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Call for papers - Sociology

The Social Museum (musée de société) Today, Legacy and Evolution

Since the end of the 1980s, many ethnographic museums around the world have evolved in line with political issues and current social and cultural preoccupations. Some of these changes have taken place within the framework of the creation of new national museums, especially where multicultural policies are at work. While these institutions’ missions are vastly different, they are frequently regrouped under the umbrella term “social museums”. These museums are dedicated to the representation of societies, both past and present, from varying viewpoints while at the same time demanding a social and civic role through their grappling with contemporary issues of identity, culture, society and environment. This issue of Culture & Musées aims to reformulate this concept in order to better understand its meaning, its uses, but also its most recent evolution within the context of 21^st-century museums.

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Paris

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation

"All Alone" in East-Central Europe: Reinventing the Orphan from the Fascist to the Socialist Era

International PhD Contract 2020-2023

Full-time, 36-month-long international PhD contract at Sorbonne University (PhD program IV) within the research centre Eur'ORBEM and in partnership with the French Research Centre in Social Sciences (CEFRES) in Prague, from 1 October 2020, under the supervision of Clara Royer. The PhD thesis may be written in French or in English. PhD propositions should focus on the discourses and practices surrounding the orphan condition in literature and/or visual arts (cinema, photography, graphic arts and so forth) in the wake of the violence and demographic upheavals that characterized 20^th century East-Central Europe. Because of its interdisciplinary scope, applicants with a background in social history, literary studies and/or visual arts specialized in one or several countries of East-Central Europe may apply.

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Call for papers - Sociology

Economy and culture in Amazigh milieus

La revue Asinag ⴰⵙⵉⵏⴰⴳ reçoit les propositions d'articles sur le thème « Économie et culture en milieux amazighes ». La réflexion autour des modes de vie des Amazighes a donné lieu à un ensemble de travaux portant sur l’économie de ces communautés. La plupart ont signalé l’importance stratégique du contrôle et de la régulation de ressources, notamment l’eau et la terre. La transformation, tout au long du XX^e siècle, du régime de la propriété des ressources et sa réglementation par l’État-Nation, sans oublier les expériences de socialisation et/ou de privatisation des terres selon les pays d’Afrique du Nord, a bouleversé les pratiques des communautés amazighes en matière de gestion des ressources. L’objectif de ce dossier est d’approfondir la réflexion sur ces activités économiques dans les différents milieux amazighes afin de couvrir certains domaines qui n’ont pas été suffisamment explorés. Il s’agit donc de s’intéresser à la fois aux activités monétaires tels que le crédit ou encore l’évolution des prix ou des revenus, de production industrielle ou artisanale.

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Porto

Call for papers - Sociology

Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! DIY Cultures and Global Challenges

KISMIF Conference 2020

We are pleased to announce the fifth KISMIF International Conference ‘Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! DIY Cultures and Global Challenges’ (KISMIF Conference 2020) which will take place in Porto, Portugal, between 8 July and 11 July 2020. The submission of abstracts for this conference is open to academic researchers working in all areas of sociology, anthropology, history, cultural economics, cultural studies, geography, philosophy, urban planning, media, and cognate disciplines, such as design, illustration, popular music, cinema, visual and performing arts. This initiative follows the great success of the past four KISMIF Conferences (held in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018) and brings together an international community of researchers focusing on underground music scenes and do-it-yourself cultures.

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Marseille

Study days - Representation

The punk scene in Marseille

Dès 1976, le punk est en France un phénomène total. La montée de sève qui propulse sur scène des groupes à peine formés et déjà célèbres à l’échelle de leur quartier, de leur ville ou de leur région montre combien le mouvement ne se limite pas à un phénomène parisien, même si la capitale constitue un centre de gravité qui attire ou au contraire suscite méfiance et défiance. Marseille s’ouvre au punk dès 1978. Par le dynamisme de ses quartiers populaires (La Plaine et les quartiers Nord), l’importance de la vie associative – de Monkey Production à Runaway Movement – et des groupes historiques comme Nitrate ou Cops and Robbers, l’importance de la scène punk à Marseille s’impose. À partir des années 1980, on assiste à la montée en puissance de cette identité musicale qui inscrit la contribution marseillaise au punk en dialogue avec les expressions musicales punk tant nationales qu’anglo-saxonnes mais aussi plus diverses (de la chanson au rock) bien ancrées au niveau régional.

