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• 30 sep 2018

  Guelph

  Call for papers - History

  Prisons, Prisoners and Prison Records in Historical Perspective

  The rise of the prison as an institution of mass incarceration for offenders has for long fascinated researchers. In part, this is due to the unusually detailed nature of most prison records. The wide availability of somewhat similar sources across diverse European and European-derived societies provides criminologists, social and economic historians, demographers and other social scientists with rich collections of personal information that have been analysed intensively since the 1970s. The increasing power of software and hardware and the accumulation of very large quantities of prison data, some of it linked to other sources, offers challenges and opportunities for researchers today. The workshop responds to the challenge of harnessing criminal justice records by bringing together scholars in different disciplines and countries to share information about their sources, methodologies of classification and analysis, and to reconceptualize research paradigms.

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• 15 sep 2017

  Marseille

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Family Migrations and Uses of Law

  Actors, Norms and Regulation within International Families' Movement

  In the last decades, international migrations have significantly influenced family structures. Individuals migrate to rejoin their spouse or family; some have to juggle between the law of their country of origin and of their country of residence to divorce; others give birth to a child in a country where they have no right to reside. Minors are adopted or legally taken, others are conceived abroad (surrogacy mothers, medically-assisted procreaction), some are forced or invited to leave their country. This symposium aims at filling existing gaps in this highly topical field of research, regularly approached either by a disciplinary entry, or by employing the regulating action of law. On the contrary, this symposium investigates several other perspectives assumed by the law and the plurality of actors concerned by it.

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• 01 sep 2017

  Call for papers - History

  The Jewish family in Europe and the Mediterranean from the Middle Ages to our days

  The history of the family is at the center of a considerable historiographical renewal that has marked Jewish studies during the last decades. The medievalists were the first to widely study small groups and Jewish family networks in order to better understand the settlement and diffusion of the Jewish population in a territory or their relations with the majoritarian society. Being particularly heterogeneous, the Jewish diaspora is traditionally divided into several groups and factions dependent on ritual practices, geographic provenances and affiliations or legal traditions, more or less influenced by the local contexts the different Jewish populations were settled in.

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• 19 déc 2016

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Body, gender and vulnerability - women and domestic violence

  Les femmes et les violences conjugales

  Ce colloque vise à explorer les déterminants inédits à l’œuvre dans les violences conjugales, violences concernant tous partenaires intimes, passés ou présents, mariés ou non, vivant ou non ensemble. Pluridisciplinaire et international, il vise à présenter un ensemble de démarches originales, par l’utilisation d’outils d’analyse spécifiques, dans la perspective de mettre au jour des éléments jusque-là occultés, et d’interroger nos présupposés habituels concernant les violences conjugales.

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• 05 déc 2013

  06 déc 2013

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  De Gaulle, the Gaullists and family policies (1944-1969)

  Les trois décennies qui suivent la seconde guerre mondiale constituent une période clé de réflexion et de réalisations dans le domaine de la politique familiale en France. Au sortir de la guerre et après le rétablissement de la légalité républicaine, le gouvernement de la Libération est confronté à la nécessaire redéfinition d’une politique familiale différenciée des mesures prises par le régime vichyste. Sur le plan social et démographique, le baby boom et l’évolution contemporaine des flux migratoires modifient en profondeur les formes et les représentations de la famille. Lorsqu’il évoque en mars 1945 devant l’assemblée consultative les « douze millions de beaux bébés qu’il faut à la France en dix ans », le général de Gaulle annonce l’ambition d’une politique ouvertement nataliste. La décennie 1960 voit pourtant de multiples inflexions apportées à ce natalisme triomphant, signe de la complexité, de l’adaptabilité et donc de la richesse de la pensée gaullienne (et au-delà gaulliste) sur la politique de la famille.

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