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• 14 jan 2019

  Athens

  Call for papers - Modern

  The ‘Greek Case’ in the Council of Europe: A Game Changer for International Law and Human Rights?

  Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of Greece’s withdrawal from the Council of Europe, following pressure by European countries and institutions for the violation of human rights by the military junta in Greece (1967–74). The Athens-based Netherlands Institute and the Danish Institute, in collaboration with the Swedish Institute and the Norwegian Institute are organizing an international conference on the history and legacy of this emblematic case.

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• 30 sep 2016

  Angra do Heroísmo

  Call for papers - History

  Detention, banishment and deportation in Portuguese Colonial Empire (centuries XIX and XX): history and memory

  The international colloquium “Detention, banishment and deportation in Portuguese Colonial Empire. History and memory” aims to discuss the role and importance of the prison and the banishment in the framework of repression and brutality in space imperial, expression of multiple levels and manifestations of violence of political regimes in the end of the 19^th century to the third quarter of the 20^th century.

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• 15 oct 2014

  Clermont-Ferrand

  Call for papers - History

  Republican citizenship and the challenge of fear

  Discourse, practices and receptions (from the Revolution to the present day)

  Ce colloque se propose d’aborder la question de la citoyenneté républicaine à l’épreuve des peurs. Il réunira des historiens mais également des spécialistes d’autres disciplines (science politique, sociologie, droit, etc.). Si l’objet d’étude porte sur le cas français, les analyses comparatives voire transnationales seront les bienvenues.

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• 01 mai 2013

  Brussels

  Call for papers - History

  Policing Empires. Social Control, Political Transition, (Post-)Colonial Legacies

  Call for Papers International Conference

  The 2-day International Conference "Policing Empires: Social Control, Political Transition, (Post-)Colonial Legacies", to be held in Brussels in December 2013, will be the last in a series of events convened by the GERN Working Group on (Post-)Colonial Policing. Building on previous explorations of policing, surveillance and security experiences in colonial contexts, the aim of this final conference is to promote a multi-sited and comparative approach to colonial policing practices and their legacies in the postcolonial world.

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