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Paris

Peripheries, Minorities and Taboos in the films of Marcel Łoziński, Pál Schiffer and Želimir Žilnik

The international conference bears a transdisciplinary outlook as it cross-references a variety of scientific fields (history of cinema, aesthetics, philosophy, history, political science, anthropology, sociology, etc.). A film retrospective of documentary films will be held at the Cinémathèque du documentaire (Centre Pompidou, Paris), as well as screenings followed by debates and panel discussions at Inalco in the presence of the filmmakers Marcel Łoziński and Želimir Žilnik.

Paris

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation

"All Alone" in East-Central Europe: Reinventing the Orphan from the Fascist to the Socialist Era

International PhD Contract 2020-2023

Full-time, 36-month-long international PhD contract at Sorbonne University (PhD program IV) within the research centre Eur'ORBEM and in partnership with the French Research Centre in Social Sciences (CEFRES) in Prague, from 1 October 2020, under the supervision of Clara Royer. The PhD thesis may be written in French or in English. PhD propositions should focus on the discourses and practices surrounding the orphan condition in literature and/or visual arts (cinema, photography, graphic arts and so forth) in the wake of the violence and demographic upheavals that characterized 20^th century East-Central Europe. Because of its interdisciplinary scope, applicants with a background in social history, literary studies and/or visual arts specialized in one or several countries of East-Central Europe may apply.

Lisbon

Call for papers - Geography

Post-soviet diaspora(s) in Western Europe (1991-2017)

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, millions of former soviet citizens crossed the national borders in search of better lives in new countries, in what was the biggest migration tide since the end of World War II. These Post-Soviet migrants were diverse in origins, strategies and expectations. They often represented a challenge to the orthodox views of migration processes, since in most cases these flows could not be easily described and analysed following commonly accepted theoretical frameworks. Everybody seemed to be on the move: labour migrants, political refugees, cross-border traders, “tourists” planning to forget their return... and in a short period, they spread all over Western Europe.

Vienna

Call for papers - Modern

Border Textures: Interwoven Practices and Discursive Fabrics of Borders

2nd World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies - Panel

In view of the current political developments in Europe, the scientific study of borders has increasingly gained importance. Cultural Studies has reacted to these developments by generating complex and more and more detailed theories and tools for describing and analyzing border phenomena. Cultural border studies champion approaches which do not examine spatial, material, temporal or cultural aspects in isolation but investigate their intersectional and performative interactions. This panel provides a space for explorative investigation of potential approaches for cultural border studies, focusing on interactions between material and immaterial manifestations of the border.

Vienna

Call for papers - Geography

What is Border Studies?

2nd World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies - Panel

The societal events of the last decade have challenged Border Studies more than ever before. This can be seen not only in the field’s growing institutionalisation but also in its developments in research: these include the relativization of geopolitical perspectives by cultural studies approaches, the spatialisation of the border concept (e.g. zone, third space, exter/internalisation etc.), the decentralisation of the border in favour of processes (e.g. b/ordering, othering etc.), the pluralisation of the border concept (e.g. walls, differences, (dis)continuities, demarcations) or the complexification of the border (e.g. scapes, textures). The panel is treating these developments and other turns as an opportunity for a long-overdue self-examination, which in the light of the resurgence of borders seems necessary from both a societal and scientific perspective.

Paris

Translations et reconfigurations russes entre Orient et Occident (XVIe-XXe siècle)

Bien avant l'occidentalisation imposée par Pierre le Grand, la Russie a accueilli une abondante littérature occidentale en privilégiant les œuvres médiévales. Nous nous interrogerons sur le rôle joué au XVII^e siècle par leы Jésuites, le bureau des Ambassadeurs et des aristocrates et prélats dans ce large mouvement d'acculturation. Au travers de divers types de textes (exempla, romans de chevalerie, nouvelles, ouvrages de pastorale), nous suivrons les diverses modalités de translation et reconfiguration russes de des matériaux narratifs ainsi que leurs mises en images dans les peintures murales des églises de l'Anneau d'Or, les manuscrits enluminés et les loubki.

Toulouse

The challenges and experiences of Brazilian and French researchers

L’objectif principal de cette table ronde est de créer un espace de discussion et d’échange d’expériences entre brésilien.ne.s qui font des recherches en France et français.e.s qui font des recherches dans l’Amérique Latine, en ouvrant un débat interdisciplinaire qui s’interroge notamment sur la question des frontières. Des frontières géographiques, parce qu’il s'agit de pays et continents différents ; des frontières académiques, en proposant une réflexion sur les obstacles (in)visibles entre les sciences humaines, sociales et exactes (et ainsi entre les différentes disciplines au sein de chaque domaine) et des frontières humaines, en espérant que les expériences interpersonnelles partagées entre les chercheur.e.s les enrichiront individuellement et collectivement.

Guyancourt

Call for papers - Modern

Globalisation and Minor Cultural Groups

The role of so-called minority people in rethinking the future of modern societies

Minority groups, whose way of life has historically suffered from globalization, are often cited as victims of global processes, but they are rarely studied for the techniques or technologies of accommodation and resistance they have implemented as a response to global processes— the most devastating of these processes being colonization in its various aspects. Indeed, globalist literature does not yet offer a conceptualization or theorizing of the social, cultural, political and territorial continuity of “minorized” cultures, let alone does it afford enough analytical space to these so-called cultural minorities in the process of questioning the values and practices of globalization. Therefore, this conference will participate in building more connections between different experiences in order to think up the best alternatives to the global economic and political system in place and to the way of life brought about by global phenomena which do not work anymore.

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Summer school at the Franco-Russian Studies Centre in Moscow

Cette année, le Centre d’études franco-russe de Moscou organise son école d’été avec nos collègues de l’Université orientale d’économie, de droit et de sciences humaines (VEGU, Oufa) et de l’Institut des sciences du social de Bachkirie (BIST, Oufa), du 16 au 19 juillet 2011. Les candidatures doivent être adressées par email avant le 15 mai ; tous les détails dans le document ci-joint.

Paris

Conference, symposium - Europe

Tourism and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe: returning to the places of trauma

Remembering violence in Central and Eastern Europe

Depuis 1989 est apparu un « tourisme du retour » sur les lieux des violences commises envers les populations par ou dans le sillage des régimes totalitaires du XXe siècle. Ce tourisme mémoriel, variante du « tourisme noir », se dirige d’une part vers les lieux de la destruction (Auschwitz, Treblinka) ou de la répression, mais aussi vers lieux où ces persécutions ont eu lieu et où l’histoire familiale s’est cassée. Les « touristes du souvenir » cherchent les traces d’une brisure, d’un traumatisme, d’une mémoire qui hante leur présent et qu’ils cherchent à exorciser. Ils cherchent à reconstituer une partie d’une histoire familiale ou individuelle inconnue ou perdue, parfois sur plusieurs générations. La quête de cette mémoire meurtrie est devenue un élément de la construction identitaire et de pratiques sociales en Europe centrale et orientale.

Lausanne

Miscellaneous information - Sociology

How to be a writer ? Kafka's literary and ordinary socialisation

B. Lahire étudie la socialisation du jeune Franz Kafka, son entrée dans le langage et les livres. À partir de ces premières expériences d'incorporation langagière, dans la situation plurilingue où se trouvait l'écrivain, B. Lahire tente de reconstituer la genèse des dispositions littéraires de Kafka.

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