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Rome
Call for papers - Urban studies
Echi dell'antico nell'architettura del primo Novecento
Il Dipartimento di Storia, Disegno e Restauro dell'architettura (DSDRA) della Sapienza, Università di Roma, bandisce una call for papers per selezionare i contributi del convegno internazionale “Forme dell’abitare a Roma. Echi dell’antico nell’architettura del primo Novecento”, che si terrà il 11 e 12 Novembre 2021 a Roma. Il convegno intende focalizzare l’attenzione sul tema dell'architettura residenziale a Roma mettendo in relazione gli studi sulle tipologie e sul linguaggio architettonico dell'antichità con le esperienze dei primi decenni del Novecento, realizzate contestualmente allo sviluppo abitativo della Capitale.
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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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Palermo
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
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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Bologne
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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Rome
The Renewal of Buildings and Spaces as Urban Policy, from Antiquity to the Present
Everywhere in Rome, monuments are covered with ancient or modern inscriptions that not only contain the name of the original builder but also commemorate their restoration. Popes from the Quattrocento and Cinquecento who acted as urban planners, such as Sixtus IV, presented themselves as ‘restorers’, even when they were actually modernising the City. This phenomenon is not restricted to the Renaissance period: many Roman emperors already claimed to be rebuilders, such as Augustus who repaired all the damaged temples of Rome according to the Res Gestae, or Septimius Severus who was called Restitutor Vrbis on his coinage. Rome thus seems to be a city that constantly needs to be restored, rebuilt, born again. This conference aims to investigate how the notions of restoration and rebuilding were a driving force of Rome’s urban transformation throughout its history, from Antiquity to the 21st century, as well as a political program put forward by the authorities and an ideal more or less shared by the different key actors of the city.
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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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Genoa
Call for papers - Urban studies
Multi-ethnic cities in the Mediterranean world
History, culture, heritage
This meeting aims to foster a discussion about the continuities and disruptions which have conditioned the multi-ethnic dimension of Mediterranean 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. We would like to broaden the traditional horizons of our disciplines under the issues of our times, questioning the role of historical research and the forms of scientific communication nowadays, when old practices seem more challenged than ever by the overwhelming expansion of new technologies.
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Rome
Inhabiting movement, 16th-21st centuries
L’atelier thématique a pour objet la relation entre mobilité et modes d’habiter l’espace, selon une perspective interdisciplinaire et de longue durée. Le choix de cette thématique puise ses racines dans plusieurs projets collectifs et recherches individuelles menées au sein de l’UMR TELEMME et de la MMSH. La notion d’habiter proposée dans cet atelier est comprise dans le sens le plus large du terme : « faire avec l’espace », qui ne se limite pas à celui de « résider stablement », mais qui est aussi synonyme de fréquenter, d’être dans un lieu pour des raisons diverses et triviales : travailler, s’amuser, se réfugier, s’abriter, se réunir, se promener, parcourir, boire et manger, etc.
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Rome
EAUH 2018 Rome – Urban renewal and resilience cities in comparative perspective
The session aims to explore the history of voluntary associations, focusing on the period between 1880 and 1940. It covers the role played by civic movements in the construction of a common consciousness based on identity and memorial dimension. Papers dealing with the following topics will be considered: The professional local elites; National and international associations as a place of civil society engagement; The local authorities.
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Rome
Border towns and the resilience of frontiers in Early Modern cities
The session welcomes contributions that deal with questions of shifting borders and how these shifts impacted the political, social, economic or religious organization of a given city or cities in Europe. Papers may focus on questions of practice, concerning the resilience of local political elites and administrations or the local population. They may also deal with the contemporary considerations to change the space of both cities and states, political agendas, procedures to implement them and the 'instruments' to control these implementations.
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Rome
Environmental studies and social sciences : temporalities, materiality, archives and inquiries
The third edition of this doctoral workshop will consider the plurality of making environmental studies and the plurality of disciplines in environmental studies: environmental history, sociology, geo-history, science studies, historical geography, political ecology, environmental archeology, anthropology… The workshop will be organized around four main themes: “Historiographies and new ways of writing history in the Anthropocene era”; “Global scale and situated environments”; “The earth’s archives: traces, landscapes, and collection”; “Materiality and earth relations”. T
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Rome
Conference, symposium - History
The hinterlands of the Mediterranean
L'arrière-pays des villes de mer
Organisé dans le cadre du Laboratoire international associé (LIA) MediterraPolis, le colloque vise à promouvoir une réflexion interdisciplinaire (sociologie, urbanisme, histoire, géographie et économie) sur les hinterlands – les territoires qui entourent les villes portuaires – dans le contexte des grandes agglomérations en Méditerranée. Au cours des siècles, les hinterlands se sont profondément transformés, dans leurs paysages, leurs habitats et leurs morphologies, avec des ceintures, des fragmentations et des conurbations changeantes, jusqu’à la formation des aires métropolitaines. L’objectif de ce colloque est d’étudier ces évolutions de longue durée, et de développer une réflexion sur les rapports multiples qui lient les villes et leurs hinterlands, observés notamment au prisme des mobilités qui façonnent les territoires métropolitains.
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Venice
Study day in honor of Bernardo Secchi
First edition – Utopia and the project for the city and territory
For today and in the future Bernardo Secchi’s work and intuitions nourish the reflections and debate on city, architecture and society. The Study Day sponsored by the Doctorate School in Architecture, City and Design and of the Università IUAV of Venice is dedicated to Bernardo Secchi, in the school where he taught for many years becoming a reference for many student generations. The aim is not only to remember his work, but also to deepen and to elaborate, case by case, his hypothesis, themes and questions by constructing new occasions for debate and intellectual expansion.
