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Manama

Second International Conference on New Media - Bahrain University

Le Département de communication (université de Bahreïn) organise la deuxième édition du colloque international sur les nouveaux médias (réseaux sociaux et partage des informations), qui se tiendra les 6 et 7 avril 2011 à l’université de Bahreïn.

Ariel

Conference, symposium - History

Monuments, Documents: Interpretation and Overinterpretation

Une opinion courante aujourd’hui veut qu’il n’y ait pas un instant où l’on ne cesse d’interpréter. Toute expérience d’une chose pourvue de sens nous placerait devant un cas d’interprétation et un produit de celle-ci. La question urgente pour la constitution d’un savoir « scientifique » est donc : y a-t-il une frontière entre interprétation et surinterprétation ? Autant l’interprétation semble légitime, autant la surinterprétation est-elle rejetée comme illégitime. Est-ce parce qu’elle apparaît comme une violence faite à l’objet que l’on cherche à comprendre ? Comme une brusquerie contre le consensus sur lequel la discipline en question est fondée ? Par ailleurs, si tout n’est qu’interprétation, y a-t-il encore place dans nos disciplines pour un réel progrès scientifique, et de quelle nature est-il ? (meilleure compréhension de l’objet, affinement des méthodes ?

Geneva

Conference, symposium - Information

Celebrity News

An Oxymoron?

International Conference, University of Geneva: http://www.unige.ch/ses/socio/recherche-people/Colloque_en.html. With an opening lecture opened to the public by Prof. P. David Marshall (Deakin University, AUS): Persona Studies: Mapping the Proliferation of the Public Self (15.09.10, 18:30, UniMail Building, room MR060)

Geneva

Call for papers - Information

Celebrity news, an oxymoron?

In recent years, celebrity news has spread throughout Western media, and particularly in media aimed at the general public. The aim of the Conference is to study and discuss the spreading of celebrity news across the media and to consider the various issues at stake.

Call for papers - Urban studies

Urban Environment

La revue Environnement urbain / Urban Environment reçoit en tout temps des manuscrits non sollicités. Ceux-ci doivent se rapporter à l’environnement urbain. Environnement Urbain/ Urban Environment is a journal publishing unsolicited manuscripts on an ongoing basis.

Berlin

Conference, symposium - Sociology

Émile Durkheim: sociology and ethnology

La figure d’Émile Durkheim, figure incontournable et classique de la sociologie française mais aussi de la sociologie allemande et anglo-américaine méritai d’être réinterrogée. Aujourd’hui on souhaite ouvrir de nouveau la réflexion et le débat en nous penchant sur la figure de Durkheim comme théoricien et sur son héritage théorique dans les deux disciplines qui nous occupent – sociologie & ethnologie – et dans les différentes écoles et courants. L’accent sera mis sur la manière dont les différentes écoles sociologiques (française, allemande, américaine) ont inscrit le travail de Durkheim entre sociologie et anthropologie le confrontant à d’autres auteurs : Marcel Mauss, Robert Hertz, Henri Hubert, Georg Simmel, Maurice Halbwachs mais aussi Bergson et Tarde.

Dnipropetrovs'k

Call for papers - Sociology

Approaches to post-Soviet transformations

Summer school in Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine)

Two decades after the collapse of the USSR, evolutionary paths travelled by post-Soviet societies are spectacularly diverse - posing analytical challenges for social scientists. In the first post-Soviet years, these societies were expected to “Westernize” and so social transformations were supposedly transitional. Later, it became obvious that genuine evolution observed in the former USSR needed genuine analytical tools. Dramatic change exhibiting a strange (at times conflict-ridden) coexistence of transformation and continuity neither elicits comparison to “normal” social evolution, nor can it be explained as a chaotic or un-analysable specificity. The aim of the summer school is to discuss different approaches / concepts used to analyse post-Soviet transformations and to question their heuristic effectiveness. The Summer School is designed to be interdisciplinary and international.

