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• 28 Jun 2023

  Paris

  Study days - Epistemology and methodology

  Les terrains israélo-palestiniens : enjeux méthodologiques, épistémologiques et politiques

  Cette journée d’étude s’inscrit dans la continuité d’un courant de réflexion s’intéressant aux défis du terrain au Proche et au Moyen-Orient, et a pour objectif de se consacrer particulièrement aux espaces israélo-palestiniens comme terrains de recherche. Soumis à des dominations impériales, mandataires et coloniales et traversé par de concurrentes revendications nationalistes, ce territoire est, depuis la fin du XIX^e siècle, le théâtre d’une colonisation qui modifie régulièrement l’espace et l’organisation sociale. Quelles sont les problématiques auxquelles doivent faire face les chercheur·es travaillant sur les terrains israélo-palestiniens ? Quels sont les effets et les apports de ces difficultés sur le façonnement de l’objet d’étude, mais aussi sur le positionnement et la représentation du ou de la chercheur·e ?

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• 20 Jun 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  “Voces”. Latin Middle Ages through Key Words

  Expressing and Performing Emotions

  The conference cycle “Voces. Latin Middle Ages through Key Words” aims to take a closer look at Latin words that have played an important role in the medieval culture. Every two year we propose to focus on a different major medieval concept and its linguistic expressions. This year’s edition will focus on Expressing and Performing Emotions.

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• 01 Jul 2023

  Call for papers - History

  The Afterlives of Revolutions

  A Special Issue of “Práticas da História”

  Political and social revolutions are events frequently studied by the discipline of History. However, contributions by historians to the study of the posthumous lives of these events are rarer. This call aims to elicit proposals for articles and essays that focus on the memorialistic trajectories of revolutions. Case studies, historical comparisons, or theory-based approaches may be proposed. The journal Práticas da História also encourages the submission of proposals for articles and essays that focus on how political discourse, commemorative politics, and historical staging have dealt and are dealing with past revolutions, as well as the discussion of issues such as the mobilization of examples, icons, or concepts of past revolutions by revolutionary action. The problem of the inscription (or not) of revolutions in the organics of the regimes that succeed them or, finally, the identification of the beginning/end of a revolution, may also be addressed.

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• 10 Jul 2023

  Amiens

  Call for papers - Representation

  Memory and identity in the English-speaking world since 1945 : transdisciplinary perspectives on the margins and the mainstream

  The aim of this Study day is to examine the dynamics, interactions and tensions between the polysemic notions of margin and mainstream in post-1945 English-speaking areas. More specifically, we will examine the modalities and dynamics of exchange and movement from one category to the other, as well as the way in which they take on their meaning in varied and variable political, media, sociological and cultural contexts. Proposals may thus highlight thematic issues in relation to the phenomena studied, such as marginalised or militant histories, critical or methodological thoughts about mediation mechanisms, conceptualisation issues or personal and collective positioning.

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• 30 Sep 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  The Armenian Genocide: New Interpretations and Cross-Disciplinary Conversations

  The study of the Armenian genocide often remains confined to restricted circles of specialists and interdisciplinarity is too rarely promoted. And, although comparative research is praised, it is frequently reduced to the juxtaposition of case studies. Research on the Armenian genocide is now ready to address more cross-cutting issues and to fully contribute to broader discussions on mass violence. Therefore, this conference asks: how can the social sciences, memory studies, and genocide studies contribute to a broader understanding of the Armenian genocide and its aftermath? And reciprocally: what is the contribution of research on the Armenian genocide to our understanding of mass crimes and to the social sciences?

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• 15 Sep 2023

  Caen

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  La valeur des vivants dans l’Occident médiéval (Ve-XVe siècle)

  In the framework of a study day, we propose to reflect on the values accorded to living beings (humans and animals) in the medieval West from the 5th to the 15th century. They are characterised by their market, utilitarian and symbolic value. In addition to this, there are the considerations and knowledge that medieval people had of their fellow human beings and their environment (fauna and trees). Finally, the event proposes to look at these questions in the context of reflections on medievalism. As the issues are diverse, we are making the whole range of humanities and social sciences disciplines.

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• 15 Sep 2023

  Rennes

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  Reimagining Annotation for Multimodal Cultural Heritage

  Reimagining Annotation for Multimodal Cultural Heritage is an international conference that will be held in Rennes, France from 7th-9th February 2024. The conference looks to explore questions around digital annotation in the humanities and the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) across three primary axes: tools, methods and projects. We seek to discover the extent of digital tools for the navigation of multimodal document networks, the creation of data-driven interfaces and the implementation of close and / or distant reading techniques; the epistemological questions that these tools allow to emerge and how research in the humanities is changing; and projects that make use of these tools.