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Huddersfield

Study days - History

Music and Political Democratisation in Late Twentieth Century

This event aims to innovatively question how musical practices formed ways of imagining democracy in the democratic transitions that took place after Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ in 1974 – what Huntington (1991) called the ‘third wave’ of democratisation, which involves more than 60 countries throughout Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Rather than studying music’s diverse deployments within these political contexts (music ‘in’ transitions to democracy), these study days place the emphasis upon ways in which music embodies democratisation processes and participates in the wider social struggle to define freedom and equality for the post-authoritarian era (hence the ‘and’ in the title of the event).

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Huddersfield

Call for papers - History

Arts and Models of Democracy in post-authoritarian Iberian Peninsula

This two-day conference aims to innovatively question how artistic practices and institutions formed ways of imagining democracy and by what means arts and culture participate in the wider social struggle to define freedom and equality for the post-Estado Novo and post-Francoist period: how did artistic practices instantiate ideas of democracy in this context? Inversely, how did such democratic values inform artistic practice? How did Portuguese and Spanish artists and intellectuals negotiate between creative autonomy and social responsibility? And more broadly, what is the role of culture in a democracy? The core purpose of the conference is to bring scholars together from different subject areas and exploring any artistic practice (literature, visual and plastic arts, cinema and music).

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Prague

Call for papers - History

Incorporating sexual violence into Czech WWII history and its aftermath: A Workshop

The one-day event, featuring leading experts in the field Regina Mühlhäuser and Anna Hájková, will combine an introductory lecture, two panels of talks, and close work with primary sources. We are seeking submissions for participation with abstract (up to 300 words, including discussion of sources, and a short bio, up to 100 words). We are interested in the history of Second World War defined widely, that is people working on Czech and Slovak 1930s and 1940s, ethnic minorities, Holocaust, expulsion etc. pp.

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Paris

Call for papers - Thought

The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin: Science, Fiction and Ethics for the Anthropocene

Planetary ethics and aesthetics, interspecies communities, post-gender and anarchist societies, indigenous knowledge, vegetal sentience... The paths Ursula K. Le Guin has opened for our imagination to travel are numerous, subtle itineraries through which we might find ways to better inhabit the XXI^st century. The international bilingual conference "Le Guin's Legacies" will engage with her work from a multiplicity of perspectives, tracing its literary, ecological, philosophical, socio-economical and anthropological ramifications: its potential for re-engineering the world we live in.

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Paris

Call for papers - Representation

Encounters: Arts, ecologies, transitions

The project Arts, ecologies, transitions. Building a common reference wishes to accompany certain notable developments in the field of the arts as well as theoretical discourse on art and which, rejecting the confinement of art to the realm of ‘civilizational oversupply’, are attentive to questions arising from current ecological, economic and social crises as well as the crisis of representation we also currently experiencing. As part of this project, a call for papers is hereby launched for two symposia entitled Encounters: Arts, Ecologies, Transitions. These symposia will focus on current proposals dealing with radical positionings of the artistic ‘transition’, in which the ecological shift is generating new artistic forms, practices and works.

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Call for papers - Representation

Art as stage - culture(s) and mediation, exhibition issues

Culture(s) et médiation, problématiques de l'exposition

L’exposition, si elle demeure un événement crucial en proposant un enjeu artistique, est aussi l’espace de constitution ou de perpétuation d’une scène structurant différents publics, en relation à une très grande multiplicité de lieux ou à l’émergence d’une diversité de programmations, s'inscrivant ainsi dans la logique d'un espace autre, d'un espace particulier, se définissant comme une scène de l'art. Plus que jamais elle se structure comme un lieu vivant, fait d’une multitude d’interactions, d’approches et de pratiques, auxquels participent la critique, le public et conjointement une multiplicité d'acteurs autant institutionnels que privés, transcrivant l’exposition comme un récit éminemment combinatoire et polysémique, spéculatif et conceptuel, intègrant une cartographie de gestes et d’interprétations qui font d’elle désormais un champ disciplinaire et un domaine d'étude.

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Évry

Call for papers - Modern

"From Him to Eternity"

Nick Cave's poetic and musical trajectories

Poursuivant son cycle de journée d'études sur les personnalités importantes des musiques pop et rock, l'université d'Evry-val d'Essonne organise une journée consacrée à Nick Cave. L'appel à communication s'adresse, de façon interdisciplinaire, aux chercheurs en musicologie, sociologie, histoire, esthétique, littérature, études culturelles, etc.

