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• 28 fév 2014

  Nairobi

  Call for papers - History

  Slavery in Africa: Past, legacies and Present

  International Conference, Nairobi, Kenya October 27, 28 & 29 2014

  In Africa, the effects of slavery and slave trade are still alive and there is no doubt in their historical importance and weight in the relationships between the various components of African societies in general, and in particular, the process of building nation-states. Legacies of Slavery are numerous, diverse, sometimes painful and extremely sensitive. Important efforts have been made in African research, primarily in the study of the Atlantic slave trade, but also to some degree, the Indian Ocean islands shaped by plantation labour. However, while the voices of memory are strong in countries such as Senegal and Benin, they are just emerging in East Africa today. The question of slavery in history, its legacies and presence in African societies are at the heart of this conference which is expected to contribute to its entry into the domain of recent public debates.

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• 30 jan 2014

  31 jan 2014

  Maastricht

  Conference, symposium - History

  Crisis, Idea and Policy Transformation

  Experts and Expertise in European International Organizations, 1973-1987

  Crisis and crisis experience were central to Western European history between the first oil crisis of 1973 and the creation of the Single European Act. European international organizations (IOs) such as the OECD or the EC played a crucial role in debating and addressing manifold dimensions of crisis, shifting discourses and transforming policies at national and European level. These IOs drew heavily on experts and their expertise in debating and managing crisis and seeking solutions for structural problems. Organized jointly by the University of Portsmouth and Maastricht University on 30-31 January 2014, the workshop will investigate who were the experts active within IOs and what type or form of expertise they had and draw upon in agenda-setting, policy deliberation and decision-making. It will also discuss the role of experts in policy-making in the respective IOs and their influence on the development of the policy area concerned.

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• 15 jan 2014

  Prague

  Call for papers - Modern

  The Second Global Forum of Critical Studies

  Asking Big Questions Again

  The Euroacademia Global Forum of Critical Studies aims to bring into an open floor the reflexive and questioning interaction among academics, intellectuals, practitioners and activists profoundly concerned with evaluative understandings of the world we’re living in. The focus of the forum is to initiate an arena where no question is misplaced and irrelevant as long as we acknowledge that evaluation, critical thinking and contestation are accessible trajectories to better understand our past, present and alternative scenarios for the future.

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• 15 fév 2014

  Porto

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Keep It Simple, Make It Fast!

  Underground music scenes and DIY cultures

  The Conference Organizing Committee hereby announces its “Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! Underground music scenes and DIY cultures Conference” which will take place in Porto from 9 July to 11 July 2014. The organisation of the KISMIF Conference will be undertaken by the Research Project Keep It Simple, Make It Fast!. The Call for Papers of this Conference is open for presentations to all core areas of sociology, social sciences and also design, illustration, visual arts and performing arts. The KISMIF Conference Organizing Committee invites experienced and young scholars from various disciplines to participate in the conference. The KISMIF Conference Organizing Committee would like the participants to know that the selected papers from the conference will be published in an edited collection by an international publisher.

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• 17 jan 2014

  Mont-Saint-Aignan

  Call for papers - Language

  The International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL)

  The International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL) is a leading platform where recent studies on Turkish and other Turkic languages are shared and discussed comprehensively. Many Turkish linguistics and Turcologie researchers worldwide participate the conference by presenting Individual papers, workshops or posters. The ICTL is held biennially by the prestigious and of long standing universities in Turkey and other countries alternately (see above). The papers and posters presented at the conference is issued as the proceedings book by well-known publishers.

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• 30 jan 2014

  Coimbra

  Call for papers - Europe

  Debater a Europa Journal

  First International Conference

  This is a journal linked to the Europe Direct Information Centre of Aveiro, to Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Twentieth Century, University of Coimbra - CEIS20, in partnership with the Office of the European Parliament in Portugal and with the Representation of European Commission in Portugal. The first International Conference of the Journal Debating Europe will be dedicated to the study, analysis, debate on the political, economic, diplomatic, social and cultural transformations occurring within the European project.

