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  • Lisbon

    Call for papers - Modern

    City Lights (XVIIth-XXIst centuries). Persistence and change in urban lighting technologies and night-time practices

    EAUH 2014, Session 12

    The session "City Lights" is organized within the framework of the 12th international conference of the EAUH (European Association for Urban History) which will take place in Lisbon from the 3rd to the 6th September 2014. It is part of the studies on night, a dimension which has been long neglected in urban history. The session proposes to study in a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective (in history, geography, planning, sociology and environmental studies) the evolution of night-time and street-lighting  practices in the world from the XVIIth century up to the present:  from the increasing demand in public lighting in european capitals to the protection of the night sky and energy savings.

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - Urban studies

    7th International PhD Seminar Urbanism and Urbanization

    This 7th edition of the U&U International PhD Seminar will be held at the ENSA Paris-Malaquais, under the scientific direction of the Laboratory of Infrastructure and Architecture Planning (LIAT). Continually facing new demands from epistemological or technical society, and now facing an economic and social crisis (especially in Europe), urban planning is forced to question its methods. The Seminar is intended for PhD Students who wish to present their ongoing research questioning aspects of the field of urban planning in a historical perspective, from a theoretical point of view or with a potential for practical implementation. The U&U International PhD Seminars take place exclusively in English and seek to promote the exchange of ideas, provoke debate amongst researchers, invite comparisons, cross-pollinate different disciplines and to highlight the latest ongoing research. It is a rare opportunity offered to young researchers to meet with prominent scientists and build a critical argument.

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  • Berne

    Scholarship, prize and job offer - America

    PhD Position in Human Geography / Political Ecology

    In the context of the research module on "Cultural Negotiations: Asymmetries in the Latin American TransArea" of the ProDoc Programme entitled "The Dynamics of Transcultural Management and Governance in Latin America", the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) of the University of Bern is offering a PhD position in Human Geography / Political Ecology.

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  • Oxford

    Conference, symposium - History

    Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture

    Scientific Communication and its History – III

    This conference is the third in a series devoted to historical and contemporary perspectives on the communication of science and technology. Climate and weather provide a particularly rich and challenging case study to complete the conference series. As with other disciplines studied during the previous conferences, the climate sciences are characterised by complexity: in their professional networks; their conceptual models; and the logistics of their large-scale data and computing needs. Yet few modern scientific disciplines attract the same level of public engagement, in both everyday life and passionate debate on the future of the planet. Moreover, their status at the intersection of policy, scientific controversy and the public sphere is not a recent development: the same issues and fault lines ran through meteorology from the 18th-century onwards. Shifting interests within the history of science and the development of environmental history have greatly expanded the field in recent years. The conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on these historiographical developments via a specific focus on the communication of weather and climate from the 18th to the 21st centuries. The conference will address three themes in particular: Commodification of meteorological knowledge, Media, and Historicizing climate history.

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  • Scholarship, prize and job offer - Geography

    Postdoctorate Position: Project of Landscape Architecture and Visual Culture

    This postdoctorate position is open in the research laboratory of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paysage de versailles-Marseille (LAREP), in the research program entitled “Knowledge and practices of the project of landscape architecture”.

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  • Call for papers - Urban studies

    Urban Nature through Projects. Towards a new coalition between city and nature

    Intitulé « Nature urbaine en projets », le présent colloque a pour ambition de mieux comprendre et connaître ce qu’il en est du devenir de la ville –sa nature- dès lors qu’elle s’attache à la nature. Car s'il faut bien envisager l’avenir des formes urbaines naturelles –promenades plantées, parcs, jardins- héritées de l’histoire, c’est à l’aune d’une demande sociale de nature, elle-même fluctuante, que cela doit être fait. Et s’il faut dès lors appréhender le devenir des modèles de nature auxquels se réfèrent les architectes, les paysagistes et les urbanistes qui aménagent nos villes en espaces naturels, il convient tout autant d’interroger les mutations du « projet » en tant qu’outil de conception auquel ces professionnels ont recours. Il n’est pas jusque la question de l’ « innovation » architecturale, paysagère et urbanistique qui n’implique la notion de dépassement du présent inhérente aux projets de nature urbaine. Une nouvelle alliance entre nature et ville se dessinerait-elle ?

