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• 30 mai 2014

  Walferdange

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Education

  Doctoral candidates (PhD students) in History of Education

  L'université du Luxembourg offre deux postes pour doctorants en histoire de l'éducation. Les candidats choisis participent au projet FAMOSO qui recherche les transformations de la société luxembourgeoise engendrées par l'industrie sidérurgique pendant la première moitié du XX^e siècle.

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• 23 mai 2014

  22 mai 2014

  Florence

  Conference, symposium - Information

  By the book. The book and the study of its digital transformation

  This two-day conference brings together scholars from the field of publishing studies to examine key issues around the digital transformation of the book, as well as to discuss the developing field of publishing studies. Analysed will be a key set of questions. How is the landscape of the book in Europe changing due to digital transformation? How will terrestrial bookshops survive the growth of ebooks? Are there international forces for change which will affect all markets, and what domestic factors will prevail? What is the connection between the spread of English as the global lingua franca and the growth of digital publishing?

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• 20 mai 2014

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Action Research Papers : North Africa and West Asia in Transformation Programme

  Cordoba Foundation of Geneva

  The Cordoba Foundation of Geneva within its NAWAT program invites applications for two Action-Research papers from scholars involved in policy research connected to conflict transformation issues in the MENA region. The Action-Research papers aim at producing a collectively shared understanding of conflicts at the intersection of religion and politics and at identifying entry points for potential peace promotion initiatives. The Action-Research Papers will focus on: 1. "Dialogue processes in the MENA region"; 2. "The impact of the war on terror on the MENA region"

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• 14 mai 2014

  15 mai 2014

  16 mai 2014

  Liège

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Transnationalism, Identities’ Dynamics and Cultural Diversification in Urban Post-migratory Situations

  TRICUD conference

  The TRICUD Final International Conference on "Transnationalism, Identities’ Dynamics and Cultural Diversification in Urban Post-migratory Situations" will take place at the University of Liège on 14, 15 and 16 May 2014. It aims at presenting the main findings of the multidisciplinary research programme TRICUD (2010-2014) involving the following research centres: CEDEM, CLEO and Pôle SuD. TRICUD aims to better understand how migration transforms both sending societies in the South and receiving societies in the North. The conference will include keynote speakers Nina GLICK-SCHILLER (University of Manchester) and Steve VERTOVEC (Max Planck Institute). 

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• 02 jui 2014

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Images of the courtier in Northern European art, 1500-1700

  This panel will address the image of the courtier in the art and architecture of northern European court societies – Germanic countries, Flanders, United Provinces, France and England. While the subject has been widely studied in Italian art history, notably around the key figure of Baldassare Castiglione, it has been less investigated in the study of Northern European art of the Early modern period. The figure of the courtier inspired rich and often contrasting interpretations in Northern European court societies. While perpetuating traditional court culture in France and Flanders, the courtier in England and the Germanic countries embraced emerging social paradigms of the Protestant reform. In societies lacking an official court such as the United-Provinces, the figure of the courtier was largely redefined. Discussions will focus on symbolic forms of the courtier in the visual arts as well as in other disciplines to which the notion of decorum is central such as architecture and the decorative arts.

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• 06 jui 2014

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Asia

  Islam and Regional Cultures in Pakistan

  CEIAS conference

  With the hope of throwing new light on the transformations of Pakistani society, this one-day conference intends to move the focus away from two dominant discourses on Pakistan : that is, on the one hand, the security discourse of political and media circles that reduces Pakistan to a state on the fringe of failure, trying to cope with radical Islam and terrorism; and, on the other hand, Pakistan’s official nationalism, which rests on a unitary conception of the nation that disregards the cultural and religious diversity of the country, stressing instead Islam and Urdu as national unifiers while relegating regional cultures to folklore. This conference hopes to partly fill this gap by inviting participants to illustrate the complex, lived experience of Islam in Pakistan, the identity component of religious practices that do not fit in the dominant norm, and their inscription in local political and ethnic relations. Papers would ideally use first-hand observation and/or analyses of cultural productions to examine circumscribed case studies.

