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• 07 jan 2021

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  House/Keeping

  Domestic accumulation, decluttering, and the stuff of kinship in anthropological perspective

  We invite submissions of abstracts considering the following sorts of questions: What is the relationship between storage and the labor of kinship? What kinds of possessions are sources of obligation? Which are experienced as social or animate beings? What social practices and spatial processes surround waste, excess, and the riddance of objects from the home? How might local ethnographic concepts like hau orbrol inform the anthropological understanding of attachment to possessions, recycling, or the circulation of second-hand objects? When is accumulation a valued social practice, and when is it morally suspect? How is the space of storage constructed in relationship to the social space of the home, and how might this reflect on the local category of stored things? We invite authors to consider how practices such as storage, stockpiling, and purging of belongings can be approached anthropologically in order to provide both nuanced ethnographic depth and broader cross-cultural and historical perspective. Interdisciplinary perspectives are also welcome.

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• 31 oct 2020

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Thought

  Figures and Perspectives on the Mass and the Individual in Capitalist Modernity (19th-21st century)

  How is it possible to use the notion of mass without making it collapse into a complete condemnation of collective action or into an acritical celebration of the crowd? From there on, the relationship between mass and individual can be addressed in many fashions: Are there any specific ways for the mass to organize itself as a political subject? What are means whereby artworks represent and transform the linkage between  mass and individual? What are the mutations undergone by the mass qua object of the social sciences? How does capitalist modernity affect the moral and psychic autonomy of individuals?

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• 10 jan 2019

  Chamalière

  Call for papers - Education

  Teaching to non-specialists in the first two university cycles - the case of the arts

  L’extension du principe des majeures/mineures en Licence, la polyvalence et la pluridisciplinarité de nombreux Masters  interrogent les différentes approches de l’enseignement des arts à des non spécialistes. Au-delà des nécessaires retours d’expériences, le colloque cherchera à dégager des principes pour concevoir et renforcer les démarches de cet enseignement artistique destiné à des groupes importants d’étudiants. Compte tenu de la transversalité du thème de réflexion, il valorisera des approches issues de divers champs de recherche.

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• 18 avr 2014

  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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• 28 fév 2014

  Call for papers - Modern

  Alcohol: a social object

  Cahiers internationaux de psychologie sociale, numéro spécial

  Les usages sociaux de l’alcool constituent depuis longtemps un terrain d’analyse fécond et heuristique pour les approches psycho-sociologiques. Un numéro spécial des Cahiers Internationaux de Psychologie Sociale se propose de réunir des contributions de chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales afin d’éclairer les enjeux contemporains associés à l’alcool et à ses usages.

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• 11 fév 2011

  Angers

  Study days - History

  Gifts: A New Approach to Private Archives

  Chaque année, les étudiants du Master 2 professionnel Histoire et métiers des archives de l'Université d'Angers, l'AEDAA (Association des étudiants et diplômés en archivistique d'Angers) et le CERHIO (Centre d'études et de recherches historiques de l'Ouest), organisent conjointement une journée d'étude autour d'un sujet d'actualité dans le domaine des archives.Cette année est abordée la question du don d'archives privées.

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