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• 17 May 2023

  Zagreb

  Call for papers - Europe

  Au plus près de l’action : repenser le management public au service de la première ligne

  Séminaire francophone du congrès annuel du Groupe européen d’administration publique

  Face aux contextes de crises et à la croissance des besoins, les services publics se trouvent confrontés à des contraintes budgétaires certes, mais aussi sur les ressources naturelles et l’énergie et sur les compétences et l’endurance physique et morale des agents. Des appels à la préservation de services « vitaux », « essentiels », « de première ligne » se font entendre. Mais quelle en est la substance et la nouveauté ? Peut-on comparer les intentions politiques actuelles avec des réformes administratives passées ? Comment les tendances managériales actuelles – gouvernance collaborative, aplatissement des structures, digitalisation des services, notamment – influencent-elles l’action publique ? Enfin et surtout, quelle serait la soutenabilité dans la durée des solutions proposées ? La pénurie des ressources est-elle une barrière ou un facteur de résilience ? Ou pourraient-elles, a contrario, engendrer des effets négatifs : détérioration des services, abandons de mission, effets régressifs sur les citoyens les plus pauvres ou fragiles et les plus dépendants des services publics ?

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• 03 Apr 2023

  04 Apr 2023

  Lewarde

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Spotlight on the mine

  When cinema and literature take hold of the subject

  To celebrate the Mines in the movies exhibition, the Centre Historique Minier has sought to open up this issue to other coal-mining areas, as it has grown accustomed to doing when addressing themes at the heart of mining culture, for an international symposium. In the contemporary era, mining has formed the subject of numerous artistic performances, particu-larly in the fields of writing and literature (mine novel, testimony, poetry, comic strip …), on the one hand, as well as in the world of cinema and audiovisual arts (fiction, documentary, animated film …). These representations have served as a place of artistic innovation, as well as a medium for mass culture (which developed alongside the mining industry), to such an extent that veritable sub-genres (the mine novel, the mine film) have been created, each with their own archetypes.

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• 21 Apr 2023

  Toulouse

  Call for papers - Modern

  Wandering Heritage

  Cultural routes and heritage in the move

  For a long time associated with the place or the closed space of a territory that contains it and that it emblematizes, heritage has never ceased to be mobile. It is what passes through time, what passes from generation to generation. It is transformed from generation to generation. It is also the shadow of every traveler, accompanying him or her in the territories s/he travels through, distinguishing him/her from what surrounds him/her.

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• 02 May 2023

  Nice

  Call for papers - Thought

  Circumferences of improvisation : forming bodies differently

  Improvisation in the various performing arts (dance, music, theater, etc.) seems to present a heterogeneous multiplicity, and each time singular, of forms, including correlatively to the framework in which it occurs: according to whether it is in particular a workshop improvisation, or a performance improvisation. Usually, we like to make distinctions by evoking "free" improvisations and "structured" improvisations, or "solo" improvisations and "group" improvisations, etc. However, don't these linguistic conveniences actually betray a specificity of the improvised experience, unsuited in its discursive structuring to these conceptual divisions? In other words, wouldn't the improvised experience deconstruct, by nature, the very opposition between genres by rejecting any binarism? To do this, we have chosen to analyze the central theme of the "body of improvisation" under three specific axes: the axis of the learned and the popular ; the axis of the voluntary and the involuntary; and the axis of the individual and the collective.

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• 15 Apr 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Writing a Decentred and Entangled History of Cinema-Going

  Epistemological and Methodological Issues

  At the crossroads of history, film studies and anthropology, the research project “Community Building at the Cinema: Towards a Decentred and Entangled History of Cinema-Going,” initiated in 2021, seeks to engage in transnational and comparative research on a global scale, with a particular focus on the communal identities of cinemagoers and cinema intermediaries in the 20^th century. After several workshops (dedicated to cinema circulation around the Mediterranean Sea, the persistence of travelling cinema practices throughout the twentieth century and the social history of film distribution), and a three-year online seminar series (2021-2023), the international conference of November 28-30 2023 is the closing event of the project.

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• 27 May 2023

  Susa

  Summer School - History

  Spaces of trade in the medieval and modern periods

  Institutions, scales and dynamics

  La onzième école d’été d’histoire économique se réunira à Suse (Piémont, Italie) les 27, 28 et 29 août 2023. La thématique retenue cette année est à la croisée de l'histoire économique, sociale et culturelle. Les espaces marchands contribuent fortement à la structuration de la vie économique médiévale et moderne. Les mondes du commerce sont à saisir non seulement comme des espaces sociaux, fondés sur des pratiques complexes liées à des savoirs techniques, mais aussi à travers les dynamiques territoriales qui concernent des lieux, des flux et des aires d’échanges. La onzième école d’été d’histoire économique se propose d’étudier ce rôle central de l’espace dans la configuration des pratiques et des représentations commerciales des acteurs.