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• 13 jan 2014

  14 jan 2014

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Biopolitics, gouvernementality and (security) dispositifs

  Concepts for the study of the “International”?

  International conference co-organized by the CERI-Sciences Po, Paris, France and the Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault, Paris, France, with the support of IRI/PUC-Rio, Brazil, le Centre d'études sur les conflits, Paris, France, et le Centre des Amériques de Sciences Po, Paris, France.

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• 19 jan 2014

  Frankfurt

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Four PhD Positions in Legal History

  Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte

  In the context of the Max Planck Research Group "Governance of the Universal Church after the Council of Trent: Papal Administrative Concepts and Practices as exemplified by the Congregations of the Council between the Early Modern Period and the Present“ under the direction of Dr Benedetta Albani four postgraduate positions are to be filled as of 01 March 2014. 

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• 16 jan 2014

  Lyon

  Call for papers - Economy

  Ninth Annual Conference of Gastronometrica - Society for Quantification in Gastronomy

  9th Annual Conference of SQG joined with the 21st annual VDQS Conference

  For its ninth conference, "Gastronometrica" or the measuring of "gourmet" products, associations and tastes, enters into adulthood and starts its own call for papers. The annual conference of the SQG (Society of Quantification in Gastronomy) allows researchers around the world involved in the sector of gastronometrics, to present their work and analysis. These may relate to the markets of "gourmet" products (excluding wines and spirits): for example olive oil or tomatoes or citrus fruits, meat or fish, cheese, ... especially on modeling these markets, strategies and impact of labels, distribution networks, ... But also on the relationship between quality and taste of food or the analysis of the results of taste classification: quality and gastronomy, the evolution of food and the institutions of gastronomy; .... And also the relevance of (gourmet) classification of restaurants or hotels and the impact on profitability of this recognition.

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• 31 jan 2014

  Basel

  Call for papers - Modern

  Revisiting the Historical Connections between Agriculture, Nutrition, and Development

  The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a Global Context

  The workshop posits that after 1945, the interconnectedness of questions of nutrition, agriculture and poverty became a central aspect of international governance, and that issues of food and agriculture posed particular challenges to national sovereignty. We thus approach the history of FAO as a history of the ideas and practices of economic and social ‘development’ embedded in local, regional, national, and global contexts and with implications on all these levels. We propose to examine the process by which the FAO facilitated the institutionalisation and globalisation of debates on agricultural production and food security, how it integrated previous international and transnational networks, and how it navigated the tension between agrarian commercialisation and rural welfare during the Cold War and Decolonisation.

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• 18 avr 2014

  Toronto

  Call for papers - Thought

  1st International Symposium: Hope, Betrayal and Trust

  Part of the Research Program on: Lost Virtues, Found Vices

  This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the complex and fluid relationships between hope and trust, and how might betrayal play a productive role in this bond. As concepts, ideas or simple notions, hope and trust seem to have simultaneously lost contemporary currency while being ever more necessary in our every day lives. We seem resigned to a kind of hopelessness, seem unwilling to trust others and are ready and willing to betray whomever we might need to in order to advance our own careers or personal agendas. Yet new technologies require us to place personal information online, to communicate with strangers, and to hold onto the promise of happiness. How are our maintenance of hope, our need to trust and our willingness to betray intertwined? How are these concepts evolving? 

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• 25 avr 2014

  Toronto

  Call for papers - Representation

  Speed, Silence and Solitude

  Part of the Research Program on: Space, Time and New Technologies of the Self

  International Network for Alternative Academia – invites you to participate to the First International Symposium: Speed, Silence and Solitude. This trans-disciplinary project seeks to explore how new technologies are re-calibrating our notion of time, re-configuring our ideas of space and, as a result, how they are re-envisioning our understanding of the self and its relation to others.

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• 14 avr 2014

  Toronto

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Reinventing Citizenship

  Part of the Research Program on: Protest, Justice and Deliberative Power

  The International Network for Alternative Academia invites you to participate to the 7^th International Symposium: Reinventing Citizenship, to be held on Monday 12th to Wednesday 14th of May, 2014 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This trans-disciplinary project seeks to identify central problems of the experience of being a citizen today and evaluate to what degree is citizenship a good vehicle for democratic agency in contemporary societies and democracies the world over.

