Sort

By publication date

By relevance

• 01 mar 2015

  Zurich

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Snapshots of Change

  Assessing Social Transformations in Qualitative Research

  The study of “change” is a central research topic in social science. However, how can we concretely assess social change when we conduct qualitative research which is based on case studies, and has a limited scope of inquiry both in terms of time and space? This international workshop seeks to address this key methodological issue through an interdisciplinary dialogue. On the basis of concrete empirical examples, we would like to focus on the available means that enable us to overcome obstacles encountered when studying change through qualitative research.

  Read announcement

• 27 fév 2015

  Palermo

  Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Feeding animals/Eating animals. Theories, Attitudes and Cultural Representations of Nutrition in Ancient and Medieval World

  Memoria scientiae 2015

  According to ancient biological theories, nutrition is, along with reproduction, one of the functions of the soul shared by men, animals and plants. At the same time, however, eating habits are among the starting points on which differences between humans, animals and plants are culturally built. This means that a transversal biological praxis can be used as an anthropological device, in order to to fix and identify specific boundaries and thresholds, either symbolic or theoretical, between both animality and vegetality on the one hand, and zoosphere and  anthroposphere on the other hand.

  Read announcement

• 03 fév 2015

  Lille

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Science with and for society within global environmental issues: towards a new model of governance?

  IPA 2015 10th international conference in Interpretative Policy analysis. Panel n°50

  Which are the existing tensions between institutionalized participatory designs, citizen mobilization and environmental questions? To what extent the debate between experts and laymen about sociotechnics controversies contributes to enlighten the decision? What is the place of public authorities in these new forms of cooperation? This Panel of Interpretive Policy Analysis conference (Lille 8-10 july 2015) is interested in the mobilization of experts as well as of concerned population and of their elected representatives in the diagnosis discussion and definition of solutions of environmental issues.

  Read announcement

• 27 mar 2015

  Dunkirk

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Sports, genders and sexualities

  Social, Ethical and Political Challenges

  As expressions of cultural embodiment, sexualities, genders and sports can be analyzed as a mirror of societies’ transformations and developments. The analysis of sports, gender and sexuality can be a key to analyze changes and persistence's in social interactions and collective representations. This workshop seeks to create a discursive space for contributors to explore the social, ethical and political criticalities arising in the interaction between sports, gender and sexualities in contemporary societies. We invite papers aimed at both understanding the relationships between sports, genders and sexualities, and using them as a tool to analyse broader social, ethical and political transformations. As such, such, we hope to provide both critical evaluation of current theories and paradigms by which sport, gender and sexuality are understood and encourage the opening of new horizons for critical investigations.

  Read announcement

• 28 fév 2015

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Migrations in the midst of instability: practices, discourses and representations

  The conference aims to revisit emigration until nowadays and will focus on contexts of instability and processes of political, economic and social change, regardless of the overall volume of exits, in order to identify peculiarities and similarities between different moments.

  Read announcement

• 15 fév 2015

  Belval

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Modern

  Material Culture and Spaces of Remembrance. A Study of Cemeteries in Luxembourg in the Context of the Greater Region

  A Study of Cemeteries in Luxembourg in the Context of the Greater Region

  The University of Luxembourg (FLSHASE - Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education, Research Unit IPSE – Identities. Politics, Societies, Space) seeks to hire a PhD Candidate (m/f) to join a multiannual research project, entitled "Material Culture and Spaces of Remembrance. A Study of Cemeteries in Luxembourg in the Context of the Greater Region" (Acronym: R.I.P.). The project examines changes in sepulchral culture and  social transformation processes concerning individualisation, pluralisation, secularisation as well as de- and resacralisation. The project also pertains to spatal and urban development as cemetery areas undergo significant changes in allocation.

