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• 15 oct 2016

  Montpellier

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Qualifying and Quantifying Parliamentary Activity: Data, Methods and Practices

  Congrès de l'Association française de science politique (AFSP) 2017 – Section thématique 38

  Parliamentary activity is far from being a neglected topic in political science: on the contrary, enough research exists to allow for the confrontation of concurrent hypotheses on the nature, the functioning and the logics of what parliamentarians do. However, our review of that research reveals that it falls short of fully taking into account the qualification and quantification of newer legislative data sources, made available to researchers through digital technology and its implementation by parliamentary services. In light of that review, this thematic panel offers to establish a general review of the ways in which political science research conceptualises both the qualification and quantification of parliamentary activity.

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• 16 jan 2013

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Africa

  Administrative and Legal Documentation in Pre-colonial Africa and Beyond

  Fifth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 5)

  Historians, anthropologists as well as specialists of various scholarly traditions are invited to reflect on the question of production, transmission and preservation of administrative and legal documentation in pre-colonial Africa. The aim of this panel is to foster dialogue between scholars working on non-narrative sources, whether land charters, weddings contracts, deeds, funerary inscriptions or other archival materials. Presentations of methodological issues rather than case-studies would facilitate a comparative approach leading to a renewed understanding of the social organizations that produced these documents.

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• 18 nov 2010	02 déc 2010	16 déc 2010
  06 jan 2011	20 jan 2011	...

  Paris

  Seminar - History

  Hierarchies, Priorities, and Conflicts of Norms in Modern Politics

  En poursuivant la réflexion sur les dynamiques de la modernité politique, le séminaire de cette année propose d’examiner les formes des hiérarchies dans ce qu’elles engagent à la fois la domination sociale et les transformations des structures monarchiques de la France d’Ancien Régime. La mobilisation de plusieurs registres normatifs, pour instituer un ordre des rangs dont les valeurs implicites renvoient aux différents instruments du pouvoir dont disposent les acteurs, provoque des tensions qui sont tout autant sources de blocage que facteurs de dynamisme. L’enjeu se situe dans le basculement dialectique entre la stabilité de l’autorité et l’évolution permanente que suppose l’avènement de la modernité. Entre théorie politique et sources du droit, entre discours justificatifs et manifestations symboliques, la question des hiérarchies, et au-delà des préséances entendues comme inscription dans l’espace d’individus qui occupent des positions de pouvoir, interroge les rapports entre la puissance publique et la patrimonialité. Organisé autour de débats entre historiens et juristes, le séminaire dialogue aussi avec d’autres disciplines.

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