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Amiens

Works of art getting all worked up

The conference, organized by the research group « Objects, Materiality and Representation », which is part of the Research Laboratory TrAme in the Université de Picardie Jules Verne, will explore the successive forms, themes or motifs expressed in a work of art, with a particular focus on the work’s materiality.

Toulouse

Call for papers - Psyche

Empathy for the Evil

Social Science and the Empathy Dilemma

Attempts to understand actions we consider appalling raise many issues. Are we supposed to identify with perpetrators in order to provide an account of their behavior? By so doing, aren’t we exposed to the risk of undermining our deepest moral commitments? And what exactly does this identification consists in? Does it require that we empathize? Or must we find a way of exploiting our imaginative resources? These are major concerns, especially for social scientists investigating topics such as extremism, terrorism, domination etc. The aim of the conference is to examine these moral and epistemic issues and to scrutinize them in light of current theories of understanding. Accordingly, all papers addressing empathy, broadly construed, and questioning the endeavours to explain, in a way or another, acts we consider especially evil and despicable will be welcome.

Liège

Call for papers - History

The sum of its parts? (Un)making and (re)thinking collections and compilations from the Middle Ages and Early Modernity

From 6-7 May 2024, the seventh edition of the International PhD Conference of the Transitions Research Unit will be held at the University of Liège, Belgium. This event is being organised in partnership with the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CeMaRS, Ruhr-Universität Bochum) and the Institute for Reformation History (IHR, University of Geneva). This edition focuses on collection and compilation practices. The chronological boundaries for this Call for Papers are those explored by Transitions (i.e. the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period).

Lille | Paris

Call for papers - Representation

The new lives of Greek divinities in Western Europe: Textual and visual figurations from the 14th to the 16th century

In his famous work, La survivance des dieux antiques, published in 1939, Jean Seznec demonstrated that knowledge of the Greek gods did not disappear during the Middle Ages, and thus challenged the opposition often drawn between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: “Pagan antiquity, far from being ‘reborn’ in 15th-century Italy, survived in medieval culture and art; the gods themselves were not resurrected, for they had never disappeared from the memory and imagination of men. Based on case studies on one or more divinities, the workshops will be devoted to analyses of the multiplicity of representations, interpretations, and uses of these ancient divinities over the three centuries under consideration, by combining permanence and renewal, repetition and variation, continuity and innovation.

Aubervilliers | Créteil

Call for papers - Modern

Expressing extreme violence: Translations, Verbalisations and Figures of Silence

The aim of this conference is to shed new light on the study of extreme violence in the 20th century, particularly from a gender perspective, and to discuss our conceptual tools collectively. The conference will study testimonies of extreme violence (colonial violence, gender-based violence, disappearances, torture, mass deaths and genocide) from a multidisciplinary and multilingual perspective. The aim is to examine the conditions which allow words to emerge as well as their corollary, a framework for listening, so that they become audible in a given period and social sphere. The paradox of experiences that are both intimate and collective, unspeakable and yet spoken, taboo and widely documented, is at the core of such reflections.

Call for papers - Language

Artificial Intelligence and Language and Culture Teaching and Learning

The democratization of ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence (from now on AI) software that generates images (Stable Diffusion, Imagen, MidJourney and Dall-E 2), videos (Renderforest, Lumen5 and Moovly), music (MusicLM, Moises) and translations (DeepL) raises questions, in the field of language and culture pedagogy, about teaching and learning practices that have already been transformed by digital technology (design of language teaching material, automation of assessments, digital literacies, etc.). Specific tools for teaching practices and resources are also designed based on AI (Magicschool.ai). This call for papers aims to question such uses both for teaching and learning language, and for pedagogical design and training in the field of language pedagogy.

Rabat

Call for papers - Africa

Writing history in the Maghreb (7th-20th centuries)

Authors, texts, manuscripts

Studies in Arab historiography generally focus on the Middle-East marginalizing the North African contribution, with the exception of Ibn Khaldūn. The aim is therefore to highlight the Maghreb intellectual production in offering researchers the opportunity to showcase authors and works of all kinds to renew the history of the Maghreb. The vast chronological framework aims to bring together medievalists, modernists and contemporaneists, all too often separated: while focusing on the intense medieval production, the symposium will be an opportunity to emphasize the continuities of these genres for the modern period and the colonial period, sources which are either understudied or only through French-language sources.

Mons

Call for papers - Education

Theater Practices for Foreign Language Learning in higher education

Feedback and Theoretical Perspectives, between Body and Text

This One-Day Conference will bring together feedback from projects and presentations of research about the use of theatrical practices in the teaching and learning of a foreign language (in particular English EFL, French and Spanish) in higher and university education. The focus will be on the link with the bodily dimensions of expression in a foreign language, and on the choice of texts and verbal materials.

Aubervilliers | Paris

Conference, symposium - Information

Culture in a digital context

Questioning practices, categories and methods

The digital transformation has allowed for works to be digitized and shared on the website of cultural institutions (museums, theaters, libraries, etc.). It has also increased the range of online offerings, which grew exponentially during the recent health crisis. Therefore, is it accurate to call both those who frequent cultural institutions in person and those who consult their offerings online as “audiences”? Attempts to define cultural contents that are marked by hybridization processes and the blurring of levels of legitimacy makes it difficult to identify what is a cultural practice, an informational practice, entertainment or a form of sociability, and thus further complicates this issue. How can we define what constitutes a digital cultural practice?

Basel

Call for papers - Economy

Labour inspection and worker vulnerability

Congress 2024 of the Swiss Sociological Association

The globalisation and digitalisation of the economy have accelerated automation, the fragmentation of corporations and the development of new organisational forms. These trends have made employment more precarious. Demographic evolutions, technological change and environmental degradation have also created new risks for workers. Against this backdrop of growing vulnerability, regulatory institutions such as labour inspection have an important role to play in ensuring compliance with health, safety, pay and employment standards. This workshop aims to understand how these issues are articulated in different national contexts.

