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• 31 Oct 2021

  Aubervilliers

  Call for papers - History

  Imagining the “musical memorial”

  Music and (re)transmission of memories of slave trades and slaveries

  The aim of this special issue is to pursue the reflection initiated by the journal Esclavages & post~esclavages/Slaveries & Post~Slaveries on the work of artists and their re-actualization through sensitive forms of the history and memories of the slave trades and slaveries, this time with a focus on the question of music. This dossier will attempt to unfold the complex ways in which music has become a source and a resource for memories, from the time of the slave trades and slaveries to the present day.

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• 27 Sep 2021

  Call for papers - America

  The Americas, lands of books

  RITA N°15

  In 2020, a project to introduce a tax on books in Brazil—the sector had so far enjoyed a tax-exempt status—, promoted by the Ministry of Economy, clashed with the country's publishing community and was finally buried by pressure from Evangelical circles, eternal supporters of the Bolsonaro government. In a country where the Bible is still the most widely read book, and where sales records are held by religious publishing houses, it is obvious that this could only represent an object of conflict. Beyond its anecdotal dimension, this fact raises questions about the book itself as an object. As trivial and mundane as it may seem, the book is still a strategic object, which can be apprehended in its materiality, as Roger Chartier does—by observing its circulation, its storage, its sales and purchases, whether official or underground—but also in its content.

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• 29 Aug 2021

  Sao Paolo

  Call for papers - Information

  I International Symposium of Cinema and Film Analysis

  Son objectif premier sera d'approfondir les échanges de recherche autour de l’analyse filmique, en rapprochant différentes perspectives, développements théorico-méthodologiques et ses emplois en multiples disciplines. Il nous intéresse l’étude des images et sons en mouvement, les définitions d’analyse filmique, les études de cas, les transformations tout au long des temps, les approches les approches au-delà des frontières du cinéma, ainsi que les dialogues avec d’autres arts et domaines des Sciences Humaines.

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• 02 Aug 2021

  Madrid

  Miscellaneous information - Europe

  The automatised transcription of manuscript sources with eScriptorium

  Cette formation a pour objet la transcription automatisée de sources manuscrites, en anglais HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition), via l’outil eScriptorium, une alternative libre à Transkribus, développée à l’université PSL en partenariat avec INRIA, qui s’appuie sur l’outil de transcription automatisée Kraken et qui montre ses fruits en termes d’efficacité et de disponibilité du code source. Cette formation sera centrée sur une écriture répandue en Péninsule Ibérique entre le XIII^e et le XV^e siècle, représentée par un manuscrit du scriptorium du roi Alphonse X, le Sage (1221-1284), autour duquel tournera la formation, et à partir duquel sera produit un modèle de reconnaissance automatique qui sera publié par la suite. Il s’agira ici de faire dialoguer philologie et humanités numériques.

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• 25 Sep 2021

  Call for papers - Language

  Analysis of digital discourse: epistemological and methodological issues

  La journée d’étude, qui aura comme thème l'analyse du discours des corpus numériques, est organisée par l’association ADAL (Analyse des discours de l'Amérique latine) avec le soutien de l’université de Limoges (laboratoire EHIC). Cet événement débattra autour des discours politiques et médiatiques en ligne et cela sur différents terrains de recherche. Seront acceptés des travaux portant sur les discours de blogs ou forums, sur les réseaux sociaux numériques ou encore sur les moyens de communication en ligne.

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• 15 Jul 2021

  Créteil

  Call for papers - Europe

  Translating experience

  Writing extreme violence after 1945

  La parole est impossible mais l’oubli est intolérable, écrit Nicole Lapierre dans Le silence de la mémoire. C’est dans cette tension que se joue le témoignage d’une expérience particulière, celle de la violence extrême. Portant son regard sur les récits des victimes de violence extrême (génocides, massacres de masse, guerres civiles, domination coloniale…), ce colloque s’intéresse « au témoin qui écrit », que celui-ci ait écrit pour survivre ou que l’écriture fasse elle-même partie d’un projet global de vie. Il aborde à la fois les écrits autobiographiques et fictionnels (romans, poésie, contes, récits de voyage, scénarios…) et invite à explorer la façon dont ces différentes corporalités textuelles expriment leur matérialité selon leurs particularités esthétiques, temporelles et contextuelles.

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• 31 Aug 2021

  Poitiers

  Call for papers - History

  The politics and poetics of down-and-outs

  Rogues and picaros in medieval and renaissance Spain and England

  Within Western literature, the picaresque was quickly perceived as a “historically and geographically delimited tradition” specific to Spain during the Golden Age, a genre apart from the rest, almost without precedent. Going against this common misconception, recent studies have reminded us of the importance of the Apuleian and Lucian origins of this ‘new’ narrative formula. The wily beggar thus seems the prodigal son of the Ancients. Shouldn't we therefore extend the reflection and, at the very least, reconsider the scientific cliché that sees in this character the perfect (dissident) example of the Renaissance hero? Didn't the Middle Ages also contribute to the creation of the cunning rogue?