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• 12 mai 2014

  Paris

  Study days - Political studies

  Karachi : Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City

  With a population exceeding twenty million, Karachi is one of world’s largest ‘megacities’. It is also one of the most violent. Since the mid-1980s, Karachi has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, which revolve around control of the city and its resources (votes, land and bhatta—‘protection’ money). These struggles for the city have become ethnicised. In the process, Karachi, often referred to as a ‘Pakistan in miniature’, has become increasingly fragmented, socially as well as territorially.

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• 10 mai 2014

  Pantin

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  The conscious Body III: spectating and intersubjectivity

  Interdiscplinary perspectives on dance, perfromance and cognition

  In this third edition of The Conscious Body meetings, we invite academics and dance / performance  makers  to explore together the inter-subjective space occupied by the performer and spectator. This one day event will also mark the end of the first phase of the labodanse project (labodanse.org) with Myriam Gourfink. Pour cette troisième édition des rencontres Conscious Body, nous invitons chercheurs et danseurs / performeurs à explorer ensemble l’espace inter-subjectif qu’occupent le performeur et le spectateur. Cette journée marquera également la fin de la première phase du projet Labodanse (labodanse.org) avec Myriam Gourfink.

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• 01 mai 2014

  Lviv

  Summer School - Political studies

  Embracing the City

  Memory, Contestation, Politics

  The Summer School seeks to embrace the city as a focal point for examining questions of belonging, place, power and the intersection of society and state in urban space. It welcomes proposals that embrace the city from many disciplines in the social sciences and adjacent fields, such as history, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, architecture, and urban studies. Our regional focus is the former Soviet Union, Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

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• 22 jui 2014	23 jui 2014	24 jui 2014
  25 jui 2014	26 jui 2014

  Reims

  Miscellaneous information - Urban studies

  Urban transitions to sustainability

  International Summer School

  Urban Transitions to Sustainability International Summer School (Rheims University, France, 22-26 June 2014) is organized jointly by IRCS (International Research Center on Sustainability) and SENSE (Netherlands Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment). This course is specifically designed for doctoral students, post-docs and young scholars who wish to further explore urban sustainability, discuss cutting-edge research with peers and established scholars alike and develop specific skills such as presenting their own research, developing abstracts and discussing the research of other scholars in the make.

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• 15 mai 2014

  Rome

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Summer School "History Takes Place - Dynamics of Urban Change"

  The summer school invites applications particularly from postgraduate students in history, art history, cultural studies and the social sciences, as well as young architects and city planners. Applicants should have a genuine interest in an interdisciplinary exchange on the history of the city and city development. Participants should have a specialization connected with Rome as well as a keen thematic and methodological interest in urban studies. Sessions will be held in English. Applicants are expected to prepare for the sessions with course materials and reading lists in order to be able to give a presentation on a set topic related to their academic interests and competencies. Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by the organizers.

   

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• 21 mai 2014

  Paris

  Seminar - Asia

  When Books and Art Hurt

  Censorship, Emotions and Cultural Regulation in South Asia

  This workshop aims at exploring issues of literary and artistic censorship in South Asia (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) by focusing on the way anticipated "hurt" often justifies the policing and regulation of the artistic sphere (cinema, visual arts, literature). Our point of departure is, in the words of Arjun Appadurai, the observation that culture is today the field "where fantasies of purity, authenticity, borders and security can be enacted" and that the same censors patrol the boundaries of politics and aesthetics (Coetzee). In the Indian subcontinent "hurt feelings" are often reactivated or cultivated, staged and mass-mediatised to claim recognition and legitimacy in the public sphere, to require compensation or "redressal". Many artists, writers and academics point to a politics of ultra-sensitivity and a thriving "marketplace of outrage". Our objective in this workshop is to question the vocabulary, topicality and tangibility of "hurt" in the public sphere on these issues of artistic regulation in South Asia, and to understand what it means to say that words or images wound.