Lausanne

Call for papers - Modern

Drinking, power and illegalisms

Alcohol(ism) in controversy

From the nineteenth century onwards, the various medical specialities took an interest in the problem ofalcohol(ism), allying themselves with or confronting other authorities, primarily the law and justice system. However, the wide range of realities that the discourse of authority has since tended to cover remains largelyunexplored. The aim of this conference is to examine the ways in which the various medical specialities,particularly psychiatry and alienism, play a part in the differential management of illegalisms related toalcohol consumption.

Lisbon

Conference, symposium - Europe

Histories of Violence in War

II Conferência Anual da Society for the History of War

Evento promovido pela Society for the History of War (sediada na Universidade de Oxford) que apresenta uma nova abordagem, mais completa e interdisciplinar, à história da guerra. Pretende-se estudar e avaliar o impacto da guerra na sociedade, nas suas mudanças políticas, culturais, económicas e sociais, cruzado o olhar de historiadores de todo o mundo.

Fribourg

Call for papers - Language

Les mazarinades et l’international

Les 6 000 libelles parus sous la Fronde ont fait l’objet au cours de ces dernières années de nouvelles approches qui démontrent que les mazarinades dépassent de loin le cadre des affrontements politiques des années 1648-1653 en France ; elles nous conduisent aussi vers d’autres espaces historiques ou politiques, mobilisent des types de discours, des modes langagiers, des genres littéraires, des formes poétiques ou théâtrales, des topiques culturelles contemporaines, dans un processus à double sens. Après Paris (Nouvelles approches, 2015), Tokyo (Exploration, 2016) et Rouen (Territoires, 2022), le prochain colloque sur les mazarinades se penchera sur la question de « l’international » dans ce vaste corpus. Le projet de ce colloque se veut pluridisciplinaire afin de croiser les approches (historiques, littéraires, linguistiques, politiques, juridiques, sociologiques...) et international.

Toulouse

Call for papers - Thought

Vulnerability in healthcare: thinking the body and the time of care

The multidisciplinary conference “Vulnerability in Healthcare” aims to bring together researchers and healthcare professionals to explore the notion of vulnerability at work in clinical care.

Tübingen

Study days - Sociology

Regards et réflexions sur les concepts de bifurcations et « doing transitions »

The aim of this Franco-German study day is to bring together different international research traditions. The aim is to compare research angles, concepts, frameworks and methods relating to life-course transitions. The widespread approach to the concept of 'bifurcation' in French-language research offers many possibilities for convergence with the 'Doing transitions' approach developed in recent years by the 'Doing transitions Graduiertenkolleg' research group. This comparative exercise will be considered not only between two countries, but also between two concepts that become fertile methodological tools for the emergence of new lines of thought, allowing both possible exchanges between the two traditions to generate a common field, but also the contribution of new epistemological avenues to fuel the debate on each side of the Rhine.

Grenoble

Call for papers - Education

Agi-lang: Agency, engagement and learning in technology-based language pedagogy

Parmi les dimensions qui retiennent l’attention des chercheurs en didactique des langues, celles de l’engagement et de l’agentivité occupent une place grandissante. Ce colloque se donne pour objectif d’éclairer ces deux notions en lien avec le numérique aussi bien dans le cadre de dispositifs d’enseignement-apprentissage qu’en dehors de tout dispositif pédagogique.

Paris

Call for papers - Early modern

Thomas More, Erasmus and the Reformation

This two-day conference organised by Amici Thomae mori and the Centre d'étides du Saulchoir is open to speakers wishing to offer their research on Thomas More, Erasmus and Reformation. We look forward to papers that will bring new elements in any field that is found relevant within the topic (history, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology…). We welcome proposals on More, Erasmus, William Tyndale, Luther or any other figure of the Reformation as long as a link may be established with Thomas More.

Grenoble

Call for papers - Europe

Une démocratie sur le fil. Les ressources humaines du processus électoral

Dans le cadre du XVII^e congrès national de l'Association française de science politique, la section thématique 34 invite à questionner la « tuyauterie démocratique », ce que la sociologie historique et la science politique ont peu documenté jusqu'à présent. La section propose de déplacer la focale sur les agents qui sont mobilisés aux différentes étapes du processus électoral (services élections des collectivités, ministère de l’Intérieur, préfectures, tribunal administratif, assesseurs des bureaux de vote, Insee, entreprises d’acheminement postal des professions de foi etc.) et qui sont nécessaires à la tenue d’une élection ou d’un vote (organisation des bureaux de vote, ingénierie des machines à voter, des transmissions et publications des résultats, rédaction de rapports, conception et rédaction de la législation, destruction et/ou archivage du matériel…).

Aix-en-Provence

Call for papers - Representation

Provence at the Crossroads of Artistic Trajectories during the 17th century

Production, Markets, Circulation

Through its geographic location, Provence, taken here to be the region between Nice, Montpellier and the Comtat Venaissin, is an ideal location to reflect on the plurality of artistic movements. Open to the Mediterranean and boasting active maritime trade, it was also the last stop in France on the way to Italy, at a time when a visit to Rome was an essential part of any artist's training. The conference, which will be international and multidisciplinary, intends to examine the circulation of artists and works in Provence during the 17th century.

Paris

Call for papers - Sociology

Scroungers, Welfare Queens, Furbetti... Controversial Figures of the Welfare State

International Perspectives

This conference will offer an interdisciplinary and international platform to examine the various representations of social benefit recipients, the variations in these representations, their impact on social protection policies, and what they reveal about the experience of welfare.

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