  Read announcement

• 15 fév 2015

  Bangkok

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Foods Rooted in Tradition. Local Products and Protected Designations in an Interrelated World

  Panel P 05-03 - International union of anthropological et and ethnological sciences Inter-Congress 2015: Re-imagining Anthropological and Sociological Boundaries

  La commission d'anthropologie de l'alimentation et de la nutrition de l'International union of anthropological and ethnological sciences (IUAES) vous invite à participer à un colloque sur les produits de terroir, les marqueurs alimentaires d'identité, les appellations d'origine et les idéologies gastronomiques dans le monde contemporain. Organisée dans le cadre de l'inter-congrès de l'IUAES 2015, cette rencontre aura lieu à Bangkok en juillet 2015.

  Read announcement

• 08 fév 2015

  Coimbra

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  International Symposium on Anthropology and Natural Disasters

  Organized within the framework of the three branches of the PhD course in Anthropology - Social and Cultural Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, and Biological Anthropology - this symposium aims to discuss the impact of natural disasters in the human life in an interdisciplinary approach. The International Symposium on Anthropology and Natural Disasters will offer the possibility for a complementary dialogue between the various fields of anthropology, in the understanding and resolution of problems, and in the promotion of new research avenues.

   

  Read announcement

• 23 fév 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  From the Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula: studying domestic spaces in the Neolithic

  Under neolithisation scholars understand multiple processes of social and economic transformation which begin at different times and follow regional trends in the Near and Middle East. It is within the complex relational and spatial framework of the household that these shifts in the structure and activities of Neolithic communities are easiest to apprehend and study. The conference will therefore focus on the domestic sphere in order to highlight and understand the polymorphous nature of what we call neolithisation. Various thematic sessions will be held to shed new light on current data: “Impacts of the shift to a sedentary/semi-sedentary lifestyle”; “Organising the house and the household”; “Private space/public space”; “Acquisition, production, transformation and use”; “Eating-Moving”; “Symbolic manifestations”;“The living and the dead”.

  Read announcement

• 10 jan 2015

  Leuven

  Call for papers - Europe

  Social Networking in Cyber Spaces: European Muslim's Participation in (New) Media

  During this workshop we want to address the politics of identity construction and representations of Muslims in Europe through having a look at the updated mediascape based on but not limited by following headlines: Muslim networks and movements in Western Europe: Formation of transnational communities; Social networking and Muslims in the West; (Social) Media and Participation: Muslims in Europe.

   

  Read announcement

• 10 jan 2015

  Kunming

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Social Cohesion and Diversity: Muslims in Europe and Hui-Muslims in China

  The aim of this conference is to gather scholars who work on Hui people in China and Muslims in Europe to compare the similitudes and differences of their practices in a cohesive society. A lack of social cohesion among different ethnic and religious people was identified in recent years in Europe and China. The recent development and concerns linked with extremism associated with Muslims require more inquiries on relation between Muslims and non-Muslims in multicultural diverse societies. 

  Read announcement

• 15 déc 2014

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  Schengen: people, borders and mobility

  In the era of globalization, which benefits the implementation of policies of both stimulus or repression for the movement of people, academics have been fostering discussion around topics and concepts related with migration, borders and mobility. This epistemological basis enables us to apprehend the complexity of the European area and invites us to examine the boundaries or lack of it that separate territories. The conference also seeks to analyze the changes in the concepts of border and border control; to understand how residents in the Schengen Area – “native” or immigrants – build their national and transnational identity; to assess the evolution of mobility within the Schengen Area, which in turn allows us to perceive the relations between regions, states and individuals and to explain the various impacts of the Schengen agreements in the territories, people and societies and their border experiences.

  Read announcement

• 01 déc 2014

  Amsterdam | Paris

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Medicine Anthropology Theory

  MAT – first issue online

  MAT seeks to rethink medicine, medicines, and medical systems in local and global contexts, within the broad fields of medical anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), and global health. In line with our commitment to open access, accepted articles (up to 10,000 words) will be written in clear language that makes insights available to a wide readership. The editors seek to publish work that innovates both theoretically and methodologically, or that revisits classical anthropological theory in thinking through contemporary problems. We also seek work from ‘applied’ anthropologists and activists working in sites outside of academia. Submissions undergo a double-blind peer-review process.

