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• 18 Oct 2021

  Call for papers - History

  The legacy of the arts: ideas and representations

  The transmission of knowledge through tradition, orality and Academia

  The second edition of the conference on doctoral studies in art and musicology aims to focus on research on the transmission of knowledge through the arts as a means and source of knowledge in the art world. The images and musical documents that have been preserved from ancient times to the present day - throughout the world - have made it possible to understand aspects of the social, cultural and religious life of many civilizations and also to be the same reflection of these. In this way, Art and Music, as resources, have been one of the key elements to be able to understand a culture since it has been the mechanism through which humans have been able to capture and transmit ideas and knowledge.

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• 20 Sep 2021

  Madrid

  Call for papers - America

  The Presence of America in Madrid

  Art, Images and Material Culture in Transit

  As is well known, during the Early Modern period, hundreds of objects, artworks, painted and illustrated documents and manuscripts were sent from the Spanish viceroyalties in America to Iberian Spain. This circulation has been the object of renewed academic interest in recent years. In response to this trend, it seems necessary to better understand the particular place that Madrid, as both city (villa) and court (corte), occupied within this broader phenomenon. We invite proposals based on original research that can contribute to advancing the current state of knowledge and explore new questions and theoretical frameworks for our better understanding of these unique objects and works of art.

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• 06 Jul 2021

  Lisbon

  Conference, symposium - Epistemology and methodology

  Nothingness, regrets and omissions in biographies

  The Biographical Echoes Conference 2nd Edition

  The Biographical Echoes project research team has the pleasure to invite you to the second edition of the Biographical Echoes Conference entitled Nothingness, regrets and omissions in biographies.

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• 15 Jul 2021

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Religion in higher educational institutions in Africa and beyond

  (Re)Conversion, Power, and Authority from a comparative perspective

  Religious diversity is a feature of contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa and the outcome of many dynamic socio-historical processes. Over the past centuries, Christianity and Islam in particular, claimed a significant influence on social, political and even economic interactions across the continent. While trade, missions, migrations, and demographic growth imposed new forms of religious cohabitation, being religious and displaying it has become prevalent in many parts of the continent. This has affected the status of religiosity in private and public domains, has shaped modes of belonging, power relations, and ultimately how people interact, especially in multi-religious settings.

   

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• 15 Jul 2021

  Call for papers - History

  The Fractured States of America

  JAm It! Issue #6

  This issue of JAm It! seeks contributions that address how different iterations of real and/or symbolic internal enemies have been generated and represented in US culture. Further, we invite reflections on how, on the level of policy, discourse, and societal dynamics, such internal divisions have been flattened out for the sake of a uniform—rather than united—nation. Finally, to encourage a nuanced and balanced understanding of the topic, we also welcome contributions that highlight how fractures and differences, as well as the very need for a real or imagined internal enemy, have had virtuous outcomes in US history and its formation.

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• 06 Jul 2021	04 May 2021	06 Apr 2021
  02 Mar 2021	02 Feb 2021	...

  Seminar - Sociology

  Seminar in contemporary British civilisation

  Le séminaire s'intéresse aux grandes questions sociétales et politiques au Royaume-Uni dans la période contemporaine, dans une perspective transdisciplinaire. L'accent est mis en particulier sur les systèmes politiques, la production de politiques publiques (sociales, culturelles, etc.), les acteurs, les enjeux et les pouvoirs qui conditionnent ces politiques

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• 30 Jun 2021

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Touched: Transdisciplinary Perspectives

  Inauguration of the TACT network (Touch, Arts, Affects)

  This seminar proposes to explore the elusive experience of being touched from a transdisciplinary perspective. It will serve as the launch for the TACT network (Touch, Arts, Affects).

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• 31 Mar 2022

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Social change and sport

  The COVID-19 Pandemic and other turning points in modernity

  The aim of this special issue lies in the social changes that the COVID-19 directly or indirectly provoked/provokes/will provoke to the area of sport.

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• 31 Oct 2021

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Rethinking Participatory Processes Through Music

  This conference aims to explore the potential of music to contribute to this rethinking of participatory processes. We invite proposals from scholars working in any discipline for papers exploring participation, decision-making and power negotiation in relation to any musical practice in any historical and geographical context.

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• 01 Oct 2021

  Call for papers - History

  Abandoned properties: crisis and liability

  This call for articles is addressed to researchers in history and social sciences and aims to address the following question: what happens when things, during and after a period of crisis, remain temporarily or definitively “without an owner”? This dossier aims at exploring the precise conjunctures and responses that each society, in different periods and geographical areas, offers to the problems resulting from the absence of the owner.

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• 30 Sep 2021

  Call for papers - History

  The garden of the gods

  The paradigm of antiquity in the arts at the Villa

  The establishment of humanistic culture in Italy led to one of the richest seasons in Villa architecture and a profound process of transformation of the idea and the function of the garden, in which antiquity was the absolute protagonist. The roots of this development date back to the second half of the fifteenth century, as is clearly demonstrated by Leon Battista Alberti, in the preface to his De re aedificatoria: "Our Ancestors have left us many and various Arts tending to the Pleasure and Conveniency of Life".

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• 30 Sep 2021

  Call for papers - History

  Nero and Hadrian

  The arts in power

  Nero and Hadrian: two emperors united by a passion for the arts; both reformers in the artistic and also, in particular, in the architectural and administrative spheres. Two characters, the first much discussed, the second much less. Recent critics have portrayed them in an innovative and pioneering light, at least from a purely cultural point of view. 

