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Oxford

New Directions in the Study of Social Distinction

Colloquium organised by the Maison Française d'Oxford, on Friday, 10th December, 2010.Research programme: Nation and Globalization

Oxford

Burdens, Opportunities, Expectations : Political Legacies in Post-Revolutionary France

Research colloquium which takes place on Monday 24 January, at the Maison Française d’Oxford. This research colloquium brings together historians of nineteenth and and twentieth-century France to explore the issue of “political legacies”.

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Lisbon

Lecture series - Urban studies

Estudos urbanos

Ciclo de estudos de doutoramento em estudos urbanos curso organizado em associação pela Faculdade de ciências sociais e humanas da Universidade nova de Lisboa (FCSH/UNL) e o Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE‐IUL), de Abril a Junho de 2012, em Lisboa (Portugal).

Lisbon

Call for papers - Urban studies

Cidades, comunidades e territórios?

CIDADES, now on e-journal format, pursues the objective of disseminating research and discussions in the scientific area of Urban Studies, seeking to consolidate itself in the academic publishing scene, nationally and internationally, as a reference publication in its field. The orientation of CIDADES is based on the plurality of theoretical perspectives and disciplinary approaches to the analysis of the city, as enshrined in the array of multidisciplinary scientific area of Urban Studies. CIDADES seeks further knowledge about urban problems and policies in order to intervene and, in general, concerning the processes of transformation of cities, communities and territories.

Oxford

Conference, symposium - Religion

Elementary Forms of Religious Life: A Dialogue between the Disciplines

Conference organised by School of Anthropology and Museum Studies (SAME), University of Oxford with The British Centre for Durkheimian Studies, Maison Française d'Oxford, and All Souls College, on Saturday 9 - Sunday 10 July.

Oxford

Conference, symposium - Science studies

Sites of Chemistry in the 18th Century

Conference organised by the Maison Française d'Oxford, on the July 4th and 5th, 2011.

Nairobi

Conference, symposium - Geography

Diversity in Society ‒ Theories and Practice

The conference, organised by IFRA (Kenya) and GRER-ICT (Université Paris Diderot), will be held at the French Institute in Nairobi (Kenya) on the 1st and 2nd December 2011.

Istanbul

The Ottoman Imperial Center in Personal Memoirs of Jews (19th-20th c.)

An International and Interdisciplinary Workshop which takes place on October, 10th, at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Oxford

Study days - Science studies

Puericulture, Biotypology and "Latin" Eugenics in Comparative Context

This One-day Workshop is organised by the History of Race and Eugenics (HRE) Research Group Oxford Brookes University. The study of eugenics and race is currently undergoing a remarkable transformation - one defined by society's need to engage with scientific advances and the ethical dilemmas they raise on the one hand, and the investigation of hitherto neglected case studies on the other. The inclusion and juxtaposition of national and international histories of race and eugenics lies at the heart of this international collaboration that strives to not only yield original and timely research on these neglected national case studies, but to redefine and diversify the overarching debates on these particularly turbulent periods of modern history.

Amman

Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

Demographic Transition in the Middle East and North Africa: Disciplines in Dialogue

International Conference organised by the British Institute in Amman, the Faculty of Science of the University of Jordan, theFrench Institute for the Near East ( IFPO) and the University of Bern, from January, 14th to January, 16th.

Paris

Conference, symposium - Science studies

Communicating Science and Technology II

From the 15th century to the present

Colloque organisé par la Maison française d'Oxford, les 9 et 10 mars 2012.

Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

Associate Research Fellow for the ERC funded project "Sailing into Modernity"

Sailing into Modernity: Comparative Perspectives on the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century European Economic Transition

The Department of History at the University of Exeter seeks to appoint one Postdoctoral Research Fellow for two years (24 months), to work with Dr. Maria Fusaro and her team on her new project "Sailing into Modernity: Comparative Perspectives on the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century European Economic Transition", funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

Paris

Miscellaneous information - Law

Complexity, Networks and Internet Regulation

Seminar of the ANR project on distributed architectures

Why is the Internet so difficult to regulate? In large part, its complexity and size have proved challenging, but there seems to be a lot of ignorance about how it really works. Large interconnected systems such as the Internet display a number of inherent architectural characteristics deeming them well-suited to the study of complex dynamic networks. The starting point of this talk is that it is perfectly possible to use various network science-based tools to explore the contentious issue of Internet regulation. Specifically, the Internet as a dynamic distributed system requires new challenges that rely on that same distributed nature in order to tackle them.

