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• 30 sep 2012

  Caen

  Call for papers - History

  Histories and Memories of Early Modern Popular Revolts in Oral Culture

  Dans le cadre de ces journées d’études, la réflexion portera sur l’apport des sources orales pour l’histoire et la mémoire des révoltes, révolutions et contestations des XVe-XVIIIe siècle. L’objectif est de faire le point sur les travaux réalisés par des chercheurs issus de différentes disciplines et de stimuler de nouvelles recherches à partir de ces sources souvent négligées par les historiens modernistes.

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• 21 jui 2012

  22 jui 2012

  Coimbra

  Lecture series - Political studies

  Processos de memória política: Roménia e Portugal em diálogo

  Os regimes ditatoriais aprisionam, raptam, espiam, torturam e matam. Os crimes praticados pelos regimes totalitários são dos mais diversos; das formas leves de coerção - restrições à liberdade de movimento e expressão, expropriação, negação de serviços públicos - até genocídio. Tais abusos dão origem ao ódio moral, ao ressentimento e à indignação para com os agressores, e destes em relação aos testemunhos e às vítimas. Uma vez os regimes autoritários chegados ao fim, as instituições são confrontadas com o legado duma história recente de medo e opressão e com uma série de perguntas cruciais. Este passado deveria receber uma voz ou deveria ser silenciado? A raiva das vítimas deveria ser contada ou suprimida? As contas com o passado devem permanecer fechadas para manter a paz ou devem ser acertadas para fazer justiça?

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• 20 aoû 2012

  Lucerne

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Annual meeting of the Swiss Society of Ethnology

  La société suisse d'ethnologie lance un appel à contribution pour son colloque annuel qui se tiendra les 2 et 3 Novembre 2012 à Lucerne, en Suisse. Le colloque s'organise autour de cinq panels "Revisiting anthropological perspectives on sustainable development"; "Towards an Anthropology of the Durative Present"; « Nation, nationalité, citoyenneté » ; « Contrôle et surveillance dans une société globalisée » et " The Future of New Institutional Economics in Anthropology".

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• 10 jui 2012

  Aix-en-Provence

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation

  Postdoctoral grant marked Gerda Henkel Stiftung / LabexMed (2012-2013)

  Dans le cadre d’un partenariat entre la Gerda Henkel Stiftung, et le laboratoire d’excellence sur les études méditerranéennes, coordonné par la Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme (Aix-en-Provence), une bourse post-doctorale de type incoming sera attribuée en octobre 2012, pour une durée de 12 mois, à un jeune chercheur. / In the framework of the partnership between the Gerda Henkel Stiftung and the Laboratory of Excellence for Mediterranean Studies, coordinated by the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme (Aix‐en‐Provence), will allocate an incoming post-doctoral grant in October 2012, for a duration of twelve months, to a young researcher.

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• 30 jui 2012

  Linköping

  Call for papers - Sociology

  In Search of Peace

  Dialogues between theories and practices

  The search for peace is longstanding. And yet, the concept remains elusive. Most probably the reason is simple, namely that peace is never fully achieved, it is not an end-point, but rather a constant process of negotiation among different actors regarding the terms of their relationships in a myriad of different arenas.

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• 11 jui 2012

  12 jui 2012

  Lisbon

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Conviviality & superdiversity at local level

  Our principal aim is to describe, analyze and compare new super-diverse convivial contexts, as they relate to the process of migrations shaping new cultural realms. Our approach does not involve the idealization of harmonic intercultural relations but considers convivial contexts as new fields of intercultural tensions and interactions as an attempt to understand their dynamics and the social, historic and personal factors that lead to willingness to coexist with ethnic heterogeneity or to reject it. Consequently, it envisions applying an innovative framework to understanding intercultural relations among national and migrant populations. From the perspective of social topography, the new convivial cultures are not associated with a specific geographic space. They correspond to different public contexts in which people with links to various ethnic or cultural groups interact.

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• 15 jui 2012

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Representation

  Report from the Pop Line: on the life and afterlife of popular

  At the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, popular culture finds itself at a crossroads: has the concept been drained of its meaning because of its overwhelming popularity? After the euphoria around the popular, what afterlife can be expected from it? Should we still be discussing the popular as opposed to high and folk culture? And where and how do pop art forms intersect with the current notion of the popular? This conference wishes to address the complexities surrounding the debate around the notions of both pop and the popular and discuss the possibilities of their afterlife.

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• 15 jui 2012

  16 jui 2012

  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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• 05 jui 2012

  06 jui 2012

  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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• 01 déc 2012

  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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• 30 mai 2012

  Rio de Janeiro

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Consumption studies

  Sustainable living: everyday consumption practices

  O VI Encontro Nacional de Estudos do Consumo ocorrerá nos dias 12, 13 e 14 de setembro de 2012 em paralelo com o II Encontro Luso-Brasileiro de Estudos do Consumo. O ENEC se propõe a estimular o debate sobre o consumo como um fenômeno que já pode ser considerado um campo científico consolidado em diversos países. Juntos, os dois eventos têm por tema a reflexão sobre a “Vida sustentável: práticas cotidianas de consumo”. Os eventos decorrerão na Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, no Rio de Janeiro (Brasil).