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• 06 Jul 2021

  Paris | Marseille | Nantes | Montpellier

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Thought

  French Institutes for Advanced Study (FIAS) fellowship programme, 2022/2023

  The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme offers 10-month fellowships in the five Institutes of Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier and Nantes. It welcomes applications from high-level international scholars and scientists primarily in the fields of the social sciences and the humanities (SSH).

   

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• 31 Jul 2021

  Viterbo

  Call for papers - Thought

  Weightlessness and Thought in the Modern and Contemporary Arts

  International Conference “Whims of the Wind”

  Due to the anthropic causes of the present-day climatic changes, and moving from the debated idea of an ecological crisis connected to a crisis of sensibility, linked to the raising of Eco-criticism and Eco-poetics, the attention on atmospheric elements and hints in literary texts, arts and history, as well as in the esthetical debate, is growing more and more. The International Conference aims to promote a plural discourse on narration and representation of wind as a cross-knot between different disciplines, proceeding by glitches and associative jumps, intertextuality, intermediality, and moving on a new exploration of the theme through multiple examples in modern and contemporary literature and in visual and performing arts.

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• 30 Jun 2021

  Maroua

  Call for papers - Africa

  Resistance and protest in postcolonial Africa: representations in language and literature

  Exploring verbal and nonverbal expression and representation of resistance, dissent and dissidence in Postcolonial Africa

  Language and discourse are central in power mediation in any society. This concern has provoked scientific burgeoning that led to the development of a social approach to linguistics, called critical linguistics (CL), which recognized power relationships as a central theoretical issue, and discourse as well as text as its main unit of analysis. Given the complexity of globalized understandings and practices of citizenship and political engagement, there is a need to explore how Africans are participating as activists and emancipated citizens in a vibrant public sphere. This volume seeks to explore the verbal and signed acts of resistance and protest in the postcolonial context of Africa from a variety of angles and epistemological approaches.  It explores how knowledge and political/social call to action (rejecting leaders, resisting, dissenting)  is perceived, shared and used  by the individual and/or social groups in postcolonial Africa.

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• 03 Apr 2020	17 Dec 2020	21 Jan 2021
  28 Jan 2021	16 Feb 2021	...

  Lecture series - Law

  Non-State Actors, Energy Transition Law and Climate Governance Series

  TGL Project — Energy Law and Climate Policy Lecture Series

  Our program on non-state actors, energy transition, and climate governance — at the environment, energy and natural resources center at the University of Houston law center — is funded by the European Commission in the frame of the program H2020 and Marie Curie Actions — and we are delighted to partner with the Center for US and Mexican Law here at the University of Houston Law Center and the Center for European Studies at Jean Moulin University of Lyon 3 in France, to conduct research on diverse topics including inter alia non-state actors and climate litigation under the inspiring leadership of Professor Victor Flatt, Co-director of the EENR Center with Professor Gina Warren, but also our chair this morning.

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• 30 Aug 2021

  Timişoara

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Humankind and Fat. Attraction, Repulsion, Health and Politics

  12th International Symposium of CORPUS

  Fat that our bodies accumulate, fat we consume, our representations of fatty foods and bodies… The relationships between humankind and fat are a fascinating topic for social and medical scientists. They are highly variable according to the places and the times and, often, much more nuanced and complex that the dominant discourse suggests. Not very so long ago, European peasants valued fat. Today, their urbanised descendants have panic attacks if they have to move a hole in the belt! However, even if they are lipophobic, they are still linking some traditional fatty foods with festival meals. Western canons of beauty radically changed since the time when Romanian sayings went that a beautiful woman had to be fat or that a fat man was healthy. Entertainment media teach us that perfect people are thin. Nevertheless, the apparent triumph of this ideal of the body beautiful does not mean that fatter bodies totally lost their sex appeal or their power of fascination. Out of Europe, the relationships between humankind and fat can obviously differ, even in our globalized world.

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• 25 Jun 2021

  Madrid

  Call for papers - Thought

  Cultural coordinates in present-day museology

  Five neologisms

  The International Conference Cultural Coordinates in present-day museology: Five neologisms is aimed at research that focuses on analysing the contemporary museological discourse and its effects on cultural communication. Numerous questions arise, for example, regarding curatorial practices, the new formulas of knowledge transmission, museology’s potential contributions to social cohesion, the mediation made possible by the new technologies and the critical contribution to be expected concerning issues such as gender demands, environmental sustainability and others. The sections are headed by the corresponding neologisms into which the themes that are the subject of debate and analysis are divided.

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• 09 Jun 2021

  10 Jun 2021

  11 Jun 2021

  Prague

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  Displaced memories and memories of displacement

  Vanquished Others, Silenced Past, and the Burden of Implication in the 21st Century

  This two-day workshop seeks to provide a comparative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary platform to discuss many cases of how the silenced heritage of the displaced populations in Europe and beyond is being negotiated in the present day.

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• 10 Jun 2021

  11 Jun 2021

  Conference, symposium - Language

  Evidentiality and modality

  At the crossroads of grammar and lexicon

  The international conference ‘Evidentiality and modality : At the crossroads of grammar and lexicon’ will be held online June 10-11th 2021.

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