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• 14 jan 2010

  Geneva

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  The Concept of Mixed Migration

  Reflecting on Today’s Migratory Policies, Movements and Paradigms Shifts

  This call for papers relates specifically to a series of four working panels which be held during the conference. These working panels will aim to examine selected case studies linked to ‘The Phenomenon of Mixed Migration’ (sessions 2 and 3 of the provisional agenda). These case studies shall relate to one of the following four regions of the world: West and North Africa; the horn of Africa & Middle-East; Central America; South-East Asia. The submissions are expected to highlight the different issues raised by mixed flows of migrants in a given region. Contributors will explore the complexification of migration dynamics and look at the consequences of recent migration and asylum policies on conditions of movements, and highlight both the constraints and coping strategies they entail.

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• 29 jan 2010

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  Multiculturalism, Immigration, and Identity in Western Europe and the United States

  Research Training and Funding for Doctoral Students

  Research training and funding oppotunity organized by the Réseau Français des Instituts d'Études Avancées and the Dissertation Proposal Development (DFDF) Program of the Social Science Research Council: an international conference with leading researchers in Lyon, two four-day interdisciplinary training workshops, assistance with research design and preparing funding proposals, up to 3400 Euros for exploratory summer research.

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• 28 fév 2010

  Paris

  Call for papers - Modern

  "There is no such thing as nature!" Redefining the Concept & Future of Nature in Contemporary Art

  Cette journée tentera de proposer une définition complétée/nouvelle de l’idée de nature en ciblant les interventions sur la production artistique contemporaine. Elle s’intéressera dans un premier temps à penser le paysage contemporain en évoquant les notions de paysage culturel et de paysage comme métaphores des problèmes de société. Dans un second temps, nous nous interrogerons sur la relation qu’entretiennent les hommes à la nature alors que les manipulations génétiques vont bon train, confondant régulièrement les limites entre l’homme et l’animal.

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• 01 avr 2010

  Florence

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Urban studies

  People's Landscapes

  International Photo Contest

  Uniscape (European Network of Universities for the Implementation of the European Landscape Convention) organises the International Photo Contest People's Landscapes, open to all undergraduate students, MSc students and PhD students of the Member Universities of Uniscape from 18 to 35 years old.

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• 15 jan 2010

  Florence

  Call for papers - Geography

  Living Landscape : The European Landscape Convention in Research Perspective

  In view of the 10th anniversary of the European Landscape Convention, that will be celebrated in Florence (Italy) on 20 October 2010, UNISCAPE and LANDSCAPE EUROPE are organising a scientific conference to discuss in depth the merits of landscape science at the forefront of integrated research in a rapidly changing spatial environment. The conference will be held on 18-19 October 2010 in Florence. The aim is to initiate a well prepared debate in order to define clear recommendations and guidelines from the scientific community to be presented to the audience of the official meeting on 20 October 2010. The conference is supported by the authors of the text of the European Landscape Convention, and will be realised in close consultation with the Commission on Cultural Heritage and Landscape (CDPATEP) of the Council of Europe.

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• 01 avr 2010

  Montpellier

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Congo Basin Hunter-Gatherers

  The international conference is being held to share and evaluate recent research on Congo Basin hunter-gatherers. It has been almost ten years since international researchers have convened to discuss research and development issues facing Congo Basin hunter-gatherers. We are especially interested in field-based research reports from any discipline, but encourage participants to consider their data and conclusions within the scope of development, global change and the fate of Congo Basin peoples. Extensive cultural diversity exists and not all Congo Basis huntergatherers actively hunt and gather (e.g., they may have cash crops or live near cities). We are interested in understanding cultural diversity and processes of culture change, but the focus is on peoples and groups with a long history of living in and strong identity with the tropical forest. Papers on Congo Basin farmers and fishermen are encouraged if they include a history of or relationships between hunter-gatherers and farmers or fishermen. Papers that compare Congo Basin hunter-gatherer with farmers/fisherman or Congo Basin hunter-gatherers with hunter-gatherers in other parts of the world are also welcome.

