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Palermo
Soldiers, prisoners and converts between permeable borders in the Mare Nostrum (16th-18th centuries)
The COST Action “Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750)” [CA 18129] is launching a call for a conference “Soldiers, prisoners and converts between permeable borders in the Mare Nostrum (16th-18th centuries)”. The event that we are disseminating is being organised within this project, which as the purpose to provide a transnational and interdisciplinary approach capable of overcoming the segmentation that currently characterizes the study of relations between Christianity and Islam in late medieval and early modern Europe and the Mediterranean. We aim to create a network that will help to provide a comprehensive understanding of past relations between Christianity and Islam in the European context through the addressing of three main research problems: otherness, migration and borders.
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Nanterre
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
Jazz, globalisation and communities
Jazz, globalisation and communities
Now a quasi-universal musical form, present in all five continents, jazz developed as a result of a complex process of cultural exchange, making it a true product of cultural globalisation. Typical of the success of the « glocal », as defined by Robertson in 1994, between the « resilience of the local and global consciousness », jazz has generated new communities of amateur and professional musicians around a strong local musical tradition, thanks first to the presence of foreign musicians, and second to the global nature of jazz itself. The aim of this one-day conference will be to explore the local and global dimensions of these jazz communities from the point of the musicians, the audiences and media, in order to understand how jazz, the quintessentially global musical genre, creates not just local and global communities, but also the links between these very communities.
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The Hague
Cultural encounters in the nineteenth century
The exhibition The Dutch in Paris, which was on show in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam and in the Petit Palais, Paris during the fall of 2017 and spring of 2018 respectively, aimed to visualize the artistic exchange between Dutch and French artists between 1789 and 1914. As part of a larger research project, set up by the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, the exhibition generated so much response that ESNA, in collaboration with the RKD and NWO, decided to organize an international conference on the subject, focusing specifically on international as well as national and local points of encounter and how they facilitated artistic exchange.
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Ypres
Conference, symposium - History
Geopolitical aftermath and commemorative legacies of the first world war
Taking worldwide perspectives, this unique and prestigious conference brings together international specialists including Jay Winter, Nicolas Offenstadt, Carole Fink, Stefan Berger, Bruce Scates, Pieter Lagrou, Piet Chielens and many others. They will discuss and reflect upon the consequences of the new geopolitical order that came into being after the First World War, and how that war and its legacy have been remembered up to the present day.
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Lisbon
Insularities and enclaves in colonial and post-colonial circumstances
Crossings, conflicts and identitarian constructions (15th - 21st centuries)
Historically, archipelagos were considered as rehearsal spaces for new social constructions. Since colonization and, afterwards, colonialism and imperialism, many of them evolved in association with the strengthening of international networks, while others did not escape isolation and forced unequal integration in different spaces. On the other hand, enclaves were the outcome of historical circumstances, often externally decided, which prompted some degree of insularity regarding the immediate geographical surroundings. When those territories did not become independent, there were demands for autonomy or, at least, some underlying emancipatory and anti-colonialist feelings. Even when these feelings did not mobilize relevant segments of the population, they disclose the alterity – above all cultural – in regard to sovereignty.
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Louvain-la-Neuve
Study days - Ethnology, anthropology
The Danube - Europe and the challenge of a river
L'Europe à l'épreuve d'un fleuve
Le Danube est-il un fleuve européen ? Qu'est-ce à dire ? Pour tenter de répondre à cette question, huit chercheurs internationaux mettent en évidence les connexions et déconnexions ou « dysconnexions » qui surgissent au travers de diverses modalités d’existence du Danube. Pour interroger cette européanité d’un fleuve, nous mobiliserons les représentations associées au Danube et analyserons le vécu quotidien de ses riverains.
