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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.

Champs-sur-Marne

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Urban studies

The city in climate fiction - thesis

Le programme PARVIS « Paroles de villes », consacré à l'étude de la ville future, recrute un·e doctorant·e sur le thème de la ville dans la climate fiction.

Tours

Conference, symposium - Geography

"Beyond waste". Literature and the social sciences in dialogue

Si la question des déchets a longtemps été marquée par une forme d’invisibilité, elle est néanmoins de plus en plus présente dans le discours public et indissociablement liée à la prise de conscience accrue d’une crise environnementale majeure. Dans le champ académique, depuis une dizaine d’années, émerge ainsi un « nouveau sous-champ des sciences sociales », les discard studies. L’anthropologue Gay Hawkins (2006) assigne cette évolution à la « force matérielle [des déchets], à la réalité troublante de leur accumulation autour du globe ». L’objet du présent colloque est de réfléchir à la manière dont la littérature témoigne de cette « force matérielle » et à l’éclairage spécifique qu’elle apporte sur les déchets, conçus non exclusivement comme un problème qu’il faudrait résoudre, mais également comme le symptôme d’un état économique et politique du monde capitaliste.

Vienna

Call for papers - Modern

Border Textures: Interwoven Practices and Discursive Fabrics of Borders

2nd World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies - Panel

In view of the current political developments in Europe, the scientific study of borders has increasingly gained importance. Cultural Studies has reacted to these developments by generating complex and more and more detailed theories and tools for describing and analyzing border phenomena. Cultural border studies champion approaches which do not examine spatial, material, temporal or cultural aspects in isolation but investigate their intersectional and performative interactions. This panel provides a space for explorative investigation of potential approaches for cultural border studies, focusing on interactions between material and immaterial manifestations of the border.

Vienna

Call for papers - Geography

What is Border Studies?

2nd World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies - Panel

The societal events of the last decade have challenged Border Studies more than ever before. This can be seen not only in the field’s growing institutionalisation but also in its developments in research: these include the relativization of geopolitical perspectives by cultural studies approaches, the spatialisation of the border concept (e.g. zone, third space, exter/internalisation etc.), the decentralisation of the border in favour of processes (e.g. b/ordering, othering etc.), the pluralisation of the border concept (e.g. walls, differences, (dis)continuities, demarcations) or the complexification of the border (e.g. scapes, textures). The panel is treating these developments and other turns as an opportunity for a long-overdue self-examination, which in the light of the resurgence of borders seems necessary from both a societal and scientific perspective.

Mont-Saint-Aignan

Madrid, traces and traced (1950-2000)

La ville, lieu « où se trame l'existence humaine » comme le formule Lewis Mumford offre un carde de réflexion applicable aux villes modernes. Le choix de Madrid est un choix comme un autre, nul besoin de l'expliquer sinon que rien ne disposait cette bourgade médiévale à devenir capitale, encore moins métropole. Les approches seront croisées, sociologiques, urbanistiques, littéraires, linguistiques et historiques.

Istanbul

Call for papers - Modern

The making of cultural policies

Trans-Acting Matters: Areas and Eras of a (Post-)Ottoman Globalization

This workshop takes place in the framework of the research project “Trans-Acting Matters: Areas and Eras of a (Post-)Ottoman Globalization”. It aims to analyse the making of cultural policies and actions in Turkey and the post-ottoman spaces. We wish to question the ways in which the circulations participate in the construction of cultural policies today as well as to rethink the earlier cultural policies and actions from the late Ottoman Empire onwards. The workshop attempts to question the co-production of cultural policies, of their spaces and territories, as well as the plurality of the conceptions of culture carried by cultural policies. The workshop will focus on the phenomena of hybridity, of connections, and associations of various actors which co-produce original forms of cultural policies.

London

Call for papers - Science studies

Ideas in movement: the role of conflict and commerce in the history of navigation

Following successful meetings in 2010 and 2012, Royal Museums Greenwich and the Royal Institute of Navigation are planning a third symposium to bring together current research in the history of navigation. 2014 sees the centenary of the beginning of the First World War. While this conflict provided a powerful stimulus for research and development in navigation, technological developments have also sprung from users and from commercial imperatives.

Call for papers - History

Encountering the Other in wartime: The Great War as an intercultural moment?

After very successful conferences in Lyon, Oxford, Dublin, Washington D.C., London, and Innsbruck, the International Society for First World War Studies is pleased to organise its seventh conference in Paris on 26-27 September 2013. The German Historical Institute in Paris, The University of Birmingham (UK), and the Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration are supporting this event.

Birmingham

Call for papers - Political studies

Rights and Representations

Foreign Language Film Conference V

Submissions are invited for the fifth Foreign Language Film Conference, on the theme of Rights and Representations. In this historic setting of the American South, and in conjunction with Birmingham's 50th anniversary remembrance of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, FLFC celebrates civil and human rights. Scholars will consider the question of civil rights in international cinematic traditions. How does film as an art and a genre represent civil rights, and human rights? What are the places of rebellion, terrorism, or non-violent resistance in forging individual freedoms, and how is this reflected in national cinematic traditions? How do international films address issues of discrimination, violence, repression, the struggle for social equality ? On the pedagogical side of the question, how do films about civil rights teach their viewers about international cultural and political traditions and movements ? How are these films incorporated into classroom discussions of global civil rights ?

Montreal

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Les objets de l'exil

Huitième colloque de Poexil

Le groupe « Poexil » sollicite des propositions de communications pour son huitième colloque annuel qui se tiendra à Montréal (Canada) les 20, 21 et 22 novembre 2008, sur le thème : « Les objets de l'exil ». L’expérience exilique connaît ses stratégies de réconfort ou de protection et parmi elles, le choix de garder un objet provenant du pays quitté et de l’investir de toute la charge nostalgique dont le sujet se soulage ainsi quelque peu. Le présent colloque entend interroger les processus par lesquels de tels objets qui sont exilés de leur cadre d’origine en viennent à incarner l’expérience même de l’exil. La sémiotique et l’herméneutique qui président à leur nouveau statut pourront être librement abordées par le biais de différentes perspectives disciplinaires. Vos propositions compteront entre 150 et 300 mots et devront être envoyées, avant le 25 mai 2008, à l’adresse suivante : colloquepoexil@yahoo.ca .

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