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Online Course on the US Original Constitution and its Reception in Brazil
In times of Covid19, the Federal University of Paraiba, UFPB, opens this course to the global audience. Students from the world will have the opportunity to discuss the USA and Brazil's constitutional history from the Founding Era to the end of the nineteenth century with an instructor and Brazilian students of its Graduate Program in Law. The UFPB offers these lectures through the Google Meet platform with a limited number of spots for better development of the studies and discussions amongst participants. Some international scholars will take part in the course as special guests presenting seminars about their newly published books or legal articles in which they are authors on subjects connected to constitutional matters. 100% online course.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - History
W. E. B. Du Bois, Scholar, Activist and Passeur between America, Europe and Africa
Foundations, Circulations and Legacies
Trained in Classical languages (Latin and Greek), Philosophy, Sociology and History, both in the US and Europe, W. E. B. Du Bois’s intellectual inquiry into the nature of Blackness covers a wide range of disciplines, from History to Political Philosophy, from Sociology to Literature and Poetry, from Art Criticism to Musicology. The colloquium will embrace this multiplicity of approaches which characterizes Du Bois’s work and, at the same time, capture the profound unity of his thought which can be found in the analysis of the “concept of race.” Special attention will also be given to the determinant role played by W. E. B. Du Bois in the transatlantic circulation of knowledge and intellectual commerce between the US, Europe and Africa.
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Jan Valtin retrospective (1941-1951)
Il n’y a pas beaucoup d’écrivains dont l’œuvre fut aussi fulgurante et la vie aussi pleine de rebondissements que celle de Jan Valtin. Son premier livre, Out of the Night, s’imposa dès sa sortie comme le plus grand succès de l'édition américaine depuis Gone with the wind (Autant en emporte le vent) ; il fut vendu à plus d’un million d’exemplaires aux États-Unis, en moins d’un an, et fut plus tard traduit dans de nombreuses langues. Ce récit à couper le souffle de la vie d’un révolutionnaire allemand sous la République de Weimar et la première période du nazisme avait pour mérite d’éclairer la façon dont l’action des communistes contre la social-démocratie en tant qu’ennemi principal avait conduit à l’alliance objective des totalitarismes pour détruire la démocratie bourgeoise.
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Left-wing radicalism in the United States: a foreign creed?
Special Issue, “Transatlantica” (journal of American Studies)
This Transatlantica issue will analyze the way in which the construction of radicalism as foreign to US-American identity was received by radicals themselves, to see how they reacted to the branding of their beliefs as un-American, and how they devised counter-discourses in order to Americanize their ideas, sometimes leading to conflict and contradiction. How can the language of patriotism be combined with a belief in internationalism ? What coalitions, what political alliances can be built while maintaining a revolutionary stance ? How can the class struggle be rooted in a discourse on US-American society without succumbing to the sirens of exceptionalism ?
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Paris
Cultural transfers in European, colonial and global contexts (1650-1850)
The circulation of models of sociability
Le groupement d'intérêt scientifique « Sociabilités/ Sociability » du long dix-huitième siècle est heureux de vous communiquer le programme des trois prochaines conférences de son cycle sur les transferts culturels, « Cultural Transfers in European, Colonial and Global Contexts (1650-1850): the Circulation of Models of Sociability », qui constituent l’un des axes de sa réflexion sur l’histoire et la circulation des modèles de sociabilité en Europe et dans les empires coloniaux de 1650 à 1850.
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Paris
Cultural Transfers in European, Colonial and Global Contexts (1650-1850)
Le GIS Sociabilités/Sociability du long dix-huitième siècle est heureux de vous communiquer le programme des 3 prochaines conférences de son cycle sur les transferts culturels, "Cultural Transfers in European, Colonial and Global Contexts (1650-1850)", qui constituent l’un des axes de sa réflexion sur l’histoire et la circulation des modèles de sociabilité en Europe et dans les empires coloniaux de 1650 à 1850.
