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• 30 nov 2012

  Helsinki

  Call for papers - History

  Public Diplomacy in Context

  Past and Present of National Image Management among the Small Nations of Northern Europe

  Two-day conference in Helsinki and Turku (Finland) in April 2013. The theme of the conference is the History of "National Image Management" efforts (Public diplomacy, Propaganda, Nation-Branding) in the countries of Northern Europe. Deadline for abstracts is the end of November 2012.

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• 30 sep 2012

  Call for papers - Law

  Border controls and human rights : the construction process of the EU identity facing dilemmas and imperatives

  20th International Conference of Europeanists

  In order to propose a session (for the 20th International Conference of Europeanists on the theme "Crisis and Contingency: States of (In)stability", that will take place in Amsterdam, on June 25-27 2013, it is called for papers that deal with the problematics of the EU immigration and asylum policy.We can wonder whether the measures that are adopted on immigration and asylum issues comply with international and European legal instruments of human rights protection, as interpreted by the ECJ and the European Court of Human Rights. The context is appropriate for such an analysisThe Lisbon Treaty consolidates the scope of such juridical instruments, and reinforces the control the ECJ develops on the EU norms pertaining to the Area of freedom, security, and justice, particularly the norms dealing with immigration and asylum matters.

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• 25 oct 2012

  26 oct 2012

  Brussels

  Conference, symposium - History

  Dealer, collector, critic, publisher…: The « animateur d’art » and his multiples roles

  Pluridisciplinary research of these disregarded cultural mediators of the 19th and 20th centuries

  The first goal of our symposium is to enlighten the role of the animateur d’art in the development of the arts. We hope that this scientific gathering would help us specify this first formula of the cultural actor: “The animateur d’art is an amateur who actively participates in the defense of the arts and in the stimulation of the artistic creation in a certain period. He puts his numerous networks to work in order to spread ideologies and aesthetics through the cultural environment and the society. He is a key figure positioning himself as a mediator between the different art worlds – the plastic arts as well as between the different agents of the cultural environment. His work consists in building bridges between the artists and his own cultural environment in order to ease the reception of the works and to promote a peculiar aesthetics”.

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• 01 déc 2012

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  Risk and disaster in health and medicine

  Call for papers on all aspects of risk and disaster in the history of health and medicine, including its changing definition and the movement towards its quantification, covering epidemics, infectious and chronic disease, injuries and mental health. The articulation between personal risk, diagnosis and prognosis throughout history and health risks affecting communities of all sizes is, we believe, a key issue. We encourage contributions treating national and chronological differences and shifts in the definitions, perceptions and representation of risks and dangers, considered globally and according to race and ethnicity, gender, class, and professional status.

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• 01 nov 2012

  Call for papers - Asia

  Arabian Humanities n°2 – Free Articles Section

  Arabian Humanities is an International Journal of Archaeology and Social Sciences focusing on the Arabian Peninsula. It is the continuation of the Chroniques Yéménites, which was the first peer-reviewed academic journal on Yemen, the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa published by the CEFAS between 1993 and 2011. Its editorial board is calling for papers for the Free article Section of the 2nd issue of the journal, devoted to Towns and urbanization in the contemporary Arabian Peninsula and scheduled for Autumn 2013.

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• 15 oct 2012

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Reality, Fiction, Utopia

  International meeting of the project "To Each his own Reality" (ERC Starting Grant) April 2013

  Le projet ERC-Starting Grant À chacun son réel, recherche menée sur les notions de réel et de réalité(s) dans l’art des années 1960 à 1989 en France, RFA, RDA et Pologne, organise à Paris, au Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, une rencontre internationale les 11, 12 et 13 avril 2013 autour de trois ateliers de recherche rassemblant chercheurs confirmés, post-doctorants et doctorants et dont les thèmes de travail seront : Réalité(s), fiction, utopie.

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• 30 sep 2012

  Amman

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Seventh World Archaeological Congress

  Le Seventh World Archaeological Congress (WAC 7) se tiendra à la Mer Morte (Jordanie) du 14 au 18 janvier 2013.

