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• 16 avr 2021

  Le Mans

  Call for papers - History

  Mémoires honteuses

  Les chrétiens européens face à leurs passés embarrassants (du Moyen Âge à nos jours)

  Les mémoires collectives semblent se focaliser avant tout sur des événements perçus de manière positive par les groupes porteurs de mémoire, en particulier dans le cadre des communautés chrétiennes. Témoignant de l’accomplissement d’un plan providentiel ou de la fidélité de croyants envers Dieu en dépit des difficultés, les faits mémorisés sont généralement honorables. Pour autant, certains actes commis par des chrétiens peuvent embarrasser leurs coreligionnaires des années ou des siècles plus tard. Cette journée d’étude, centrée sur le christianisme en Europe (et ses prolongements coloniaux), vise à explorer ces mémoires honteuses dans la longue durée, du Moyen Âge à nos jours.

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• 01 mar 2021

  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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• 15 nov 2020

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Logics, stakes and limits of cultural heritage transmission in Eurasia

  The thematic issue is about cultural heritage and patrimonialization. It aims at comparing the varying notions of “tradition” and “safeguarding of culture” within an empirical approach.We focus on conflicts about the creation of culture and how these globalised and specific contexts shape a changing self-perception of “ethnic identity” in Northern Asia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe.The articles may be on local as well as global expressions of cultural heritage: poetical genre, engraving or wood carving, architecture, ethno-parks or ecomuseums, cultural tourism, opposition to projects of valorization, etc. Analysis may also focus on the role of actors involved in local projects, on historical contexts or on international fashions.

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• 31 jan 2021

  Call for papers - Africa

  Gender and semiotic categories in post-colonial Africa

  L'appel à contribution du numéro 7 de la revue ABA (lettres et sciences sociales) porte sur la question du genre en Afrique contemporaine. Il ne s'agit plus seulement de réduire la problématique du genre à la catégorisation sexuelle et à ses enjeux culturels. Ce numéro thématique voudrait explorer toutes les formes de catégorisation des productions sémiologiques et sociales en Afrique contemporaine. Il prétend observer les transformations, les transgressions ou les réinventions venues d'Afrique des systèmes d'organisation modernes des productions littéraires, artistiques, musicales; des systèmes d'organisation sociale en genres sexuels. Le genre est-il une catégorisation coloniale et eurocentrée des objets sociaux ? Quelles appropriations africaines des genres au contact du monde moderne ?

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• 11 mar 2021

  Rennes

  Call for papers - America

  The imagination of limit

  Telling and narrating closed Latino-American spaces in a global world

  Après une première journée d'étude sur les imaginaires des limites, le Centre d'études des langues et littératures anciennes et modernes (CELLAM) et la revue Amerika (université de Rennes 2) accueilleront une deuxième manifestation sur ces thèmes. Y seront abordés les rapports aux frontières, aux espaces clos et aux dynamiques de ségrégation et de fédération au sein des imaginaires des Amériques.

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• 31 jan 2021

  Call for papers - Representation

  Trans Identities in the French media

  Abstracts are welcome for an edited volume that will address the question of the representations of trans identities in the French media. This volume aims more specifically at observing how trans identities have been portrayed in the past decades (from the 1990s’ to the present time). Possible topics include (but are not limited to)(a) the evolution of the representation of trans identities in news coverage, (b) transgender characters in films and series, (c) pitfalls and biases regarding the way trans identities are portrayed in the French media, and/or (d) the analysis of a specific body of work.

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• 01 oct 2020

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Europe

  Intersectional Challenges in Afroeuropean Communities

  8th Biennial Afroeuropeans Network Conference

  The conference aims to consider how Afroeuropean communities are shaped by the intersections of ‘race’ and ethnicity with other markers of identification such as gender, class, sexuality, ability, age, citizenship status, language… Informed by intersectional thinking and its rejection of unidimensional perspectives in activism, policy and research, the conference explores how diverse processes of privileging and discrimination interact, making for complex and dynamic experiences of what it means to be Afroeuropean. It acknowledges that the racial and ethnic alterity of Afroeuropeans intersects with other identities (e.g. male, female, queer, working class, religious, disabled, aged…) and specifically seeks to examine to what extent these intersections create new alignments and opportunities.

