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Conference, symposium - Middle Ages
Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1500
A two-days international conference
The last decades have witnessed an increased interest in research on the relationship between women and violence in the Middle Ages, with new works both on female criminality and on women as victims of violence. The contributions of gender theory and feminist criminology have renewed the approached used in this type of research. Nevertheless, many facets of the complex relationship between women and violence in medieval times still await to be explored in depth. This conference aims to understand how far the roots of modern assumptions concerning women and violence may be found in the late medieval Mediterranean, a context of intense cultural elaboration and exchange which many scholars have indicated as the cradle of modern judicial culture. While dialogue across the Mediterranean was constant in the late Middle Ages, occasions for comparative discussion remain rare for modern-day scholars, to the detriment of a deeper understanding of the complexity of many issues. Thus, we encourage specialists of different areas across the Mediterranean (Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world) to contribute to the discussion. What were the main differences and similarities? How did these change through time? What were the causes for change? Were coexisting assumptions linking femininity and violence conflicting or collaborating?
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Oxford
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Thought
Research residencies at the Maison française d'Oxford
La Maison française d’Oxford (MFO, USR 3129, UMIFRE 11) accueille des chercheurs CNRS et/ou des enseignants-chercheurs en provenance des établissements supérieurs d’enseignement et de recherche français pour une durée de deux années consécutives. Ces chercheurs ou enseignants-chercheurs doivent présenter des projets de recherche s’inscrivant dans une perspective interdisciplinaire (si possible sciences humaines/sciences exactes ou humanités numériques) et privilégiant une approche franco-britannique. Ces projets de recherche devront, de préférence, être en synergie avec les disciplines et thématiques prioritaires définies pour l’année en cours, et/ou avec les axes de recherche existants de la MFO présentés sur le site internet.
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Oxford
Scholarship, prize and job offer - History
Study grants at the Maison Française in Oxford
La Maison française d’Oxford, avec le soutien du Service science et technologie de l'Ambassade de France à Londres, propose des bourses d’un mois destinées aux doctorants de toutes disciplines inscrits, ou en co-tutelle, avec une université ou un établissement d’enseignement supérieur français.
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Oxford
The Commons, plant breeding and agricultural research
How to face the challenges of an increasing world population ant the preservation of agrobiodiversity
The joint challenges of food safety and conservation of agrobiodiversity are making us rethink the issue of agricultural production. We have to produce more, but especially better in order to sustain biological diversity, mitigate climate change and adapt to it. This prospect urgently calls for the development of a sustainable crop production system that relies less on natural resources (soils, wateraquifer), fertilizers and protection products. There are probably many ways to address these challenges, and it is undisputed that science and technology have a major role to play in this respect.
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Oxford
Crisis Legislation, Emergencies and the Rule of Law
After recent terrorist attacks, French political institutions have been undergoing legislative and constitutional amendments that are part of a specific legal category which could well be termed “crisis laws”. While these laws often share the vocabulary of a “state of exception”, engaging its political and philosophical references, they must yet be distinguished from it. Whereas a “state of exception” interrupts the rule of law in principle, the laws adopted in several countries following terrorist attacks have melded the state of exception into the legal framework. The rule of law is no longer interrupted: the rule of law is modified and the exception becomes the rule. The focus of this conference, which will adopt a comparative point of view, is to question this transformation, not necessarily with the aim to evaluate it, but in order to think it through while drawing attention to the inadaptability of traditional legal and philosophical categories in a new/changing political world.
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Canterbury
Critical Psycholawgy: Dialogue at modern times between legal and psychological sciences
Links between psychology and law rightly raise more and more scientific awareness. The human being, as the common object of this two fields, is studied from both an individual and a social perspective. This stream is an invitation to build an interface and exchange between clinical psychology, cross cultural psychology, justice and law through a critical perspective. This critical approach can be reached with a psychoanalytical lecture of society. This stream is an invitation to an interdisciplinary dialogue to open discussions in a world in perpetual motion. We are looking for papers on those topics: Psychocriminology, Critical Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Post-colonial and Critical historical studies.
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Oxford
Other Investigations
The Maison française d’Oxford in co-operation with the Kent Centre for European and Comparative Law is organizing a critical and interdisciplinary workshop entitled "Law’s Hermeneutics: Other Investigations" to take place in Oxford on 5-6 June 2015. The aim of this workshop, which will be open to the public, whether lawyers or non-lawyers, is to gather approximately 10 leading academics hailing from different scholarly and cultural horizons with a view to revisiting legal hermeneutics by making particular reference to philosophy, linguistics and translation studies.
