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• 19 avr 2009

  Bucharest

  Call for papers - Sociology

  R&D Perspectives. Promoting Innovation through Education, Culture and Communication

  Research and development are critical topics in the context of the current economic crisis. From this perspective, one of the challenging purposes is to raise awareness of the importance of R&D as key factors for growth, social and economic stability in the contemporary world. During the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, the major goal in all fields is to underline the strong links between science and society in order to make development, research and innovation indispensable for sustainability and competitiveness. In this context, the International Conference on R&D Perspectives. Promoting Innovation through Education, Culture and Communication seeks to provide an international forum for the presentation of new research results and problems related to these topics. All scholars, researchers, policy makers and advisers with an interest in these explosive fields are invited to exchange ideas and approaches. Their contributions can be in the form of: theoretical presentation adding new insights to the debate in the literature; original empirical research; case studies.

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• 18 avr 2009

  Ghent

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Sensing Masculinity. Thinking about the Masculine Body

  CFP – Social science history conference – Ghent, 13-16 April 2010

  Thinking about representations of and discourses surrounding the male body usually entails thinking about the visible or tangible body. Studies concerning the history, sociology or anthropology of men’s bodies tend to focus on esthetical ideals (such as the muscular look), the ability to inflict or experience pain (most notably in times of war) or to give or experience pleasure (within or outside the hetero-normative bedroom). This CFP is an invitation to think about the masculine body once again, and to think beyond ‘seeing’ and ‘feeling’ as the only means to experience, analyse or represent bodies.

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• 06 mai 2009

  07 mai 2009

  Lille

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Transnational Communities and Conflict: a Civil Society approach

  Conflict resolution from below?

  The International Civil Society Forum on Conflicts (INFOCON) is an EC funded research project, aiming to offer a better understanding of how Civil Society Organisations representing Transnational Communities can help in preventing and resolving conflicts. This interdisciplinary conference will debate the conflict resolution mechanisms used by different actors and how they can collaborate in order to achieve their major goals. The two-day conference will bring together the INFOCON researchers, policy experts at the local, national and European level, and representatives of the Civil Society. The event will be punctuated by several keynote addresses delivered by leading academics and policy-makers in the field of transnational communities and conflicts.

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• 22 mai 2009

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Transgenres : nouvelles identités et visibilités

  Transgenders: New Identities and Visibilities

  Ce colloque explore les nouvelles cultures « trans », transsexuel(le)s, transgenres, genderqueer. Celles-ci se manifestent par l’émergence de nouvelles formes de visibilité et de lisibilité, et notamment d’expression et de création autobiographiques, qu’il s’agisse de Kate Bornstein (1994) ou Bambi (2003) en passant par Ludwig Trovato (2003, 2007). Ces textes, ces films, ces images montrent de nouvelles subjectivités qui remettent en cause le binarisme de notre système sexe/genre. Le colloque interroge également les relations entre subcultures queer et trans. « Transgenres » réunit donc critiques littéraires, théoriciens, artistes, médecins, avocats, et activistes venant d’Europe, de l’Amérique du Nord, et de l’Afrique du Sud pour prendre en compte l’appartenance raciale ou sociale, l’ethnicité, le désir des transidentités en devenir.

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• 01 mar 2009

  Pessac

  Call for papers - Geography

  Seventh Day of Geography. Spaces of Death and the dead in spaces

  For the seventh consecutive year, the association Doc'Géo organizes the Day of Geography on April 7th, 2009 (in partnership with the Ecole Doctorale Montaigne Humanité, MSHA and ADES UMR CNRS 5185). This Day may primarily interest Masters, Doctoral, Post -doc, and therefore young researchers. The objective of this day is to consider the spatial dimension of death, a theme to which far too little attention was paid in the humanities, thus offering potential rich thematic analysis. The purpose of this one day conference is to initiate, through a partnership between several disciplines (geography, sociology, ethnology, anthropology, history, art history, philosophy, medicine, biology, ethology ...) an analysis of the relation between space and death.

