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Coimbra

Conference, symposium - Political studies

Value conflict, decision-making and public action

In this seminar we intend to clarify and discuss the contributions that different theoretical traditions in economics, sociology, anthropology, social psychology and philosophy have given to the issues of incommensurability, value conflicts and valuation. Identifying and exposing the normative assumptions of certain decision-making procedures and devices is another objective of this seminar. Particular attention will be given to the implications of these issues to public decision-making and action.

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Paris | Paris

Conference, symposium - Science studies

Spaces, Knots and Bonds: at the crossroads between early modern "magic" and "science"

Nous avons pour objectif principal une exploration de l’influence des auteurs, des idées et des domaines de connaissance dits « occultes » ou « hétérodoxes » sur le développement des conceptions de l’espace à la Renaissance et à l’âge classique. Ainsi, nous tiendrons à réévaluer l’histoire des définitions canoniques de l’espace, particulièrement celles du XVIIe siècle. Nos intervenants traiteront des manières dont l’espace est impliqué dans diverses discussions concernant les liens entre lieux et choses, entre ce qui est en haut et ce qui est en bas, entre ce qui est éloigné et ce qui est proche, entre ce qui est théologique ou métaphysique et ce qui est physique. Nous explorerons également les représentations visuelles, géométriques et causales des espaces cosmologiques, géographiques, matériaux, imaginatifs, et mentaux.

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Odense

Call for papers - History

Call for papers: Gender in the European Town, Medieval to Modern

As places which fostered and disseminated key social, economic, political and cultural developments, historically towns have been central to the creation of gendered identities and the transmission of ideas across local, national and transnational boundaries. The Conference will be organised in three main strands. We encourage papers that address one of the strands, or proposals that cross the theme boundaries. They should also explore what influence gender has on the shape of towns themselves, as a force for change. We welcome local studies as well as more comparative approaches and encourage historiographical, theoretical and empirical considerations.

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City of London

Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

Two three-year temporary lectureships in Economic History at London School of Economics

The Department of Economic History hopes to appoint two Lecturers in Economic History from 1st September 2012. Following in a long, distinguished tradition of research and teaching, the Department of Economic History uses concepts and theories from the social sciences as a starting point for studying the development of real economies and understanding them in their social, political and cultural contexts. Teaching and research in the Department has a global emphasis, and the expertise of current faculty is diverse in subject matter, theoretical emphasis and methodology.

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Paris

Studying Territorial restructuring through Economic and Social policies

Programme du séminaire annuel de l'équipe STAKES (Studying Territorial restructuring through Economic and Social policies) du CEIAS.

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Paris

Study days - Representation

Insectes, sociétés et cultures

De la Renaissance au XIXe siècle

La journée d'études « Insectes, sociétés et cultures. De la Renaissance au XIXe siècle » aura lieu le 12 juin 2012. Elle est organisée par Brian Ogilvie, avec l’Institut d’études avancées de Paris et le soutien de l’University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Paris

Conference, symposium - Sociology

First Annual Conference of the ALTER, European Society of Disability Research

Alter, Société européenne de recherche sur le handicap a pour objectif de promouvoir la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales sur le handicap, en insistant sur la pluralité des approches scientifiques et des savoirs. Cette première rencontre vise à offrir aux chercheurs confirmés, jeunes chercheurs et doctorants un panorama des thématiques, problématiques et approches qui renouvellent aujourd’hui la recherche en sciences sociales dans ce domaine ainsi qu’un lieu propice aux contacts et aux échanges. Elle accueillera des chercheurs provenant de différentes disciplines (sociologie, anthropologie, sciences politiques, philosophie, sciences de l'éducation...) et de différentes régions du monde (Europe, Amérique du Nord et du Sud, Asie).

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Call for papers - History

Medical research, development, and memory in colonial and postcolonial Nigeria

We are pleased to announce a second research training and proposal development seminar on the history of medical research in Nigeria, to be held at the Dean’s Seminar Room, Faculty of General Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka from 17th to 21st September 2012. This seminar is open to twelve doctoral postgraduate students and recent postdoctoral scholars (PhD awarded after 1st January 2008) from Nigerian universities. It will provide training in the theory and methodology of history of medicine, together with an opportunity to discuss and develop a research proposal for submission to a peer-reviewed competition for four grants of to cover a four-month period of field and archival research in early 2013.

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Grenoble

Call for papers - Language

The role of theatre activities in language learning: an institutional framework and associated issues in teaching at a European level.

Les Services Culture et LANSAD de l’Université Stendhal organisent, en partenariat avec le GERCI (Groupe d’études et des recherches sur la culture italienne), le colloque international Les pratiques théâtrales dans l’apprentissage des langues : institutionnalisation et enjeux de formation au niveau européen, qui se déroulera à l’université Stendhal les 15 et 16 novembre 2012. Le délai pour la présentation d'une proposition de communication ou de stage est fixé au 17 juillet.

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Paris

Conference, symposium - Political studies

Contested Democracy:

Contestation and Participation in the English-speaking World

The dissent and uprisings that spread through the Arab world during the Spring of 2011 occurred almost a quarter of a century after the fall of East European political régimes that saw the rise of "democracy" modeled on the Anglo-American representative system. This specific context which has come to characterize the past quarter of century calls for a renewed analysis of the models these political systems represent and of the processes that triggered them and led to their long-term establishment in the UK and the US.Since the 1990s, as a response to the story of the inevitable emergence of democracy in the aftermath of the Cold War, researchers on North American politics have provided an alternative reading of events: that of a "contested democracy".