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Rende
Conference, symposium - Africa
Images and representations of the Self and Other
Confronting scholarly and popular cultures to contribute to the stabilisation of Congo
Le colloque propose une confrontation interdisciplinaire sur les représentations du Soi et de l’Autre, réservant une attention particulière à la confrontation des cultures savantes et populaires en République démocratique du Congo. Inspiré par l’expérience du projet « Mémoire de Lubumbashi », ce colloque international vise à renouveler le débat autour du rapport entre culture savante et culture populaire par des contributions à caractère historique et/ou ethnographique sur le passé colonial et postcolonial, et sur les recompositions sociales contemporaines (appartenances régionale / ethnique, rapports entre générations, mutations/redéfinition des rapports de genre).
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Catania
From risk to resilience, from past to present: critical perspectives and comparative approaches
2016 Summer School of the Cluster of Excellence Territorial and Spatial Dynamics (LabEx DynamiTe)
This Summer School will give precedence to exploratory work that does not take the concept of resilience for granted but rather examines the social and historical conditions of its use by the scientific community. Thus, a constant dialogue between past and present case studies shall be offered, involving geographers, sociologists, historians and archeologists. By comparing sites distant in both time and space, common mechanisms that lead to system resilience or on the contrary to major qualitative system reorganizations can be identified.
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Rome
Pierre Bourdieu and the epistemology of sociological thought
Fields of reflection and the role of social movements: between structure and individuality
Le département de communication et de recherche sociale de l’université Sapienza de Rome, l’Institut français Italie et l’École française de Rome, organisent avec les soutiens de l’École normale supérieure Lyon, du Lab’Urba, et de l’Association italienne de sociologie, un colloque dédié à la pensée de Pierre Bourdieu et intitulé « Pierre Bourdieu et l’épistémologie de la pensée sociologique. Champs de réflexion et rôle des mouvements sociaux : entre structure et individualité ».
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Rome
Miscellaneous information - Urban studies
Face à la spéculation immobilière, quelles sont les réponses coopératives de l’Europe latine ?
Italie, Espagne
Le contexte de l’Europe latine est marqué, depuis le milieu des années 2000, par des processus incontrôlés de spéculation immobilière intense (un marché « désencastré » selon la formule de Polanyi), qui déstabilisent fortement des pans entiers de la société civile en l’Europe latine : saisies immobilières bancaires, expulsions pour impayés de loyers ou fin de bail (…), qui génèrent en retour des actions de protestations collectives et d’occupations de logements laissés vacants par des promoteurs immobiliers, groupes bancaires, opérateurs publics. D’une manière générale, on observera que c’est bien l’Europe latine toute entière qui est depuis 2007, confrontée au décrochage de son économie, au regard des normes de marché imposées par l’union européenne : dette publique, taux de chômage, PIB…
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Genoa
Call for papers - Representation
Banlieues : quelles représentations contemporaines des quartiers « sensibles » ?
Depuis les trente dernières années, le mot banlieue désigne l’inscription territoriale d’une question sociale, comme le souligne l’historienne experte de la banlieue parisienne Annie Fourcaut. Très en vogue dans les débats médiatiques et politiques, notamment depuis les premières émeutes urbaines médiatisées des années 1990 jusqu’à arriver aux plus violentes en 2005, les banlieues entendues comme quartiers « sensibles », semblent rassembler autour d’elles et de leur jeunesse surtout, les connotations les plus disparates et péjoratives : paupérisation socio / économique, ségrégation résidentielle, dégradation du bâtiment, violence et délinquance. Le projet de ce colloque s’inscrit dans ce contexte d’actualité et vise à réfléchir sur les représentations sociales et artistiques contemporaines de ces lieux, incluant la littérature et les arts visuels tels que le cinéma, la photographie et les arts urbains.
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Pisa
Pisa: from the great plague to the Florentine conquest (1348-1406)
New directions for the history of a society in crisis
Pise est sans doute l’un des observatoires privilégiés de la « crise du XIVe siècle ». La grande mortalité s’abat en effet sur une ville qui, déjà, connaît les affres des bouleversements économiques et politiques. L'historiographie a longtemps interprété l'histoire de la ville au Trecento, et a fortiori entre la Peste Noire et la conquête florentine (1406) selon un paradigme décliniste. Pourtant, à la suite des travaux menés sur cette période par F. Melis et M. Tangheroni et des renouvellements plus récents, profitant d’un regain d’intérêt pour l’exploitation des sources de la pratique, il est possible de réévaluer l'ampleur de la « crise » pisane, et de redéfinir les paramètres politiques, économiques et sociétaux qui ont marqué la période postérieure à la Grande peste.
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Palermo
Islands and borders into modern and contemporary Mediterranean
III international seminar "Itinera. New perpectives on historical and geographical research"
El Seminario de 2015 tiene como hilo conductor los espacios insulares y de frontera en las edades Moderna y Contemporánea, así como las sociedades en que se asientan, en el contexto mediterráneo desde una perspectiva de la larga duración e interdisciplinariedad. El encuentro constituye una ocasión para reflexionar sobre el tema de la frontera como lugar de enccuentro, travesía y tránsito; al igual que sobre el rol de las islas y de las sociedades insulares, bien como frontera, bien como nodo en el seno de una tupida red de transmisión de saberes. La pretensión del Seminario es la de superar, también desde el punto de vista geográfico, el concepto de aislamiento, proponiendo, por el contrario, el de un sistema de islas en el Mediterráneo.
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