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• 20 jui 2013

  21 jui 2013

  Paris

  Study days - Political studies

  Sciences Po first Political Theory Graduate Conference

  We are happy to invite you to the 1st Sciences Po Political Theory Graduate Student Conference. The conference will take place at the CEVIPOF (98, rue de l’Université, Paris), from June 20 to June 21st. The keynote speech will be delivered by Joseph Raz and the closing note by Ruwen Ogien. 

   

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• 24 jui 2013

  Paris

  Study days - History

  Debt, Democracy, Citizenship: A Political History of public debts

  Europe, United States, since the late 18th century

  Organized as a workshop, this symposium aims to explore the public debt as the locus for political debates and conflicts. It brings together case studies analyzing aspects of the link between politics (especially in its social or participative dimensions) and the indebtedness of states. The discussions will help shed new light on such central concepts, for our understanding of the modern political world, as sovereignty, citizenship, democracy, and solidarity.

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• 12 jui 2013

  Call for papers - Representation

  Part of the Research Program on: Recognition and the Politics of Otherness

  Inter-Cultural Dialogues, 3rd International Symposium

  This symposium is organized by and is part of the activities of the Research Project on Inter-Cultural Dialogues. Among other projects, it is hosted and developed within the Research Program on Recognition and the Politics of Otherness. It has become a common place to speak about globalization as a process that has made the world smaller and more interconnected. But beneath such claims multiple processes remain analytically undefined and critically unexplored. We are interested in assessing how ideas of culture and cultural interactions shape identity, membership, place, rootedness and belonging while simultaneously encouraging misunderstanding, tension and conflict, estrangement, isolation and alienation. In particular, the project will investigate world transformations that have structured cultural flows, given rise to new forms of hybridity, increased nomadic lives and encouraged the proliferation of transitory and transversal interconnections.

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• 15 jui 2013

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Risk, Dignity and Fragility: Searching for a New Ethics

  Research Program on Lost Virtues, Found Vices, 1st International Symposium

  This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the nature and structure of an ethics for the 21^st century. Ethics has most often been founded on a concept of the self as an agent that is secure, self-confident, and in control and on a view of the world as stable, unchanging and thus as knowable and predictable. Yet contemporary culture shows us a very different view of ourselves and of our environment. Caught up in a world in constant change where borders and boundaries, conditions and contexts are constantly changing and uncertainty is the norm, we find ourselves insecure, vulnerable as forces beyond our control direct and frame the moral decisions that we face. How must ethics be reconceived in light of our shifting ideals of the self and the world? Can there be an ethics under the conditions of uncertainty, flux, and instability?

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• 19 jui 2013

  Call for papers - Psyche

  Love, Lust and Longing: Rethinking Intimacy

  Research Program on Recasting Bonds, 4th International Symposium

  While discussion of sex become ever more common, opportunities to explore the nature of love are still rare. When the topic is raised, most often the focus is on dramatic experiences or hard cases. The “epic” and the “mundane” are probably more intertwined in our experiences of love than cultural speech and literature admit. Yet, an imbalance continues to exist: we reflect little on the smallness of events that sustain love bonds. What goes unexamined as such are the ways in which love is spoken of and enacted in everyday life. This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the lived experience of love considering the ways in which it is described and how it is practiced, identifying how love differs from and overlaps with concern, care, friendship and lust and raising questions about the ontology, expression and politics of love.

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• 22 jui 2013

  Call for papers - Psyche

  Postmodern Madness and the Reconstruction of Subjectivities

  Research Program on Space, Time and New Technologies of the Self, 1st International Symposium

  This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the links between madness, subjectivity, and postmodern narratives. Or, from a different angle, we seek to investigate the ways postmodern discourses encompass ideals of madness in relation to the construction of subjectivity. Schizophrenia, paranoia, perversion, deviation are often called upon and incorporated in the construction of the postmodern subject. How are these terms used to construct subjectivities in cultures in which anxiety, unreason, and disorder are the norm? How is meaning refashioned to pass from 'clinical abnormality' to forms of social 'normality'? How is this concept employed in constructing the postmodern subject in literature, movies, music, photography, painting, and other forms of art?

