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• 23 déc 2019

  Paris

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Desired Identities

  New technology-based metamorphosis in Japan

  In Japan, the kyara-ka phenomenon, ‘transforming into a character’ (Aihara Hiroyuki, 2007) is now giving birth to what Nozawa Shunsuke (2013) calls ‘an emerging art of self–fashioning.’ Based on elaborate disguise techniques, the kyara-ka phenomenon covers a variety of communication strategies and practices: cosplay, kigurumi, Vtubing, utaloid voice banks, use of voice-image filters to upload videos where humans look like characters… Exploring all the aspects of this ‘thingification of humans’, the conference will reflect on how and why a growing number of people market themselves as characters. The conference goal is to address the complexity of issues raised by these voluntary and, perhaps, ironical acts of obliteration. What is the profile of men and women who transform themselves into computer-graphic creatures? How do they deal with being loved only through their digital alter-ego? What little or grand narratives are being produced alongside? Can we still deal with the phenomenon in terms of authenticity (original) versus artificiality (copy)? What negotiations or refusals underly the use of characters as social masks?

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• 31 mai 2018

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  The genetics of literature, theatre and translation

  Carnets, the French Studies e-journal, 2nd series, no. 14 (November 2018)

  Nous invitons les contributeurs de ce numéro de Carnets, revue électronique d'études françaises à revisiter, à la lumière de la critique génétique, la littérature et le théâtre français et/ou francophone, ainsi que la pratique de la traduction de ces textes, afin d’ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives de réflexion épistémologique et méthodologique selon les trois axes définis.

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• 11 mar 2016

  Heraklion

  Call for papers - Europe

  Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage

  SW4SH 2016: Second International Workshop

  Classicists and historians are interested in developing textual databases, in order to gather and explore large amounts of primary source materials. For a long time, they mainly focused on text digitization and markup. They only recently decided to try to explore the possibility of transferring some analytical processes they previously thought incompatible with automation to knowledge engineering systems, thus taking advantage of the growing set of tools and techniques based on the languages and standards of the semantic Web, such as linked data, ontologies, and automated reasoning. SW4SH 2016 aims to provide a leading international and interdisciplinary forum for disseminating the latest research in the field of Semantic Web for the preservation and exploitation of our scientific heritage, the study of the history of ideas and their transmission.

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• 15 avr 2016

  Paris

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Africa

  The Ovahimba years, contemporary multimedia ethnography

  Call for researchers at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (2016-2017)

  Ethnographe, cinéaste et photographe, élève de Jean Rouch, Rina Sherman a vécu entre 1997 et 2004 au sein d’une communauté ovahimba d’Afrique australe (Namibie et Angola). Lors de son séjour, elle a filmé, photographié et écrit sur la vie quotidienne et rituelle des Ovahimba et d’autres communautés dites de langue otjiherero. De cette étude, elle a rapporté des centaines d’heures de vidéo et de sons et des milliers de photographies, ainsi que des notes et des dessins, qu’elle a donnés à la BnF en 2014.

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• 08 oct 2014

  Nîmes

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  Design and the imagination

  Colloque international, public et gratuit

  L'université de Nîmes et l'université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 organisent à Nîmes le 8 octobre 2014 un colloque international, public et gratuit, sous la direction de Stéphane Vial et Fabio La Rocca, sur le thème « Design et imaginaire ». Ouvert sur la ville, le colloque se tiendra dans les locaux de Carré d'Art en partenariat avec Carré d'Art Bibliothèques. Au programme : 3 tables rondes, 14 conférenciers, 10 posters de recherche, 4 projets de design, 1 expo photo. Invités d'honneur : Michel Maffesoli, de l'Institut Universitaire de France ; Armand Hatchuel, des Mines ParisTech ; Stéphane Hugon, du CEAQ-Sorbonne et d'Eranos ; Nicolas Nova, de la Haute École d'Art et de Design de Genève.

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