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Musicologica Olomucensia Journal
Musicologica Olomucensia is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal founded in 1996 at Palacký University, one of the oldest Central European universities. The journal is intended for the musicological community. With historically, theoretically and analytically focused studies, the journal presents the results of fundamental scientific research conducted by members of Czech and international musicological institutions and high-level university students. In addition, the magazine brings news from academic conferences, reviews of musicological literature and information about ongoing research projects
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Pessac
Music and attachment - places, territories and musical stages
Lieux, scènes et territoires musicaux
Depuis une décennie les travaux de géographes francophones sur la musique, mobilisant les avancées des recherches anglophones et des terrains européens et internationaux, ont démontré la pertinence de la « géomusique » à la fois comme champs à part entière de la géographie, mais aussi comme épistémologie féconde dans le tournant culturel de la géographie.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - History
The (re)appropriation of knowledge. Actors, territories, processes and issues
Malgré des situations asymétriques et de domination parfois très fortes, sur de vastes échelles, le processus de mondialisation ne conduit pas forcément à une uniformisation des savoirs et des savoir-faire : comme l’analyse A. Appadurai, c’est précisément cette tension entre homogénéité et hétérogénéité qui définit la complexité des situations globalisées. Nous nous proposons de réfléchir de manière critique, à partir de situations précises, aux processus d’appropriation ou de réappropriation de savoirs et de savoir-faire, en centrant les analyses sur le point de vue des acteurs, leur pouvoir d’initiative et les stratégies qu’ils déploient dans la production et l’usage des savoirs, leurs enjeux, ainsi qu’aux multiples processus de transformations en œuvre.
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Vannes
Communication in the tourist sector: strategies for all participants in the areas of tourism
International conference
Although the tourism communication concept is still to be defined precisely, this international conference aims at exploring the relationships between communication strategies for those who are involved in the tourism industry and tourists. A further complication is that lots of areas are more and more very proposed with a particular identifying emblem. Communication in the tourist industry today is diverse and, from a tourist’s point of view, very confusing. The Conference aims to provide a critical dialogue beyond disciplinary boundaries: Communication research, Geography, Cultural Studies, History, Sociology and Tourism Studies. We’d like to investigate in particular the areas and the actions of communication in the tourist sector.
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Paris
Socio-political uses of the category of genocide
La catégorie de génocide est une notion juridique et scientifique qui fait l’objet de nombreux débats et polémiques dans le monde contemporain. Forgé par le juriste Raphaël Lemkin en 1944, ce terme est aujourd’hui devenu très fréquent, au point que son usage est au cœur de discussions et de conflits, aussi bien dans l’espace public (tel événement du passé peut-il être qualifié de génocide ?), que dans l’espace savant de l’écriture de l’histoire. Utilisé à l’origine pour désigner le crime perpétré par les nazis à l’égard des juifs et des tsiganes, il est devenu central dans la dénomination d’événements historiques auparavant appelés « massacres », et dans l’acquisition d’une stature internationale pour ces événements. Un certain nombre de termes dérivés sont même apparus, comme ethnocide, ou génocide culturel, manifestant de nombreuses projections émotionnelles et morales collectives. Face à la multiplication des discours convoquant cette catégorie, on peut distinguer la question de la qualification génocidaire au niveau scientifique et juridique, de celle de ses usages dans l’espace social.
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Bordeaux
Ce cycle de conférences, proposé par le musée d’Aquitaine et le forum Montesquieu en partenariat avec l’Institut Cervantes et la Maison des sciences de l’homme d’ Aquitaine, sera l'occasion de découvrir le passé précolonial et colonial des peuples d’Océanie, et de s’intéresser aux problématiques plus contemporaines de ce vaste territoire. Une exposition intitulée Mémoires vives aura lieu conjointement au Musée d'Aquitaine. Inaugurée le 15 octobre 2013, elle porte sur les expressions plastiques des Aborigènes d’Australie.
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Pau
Strait(s): crossed perspectives on the representations of Gibraltar (Antiquity - Middle Ages)
2nd conference
Ce colloque s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un programme de l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche porté par la Casa de Velazquez en partenariat avec trois autres institutions et intitulé Le détroit de Gibraltar, à la croisée des mers et des continents (époque ancienne et médiévale). Il constitue le deuxième volet d'une réflexion sur les représentations de la région du Détroit aux époques antique et médiévale qui se voudrait axée essentiellement autour de la question de l'unité/diversité de la zone du Détroit. Les écrits antiques et médiévaux renvoient-ils ainsi l'image d'un espace cohérent ou éclaté, divers, tant sur le plan, par exemple des paysages, de la faune et de la flore que des habitants et de leur culture ?