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Coventry
Representing Prisoner of War Experience
This one-day international conference will bring together researchers studying the experiences of prisoners of war and displaced people in times of conflict, with a particular focus on how these experiences have been narrated in various forms, both by the historical actors who underwent forced dislocation (captors and captives) and by researchers themselves.
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Manchester
Conference, symposium - Religion
L'étude empirique et quantitative de la géographie religieuse est un sujet nouveau, auquel le développement constant d‘outils techniques et conceptuels promet de nombreuses opportunités. Depuis la prise en compte de la dimension spatiale dans l'étude du religieux, le « tournant spatial », nous avons beaucoup à apprendre des mécanismes spatiaux du changement religieux. Et, bien que des progrès notables aient été accomplis sur la question de la géographie religieuse, de vastes perspectives s’offrent encore à la recherche, notamment pour l'analyse spatiale de données religieuses avec les méthodes formelles : un champ nouveau et prometteur est ouvert. -
Manchester
Un appel à contribution est lancé pour un colloque international « Religions et territoire », organisé à l'occasion de la rencontre Eurel, réseau scientifique de juristes ou spécialistes des sciences sociales et humaines des religions, par l'UMR 7012 PRISME-SDRE et le Centre for Research. / Papers are invited for an international conference jointly organized by the Eurel network of sociologists and legal scholars of religion (www.eurel.info, led by the research centre PRISME-SDRE UMR 7012, University of Strasbourg), and CRESC (Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, University of Manchester). -
Oxford
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe
Bourses Besse à Oxford (2011-2012)
La Bourse Besse est destinée à des étudiants français désireux de poursuivre leurs recherches à Oxford. Il s'agit cette année de deux bourses : une bourse de £7 070, logement inclus (à Exeter College, Oxford) ; une autre de £7 070, logement inclus (à Pembroke College, Oxford). -
Oxford
Conference, symposium - Sociology
Law, Religion and Education: Religious Freedom in the Sphere of Education
Friday 8 October: 9:30 am - Saturday 9 October: 5:00pm. "Law, Religion and Education: Religious Freedom in the Sphere of Education". Conference organised by Myriam Hunter-Henin (University College London), Luc Borot (MFO) and Frédéric Audren (CNRS). -
Oxford
John Selden: Scholarship in Context
The first major international conference on John Selden (1584-1654) to celebrate the 400th anniversary of his first publications will be taking place in Magdalen College, Oxford, on 24th - 26th June. -
Oxford
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology
Maison française d'Oxford Research Scholarships (June 2010)
La Maison française d'Oxford propose des bourses pour doctorants désireux de poursuivre un travail de recherche. Outre le montant de la bourse ( 250 £ ), l'établissement offre au doctorant l'accueil en chambre avec petit déjeuner, l'accès aux bibliothèques d'Oxford, des connexions informatiques. -
Oxford
Teaching and researching French Law in the UK and Ireland
État des lieux, spécificités et perspectives
Colloque à la Maison française d’Oxford, les 9-10 octobre 2009 : « Enseigner le droit français : enjeux et méthodes », « Quelles politiques d’échanges entre les facultés de droit ? », « Faire du droit comparé : théories et pratiques ». -
Oxford
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology
Bourse en sciences humaines ou sociales, littérature, droit ou économie
La Bourse Besse est destinée à des étudiants français désireux de poursuivre leurs recherches à Oxford. Il s'agit cette année de deux bourses : une bourse de £7 000, logement inclus (à Exeter College, Oxford) ; une autre de £7 000 logement non inclus (possibilité de résider à Lincoln College moyennant un loyer). -
Cambridge
Le droit et le waqf (fondations pieuses)
Nationalisations et le contrôle de l'État
Les présentations explorent le droit colonial vis-à-vis du waqf en tant qu'institution mais aussi les propriétés leur appartenant dans le monde musulman avant l'indépendence des pays colonisés. Dans l'objectif d'étudier le droit qui s'y adaptait ou qui s'adaptait par rapport au waqf, les contributions se concentrent sur des mécanismes légaux innovateurs ou des discussions qui ont eu lieu dans les pays concernés à l'égard du statu quo de waqf au moment des interventions coloniales à la fin du XIXe et au début du XXe siècle. -
Cambridge
Waqf: Modern State Control and Nationalization
Second Law of Waqf Conference
Following the first of three conferences on "The Law of Waqf" organised by Harvard Islamic Legal Studies Program which concentrated on the legal origins of waqf to Ottoman-era maturity (convened in May 2006), we are now solliciting abstracts for the second conference which will focus on colonial era law in relation to waqf (mid 19th century to the end of the colonial period). Both indigeneous and colonial law relating to the legal system of waqf are of interest to this conference which will occur in Cambridge, Mass., on 16-18 May 2008. All abstracts and papers are to be in English.
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