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• 12 sep 2012

  13 sep 2012

  14 sep 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  Corpses and Destrcution

  First Annual Workshop of the Research Programme "Corpses of mass violence"

  This workshop addresses the first phase of the research programme “Corpses of mass violence and genocide”. In the context of mass violence and genocide, death is not the end of the executors’ work. After the abuses, the victims’ corpses are treated and manipulated in very specific ways, amounting in some cases to true social engineering; this phase is remarkably little documented in the existing research. This conference aims therefore to explore this phase of destruction, across a range of extreme situations including mass cremations, concealment, profanation, displacement or re-burials. Focused on the 20th century, the conference will seek to reevaluate the motivations, the ideological frameworks and the technical processes at work in the destruction of corpses, taking a comparative and instrumental perspective which should open to new research in mass violence and genocide studies.

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• 01 oct 2012

  Lille

  Call for papers - History

  “This Is the Modern World”. For a social history of rock music

  Si l’histoire du rock passe par l’histoire des courants musicaux, elle ne se limite pas à cela. Le rock est un phénomène socio-musical complexe, qui mérite d’être étudié non seulement pour lui-même, mais comme un révélateur de mutations sociales et culturelles essentielles à la compréhension des sociétés depuis la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. C’est dans cet objectif qu’est organisé ce colloque, qui entend rendre compte de la richesse du champ, dans une perspective internationale et interdisciplinaire.

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• 15 oct 2012

  Call for papers - Information

  E-learning 2.0 Technologies and Web Applications in Higher Education

  This book will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area. It will be written for professionals and academics who want to improve their understanding of the strategic role of E-learning at different levels of the information and knowledge society, that is, E-learning at the level of the global economy, of networks and organizations, of teams and work groups, of information systems and, finally, E-learning at the level of individuals as actors in the networked environments.

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• 11 oct 2012

  Arras

  Study days - History

  Fighting Underground: The Moles of the Great War

  La Grande Guerre n’est pas seulement une histoire de fantassins combattant au prix de lourdes pertes dans le no man’s land, ou de pilotes se battant au-dessus des champs de bataille. Plus méconnue, la guerre des mines est pourtant une part essentielle de la guerre de position. Cette journée d'étude invite à découvrir cette lutte souterraine.

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• 03 oct 2012

  Berne

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  AId, Emerging Economies and Global Policies

  Conference on the launch of the 4th issue of International Development Policy

  The emergence of new donors and development aid actors from the ‘global South’ coupled with an increased focus on global public goods are challenging long-established aid agencies and policies. Emerging economies are turning into significant aid players... A panel of policy makers, scholars and practitioners from a diversity of backgrounds will discuss these complex issues in a lively roundtable moderated by a renowned journalist.

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• 15 sep 2012

  Waterloo

  Call for papers - Sociology

  IIEMCA 2013: Technologies and Techniques

  11th international IIEMCA conference on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis

  Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis are primarily concerned with the techniques actors utilize to accomplish the social, be it through workplace studies, studies of scientific knowledge, studies of interactional order, etc. The fundamental question that confronts Ethnomethodologists and Conversation Analysts - “how does this interaction get done?” – has and will thus receive a variety of related answers. We invite papers from the international community of EM/CA scholars that address the issues, practices and phenomena related to Technologies and Techniques. As is EM/CAs tradition, we cast these categories in the broadest possible conception, but are particularly interested in papers which address the themes of Technology in the Home, Workplace, or related settings; Technology’s Impact on Theory/Method; Technological Approaches to Data Analysis; Everyday Technology; and The Artful Techniques of Social Interaction.

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• 15 oct 2012

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Britons and Americans in transnational projects, 1783 – 1914

  Reassessing Anglo-Saxonism and Anglobalisation

  Les relations anglo-américaines sont abordées le plus souvent dans le cadre de l’histoire des relations internationales et de la diplomatie. Nous proposons de les étudier plutôt à travers l’histoire de projets internationaux, qu’ils relèvent du commerce et des affaires ou qu’ils poursuivent des objectifs politiques ou réformateurs au sens large.

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• 30 sep 2012

  Amsterdam

  Call for papers - History

  Crisis and Mobilization since 1789

  The aim of this Conference is to consider the historical trajectory of socialism—in all its diverse forms—through crisis and mobilization. We understand crisis in the broadest sense of the word, encompassing not just economic downturns, but also political, social, cultural, and environmental crises as well as war, famine, natural disasters, and other disruptions. Crises vary in scale too, from the global or continental level down to the local.

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• 07 oct 2012

  Catania

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Visible and invisible: perceiving the city between descriptions and omissions

  VI AISU Congress – Macro-Session II - Numbers

  The conference will focus on the many ways in which the city has been described, narrated, portrayed and quantified in words, numbers and images over the centuries. Description and representation techniques from ancient and medieval times onwards provide an opportunity to initiate a comparison between different cities and contexts, seeking different ways of perceiving the urban whole in its full complexity.