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• 08 aoû 2021

  Call for papers - America

  Towards political modernity in Ibero-America

  State training, international relations and representations of the nation, 1808-1848

  Ce colloque est une invitation à réfléchir sur les réalités comparables et les structures communes de l'Ibéro-Amérique entre 1808 et 1848. La réflexion se déroulera autour de trois axes principaux : la formation de l'État, les relations internationales et les représentations de la nation.

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• 10 aoû 2020

  Call for papers - Geography

  Indigenous geographies in Brazil

  Confins journal, theme issue – December 2021

  Ce dossier pour la revue franco-brésilienne Confins cherche à mettre en évidence la manière dont les débats en cours au sujet de la construction de l’espace et de concepts tels que « territoire » et « territorialité » peut contribuer à approfondir la compréhension des réalités territoriales des peuples autochtones au Brésil. Au travers de travaux fondés sur des situations territoriales variées, et ancrés dans des champs thématiques et théoriques divers, tant de la géographie que de disciplines connexes, nous souhaitons permettre un rapprochement et un dialogue fertile autour d’analyses comparatives amenant à mieux comprendre les géographies autochtones au Brésil.

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• 31 oct 2020

  Versailles

  Call for papers - History

  The Myth of Versailles and European Courts, 18th and 19th centuries

  This symposium is organised in conjunction with the research programme “Court identities and the myth of Versailles in Europe: perception, adherence and rejection (18th-19th centuries)” led by the Centre de recherche du château de Versailles. The aim is to analyse the modus operandi of the myth of Versailles in the monarchic Europe of the 18^th, 19^th and 20^th centuries, taking into account the two contradictory yet complementary elements that characterise the idea of myth: the real and the reconstruction of the real. The focus of this conference will therefore be twofold: understanding how the different aspects specific to the identity of Versailles have fuelled an illusion, but also discerning how this illusion gave rise to other accomplishments, whether architectural, ritual or political.

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• 20 avr 2020

  Toulouse

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Postdoc position ERC "Mapping Ancient Polytheisms"

  The ERC Advanced Grant Project 741182 MAP (Mapping Ancient Polytheisms. Cult Epithets as an Inteface between Religious Systems and Human Agency), led by Corinne Bonnet, is now accepting applications for a postdoctoral position (100%) from the 01/10/2020 at the Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès. The research may require scientific missions in France and/or abroad.

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• 15 mai 2020

  Warsaw

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Decolonizing Museum Cultures and Collections: Mapping Theory and Practice in East-Central Europe

  International conference for heritage scholars and practitioners

  This conference brings together curators, artists, scholars, and other intellectuals and cultural activists working on East-Central European heritage, to reflect on how the main trends of decolonial debate are intersecting in practical and theoretical terms with the heritage sector, with a particular focus on museums in the region. The conference will place special emphasis on mapping both the range of colonial histories embedded in, as well as decolonial approaches to, museum collections and practices in East-Central Europe.

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• 20 mar 2020

  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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• 05 mar 2020

  Libreville

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Knowledge, experiences and protocols in voluntary pregnancy termination in Gabon, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea

  L’objet de ce colloque vise essentiellement à connaître les savoirs, les itinéraires et les protocoles dont la finalité est l’interruption volontaire de grossesse (IVG). Cela, pour prendre en compte leurs conséquences médicales, sociales, psychologiques, économiques, politiques, juridiques et culturelles, etc. Sachant que l’interruption volontaire de grossesse ou avortement donne lieu à de nombreuses controverses quant à l’adoption de textes législatifs et/ou d’arrêts de justice, il est demandé aux participants de réfléchir sur l’impact de cette pratique et des décisions publiques prises dans les cadres législatifs, politiques et culturelles, traditionnels et modernes afin d’organiser ou d’interdire l’IVG. Il s’agira donc de se prononcer sur l’identité de cette pratique au Gabon, au Cameroun et en Guinée-Equatoriale, aux fins d’en extraire les spécificités, les caractéristiques et les conséquences fondamentales dont les États pourraient se servir dans le cadre de leur organisation.