Antwerp

Rethinking European (Homo)Sexual Modernity

On 18 March 2010 the University of Antwerp hosts three keynote lectures by Dagmar Herzog (City University of New York), Dan Healey (Swansea University) and Rudi Bleys (Independent scholar) on the problem of modernity in the history and historiography of (homo)sexuality in Europe. These lectures are followed by a concluding panel discussion that will be introduced and moderated by George Chauncey (Yale University) For more information and registration: www.ua.ac.be/sexualmodernity. Organised by the Department of History of the University of Antwerp in collaboration with the Yale Research Initiative for the History of Sexuality as the prelude to a two-day (closed) workshop conference. Supported by the Flanders Research Foundation.

Azé

Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

16th International Cave Bear Symposium

Partout en Europe les recherches sur l'ours des cavernes connaissent maintenant un développement considérable grâce au Symposium international de l'ours des cavernes (ICBS). Depuis sa création en 1993 par le Professeur Docteur Rabeder de l'Institut de Paléontologie de Vienne (Autriche), il a lieu chaque année dans une ville différente d'Europe. Cette année, en 2010, il se tiendra à Azé (Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France) du 22 au 26 septembre. Ce sera l'occasion de faire le point sur des sites importants de Bourgogne, les grottes d'Azé, les grottes de Blanot et la Brèche de Château. Nous avons décidé d'ajouter une deuxième journée de communications centrées sur le lion des cavernes et plus largement sur les félidés, avec l'espoir de faire évoluer de la même façon les recherches dans un domaine bien souvent délaissé.

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Berlin

Seminar - History

Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar (2009-2010)

Post-Ottoman Cities

What is the historical experience of cities in the former territories of the Ottoman Empire - in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East, and North Africa - in dealing with the impact of global changes and the transformation from Empire to nation States? How did people of different cultural, social and religious backgrounds live together? How are such examples of conviviality, conflict, migration, and urban regimes of governance and stratification conceptualized? And how have urban traditions been reinterpreted, and what bearing does this have on modern conceptions of civil society, multicultural societies, migration, or cosmopolitanism. These and other questions will be addressed in this year’s Seminar in Ottoman Urban Studies. Séminaire organisé par Ulrike Freitag et Nora Lafi.

Corfu

Conference, symposium - Modern

Society and Politics in South-Eastern Europe during the 19th century

There has always been a negative image attached to South-Eastern European politics and polities and rarely has it been widely acknowledged (Mazower) that the process of state formation in the region was not just a pale and gruesome caricature of Western European models but rather a complicated affair involving juggling with various institutional models (local as well as imported ones), coping with societies of a sometimes inextricable ethnoreligious diversity and varying degrees of political allegiance to central power, dealing with foreign interference and tampering. 19th century visitors of the region contributed a lot to this negative image which still clings to the region (Todorova) and culturalists still like to refer back to the 19th c. as the genealogical matrix of all the region’s evils.

Ann Arbor

Call for papers - Representation

The Turning Point: Crisis & Disaster

The 17th Annual Charles F. Fraker Conference

On behalf of the graduate students of the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at the University of Michigan, we are pleased to announce The 17th Annual Charles F. Fraker Conference, entitled The Turning Point: Crisis & Disaster, to be held in Ann Arbor on March 25th, 26th and 27th, 2010. We would like to invite graduate students from your program to participate and would greatly appreciate it if you could post the attached Call for Papers in your department, as well as forward this email to any concerned/interested parties and listserves you may know of. The deadline for submission of abstracts is December 21st, 2009. We would also like to inform you that the department online journal Tiresias will publish some of the papers after the conference (the deadline for submission of your papers will follow ASAP)

New Haven

Conference, symposium - History

Sisterhood and Slavery

Transatlantic Antislavery and Women's Rights

This announcement was submitted via the H-Net Announcements Website. Find it at: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=127708 Sisterhood and Slavery: Transatlantic Antislavery and Women's Rights Location: Connecticut, United States Con

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