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Strasbourg
Academic Activities of Azerbaijanis in Europe: Scientific Exchanges and Interuniversity Relations
From the Second Half of the 19th Century to the Present Day
This interdisciplinary colloquium aims to analyse the history and evolution of academic exchanges between Azerbaijan and Europe since the late 19th century, with a focus on intellectual mobility, university networks, and the key figures involved. The event will also reflect on the current forms and future prospects of university cooperation, with the aim of promoting these trajectories more effectively and strengthening transnational research and training dynamics.
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Paris
Ukrainian music beyond borders: a study of its reception before and after 2024
This international symposium will examine the reception of musical works by Ukrainian composers in artistic institutions (such as Philharmonics, concert halls, artistic centers and festivals) and in the press (both specialized and non-specialized) since 2014. Does the perception of Ukrainian music differ between Ukraine and abroad? If so, what makes this difference? Reflections will integrate various European countries such as England, Germany, the Czech Republic and France, as well as in non-European countries.
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Berlin
Working Group on ‘Risk, Health, and State Socialism: Central and Eastern Europe, 1950s-1980s’
While much of this historiography has focused on liberal democracies, less attention has been given to how concepts of risk operated in state socialist contexts. Building on recent studies in the history of medicine and health, we invite scholars to join a working group examining risk, health, and medicine under state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. To what extent did state socialist regimes recognize certain health and medical issues as ‘governable’ through risk? What kinds of practices and ideas emerged in response? And were there differences or similarities between state socialist and liberal democratic models of risk in healthcare and medicine? Our aim is to take an exploratory approach to discuss whether, and in what contexts, the concept of risk can be applied to state socialism, and to examine the risk-related practices, ideas, and technologies observed in healthcare and medicine in state socialism.
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Budapest
Scholarship, prize and job offer - History
Research topic for Visegrad Scholarship at Open Society Archives Academic (OSA) year 2024/2025
The criticism about infringements of academic freedom, or about the radicalization of autocratic powers cannot do without an understanding of the loaded vocabularies of freedoms in the past and present, for both societies and their elites. A complex rethinking and recontextualization of the thinkers of liberties, including from the Cold War era, must also be undertaken, together with the truth-seeking adventures and projects from the past. We invite historians, researchers, political scientists, sociologists and socially engaged artists to reflect on the past uses of the languages of (attaining) freedoms by taking cues from the Blinken OSA collections. The applicants are encouraged to reflect on the connections as well as on the differences between current times and the past by following some recommended sub-topics listed below.
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2025 Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe
The Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE) is a two-week residential workshop, that provides scholars of Eastern Europe time and space to dedicate to their own research and writing in a collaborative and interdisciplinary setting. In addition to conducting their own research, scholars will also have the opportunity to participate in a series of immersive discussions on a broad topic of shared academic interest. In 2025, discussions will explore “Epistemic Mistrust: Authorship, Credibility, and Knowledge Production.” Whether in times of crisis and war, or times of peace and stability, who do we trust to tell the truth? Whose stories do we listen to? With a growing lack of trust in traditional sources of knowledge—including suspicion of academic institutions—public confidence in the value of research is eroding. Nevertheless, humanistic approaches are essential for fostering critical thinking and promoting interdisciplinary dialogue.
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Divided memories and political-cultural imaginaries in post–Cold War Europe
"Europe: cultures, memories, identities" Journal, no. 1 / 2025 (first issue)
This journal is especially devoted to the study of the dynamics of memories and of cultural identity representations which have shaped the spaces of experience, the horizons of expectation, and the sociocultural imaginaries in “Europe’s Europes” in the 20th and 21st centuries. It provides a special outlet to the analysis grounded in cultural memory studies, and particularly in contemporary theories of “agonistic memory”, considered as a “third way”, that of the research of an equilibrium between the contraries embodied in the two competitive paradigms which have disputed their hegemony in the European area, particularly since the end of the Cold War: the cosmopolitan/ transnational one, and the national(ist)/ antagonistic one.