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• 31 jui 2012

  Call for papers - Africa

  Transformative learning in Africa

  This current issue is interested in programs that take the social, historical and cultural African contexts into consideration to propose innovative forms of education and training which impact positively on learner/practitioner outcomes. Such programs would naturally respond to questions such as: what contributes to transformational learning? Secondly, within the African context, what challenges do practitioners face when their aim is to introduce lasting changes? Third, what does transformational education really mean in an African context?Lastly, what ethical and cultural questions must be considered when planning and delivering transformative learning?

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• 14 mai 2012

  15 mai 2012

  16 mai 2012

  Coimbra

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  Placing culture in sustainable development: policies, strategies and processes

  The aim of the COST Action IS1007 Symposium is to give an overview of the policy contextwhere culture meets sustainable development, and of the strategies and processes whichguide culturally sustainable development at local, regional, national and transnational levels.Moreover, during the Symposium the participants will identify and establish “thematicclusters” on various topics of cultural sustainability, which will serve as forums for futurecollaborative work. The goal of the COST Action "Investigating Cultural Sustainability" is to increase understanding of and determine the role of culture in sustainable development based on multidisciplinary principles and approaches.

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• 18 mai 2012

  Lisbon

  Study days - Representation

  Planning for culturally vibrant and sustainable communities

  Comparing Canadian and European approaches

  This seminar presents and provides a space to discuss the key findings and insights from a Canadian-European comparative study of the integration of culture in community sustainability policy and planning in Canada and Europe. The research built on a critical examination of Canada's "four-pillar" model of community sustainability, which attempts to integrate cultural considerations into overall local planning for sustainability.

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• 22 mai 2012

  23 mai 2012

  Coimbra

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  Contemporary configurations of racism and Eurocentrism

  Debates on academic and political discourses and practices

  The main objective of this international workshop is to promote a debate that engages both with current issues on knowledge/history production and with contemporary discourses/policies on immigration and ‘integration’, taking their intersection as crucial to unravel the relations between the constant (re)making of nation boundaries and ideas of political belonging. We propose that a breakthrough approach requires the challenging of a Eurocentric paradigm, now hegemonic, that is preventing a thorough debate on racism as being embedded on the history of modern science, capitalism, liberal democracies and the state of law.

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• 30 jui 2012

  Stockholm

  Call for papers - Law

  Gardens of justice

  Critical legal conference 2012

  The theme for this year’s Critical Legal Conference is “Gardens of Justice”. Although the theme may be interpreted in different ways, it suggests thinking about law and justice as a physical as well as a social environment, created for specific purposes, at a certain distance from society and yet as an integral part of it. The theme also invites you to think about justice as a concrete metaphor rather than an abstract concept. Just like any ordinary garden, legal institutions affect both people working in them and people who are just passing through their arrangements.

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• 01 jui 2012

  Écully

  Study days - Ethnology, anthropology

  Young adults and their eating habits

  Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Paul Bocuse symposium

  Each year, the Institut Paul Bocuse Research Centre welcomes researchers and professionals to exchange over a theme from various angles: biological, psychological, social or economic approaches.For its 2012 edition, the conference concerns the eating behavior of young adults. Indeed, youth is a critical phase that allows the transition from adolescence to adulthood, a period where individuals’ culinary and eating behaviors are constructed. The question can be raised of how far young adults are willing to go on with their family eating habits and how far they wish to break with transmitted values and build new schemes.

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• 14 mai 2012

  15 mai 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Asia

  Tibet Is Burning

  Self-Immolations: Ritual or Political Protest

  Une vague d’immolations secoue le Tibet depuis d’un an. Le colloque international « Tibet is burning. Self-immolation in Tibet : ritual or political protest », organisé par l’EPHE / CRCAO (Katia Buffetrille) et l’INALCO (Françoise Robin), se donne pour ambition d’apporter des éléments de compréhension à ce phénomène qui touche les régions tibétaines à l’intérieur de la République populaire de Chine.

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• 13 mai 2012	14 mai 2012	15 mai 2012
  16 mai 2012

  Conference, symposium - Religion

  Minhagim: custom and practice in jewish life

  International Conference about Minhagim: custom and practice in jewish life, in Tel Aviv.

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• 10 mai 2012	16 mai 2012	24 mai 2012
  30 mai 2012

  Lisbon

  Miscellaneous information - Ethnology, anthropology

  AfrikPlay | Filmes à Conversa

  AfrikPlay – Filmes à Conversa | Chat and a movie is a new project presenting films focused in contemporary Africa, organized by CRIA (Network Centre for Anthropology Research) | ISCTE-IUL and Center of African Studies (CEA-IUL) | ISCTE-IUL. Being a ‘work in progress’, aims to bring cinema to the university, opening space for debate and reflection around films that present a innovative look on Africa.The growth of cinematographic productions about Africa has highlighted a number of films that set themselves apart from classical documentary concepts, either in their subjects of interest and chosen aesthetic language, approaching other artistic fields and merging reality with fiction. Some questions arouse our interest: what is the relationship between ‘yesterday’s images and the ones these new generations choose to see in Africa? How these fresh revelations defy our understanding of such a vast and complex continent?

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