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• 11 Oct 2018

  Madison

  Call for papers - Asia

  Rejuvenating politics? Student politics and the history of youth’s political selves in South Asia

  UW Madison conference (October 2018)

  By drawing attention to the historical formation of both master narratives and counter claims developed by educated youth in the postcolonial period, the panel explores the relevance of campus spaces in the fashioning of political selves. After partition, many scholars regretted that students’ ‘movement’ had given way to sporadic, dispersed ‘agitations’, focused primarily on campus issues. Instead of dismissing group-based demands as ‘parochial’, or looking at students’ dispersion as a problem, this panel proposes to explore the myriad ways in which student politics supported, challenged or re-interpreted mainstream understandings of South Asian societies.

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• 15 May 2018

  Call for papers - Language

  Transnationalism and Modern American Women Writers

  This volume of essays, which will be published in the December 2018 issue of the webjournal E-rea, discusses a broad spectrum of writing by American women who engaged with modernity and national border-crossing in ways that deepen our understanding of modernist literary production of the early and middle years of the twentieth century.

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• 01 Jun 2018

  Montrouge

  Call for papers - Sociology

  “Lessons learned”? Studying learning devices and processes in relation to technological accidents

  How do organizations and sociotechnical systems “learn lessons” from accidents? After the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011, the immediate and most significant direct response by industry, governments and regulatory agencies was that they would learn from the accident. Such framing of accidents, disasters or crises as opportunities to improve the operation and regulation of sociotechnical systems has become an increasingly prominent feature of discourses following adverse events. This learning idiom is also taken up by social scientists who study accidents, be these nuclear, chemical, air traffic, railway, oil spills, or “natural” disasters. Such studies claim to provide a more complex account of accident causes and consequences , compared to the narratives produced by institutional actors.

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• 15 Jul 2018

  Call for papers - Geography

  Spatial (in)justices and latinamerican realities

  Under the concepts of justice and spatial injustices, Cuadernos de Geografía: Revista Colombiana de Geografía opens a call for contributions, research results and reflections framed in the following areas: Institutional and informal expressions of spatial (in)justices in recent and ancient contexts of violence and peace building; The new forms of economic production and its socio-environmental consequences: spatial (in)justices in political ecology debates; Spatial justice and struggles for recognition. The problem of territorial identities in the neo-liberal context; Inequalities, injustices and conflicts in the production of space, territorial planning and public policies.

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• 02 Mar 2018

  Paris

  Study days - Modern

  Public Space Democracy

  International Study Group on Spatial Dimensions of Public Memory

  The public space is not an empty neutral place, nor it is devoid of power relations. It is deeply imbued with regulation of social space, layers of memory, offering a scene for present day politics, but also an historical archive with different temporalities, inhabitants, monuments and events. Can physical space contribute to creating commonalities and linkage points between different publics? Or does the space, as a marker of identity and power politics become an obstacle for cultural sharing and society making? The claims over meaning and ownership of public space opening up a battlefield over its competing interpretations and contested memories will be discussed as part of global democratic agendas.

   

   

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• 02 Mar 2018

  Leeds

  Call for papers - Modern

  Memory and performance in African-Atlantic futures

  This conference examines how African diaspora performative intervention through theatre, visual art, law, the museum, etc., is challenging colonialist structures in the present. It seeks to produce new insights around  memory as a tool that connects individuals and groups not only to their pasts but to their futures.

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• 28 Feb 2018

  Dacke

  Seminar - Information

  Digital Humanities seminar

  The Digital Humanities seminar series is aimed at providing a forum for relevant Digital Humanities discussion in the region and beyond, inspiring collaboration with wider audiences about the emerging field of Digital Humanities field and University’s Digital Humanities Initiative, thus both strengthening the Digital Humanities Initiative’s established network, as well as creating a space for collaboration between universities and cross-sectoral partners at national and international levels.

