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Rome

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe

Member of the École française de Rome (2021-2022)

L’École française de Rome recrute des membres scientifiques qui se consacrent à des travaux de recherche dans les domaines relevant de l'établissement, en histoire, archéologie et sciences sociales, répartis en trois sections : l'Antiquité, le Moyen Âge, les époques moderne et contemporaine.

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Padua

Conference, symposium - Europe

Crises and Infrastructures: Responses to Change Between Materiality and Immateriality

A Dialogue Between Anthropology, Geography and History

PhD students from the XXXIV cycle of the joint PhD Programme in Historical, Geographical, Anthropological Studies (University of Padova, Ca' Foscari Venice, Verona) are happy to invite you to their conference, titled "Crises and Infrastructures: Responses to Change Between Materiality and Immateriality. A Dialogue Between Anthropology, Geography and History". We will be exploring the interactions between various examples of Crises and Infrastructural response, trying to push for an interdisciplinary dialogue. We aim to reflect not only on the role of infrastructures as means of problem-solving, but also on the varied outcomes of critical moments. For more information, please see the detailed program attached.

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Pisa

Call for papers - History

Multiple Identities

Problems, methodologies and historical sources from the Antiquity to the present day

The PhD students in History at the University of Pisa (Italy) are pleased to announce a call for papers for a three-days online seminar (December 10-11-12, 2020) concerning the multifaceted concept of identity and its many dimensions. The seminar aims to grasp the complexity and intersection of different affiliations and identity constructions throughout history. In this sense, we will share new methodological and epistemological approaches, with a diachronic, global and interdisciplinary perspective.

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Palermo

Call for papers - History

Soldiers, prisoners and converts between permeable borders in the Mare Nostrum (16th-18th centuries)

The COST Action “Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750)” [CA 18129] is launching a call for a conference “Soldiers, prisoners and converts between permeable borders in the Mare Nostrum (16th-18th centuries)”. The event that we are disseminating is being organised within this project, which as the purpose to provide a transnational and interdisciplinary approach capable of overcoming the segmentation that currently characterizes the study of relations between Christianity and Islam in late medieval and early modern Europe and the Mediterranean. We aim to create a network that will help to provide a comprehensive understanding of past relations between Christianity and Islam in the European context through the addressing of three main research problems: otherness, migration and borders.

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Rome

Conference, symposium - History

Caging the sky: artistic, historical and anthropological approaches to avaries

Ancrées dans le temps long de l’histoire des techniques, de la construction architecturale, de la domestication et de l’acclimatation par l’homme des espèces animales, les volières constituent un objet de recherche interdisciplinaire qui offre de multiples points d’entrée pour étudier les liens, présents ou passés, qui unissent les sociétés à leur environnement, pour explorer la place des oiseaux dans les imaginaires collectifs, mais aussi apprécier l’originalité des œuvres ou des constructions dont l’une des fonctions est de représenter, de signifier ou de rendre effectivement présente la vie animale.

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Padua

Call for papers - History

Crisis and infrastructures: responses to change between materiality and immateriality

A dialogue between Anthropology, Geography and History

The purpose of the conference is to explore the interactions between crised and infrastructures starting from a pivotal question: is it possibile to consider transitional processes as moments of "a transformazion that includes some essential elements of the previous phase?" (Pombeni 2013: 12) Or are they to be intended just as a dramatic interruptions and breaks? PhD Students, Post-Docs and Research Fellows of historical, geographical and anthropological training are invited to partecipate in the construction of a moment of dialogue and excange. The aim is to stimulate an interdisciplinary discussion that will encompass all historiographical epochs, from antiquity to the present day, and question not only the role of infrastructure in the resolution of crises, but also the various implications of critical moments and of their conception.

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Palermo

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Cinema and the City

Interdisciplinary perspectives

The conference aims to explore the relationships established between cinema and urban areas. We want to stress the connections woven between cities and cinema, films, fiction and documentaries – important unconventional sources for the understanding of social and cultural contexts. We intend to focus on the modalities used in films to tell stories – through images and speech – concerning cities, territories, and places, residents’ lives in relation to spaces, to buildings, to landscapes, as well as to its urban culture as a whole. The perspective we have chosen for this conference is interdisciplinary and cinema will be considered as a medium to be understood and interpreted in several, possibly comparative, ways.

