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Saint-Étienne

Call for papers - Representation

De quoi la nature est-elle le nom ?

Représentations de la nature dans l'art, l'art appliqué et sa critique contemporaine

L’objectif de cette journée d’étude est d’interroger les enjeux de la représentation de la « nature » dans les arts et les lettres, et son appropriation, par la création et la critique contemporaine. Quels échos ces réflexions sur le concept de nature ont-ils dans le monde de la création et le monde artistique ? Quelles créations au nom de la nature, ou volontiers déconstructionnistes, émergent aujourd’hui ? Quel est leur sens ? Quels enjeux de pouvoir ces choix de représentation peuvent-ils sous-tendre ? Quelles évolutions herméneutiques se dessinent, enfin, en lettres et arts en réaction à ces débats ?

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Ixelles-Elsene

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Asia

Bearing Witness to Traumatic Experiences: Cultural Productions of Uyghurs in Exile

PhD position in Asian Studies

This Ph.D. position is funded by a MIS (Mandat d’Impulsion Scientifique/ Incentive Grant for Scientific Research) project: “Bearing Witness to Traumatic Experiences: Cultural Productions of Uyghurs in Exile”. Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking people based at the border of Central Asia and the north-western part of China. Massive internments and arrests of hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs have taken place in the region since 2016, including the Uyghur elite. In these conditions, centers of the cultural production of the Uyghurs have shifted from their native land to the diaspora spread across the world. This project looks at Uyghur diasporic cultural production that aims at drawing the world’s attention and bearing witness to the various abuses perpetrated at home by the Chinese government. The whole project analyses selected poems, short films, video clips, and dance and music performances to tackle new transmedial forms of testimonies in the Uyghur case.

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Paris

Call for papers - Representation

Contemporary arts and nativeness

Cette journée d’étude part du constat de la place de plus en plus importante des appellations « autochtone » et « indigène » dans les mondes de l’art contemporain international. Elle a pour objectif d’interroger les pratiques, les identités et les catégories. Il s’agira de se demander quelle théorie culturelle de l’autochtonie peut aujourd’hui être proposer, et depuis quelle situation. On entend déplacer la focale des questions institutionnelles vers celles des processus créatifs, des identités assignées vers les pratiques par lesquelles l’individu s’auto-désigne, voire se désidentifie. L’indigénéité pourrait être, à cet égard, un outil permettant de déjouer les pièges de l’identité, dans lesquels la création contemporaine est de plus en plus fréquemment prise.

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Paris

Call for papers - Representation

Mental maps": between memory transcription and symbolic projection

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The notion of "mental maps" will therefore be considered according to two different meanings and uses: 1) the internal representation of a space travelled through (cognitive map) and 2) the representation of a set of entities or concepts (mind map). The terms "memory transcription" can be understood as the translation and recording on a graphic support of elements present in the mind. The terms of "symbolic projection" are conceived as the fact of externalizing by the means of signs or symbols on a graphic support, the two types of representation: the representation of a traversed space or the representation of a set of entities or concepts. The points of contact, crossover, reversal, between what could be called "representation of space" and "space of representation" are little explored. How can we better apprehend the complex notion of "mental map"? The question of memory transcription? Of the "symbolic projection"? Can we identify meeting points between these two polarities and if possible a continuum?

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Saint-Étienne

Call for papers - Thought

Contemporary arts and the anthropocene

Ce colloque international vise à examiner les façons dont les œuvres de l’art contemporain ‒ qu’elles soient plastiques, photographiques, cinématographiques… ou encore littéraires ‒ pensent les évolutions du monde qui motivent l’usage croissant du terme d’« anthropocène ».

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Edmonton

Call for papers - Information

Northern Relations

Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Annual Conference 2021

As a theme, “Northern Relations” encourages delegates to explore the connections between peoples, communities, cultures, and ways of knowing, while also listening to those voices that speak directly to some of the most pressing matters of relation (to the land, to each other) in the North: climate change, governance, social justice, reconciliation, reciprocity, education, and much more. A relation is not only an association and an affiliation, it is also an act of telling or reporting; relations are at the heart of how peoples communicate, organize knowledge, and understand their place in the world.

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Nancy

Call for papers - Representation

The staging of territories and brand strategies

Success and innovative practices

Le colloque interdisciplinaire et international « Mise en scène des territoires et stratégie de marques : essor et pratique innovante » a pour objectif d’amener à une connaissance plus fine et plus approfondie des représentations des territoires et des marques territoriales, de leur articulation, de leur fonctionnement. Il s’agit également de mieux comprendre leur utilisation par les parties-prenantes, publiques ou privées, à l’intérieur ou à l’extérieur du territoire, qui les mobilisent sciemment ou non dans le cadre d’une production touristique, artistique ou même politique ; et ainsi de faire émerger des pratiques innovantes autour des trois axes suivants : les stratégies de marques, un enjeu politique et économique ; les stratégies de marques, un enjeu politique et économique ; le territoire, un outil créatif.