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Sylvanès
Patrimoine et tourisme au Maghreb au prisme des sciences sociales
À partir des années 1970, la question du patrimoine, de sa conservation, de sa connaissance, mais aussi de sa visite s’est mise à occuper une place non négligeable dans les sociétés contemporaines. C’est ainsi que depuis plus de quarante ans, le tourisme culturel mobilisant acteurs et investissements suscite bien des espoirs. Il peut être ainsi envisagé comme une sorte de contrepoids, voire de succédané, au tourisme de masse. Nombreuses sont donc les études sociologiques et géographiques qui analysent le processus en cours, interrogeant les relations entre la mise en tourisme et le mouvement de patrimonialisation. L’ambition est donc de nouer un dialogue scientifique entre des champs disciplinaires voisins, à stimuler la réflexion sur les concepts employés, à élargir l’outillage méthodologique des jeunes chercheurs.
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Marseille
The Mosaic of Urban Identities
For the conference "Cultural Encounters. The Mosaic of Urban Identities" we want to invite papers from scholars in any field of research who want to share their disciplinary insights in the matter with colleagues from other disciplines. How is multiculturalism in urban settings treated in their disciplines, what challenges and opportunities do they see? And how do they differ from or enhance the views we encounter in the media or in political or ideological debates? We expect contributions from polital sciences, sociology, psychology, urbanism, geography, economy, history, cultural and literary studies etc., but we would also welcome papers from less evident fields such as medicine, epidemiology, genetics, engineering, architecture etc.
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Paris
Les circulations globales du jazz
This conference will take a fresh look at the sociology of cultural globalization and help synthetizing localized research studies, allowing us to transform our vision of jazz history focused up to this point on its major centres of creation (United States, Europe). This conference will thus contribute to a more precise definition of the contours of "global jazz".
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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. -
Encountering the Other in wartime: The Great War as an intercultural moment?
After very successful conferences in Lyon, Oxford, Dublin, Washington D.C., London, and Innsbruck, the International Society for First World War Studies is pleased to organise its seventh conference in Paris on 26-27 September 2013. The German Historical Institute in Paris, The University of Birmingham (UK), and the Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration are supporting this event. -
Bastia
Islands and cities in Corsica and the Mediterranean
Reflection on the urban situation in cities on Mediterranean islands
Cinquante années après la publication par le géographe aixois Yerahmiel Kolodny d’une thèse remarquée sur la ville et le fait urbain en Corse, l’ADECEM (Association pour le développement des études corses et méditerranéennes) se propose de réactiver cette réflexion en organisant sur ce thème un colloque à Bastia en septembre 2013. Placée au cœur de thématiques transversales, la ville, pour être saisie dans sa réalité multiple, requiert un large éventail de regards qui vont de la géographie, au sens le plus large, à l’histoire, à la sociologie et aux sciences du langage sans exclusive scientifique. Se situant toutefois dans la contemporanéité, ce colloque privilégiera parmi les interventions historiques les approches qui permettront d’éclairer l’état urbain contemporain au prisme de ses dynamiques géo-historiques, faites de conflits territoriaux et de bifurcations géopolitiques. Inversement les interventions ciblant de manière statique une période précise de l’histoire sans conséquence interprétative pour le présent, seront évitées. -
Lisbon
Conference, symposium - Economy
Portugal-Brasil: um olhar atual
A conferência internacional "Portugal-Brasil: um olhar atual" irá realizar-se dias 12 e 13 de setembro de 2012, no ISCTE-IUL, por ocasião do Ano do Brasil em Portugal e de Portugal no Brasil, com o objetivo de fazer uma análise do presente e do futuro das relações entre os dois países em vários domínios, estimulando o conhecimento mútuo e a descoberta de oportunidades de cooperação.
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