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• 01 mar 2021

  Ixelles-Elsene

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Asia

  Bearing Witness to Traumatic Experiences: Cultural Productions of Uyghurs in Exile

  PhD position in Asian Studies

  This Ph.D. position is funded by a MIS (Mandat d’Impulsion Scientifique/ Incentive Grant for Scientific Research) project: “Bearing Witness to Traumatic Experiences: Cultural Productions of Uyghurs in Exile”. Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking people based at the border of Central Asia and the north-western part of China. Massive internments and arrests of hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs have taken place in the region since 2016, including the Uyghur elite. In these conditions, centers of the cultural production of the Uyghurs have shifted from their native land to the diaspora spread across the world. This project looks at Uyghur diasporic cultural production that aims at drawing the world’s attention and bearing witness to the various abuses perpetrated at home by the Chinese government. The whole project analyses selected poems, short films, video clips, and dance and music performances to tackle new transmedial forms of testimonies in the Uyghur case.

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• 31 jan 2021

  Call for papers - Africa

  Gender and semiotic categories in post-colonial Africa

  L'appel à contribution du numéro 7 de la revue ABA (lettres et sciences sociales) porte sur la question du genre en Afrique contemporaine. Il ne s'agit plus seulement de réduire la problématique du genre à la catégorisation sexuelle et à ses enjeux culturels. Ce numéro thématique voudrait explorer toutes les formes de catégorisation des productions sémiologiques et sociales en Afrique contemporaine. Il prétend observer les transformations, les transgressions ou les réinventions venues d'Afrique des systèmes d'organisation modernes des productions littéraires, artistiques, musicales; des systèmes d'organisation sociale en genres sexuels. Le genre est-il une catégorisation coloniale et eurocentrée des objets sociaux ? Quelles appropriations africaines des genres au contact du monde moderne ?

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• 31 jan 2021

  Call for papers - Representation

  Trans Identities in the French media

  Abstracts are welcome for an edited volume that will address the question of the representations of trans identities in the French media. This volume aims more specifically at observing how trans identities have been portrayed in the past decades (from the 1990s’ to the present time). Possible topics include (but are not limited to)(a) the evolution of the representation of trans identities in news coverage, (b) transgender characters in films and series, (c) pitfalls and biases regarding the way trans identities are portrayed in the French media, and/or (d) the analysis of a specific body of work.

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• 01 oct 2020

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Europe

  Intersectional Challenges in Afroeuropean Communities

  8th Biennial Afroeuropeans Network Conference

  The conference aims to consider how Afroeuropean communities are shaped by the intersections of ‘race’ and ethnicity with other markers of identification such as gender, class, sexuality, ability, age, citizenship status, language… Informed by intersectional thinking and its rejection of unidimensional perspectives in activism, policy and research, the conference explores how diverse processes of privileging and discrimination interact, making for complex and dynamic experiences of what it means to be Afroeuropean. It acknowledges that the racial and ethnic alterity of Afroeuropeans intersects with other identities (e.g. male, female, queer, working class, religious, disabled, aged…) and specifically seeks to examine to what extent these intersections create new alignments and opportunities.

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• 15 mai 2020

  Warsaw

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Decolonizing Museum Cultures and Collections: Mapping Theory and Practice in East-Central Europe

  International conference for heritage scholars and practitioners

  This conference brings together curators, artists, scholars, and other intellectuals and cultural activists working on East-Central European heritage, to reflect on how the main trends of decolonial debate are intersecting in practical and theoretical terms with the heritage sector, with a particular focus on museums in the region. The conference will place special emphasis on mapping both the range of colonial histories embedded in, as well as decolonial approaches to, museum collections and practices in East-Central Europe.

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• 05 mar 2020

  Libreville

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Knowledge, experiences and protocols in voluntary pregnancy termination in Gabon, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea

  L’objet de ce colloque vise essentiellement à connaître les savoirs, les itinéraires et les protocoles dont la finalité est l’interruption volontaire de grossesse (IVG). Cela, pour prendre en compte leurs conséquences médicales, sociales, psychologiques, économiques, politiques, juridiques et culturelles, etc. Sachant que l’interruption volontaire de grossesse ou avortement donne lieu à de nombreuses controverses quant à l’adoption de textes législatifs et/ou d’arrêts de justice, il est demandé aux participants de réfléchir sur l’impact de cette pratique et des décisions publiques prises dans les cadres législatifs, politiques et culturelles, traditionnels et modernes afin d’organiser ou d’interdire l’IVG. Il s’agira donc de se prononcer sur l’identité de cette pratique au Gabon, au Cameroun et en Guinée-Equatoriale, aux fins d’en extraire les spécificités, les caractéristiques et les conséquences fondamentales dont les États pourraient se servir dans le cadre de leur organisation.

