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• 31 déc 2018

  Geneva

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

  PhD positions for the research project Gangs, Gangsters, and Ganglands: Towards a Global Comparative Ethnography” (GANGS)

  The project “Gangs, Gangsters, and Ganglands: Towards a Global Comparative Ethnography” (GANGS) aims to develop a systematic comparative investigation of global gang dynamics, to better understand why they emerge, how they evolve over time, whether they are associated with particular urban configurations, how and why individuals join gangs, and what impact this has on their potential futures. It draws on ethnographic research carried out in Nicaragua, South Africa, and France, adopting an explicitly tripartite focus on “Gangs”, “Gangsters”, and “Ganglands” in order to better explore the interplay between group, individual, and contextual factors. The first will consider the organisational dynamics of gangs, the second will focus on individual gang members and their trajectories before, during, and after their involvement in a gang, while the third will reflect on the contexts within which gangs emerge and evolve.

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• 04 déc 2014

  05 déc 2014

  Lausanne

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  What children say: the experience of hospital

  Au croisement de l’anthropologie de l’enfance, médicale et de la santé, ce colloque se propose de faire entendre les paroles des enfants hospitalisés ou fréquentant l’hôpital dans différents contextes géographiques, sociaux et culturels. En collaboration avec les professionnels présents à leur chevet, nous tenterons de comprendre leurs vécus et perceptions de cette expérience qu’est la maladie.

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• 30 mai 2014

  Lausanne

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  FNS doctoral student position

  Institut des sciences du sport de l’université de Lausanne (ISSUL)

  L'Institut des sciences du sport de l'universté de Lausanne (ISSUL) met au concours un poste de doctorant ou doctorante FNS pour la réalisation d'une thèse de doctorat en sciences du sport, orientation histoire, éventuellement dans le cadre d’une cotutelle internationale. Cette thèse sera réalisée dans le cadre du programme de recherche « Une histoire sociale et culturelle comparée du rôle des mouvements de jeunesse et des sports dans les décolonisations du Rwanda, de l’Afrique Occidentale française et de l’Ouganda (1930-1970) ».

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• 15 jan 2013

  Geneva

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Contemporary Religious Movements: From Africa to the Americas and Back

  The transatlantic movement of beliefs and of religious practices dates back to the earliest days of the “discovery” of the Americas. Since then, there have been over five hundred years of exchange between the two sides of the Atlantic. In many cases, religious movements brought to the New World by European and African migrants were among those persecuted by the hegemonic religious institutions as heretic or pagan. Sometimes, the crossing to the New World has brought about transformation of old belief systems, leading to the creation of so- called “syncretistic” movements, such as Haitian Voodoo, Rastafarianism, Candomblé, etc. To these, we might add the Pentecostal wave, which in recent decades has been sweeping across both Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, transforming the religious landscapes.

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• 31 mai 2012

  Zurich

  Call for papers - Africa

  International Peacekeeping in Africa: Actors and Missions

  The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland will hold a conference the 23-24 November 2012 on International Peacekeeping in Africa, with a particular focus on current actors and missions. Over the last decades, the African continent has witnessed a proliferation of peacekeeping missions. Simultaneously, an increasing number of actors have become involved in the effort to bring peace to Africa, and this in turn has led to new and diverse types of operations. This conference seeks to analyze these developments in their entirety and comparatively in order to identify the most significant challenges and trends in international peacekeeping in Africa.

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