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• 30 Sep 2021

  Call for papers - Modern

  COVID-19 and social sciences

  Revue « Temporalités et sociétés »

  This special issue aims to offer a critical assessment of the role of the social sciences in the response to the pandemic, as well as the challenges of post-Covid-19 societies. It welcomes (trans)disciplinary contributions using qualitative, quantitative, or mixed approaches. International comparisons are also encouraged.

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• 27 Aug 2021

  Pessac

  Call for papers - America

  The changing imagination in Argentina post-2001: the renewal of the representation of the people

  Cette journée d’étude entend interroger et repenser la notion de peuple argentin à travers le prisme de ses multiples représentations contemporaines, qu’elles soient discursives, littéraires, picturales, cinématographiques, théâtrales, musicales ou encore performatives. Qui sont les nouveaux acteurs du peuple ? Quelles identités politique, sociale, culturelle et linguistique tentent-ils de construire ? Quel système d’alliances et d’oppositions organisent-ils ou encore, « contre qui se constitue le peuple ? » (Khiari, 2013 : 116).

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• 09 Jul 2021

  Call for papers - Sociology

  The Ethics of Gold

  Revue internationale des études du développement n°249 (2022-2)

  This call for papers falls broadly within the scope of ongoing debates around the relationship between development paths and gold mining activities, and around the social and political reconfigurations caused by these extractive activities. It aims to grasp the heuristic significance of gold in order to examine the processes of change, structuring, and destructuring at work at different scales of the gold production network and supply chain. It particularly welcomes studies grounded in empirics to primarily address the following issues: responsibility, (possible) sustainability, legitimation, and social justice.

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• 30 Jun 2021

  Bordeaux

  Call for papers - Modern

  New masses, old questions. New views on collective intelligence

  Revue « Essais »

  In a regressive approach, this thematic issue of the journal Essais envisages starting from the new configurations of the mass in the digital age to question in a fresh way the ambivalence constitutive of the historical reflection on the masses, at the same time fantasized for their intelligence and their potential of emancipation and depreciated for their incompetence and their passivity. This issue, in an interdisciplinary approach, aims to bring together specialists in new technologies, the practices and imaginaries they engender, with those interested in the theoretical, historical, fictional and figurative dimensions of this collective subject.

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• 22 Jun 2021

  23 Jun 2021

  24 Jun 2021

  Nice

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Migration Triage and Experiences of Blocking : Africa, America, Europe

  On a global scale, many migrant populations are stopped in their journey at international border or on the roads and places that are gradually built up as internal state borders. The political processes of contention are currently a common denominator of the production of blocked situations, as part of a transformation of the dynamics of control and surveillance. The « border effects » have in common that they confront migrants, like asylum seekers, with forms of blockage, lengthening waiting periods, producing new social dynamics, temporalities and spatiality where various actors intervene. The objective of the conference is to analyze the diversity of migratory situations produced by blockage at different levels according to their production context. The aim of the event is to participate in the construction of a comparative framework to address these situations by putting into perspective the construction of migration policies and their effects in Africa, Latin America and Europe.

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• 31 Aug 2021

  Call for papers - America

  Battles in Latin America

  Cahiers Bataille journal no.6

  La sixième livraison de la revue sera dédiée à l’intérêt de Georges Bataille (1897-1962) pour les civilisations précolombiennes et, plus généralement, pour le monde hispanophone et lusophone, ainsi qu’à l’accueil et l’influence aujourd’hui de ses écrits dans différentes aires géographiques du continent latino-américain, allant du Mexique au nord jusqu’à la l’Argentine et le Chili au sud, en passant par le Brésil.

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• 31 Jul 2021

  Call for papers - Thought

  Animal work

  “Laboreal” Journal, July 2022

  In numerous socio-professional activities (in agriculture, the police, the army, health, research, art, the environment, among others), humans and animals work together. In recent years, research in the human and social sciences has highlighted the specificities of cooperation between humans and animals, and has shown the existence of animal work, thus opening a new field of research. We now know that the rules of work are built intra- and inter-specific: between humans and between animals and humans. The aim of this issue is to discuss and analyze these activities, and the associated ethical and deontological issues. We seek to address the issue of human work with animals, as well as animal work itself. Therefore, this dossier seeks to discuss both the relationship between humans and animals and the engagement of animals in work.