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• 31 oct 2012

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Geography

  Modelling and benchmarking of borders

  Belgeo 2-2013

  L'étude des espaces transfrontaliers se fait souvent en référence à un contexte propre, dans la mesure où chaque frontière peut difficilement être analysée indépendamment du cas toujours particulier des États en présence, des organisations régionales, locales et d'une certaine histoire. L’objectif de ce numéro spécial de Belgéo est d’évaluer comment dépasser la démarche monographique et parvenir à une modélisation de ces espaces.

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• 15 nov 2012

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Africa

  Sport and leisure in Africa: practices and identities

  This special number of the Cadernos de Estudos Africanos aims to gather a number of research works that will stimulate critical reflexions and debates on the suject of sport and leisure in Africa.

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• 17 aoû 2012

  London

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  LSE Fellows in Sociology

  Salary: From £32,148 - £38,887 per annum inclusiveBoth appointments will be fixed term for one yearThe Department of Sociology is seeking two full time LSE Fellows to give lectures and conduct seminar teaching for its existing courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

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• 15 sep 2012

  Oxford

  Call for papers - History

  Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture

  Scientific Communication and its History – III

  Climate and weather provide a particularly rich and challenging case study to complete the conference series. 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.

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• 01 déc 2012

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Anthropology, ethnography, and artistic praxis

  Journal of Art and Anthropology / Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia

  The upcoming special issue of Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia (Journal of Art and Anthropology, CadernosAA) – “Anthropology, ethnography and artistic praxis” – aims to make a contribution to the ongoing reflection on the relations between art, ethnography and anthropology, drawing on the work of social scientists and artists alike, within their respective fields of knowledge and expression.

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• 15 sep 2012

  Liège

  Call for papers - History

  Border spaces: areas of contact/areas of conflict?

  Les journées d’études « frontières » organisées à l’Université de Liège se proposent d’établir un bilan annuel de la recherche sur la notion de frontière et de limite dans une perspective diachronique et pluridisciplinaire. Les jeunes chercheurs à l’initiative de ce projet se proposent en 2013 d’accorder leur attention aux hommes et aux femmes qui ont vécu ou vivent aux confins d’un territoire, à ceux qui ont gardé, transgressé, passé les limites quelles qu’elles soient, à la manière dont ils ont perçu et/ou subi l’évolution des tracés ou encore à la manière dont on leur a présenté ces changements. La définition et la perception de la frontière envisagée tantôt comme une zone de rencontres, tantôt comme une zone de confrontation seront donc au cœur de la réflexion qui sera menée durant deux jours. L’invitation est lancée à tous les chercheurs en sciences humaines intéressés par la problématique et désireux d’établir un dialogue interdisciplinaire fécond.

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• 01 nov 2012

  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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• 13 sep 2012

  14 sep 2012

  Teramo

  Seminar - History

  Papacy, religious orders and international politics in the early modern age

  Il seminario si propone di verificare quali ruoli giocarono gli ordini religiosi nella politica internazionale della Santa Sede: in che misura essi furono meri oggetti o strumenti? Furono in grado di dar vita - più o meno apertamente e per quali ragioni - a strategie in qualche modo autonome? Quale consapevolezza singoli o gruppi di religiosi elaborarono della propria identità in relazione ai condizionamenti della politica internazionale in un età di conflitti?

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• 10 aoû 2012

  Istanbul

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Identity, Religion and Ethnicity

  New Patterns, Realities and Pitfalls

  The workshop will analyse the interaction and the interpenetration of nationality, ethnicity and identity through the problematic of transnationalism, globalization and nation-state perspectives. The workshop will be supplemented by practical visits to local communities. Participants are invited to consider the theoretical debates and issues in differing local areas with a variety of social practitioners and representatives to gain further insights of demographic, economic, philosophic, legal and socio-anthropological approaches.

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• 01 sep 2012

  Reims

  Call for papers - Europe

  Ireland and Popular Culture

  Autrefois société pré-industrielle dans laquelle la distinction entre culture d'élite dominante et culture populaire subalterne survécut plus longtemps que dans d'autres nations européennes, l'Irlande a néanmoins toujours été caractérisée par l'hybridité. La lutte politique pour l'indépendance s'accompagna de la sacralisation d'un certain genre de « culture populaire », entendue au sens de la culture du peuple d'origine, qui fut par la suite promue au statut de culture dominante. Aujourd'hui, la mondialisation de l'économie et de la culture irlandaises ont transformé cette dernière en une marque publicitaire connue internationalement, détournée et exploitée par les industries culturelles du néo-capitalisme libéral. On peut se demander ce qui rend la culture irlandaise si attirante aux yeux du monde entier : est-ce sa réputation de soit-disant authenticité ? Son enracinement supposé dans un contexte local ? Ou encore le romantisme attaché à un passé de souffrance et de lutte ?

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• 31 aoû 2012

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  The Work of Art, Particular and Universal

  At the same time symbols of a specific cultural identity and bearers of a message of universal level, the art pieces and their interpretations carry a semiotic tension. The matter of this symposium is to explore the dialectic between identity and universality from the historical point of view and through three different thematic.

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