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  • Angers

    Call for papers - Modern

    Decolonization and postcolonial issues of childhood and youth (1945-1980)

    While young people played a large role in building colonial empires, they were also an essential concern in decolonization. Indeed, the emancipation process of colonized peoples in the second half of the twentieth century raised with great force the social and political issue of children and young people in the colonial and post-colonial context, both in newly-independent and ex-colonizing countries. In a complex set of political and diplomatic, economic and social, demographic and populationist, philosophical and religious questions, colonial and post-colonial issues surrounding children and young people gave rise to specific biopolitics. Children and young people were subjects of policies desired or supported by biopowers and implemented by varied protagonists such as armies, organizations, humanitarians, colonialists, activists, or regular citizens.

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  • Caen

    Conference, symposium - Representation

    Garden and melancholy

    Ce colloque éclairera sous divers angles le lien qu’entretient le jardin avec la mélancolie, afin de mieux comprendre l’intérêt constant voire croissant que lui portent artistes, médecins, pédagogues et hommes et femmes politiques et de comprendre aussi en quoi cette référence au jardin se métamorphose au fil des époques.

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  • Toronto

    Call for papers - Thought

    1st International Symposium: Hope, Betrayal and Trust

    Part of the Research Program on: Lost Virtues, Found Vices

    This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the complex and fluid relationships between hope and trust, and how might betrayal play a productive role in this bond. As concepts, ideas or simple notions, hope and trust seem to have simultaneously lost contemporary currency while being ever more necessary in our every day lives. We seem resigned to a kind of hopelessness, seem unwilling to trust others and are ready and willing to betray whomever we might need to in order to advance our own careers or personal agendas. Yet new technologies require us to place personal information online, to communicate with strangers, and to hold onto the promise of happiness. How are our maintenance of hope, our need to trust and our willingness to betray intertwined? How are these concepts evolving? 

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  • Toronto

    Call for papers - Representation

    Speed, Silence and Solitude

    Part of the Research Program on: Space, Time and New Technologies of the Self

    International Network for Alternative Academia – invites you to participate to the First International Symposium: Speed, Silence and Solitude. This trans-disciplinary project seeks to explore how new technologies are re-calibrating our notion of time, re-configuring our ideas of space and, as a result, how they are re-envisioning our understanding of the self and its relation to others.

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  • Paris

    Conference, symposium - History

    Landscapes and utopias. Subjects and worlds

    Cette rencontre entre historiens, géographes, philosophes, comparatistes, civilisationnistes est centrée sur les liens entre deux concepts, « paysage » et « utopie » , en somme sur les projections sociétales, religieuses, philosophiques entre autres, des hommes sur l’écran offert par la nature en particulier, et le cosmos en général qui devient ainsi « paysage ». Le propos sera donc d’analyser dans différentes sociétés, cultures, et à différents moments de l’Histoire, comment le paysage est devenu dans les imaginaires collectifs depuis les périodes anciennes un lieu exceptionnel porteur d’espérances - une utopia - au sens littéral. 

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  • Angers

    Conference, symposium - Representation

    Traces du végétal

    Le colloque "Traces du végétal" réunit des communications en littérature, histoire, géographie, psychologie, anthropologie, histoire de l'art, histoire des science, une exposition et un spectacle de théâtre. Il aura lieu les 13-15 juin à l'Université d'Angers.

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  • Paris

    Conference, symposium - Thought

    Y a-t-il du sacré dans la nature ?

    Protéger la nature, la valoriser, est-ce la sacraliser ? Le colloque « Y a-t-il du sacré dans la nature ? » nous invite à rouvrir la question philosophique de la nature, et à la repenser à la lumière de la crise environnementale. À travers les savoirs de l’écologie, des sciences humaines et des religions, nous voulons, plutôt que juger du contenu écologique des religions, mettre au jour la teneur religieuse de la pensée écologique, et en analyser la signification.

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