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• 30 avr 2018

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Negotiating welcomes

  Migrants, refugees and host societies, in the modern and contemporary periods

  Qui peut-on accueillir et qui peut-on légitimement repousser ? Cette polémique a fait rage durant la « crise des migrants » telle que l’ont relayée bien des médias et des discours publics, en France comme en Allemagne et plus largement à travers toute l’Europe. Plusieurs logiques s’opposent en la matière : le devoir d’accueillir et de secourir les individus / groupes / peuples en détresse contre l’argument malthusien, largement répandu et souvent accepté, postulant que les ressources d’un territoire sont par nature limitées et que, mécaniquement, l’on ne saurait accueillir de façon trop ouverte sans mettre en danger les populations en place, celles données pour « originaires du pays ». S’y ajouterait l’idée que « l’identité » de la « nation » / du « peuple » / des « autochtones » serait menacée si les nouveaux venus sont trop nombreux et/ou trop « éloignés » ou trop « différents ». L’afflux d’individus porteurs de pratiques exogènes finirait par générer des formes de groupes institutionnellement et/ou culturellement encapsulés dans la société d’accueil.

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• 15 mai 2016

  Valenciennes | Kortrijk

  Call for papers - History

  To reconcile and to reincorporate

  Discourse, ceremonies and practices in and beyond the Iberic Monarchies

  In recent years historiography has been slowly acknowledging the potential of civil societies to restore concord after profound divisions. It also has uncovered the pacification strategies of authorities to reconcile and reincorporate individuals and social groups after periods of contestation and revolt. These complex processes are crucial to better understand the history of the Iberic monarchies, which have been able to develop a long-term government despite many crises of different origin and outlook. Hence, this conference will be focused on the themes of reconciliation and reincorporation from following four perspectives: Words, discourses and emotions (semantics and sentiments), Negotiating reconciliation (promotors and strategies), Making reconciliation work (agents and mediators, processes and forms), In the margin of reconciliations (the undecided and excluded)

   

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• 07 avr 2014

  Leuven

  Call for papers - Europe

  Entangled Transitions

  Between Eastern and Southern Europe 1960s-2014

  In under two decades, authoritarian political systems collapsed across Europe – in the south of the continent in the 1970s, and then in the east between 1989 and 1991. Although much work has been done on these processes in each region, and comparative work carried out on post-authoritarian transitions and memories, there has yet to be any sustained scholarship that examines the ‘entangledness’ of these processes in the context of broader European and global processes of the late Cold War and its aftermath. Taking a longue durée approach, this conference will explore these inter-relationships between the 1960s and the present day. 2014 marks the 25^th anniversary of the fall of state socialism and the 40^th anniversary of the beginning of the transition from dictatorship on the Iberian Peninsula and in Greece: an ideal time to consider the relationship between these processes that have been central to modern European history.

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