  Read announcement

• 09 jan 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  African consumers of imported goods. Studies on the globalization of ordinary things (18th-21st c.)

  6th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) 2015

  This panel deals with the process of globalization in Africa focusing on the imported material goods and their uses, from the end of the 18th century up to now.

  Read announcement

• 01 jan 2015

  Call for papers - Africa

  "Lesbian"/Female Same-Sex Sexualities in Africa

  Special Issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies

  The multiple configurations of same-sex practices and relationships across the African continent, alongside the problematic notion of homosexual, “lesbian,” and “queer” identities in the African context, have been addressed by various scholarly publications in the past couple of decades. Yet same-sex interactions, relationships, and politics between African women have not garnered significant attention either in feminist/queer studies or in African studies, and remain largely unrepresented in academic writings. This special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies proposes to fill this scholarly gap by exploring this topic from a variety of cultural and disciplinary perspectives. Contributions by scholars on the African continent are particularly welcome.

  Read announcement

• 19 déc 2014

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Exchanges

  Censorship in the dynamics of cultural exchanges in early modern times

  This panel is about a technology in the early modern ideological and textual control. It debates upon the censorship corrective procedures. In the framework of reception studies and communication theories, censorship as a whole is both a medium and a source of noise and perturbation of the message. It is considered as an obstacle and a positive element to its development. The phenomena about negotiation between intellectual and material producers of knowledge (works of Raz-Krakotzkin, Jostock) lead to reflect on the interactions between the actors of politics of control. These often vary due to local, chronological, political and religious circumstances. But censorship studies tend to localize the fields of investigation.

  Read announcement

• 13 avr 2015

  Barcelona

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Global Cities and Cosmopolitan Dreams

  Part of the Research Program on: Space, Time and New Technologies of the Self, 1st International Symposium

  This project is interested in exploring the changing ideal of the city, exploring its ideological foundations, its physical construction, its social and political significance, its aesthetic value and its metaphorical meaning.

  Read announcement

• 06 avr 2015

  Barcelona

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Love, Lust and Longing: Rethinking Intimacy

  5th International Symposium of the International Network for Alternative Academia

  While discussion of sex become ever more common, opportunities to explore the nature of love are still rare. When the topic is raised, most often the focus is on dramatic experiences or hard cases. The “epic” and the “mundane” are probably more intertwined in our experiences of love than cultural speech and literature admit. Yet, an imbalance continues to exist: we reflect little on the smallness of events that sustain love bonds. What goes unexamined as such are the ways in which love is spoken of and enacted in everyday life. This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the lived experience of love considering the ways in which it is described and how it is practiced, identifying how love differs from and overlaps with concern, care, friendship and lust and raising questions about the ontology, expression and politics of love.

  Read announcement

• 15 mar 2015

  Porto

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Keep it Simple, Make it Fast! Crossing Borders of Underground Music Scenes

  KISMIF International Conference 2015

  The submission of papers for this conference is open to academic researchers working in all areas of sociology, anthropology, history, cultural economics, geography, urban planning, media and cultural studies and cognate disciplines, including design, illustration musicology, popular music and visual and performing arts. This initiative follows the great success of the first KISMIF conference (held in July, 2014). The stimulating scientific program of the conference will be accompanied by a social program in the form of art and music in action providing a unique and enriching experience of underground music scenes in the city of Porto and elsewhere in the world.

  Read announcement

• 18 déc 2014

  Palermo

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Memoria scientiae 2015: Feeding animals/Eating animals

  Theories, attitudes and cultural representations of nutrition in ancient and medieval world

  According to ancient biological theories, nutrition is, along with reproduction, one of the functions of the soul shared by men, animals and plants. At the same time, however, eating habits are among the starting points on which differences between humans, animals and plants are culturally built. This means that a transversal biological praxis can be used as an anthropological device, in order to to fix and identify specific boundaries and thresholds, either symbolic or theoretical, between both animality and vegetality on the one hand, and zoosphere and  anthroposphere on the other hand.

  Read announcement