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• 21 avr 2014

  Toronto

  Call for papers - Representation

  Creating Characters, Inventing Lives: The Art of the Self I

  IVth Conference of the International Network for Alternative Academia

  International Network for Alternative Academia invites you to participate to the First International Symposium: Creating Characters, Inventing Lives: The Art of the Self, to be held on Tuesday 20^th to Thursday 22^nd of May, 2014, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the lessons we can derive from the creative process and identify how productive it is beyond the boundaries of the work and creation itself.

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• 28 fév 2014

  Tübingen

  Call for papers - Sociology

  How much agreement does the society need?

  Observations on the interaction of consent and dissent in society's cultural evolution

  Section of the 14^th Congress of the German Society of Semiotics at the University of Tübingen, 24^th to 27^th September 2014.

  For the 14^th International Congress of the German Society of Semiotics, we are looking for speakers on the issue of social consent and dissent for our sociologically – and culturally – oriented section: How much agreement does a society need? It is concerned with a semiotic discussion about conflict-laden forms of communication, i.e. about the positioned dimension of signs of consent and dissent in the process of socialization within a society or between societies of different cultures.

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• 26 jan 2014

  Madrid

  Call for papers - Sociology

  European network for the philosophy of the social sciences

  Third conference

  The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites contributions to its 3^rd Conference to be held in Madrid in September of 2014, and organised by UNED. Contributions from all areas within the philosophy of the social sciences are encouraged. Moreover, contributions from both philosophers and social scientists are welcome. Only one contribution per person will be considered

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• 28 fév 2014

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Global Modernism(s)

  Approaches to trans-local / trans-cultural / trans-civilizational dimension of Modernist movements

  The trans-cultural and trans-civilizational potential of Modernism lies at the roots of our present globalized condition; on the other hand, internal contradictions of Modernism mark the limitations of our present consciousness. This is the reason why it is important to reinterpret Modernism from a planetary perspective. Our aim in this issue of "Planeta Literatur" is to foster the debate on how to approach Modernism understood not only as a transnational, but also a trans-cultural and a trans-civilizational movement.

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• 15 avr 2014

  Call for papers - Representation

  Representations of the life of Leonardo da Vinci in motion pictures

  Art History Supplement, May 2014

  Taking the image of Leonardo da Vinci as a paradigm, this issue of Art History Supplement seeks papers that discuss the uses, and abuses, in the representations of the lives of Leonardo. The artist and the canonization, the commodification of the images of the artist and his oeuvre; the popularisation of Leonardo, or just making academic knowledge accessible to a public; as it seems happening in La vita di Leonardo da Vinci; combining fiction and documentary. 

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• 15 jan 2014

  Calgary

  Call for papers - Language

  The Micropolitical Aspects of Language Policy

  Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning 2014 Conference

  The colloquium on the Micropolitical Aspects of Language Policy will form part of the Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning Conference (Calgary, Canada) , September 4-6 2014. The aim of the symposium is to explore micropolitical agency in language policy from a variety of points of view: narratology, didactics, theory, anthropological linguistics, language and area studies, corpus linguistics, language economics, etc.

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• 31 jan 2014

  Brussels

  Call for papers - History

  Renovatio, inventio, absentia imperii

  From the Roman Empire to Contemporary Imperialism

  At the heart of the present conference will be the ‘reception’, ‘Nachleben’ or ‘permanence’ of the Roman Empire, of an idea and a historical paradigm which since Classical Antiquity has supported the most widespread claims to obtain and consolidate power. The focus will be on ‘culture’, this latter concept intended in a broad sense, i.e. including not only the arts, architecture, literature etc., but also philosophy, religion and, most importantly, discourse. As such, a wide array of themes will be subjected to academic scrutiny. Whereas the main focus will be on Europe and North America, this conference will also reach out towards non-Western contexts, whether or not directly related to the Roman example.

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