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• 05 jui 2014

  06 jui 2014

  07 jui 2014

  Saint-Denis | Pierrefitte-sur-Seine

  Conference, symposium - History

  The Cold War and Entertainment Television

  An essential dimension of the Cold War took place in the realm of ideas and culture. A great deal of work, for example, has been done on cinema, especially with regard to the United States although other nations, both East and West, have received increasing attention. But with certain noteworthy exceptions (primarily in the areas of science fiction and espionage series) relatively little has been done on this subject in relation to television. Yet, television was a technology and popular cultural form that emerged during the Cold War. This project hopes to rectify that absence by providing a forum for examining the impact of the Cold War on entertainment television. We intend to underline the comparative aspect by studying programs from both blocs – without forgetting, of course, the outsize impact of American television.

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• 08 mai 2014

  09 mai 2014

  Fisciano

  Conference, symposium - History

  Democratic Highbrow. Bloomsbury between élite and mass culture

  Democratic Highbrow. Bloomsbury tra élite e cultura di massa

  Bloomsbury group represented a new way of living and working which marked a definitive break with the Victorian tradition and paved the way to modernity in the English culture. Between the wars the group was perceived by the British public alternatively as a stronghold of culture and civilization against barbarism and as the despicable epitome of modernist intellectual elitism. Nowadays Bloomsbury is a major presence in the cultural industry but, at the same time, it continues to raise questions and stimulate critical reflections: was it a coterie or a democratic avant-garde, an intellectual authority or an eccentric circle that “lived in squares and loved in triangles?” These are the issues that the conference seeks to address in a multidisciplinary perspective encompassing sociology of cultural processes and history of art, economics and history of ideas, literature and cultural history.

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• 30 avr 2014

  Geneva

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Religion and Development

  Faith-based Organisations and International Cooperation

  Following the release of the latest issue of International Development Policy entitled "Religion and Development", selected authors will discuss the religion-development nexus with policymakers and practitioners, examining the tensions and synergy between secular and faith-based organisations.

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• 22 mai 2014

  23 mai 2014

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Asia

  Censorship and Women's Resistance in the Performing Arts, from Continental Asia to Insular Southeast Asia

  This two-day conference entitled Censorship and Women's Resistance in the Performing Arts, from Continental Asia to Insular Southeast Asia brings together scholars and artists from Asia, Europe and North America concerned with censorship and the various forms of struggle and resistance that female performing artists from Central, South and South-East Asia have engaged with in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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• 28 avr 2014

  Paris

  Study days - History

  Common Experiences, Common Desires ? Tracing an Intellectual History between China and Africa

  Conférence ANR Espaces de la culture chinoise en Afrique (EsCA)

  In his 1954 presentation to dignitaries from across Asia and Africa, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai acknowledged the differences between the two cultural spheres; nevertheless, Zhou stressed, a more important factor in all future relations should be the “common experiences and desires” of people from across the two continents to create a new world from the ashes of war and colonialism. Building on Zhou’s insight into commonalities of experience, this presentation will trace the cultural intersections that have existed between China and African since the 1920s.

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• 09 mai 2014

  Paris

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Geography

  Serious games, participatory simulation and learning processes. A proposal for experimental evaluation

  Postdoctoral fellowship Labex Dynamite 2014

  Controlled social experimentation to evaluate the effects of varying degrees of asymmetry in the data and action assigned to participants on the learning generated by participatory simulations.

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• 09 mai 2014

  Paris

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Geography

  Tourist mobility patterns, heritage and globalisation

  Postdoctoral fellowship Labex Dynamite 2014

  The 1980s saw the advent of a new phase of globalisation, a new phase of capitalism, a new era of heritage and a new era of tourism. While these evolutions have been clearly identified, they are often approached separately. If the changes relating to heritage can be explained by a crisis in our relationships with time, or even by a new "presentist" view of history, the new mobility patterns of tourism relate a new relationship with space that is typical of contemporary globalisation. The research project in which the post-doc candidate will be involved sets out to consider these dynamics of globalisation, heritage and tourism conjointly.

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• 09 mai 2014

  Paris

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Geography

  Study of the processes that lead to the production of new “ordinary” spaces in cities, residential space and/or public spaces

  PhD fellowhip Labex Dynamite 2014-2015

  The Labex invite applicants to submit Ph.D. proposals fitting the questioning of work package 2.4 “The ordinary urban space: changing modes of production”. The proposal will clearly state its contribution to the work package, and the following fields are welcome to submit: geography, planning, social history.

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