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  • Coimbra

    Call for papers - Sociology

    Ecological Crisis and the New Challenges

    Special issue of the Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais

    Esta chamada de artigos propõe-se reunir contribuições que, pela compreensão da crise ambiental contemporânea, utilizem criticamente os instrumentos de análise provenientes das seguintes áreas de investigação: justiça ambiental, saúde coletiva, democracia/cidadania ecológica, economia ecológica, ecologia política, ecocriticismo, sociologia ambiental e história ambiental.

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  • 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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  • 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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  • Valence-sur-Baïse

    Call for papers - History

    Rural History vs Environmental History? (Middle Ages – Modern era)

    First Summer School in Rural History

    L’université de Toulouse 2 – Le Mirail et le CNRS organisent, avec le soutien de l’European Society for Environmental History (ESEH), l’Association des Journées Internationales d’Histoire de l’Abbaye de Flaran et le FRAMESPA (UMR 5136), une première école d’été d’histoire rurale. Cette manifestation scientifique se déroulera sous le patronage de l’European Society for Environmental History (ESEH).L’école d’été accueillera des chercheurs, enseignants-chercheurs, doctorants et post-doctorants, français et étrangers, travaillant sur les sociétés rurales et l’histoire environnementale de l’époque médiévale et moderne. L’organisation prendra en charge l’essentiel des frais de déplacement et l’intégralité du séjour. Des places sont disponibles pour les jeunes chercheurs. Les dossiers doivent être envoyés avant le 28 mai 2012.

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  • 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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  • Porto

    Call for papers - Geography

    Sharing environmental data

    Issues of open environmental data in Latin America

    Le séminaire « Partager l'information environnementale » propose de dresser un premier bilan des questionnements et débats liés à la diffusion de données environnementales en accès libre, dans la perspective d'une analyse de l'impact social et territorial de ce processus d'importance croissante. Articulant études de cas de diffusion et réflexions méthodologiques sur la mesure des impacts sociaux et territoriaux, ce séminaire porte prioritairement sur l'Amérique latine, mais est ouvert à des contributions d'autres continents. Il se tiendra à Porto Alegre du 23 au 24 août 2012 (Brésil).

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  • Aix-en-Provence

    Call for papers - Geography

    Agrarian areas: landscape dynamics, ground laws, parties involved and planning

    La revue de géographie Méditerranée organise un appel à contribution pour son numéro 120, dont le titre est : espaces agraires : dynamiques paysagères, structures foncières, acteurs et planification. Les textes s'appuieront sur des recherches finalisées qui privilégient les échelles fines d'analyse. Les territoires concernés relèveront prioritairement du bassin méditerranéen. Les contributions doivent être soumises avant le 30 juin 2012 et ne pas excéder 38 000 signes. Pour plus de détails, il faut se reporter aux recommandations aux auteurs sur le site en ligne de la revue.

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  • Paris

    Study days - History

    Application of Lidar surveys in archaeology – some examples from France and abroad

    The commission « Theory and method in Landscape archaeology – Archaeogeography / Théorie et méthodes en archéologie du paysage / Archéogéographie » de l’UISPP and the programme « Archéologie du bassin parisien » de l’UMR 7041 Arscan Nanterre invites you to an international Workshop : « l’utilisation du LIDAR en archéologie, exemples d’études en France et à l’étranger » / Application of Lidar surveys in archaeology – some examples from France and abroad. Monday March 5, 2012 at the « Institut d’art et d’archéologie »

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  • Toulouse

    Call for papers - Sociology

    First International Colloquium on the Sociology of Energy

    L’objectif de ces journées est de rassembler des scientifiques d’horizons institutionnels différents (laboratoires de recherche, entreprises publiques et privées, bureaux d’études) intéressés par la place des problématiques sociologiques dans les questions d’énergie, de mutualiser les connaissances et les approches sociologiques, mais aussi de contribuer au rapprochement entre les sciences de l’ingénieur et la sociologie / The aim is to convene scientists from different backgrounds (public and private companies, research laboratories, engineering/consulting firms), develop an international network with a view to holding regular meetings, as well as pool knowledge and theoretical and methodological approaches.