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• 21 Jun 2018

  Coventry

  Call for papers - Modern

  Between and Beyond

  Transnational Networks and the British Empire (Ca. 18-20th centuries)

  This workshop intends to bring together research scholars of history and affiliated fields working on transnational networks fostered through the British Empire. We wish to focus on how certain forms of the “empire”, the “colony”, and the “outside” mutually constituted each other. Such an approach, we believe, could illumine the dense transnational convergences that shape the political, the economic, the social, and the cultural in various locations simultaneously. 

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• 03 Apr 2018

  Halle

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  The obligation of societal norms – PhD scholarships

  History, German studies, music, philosophy, political science, religious studies, Romance studies and theology

  The International Graduate School “The obligation of societal norms” at the Center of Excellence “Enlightenment – Religion – Knowledge” invites applications for 10 PhD scholarships, starting on 1 October 2018. The PhD position has a stipend of €1,500 / month and is funded for a maximum of 3 years.

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• 13 Mar 2018

  Champs-sur-Marne

  Study days - Urban studies

  Comparing property markets on an international scale

  While many scholars compare property markets from the same urban area or compare the way these markets distinguish urban areas within a given country, very few propose an international comparison. And yet, this is a main scientific issue. Such comparisons would provide a new angle for studying metropolitan development as well as its internal trends relating to inequality and gentrification.

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• 10 Dec 2018

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Symbolic violence in socio-educational contexts

  Language, power and ethnicity

  Ce numéro thématique de Language, Discourse & Society se focalise sur le langage comme un moyen d'investiguer les enjeux de pouvoir, les discours, et les pratiques culturelles et sémiotiques. Les contritutions tant théoriques qu'empiriques sont bienvenues afin d'éclairer la violence symbolique perçue et cachée à travers les discours et les pratiques socio-culturelles. Les contributions peuvent être soumises dans les trois langues de l'Association Internationale de Sociologie (anglais, français et espagnol). Ce numéro est co-édité par Anna Odrowaz-Coates (The Maria Grzegorzewska Pedagogical University in Warsaw, Pologne) et Sribas Goswami (Serampore College in West Bengal, Inde). Les contributions font l'objet d'une évaluation en double aveugle.

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• 09 Apr 2018

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Power and social exclusion

  Insights looking at language

  Ce numéro thématique de Language, Discourse & Society se focalise sur les exclusions sociales et les enjeux de pouvoir associés. L'exclusion sociale peut être appréhendée comme un ensemble d'actions plus ou moins concertées, situées dans le temps et dans l'espace, et exécutées par une personne vis-à-vis d'un tiers. Une attention particulière est accordée au langage en tant qu'outil de l'exclusion sociale, mais aussi de résistance à une telle discrimination et oppression.

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• 28 Feb 2018

  Loughborough

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation

  PhD Studentships, School of the Arts, English and Drama, Loughborough University

  The Politicised Practice Research Group in the The School of the Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University is offering a three-year PhD scholarship for a practice-based research project starting in October 2018. We welcome the submission of high-quality proposals that have the potential to make a substantive contribution to research within the School and invite proposals that address the following research theme: Re-imagining citizenship through practice.

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• 01 Apr 2018

  Call for papers - Modern

  Digital History: a Challenge of “Doing History”

  In 1973 Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie wrote that in history, as elsewhere, what counts is not the machine, but the problem. According to him, the machine is only a useful tool as it allows to tackle new questions and use original methods (“L’historien et l’ordinateur” in Le territoire de l’historien, Paris, 1973, pp. 11-14). The rise of digital technologies is changing the ways historians practice their craft. In the last twenty years, the practice of historians has changed rapidly. In the age of big data historians collect, disseminate, and store information in a different way. New digital tools in the field of history have transformed how historian can disseminate knowledge. A wide range of historians have also been brought together to focus on how digital history relate to area of traditional historical scholarships.

