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• 24 mai 2012

  25 mai 2012

  Trento

  Conference, symposium - History

  Narrating War

  Words and images of war from street singers to the internet

  One of the most significant aspects of recent historiographical work on war has been the attention paid to the cultural representations of conflict: the visual representation of war and its memory, language and rhetoric. This historiographical approach towards the subject of war has brought new attention to ways of representing war and the languages used to recount it. The First World War is usually seen as marking a new era; the unusual nature of the violence of this conflict, with the “disappearance of battle” and the mechanization of death, signalling the end of war as a place for generating men’s honour. But other moments in the history of western culture have seen the paradigm of war change in the accounts and narratives of contemporaries. Among these, the period of the Italian Wars of the sixteenth century, when the image of war transformed from a theatre of conflict between chivalric heroes to the anonymous encounters of armies.

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• 06 mai 2012

  Geneva

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Flashbacks. Nostalgic media and mediated forms of nostalgia

  Can media really be nostalgic? Which specific forms of nostalgia appear in contemporary society and why? Can people be nostalgic if they did not experience the past they pretend being nostalgic of? What kind of politics of nostalgia exist? What is the impact of nostalgia on the media market and its influence on economy? Finally, given the arbitrary (?) use of the past in all its imaginable variations and cultural systems, is it still possible to use the word nostalgia or should there be a neologism describing the transformation of the past in(to) the digital era? Could it even be possible to be simply nostalgic of nostalgia; finally describing the eternal research for (lost) identity? This international conference aims to explore nostalgia as a (mass) media phenomena and also seeks for contributions that treat any other mediated forms of nostalgia.

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• 31 mai 2012

  Cologne

  Call for papers - Modern

  Encounters of Empires

  Interimperial Transfers and Imperial Manifestations, ca. 1870-1950

  The conference will take place in Cologne from January 16th to January 18th 2013 and is co-organized by Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Cologne. An initial evening lecture will be followed by two days with 3-4 panels each including a comment. The publication of the conference proceedings is foreseen.

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• 30 jui 2012

  Mulhouse

  Conference, symposium - Early modern

  Radical Voices, Radical Ways: Articulating and Spreading Radical Ideas in the British Isles, 17th-18th centuries

  « Voix / voies radicales : dire et diffuser le radicalisme dans les îles britanniques (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) ». Colloque international interdisciplinaire, Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse (France) – 11-13 avril 2013, organisé avec le soutien d’ILLE (Institut de recherche en langues et littératures européennes, EA 4363).

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• 30 avr 2012

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Africa

  Cooperation and Education: Africa and the World

  II COOPEDU is organized by the Centro de Estudos Africanos do Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Center of African Studies, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon) and by the Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (School of Higher Education, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria). The overall theme of the congress is Cooperation and education: Africa and the World. The main goal is to extend and deepen the issues addressed in I COOPEDU (4-5 February 2010, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon), forging continuity in reflections on cooperation in educational issues between African countries and those in other regions and continents.

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• 31 mar 2012

  Loughborough

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Real Democracy and the Revolutions of Our Time

  Anarchist Studies Network Conference: Making Connections

  Le stream « real democracy and the revolutions of our time » propose d'explorer les implications pour la théorie et praxis de la révolution de certains mouvements récents, dont Occupy et le printemps arabe serait exemplaires. Il se déclinera en trois panels, qui sont tous ouverts non seulement à des communications classiques, mais aussi à des interventions artistiques, des témoignages, et des propositions orientées vers l'action.

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• 15 avr 2012

  Leiria

  Call for papers - Education

  Research, Practice and Contexts in Education

  The International Conference on Research, Practice and Contexts in Education (IPCE) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The IPCE is part of the set of activities endorsed by Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (Portugal) that promote collaborative excellence between researchers, teachers and students in their attempt to identify and discuss the challenges and solutions to existing problems worldwide know in education.

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• 01 jui 2012

  Birmingham

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Rights and Representations

  Foreign Language Film Conference V

  Submissions are invited for the fifth Foreign Language Film Conference, on the theme of Rights and Representations. In this historic setting of the American South, and in conjunction with Birmingham's 50th anniversary remembrance of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, FLFC celebrates civil and human rights. Scholars will consider the question of civil rights in international cinematic traditions. How does film as an art and a genre represent civil rights, and human rights? What are the places of rebellion, terrorism, or non-violent resistance in forging individual freedoms, and how is this reflected in national cinematic traditions? How do international films address issues of discrimination, violence, repression, the struggle for social equality ? On the pedagogical side of the question, how do films about civil rights teach their viewers about international cultural and political traditions and movements ? How are these films incorporated into classroom discussions of global civil rights ?

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• 20 avr 2012

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  I Congress of History and Sport

  The year 2012 marks the XXX Summer Olympic Games in London. 2012 also commemorates the centenary of Portugal’s first participation in the Olympic Games (in Stockholm in 1912). To mark these two events the I Congress of History and Sport will be dedicated to the Olympic movement and its different perspectives, including sport, social, economic, political, religious, media, culture and others.

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• 17 avr 2012

  Lyon

  Conference, symposium - Epistemology and methodology

  Web and Philosophy: why and what for?