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• 05 Jun 2023

  06 Jun 2023

  Liège

  Study days - Ethnology, anthropology

  Giving research feedback to children: beyond ready-made recipes and asymmetric relationships

  Bringing together social scientists who do fieldwork with children or young people and wish to renew the methodology and the sense of their feedback of research results, we aim at working in a collaborative and innovative way by cross-cutting fields and disciplines. Methodological publications usually include ready-made tools. While they make it possible to avoid the worst, they often do not consider the overall social and cultural context in which children live; they may also be adults-centered and based on stereotypical representations of childhood. During a day and a half, participants will exchange in order to help each other to elaborate a visual or performance-based feedback of their research grounded in the daily life of children and youth, their communication codes and potential expectations.

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• 07 Jun 2023

  08 Jun 2023

  09 Jun 2023

  Casablanca

  Study days - Sociology

  Transformations sociétales en Afrique et en Haïti : action publique, participation citoyenne et représentations culturelles

  Pour 2023, les membres de la chaire Défis partagés du développement : savoir, comprendre, agir ont conjointement décidé de consacrer leur cinquième événement international annuel à la problématique « Transformations sociétales en Afrique et en Haïti : action publique, participation citoyenne et représentations culturelles » portant une attention particulière à l’élaboration des politiques publiques et leurs mises en œuvre en regard des attentes et aspirations de la société, sur les formes, y compris nouvelles, de participation des citoyen·ne·s et sur l’importance des représentations sociales et culturelles dans l’analyse du changement social.

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• 08 Jun 2023

  09 Jun 2023

  Lyon

  Conference, symposium - Epistemology and methodology

  Symbioses, transdisciplinary prospects

  The study of the interdisciplinary notion of symbiosis has become a subject of reflection on biological identity, its becoming within the symbiotic relationship with an associated environment (biotic, abiotic, social) and on the nature and diversity of symbiotic relationships. Using transdisciplinarity as a method, the idea is therefore to reflect, across different disciplines, on the definitions of symbioses in living organisms and their heuristic, symbolic and even metaphorical dimensions and on the nature and temporality of symbiotic relationships between living organisms, including with our germs.

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• 12 Jun 2023

  19 Jun 2023

  Paris

  Seminar - Early modern

  Sources pour une histoire administrative croisée

  Collège de France et Bibliothèque nationale de France (1773-1815)

  La période qui sera à l’étude au cours des deux séminaires organisés par le Collège de France et la Bibliothèque nationale de France, dans le cadre de « Passage des disciplines », permettra d’examiner deprécieux éléments pour l’histoire administrative et scientifique croisée des deux établissements.

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• 30 Jun 2023

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Travail des algorithmes. Sociologie des délégations techniques

  Revue « Socio »

  Les algorithmes sont désormais omniprésents dans les pratiques humaines les plus diverses, impliquant des programmes (informatiques le plus souvent, mais pas exclusivement) d’instructions déléguées à des entités artificielles. Pourtant la question de ce que les algorithmes font au travail est plus rarement appréhendée de manière directe. Sans s’y réduire, le dossier privilégiera trois axes complémentaires d’analyse : d’abord, les conséquences des algorithmes sur le travail ; ensuite, les conséquences de la délégation technique dans l’organisation des activités salariées (hiérarchie, modes de contrôle du travail, décision, etc.) ; enfin, les modalités politiques de la place croissante des algorithmes dans le travail.

   

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• 16 Jun 2023

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Global Series: TV and the Political Imagination

  This collective volume seeks to explore the vast potential of TV series and their role in shaping our moral and political perspectives on the world. Global Series: TV and the Political Imagination is part of the ERC Demoseries project, hosted by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and responds to Sandra Laugier’s call for taking TV series seriously as “a new form of education…[that is] both political and moral” (Laugier 2022). TV series have the capacity to reflect complex social and political realities and can serve as shared representations of moral reasoning and values, prompting viewers to engage in ethical reflection and philosophical inquiry. By examining a diverse range of TV series from across the globe, the volume aims to highlight their power to act as common reference points in shaping public discourse and conversation.

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• 19 Jun 2023

  Call for papers - History

  Extreme bodies

  « Perspective » n° 2024-2

  The journal Perspective : actualité en histoire de l'art will explore, in its 2024 – 2 issue, the thematic “extreme bodies”. Our aim is to shed light on the ways images participate in the creation of the body, the spread of a standard and the constraints applied to that body in order to achieve the standard, but also the ways images sometimes serve to subvert them. It is thus in terms of the standardised body, considered more as a model or goal to be attained than as the aurea mediocritas (Horace, Odes, II, X, 5), the incarnation of the middle ground remote from excesses, that we would like to address questions related to extreme bodies.

