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• 27 oct 2012

  25 oct 2012

  26 oct 2012

  Brussels

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  Norms in the Margins and Margins of the Norm

  The Social Construction of Illegality

  The conference "Norms in the Margins and Margins of the Norm, The Social Construction of Illegality" proposes to reflect on the relations between the dynamics of criminalization and the construction of state powers, on the one hand, and on criminal strategies – legal or not –, moral economies in the illegal spheres, the ploys and tactics of “deviant” groups on the other hand.

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• 30 jui 2012

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Black Paris: Place, Circulation and the Mapping of Black Experiences

  The Editors of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (Routledge) announce the call for papers on: Black Paris: Place, Circulation and the Mapping of Black Experiences.

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• 14 mai 2012

  15 mai 2012

  16 mai 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  Psychotic Experiences, Religion, and Spirituality

  This conference is centered on reported or observed psychotic experiences and discusses the ways in which religious and spiritual idioms are mobilized by patients, as well as by medical and psychological practitioners and religious healers in their therapeutic relations. Overall, the conference covers a significant variety of social, institutional and cultural contexts. As an expected result, we should be able to better understand the ways in which culture and social institutions contribute to the shaping of individual psychotic experience, and how they create dynamics of integration and exclusion. In addition, by inviting social scientists and medical practitioners to confront their perspectives, we would like to question what appears to be the underlying constructivist stance on many recent perspectives on religious experience and spirituality linked to psychotic states.

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• 11 sep 2012	12 sep 2012	13 sep 2012
  10 sep 2012	14 sep 2012

  Linköping

  Conference, symposium - Religion

  Historiography of Religion

  How, under which conditions and with which consequences are religions historicized? The conference aims at furthering the study of religion as of historiography by analysing how religious groups employ historical narratives in the construction of their identities or how such groups are invented by later historiography .

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• 15 jui 2012

  Barcelona

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  1st International Conference on Anthropology and Urban Conflict

  Desertions, Counter-movements, and Forced Mobilizations in the Contemporary City

  The aim of this conference is to make an inventory and to analyze, from different ethnographic approaches, those often invisible phenomena of daily or extraordinary disobedience designed for, or inspired by, a rejection of spatial, economic, political, and social order. However, in order to identify them as mechanisms aimed at denouncing a particular order, we must approach these by looking at concepts that synthesize at once the processes that impose a homogeneous order as well as the practices that challenge it.

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• 07 mai 2012

  Halle

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

  PhD scholarships of the International Max Planck Research School for Anthropology, Archaeology and History of Eurasia

  PhD grants of the International Max Planck Research School for Anthropology, Archaeology and History of Eurasia. Starting 1 October 2012. The PhD Grants are generally awarded for 2 years, with the possibility of two six-month extensions. Workplace for successful candidates is Halle / Saale (except when undertaking field or archival research elsewhere, the costs of which will be covered).

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• 03 mai 2012

  Paris

  Study days - History

  What about History then? Assessment of the role of history in Indian Studies

  L’objectif de cette journée d’études est de reprendre la réflexion autour de la place de l’histoire dans les études indiennes et de ses relations avec les autres disciplines au sein d’un laboratoire d’aires culturelles tel que le CEIAS. C’est là une question qui a déjà occupé plusieurs historiens du Centre par le passé mais qui est loin d’être épuisée et reste d’actualité au vu de la place marginale que l’histoire continue d’occuper au sein des études indiennes en France et, parallèlement, de la faible visibilité de l’Inde dans la recherche et l’enseignement de l’histoire. Il s’agira de dresser un bilan des pistes explorées par les historiens actifs au CEIAS depuis sa fondation et du dialogue noué tant avec d’autres spécialistes de l’Inde qu’avec des historiens travaillant sur d’autres « terrains », mais aussi de réfléchir ensemble sur les perspectives ouvertes par l’évolution actuelle de la discipline historique en France qui semble enfin sortir de son traditionnel européocentrisme.

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• 25 avr 2012

  Cagliari

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Moving Boundaries in Mobilities Research

  This conference, funded by the University of Cagliari and organized in collaboration with the Cosmobilities network, aims at discussing new directions in mobilities research, showcasing the state of the art in the field, and providing a unique opportunity to create lasting links among researchers, especially in the north and the south of Europe. The language of this event will be English but the range of papers presented will be a reflection of the diversity of concerns, approaches and methodologies informing mobilities research in Europe and beyond. Young and experienced researchers are invited to submit abstracts for paper presentations. High quality abstracts on any aspect of mobilities are welcomed.

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• 17 avr 2012

  Lisbon

  Study days - Ethnology, anthropology

  The art of not being governed

  James C. Scott in Iberia

  Over the last decades the works of James C. Scott have been an inspiration to many researchers all over the world. Major works such as The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance or Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts developed concepts, methodologies and theories that deeply influenced those who study social movements, agrarian societies or resistance struggles.

