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• 01 jui 2013

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Practising the good life/The good life in practices

  The Call for Papers is now open for the International Conference: Practising the Good Life/The Good Life in Practices, to be held at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal) on October 17th/18th 2013. This will be the first conference in Portugal solely dedicated to Lifestyle Mobilities. The conference is free of charge, but is limited to a maximum of 24 paper presentations, to be delivered in plenary sessions over two days.

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• 01 mai 2013

  Brussels

  Call for papers - History

  Policing Empires. Social Control, Political Transition, (Post-)Colonial Legacies

  Call for Papers International Conference

  The 2-day International Conference "Policing Empires: Social Control, Political Transition, (Post-)Colonial Legacies", to be held in Brussels in December 2013, will be the last in a series of events convened by the GERN Working Group on (Post-)Colonial Policing. Building on previous explorations of policing, surveillance and security experiences in colonial contexts, the aim of this final conference is to promote a multi-sited and comparative approach to colonial policing practices and their legacies in the postcolonial world.

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• 26 avr 2013

  Pleumeur-Bodou

  Call for papers - History

  Between International, Transnational and Global History

  Information Technologies at Borders, XIXth-XXIst centuries

  Dealing with the history of electric and electronic informations’ borders crossing, the summer school will evocatingly take place where one of the very first transatlantic television transmissions occured, in 1962 in the northern part of Brittany. It aims at providing doctoral students with an overview of relevant research results and of innovative tools and methodologies in the field of communication history in an international / transnational / global perspective.

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• 15 fév 2013

  Paris

  Call for papers - Political studies

  26th International Climate Policy PhD workshop

  For thirteen years, the ICP workshops series has been organized semi-annually under the auspices of the informal European PhD Network on International Climate Policy. It offers doctoral candidates the opportunity to present their research ideas and results, receive feedback, and exchange information and assistance in an informal setting. PhD students from all disciplines working on topics relevant to climate policy and environmental economics are invited to submit applications.

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• 15 déc 2012

  Luxembourg City

  Call for papers - Modern

  Multi.Pluri.Trans. Emerging Fields in Educational Ethnography

  The conference picks up recent tendencies in ethnographic research that respond to the diversifying social conditions of educational practice by addressing issues such as the translocality and pluricentricity, the multilingual, intercultural as well as multimodal nature of educational realities and the complex relations between local practices and national / global transformations and policies in the fields of education and social work. In different formats of contributions we will present and discuss theoretical and methodological conceptualizations, empirical research findings, as well as questions of research practice and methods.

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• 03 déc 2012

  04 déc 2012

  Abu Dhabi

  Conference, symposium - Urban studies

  Boom Cities: Urban Development in the Arabian Peninsula

  Cities in the Arabian Peninsula are at the intersection of global energy markets, local and regional politics, international investment, religious networks, and labor migrations. This conference convenes international specialists of urban studies to map the latest evolutions in the field.

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• 15 fév 2013

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Chinese Students, Teachers and Scholars Abroad

  Myths and Realities

  Chinese Students, Teachers and Scholars Abroad: Myths and Realities, University of Helsinki, Finland, 23-24.5.2013. Organized by the Confucius Institute (University of Helsinki) and The Education for Diversities Research Group (E4D, Department of Teacher Education, University of Helsinki, Finland). This conference is interested in the myths and realities that seem to surround the Chinese in international academic mobility and migration.

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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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• 20 aoû 2012

  Call for papers - History

  Life stories

  Revue Diasporas. Histoire et sociétés, 22, spring 2013

  Appel à contribution pour le vingt-deuxième numéro de la revue Diasporas. Histoire et Sociétés. La publication prévue au printemps 2013. Le thème du numéro : « Écrire sa vie ».

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• 19 sep 2012

  20 sep 2012

  Guyancourt

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Globalization and its “sources”: towards a reflexive approach.

  Thématique émergente des sciences humaines et sociales il y a encore une vingtaine d’années, la mondialisation est devenue une interrogation majeure de l'ensemble de leurs disciplines. Question à la fois récente et transversale, son étude a ainsi donné lieu à une pluralité d’approches, car ce sont des disciplines anciennement constituées qui en ont pris en charge l'analyse, chacune privilégiant ses méthodes, ses questionnements, ses niveaux de compréhension, etc. Économistes, sociologues, anthropologues ou historiens ont ainsi découpé « l'objet mondialisation » selon les catégories que leur fournissait l'histoire de leurs disciplines. Cette diffraction se complexifie, par ailleurs, si l'on met en regard différents champs scientifiques nationaux : l'analyse de la mondialisation y est non seulement menée par des disciplines aux traditions différentes, mais aussi en fonction des principes propres qui structurent chaque espace national.