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• 15 mai 2010

  Amiens

  Call for papers - Geography

  Dwelling : toward a new concept ?

  Habiter, notion marginale des sciences sociales et humaines du XXe siècle peut-elle devenir l'un des concepts structurants de celles du XXIe ? L'enjeu de ce colloque est donc épistémologique – envisager, voire formaliser, le concept sous ses différents angles et problématiques – mais il est aussi pédagogique – habiter entre dans les programmes de géographie des classes de sixième – et pratique – quels nouveaux regards, sur les questions d'aménagement de l'espace par exemple, peut-on porter à partir de lui ? Les propositions, sous forme de résumé explicite, doivent être adressées à Olivier LAZZAROTTI, par voie électronique olivier.lazzarotti@u-picardie.fr. le 15 mai 2010 au plus tard. Le Comité scientifique se réunira dans le courant du mois de juin 2010.

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• 30 nov 2009

  Call for papers - Geography

  Africa, 50 years of freedom. Territories, borders, identities and development

  Echogéo review call for articles – for publication in June 2010

  La revue Echogéo (http://echogeo.revues.org/) lance un appel à communications sur le thème : « Afrique, 50 ans d’indépendance. Territoires, frontières, identités et développement ». Il s'agit de contribuer au bilan géographique d'un demi siècle d'indépendance. Les textes, en français ou en anglais, devront privilégier des approches thématiques larges. Ils pourront aborder les changements d'ordre spatiaux ayant caractérisé les relations entre États, sociétés et territoires, ou, dans une perspective épistémologique, l'évolution des regards portés sur ceux-ci.

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• 16 oct 2009

  Washington

  Call for papers - Geography

  Social Geography of Risk: Which Approaches?

  Special session Annual Association of American Geographers Meeting

  In this session we want to focus on the definition of risk, the way this category is constructed, through which relations and which spatialities is forged. Building on real case studies, we are interested in understanding the role of geographers and social scientists when investigating the “societies at risk” and the “vulnerable” groups. Emerging issues in this area of work are related to the need to integrate environmental and social information and the fact that we have to face the implementation of complex investigations including among others: environmental measures, descriptive epidemiology, analytical studies, social surveys and GIS modeling.

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• 11 déc 2009

  12 déc 2009

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Science studies

  Biodiversity sciences and policies since Darwin

  Conférence internationale organisée par le projet BioTEK et portant sur les transformations des savoirs et des formes de gouvernement de la biodiversité de la fin du XIXe siècle à aujourd'hui. Cette conférence, soutenue par le Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, le Centre A. Koyré de recherche en histoire des sciences et des techniques, et le RUCHE (réseau universitaire de chercheurs en histoire environnementale), réunira des historiens, sociologues, écologues et anthropologues.

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• 29 oct 2009	12 nov 2009	21 jan 2010
  25 fév 2010	18 mar 2010	...

  Paris

  Seminar - History

  Seminar on maritime Exchange between the Iranian and Indian Worlds from the rise of the Achaemenids to Islam

  « Échanges maritimes entre les mondes iranien et indien depuis l’émergence des Achéménides à celle de l’Islam » est un séminaire pluridisciplinaire de l’UMR 7528 « Mondes iranien et indien ». Il se déroulera à la Maison de l’Asie, 4e étage, 22, avenue du Président Wilson, Paris XVIe. Organisateur : Bérénice Bellina (CNRS - UMR « Mondes iranien et indien »).

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• 01 avr 2010

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Plague, resource, outlet: visions and uses of urban rivers (18th-20th centuries)

  Theme issue of Geocarrefour (vol. 85, 2010)

  L’objet de ce numéro est d’introduire un croisement entre l’histoire et la géographie au sujet du rapport sociétés/environnement, qui permette de revisiter les profondes mutations des usages et des représentations des rivières urbaines, depuis l’aube de l’industrialisation jusqu'aux temps présents.