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• 10 nov 2010

  Oxford

  Study days - History

  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

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• 09 jui 2011

  10 jui 2011

  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.

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• 14 jan 2012

  15 jan 2012

  16 jan 2012

  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.

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• 30 avr 2012

  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.

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• 28 mar 2012

  29 mar 2012

  Paris | Paris

  Conference, symposium - Law

  Law and Boundaries Conference

  L'Ecole de Droit de Sciences Po acceuille la Conférence International Droit et Limites les 28 et 29 Mars prochains. La conférence réunira des jeunes chercheurs et doctorants qui travaillent sur les questions aux confins du droit et des autres disciplines. Le projet a été initialement conçu comme une réponse au silence de la discipline juridique s’agissant des causes, des effets, et des solutions à apporter à la récente crise économique.Plus généralement, la conférence offre un cadre permettant de débattre sur la manière dont les juristes européens peuvent s’approprier les problématiques posées par la gouvernance globale.

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• 06 mai 2012

  Geneva

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Flashbacks. Nostalgic media and mediated forms of nostalgia

  Can media really be nostalgic? Which specific forms of nostalgia appear in contemporary society and why? Can people be nostalgic if they did not experience the past they pretend being nostalgic of? What kind of politics of nostalgia exist? What is the impact of nostalgia on the media market and its influence on economy? Finally, given the arbitrary (?) use of the past in all its imaginable variations and cultural systems, is it still possible to use the word nostalgia or should there be a neologism describing the transformation of the past in(to) the digital era? Could it even be possible to be simply nostalgic of nostalgia; finally describing the eternal research for (lost) identity? This international conference aims to explore nostalgia as a (mass) media phenomena and also seeks for contributions that treat any other mediated forms of nostalgia.

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• 01 jui 2012

  Birmingham

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Rights and Representations

  Foreign Language Film Conference V

  Submissions are invited for the fifth Foreign Language Film Conference, on the theme of Rights and Representations. In this historic setting of the American South, and in conjunction with Birmingham's 50th anniversary remembrance of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, FLFC celebrates civil and human rights. Scholars will consider the question of civil rights in international cinematic traditions. How does film as an art and a genre represent civil rights, and human rights? What are the places of rebellion, terrorism, or non-violent resistance in forging individual freedoms, and how is this reflected in national cinematic traditions? How do international films address issues of discrimination, violence, repression, the struggle for social equality ? On the pedagogical side of the question, how do films about civil rights teach their viewers about international cultural and political traditions and movements ? How are these films incorporated into classroom discussions of global civil rights ?

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• 07 jui 2012

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  European Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme (2012)

  EURIAS propose trente-deux résidences de recherche de dix mois dans quatorze instituts d'études avancées (IEA) en Europe. Les IEA offrent à des chercheurs de haut niveau, junior ou senior, la possibilité de travailler en toute indépendance en bénéficiant des meilleures conditions de recherche et de l'environnement stimulant d'une communauté scientifique internationale et pluridisciplinaire. Les résidences sont principalement allouées aux candidats issus des sciences de l'homme et de la société, mais sont également ouvertes aux sciences exactes et aux sciences du vivant.

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• 10 avr 2012

  Guimarães

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Structures of the XXth Century: architectural heritage and patrimonialization

  The evolution of the architectural languages of the XX century, from modernist to post-modernist, has often stressed the importance of structures in expressing and fostering innovation. However, in the patrimonialization processes identities, memories and languages, prevail on structures and materials, due to new uses, new norms and standards adaptation.

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• 08 mar 2012

  Paris

  Call for papers - Sociology

  DisAbility Mundus

  Doctoral School in Disability Research

  DisABILITY MUNDUS is a doctoral school, intended to support research efforts on disabilitywith a focus on the European continent. The school is targeted towards doctoral scholars, including pre-doctoral and post-doctoral, who wish to share their research ideas and projects with senior researchers.

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• 15 mai 2012

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Africa

  Afro-Portugal

  Journal Cadernos de Estudos Africanos thematic Issues

  The journal Cadernos de Estudos Africanos seeks contributions for a thematic issue on the African presence in contemporary Portuguese society. We start from a broad understanding of this sizeable populace, comprising not only people born in Africa or those who have lived there but also their descendants who identify themselves as Africans, Afro-Portuguese or retornados, irrespective of their nationality. Our aim is thus to portray a large and heterogeneous population (regarding the countries they come from, and the diversity of life courses, ethnic loyalties and cultural references) that nonetheless shares Africa as a common geographical reference. These groups include, but are certainly not limited to, the so-called second generation of African immigrants and those who have returned from the former colonies. In the Portugal of today, a person’s African heritage, or a prolonged residence in Africa, tend to be significant biographical elements, in addition to being key markers of a social and cultural alterity that is often racialized.

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