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• 31 oct 2013

  Cambridge

  Call for papers - Religion

  Visions of Enchantment

  Occultism, Spirituality & Visual Culture

  This two-day event is a collaboration between the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge and the Arts University Bournemouth and is organised in association with the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism. The conference seeks to investigate the formative role that occultism and magic have played in Western and non-Western visual and material culture. It aims to present original research in this feld as well as to establish a productive dialogue between academics with a particular research interest in occultism and visual culture. We invite proposals from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, provided that they present innovative insights into visual, symbolic or material aspects of the esoteric tradition. 

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• 12 jui 2013

  13 jui 2013

  14 jui 2013

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  Global Art History and the Peripheries

  Established in 2009, Artl@s is a project of a Spatial (Digital) history of arts and letters, providing scholars with the tools and support needed in order to expound their narratives and qualitative evidence with spatial representations and quantitative analyses. The Artl@s team organizes an international conference in partnership with the École normale supérieure, the Institut national d'histoire de l'art and the Terra Foundation for American Art, inviting researchers to gather and develop a removed and well-thought out approach to the question of the peripheries in art history.

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• 15 jui 2013

  Uppsala

  Call for papers - Sociology

  The Fourth Conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (EU SSSI)

  Conference on sociological social psychology, symbolic interactionism, and qualitative methods

  The Fourth Conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (EU SSSI) promises to become the largest conference on sociological social psychology, symbolic interactionism, and qualitative methods in Europe. The Conference Program includes 6 plenary sessions with keynote speakers, 24 regular sessions, and an Interdisciplinary Workshop on Ethnography. These will include special regular sessions organized by the partner departments at Uppsala University which will feature their disciplinary traditions in ethnographic studies and the use of qualitative methodology.

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• 31 jui 2013

  Coventry

  Call for papers - History

  Representing Prisoner of War Experience

  This one-day international conference will bring together researchers studying the experiences of prisoners of war and displaced people in times of conflict, with a particular focus on how these experiences have been narrated in various forms, both by the historical actors who underwent forced dislocation (captors and captives) and by researchers themselves. 

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• 30 jui 2013

  Lisbon

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  History: change and continuity in a Global World

  PIUDHIST is an inter-university doctoral programme in which History is viewed from an inter-disciplinary point of view. Despite its unique character, History is regarded here as a field of knowledge which cannot do without a permanent cross fertilization with other areas in the humanities and the social sciences. In our vision, this is also why we consider apposite to attach, as a subtitle for this programme, the words “change and continuity in a global world”.

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• 10 jui 2013

  Leuven

  Call for papers - Europe

  Everyday Life Practices of Muslims in Europe: Consumption and Aesthetics

  This workshop sets out to understand the everyday practices of Muslims living in Europe. The diverse and various (non)-religious daily life practices indicate the non-defined boundaries of Muslims whose practices can be a part of the stigmatised-open spaces in public discourses. Examining the relationship between Islam and liberal democratic values, it is important to note what kind of practices and daily life experiences are exercised in private-public areas, which also determine the views and public perception of Muslims. The identification of Muslims with one or another practice is not a simply neutral matter; this entails also an attachment to liberal, communitarian and civil meanings. Regardless of the daily life activities, these perceptions of Muslims face the challenge that Muslims are not a fixed group, but they share the same practices that others have and do. Food and eating practices, consumer way of life, marriage, salutations; these banal practices of everyday life are central to discover the subjectivity of Muslims, or in other terms, a sense of the self, a way of embodiment.