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• 15 sep 2012

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Toward the Europeanization of Digital Powers. The Role of Digital Technologies in the European Integration

  The Euroacademia Convention of European Studies "Naming the Crisis of Europe and Assessing its Impact" aims to address the ongoing challenges, to map the current state of reflection on the topic of the European crisis and to look at available scenarios for the future of Europe. No other field than European Studies has a larger portfolio of available disciplinary instruments, models and paradigms that are expected to provide answers to unfolding realities. If no single disciplinary trend can provide neither sufficient explanations of the ongoing events nor reasonable predictions, a dialogue between schools, trends, paradigms and models in European Studies could forward a mosaic of alternatives for reflection at hand.

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• 14 sep 2012

  Coimbra

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  Alice - Strange mirrors, unsuspected lessons

  Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences

  The Centre for Social Studies (CES) –Associate Laboratory– of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, has an open competition to two Post-Doctoral Grants within the scope of the project “ALICE - Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences” (alice.ces.uc.pt), funded by the European Research Council (269807), under the supervision of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, in social sciences.

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• 15 déc 2012

  Taipei

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Bodily Cultivation & Cultural Learning

  8th International Symposium of CORPUS (International Group for the Cultural Study of the Body)

  Almost all cultures recognize as a means of achieving religious or spiritual goals, cultivating moral and emotional virtue, or transforming ideas into bodily practices. Some of the most common examples include fasting, meditation, vegetarianism, and qigong or taichi. Rather than focus on these obvious examples, conference attendees will examine culturally driven bodily practices such as proper ways to walk, sit, and gesture—all of which are often endowed with rich cultural meaning, information about cultural learning, and knowledge about the cultivation of values and merit. Bodily cultivation can also be analyzed as a channel for learning, manifesting, developing, or shaping cultural concepts and ideals.

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• 15 nov 2012

  Montreal

  Call for papers - History

  Quebec in the 1960s : Opening to the World

  Au cours des années 1960, le Québec s’ouvre sur le monde. Tant au niveau politique, économique que social et culturel, il cherche à créer, et dans certains cas, à recréer des liens avec l’extérieur dans le but d’accélérer son processus de modernisation. Le groupe de recherche GRIQUERE (2005) désire faire le point sur le sujet en organisant un colloque visant, d’une part, à rendre compte des progrès récents dans les connaissances à ce niveau et d’autre part, identifier les domaines qui ont jusqu’ici été négligés afin d’orienter les recherches futures / During 1960s, Quebec opens to the world. Both at the political, economic, social and cultural levels, Quebec tries to create, and in some cases, to recreate links with the outside world in a way to accelerate its process of modernization. The group of research GRIQUERE (2005) wishes to review the subject by organizing a colloquium aiming, on one hand, to report recent progress in the knowledge at this level and on the other hand, to identify the fields which were neglected up to here to direct the future researches.

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• 15 nov 2012

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Transforming South-East Asian Cities: a View from the Grassroots

  7th EuroSEAS Conference – 7th groupe "Environment, cities and housing", panel 72

  Based on empirical approaches, the aim of this panel is to analyze contemporary urban dynamics at the local scale in Southeast Asian cities. In particular we will address mechanisms of urban change, as they can be seen at the neighborhood level. With the ongoing transformations, both in city centers and in the peripheries, are there new forms of urban practices, of resistance? What is the role of the people at the grassroots in such transformations? These interactions can be read from such scales as the home, the street and the neighborhood. From this viewpoint, how can we consider urban oppositional processes, for instance a formal sector to an informal one, public actors to private ones, the authorities to citizens?

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• 21 sep 2012

  Paris

  Study days - Political studies

  Governing the Sustainable Development

  Evolution of Environmental Administrations in Europe and United States

  In 2007 a new French “Ministry for sustainable development” was created, a "super Ministry" which houses the functions of the former Ministries of Environment, Energy, Housing, and Transport under one single roof. This merger applies to all levels of government, with the creation of large regional services for sustainable development. This mode of reform does not seem to be specific to the French case. At first glance, it echoes the concerns for more coordination and integration which have been already observed in several other countries including Germany and the United Kingdom. This workshop aims to compare different national situations regarding environmental administrations and their impact on public policies.

