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    Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

    Music, sound, space and place

    Ethnomusicology and sound studies

    On pourrait soutenir, peut-être de manière un peu simpliste, que l’ethnomusicologie a toujours été impliquée dans l’ étude du son, car leurs praticiens ont souvent utilisé des sons défiant les conceptions conventionnelles de la « musique » à travers leurs travaux sur la poésie chantée, la cantillation et l’accompagnement percussif de rituels . Le terrain était donc bien placé pour s’appuyer sur les premiers travaux de R. Murray Shafer dans les années 1960 et 1970 dans ce que l’on appelle maintenant l’écologie acoustique, et des spécialistes tels que Steven Feld ont affirmé dans les années 1980 de nouveaux horizons auditifs pour les ethnomusicologues. Au cours des décennies suivantes, de nombreux autres chercheurs ont entrepris des recherches se situant entre l’anthropologie, la musicologie, l’acoustique, les études environnementales et la créativité musicale.

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  • London

    Seminar - Urban studies

    Institute of advanced studies talking points seminar

    Taking her recently published book Ethnography of Urban Territories (2018) as a starting point for this Talking Points Seminar, Monika Streule invites exploration and discussion of the experimental, critical and self-reflective use of differing methods in today’s urban studies.

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  • Leicester

    Call for papers - History

    Urban governance and its disorders: Corruption in the cities

    The issue of corruption has, of late, become of growing interest to social scientists and historians although research in corruption in urban settings less so and the relationship of corruption to urban governance even less. The complexity of governance as distinct from government has raised questions, particularly since the 1980s, as state governments have sought relationships with private and voluntary actors to manage and deliver services and other public goods.

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  • London

    Call for papers - Geography

    Ambiance and Atmospheres: Encountering New Material Frontiers

    RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2013

    Recent work on affect in Anglophone human geography has opened up new material frontiers by theorizing affective atmospheres (Anderson 2009; Bissell 2010; McCormack 2008). In such work we see an adjustment of thinking towards and around the relations between bodies and their environment by considering the ways in which bodies are situated within diffuse, distributed, sensible, and potentially turbulent volumes. Such an emphasis on the atmospheric, taken in both its meteorological and felt/affective sense, is in many ways tied to an expanded conception of materiality that draws attention to “the vibrant, constitutive, aleatory, and even immaterial indices” of materiality and materialization (Coole and Frost 2010: 14; Bennett 2010).

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  • Liverpool

    Seminar - Urban studies

    Rails and urban development. A Comparative Approach between France and the United Kingdom

    In many countries, the challenges of sustainable urban development along with preoccupations about energy costs, are leading developers and urban planners to place rail transport at the centre of their concerns. During 2012 members of the French and British Planning Studies Group based at the University of Liverpool and University of Paris 1-Sorbonne have been collaborating on hosting two seminars dedicated to the theme of rail transport and urban development. The intention has been to bring together academics with practitioners and also incorporate visits to view rail investments ‘on the ground’. The first event took place in Paris in May 2012 and addressed light rail development in Europe with a particular focus on the situation in the UK and France. The second seminar will take place in Liverpool on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 November 2012 and consider heavy rail as a means of serving urban development in metropolitan areas.

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  • Cambridge

    Call for papers - Geography

    Imagining the City

    International interdisciplinary conference to be held at St John's College, Cambridge, 30 July - 2 August 2004.Urban culture, its impact on the creative imagination, and the

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