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Berlin
Figures and Perspectives on the Mass and the Individual in Capitalist Modernity (19th-21st century)
How is it possible to use the notion of mass without making it collapse into a complete condemnation of collective action or into an acritical celebration of the crowd? From there on, the relationship between mass and individual can be addressed in many fashions: Are there any specific ways for the mass to organize itself as a political subject? What are means whereby artworks represent and transform the linkage between mass and individual? What are the mutations undergone by the mass qua object of the social sciences? How does capitalist modernity affect the moral and psychic autonomy of individuals?
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Berlin
The term “solidarity” seems to have fallen out of theoretical fashion despite the fact that it has a long history of describing the shared struggles of those oppressed by economic or political power structures. This conference aims to explore the past, present and future of “solidarity at work” on both the conceptual and empirical level. Its focus is on the world of work, which it wants to investigate from a transnational perspective. How have the concepts, conceptions and categories of solidarity shaped labor and the labor movements of different countries? What about the divergent conceptual meanings and practices in these assorted contexts? How have power relations as well as people’s everyday life been changed by the various practices related to solidarity? How do technological and managerial changes help to shift ideas and practices of solidarity? Do we see new forms emerging? Who are the agents of “solidarity at work” and what are the concrete mechanisms involved? More broadly, what are the levers and brakes of solidarity in the workplace today?
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Berlin
Conference, symposium - Thought
En France comme en Allemagne, la réception de la pensée d’Adorno semble actuellement renouvelée. La notion de non-identité, dont les significations sont encore loin d’être épuisées, sont plus particulièrement au centre de l’intérêt pour la pensée du théoricien critique. Elle est de plus en plus invoquée à la faveur de la montée en puissance des « identitaires » en Europe et plus généralement de l’inflation sémantique du vocabulaire de l’identité au sein d’un spectre politique très large. À partir de ce constat d'ordre politique, le Junges Forum propose d’interroger les ressources de la notion de non-identité tout comme ses possibles mobilisations sur des terrains multiples et interdisciplinaires.
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Berlin
The politics of non-identity. Franco-German perspectives
Interdisciplinary young researchers event
Ce Junges forum a pour ambition d’explorer l’actualité de la pensée de la non-identité issue d’Adorno à travers ses résonnances métaphysiques, esthétiques, psychanalytiques et politiques. Une attention particulière sera portée aux enjeux politiques de la réflexion dans les différents axes de recherches.
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Göttingen
Difference, diversity, diffraction: confronting hegemonies and dispossessions
10th European Feminist Research Conference
The overall theme of the conference is “Difference, Diversity, Diffraction: Confronting Hegemonies and Dispossessions”, which refers to a topic central to Gender Studies: the social construction of difference and inequality on the one hand, and the recognition of marginalised experiences and subject positions on the other. In the face of growing right-wing populist movements, anti-feminist and anti-queer backlash, forced migration, austerity and climate change, these concerns take on renewed relevance. The subtitle “Confronting Hegemonies and Dispossessions” is a call to reflect on, challenge and defy the hierarchies, subjugations and deprivations that are linked to structural differentiations and to find affirmative ways of dealing with difference , diversity and diffraction. The conference is committed to promoting a feminist anti-racist accessible space for all genders.
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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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Berlin
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Political studies
Study Foundation of the Berlin House of Representatives
Grants for the academic year 2018-2019
The Studienstiftung des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin (Study Foundation of the Berlin House of Representatives) sponsors a scholarship programme that offers financial support to students and young researchers. The programme is directed to citizens of the United States of America, Great Britain, France, and the successor states of the former Soviet Union. Applications from all fields are accepted. Applicants should want to use research facilities in Berlin and/or study at a Berlin institution of higher education.
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Berlin
Call for papers - Political studies
The challenge of afterwards - the postdoc phase in France and Germany
La phase postdoctorale en France et en Allemagne
La soutenance d’une thèse de doctorat marque la fin d’un cycle et la reconnaissance de ses pairs. Mais elle ouvre dans le même temps une phase d’incertitudes et d’inquiétudes légitimes sur son avenir professionnel à court, moyen et long terme. Quel que soit le système universitaire dans lequel on a fait sa thèse, les jeunes chercheurs.es partagent de part et d’autre du Rhin un certain nombre de questions, de doutes et d’angoisses, qui portent tant sur les aspects institutionnels que sur les choix très concrets à faire : doit-on privilégier la carte de l’internationalisation de son parcours ? Comment arriver à construire un nouveau sujet de recherche ? Quelles sont les possibilités structurelles qui s’offrent en France, en Allemagne ou ailleurs ?
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Münster
Scholarship, prize and job offer - History
Four Visiting Fellowships for Postgraduates "Cultures of Decision-Making"
The Integrated Graduate School of the Collaborative Research Centre/SFB 1150 “Cultures of Decision-making”, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the University of Muenster since July 1st 2015, is offering four visiting fellowships for postgraduates/doctoral candidates in 2016 for a period of up to six months, starting in April 2016. The closing date for applications is March 20th 2016.
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Bielefeld
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Thought
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung
Das Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF) der Universität Bielefeld lädt junge Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aller Fachgebiete ein, sich für das ZiF-Nachwuchsnetzwerk zu bewerben. Die Mitgliedschaft beträgt fünf Jahre und ist mit einem vierwöchigen Fellowship verbunden. Darüber hinaus ist es den Mitgliedern möglich, interdisziplinäre Workshops durchzuführen. Außerdem treffen sie sich dreimal jährlich, um ein gemeinsam gewähltes, interdisziplinäres Thema zu bearbeiten.