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• 16 jui 2013

  Carouge

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Economy

  Assistant HES (Doctoral student) at Geneva School of Business Administration

  The Geneva School of Business Administration (HEG-Geneva) offers a Research Assistant (Doctoral student) position for three years starting from 1^st September 2013.The doctoral student will participate to the project « Organizing, Communicating, and Costing in Risk Governance: Learning Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic », financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He or she will be in charge of the research components dedicated to costing around H1N1. This comparative study will involve qualitative fieldwork in three countries, namely Switzerland, the United States and Japan. He or she will collaborate with a post-doctoral fellow focusing on issues related to organization and communication. He or she will have to write a PhD thesis on H1N1 costing issues and will be supervised by Prof. Nathalie Brender. The project is funded for three years.

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• 15 jui 2013

  Nairobi

  Call for papers - Africa

  The Fiftieth Anniversary of the African Independences: Marginalized, Forgotten, and Revived Political Actors

  The fiftieth anniversary of the African Independence has been an occasion for the East African countries and their diasporas, the international academic community and the former colonial nations to assess the economic, social and political achievements and failures of the past fifty years. However, such inventories tend to focus on the upheavals of the social, economic and political structures, sometimes on the memory of the fathers of the nation and former grand nationalistic narratives, but usually overlook political actors, whether individual or collective, which were marginalized by the men in power during the early post-independent years.

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• 25 jui 2013

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Planning / conflict. Cities and citizenship in times of crisis

  This event is organized in the framework of the activities of the Planning / Conflict Thematic Group of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). The conference aims at bringing together different perspectives on conflicts around urban planned developments, with a focus on the role planning practices may play both in defining/framing and in possibly solving/reframing conflicts.

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• 30 jui 2013

  Zhuhai

  Call for papers - Asia

  Translation History Matters

  1st East and West Conference on Translation Studies

  This conference aims to provide a biannual forum for East and West dialogue on Translation Studies.  This inaugural edition will be dedicated to “Translation History Matters” and welcomes contributions addressing issues related (though not circumscribed) to translation history, historiography and metahistoriography. Centred on translation understood as an intentional phenomenon of human and mostly intercultural communication, this conference aims to focus on the role played by translation in Eastern and Western cultural practices and encounters through history as well as on the role of history to understand both translation and translation studies.  By bringing together Eastern and Western views on a multitude of translation history matters, this conference aims to stress why, how and for which purposes translation history matters.

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• 30 sep 2013

  Call for papers - History

  Res Antiquitatis. Journal of Ancient History, volume 4 (2013)

  In order to publish the 4th volume of Res Antiquitatis. Journal of Ancient History during the current year of 2013, the Centro de História de Além-Mar is accepting proposals of papers. According to the journal scientific objectives, all works submitted must concern to Antiquity as general area of research, with two focal perspectives: specific studies on Ancient History, and works regarding its reception in all later periods.

   

   

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• 15 jui 2013

  Call for papers - Modern

  The Arab Spring in the Arabian Peninsula

  Arabian Humanities n° 4

  Arabian Humanities wishes to publish a special issue dealing with the impact of the Arab spring on the GCC states and Yemen. The papers will be written by specialists from the various disciplines of the social sciences with a direct experience of fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula and with access to first hand Arabic sources.

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• 20 aoû 2013

  Luxembourg City

  Call for papers - History

  Reading historical sources in the digital age

  After the inaugural DHLU Symposium in 2009 that focused on "Contemporary history in the digital age" and a second edition which tackled the methodological and theoretical implications of considering websites as primary sources (March 2012), this third edition will focus on the use of online thematic research corpora. Given that more and more sources for contemporary history are being made available online as digital research corpora — as on the CVCE’s site — and following on from the first two editions which examined the methods used to develop these sources, this third edition of Digital Humanities Luxembourg will focus on the various ways in which this material is used by humanities researchers, particularly contemporary historians and more specifically specialists in European integration.

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• 06 jui 2013

  07 jui 2013

  Leeds

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  War, Memory Amnesia: Francophone Perspectives on postwar Lebanon

  This is the first conference in the UK to bring colleagues from across the globe to discuss francophone memory cultures and has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the Society for French Studies, the Institut français, SMLC and our own French subject area. Registration is open at the following site: http://store.leeds.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=480&modid=1&compid=1. 

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