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• 12 Jul 2015

  Libreville

  Call for papers - Representation

  Docteur Albert Schweitzer au Gabon

  L’homme, son temps, son principe du respect de la vie

  Comment penser Albert Schweitzer sans verser dans le binarisme du « Bon docteur de Lambaréné » et du « Condescendant colonialiste » ? Comment le comprendre au-delà de la métaphore du médecin des pauvres, des éclopés et des damnés de la jungle humaine ? Comment appréhender son principe du respect de la vie que d'aucuns considèrent comme son héritage le plus puissant légué à l'humanité désemparée, pour la refondation de la civilisation de l'universel ?

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• 15 Jun 2015

  Paris

  Study days - Geography

  Starchitecture and tourism

  Icônes globales d'architecture et circulations mondialisées

  The 1990-2000 decade are characterized by a profusion of iconic projects, in a one-upmanship that has rarely been seen in any other period of the history of architecture, simultaneously fed by local decision-makers, capital flows and transnational classes. In this context, global icons of architecture are territorial landmarks that affirm the identity and cultural vitality of an area.

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• 12 Jun 2015

  Paris

  Study days - History

  The Ages of Hajj: Historicizing the Muslim Pilgrimage

  In line with recent works and exhibitions on Hajj and its multiple facets, especially the transformation of the pilgrimage at the global scale, the workshop will bring experts working on different periods. We will focus on case studies based on primary sources, whether archival or material, throughout the long history of Hajj. Our aim is to offer a preliminary chronology, which might enlighten the evolution of Hajj on the long run and help to better understand its concrete conditions according to the various historical contexts.

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• 15 Jun 2015

  Call for papers - History

  Book-keeping and book-keepers: a new approach to court culture in medieval and modern times

  Project for a special thematic issue of the online journal Comptabilités

  This call for papers invites historians of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period to consider the role played by accounts and other types of pragmatic literacy, from the way they are produced to the way they are used, in the functionning of the court in all its aspects, as a place for governing, socialising and representing oneself.

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• 01 Sep 2015

  Perpignan

  Call for papers - Language

  Lieux d’enchantement : écrire et ré-enchanter le monde

  Les spécialistes d’écocritique et les écrivains défendent une vision de l’homme connecté aux divers réseaux de vie sur Terre ; s’évertuant à répandre une perspective biocentrique sur le monde, ils nous incitent à redécouvrir une conception de l’espace et de la terre plus humble et responsable. Les écrivains de la nature sont souvent abordés avec diverses approches critiques, appelées tantôt « éco-féminisme », tantôt « écriture de la nature », « littérature environnementale », ou, remontant à une tradition bien plus ancienne, « écriture des Premières Nations ». Or, quel que soit le prisme par lequel on les aborde, tous ces auteurs appellent à une relation avec le monde basée sur l’empathie, la perception, l’imagination et la réciprocité. Qu’ils s’inspirent des sciences écologiques, de méditations personnelles, ou encore de mythologies, de traditions et de philosophies ancestrales, ces écrivains d’origines multiples se rejoignent en ce qu’ils participent à élaborer ce que Barry Lopez et Mark Tredinnick nomment une « littérature de l’humilité, un mouvement au-delà de soi ».

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• 03 Jun 2015

  Paris

  Seminar - Science studies

  Operative knowledges of matter, from Renaissance to industrialization

  Following the renewal of the history of Technology and of the history of chemistry, this Research Seminar intends to explore operative knowledge in chemistry in connection with several fields including economics, political management, consumption and production processes. It seeks to shed a light, since the Early modern period, on various configurations where experimentation, exploration, transformation of Matter were held, through a wide range of technical devices. We will underline cross-skills, transfers and hybridization of processes, and we will show how operative knowledge fostered multiple appropriations: we will then explore the diversity of practices and know-how which allowed specific actions on substances and transformations of matter, and which were the basis of innovation and industrialization and of the reshaping of environment on the long run.

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• 07 Sep 2015

  Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - History

  D’al-Afghani à al-Baghdadi : histoire de la mobilisation islamiste

  Pourquoi, dans des contextes historiques et dans des configurations sociopolitiques différenciées et évolutives, des acteurs politiques ont-ils opté pour l’usage en politique du lexique islamique ? L'enjeu du présent ouvrage est d’offrir une historicisation et une périodisation « longue » de ses traductions successives afin de restituer les modalités d’élaboration et de reproduction de l’alchimie identitaire qui fait choisir le lexique islamique. Chaque contribution doit s’inscrire dans un contexte spatial et temporel clairement défini et s'appuyer sur une documentation innovante.