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Tübingen
How much agreement does the society need?
Observations on the interaction of consent and dissent in society's cultural evolution
Section of the 14th Congress of the German Society of Semiotics at the University of Tübingen, 24th to 27th September 2014.
For the 14th International Congress of the German Society of Semiotics, we are looking for speakers on the issue of social consent and dissent for our sociologically – and culturally – oriented section: How much agreement does a society need? It is concerned with a semiotic discussion about conflict-laden forms of communication, i.e. about the positioned dimension of signs of consent and dissent in the process of socialization within a society or between societies of different cultures.
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Berlin
Lecture series - Political studies
Politische Repräsentation und das Symbolische
Die Tagung „Politische Repräsentation und das Symbolische“ lädt Vertreter der Politikwissenschaften und benachbarter Disziplinen wie der Philosophie, Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften dazu ein, über zentrale Anliegen politischer Repräsentation in modernen Demokratien nachzudenken und diese mit genuinen politikwissenschaftlichen Fragen zu verknüpfen.
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Frankfurt
International Graduate Conference
Practices of critique are intertwined with normative orders in manifold ways. They contain and refer reflexively to critical contentions, and they can enable as well as suppress critique. In this context it is essential to reconstruct the theoretical foundations of critique and power structures as well the practices in which they are instantiated. Three aspects are crucial: firstly concrete forms of power and their application, which always emerge from a tension between normative claims and solidified systems of rule; secondly the purview of justice as the foundation for critical rationale; thirdly the aspect of aesthetic representation. Such themes shall be addressed from multidisciplinary perspectives at the international graduate conference “Practices of Critique” on 5-7 December 2013.
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Munich
Scholarship, prize and job offer - History
Call for 2 Doctoral fellowships, 1 Post-Doc, Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University
International Junior Research Group "Premodern Objects. An Archeology of Experience"
The International Junior Research Group “PREMODERN OBJECTS. ANARCHEOLOGY OF EXPERIENCE“ (Elite Network of Bavaria) at the Ludwig MaximilianUniversity of Munich invites applications tofill three positions of Research Collaborators (2 PhD Candidates, 1 Post-Doc).
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Berlin
Call for papers - Representation
Le colloque « Art contemporain et marges » interroge le rôle des marges dans les définitions de l'art contemporain, et notamment dans celles qu’élaborent ses acteurs. Il s’agira de comprendre les marges et la marginalité dans le champ de l’art selon leur caractère double : comme prise de position programmatique ou comme situation imposée. La réflexion sur la marginalité est-elle à même de mettre en lumière des traits spécifiques à l’art contemporain ? Cette problématique sera abordée dans une perspective interdisciplinaire – croisant les champs de la sociologie, de la philosophie, de la géographie et de l'histoire de l'art – et internationale.
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Munich
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Language
LMU Munich Doctoral Fellowship Program in Globalization and Literature
The DFG-Research Training Group "Globalization and Literature" at LMU Munich invites applications for 7 Doctoral Fellowships starting in October, 2013, for up to 3 years.
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Potsdam
Anthropological Materialism and Materialism of the Encounter. Our Actuality with Walter Benjamin and Louis Althusser
Cette université d’été franco-allemande vise à établir des parallèles novateurs entre les philosophies de Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) et de Louis Althusser (1918-1990). Comme on sait, leur réception fut mouvementée. Tous deux étaient aussi, de leur vivant et chacun à leur manière (pour Althusser, surtout dans ses dernières années), des figures relativement marginales, qui travaillaient aux frontières des coupures disciplinaires, et se tenaient à l’écart des paradigmes d’écoles et des dogmatismes intellectuels. -
Dresden
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation
Le Centre de Recherche (Sonderforschungsbereich) 804 « Transzendenz und Gemeinsinn » (Transcendance et sens commun) de la Technische Universität de Dresden attribuera dans le cadre de son collège doctoral intégré pour l'année 2012 cinq allocations de recherche pour doctorants. -
Berlin
Conference, symposium - Sociology
Émile Durkheim: sociology and ethnology
La figure d’Émile Durkheim, figure incontournable et classique de la sociologie française mais aussi de la sociologie allemande et anglo-américaine méritai d’être réinterrogée. Aujourd’hui on souhaite ouvrir de nouveau la réflexion et le débat en nous penchant sur la figure de Durkheim comme théoricien et sur son héritage théorique dans les deux disciplines qui nous occupent – sociologie & ethnologie – et dans les différentes écoles et courants. L’accent sera mis sur la manière dont les différentes écoles sociologiques (française, allemande, américaine) ont inscrit le travail de Durkheim entre sociologie et anthropologie le confrontant à d’autres auteurs : Marcel Mauss, Robert Hertz, Henri Hubert, Georg Simmel, Maurice Halbwachs mais aussi Bergson et Tarde.
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Berlin
Beyond Signification. The Return of Reality and the Crisis of Poststructuralism
Graduate Conference Philosophy FU BERLIN
Today a growing number of people in the Humanities suggest that the times of poststructuralism have come to an end. According to them we concentrated on symbols, signs and discourse for far too long. Did we not thereby forget the reality of things? How do we account for the materiality of media, experiments, and writing? What happened to reality, substantiality and presence? This conference aims at discussing contemporary criticism of poststructuralism, its historical conditions, its impact on the present, and its implications for the future. Does poststructuralism really fail to acknowledge reality? How do we evaluate the emerging new theories that challenge poststructuralism?
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