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Investigating parental motivation for alternative education

What are parents’ motives to educate without school ? Among the most spontaneously questions addressed to homeschooling, this question has been one of the most researched by scholars, particularly in the United States. Thinking in terms of parental “choice”, “reasons”, “motivations” or “decisions” electing alternative education leads however to conceptual and empirical challenges. To discuss these theoretical and methodological issues of the scientific study of “parental alternative choices”, the workshop gathers researchers whose investigations, about parents who home educate and/or parents who school their children in alternative schools, use diverse concepts or techniques.

Paris

Call for papers - History

Rethinking the History of the Rust Belt since 1945

This region, stretching from western New York to eastern Iowa, was until the middle of the 20th century the country's manufacturing and industrial heartland. From the Great Migrations that radically transformed its demographics to the weakening of its economic model, as well as the massive struggles waged by local workers and protagonists of the Civil Rights movement, the political and social history of the Rust Bel. By bringing into dialogue the ongoing or recently completed research of doctoral students and junior academics with a view to opening up new perspectives on the history of the Rust Belt, from a range of disciplines (history, sociology, political science, geography), we intend to highlight spaces and actors too often relegated to the margins of this region’s history, despite their having decisively contributed to shaping the contemporary Rust Belt

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17 nov 2017

Paris

Conference, symposium - Urban studies

The Black Metropolis, between past and future

Race, urban planning and African-American culture in Chicago

The colloquium will celebrate the centenary of the “Great Migration” and explore the social and cultural life of Chicago South Side and West Side from the end of the Thirties, which were marked by the cultural zenith of Bronzeville neighborhood and a series of measures for the Black community inspired by the New Deal, to the present, which is characterized by numerous private and public initiatives in favor of an urban renewal. This international and multidisciplinary colloquium seeks to reevaluate the contribution of the South Side and the West Side to the definition and evolution of the African-American identity from the beginning of the XX^th Century until the contemporary moment.

Paris

The Visual History Archive, Research Experience

Founded by the film director Steven Spielberg in 1994, the Visual History Archive is a collection of testimonies recorded in order to preserve the words, faces, gestures and histories of genocide survivors. Digitized and indexed to the minute (with more than 62 000 keywords), the Visual History Archive is now reachable in full access in 66 universities and libraries in 14 countries. In France, it is fully accessible at the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention of the American University of Paris and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon. Now more than ever, scholars can search the Visual History Archive for research on the Second World War or on the other crimes of mass violence which have been more recently appended to the collection. The aim of this journée d’étude is to gather scholars from different disciplines who have carried out research on or with the Visual History Archive. Participants will have the opportunity to share their research results and experiences.

Paris

Conference, symposium - Epistemology and methodology

Second European Pragmatism Conference

The conference aims to advance our understanding of the relevance of pragmatism to contemporary debates in philosophy, the humanities, the social and the natural sciences as well as in communities of practice. Pragmatism is here broadly considered as a tradition of thought stemming from philosophy but now clearly present in a number of academic fields such as sociology, law, politics, art, physics, mathematics, anthropology, history, and literature.

Carouge

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Economy

Assistant HES (Doctoral student) at Geneva School of Business Administration

The Geneva School of Business Administration (HEG-Geneva) offers a Research Assistant (Doctoral student) position for three years starting from 1^st September 2013.The doctoral student will participate to the project « Organizing, Communicating, and Costing in Risk Governance: Learning Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic », financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He or she will be in charge of the research components dedicated to costing around H1N1. This comparative study will involve qualitative fieldwork in three countries, namely Switzerland, the United States and Japan. He or she will collaborate with a post-doctoral fellow focusing on issues related to organization and communication. He or she will have to write a PhD thesis on H1N1 costing issues and will be supervised by Prof. Nathalie Brender. The project is funded for three years.

Geneva

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

A three year post-doc position in the Department of Sociology, University of Geneva (80%)

Le/la post-doc que nous recrutons sur un poste à 80% participera durant 3 ans au projet financé par le fonds national Suisse de la recherche scientifique (dirigé par la prof. Mathilde Bourrier): « Organizing, Communicating, and Costing in Risk Governance: Learning Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic ». Il/Elle travaillera plus particulièrement sur les deux composantes du projet portant sur les facteurs organisationnels et communicationnels de la gestion de la pandémie, en Suisse, aux États-Unis et au Japon. La personne recherchée a obtenu son doctorat en sociologie ou en anthropologie depuis moins de 3 ans, d'excellentes capacités à mener des terrains de recherche dans plusieurs pays, et d'un intérêt marqué pour les questions de santé globale (global health).

Paris

Study days - Sociology

Migration experiences and narrativity

La journée d'étude « Expériences migratoires et narrativité » entend examiner tant le travail de fragmentation/défragmentation des personnes elles-mêmes, que le type expériences, fictives ou non, que performent les romans, les textes savants ou les films auxquels on peut prêter le souci de résister à l'hypothèse de continuité de l’expérience.

Metz

Hollywood blockbusters, local movie markets, and territorial governance : economic and institutional stakes

A l’heure où les studios américains Raleigh investissent la région toulousaine pour y construire les plus grands plateaux de tournage d’Europe, où la (re)localisations des tournages de films devient un enjeu majeur des politiques nationales de soutien aux industries cinématographiques en Europe tout autant que des stratégies des états américains, où les « film funds » des régions européennes s’organisent en réseau pour donner une nouvelle impulsion aux critères de sélection des films articulés désormais entre qualité artistique, dynamiques territoriales et attractivité touristique, nous avons voulu interroger ces nouvelles mutations de l’économie du cinéma qui font éclater les frontières entre global et local, entre qualité artistique et aventures commerciales.

Geneva

Call for papers - Information

Celebrity news, an oxymoron?

In recent years, celebrity news has spread throughout Western media, and particularly in media aimed at the general public. The aim of the Conference is to study and discuss the spreading of celebrity news across the media and to consider the various issues at stake.

Paris

Call for papers - Sociology

Réseau social : mode universalisant ou localement ancré de l’action collective

Approche comparative depuis l'Amérique latine

Ce colloque, qui s’inscrit dans la continuité d’une réflexion sur les usages de la notion de réseau dans les sciences sociales, a pour objectif de sonder la fécondité spécifique et les limites de la notion de réseau, dans le domaine de l’action collective. L’idée phare est que la comparaison entre diverses sphères sociales (migration, illégalité, expertise, militantisme et religion) peut être très féconde pour cerner les apports analytique de cette notion, comme les dangers de ses usages trop relâchés. Cette comparaison rarement menée devrait ainsi permettre de mettre en valeur certaines convergences de l’action collective contemporaine et d’éclairer une approche des réseaux sociaux qui ne soit ni celle des études quantitatives et formelles, ni celle de la célébration de technologies sociales « neutres » socialement.

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

Chaire Tocqueville / Fulbright

Le Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale, de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche, le Département d’État américain et la Commission franco-américaine d’échanges Universitaires et Culturels (programme Fulbright) ont le plaisir de vous annoncer la création de la Chaire Tocqueville / Fulbright destinée à accueillir une personnalité de premier plan du monde académique américain dans un établissement universitaire ou de recherche français à partir du deuxième semestre de l’année universitaire 2005-2006.

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