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• 01 jui 2020

  Tartu

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Response Events

  This conference is part of a transdisciplinary research project about response events led jointly at the University of Tartu, Aix-Marseille University and University of Côte d’Azur. It aims to study responses to representations (literary, artistic, media, historical, etc.) and how these representations can produce an event for given readers/spectators. Leaving aside the events that certain representations can provoke and that are similar to historical facts (as for literary scandals caused by the publication of condemned works), it focuses on representations from the point of view of their response, where the singular experiences of reading/spectating (that are eventually shared) are identified as events. In the current context of representations’ and their media’s–notably screens–proliferation, it appears relevant to re-interrogate the response experience through the events that it can trigger.

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• 30 avr 2015

  Tallinn

  Call for papers - Thought

  Social divisions, surveillance and the security state

  43rd Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control

  Despite the existence of widespread public discourse about equality and human rights, social, racial, sexual, ethnic, religious, political and economic divisions continue to mark societies across the globe. In many countries, these divisions have even widened under the pressure of competing nationalist and populist discourses which highlight difference rather than common humanity. Today, new technologies of surveillance are used on both a national and supra-national level to classify, segregate and control all those who are thought to threaten the mythical cohesion and security of nation-states. Whilst it was thought that the end of the Cold War and the spread of globalisation would lead to the erosion of boundaries of all kinds, on the contrary old boundaries are being rebuilt and new ones created. These boundaries have spread far beyond the traditional borders of nation state as surveillance and security have come to dominate the agendas of international organisations.

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• 27 fév 2014

  Tallinn

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Conflicts & Social Violence in an Uncertain Interconnected World

  Panel 033 EASA 2014. Collaboration, Intimacy & Revolution 
- innovation and continuity in an interconnected world

  This panel wants to question the issue of ordinary violence and its dynamics in interconnected but uncertain contemporary societies. Whatever their shape, these social violence appear to be very different from spectacular collective forms of political or economical violence. Ordinary violence is violence experienced by ordinary people in their ordinary everyday lives. Occurring everywhere, they are ordinary and daily routine though always culturally or locally specific in their achievements. They take place in relationships or interactions undermined by power abuse or exploitation. Previous studies have focused on the social construction of ordinary violence in ‘face to face’ interactions. But, the kind of ordinary violence springing from distant interconnections and from a growing feeling of uncertainty has not been suited as such. Then, it is from these contexts that we want to investigate anew the issue of ordinary social conflicts and violence.

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• 10 sep 2011

  Tallinn

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Bodies in space. Spaces of the body

  Interact in/with the world

  La thématique du corps est ample et complexe et peut être abordée de manière très variée selon le point de vue qu’on adopte pour l’étudier (psychothérapie, anthropologie, philosophie, religion, biologie, sociologie, sémiotique, pour ne citer que quelques domaines). Ce qui est certain est que le corps ne peut pas être extrapolé du contexte spatial, social et culturel où il se situe et à partir duquel il est perçu, ni de l’évolution historique de sa conceptualisation et sa perception. C’est pourquoi, dans ce colloque, nous nous proposons de revenir à la relation primaire qui s’établit entre le corps et l’espace et de penser le corps comme étant l’intermédiaire de deux types de spatialité possible : (i) les corps comme entités du monde ‘situées’ dans l’espace ; (ii) les ‘espaces’ intrinsèques du corps lui-même. Les deux dimensions ne peuvent pas être complètement séparées l’une de l’autre et les thématiques transversales peuvent ouvrir des pistes de recherche que nous invitons à explorer.

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