  PhiloWeb 2012

  The advent of the Web is one of the defining technological events of the twentieth-first century, yet its impact on the fundamental questions of philosophy has not yet been widely explored, much less systematized. We hope to provoke the properly philosophical question of whether there is a consistent new branch or practice of philosophy that can weave these changes to technology and society into a coherent whole and have a real social impact.

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• 31 mai 2012

  Zurich

  Call for papers - Africa

  International Peacekeeping in Africa: Actors and Missions

  The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland will hold a conference the 23-24 November 2012 on International Peacekeeping in Africa, with a particular focus on current actors and missions. Over the last decades, the African continent has witnessed a proliferation of peacekeeping missions. Simultaneously, an increasing number of actors have become involved in the effort to bring peace to Africa, and this in turn has led to new and diverse types of operations. This conference seeks to analyze these developments in their entirety and comparatively in order to identify the most significant challenges and trends in international peacekeeping in Africa.

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• 07 jui 2012

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  European Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme (2012)

  EURIAS propose trente-deux résidences de recherche de dix mois dans quatorze instituts d'études avancées (IEA) en Europe. Les IEA offrent à des chercheurs de haut niveau, junior ou senior, la possibilité de travailler en toute indépendance en bénéficiant des meilleures conditions de recherche et de l'environnement stimulant d'une communauté scientifique internationale et pluridisciplinaire. Les résidences sont principalement allouées aux candidats issus des sciences de l'homme et de la société, mais sont également ouvertes aux sciences exactes et aux sciences du vivant.

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• 07 mar 2012

  08 mar 2012

  09 mar 2012

  Jaji

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Managing National and International Security in a Globalized World

  Annual conference of the SPSP in collaboration with IFRA-Nigeria

  Du 7 au 9 mars 2012, l’IFRA Nigéria participera à la sixième conférence annuelle de la SPSP (Society for Peace Studies and Practice), organisée à Jaji (Kaduna State – Nigeria) en collaboration avec le Nigeria Army Peacekeeping Centre. Cet événement réunira chercheurs, doctorants, professeurs et membres des différents corps d’armée engagés dans les programmes de pacification et de résolution des conflits au Nigéria. / From March 7-9, 2012, IFRA-Nigeria will participate to the sixth Annual Conference and General Assembly of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP), organized at Jaji (Kaduna State, Nigeria) in collaboration with the Nigeria Army Peacekeeping Centre. Scholars, professors, PhD students and members of security agencies involved in conflict resolution in Nigeria will be part of this event.

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• 10 avr 2012

  Guimarães

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Structures of the XXth Century: architectural heritage and patrimonialization

  The evolution of the architectural languages of the XX century, from modernist to post-modernist, has often stressed the importance of structures in expressing and fostering innovation. However, in the patrimonialization processes identities, memories and languages, prevail on structures and materials, due to new uses, new norms and standards adaptation.

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• 12 mar 2012

  Ibadan

  Study days - Political studies

  The North Africa Arab Uprising : Implications and significance for the future?

  L’Institut français de recherche en Afrique (IFRA-Nigéria), en collaboration avec l’Institut d’études africaines et le département d’arabe et d’études islamiques de l’université d’Ibadan, présente une conférence d’une journée sur le thème : « Les printemps arabes en Afrique du Nord : sens et implications ? »

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• 22 mar 2012

  23 mar 2012

  24 mar 2012

  Paris | Paris

  Conference, symposium - Early modern

  Shakespeare and memory

  Annual conference of the French Shakespeare Society

  Programme du congrès de la Société Française Shakespeare 2012: "Shakespeare et la mémoire".

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• 05 avr 2012

  Beijing

  Call for papers - Representation

  Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West

  Appel à communication pour un colloque international organisé par une équipe internationalle de chercheurs en histoire de l’art issus de la Peking University et Seton Hall University (Etats-Unis). L’évènement est financé par la J. Paul Getty Foundation dans son programme « Connecting Art Histories » dirigé par Thomas Gaehtgens au Getty Research Institute.

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• 18 avr 2012

  19 avr 2012

  20 avr 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  Napoleon's Empire: European Politics in Global Perspective

  Colloque international organisé par l’université de Wuppertal (U. Planert) et l’Institut historique allemand (G. Gersmann, E. Knels) avec le soutien de la Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung.

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• 15 mai 2012

  Call for papers - History

  The Apostolic See and the World. Challenges and risks facing global history

  The Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History invites scholars to participate in the debate concerning "The Apostolic See and the World. Challenges and risks facing global history". The debate will be published in the next issue of the Institute’s journal – Rechtsgeschicht –, set for release at the end of this year.

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• 25 mar 2012

  24 mar 2012

  Southampton

  Conference, symposium - Epistemology and methodology

  The Connected Past

  People, Networks and Complexity in Archaeology and History

  This conference will provide a platform for pioneering, multidisciplinary collaborative work in the field of network science. It aims to bring together the disparate international community of scholars working to develop network-based approaches and their application to the past and to provide a forum for the discussion of the most recent applications of the techniques, in order to ask what has been successful or unsuccessful, to foster cross-disciplinary collaborations and cooperation, and to stimulate debate about the application of network science within the disciplines of archaeology and history in particular, but also more broadly across the entire field.

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