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Call for papers - Urban studies

Dominion of the Sacred

Image, Cartography, Knowledge of the City after the Council of Trent ("In_bo" vol. 12, no. 16)

Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Italian political geography was polarized by a number of cities of different sizes and traditions: Rome and Florence, Milan and Naples, Genoa and Venice, Turin and Modena, either ancient republics or new dynastic capitals, satellites of the great European monarchies or small Signorias. The conjunction — less frequently the conflict — between the mandates of the Council of Trent and the interests of the ruling élites of those cities set the foundation for novel forms of social, cultural and spiritual control, fostering new urban structures and policies, deeply conditioned by the presence and government of the sacred.

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Call for papers - America

Creating ruins or showing ruins in cinema

Ce thème nous est suggéré par l’action actuelle, à l’échelle mondiale, de la démolition et de l’abattement des statues, des stèles dans un geste de destruction volontaire des vestiges, symboles et icônes du passé liés à l’histoire coloniale et impériale, acte que l’on peut considérer comme une mise en ruines en tant que telle. Pouvait-on imaginer une liquidation des ruines-vestiges du passé pour signifier la ruine d’un passé ?

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Grenoble

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Urban studies

Still on the Map!

Mississippi Delta Communities Facing Disappearing Land

"Still on the Map!" takes as its context the Mississippi Delta fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina and about five years after the commissioning of the major new "100-year" flood protection infrastructure. Expressed from its title -a statement of resistance/resilience chanted by many inhabitants during ecological events in Louisiana- this research project aims to describe the links and "attachments" (LATOUR, 2017) that different communities in the delta maintain with their geographical environment in a situation of strong ecological tipping point, integrating the natural and artificial infrastructures of the watershed into the definition of ecosystems as socio-political actors in their own right. In a context where the delta's land is gradually sinking into the sea, every hour the surface area of a football pitch is permanently flooded.

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Call for papers - Representation

Tracing the city: city symphonies in reverse and the cinematic apparatus

« La Furia Umana », numéro 40/2021

What are city symphonies reflecting in their contemporary cinematic versions? How are filmic dispositifscapturing and documenting the city as an entity which is both subjective and intersubjective? As Richard Koeck suggests, in his essay Cine-spaces : Cinematic spaces in architecture and cities (2012), it is perhaps from the vantage point of the of the simulacrum that we must understand cinema's inscription within the post-modern city. Indeed, what if we began to think about the city as a visual system based on movements, lights and bodies – one we could explore in a cinematic, cinetic or kinesthesit way? By using film as a lens through which to see urban spaces and places, it would be less a question of showing the placement of architecture, but of seeing how much post-modern architecture, for instance, is a cinematic phenomenon, an urban décor in motion (Las Vegas, Dubai, Macao…).

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Call for papers - Representation

Bodies in the city: norms and disparities in the 19th century

Arts et savoirs journal on OpenEdition

La recherche en littérature et en sciences humaines – les études dixneuviémistes en particulier – continuent de témoigner régulièrement de l'engouement suscité par la question de la représentation des corps, propice à une multiplicité d'approches et de croisements disciplinaires, qu'ont nourris en particulier les travaux d'Alain Corbin et Georges Vigarello. Les mutations que connaît l'espace urbain au XIX^e siècle imposent aux corps de nouvelles normes, dont peuvent faire état le roman réaliste, la littérature dite panoramique ou encore la presse, et définissent dans le même temps de nouvelles marginalités. Dans un contexte qui se caractérise par un renouvellement des méthodes d’observation scientifique, mais aussi par des réaménagements urbains et l'inauguration de nouveaux lieux dans la ville, il s’agira d’interroger la scientificité du regard que porte le XIX^e siècle sur les corps voués à occuper cet espace.

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Call for papers - Political studies

Urgent issue of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

This special issue, Tilting, seeks to take up themes that have animated the Blackwood’s program and mandate throughout the last several years: questions of connectivity, the challenges of public and private space, community and/in isolation; imperatives to re-structure modes and methodologies of care, including revaluing care work, confronting collective care responsibilities within colonial and capitalist structures, and engaging with the infrastructures, aesthetics, contestations, and radical possibilities of mutual aid; responses to the precarization of art, labour, and life; interest in what modes of knowledge production, circulation, and re-distribution are vital to us now, and how these networks might take new form. These urgencies continue to drive Blackwood programming (and this forthcoming publication), supporting and activating artists, curators, and writers who incite us to be responsive, critical, and answerable.