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• 15 oct 2012

  Marseille

  Call for papers - Modern

  International migration and temporalities in the Mediterranean (19th-20th centuries)

  Le programme transversal MIMED (Lieux et territoires des migrations en Méditerranée, XIXe-XXIe siècle) de la Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme d’Aix-en-Provence organise du 10 au 12 avril 2013 un colloque international et interdisciplinaire sur la question des temporalités dans les processus migratoires en Méditerranée du XIXe au XXIe siècle. Tout en prenant en compte le contexte historique, deux niveaux de réflexion pourraient être privilégiés dans l’appréhension des temporalités de la migration : celui des séquences temporelles qui structurent le phénomène migratoire à un niveau macro, et celui des rapports au temps entretenus par les migrants, à l’échelle de l’individu, de la famille, ou du groupe.

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• 11 jui 2012

  12 jui 2012

  Lisbon

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Conviviality & superdiversity at local level

  Our principal aim is to describe, analyze and compare new super-diverse convivial contexts, as they relate to the process of migrations shaping new cultural realms. Our approach does not involve the idealization of harmonic intercultural relations but considers convivial contexts as new fields of intercultural tensions and interactions as an attempt to understand their dynamics and the social, historic and personal factors that lead to willingness to coexist with ethnic heterogeneity or to reject it. Consequently, it envisions applying an innovative framework to understanding intercultural relations among national and migrant populations. From the perspective of social topography, the new convivial cultures are not associated with a specific geographic space. They correspond to different public contexts in which people with links to various ethnic or cultural groups interact.

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• 22 mai 2012

  23 mai 2012

  Coimbra

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  Contemporary configurations of racism and Eurocentrism

  Debates on academic and political discourses and practices

  The main objective of this international workshop is to promote a debate that engages both with current issues on knowledge/history production and with contemporary discourses/policies on immigration and ‘integration’, taking their intersection as crucial to unravel the relations between the constant (re)making of nation boundaries and ideas of political belonging. We propose that a breakthrough approach requires the challenging of a Eurocentric paradigm, now hegemonic, that is preventing a thorough debate on racism as being embedded on the history of modern science, capitalism, liberal democracies and the state of law.

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• 30 jui 2012

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Black Paris: Place, Circulation and the Mapping of Black Experiences

  The Editors of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (Routledge) announce the call for papers on: Black Paris: Place, Circulation and the Mapping of Black Experiences.

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• 04 mai 2012

  Paris

  Study days - History

  From movement to category-based mobilizations: A shift in political mobilization after the 1960s?

  Le 4 mai 2012 sera organisée à l'EHESS par le Centre d'études nord-américaines une journée d'études en anglais sur la question: "From movement to category-based mobilizations: A shift in political mobilization after the 1960s?"

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• 14 jan 2012

  15 jan 2012

  16 jan 2012

  Amman

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  Demographic Transition in the Middle East and North Africa: Disciplines in Dialogue

  International Conference organised by the British Institute in Amman, the Faculty of Science of the University of Jordan, theFrench Institute for the Near East ( IFPO) and the University of Bern, from January, 14th to January, 16th.

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• 15 mai 2012

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Africa

  Afro-Portugal

  Journal Cadernos de Estudos Africanos thematic Issues

  The journal Cadernos de Estudos Africanos seeks contributions for a thematic issue on the African presence in contemporary Portuguese society. We start from a broad understanding of this sizeable populace, comprising not only people born in Africa or those who have lived there but also their descendants who identify themselves as Africans, Afro-Portuguese or retornados, irrespective of their nationality. Our aim is thus to portray a large and heterogeneous population (regarding the countries they come from, and the diversity of life courses, ethnic loyalties and cultural references) that nonetheless shares Africa as a common geographical reference. These groups include, but are certainly not limited to, the so-called second generation of African immigrants and those who have returned from the former colonies. In the Portugal of today, a person’s African heritage, or a prolonged residence in Africa, tend to be significant biographical elements, in addition to being key markers of a social and cultural alterity that is often racialized.

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• 17 fév 2012	12 mar 2012	02 avr 2012
  21 mai 2012	25 jui 2012

  Saint-Denis

  Seminar - History

  Frontières

  Frontières research group seminar EA 1569

  Programme du séminaire frontières, du groupe Politique étrangère et migrations, pays anglophones, sous-équipe de l'EA 1569. Le « groupe Frontières » a pour vocation d’étudier la politique étrangère des pays anglophones et les migrations à travers ces frontières ainsi que leur impact sur ces nations. Il y a une réunion par mois.

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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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• 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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