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• 30 sep 2019

  Paris

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Seeing Politics through Intermediation and Intermediaries

  This seminar proposes to look at politics through the lens of political intermediaries and what they do, i.e. intermediation. Intermediaries can be defined as an assorted group of actors (political brokers, political parties, interest groups, movements) who acts as a hinge between two or more levels, actors or social institutions; while intermediation , as a process, encompasses all the mediations that these actors perform in order to keep the political system intact (Zaremberg, Guarneros-Meza, and Lavalle 2017; Gunther, Puhle, and Montero 2007; Kitschelt 2004; Smith 2007). The question we are interested in relates to the transformations in the roles of these agents and processes of mediation since the neo-liberal transformation has engulfed the processes of public policy formulation, contestation and enactment.

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• 31 jan 2019

  01 fév 2019

  Zurich

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  The Pillars of Rule

  The Writ of Dynasties and Nation-States in the Middle East and South Asia

  Max Weber famously argued that states lay claim to the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence over certain circumscribed territories. However, historical and anthropological research has challenged his ideal-typical vision by showing how the idea of the unitary state is a fiction that can only be produced through the action of interrelated but partly autonomous agents. States, and the various institutions that constitute them, face the strategic task of identifying and domesticating the social networks that are necessary for them to secure control over particular territories and their populations. Local strongmen and notables can in turn use their own local influence in order to gain recognition from higher-level, more powerful, state institutions. In this international conference, scholars from a variety of disciplines will explore the ways in which dynastic power and/or the rule of the state is asserted, negotiated and contested across both the Middle East and South Asia.

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• 03 jui 2014

  Paris

  Study days - Political studies

  Political Representation in India

  Contestations, Innovations, Transformations

  Journée d'étude sur les transformations de la représentation politique en Inde.

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• 08 nov 2012

  Paris

  Study days - Asia

  Gender, mobilisations and social dynamics in Southern Asia

  AJEI young researchers seminar

  Le douzième séminaire jeunes chercheurs de l'AJEI aura lieu le 8 novembre 2012 au Centre d’études et de relations internationales (CERI, Salle Jean Monnet), avec le soutien du CEIAS (EHESS-CNRS) et de l’École doctorale de Sciences Po. Le séminaire aura pour thème : Genre, mobilisations et dynamiques sociales en Asie du sud.

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• 14 sep 2012

  Coimbra

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  Alice - Strange mirrors, unsuspected lessons

  Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences

  The Centre for Social Studies (CES) –Associate Laboratory– of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, has an open competition to two Post-Doctoral Grants within the scope of the project “ALICE - Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences” (alice.ces.uc.pt), funded by the European Research Council (269807), under the supervision of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, in social sciences.

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• 30 nov 2009

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Social and political movements in South Asia

  L'Association jeunes études indiennes (AJEI) regroupe des étudiant-e-s en sciences sociales, du mastère au post-doctorat, travaillant sur l’Asie du Sud. Chaque année elle organise un atelier d'une semaine en Inde et un séminaire d'une journée en France, lesquels sont autant d’occasions pour de jeunes chercheurs de présenter leurs travaux, discutés par des chercheurs confirmés. L’édition 2010 des ateliers, qui se tiendra à Nagpur au Maharashtra du 7 au 13 février 2010 en collaboration avec l’Université de Nagpur et le Département d’études sur la pensée d’Ambedkar, abordera la question des mouvements sociaux et politiques en Asie du Sud.

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