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Guadalajara

Miscellaneous information - Language

Chican@s studies

Contributions of articles for electronic journal Verbum et Lingua

The electronic magazine Verbum et Lingua: Didáctica, lengua y cultura will dedicate its 16th edition (July-December 2020) to the topic of Chican@s studies. Grosso modo, for Ornelas, Ramírez and Padilla (1975), the Chican@s studies have made a great effort to integrate four main constructs: race, class, culture and gender/sexuality. These constructs are present in the work of different artists who express their ideology in order to politicize and lead their community(ies) to change. According to Macias (2018), the Chican@s field of study seeks to make research holistic and multidisciplinary, as well as inclusive, comparative, grounded, up-to-date and critical. At the same time, it seeks to apply the results to social justice, education, as well as to the change of the global Chican@ communities.

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Split

Call for papers - Early modern

Images and Borderlands: Mediterranean basin between Christendom and Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Age

Following in the footsteps of Fernand Braudel, an increasing number of recent studies show that the Mediterranean basin might be considered as a “borderland”, “borderscape” or “Frontier” suggesting that this area is not strictly a border between Christian and Muslim civilization, but a basin in which the two traditions and cultures meet and overlap, with an extraordinary variety of reactions to the hegemonic practices (acceptance, conflict, refusal, dissent). The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars who will discuss, from different perspectives and with a multidisciplinary approach, the variety of themes (topics) which revolve around the common issue of reflecting the problem of borderlands as a consequence of the encounter between Christendom and Ottoman Empire in the Early modern Mediterranean. The starting point of examination will be images, i.e. the usage of images (pictures, mental images, literary images and other visual representations …) as historical evidence.

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Paris

Call for papers - Modern

Displaying the social history of migrants: content, scenography, public engagement

Donner à voir l’histoire sociale des migrations: contenus, scénographies, médiations

We seek proposals from post-doctoral scholars, recent PhDs, as well as those in the final stages of their dissertations with a background in related fields, in particular migration studies and social history, especially as they intersect with museum studies and/or public history. Participants will discuss, from a theoretical and a practical point of view, the best ways to display, in an exhibition context, the daily experience of past migrations in all their social dimensions.

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Montpellier

Call for papers - Sociology

Métropole sensible journal no.8

« Métropole sensible » est un cycle de symposiums annuel lancé en 2013 par le laboratoire de sociologie LERSEM-IRSA de l’université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. Conçu comme un espace de réflexion et de débat autour de la ville et ses dimensions imaginaires et sensibles, il est réalisé à travers des symposiums à vocation internationale et interdisciplinaire avec l’objectif de capter les évolutions des ambiances urbaines en mettant l’accent, sur l’approche du sensible, la méthode visuelle, la prise en compte du numérique dans la transformation urbaine.

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Metz

Call for papers - Representation

LGBTI and Queer Arts, Cultures and Activisms

In France, a few years after the law authorizing same-sex marriage, LGBTQ associations are now facing new struggles, fighting for access to assisted procreation or the creation of a communal archive center. Drawing on these dynamics, this conference aims at interrogating the bonds between LGBTQ forms of arts, cultures and activisms. We look forward to opening a space for academics and grassroots activists, whether they be engaged in institutional collectives or not, to exchange, reflect and dialogue. LGBTQ-related topics appear to be often overlooked in French research networks. We aim to make it more visible and richer, and make it dialogue with local, national and international networks of academics and activists.

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Paris

Call for papers - Representation

Manufacturing collective identities. Art at work in the contemporary era (19th-21st centuries)

Les derniers siècles (XIX-XXIe) ont été le terrain d'une reconfiguration incessante des identités collectives et de leurs imaginaires. Ces fluctuations sont le résultat des transformations majeures que sont les révolutions politiques, les phénomènes de modernisation industrielle, les nouvelles dynamiques de territorialisation et de mondialisation. Par conséquent, il est important pour l’histoire de l'art d'engager une interprétation de l'œuvre artistique en l'intégrant aux facteurs extérieurs. Dans une volonté de s'éloigner des schémas traditionnels, qui excluent, désengagent, décontextualisent et dépolitisent, le monde artistique interroge le lien entre art et société, entre création et construction des identités collectives. Ce sont d'ailleurs l'émergence, la grande diversité et le caractère mouvant de ces dernières qui sont ici sujet d’intérêt.

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Porto

Summer School - Sociology

Not Just Holidays in the Sun

Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (KISMIF) Summer School 2020

The Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (KISMIF) Conference 2020 will be preceded by a Summer School entitled ‘Not Just Holidays in the Sun’ on 7 July 2020 in Rivoli Municipal Theatre of Porto. The Summer School will offer an opportunity for all interested persons, including those participating in the Conference, to attend workshops directed by specialists in their fields. Our KISMIF Summer School program invites students who are interested in, or currently using, DIY cultures in their research to join us for an exciting and innovative one-day summer school program. The goal of the one-day program will be to encourage discussion and experimentation in the documentation of DIY cultures as much as it will be to encourage a new generation of DIY academics (Punk Ethnographers!) to experiment with digital cinema and performance in their research practices.

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