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• 15 Jun 2023

  Strasbourg

  Summer School - Science studies

  École d’automne internationale et francophone 2023 du Réseau international universités-sociétés (RÉIUNIS)

  Le Réseau international Universités-société (RÉIUNIS) œuvre à la reconnaissance et la valorisation de ces formes de recherche participative et se mobilise pour organiser une école d’automne à destination des jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses, en collaboration avec l’Institut français du monde associatif (IFMA) et avec le soutien financier de l’Agence universitaire de la francophonie (AUF) et de la Fondation de France. Cette école d’automne est conçue comme un temps de formation, de partage d’expérience et de méthode, et participera à la constitution d’un réseau international qui porte la voix et les enjeux des recherches participatives.

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• 05 Jul 2023

  Abidjan

  Call for papers - Representation

  Représentation de l’environnement naturel

  Pour une écocritique des littératures et arts africains postcoloniaux

  Le monde contemporain traverse une crise écologique qui se manifeste par les phénomènes tels que le réchauffement climatique, les catastrophes naturelles, l’augmentation du niveau de la mer, etc. En investissant cette problématique dans le contexte africain, la présente journée d'étude se propose d’interroger, la pensée écologique sous le prisme d’un comparatisme entre littératures et arts africains. Il s’agit de voir comment « l’imagerie se transforme en imaginaire » (Mirella Vadean et Sylvain David, 2014, p. 38) et permet l’investissement « du pouvoir créatif et poétique nécessaire au surpassement de l’inquiétude » (Mirella Vadean et Sylvain David, 2014, p. 40).

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• 05 Jun 2023

  06 Jun 2023

  Saint-Martin-d'Hères

  Seminar - Information

  IT in Heritage

  Digital for Heritage and Heritage of Digital

  The new digital devices that heritage has gradually taken hold of are numerous. The possibilities offered by artificial intelligence aided by open data, semantic web, virtual reality, retro engineering, etc. are vast. They give rise to exciting research projects. But digital technologies are not only at the service of heritage, they are themselves a heritage. In this context, we propose the first edition of the IT in Heritage seminar. Beyond a state of the art of relations between heritage and digital technologies, it will bring together researchers from the Humanities and Computer Sciences working on these themes to offer them a space and time for exchange.

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• 30 Jun 2023

  Paris

  Call for papers - Modern

  Drawing from Memories

  The memorization of space, explored individually or collectively, is often studied through drawings. The act of drawing is an externalization process that involves cognitive and heuristic aspects of the mental map. More generally, it requires specific thinking skills and creativity. Everyone, to varying degrees, is likely to use drawings, not only for the purpose of recollection, but also for exploration and communication. Spatial cognition and geography have long used this simple process which is widely shared and easy to set up. If individual memorization processes are investigated in numerous studies, only few of them focused on the processes and strategies that underlie the act of drawing, especially with several people.

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• 16 Jul 2023

  Douai

  Call for papers - Law

  Legal Discourses, Gender and History

  This international and multidisciplinary colloquium welcomes contributions that link legal discourses and gender studies, from the legal disciplines as well as from the humanities and social sciences. It is structured around three axes: (1) critical epistemology of law in the light of gender and intersectionality; (2) methods of gender and intersectional analysis and heuristic tools developed for discourse analysis; (3) research results of gender and intersectional analysis of legal texts, primary or secondary.

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• 30 Jun 2023

  Paris | Aubervilliers

  Call for papers - Africa

  In the notebooks of a scholar travelling in Ethiopia

  Transcribing and editing the notebooks of Antoine d’Abbadie (mid-19th century)

  During the decade of 1840, a French scientist, Antoine d'Abbadie, traveled to the Horn of Africa. Self-funded, he made numerous scientific observations that he recorded in some twenty notebooks. The MSS-Abbadie project, part of the BnF's four-year research program (2020-23), has been working to make this profusion of notes accessible by digitizing the originals, depositing them on Gallica, describing the manuscripts, and offering them for collaborative transcription on the Transcrire platform. This call for participation invites the contributors who took part in this crowdsourcing adventure to return some of the knowledge acquired during this transcription work, as well as to testify about it and the working methods that were experienced. It remains wide open to researchers from outside the project who can provide a fresh look at both the historical context and the new approaches currently being applied to this type of corpus and situations.

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