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• 31 Mar 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - Sociology

  (De-)Performing Gender in Popular Media

  Les équipes de la Sorbonne Nouvelle et de Panthéon Sorbonne, dans le cadre de Sorbonne Alliance, organisent un colloque interdisciplinaire préfigurateur du rapprochement entre les deux institutions sur les thématiques de genre. Les propositions de communication porteront cette année sur les jeux de réflexivité à l’œuvre au sein des médias et dans les pratiques des publics. Comment évoluent les représentations lorsque les stéréotypes de genre deviennent de plus en plus problématiques ?

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• 03 Apr 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - Thought

  View from Nowhere in AI

  Ce colloque international et interdisciplinaire vise à interroger et analyser l’idée selon laquelle l’intelligence artificielle (IA) proposerait un point de vue neutre, objectif et impartial, qui s’exprimer tant dans des données que des images, les théories que les applications. Des algorithmes aux drones, de la répartition des allocations sociales aux femmes effacées de l’histoire de l’IA, cette idée court partout et toujours s’agissant de l’IA. Ubiquitaire, elle apparait ainsi comme un « point de vue de nulle  part ». C’est sur cette tension entre ubiquité et point de vue de nulle part, cet implicite d’un spectateur ou d’une spectatrice neutre ou d’un impartial de l’IA que nous souhaitons porter la discussion en faisant dialoguer ensemble des perspectives éthiques, épistémologiques et esthétiques, théoriques et artistiques.

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• 28 Mar 2023

  Ixelles-Elsene

  Study days - Representation

  The Marble Industries (17th-19th centuries)

  Séminaire sur les industries du marbre (XVII^e-XIX^e siècle), à l’université libre de Bruxelles, animé par Francesco Freddolini (Sapienza-Université de Rome) et Chloé Ariot (Musée Rodin). À partir du XVII^e siècle, les ateliers italiens commencent à diffuser des sujets sculptés en marbre à destination du marché privé. Entre œuvres en série, réductions, copies, quels enseignements en tirer pour l’histoire des pratiques sculpturales ?

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• 07 May 2023

  Nice

  Call for papers - History

  Technical Actors, Social Actors: from material remains to the Social Organisation of Labour. From Prehistory to Present

  The 43^rd event of the Nice Côte d’Azur International Meeting of Archaeology and History will deal with the division and social organisation of labour, as defined by material remains (tools, finished products, images, biological witnesses, etc.), considered at various spatial scales (domestic units, workshops, sites and territories) and over the long duration. The objective will therefore be to reflect, between specialists from different disciplines, cultures and periods, upon the social organisation of productive activities within ancient and present-day human communities, with a particular focus on the links between technical phenomena and social arrangements, and on the methods that enable to account for them.

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• 21 Mar 2023

  22 Mar 2023

  Pierrefitte-sur-Seine | Paris

  Study days - History

  Journées d’étude sur la lutte contre les épidémies et la prévention en santé publique

  The National Archives presented in Paris the exhibition Facing epidemics, from the Black Death to the present day from October 12, 2022 to February 6, 2023. In continuation of this, the National Archives and the Ministry of Health and Prevention are organizing two days of study to draw up an inventory of research on the fight against epidemics throughout history and the contributions of research in the humanities and social sciences to the implementation of prevention policies. A first day will be an opportunity to question the contribution of historians to the knowledge of the response of societies to major epidemics over the long term. The second day will focus on prevention policies, through debates on defining their scope and how research can enrich public health policies.

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• 25 Mar 2023

  Study days - Sociology

  The Sociology of Contemporary Art

  Journée d’étude de la revue « Marges »

  Les dernières années ont vu se multiplier les recherches sur l’art moderne et contemporain inspirées par les méthodes de la sociologie ou de l’histoire sociale de l’art. Cette journée d’étude entend encourager le développement d’un champ de recherche encore en devenir, avec pour conviction que la sociologie peut apporter à l’étude de l’art contemporain, mais aussi, réciproquement, que l’art contemporain constitue un objet d’étude fructueux pour la sociologie de l’art et de la culture, voire pour la sociologie en général.

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• 15 Apr 2023

  Summer School - Language

  Langues et cultures alpines en devenir : l’aire francoprovençale

  Deuxième édition de l’école d’été du Centre d’études francoprovençales

  The Center d’études francoprovenzales René Willien is organizing a summer school in Saint-Nicolas, for its second edition entitled: Alpine languages and cultures in the making: the Francoprovençal area. Eligible candidates are students from different backgrounds (bachelor, master and doctoral students), researchers in dialectology, linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, ethnology, geography, language didactics, etc. Within the limits of available places, applications are also accepted from anyone interested in the disciplines in question, even in the absence of specific titles. The school will take place from July 10 to July 14, 2023.

