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• 25 nov 2019

  Aubervilliers

  Study days - Geography

  Internet, Digital Data, Power and Rivalries in the Post-Soviet Area

  For more than a decade, Internet and digital networks have played a central part in most of the contemporary conflicts. Whether it deals with their storage, circulation, production or their manipulation (both literally and figuratively), digital data are being mobilized in a wide array of geopolitical crises and rivalries. Moreover, more numerous and diverse strategies are being developed to control these data as the ongoing datafication of society widens its reach into new areas of human activity. Computer piracy, the destruction of infrastructures and the manipulation of information have become tools in the hands of a growing number of actors willing to confirm or reverse a given geopolitical power relationship. The post-Soviet area constitutes a fertile ground for the deployment of such tactics and strategies of control. Disrupting the circulation networks, or the treatment and storage infrastructures of digital data, has progressively become a full-fledged strategy in the conflicts and rivalries that permeate this post-imperial space. As such, the struggle between several “imagined communities” (Anderson), grounded on diverging representations of memory, identity, and language, constitutes a powerful catalyzer of digital conflictuality.

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• 14 nov 2018

  15 nov 2018

  16 nov 2018

  Reims

  Study days - Modern

  Secessions -

  The will for independence and its expression across territories

  Le thème de l’édition 2018 des journées géopolitiques de Reims (JGR), les « Sécessions », s’inscrit dans l’actualité. Le référendum écossais en 2014 et la situation en Catalogne fin 2017 soulignent l’importance du sujet dans l’Europe contemporaine (mais aussi en France où la nouvelle Calédonie votera une dizaine de jours avant la tenu de ces JGR). Hors d’Europe, la question des sécessions est sensible au Kurdistan (référendum de septembre 2017), sur l’île de Bougainville, à Mindanao, etc. Ainsi, la volonté d’indépendance s’exprime dans de nombreux territoires. Les intervenants souligneront ce paradoxe dans un contexte de mondialisation.

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• 15 jan 2015

  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.

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• 01 fév 2013

  Saint-Étienne

  Miscellaneous information - Geography

  Borders and border spaces: a subject for geographical and geopolitcal study

  Portant sur le programme au concours d'entrée de l'ENS-Lyon de 2013 (« Frontières et espaces frontaliers »), cette journée d'études interrogera des frontières interétatiques (notamment au prisme des exemples balkaniques et israélo-palestinien), entre construction, reconstruction, revendication, contestation. Elle abordera également la question de la représentation des frontières et espaces frontaliers à travers l'art et la cartographie (elle est également en lien avec la question « Représenter l'espace » au concours de l'agrégation de géographie).

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• 30 mar 2013

  Frankfurt (Oder) | Słubice

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Phantom Borders in the Political Behaviour and Electoral Geography in East Central Europe

  We understand phantom borders as political borders, which politically/legally do not exist anymore but seem to appear in different forms and modes of social action and practices today, as for example voting as one part of political behaviour. The conference deals with historical borders, made visible in discourses and maps concerning political behavior, as for instance in electoral maps. Our aim is to challenge the historical interrelation of current political behaviour, the involvement of geopolitical images, internal as external governance contexts and transnational networks for (re)constructing historical borders as phantom borders. We are interested in case studies especially about East Central Europe, but also in studies from all over the world combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, addressing the main questions of the conference. Case studies may address different levels and scales from local to transnational.

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• 20 jui 2010

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  To be or not to be Balkanic: the Historical Peripeteia of a Cultural Zone

  Civilisations 60 (2)

  Dans ce numéro, nous voudrions regrouper différentes recherches qui contribuent à présenter une argumentation précise, à partir d'études de terrains qui s'articulent autour de cette interrogation sur l'existence et la persistance d'une unité « balkanique », au-delà de sa diversité et des récentes influences subies.

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