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• 01 Jul 2016

  Paris

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Post-soviet dis-integration and dis-connections (1991-2016)

  25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this conference aims at investigating its transversal consequences from two original standpoints: patterns of integration/disintegration combined to logics of connection / disconnection. These issues have various expressions in societal, normative, linguistic, regional or international fields. The conference will hence tackle a general question: how do political choices, economic contingencies or social phenomena foster or disrupt all kinds of links throughout the post-soviet area?

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• 28 Jun 2016

  Zagreb

  Seminar - Language

  Sustainable access to digital cultural and scientific heritage: Thesauri and Authority Records

  The workshop is about sustainable access to digital cultural and scientific heritage. A normative database of names and the importance of normative control will be the subjects of Ana Kne?evi? Cerovski's presentation, who is the editor of the normative base of the National and University Library in Zagreb. As an introduction to the topic and the issue of creating a thesaurus, M. Sc. Irena Kolbas, senior curator and head of the library of the Ethnographic Museum will present the problem of terminology for a specific area of ethnology and cultural anthropology.

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• 01 Dec 2016

  Call for papers - Representation

  Music, Cultural Heritage And Law

  Special Issue

  Music is a space of possibilities, a realm of cross-cultural events where interpretation is deeply rooted in history and societal evolution. The main complexity is to analyze the coded meaning and view how the same signs, notions and concepts are appropriated, translated, rehistorized and read anew in songs, be they pop songs or national anthems.

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• 07 Jul 2016

  08 Jul 2016

  Issy-les-Moulineaux

  Seminar - Information

  Structure and Dynamics of Media Flows

  This workshop is the closing event of the ANR Corpus Géomédia project, which has had geographs, media specialists and computer scientists working together since the end of 2012. It reflects the aims of the project, ie. to create a tool to capture RSS feeds concerned with international news for a number of newspapers in the world (French-, English- and Spanish-speaking), before using it to answer some research issues: what is an event? how to explain the sub/over-representation of some spaces or actors? can the flow of information be modelised at global scale?

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• 29 Jun 2016

  30 Jun 2016

  01 Jul 2016

  Mons

  Conference, symposium - History

  Tracing mobilities and socio-political activism

  19th-20th centuries

  This doctoral workshop will explore to what extent the notion of “mobility” in current cultural and social theory (eg. Stephen Greenblatt, John Urry) can be fruitfully applied in historical research. Mobilities can be seen as cross-border movements of persons, objects, texts and ideas.

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• 30 Jun 2016

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Who is in - who is out? The categories of tourism and migration and the dynamics of socio-political inclusion and exclusion

  The main theme of this meeting will be to place anthropology front and center in the face of emergent contemporary conflicts, dilemmas, and possibilities. And our panel will explore the following questions: How do politically and socially constructed categories such as migration and tourism affect the mobility of people and what strategies are employed by persons to deal with, and challenge, these competing definitions of travel? How does the nation-state interfere with peoples’ habits of travel? What are the experiences of persons with travel categories and how is the interplay with other categories such as nationality, gender, ethnicity, age, or sexuality?

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• 30 Jun 2016

  London

  Call for papers - America

  Decolonizing Americas

  Radical Americas Symposium 2016

  The theme of this year’s Radical Americas symposium is “Decolonizing Americas”, acknowledging the long arc of struggle for freedom since the period of European colonization of the Western Hemisphere in the 15t^h century. Our collaborative effort will be to consider how histories within the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean converge and depart in relation to the experience of anti-colonial and decolonizing social movements, many of which continue today. We will also consider the ways that cultural efforts, collectives, art, and intellectual projects shape radical imaginaries of freedom.

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• 07 Oct 2016

  08 Oct 2016

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  Copyright and the Circulation of Knowledge

  Industry Practices and Public Interests in Great Britain from the 18th Century to the Present

  This conference seeks to bring together specialists of Great Britain from the eighteenth century to the present to explore the complex relationship between copyright and the circulation of knowledge. We welcome case studies that focus on a particular time period as well as papers that show how attitudes and practices have changed over time.

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• 27 Jun 2016	28 Jun 2016	29 Jun 2016
  30 Jun 2016	01 Jul 2016

  Madrid

  Summer School - Language

  Digital technologies applied to the study of poetry

  The summer school offers an application of digital humanities to the study of poetry through practical learning of the latest technologies in this field.

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• 30 Jun 2016

  01 Jul 2016

  Tours

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Invisible pesticides, invisible workers, invisible hazards

  International Conference on pesticides and occupational health issues in agriculture

  The aim of the international conference Invisible pesticides, invisible workers, invisible hazards is to gather researchers in humanities and social sciences from various background in order to foster collective discussions on the links between social context, methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks when dealing with occupational health issues related to pesticides exposure in agriculture.