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• 01 déc 2009

  Ghent

  Call for papers - History

  Migrant Communities and Urban Space in the Mediterranean ports, 17th-19th centuries

  Tenth International Conference on urban History, Ghent 1st-4th September 2010

  Recent research on migrant communities has witnessed a clear shift towards a more sophisticated understanding of the variety of bonds that link minority groups to the society they live in, as well as to their places of origins. Yet, when it comes to the understanding of past migrations, historical discourse still depends in many ways on traditional categories of analysis, that often poorly reflect the profound originality of the situations under study. This session is an attempt to challenge traditional and “ready-to-go” views on the organization of community life among migrants who lived in the Mediterranean port-cities during the late modern period (17th to 19th centuries).

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• 15 fév 2010

  Geneva

  Call for papers - Geography

  Regov: regionalization of environmental governance

  Interdisciplinary Approaches, Theoretical Issues, Comparative Designs

  Cette conférence (en anglais) vise à confronter les analyses des scientifiques (principalement géographes, politologues et spécialistes de relations internationales) et des organisations internationales sur les processus actuels d'organisation à une échelle régionale et transnationale des dispositifs de gouvernance environnementale.

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• 21 déc 2009

  Ann Arbor

  Call for papers - Representation

  The Turning Point: Crisis & Disaster

  The 17th Annual Charles F. Fraker Conference

  On behalf of the graduate students of the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at the University of Michigan, we are pleased to announce The 17th Annual Charles F. Fraker Conference, entitled The Turning Point: Crisis & Disaster, to be held in Ann Arbor on March 25th, 26th and 27th, 2010. We would like to invite graduate students from your program to participate and would greatly appreciate it if you could post the attached Call for Papers in your department, as well as forward this email to any concerned/interested parties and listserves you may know of. The deadline for submission of abstracts is December 21st, 2009. We would also like to inform you that the department online journal Tiresias will publish some of the papers after the conference (the deadline for submission of your papers will follow ASAP)

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• 15 oct 2009

  Montpellier

  Call for papers - Information

  Scientific and Technical Information and Rural Development: Highlights of Innovative Practices

  The renewed worldwide interest in agriculture and questions dealing with food crises increase the need for quality information for actors in rural development. Bringing their knowledge and know-how, the Scientific and Technical Information Specialists can contribute to providing this information. The congress organized by the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) and Agropolis International will ensure fruitful exchanges between information specialists and actors of rural development.

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• 30 sep 2009

  Paris

  Call for papers - Asia

  Tamil communities and the sri lankan conflict

  Cette conférence sur « les communautés tamoules et le conflit sri lankais » sera l'occasion de réunir, sous l'égide du laboratoire ENeC (UMR 8185 - Université Paris-Sorbonne et Université de Saint Denis), des chercheurs de disciplines et nationalités différentes afin d'approfondir la réflexion sur des sujets d'une grande actualité scientifique tels que les migrations, le transnationalisme, l'analyse et la résolution de conflit... à travers l'exemple de Sri Lanka et sa diaspora.

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• 22 jui 2009

  Paris

  Seminar - Political studies

  Politiques antidiscriminatoires

  Séminaire, Paris, 15 et 22 juin 2009

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• 30 jui 2009

  Zurich

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Urban Research and Architecture: Beyond Henri Lefebvre

  The interdisciplinary conference "Urban Research and Architecture: Beyond Henri Lefebvre" brings together recent applications of Lefebvre’s theory in order to develop new concepts for the analysis of contemporary processes of urbanization and to suggest new design tools for architecture and urbanism.

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• 27 mai 2009

  28 mai 2009

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Asia

  La Méditerranée asiatique : rivalités et complémentarités entre centres d’affaires et financiers

  International Trading and Financial Hubs in East and Southeast Asia: Rivalry and Complementarity

  Les métropoles de Tokyo-Yokohama, Shanghai, Hong Kong, et Singapore, situées àla périphérie du corridor maritime d’Asie orientale, forment un système caractérisé parl’intensité de leurs échanges économiques, les différentes relations avec leur arrière-pays, etleur degré d’intégration dans l’économie mondiale. The metropolises of Tokyo-Yokohama, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore located on the periphery of East Asia’s maritime corridor, form a system which is characterized by the intensity of their economic links, the different relationships they have with their hinterlands, and their level of integration within the world economy.

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