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Pisa

Surveying Ritual Creativity in Contemporary Paganism and New Age Prior to and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This panel, part of the 18^th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, seeks to survey ritual creativity in Contemporary Paganism and New Age prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

Florence

Call for papers - Representation

From ritual to myth: Carnival in European culture

D’où vient la profonde exigence sociale du carnaval et quels sont les thèmes et les motifs que cette tradition a fait émerger dans notre héritage culturel et artistique ? Du drame bouffon à la farce et à la grande tradition de la commedia dell’arte italienne, des observations de Goethe sur le carnaval de Rome aux compositions de Schumann (Carnaval, op. 9) et de Saint-Saëns (Le Carnaval des Animaux), jusqu’à la peinture de Brueghel l’Ancien, Monet, Pissarro et Elrond, le carnaval a fasciné de nombreux auteurs. Le but de ce colloque est de recueillir et de combiner des idées innovatrices pour l’analyse ou la reformulation de ce mythe, en créant un pont entre les perspectives de lecture les plus diverses dans le domaine des humanités.

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.

Bergamo

Call for papers - Language

Discourse, power and spirit - between reason and emotions

Le pouvoir est un moyen d'influencer les types de relations et interactions entre les individus. Celles-ci peuvent amener en retour une partie à imposer sa volonté à une autre partie, quels que soient les motivations et fondements à l’origine de cette volonté. Au vu de la nature sociale de ces rapports, on peut postuler que les pratiques discursives gardent la trace des dynamiques de pouvoir. L’analyse du discours peut par conséquent constituer un angle d’approche pour la compréhension des relations et des positionnements hiérarchiques. Le rapport entre discours et pouvoir implique également une entrée en interaction avec la conscience de l’autre.

Bergamo

Call for papers - Language

Discourse, power and mind: between reason and emotion

Discourse can be addressed as a vehicle for power, a positioning practice which enlightens the role and the relationship among the speakers. Power is a way of defying and measure relationships and interactions between individuals. These relations and interactions lead one part to affirm its will against another part, no matter on what bases this will is grounded. Language and communication can be seen as tools to define and convey power dynamics, as well as to establish a status quo. Hence, discourse practice analysis is a tool to approach and understand the hierarchical relations and positions in different discourse fields. The relationship between discourse and power implies an interaction between the subjects and their selves. Power positions are often held by influencing the judgment of other people, which requires dealing with their minds.

Palermo

Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

The logics of persuasion. Between anthropology and rhetoric

In this conference, we will study the logics of persuasion according to anthropological and rhetorical perspectives, exchanging insights and viewpoints. The question is: how do social sciences make use of rhetorical procedures to be more effective?

Palermo

Call for papers - Thought

The logics of persuasion between anthropology and rhetoric

Dans ce colloque nous entendons étudier les logiques de la persuasion dans une perspective anthropologique et rhétorique, en échangeant savoirs et points de vue. Bien que la rhétorique et l’anthropologie soient définies historiquement de manières multiples, elles partagent de fait un présupposé commun à partir duquel on peut entamer une discussion fructueuse : atteindre les individus en utilisant des messages efficaces et persuasifs. Quelle est, aujourd’hui, la valeur particulière de ces messages et de quelles manières sont-ils pris en compte en rhétorique et/ou en anthropologie, ainsi que dans les autres sciences sociales ? Plus spécifiquement, de quelles manières l’anthropologie, ainsi que les autres sciences sociales, se servent de procédures rhétoriques afin d’être plus efficaces ? Est-il possible, somme toute, de faire une anthropologie de la rhétorique et/ou une rhétorique de l’anthropologie ?

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Rome

Seminar - Epistemology and methodology

Comparing, comparison, comparatism

Social sciences reading seminar, École française de Rome (2017–2018)

Le séminaire de cette année sera consacré au thème « Comparaison, comparer, comparatisme ». Il s’articulera autour de six séances thématiques qui abordera la question de la comparaison comme méthode du raisonnement en sciences sociales, mais également comme objet d’études. L’année se terminera par une rencontre conclusive qui permettra d’aborder la question des échelles de la comparaison. Le programme intègre également une séance doctorale consacrée à la présentation des travaux des doctorants de l’École française de Rome.

Sasso Marconi

Call for papers - Africa

Africa narrates itself: media, opinions, influential figures

These days communication and information are characterized by immediacy, speed, and interactivity. Facebook and Instagram accounts, YouTube channels, and blogs transmit a perpetual flow of information, shared videos, pictures, and other content which creates networks and incentivizes sharing in a constantly evolving language. Contemporary mass media therefore ensures that, today more than ever, people in African countries are at the same time autonomous producers and users of a debate, through partly traditional, partly innovative channels, about life in Africa and African communities’ identity, with a tale that travels across the borders of individual countries and the continent itself.

