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• 05 jui 2012

  City of London

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Two three-year temporary lectureships in Economic History at London School of Economics

  The Department of Economic History hopes to appoint two Lecturers in Economic History from 1st September 2012. Following in a long, distinguished tradition of research and teaching, the Department of Economic History uses concepts and theories from the social sciences as a starting point for studying the development of real economies and understanding them in their social, political and cultural contexts. Teaching and research in the Department has a global emphasis, and the expertise of current faculty is diverse in subject matter, theoretical emphasis and methodology.

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• 07 jui 2012	04 mai 2012	07 fév 2012
  04 oct 2011	09 déc 2011

  Paris

  Seminar - Asia

  Studying Territorial restructuring through Economic and Social policies

  Programme du séminaire annuel de l'équipe STAKES (Studying Territorial restructuring through Economic and Social policies) du CEIAS.

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• 12 jui 2012

  Paris

  Study days - Representation

  Insectes, sociétés et cultures

  De la Renaissance au XIXe siècle

  La journée d'études « Insectes, sociétés et cultures. De la Renaissance au XIXe siècle » aura lieu le 12 juin 2012. Elle est organisée par Brian Ogilvie, avec l’Institut d’études avancées de Paris et le soutien de l’University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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• 05 jui 2012

  06 jui 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  First Annual Conference of the ALTER, European Society of Disability Research

  Alter, Société européenne de recherche sur le handicap a pour objectif de promouvoir la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales sur le handicap, en insistant sur la pluralité des approches scientifiques et des savoirs. Cette première rencontre vise à offrir aux chercheurs confirmés, jeunes chercheurs et doctorants un panorama des thématiques, problématiques et approches qui renouvellent aujourd’hui la recherche en sciences sociales dans ce domaine ainsi qu’un lieu propice aux contacts et aux échanges. Elle accueillera des chercheurs provenant de différentes disciplines (sociologie, anthropologie, sciences politiques, philosophie, sciences de l'éducation...) et de différentes régions du monde (Europe, Amérique du Nord et du Sud, Asie).

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• 18 jui 2012

  Call for papers - History

  Medical research, development, and memory in colonial and postcolonial Nigeria

  We are pleased to announce a second research training and proposal development seminar on the history of medical research in Nigeria, to be held at the Dean’s Seminar Room, Faculty of General Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka from 17th to 21st September 2012. This seminar is open to twelve doctoral postgraduate students and recent postdoctoral scholars (PhD awarded after 1st January 2008) from Nigerian universities. It will provide training in the theory and methodology of history of medicine, together with an opportunity to discuss and develop a research proposal for submission to a peer-reviewed competition for four grants of to cover a four-month period of field and archival research in early 2013.

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• 20 sep 2012

  21 sep 2012

  22 sep 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Contested Democracy:

  Contestation and Participation in the English-speaking World

  The dissent and uprisings that spread through the Arab world during the Spring of 2011 occurred almost a quarter of a century after the fall of East European political régimes that saw the rise of "democracy" modeled on the Anglo-American representative system. This specific context which has come to characterize the past quarter of century calls for a renewed analysis of the models these political systems represent and of the processes that triggered them and led to their long-term establishment in the UK and the US.Since the 1990s, as a response to the story of the inevitable emergence of democracy in the aftermath of the Cold War, researchers on North American politics have provided an alternative reading of events: that of a "contested democracy".

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• 10 sep 2012

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Language

  Radical Action, Radical Subject: Roots, Representations, Symbols and Creations

  Ce colloque vise à repenser et à mettre en relief deux concepts, à savoir l’action radicale et le sujet radical, qui sont liés aux formes de protestation et à la mobilisation de l’espace où se négocient et se créent du rassemblement ainsi que de l’opposition. Plus précisément, ils révèlent une ampleur qui mérite réflexions et échanges en termes de récit, de poétique et de symbolique. Ainsi, que peut nous révéler l’évolution à la fois diachronique et synchronique des liens qui se tissent entre littérature et radicalisme ? Est-ce que le radicalisme rime nécessairement avec l’engagement politique, l’affichage d’une tendance révolutionnaire marquée, ou est-ce que des marques textuelles, des mouvements, des courants, intrinsèquement littéraires, ne peuvent pas être considérés comme radicaux en soi ?

