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• 20 fév 2020

  Lomé

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Discourse, pratices and tools used in the migration/development relationship: circulation, innovation and resistance to the South

  Panel - APAD conference 2020

  How do texts, practices and tools related to the “migration and development” debate circulate? This panel offers to analyse the processes of imposition, translation or hybridization, along with “travelling models”, and the appropriation or resistance experiences of the different categories of actors involved in migration/development governance. We examine the transnational circulation of texts and narratives that have become references for development practitioners in the Global South; the performativity of technical and managerial instruments, case models and “good practices”; the changes in the intermediaries and brokers categories.

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• 31 jan 2019

  01 fév 2019

  Zurich

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  The Pillars of Rule

  The Writ of Dynasties and Nation-States in the Middle East and South Asia

  Max Weber famously argued that states lay claim to the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence over certain circumscribed territories. However, historical and anthropological research has challenged his ideal-typical vision by showing how the idea of the unitary state is a fiction that can only be produced through the action of interrelated but partly autonomous agents. States, and the various institutions that constitute them, face the strategic task of identifying and domesticating the social networks that are necessary for them to secure control over particular territories and their populations. Local strongmen and notables can in turn use their own local influence in order to gain recognition from higher-level, more powerful, state institutions. In this international conference, scholars from a variety of disciplines will explore the ways in which dynastic power and/or the rule of the state is asserted, negotiated and contested across both the Middle East and South Asia.

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• 07 déc 2013

  Paris

  Study days - History

  Socio-political uses of the category of genocide

  La catégorie de génocide est une notion juridique et scientifique qui fait l’objet de nombreux débats et polémiques dans le monde contemporain. Forgé par le juriste Raphaël Lemkin en 1944, ce terme est aujourd’hui devenu très fréquent, au point que son usage est au cœur de discussions et de conflits, aussi bien dans l’espace public (tel événement du passé peut-il être qualifié de génocide ?), que dans l’espace savant de l’écriture de l’histoire. Utilisé à l’origine pour désigner le crime perpétré par les nazis à l’égard des juifs et des tsiganes, il est devenu central dans la dénomination d’événements historiques auparavant appelés « massacres », et dans l’acquisition d’une stature internationale pour ces événements. Un certain nombre de termes dérivés sont même apparus, comme ethnocide, ou génocide culturel, manifestant de nombreuses projections émotionnelles et morales collectives. Face à la multiplication des discours convoquant cette catégorie, on peut distinguer la question de la qualification génocidaire au niveau scientifique et juridique, de celle de ses usages dans l’espace social. 

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• 01 déc 2013

  New York

  Call for papers - History

  Questioning Spaces of Citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean

  Latin American History Graduate Student Conference

  Scholars often invoke citizenship as an analytic frame to understand the history of Latin America and the Caribbean. While the concept can encompass a broad range of topics, this conference will focus on the spaces where individuals and groups come into contact with the institutions and symbols of the state. These spaces may be physical places, institutional settings, discursive realms, or other fora. In this graduate student conference, we will ask how such spaces of citizenship are constructed, delimited, and at times rejected, and how the terms of interaction and negotiation in these spaces are defined and re-defined.

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• 01 mai 2013

  Brussels

  Call for papers - History

  Policing Empires. Social Control, Political Transition, (Post-)Colonial Legacies

  Call for Papers International Conference

  The 2-day International Conference "Policing Empires: Social Control, Political Transition, (Post-)Colonial Legacies", to be held in Brussels in December 2013, will be the last in a series of events convened by the GERN Working Group on (Post-)Colonial Policing. Building on previous explorations of policing, surveillance and security experiences in colonial contexts, the aim of this final conference is to promote a multi-sited and comparative approach to colonial policing practices and their legacies in the postcolonial world.

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• 21 jui 2012

  22 jui 2012

  Coimbra

  Lecture series - Political studies

  Processos de memória política: Roménia e Portugal em diálogo

  Os regimes ditatoriais aprisionam, raptam, espiam, torturam e matam. Os crimes praticados pelos regimes totalitários são dos mais diversos; das formas leves de coerção - restrições à liberdade de movimento e expressão, expropriação, negação de serviços públicos - até genocídio. Tais abusos dão origem ao ódio moral, ao ressentimento e à indignação para com os agressores, e destes em relação aos testemunhos e às vítimas. Uma vez os regimes autoritários chegados ao fim, as instituições são confrontadas com o legado duma história recente de medo e opressão e com uma série de perguntas cruciais. Este passado deveria receber uma voz ou deveria ser silenciado? A raiva das vítimas deveria ser contada ou suprimida? As contas com o passado devem permanecer fechadas para manter a paz ou devem ser acertadas para fazer justiça?

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• 30 jan 2011

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  The Shapes of Waiting

  Les formes de l'attente

  Appel à contributions consacrées à « l'attente ». On passe sa vie à attendre. Rien de moins neutre en vérité que les périodes d’attente, ces intervalles étranges apparemment sans histoire. Qu’est-ce qui se joue dans ces stases où le temps est comme suspendu ?Quelles sont les formes historiques de l’attente ? Quelles en sont les formes non-occidentales ? Comment penser l’attente au sein d’autres systèmes temporels, moins « progressistes » que le nôtre ? Existe-t-il des sociétés sans attente ? Quelles autres conceptions de l’attente, peut-être plus positives, nous permettent-elles d’entrevoir ?Quels sont les lieux, les formes et les espaces de, l’attente ayant récemment émergés ? Textes finaux attendus pour fin janvier 2011.

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