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Florence

Study days - Europe

Territorialising modern spaces, 15th-19th centuries

2ème session

Cette rencontre propose une réflexion collective sur les actions, les projets, les figurations et les imaginaires visant à la construction des territoires. On peut définir le territoire comme l’espace qu’un groupe humain s’approprie tout à la fois sur les plans politique, judiciaire, économique et religieux. Il constitue aussi un lieu de construction identitaire et communautaire, dans lequel une histoire commune se fonde d’abord sur un rapport à la foi et la croyance en un destin providentiel partagé. Il est enfin, à l’époque moderne, l’objet d’une institutionnalisation et un enjeu de pouvoir éminent. Ces journées d'études internationales propose un réflexion sur le phénomène de territorialisation tout au long de l'époque moderne en Europe et dans les espace où les Européens se sont implantés.

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Rome

Study days - History

The diaspora in the city: memories, representations, institutions, Mediterranean Europe, 14th-18th centuries

En s’inscrivant dans la lignée des travaux qui se sont multipliés depuis les années 1990 au sujet des diasporas, ces journées d’étude visent à examiner particulièrement comment de tels groupes se construisent dans le cadre urbain. On entend ici la ville à la fois comme un espace et comme un territoire dans lequel se déploient les stratégies et les perceptions des acteurs, ainsi que comme le lieu où les communautés interagissent entre elles, avec les institutions et avec les autorités locales. Les communications de ces journées permettront de faire se rencontrer la question des diasporas avec deux thématiques actuelles de l’histoire urbaine : l’étude de la répartition et de l’implantation des étrangers en ville d’une part, et celle des usages de l’espace urbain d’autre part. Il s'agira de comprendre, par l’urbain et ses spécificités, comment on aboutit à des identités collectives – parfois souples et négociées, parfois assignées de manière plus autoritaire – propres à ces groupes sociaux qui finissent par se penser et être pensés comme diaspora, voire par être institutionnalisés comme tels.

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Palermo

Call for papers - Representation

In/visible: representation, discourse, practices, “dispositifs”

Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

How is the materiality of the visible world inscribed in its cultural representations? What are the more or less visible actors and mechanisms in the genesis of a cultural artefact? Should the visible / invisible binomial be considered as an anthropological constant or as the effect of a certain epistemological constellation? To what extent does visibility coincide with power and, therefore, how should one represent the in/visible? These are just some of the questions that cultural studies, in their innate interdisciplinarity and methodological heterogeneity can formulate with respect to the issue.

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Ferrare

Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity

Meeting at the borders: Mediterranean hybrids in pre-Roman Italy

Le colloque « Se rencontrer aux frontières : hybridations méditerranéennes dans l’Italie pré-romaine » entend promouvoir une réflexion sur le thème des frontières et des modalités de rencontre et d’hybridation entre populations d’origine différente dans l’Italie préromaine dans un cadre analytique pluridisciplinaire, associant l’étude des données archéologiques à une vision historique et anthropologique des relations ethno-politiques et sociales.

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Rome

Conference, symposium - Europe

Migrations and circulations between Italy and France from the 19th century to the present day

À l’occasion de la présentation de l’exposition « Ciao Italia. Immigration et cultures italiennes en France 1860-1960 » à l’Institut français – Centre Saint-Louis, le colloque réunira des chercheurs français et italiens de différentes disciplines afin d’examiner divers aspects des flux migratoires entre l’Italie et la France à l’époque contemporaine. Il s’agit de souligner l’importance et la grande fluidité des mouvements de populations entre les deux pays depuis un siècle et demi. Ces migrations, d’une grande diversité géographique et sociale en fonction des circonstances, contribuent à façonner un espace circulatoire transalpin, cadre d’analyse qui permet de dépasser le traditionnel couple émigration / immigration. À l’heure où la question migratoire suscite des tensions entre la France et l’Italie, une perspective inscrite dans la durée doit permettre de saisir, au-delà des enjeux démographiques et économiques, les effets politiques et culturels de ces migrations du point de vue des rapports entre Français et Italiens.

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Verona

Call for papers - Geography

Islands and remoteness in Geography, Law, and Fiction

The conference seeks to explore how, in many ways, islands appear to be “geographical paradoxes”. Indeed, they are spatially remote places, which are, at the same time, bound to a continent by social conventions. The grounds of such puzzle are manifold. It is firstly a matter of spatial area. Secondly, the puzzle depends on how the political power projects authority over circumscribed spatial realms, including non-continental realms.