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Prague
The Normalized, the Normalizers and Their Cinemas
Czechoslovak and Soviet Films of the 1970s
In both cinemas—that of the “normalizer” and that of the “normalized”—the political and economic stagnation reinforced by stochastic censorship and disillusioned society often leads to peculiar examples of mismatched ideology and aesthetics allowing for viewing them as accidental camp classics today. What structural changes do Czechoslovak studios undergo in the wake of the Warsaw Pact invasion? What thematic and aesthetic choices can be attributed to their moment in film history on both sides of the Iron Curtain? How does the soaring number of light entertainment genre like melodrama, comedy or musical correlate with the current events? Last but not least, the questions of actors’ agency in the face of state repression and censorship, of reevaluation of the immense corpus of films created during the late-Communist era feel relevant in Russian and Central European cinema and culture in general today.
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Galaţi
En analysant, une décennie après la fin de la Guerre Froide, les changements survenus au cours du dernier quart du siècle passé sur le plan de l’expérience et des perceptions du temps. Le caractère multidimensionnel de la mémoire historique et ses rapports avec l’avenir dans le contexte des « transformations sans précédent » entraînées par le progrès technologique et par les défis climatiques représentent également des axes majeurs dans les recherches récentes en historiographie et en philosophie de l’histoire. À l’intersection de la mémoire historique avec celle politique, la nostalgie fonctionne comme « une épée à deux tranchants », en ce qu’elle semble être tant « un antidote émotionnel pour la politique », que « le meilleur instrument politique ». Les chercheurs de divers domaines sont encouragés à soumettre des propositions explorant plusieurs thèmes liés à la mémoire, à la nostalgie et à l’utopie en Europe post-Guerre Froide.
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Paris
Drinking in the Nordic and Germanic Countries
Vice & Virtue Project
As the first part of the international, multi-annual “Vice & Vertu” project, the aim of the “Drinking in the Nordic and Germanic countries” conference is to examine past and present practices of “drinking” and to explore the normative issues involved, from the medieval period to the present day. “Vice et Vertu” (V&V) is a multi-year international research programme supported by the Universities of the Sorbonne, Caen, Turku/TIAS, Umeå and Oslo. The V&V project also aims to integrate young and up-and-coming researchers into Northern European and Francophone research networks through seminars, workshops and colloquia organised at partner universities in France and Northern Europe.
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Vienna
Conference, symposium - Europe
Critical Approaches in Romani Studies and Beyond
The conference Racism, Justice, Environment : Critical Approaches in Romani Studies and Beyond is dedicated to the topic of environmental justice. People in Eastern Europe have higher chances of dying as a result of pollution than those in Western Europe. The highest rates of pollution-related deaths are in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, and Romania, all countries with significant Roma communities. Across Europe, numerous Roma communities live in environmentally hazardous areas. Critical Romani Studies therfore proposes a paradigm shift and challenges the dominant academic and policy discourses and suggests inquiries into forms of oppressions Roma are facing, highlighting the importance of structural forms of injustice.
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Paris
Violences sexuelles et violences de genre dans le monde
Le cycle de l’année universitaire 2022/2023 « Violences sexuelles et violences de genre dans le monde - La guerre et le genre » s'inscrit dans une série de conférences sur la parité et le genre, à travers aquelle l’Inalco souhaite développer son expertise dans les études sur le genre, mais aussi sensibiliser les étudiants et étudiantes à la question du genre, former davantage d'experts et expertes dans ce domaine et donner accès au grand public à des recherches de qualité.
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Paris
Ces journées d’étude du GDRus invitent les spécialistes francophones issus de toutes les disciplines en sciences humaines et sociales à engager une réflexion collective autour des problématiques de la guerre dans les espaces de l’ancien Empire russe et de l’ex-Union soviétique. Le phénomène de la guerre est compris à la fois comme objet d’étude, obstacle à la recherche et déclencheur de changements sociaux, politiques ou culturels.
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Paris
Histoire, politique et culture en Europe médiane
Techniques et cultures
Pour la deuxième année consécutive, le séminaire interroge les manières dont l’entrée par les techniques renouvelle notre regard sur l’histoire et l’actualité des sociétés de l’Europe médiane. Les relations entre technique(s) et culture(s) préoccupent en premier lieu les anthropologues, mais présentent des questionnements fructueux pour l’histoire, la sociologie, la science politique ou encore les études culturelles. L’attention aux matérialités donne lieu depuis plusieurs années à des recherches novatrices qu’il sera fructueux de discuter dans une perspective comparatiste. Le thème présente aussi une réflexivité utile dans la période pandémique qui a bouleversé nos modes de travail et de vie par le numérique et le « distantiel ». Une attention particulière sera portée aux sources, archives, terrains utilisés pour le travail de recherche.
