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• 25 oct 2019

  26 oct 2019

  Berlin

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  Emotional attachment to machines

  New ways of relationship-building in Japan

  Currently, technologies that foster emotional connections between humans and digital beings are perceived as a threat by many. Because emotional devices are considered to be make-believe systems based on ‘simulation’ (which is often confused with lying, deceit or fraud), emotional technologies could potentially be suspected of affecting human sexual identity or disrupting social bonds. This Symposium will examine the ways in which humans form intimate relationships with ‘emotionally-intelligent entities’ (robots, digital characters, downloadable boyfriend…) and what purposes these relationships to machines serve for them. 

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• 15 mar 2018

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Representation

  Capitalist Aesthetics

  Open Cultural Studies Journal (De Gruyter)

  Open Cultural Studies, an OA peer-reviewed Journal (De Gruyter) invites submissions to a special issue on  Capitalist Aesthetics edited by Dr Pansy Duncan & Dr Nicholas Holm (Massey University The issue will explore the aesthetic configurations—from the cute to the comfortable, from the no-brow to the fringe—through which the economic logics of late capitalism come to crystallize today. It invites work that treats the stylistic and formal dimension of cultural objects, and the verdictive and affective dimensions of cultural discourse/experience, as valuable “cryptograms” of contemporary ideological formations and the economic relations they sustain.

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• 15 jan 2018

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Marx, Semiotics and Political Praxis

  This special issue of Open Cultural Studies will return to the work of Karl Marx to reflect on and engage with his coherent articulation of words and their use, of words and actions, and of the intellectual and the political. The coherence of his discourse and praxis offers tools to think through, if not seek to transform, the alienated semiotic landscape of our times as described by the Frankfurt school philosopheers, Jean Baudrillard, Frederic Jameson, Sloterdijk and Slavoj Žižek. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth, in this special issue we want to honour his 11th Thesis on Feuerbach: "philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."

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• 28 fév 2018

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Contemporary African and Black Diasporic Spaces in Europe

  "Open Cultural Studies" journal

  This special issue of Open Cultural Studies explores the social and cultural spaces in which identifications with African and black diaspora(s) become articulated, (re)negotiated and established as a field of collective agency with transformative power in European societies. It will argue that  African diaspora communities and cultures in Europe are constructed not only by individuals’ engagements with Africa and its global diaspora, or mediatized and commercialized notions of Africanness/blackness, but also through collective agency aiming at promoting change in European societies shadowed by the normative whiteness, nationalist discourses and policies, human rights violations and overt racism.

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• 15 mai 2012

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Summer school: world music and urban dynamics in western cities

  Cette troisième Université d’été du Centre Marc Bloch (3.-9. septembre 2012) nous fera examiner le dynamisme de politiques urbaines qui décident de faire des « musiques du monde » un outil du développement social et culturel. Notre attention sera centrée sur les modes de concertation mobilisés pour leur élaboration et sur les modalités diversifiées d’implication des populations visées par ces politiques.

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• 28 fév 2011

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Representation

  Saintes scènes

  Dialogue des époques, dialogue des cultures dans les mises en scène théâtrales de la sainteté à la croisée du Moyen Âge et de la modernité

  La session du Romanistentag 2011 intitulée « Saintes scènes » (25-28 septembre 2011) souhaite mener une réflexion sur la période charnière entre le Moyen âge et la modernité à la lumière d’une figure singulière – le/la saint/e – envisagée dans un cadre spécifique : celui de la représentation théâtrale.

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• 05 jui 2010

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Music, Immigration, Cultural Diversity: World Music and the Ideal of a Plural Society

  Summer School Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin

  L’École d’été se déroule du lundi 6 au vendredi 10 septembre 2010. Arrivée le dimanche 5 dans la soirée, départ le vendredi dans l’après-midi ou le samedi dans la journée. L’École d’été s’adresse à 22 jeunes doctorants ou post-doctorants de toutes nationalités, de toutes les disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales, spécialiste ou non de musique. Langues de travail : français, allemand, ou anglais. Chacun s’exprimera dans sa langue de prédilection.

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