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• 31 déc 2019

  Rennes | Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - Representation

  Female identities at work

  Studies of representations in the European space

  Cet appel à communications est dédié à deux journées d'études qui se dérouleront à l'université Rennes 2 le 5 mars 2020 et à l'université d'Aix-Marseille le 29 mai 2020. Les deux journées d’études se proposent d’explorer les représentations artistiques (littérature, théâtre, dance, cinéma, musique, arts plastiques et graphiques) qui, à partir de 1980, ont essayé de raconter le rôle des femmes au travail dans l’espace européen et combien le travail façonne la condition et l’identité des femmes.

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• 31 déc 2019

  Beirut

  Call for papers - Representation

  Narrative forms and co-production in Arab cinemas

  Norms, constraints, and margins of freedom

  Film industry in the Arab world remains generally underdeveloped. Arab countries still depend on international film support funds, mainly European. This puts Arab producers, scriptwriters and filmmakers in a subaltern position in relation to European producers and funders, whose expectations in terms of content as well as narrative and aesthetic forms end up strongly impacting the film creation process. On the other hand, margins of freedom and resistance can be created within this system. This edition of Regards aims at addressing the complex relation between Arab cinemas and international film support funds.

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• 20 nov 2019

  21 nov 2019

  22 nov 2019

  Casablanca

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  Questioning knowledge and practices - Feminist approaches and gender studies

  Dans la lignée des recherches féministes qui questionnent les théories et les pratiques universitaires mais aussi militantes, ce colloque vise à mettre en lumière des travaux récents qui contribuent aux études de genre au Maghreb et en Occident. Ces travaux interrogent les normes universitaires et cherchent à créer d’autres méthodologies et pédagogies et à mobiliser d’autres corpus. Ils réfléchissent à la création de nouveaux outils qui ne soient pas « ceux du maître » (Lorde, 1979) et qui demeurent proches des luttes sociales dont ils sont issus. Pour ce colloque, nous pensons particulièrement aux recherches qui mettent à contribution des outils, des approches et des concepts théoriques.

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• 30 oct 2019

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  John Carpenter, "the master of horror"

  Ce colloque international est consacré à l'esthétique, à la carrière et à la réception du cinéaste aura lieu les 30 et 31 octobre à l'université Paris 7, amphi Turing. L'entrée est libre dans la limite des places disponibles. En prolongement du colloque, est organisée le soir d'Halloween une projection exceptionnelle de Christine (John Carpenter, 1983) au cinéma Le Grand Action, entrée payante dans la limite des places disponibles.

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• 07 nov 2019

  08 nov 2019

  Tempe

  Conference, symposium - Early modern

  Gendered Species: Colette, Gender and Sexual Identities

  Espèces genrées : Colette, le genre et les identités sexuées

  Although French woman writer Colette was indifferent to and even critical of the feminist movement of the early 1900s, in the way she lived her life as in her fiction, she exemplified financial and social independence and shame-free sexuality, or what would be call today “gender fluidity”. This international conference will show how Colette represents a vibrant and radical expression of feminism in tune with the #MeToo spirit in today's society

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• 31 jan 2020

  Winston-Salem

  Call for papers - Modern

  “Marine Feet and Vesuvian Eyes”: The Volcanic Aesthetics of Maria Orsini Natale

  Edited Collection

  This volume intends to fill a gap in the critical reception of a remarkable Southern Italian woman writer. A journalist, a poet and a writer, Maria Orsini Natale (1928-2010) lived and worked at the foot of Vesuvius, and began writing at age 69, receiving several literary recognitions. Her novel, initially written as Ottocento Vesuviano, then entitled Francesca and Nunziata, and published for the first time in 1995, was also made into a 2001 film directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Sophia Loren and Giancarlo Giannini. The book earned her a semifinalist’s place in the Strega Prize, the most prestigious Italian literary award, and features a family from Amalfi, dedicated for generations to the white art of pasta making. More than fiction, it illustrates what in Neapolitan is called a ‘cunto’, part historical account and part allegorical tale, derived from a reservoir of collective as well as personal memories.

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• 15 oct 2019

  Paris

  Call for papers - America

  The creative power of margins: the rise of black, native, and mixed-race intellectuals in the Americas, 19th-20th centuries

  Journal IdeAs 16

  Issue 16 of IdeAs magazine. Ideas from the Americas, to be published in October 2020, will focus on “The creative power of margins: the rise of black, native, and mixed-race intellectuals in the Americas, 19th-20th centuries”. We want to focus on the Black and non-white intellectual Americas. We receive proposals for articles on all countries of the American continent, in French, English, Spanish or Portuguese. 