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• 30 Jul 2021

  Call for papers - Economy

  The blue economy in the Caribbean: challenges and development

  The objective of this thematic issue is to provide an overview of the blue economy in the Caribbean. The concept of the blue economy, relating to the use and conservation of aquatic resources and ecosystems, is increasingly being put forward to promote sustainable development of the islands (Failler and Phang). While traditional sectors, such as beach tourism, commercial and recreational fishing, and maritime transport occupy the forefront of the economic scene, several emerging sectors such as biotechnology, marine renewable energy, and deep mining are emerging (Patil et al., 2016). As can the protection of the coastline and the improvement of its resilience capacities to cope with the effects of climate change (Failler, 2020). The development of nature-based solutions in recent years on cyclone-prone islands is an example of this.

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• 31 Jul 2021

  Toulouse

  Call for papers - Representation

  Creating and researching audiovisual spaces

  Interferences between production conditions, design processes and aesthetic choices

  Spatium, Latin root of the word “space”, reveals the extent of interpretations this idea covers. Spatium is at once distance and stretch of time, path and measure, racecourse and arena. Space therefore emerges as a structuring principal, being defined by its limits, its position or its organisation – in short, by what surrounds it, that to which it is opposed – since we establish it as being relational. Spaces depend in this sense on the perspective from which they are observed. The symposium’s aim is to question the audiovisual world’s interest in space. We will observe the ways in which different audiovisual spaces interfere with each other and their influence on the film-works’ creation-reception line.

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• 31 Aug 2021

  Call for papers - Geography

  Local production and appropriations of globalised urban planning

  The acceleration of globalisation and the massive urbanisation of the planet over the past forty years have played a powerful role in the transformation of cities. These worldwide dynamics are often presented as sources of a homogenisation of the cities’ organisational principles and the policies guiding their development, as well as urban forms and architectural styles. The result would thus be a ‘globalised urban planning’, in the sense of a uniform vision of the ways of creating the city promoted by the intensified circulation of ideas and models, the mobility of urban planning actors and the concentration of capital on a global scale. ‘Globalised fragments’ (Verdeil, 2006, p. 160) would be the symbol of this process, characterised by an influx of private stakeholders and specific planning schemes where the production of urban images play a key role.

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• 01 Jul 2021

  Aubervilliers

  Call for papers - History

  Black Lives Matter: a transnational movement

  Revue « Esclavages et post-esclavages / Slaveries and post-slaveries »

  The aim of this special number is therefore to bring together articles analysing the growth of Black Lives Matter (BLM) to a transnational movement. Contributions should show awareness of the concrete modes of circulation and appropriation, and to the repercussions of campaigns linked to BLM, but also of the historical and political ruptures and continuities implied and explained by them. Contributions bearing on the role of new information and communications technologies (NITC) and social networks, especially in the spreading of images (videos of police violence, artworks etc), and their role in the transnational development of the movement will be given close attention. 

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• 20 Apr 2021

  21 Apr 2021

  Paris

  Study days - America

  Circulating between "extremes"

  Nationalisms as a common denominator between the Americas and Europe (20th-21st centuries)

  Les temps de crise mettent en évidence des phénomènes intellectuels et politiques qualifiés d’atypiques en Europe mais inscrits dans une temporalité longue en Amérique latine. Tel est le cas des convergences, occasionnelles ou plus durables, à l’échelle nationale ou transnationale, entre les extrêmes d’un échiquier politique plutôt pensé en termes de droite(s) ou de gauche(s). Or, cette dichotomie n’est pas toujours pertinente pour rendre compte des expériences latino-américaines, et des coïncidences survenant dans les représentations politiques et stratégiques : entre militants d’extrême droite et organisations se revendiquant du marxisme, de secteurs du trotskisme et de mouvances nationalistes, de membres d’organisations révolutionnaires et de groupes paramilitaires ou enfin d’intellectuels oscillant entre socialisme et fascisme. La relation entre la nation en tant que projet et le nationalisme comme idéologie semble fonder cette spécificité régionale. Telle est l’hypothèse que nous souhaiterions discuter à l’occasion de cette journée d’étude.

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• 14 May 2021

  Besançon

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Musei, sive bibliothecæ of Claude Clément: the library and its usefulness

  Social, intellectual and moral functions

  Musei, sive bibliothecae tan privatae quam publicae Extructio, Instructio, Cura, Usus (Lyon, 1635) du jésuite Claude Clément (Ornans, 1596-Madrid, 1642) est considéré comme l’un des ouvrages fondateurs de ce qu’on appellera plus tard la bibliothéconomie. Au-delà de ses apports théoriques, il s’agit aussi d’un recueil d’érudition d’une extraordinaire richesse, à l’image de la langue latine que l’auteur emploie. Une équipe de chercheurs appartenant à l'Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité se consacre à l’étude et à la traduction de ce livre en français en commençant par le discours programmatique de l’œuvre. Cette équipe souhaite pouvoir partager son travail et interagir avec d’autres chercheurs que ces questions intriguent lors d’une rencontre scientifique.

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