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• 20 Mar 2023

  Djerba

  Call for papers - Modern

  Villes et territoires intelligents. Concepts, enjeux et stratégies d’actions

  The last two decades have seen major changes on a global scale: the uncontrollable development of information and communication technologies (ICTs), the “emergence of real smart city”, automation, cybernetics, but also the alarming increase in climate change accompanied by the depletion of raw resources, health crises and the weakening of social ties. Closely related, these factors have had an impact on places, practices and human lifestyles that have become resilient, connected, active and sentient. The Smart Cities and the interconnected territories, in all their dimensions, their aspects and their future, are the subject of studies and exchanges of this colloquium, in accordance with three axes: Cities, artificial intelligence and sustainable territories, Image and imagination of the city, City and creativity.

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• 17 Mar 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Religion and political scientists

  A socio-historical look on “inconvenient” objects in the discipline

  The purpose of this workshop is to revisit the question of “religion” in political science, by assessing the ways in which the discipline has dealt with it (separately from debates about its definitions) over the past forty years. We wish to further discussions that were initiated in sociology (Lambert, Michelat, and Piette 1997; Béraud, Duriez, and Gasquet 2018) and developed more recently in political science (Jouanneau and Raison du Cleuziou 2012; Frégosi and Silhol 2017), towards a simultaneously epistemological and empirical work on the legitimacy and blind spots with such objects (Altglas and Wood 2018).

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• 07 Apr 2023

  Marseille

  Call for papers - Thought

  Matters of death

  Le colloque « Matières de la mort » souhaite rassembler des chercheur·euses, principalement issu·es des sciences humaines et sociales, mais aussi des pratiques médicales et juridiques, pour interroger les liens contemporains entre la mort et la matérialité. Les cadavres et les charognes, les pratiques mortuaires et les techniques d’embaumement, les aspects matériels du deuil ou de la mort périnatale sont autant d’exemples qui cristallisent l’importance et la complexité de ces liens. Cette rencontre vise ainsi à mettre en lumière ce que le prisme de la matière donne à penser de la mort et des mort·es, et, à rebours, comment la mort et les mort·es rejouent et étoffent la compréhension de la matérialité. Il s’agira en somme de questionner l’inscription des matières de la mort dans la vie des vivant·es.

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• 30 Jun 2023

  Call for papers - Information

  Le monde post covid et la communication : état des lieux et perspectives

  Cette première édition du colloque international des sciences de la communication, organisé sous le thème du monde post covid et de la communication se fixe l’objectif d’être un rendez-vous pour les chercheurs afin d’échanger des réflexions scientifiques susceptibles d’apporter des éclaircissements sur l’état des lieux de la communication depuis l’apparition de la pandémie et quelques années auparavant et sur ce qui devrait advenir dans les années qui suivent. L’intérêt sera porté sur la pluralité des visions engagées par les différentes disciplines ayant trait à la communication, notamment les sciences sociales et les sciences humaines et ce pour permettre une lecture diversifiée du vécu.

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• 31 Mar 2023

  Arras

  Call for papers - History

  Missionary strategies and practices, slavery and forced labour (early 19th-mid 20th century)

  Another discussion on the institutional position of the churches in relation to slavery will be resolutely avoided. What will be analysed is the concrete confrontation —or cohabitation— with slavery. What did missionaries know about their slave environment? How did they learn about it? How did they take a stand? How did they act–or not? Same questions as far as indentured labour and the colonial forms of forced labour were concerned. Were there confrontations, mediations and misunderstandings?

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• 01 Mar 2023

  Call for papers - Sociology

  The Sociology of Consumption: Bonding beyond boundaries

  ESA Consumption network Mini Midterm Meetings

  These mini-midterm meetings come together around the theme “Bonding beyond boundaries” to illustrate the geographic dynamics of our community but also to explore how the sociology of consumption community exemplifies and benefits from crossing disciplinary boundaries. As a community, we can draw inspiration from literature and the arts, from environmental as well as medical sciences.

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• 30 Jun 2023

  Caen

  Call for papers - Representation

  Musical Tale and Children’s Opera in the English-speaking World

  This conference’s main argument lies at the crossroads of these two somewhat similar yet different traditions, offering specialists an opportunity to discuss a vast array of topics in relation to the musical tale and the opera for children, with a particular focus on the role of young audiences and young musicians in the field of musical entertainment and musical productions intended for young audiences in the contemporary world.

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