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  • Avignon

    Call for papers - Representation

    Staging the land

    Contemporary site-specific creation and the issue of perception

    Ce colloque propose d’explorer le domaine particulier de la création artistique contemporaine in situ – Land Art, art environnemental, art public, performance – sous l’angle de l’analyse de la perception sensorielle, intellectuelle et esthétique, de l’étude de formes contextualisées / conceptualisées et de leurs modes de représentation. Nous analyserons les types de rapports que ces œuvres sur site entretiennent avec l’observateur, loin des lieux traditionnellement dédiés à l'art. Cette manifestation scientifique accompagne l’installation pérenne de la sculpture Avignon Locators de l’artiste américaine Nancy Holt dans les jardins du campus centre-ville de l’Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse. Cette œuvre in situ, adaptée au site, est une réactivation de Missoula Ranch Locators – Vision Encompassed (Montana, 1972), installation majeure de Nancy Holt démantelée au début des années 2000. L’inauguration de l’œuvre, en présence de l’artiste, se déroulera lors du colloque et célèbrera les quarante ans de la création de Missoula Ranch Locators.

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  • Montreal

    Scholarship, prize and job offer - Geography

    PhD Position in Human Geography, University of Montreal

    Poste de doctorant en géographie humaine sur le thème : gouvernance, services municipaux, approvisionnement en eau. Ce poste présente une excellente occasion de s’impliquer dans un projet axé sur les nouvelles tendances en matière de gouvernance de l'eau à l'échelle municipale avec des implications pour relever les défis persistant de l'approvisionnement en eau dans les zones à faible revenu. Le doctorant se concentrera sur l’exécution de l’approvisionnement en eau par les sociétés municipales en vertu de différents régimes de gouvernance et de réglementation. Le candidat retenu sera supervisé par le Dr Kathryn Furlong, professeure adjointe au Département de géographie (www.kathrynfurlong.com).

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  • Call for papers - Geography

    Populations and coastal zones

    Call for the third issue of the review Space Populations Societies, 2012

    Espace Populations Sociétés a programmé la publication d’un numéro thématique « Populations et littoral » en 2012 (n°3). Espace Populations Sociétés a été créée en 1983 pour promouvoir et publier des travaux sur les « rapports entre les phénomènes sociaux, démographiques et spatiaux, leurs imbrications et leur rétroaction réciproque dans l’espace-temps » en favorisant le dialogue entre les disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales (Thumerelle, 1983). En se référant à cette orientation éditoriale, nous sollicitons des articles qui analysent le littoral en tant que production sociale ainsi que les rapports qui associent les populations (structures, dynamiques) et les sociétés littorales dans la construction de cet espace géographique. Les auteurs doivent respecter les normes éditoriales de la revue : un article ne doit pas dépasser 45 000 signes, illustrations comprises. Les propositions d’articles (titre, résumé jusqu’à une page) doivent être adressées avant le 10 janvier 2012 aux deux responsables du numéro : Philippe DEBOUDT (philippe.deboudt@univ-lille1.fr) et Louis MARROU (lmarrou@univ-lr.fr).

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  • Montreal

    Call for papers - Urban studies

    Ambiances in action

    The second International Congress on Ambiances is an international gathering for researchers, artists and players engaged in analyzing the ambiance-related dimensions of the built environment and in the sensory construction of the contemporary world. Many approaches are at work in the field of architectural and urban ambiance, and these multiple contributions nurture its rich diversity. The Congress aims to give voice to this activity, feeding on work exploring new forms of exchange between what is designed and what is experienced, between the measured and the qualified, the projected and the tested, the material and the immaterial. The Congress will be held for four days at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), in Montreal, from 19 to 22 September 2012. It will seek to express advances in learning and new hypotheses proposed by the various disciplines and fields of activity which address the question of ambiances.

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  • Conference, symposium - Geography

    Man and the desert

    Multidisciplinary conference in Wadi Rum (Jordan)

    The area of Wadi Rum in Southern Jordan was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a mixed natural and cultural site in June 2011. Scholars involved in the the preparation of the nomination file came to realise that scientific knowledge about the broader Wadi Rum area is scarce and does not do justice to the importance of the site, be it its natural or cultural dimensions. It also became apparent that there is a need to systematise research and documentation efforts, and provide technical advices to the relevant authorities for the monitoring and conservation of the natural and cultural heritage of the site. Man and the Desert: the First Multidisciplinary Conference on the Natural and Cultural History of Wadi Rum is expected to be the first of a series of conferences on the interactions between human communities and arid environments to take place every two years in Wadi Rum.

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