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• 31 oct 2019

  Salamanca

  Call for papers - America

  Estudios Brasileños journal no. 14 – Varia section

  A Revista de Estudios Brasileños é uma publicação semestral e de formato eletrônico, resultado da colaboração acadêmica entre a Universidade de Salamanca (USAL) e a Universidade de São Paulo (USP). O objetivo da revista é a publicação de estudos originais sobre todos os diversos aspectos que configuram a identidade do Brasil, com conteúdos nas áreas de Humanidades, Ciências Sociais e Jurídicas.

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• 15 sep 2019

  Pessac

  Call for papers - Representation

  Femininity and masculinity in Spanish series

  Cultural industries and assignations of gender

  La fiction sérielle en Espagne a déjà une longue histoire. Elle commence dans la deuxième moitié du XIX^e siècle avec les romans feuilletons publiés dans la presse, dont le lectorat était aussi bien masculin que féminin. Les premières fictions sérielles espagnoles datent de la fin des années 1950 et leur identité est étroitement liée à ce contexte historique. TVE, la télévision nationale franquiste, est fondée en 1956 ; elle apparaît très vite au régime comme un formidable outil de propagande. Ainsi, Jaime de Armiñan crée les séries Galería de maridos en 1959 puis, devant le succès de cette première galerie de portraits de jeunes mariés, Galería de esposas en 1960 qui met en scène des modèles féminins en accord avec une idéologie national-catholique qui promeut la domesticité (modèle de « el ángel del hogar », ou la fée du logis).

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• 25 mar 2019

  26 mar 2019

  Montreal

  Conference, symposium - America

  Islamism and violence

  Debates and issues

  The aim is to create an interdisciplinary and multitheoretical space for researchers of any academic level interested in sharing their work on any aspect ofthe links between Islamism and violence. This intellectual exploration seeks to understand better thetransmission chain(s) that link(s) (or not) the intellectual producers of Islamist ideologies and those radicalized persons who have carried out violent acts in support ofsuch ideologies.

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• 15 avr 2019

  Beirut

  Call for papers - Representation

  Narrative forms and co-production in Arab cinemas

  Norms, constraints, and margins of freedom

  Film industry in the Arab world remains generally underdeveloped. Arab countries still depend on international film support funds, mainly European. This puts Arab producers, scriptwriters and filmmakers in a subaltern position in relation to European producers and funders, whose expectations in terms of content and narrative forms end up strongly impacting the film creation process. On the other hand, margins of freedom and resistance can be created within this system. This conference aims at addressing the complex relation between Arab cinemas and international film support funds.

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• 18 mar 2019	19 mar 2019	20 mar 2019
  21 mar 2019	22 mar 2019

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Asia

  Nihon pop Sorbonne

  Japanese Pop Culture Week

  La culture populaire du Japon a pris une place singulière au sein des sociétés occidentales contemporaines. Elle se décline en divers modes d’expression (animation, manga, musique, jeu vidéo...) et constitue un prisme original sur la société. Professeurs, artistes, amateurs, acteurs influents de la pop culture japonaise vont se réunir au cours d’une semaine, du lundi 18 au vendredi 22 mars 2019.

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• 04 mar 2019

  Limoges

  Call for papers - Representation

  Migration and creation - the apartheid of the stateless arts?

  L’apartheid des arts apatrides ?

  Comment l’artiste en exil fait—il rimer migration avec création ? Qu’elle soit choisie ou subie, la migration engendre différentes émotions. Le migrant, l’exilé, peut décider de les traduire sous une forme artistique : joie, surprise, mal-être, colère. Aussi le papier, le son, la matière en général deviennent-ils une forme d’exutoire à la démarche et à la souffrance migratoire. C’est l’occasion pour le public de l’exilé d’accéder aux différents regards qu’il porte sur son pays de départ et son pays d’accueil, des visions qui modèlent l’horizon d’attente, donc la pertinence, la pérennité et l’intégration de l’œuvre dans le monde des arts. Ainsi l’exil qu’il soit vecteur de création ou qu’il la réduise à néant, donne lieu à une nouvelle forme d’art : l’art de l’exil, pour apprendre à voir et montrer l’invisible.

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• 24 fév 2019

  Nantes

  Call for papers - America

  The undisciplined discipline: the challenges of Pop Cultural Studies

  This call for paper is for a workshop which it itself included in this year's international symposium of the AFEA (Franch Association of American Studies) which will happen in Nantes, France from May 22 nd to the 24th. This year's main theme of the conference is "discipline/indiscipline." (event for which you can find more information here: http://www.afea.fr/-2019-AFEA-Conference-Discplines-Indiscipline-.html) This workshop intends to address and explore further this binary dichotomy through the prism of cultural studies, interrogating more precisely if the emergence of pop cultural studies is truly something to advocate for. Communications can tackle this issue from a more theoretical standpoint, but they can also deal with more precise case studies which would illustrate how pop culture and cultural studies are both defying disciplinary classifications. Communications can be either in French or in English.

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