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Paris

Conference, symposium - Sociology

Culture, art and prison

Ce colloque « Culture, art et prison » regroupe des interventions de chercheurs, de professionnels de la culture et de la justice et d’artistes. Ces interventions se font dans la perspective de comprendre comment se construit « l’art et la culture en détention », qui se nourrit tout autant de l’intervention d’acteurs, des lieux et des espaces, des institutions et des organisations, des objets artistiques et culturels, des discours institutionnels, politiques, médiatiques, de sens commun. L’objectif est d’identifier les médiations qui font surgir l’objet et en garantissent une vie et une visibilité dans l’espace social. In fine, c’est bien le sens social et politique de l’art et de la culture en prison, la vie de cet être culturel dans l’espace public, ce qu’il nous dit de notre modernité, qui sont interrogés.

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Lausanne

Call for papers - Education

The didactics of instrumental teaching - between task and activity, an analysis of practices

Le colloque « Didactique de l’enseignement instrumental : entre tâche et activité, une analyse des pratiques » souhaite réunir des chercheuses et des chercheurs s’intéressant à rendre visible le travail du professeur de musique à travers l’analyse de pratiques d’enseignement et/ou de situations d’apprentissage. Il vise également à questionner des notions telles que tâches, activités, pratiques, gestes métier et gestes professionnels, genres et styles à travers des recherches menées dans des champs scientifiques qui croisent et dépassent le cadre des théories de l’activité et des sciences de l’éducation.

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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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Paris

Conference, symposium - Urban studies

Cosmopolitanism revisited

Comparative Perspectives on Urban Diversity from the Gulf and Beyond

This conference aims to revisit the notion of cosmopolitanism in Gulf cities and other regional areas from a comparative perspective. It will be a unique opportunity for scholars of the Gulf and other world regions to engage with cosmopolitanism or otherwise probe the intersection of global studies, urban studies and migration studies from a range of disciplines. More specifically, panels will be organized around the following research themes:“cosmopolitan canopy”, cosmopolitanism in theoretical and comparative perspectives, new geographies of cosmopolitanism in Gulf cities.

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Villeneuve-d'Ascq

Call for papers - Thought

Hospitalitie(s)

Space(s) of care, tension and presence

Above all, the call for papers emphasizes the correlation between hospitality and space. Jacques Godbout, in his article "Receiving is to give", specifies that hospitality is a "gift of space". So what are the characteristics of these given spaces? Are they permanent, temporary or transitional? Are there inherent areas of hospitality? And how are they built? From hospitals to home, what are these spaces and what is their spatial nature? And what meaning of hospitality do these spaces convey? What kind of space does hospitality produce?

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Saint-Étienne

Call for papers - Representation

Strategies and recognition techniques in the field of design and the decorative arts

Dans le domaine de la recherche, la question d’un design à la fois comme champ disciplinaire et sujet à interroger, se pose avec acuité. Malgré l’engouement dont il fait l’objet au quotidien, le design – et les domaines rattachés industrie, industrie d’art, artisanat entre autres – reste encore très largement à identifier, explorer et qualifier. La notion est encore difficile à cerner et demande toujours à être définie tant sur le plan historique, esthétique ou encore économique et sociologique. C’est le sens du colloque Stratégies et dispositifs de reconnaissance dans le champ du design et des arts décoratifs.

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Strasbourg

Study days - History

Rehabilitating transnational cultural assets in Europe - Strasbourg municipal baths (1908/10)

Perspectives for documentation and future exploitation

Les bains municipaux de Strasbourg (1908/10) sont un parimoine culturel transnational d'un genre unique au monde. Fleuron de la politique sociale très progressiste de la municipalité alsacienne au temps du Reichsland allemand, ils comprennent deux bassins, des bains-douches, des bains romains, ainsi qu'une aile médicale. Restés quasiment intacts durant leur service ininterrompu depuis plus de cent ans, ils doivent subir une rénovation importante afin de pouvoir continuer à fonctionner. Au moment où la Ville de Strasbourg discute de la meilleure façon pour préparer ce patrimoine pour l'avenir, une perspective franco-allemande a pour objectif d'esquisser des perspectives d'action sur le fonds de rénovations qui ont déjà eu lieu en Allemagne.

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Huddersfield

Call for papers - Political studies

Finding Democracy in Music

For a century and more musicians have sought to relate their practices to the values of democracy. But political theory teaches that democracy is a highly contested category. This symposium aims to interrogate claims for the “democratic” nature of music.

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