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• 07 sep 2015

  Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - History

  D’al-Afghani à al-Baghdadi : histoire de la mobilisation islamiste

  Pourquoi, dans des contextes historiques et dans des configurations sociopolitiques différenciées et évolutives, des acteurs politiques ont-ils opté pour l’usage en politique du lexique islamique ? L'enjeu du présent ouvrage est d’offrir une historicisation et une périodisation « longue » de ses traductions successives afin de restituer les modalités d’élaboration et de reproduction de l’alchimie identitaire qui fait choisir le lexique islamique. Chaque contribution doit s’inscrire dans un contexte spatial et temporel clairement défini et s'appuyer sur une documentation innovante.

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• 26 mai 2015

  27 mai 2015

  Paris

  Study days - History

  The Making of Law in the Ottoman Space (1800-1914)

  This 2-day workshop will bring together historians, anthropologists and linguists working on the making of law in the Ottoman space. The aim of the workshop is to problematize the legal phenomena from a multidisciplinary aspect and beyond the normative and descriptive dimensions of laws and legislations.

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• 08 jui 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Cities we don't talk about

  The cities of urban research have long been and still are widely today, the "great cities". But the realities of urban are not limited to them. In France for example the small and medium-sized cities house more than a quarter of the population. What does the observation of these cities bring to knowledge of the urban phenomenon? On the other hand, in the research devoted to major metropoles, it is often very specific neighborhoods that are the subject of attention of research as well as the media: social housing developments or the central gentrified neighborhoods. But more "ordinary" neighbourhoods are not often the focus. What does the observation of these neighbourhoods that we do not talk about "say" about the city? In other words, we would like to call on work that offers openings of the typologies of cities as the typologies of neighbourhoods that are subjacent to the discourse and debates on the urban.

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• 28 mai 2015

  29 mai 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  The End (s) of (In)Equality: France and the USA

  Alors que la France et les États-Unis sont souvent considérés comme des « républiques sœurs », la particularité de l’expérience historique de ces deux nations engendre des modèles, apparemment opposés, relativement à la liberté, aux droits et devoirs ainsi qu’au traitement des différences (sexuelles, sexuées, religieuses, raciales, etc.). Par ailleurs, la France comme les États-Unis sont toujours aux prises avec leurs passés (l’esclavage, le colonialisme), tout en s’efforçant de s’adapter aux exigences du pluralisme introduites par la mondialisation, le transnationalisme et les mouvements sociaux du 20^e siècle.

   

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• 28 mai 2015

  29 mai 2015

  30 mai 2015

  Nanterre

  Conference, symposium - Asia

  Heritage and Ruptures

  10th Annual and International Colloquium of the Society of Activities and Research on the Indian World

  In the postcolonial theoretical framework, the study of heritage and ruptures is a rather familiar paradigm. But it is not a depleted paradigm. Given the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent and the plurality of its culture, the way its languages, literatures and arts appropriate the past, grasp the present and envisage the future remains a relevant object for inquiry. From the crossroads of diachronicity and synchronicity, tradition and modernity, singularity and solidarity, here and elsewhere, repetition and reinvention, the 10^th annual SARI conference to be held on the 28^th and 29^th May 2015 at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense and on the 30^th May 2015 at the université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, will be devoted to the exploration of this topic from an inter and pluridisciplinary perspective.

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• 31 mai 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  Humanities and linguistics: cross disciplinary methodologies

  This symposium aims to question the critical use of cross-cutting methodologies in the fieldsof humanities and linguistics, the exchanges and practices of pluri-, inter- or transdisciplinarity between this research fields. The papers will question to what extent one's research topics required the use of cross-cutting methodologies; how the use of these methodologies shed a new light on these topics.

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• 30 sep 2015

  Call for papers - Education

  Émancipation et formation de soi

  Revue « Recherches et éducations »

  The issue of the journal Recherches et éducations entitled "Empowerment and Self-Training". It solicits by the authors a conceptual clarification of the concept of educational empowerment, presentation of research results defining the emancipatory processes at work and/or presentation of educational and pedagogical guidance offering prospects in the institutional game. Its preferred field are those of adult education, popular education and coaching people.