Urbino

Call for papers - Sociology

Metamorphosis: the landslide of identity

Dans le cadre du projet « À partir d'Ovide », l'association culturelle Rodopis organise un colloque titré Metamorfosi: identità in smottamento (Metamorphosis: the Landslide of Identity), qui aura lieu à Urbino (Italie) le 30 novembre et 1 décembre 2017. Le colloque se propose d'analyser dans une perspective multidiscliplinaire (la participation de sociologues, anthropologues, historiens, philosophes, experts de littératures anciennes et modernes est souhaitée) les problèmes posés par les notions d'indentité, alterité, transformation, soit à partir de l'examen de cas d'études, soit à partir d'une perspective epistémologique.

Rome

Summer School - History

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

Naples

Conference, symposium - Europe

The world of Gennaro Magri - dance, music and opera in the Enlightenment

Danse, musique et opéra dans l’Europe des Lumières

Centré in primis sur l’œuvre de Gennaro Magri (ca. 1735-1780), maître de ballet au Théâtre San Carlo de Naples et auteur du Trattato teorico-prattico del Ballo (1779), ce colloque a pour objectif de se pencher sur la vie et la carrière de Magri en Italie et en Europe, et plus largement de réfléchir sur le rôle de la danse à Naples dans le contexte européen. Dans une perspective théorico-pratique, ce colloque sera le lieu d’un questionnement sur l’histoire, la technique, l’esthétique et la poétique de la danse théâtrale notamment dans ses rapports aux autres arts : il s’agira de réfléchir sur les enjeux culturels et sociaux liés à la relation entre danse noble et danse comique, entre style italien et style français, dans le dialogue interculturel entre les nations.

Padua

Call for papers - Sociology

Into the woods

Overlapping perspectives on the history of “ancient forests”

In ecological, economic and social terms, “ancient forests” play numerous roles. Their definition varies not only from country to country but also according to disciplinary fields. Studying “ancient forests” can involve separating “old-growth forests” from “ancient woodland”, forests that have disappeared and, in the case of “current forests”, those that are not actually very old at all! This conference aims to exchange views and ideas on “ancient forests” including both retrospective and prospective issues. Better understanding their past highlights the key issues of their status, protection and promotion in our current societies and opens up new perspectives about the future of « ancient forests ». Foresters, planners, developers, ecologists, biologists, agriculturalists, geographers, historians, philosophers, ethnologists, cartographers, archaeologists, archaeobotanists, sociologists etc., from all backgrounds, are invited to join this debate about our various and varying concepts of “ancient forests”.

Rome

Call for papers - History

Mixed marriages in the European societies, 18th-21th century

For a social history of the matrimonial mixity

Les migrations contemporaines et les interrogations croissantes sur les juxtapositions de groupes religieux ou ethniques différents ont stimulé ces dernières décennies un intérêt évident pour la question de la mixité matrimoniale dans le monde d’aujourd’hui, mais aussi dans les sociétés anciennes. Dans le champ historique, cet intérêt a été en outre renforcé par le développement spécifique de plusieurs axes de recherches : l’histoire des migrations, des réseaux marchands, des diasporas, des sociétés urbaines, ou encore des sociétés coloniales.

Turin

Call for papers - Religion

Women, Religions and Gender Relations

International Association for the study of Religion and Gender (IARG)

Interest in the subject of “Women, Religions and Gender Relations” has intensified especially from the mid-1990s in Europe – more recently in Italy – spreading beyond the borders of the sociology of religion and gender studies. The call is designed to offer a platform to scholars to present their research on the topic and exchange their ideas on research findings at an international level.

Susa

Summer School - History

Economies of quality. People and things in medieval and modern markets

5th summer school of economic history

La V^e école d’été d’histoire économique, qui se réunira à Suse (Piémont, Italie), les 28, 29 et 30 août 2016, aura comme thème « Les économies de la qualité. Les personnes et les choses sur les marchés médiévaux et modernes ». Cette thématique permettra de poursuivre et d’approfondir celles qui ont été développées les années précédentes (la valeur des choses, la pauvreté, les biens communs, les moyens de paiement). La question de la qualité se situe à la croisée de l’histoire et de la sociologie économique, permettant d’aborder aussi bien l’étude de mécanismes productifs et marchands que celle de savoir-faire.

Catania

Summer School - Sociology

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.

Milan

Call for papers - Modern

The Self-Management of Chronic Disease: critical perspectives

Panel038 - EASA2016 Conference (European Association of Social Anthropologists)

This panel will bring a critical reflection on self-management of chronic disease from a variety of theoretical, methodological and epistemological lenses. Both empowerment and autonomy as medical concepts and chronic disease as form of living will be theoretically and empirically addressed.

Milan

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

The Predatory Museum

39th annual International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) symposium

Have visitors ever wondered how museums acquire the wonderful things they present to the enquiring public? It is certain that some do, but how many would see the museum as a predator? Would they ever recognize the museum activity of acquiring the valued collections that are put on display as the result of a predatory undertaking? It is true that museums are discerning but eager recipients of gifts offered by individuals who cross their threshold and who are willing to donate or bequeath their treasured possessions to their local museum. These ongoing acts of charity aside, museums have other avenues of collection-building which they explore and have done so since their inception.

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