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• 26 May 2015

  27 May 2015

  Paris

  Study days - History

  The Making of Law in the Ottoman Space (1800-1914)

  This 2-day workshop will bring together historians, anthropologists and linguists working on the making of law in the Ottoman space. The aim of the workshop is to problematize the legal phenomena from a multidisciplinary aspect and beyond the normative and descriptive dimensions of laws and legislations.

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• 08 Jun 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Cities we don't talk about

  The cities of urban research have long been and still are widely today, the "great cities". But the realities of urban are not limited to them. In France for example the small and medium-sized cities house more than a quarter of the population. What does the observation of these cities bring to knowledge of the urban phenomenon? On the other hand, in the research devoted to major metropoles, it is often very specific neighborhoods that are the subject of attention of research as well as the media: social housing developments or the central gentrified neighborhoods. But more "ordinary" neighbourhoods are not often the focus. What does the observation of these neighbourhoods that we do not talk about "say" about the city? In other words, we would like to call on work that offers openings of the typologies of cities as the typologies of neighbourhoods that are subjacent to the discourse and debates on the urban.

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• 28 May 2015

  29 May 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  The End (s) of (In)Equality: France and the USA

  Alors que la France et les États-Unis sont souvent considérés comme des « républiques sœurs », la particularité de l’expérience historique de ces deux nations engendre des modèles, apparemment opposés, relativement à la liberté, aux droits et devoirs ainsi qu’au traitement des différences (sexuelles, sexuées, religieuses, raciales, etc.). Par ailleurs, la France comme les États-Unis sont toujours aux prises avec leurs passés (l’esclavage, le colonialisme), tout en s’efforçant de s’adapter aux exigences du pluralisme introduites par la mondialisation, le transnationalisme et les mouvements sociaux du 20^e siècle.

   

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• 28 May 2015

  29 May 2015

  30 May 2015

  Nanterre

  Conference, symposium - Asia

  Heritage and Ruptures

  10th Annual and International Colloquium of the Society of Activities and Research on the Indian World

  In the postcolonial theoretical framework, the study of heritage and ruptures is a rather familiar paradigm. But it is not a depleted paradigm. Given the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent and the plurality of its culture, the way its languages, literatures and arts appropriate the past, grasp the present and envisage the future remains a relevant object for inquiry. From the crossroads of diachronicity and synchronicity, tradition and modernity, singularity and solidarity, here and elsewhere, repetition and reinvention, the 10^th annual SARI conference to be held on the 28^th and 29^th May 2015 at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense and on the 30^th May 2015 at the université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, will be devoted to the exploration of this topic from an inter and pluridisciplinary perspective.

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• 31 May 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  Humanities and linguistics: cross disciplinary methodologies

  This symposium aims to question the critical use of cross-cutting methodologies in the fieldsof humanities and linguistics, the exchanges and practices of pluri-, inter- or transdisciplinarity between this research fields. The papers will question to what extent one's research topics required the use of cross-cutting methodologies; how the use of these methodologies shed a new light on these topics.

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• 30 Sep 2015

  Call for papers - Education

  Émancipation et formation de soi

  Revue « Recherches et éducations »

  The issue of the journal Recherches et éducations entitled "Empowerment and Self-Training". It solicits by the authors a conceptual clarification of the concept of educational empowerment, presentation of research results defining the emancipatory processes at work and/or presentation of educational and pedagogical guidance offering prospects in the institutional game. Its preferred field are those of adult education, popular education and coaching people.

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• 20 May 2015

  21 May 2015

  Paris

  Study days - Ethnology, anthropology

  Trouble in the field and ethnographic vigilance

  Comme le faisait remarquer Didier Fassin, aujourd’hui l'expérience ethnographique ne va plus de soi, pas plus que l'écriture anthropologique. C’est ainsi que l’auteur plaide pour l'exercice de l’« inquiétude ethnographique » (2008) tout comme Bob White appelle à la « vigilance ethnographique » ; soit laisser le doute, l'incertitude faire irruption à chaque étape du processus de recherche et de production de connaissances anthropologiques. Chacune de ces étapes sont ainsi interrogées et soumises à la critique, depuis les situations intersubjectives d’enquête jusqu’à la production du texte, les procédés d'écriture et l'autorité même à parler de, ou à parler pour. Il s’agit donc pour l’anthropologue contemporain de porter un regard critique et réflexif sur toute sa pratique pour ainsi proposer un renouvellement épistémologique qui dépasse la simple observation du soi du chercheur ou des sujets singuliers de son enquête.