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• 30 avr 2020

  Cerisy-la-Salle

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Poetry and Politics in the Viking and Norman Diasporas (Ninth-Thirteenth Centuries)

  The conference will address the relationships between poetry and power in the medieval world, fostering exchanges between historians and scholars in the fields of Latin and vernacular literatures. The poems under scrutiny will be those composed in the Viking and Norman diasporas between the ninth and the thirteenth century, covering a wide geographical expanse, from Iceland to Southern Italy, through Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia, Kievan Rus’ and part of the Latin East. The main questions which will be studied are: (1) the specific context for the composition of political poetry (e.g. encomiastic or satiric); (2) poetry as a means for the representation of power or the transmission of moral or religious conceptions (e.g. mirrors for princes, didactic or gnomic poetry); (3) the reasons for preferring poetry over prose in order to convey political ideas.

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• 01 mai 2020

  Nancy

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Science and literature: reciprocal inspirations

  Central and eastern Europe (19th-21st centuries)

  Charles Percy Snow (1905-1980), chimiste et romancier britannique, a consacré sa célèbre conférence The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (Deux cultures et la révolution scientifique, 1959) à l’incompréhension grandissante entre la culture littéraire et la culture scientifique tout en montrant les dangers de cette scission pour le progrès de la civilisation.

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• 07 fév 2020

  Palermo

  Call for papers - History

  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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• 31 jan 2020

  Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Artistic, Digital, and Political Creation in English-Speaking African Countries

  Africa 2020

  French President Emmanuel Macron announced on 3rd July 2018 in Lagos that a Special Season would be organized in France, from June to December 2020, to mark a renewed partnership with Africa, a “varied, strong and diverse continent that will play a part in our shared future”. Even if this cultural focus cannot be abstracted from a broader geopolitical agenda marred by controversial presidential declarations, it nevertheless has the potential to offer a somewhat different coverage of the continent. One can only hope that it avoids the temptation to officially “curate into being” “exceptional” artists (Dovey), tapping into the all-too-familiar image of Africa as “the supreme receptacle of the West’s obsession with, and circular discourse about, the facts of ‘absence,’ ‘lack,’ and ‘non-being,’ of identity and difference” (Mbembe).

   

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• 01 fév 2020

  Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Africa 2020: Artistic, digital, and political creation in english-speaking African countries

  French President Emmanuel Macron announced on 3rd July 2018 in Lagos that a Special Season would be organized in France, from June to December 2020, to mark a renewed partnership with Africa, a “varied, strong and diverse continent that will play a part in our shared future”. The peer-reviewed journal of Aix-Marseille Université research centre on Anglophone Studies (LERMA), E-rea, has decided to seize the opportunity of Africa 2020 to dedicate a special issue to contemporary artistic, digital, and political creation in English-speaking African countries. Heeding Kenyan political analyst Nanjala Nyabola’s advice to eschew the too reductive ‘Africa rising’ and ‘Africa failing’ narratives in favour of ‘Africa being’ stories, this special issue wishes to focus on “stories reflecting the ambivalence, complexity, challenges and opportunities of African societ[ies] in an increasingly connected world”.

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• 31 déc 2019

  Rennes | Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - Representation

  Female identities at work

  Studies of representations in the European space

  Cet appel à communications est dédié à deux journées d'études qui se dérouleront à l'université Rennes 2 le 5 mars 2020 et à l'université d'Aix-Marseille le 29 mai 2020. Les deux journées d’études se proposent d’explorer les représentations artistiques (littérature, théâtre, dance, cinéma, musique, arts plastiques et graphiques) qui, à partir de 1980, ont essayé de raconter le rôle des femmes au travail dans l’espace européen et combien le travail façonne la condition et l’identité des femmes.

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