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• 15 mai 2012

  Lille

  Call for papers - Sociology

  The economic, social and political issues related to population ageing

  Les transformations sociales, économiques et politiques induites par le vieillissement de la population ouvrent un vaste chantier de recherche. La question de la dépendance ou de la vulnérabilité, de la consommation de soins et de services, du vieillissement au travail, de l’aménagement urbain et de la citoyenneté des personnes âgées sont des problèmes sociaux et politiques d’actualité mais qui suscitent encore peu de travaux. Ce colloque tentera d'explorer quelques unes de ces pistes.

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• 20 jan 2012

  Lisbon

  Study days - Sociology

  Area studies revisited the many faces of an interdisciplinary field

  Launching conference of the comparative and transnational studies research line

  O Fórum Pesquisas do CIES-IUL 2011, coincidente com o lançamento da linha 6 - Comparative and Transnational Studies (COTRANS), terá lugar no no dia 20 de janeiro de 2012, no ISCTE-IUL, Edifício 2, Auditório B 203, em Lisboa (Portugal). Inscrições através de gcp.cies@iscte.pt

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• 30 avr 2012

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Challenges for public and private sector

  Industrial relations and unions in times of crisis and austerity

  As conferências Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) e Work, Employment and Industrial Relations” (RN 17), da ESA Research Network, irão decorrer de 5 a 7 de Setembro no ISCTE-IUL, em Lisboa (Portugal), sendo organizada pelo CIES-IUL. A chamada de trabalhos decorre até 30 de abril de 2012.

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• 15 fév 2012

  Budapest

  Call for papers - Information

  Policies and practices in access to digital archives: towards a new research and policy agenda

  Policies and practices in access to digital archives: towards a new research and policy agenda, July 2 - 6, 2012 Budapest, Hungary. In co-operation with the Information Program, Open Society Foundations and the Open Society Archives (OSA) at Central European University. This course is intended to serve as a bridge between archivists, curators, researchers, legal experts and policymakers whose work deals with digital records, cultural heritage collections and/or open data. Launching an itinerary to reform the political and statutory landscape by uniting the efforts of key stakeholders is one of the broad purposes of the course.

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• 02 fév 2012

  03 fév 2012

  Créteil

  Study days - Urban studies

  Urban renewal projects in Europe

  The colloquium will try to highlight two issues about urban renewal projects, shared by all European countries. Who’s benefiting from urban projects? How is it possible to renew in a context of crisis? The first day will inquire both the place left to or/and taken by the citizens in urban projects, the targets of these projects and their social impacts. The second day will assess both the financial crisis impacts on governance, especially on the place of private and public sectors, and the environmental constraints to be taken into account in urban renewal.

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• 01 avr 2012

  London

  Call for papers - Sociology

  “Ri yo avan yo riw”: Rebellion and Compliance of Womanhood in African-Diasporic Milieu

  As defined by Hirsh, postmemory: “describes the relationship of the second generation of powerful, often traumatic experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply as to seems to constitute memories in their own rights” (2008). Applied to the African Diaspora, one may suggest that slavery and colonialism constitute a postmemory directly determining the approach to self of all members of the African Diaspora. This postmemory is so ingrained in these societies that the post-conflict backlash generally affecting women from former colonised or occupied countries, has hit African-Diasporic women in an extremely unusual way. In fact, it has been witnessed in several middle Eastern or South American societies that after liberationist conflicts, some societies would create a fantasised notion of womanhood allegedly pre-colonial, rejecting the former dominant culture to glorify their own root culture (Al Ali, Pratt 2007; Pankhurst 2007). In African-Diasporic milieu and in the same post conflict context, women were fed with dreams of European respectability of which the European middle class woman was archetypal. This rather complex situation generated great uneasiness as far as identity and womanhood were concerned. Beyond the debate around Négritude, Créolité and even Modernity, black women are yet to fit the general notion of “whut a [black] woman oughta be and to do”.Indeed, One can wonder at the ability of the new generation to fulfil the dream of respectability of its mothers (Burton, 1997) while complying with the demands of an increasingly neo-liberal environment. Coupled with the Festival Image of Black Women, this conference will be the opportunity to discuss the discrepancy between the image, the representation and the realities of African-Diasporic women. The aim is to identify the postmemories responsible for the social expectations of womanhood in a given community and how these expectations protect or injure the same women.

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  Paris

  Seminar - Political studies

  Representations and practices of citizenship in Southern Asia

  Représentations et pratiques de la citoyenneté en Asie du Sud : programme de l’équipe, Centre d’études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CNRS-EHESS), 190 avenue de France, 75013 Paris. Le Centre d'études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS) est le plus grand laboratoire français de recherche en sciences sociales sur le sous-continent indien. Le CEIAS est une unité mixte de recherche (UMR 8564) de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) et du Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).

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• 15 fév 2012

  Turin

  Call for papers - Geography

  Interdisciplinary Forum of Young Researchers about the issue the Alps of tomorrow

  Dislivelli Association is pleased to announce the second edition of the Interdisciplinary Forum of Young Researchers about the issue the Alps of tomorrow. The Forum is organized by Dislivelli Association in collaboration with Interateneo Territorio Department of Polythecnic of Turin and Philosophy and Education Department of University of Turin, with the support of the Permanent Secretariat of Alpine Convention and the Province of Turin. This biennial Forum aims at giving to the new generation of researchers the chance to meet up, to divulge their researches on the alpine territory and to discuss the emerging issues of contemporary Alps.