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Montreal

Call for papers - Language

Radical Action, Radical Subject: Roots, Representations, Symbols and Creations

Ce colloque vise à repenser et à mettre en relief deux concepts, à savoir l’action radicale et le sujet radical, qui sont liés aux formes de protestation et à la mobilisation de l’espace où se négocient et se créent du rassemblement ainsi que de l’opposition. Plus précisément, ils révèlent une ampleur qui mérite réflexions et échanges en termes de récit, de poétique et de symbolique. Ainsi, que peut nous révéler l’évolution à la fois diachronique et synchronique des liens qui se tissent entre littérature et radicalisme ? Est-ce que le radicalisme rime nécessairement avec l’engagement politique, l’affichage d’une tendance révolutionnaire marquée, ou est-ce que des marques textuelles, des mouvements, des courants, intrinsèquement littéraires, ne peuvent pas être considérés comme radicaux en soi ?

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Call for papers - History

Lisbon: Art and Heritage

Journal of Art History, Revista Estudos de Lisboa

Those interested in contributing to this issue of the Journal of Art History are invited to submit original papers. Discussion should focus on issues and problems such as: 1) New contributions to the History of the City: Architecture, Urban Planning and Heritage. 2) Lisbon Art History: Artists, models and case studies. 3) The image and images of Lisbon: evolution of the city’s iconography– from illuminated manuscripts to cinema. 4) Towards a history of Lisbon - reflections on Lisbon studies.

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Call for papers - Representation

Edited Collection of Essays on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Challenger Narratives Challenger Unbound

Habitually characterised as a late-appearing variant upon the Victorian Quest Romance, The Lost World in fact marked the beginning of Arthur Conan Doyle’s prolonged investigation of science, ideology and belief under the inhibiting constraints of early twentieth-century modernity. The narratives span from 1912 to 1929 and this new collection will be dedicated to re-evaluating the narratives, their author, the wider culture that he inhabited and the legacy of his work for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We are interested in work that treats the texts either directly or tangentially through other aspects of Conan Doyle’s life and thought.

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Paris

Conference, symposium - Asia

Translating and Writing Indic Learning in Persian

1st Perso-Indica Conference

Ce colloque international vise à offrir une nouvelle perspective sur le rôle joué par les mouvements de traduction au sein de l’histoire intellectuelle des sociétés musulmanes. La production de textes en persan sur les traditions et les sciences des hindous doit être considérée parmi les grands mouvements de transfert du savoir réalisés entre différentes cultures asiatiques.

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Tokyo

Conference, symposium - Law

The New Normative Spaces of Globalization

On International Commercial Arbitration in Asia and the Principles of Asian Contract Law

The question whether a new space of commercial regulation is emerging in Asia is generally addressed through the traditional notion of legal order or legal system. Thus, Chinese Law or Japanese Law on Arbitration, for example, is examined by underlining the specificities of such domestic law. Would it be possible to question the emergence of an Asian space of business law, not only from the exclusive standpoint of legal norms but from the standpoint of the actors themselves and their legal practices?

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Geneva

Call for papers - History

Women in Educated Elites of Pre-Socialist and Early Socialist East Central European Societies

The two and a half day workshop will take place at the European Institute of Geneva University in October 2012. The exact dates will be announced in early July 2012. The official language of the workshop will be English. Interested scholars are asked to submit a paper proposal (not more than 750 words) to the organisers (Victor Karady : karadyv@gmail.com; Natalia Tikhonov Sigrist : nat.sigrist@gmail.com) by 10 June 2012.

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Paris

Study days - Sociology

A political history of techno-scientific governance: the shaping of transnational networks of Cold-War elites

Le programme ERC Futurepol « A political history of the future » coordonné par Jenny Andersson (CNRS, Sciences Po) organise le 7 juin 2012 de 14h30 à 16h30 à Sciences Po (salle du conseil - 13, rue de l'Université - 75007 Paris) un séminaire intitulé « A political history of techno-scientific governance: the shaping of transnational networks of Cold War elites ».À cette occasion, Egle Rindzeviciute (Sciences Po) et Leena Riska-Campbell (Université d'Helsinky) viendront présenter leurs recherches sur l'International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) et son rôle pendant la Guerre Froide. Elles seront discutées par Marie-Laure Djelic (ESSEC Business School).

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Oxford

Study days - History

For a comparative history of industrial risks regulation, 18th-19th c.

If comparison between national or regional contexts has been a driving force for the historiography of the « industrial revolution », and if environmental history has been immediately written on a global scale, the evolution of environmental and risk regulation is often studied according to the national, regional or local scales of the institutions producing the regulations. The aim of this workshop is to invite historians to consider how comparison could advance our understanding of the different ways of regulating risk and environment.

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Call for papers - Sociology

Nostalgia & popular music

Volume! the French journal of popular music studies

Volume ! la revue de recherche pluridisciplinaire à comité de lecture dédiée à l’analyse des musiques populaires lance un nouvel appel à contributions pour un numéro consacré à la nostalgie dans les musiques populaires, dans une variété de contextes nationaux, internationaux et transnationaux. Ce numéro, dirigé par Hugh Dauncey (Newcastle University) et Christopher Tinker (Heriot-Watt University) explorera les façons dont la nostalgie liée aux musiques populaires est produite, représentée, médiatisée et consommée.

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Paris

Conference, symposium - Sociology

Competition: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Competition is a pervasive phenomenon in human and animal life. Modern society itself appears to be based on organizing the distribution of goods and privileges through competition. According to Georg Simmel, the sociological essence of competition entails an indirect form of fighting—antagonistic impulse transformed into the realization of some form of community value and perfection. The economic essence of competition may be that it equalizes—wages and profits can be brought into equilibrium by competition. Competition can be defined as a contest between actors, institutions, and, in fact, any group or social form, as well as between animal and ecological species, as they strive for something that all cannot obtain. This interdisciplinary conference will examine competition as a leading organizing principle of contemporary life.

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