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• 31 jui 2012

  Call for papers - History

  Lisbon: Art and Heritage

  Journal of Art History, Revista Estudos de Lisboa

  Those interested in contributing to this issue of the Journal of Art History are invited to submit original papers. Discussion should focus on issues and problems such as: 1) New contributions to the History of the City: Architecture, Urban Planning and Heritage. 2) Lisbon Art History: Artists, models and case studies. 3) The image and images of Lisbon: evolution of the city’s iconography– from illuminated manuscripts to cinema. 4) Towards a history of Lisbon - reflections on Lisbon studies.

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• 30 mai 2012

  31 mai 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Asia

  Translating and Writing Indic Learning in Persian

  1st Perso-Indica Conference

  Ce colloque international vise à offrir une nouvelle perspective sur le rôle joué par les mouvements de traduction au sein de l’histoire intellectuelle des sociétés musulmanes. La production de textes en persan sur les traditions et les sciences des hindous doit être considérée parmi les grands mouvements de transfert du savoir réalisés entre différentes cultures asiatiques.

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• 07 jui 2012

  08 jui 2012

  Tokyo

  Conference, symposium - Law

  The New Normative Spaces of Globalization

  On International Commercial Arbitration in Asia and the Principles of Asian Contract Law

  The question whether a new space of commercial regulation is emerging in Asia is generally addressed through the traditional notion of legal order or legal system. Thus, Chinese Law or Japanese Law on Arbitration, for example, is examined by underlining the specificities of such domestic law. Would it be possible to question the emergence of an Asian space of business law, not only from the exclusive standpoint of legal norms but from the standpoint of the actors themselves and their legal practices?

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• 10 jui 2012

  Geneva

  Call for papers - History

  Women in Educated Elites of Pre-Socialist and Early Socialist East Central European Societies

  The two and a half day workshop will take place at the European Institute of Geneva University in October 2012. The exact dates will be announced in early July 2012. The official language of the workshop will be English. Interested scholars are asked to submit a paper proposal (not more than 750 words) to the organisers (Victor Karady : karadyv@gmail.com; Natalia Tikhonov Sigrist : nat.sigrist@gmail.com) by 10 June 2012.

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• 07 jui 2012

  Paris

  Study days - Sociology

  A political history of techno-scientific governance: the shaping of transnational networks of Cold-War elites

  Le programme ERC Futurepol « A political history of the future » coordonné par Jenny Andersson (CNRS, Sciences Po) organise le 7 juin 2012 de 14h30 à 16h30 à Sciences Po (salle du conseil - 13, rue de l'Université - 75007 Paris) un séminaire intitulé « A political history of techno-scientific governance: the shaping of transnational networks of Cold War elites ».À cette occasion, Egle Rindzeviciute (Sciences Po) et Leena Riska-Campbell (Université d'Helsinky) viendront présenter leurs recherches sur l'International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) et son rôle pendant la Guerre Froide. Elles seront discutées par Marie-Laure Djelic (ESSEC Business School).

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• 18 jui 2012

  Oxford

  Study days - History

  For a comparative history of industrial risks regulation, 18th-19th c.

  If comparison between national or regional contexts has been a driving force for the historiography of the « industrial revolution », and if environmental history has been immediately written on a global scale, the evolution of environmental and risk regulation is often studied according to the national, regional or local scales of the institutions producing the regulations. The aim of this workshop is to invite historians to consider how comparison could advance our understanding of the different ways of regulating risk and environment.

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• 01 déc 2012

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Nostalgia & popular music

  Volume! the French journal of popular music studies

  Volume ! la revue de recherche pluridisciplinaire à comité de lecture dédiée à l’analyse des musiques populaires lance un nouvel appel à contributions pour un numéro consacré à la nostalgie dans les musiques populaires, dans une variété de contextes nationaux, internationaux et transnationaux. Ce numéro, dirigé par Hugh Dauncey (Newcastle University) et Christopher Tinker (Heriot-Watt University) explorera les façons dont la nostalgie liée aux musiques populaires est produite, représentée, médiatisée et consommée.