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• 08 mar 2012	15 mar 2012	22 mar 2012
  29 mar 2012

  Paris

  Lecture series - Political studies

  Theory and practice of post sovereign constituent power

  Programme des conférences, de M. Andrew Arato, Professeur à New School for Social Research, New York (USA) invité par M. Pierre Rosanvallon. Les jeudis à 14 heures, salle 5, au Collège de France.

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• 15 jan 2012

  New York

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Modern

  Non-Tenured Track Clinical Assistant Professor in NYU

  The Institute of French Studies at New York University seeks to appoint a Clinical Assistant Professor beginning in the academic year 2012-13, pending budgetary and administrative approval. This is a non-tenured teaching position and the initial appointment will be for three years, with the option of renewal based on performance.

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• 01 mar 2012

  Oslo

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Sociology and Social Work: Theory and Practice

  The second conference on Sociology and Social Work will be held in Oslo, Norway, May 30 and 31, 2012. The theme of the conference is « Theory and Practice ». The location will be Oslo University College in the center of Oslo, Norway. The first conference on Sociology and Social work was in Lisbon, May 2011.

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• 31 jan 2012

  Madrid

  Call for papers - Africa

  Sob a arvore da palavra

  VIII congresso ibérico de estudos africanos

  Entre os dias 14 e 16 de Junho, o Grupo de estudos africanos organiza em Madrid (Espanha), Sob a árvore da palavra, o 8º Congresso ibérico de estudos africanos, com 50 diferentes painéis. O Call for Papers estará aberto de 15 de Novembro a 31 de Janeiro de 2012.

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• 30 jan 2012

  Call for papers - History

  A "subjective shot" on labor

  Issue n. 9 of the journal Snodi will be devoted to the theme of labor, in its broadest sense, as a manual and an intellectual activity; labor of the land, in the factory, in the services; dependent or autonomous labor; regular or irregular labor; labor as a blessing or as a curse; loved or hated labor; labor producing identity and participation or refusal and exclusion, as long as it is represented 'subjectively'.

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• 28 fév 2012

  Porto Alegre

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Immigration & maternity

  Chamada de trabalhos para o número 1 da revista Iberoamerican Journal of Health and Citizenship, sob o tema da imigração e maternidade. Os manuscritos devem ser enviados até 28 de fevereiro de 2012 para healthandcitizenship@fpce.up.pt

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• 13 fév 2012

  Poitiers

  Call for papers - Geography

  Unprotected unaccompanied children in Europe

  Appel à communications pour le colloque international « Mineurs non accompagnés et sans protection en Europe: Quelles raisons expliquent leur manque de protection? », MSHS, Poitiers, 23-24 octobre 2012. Merci de nous envoyer vos propositions de communications sur l'addrese pucafreu@gmail.com avant le 13 février 2012

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• 15 jan 2012

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Unsettling the local: changes in food and in rural development

  Appel à communication pour le XIIIe congrès mondial de sociologie rurale. Thème de travail : alimentation et local. Thèmes de recherche : histoires alimentaires locales ; valorisation de l'alimentation locale dans un nouveau contexte environnemental ; approche multidimensionnelle des enjeux liés aux aliments locaux.

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• 30 jan 2012

  Paris

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  Local Politics, Global Impacts

  Steps to a multi-disciplinary analysis of scales

  The University of Chicago and the French Development Agency (AFD) are pleased to announce a conference to be held in Paris on 14th and 15th June 2012. The conference will be devoted to exploring the analysis of the global impacts of local politics and power relations.We call for papers that investigate domestic power relations, how local interest games generate international impacts, through what channels and mechanisms these impacts emerge, how local politics is redefined by global networks and discourses and whether current forms of international cooperation and global governance regimes are well or ill-adapted to these challenges. Along with a short C.V., proposals for contributions to the conference should be sent before 30th January 2012.

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• 01 fév 2012

  Poitiers

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  Opportunities for dissertation proposal enhancement and summer research funding for doctoral students

  This program will assist students in preparing for dissertation research on topics related to transnationalism and "circulation migratoire" (migratory circulation). Selected fellows will attend two training workshops and conduct summer research under the mentorship of prominent scholars in this area of research: Dr. Emmanuel Ma Mung (Director of Research, CNRS) and Dr. Khachig Tölölyan (Professor, Wesleyan University).

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• 31 jan 2012

  01 fév 2012

  Paris

  Study days - Sociology

  Paul Willis, Learning to labor. 35 years after

  Retour sur l'enquête menée par le sociologue Paul Willis dans les années 1970 auprès de jeunes ouvriers anglais. Journée d'études en présence de l'auteur à l'occasion de la traduction de Learning to labor en français.

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• 15 mar 2012

  Sion

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Regimes of Value in Tourism: Concepts, Politics, Practices

  The conference aims to explore different concepts of value that emerge in the social field of tourism. At a general level, we can distinguish here between value as conceptualized by different academic disciplines and value as lived, expressed, and embodied by various actors within tourism as practice and social field. Tourism is often considered a profit generating industry where the utility value paid by tourists is larger than the exchange value of products (in classical terms, the cost of production using labor, capital and land). It is an important element of the conference to discuss conceptions of value in tourism that transcend a strictly economic definition. In this sense we are interested, on the one hand, in the differentiated emotional, moral and ethical cultures by means of which tourists experience attractions and assign value. On the other hand, we wish to explore how various local, regional, national, international, and transnational actors and instances capture, conceptualize and assemble economic, political, cultural, spatial value associated with touristic places.

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