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• 22 mai 2015

  23 mai 2015

  Cachan

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  Worlds of work and labour markets in Southern Europe

  Contractual uncertainty: Freedom and constraints at work

  Dans la dynamique de spécification du travail et des activités productives à l’égard des autres activités sociales, les institutions juridiques jouent un rôle crucial. L’élaboration d’un droit de travail et le développement d'assurances sociales reposant sur la cotisation des employeurs et des salariés introduisent des catégories nouvelles dans la vie sociale et économique. Ils enjoignent les acteurs économiques à se reconnaître dans l'une ou l’autre catégorie. Mais que se passe-t-il avant l’entrée en vigueur d'un Code du travail, la reconnaissance d’un contrat de travail ou l’identification d'une catégorie de « chômeur » permettant de regrouper dans une condition commune ceux qui travaillent pour un même « employeur » ?

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• 20 mai 2015

  21 mai 2015

  Paris

  Study days - Ethnology, anthropology

  Trouble in the field and ethnographic vigilance

  Comme le faisait remarquer Didier Fassin, aujourd’hui l'expérience ethnographique ne va plus de soi, pas plus que l'écriture anthropologique. C’est ainsi que l’auteur plaide pour l'exercice de l’« inquiétude ethnographique » (2008) tout comme Bob White appelle à la « vigilance ethnographique » ; soit laisser le doute, l'incertitude faire irruption à chaque étape du processus de recherche et de production de connaissances anthropologiques. Chacune de ces étapes sont ainsi interrogées et soumises à la critique, depuis les situations intersubjectives d’enquête jusqu’à la production du texte, les procédés d'écriture et l'autorité même à parler de, ou à parler pour. Il s’agit donc pour l’anthropologue contemporain de porter un regard critique et réflexif sur toute sa pratique pour ainsi proposer un renouvellement épistémologique qui dépasse la simple observation du soi du chercheur ou des sujets singuliers de son enquête.

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• 30 jui 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Revisit Patrick Geddes

  In the interdisciplinarity of his thought, its international dimensions and the timeliness of his ideas, but also given the misunderstanding of his work in France, Espaces et Sociétés devotes its next folder issue to Patrick Geddes, pioneer of modern urbanism and interdisciplinary methods, precursor of environmentalism.  In effect, the environmental question has not emerged suddenly in urbanism, it goes back to the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th century with authors such as Geddes.   The choice of Geddes reflects the interdisciplinarity of his thought, its international reach and the novelty of his ideas, but also by the lack of his work in France; it was necessary, in fact, to wait until 1994 for the first translation of his work Cities in Evolution (1915).  Equally this number wishes to address this oversight by understanding and by calling for a critical rereading of his work.

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• 31 mai 2015

  Limoges

  Call for papers - Geography

  Floods as Heritage: the heritage value of floods

  This workshop will explore the possibilities of considering floods as heritage. Floods are usually considered as destructive forces, but here we wish to focus on their creative aspect. There has been considerable work on the heritage value of rivers, but we want to explore the potential of considering floods themselves as heritage. What is the intellectual and practical potential of making this connection? What are the possible dangers involved? How and why does the process of remembering floods differ in different places and among different people? How can the memory of floods be considered a creative process?

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• 08 jui 2015

  09 jui 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Gender and Health

  Ce colloque pluridisciplinaire se donne pour objectif de comprendre comment  les rôles sociaux liés au genre tendent à orienter la façon dont les femmes et les hommes sont (i) exposé.e.s différemment à des problèmes de santé, (ii) comment elles et ils se représentent les affections qui les touchent et (iii) ont ou non recours au système de soins, (iv) et comment les réponses des professionnels de santé se construisent différemment selon le sexe de leurs patients.

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• 03 jui 2015

  Geneva

  Study days - Geography

  Considering spaces of alternative learning

  This conference aims to interrogate space as an educational tool. Recent literature is rather unanimous in stating that space is not a neutral element and that, in education, spatiality plays a role in the construction of social and educational relations; questioning how space could operate in building models of ‘alternative’, ‘critical’ or ‘citizen’ education is more controversial. But how could we define an alternative or critical education? Which places and spaces can we consider ‘different’ from institutional and conventional educational models?

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• 15 mai 2015

  16 mai 2015

  Baku

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Identities on the move: the Caucasus between the local, the regional and the global

  With a focus on Azerbaijan

  Most of the time, the countries of the South Caucasus are being scrutinized from Moscow, Istanbul, and Tehran, the capital cities of the former empires that ruled the region for centuries and struggled for control over these territories. And indeed, be it the Russian, and then the Soviet empires, or the Persian and Ottoman empires, the Caucasus has been, and still is, very much affected by the influence of regional powers in a wide range of areas. As far as identity issues in the Caucasus are concerned, they tend to be studied mainly through post-Soviet lenses due to the influence of the Soviet nationalities policy. Although this inheritance still appears relevant today, the conference aims to put the emphasis on the complex set of processes that shape identities in a broad meaning. 