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• 22 May 2015

  23 May 2015

  Cachan

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  Worlds of work and labour markets in Southern Europe

  Contractual uncertainty: Freedom and constraints at work

  Dans la dynamique de spécification du travail et des activités productives à l’égard des autres activités sociales, les institutions juridiques jouent un rôle crucial. L’élaboration d’un droit de travail et le développement d'assurances sociales reposant sur la cotisation des employeurs et des salariés introduisent des catégories nouvelles dans la vie sociale et économique. Ils enjoignent les acteurs économiques à se reconnaître dans l'une ou l’autre catégorie. Mais que se passe-t-il avant l’entrée en vigueur d'un Code du travail, la reconnaissance d’un contrat de travail ou l’identification d'une catégorie de « chômeur » permettant de regrouper dans une condition commune ceux qui travaillent pour un même « employeur » ?

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• 30 Jun 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Revisit Patrick Geddes

  In the interdisciplinarity of his thought, its international dimensions and the timeliness of his ideas, but also given the misunderstanding of his work in France, Espaces et Sociétés devotes its next folder issue to Patrick Geddes, pioneer of modern urbanism and interdisciplinary methods, precursor of environmentalism.  In effect, the environmental question has not emerged suddenly in urbanism, it goes back to the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th century with authors such as Geddes.   The choice of Geddes reflects the interdisciplinarity of his thought, its international reach and the novelty of his ideas, but also by the lack of his work in France; it was necessary, in fact, to wait until 1994 for the first translation of his work Cities in Evolution (1915).  Equally this number wishes to address this oversight by understanding and by calling for a critical rereading of his work.

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• 31 May 2015

  Limoges

  Call for papers - Geography

  Floods as Heritage: the heritage value of floods

  This workshop will explore the possibilities of considering floods as heritage. Floods are usually considered as destructive forces, but here we wish to focus on their creative aspect. There has been considerable work on the heritage value of rivers, but we want to explore the potential of considering floods themselves as heritage. What is the intellectual and practical potential of making this connection? What are the possible dangers involved? How and why does the process of remembering floods differ in different places and among different people? How can the memory of floods be considered a creative process?

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• 03 Jun 2015

  Geneva

  Study days - Geography

  Considering spaces of alternative learning

  This conference aims to interrogate space as an educational tool. Recent literature is rather unanimous in stating that space is not a neutral element and that, in education, spatiality plays a role in the construction of social and educational relations; questioning how space could operate in building models of ‘alternative’, ‘critical’ or ‘citizen’ education is more controversial. But how could we define an alternative or critical education? Which places and spaces can we consider ‘different’ from institutional and conventional educational models?

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• 08 Jun 2015

  09 Jun 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Gender and Health

  Ce colloque pluridisciplinaire se donne pour objectif de comprendre comment  les rôles sociaux liés au genre tendent à orienter la façon dont les femmes et les hommes sont (i) exposé.e.s différemment à des problèmes de santé, (ii) comment elles et ils se représentent les affections qui les touchent et (iii) ont ou non recours au système de soins, (iv) et comment les réponses des professionnels de santé se construisent différemment selon le sexe de leurs patients.

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• 15 May 2015

  16 May 2015

  Baku

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Identities on the move: the Caucasus between the local, the regional and the global

  With a focus on Azerbaijan

  Most of the time, the countries of the South Caucasus are being scrutinized from Moscow, Istanbul, and Tehran, the capital cities of the former empires that ruled the region for centuries and struggled for control over these territories. And indeed, be it the Russian, and then the Soviet empires, or the Persian and Ottoman empires, the Caucasus has been, and still is, very much affected by the influence of regional powers in a wide range of areas. As far as identity issues in the Caucasus are concerned, they tend to be studied mainly through post-Soviet lenses due to the influence of the Soviet nationalities policy. Although this inheritance still appears relevant today, the conference aims to put the emphasis on the complex set of processes that shape identities in a broad meaning. 

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