Namur

Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

Archival Scribes in the Medieval West

Training, Careers, Connections

L’historiographie continue de nous dispenser une image assez figée des « scribes » médiévaux, qu’il s’agisse des moines à l’œuvre dans le silence du scriptorium, des notaires toujours au four et au moulin, des clercs de chancellerie produisant des actes à la chaîne dans des ruches d’écriture officielle... Quelle part de réalité dans ces images d’Épinal ? Il s’agit de se demander qui écrit au Moyen Âge, plus spécifiquement dans le domaine foisonnant et méconnu du document normatif ou pratique destiné à faire archive. Quels sont les profils de ces scriptores – scribes, scripteurs, écrivants, « scribouillards » de toutes espèces – au service des grands princes ou des petits seigneurs, des officiers de justice ou des cours foncières, des grands ordres monastiques ou d’humbles collégiales, des autorités urbaines ou des communautés villageoises ?

Hong Kong

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Foodways and Heritage

International Conference organized by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Department of Anthropology). In collaboration with the UNESCO Chair "Safeguarding and Promotion of Cultural Food Heritages" (University François-Rabelais of Tours, France).This conference aims to :1. look at the politics of foodways and heritage, 2. investigate how different kinds of food are produced, sustained and inherited, 3. investigate how they are preserved as intangible heritage for various reasons.

Nice

Conference, symposium - History

Southern Horrors. The Dark Side of the Mediterranean

Alternative perspectives on the Mediterranean world in North Europe and America

« The Mediterranean is the human norm. When men leave that exquisite lake […] they approach the monstrous and the extraordinary ». Cette opinion, formulée par un personnage de A Passage to India illustre à merveille, ce que fut, portée à son paroxysme, la « passion de la Méditerranée » dont John Pemble traita dans un de ses livres. Cependant la fascination dont les Européens du Nord (et un peu plus tard les Américains) firent montre, très tôt, pour « ce lac exquis », fut rarement assez forte pour que, venant d’un contexte politique, culturel, social très différent, ils ne découvrent pas aussi du « monstrueux » et de « l’anormal » sur les rivages de la Méditerranée. Mais si la beauté, la vitalité, la spiritualité, la sensualité des sociétés méditerranéennes vues du Nord ont fait l’objet d’études nombreuses et fouillées, on s’est moins systématiquement arrêté sur ce que des « peuples sévères à qui l’hiver convenait bien », pour reprendre un jugement de Charles Kingsley, devaient inéluctablement trouver de sombre en celles-ci. C’est cet envers où dominent cruauté, décrépitude, ignorance et oppression que ce colloque se propose d’explorer plus avant, non pas tant pour rechercher la « vérité » sur les « horreurs » du Sud méditerranéen que rapportent et décrivent (parfois imaginent) les écrits et les arts du Nord que pour tenter de cerner les conditions historiques, culturelles, sociales, esthétiques, personnelles qui dictèrent leur perception (ou leur invention) et inspirèrent leur représentation.

Lausanne

Call for papers - History

Textual (id)entities in late medieval Europe (13th-15th c.)

Dans le cadre du projet de recherche OPVS ("Old Pious Vernacular Successes), financé par le conseil européen de la recherche de novembre 2010 à octobre 2015 (www.opus.fr), un colloque est organisé au sujet des identités textuelles au cours du Moyen Âge tardif. Celui-ci se tiendra à Lausanne en février 2013.

Istanbul

Study days - Urban studies

Metropolitan energy policies: the case of the Turkish cities

Call for paper for a Seminar at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies (IFEA), co-organized by Eric Verdeil (Jean Moulin University in Lyon - UMR Environment City Corporation) and Jean-François Pérouse (Galatasaray University and IFEA). The report Energy and Urban Innovation (2010) by the World Energy Council underlines the fundamental role of cities in the energy transition and the interlocking of several series of actions, related to technology, economy and policy. It appears that the political and social practices are a major issue and justify an increased contribution of social sciences to the analysis of the implementation of these new policies. The seminar intends to address these issues in the case of large Turkish cities.

Lausanne

Call for papers - Sociology

Governing mobilities

Cosmobilities conference 2012

The Lausanne Cosmobilities Conference focuses on the question of which systems of governance are involved in these processes and how they are evolving as a result of these trends at a time when the future looks less and less like the past. In contrast to mainstream scientific literature and studies on transport and mobility dominated by works on travel and commuting, in this conference we propose to examine the governance of individual and collective actors’ mobility projects. In modern societies, where discourses lauding spatial and social mobility seem prevalent, this conference aims to understand critically how public policies consider the coexistence of different types of mobility projects, and inequalities linked to this diversity.

Lyon

Call for papers - Science studies

Nuclear questions

How can social sciences help us understand the nuclear world ?

Le colloque interdisciplinaire, « Les chantiers du nucléaire », se propose d’ouvrir un chantier, celui des relations entre le nucléaire et les SHS. Il s’agira de faire un bilan des recherches existantes et de capitaliser sur cet acquis conséquent, en examinant les approches choisies, les méthodes mises en œuvre, les difficultés rencontrées et in fine les aspects non retenus ou non analysés de cet objet à multiples facettes. Dans un second temps, nous souhaiterions interroger la pertinence des apports des SHS aux débats contemporains sur l'industrie nucléaire.

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