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• 12 oct 2012

  Munich

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Professorship of Early Modern History, specialising in Western European History

  The Faculty of History and Art of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München invites applications for a Professorship (W2) (6 years/tenure track) of Early Modern History, specialising in Western European History commencing as soon as possible. Prerequisites for this position are a university and a doctoral degree. With an excellent record in research and teaching to date, prospective candidates will have demonstrated the potential for an outstanding academic career.

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• 27 oct 2012

  Paris

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  History of electricity grants 2012 -2013

  Comme chaque année, le Comité d'histoire de l'électricité propose aux étudiants travaillant en sciences humaines sur l’électricité : Quatre bourses annuelles de 3000 euros ; Entre trois et six bourses annuelles de 3000 ou 1500 euros, selon la qualité des dossiers.

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• 12 sep 2012

  13 sep 2012

  14 sep 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  Corpses and Destrcution

  First Annual Workshop of the Research Programme "Corpses of mass violence"

  This workshop addresses the first phase of the research programme “Corpses of mass violence and genocide”. In the context of mass violence and genocide, death is not the end of the executors’ work. After the abuses, the victims’ corpses are treated and manipulated in very specific ways, amounting in some cases to true social engineering; this phase is remarkably little documented in the existing research. This conference aims therefore to explore this phase of destruction, across a range of extreme situations including mass cremations, concealment, profanation, displacement or re-burials. Focused on the 20th century, the conference will seek to reevaluate the motivations, the ideological frameworks and the technical processes at work in the destruction of corpses, taking a comparative and instrumental perspective which should open to new research in mass violence and genocide studies.

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• 01 oct 2012

  Lille

  Call for papers - History

  “This Is the Modern World”. For a social history of rock music

  Si l’histoire du rock passe par l’histoire des courants musicaux, elle ne se limite pas à cela. Le rock est un phénomène socio-musical complexe, qui mérite d’être étudié non seulement pour lui-même, mais comme un révélateur de mutations sociales et culturelles essentielles à la compréhension des sociétés depuis la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. C’est dans cet objectif qu’est organisé ce colloque, qui entend rendre compte de la richesse du champ, dans une perspective internationale et interdisciplinaire.

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• 15 oct 2012

  Call for papers - Information

  E-learning 2.0 Technologies and Web Applications in Higher Education

  This book will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area. It will be written for professionals and academics who want to improve their understanding of the strategic role of E-learning at different levels of the information and knowledge society, that is, E-learning at the level of the global economy, of networks and organizations, of teams and work groups, of information systems and, finally, E-learning at the level of individuals as actors in the networked environments.

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• 11 oct 2012

  Arras

  Study days - History

  Fighting Underground: The Moles of the Great War

  La Grande Guerre n’est pas seulement une histoire de fantassins combattant au prix de lourdes pertes dans le no man’s land, ou de pilotes se battant au-dessus des champs de bataille. Plus méconnue, la guerre des mines est pourtant une part essentielle de la guerre de position. Cette journée d'étude invite à découvrir cette lutte souterraine.

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• 29 nov 2012

  30 nov 2012

  Rome

  Conference, symposium - Information

  Tracking Innovation through Grey Literature

  Fourteenth International Conference on Grey Literature

  Innovation is a process manifested in and through grey literature. Both have their origins in knowledge generation and both demonstrate value for government, academics, business and industry through their uses and applications. In a way, innovation and grey literature are two sides of the same coinage. Innovation is the catalyst for positive change and grey literature is the measure of benchmarks in the further process of research and development. The goal of the Fourteenth International Conference on Grey Literature seeks to track the process of innovation by tracing the research life cycle and observing its convergence in the field of grey literature.

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