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• 26 nov 2015

  27 nov 2015

  Besançon

  Call for papers - Representation

  Comics and sport

  During the final talks of the fruitful international conference named “body languages in comics” set up by the junior drawn sciences laboratory of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Lyon on 8th and 9th October 2014, the idea to carry on, in a more precise way, the numerous debates on the occasion of a later scientific event was mentioned. In light of this, the C3S laboratory (“culture, sport, health and society”) of the University of Bourgogne/Franche-Comté considers holding an international symposium in order to study how sport is depicted in comics. Researchers in the C3S laboratory dedicate their work to sport sciences with a theoretical and epistemological commitment marked by interdisciplinarity. According to this stance, the international conference will be open to various contributions allowing to understand the representations (whether they be historical, sociological, anthropological, literary, semiotic, psychological…etc…) of sport in comics. This scientific event will be organized within the premises of the UPFR Sports in Besançon on 26th and 27th November 2015.

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• 03 jui 2015

  Paris

  Miscellaneous information - Africa

  Muslims in the Sahel: stories of jihad

  This roundtable aims at confronting the current narratives of the war on terrorism with historical perspectives on past jihad in the Sahel. Case studies include the Mad Mullah in Somaliland, the Mahdi in the Sudan, Rabih in Borno, El Hadj Omar in Senegal and Mali, the Sokoto caliphate in Nigeria and the Macina Empire in Mali. The debate is restricted to uprisings under the banner of Islam and does not cover any war involving Muslims. 

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• 10 jui 2015

  11 jui 2015

  12 jui 2015

  Grenoble

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Rethinking social issues in Europe in light of the experiences of emerging countries ?

  The proposed conference aims to foster debate on the impact of globalisation on social issues, based on findings from old industrialised nations as well as from the so-called “emerging nations”. Emerging nations are characterised by recent and rapid industrialisation that has led to the emergence of educated middle-class consumers and raised living standards of a section of the working class. This industrialisation has also led to structured protest movements that authorities have been able to address through social policies. Emerging nations have also experienced or maintained an increase in inequality leading to corruption, delinquency or criminalisation and giving rise to parallel initiatives within civil society which is more efficient in emerging countries; founded on democratic principles, the State in developed countries is still able to efficiently intervene in favour of its citizens.

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• 31 déc 2015

  Tours

  Call for papers - History

  La figure martinienne, essor et renaissances de l'Antiquité tardive à nos jours

  As part of the Saint Martin's year 2016 (1700th anniversary of the birth of Saint Martin), an international conference will be held at the University of Tours on the theme of “Saint Martin, expansion and revivals in his popularity from the origins to the present day”. The conference concerns not only the historical field but archeology, art history, sociology, theology, literary studies. The focus will be on the lesser known aspects of the theme, e.g. the revivals of saint Martin's cult in some regions of Europe at different periods; or ethnological and anthropological dimensions and their impact on art and literature; or theological appropriation of the saint Martin's figure.

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• 26 jui 2015

  27 jui 2015

  Erlangen | Nuremberg

  Conference, symposium - Law

  A threat to autonomy? Control and supervision of local and regional government activities

  The aim of this symposium is to compare the modalities, in Europe, of administrative, democratic and financial controls and supervisions on local authorities and local elected officials. The symposium, on 2 days, will gather scientific presentations, a Lexical workshop, a world café method with CEMR (Council of European Municipalities and Regions) members, and a “Typola” workshop for the OLA European team leaders. The presentations will describe and compare the modalities of controls and supervisions on local authorities and local elected officials.

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• 29 mai 2015

  30 mai 2015

  Villetaneuse | Paris

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  « L’insociable sociabilité » au cœur des tensions sociales et culturelles en Grande-Bretagne

  "Unsocial sociability" and socio-cultural tensions in Enlightenment Britain

  Dans le cadre du projet international HIDISOC (History and Dictionary of Sociability in Britain (1660-1832)), ce colloque interdisciplinaire a pour objectif de comprendre les mécanismes qui mettent à l’épreuve la sociabilité et de chercher les manifestations de « l’insociable sociabilité » des hommes (Kant). Il s’agira d’identifier les tensions culturelles et sociales et les formes de résistance qui définissent la sociabilité britannique au cours du long XVIII^e siècle.

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