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• 17 Jul 2018

  Coventry

  Call for papers - History

  “Bites Here and There”: Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism across Disciplines

  “Bites Here and There”: Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism across Disciplines est une conférence qui aura lieu sur le campus de l'université de Warwick, en Angleterre, le 17 novembre 2018. L'anthropophagie a fasciné l'homme depuis l'antiquité, que ce soit en littérature, histoire, archéologie ou sciences sociales. De ce fait, cet appel a contribution invite chercheurs de toutes disciplines à envoyer un abstrait (en anglais) au sujet du cannibalisme litéral ou métaphorique pour le 17 juillet 2018.

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• 30 Apr 2018

  Call for papers - Language

  (Un)Ethical Futures: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction

  Combined call for paper "Colloquy" Special Issue and Book

  We are interested in submissions that explore the ethical dimensions of utopia, dystopia and science fiction (sf). This focus on ethics allows for a range of topics, including environmental ethics and climate change, human bioethics, animal ethics, the ethical use of technology, ethics of alterity and otherness, as well as related issues of social justice. We welcome submissions that bring these ethical considerations into dialogue with speculative fiction across different genres and modes, from sf about the near or distant future, to alternative histories about better or worse presents, to stories about utopian or dystopian societies.

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• 15 Mar 2018

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Representation

  Capitalist Aesthetics

  Open Cultural Studies Journal (De Gruyter)

  Open Cultural Studies, an OA peer-reviewed Journal (De Gruyter) invites submissions to a special issue on  Capitalist Aesthetics edited by Dr Pansy Duncan & Dr Nicholas Holm (Massey University The issue will explore the aesthetic configurations—from the cute to the comfortable, from the no-brow to the fringe—through which the economic logics of late capitalism come to crystallize today. It invites work that treats the stylistic and formal dimension of cultural objects, and the verdictive and affective dimensions of cultural discourse/experience, as valuable “cryptograms” of contemporary ideological formations and the economic relations they sustain.

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• 20 Feb 2018

  Braga

  Call for papers - Geography

  Emerging and Future Trends in Creative Tourism

  “Creatour” Second​ International Conference

  The International Conference “Creatour 2nd International Conference Emerging and Future Trends in Creative Tourism” aims to continue the works developed in the first Conference at Curia (May 2017). It will bring together creative tourism researchers with creative tourism networks that will discuss the research and practice of creative tourism. The information and results on the development of the creative tourism network – Creatour – focusing on small cities and rural areas within the Norte, Centro, Alentejo and Algarve regions of Portugal, is another aim of the Conference. 

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• 28 Feb 2018

  Wrocław

  Call for papers - Language

  International Quantitative Linguistics Conference

  QUALICO 2018

  Following the success of previous QUALICO conferences, organised by International Quantitative Linguistics Association (IQLA), we invite contributions on all aspects of quantitative linguistics and text analysis. The main topic of the conference is: Information in language: coding, extraction and applications.

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• 05 Mar 2018

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Queering Friendship | citizenship, care and choice

  Intimate Final Conference

  Contrary to individualization theories that suggest the impoverishment of human relationships, theories of relationality recognize the increasing centrality of informal networks of solidarity and care. In this debate, friendship plays a fundamental role. The mutual implications of intimacy and citizenship need to be addressed, exploring the extent to which issues of LGBTQ friendship matter (or not) in being recognized as citizens. The centrality of friendship is even more striking when considering personal lives of trans and non-binary people, but also lesbian women, gay men and bisexual people, LGBTQ migrants and other intersecting, vulnerable groups. In particular, the way transgender people actively provide and receive different care between friends offers invaluable contributions to political debates and conceptual discussions around friendship and care as a key aspect of LGBTQ everyday life. Unveiling the richness of the blurred spaces of intimacy, the ways in which LGBTQ people produce alternatives to family-based forms of cohabitation are also of critical importance. LGBTQ lived experiences further contribute to destabilizing the family/friends and public/private binaries, whilst challenging heterocisnormative expectations about who legitimately belongs to the intimate sphere and who remains excluded and/or invisible.

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