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Bologne

Call for papers - Africa

Swahili Glocal System

The proposal relates the renewal of the local scale at the age of globalization, within the world-system, commonly portrayed through the glorification of global cities. For decades, those lasts were regarded as independent from local, regional and national contingencies; they turned out to be vulnerable to shrinking process, a symptom of the global economic change of order and the inadequacy of policies to cope with different scales of interactions: the glocal.

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Naples

Call for papers - Europe

International migrations and labour from the 70s to the present

Since the 70s the presence of migrants in Europe, and especially in Italy, has become a structural issue and has been at the center of the public and political debate. The progressive demolition of welfare systems, the job precariousness, and new consumer lifestyles have generated different responses in terms of regulation of the admissions of foreign citizens in search of a job and their management (housing issues, access to health care, etc.). Both with regard to organization of forms of protection of immigrants in the exercise of theirs fundamental rights, especially in cases of serious discrimination and exploitation (immigrant associations, trade union action, etc.).

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Palermo

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Peoples and cultures of the world

In this interdisciplinary conference we aim to study different peoples and cultures of the world by taking into account the various ways peoples and cultures define themselves and others, thus shaping their identies. We aim to explore the complex relationships being established between cultural dynamics and identites in their spatial and/or chronological dimensions. We would like to focus on the variety of cultures in the world, on their diversity comparatively studied, but we are also specially inclined to discuss top-down or externally imposed politics and the types of resistance used by natives to escape these hegemonic strategies. We invite papers that analyse peoples and cultures (social communities, ethnic groups, indigenous minorities, etc.) considering their specific features and differences, possibly taking into account the theorizations underlying the construction and deconstruction of colllective identities. In this sense, we are interested in the role played by the scholar analyzing different cultures and their spatial dynamics, often fluid and somewhat controversial according to a political perspective.

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Florence

Conference, symposium - Geography

Territorialising modern spaces

Europe-Overseas, 15th-19th centuries; First session

Cette rencontre propose une réflexion collective sur les actions, les projets, les figurations et les imaginaires visant à la construction des territoires. Ce phénomène est trop volontiers envisagé comme un simple cadre explicatif ou un élément d’explication globale se suffisant à lui-même. Au contraire, la réalité de ce qu’est le territoire doit être comprise dans un contexte spécifique : celui de l’expansion européenne entre les XV^e et XIX^e siècles. On peut le définir le territoire en tant qu’espace qu’un groupe humain s’approprie tout à la fois sur le plan politique et judiciaire, économique et religieux. Il constitue aussi un lieu de construction identitaire et communautaire, dans lequel une histoire commune se fonde notamment sur les pratiques religieuses et la croyance en un destin providentiel partagé. Il est enfin, à l’époque moderne, l’objet d’une institutionnalisation et l’enjeu d’un pouvoir éminent.

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Milan

Call for papers - Geography

Living the mountain

Ce colloque a pour ambition d’interroger et de préciser la notion d’ « habiter la montagne » à partir d’apports théoriques et pratiques relevant de territoires alpins et/ou de montagne. Il propose d’examiner les réponses développées par les habitants permanents ou temporaires et les initiatives juridiques, économiques, sociales, environnementale et culturelles déployées de manière individuelle ou collective face à ces contraintes. L’appel est ouvert à la géographie, à l’aménagement, à l’urbanisme, à la sociologie, à l’histoire, à l’anthropologie, à l’économie, au droit…

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Genoa

Conference, symposium - Urban studies

La città multietnica nel mondo mediterraneo

Storia, cultura, patrimonio

This meeting aims to foster a discussion about the continuities and disruptions which have conditioned the multi-ethnic dimension of our cities. We would like to focus on the specificities of places and time in our millennial history that have produced both tangible and intangible cultural heritage (a heritage which today seems strongly under attack). We aim for a historical perspective – by drawing attention on well-documented case-studies offering comparative insights – without however forgetting to ask ourselves the meaning of our research in the troubled world we live in; without anachronisms, but also without hiding behind the pretext of specialisms, while in front of our eyes the Mediterranean world is more than ever a theatre of death, exclusion, suffering.

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Florence

Summer School - Geography

Massive spatial data: challenges in acquisition, treatment and use for territories

École d'été 2018 du Laboratoire d'excellence DynamiTe

Cette école d’été sera dédiée aux masses de données spatiales apparues avec l’évolution numérique des quinze dernières années. L’ambition est de proposer aux participant-e-s : un tour d’horizon de la façon dont ces données sont et peuvent être utilisées pour nourrir une recherche sur des dynamiques territoriales ; d’apprendre des savoir-faire (méthodes et outils) contemporains pour traiter ces nouvelles sources de données.

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