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Tours
Il s'agit d'une approche comparative d'un vaste mouvement depuis le début des années 1960.
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Saint Denis
Conference, symposium - Early modern
Race and Class in Britain and America, 17th-19th centuries
This conference will question how developing discourses of race came to structure the societies of Britain and America in the early modern period. It hopes to explore the way discourses of race and class interacted with each other, and how the vocabulary of social strata overlapped with the language of race. How were the bodies and minds of the upper ranks considered to differ from those of other people during these periods? How important indeed was the idea of the physical body in rank distinction, and how did this square with the notions of pure blood that underpinned both “race” and hereditary privilege? In what ways were some groups “naturally” privileged or “naturally” excluded? Were social minorities like indigents or women marginalized or stigmatized similarly to Africans or Native Americans?
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Paris
Conference, symposium - America
Black dolls, material culture and Afro-American resistance and representations (1840-1940)
Ce colloque trans-disciplinaire a pour point de départ la collection Neff de poupées noires en tissu faites main, vraisemblablement par des Africaines-Américaines entre 1840 et 1940, et d’un ensemble de photographies de la même période montrant des enfants américains avec leurs poupées. Il se propose d’analyser, de documenter et de questionner un jouet qui malgré son universalité et son importance considérable dans la formation de l’enfant voire d’une société, reste un sujet d’étude très minoritaire.
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"Transatlantica" special issue
This Transatlantica issue sets out to examine how, in the process of creating new audiences for its products, child-centric media crafted a homogenizing vision of childhood especially compatible with media consumption. As a result, in the course of the late XIXth and XXth centuries, media has made itself the vehicle of adult norms and expectations about children’s tastes, behaviors and development – be it to pander to existing tastes and behaviors or shape them to ideal standards, some civic-minded (with emphasis on social adjustment, character building, or good citizenship), some commercial, and others both at once.
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Paris
Call for papers - Political studies
Mobilisations in the United States since 2008
Challenging the neo-liberal paradigm?
L’objectif de cette journée sera de faire un état des lieux du champ des mobilisations américaines et d’obtenir une perspective comparée de phénomènes et de manifestations très récentes voire toujours en cours, tout en rassemblant les jeunes chercheur·e·s (doctorant·e·s et jeunes docteur·e·s) de toutes les disciplines académiques qui se spécialisent sur les mouvements sociaux aux États-Unis.
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Montreal
National identities and regional identities in the French-speaking space
Europe and North America from the 1960s to the present day
Après les premières vagues de revendications identitaires du tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles, puis de l’entre-deux-guerres, les années 1960 voient la renaissance et la multiplication des mouvements d’affirmation particulariste en Europe comme en Amérique du Nord. Nous nous limiterons ici aux espaces de la francophonie, qui offrent un vaste champ d’études cohérent, mais cela n’empêchera pas – elle sera bien au contraire encouragée – une mise en perspective grâce à l’étude succincte d’autres aires géographiques et civilisationnelles.
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Esch-sur-Alzette
Benelux: Europe and the Cold War
The Power of non-powers and perspectives on the economic, social and political aspects of European Security Strategy in the early Cold War
What are the historical roots of views of European defense and Europe's role in Western defence? How did the early European Integration movement perceive American involvement in the development of a common security strategy? This conference will investigate these and other related questions by re-examining the early cold war US/European relationship and the role that early Cold War period developments played in the European Integration Movement. In so doing, this conference will also showcase findings which can contribute to the unification of Cold War and European Integration historiographies.
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Scholarship, prize and job offer - America
Charles C. Eldredge prize 2017
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is now accepting nominations for the 2017 Charles C. Eldredge Prize. Single-author books devoted to any aspect of the visual arts of the United States and published in the three previous calendar years are eligible. To nominate a book, send a letter (not to exceed one page in length) explaining the work’s significance to the field of American art history and discussing the quality of the author’s scholarship and methodology. Nominations by authors or publishers for their own books will not be considered.