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Lyon
Résistances au fil des siècles dans l’Empire russe, en URSS et dans les États post-soviétiques
L’histoire de la Russie a été marquée par des régimes tyranniques et des gouvernances autocratiques et autoritaires. Lorsque les oppositions au pouvoir en place ne peuvent s’exprimer librement, se pose la question, réactualisée depuis le début de la guerre en Ukraine, de l’adhésion ou de la résistance, quelle que soit la manière dont elle se manifeste. Pour faire apparaître la diversité des résistances dans le temps et dans l’espace, afin de penser la pluralité de leurs formes et de leurs acteurs, cet appel propose trois axes principaux que les communications pourront explorer : les résistances frontales, des résistances ordinaires aux résistances créatives, raconter pour résister.
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Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology
Défis de la continuité des parcours de soins des exilés ukrainiens en France
Fondation de la Croix-Rouge française
La Fondation Croix-Rouge française a décidé de s’associer à la Fondation Solimut Mutuelle de France pour lancer un appel à candidatures pour une bourse de recherche individuelle de douze mois sur le thème des défis de la continuité des parcours de soins des exilés ukrainiens en France.
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Belvedere Research Journal - varia
The Belvedere Research Journal is a recently founded international peer-reviewed open access e-journal. It is thematically based on the Belvedere collection and devoted to research in Austrian art history in the broadest historical and geographical sense. We publish work concerned with developments in the former Habsburg Empire and Central Europe broadly defined from the medieval period to the present day.
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Nanterre
Lauréat de l’appel à projet CollEx Persée 2020, le projet DISSINVENT se propose, pour la première fois, d’inventorier, rendre visibles nationalement et internationalement et valoriser ces importantes collections produites par les dissidences « de l’Est » en exil en France, entre 1945 et 1991. Ces fonds méconnus sont à recenser et à mieux décrire dans toute leur diversité, en répondant aux défis transversaux du numérique. Il s’agit dans le même temps de développer une réflexion sur des collections à forte particularité, tant par leur provenance que par la diversité et la fragilité du corpus documentaire et par leur histoire heurtée, politiquement et émotionnellement. L’appel s’adresse aux chercheurs et chercheuses dans une perspective interdisciplinaire, aux professionnels de la documentation et aux témoins et acteurs d’une période d’histoire contemporaine qui s’éloigne, contribuant ainsi au dialogue développé par les projets CollEx Persée.
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Tartu
Borders and crossings: a transdisciplinary conference on travel writing
The 2022 Borders and Crossings conference will take part in a unique context: that of a post-Soviet and Nordic country situated in a European geographical, economic and political context. Estonia’s history is marked by successive occupations, which could arguably be considered as a form of travel from the point of view of the occupiers. These occupations have affected travel to and from this area, and generated specific mobility, such as deportation and diaspora. This context brings our attention to restricted travels and the forms of control at work when it comes to travel. Additionally, this conference acknowledges the emergency of the ecological crisis and the pressure that travelling can put on the Earth system.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - Sociology
Sexual orientation and gender identities in Caucasia: political and social stakes
Dans le cadre du festival Transcaucases, un colloque interdisciplinaire s’intéressera aux enjeux politiques et sociaux de l’orientation sexuelle et de genre dans le Sud Caucase.
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Paris
History, politics and culture in Central Europe
Techniques and cultures (2021-2022)
L’attention aux matérialités donne lieu depuis plusieurs années à des recherches novatrices qu’il sera fructueux de discuter dans une perspective comparatiste. Interroger l’espace de l’Europe médiane à travers cette question est particulièrement heuristique dans la mesure où elle permet d’aborder des phénomènes de longue durée (tels que les utopies et conflits de modernisation, la place des techniques dans les transformations des modes du gouvernement des territoires et des populations) ou contemporains (les transformations sociétales et culturelles postsocialistes et la révolution informatique, les usages de l’internet), tout en questionnant les spécificités de cette aire culturelle et ses relations aux autres parties du monde, à commencer par l’Europe occidentale.
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