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• 31 mar 2020

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Tilting

  Urgent issue of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

  This special issue, Tilting, seeks to take up themes that have animated the Blackwood’s program and mandate throughout the last several years: questions of connectivity, the challenges of public and private space, community and/in isolation; imperatives to re-structure modes and methodologies of care, including revaluing care work, confronting collective care responsibilities within colonial and capitalist structures, and engaging with the infrastructures, aesthetics, contestations, and radical possibilities of mutual aid; responses to the precarization of art, labour, and life; interest in what modes of knowledge production, circulation, and re-distribution are vital to us now, and how these networks might take new form. These urgencies continue to drive Blackwood programming (and this forthcoming publication), supporting and activating artists, curators, and writers who incite us to be responsive, critical, and answerable.

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• 15 mar 2020

  Metz

  Call for papers - Representation

  LGBTI and Queer Arts, Cultures and Activisms

  In France, a few years after the law authorizing same-sex marriage, LGBTQ associations are now facing new struggles, fighting for access to assisted procreation or the creation of a communal archive center. Drawing on these dynamics, this conference aims at interrogating the bonds between LGBTQ forms of arts, cultures and activisms. We look forward to opening a space for academics and grassroots activists, whether they be engaged in institutional collectives or not, to exchange, reflect and dialogue. LGBTQ-related topics appear to be often overlooked in French research networks. We aim to make it more visible and richer, and make it dialogue with local, national and international networks of academics and activists.

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• 10 déc 2019

  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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• 15 sep 2018

  Limoges

  Call for papers - Representation

  Counter-mapping in the Americas 16th-21st centuries

  Quels enjeux se trouvent derrière les dynamiques contre-cartographiques dans le contexte des Amériques ? Dans quel contexte les logiques contre-cartographiques peuvent-elles se mettre en place ? Comment se créent-elles et de quelles impulsions émanent-elles ? Quels savoirs sont mobilisés dans les processus d’élaboration contre-cartographique ? Dans quelle mesure parviennent-elles à déjouer les représentations hégémoniques de l’espace ?

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• 18 mai 2016

  19 mai 2016

  20 mai 2016

  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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