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The American moment in Quebec universities - appropriations, transfers and networks, 1930-1960
Les années d'ascension du nazisme et de la seconde Guerre mondiale correspondent à une période charnière de l'histoire intellectuelle du Canada français. Face à une Europe sous tension, le Québec fut momentanément contraint de restreindre ses relations avec le Vieux continent et, corollairement, avec ses milieux savants, au premier chef avec la France, destination jusqu’alors privilégiée.
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Paris
Music, protest and counter-cultures
De la chanson engagée aux avant-gardes esthétiques les plus radicales, la musique a joué un rôle majeur dans les révolutions culturelles des années 1960 et 1970. Centrée sur l’Amérique du Nord et l’Europe, cette journée d’étude analyse les liens entre musique, contestations et contre-cultures dans une approche comparée, attentive aux circulations artistiques. Trois axes seront privilégiés : l’articulation entre discours politiques et créations esthétiques ; l’émergence de nouvelles scènes et sociabilités culturelles (festivals, performances, médiatisation) ; les dynamiques de consécration et de patrimonialisation des musiques contestataires. Un événement organisé par la Philharmonie de Paris et l'université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines en lien avec l'exposition The Velvet Underground: New York Extravanza
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Dijon
Societies confronted by terror (from 1960 to the present day): discourse, memory and identity
Ce colloque a pour objectif de réunir des spécialistes de différents domaines (civilisationnistes, historiens, linguistes, sémioticiens historiens de l’art, politologues, spécialistes des médias, de littérature,) autour d’un sujet qui, avec des pics d’acuité variables, a été au centre même de la vie des sociétés occidentales depuis les années 60. Il s’agira de déterminer comment ces sociétés réagissent à travers la production de discours spécifiques à la déstabilisation recherchée par le terrorisme. Le colloque se propose donc d’établir, par la voie contrastive, une cartographie de ces discours de résistance et de combat, et de mettre en lumière aussi bien les invariants que les différences irréductibles qui tiennent à la multiplicité des contextes et des acteurs ainsi qu'à la longévité du phénomène.
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Paris
Capitalism and inequality in the United States
EHESS monthly seminar
Ce séminaire se propose de repenser la question des inégalités à l’aune des travaux récents sur l’histoire du capitalisme aux États-Unis. En repensant les mécanismes de crédit, les processus d’endettement ou les nouveaux enjeux de la question salariale, de multiples analyses invitent à réfléchir aux formes de légitimation ou de rejet des inégalités dans une société capitaliste. Si les États-Unis constituent le cœur de notre réflexion, des approches comparées seront régulièrement abordées. Ouvert à tous, ce séminaire mensuel s’articulera autour de lectures et de présentations de travaux en cours.
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Lyon
This one-day conference aims at exploring the definition(s) and contours of deviance and degeneration as it was conceived in the British Isles and North America in the 19th century. PhD students, postgraduate students and junior scholars whose research pertains to the study of deviant groups, whether self-defined or not, are particularly welcome to participate. Speakers will be invited to focus on the processes of definition of the standards of normality – whether religious, social, political, legal, medicalor sexual – as well as what those processes entailed for those who were labelled ‘deviants’. The role of scientists, doctors but also political authorities is of considerable interest in this respect, as are the ways in which normative standards were circumvented and challenged.
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Berlin
Conference, symposium - History
Criminal Law and Emotions in European Legal Cultures
From the 16th Century to the Present
This two-day conference seeks to historicize the relationship between law and emotions, focusing on the period from the sixteenth century to the present. It aims to ask how legal definitions, categorizations and judgments were influenced by, and themselves influenced, moral and social codes; religious and ideological norms; scientific and medical expertise; and perceptions of the body, gender, age, social status. By examining the period between the sixteenth century and the present day, this conference also seeks to challenge and problematize the demarcation between the early modern and the modern period, looking at patterns and continuities, as well as points of fissure and change, in the relationship between law and emotions.
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