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• 30 Jun 2016

  01 Jul 2016

  02 Jul 2016

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  Words

  Medieval Textuality and its material display

  The International Medieval Society organizes its 13^th Annual Symposium in Paris, on the theme of Words in the Middle Ages. Between the increasing use of paperless media forms and the rise in the number of digital collections, medievalists are seeking to adapt to these new means of producing knowledge about the Middle Ages. At the same time, scholars in this field are also trying to outline the methodological and historical issues that affect the study of words, which now simultaneously exist in the form of primary sources, codices, rolls, charters and inscriptions, digitally reproduced images, and the statistical and lexicographical data made possible by storage platforms and analytical tools.

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• 21 Jun 2016

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  Japanese Primatology meets Anthropology of Life

  Science and Personal Experiences in Chimpanzee Research

  This workshop brings together Japanese primatology and anthropology of life, by presenting and discussing common points of scientific and philosophical interest in the study of chimpanzees, humans’ closest living relatives. What are the scientific and personal conceptions of chimpanzees’ lives held by primatologists? Conversely, are humans capable of accurately making inferences on how chimpanzees might perceive the lives of other beings around them?

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• 15 Jun 2016

  09 Sep 2016

  Evora

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  PhD Programme: History – change and continuity in a global world

  This is an international and inter-university PhD programme, with the participation of the most relevant History departments and research units of the University of Lisbon (Institute of Social Sciences and Faculty of Letters), ISCTE- Lisbon University Institute, Portuguese Catholic University and University of Évora.

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• 07 Mar 2016

  Call for papers - History

  Copyright and the Circulation of Knowledge

  Industry Practices and Public Interests in Great Britain from the 18th Century to the Present

  New combinations of technology, culture, and business practice are transforming relationships among authors, publishers, and audiences in many fields of knowledge, including journalism, science research, and academia. Self-publishing, open-access, open source, creative commons, crowd sourcing and copy left: these are a few of the key words associated with recent changes in how knowledge is produced and circulated. While being celebrated for their potential to democratize knowledge, many of these changes have been accompanied by heated debates on such questions as the appropriate role of experts and ‘gatekeepers’; how to ensure that such projects are both trustworthy and economically viable; and how best to balance the interests of authors, publishers, and the general public. Copyright is often at the centre of these discussions.

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• 23 Jun 2016

  24 Jun 2016

  Study days - Sociology

  Giving history its place in migration and refugee debates and research

  In the current debates concerning refugees, we observe, in some European countries, at least three ways in which history tends to “disappear”: the past is either absent because it is unknown (it thus looks as if we have never dealt with refugees before...); actual developments are put in a quasi-historical perspective, by claiming that certain countries have always known certain types of policies, resulting in a rather static and a-historical picture as well; migrants are urged to leave their histories home. This seminar will look into ways to do “justice” to history, both in the political debate and in scholarly work.

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• 22 Sep 2016

  23 Sep 2016

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Law

  Engaging stakeholders for responsible stem cells research

  EUCelLEX (Cell-based regenerative medicine: new challenges for European Union legislation and governance) final international conference

  This international conference will cover a vast range of topics, related to how “Engaging stakeholders for responsible stem cells research”. Its aim is to create a task force for improving the collaboration of  key stakeholders involved in the questions raised by the use of stem cells.

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• 09 Jun 2016

  10 Jun 2016

  11 Jun 2016

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  The Left and nationalism in Europe

  The tragic attacks in Paris on 7 January and 13 November 2015 have engendered vivid debates about national identity and national culture in France, and accelerated the promotion of patriotism by the socialist government. At the European level, whereas the death of nations has been predicted along with the triumph of globalisation, nations and nationalism make a spectacular come back in public debates, and put most European left-wing parties in an embarrassing position.

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• 03 Jul 2016

  Brussels

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Urban studies

  PhD fellowship for a research project on “Reinventions of modernist rural landscapes”

  Focus: Rural planning in Morocco – 20th century

  MODSCAPES deals with rural landscapes produced by large-scale agricultural development and colonization schemes planned in the 20th century throughout Europe and beyond. Conceived in different political and ideological contexts, such schemes were pivotal to nation-building and state-building policies, and to the modernization of the countryside. They provided a testing ground for the ideas and tools of environmental and social scientists, architects, engineers, planners, landscape architects and artists, which converged around a shared challenge. 

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• 31 May 2016

  Paris

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Government and public services in an Age of Austerity

  A Comparative Study of France and the United Kingdom

  This international conference is being organised by several institutions (notably the Universities of Paris 1 and 3, France Stratégie and Policy Network). It aims to examine the evolution of government and public services in an age of austerity, from a comparative France-UK point of view. The conference will be trans-disciplinary and seeks to bring together policy-makers and actors, as well as researchers and academics. The goal is to compare national experiences from a sectoral point of view (education, health, transport, defence, etc.), as well as from an institutional perspective (local, national and transnational government, changing citizenship, etc.).

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• 03 Jun 2016

  04 Jun 2016

  Ghent

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Tracing types

  Comparative analyses of nineteenth-century sketches

  A new wave of scholarship has emerged in recent years, which examines nineteenth-century sketches (sometimes referred to as “panoramic literature”) from a transnational perspective. The present international conference seeks to continue this comparative reflection by placing the spotlight on the comparative analysis of texts and images of specific types and by tracing how these representations vary across sketches from different places, media and editorial contexts.

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