motivated by different aspirations. Utopian collectives are also defended by their protagonists as places for experimentation with societal alternatives, whether they concern modes of governance, agricultural techniques, gender relations or the organisation of work. The objective of this issue is to grasp their "creative" potential, as well as the social values and contradictions they promote. This issue is part of a multidisciplinary approach. 

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• 03 jui 2016

  Brussels

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Urban studies

  PhD fellowship for a research project on “Reinventions of modernist rural landscapes”

  Focus: Rural planning in Morocco – 20th century

  MODSCAPES deals with rural landscapes produced by large-scale agricultural development and colonization schemes planned in the 20th century throughout Europe and beyond. Conceived in different political and ideological contexts, such schemes were pivotal to nation-building and state-building policies, and to the modernization of the countryside. They provided a testing ground for the ideas and tools of environmental and social scientists, architects, engineers, planners, landscape architects and artists, which converged around a shared challenge. 

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• 01 mar 2016

  Liège

  Call for papers - Geography

  Sustainability of Rural Systems

  Balancing Heritage and Innovation

  Belgium is a highly populated country with a long history of land exploitation. The landscape is modified through human impact, shaped by diverse agricultural practices, early urbanization and industrialization, the exploitation of quarries and mines and the dense development of canals, railways and motorway networks. Nevertheless, rural areas are important because farming activities, increasingly mechanized and technologically based, contribute to economic activity, especially to Belgian exports. Agriculture plays an important role in maintaining open space and offering many services, which may be called agroservices, to the new residents of the countryside and people seeking recreation. Due to this long history and sophisticated technological responses to different issues, Belgium is a suitable place to reflect on sustainability and how to balance cultural and natural heritage and innovation with special reference to the ecological and social dimensions.

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• 01 jui 2015

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Local demography

  The relationships between the population, a site of residency and public policies (Quetelet Chair 2015)

  La Chaire Quetelet 2015, co-organisée par le Centre de recherche en démographie (DEMO) de l’université catholique de Louvain et l’Institut wallon de l’évaluation, de la prospectives et de la statistique (IWEPS) de la région Wallonne, se tiendra à Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique) du 18 au 20 novembre 2015. Elle sera consacrée à la démographie locale et aux interactions entre le milieu de résidence, les politiques locales et les caractéristiques et comportements démographiques, tant dans les pays du Nord que du Sud.

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• 29 nov 2012

  30 nov 2012

  01 déc 2012

  Namur

  Conference, symposium - History

  Deuxièmes rencontres d’histoire de l’environnement en Belgique

  Belgique, Luxembourg, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi

  Le succès des premières rencontres nous incite à lancer les Deuxièmes rencontres d’histoire de l’environnement relatives à la Belgique (dans ses frontières anciennes et actuelles), ainsi qu’au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, au Congo, au Rwanda et au Burundi, dont elle a intimement partagé l’histoire. Celles-ci auront lieu les 29-30 novembre et 1er décembre 2012 à l'Université de Namur. Une publication des actes de ce colloque international et interdisciplinaire est prévue.

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