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• 31 mar 2009

  Manchester

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Innovation and Change in Health Care Systems

  Colloque européen sur la santé

  La société ISRICH (International Society for Research on Innovation and Change in Health Care Systems) organise son troisième congrès sur l'étude des systèmes de santé en Europe. [www.isrich.eu]

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• 19 mar 2009

  20 mar 2009

  Fribourg

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Doing Politics/Acting Politically

  An International Workshop on The Political Dimension of Situated Practices

  In recent years, abstract entities such as the State, the Citizen and Power inherited from political philosophy have been reassessed empirically, notably under the influence of pragmatist considerations in social science approaches of the political order. This important development has led to a much more concrete understanding of modern democracies, now seen as a contingent process rather than the direct outcome of institutional structures. The workshop will contribute to this development through presentation and discussion of related research projects. These projects have in common an observational approach to the situated practices through which political phenomena emerge in the first place.

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• 31 mar 2009

  Bordeaux

  Call for papers - America

  Déviance(s)

  E.A. CLIMAS (Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3)

  Si la déviance est un comportement qui échappe aux règles admises par la société, pour parler de déviance, il faut que soient réunis trois éléments : existence d'une norme, transgression de cette norme et stigmatisation de cette transgression (« The deviant is one to whom that label has successfully been applied », Becker). L'origine de la déviance n'est donc pas à chercher dans la nature profonde de l’individu, mais bien plutôt dans son « rôle social », lequel détermine son identité (Mead, Berger). La déviance s’inscrit dans une dialectique dont le pôle opposé est forcément la norme qu’elle enfreint. Partant le déviant est celui qui, par consensus communautaire, est affublé d’une étiquette (« labeling theory » ou « théorie interactionniste de la déviance »), véritable « stigmate social » (Goffman).

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• 15 mai 2009

  Porquerolles

  Call for papers - Political studies

  International Conference on The Empowerment of Civil Society in Urban Policies

  This conference seeks to analyze and to compare the institutionalization of empowerment and its impacts in diverse political, cultural, economic and institutional contexts since the empowerment seems, theoretically, to be a matrix of profound changes within contemporary States. The three-day conference organized by the UNESCO Chair on Urban Politics and Citizenship will address two key issues that are currently at the core of the transformations mentioned above: (i) the political and economical conditions of the institutionalization of empowerment in urban policies for the last 20 years, and (ii) the uses of empowerment on and by social groups within cities.

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• 01 mai 2009

  Call for papers - Economy

  Management devices and the quest for performance in the public sector

  International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management (IJPSPM)

  For several decades, and with renewed vigour since the late 1980s, public action has been called into question. All public institutions: the State, local governments, health organizations, state-run companies have been the object of two types of criticism. Economic inefficiency was jointly denounced with what was perceived as lack of democracy, transparency, equality, fairness and even security.

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• 01 mai 2009

  Ghent

  Call for papers - Religion

  Network Religion

  European Social Science History Conference 2010

  This is a call for papers for the Network Religion of the next European Social Science History Conference, which will take place at the beautiful Bijloke Site in Ghent, Belgium, from 13 to 16 April 2010. The aim of the ESSHC is bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions. The conference welcomes papers and sessions on any historical topic and any historical period. It is organized in 28 networks, which cover a certain topic, on of these being Religion.

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• 18 sep 2009

  Quebec City

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Play. Ethnology of games and sports

  Dans ce numéro thématique de la revue Ethnologies, nous proposons de réfléchir au jeu identitaire et à l’identité jouée dans les jeux et dans les sports. Nous cherchons ainsi à mieux comprendre comment le joueur peut s’exprimer et s’affirmer dans une pratique ludique et/ou sportive et quelle est la cohérence de cette pratique pour le social. In this special issue of Ethnologies, we invite thoughts on identity games and on performed identity in games and sports. We seek a better understanding of how a player can express and assert himself/herself in leisure or sporting practices, and of the social coherence of these practices.