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• 31 mai 2012

  01 jui 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Competition: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

  Competition is a pervasive phenomenon in human and animal life. Modern society itself appears to be based on organizing the distribution of goods and privileges through competition. According to Georg Simmel, the sociological essence of competition entails an indirect form of fighting—antagonistic impulse transformed into the realization of some form of community value and perfection. The economic essence of competition may be that it equalizes—wages and profits can be brought into equilibrium by competition. Competition can be defined as a contest between actors, institutions, and, in fact, any group or social form, as well as between animal and ecological species, as they strive for something that all cannot obtain. This interdisciplinary conference will examine competition as a leading organizing principle of contemporary life.

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• 30 mai 2012

  Rio de Janeiro

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Consumption studies

  Sustainable living: everyday consumption practices

  O VI Encontro Nacional de Estudos do Consumo ocorrerá nos dias 12, 13 e 14 de setembro de 2012 em paralelo com o II Encontro Luso-Brasileiro de Estudos do Consumo. O ENEC se propõe a estimular o debate sobre o consumo como um fenômeno que já pode ser considerado um campo científico consolidado em diversos países. Juntos, os dois eventos têm por tema a reflexão sobre a “Vida sustentável: práticas cotidianas de consumo”. Os eventos decorrerão na Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, no Rio de Janeiro (Brasil).

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• 30 jui 2012

  Call for papers - History

  Technologies in daily life

  Journal "Snodi. Pubblici e privati nella storia contemporanea" #11

  The eleventh issue of the Italian journal «Snodi. Pubblici e privati nella storia contemporanea» encourages reflections on the ways and occasions in which artifacts, instruments and devices that were generated by the technological and scientific progress rooted themselves in politics, work, entertainment and private life, becoming a key element of the definition of new cultural paradigms, identities, memories, practices and social relations for groups and individuals.

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• 30 mai 2012

  London

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Science studies

  Board of Longitude project

  Digital resources engagement officer

  Royal Museums Greenwich in partnership with Cambridge University is developing a JISC-funded project, "Navigating 18th-Century Science and Technology: The Board of Longitude", which will create an online resource based on the extraordinary archives of the British Board of Longitude (1714-1828). The proposed resource will draw on and make links between important collections held at Cambridge University Library (CUL) and Royal Museum's Greenwich (RMG). A key role in the development and delivery of the project will be the one-year, full-time position of Digital Resources Engagement Officer, who will forge the links between the partner collections and create engaging digital learning resources for a broad audience base.

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• 03 jui 2012	07 jui 2012	04 jui 2012
  05 jui 2012	06 jui 2012

  Paris | Versailles

  Conference, symposium - History

  4th International Congress on Construction History

  Après Madrid (2003), Cambridge (2006), Cottbus (2009), Paris a été choisie pour accueillir le quatrième congrès international d'histoire de la construction. Trois écoles d'architecture (Paris-Malaquais, Paris-La Villette et Versailles) ainsi que le Conservatoire des arts et métiers pilotent cet évènement. L'histoire de la construction apparaît par définition hybride, associant aussi bien la conception que la réalisation, comme la préservation, la technique que la culture, et se trouve de fait interdisciplinaire. Y participent aussi bien des historiens de toutes disciplines (archéologues, juristes, économistes, historiens de l'art, etc.) que des praticiens (ingénieurs, architectes, entrepreneurs, artisans). Plus de 350 chercheurs, enseignants et praticiens, vont présenter le dernier état de leur recherche dans ce champ et en débattre sur quatre sites parisiens et versaillais. 6 conférences plénières seront délivrées par des personnalités reconnues par leurs pairs. Les actes paraîtront chez Picard en 3 volumes le jour du congrès. Le programme ainsi que les modalités d'inscription sont en ligne sur le site: www.icch-paris2012.fr

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• 31 jui 2012

  Call for papers - Africa

  Transformative learning in Africa

  This current issue is interested in programs that take the social, historical and cultural African contexts into consideration to propose innovative forms of education and training which impact positively on learner/practitioner outcomes. Such programs would naturally respond to questions such as: what contributes to transformational learning? Secondly, within the African context, what challenges do practitioners face when their aim is to introduce lasting changes? Third, what does transformational education really mean in an African context?Lastly, what ethical and cultural questions must be considered when planning and delivering transformative learning?

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