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• 01 mar 2021

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Death and Migration: Perspectives from the Post-Soviet Space

  This dossier of Revue européenne des migrations internationales proposes to take up a research theme that has undergone a strong renewal of interest in recent years, that of death and migration. This dossier aims to shed light on an area which has been little studied from this angle (the post-Soviet space) and to develop an approach which focuses on the management of bodies 'dead in the distance' (deaths in migration, deaths due to migration). This dossier also focuses on the effects of a certain proximity to death on the practices of foresight and mutual aid (when they exist) in the migratory context, as well as their impacts on migration as a whole. Two thematic axes will guide the contributions: the first concerns the practical modalities of the management of dead bodies abroad; the second concerns mitigating and solidarity practices in relation to the proximity of death in migration.

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• 21 jan 2020	28 nov 2019	10 déc 2019
  25 fév 2020	24 mar 2020	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Geography

  Slovakia in Europe in the past century

  L’objectif de ce cycle de conférences est de croiser les perspectives de différentes disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales sur le cheminement de la Slovaquie au cours de ce dernier siècle. Il s’agit en particulier de montrer en quoi l’expérience slovaque, aux côtés de celles d’autres pays de l’Europe centrale, mais souvent moins connue, enrichit la compréhension de phénomènes qui ont marqué le siècle : déplacements de frontières, disparitions et apparitions d’États, persistance ou disparition de communautés non slaves (Hongrois, Allemands, Juifs, Ukrainiens, Roms, etc.), compétition de modèles de société et circulation d’imaginaires et de styles artistiques. Ces phénomènes se sont accompagnés d’une modernisation accélérée du pays et d’un mouvement inédit dans sa construction en État-nation.

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• 15 oct 2017

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Geography

  Post-soviet diaspora(s) in Western Europe (1991-2017)

  Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, millions of former soviet citizens crossed the national borders in search of better lives in new countries, in what was the biggest migration tide since the end of World War II. These Post-Soviet migrants were diverse in origins, strategies and expectations. They often represented a challenge to the orthodox views of migration processes, since in most cases these flows could not be easily described and analysed following commonly accepted theoretical frameworks. Everybody seemed to be on the move: labour migrants, political refugees, cross-border traders, “tourists” planning to forget their return... and in a short period, they spread all over Western Europe.

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• 15 aoû 2017

  Vienna

  Call for papers - Modern

  Border Textures: Interwoven Practices and Discursive Fabrics of Borders

  2nd World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies - Panel

  In view of the current political developments in Europe, the scientific study of borders has increasingly gained importance. Cultural Studies has reacted to these developments by generating complex and more and more detailed theories and tools for describing and analyzing border phenomena. Cultural border studies champion approaches which do not examine spatial, material, temporal or cultural aspects in isolation but investigate their intersectional and performative interactions. This panel provides a space for explorative investigation of potential approaches for cultural border studies, focusing on interactions between material and immaterial manifestations of the border.

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• 15 aoû 2017

  Vienna

  Call for papers - Geography

  What is Border Studies?

  2nd World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies - Panel

  The societal events of the last decade have challenged Border Studies more than ever before. This can be seen not only in the field’s growing institutionalisation but also in its developments in research: these include the relativization of geopolitical perspectives by cultural studies approaches, the spatialisation of the border concept (e.g. zone, third space, exter/internalisation etc.), the decentralisation of the border in favour of processes (e.g. b/ordering, othering etc.), the pluralisation of the border concept (e.g. walls, differences, (dis)continuities, demarcations) or the complexification of the border (e.g. scapes, textures). The panel is treating these developments and other turns as an opportunity for a long-overdue self-examination, which in the light of the resurgence of borders seems necessary from both a societal and scientific perspective.

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• 08 fév 2013

  Toulouse

  Study days - Modern

  Crossing borders

  The challenges and experiences of Brazilian and French researchers

  L’objectif principal de cette table ronde est de créer un espace de discussion et d’échange d’expériences entre brésilien.ne.s qui font des recherches en France et français.e.s qui font des recherches dans l’Amérique Latine, en ouvrant un débat interdisciplinaire qui s’interroge notamment sur la question des frontières. Des frontières géographiques, parce qu’il s'agit de pays et continents différents ; des frontières académiques, en proposant une réflexion sur les obstacles (in)visibles entre les sciences humaines, sociales et exactes (et ainsi entre les différentes disciplines au sein de chaque domaine) et des frontières humaines, en espérant que les expériences interpersonnelles partagées entre les chercheur.e.s les enrichiront individuellement et collectivement.

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• 18 jui 2011

  La Plaine-Saint-Denis

  Study days - Urban studies

  Urban Heritage Stakeholders and their Conflictual Memories and Representations : France, Romania, Turkey

  First Workshop : Governance in policies and practicies concerning Urban heritage

  Ce cycle de rencontres scientifiques vise à approcher la question des acteurs du patrimoine urbain (au sens large et au-delà des monuments classés ou historiques) et celle des conflits de mémoire que la patrimonialisation engendre. Dans une perspective assez généraliste et introductive, cette première journée sera l’occasion de revenir sur la question de la gouvernance dans les trois contextes aux histoires, cultures, et gestions patrimoniales différentes, mais soumis à des injonctions (Europe, Unesco) de « bonne gouvernance » et de « participation ».

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