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• 16 fév 2009

  Lille

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Immigration, Consumption and Markets

  Symposium international

  The ETHNOS (program funded by the French National Research Agency - ANR) together with the Lille School of Management Research Centre (ESA-Université de Lille 2 and Group ESC Lille) announces the Call for Papers for the International Conference on “Immigration, Consumption and Markets”. The Conference will be held on May 18th and 19th in the University of Lille 2 and followed by a special issue of Consumption, Markets and Culture.We invite submissions that examine consumer culture and/or market phenomena as it reflects the ethnicity and is influenced by ethnicity and by immigration experience from multiple trajectories: social, cultural, economic and political.

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• 17 oct 2008

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Mécanismes sociaux et sociologie analytique

  Colloque international, Paris, Université de la Sorbonne, 17-18 octobre 2008

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• 04 déc 2008

  Southampton

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Music and Migration

  This conference will explore the relationship between music and migration by providing new insights into the creative practices and life-stories of migrant artists across the globe. A core theme of the conference will be the motivations and experiences of migrant musicians who leave, return, stay or move beyond their localities. Through the focus on such specific groups of migrants the conference aims to throw light on their identifications in their artistic and every-day lives. Past and on-going research shows that patterns of migration are clearly linked to transnational networks. By focusing on the role of migrant musicians within such networks, this conference seeks to analyse and understand the extent to which musicians’ networks may or may not be special cases within migration studies.

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• 20 oct 2008

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Citizenship and Ethnicity

  Development studies are increasingly focused on democratization and the relationship between state power and issues of identity. Local communities and identity groups – ethnic, national, indigenous, religious - continuously struggle to negotiate their relations with the state and with each other in ways that may challenge conventional or legal definitions of citizenship. Collective identities may certainly exacerbate struggles between groups, but they may also create linkages, thus becoming both embedded in and inseparable from the democratization process. Increasingly, the quality of democracy is linked to inclusive citizenship regimes. These involve individual rights, but also a collectively defined “common good.” In divided societies both elements are problematic.

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• 01 déc 2008

  Utrecht

  Call for papers - History

  Standardizing Psychoactive Drugs And Drug Uses. 1900-1970

  Psychoactive drugs and drug treatments, within psychiatry, as well as those that have entered the public domain, have begun increasingly to attract the interest of historical researchers. An aspect of this research is the search for generalized concepts that can be used to understand the dynamics of the life-cycles of drugs. One such concept, and the focus of a new research program, sponsored by the European Science Foundation, is that of 'standardization'.

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• 10 nov 2008

  Manchester

  Call for papers - Modern

  Public Disorder: Post-World War II European Art and Its Publics

  AAH 2009 : Intersections (April 2-4, 2009)

  Following the end of WWII, artists across Europe, both east and west, sought to re-imagine the identity of the public. The internationalist utopia of the historical avant-garde had not come to pass, the populism of the national socialist model had been discredited by Fascism and Nazism, and it was yet unclear what shape the burgeoning commercial public would take in either soviet block or western nations.

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• 30 sep 2008

  Lille

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Res Publica

  Second NCFIS/CERIUL International Postgraduate Conference, 7 et 8 novembre 2008

  Le National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, Dublin, et le CERIUL, Lille 3, sont heureux de vous inviter à cette seconde conférence en études franco-irlandaises réunissant doctorants et chercheurs confirmés. Cette année le colloque s'intéresse à la notion de Res Publica en France et/ou en Irlande. Toutes les propositions sont les bienvenues.

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• 15 sep 2008

  Walferdange

  Call for papers - Representation

  Mémoire locale et globalité. Pratiques et politiques de construction de récits historiques

  The Local and the Global. Practices and Politics of Historical Narrations and Negotiations

  La conférence cherche à mettre en évidence les interactions complexes entre les phénomènes de mondialisation économique et culturelle d'un côté et les constructions mémorielles locales d'un autre côté. La mise en valeur (touristique, politique ou autre) de patrimoine ou traditions locales reflète-t-elle un « repli identitaire » face à une mobilité et interculturalité perçues comme menaçantes et/ou une appropriation locale de discours universalistes (comme par exemple christianisation, (dé)colonialisation, Holocauste, migrations)? La conférence se veut interdisciplinaire et invite donc des chercheur-e-s de toutes sciences humaines et sociales, tant pour les apports théoriques que pour les cas d'études pratiques en vue d'un projet de recherche international.

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